We’ve never paid migrants’ costs before — so why is Eric Adams doing so now?

 Mayor Adams must think Gotham needs more illegal migrants: He’s offering them up to $5,000 to leave city-funded shelter for permanent housing — which of course is more incentive to come here in the first place.

No joke: The city’s Department of Homeless Services launched a pilot program in December that grants supposed “asylum-seekers” cash to cover the costs of moving out of a city shelter and into permanent quarters.

Already, 150 families have benefitted, and the city is looking at “scaling up and expanding access” to the funds.

It means up to four grand in cash is to cover security deposits, moving expenses and first and last month’s rent, plus $1,000 more available via gift cards. Sweet!

A city official told The Post she “can’t say” how much the program could eventually spend, since every family is considered on a “case-by-case” basis. (Huh?)

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And all this on top of the free shelter housing, food, health care, education, debit cards and other services illegal migrants already get. Pure madness.

No wonder in just two years the city has already blown through a whopping $5 billion on migrants — as much as the entire NYPD spends annually.

It isn’t supposed to work this way: Immigrants who’ve flocked to our shores for centuries have had to make their own way — depending on friends, relatives or their own grit to survive.

Now the city is basically paying migrants who break the law and hop the border to come here — and it’s using funds from hard-working New York citizens to do so.

Ones who get little help from the city: When was the last time City Hall offered to pay for your moving expenses?

True, primary blame for the migrant crisis lies with President Biden and Border Czar Kamala Harris, who sent out “la invitacion” to rush in, then waved them in at the border.

And make no mistake, Harris will keep up that policy, if not broaden it: She’s still pushing that “bipartisan border security bill” that would create new rights for “asylum seekers.”

But that’s no reason for City Hall to add more cash rewards for border-jumpers.

Start working to stop the flow, at least to New York, Mr. Mayor, and quit trying to “manage” the endless influx — especially with gimmicks that only make the situation worse.

https://nypost.com/2024/09/09/opinion/why-is-eric-adams-paying-migrants-costs-unlike-for-past-migrants/