The bill is in the mail, and it’s not a cheap one.

According to federal number-crunchers, the government – including both federal and states – spends about $2.5 BILLION housing criminal alien inmates every year.

That includes $1.4 billion from the federal government and about $1.1 billion among all 50 states, according to a recent Government Accountability Office report.

“Nearly all of them — 95 percent — were either immigrants living in the U.S. illegally at the time of their crimes or were deemed deportable because of the seriousness of their offenses, and removed from the country when their sentences were up,” the Washington Times reports. “But 15 percent of those released from 2011 to 2016 broke the law again and ended up in a federal or state prison anyway, the investigators said.”

MRCTV reported last month that in a particularly extreme case, this one illegal alien in Utah has managed to nearly bankrupt the local jail and cost taxpayers nearly $1 million in medical bills after being jailed for sexually assaulting a child.

According to the Center for Immigration Studies, roughly one-third of all federal inmates are aliens (i.e., foreign-born non-citizens), including those here both legally and illegally. Of those, the vast majority – about 77 percent, in fact – hailed from Mexico, with Honduras, the Dominican Republic and El Salvador coming in second, third and fourth, respectively. According to the GAO, the top three states with the highest alien incarceration numbers were (unsurprisingly) California, Texas and Arizona.