Absent a Biden administration pledge to shut down the US-Mexico border, City Hall has little recourse but to abandon its obligations under Callahan — and to take its chances at trial.
Without question, the “right” is the central reason New York is
per migrant than any other large city — nearly $40,000 a head here, vs. under $3,000 in Los Angeles and less than $7,000 in Chicago.of Miami, the No. 2 city for “asylum seeker” arrivals. It was never based on anything like a sincere reading of the state Constitution, but that hasn’t stopped self-declared advocates for the homeless from steadily adding to the “right” over the decades.
It initially only meant giving overnight shelter to single vagrant men at an inflation-adjusted cost of $40 million in its first year. It eventually grew to a $2-billion-a-year industry housing all comers — and is likely to cost the city $4 billion this year and ahead, as long as influx of illegal immigrants doubles the shelter population. last month, it’s based only on this passage in New York’s fundamental law: “subject to the limitations on indebtedness and taxation, nothing in this constitution . . . shall prevent the legislature from providing for the aid, care and support of the needy.
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