Many New Yorkers in need went without a Thanksgiving dinner this year, after hundreds of illegal migrants in a Queens neighborhood beat residents of the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) to the head of the local food bank line.
“They were first on line for the turkeys this morning,” Georgia Butler, a Queensbridge Houses resident, told WNYW-TV. “They tell you to be there at 11 o’clock. You get there at like 10:30, 10:45, but they are already out there. The line is from over there, it’s over here.”
Those who call the Queensbridge Houses home have seen 8,000 migrants descend upon their neighborhood, the outlet reports, and the already strained resources — including those donated to the weekly mobile food pantries — have become so strained that fighting between tenants and migrants over food has occurred.
“A month ago, one altercation got so heated between a resident and a migrant, that someone ended up in the hospital,” according to Fox 5.
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“Why do we have to take the butt of everything?” Butler asked. “This community is already suffering.”
The problem isn’t confined to Queens.
Reports Breitbart:
New York City is only one portion of the Empire State finding its resources stretched to the breaking point.
A graphic assembled by the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) estimated that there are more than one million illegals in the state, costing taxpayers $6,846 per illegal. The group also said that illegals cost the state $4.65 billion in education dollars and $1.75 billion in extra police and corrections budgets, not to mention more spending in health care and public assistance dollars.
“That amounts to a burden of $1,321 per New York household,” according to FAIR.
This is as New York City Mayor Eric Adams slashes the Big Apple’s budget.
As BizPac Review reported, Adams recently announced major budget cuts, including to the police department.
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According to the New York Post, the 5% budget cuts “will kneecap departments throughout the Big Apple.”
The cuts mark “the first of three rounds Adams has ordered to compensate for the billions of dollars the city has spent taking care of asylum seekers who have flooded New York,” the outlet stated.
The Daily Mail explained:
The budget cuts would cause NYPD officers to be cut by a fifth, or 13.5 percent, by postponing the next five academy classes, bringing officers below 30,000 – down from 36,000.
Education would also take a $1 billion hit over two years and it would cause a delay in the rollout of composting in the Bronx and Staten Island, causing reduced trash pick-ups as well as cuts to the city’s pre-K programs.
The New York Public Library, Brooklyn Public Library and Queens Public Library also would need to eliminate Sunday service due to the budget cut.
“Crimes are gonna go through the roof because there is a police safety budget cut and on top of that there’s a sanitation f—–g budget cut so that means we’re gonna be drowning in rats,” fumed rapper Cardi B.
Adams warned of rising “migrant costs.”
“To balance the budget as the law requires, every city agency dug into their own budget to find savings, with minimal disruption to services,” he said in a statement. “And while we pulled it off this time, make no mistake: Migrant costs are going up, tax revenue growth is slowing, and COVID stimulus funding is drying up.”
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