New York City to buy one-way tickets for migrants | Washington Examiner
By: Washington Examiner
The desperation...............
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(The Center Square) — Migrants arriving in New York City are being offered free one-way plane tickets to other destinations as the city grapples with an ongoing influx of thousands of asylum-seekers.
Mayor Eric Adams has set up a "reticketing center" for migrants that will provide them with tickets to anywhere in the world, according to a spokesperson. The administration says the move is necessary to drive down the number of migrants under the city's care and make room for new arrivals.
"Here, the city will redouble efforts to purchase tickets for migrants to help them take the next steps in their journeys, and it helps us triage operations at The Roosevelt for new arrivals," the spokesperson said, referring to the iconic Manhattan hotel that was converted into a migrant processing center.
So far, migrants have flown from New York City to destinations as far as away as Colombia and Morocco under the "reticketing" plan, according to some news reports.
The move comes as New York grapples with more than 130,000 migrants who've arrived over the past year amid a surge of immigration along the U.S.-Mexico border that has reached historic levels. The Big Apple is caring for more than 64,000 migrants in 200 emergency shelters in hotels and large encampments.
Under New York's right-to-shelter law, the city is required to provide emergency housing to anyone who requests it, regardless of their immigration status.
The Adams administration says it costs about $394 a night to house and feed a migrant family, which has increased over the past year.
So far, more than $140 million in federal funds have been sent to New York City to support migrants, but Adams says that isn't enough to cover the cost of caring for those arriving in the thousands daily. He has projected the cost could rise to $12 billion in coming years and would "destroy New York City" in the process.
Republican governors in border states have been critical of the Biden administration's response to the surge. They've been busing groups of migrants to Democratic strongholds in New York, Chicago and other destinations with "sanctuary" policies.
The Adams administration is limiting stays by migrant families in emergency shelters to 60 days amid an ongoing surge of asylum-seekers. The city already limits single adult migrants to 30 days in emergency housing.
New York is the only major U.S. city that has a right-to-shelter law. Adams is asking a state judge to temporarily suspend the requirement amid the surge of migrants, but the effort is being challenged in court.
Details about how much money the city has budgeted for the program, or how much it spent to date on flights, weren't available. The Adams administration points out that a domestic flight is often cheaper than the nearly $400 per day cost for housing an asylum-seeker in an emergency shelter.
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Anywhere in the world. This will NOT be cheap but I guess housing them isn't either. Sorry NYC residents. Unintended consequences (sanctuary city virtue signaling) is a bitch
Along with this, Chicago is mulling shipping illegals to St. Louis. And St. Louis is helping with the planning.
Isn't this some form of human trafficking?
Shoot, a fella could have a pretty good weekend in the Bronx with $800.
Send them back to the foreign countries they came from
"New York is the only major U.S. city that has a right-to-shelter law."
They should repeal that law, taxpayers are being cheated by it
$394 a night, them feral cats are living right high
"Reticketing"? The illegals never had a ticket in the first place.
Some issues:
That's what happens when illegals start tearing up hotels and shelters, the cost is going to go up.
New York shouldn't be getting ANY federal funds for declaring they will ignore Federal Laws and house illegals.
NYC is a Democrat bastion - they'll get the Fed money when no one else can/will for legitimate reasons/causes.
NYC is a Democrat bastion - they'll get the Fed money when no one else can/will for legitimate reasons/causes.
That’s what’s going to happen. Blue sanctuary cities are going to be rolling in federal taxpayer dough in the next budget resolution in the name of “border security”
Holy crap, i hope they clear with what they are doing or some virtue signaling douchebag sheriff from Texas will charge them with kidnapping.
Couldn't this be considered human trafficking?
I don't think Adams is willing to compete with Obama,
Obama administration placed children with human traffickers, report says - The Washington Post
that's a viable explanation. .
Only if they can accuse a Republican of it.
I forgot about that qualifier. Democrats get a free pass, Republicans must be tried at the Hague and executed.
They should all just be put on a boat and shipped back to where they came from. Heck, we used to do that.
Meanwhile, citizens still pay for bus tickets.
Maybe Adams should offer actual New Yorkers tickets to flee that shithole, Maybe he would get more participation.
This is a great idea. I am going to wait until Seattle does the same and then I am going to say I have no ID because I am an illegal. Free round trip flight from NYC to Seattle. I hope they publish a full list of who is doing this so I can plan several free flight vacations.
Now going under the assumption that math is hard. 394 X 7 = 2758 a week, now multiply that by the number of weeks in a year 2758 X 52 = 143,416 a year. the median income for a New Yorker is 71,000 So double the actual income as someone who has to work is a pretty good gig if you can pull it off.