Prison Labor and Online Donations To Help Arizona Build Border Wall http://www.innworldreport.net/inn/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=4260:prison-labor-and-online-donations-to-help-arizona-build-border-wall&catid=35:domestic&Itemid=1

Arizona aims to expand its fence along the US-Mexico border through online donations and prison labor. The cash-strapped state is already using donations to pay for its legal defense of the controversial new immigration law which requires police to ask for ID from anyone suspected of being undocumented. State Sen. Steve Smith said donors will receive certificates declaring they "helped build the Arizona wall." State Corrections Director Charles Ryan said using inmate labor wouldn't be a problem.

Prisoners, paid 50 cents an hour, have already been used to clear brush used as immigrants' hiding spots near the border. The federal government has already erected a wall along 650 miles of the 2,000-mile border. The Government Accountability Office in 2009 said fencing work to keep out people on foot ranged from $400,000 to $15.1 million per mile, while costs for vehicle barriers ranged from $200,000 to $1.8 million.