Posted on 11/21/2018 6:46:02 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy announced Monday he would be setting aside more than $2 million in taxpayer funds to defend illegal aliens who are facing deportation proceedings. The governor’s budget agreement allocates $2.1 million towards several legal aid groups for low-income people, setting aside $925,000 to Legal Services of New Jersey and the American Friends Service Committee, and $125,000 to each of New Jersey’s two law schools—Rutgers Law School and Seton Hall University Law School.
Murphy announced the funds would come from the state’s budget for the current fiscal year hours before a federal judge appointed by former President Barack Obama blocked the Trump administration’s order to deny asylum to people who illegally cross the U.S.-Mexico border.
“Families who came to New Jersey for a better life do not deserve to be torn apart by the federal government’s cruel and discriminatory policies,” Murphy said in a statement.
New Jersey is the not the first Democrat-controlled state or city in the U.S. to use taxpayer money on legal aid for illegal aliens.
Taxpayers in Seattle, Washington, DC, California, Chicago, and New York are footing the bill for illegal alien legal assistance, with cities spending millions of taxpayer dollars on these programs.
New Jersey Republicans in the state legislature criticized as an “irresponsible” use of state resources.
“The spending choices of this administration are indefensible and irresponsible,” Assemblyman John DiMaio (R-Bridgewater) said in an emailed statement.
“When Legal Services already turns away many people who are desperate for help due to resource limitations, we shouldn’t limit how new funding can be used,” State Sen. Kristin Corrado (R-Totowa) said, voicing concerns over how Murphy was putting constraints on how funds can be utilized.
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Those illegals are Democrat votes! Can’t win NJ elections without them!
of course, it wasn't just over two years ago that state governors were committing treason against a sitting president who was breaking every known law.
God is going to judge this nation, and it's because of actions like what are being undertaken in New Jersey.
Aren’t you New Jersey voters so proud to see where your votes are sending your tax dollars????
It’s only fair the public, who pay taxes get coupons for free lube!
Screw the people of NJ.
Every elected official that sides with illegal aliens against the citizens and the rule of law should be removed from office.
Spending taxpayer money on illegal aliens deserves jail time.
This guy should be arrested.
Murphy, whose sanity is really in question, should save a lot of that money for bail money when he is investigated for corruption.
Jersey produces nuts and wackos but he is trying to be the biggest nutjob in the state’s political history and just might succeed unless the Mafia takes him out for pissing them off or dissing them.
If NJ allows voter-initiated proposition, the people should get active and get this on the ballot. This is the kind of thing that even mindless democrats will vote for, as they otherwise pull the lever for the democrat ticket. Sometimes the only way to get them to vote for things that are actually in their best interest is to do it through ballot initiatives.
” Taxpayers in Seattle, Washington, DC, California, Chicago, and New York are footing the bill for illegal alien legal assistance, with cities spending millions of taxpayer dollars on these programs.”
Stay tuned for Higher and Higher property taxes.
Phil the Phool.
Somebody please give this idiot an intelligence test!
The State is in trouble fiscally, or should I say Phiscally and this mental midget is spending a phortune on illegals - money drained from state tax payers!!
Let Phil the Phool spend his OWN
phortune on these damn phoreigners!
Maybe he can get that Marxist Moron in the Vatican to kick up the dough since he thinks we should be letting these vermin in.
Mr Murphy is now guilty of aiding and abetting every illegal in every crime committed in Jersey. When can we expect an indictment?
exactly. any enabler of illegal aliens coming here or remainnig here should be held accountable exactly as any illegal who breaks a law or harms a person or their property.
Meanwhile he makes a statement that they have to do better with snow removal in the state, tax paying citizens were stuck in their cars for 6 to 10 or more hours because these scumbags including mayor deblasio and Cuomo of NY turned their back on a reasonable snow storm that crippled the area and shouldn’t have, no plows and salt spreaders before or during the storm only when it was all over. Kepp voting in these criminal’s this is what you get, f the citizens just give me your money so we can support the illegals
NJ needs regime change
No $$$$$ for underfunded pensions but he can help out the illegals.
Just another example that the government is totally out of control. its just a matter of time now. the clock is ticking down to America 2.0.
It's not about helping illegals.
It's about the government transfer of taxpayer funds to the Democrat machine through lawyers.
He’s worried about losing Congressional districts after the next census. NJ is depopulating, too.
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