The Left has long, in rather racist fashion, argued that unfettered immigration is necessary because -- without it -- we'd have no one to clean our hospitals or pick our crops. Yikes.
But this story sheds some light on just how few of the illegal immigrants in NYC are looking for work:
For the mathematically challenged, 2% of 140,000 is 2,800. So not a whole lot of people.
The New York Post writes:
Only about 2% of the tens of thousands of migrants who have poured into the Big Apple since the asylum seeker crisis started have actually applied for work authorization permits, the latest data shows.
Roughly 3,200 asylum seekers in New York City have filed the required paperwork needed to start earning a legal paycheck — some 18 months after the relentless migrant influx first began, according to figures provided by City Hall.
1,495 of those work authorization applications have been filed through the city’s Asylum Application Help Center since the facility opened back in June, the figures show.
Meanwhile, another 1,700 work applications were submitted last month when the Biden administration sent Department of Homeland Security staffers to Gotham for a two-week stretch to help speed through the bureaucratic process.
Even with their rougher estimate 3,200, that's not a lot of work permits.
And take the jobs Americans didn't want.
There's no incentive to work.
It's all by design.
58% of New Yorkers said the city had done enough for immigrants. Guess not.
We are. $400 a day, per immigrant, per Gothamist. At 140,000, that's $56 million.
It is a crisis.
They sure are.
Sigh.
Every administration that refused to address immigration allowed this to happen. But Biden's in charge now, and has made it infinitely worse.
Something has to be done -- drastically and soon -- to fix the utterly broken immigration system.
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