Posted on 03/26/2024 2:53:11 PM PDT by Angelino97
Migrant families in New York city have begun receiving prepaid debit cards as part of a controversial scheme that could see them receive up to $18,200 a year.
Officials began distributing the cards to the first ten new arrivals at the city's Roosevelt Hotel shelter on Monday.
The cards are preloaded with a week's worth of funds and will be rolled out to 115 families, equivalent to 450 people by the end of the week.
Mayor Eric Adams is pressing ahead with the $53 million scheme, despite a furious backlash amid fears the cards are open to abuse.
The debit cards can only be used at supermarkets and bodegas, the city leader said. A family of four with two children could receive up to $350 per week, depending on the children’s ages.
Participants will also have to sign an affidavit swearing they will only use the cards for food or baby supplies at the risk of being removed from the program.
But critics including Adams' rival on the migrant crisis, Texas Governor Greg Abbott and Queens born rapper, 50 Cent have questioned why migrants are receiving the cards ahead of struggling New Yorkers.
Abbott blasted the 'offensive' scheme as 'insanity,' but supporters say it will help the city deal with the strain on its services caused by a surge in migrants in recent months.
In the last two years 180,000 asylum seekers entered New York, with 65,000 still in shelters.
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And now the whole country is experiencing the consequences of the demonrat party cheating their way to victory.
Comrades, our premier foe has destroyed himself, without us firing a shot. Lao Tsu would be proud."
And there’s too many demonrat voters.
Right. That time a computer system problem inexplicably brought down tens of thousands debit cards to show zero balance the people were, uh, not pleased.
Oct.12, 2013 CNN
EBT Card System Restored, Computer Failure To Blame for Saturday’s Outage
The outage that caused EBT card systems in 17 states to go down Saturday is fixed.
Oh, it's alright then.
Yep
And why did they turn The Roosevelt into illegal immigrant housing?! I loved that place and stayed there many times.
It will take them 2 seconds to turn it to cash and send it to their home countries
The people paying for this are being replaced. They not only push us out, they take our money as well.
and these people only want to take and not give anything
Bkmk
Gee, I had to work for almost fifty years to be eligible to collect two grand in SS benefits . . .
You saw that bridge go down fast in Baltimore? That’s NYC.
Biden’s orders.......buy as many votes as possible.
$18k a year for being a foreign societal leach. Nice work if you can get it. 🙄
We so need a like button on this site.
Keep voting Democrat.
I N S A N I T Y!!!!
Those supporting and doing this need to be in an asylum.
Those NGOs need to be arrested, whisked off to GITMO, outside the reach of insane lawyers and judges, and tried as domestic enemy terrorists and dealt with accordingly.
New York City Council Begs Court to Authorize Voting Rights for 800,000 Foreign Nationals
NY Post ^ | 03/26/2024 | JOHN BINDER
Posted on 3/26/2024, 1:25:44 PM by ChicagoConservative27
The New York City Council is begging an appellate court to authorize more than 800,000 foreign nationals to vote in the city’s municipal elections.
In January 2022, Democrats on the 51-member New York City Council approved an ordinance to give more than 800,000 foreign nationals with green cards, visas, and work permits the opportunity to vote in citywide elections so long as they have resided in the city for at least 30 consecutive days.
Following lawsuits over the ordinance, the New York Supreme Court in June 2022 ruled that giving local voting rights to foreign nationals violated the state’s constitution, which explicitly reserves voting for American “citizens.”
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