Thread: NJ-Obama budget would cut immigration funds

Posted on Wed, May. 13, 2009


Obama budget would cut immigration funds


HACKENSACK, N.J. - President Barack Obama's budget would eliminate funding that helps New Jersey counties offset the cost of jailing illegal immigrants for breaking laws.

The Bergen and Passaic county sheriff departments would lose more than $2 million in federal immigration enforcement funding under the plan.

Passaic has received more than $2 million through the program since 2005. Bergen has received at least $6 million since 2007.

Bergen sheriff's spokesman Ben Feldman says the department has used the funds to pay for salaries, jail upgrades and inmate transportation.

A Justice Department spokeswoman says money saved by cutting the program would be shifted to border security.


http://www.philly.com/philly/wires/ap/n ... funds.html

So the government has an over flowing amount of money for La Raza, Acorn and other hate groups and Special Interest group(s) funding but it does not have enough money to enforce our immigration laws.

I wonder if the government has a bridge in Brooklyn that it would like to sell to us.