People always wonder what the exact monetary number is to deal with all the illegals/migrants crossing the border. NYC puts it in the budget
NYC Mayor Adams touts $107B budget deal: $1.4B to pay for migrant crisis
New York City officials touted a $107 billion budget agreement even as it faced a $1.4 billion hole for sheltering tens of thousands of migrants. (snip)
Hizzoner said the city had saved $4.7 billion over the past two fiscal years “without cutting services, laying off employees or raising taxes” due to higher-than-expected revenues but warned the city could be in financial trouble in future years.
“I’m sure there are many things we could’ve poured out money into if we had that $1.4 billion and the money we are going to lose in the outyears,” Adams complained, blaming the migrant crisis for adding to the city’s future financial woes.
“This comes out of New Yorker’s [pockets] and we are not getting the help we deserve and this is really wrong for asylum seekers,” Adams said.
“They only ask one thing: ‘let us work.’ They say, ‘we want to work. We want to pay into your tax base. We don’t want your free food. We don’t want your free clothing. We don’t want you washing our clothing. We want to work,’” he continued.
Of course, the $1.4 billion is simply to support the known ones shipped into NYC, and don’t forget about the hundreds of folks shipped from NYC to other NY counties, to other states, and even other countries. Remember, NYC asked for this by declaring themselves a sanctuary city. They say they love illegals, so, citizens should be happy to pay for them, and to have all that money diverted to pay for the illegals rather than city services. And those illegals/migrants were promised free food, clothing, housing, medical, educations, money, and citizenship if they came to the U.S. by all the Democrats.
And what does it cost for this?
Over 2,000 NY Guard members have been on migrant support mission in New York
Over 2,000 New York State Military Forces members have taken part in Operation Asylum Seeker, the New York National Guard participation in the state’s response to the migrant upsurge into New York City since the mission launched in October, 2022.
As of June 18, according to New York City Deputy Mayor Anne Williams-Isom, the head of the city’s health and human services, New York City has taken in over 78,700 migrants since the spring of 2022. Many of these migrants have been bussed to the city by border state governors.
About 2,200 undocumented migrants had arrived in the city in the prior week, and 48,700 people were being housed in 174 sites, she said during a weekly briefing.
On October 4, 2022, Governor Kathy Hochul announced that she was activating members of the New York National Guard to assist New York City officials dealing with the unexpected flow of migrants seeking asylum who were arriving in the city.
That’s not cheap.