New York Democratic Mayor Eric Adams’ office announced Thursday that New York City will stop providing food stamps to immigrants, CBS News New York reported.
New York City is phasing out a program that provides prepaid debit cards to immigrant families staying in city-funded hotels to purchase meals and necessities. According to to CBS News New York. The program will provide debit cards to immigrant families through the end of the year. The city will then deliver food directly to the migrants.
“As we move towards more competitive contracts for the Asylum Seeker Program, we have chosen not to renew this pilot program emergency contract after its one-year term. 2 “For more than 20 years, we have provided care to more than 222,000 immigrants and saved $2 billion in asylum-seeker-related costs,” Adams said in a statement. “As we care for hundreds of new arrivals each week, we implement and learn from innovative pilot programs like our immediate response card program.”
The news comes after Adams’ meeting with President-elect Donald Trump, during which Adams spoke at a press conference a day earlier to discuss partnering on infrastructure, public safety and other important issues facing New York City. Politico reported that this was revealed. reported.
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“I contacted the president yesterday and told him there are a number of issues here in the city that I would like to work with the administration to address,” Adams said. “The city has to move forward. That’s our mission.” (Related: New York City Mayor Eric Adams to go on trial in April on federal corruption charges)
Critics have labeled the initiative expensive, but it was originally designed to cut costs by eliminating pre-made meals, Eyewitness News reported. According to the city’s calculations, the voucher system was about half the cost of the previous boxed lunch delivery method.
Since the program launched in late March, the city has distributed prepaid debit cards worth a total of $3.2 million to about 2,600 immigrant families, witnesses said. Each card, distributed through the Roosevelt Hotel’s reception center, provided a family of four with approximately $350 in local purchases each week.
President Trump proposed a mass deportation plan Thursday, telling NBC News that his plan “has no price tag.” On his first day in office, he promised to launch an aggressive immigration enforcement campaign focused on deporting undocumented immigrants with criminal records.
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