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NYC to end controversial program supplying migrants with prepaid debit cards
New York Post ^ | 11/8/24

Posted on 11/08/2024 3:12:34 AM PST by EBH

Mayor Eric Adams is ending his administration’s controversial program supplying migrants in city shelters with prepaid debit cards to pay for groceries.

The pilot program distributed the preloaded Mastercards to asylum seekers at hotels-turned-shelters with a family of four receiving about $350 a week to cover the cost of groceries and baby supplies.

The city hired New Jersey-based tech startup, Mobility Capital Finance, in a $53 million one-year “emergency” contract that drew backlash when the city failed to conduct a typical bidding process before picking the company.

But with the one year up shortly, the Adams administration decided against renewing the contract, ABC7 reported.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; Government; US: New York
KEYWORDS: blm; blmmoneylaundering; ericadams; followthemoney; mastercard; mobilitycapital; moneylaundering; wolecoaxum
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To: 11th_VA

Charities.. largely funded by the gov…


21 posted on 11/08/2024 4:23:02 AM PST by uranium penguin
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To: Wallace T.

Wouldn’t be surprised if Adams feels he is a victim of the current Demonrat Admin and thus has a lot in common with Trump.
It’s therefore possible that he has been privately sharing with Trump some very damning info about his party’s dirty dealings.


22 posted on 11/08/2024 4:31:29 AM PST by milagro (There is no peace in appeasement! Thereon)
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To: EBH

NYS cost shares Medicaid with counties.

My bet it Dems will welcome the deportations to avoid their counties going broke.


23 posted on 11/08/2024 4:35:30 AM PST by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
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To: milagro

Gotham has RCV for a reason.

Deep State got what it wanted in Adams.


24 posted on 11/08/2024 4:36:09 AM PST by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
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To: EBH

WTF was he thinking in the first place?!


25 posted on 11/08/2024 4:41:25 AM PST by Eleutheria5 (Every Goliath has his David. Child in need of a CGM system. https://gofund.me/6452dbf1. )
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To: Flavious_Maximus

“This is how they will self deport,”

This might also cause them to get mad and become violent.


26 posted on 11/08/2024 4:46:14 AM PST by cymbeline
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To: EBH

Why were you doing it to start with??????????????????


27 posted on 11/08/2024 4:56:50 AM PST by JBW1949 (I'm really PC.....Patriotically Correct)
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To: American Infidel
However, NYC voters will STILL have to pony up to fulfill THEIR obligation to PAY for their DEBT card their rulers have played.
28 posted on 11/08/2024 5:00:04 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: EBH

I guess it’s true: Socialists CAN run out of other people’s money to spend!


29 posted on 11/08/2024 5:01:07 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: EBH

Turn off the Free Stuff and there will be plenty of money for Mass Deportations


30 posted on 11/08/2024 5:03:36 AM PST by butlerweave
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To: EBH

Wait , is the Biden Admin still flying Haitians into the US ?


31 posted on 11/08/2024 5:04:55 AM PST by butlerweave
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To: milagro

Wouldn’t that be something if the NYC Mayor went MAGA?


32 posted on 11/08/2024 5:05:49 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: EBH
From the article: ...receiving about $350 a week to cover the cost of groceries and baby supplies

There are no restrictions on those cards. The filthy lie from the New York City government and the card merchants, is that it's for "groceries and baby supplies".

33 posted on 11/08/2024 5:09:02 AM PST by T.B. Yoits
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To: EBH

It only takes two weeks of debit card cash to buy a ticket back to Guatemala City. They can be home before Christmas.

A side note:

Did you notice hurricane Rafael was surging toward the US Gulf Coast? Once Trump was declared the winner it changed course. Even hurricanes know Trump will turn them away at the border.

EC


34 posted on 11/08/2024 5:24:37 AM PST by Ex-Con777
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To: EBH

Now on their own to ROB, STEAL, and LOOT American Citizens.


35 posted on 11/08/2024 5:25:59 AM PST by wetgundog
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To: EBH

Trump effect...he knows moving forward rather than being punished by the WH he will be applauded.

Good news in the sense this could force many of them to leave. Bad news in the sense this could force more crime as they will now steal because they have no free pre-paid cards to buy stuff.


36 posted on 11/08/2024 5:29:33 AM PST by God luvs America (6young 3.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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To: datricker

“The whole ebt card should go away back to food stamps.”
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Food stamps in $1.00 denominations only.


37 posted on 11/08/2024 5:30:31 AM PST by Does so (Vote for The Anti-War President...🇺🇦...Dem☭crats...)
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To: wetgundog

Massachusetts remains a devout “Sanctuary State”.

MA will take them...


38 posted on 11/08/2024 5:34:48 AM PST by Does so (Vote for The Anti-War President...🇺🇦...Dem☭crats...)
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To: Flavious_Maximus
With no EBT card, the illegals will have to depend on charities to feed them. This is how they will self deport, slowly at first and then by the millions.

The same understanding which caused half the caravan migrants to make a turnabout and head back south this week.
39 posted on 11/08/2024 5:43:19 AM PST by EliRoom8
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To: EBH
asylum seekers at hotels-turned-shelters with a family of four receiving about $350 a week

That's probably more than most American stay-at-home moms get in Social Security BEFORE income tax withholding and Medicare premiums.

The dems will all burn in hell, in a special section of hell.

40 posted on 11/08/2024 6:14:01 AM PST by Bernard (I just clicked over another tag line, Time to run without for a while.)
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