Posted on 02/21/2024 6:01:04 AM PST by MtnClimber
New York is Migrant Central — the No. 1 destination in the country for illegal border crossers — and it’s no accident. New York’s Democratic politicians benefit from the deluge. The more migrants come here, the more congressional seats and clout in the electoral college New York is able to maintain.
Elon Musk spelled it out on X on Feb. 3: “Most people in America don’t know that the census is based on a simple headcount of people (including illegals) not just citizens. This shifts political power and money to states and Congressional districts with the highest number of illegals.”
The busloads coming in from the southern border offset the moving vans exiting the city carrying New Yorkers in search of better places to live. Migrants are actually helping protect Democratic members of Congress from losing their districts as the city’s population shrinks.
New York City lost 400,000 residents over the last three years. They’re being gradually replaced, explains City Comptroller Brad Lander, by a wave of migrants who are dependent on the city for shelter, food, health care and everything else. “I actually don’t consider it a crisis,” says Lander. “To me this is the next wave of people becoming New Yorkers.”
Lander apparently is unbothered taxpayers are being replaced by people who consume services instead of paying for them. But it’s not sustainable. Too much spending is one of the reasons New York City’s financial condition worsened over the past year, earning it an “F” grade in a new fiscal watchdog report by Truth in Accounting. NYC ranked worst of 75 municipalities.
Undaunted by this fiscal decline, New York pols offer more benefits to incentivize migrants to come. In this year’s state budget, Gov. Kathy Hochul added cash welfare for asylum seekers.
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It is all planned. Leftist politicians benefit and you pick up the IOUs.
Isn’t there some legal precedent that prevents one from benefitting off of breaking the law?
Yes but good kuck finding someone to follow the law
Yep, it’s not their money they are handing out like Halloween candy.
Exactly.
Everybody is counted, citizens, legal immigrants, illegals, even foreign tourists could be (if the sign up).
People who are traveling could be counted twice.
It would be OK if all those people were spread evenly.
But they are not, non-citizens tend to congregate in areas.
We got huge extremes.
The average congressman represents about 700,000 citizens.
But
The one representative from Montana (before last Census, now they finally got two!) was representing about 1.3 million of citizens, while long term congresswoman Lydia Vazquez from NYC is actually representing about 200,000+ citizens (most of her district residents and non-citizen!).
So the Montana guy represented about five times more citizens than Mrs. Vasquez!
So the non-citizens, even if they are legal and do not vote, are still being represented and they are shifting the congressional power to Democrats!
When Trump wanted to at least include in census the count of citizens, he was called names and dragged to supreme court, which actually defeated that measure on technicality!
As a compromise, I suggest counting the illegals as 3/5 of a person.
You are sadly right about that
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