That’s a lot of change being picked up by the State of Colorado – ouch.  From the Denver Post:

Colorado Attorney General John Suthers has told the state’s congressional delegation in a letter that he wants the state to be reimbursed for the cost of incarcerating illegal immigrants.

It cost Colorado approximately $39.8 million last fiscal year to house imprisoned illegal immigrants, according to an estimate from state Department of Corrections executive director Ari Zavaras, which Suthers quoted in his letter.

The state received about $3.3 million from the federal government to defray those costs, Suthers said.

“On behalf of the citizens of Colorado, I would ask you to make increased efforts to assist Colorado in meeting the immense financial burdens caused by inadequate enforcement of the federal immigration laws,” Suthers wrote in his letter, sent to the state’s two U.S. senators and seven U.S. representatives.

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