'SPOILED': Illegal immigrants in NYC know taxpayer-funded housing, food is way too much

Some illegal immigrants admit they are living the life of Riley at taxpayer expense and say they are “getting spoiled” in the process. The New York Times published a story Monday on how some of those migrants are faring in the city, looking mainly at those living in hotels, office buildings and even the tent city at Floyd Bennett Field, which is slated to be closed in January. 

A Columbian mother staying at the Watson Hotel admitted to feeling guilty about the treatment she has received since coming to America. "We're getting spoiled," Ingrid Henao said. "This was never my idea. I didn't leave my country under the conditions we fled for this."

Other illegal immigrants are worried about the incoming administration of President-elect Donald Trump and his promise to deport millions of them. "People are desperate to get out," Nicolaza Criollo told The Times, which acknowledged that over 225,000 illegal immigrants have entered the city under the Biden administration since 2022. They have cost the city more than $6 billion in housing alone.

The Times downplayed the cost residents of the city have been bearing. "Despite critics who blamed migrants for draining public resources, over half of the migrants the city has sheltered since early 2022 have exited the system, and the number entering has been in decline," it wrote. In 2023 alone, federal, state and municipal governments spent $150 billion on illegal immigrants.

New York City Mayor Eric Adams (D) has increasingly moved further away from Democratic policy on open borders and sanctuary cities and is now openly and enthusiastically calling for full cooperation with Trump Border Czar Tom Homan, who has visited with Adams. He suggested the incoming Trump administration could use an executive order to deal with his city’s sanctuary status for illegal immigrants. He recently reached out to Trump, saying, "I reached out to him and I shared that I would like to sit down and speak with him to hear what are his ideas, because I don’t want people talking at each other, I want people to talk to each other. And I made it clear that I’m not going to be warring with this administration, I’m going to be working with this administration.”

Homan has not received any such support from Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson (D) who says the deportation plan is racist and “against black families.” Nonetheless, Homan plans to start deportations in his city.