November 17, 2023
Migrants to cost New Yorkers their police, teachers, firefighters, garbagemen...
By Monica Showalter
Nothing's as expensive as cheap imported labor, and New Yorkers are about to find that out the hard way.
According to the New York Post:
The NYPD’s force will be reduced to just 29,000 cops by the end of fiscal year 2025 — the lowest level since the mid-90s — amid a slew of city-wide budget cuts revealed by Mayor Eric Adams Thursday as the Big Apple grapples with its multi-billion-dollar migrant crisis.
Under City Hall’s newly unveiled updated 2024 financial plan, the next five police academy classes will be axed — essentially decimating an already strained department as roughly 4,500 officers are expected to leave their ranks within the next 18 months.
Firefighters are also in the firing line with FDNY members who are on “long-term light duties” — meaning they’ve been injured on the job or are out sick — being forced into early retirement or fired under the plan.
“The defund the police crowd’s woke dream has come true. We were fed a line of BS that the wave of migrants would be a benefit to the city. Now we are defunding the police to pay for their beds,” Council Republican Minority Leader, Joe Borelli, raged.
The astonishing thing is that none of them, other than Mayor Eric Adams, seem to recognize that migrants are why they can't have nice things. They can pay for the migrants or they can have a cop come to the phone when they get robbed but they can't have both. While migrant service cuts are on the table, what should be happening is the elimination of the entire free ride package -- instead of 20% cuts to migrant freebies, why not 100% cuts, getting rid of them altogether? Of course, the bureaucrats and NGOs would have to go, too, but that's probably where the problem is.
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https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/11/migrants_to_cost_new_yorkers_their_police_teachers_firefighters_garbagemen.html
