As a part of the plan to fix the $42 billion budget deficit, the California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger is urging the legislature to back his proposed cuts to the three largest areas of the state’s budget - prisons, education, and health care. Much attention was paid to the Governor’s plan to save money by deporting undocumented immigrants. The governor has proposed the release of thousands of immigrant prisoners to Federal custody. They would be handed over to the Immigrations and Customs Enforcements Agency (ICE) on a case-by-case review. According to the California Department of Corrections, the goal is to commute the sentences of those already eligible for deportation, which is a potential solution to the problem of overcrowding of the prisons. continued @ California Politics



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