Janet Napolitano to spend more federal tax dollars on benefit for illegal immigrants.

The Department of Homeland Security issued a press release which details a number of plans which will involve the expenditure of federal tax dollars to improve the quality of life for illegal immigrants. Some of the highlights from the press release follow.

• "ICE will house non-criminal, non-violent populations, such as newly arriving asylum seekers, at facilities commensurate with risk and expand programs available including legal support services."
• "To advance the effective use of alternatives to detention (ATD), ICE will develop an assessment tool to identify aliens suitable for ATD and will submit a plan to Congress this fall to implement an ATD program nationwide. ICE will continue to work with the Department of Justice to expedite the adjudication of ATD cases to reduce costs."
• "To enhance detainee medical care, ICE will devise and implement a medical classification system that will improve awareness of an individual detainee's medical and mental health conditions from the time the individual first enters detention."

This comes on the heels of a federal declaration the forbids local law enforcement from enforcing immigration laws.