Not even 2% of NYC migrants want tickets out of town: This crisis is here to stay
NY Post
New York’s illegal migrants want to stay right here.
In the latest grim news from the front lines of the crisis, the vast majority of migrants taken into the city’s overtaxed shelter system are simply staying put once their first 30 days are up, with less than 2% of adult migrants saying “yes” to a taxpayer-funded ticket elsewhere (based on numbers from the city’s East Village shelter re-entry center).
In other words, the city’s longtime policy of handing out travel tickets in hopes that people can find a better situation elsewhere is having close to zero effect.
Yes, every little bit helps: Even that under-2% means a fractional easing of the massive pressure exerted by the 175,000-plus arrivals, a tsunami set to cost the city $10 billion through the next fiscal year.
But the fact that more than 98% of migrants aren’t taking the offer of a free ride to move on reveals that free bus or plane tickets were only ever a way to manage the crisis — and in this case, to barely do that.
It’s yet more evidence that this is a national crisis; local and even state solutions, no matter how generous, can’t deal with the mainspring of the problem.
