Culture New York City ending voucher program that allowed migrant families to buy their own food

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NEW YORK CITY (WABC) -- New York City has announced it will no longer issue vouchers to migrants to pay for food, ending a controversial program that had repeatedly come under attack by conservatives and others.

"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," Mayor Eric Adams's Office said in a statement.

The pilot program distributed debit cards to migrant families staying in city-funded hotels, allowing them to buy their own food.

While the program was characterized by some as an additional expense, it was initially conceived as a way to save money by no longer buying food the asylum seekers did not want to eat. The city estimates it cost half as much as the boxed-meal delivery service it replaced.

Since late March, the city has provided prepaid debit cards totaling $3.2 million to some 2,600 migrant families living in hotels so that they can buy food and baby supplies.

The cards, distributed at the city's intake center at the Roosevelt Hotel, give a family of four about $350 per week to go shopping at local stores for food and baby supplies.

The financial technology company Mobility Capital Finance, or MoCaFi, was hired last year under a no-bid, emergency contract to run the program for a one-year term. It receives about $400,000 under the agreement.


The city's ability to enter emergency deals for migrant services has since been revoked by City Comptroller Brad Lander.

The city estimates 700 asylum seekers are entering each week, while 1,000 are leaving during the same period.


This story will be updated as more information becomes available.

 

[Frederica Bernkastel]

It only took Trump's landslide in NYC for it to happen

 

[Toji Suzuhara]

Wonder what are they going to replace it with, because we all know that they aren't going to drop the program altogether

 

[Osama Bin Laden]

Wonder what are they going to replace it with, because we all know that they aren't going to drop the program altogether

I like to imagine it'll be like WW2 ration stamps

 

[Anasûrimbor Kellhus]

Wonder what are they going to replace it with, because we all know that they aren't going to drop the program altogether

Why replace it? the Recipients are going back.

 

[Dog-O-Tron 5000v5.0]

One problem with it was that they were trying to replace the shitty expensive box meals the illegals would mostly throw away with money to buy fresh food, but they had nowhere to cook it because they had no access to kitchen spaces in their hotel rooms.

Of course, the other problem is we are giving them gibs in the first place.

 

[Osama Bin Laden]

"The food served at the hotels the migrants were staying at were seen as "culturally insensitive" to some of the groups there". Are you fucking kidding me? You invade my country, I give you food, and you tell me "erm, this isn't actually how my people made it". Go fuck yourself. I'd be livid if I was living in NYC (lol) and my tax dollars went towards those ungrateful fucks

You don't hate shitlib states enough

 

[Faceless Whore]

>"the food the city provided was not culturally sensitive to migrants needs"

Nigger if you're not hungry enough to eat a bologna sandwich you don't need charity.

 

[Absolutego]

Wonder what are they going to replace it with, because we all know that they aren't going to drop the program altogether

I think Adams might be pissed off at the Democrat party enough to straight-up axe it

 

[Osama Bin Laden]

Nigger if you're not hungry enough to eat a bologna sandwich you don't need charity.

These poor impoverished illegals come from war-torn countries with dictator leaders flee their country to come to America for a better life.... all for these fucking niggers acting like prima donnas.

 

[Weebburner]

"The food served at the hotels the migrants were staying at were seen as "culturally insensitive" to some of the groups there". Are you fucking kidding me? You invade my country, I give you food, and you tell me "erm, this isn't actually how my people made it". Go fuck yourself. I'd be livid if I was living in NYC (lol) and my tax dollars went towards those ungrateful fucks

You don't hate shitlib states enough

im sry mr colonizer, i take my handout kosher only. I need to know the animal was bled out in fear and agony instead of killed instantly with a stakegun.

 

[AncientPhosphur]

This is literal fucking Nazi genocide against people because they’re not white. What the fuck? My fellow whites we need to lay our lives on the line for these people and use our white privilege to ensure these people are treated as decent people. My food choices may be limited because I’m Jewish but I’ll donate what I can help these brown families out against Nazi aggression.

 

[Hooked on phobics]

It only took Trump's landslide in NYC for it to happen

This unironically could be true. That whole idea migrants are voter pading? and less than a week after election, GTFO, no more money, back to africa you fucking beaners.

 

[Mob Boss Barbie]

One problem with it was that they were trying to replace the shitty expensive box meals the illegals would mostly throw away with money to buy fresh food, but they had nowhere to cook it because they had no access to kitchen spaces in their hotel rooms.

What do you mean? They set up charcoal grills on top of plastic tables and cook on the sidewalk. Which is a massive fire hazard but who's going to stop them, the cops?

And then they sell whatever the fuck they're cooking to get physical cash.

 

[spinal gas chamber]

The pilot program distributed debit cards to migrant families staying in city-funded hotels, allowing them to buy their own food.

Everyone is allowed to buy their own food. If - and I get this is a big if - you earn the money to buy your own food.

 

[Falcos_Commisar]

"The food served at the hotels the migrants were staying at were seen as "culturally insensitive" to some of the groups there". Are you fucking kidding me? You invade my country, I give you food, and you tell me "erm, this isn't actually how my people made it". Go fuck yourself. I'd be livid if I was living in NYC (lol) and my tax dollars went towards those ungrateful fucks

You don't hate shitlib states enough

Agreed

You can eat what charity provides or you can fucking STARVE

 

[Swamp_Donkey]

Family of four getting $350 a week, 200,000 asylum seekers. That makes $910,000,000 per year in gibs for food alone. Wonder how much they're spending on hotels.

 

[queue-anon]

lol

They couldn't be bothered to axe the program when it was fucking over Dems.

Family of four getting $350 a week, 200,000 asylum seekers. That makes $910,000,000 per year in gibs for food alone. Wonder how much they're spending on hotels.

Partly explains why we're adding $3 trillion in debt every year.

 

[Osama Bin Laden]

This unironically could be true. That whole idea migrants are voter pading? and less than a week after election, GTFO, no more money, back to africa you fucking beaners.

Over the past week, I've noticed a change in liberals where it started off with bullying you into voting for their side. When that didn't work, it was just pure hopium that Kamala would win. Abortion is the #1 issue that everyone in America cares about. Then Trump won.... and that's when the fire nation attacked.

If you voted for Trump:

• You are racist
• You hate women
• You hate your female relatives
• You want to tell women how to control their bodies
• You are bigot
• You want to make black people slaves again
• You want to kill trannies (okay, well there might be some truth)
• You are actually voting for inflation because tariffs = inflation

It felt like a complete mask-off moment from everyone on the left. They don't want equal rights, they want to be superior. They are okay with you until you disagree with them. Everything is fine until you say something that tows outside the line of what they believe in. I made a comment to myself reading the article, saying "Heh, funny how elections are over and all the gibs are getting retconned".

Family of four getting $350 a week, 200,000 asylum seekers. That makes $910,000,000 per year in gibs for food alone. Wonder how much they're spending on hotels.

but listen chud, it's actually saving taxpayer money somehow

 

[gampboonerisms]

Everyone is allowed to buy their own food. If - and I get this is a big if - you earn the money to buy your own food.

To each they can earn, to each they can own. How very Marxist of you.

( Side note, I don't really know anything about Marxism.)