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NYC launches $53M program to hand out pre-paid credit cards to migrant families
NY Post ^ | February 2, 2024 | By Craig McCarthy

Posted on 02/02/2024 2:16:20 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer

Mayor Eric Adams’ administration will soon start handing out pre-paid credit cards to migrant families being put up in Big Apple hotels, The Post has learned.

The $53 million pilot program, run by the New Jersey company Mobility Capital Finance, will provide asylum seekers arriving at the Roosevelt Hotel with the city cash to help them buy food, according to city records.

It’ll start with a group of 500 migrant families in short-term hotel stays and will replace the current food service offered there, according to City Hall.

The cards can only be used at bodegas, grocery stores, supermarkets and convenience stores — and migrants must sign an affidavit swearing they will only spend the funds on food and baby supplies or they will be kicked out of the program.

The Immediate Response Card initiative appears akin to the state’s food stamp program, dubbed SNAP, which provides lower-income New Yorkers with a credit card to cover the cost of meals, and will provide funds based on the same scale.

The amount on each card will vary depending on the size of the family and whether any income is coming in, according to the details of the contract. A family of four, for instance, could be provided nearly $1,000 each month, which comes out to $35 per day for food. Cards will get refilled every 28 days.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: New York
KEYWORDS: aliens; border; budget; illgalaliens; invasion; newyork; tyranny; welfare
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1 posted on 02/02/2024 2:16:20 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

When will the blacks demand their free stuff or burn it to the ground.


2 posted on 02/02/2024 2:17:56 PM PST by DownInFlames (p)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
The illegals appreciate the Mayor's generosity.


3 posted on 02/02/2024 2:19:10 PM PST by PROCON (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I think they mean illegals not migrants


4 posted on 02/02/2024 2:19:17 PM PST by NWFree (Sigma male 🤪)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
If only the Pilgrims had this service. What nonsense, bankrupting the country for the sake of illegal alien invaders courtesy of Brandon.
5 posted on 02/02/2024 2:20:25 PM PST by Fungi
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$106,000 per invading “family”.


6 posted on 02/02/2024 2:21:13 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Hmm...call me cynical, but I don't think "New York gives out free money! Don't come here!" is going to work very well. I did love this one:

...migrants must sign an affidavit swearing they will only spend the funds on food and baby supplies or they will be kicked out of the program.

Food and baby supplies that will be traded for booze, drugs... We've been playing this game for a long time now.

7 posted on 02/02/2024 2:25:38 PM PST by Billthedrill
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Death by a billion cuts…


8 posted on 02/02/2024 2:32:34 PM PST by DoughtyOne (I pledge allegiance to the flag of the USofA & to the Constitutional REPUBLIC for which it stands.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

What slush fund did this come from?

I’ll wait.


9 posted on 02/02/2024 2:34:08 PM PST by C210N (Mundus vult decipi, ergo decipiatur.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Completely illegal. Hang this retarded twerp.


10 posted on 02/02/2024 2:34:44 PM PST by HYPOCRACY (This is the dystopian future we've been waiting for!)
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11 posted on 02/02/2024 2:39:11 PM PST by KeyLargo
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Robbing the taxpayers and give it to leeches that will send it to their home country


12 posted on 02/02/2024 2:41:29 PM PST by butlerweave
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Illegals. Illegal Immigrants. Undocumented Workers. Immigrants. Asylum Seekers.

Ah, the evolution of the language. I guess the next term will be "Aspiring Citizens".

13 posted on 02/02/2024 2:41:51 PM PST by Right Brother (Pray for God's intervention to stop UMCRevMom's invasion of Free Republic)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

so they didn’t come to the US to work and pay taxes ,LOL


14 posted on 02/02/2024 2:43:25 PM PST by butlerweave
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Now we’re outright paying for our own destruction.


15 posted on 02/02/2024 2:46:29 PM PST by Right_in_Virginia ( )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The cards can only be used at bodegas, grocery stores, supermarkets and convenience stores , so they’ll do like food stamps people , buy water dump it out and sell the bottles to get cash ,LOL


16 posted on 02/02/2024 2:46:53 PM PST by butlerweave
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Come on NYC, you can do better. Pay 5 times that amount! Oh, and raise taxes on the tax payers. FEEL GOOD!


17 posted on 02/02/2024 2:48:42 PM PST by Mark (DONATE ONCE every 3 months-is that a big deal?)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Then why are they complainin’ ‘bout the invasion?


18 posted on 02/02/2024 2:50:50 PM PST by Clutch Martin ("The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right." )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Starve the vermin scum and let them freeze to death...

It is nice and warm in the countries they came from...


19 posted on 02/02/2024 3:12:13 PM PST by SuperLuminal (Where is the next Sam Adams when we so desperately need him)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Why the hell not! Whether we like it or not those are the evil effing, SOB rats, future voters! Don’t effing kick yourself that they are going to be deported. They already have it all planned out. As you can tell by those bastards who walked away from being criminally charged with kicking and beating those New York police. What kind of an effing judicial system do we have here. This is sending a dangerous message to ALL those illegals! Mark my words come 2024 they will be eligible to vote! Don’t think for one minute they’re gonna be stashed away in some rec center or in a tent city somewhere they’re going to be living the high life while ordinary, homeless Americans and veterans can’t even get an apartment or help from the government. This is how they’re gonna strap the illegal invaders down like they did the black community! It is all planned out. Don’t think for one minute they don’t know what the hell they’re doing they do it’s all planned, strategized and moving swimmingly .


20 posted on 02/02/2024 3:14:55 PM PST by RoseofTexas
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