Now, let’s consider someone who is applying for a work visa or to attempt American citizenship: one of the requirements is that they be able to pay their own way, that they are not on public assistance. Meanwhile
New York City mayor defends migrant debit card program as cost efficient and fraud resistant
A pilot program to distribute preloaded debit cards to migrants for food and baby supplies is just that: a pilot and trial run, New York City officials said Tuesday amid backlash to that effort.
“We can take a look at it after six weeks and see what’s working and what’s not,” Deputy Mayor Anne Williams-Isom said at a wide-ranging news conference.
The prepaid cards are intended to be used for groceries, diapers, baby formula and other necessities at local businesses. They’ve invited the condemnation by right-wing news media as simply another benefit for people who entered the country illegally and for the hefty contract involved in the rollout.
“There is no free money. These are not ATM cards. You can’t take cash out,” Deputy Mayor Fabien Levy said at the news conference.
Mayor Eric Adams and top aides also stressed that safeguards are in place to prevent fraud. They said the program saves the city money and prevents food waste.
Their plan is to start with 10 families who’ll get $350 of taxpayer money (on top of the free housing and healthcare and everything else) the expand to 115, which sounds like the mayor and his comrades revamped the program from what it was going to be. But, sure, no fraud
Chicago’s migrant website obscures details on where $300 million was spent
Despite a City of Chicago website dedicated to tracking how nearly $300 million was spent on the migrant crisis, many aspects of the migrant crisis remain shrouded in secrecy – most notably how migrant shelter sites are selected and how much building owners are profiting off the migrant crisis.
Those details remain largely hidden from the public, in part because of how the City of Chicago structured its migrant operation – by outsourcing much of the staffing and operations work to private companies.
Kansas-based Favorite Healthcare Staffing, which holds the contract to staff the city’s migrant shelters, has been paid more than $206 million to date, according to city records.
Weird how the Sanctuary City Chicago doesn’t want the citizens to know where the money is actually going.
Taking these illegal aliens, packing them onto cargo ships, releasing them into Africa or south of the Darien Gap, and fortifying the southern American border such that nothing larger than a fox can cross it and live will cost less both in the long and short term than the idiocy and malicious self-destruction we are pursuing instead.