Have you ever wondered what is "The Real Price of Lettuce"

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The County of San Diego has figured out how much it costs the their local taxpayers to take care of illegal aliens (HT Pat S.). Amazing how expensive the McCain/Kennedy/Bush 'cheap labor' really is. What this amounts to, of course, is taxpayer subsidies for corporations, via the rank moral failure of the establishment of a new slave labor class.

We're all better than this, and Mexicans certainly deserve better, like their own country not being a Narco Government and actually worth living in.

News | San Diego

Immigrant cost study officially received by county board

SAN DIEGO – Direct expenditures by the county of San Diego in the 2006-07 fiscal year on behalf of illegal immigrants totaled $101.5 million, according to a report presented Tuesday to the Board of Supervisors.

Nearly half of that sum – $48.5 million – was spent by the Sheriff's Department to house inmates in area jails, according to the report by John Weeks, a San Diego State University professor and director of the school's International Population Center.

For those jail costs, the county was reimbursed $2.3 million by the federal government, according to the report.

The study was requested by the Board of Supervisors, which received the results at Tuesday's meeting and voted unanimously to pass the information to the county's congressional delegation and supervisors in other border counties.

“They're very telling findings,” Supervisor Bill Horn said.

Weeks estimated that there are nearly 210,000 illegal immigrants living in San Diego County, comprising 6.8 percent of the population.

That means that the county directly spends $527 for each person, and that those expenditures amount to $35.21 per resident, his report says.

The figures only include county expenses, not those of hospitals and schools, which are funded privately or by other levels of government.

Supervisor Dianne Jacob said the costs of illegal immigration come out of the general fund.

“That's money we could be spending on others things – fixing our roads, our libraries, our parks, our trails,” she said.

The supervisors blasted the federal government's failure to control illegal immigration, or compensate local governments that bear its costs.

“The federal government is robbing the people – the taxpayers – of San Diego County because of its failure,” Jacob said.

Supervisor Greg Cox noted the government has a program to reimburse local governments for the impact of illegal immigration, but said President Bush has not provided funds for years.

Horn presented an oversized poster board invoice to an aide to Rep, Brian Bilbray, R-Carlsbad, detailing the county's expenses.

“I really want the money this time,” Horn said.

Even though illegal immigration has been a heated issue in recent years, only one member of the public spoke before the board, and he supported the study. There were no protesters.

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/metro/2...rant_costs.html