New York is facing a budget crisis and it is estimated that, by the end of 2024, it will have spent 12.2 billion dollars in attention to immigrants, according to the calculations presented by the authorities. In 9 months, during the current fiscal period, the city has spent $1.45 billion. Each immigrant costs New York about $383 a day.
Hundreds of people are sleeping in the streets on cardboard, under the rain and the sun on the sidewalks of hotels and shops; They are waiting for a space in the shelters that the city has allocated where there is no room for one more. While people continue to arrive daily from the border. Families with children have priority to process their asylum requests, the same for accommodation in hotels and shelters.
The crisis in New York has reached such a point that the mayor of that city, the Democrat Eric Adams, asked the government of President Joe Biden for federal help to solve the crisis, a request that has not yet been answered.
For the analyst, first you have to “order the house”, and that in his opinion means closing the border to stop the immigration crisis that is affecting the United States by increasing the number of homeless people who are on the streets in a condition of indigence. as it happens in New York, and then it would be offering a legalization process to those who are already in the country, who are located on the long waiting list to process an immigration status, contribute to the economy and who do not have a criminal record.
“Since President Biden took office, more than 7 million migrants have been found at various points on the southern border. More than 2 million illegal border crossers have been released pending immigration court hearings on their claims to remain in the United States, at some distant date,” revealed Ira Mehlman, media director for the Federation for Reform. Immigration in the United States (FAIR, for its acronym in English), a conservative, non-profit organization.
Mehlman claimed that Biden has allowed in an additional 1.4 million migrants and they have been paroled by the administration. “Another 1.5 million are known to have entered the country illegally but managed to evade Border Patrol checkpoints,” he said.
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legal aid to migrants
A total of 66 Democratic legislators, 13 senators and 53 representatives, sent a letter to the Biden administration, asking to grant immigrants legal assistance at the border.
“The removal of immigrants has life-altering consequences, but because they are civil (and not criminal) in nature, people currently do not have the right to a lawyer” ex officio, lamented Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal, one of the promoters. of the measure, without referring to the payment of such services.
In April, a group of Democratic congresswomen introduced a bill that, if approved, would establish the right to a federally funded attorney for immigrants facing deportation who lack the resources for legal representation.
As a counterpart to the Democratic proposal, the Republicans have presented their bills. Republican Congressman Bob Good introduced the Safety Network Integrity Preservation Act, which repeals a December 2022 Biden administration rule that he says incentivizes foreigners to use public resources.
“Ensuring that the immigrants who come here can fend for themselves is critical to their well-being and to the health of the American economy. When it comes to immigration, we are the most generous nation on the face of the earth. Unfortunately, President Biden has given operational control of the southern border to Mexican crime cartels and invited an unprecedented invasion of 7 million illegal immigrants,” Good told Fox News.
“When you start giving more aid, more assistance, you create an incentive and it doesn’t stop, and that’s where the caravans emerge because they know that the United States has no serious commitment to closing the border. First we must have our home in order, and that means closing the border, processing those who are already here and continuing the immigration that comes through legal channels, they wait for their turn in line, which is an average of 1,000,000 a year, but you cannot be compensating those who have broken the law,” he said.
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Millions of dollars
A recent FAIR study reveals that US taxpayers face net annual costs of illegal immigration that exceed $150 billion. “The Biden Administration should ensure that public benefits are available to vulnerable Americans, without incentivizing their use by foreign nationals.”
The funds that are earmarked for migration are not used by US taxpayers to improve the conditions of veterans, the elderly and those who do not have insurance to go to hospitals.
The analyst said that there was a warning from the Trump administration about the crisis that the country is facing today, and that, when it was said that the border had to be closed and Trump ordered the construction of the wall, the liberals and extremists of the Democratic Party called xenophobic, anti-Hispanic and anti-immigrant the proposal.
“The reality is that this is being irresponsible because now look at how the mayor of New York has changed, he is asking for control at the border because now it affects him, while it did not affect him or his city, and while it does not Homelessness in the streets increased, he was fine, now it affects him, it is what we have always said that it would eventually affect them, until they step on your foot, you do not scream ”, evaluated Verdugo.
He believes that the construction of the wall is necessary, that he assures it does not have to be physical, it can be virtual, only in this way, he considers, could stop what qualifies as an invasion. “And that is not being xenophobic, it is an invasion, you cannot enter any country like Juan through your house, I cannot enter Mexico because I feel like it and stand in the middle of the square to say that they are violating my rights humans, no. It is not a right to enter a country without permission and break the laws, you have to control the border ”, he assures because it is also a matter of national security.
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For Verdugo, the solution is to put a strong hand on the border, something in which, in his opinion, Biden has failed. “That is why (Secretary of Internal Security, Alejandro) Mayorkas has been asked to resign for two reasons: either he lies or he does not know what is happening at the border and neither of these are good. Having said that, those who are already here must be brought out of the shadows and those who are contributing to the country must do as the proposal of the representative María Elvira Salazar says, they must be put on line, wait 10 or 15 years, pay fines, if they contribute to the country’s economy and do not have a criminal record, we must work with them and give them a way”.
And while the parties do not agree on a way out of the crisis that is already affecting the country, thousands of immigrants continue to enter through the border.
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