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Grass8989 t1_j6xz0ug wrote

Reply to comment by photochic1124 in NYPD Sweeps Migrants from Manhattan Hotel Following Days of Protest by drpvn

They’re essentially being provided with that now, do we keep putting them up in hotels and providing them with 3 meals a day and medical care for 4 years while the asylum courts go through their back log?

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External-Ad-5332 t1_j7ggm1p wrote

And their kids attend public school as well! That Americans have paid for.

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photochic1124 t1_j6y0dm7 wrote

This is a temporary solution to a long term problem and to be clear I'm not saying we should be bleeding money in to this sitation. We are technically sheltering the homeless. Because they happen to be asylum seekers, everyone just looks at it as "giving handouts to illegals."

I'm talking about the mainstream belief that "illegals" can just get on medicaid and food stamps and cash benefits, etc when they literally cannot do that.

If we as a society actually wanted to fix this problem, we would work on housing our local homeless population and fixing the very broken immigration system, freeing up space and resources so we weren't faced with this crises to begin with. But we choose not to do that.

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Flivver_King t1_j71n335 wrote

> This is a temporary solution to a long term problem and to be clear I'm not saying we should be bleeding money in to this sitation.

Nothing is more permanent than a temporary solution.

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