Mr. Speaker. I rise today in strong support of H.R. 1512. legislation to compensate the States for incarcerating undocumented criminal aliens. The State Criminal Alien Assistance Program. commonly referred to as SCAAP. is a very effective federallocal government partnership that deserves robust funding from the Bush Administration. Currently. SCAAP funding is about $175 million less than what it was in fiscal year 1998. and falls far short of meeting the actual costs incurred by local jurisdictions. In my home state of California. we received about $110 million for this program in 2007. However. the California Department of Corrections actually spent more than $912.5 million of its own money to arrest and hold these criminal aliens.
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