New York City migrant crisis costs expected to exceed $5B in 2-year period — double to $10B by 2025

New York City is projected to have soon spent $5 billion in the past two years providing shelter, food and other services to migrants.

In the 2023 and 2024 fiscal years combined, the city spent $4.88 billion on the migrant crisis.  Danielle Wallace is a reporter for Fox News Digital covering politics, crime, police and more. Story tips can be sent to danielle.wallace@fox.com and on Twitter: @danimwallace. 

Based on the current rate of spending, the New York Post reported that the city has likely spent more than $112 million on the migrant crisis since the start of the new fiscal year, which began on July 1, meaning the cost of the crisis will soon exceed $5 billion if it hasn't already. That’s nearly the amount of the total $5.8 billion budget allocated for the New York City Police Department budget in the 2025 fiscal year. 

The NYPD went from spending $1 million on the migrant crisis in the 2023 fiscal year to $20 million in the 2024 fiscal year, as police have increasingly been dispatched to quell illegal activity at overcrowded city migrant centers. That includes the one at Randall’s Island, where migrants who’ve maxed out their stays have erected encampments nearby.