Sheriff Jones
Mails Out Bill for Housing Undocumented Aliens
Following through on a statement he made at last week’s News Conference, Butler
County Sheriff Richard K. Jones mailed a bill to the Federal Bureau of
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (“ICE”) for prisoners believed to be
“Undocumented Aliens” currently housed in the Butler County Jail. The bill,
calculated through the end of October, is for a total of $71,610.00 covering the
fifteen (15) identified individuals currently in jail, some of whom have been in
jail since June, 2005. It represents a total of 1,023 billable days at
$70.00/day. Future bills of the same nature are expected to be mailed out at the
end of each subsequent month, beginning November, 2005.
Last week Sheriff Jones, along with State Representative Courtney Combs and
Butler County Commissioner Mike Fox, took a strong public stance against
ever-increasing problems and financial burdens associated with
illegal/undocumented aliens here at the local, Butler County, level. They hope
to spearhead change in Ohio Law to make it illegal for any undocumented alien to
trespass in the State of Ohio.
In sending today’s bill to ICE, Sheriff Jones believes he is the first Sheriff
in Ohio, and possibly across the United States, to bill the Federal Government
for general inmates in his jail that appear to be undocumented. “Why should
Butler County taxpayers have to pay for jail costs associated with people we
don’t believe should ever have been in this country, let alone this state, or
county, to begin with?” asks Sheriff Jones. “These prisoners appear to be
undocumented. They are in my jail because they have committed crimes here. It’s
time the Federal Government should at least pay for the criminals they let stay
here. If they don’t want to pay for them, then they can deport them,” he added.
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