Name: Will The Immigration Crisis Bankrupt U.S. Cities?
Uploaded: 2024-02-25T04:27:07.000Z
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We have this international crisis that really

requires federal intervention, that local

Local government is not designed or built to

Definitely both a humanitarian crisis for

I don't see an ending to this. This issue will

The present migrant crisis is quite unprecedented,

nationalities that are coming to the border and

the impact it's having not only on the border

states, but in the states and cities inside the

I think it's at this point politically unsustainable

this unlimited flow into what's essentially a

welfare state network of cities like New York and

So how long can cities withstand the recent surge

of migrants, and what do they need to end the

We have to first acknowledge that there is

a crisis, because if you don't acknowledge the

In 2018, New York City spent roughly $258 million

to fund its immigration services, adjusted for

inflation. By fiscal year 2023, the city had spent

$1.47 billion servicing those seeking asylum.

The City of Chicago spent over $194 million on its

Denver is estimated to have spent between $36.3

million to $39.1 million on migrant support

The three biggest items for expenses for new

arrivals is housing, education and healthcare,

and they are all three high ticket items.

The idea that we could have a generous system of

welfare benefits from health to education and so

on, and allow the entire world to access those

benefits is just mathematically impossible.

So we're starting to see the math not adding up in

The sheer volume of newly arrived migrants is a

major reason behind the city's struggles.

In fiscal year 2022, just over 817,000 new cases

were filed in immigration courts across the U.S.

That number exploded to nearly 1.5 million new

The particular background of current migrants also

The secret sauce of migration has worked in

the past is that people would come, and they would

not depend on the city and state for settling

them. They would depend on their social networks.

It seems in this case, many of the people coming

in are coming where there not such in-built

connections. Venezuelans have been the largest

source of nationality of the new migrants.

It is particularly true that they don't have

There are not Venezuelan communities that have long

standing. So they, therefore, in the absence

of private source of comfort for them, then

they become dependent on the states and the cities.

And the states and the cities have limited

Although immigration has primarily been an area of

federal oversight, experts say there just

isn't enough federal funding for cities to work

The current level of federal funding provided

to state and local governments is a drop in

Congress has provided a very small amount of money

of $800 million for a FEMA program for the

entire country for last fiscal year to provide

assistance to cities in aiding these newcomers.

For instance, the $145 million allocated to New

York City is less than 10% of what the city spent

This is a whole spectrum of services needed for

people who are new to a place, new to a country,

new to a city, everything from finding warm clothes

for them to finding jobs for them, to finding

government, frankly, was not prepared for it.

Texas is providing charter busses to send these

illegal immigrants who have been dropped off by

the Biden administration to Washington, D.C.

We are sending them to the United States Capitol,

able to more immediately address the needs of the