Congress hasnt helped. We have given local law enforcement more to do. but less to do it with. We have expanded State and local law enforcements authority to investigate. arrest and jail undocumented criminal aliens. When we expand the responsibilities of State and local police. when we ask them to do more. we have an obligation to give them the resources that they need in order to do more. In 1994. Congress created the State Criminal Alien Assistance Program. the SCAAP program. and since then it has provided over $4.1 billion in financial assistance to States. reimbursing State and local police for the cost of jailing undocumented criminal aliens. In the last fiscal year alone. my home State of Georgia received $1.8 million in SCAAP funding for our State and local police. This year. funding for SCAAP was zeroed out in the Presidents budget.
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