New York City taxpayers have spent $308 million on migrants since July 1 — bringing the total tab for the ongoing immigration crisis to nearly $5.5 billion, according to new numbers released by the city Thursday.
The figures — which were updated by the Adams administration to include spending since the start of this fiscal year — are hundreds of millions of dollars more than the $5 billion dollar price tab included in earlier city tallies first reported by the Post Tuesday.
In addition to the spending since July, the asylum-seeker funding tracker also adjusted the spending from the prior two fiscal years combined from $4.88 billion to nearly $5.2 billion — for a total of totalling $5.46 billion over the duration of the crisis.
New York City’s spending on the migrant crisis keeps on growing– including $308 million since July 1 — bringing the total tab to nearly $5.5 billion. Robert Miller
The spending since July includes $112 million on housing/shelter, $137 million for social services and supplies, $29 million on IT and administrative costs, $23 million for food and
$7 million for health care.
Meanwhile, state Comptroller Tom DiNapoli issued a report Thursday saying the migrant crisis