If they put them in a mandatory 6 month jail work program before they were deported, they might not want jump the border so quicly. JMO

Texas jails spent $77 million housing undocumented inmates in 2014

BY JOSHUA FECHTER :
JANUARY 6, 2015


SAN ANTONIO — Texas' county jails collectively spent more than $77.3 million housing 61,530 inmates suspected of being in the country illegally over a 12 month period, according to the most recent available data from the Texas Commission on Jail Standards.

Bexar County came in sixth out of 254 counties, spending more than $3 million housing 3,627 inmates alleged to be in the United states without documentation.

Harris County topped the list, spending roughly $22.9 million to jail 13,969 allegedly undocumented inmates from December 2013 to November 2014.

Housing inmates costs anywhere from "$50 to $60 daily," Bexar County Jail Administrator Raul S. Banasco said. Undocumented inmates receive the same services — medical, housing, etc. — that inmates who are citizens receive before their judicial cases are handled and they are transferred into the custody of federal immigration authorities, he said.

"We work with all inmates regardless of their immigration status," Benasco said.

State law requires jails to submit a monthly report to the commission detailing the number of prisoners for whom U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has issued immigration detainers.

The county receives a small annual reimbursement under the State Criminal Alien Assistance Program, administered by the U.S. Justice Department, to provide funds to county jails nationwide for detaining those believed to be undocumented.

Bexar County received $105,866 through the program in fiscal year 2014, down from the $136,483 previously granted to the county in fiscal year 2013.

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