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If you’re a taxpayer in New Jersey, you might want to sit down. A shocking report by the office of Assemblyman Paul Kanitra, a Republican, revealed that illegal immigrants cost the state’s taxpayers an estimated $8.19 billion.
Kanitra’s findings, detailed in the second edition of his Report on the Cost of Illegal Aliens to New Jerseyans, exposed the financial burden of the state’s sanctuary policies – he estimates the total cost to taxpayers is around $1,748 per worker and $2,335 per household each year.
“New Jersey taxpayers deserve to know exactly what illegal immigration is costing them every year,” Kanitra said. “The numbers are going up, not down, even as the population drops. That tells you everything about how badly Trenton’s sanctuary policies are failing working families.”
Illegal Immigrants Sitting Pretty
Illegal immigrants can access a long list of benefits in New Jersey, but K–12 education accounts for the largest share of the cost to taxpayers, reaching an estimated $7.14 billion annually, or roughly 87% of the total. The price tag covers both illegal immigrant children and the US-born children of illegal immigrant parents.
Emergency services for illegal immigrants, specifically the cost of hospitals and emergency rooms, topped $70 million in 2024, the report noted. New Jersey taxpayer spending on state-backed legal defense programs for illegal immigrants dealing with potential deportation has surged by more than 700% since 2018.
And then there’s the cost of housing, which the report claims has also gone up because of illegal immigration. “The squeeze, he says, hits young families and renters hardest, but it’s rippling across the market as demand climbs statewide,” the NJ Assembly GOP said in a news release on the report.
To make matters worse, the press release notes that illegal immigrants “do not pay more in state and local taxes than they receive in benefits – in fact, those tax contributions offset only about 16% of the costs identified in the report.”
“Every legal New Jerseyan’s wallet has been emptied to pay for illegals. Return all their money,” Kanitra said. “Send every invader home.”
Something’s Gotta Give
New Jersey taxpayers aren’t the only ones being forced to hand over billions for the benefit of illegal immigrants; Americans are shouldering the financial burden of illegal immigrants nationwide. Every illegal immigrant and US-born child of illegal immigrants costs American taxpayers $8,776 each year, according to the most recent available data from the Federation for American Immigration Reform, a nonprofit that advocates for immigration enforcement.
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The price tag is particularly troubling amid the cost-of-living crisis. A recent Pew Research Center survey found that more than 40% of Americans said they have had difficulty paying for at least one of the following necessities: daily transportation, housing, food, and medical care for themselves or their family. Sixty percent of respondents also said they “do not currently have enough income to lead the kind of life they want.”
Yet many of those same struggling Americans are forced to pay, through their taxes, for schooling, health care, and housing for illegal immigrants and their US-born children, in addition to a whole host of other benefits. In the words of Johnny Mercer: “Something’s gotta give.”
