You're missing the point.

If the city wants to encourage responsible e-waste disposal, they should make the process as convenient as possible and promote the hell out of it.

Things like having more SAFE disposal events. Expanding battery pickup beyond Staten Island. Do more to promote the resources available via 311 to find drop-off locations. Do more PSAs to let people know how the recycling process works.

300 front-line vacancies when they are facing what is probably the largest eviction caseload in their history.

Because delivery workers have a long history of being reckless?

To be clear, I understand this is just a symptom of an incredibly predatory system they are working for, but we have to be honest and acknowledge that delivery people engaging in dangerous behavior is systemic and not just anecdotal.

$5b is not being cut from the DOE budget.

YOY, the DOE budget went from $31.2b in FY23 to $30.7 billion in FY24.

NYPD's budget proposal is $5.4 billion in FY24 compared to $5.6 billion in FY23.

Both budgets are lower in FY24.

And these are not crimes of addiction or poverty, so you won't get the PR backlash from activists or the media if you enforced placard abuse and plate obstruction.

So....what the fuck is stopping enforcement?

The state loves money and loves fines. Vehicle violations like tinted windows that block 31% of light are incessantly enforced.

Yet this gets a pass????

There's no way he's so obtuse to think all these defaced plates are not intentional.

I know that is what his "we'll send out free replacements" solution is tantamount to, but he can't be this dumb.

And from the article:

>“It’s bizarre that NYS DOT is so clueless on this, especially when they can make so much money from it,” said David Thom after viewing the exchange between Gallagher and Schroeder on YouTube. “Go to any other jurisdiction and there is zero tolerance for the kind of paper and defaced /obscured plates that you see everywhere in NY State.”

This is where my conspiracy brain kicks in and makes me think lack of enforcement is due to the amount of government employees engaging in this intentional abuse.

The state can make SO.MUCH.MONEY fining the shit out of people who intentionally obscure or deface their plates, and the state has never been one to shy away from fining people for anything and everything under the sun....so why is there such an enforcement black hole to this goldmine of revenue?

Do you have firsthand experience with PCC? If so, how was their overall speed and reliability?

They've gotten a lot of positive coverage so it would be interesting to hear another perspective.

>literally gets money directly from the federal government to handle the migrants.

Federal humanitarian aid for migrants goes to nonprofits as grants, who then disperse it to local nonprofit networks.

The money doesn't go directly to the state or local governments of Texas.

It goes to large nonprofits such as United Way, CARECEN, and Catholic Charities.

Also, Texas gets the amount of migrant arrivals in a single week than NYC has gotten since last spring.

The federal aid earmarked for migrant aid doesn't come close to being enough.

Don't believe me? Just ask the democrat Mayor of El Paso who declared a state of emergency in his city of the migrant crisis just two months after he said the White House urged him not to do so.

Border states like Texas do not get reimbursed by the federal government for expenses related to long-term migrant care. NY is about to find this out.

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>Texas is a fucking joke & will always be. To think otherwise is simply stupid & more republican propaganda nonsense.

Ironic for you to say this in a post where you're spreading propaganda nonsense.

If you're expecting free housing in Texas, brother do I have some bad news for you

There is this weird dynamic on this sub where any reporting about migrants that isn't a puff piece is branded as right-wing tabloid fodder by some members.

It is easy to use that deflection tactic for a Post article, but when outlets like Univision and ABC7 report similar stories, it gets a bit harder to use that ad hominem attack.

Do you realize how detached from reality it is to refer to NY, let alone NYC, as politically "purple"?

>They are economic migrants not asylum seekers.

Yup.

There is a pretty narrow criteria for what qualifies as legitimate asylum claims.

If you read any of the local reporting on migrant arrivals in NYC, you consistently see countries of origin such as Peru and Ecuador, and migrants themselves saying they are seeking work and a higher standard of living.

If that was a criteria for having a legitimate asylum claim, literally billions of people from around the world would have a right to asylum here.

When it comes to 'white collar' sports like tennis or figure skating, it is great to see programs like this with their community outreach.

Not only does it help kids experience a sport they otherwise wouldn't have access too, but it can also act as a powerful recruiting tool as they very well could be a future tennis superstar in the outer boroughs somewhere who can use their tennis skills to get scholarship opportunities.

The migrants profiled in the article arrived in NYC by bus within the last two weeks. One of them specifically described trekking to the U.S. via Mexico and receiving aid from a shelter worker.

The migrants being bussed to NYC are those who have been released into the country by CPD as their asylum cases are pending.

