Posted on 03/12/2024 12:57:33 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
New York City is forking out an average of $387 per day to put up a single migrant household in taxpayer-funded shelters, the latest data from City Hall show.
That number — known as the “cumulative per diem” — is the average of what the city has spent to house and feed each migrant household per day every month since the start of the crisis in spring 2022.
The daily bill has slowly been dropping as the city desperately continues to try and slash asylum-seeker spending amid the ongoing crisis, with about 64,800 migrants in its care as of last week.
The $387 for February was down $5 from October 2023, when there were about 65,400 migrants in city care. The cumulative average began to go down steadily that month, hitting $391 in November, $390 in December and $388 in January.
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How can I sign up for $387 a day?
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most of that goes to “nonprofit” fatcats
$387 per day X 30 days = $11,060 per month, which is about $130,000 per year.
Heck, just hand us the money and I’ll make sure it gets put to better use than they are. But of course, it’s not going to lining some politician’s pockets in the form of kickbacks.
Taxpayers in NYC must be very rich!
No doubt about that. It’s disgusting to see how well some of the “nonprofit” fatcats live.
I hope they are not expecting the federal taxpayer to bail them out.
This is only OUTRAGEOUS because NY Democrats don’t need the extra voters. They already have a lock on power. The same reason it’s outrageous at other liberal strongholds.
That’s right. Clearly not enough. NYC still has money. Make the citizens pay up.....pay more......much more....
“There is no legal obligation for Federal, State or local governments to provide financial assistance to those claiming asylum.”
Not so.
Quotes from the Refugee Convention:
Article 23 - Public relief
The Contracting States shall accord to refugees lawfully staying in their territory the same treatment with respect to public relief and assistance as is accorded to their nationals.
Article 17 - Wage-earning employment
....
2. In any case, restrictive measures imposed on aliens or the employment of aliens for the protection of the national labour market shall not be applied to a refugee...who fulfils one of the following conditions:
(a) He has completed three years’ residence in the country;
....
(c) He has one or more children possessing the nationality of the country of residence.
Article 34 - Naturalization [and getting the right to vote (and buy AR-15s)]
The Contracting States shall as far as possible facilitate the assimilation and naturalization of refugees. They shall in particular make every effort to expedite naturalization proceedings and to reduce as far as possible the charges and costs of such proceedings.
https://www.ohchr.org/en/instruments-mechanisms/instruments/convention-relating-status-refugees
Article 44 - Denunciation [getting out from under the Refugee Convention]
1. Any Contracting State may denounce this Convention at any time by a notification addressed to the Secretary-General of the United Nations.
2. Such denunciation shall take effect for the Contracting State concerned one year from the date upon which it is received by the Secretary-General of the United Nations....
NOTE: I do not trust any politician who has not called for invoking Article 44 to get the US out from under the Refugee Convention.
And my distrust extends to Trump and DeSantis.
The Refugee Convention must be removed from the Democratic Party toolbox by invoking Article 44.
Much of the expense has to do with putting them up in hotels.
quote:
In 1979 a lawyer named Robert Hayes, who co-founded Coalition for the Homeless, brought a class action lawsuit in New York State Supreme Court against the City and State called Callahan v. Carey, arguing that a constitutional right to shelter existed in New York. In particular, the lawsuit pointed to Article XVII of the New York State Constitution, which declares that “the aid, care and support of the needy are public concerns and shall be provided by the state and by such of its subdivisions….”
The whole truth is:
“The aid, care and support of the needy are public concerns and shall be provided by the state and by such of its subdivisions, and in such manner and by such means, as the legislature may from time to time determine.”
https://law.justia.com/constitution/new-york/article-xvii/section-1/
What needs to be done is to have a federal law passed that prohibits lodging establishments in or suitable for use in interstate commerce from being used for government-funded indigent housing.
The definition of “refugee” is murky at best. Are these illegals victims of systemic persecution or just seeking a better situation (including a safety net) financially? America is one of the few countries that does not require “asylum seekers” to seek asylum at the closest country to their home borders and therein lies the problem. Anyway, the Refugee Convention caps the number of individuals at 125,000 per year which we regularly exceed per month. And Google opposes your contention, too.
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