Mayor’s Reticketing Program has Resettled 50% of Migrants Elsewhere

By Yehudit Garmaise

After City Hall created for migrants a “reticketing center” for migrants, in which, asylum-seekers are offered free, one-way tickets to anywhere in the world. 

After arriving in NYC, and “reality sets in,” some migrants actually want to go back to their current countries of origin because they realize that when you come to New York, you are not automatically staying in a five-star hotel and given a job.”

“We give migrants the option: ‘Do you want to go somewhere else?”

One in four migrants usually take it and leave the next morning, one city hall official said.

In addition, some migrants relocated on their own, said mayor, who emphasized the administration has helped more 50% of migrants to move on and become self-sustaining.

“With their $200 tickets, “other asylum-seekers have loved ones and family members across the country to go to for support, so taxpayers are not paying that same amount every night to take care of migrants.”

Mayor Adams called the idea to give migrants free tickets out a “win-win, in which migrants get to go where they want, and taxpayers are not picking up the tab.

When asked whether the 136,000 migrants who have recently arrived will contribute to the city’s street homelessness, Mayor Adams said that his job is “not to deter [migrants,] but his goal is to manage a situation that has been dropped in our laps for more than a year.”

The mayor said most New Yorkers have not yet seen the “visual crisis” of the city’s overpopulation, he added, “We are no longer at that point.

“When we give you 30 days, that means that you should be thinking about what you want to do at the end of those 30 days. 

“You can’t come to the city and expect that for as long as you want.

“Many New Yorkers join me in saying that this migrant crisis is not fair to taxpayers, nor migrants.”

“The migrant crisis will not end unless the federal government takes action,” said the mayor.