Mr. President. this amendment is cosponsored by Senator KYL. SCAAP is a vital program to the States and localities to reimburse them for the costs associated with housing undocumented criminal aliens. Funding for SCAAP is authorized in the amount of $950 million for each of the fiscal years 2008 through 2011. but we have never fully funded SCAAP. Instead we have paid only pennies on the dollar for these costs. In my home State of California. there are currently over 20.000 criminal alien inmates. It costs California approximately $715 million per year to house these aliens. In 2007. Congress appropriated $399 million for SCAAP.
Identified stereotypes
Associating undocumented immigrants with criminality.