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State Criminal Alien Assistance Program

The State Criminal Alien Assistance program reimburses States and localities for a portion of the cost of incarcerating illegal aliens who have committed crimes. These aliens are incarcerated for local crimes??not because of criminal violations of the U.S. Code or immigration status.

Rating

What This Rating Means

NOT PERFORMING
Results Not Demonstrated

A rating of Results Not Demonstrated (RND) indicates that a program has not been able to develop acceptable performance goals or collect data to determine whether it is performing.
  • Reimbursements do not reduce the incidence of crime committed by criminal aliens. The program lacks goals and cannot measure such an outcome.
  • The immigration status of many suspected aliens cannot be verified. Neither states and localities nor the Federal government can easily determine the citizenship or immigration status of suspected aliens.
  • Payments made for inmates of unknown nationality create a risk of overpayment to States and localities for costs that are legally ineligible for reimbursement.

Improvement Plan

About Improvement Plans

We are taking the following actions to improve the performance of the program:

  • Recommending that the program be terminated because it has no criminal justice goals and cannot demonstrate results.
  • Requiring States and localities to report claimed nationality, beginning in 2004, as part of the application process for reimbursement to help screen potential ineligible costs.
  • Conducting a program evaluation for a sampling of states to examine the accuracy of cost data submitted and the uses of these reimbursements.

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