American taxpayers will foot a more than $135 million bill to cover care, food, and housing costs for border crossers and illegal aliens living in the sanctuary city of New York City, Democrats announced this week.
Since the spring of last year, more than 74,000 border crossers and illegal aliens have arrived in New York City — an inflow that Mayor Eric Adams has saidInstead, Adams hasto implement a “decompression strategy” where border crossers and illegal aliens are quickly admitted to the United States after arriving at the southern border and equally spread out across American communities.
This week, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer announced that American taxpayers will foot a“We simply cannot keep shouldering the cost and bearing the responsibility of dealing with this crisis alone. It is a national crisis,” an official with Adams’ office said.to cover illegal immigration costs in the “Big Apple.
“This lawsuit aims to put an end to this xenophobic bigotry and ensure our state acts as one as we work together to manage this humanitarian crisis fairly and humanely, as we have done from the beginning and as we will continue to do,” Adams said in a statement. John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Email him at [email protected]. Follow him on Twitter
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