Payment of police officers to catch migrants? Nj Bill appeals the “state of the sanctuary”

Republican wants to give local police authority to detain migrants

Bill will pay police for deportation

The legislator says the program will pay for itself

Trenton – New Jersey state legislator wants to put cash in the hands of police agencies that help the federal authorities to catch and deport unauthorized immigrants.

Assembly Paul Cantor, R-Ocean, is the main sponsor of the Immigration Support Act (A5232.).

The bill would encourage $ 7,000 for local police units for each caught migrant, which is transmitted by the US immigration and customs supply and successfully deported.

And it covers any unauthorized immigrant in New Jersey.

“Everyone who came to the country illegally violated the law. It applies to anyone who violated the laws of the United States, and therefore illegally here,” said Canvas.

Where do money go?

Money would be reimbursed by local police departments that use their resources to assist in deportation.

“It will be compensated for a salary, it would compensate for human expenses, it would compensate for any other type of distribution that would come into it,” said Cancer.

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The Republican MP stated that police in New Jersey, whom he spoke, want to help accelerate deportation, providing more labor. Ice has about 20,000 agents all over the world.

Where do money come from?

According to the canyra, the Immigration Support Law will pay for itself and save money in New Jersey in the long run.

“This money will simply come from all the distribution of financial resources and programs that are now receiving illegal immigrants,” said Cancer.

It is unknown how many unauthorized immigrants in New Jersey.

According to 2024 study There are 428,000 unauthorized immigrants from the left Institute of the Analytical Center for Taxation and Economic Policy in the country. The study says they make $ 1.3 billion in taxes every year.

But the Cancer Office posted report with very different conclusions last May.

The report states that the New Jerse has “892,000 illegal foreigners.” And he claimed that migrants cost the state at least $ 7.3 billion annually.

If each of the nearly 900,000 unauthorized migrants in the state were deported using the New Jersey Police Department, these agencies would have received more than $ 6.2 billion of state funding.

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