Voters, families, and local authorities are all concerned about President Joe Biden’s influx of impoverished migrants, who are flooding taxpayer-funded shelters and pouring onto the streets and parks of the city.
“It’s a question that everyone has,” stated Dave Giffen, the executive director of the Coalition for the Homeless, an active non-governmental group located in New York. “There are definitely more individuals sleeping in public places these days.”
As the number of migrants in the Big Apple continues to rise, authorities are becoming increasingly concerned about the number of border crossers choosing to live outside in tents rather than entering the city’s shelter system.
Illegal aliens frequently set up hundreds of tents at Randall’s Island, where one such camp has emerged. In Brooklyn, an additional outdoor camp has appeared beneath a motorway bridge. But the New York Times just revealed that there are a lot more of these encampments.
Migrants who feel frightened in the large shelters set up by local officials are more likely to stay outside in tents, even though the city is already having trouble housing some 65,000 of them. Numerous migrants living in these open-air camps told the newspaper that there is no safety or order within the structures the city has converted to shelters and that narcotics, gang activity, disorderly conduct, and human trafficking are commonplace there. In the end, they told the Times that they felt safer in tents outside.
For months, actual residents have been complaining about these circumstances. These conditions are prevalent not only in New York, but also in Boston, Denver, Chicago, and other places. In fact, increasing crime rates tend to follow migrant shelters almost everywhere.
In New York City, authorities modified the long-standing “right to shelter” laws by extending the time frame for providing housing to homeless individuals by 60 days.
Staff members continue to grant extensions to every immigrant who requests one, despite the revised restrictions being more formal. Many immigrants who faced genuine eviction simply reapply at various shelters, only for their time restrictions to expire once more.
What worries municipal officials, though, is the sheer number of people who are choosing to forgo shelters entirely and sleep on the streets instead.
Anne Williams-Isom, the deputy mayor in charge of New York’s immigration response, stated, “That’s not OK.” “If you’ve had your time for case management, you need to actually move on and go.” We’re not trying to be overbearing.”
Many, however, are just heading outside rather than continuing on.
The Times said last Friday that “unease over the violence has pushed some migrants to seek protection outside the shelter system.” “Migrants sleep in a motley assortment of brightly colored tents that some have purchased from Amazon, or under tarps that they throw over tree branches. They combine their funds to purchase meat, eggs, and bread to make breakfast and stews that they either share or sell.
Residents in some places, such as Randall’s Island, rush to dismantle their tents every morning to evade periodic police and security sweeps aimed at preventing the growth of tent towns. However, in other places, they appear to be making a permanent home.
Other deep blue states are not attempting to restrict immigration as much as New York is. In an effort to curtail the Bay State’s so-called “right to shelter” rules, Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey has also started to favor legitimate citizens and homeless veterans of the United States military above immigrants on waitlists. For a number of years, Massachusetts has come under fire for prioritizing immigrants above homeless people and veterans.
In Massachusetts, the state’s shelter system has become a bottomless hole for tax cash, with expenses rapidly approaching a billion dollars.
Healey told WBUR-TV, “We have been emphasizing for months now that the fast increase of our Emergency shelter system is not sustainable.” “There is not enough shelter space in Massachusetts, and the current scale of this system is just not affordable.”
The Center for Immigration Studies estimates that there are 355,000 undocumented immigrants in Massachusetts, which is an unsustainable number.
The Boston Herald reports that although Massachusetts residents have already paid $1 billion for the state’s shelter system, that amount will skyrocket to an additional $1.8 billion by 2026.
However, the true expenses are far greater because the $1 billion just covers the cost of the accommodation; it does not cover the costs of providing food, clothes, education, or free legal and medical assistance to individuals residing in shelters. Furthermore, it excludes the expenditures of other similar programs, as well as other social services like Medicaid and food stamps.
Reviews of the state’s expenses incurred due to illegal immigration seldom take into account the mounting expenditures in other sectors. For example, the food assistance program in the Bay State alone may end up costing $4.6 million by 2026. And there’s the seldom-mentioned $27 million annual expense of incarcerating illegal immigrants who have been caught for crimes.
Joe Biden and Kamala Harris’s wave after wave of illegal migrants is plaguing Illinois, California, Colorado, and every other city in the nation.
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