New York City has begun distributing prepaid debit cards to illegal immigrants. The cards can reportedly only be used for food and baby supplies.
How long will it take for someone to figure out how to scam this system? Should we expect a black market to emerge around these cards and the value assigned to them?
This plan is ripe for corruption.
FOX News reports:
New York City begins offering illegal immigrants prepaid debit cards as part of $53 million pilot program
New York City officials have begun distributing prepaid debit cards to migrant families living in the Big Apple.
The first batch of debit cards, which are reportedly intended to be used by illegal immigrants to purchase food and baby items, were distributed Monday to a handful of migrant families in the city, the mayor’s office confirmed to Fox New York Eric Adams. Digital news.
The effort is part of a $53 million pilot program to distribute prepaid credit cards to migrant families staying in hotels despite public outcry.
The program, which the mayor’s office confirmed will provide migrant families of four with two children under 5 with up to $350 a week until the end of their stay, began Monday with a limited number of families and will expand to about 115 families, or about 460 people, in the next week.
Watch the video report below:
Being an illegal immigrant in New York pays off.
New York will begin distributing prepaid debit cards to illegal immigrants. The cards will be loaded with $1,400 per month, and the pilot program will cost city taxpayers $53 million. pic.twitter.com/Ho2ob6AqBu
— Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) March 26, 2024
We are basically paying people to break our immigration laws.
Paid to break the law….
New York City begins offering prepaid debit cards to illegal immigrants as part of $53 million pilot program https://t.co/SJVaBNcVIU
—GOP (@GOP) March 26, 2024
Trump is expected to run “your taxes pay for migrant debit cards” as an ongoing campaign ad in New York. https://t.co/LJEkUBYkHr
— (@FreeStateWill) March 26, 2024
There are likely many poor American citizens in New York who may need this type of assistance. They will have to line up behind illegal border crossings.