New York City Officials are claiming that a taxpayer-funded program that gives migrant families $350 a week is helping set an example for the rest of the nation on how to manage a “national humanitarian crisis” resulting from massive illegal immigration.
However, in the program faced opposition from critics Despite those who question the unconditional aid given to illegal immigrants from the city’s strapped coffers, officials consider the programme a great success.
“New York City is leading the nation in managing this national humanitarian crisis, having cared for more than 203,900 migrants since the spring of 2022 and helping more than 65 percent exit our care and take the next step in their journey,” a City Hall spokesperson told Fox News Digital.
New York City officials start giving away prepaid debit cards Migrant families prepaid cards that went live in the Big Apple earlier this year — the first of which was Delivered in March As part of the city’s Immediate Response Card (IRC) programme – it is to be used only for purchasing essential items such as food.
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The prepaid cards — the first of which were distributed in March as part of the city’s immediate response card program — are to be used only to purchase essential items, such as food. (Getty Images)
Through the program, a City Hall spokesperson said New York City has “helped 900 migrant families — including more than 1,300 children — buy their own food and baby supplies from stores selling groceries and convenience items.”
“This has helped return nearly $600,000 to the New York City economy,” the spokesperson said.
But it’s unclear how much the city has spent on the program so far. The effort is part of what was described earlier this year as a major step forward. $53 million pilot program Distributing prepaid credit cards to migrant families staying in hotels despite public protest.
According to the mayor’s office, access to the program is limited to those who are part of a separate program that offers hotel stays for four weeks to families with children and families expecting children.
The allowances are distributed to illegal immigrants living in the city on a weekly basis, continuing until the end of their four-week hotel stay, and a family of four with two children under the age of five receives up to about $350 per week.
The city said the IRC program is in a subdivision of the locations where the city is located. Providing shelter and care for migrants, which currently accounts for less than one per cent of the total population of migrants under the city’s care.
Refugees line up in front of the historic Roosevelt Hotel, which has been converted into a city-run shelter for newly arrived migrant families, in New York City on September 27, 2023. (Selcuk Akar/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
At the start of the event, cards were reportedly being distributed at the city’s arrival centre. Roosevelt Hotel in ManhattanAssistance is being provided to migrant families who are staying in hotels being used as emergency shelters.
AdamsDemocrats strongly defended the program and the “misinformation” surrounding it earlier this year.
“We’re not giving people American Express cards,” Adams said during a state Legislature budget hearing in Albany in February.
“We found that the food delivery service we set up during the emergency – we could find a better way to do it, because we believe we want to cut down on migrant costs by 20%. So we have a pilot project with 500 people, in which we are giving them food cards, so instead of debit cards, instead of delivering food and people having to eat the food – we were seeing food wastage – they are now able to get their own food, which would cost $12 a day,” he said at the time.
Government of New York City It previously estimated it would spend at least $10.6 billion on migrants by the summer of 2025. New York state has already vowed to contribute about $2 billion in the current budget cycle to the migrant crisis, but Adams told lawmakers the state’s pledge would cover only about a third of the city’s migrant costs.
On January 27, 2024 in the East Village neighborhood of New York City, single migrant men, most of them from West Africa, gather in Tompkins Square Park, where volunteers distribute food and clothing. (Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images)
Nearly 180,000 migrants have arrived in New York City since 2022, straining the city’s resources as officials scramble to find housing for them. Texas Governor Greg Abbott has said he is doing everything he can to get his migrants to New York City. Buses transported refugees to New York Efforts have been made to help them travel to sanctuary areas in the U.S. and other cities, and to highlight the crisis faced by border communities on a daily basis.
