2014 warning continues relevatn

American Citizens Lobbyist Group

New Jersey
Monday, September 15, 2014
Weekly Issue Flyer

NJ’s fiscal woes mount as S&P cuts credit rating due to budget shortfalls

That means New Jersey can no longer afford to be a sanctuary State.

With many state budgets in deficit, policymakers have an obligation to look for ways to reduce the fiscal burden of illegal migration.

This will require immediate spending cuts.
S&P’s announcement followed the Treasury Department’s disclosure Tuesday that the state’s revenue collections for the fiscal year that ended June 30 had come in not $1.3 billion short, but almost $1.6 billion in the red, creating an immediate hole in this year’s state budget that will require yet-to-be-disclosed spending cuts.

Illegal immigration costs U.S. taxpayers about $113 billion a year at the federal, state and local level.

The bulk of the costs — some $84 billion — are absorbed by state and local governments

Education for the children of illegal aliens constitutes the single largest cost to taxpayers, at an annual price tag of nearly $52 billion nationwide.

Nearly all of those costs are absorbed by state and local governments.

At the federal level, about one-third of outlays are matched by tax collections from illegal aliens. At the state and local level, an average of less than 5 percent of the public costs associated with illegal immigration is recouped through taxes collected from illegal aliens.

From an economic point of view alone we see that the State of New Jersey spends $2.1 billion annually on the illegal immigrant population here in the form of services consisting of education for the children of illegal immigrants, health care for their families, and incarceration for the criminal element in their community.

These estimates do not, however, take into account the “collateral costs” of paying welfare benefits to Jersey citizens and legal residents who have been displaced from their jobs by illegal immigrant workers in addition to the cost of health care facilities and prisons.

Since Jan. 1, 2014 thru July 31, 2014 over 1,877 unaccompanied children were accepted into NJ to be released to sponsors putting a further burden on our severely challenged budget.

You can all take a first step by requesting that Assembly Speaker Vincent Prieto (District 32) gets the Labor committee to take action on A1271 which prohibits the employment of unauthorized aliens and requires employers to use E-Verify program.    

Thank you for taking the time to read our very real concerns.

American Citizens Lobbyist Group - NJ

Basil Mantagas, NJ Director, 646-825-0776, bmantagas.aclg@gmail.com

9.15.14, Illegal aliens a big drain on the NJ budget