PuppedMyAchilles t1_j0vdbqd wrote
Reply to comment by Use-Quirky in Two migrant buses arrived in New York City on Sunday and up to 15 more are expected in the next few days by Fit_Pangolin_8271
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.
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.
Viewing a single comment thread. View all comments