New York City officials are offering $5,000 in grants and gift cards to help undocumented immigrants rent apartments in the city as housing prices soar.
Asylum removal assistance is not available to poor Americans, nor is it available to young Americans who want to move to New York City, where housing costs have soared after the government let in more than 200,000 economic migrants.
So far, 150 migrant families and pregnant women have been given the grant, city officials said. He told GothamistNew York media site.
“We look forward to helping more households as we evaluate the success of this pilot program and the feasibility of scaling up and expanding access to this form of assistance,” a spokesperson for the city's Department of Homeless Services told Gothamist, with the department also reporting:
Immigrant families looking for housing can receive a one-time payment of up to $4,000 to help pay for moving costs, security deposits, first and last month's rent and other household items. [spokeswoman Neha] Sharma said: …Family [also] Consumers will receive gift cards of up to $1,000 to buy essential items, and direct payments will be made to movers, landlords and other merchants, she said.
Similar housing giveaways to foreigners are common in Chicago, Colorado and other places where local Democrats and business elites want to attract and retain more illegal and legal immigrants.
In theory, New York City offers the same service to local Americans, but the city's rules create a dilemma for Americans: They must apply for the rent checks and have them approved by city bureaucrats. In a short period of time When an apartment is advertised and then rented.
Here's a 77-square-foot apartment in New York City that rents for $2,350 a month.
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The city is already spending heavily on $372-a-night hotel rooms and shelters for 65,000 migrants. Overall, the city plans to borrow $12 billion to support its immigrant population.
Immigrants have been a big boon for the city's real estate investors, driving up rents for the city's younger Americans and funneling at least $2.2 billion in tax money into their accounts.
City officials complain that President Joe Biden's immigration influx is costing taxpayers money, but the city's business elites want to stem the influx of docile low-wage workers, apartment renters and taxpayer-funded consumers.
For example, in this city Debit card provided It called for streamlining distribution of food aid to at least 7,300 economic migrants. The New York Times The process was explained:
“We never expected that,” Gil said, expressing his gratitude in Spanish. “They told us that this only applies to food, not fast food, and only in certain places, and that no cash transfers or card sharing are allowed.”
… They ordered two panini sandwiches, a container of four boiled eggs, three soft drinks, and two large bags of chips.
They handed the cashier a gray debit card — a clerk said the cards were becoming more common in stores — and scanned the receipt, which showed the total price for their lunch, $44.61.
Immigrants also replace ordinary Americans fleeing high rents, poor schools, and rising crime in cities. This “extractive immigration” policy thwarts the emergence of a politically powerful middle class that could curb the political and economic power of local elites.
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Urban elites have hidden their unpopular power grabs behind the 1950s “immigration nation” narrative. This elite-imposed narrative has transformed the Statue of Liberty from a celebration of American rights and the Constitution into a “golden door” inviting foreign economic immigrants.
Some local politicians want the City Council to repeal the city's “sanctuary” law, which protects immigrants from law enforcement. CBS Reported August 14:
In June, [Councilman Robert] Holden, along with City Councilman Joe Borelli, has introduced a bill to repeal New York's sanctuary designation, and he claims the City Council won't put the bill to a vote because, in his words, it's “too woke.”
“They won't. Again, I know that won't happen unless something bad happens,” Holden said.
“This issue will be devastating to New York City … and will harm longtime New Yorkers,” Mayor Adams said. He told PBS September 2023.
We need to be very clear about that. There was already a homeless population. New York already had low-income residents who were struggling to get food and stay in their homes. If this situation gets out of hand, we're going to spend $12 billion to transform the city… [If] If we don't do this right, this city will be destroyed. [New Yorkers]We cannot take this lightly with New Yorkers. They need to know what we're facing.
But the influx of immigrants allows the city's Democratic politicians and local business leaders to avoid the politically painful task of reforming local laws, spending and institutions to help Americans get married, have children and move up into the middle class.
In 2021, 211,000 babies were born In New York state, that's down from 241,000 in 2011.
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“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 the Democratic Party's big, poorly run cities. Michael Lind Written in September 2023 article for Compact Magazine.
