OAN Staff James Meyers
12:35 PM – Wednesday, August 14, 2024
According to data, New York City officials’ receipts show that almost $5 billion has been spent on services for illegal aliens, including $2 billion just on housing.
The city has housed, clothed, and fed close to 212,000 foreign nationals who have illegally entered the United States through the Southern border, which makes it the hardest hit city across the U.S.
The NYC Humanitarian Crisis Response Tracker revealed on Wednesday that the $4.8 billion was spent in fiscal years 2023 and 2024.
According to the New York Post, there has been over $112 million spent in the city since July 1st, the first six weeks of fiscal 2025, which would bring everything to a grand total of over $5 billion.
Additionally, Mayor Eric Adams’ (D-N.Y.) administration has even predicted that the cost could double, going over $10 billion over the three year period ending June 30th, 2025.
The money spent so far has been in five different categories:
- $1.98 billion on housing and rent.
- About $2 billion on services and supplies.
- Nearly $500 million on food and medical costs.
- Another $500 million on IT, administrative and other costs.
Furthermore, the Big Apple has set up more than 200 impromptu shelters to house illegals due to no available space in homeless shelters. It has also spent millions on hotels, including Springhill Suites by Marriott, City View Inn, and the Roosevelt Hotel, among other hotels.
In the beginning of the migrant crisis, the city was operating under its Right to Shelter Law, which guaranteed a bed to anyone who wanted one. However, it later changed that rule and imposed limits on how long people could remain in city-funded housing.
Since April 2022, Texas has bussed 45,900 migrants to the Big Apple, a sanctuary city, which is close to 1-in-5 of the 212,000 illegals who have arrived in NYC.
When asked to comment if the worst part of the migrant crisis is over in the Big Apple, Adams said: “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,” he said. “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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