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Report: Migrants Arriving on Buses to Cost New Yorkers More than $4 Billion

February 2, 2023 by John Binder Leave a Comment

Border crossers, arriving on buses from Texas to New York City, are expected to cost New Yorkers more than $4 billion over the next two years, according to new estimates.

Since the spring of last year, close to 50,000 border crossers and illegal aliens have arrived in the sanctuary city of New York City — sent on buses mostly from Texas, although Arizona has also sent a few thousand.

In November 2022, an estimate from the Independent Budget Office found that the steady arrival of border crossers would cost New Yorkers “at least” $850 million.

Sources close to Mayor Eric Adams’ office now reveal to local media that the cost estimate to New Yorkers is closer to about $4.2 billion for Fiscal Years 2022 and 2023. That cost estimate includes what it will take to clothe, house, educate, and provide medical services to border crossers arriving on a weekly basis to the city.

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In an interview with CBS News, Adams again called on President Joe Biden to create a “decompression strategy” around illegal immigration that would send border crossers and illegal aliens to towns and cities all across the United States.

“If we do a decompression strategy, then all of the country would absorb a smaller amount,” Adams said. The plan, as Adams has previously advocated, would “fairly distribute” border crossers and illegal aliens across American communities.

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Through an expansive Catch and Release network, coupled with a parole pipeline, the Biden administration is fast-tracking border crossers into the U.S. interior and providing them with work permits — a boon to companies looking for new consumers, real estate investors wishing to drive up housing prices, and employers seeking cheaper labor.

Rep. Tom McClintock (R-CA) has noted that since Biden took office in late January 2021, at least 2.9 million border crossers and illegal aliens have entered the U.S. interior — a population the size of Mississippi.

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Photos: NYPD Officers Remove Migrants Camped Outside Manhattan Hotel

February 2, 2023 by John Binder Leave a Comment

New York City Police Department (NYPD) officers were forced to clear border crossers who had refused to leave the Watson Hotel in Manhattan after being asked to move from the luxury property to a mega-shelter at the Brooklyn Cruise Terminal.

As Breitbart News chronicled, the mostly single adult male border crossers — bused from Texas and Arizona — had refused to leave the Watson Hotel after the city initially placed them there, for free. Activists with the border crossers demanded that the new arrivals be placed in “vacant luxury apartments” all along the city’s Billionaires Row, paid for by New Yorkers.

Mayor Eric Adams (D), in a plea to the border crossers, issued a video message this week trying to entice them to the Brooklyn Cruise Terminal, detailing the mega-shelter’s warm rooms and healthy food options.

Late on Wednesday evening, local media reports, NYPD officers as well as city sanitation workers cleared the migrant encampment in front of the Watson Hotel. The border crossers seemingly trashed the area after spending the last few nights on the sidewalks.

Migrants camp out in front of the Watson Hotel after being evicted, on February 01, 2023 in New York City. (Leonardo Munoz/VIEWpress)

Venezuelan migrants who had been bused to New York from the Texas border refuse to leave for a city run migrant shelter in Brooklyn after being kicked out of their rooms at the Watson Hotel, February 1, 2023 in midtown New York City, New York. (Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images)

New York Police Department police and Department of Sanitation workers clear asylum seekers from the sidewalk in front of Watson Hotel in Hell’s Kitchen of Manhattan Wednesday night following days of protest and uncertainty in New York, United States, on February 01, 2023. (Selcuk Acar/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

New York Police Department police and Department of Sanitation workers clear asylum seekers from the sidewalk in front of Watson Hotel in Hell’s Kitchen of Manhattan Wednesday night following days of protest and uncertainty in New York, United States on February 01, 2023. (Selcuk Acar/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

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NYC Mayor Tries to Convince Migrants to Trade Swanky Hotel for City Shelter: ‘Even the Snacks are Healthy!’

February 1, 2023 by John Binder Leave a Comment

Migrants Still Not Leaving NYC Hotel, Demand Free Stays at ‘Vacant Luxury Apartments’ on Billionaires Row

January 31, 2023 by John Binder Leave a Comment

Photos: Migrants Refuse to Leave NYC Hotel, Demand Taxpayers Give Them ‘Permanent Homes’

January 30, 2023 by John Binder Leave a Comment

Border crossers, who arrived in New York City on buses from Texas, are refusing to leave a luxury Manhattan hotel that city officials had placed them in.

Over the weekend, city officials sought to move migrants out of the Watson Hotel in the Hell’s Kitchen neighborhood of Manhattan and to the Brooklyn Cruise Terminal where Mayor Eric Adams has constructed a massive shelter for new arrivals.

Many of the border crossers staying at the Watson Hotel, paid for by taxpayers, are refusing to leave and have instead set up a homeless encampment outside the hotel. There, they are demanding the city “cancel rent” and provide them with “permanent homes.”

Illegal aliens refuse to leave ritzy hotel digs two blocks from Central Park for a new shelter in Brooklyn. Biden created this entitlement mentality so of course they will continue to demand more and better free stuff and then complain if denied https://t.co/0KZrUrwPHp
— Miranda Devine (@mirandadevine) January 30, 2023

Some open borders activists, assisting the migrants, even suggested to ABC 7 News that new arrivals get placed in some of the city’s most expensive properties without charge.

Another sign posted by border crossers outside the Watson Hotel reads “no to discrimination towards immigrants” while one other reads “We need housing to sleep, we need help please.”

The housing demands come as New Yorkers, particularly working and middle class, grapple with exorbitant rents and skyrocketing home prices that have pushed many out of the city’s five boroughs and hundreds of thousands out of the state altogether.

Nearly 50,000 border crossers have been bused to New York City, a sanctuary jurisdiction, since the spring of last year. Those new arrivals will immediately begin competing for limited housing across the city, pushing the price of rent and homes way up for natives.

Real estate investors are some of the biggest beneficiaries of mass immigration to the United States. Immigration-driven population growth, set to bring the United States population to more than 400 million by 2060, is likely to send housing prices even higher.

A 2017 study published in the Journal of Housing Economics found that “increases in immigration into a metropolitan statistical area are linked with rising rents and home prices in that metropolitan statistical area and neighboring metropolitan statistical areas.”

Republicans in Congress representing New Yorkers — including Rep. Elise Stefanik, Claudia Tenney, Nick Langworthy, Marc Molinaro, Nicole Malliotakis, Andrew Garbarino, Anthony D’Esposito, and Nick LaLota — have been largely silent about the connection between mass immigration and housing costs.

A view from the surroundings of Watson Hotel in Manhattan, New York, United States on January 29, 2023. (Selcuk Acar/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Migrants camp out in front of the Watson Hotel after being evicted on January 30, 2023 in New York City. (Leonardo Munoz/VIEWpress via Getty Images)

A sign is seen as migrants camp out in front of the Watson Hotel after being evicted on January 30, 2023 in New York City. (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)

A view from the surroundings of Watson Hotel in Manhattan, New York, United States on January 29, 2023. (Selcuk Acar/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Migrants camp out in front of the Watson Hotel after being evicted on January 30, 2023 in New York City. (Leonardo Munoz/VIEWpress via Getty Images)

Migrants camp out in front of the Watson Hotel after being evicted on January 30, 2023 in New York City. (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)

Camping tents are pictured outside the Watson Hotel on 57th Street and 9th Avenue. (Luiz C. Ribeiro/for New York Daily News/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)

John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Email him at [email protected] Follow him on Twitter here.