New York City is paying illegal immigrants upwards of $4,000 to leave the city’s taxpayer-funded shelters in hopes of alleviating its overstressed temporary housing system.
At the moment, approximately 65,000 illegals are housed in the city’s temporary shelter system.
The pilot program, launched last December, has now paid out approximately $600,000 to about 150 illegal immigrant families.
Officials acknowledge that more than $5 billion has already been spent addressing the illegal immigrant crisis.
One of the largest temporary shelter facilities is located at Floyd Bennett Field, situated in the Marine Park neighborhood of Brooklyn.
“The city is employing all available strategies to offer innovative and cost-effective solutions for recently arrived asylum seekers residing in shelters,” a spokesman for the New York Department of Social Services said in a statement, defending the city’s payouts to illegals for clearing out of shelters.
The influx of illegal immigrants, estimated at over 210,000 since spring 2022, has posed significant financial challenges for New York City.
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