Calif. looks to immigrant inmates to save costs

Saturday, June 20, 2009

SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- With California slipping into a financial sinkhole, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is proposing to save more than $180 million by cutting short the sentences of thousands of immigrants in the state's prisons and turning them over to federal authorities for deportation.

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