New York City Migrant Crisis Costs Expected to Exceed $5 Billion in 2-Year Period – Double to $10 Billion by 2025
August 14th, 2024Meanwhile…
Via: Fox News:
New York City is soon projected to have spent more than $5 billion over the last two years on the migrant crisis – an estimate that is expected to double by 2025.
At an average of $352 per night for at least 36,939 households, the city projects it will spend $4.75 billion providing shelter, food, healthcare and education to the influx of migrants in the 2025 fiscal year, according to the current forecast by the city’s online asylum seeker funding tracker. The city budgeted $3.76 billion in funding for the migrant crisis in the 2024 fiscal year.
In the 2023 and 2024 fiscal years combined, the city spent $4.88 billion on the migrant crisis.
