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New data shows illegals in New York are being paid more on SNAP food stamps than American citizens

Illegals receive 65% more money for food than American citizens

“The average American on SNAP and EBT gets about $7.59 per person per day to buy food. But the city of New York was handing out prepaid food debit cards to recently arrived migrants, many of whom were here without legal status, worth about $12.52 per person per day.

That means migrants in New York City shelters were receiving 65% more in daily food benefits than American families trying to get by in the exact same city.”

“The city doesn't even give an extra food card for struggling citizens, to seniors on fixed incomes, to homeless veterans sleeping on the same streets. But show up yesterday without documentation, and you're prioritized.

This isn't about compassion, it's about political choices. And those choices are telling you exactly where American citizens land on the priority list, which is dead last.”

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Migrants’ Monthly Payments Are Higher Than New Yorkers’ SNAP Benefits

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Feb 05, 2024 at 03:11 PM EST
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Feb 06, 2024 at 02:04 PM EST



People attend a dinner for asylum seeker families at Romemu Center in New York City on June 27, 2023. Five hundred migrant families in New York City w...Read More | Leonardo Munoz/Getty Images/Getty Images

By Katherine Fung Senior Writer

Hundreds of migrant families in New York City will be getting more food money than the city's low-income residents do from Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits.
The city is launching a new pilot program that will hand out pre-paid debit cards to 500 migrant families with children, Mayor Eric Adams announced on Monday. The mayor's office told Newsweek the program allots about $12.52 per card each day, giving each recipient roughly $350 a month to spend on food and baby supplies—a figure more than the maximum allotment that low-income New Yorkers receive in SNAP benefits.
Single households in New York are eligible to receive up to $291 a month, according to the state's website. SNAP benefits give "low-income working people, senior citizens, the disabled and others" money to purchase food products and do not apply to alcohol, cigarettes, tobacco, nonfood items like household supplies, foods eaten in stores and hot foods. Adams' office said that those low-income New Yorkers typically also qualify for other food assistance, like restaurant and shelter programs, while asylum seekers do not.
Like SNAP, the new cards being distributed to migrant families also have restrictions. Use is limited exclusively to local bodegas, grocery stores, supermarkets, and convenience stores to ensure that city funds are going to food and baby supplies. The mayor's office has stressed that the cards will act similarly to SNAP benefits and Electronic Benefits Transfer (EBT) cards and that the program is a "cost saving measure" that will save the city $600,000 a month.

"All families involved will be required to sign an affidavit affirming that they will be using these cards for the intended purposes, and anyone who violates the terms risk being removed from the pilot program," the mayor's office told Newsweek in a statement.
"We need to dispel the rumor that we gave American Express cards to everyone," Adams said during a Monday press conference. "That is just not true."
Adams called the plan "brilliant," arguing it was a "cheaper, more efficient way" to get resources to migrants because it would eliminate the delivery costs associated with providing food for asylum seekers, reduce food waste in situations where food aid recipients do not like the meals provided and put money back into the local economy.
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"We are required to provide food and baby supplies to migrants, the only difference here is we're asking them to buy it themselves as opposed to being delivered to their door," a spokesperson for Adam's office told Newsweek.

New York City has been scrambling to find a way to accommodate the influx of migrants who have arrived in the city over the last year. According to the city's Department of Social Services, more than 156,600 migrants arrived in New York City between spring 2022 through December 2023.



People attend a dinner for asylum seeker families at Romemu Center in New York City on June 27, 2023. Five hundred migrant families in New York City w...Read More | Leonardo Munoz/Getty Images/Getty Images

Adams has warned that the migrant crisis could "destroy New York City" and cautioned that the nation's largest city is at a "breaking point." The mayor has also received backlash for his handling of the immigration issue, facing disapproval over his decisions to house migrants at various hotels in the city and to relocate some of them to a Brooklyn high school ahead of a winter storm, among other things.

The city's most recent idea, which is estimated to save the city more than $7.2 million annually, has been another point of contention for Adams. News of the program sparked fresh criticism for the mayor, with even rapper 50 Cent weighing in on the plan.
"WTF mayor Adams call my phone, I don't understand how this works. Somebody explain," 50 Cent said in an Instagram post.
Adams responded to him during Monday's press conference, saying, "I've told 50 Cent to hit me up. I would love to explain it to him so that he can go out and do another tweet of saying, 'You know what? Eric is just a smart manager and now we understand why he was elected by the city of New York to be the mayor. He may even write a song about me."

