Schwarzenegger Wants California To Build Prisons In Mexico
California’s Governor, in an attempt to to save the state billions of dollars, has suggested that they build cheaper prisons south of the border.
“We can do so much better, in the prison system alone, if we can go and take inmates – for instance, the 20,000 inmates that are illegal immigrants that are here – and get them to Mexico,” Schwarzenegger said.
“We pay them to build a prison down in Mexico and then we have those undocumented immigrants be down there in the prison,” he added. “Half the cost to build the prisons and half the cost to run the prisons. That is money, again, a billion dollars right there that can go into higher education. That is an example of one of the things we do that is unnecessary spending.”
Schwarzenegger asks: Why not build prisons in Mexico? (Sacramento Bee)
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