According to Goldwater Institute data. the State of Arizona will pay at least $184 million in direct. unfunded mandate costs. Add to this the $693 million that the State will spend to secure matching grants and the $145 million in maintenance of effort requirements. and the result is about $1.2 billion. or 15 percent of Arizona ownsource revenue is directly tied to Federal directives. Probably the largest portion of costs to the State of Arizona49.5 percent of the totalare associated with the provision of services to. or incarceration of. undocumented aliens. This. of course. is not the result of a Federal mandate per se. but rather the Federal Governments failure to adequately perform its responsibility to control the Nations borders. That. in effect. has the same effect as an unfunded Federal mandate.
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