I'm surprised that State Criminal Alien Assistance Program (SCAAP) is being eliminated; it reimburses states for the money spent housing unauthorized immigrants pending deportation.
Isn't the administration's plan to deport a bunch of people? This shifts the burden of deportation costs from a federal level (where all states share it equally) to a local level, where states that have more deported people pay directly.
So if you're Texas, Arizona[0], or other states with high percentages of unauthorized immigrants, you're going to lose a federal subsidy of hundreds of millions, and either lay off a lot of corrections workers or pay that cost yourselves through increased tax revenue?
Isn't the administration's plan to deport a bunch of people? This shifts the burden of deportation costs from a federal level (where all states share it equally) to a local level, where states that have more deported people pay directly.
So if you're Texas, Arizona[0], or other states with high percentages of unauthorized immigrants, you're going to lose a federal subsidy of hundreds of millions, and either lay off a lot of corrections workers or pay that cost yourselves through increased tax revenue?
[0]: http://www.pewhispanic.org/interactives/unauthorized-immigra...