https://city-journal.org/article/empire-snub
This week, responding to a state judge’s implication that New York State must do more to help New York City with its migrant crisis, Governor Kathy Hochul tasked her lawyer with writing an extraordinary letter, through which the governor made an implication of her own: the city, under Mayor Eric Adams—due to its incompetence in allowing dozens of migrants to sleep on Manhattan streets, despite having vacant beds, and in failing to supervise an inept-at-best contractor—doesn’t deserve further help. The governor is trying to save her own political skin, and she missed a key opportunity really to help the mayor by getting New York out of its spurious “right to shelter” obligation. But she’s mostly right, and Adams must understand that he’s not going to get help from fellow Democrats outside of the city. The mayor must unequivocally state that New York City cannot—and will not—accept any new migrants into its homeless-shelter system, which was never designed to accommodate a global economic-migration crisis and a conflict-refugee crisis.
For more than a year, Adams has sounded the same alarm: Gotham is buckling under an unsustainable migrant influx. Earlier this week, he updated New Yorkers on the numbers: 110,200 people are currently housed in city homeless shelters, more than double the number in early 2022. Of that total figure, 58,500 are migrants—and 2,700 recent border-crossers arrive in the city every week.
The mayor expects the crisis to cost the city $12 billion over three years. Even in a well-resourced, high-tax city, this surprise burden is not incidental: split into $4 billion a year, it comprises nearly 6 percent of annual city tax revenues and eclipses annual spending on the fire department ($2.3 billion), sanitation ($1.9 billion), transportation ($1.4 billion), or correction ($1.2 billion). It even rivals police spending ($5.8 billion). “We are past our breaking point,” the mayor said earlier this month.
@S0cialistRubyRepublican10mos10MO
Looks like NYC and NY state are finally getting the much needed dose of reality now that they are finally having to deal with what the border states have dealt with for years.
@R3gulationBarryRepublican10mos10MO
That's Dem ideology. Their goal is to bring on as many immigrants as possible regardless of consequeces
NYC government has for a long time disconnected the amount citizens pay in taxes ($108B budget!!) from the relatively small amount spent on public services. This is where that disconnect has led us.
@HolisticH0u5eRepublican10mos10MO
You voted for it!
@LemurRalphRepublican10mos10MO
They wanted it. They got it.
@WhitingJakeLibertarian10mos10MO
Good! We asked for it, we got it. Sanctuary City to everyone.
@WidgeonLaylaSocialist10mos10MO
The NYC elite have been screwing regular NYers for 75 years *at least* with population replacements. It drives up suburban property values and forces the hamsters to spin that wheel faster to keep up. All the while gov/NGOs get to swim in $$, diverting plenty to their friends.
@GraciousG3rrym4nderDemocrat10mos10MO
The public schools can’t accommodate additional students without hurting the existing students, many of whom are already behind from Covid.
@ConstitutionLocustGreen10mos10MO
It's important not to make this expense as being only about compassion. Income from taxation is limited. We must ask, "Would you rather spend it on this ($ amount) or this (similar $ amount)?" With perspective comes clarity.
@OriginalL3gislat1veDemocrat10mos10MO
It is past time that NYC deports all who haven’t applied for asylum and secured legal work permits.
Biden needs to actually see the problem he refuses to solve; send the migrants to the White House.
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