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With the latest projections showing that Pennsylvania is now $217 million behind in revenue collection for the 2009-10 fiscal year, a bipartisan coalition led by Representative Daryl Metcalfe (R-Butler) held a press conference at the state Capitol on Tuesday to reveal the findings of a recently introduced report demonstrating that enactment of the National Security Begins at Home illegal immigration reform package would save Pennsylvania taxpayers no less than $728 million annually.

?Even if Pennsylvania?s ongoing illegal alien invasion never reaches your back yard, back porch or work place, this report proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that the presence of illegal aliens continues to dramatically impact the back pockets of every working and tax-paying Pennsylvania citizen,? said Metcalfe.    ?More importantly, this report documents that a major portion of the annual Rendell budget deficit could be erased if the majority of state lawmakers and the governor would simply uphold their constitutional obligations to protect the lives, property and individual liberties of all Pennsylvania citizens by enacting each of the commonsense reforms contained in the National Security Begins at Home package.

Metcalfe?s legislative contributions to the seven-bill National Security Begins at Home package includes:  requiring all Commonwealth employers and government entities to enroll in the federal government?s FREE, E-Verify Program to confirm Social Security numbers of prospective employees (House Bill 2033); and establishing legal and economic sanctions against any ?Sanctuary? city, municipality or other local government entity that willfully violates federal immigration law by adopting ordinances, policies or informal procedures to encourage illegal alien invaders to reside within its borders or otherwise obstructs law enforcement activities (House Bills 2034 and 2035).

Jack Martin, director of Special Projects for the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) was on hand to quantify his research on the ever-increasing taxpayer costs directly associated with Pennsylvania?s estimated 140,000 illegal alien population (which has nearly tripled since 2000):