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County will make a 10 percent profit for holding immigration detainees
BY TERESA ANN BOECKEL
Daily Record/Sunday News
Article Launched: 12/20/2006 04:40:40 PM EST


Update: 4:29 PM
Dec 20, 2006 — York County officials took a hard line with the federal government Wednesday morning: Reach a compromise on the payment for holding immigration detainees or the county will back out of the business.
The parties reached an agreement before noon Tuesday, a deadline that the county commissioners had set knowing that they had to approve the 2007 budget Wednesday at their weekly meeting. The immigration money helps to balance the county's general fund.

The agreement, which remains in effect until 2011, includes the following stipulations:

The daily rate for housing each detainee will increase from $47.41 to $59.71.

The daily rate will automatically increase three percent each year.

The Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement will make a more than $3 million payment for past increases in the daily rate. It will go toward paying off an $18.5 million settlement that the federal government and the county reached earlier this year. That dispute centered over allegations that the county had overcharged in the past.

All they need is tent city jails like they have in Arizona. That and a few baloney sandwiches.