Migrant protest after ending debit card food stamps
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This sounds like a fake bot video.. I wish it were true, but I think this is a bot---
It wasn’t the Biden administration. It was New York City.
Posted Nov. 7, 2024
NEW YORK CITY (WABC) -- New York City has announced it will no longer issue vouchers to migrants to pay for food, ending a controversial program that had repeatedly come under attack by conservatives and others.
"As we move towards more competitive contracting for asylum seeker programs, we have chosen not to renew the emergency contract for this pilot program once the one-year term concludes," Mayor Eric Adams's Office said in a statement.
The pilot program distributed debit cards to migrant families staying in city-funded hotels, allowing them to buy their own food.
While the program was characterized by some as an additional expense, it was initially conceived as a way to save money by no longer buying food the asylum seekers did not want to eat. The city estimates it cost half as much as the boxed-meal delivery service it replaced.
Since late March, the city has provided prepaid debit cards totaling $3.2 million to some 2,600 migrant families living in hotels so that they can buy food and baby supplies.
https://abc7ny.com/post/new-york-city-ending-voucher-program-allowed-migrant-families-buy-own-food/15523750/
Don't know.
I think it’s just a text to speech voice, very well could be true.
Bunch of these on youtube. Yes its a bot reading text.