{"id":2211169,"date":"2024-04-02T08:03:02","date_gmt":"2024-04-02T12:03:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-york-city-councilor-blasts-adams-53m-migrant-debit-card-program\/"},"modified":"2024-04-02T08:03:42","modified_gmt":"2024-04-02T12:03:42","slug":"new-york-city-councilor-blasts-adams-53m-migrant-debit-card-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-york-city-councilor-blasts-adams-53m-migrant-debit-card-program\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC council member criticizes Adams&#8217; $53M migrant debit card initiative"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnew-york-city-councilor-blasts-adams-53m-migrant-debit-card-program%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2211169&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>New York City Mayor Eric Adams&#8217; debit card \u2064program \u200dfor migrants \u2063is criticized by city council members.\u200d Vickie Paladino, a Republican representing Northeast Queens, sees the \u200bdebit cards as an \u200centicement for more migrants to come\u200d to the city, offering \u200cuntraceable funds and perceived \u2064welfare benefits. The initiative has sparked controversy\u2062 and a backlash among critics. Critics, including NYC council members and Vickie Paladino, a Republican from Northeast Queens, argue that Mayor Eric Adams&#8217; migrant debit card\u2062 program serves as an attractive \u200dincentive for increased migration to \u2064the city. They view the \u2062provision of untraceable funds and perceived welfare advantages as contentious elements of the initiative, leading to widespread controversy and opposition.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>(The Center Square) \u2014 New York City Mayor Eric Adams\u2019 decision to give debit cards pre-loaded with money to migrants is drawing more asylum seekers to the city, city council members say.<\/p>\n<p>Vickie Paladino, a Republican who represents Northeast Queens, said the money being handed out to asylum seekers through the debit cards has become an \u201cincentive\u201d for migrants coming to the city.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe hear it from many of the migrants themselves \u2013 they\u2019re coming here because they know New York will give them welfare,\u201d she told Fox News. \u201cThis is untraceable free money being handed out to people who don\u2019t belong here in the first place.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Paladino\u2019s comments add to the growing backlash over the controversial program, which got underway last week with about 115 families getting their pre-loaded debit cards in the initial round of disbursements.<\/p>\n<p>The program, which will offer up to $1,000 a month for about 500 migrant families, is a partnership between Adams and the company Mobility Capital Finance, which says the plan will help migrants with food, baby supplies and other necessities as they await authorization to work from the federal government.<\/p>\n<p>The Adams administration described the pilot program as a \u201ccost savings measure\u201d that would temporarily replace New York City\u2019s existing system of providing non-perishable food boxes to migrant families staying in hotels and other city-funded shelters. It is expected to cost about $600,000 a month, according to the Adams administration.<\/p>\n<p>Under the program, a four-person family with kids under five years old could get up to $350 per week with the debit cards, or about $18,200 a year, according to published news reports.<\/p>\n<p>New York City has seen more than 183,000 asylum seekers arrive over the past year amid a historic surge of immigration along the U.S.-Mexico border. Over the past year, the city has spent more than $1 billion for tens of thousands of migrants under its care and expects to spend about $10 billion on migrant costs in coming years.<\/p>\n<p>Council member Joseph Borelli has argued that the debit cards are \u201cfundamentally unfair\u201d to the city\u2019s working poor, who don\u2019t receive similar benefits from the city. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cNew Yorkers get frustrated when they see migrants getting free debit cards at the same time we\u2019re all going to be charged $15 to go into Manhattan,\u201d Borelli told Fox News Digital, referencing New York City\u2019s new congestion pricing toll.<\/p>\n<p>Paladino said she has heard from constituents who are \u201csick of the invasion\u201d of migrants to New York City and are becoming increasingly worried about an increase in crime related to the new arrivals.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re seeing a massive increase in crimes attributable to migrants,\u201d she told Fox News. \u201cIt\u2019s becoming absolutely third-world.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York City council members criticize Mayor Eric Adams&#8217; migrant debit card program, claiming it attracts more asylum seekers. Vickie Paladino, representing Northeast Queens, stated that the initiative&#8217;s funds distributed via debit cards are a concern<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2211170,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/wex-s3.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/AP24079631860967-1024x683.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2211169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/wex-s3.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/AP24079631860967-1024x683.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2211169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2211169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2211169\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2211170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2211169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2211169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2211169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}