Money for nothing! On Tuesday July 2. 2024 Audacy published this article, headlined, “Over 7,000 migrants in NYC to receive prepaid debit cards as pilot program expands.”
NEW YORK (1010 WINS/WCBS 880) – New York City expanded its pilot program, increasing the number of migrants receiving prepaid debit cards to buy food and baby supplies, officials confirmed
Since its launch on June 16, the program, which provides families with a 28-day allowance distributed in four weekly amounts, has helped 900 families, including 1,300 migrant children, buy their own food and baby supplies. Officials told WINS that, following the “success” of the initial rollout, the city is expanding the program from a small group of families in three hotels to families in 14 additional hotels.
“They can buy from local shops, support small businesses, and manage their own resources,” New York City Deputy Mayor for Health and Human Services Anne Williams-Isom said in a statement to 1010 WINS. “When we empower people, we help them achieve self-sufficiency and access the American Dream.”
The debit cards are expected to be distributed to more than 7,300 migrants over the next six months at an estimated cost of $2.6 million, according to details obtained by the New York Times.
Mayor Eric Adams has been defending the program stating that the goal is to cut costs.
“How in the world can Eric Adams say the goal is to cut costs? This handout will cost taxpayers $2.6 million dollars!”, said Thomas Robb, the National Director of the Knights Party of the Ku Klux Klan, based in Harrison, Arkansas will members all across America. “I don’t know about you, but I could come up with better ways to spend $2.6 million dollars. How does the Deputy Mayor for Health and Human Services, Ann Williams-Isom think that by giving handouts, these invaders will become self-sufficient? These people are not invading our country to become self-sufficient, they are coming to cause havoc and to mooch for whatever they can get. Pick up the morning paper and look at the crimes these invaders are committing. Every single day, articles with headlines of an illegal committing a killing, a robbery, a rape, even crimes against our elderly. The sad part is, we are paying for our own extinction.”
