New York City has a annual budget of $101 Billion, more than 53 American states….
But 2% of that budget IS a LOT of money and twice what the city thought it would cost…..Republican state Governor’s keep sending legal migrants North at no cost to them , but costs to receiving state’s….
New York City and New York State provide services, healthcare, shelter, student education and other aid to the migrants….
The issue has been one of the reasons President Biden went to the Southern border last week to announce strong border policies….
New York City Mayor Eric Adams issued an emergency aid request to the state Friday, saying the cost to handle asylum seekers arriving from the southern border is approaching $2 billion, double what his office has budgeted for the expense.
He called the lack of a federal response to the crisis “inhumane” and “irresponsible.”…
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“The strain on our infrastructure is immense,” he said Friday during an appearance on Caribbean Power Jam Radio. “I cannot tell you how much of an impact this is having on our abilities to provide services for everyday New Yorkers.”
Since last year, around 40,000 migrants have traveled to the five boroughs, with many needing housing, education and social services. In recent weeks, the pace of arrivals has quickened. In the past week, the city received more than 3,000 asylum seekers, according to figures from City Hall, with a record 835 people coming on a single day.
Those figures come on the heels of Colorado Gov. Jared Polis’s move to bus migrants to New York and Chicago following a travel backlog created by winter storms. He’s since stopped sending charter buses east following criticism by fellow Democratic leaders including Adams and Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot.
New York City’s shelter system is already at capacity, with close to 70,000 people staying in the facilities on a given night. On Friday, Adams said the city expects to have upward of 100,000 in its care between the population of migrants and homeless New Yorkers. Public schools, meanwhile, have admitted 11,000 migrant students to the system. The cost of these efforts, which Adams pegged between $1.5 billion to $2 billion, is an increase of estimates he offered just last week. And the fiscal strain, he cautioned, will be felt in other areas of the budget without federal and state aid….