Just 2k migrants in NYC have applied to work — with none approved to earn a paycheck

The New York Post ^ | 10/18/2023 | Craig McCarthy

[thegagline]

A mere 2,100 migrants in the Big Apple’s care have applied for work permits — with not a single one yet to receive federal approval, city officials admitted Wednesday.

City Hall also still has no solid figure for how many of the more than 40,000 adult asylum seekers it is housing are even eligible to legally work here, officials conceded at a city council hearing.

The revelation frustrated even Mayor Adams’ fellow Democrats on the council.

“This migrant strategy is going nowhere fast: We have to secure the border,” Council Member Robert Holden (D-Queens) said.

So far, the city’s migrant help center has submitted 444 work applications and another 1,700 were filed with the help of the feds stationed in Lower Manhattan.

None have returned with a federal stamp of approval, officials conceded.

*** The Biden administration extended protections for people fleeing the country (Venezuela) experiencing extreme poverty a month ago as long as they crossed the border before August following calls from Gov. Kathy Hochul and Mayor Eric Adams, who argued working would allow them to move quicker out of New York City’s overwhelmed shelter system. ***

[thegagline]

Why work when the government pays for everything? The shiftless illegals are future Democrats. The great replacement is going just as planned.

[butlerweave]

Leeches got to leech

[Bob434]

I have stats in my profile page which show that back a few decades ago, among illegals and legal immigrants, upwards of 70% or so never work but go on the government dole- some to the tune of $45,000 a year (likely much higher today) as they soak our nation for all it’s worth

It is a lie that “Most ‘immigrants’ want to work and contribute to the nation” - they do not- the vast majority of them just want ‘free money’ and healthcare, and education etc etc etc

[crusty old prospector]

America has been berry, berry good to me.

[thegagline]

I just perused your profile page. It is bookmark worthy. Thank you.

[ridesthemiles]

THE reference to the 40,000 ???

NONE are eligible to work here.

FORM I-9 cannot be correctly completed by any of them.

[R_Kangel]

"Just 2k migrants in NYC have applied to work — with none approved to earn a paycheck"

..... Folks ..... NONE OF THIS MATTERS ...... Under the current Power Structure ....... We are all going to Pay for Them anyway .... So why are we all so concerned about them earning a freakin paycheck?!?!?!?!!!!

.... Heck ..... We can't even elect a Speaker of the House without the total collapse and mayhem of the Republican Party!!!! And in the mean time the Democrat Socialist Communists are unified to complete the Destruction of America!

..... Asking for a friend .....

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[elpadre]

How many of them joined the protesters denouncing Israel???

[Bob434]

Thanks- Yeah, lots of good stuff there- years of saving links to research on different topics-

[frank ballenger]

The art and science of total relaxation.

https://www.offset.com/search/man+relaxing+hammock

[Tennessee Nana]

When was that ???

When I IMMIGRATED here in 1971 I would have been deported for even applying for welfare etc

[George J. Jetso]

Why work if they get free room and board in a hotel including room service.

[Taxman]

Not in USA to work!

In USA for FREE STUFF!

[FlingWingFlyer]

Pick your own fruit and mow you own lawns. This batch of invaders are here to Pah tay.

[FlingWingFlyer]

Who said anything about working? All of them interviewed on the boob tube say they came her for a “better life”. Nobody said anything about getting a job and having to work.

[jerod]

It’s not a about getting a job... It’s about getting free money and free accommodations... These people did nothing in their old countries too and their intent is to do absolutely nothing here as well... That’s likely why their old countries kicked them out and showed them the door.

[Hiddigeigei]

"To: Bob434 I just perused your profile page. It is bookmark worthy. Thank you."
I just perused Bob434 profile page. I nodded at everything he wrote up to CoVid-19 challenge. Then Trump "screwed the pooch." I'm still voting from Trump in the primary and election, but finding my brother lying dead next to his bed a month after taking Trump's "warp-speed" vaccine has sort of put me off. I know, I've heard all the excuses.

[FlingWingFlyer]

What America wants to know is when they’ll be taking their refugee asses home. You can’t be a friggin refugee all of your life.

[Billthedrill]

This migrant strategy is going nowhere fast: We have to secure the border...

Obviously a MAGA White Supremacist bigot.

[know.your.why]

This sht about these cats not wanting to work...this is a bad start. I mean its been bad from the very start of 1/6/21 and all the “executive” orders. This is the first I’ve heard about the not-wanting-to-work crap. I dont want to sound like chicken little...but folks, theres almost 4 MILLION of these people here now. We aint seen nuthin yet. I sense a major disturbance in the force and I fear these 4 Million non-interested-in-work people are going to climax in a humanitarian and social crisis the likes that this country has never seen or frankly can be imagined. The crime that I bet is on the way in the next year to 2 years...tens of thousands are going to have to be imprisoned or deported. But they got to be caught first.