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NYC ends taxpayer-funded prepaid debit card program for illegal immigrants
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Posted on 11/07/2024 8:43:50 PM PST by TigerClaws

New York City is ending a program that provided prepaid debit cards to migrant families living in the sanctuary city.

In a statement obtained by FOX 5 New York, Adams announced the end of the immediate response cards pilot program.

"Through the immediate response cards pilot program, we were able to reduce food waste, redirect millions of dollars to our local economy, and provide more culturally relevant food to more than 2,600 migrant families in our care," Adams said. "As we move towards more competitive contracting for asylum seeker programs, we have chosen not to renew the emergency contract for this pilot program once the one-year term concludes."

New York City officials began giving out prepaid debit cards to migrant families residing in the Big Apple earlier this year. The prepaid cards – the first of which were distributed in March as part of the city's Immediate Response Cards (IRC) program – are meant to be used only to purchase essential items like food.

The mayor’s office previously said access to the program is limited to those in a separate program that provides four-week hotel stays for families with children, and families expecting children.

Allowances for illegal immigrants residing in the city are distributed on a weekly basis until the end of their four-week hotel stays, with families of four with two children under the age of five receiving up to nearly $350 each week.

Officials said the program would save the city about $600,000 per month, and $7.2 million per year.

New York City, which has been overwhelmed by more than 200,000 migrant arrivals since 2022, has been providing settlement options to migrants since that time. Last year, it opened a re-ticketing center to offer one-way plane tickets to migrants.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; Mexico; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: New York
KEYWORDS: aliens; debitcard; debitcards; invaders; invasion; irc; massdeportations; migrant; migrants; newyork; newyorkcity; nyc; realitysettingin; sanctuary; sanctuarycity; welfare
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1 posted on 11/07/2024 8:43:50 PM PST by TigerClaws
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To: TigerClaws

Why? That is so mean.


2 posted on 11/07/2024 8:46:21 PM PST by WeaslesRippedMyFlesh (there will come a day when FR rejects articles from the NYT, et al. as "Commie trash, no thank you")
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To: TigerClaws

They are a sanctuary city, how can they stop giving away freebies to illegals?


3 posted on 11/07/2024 8:46:57 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: WeaslesRippedMyFlesh

Adams sort of... backed Trump a bit. Said he wasn’t a fascist. Maybe a pardon is in his future?

Something is afoot.


4 posted on 11/07/2024 8:48:21 PM PST by TigerClaws
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To: TigerClaws

Which they NEVER should have had. Pissing away hard earned taxpayer money on criminals, an idea thought up by damnably insane libtards, was criminal.


5 posted on 11/07/2024 8:49:01 PM PST by EinNYC
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To: TigerClaws

And the hits just keep on coming!


6 posted on 11/07/2024 8:53:31 PM PST by xp38
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To: TigerClaws

The Hills Are Alive...


7 posted on 11/07/2024 8:55:49 PM PST by Kudsman (Pro life is anti Marxism. )
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To: TigerClaws

He does not want them spending that money back in their home country when they get deported in a couple of months.


8 posted on 11/07/2024 8:56:06 PM PST by TonyM (Score Event)
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To: TonyM

Somebody has to foot the bill and likely NYC is toast


9 posted on 11/07/2024 9:01:15 PM PST by Blue Highway
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To: TigerClaws

It’s amazing how quickly Trump’s victory is paying dividends. Even people like Adams are understanding the message that voters sent on Tuesday.


10 posted on 11/07/2024 9:09:28 PM PST by Restless
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To: EinNYC

Exactly.


11 posted on 11/07/2024 9:09:39 PM PST by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: TigerClaws

Indeed.


12 posted on 11/07/2024 9:11:10 PM PST by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: TigerClaws

It is the job of America “to provide more culturally relevant food”? What an @ss.


13 posted on 11/07/2024 9:11:44 PM PST by A strike (death to taggers)
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To: WeaslesRippedMyFlesh

How timely that Trump won 1/3 of NYC votes.


14 posted on 11/07/2024 9:33:57 PM PST by KC_Conspirator
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To: Restless

He reading those tea leaves weeks before the election though


15 posted on 11/07/2024 9:38:24 PM PST by Blue Highway
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To: TigerClaws
Through the immediate response cards pilot program, we were able to . . . redirect millions of dollars to our local economy . . .

Obviously, that was AFTER those same millions of dollars were siphoned OUT of the economy.

16 posted on 11/07/2024 9:49:16 PM PST by FoxInSocks ("Hope is not a course of action." — M. O'Neal, USMC)
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To: Secret Agent Man

Massachusetts is a sanctuary state...!

:)


17 posted on 11/07/2024 10:02:43 PM PST by Does so (Vote for The Anti-War President...🇺🇦...Dem☭crats...)
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To: TigerClaws

Well what do you know 😏


18 posted on 11/07/2024 10:04:35 PM PST by Harpotoo (Being a socialist is a lot easier than having to WORK like the rest of US:-))
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To: TigerClaws

Bkmk


19 posted on 11/07/2024 10:22:54 PM PST by kelly4c
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To: TigerClaws

Where’s snake plissken when they need him


20 posted on 11/07/2024 11:24:35 PM PST by thinden (Buckle up …..)
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