US migrants spark mass exodus from New York as residents flee from rising cost of crisis

New York City Mayor Eric Adams has warned that the crisis could “destroy” the city as an eye-watering £4.7billion (£3.8billion) bill to house and feed the incoming migrants has been fronted by taxpayers.

Adams claimed the city had spent as much as $12billion (£9.69billion) in the last three years as the number of migrants coming across the border has exploded.

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The crisis has subsequently sparked a row between Adams and Texas Governor Greg Abbott who has sent buses filled with migrants to New York and other sanctuary cities in order to ease the burden on the southern state.

Speaking to GB News, US political commentator John Fund said: “Just over 10 per cent of the migrants that have arrived in New York City are from Texas, sent by Governor Abbott.

“The rest have arrived because New York City has a several decade-old law issued by a court, not even a legislature, that says everyone in New York who arrives has a right to shelter, a right to sanctuary, and a right to food.

“So that is bankrupting the city.

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“And there's some questions as to whether or not New York City can approach the court and ask for some kind of relief.

“Right now the bill is $12billion and that would be enough to bankrupt the city in short order.”

When asked about the cost of the crisis on individual New Yorkers, Fund added that many people feel “frustrated” with the influx of asylum seekers and the cost they must pay.

“It's borne by the New York City taxpayers,” Fund said.

He added: “We already pay the highest taxes in the country.

“The marginal tax rate for many New Yorkers even in the middle class is over 50 per cent.

“And so this is just another example of why New Yorkers are leaving the country.

“New York has lost about two or three per cent of its population since COVID began, and many of them to Florida and Texas and Nevada and Tennessee that don't have an income tax.

“So I think this [the migrant crisis] only accelerates the departure of the middle class, which is the base of any major city and it's a transfer of populations.

“The migrants come in, frustrated middle-class people leave.”