Reply #77: If the illegal alien population in Arizona is down it's because

[Mike K]

Arizona is ramping up to do something about it.

Re: the illegals in federal prisons, a cursory Google search turned up a figure of over 55,000 in the year 2,000 alone. I can only guess what it is today. And those figures are from the General Accounting Office, not some "right wing" source. http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d05646r.pdf

Do you know the cost of confining one individual in a federal prison? And those numbers do not include the state prisons.