Families with migrants will get debit cards from New York City to purchase groceries and infant necessities.
They will get their first cards on Monday, which has sparked concerns that the new scheme would encourage fraud or misuse and conjecture that the city will give preference to immigrants over native-born residents. Around 180,000 migrants have entered the city in the previous two years, around 180,000 migrants entered the city, of whom 65,000 are now residing in shelters.
According to city authorities, the initiative would provide up to $350 per week for a family of four. It will run for six weeks. The New York Times said that the initiative will start with 10 families on Monday and grow to around 115 families, or about 450 individuals, over the course of the next week.
Democratic Mayor Eric Adams has supported the initiative, claiming it will both stimulate the local economy and provide low-cost food for migrants. Families staying in hotels under a 28-day voucher scheme will receive cards at the city’s welcome hub, the Roosevelt Hotel in Manhattan. A week’s worth of money will be placed on the cards.
Deputy mayor for health and human services Anne Williams-Isom likened the scheme to food stamps.
She remarked, “I do find it difficult to understand why people are acting so negatively when it comes to giving families with children access to something so essential.” “It does not pit groups against one another.”
While conceding that debit cards would make feeding migrants less expensive, Republican minority leader of the City Council Joseph Borelli bemoaned the fact that New Yorkers would find the scheme “unfair.”
He predicted that many New Yorkers would view this as essentially unfair. “Many New Yorkers are having financial difficulties paying their expenses.”
According to a new Harvard Harris study, people are now more concerned about immigration than the economy, as Breitbart News reported.
According to the study, 36% of 2,111 registered voters in the Harvard Center for American Political Studies survey from March 20–21 cited immigration as their top concern, surpassing both inflation and the state of the economy. Three-quarters of respondents named inflation as their main concern, while 36 percent named immigration. Twenty-three percent selected the category “jobs and the economy.”
It also said that, in terms of demographics, 28% of Asians, 39% of Whites, 41% of Hispanics, and 28% of those between the ages of 25 and 34 chose immigration.
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