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Use-Quirky t1_j0v3t6p wrote

Feds should transfer money allocated to southern bored to NY. A) we should receive some as we are now supporting more people. B) southern states might rethink their strategy

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PuppedMyAchilles t1_j0vdbqd wrote

Yuma is currently seeing 1000+ crossings per day. New York is losing it over a couple of buses. By the time the other 15 arrive, Yuma which is a city of 100k residents will have seen 10,000+ more migrants than New York, a city more than 80x larger.

Whatever slice federal funding Yuma gets is likely a tiny fraction of NYC’s budget, and yuma would keep 99% of that budget if it were to be allocated between them and nyc in proportion to number of migrants.

Lest we forget, mta elevators in NYC cost $110m, so to even think this city would be able to provide a solution with the minimal federal funding it would get (and deserve at current levels) is laughable.

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spicytoastaficionado t1_j0vm542 wrote

>Yuma is currently seeing 1000+ crossings per day. New York is losing it over a couple of buses.

Yeah the situation here is bad, but a recurring trend on this sub is that people really have no idea how insane the situation is along the border.

NYC has a population of 8.48 million, and is feeling the squeeze from 30,000 migrants and counting since the spring.

For comparison, the border town of Del Rio, TX has a population of 35,000 and last fall had to deal with 15,000 Haitian migrants arriving over a single week.

El Paso, which just declared a State of Emergency despite the White House pressuring the mayor (D) for months not to do so, has 678,000 residents and from August-December, had over 84,000 migrants released into the city.

There are typically over 100,000 migrant encounters along the TX-MX border every single month, and that doesn't include migrants who enter the country illegally without being processed by border patrol.

NYC's numbers are child's play in comparison.

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spicytoastaficionado t1_j0vl0p9 wrote

>Feds should transfer money allocated to southern bored to NY.

Federal funds allocated to the southern border specifically is for federal resources such as border security, migrant detention, and federal personnel staffing. If you think the migrant crisis is bad now, what do you think would happen without any border patrol?

Federal humanitarian aid is given to NGOs as grants; not deposited into the coffers of border states.

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> A) we should receive some as we are now supporting more people.

If you took the NGO humanitarian aid that United Way spends in TX and had them disperse some of it to NYC based on proportion of migrants who are sent here, we'd get like pennies on the dollar.

Border towns in TX deal with tens of thousands of migrants arrivals per week on top of all the ones who are residing in the state. Can't compare their situation with NYC.

Federal border patrol records upwards of a quarter-million migrant encounters per month. If feds took away their funding as you suggested, you'd have literally millions of people entering the country every month.

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> B) southern states might rethink their strategy

Southern states wouldn't re-think their strategy if feds transferred their border patrol funds to NY.

They'd just send even more busses.

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kiklion t1_j0v8nsd wrote

How much funding per immigrant is sent to southern states to house the immigrants until their court case?

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rpm33119 t1_j0vd4ml wrote

So 0 dollars, NYC will get 0 dollars.

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Use-Quirky t1_j0vyaho wrote

No immigration get hundreds of millions that can be shifted to nyc

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rpm33119 t1_j0w87gd wrote

Immigration, yes. The city and states that need to deal with the illegals, no.

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