They aren't here as tourists, and obviously not in the country on a school or work visa. An Ecuadorian national going through the conventional means for legally immigrating here (green card, etc.) wouldn't be selling candy on the subway while living at a city shelter.

Did they specifically say they are applying for asylum? No. But there is enough in the article to logically deduce that is how they ended up here.

Similarly to how every article about migrants at hotels don't specify if every single person there is applying for asylum, when it is pretty obvious that is the case.

The previous proposal was incredibly generous and KRJ has a second chance to take the W instead of demanding 100% affordable housing.

Again, federal humanitarian resources amount to grants provided to national nonprofits like United Way and Catholic Charities, who then disperse the funds to local charity networks.

These grants are useful for short-term aid when migrants first arrive, but it is not enough for anything long-term.

It is also millions of dollars in aid when billions are needed.

Be better.

Xenophobia and advocating workplace exploitation will not solve the migrant crisis.

Your racism is heartbreaking and disturbing on multiple levels. These are human beings; not just disposable sources of cheap labor!

>The last time these "economic migrants" stopped coming our produce was rotting in the fields. Be grateful you don't have to do the backbreaking, underpaid labor that keeps this country running and instead get to look down on the people that do.

You do realize this is a terrible justification for mass migration, right?

I remember Kelly Osbourne made the same argument about how illegal immigrants are needed in this country to clean toilets.

It is also a de facto endorsement of specifically illegal immigration, since that underpaid labor you support them doing is underpaid because the people performing the jobs can't legally work.

Viewing the value of migrants in this country as solely a source of cheap, often illegal labor, is pretty racist.

It is 2023.

Be better.

Be an anti-racist.

>is that everyone's ancestors to this country were a form of "economic migrant."

Yes, once upon a time, people immigrated to this country as economic migrants and declared themselves as such.

Not sure what that has to do with modern-day economic migrants exploiting the asylum system in 2023.

Pointing to how something used to be is not a valid reason for exploiting current laws.

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>Give me your tired, your POOR, your huddled masses, yearning to breathe free.

It is almost like immigration policy is more nuanced than a poem written on a statue gifted to us by the French, who by the way, have a stricter immigration system than we do.

For context, think about the migrant crisis in the city, and then imagine the equivalent to 10-20% of NYC's population getting bused here every single month.

That is what communities in El Paso have been dealing with for the past 2+ years.

Also why the notion that border towns and states magically have the infrastructure to handle mass migration is not based in reality.

That mythical "federal aid" everyone talks about are grants given to nonprofits that is typically earmarked for short-term aid.

There is no consistent stream of federal $$$ for long-term migrant expenses, as NY is soon going to find out.

I am disappointed the Post didn't make this a cover story with "Nothing to Bragg About" as the headline.

>Because the GOP refuses to adequately fund the system/migration courts. They want to keep their 'border crisis' strategy.

GOP doesn't support these bills because they come packaged with broad amnesty for millions of illegal immigrants. That is as much of a poison pill for the GOP as a republican bill including more funding for increased deportation would be a non-starter for Democrats.

There has not been a democrat-sponsored immigration bill introduced in the past 5+ years that did not include a multi-million person amnesty.

Democrats had a federal trifecta for 2 years, yet not a single immigration bill Schumer or Pelosi brought out for consideration was narrowly tailored to immigration court funding.

GOP leadership doesn't favor such "skinny" bills either, so they are also at-fault.

>I didn’t come to The United States to suffer. I came here to work for my family.”

So you're an economic migrant who otherwise doesn't have a valid asylum claim.

Thanks for putting that on the record, Kenny.

>If the feds have the authority to make southern and southwestern states stop busing migrants here

The federal government cannot prevent freedom of movement of migrants they have released into the country.

The federal government also cannot prevent any state government from offering people free bus rides.

The migrants being bussed here are not in federal custody, and despite the rhetoric from r/politics and some on r/nyc about "hUmAn TrAfFiCKiNG", every single one of them is agreeing to come to NYC as it is a friendlier jurisdiction than TX.

This is a problem the federal government brought upon themselves by rescinding Migrant Protection Protocols ("Remain in Mexico") and allowing hundreds of thousands of migrants to enter the country every month.

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>then it’s an outrage that the city hasn’t filed a lawsuit against those states yet.

Adams had been "mulling" legal action since August LOL.

The majority of them are not legitimate asylum seekers. This has been the trend going back almost a decade when economic migrants first started abusing the asylum system en masse.

For instance, the other day there was a story about migrants selling candy on trains. One of the migrants profiled was from Ecuador. While Ecuador has a lower standard of living than the U.S., it is hard to believe an Ecuadorian has a valid asylum claim going by the USCIS criteria.