Each immigrant costs New York $383 a day in housing, food and school

The city of NY has more than 57,300 people in care and each one costs him $383 a day in shelter, food and education for the children, in addition to other types of assistance they receive in the sheltersMayor Eric Adams said Wednesday.

The city has already spent $1.45 billion this fiscal year to provide housing, food and services to this population, Adams said, also announcing that the city has already received nearly 100,000 immigrants in one year, of which several thousand have ended up in other states or have left the protection system by obtaining a job.

“New York passed its breaking point”he stated in a message in which he made a desperate appeal for urgent help to the local legislature and the federal government.

Migrants began arriving on buses sent by Texas Governor Gregg Abbott to Democratic and declared cities. “shelter”in response to the Biden Administration’s open borders policy, and which according to the Republican is “overwhelming” to the entire Texas border region with Mexico.

“With more than 57,300 people currently in our care on an average night (the spend), it amounts to $9.8 million per day, nearly 300 million per month, and nearly 3.6 billion per year,” Adams said today, warning that this figure will increase if the rate of flow continues.

“That will increase the costs to 4,700 million if things do not change,” insisted.

Adams argued that that figure “It’s more than the $1.4 billion we spent last fiscal year and almost equals the budgets of our sanitation department, our parks department and our fire department combined.”

He also warned that if this pace continues, by the end of 2025 the city could have 100,000 immigrants under its care, with a projected spending of more than US$12 billion in three fiscal years, of which it needs to raise 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 help “immediate” of the state and the federal government, “We will continue to see heartbreaking scenes like the one that took place outside the Roosevelt Hotel last week” where recently arrived immigrants in search of 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 Queens County, for another thousand.

Source: EFE