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Immigrant cost study officially received by county board [9/26/07]
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/metr ... costs.html
San Diego County is getting soaked plenty by the costs of illegal immigration, according to a recent report.

Direct expenditures by the county of San Diego in the 2006-07 fiscal year on behalf of illegal immigrants totaled $101.5 million, according to a report presented Tuesday to the Board of Supervisors.

Nearly half of that sum - $48.5 million - was spent by the Sheriff's Department to house inmates in area jails, according to the report by John Weeks, a San Diego State University professor and director of the school's International Population Center.

For those jail costs, the county was reimbursed $2.3 million by the federal government, according to the report. The North County Times toted up more of the costs, including medical care, and came up with figure of a quarter billion dollars annually:

Illegal immigrants cost San Diego over $256 million in 2006...
As Brian Bilbray remarked on Lou Dobbs, "You can buy a lot of lettuce" with that kind of money.

The county figures obviously do not include the costs of educating the children of illegal alien foreigners, which goes on the state tab.
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