Taxpayers in New York have been coughing up millions to wash migrant’s dirty laundry as the ongoing crisis engulfs the Big Apple.
New York City is giving over $1.1million to Queens-based CRC Management Co for an emergency cleaning contract.
Staten Island Borough President Vito Fossella said: “Taxpayers are being taken to the cleaners.
“Here we are providing laundry services to people who arrived here last week?
“That’s a lot of dough to spend on laundry. We should be spending that money elsewhere.
“It’s one more reason the migrant crisis has to come to an end.”
A separate $10.5million cleaning contract was awarded by the Health+ Hospital agency to Sodexo Laundry Service earlier this year.
Four other Department of Homeless contracts totaling $23 million are for laundry services as well as staffing and security.
Protest against migrants in New YorkReutersQueens Councilman Robert Holden recently complained about the overall cost of the migrant crisis in New York.
He said: “The state and city are treating us like chumps.
“We have to do our laundry. Migrants should have to go to the laundromat like the rest of us. They should do their own laundry.
“We should stop taking care of the entire world with laundry service, food, housing.
New York Mayor Eric Adams
Wiki Commons images/ Metropolitan Transportation Authority of the State of New York“Are they going to start paying for manicures and pedicures? It’s so absurd.”
New York Mayor Eric Adams warned the migrant crisis would “destroy” the Big Apple if New York City could not obtain additional federal and state assistance.
“It’s expensive. All of it is expensive,” a mayoral rep said.
A recent opinion poll suggested New Yorkers were also frustrated about the situation.
The Sienna College survey found that a stunning 84 per cent of voters consider the influx of migrants a serious problem, with 57 per cent identifying it as a “very” serious problem.
