Poor American citizens have once again found themselves in direct competition with illegal aliens for critical resources.
In years past, low-income New York City Housing Authority tenants could look forward to a free meal around Thanksgiving. However, on account of the recent influx of over 142,000 foreign nationals into the sanctuary city, there appears to be fewer meals to go around.
WNYW-TV reported that Tammy Waters, a resident of the Queensbridge public housing development, was one among roughly 6,000 NYCHA residents who had to compete with 8,000 illegal aliens for meals inside the Jacob Riis Neighborhood Settlement.
Waters counted her blessings as she was ultimately able to obtain food, noting, “I’m very thankful.”
“Everyone looks out for each other, which I love,” said Waters. “I don’t know about [the] immigrants too much. I don’t know.”
Extra to competition over Thanksgiving meals, there is similarly a glut of demand on the mobile food pantries that come by weekly. Fights have already begun to break out between citizens and immigrants in the food lines.
WNYW noted New York City Councilmember Julie Won, who organized the Thanksgiving meal giveaway, had to intervene when a vicious battle unfolded at a food pantry last month, sending one individual to the hospital.
“Right here, you have the largest population of public housing in a single unit of the whole country who are living 200% below the poverty line,” said Won. “People are going hungry right now. People are frustrated with not having enough to eat.”
“Why do we have to take the butt of everything?” asked Georgia Butler, a resident of Queensbridge Houses. “This community is already suffering.”
Won indicated much of her city council office’s funding goes toward addressing food insecurity remedies. Food assistance once designated for those who can’t work, specifically senior citizens in the area, now also extends to the multitudes of foreign nationals who have stolen into the country.
“We would never turn anyone away for a meal, but there simply is just not enough for the NYCHA residents and the migrant shelter residents,” said Won.
NYC’s beleaguerment by immigrants has not only taken food out of the mouths of poor citizens and filled homeless shelters but has depleted resources and threatened the efficacy of essential services across the board.
Blaze News recently reported that Democratic NYC Mayor Eric Adams has announced immediate deep budget cuts to the NYPD, education, libraries, and various other services.
The police force is being cut down by 3,000 officers, which former NYC police union president Patrick Hendry suggested was “truly a disaster for every New Yorker who cares about safe streets.”
The New York Fire Department was similarly impacted, having its overtime limited.
According to the city, the migrant crisis is set to cost nearly $11 billion over two fiscal years and has already cost NYC $1.45 billion this fiscal year.
Adams, desperate for support from the Biden administration, said in a statement, “No city should be left to handle a national humanitarian crisis largely on its own, and without the significant and timely support we need from Washington, D.C., today’s budget will be only the beginning.”
Won indicated these budget cuts could exacerbate the issue of feeding both NYCHA residents and foreign nationals.
“People are going hungry right now. … People are frustrated with not having enough to eat, not having heat and hot water in their shelters or in their houses in NYCHA,” said Won. “People want to make sure they just have their basic needs met like any human would anywhere, and that’s what’s causing the tension.”
Growing tensions between migrants, NYCHA residents
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