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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They are also shortly going to become Biden's ELECTION THEFT TASK FORCE, TASKED to STEAL the election for Biden over Trump.
Most FReepers are mentally preparing for this, I AM SURE.
Don’t forget the Go signals they’ll receive, on their free phones, to attack taxpayers ... blaming the taxpayers for the sudden stop in payments.
And what is even more mind boggling is that we have US citizens supporting this.
Should be some fake takers.
I’ll tell all I see about it. Get rich. Get your money back.
Gotta be a catch in this besides the bribes.
Pay taxes on it? Hahahahahahahahahahahaha
I no longer care if NYC gets attacked again.
Americans are going to Pawn shops to hock valuables to feed their families. Biden and his goons are frigging monsters.
They can because they haven’t felt enough pain yet.
There are “newcomers” all over my place now. I have never seen the grocery store with so many fat squatty brown people speaking no English but using ebt cards to buy groceries. It is disgusting I am paying for their carts of groceries and the destruction of the nation by these freeloading invaders.
Too bad that hard working, tax paying citizens can’t get a gift of $18,000 for following the rules of civilization.
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