SACRAMENTO, Calif. — With California slipping into a financial sinkhole, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is proposing to save more than $180 million by cutting short the sentences of thousands of immigrants in the state's prisons and turning them over to federal authorities for deportation.
The idea faces certain hurdles _ for one thing, commuting some sentences will require court approval _ and immigration authorities warn that a mass release of inmates from California and other states could swamp the federal system, which...
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