Grassroots Rally Team

A Mass Exodus from New York State

...New York’s illegal immigrant population is among the highest in the United States, and the presence of these residents, the vast majority of which do not pay taxes, has become costly. According to the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), illegal immigrants cost tax-paying residents of New York $5.1 billion annually for education, medical care, and incarceration; this imposes an addition average burden of $874 per tax-payer. FAIR estimates the state receives $730 million in sales, income, and property taxes from illegal immigrants, equaling a net deficit incurred of more than $4.5 billion per year. The influx of illegal immigrants and the re-location of skilled, tax-paying residents account in part for the more than $20,000 decrease in average salary between those who have left New York during the decade and those who have re-located to the state...