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Posted on: September 26th, 2007
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“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.”
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