T   his is exactly the kind of thing that drives me crazy about
the federal government and how it spends our tax dollars.  If it
were an isolated case, it might be one thing. But it's not. And
we know it's not.  I don't know why American taxpayers tolerate
it, except I think they've mostly just given up the fight. Too
many of us have hidden our heads in the sand.  But we shouldn't
because it does matter.  And it does affect us directly through
our wallets.  York countians -- if they've been paying even a
little bit of attention -- must be aware that county government
has constructed and maintained (with tax dollars) a prison
complex in east York, part of which is used to house federal
immigration detainees who are thought to be in this country
illegally.  In fact, a significant part of it is used for
nothing but housing federal immigration detainees.  Over the
years -- more than a dozen years, at least -- we've housed many
thousands of immigration detainees in York County for the feds.
And we've profited from