Illegal Aliens in California Prisons: An Inconvenient Truth?


California's prison system is in absolute crisis.

The inmate population is 200% the number of inmates the state's 33 facilities were designed to accommodate. Health and safety are major concerns.

In a July 9 opinion piece titled A morass behind our prison walls, the editorial staff at the San Jose Mercury News attempted to address the prison crisis.

Although illegal aliens make up a large percentage of the California inmate population and cost taxpayers about $1.6 billion dollars per year, the Mercury News did not even mention this fact. Not a single word about illegal aliens and their impact!

An inconvenient truth, perhaps?

Why did A morass behind our prison walls not call for deporting illegal alien inmates and billing the countries of origin---primarily Mexico--- for the cost of incarceration?

Why no call for greater security at the borders to keep criminals from invading the US to begin with?

Why no call for rounding up and deporting ALL illegal aliens who, by definition, are criminals?

Why not an honest, unbiased look at a major problem afflicting our great nation and state?

Why more of the same old tired editorial malfeasance from the liberal-biased Mercury News?