The Bill Comes Due for Blue Sanctuary Cities

The seemingly low-cost virtue signaling of declaring your non-border city or state a “sanctuary” for illegal immigrants has now revealed its hefty price tag.

“If we don’t get the support we need, New Yorkers could be left with a $12 billion bill,” New York City Mayor Eric Adams said on Wednesday of the now crisis-level illegal immigrants who continue to flow into the Big Apple.

According to The New York Times, over 100,000 illegal immigrants have arrived in New York City since the spring of 2022.

Politico explained what these numbers mean for New York:

The $12 billion is the estimate by summer of 2025 if the flow of migrants continues apace with current numbers, Adams said. Administration officials had previously forecast that the cost would reach more than $4 billion by next summer. The new estimation of $4 billion annually for three years is a significant portion of the city’s budget that is currently $107 billion. By comparison, the NYPD’s annual budget this year is $5.8 billion.

Oof.

That’s looking like a serious fiscal crisis. I’d say the problem is a lot bigger than ice cream trucks.

New York is hardly the only big blue sanctuary city now getting hit hard by the tidal wave coming from the border.

The Wall Street Journal labeled this unfolding fiasco the “blue state migrant crisis.”

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