Another Way for New York City to Limit the Migrant Fallout
The Feds must enforce health-related requirements of the immigration law
By Hart Celler on August 17, 2023
New York is drowning in migrants. Sure, it only has, at last count, about 100,000 more that it knows of since Joe Biden was inaugurated (only 11,500 of them bused by the State of Texas, since it started sending them the year before). That’s out of a city of 8,335,897, down almost a half-million people from the 2020 Decennial Census, which perhaps unironically the city claims was approximately equal to its “undocumented population” in 2017.
Still, the number of aliens appearing in the Big Apple as part of the Biden border surge is not insignificant, since the majority, besides being unlawfully present (read: not paroled-in), are arriving almost universally unhoused, hungry, and legally unemployable.
The Center’s George Fishman questioned recently whether New York City could use the 1996 Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA) to mitigate the migrant crisis it finds itself in, especially concerning its obligations to provide housing to them.
I would argue there’s an additional way that the city could relieve the burden Biden’s border crisis has imposed on it – demand the federal government fulfill the health-related responsibilities imposed on it by the immigration law.
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