New York City is paying a tall price for the Biden administration’s border crisis and the Democratic-run city’s own anti-ICE policies, forcing taxpayers to fork over billions of dollars with no end in sight.

The city now anticipates spending $12 billion in three years, 99% of which will come straight from taxpayers' pockets, as the city responds to the hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants who have descended on the sanctuary city after crossing the border, according to a city councilman who testified before Congress.

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The minority leader of the New York City Council, Republican Joseph Borelli of Staten Island, told the House Homeland Security Committee on Wednesday that the city will be forced to spend $6.1 billion to care for illegal immigrants in fiscal 2024, which began in July and will end next June.

"Adding the approximately $1.5 billion we have already spent, [the] total projected cost of sheltering migrants in New York City will exceed $12 billion over three fiscal years," Borelli said during a hearing on the financial cost of the border crisis.

"To put that in perspective, over the next year alone, we will spend enough money to cover the entire budget of Dallas, Texas, meaning the cost of sheltering migrants in New York City, taxpayers could pay to man every firehouse, police station, pick up the garbage, maintain the water and sewers, inspect the buildings, run the airport, and even cut the grass in Dallas parks, a city of 1.3 million people," Borelli said.

Since President Joe Biden took office in early 2021, Border Patrol agents at the southern border have apprehended approximately 6 million people who entered the country illegally from Mexico. More than 2 million of the 6 million were ultimately released into the United States and allowed to travel anywhere in the interior.

Borelli said 125,000 illegal immigrants have arrived in the city and requested assistance from the city since 2021. Fewer than 15,000 of those 125,000 immigrants were bused to New York City from Texas as part of a Texas initiative to transport immigrants out of border towns that do not have the transportation systems or resources to accommodate people, according to data provided by the state last week.

New York has set up more than 200 shelters across the five boroughs, and some residents have protested the sites.

Approximately 60,000 immigrants are in city-run facilities every night, according to Borelli.

"The city expects to shelter over 78,000 individuals in the current fiscal year at a cost of $4.7 billion," Borelli said. "By next fiscal year, assuming no action is taken by the federal government and New York doesn't amend its own policies, the city anticipates the average daily number of migrants and shelters would be more than 100,000, at a cost of $6.1 billion."

The Biden administration called out Democratic leaders in New York in late August following state and local officials' complaints that the federal government had failed to help the sanctuary zone respond to its immigrant crisis, even after receiving $100 million in aid from Congress in June.

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New Yorkers remain overwhelmingly in favor of immigration to the United States despite the state's burgeoning crisis to house and resettle newcomers arriving from the southern border.

New polling from the upstate Siena College Research Institute found that the majority of New York residents want the federal government to make it easier for newcomers to obtain documents to work and want to see immigrants housed on federal property rather than in privately owned hotels and city shelters.