One of the ways in which we can do, I think, both and not even have to build prisons in the future: In the State of California we have got 16,000 Federal felons that are illegal immigrants. There are 84,000 nationwide. That is a lot of room at the inn. If the gentleman would help us make sure that those folks are repatriated from whatever country they came from, maybe we would not have to spend as much money on our present----
Discussing the issue of illegal immigrant felons and prison costs.
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