Rick Perry bills the Obama administration (DHS) $349 Million for the cost to incarcerating Illegal Immigrants

What he ought to do is load them all onto busses and drive them to DC and unload them at the WH gate. 

Rick Perry bills the Obama administration (DHS) $349 Million for the cost to incarcerating Illegal Immigrants Scotty Starnes | August 27, 2011 at 11:15 AM | Tags: border security, Department of Homeland Security, DHS, illegal immigrants, Illegal immigration, Janet Napolitano, Obama Administration, Rick Perry, Texas | Categories: Political Issues | URL: http://wp.me/pvnFC-5KQ

Bravo! Since Bam is content to circumvent Congress and overrule our country's immigration laws by stopping the deportation of 300,000 illegals who broke these laws, let him pay for it. Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry (R-TX) has billed the federal government $349 million for the costs to keep these criminals in jail.

From Townhall.com:

Texas Gov. Rick Perry has asked the U.S. Department of Homeland Security for nearly $350 million to cover the costs he says Texas has incurred incarcerating illegal immigrants in state prisons and county jails.

In a letter to Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, Perry reiterated a claim he's often leveled against the federal government: that it's not doing enough to secure the border with Mexico and as a result, has allowed illegal immigrants to enter the U.S. and use taxpayer-funded resources, including the prison system.

Not to mention the illegal guns the Obama administration has allowed to freely flow across the border via the ATF (Gunwalker) operation 'Fast and Furious.'

The letter was dated Aug. 10, three days before the Republican governor formally announced he is running for president.

Reached after-hours Friday by phone, DHS spokesman Matthew Chandler said he wasn't in position to comment and said he could not confirm that the DHS had even received the letter.

...In his two-page letter to Napolitano, Perry described the formula used to come up with his $349.2 million bill, including $94.4 million to cover costs incurred by county jails.

"During tough economic times, when communities are making difficult decisions about their own budgets, Texas counties are being asked to cover more than $94.4 million in direct costs related to housing illegal immigrants while the state has been left to cover more than $254.8 million in such costs."

He included a memo from Comptroller Susan Combs in which she supports his calculations but warns that the estimates are conservative.

"The longstanding failure of the federal government to secure our border with Mexico continues to burden local communities and resources in Texas," Perry wrote. "Because there are not enough troops on the ground, illegal immigrants are able to penetrate the Texas border every day and use taxpayer-funded resources."

Obama needs the illegal immigrants to flood across the border so they can vote for him in 2012. Historically, criminals vote Democrat.

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