This week, Mayor Eric Adams ordered city agencies to scale back a complete of $1.1 billion a yr over the next 4 years to assist cope with the cost of caring for illegal migrants which have flowed into the city since October, at the same time as the city plans so as to add already more hotels to offer them with “temporary” shelter, along with the 110 shelters already operating.
For all the fat in the city government, it will cost some serious muscle mass eventually.
Nonetheless, the end of the game is nowhere in sight.
The entire number of migrants is 55,000 and growing.
Without the Biden administration’s radical shift on the border, which can also be not in sight, we could see a doubling of that by the end of the yr.
Adams’ “decompression strategy” of attempting to relocate handfuls of migrants to upstate communities outside of the state and Canada shows little sign of success (and Canada is already screaming).
Legal work permits for migrants is not going to come soon (the queues even to begin the formalities are getting longer). years into the future), and the state’s plans to lower the minimum wage further will mean that few employers will need to hire them anyway.
Which suggests few leave “shelter” hotels; how long will it’s before the city finds no more takers, unless it pays much more ridiculous rates and throws the tourists off the market?
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The fee is already over $4.3 billion and is increasing with every bus arriving at the Port Authority.
One possible solution is finally to renew the “right to shelter” decree from a long time ago, which obliges the town hall to welcome every newcomer.
But that might put Adams at war with most of the city’s left, for which he has a reasonably limited appetite.
But the alternative is service cuts that the Left (and bizarre residents) will hate much more.
Is the city closing fire stations, libraries, schools, police stations?
As Queens City Councilor Robert Holden notes, “The Recent Yorker’s love is limitless, but our money and infrastructure are limited.”
Governor Kathy Hochul offered $1 billion in emergency state aid, called on the National Guard to assist process latest arrivals, and joined the push for more federal assistance.
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But even most Democrats in Washington don’t appear to care.
The White House apparently doesn’t.
If the situation jargon proceed, it won’t.
Sooner or later, the crisis will gain strength something break or at the least bend.
We would slightly these weren’t deep service cuts, but that is what the city is headed for.
But not only the city’s resources are limited.
So is the patience of Recent Yorkers with their elected officials.