New York is spending billions on migrant services: Letters to the Editor — Aug. 16, 2024

The Issue: The city’s announcement that it has spent nearly $5 billion on migrant services since 2023.

Five billion dollars spent on accommodating migrants in New York, while many citizens here are homeless, is a shocker (“$5B tab for NYC migrants,” Aug. 14).

My question is: Who is authorizing such a misappropriation of our taxes? Who OK’d New York becoming a sanctuary city and spending $5 billion and more to be a haven for migrants? The decision to spend this amount was never on a ballot, as far as I’m aware.

We work very hard to pay taxes, and many of us don’t approve that they are used for migrants’ hotel and medical expenses, while US citizens sleep on the streets and must pay huge costs for medical insurance.
Not to mention that the city’s infrastructure and maintenance has been neglected and is in shambles. It’s time to hold the city administration accountable for wasting our taxes without authorization.

Anton Loew

Manhattan

The stomach-turning headline speaks to the current administration’s political irresponsibility and recklessness toward the citizens of this city.

Can anyone recall a past outflow of funds of this magnitude toward our own veterans, homeless, addicted and the hungry among us?

I cannot, because the people of this country in need have always been forced to deal with less. The city is a mess with crime and filth, and its financial resources are stretched. There has to be a better accounting of taxpayer dollars.

Tony Giametta

Oceanside

This sum could be used to fix the city’s schools, or repair roads, hospitals, etc. Instead, the people who run NYC have blown it on migrants. When will leftists learn that governing by “good intentions” leaves many worse off and impoverished?

Until New York learns to better husband its resources, the city will continue to lose upper-crust citizens who move away because they can no longer expect real solutions.

Rich Klitzberg

Princeton, NJ

Mayor Adams’ city is squandering taxpayers’ money on migrants when there are thousands of very needy New York citizens who are desperate and in need of housing, clothing, medical care and food.

New York citizens should always come first. Migrants who are in the country illegally should be detained and promptly deported. The city cannot afford them.

Thomas Birnbaum

Manhattan

Five billion dollars spent on combating the city’s migrant crisis?

At the same time, the city wants hard-pressed, working, tax-contributing homeowners to shell out $55 each for city-sanctioned trash cans. Liberal politicians are ruining the wonderful city I grew up in. Who is voting for these people?

Ray DeCandia

Staten Island

If any voter, regardless of political affiliation, does not throw the Democrats out of office this November for the disastrous response to the border crises, then this tells me that leftists value political affiliation over plain common sense.

Peter Incardone

Long Beach, NJ

Migrants have cost NY taxpayers $5 billion — and rising. People should not be allowed to cross the border illegally. Added to all this, a few of these illegal migrants are bringing in drugs, and committing violent crimes like rape, assaults, robbery and murder.

Plus some of them are getting free housing, free health care, free education and transportation at the taxpayers’ expense. We need to change New York’s sanctuary laws and shut down the border.

Frederick R. Bedell Jr.

Bellrose

The public needs to question our politicians about the cost of the migrants, which Mayor Adams said could reach over $10 billion within another year. Couldn’t this money have been used for the MTA?

Our elected officials only understand one thing: getting re-elected. The only way to send a message is to vote them all out.

Joseph F. DeFelice

Kew Gardens

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