NYC migrant crisis to cost city $4.2 billion by next year: report

The crisis on the southern border is expected to cost New York City $4.2 billion by mid-2024, according to an internal memo.

A New York City Office of Management and Budget memo reported by the New York Post said the city will spend an estimated $4.2 billion on costs related to immigrants and asylum seekers through June 30, 2023, and the end of the fiscal year. will go. The year 2024

According to Inner City MemoNew York Democrat Gov. Kathy Hochul’s plan would see the city return up to $1 billion in refugee aid, covering only 29 percent of expected shelter costs.

During a visit to El Paso, New York City Mayor Eric Adams estimated that the refugee crisis “could cost us $1.5 to $2 billion”.

Eric Adams ‘Sleeps Like a Baby’ at New NYC Refugee Shelter After Migrant Stick Out Scandal

Mayor Eric Adams attends a joint press briefing with Governor Cathy Hoechl on subway safety at the Fulton Transit Center. (Lev Radin/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Hoechl’s budget is a problem for the city, the memo said.

“However, fiscally, the governor’s executive budget contains few of the city’s priorities and, if implemented as written, poses challenges for the city, particularly because the city’s finances are already heavily impacted by refugees. is under stress due to the crisis,” the memo said.

“If the Governor’s proposed actions are not reversed and additional aid is not secured to address the refugee crisis, the city will be forced to take a number of actions to maintain a balanced budget in FY23 and FY24. New to provide the current level of service to Yorkers,” the memo also stated.

Illegal immigrants refuse to leave NYC hotel for Brooklyn refugee relief center, sleep on street

Last week, more than 50 illegal immigrants refused to move from the Watson Hotel to a new refugee shelter in Red Hook. (Instagram/@nycmayor)

The memo, dated Feb. 6, came as Adams slept inside a mega-migrant shelter in the city following protests by migrants who did not want to leave the Watson Hotel.

Migrants were moved from the Watson Hotel to a Brooklyn cruise terminal facility last week, but 50 migrants protested outside the hotel for several days. Several migrants went to the refugee center, only to return and complain that the facility lacked adequate heat and water, forcing Adams to spend a night by himself.

New York City Mayor Eric Adams slept overnight at a new mega-migrant shelter in Brooklyn, New York. (Instagram/@nycmayor)

“I slept like a baby, it was warm. I had my nice little blanket. It’s my favorite blanket. I’m like Linus, you know, on Charlie Brown,” Adams said on Fox 5. Adams said on Fox 5. “I have my favorite blanket that I just hugged and I had pleasant dreams, woke up the next day, had breakfast and sat and talked to the asylum seekers.”