Posted on 08/27/2023 9:36:40 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
New York taxpayers will dole out $20 million a month to house migrants on Randall’s Island, according to a state source — or $10,000 per asylum-seeker if the site fills all of its 2,000 beds.
The makeshift facility off Manhattan is one of four migrant housing sites fully funded by the state as part of a desperate effort to keep up with the flood of migrants who have New York City at its breaking point.
A well-placed source with the state told The Post over the weekend that the state is providing $20 million a month to run the Randall’s center.
New York City Mayor Eric Adams announced last week that the migrant crunch in the Big Apple is expected to cost an overall whopping $12 billion for the next three years.
“We are past our breaking point,” Adams said during a City Hall briefing Wednesday. “With more than 57,300 individuals currently in our care on an average night, it amounts to $9.8 million a day, almost $300 million a month and nearly $3.6 billion a year.”
About 100,000 men, women and children seeking asylum have arrived in New York City since the spring of 2022, with more than 57,000 currently staying in 198 emergency shelters in the five boroughs.
The unprecedented influx has spilled out onto the streets of Manhattan, where scores of migrants were forced two weeks ago to sleep outside the Roosevelt Hotel in Midtown, which was set up as a processing center.
But the move to put migrant men on some of Randall’s Island’s soccer fields has incensed the local sports community — including even one of Adams’ own commissioners, who spoke out against it.
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Stupid should hurt.
It’s probably one their cheaper options.
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Somebody’s relatives are making bank
20M/month would go a long way
in taking care of American citizen
homeless in NYC.
And I imagine the Big Guy is getting his 10% cut.
BTTT
This is what happens when you put an incompetent in charge of a major city. His main qualifications are that he’s a corrupt, racist black libtard who is agenda-driven, even in the face of absolutely ludicrous policy. Sorry, but such qualifications lead only one way—ruining a city. We are watching similar destruction in many cities across the U.S. All are headed by agenda-driven libtards.
There is a sensible and simple way for taxpayers in America, the UK, Canada and other economically desirable countries to avoid the burden of paying these skyrocketing cost for keeping illegal immigrants, or as liberals like to call them... ‘Asylum seekers’.
It’s time to start billing the originating country for the cost of keeping their citizens in our countries.
After Asia, Eastern Europe, north Africa, Latin and South America, etc. start getting billed for the cost of maintaining their citizens... It will force the economic cost of illegal immigration to be paid for by the originating countries, and it will be painful to the leaders of those nations in a way that they will actually feel it... Their bottom lines.
Immigration will then likely decrease substantially... And after all... Why should we as taxpayers be forced to pay for their economic mess?
Since 97% of these “refugees” are young able-bodied men, how about putting them to work. Streets need cleaning, for example.
They've seized control of the country, and the Pubbies are sitting on their hands.
The 2024 "election" will be even more of an outrageous, in-your-face sham.
They've dealt with the opposition.
The only ones man enough to get in the faces of the ones running the fake government and the fake courts are women - Sarah Palin and Tulsi Gabbard, so far.
Their finding out the price of having to live up to their smug virtue signaling.
It just drives the city, and the state...closer to bankruptcy in the end....asking the Feds for help and finding that half the states are peeved over giving them more money.
The equivalent cost of an Ivy League college.
#ing Rats
What a Deal!
I’m surprised that “Catholic Charities” (neither Catholic, nor a charity) isn’t in on this deal.
(Or maybe they are in on it.)
I’ve actually been to Catholic Charities here on Oahu, and their HQ is in a Catholic church.
More theft by democrat communist party government.
$10,000 per month for each cot. Some politician friend is making a fortune.
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