Could NYC be coming to its senses?
According to a New York Post report, Mayor Eric Adams is ending his city’s controversial prepaid debit card handouts for illegal migrants — a $53 million dollar initiative.
From The New York Post:
The pilot program distributed the preloaded Mastercards to asylum seekers at hotels-turned-shelters, with a family of four receiving about $350 a week to cover the cost of groceries and baby supplies.
The city hired New Jersey-based tech startup Mobility Capital Finance in a $53 million, one-year “emergency” contract that drew backlash when the city failed to conduct a typical bidding process before picking the company.
But with the one year up shortly, the Adams administration decided against renewing the contract, ABC7 reported.
“As we move towards more competitive contracting for asylum seeker programs, we have chosen not to renew the emergency contract for this pilot program once the one-year term concludes,” Adams’ office said in a statement to the station.
The city launched the program in late March after inking the contract two months earlier. Since then, the city has handed out $3.2 million in prepaid debit cards to some 2,600 migrant families for food, according to ABC7.
While NYC’s contract with Mobility Capital Fiance was only for one year, Trump’s “America First” message to New Yorkers is resonating — and may have influenced Adams’ decision not to renew the program. Trump made significant gains in “Blue York” this time around.
Vice-president Harris only won with 55 percent support. By contrast, Joe Biden and Hillary Clinton received around 60 percent of the vote in 2020 and 2016.
More over at The New York Post:
NYC to end controversial program supplying migrants with prepaid debit cards https://t.co/UOuHIj0NcX pic.twitter.com/5KziKrE2Zm
— New York Post (@nypost) November 8, 2024
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