New York.- New York City has more than 57,300 people under care and each costs her $383 a day in shelter, food, and education for the children, in addition to other types of assistance they receive in the shelters, he said this Wednesday Mayor Eric Adams.
The city has already spent $1.45 billion this fiscal year to provide accommodation, food and services to this population, indicated Adams further announcing that the city has already received about 100,000 immigrants in a year, of which several thousand have ended up in other states or have left the protection system when obtaining a job.
“New York has passed its breaking point,” he said in a message in which he made a desperate appeal for urgent help to the local legislature and the federal government.
Migrants began to arrive in buses sent by the Texas Governor Gregg Abbott to Democratic and declared “safe haven” cities, in response to the open borders policy of the Biden Administration, and which, according to the Republican, is “overwhelming” the entire region of Texas border with Mexico.
“With more than 57,300 people currently in our care on an average night (the expense), amounts to 9.8 million dollars per day, almost 300 million per month and almost 3.600 million per year,” he said today. Adams noting that this figure will increase if the rate of flow continues.
“That will increase the costs to 4,700 million if things don’t change,” he insisted.
Adams He maintained that this figure “is more than the 1,400 million we spent last fiscal year and almost equals the budgets of the sanitation department, our parks department and the fire department combined.”
He also warned that if this pace continues, by the end of the 2025 the city could have 100,000 immigrants under their care, with a projected expense of more than 12,000 million dollars in three fiscal years, of which you need to get 7,000.
Added to that number are the homeless New Yorkers she cares for while she finds housing for them.
To the federal government, the mayor reiterated his claim that work permits for newcomers be expedited; that he declare a state of emergency so that federal funds are allocated quickly for the city and a decompression strategy at the border.
He insisted that without that “immediate” help from state and federal government“we will continue to see heartbreaking scenes like the one that took place outside the Hotel Roosevelt last week” where recently arrived immigrants looking for shelter slept outdoors for several days in the midst of an intense heat wave.
A four-decade-old law obliges the city to give shelter to whoever requests it and although the mayor asked last May that it be rescinded if there are economic problems, the court has not yet set a date to evaluate the issue.
The arrival of thousands of immigrants crowded public shelters and the city was forced to rent hotels in the metropolitan area and in the north of the state to house them and thus comply with the law, and tents are being erected in Manhattan, for two thousand people, and in the county of queens, for another thousand
