They’re essentially being provided with that now, do we keep putting them up in hotels and providing them with 3 meals a day and medical care for 4 years while the asylum courts go through their back log?

A poem isn’t immigration policy, and claiming asylum isn’t the proper protocol for immigrating to this country for economic reasons.

As nice as it would for us to be able to absorb the entire worlds poor population, it’s not feasible.

It explains why this year was particularly higher than previous years.

“Alternative facts”

If you realistically think the city wouldn’t be paying the bill for “malpractice” insurance and a singular cop making 42k a year will, I have a bridge to sell you.

OP is fear mongering and assuming people aren’t actually reading the article.

“In recent years, district attorneys have moved to vacate many more criminal cases going back dozens of years which have led to an increase in the number of reverse conviction suits and related payouts,” said Nick Paolucci, a spokesman for the city’s law department.”

This explains the high payouts this year.

Then claiming the cops are going to “riot” with even the mildest reform, citing something from 30 years ago, when we HAVE had many instances of mild reform in the past decade or so (body cameras, discovery law changes, bans on chokeholds, and the list goes on), and that was not the case.

Stop fearing mongering. Did the cops “riot” when they got body cams, bans on chokeholds, new discovery laws, ending stop and frisk?

You look ridiculous making this claim.

How about someone actually makes a valid argument of the “riots” that occured after these mild reforms instead of downvoting.

It’s never enough, short of abolishing the police, for these people.

“”I didn’t come to The United States to suffer. I came here to work for my family.””

I’m really convinced, at this point, that the vast majority of the migrants have no idea what constitutes a valid asylum claim, and are actually economic migrants.

In before “You just don’t understand the lived experience of the attacker”

Ah, yes I’m sure all of those cops that were there during the riots of 92 will drum up some unrest amongst their ranks.

Because they only care about the optics of “doing something” for asylum seekers and making Texas look bad for sending them here. “Look we took care of them”.

Sounds like we should have a strike system and have harsh penalties for people who commit nefarious acts in shelters.

That would he then rational response, but we have too many bleeding heart “activists” who think everyone should get an unlimited amount of chances with no repercussions. In the end, that only hurts the true “down on their luck” homeless trying to turn their lives around.

Why would the gothamist post statistics that how New Yorkers are filing complaints about homeless encampments in record numbers? Wouldn’t that go against their narrative that everyone thinks encampments are fine and encouraged over shelters.

Same, I guess the perspectives different when you have friends who lost their parents and watched the towers collapse for your classroom.

This.

Bruh there was an innocence to the city in the late 90s/00 that will never be replicated. Did you live in the city pre 9/11, I’m assuming not.

Pre-9/11, the city was so innocent.

How about a Micromobility megathread or a George Santos Megathread?

I’d imagine the migrant threads are giving you guys a lot of grief so perhaps a migrant crisis megathread.

Any discussions on further expanding the megathread experiment?

This seems to be a case of “the mods didn’t get the response they were hoping for so let’s have a redo until we do”

Ban insane people.

Maybe “well known” would’ve been a better choice of words.

This was intentional and targeted.

It’s bound to happen!

The mods don’t respond to PMs.