Illegal aliens cost NJ taxpayers $2.1 billion per year in 3 areas: medical care, education, and incarceration. This amount is doubled or tripled if one includes such things as ESL classes, school lunches and breakfasts, translators in courts and hospitals, food stamps, subsidized housing, lost income and lower wages for US workers, higher health and car insurance, etc.
Remember not all illegal aliens mow lawns, some (visa overstays) compete with professionals in medicine, IT, etc. It is disgustingly easy to do.
http://www.fairus.org/site/PageServer?pagename=research_njcosts
I know all about the green card workers.
I work in IT. They’ve driven down the rates by at least 1/3. What’s even worse is that the State hires them before hiring citizens because they are considered minorities. Doesn’t matter if they are a citizen or not, thanks to Affirmative Action.