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New York taxpayers will dole out $20 million a month to house migrants on Randall’s Island, according to a state source — or $10,000 per asylum-seeker if the site fills all of its 2,000 beds.The makeshift facility off Manhattan is one of four migrant housing sites fully funded by the state as part of a desperate effort to keep up with the flood of migrants who have New York City at its breaking point.A well-placed source with the state told The Post over the weekend that the state is providing $20 million a month to run the Randall’s center.New York...

A New York Post reporter who authored a story falsely claiming that migrant children were being given copies of Vice President Kamala Harris' children's book announced on Tuesday that she'd been "ordered" to write the "incorrect" story and resigned from the paper. Earlier on Tuesday, the Post temporarily deleted Italiano's two stories on the topic and republished altered versions hours later with editor's notes. "An announcement: Today I handed in my resignation to my editors at the New York Post," Laura Italiano tweeted on Tuesday evening. "The Kamala Harris story — an incorrect story I was ordered to write and...