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Illegal Residents
7,000 illegal aliens resided in Washington, D.C. as of 2000, according to INS figures. 35
An executive order prohibiting police from asking about immigration status has allowed many area gang members and other criminals to gain sanctuary from immigration laws. 36 In the summer of 2003, D.C. Police Chief Charles Ramsey held a news conference to reiterate that the city's officers are not permitted to ask about immigration status during routine police procedures. 37
District of Columbia authorities requested compensation of $8,453,000 from the federal government in FY '99 for the incarceration of illegal aliens in state and local jails and prisons (under the federal State Criminal Alien Assistance Program, or SCAAP), but it received only $3,262,000 in compensation, leaving $5,191,000 in uncompensated costs to be borne by D.C. taxpayers. In more recent years, the government has stopped releasing data on how much states requested, but records do show that D.C. received only $5,052,000, $780,571 and $449,547 from SCAAP in FY '00, '01, and '02, respectively. Payments to the states have become much lower, so local taxpayers were forced to absorb a much larger share of the cost of criminal alien incarceration
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