Services Cut Drastically for New York City Taxpayers to Pay for Illegal Immigration Crisis

Published on November 17, 2023

Taxpayers in New York City face sharp cuts to services—including education and policing—because the city has to find ways to fill a massive budget gap due to expenses from the illegal immigration crisis. New York City Mayor Eric Adams on Thursday released a financial plan update for the fiscal year 2024, including a cost-cutting scheme called the “program to eliminate the gap” or PEG that balances the budget at the expense of services—including slashing the number of cops to their lowest level since the 1990s. Mr. Adams, a former New York Police Department (NYPD) captain who was elected on the promise of making city streets safer, said in a video address that the costs of the illegal immigration crisis have put a “great strain” on the city’s budget and that the time has come for serious belt-tightening....

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