The flood of criminal aliens/migrants into New York City is slated to cost the city over $5 billion across a two-year period, according to reports.
Citing data from the city’s online asylum-seeker funding tracker, the New York Post reported Tuesday that the city has already spent $4.88 billion since the start of fiscal year 2023 and is on track to spend over $5 billion by the end of fiscal year 2024.
But it gets worse. Democrat Mayor Eric Adams’ administration has projected the total costs could top $10 billion by the end of fiscal year 2025.
The money spent so far has been divided up as follows:
- $1.98 billion for housing and rent
- $2 billion for services and supplies
- $500 million for food and medical costs
- $500 million for IT, administrative, and other costs
The New York Police Department has already spent $21 million on maintaining safety and security around migrant shelters.
Meanwhile, the Department of Homeless Services just spent an additional $40 million to pay for contractors to provide housed criminal aliens/migrants with certain services.
Then there’s the money that’s been funneled to hotels to house the criminal aliens/migrants.
“Even hotels in the heart of the Broadway tourist district have been converted into emergency shelters through contracts the city inked with the Hotel Association of New York City,” the Post notes.
“Housing Works was awarded a $13.4 million contract to aid migrants at the City View Inn, at 3317 Greenpoint Avenue in Long Island. A worker answering the phone there Tuesday said the City View has been a shelter for ‘nearly two years’ and is still not taking reservations for lodging,” according to the outlet.
A second contract worth $26.3 million was reportedly awarded to the DC-based Project Redirect to assist criminal aliens/migrants at the Spring Hills Suites by Marriott.
“We’re not functioning as a hotel right now,” a worker there told the Post.
There are currently reportedly 63,900 criminal aliens being taken care of via 210 locations in the city’s shelter system.
This is how much the “hotels” in NYC are making off the current migrant crisis, 885k per day, 6.2M per week, and 26.6M per week (at $300 per room). And now they are paying for migrants to leave NYC and go to other cities like a Houston and Phoenix. pic.twitter.com/IUVxcDqsCV
— Nick shirley (@nickshirleyy) March 25, 2024
Asked about all this, Adams’ chief of staff, Camille Joseph Varlack, deflected.
“This is not a New York City issue or even a United States issue, this is a worldwide issue,” she said. “We’ve had the opportunity to speak to other cities who are expecting and experiencing migration and we expect that to continue between wars and climate change and all the other issues.”
The actual reality is that this will “continue” so long as Democrats continue to keep the southern border porous and wide open.
In addition to housing criminal aliens/migrants, the Adams administration is also trying to find them permanent homes in the United States — something that’s been complicated by the fact that most of the migrants lack the documents to work legally in the U.S.
Representatives for City Hall have for their part claimed that certain actions by the Adams administration have reduced projected costs by $2 billion. It’s not clear if this is true and accurate.
During his weekly press briefing, Adams dubiously claimed that the crisis has become more manageable and that the “worst is behind us,” though he at least admitted “we’re not out of the woods.”
“I do believe we are going to see people starting to exhale,” he said. “Our fingers are crossed but we put in smart policies.
“We went from 4,000 down to I think this week we’re around 700,” he said. “That is a huge, huge drop. I have to say there was a moment where I did not see that light or that light was a train coming right at us.”
He even went so far as to say NYC deserves to pat itself on the back for a job well done.
“We were inundated in the beginning of this — to be able to do what we have done shows a real message of resiliency to the city,” he said. “This is a real New York story. We need to document this story.”
When asked if the worst is over, he replied, “We’re not out of the woods. We’re managing. I can only say I hope the worst is behind us. We’re not out of the woods. I want to be clear on that. We still have to deal with the small number of violent gang members who are in our city. We still have to monitor them.”
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V. Saxena is a staff writer with a decade of experience as a professional writer, and a lifetime of experience as an avid news junkie. He holds a degree in computer technology from Purdue University. Saxena also contributes to BizPac Review.
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