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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Too bad that hard working, tax paying citizens can’t get a gift of $18,000 for following the rules of civilization. Just too damn bad.
Yes, it boggles the mind and offends all sensibility.
These bums need to be forcibly ejected from our land.
Every NYC official involved in this should be charged, tried, convicted and sentenced to hang for giving aid and comfort to the domestic and foreign enemies of the United States.
They voted for it.
The welfare cards are redeemed at the grocery store or bodega for gift cards. The gift cards can be used for anything. Thats how the regular poor people get around the limits to the snap, wic, or other welfare card.
It’s for the Bodegas
There are people who have paid into Social Security all their lives and don’t get that much!!!!!!
18K is more than I get in retirement pension from Uncle Sam. Must be nice.
The illegals will be getting more than US disabled and SSA retirees. Not sure how much our Veterans get.
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Ok. Thanks.
That’s the taxpayers’ gift that keeps on giving. Gift cards.
Keep paying your taxes!
Agree.
FYI, a veteran with a service-related disability rating of 60% doesn't get that much help.
The stupid New Yorkers will continue to vote RAT in spite of being destroyed by their own government.
Is this the same Mayor Adams bitterly complaining about being "Overwhelmed" by the influx of illegals?
Now--with this big cash hand-out--Adams has created a giant magnet that guarantees to draw hundreds of thousands--perhaps millions--of the world's grifters to his NYC realm.
Adams's mind has broken under the pressure of governing a major metropolis inundated by a huge army of money-grubbers. The Mayor has lost his mind.
New York Taxpayers can afford it, maybe they Illegal Aliens need a raise to help with inflation
When we die?
Not trying to be a smart A$$, but.. "Welcome my Friends to the Show that Never Ends" - Emerson, Lake, & Palmer
18,200 dollars a year, that’s more than these WETBACKS have earned in their entire lives!
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