In the past. we felt that since it is the responsibility of the Federal Government to control the border and that has not been done. that when one of these people commits a crime and is convicted of that crime and imprisoned. the Federal Government ought to 152. Pt. 4 March 30. 2006 at least pay part of the expenses. It has usually been in the neighborhood of a fourth to a third of the expenses. Part of what Senator CORNYN and I propose is that we would increase the amount of Federal support for the State and local governments for housing these criminal illegal immigrants. How big is the problem? Of the 1.5 million State and Federal prisoners in 2004. over 91.000 were foreign nationals.
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