Thread: APNewsBreak: Perry Bills Feds for Housing Illegals

APNewsBreak: Perry Bills Feds for Housing Illegals
kolotv.com
Associated Press
Posted: 4:50 PM Aug 26, 2011

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Texas Gov. Rick Perry has asked the U.S.
Department of Homeland Security to reimburse the state $350 million
to cover costs of imprisoning illegal immigrants.

In a letter to Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, the top-tier Republican presidential candidate blamed the federal government for not securing the border with Mexico, allowing illegal immigrants to cross over and use taxpayer-funded resources. He said resources for county jails are being depleted as a result.

Perry included in the letter the formula he used to determine the costs and included a memo from state Comptroller Susan Combs supporting his calculations.

The letter was dated Aug. 10, three days before Perry formally announced his campaign for president. Perry is combatting criticism
from conservatives that he has been too lenient on illegal immigrants.

http://www.kolotv.com/home/headlines/AP ... 91438.html

I would like to see this headline very soon......


American citizens bill Feds for having to support Illegals.

Billed for our tax dollars going to their W.I.C, Cash assistance, food stamps, Section 8 housing.

Jobs they have taken from Americans, American's killed everyday at the hands of these monsters, children being molested and killed by these monsters on a daily basis.

Neighborhoods being destroyed, States being turned into the 3rd world cesspools they left.

Disease's which were eradicated in the United States, now coming back in with these illegals

And speaking of parasites, they are bringing them with them too!! Bed bugs anyone???



I want to see that headline!!

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Perry bills feds $349M for illegal immigrants
APRIL CASTRO, Associated Press
Updated 09:51 a.m., Saturday, August 27, 2011

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas Gov. Rick Perry has asked the U.S. Department of Homeland Security for nearly $350 million to cover the costs he says Texas has incurred incarcerating illegal immigrants in state prisons and county jails.

In a letter to Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, Perry reiterated a claim he's often leveled against the federal government: that it's not doing enough to secure the border with Mexico and as a result, has allowed illegal immigrants to enter the U.S. and use taxpayer-funded resources, including the prison system.

The letter was dated Aug. 10, three days before the Republican governor formally announced he is running for president.

Reached after-hours Friday by phone, DHS spokesman Matthew Chandler said he wasn't in position to comment and said he could not confirm that the DHS had even received the letter.

Perry has been criticized by some fellow conservatives as being too lenient on illegal immigration issues. Unlike fellow GOP presidential hopeful Rep. Michele Bachmann, Perry does not think the U.S. should build a wall spanning the entire Mexican border. Perry also has supported discounted tuition rates for the children of illegal immigrants at Texas universities, and he has said Arizona's tough-on-immigration law wouldn't be right for Texas.

As governor, Perry was one of the first to talk about immigration by breaking out the issue of border security, a move that has won him support from conservative Hispanics. But he angered Hispanic leaders in June by endorsing legislation that would have prohibited cities from adopting "sanctuary" rules for handling suspected immigrants.

In his two-page letter to Napolitano, Perry described the formula used to come up with his $349.2 million bill, including $94.4 million to cover costs incurred by county jails.

"During tough economic times, when communities are making difficult decisions about their own budgets, Texas counties are being asked to cover more than $94.4 million in direct costs related to housing illegal immigrants while the state has been left to cover more than $254.8 million in such costs."

He included a memo from Comptroller Susan Combs in which she supports his calculations but warns that the estimates are conservative.

"The longstanding failure of the federal government to secure our border with Mexico continues to burden local communities and resources in Texas," Perry wrote. "Because there are not enough troops on the ground, illegal immigrants are able to penetrate the Texas border every day and use taxpayer-funded resources."

Perry is not the first governor to try to bill the federal government for the costs of incarcerating illegal immigrants. Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer, a Republican, sued the DHS in February seeking compensation for incarceration costs, among other things. And Napolitano herself, who preceded Brewer as Arizona governor, regularly sent the Justice Department invoices seeking such reimbursement before she became Homeland Security secretary.

Read more: http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/articl ... z1WFW5RO56

Does anybody really think the FED will pay reimbursement costs to Texas (or any other state) for incarcerating illegal aliens?

The Feds have dragged their feet in the deportation proccess for years now. If they streamlined the system then there would be no need to house illegals in any state. No documentation..then you get deported. If your illegal and you have a family here...well the answer is.... keep the family together..don't split it...deport the whole lot of them including the kids. We don't want them, we are tired of supporting them and feeding them. Pack them up with what they have on their backs and what is left behind sell at auction and the proceeds used to cover the deportation costs.

This is political grandstanding at it's finest. Perry knows beyond a shadow of a doubt the Pro-Amnesty Globalist United States Government is NOT about to reimburse the people of the State of Texas ONE RED PENNY for what they have paid in housing and enabling illegal aliens under his tenure.

Did they do it under George Bush's tenure? Any other examples of reimbursement?

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APNewsBreak: Perry bills feds for housing illegals

APRIL CASTRO
Associated Press

AUSTIN, Texas — Texas Gov. Rick Perry has asked the U.S. Department of Homeland Security for nearly $350 million to cover the costs incurred detaining illegal immigrants in state prisons and county jails.

In a letter to Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, Perry criticized the federal government hasn't been doing enough to secure the border with Mexico, thereby allowing illegal immigrants to enter the U.S. and use taxpayer-funded resources, including prisons and jails. It's a claim the Republican governor has made many times before.

The letter was dated Aug. 10, three days before Perry formally announced he is running for president.

Reached after-hours Friday by phone, DHS spokesman Matthew Chandler said he wasn't in position to comment and said he could not confirm that the DHS had even received the letter.

Perry has been criticized by some fellow conservatives as being too lenient on illegal immigration issues. Unlike fellow GOP presidential hopeful Rep. Michele Bachmann, Perry does not think the U.S. should build a wall spanning the entire Mexican border. Perry also has supported discounted tuition rates for the children of illegal immigrants at Texas universities, and he has said Arizona's tough-on-immigration law wouldn't be right for Texas.

In his two-page letter to Napolitano, Perry described the formula he used to determine the costs, including $94.4 million to cover the costs incurred by county jails.

"During tough economic times, when communities are making difficult decisions about their own budgets, Texas counties are being asked to cover more than $94.4 million in direct costs related to housing illegal immigrants while the state has been left to cover more than $254.8 million in such costs."

He included a memo from Comptroller Susan Combs in which she supports his calculations but warns that the estimates are conservative.

"The longstanding failure of the federal government to secure our border with Mexico continues to burden local communities and resources in Texas," Perry wrote. "Because there are not enough troops on the ground, illegal immigrants are able to penetrate the Texas border every day and use taxpayer-funded resources."

As governor, Perry was one of the first to talk about immigration by breaking out the issue of border security, a move that has won him support from conservative Hispanics. But he angered Hispanic leaders in June by endorsing legislation that would have prohibited cities from adopting "sanctuary" rules for handling suspected immigrants.

Source: http://ap.cjonline.com/pstories/2011082 ... 6347.shtml

Has he done this twice now or is this an old article?

APNewsBreak: Perry Bills Feds for Housing Illegals

I see...so he signs dream act legislation, which acts as a magnet for illegal invaders and their spawn, and then turns around and bills the American people for the "housing" of illegal invaders! Of course Napolitano's solution will be to just stop "detaining" them.

No wonder the MSM media is pushing Perry. He's an open border, pro-illegal RINO.