For Immediate Release: September 30, 2011

(ROUND ROCK, TX) – U.S. Representative John Carter (R-TX31) today announced that Bell and Williamson County have been awarded nearly $230,000 in federal aid to help offset additional law enforcement costs due to criminal illegal alien activity.
 
State Criminal Alien Assistance Program Grants, or SCAAP grants, are awarded annually by the U.S. Department of Justice to state and local law enforcement agencies which incur significant costs from criminal activity by illegal aliens. Bell County has been awarded $71,797, while Williamson County is approved for $157,332 under SCAAP grant formulas.  SCAAP funds for the entire state of Texas totaled $13,464,920.

“These grants are among the justified of all the federal grant programs in existence,” says Carter.  “The local law enforcement costs we offset are the direct result of the failure of the federal government to control our borders, and Washington should be covering the costs of these burdens it has placed on local governments.”