Good! NYC Mayor Ends Food Vouchers For Illegals, Ready To Work With Trump
Facing an influx of illegal immigrants, Democratic New York City Mayor Eric Adams said he'd be happy to share ideas on the crisis with President-elect Donald Trump.
At a post-election press conference, Adams said New York now hosts 220,000 illegal immigrants and has received negligible support from the federal government.
“I want to see the federal government fix a federal problem. This is a federal problem,” Adams said when asked what help he would like to see.
It is estimated that feeding and housing the illegal immigrants for three years will cost the city $10 billion.
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul has allocated $2.4 billion for this year.
Which is perhaps why the NYC mayor said the city will phase out out a program that gave prepaid debit cards to migrant families in city-funded hotels to purchase their own meals and essentials, according to CBS News New York.
The program will provide migrant families with debit cards until the end of the year. After that, the city will deliver food directly to migrants.
“As we move towards more competitive contracting for asylum seeker programs, we have chosen not to renew the emergency contract for this pilot program once the one-year term concludes. For over two years, we have provided care to more than 222,000 migrants while saving $2 billion in asylum seeker-related costs,” Adams said in a statement.
“We will continue to implement and learn from innovative pilot programs like the immediate response cards program as we care for hundreds of new arrivals every week.”
“I communicated with the president yesterday to state that there are many issues here in the city that we want to work together with the administration to address,” Adams said.
“The city must move forward, and that is what our call is to do.”
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/nyc-mayor-ends-food-vouchers-illegals-ready-work-trump
