New York City is offering plane tickets out of the city as it seeks to get out of an enormous migrants crisis that has overwhelmed its shelter system.
New York City is offering one-way plane tickets to migrants who have arrived in the self-described “sanctuary” city as it struggles to deal with a migrant crisis it says is overwhelming its capacity.
The city is opening a “reticketing center” for migrants, where a spokesperson said the city will “redouble efforts to purchase tickets for migrants” who are seeking to travel elsewhere.
The city has already been helping migrants to travel out of the city for over a year. In June, data from Politico showed that the Big Apple spent approximately $50,000 in a one-year period to resettle dozens of migrants in different parts of the U.S. as well as other countries, including South American nations and even China. But this new center is an additional effort to shift migrants out of the city.
“As we have said repeatedly, with more than 133,400 asylum seekers that have come through our city asking for shelter since the spring of 2022, New York City is far past its breaking point,” a spokesperson said.
