New York City Mayor Eric Adams made yet another appeal for state and federal aid to cope with the flood of migrants to the Big Apple, claiming that New Yorkers will be on the hook for billions of dollars if he doesn’t receive assistance.
In a formal address on Wednesday from City Hall, Adams said, “If we don’t get the support we need, New Yorkers could be left with a $12 billion bill.”
“As I declared nearly a year ago, we are facing an unprecedented state of emergency,” Adams said. “The immigration system in this nation is broken. It has been broken for decades. Today, New York City has been left to pick up the pieces.”
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According to the mayor, nearly 100,000 “men, women, and children” have sought refuge in New York City since the spring of 2022.
“We are past our breaking point,” Adams stated. “New Yorkers’ compassion may be limitless, but our resources are not, and our partners at the state and federal levels know this.”
“Let me put it in perspective for New Yorkers. For each family seeking asylum through the city’s care, we spend an average of $383 per night to provide shelter, food, medical care, and social services. With more than 57,300 individuals currently in our care, on an average night, it amounts to $9.8 million a day, almost $300 million a month, and nearly $3.6 billion a year,” the mayor said.
“But this is the floor, not the ceiling,” he continued. “This is only an estimate if the number of migrants in our care stays the same over time. It is clear to us, however, that without policy changes, the number of migrants arriving will continue to grow. This will increase our cost. If we continue down this unsustainable track, with an average of almost 34,000 households a night over the course of just this fiscal year, that will increase cost to $4.7 billion.”
“Hear me,” Adams pleaded, “if things do not change, our new estimates have us spending nearly $5 billion on this crisis in the current fiscal year. That’s up from the $1.4 billion we spent last fiscal year. And it nearly equals the budgets of the Sanitation Department, our Parks Department, and the FDNY combined.”
“And if things do not change, we expect to have more than 100,000 asylum seekers in our care by the end of June, 2025, driving projected spending to $6.1 billion in that fiscal year if we do not change course,” he stated. “That means over the course of three fiscal years, our city is projected to have spent more than $12 billion.”
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“To meet this need, we’ll have to add $7 billion to our financial plan,” he explained. “And this is on top of what we previously allocated for the crisis. This is the budgetary reality we are facing if we don’t get the additional support we need from the federal and state governments.”
But, according to criminal defense attorney Arthur Aidala, who is closely tied to Adam’s former chief of staff, Frank Carone, President Biden won’t be offering any major federal help to New York City until after the 2024 presidential election.
“I don’t think I’m betraying any confidences… They were on their hands and knees behind closed doors begging,” Aidala told 770 WABC’s “Sid & Friends in the Morning” on Wednesday. “And basically the word they got back was, `Hang on for a year. If Biden gets re-elected, he will cut you a check for a lot of money. But we’re not doing it until after the presidential election.”
(Audio: Sid & Friends in the Morning)
“They’re going to Albany asking for help. They’re going to DC asking for help,” he stated. “They get bupkus.”
According to Aidala, City Hall is at their “wit’s end.”
“I was with a very high-ranking official yesterday from City Hall, who spoke genuinely to me,” he recalled, “and said, ‘We’re at wit’s end. The issue is not just finding places for these people. But when we find places for people we can’t find anyone to run the thing,'”
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