Update 02/02/24 1:55 p.m. This story was updated to clarify that low-income residents in New York can qualify for other food assistance programs.

Migrants’ Monthly Payments Are Higher Than New Yorkers’ SNAP Benefits - Newsweek

The Fall of New York City in 8 Charts

The Fall of New York City in 8 Charts

Saturday, November 8, 2025 22:01

How did an Islamist socialist who posed with an unindicted terror bombing coconspirator become elected to head a city of terror survivors, the “most Jewish city in America” and how did he defeat an Italian-American political dynasty in what was once an Italian-American city?
Because that New York City, the one people imagine from movies, no longer exists.
In 1989, the last year of Mayor Ed Koch’s administration, Jews outnumbered Muslims roughly 4 to 1. By 2013, the last year of Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s administration, the number of Muslims had doubled and the number of Jews continued to drop.

And by the time Zohran Mamdani beat Andrew Cuomo, there were more Muslims than Italian Americans in NYC.

So much for New York City being the “most Jewish city” in America. Or “Italian city”. Like so many European cities, it’s been redefined by waves of Muslim mass migration.
There wasn’t an Irish candidate in the race because the number of Irish-Americans in what is considered “one of the most Irish city in America” long ago dropped below that of Muslims.

Never mind the Polish population represented by Curtis Sliwa which is even smaller.
New York City’s old ‘ethnic’ working class population is gone. Much of it fled the chaos and violence of the 1970s and 1980s. By the time Mayor Rudy Giuliani restored order by cracking down on crime, they didn’t come back. Instead they were replaced by college students, hipsters and third world immigrants who not only voted for Democrats, but for the far Left.
5 million residents were born outside New York City. Less than 4 million were born in the city.

While New Yorkers went for Cuomo, 50% to 38% for Mamdani, those who had lived in the city for 10 years or less went for Mamdani by 82% to 16%.
This reflects both external mass immigration but internal migration from other parts of the country. Another way to measure the foreign population in New York City is to look at the proportion of those to whom English is a second language. The number of non-English speakers has been steadily rising since 1990 and the number of English speakers declined from 63% to 52%.
It’s now almost even.
Much of New York City no longer even speaks English. That’s why Mamdani could campaign in Arabic.

While a lot of parts of the country, including Florida, complain about New Yorkers moving there, New Yorkers (while they still existed in NYC) complained about non-New Yorkers moving to the city.
This internal migration by non-New Yorkers sent prices soaring and fundamentally altered the character of the city from a tough working class and middle class city to a hipster paradise.
The college students who moved to the city and got jobs here were less likely to get married and form families leading to Manhattan becoming one of the largest (and certainly the densest) reservoirs of singles in the country. Combined with the growth in ‘single parent’ households among minority groups, the New York City of families has disappeared.

A majority of households in New York City are single now. The number of families continues to drop. While exit polls didn’t ask about marital status, single people tend to vote more liberal.
Pre-election polls showed Mamdani winning over only 16% of Jews, 28% among Catholics and 36% among Protestants. The only ‘religious’ group Mamdani performed were “Other” which presumably were boosted by his Muslim voter base. How does a politician lose religious people by decisive numbers and yet win a mayoral election? Religion has been declining as well. Especially among white New Yorkers.
The religiously affiliated are still a majority, but the numbers of the religiously unaffiliated have been rising sharply. Among those 45 years old and younger, the group that Mamdani won, the gap is 60% to 40%. The gap is narrower still, 55% to 45%, among those under 30, and among those under 25 years old, it’s split evenly. Among white New Yorkers, a majority are unaffiliated.
These were some of Mamdani’s best voters.

Paradoxically (or not so paradoxically) the lack of real religiosity among New York City’s Christian and Jewish populations is part of the reason why an Islamist won the mayoralty.
Mamdani’s defeat of Andrew Cuomo, Curtis Sliwa and Eric Adams, all personalities dating back to an older New York City, the city of the 80s and 90s, marked the defeat of old New York City by a ‘new’ New York City. This city has no character, no tradition and no roots. It’s interchangeable with every upscale gentrified city in America and all across Europe.
This Neo-New York could just as easily be London or Toronto. It has no past and no future. Like Mamdani, it’s not part of America, and is open to being colonized by any group with organization, determination and a mission. What was done to London is happening to New York City. It’s futile to ask why New Yorkers are letting this happen, like me, they no longer live there.

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The Fall of New York City in 8 Charts