New York City has distributed $5.5 billion in taxpayer funds to landlords, businesses and city agencies since 2023 to help undocumented immigrants settle into New Yorkers’ homes, jobs, schools and communities.
Taxpayer spending is rising fast: “New York City taxpayers have spent $308 million on immigration since July 1,” the report said. New York Post Reported August 15th.
The migrant funds have become a big influx of money for city CEOs, landlords and city officials, according to the city’s Asylum Seeker Funds Tracker. Has been quietly updated Aug. 15 by Mayor Eric Adams.
Winners include more than 200,000 immigrants, many of whom evaded U.S. Border Patrol, and a city investor community that has celebrated luring poor immigrants from their home countries, even as the middle class has fallen to 48% of the population. That’s down from 61 percent in the early 1970s.This was shortly after Congress reinstated mass immigration in 1965.
Since 2022, or “FY2023,” landlords and the city’s real estate industry have raked in $2.19 billion in taxpayer funds through immigration invited by President Joe Biden and his compliant Vice President Kamala Harris.
As immigrants flocked to the shelters and jobs that were meant to help lift Americans out of poverty, companies providing a range of “services and supplies” made $2.22 billion in profits.
The city’s white-collar workers and its contractors received $520 million for “IT, administrative and other” work.
Food companies were paid $388 million to help feed migrants, leading to higher food prices for families in the city.
The medical center got $139 million that would have otherwise gone to sick and disabled New Yorkers.
A major shift in city spending is shifting city employment away from blue-collar and productive jobs that support middle-class families.
State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli New York Economic Report for August 15 It shows continued declines in jobs related to manufacturing, construction, warehousing and transportation, information technology, banking and professional services.
Employment in the tourism and retail industries also fell.
But in the five years from 2019, government employment grew by about 20%, to 1.24 million.
So, in just five years, government employment grew from 22.8 percent of the city’s economy to 26.3 percent, partly because city leaders welcomed a massive influx of poor, desperate and penniless immigrants.
These immigrants also serve city leaders as additional low-wage workers, customers for government agencies, apartment renters, and taxpayer-funded consumers.
The growing government payroll is also increasing taxpayer liabilities and debt service costs, according to DiNapoli’s report. The city’s total debt was $6 billion in 2019, but is now about $6.7 billion and is projected to reach $20 billion by 2028.
Much of the money made possible by this debt boom is expected to soon flow into the hands of government officials, landlords and CEOs, but it will be paid back by New Yorkers and their children.
The city uses immigration to expand low-wage jobs and government charity, which drives even more middle-class families out of the city.
In December 2023, the left-leaning Fiscal Policy Institute Issue a detailed report This suggests that it’s middle-class families, not billionaires, who are fleeing the city.
“New York lost 2,400 millionaire households over the past three years (2020-2022), but gained 17,500 millionaire households over the same period,” it said. Report He said.
The decline in people making less than $104,000 a year has skyrocketed from about 114,000 in 2017 to 151,000 in 2021 and 140,000 in 2022, according to the report.
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“We are seeing an exodus of the middle class, and we would likely see a significant increase in low-income exodus as well if everyone who wanted to move could afford to do so,” a December 2023 report from EpiCEnter-NYC.com said.
But the 291,000 poor and middle-class families lost in 2021 and 2022 have been replaced by Biden’s 200,000 poor immigrants.
“An international migration Ponzi scheme is the only thing that averts the demographic catastrophe loop in cities like New York and San Francisco as Americans flee big, poorly run Democratic cities.” Michael Lind Written in September 2023 article For compact magazines.
Democratic mayors pretend to oppose unpopular migration, while calling for more immigrants and federal funding to replace Americans leaving corrupt, expensive and poorly managed cities, Lind said.
The Democratic mayors of New York, Washington, and Chicago do not have What they are doing is reducing the number of immigrants in the various categories that the Biden administration has expanded. Instead, Democratic city politicians like Adams are simply asking the federal government to subsidize the costs of immigration and make it easier for immigrants to join the city’s workforce. In other words, Democratic cities want to nationalize and socialize the costs of mass low-wage immigration and localize the benefits.
“Now is the time for euthanasia [immigration-addicted] “Various efforts to keep our cities safe, including preventing urban immigrant Ponzi schemes, are important,” Lind wrote.
