"Where did all of Biden's illegal's go?"

"Sanctuary cities like New York provide only part of the answer"

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"In New York City, if the newcomers aren't put up at the luxury cruise
terminal that served the QE2, they could get $700-a-night midtown hotel
accommodations with iconic Manhattan views. In Chicago, they found
themselves whisked to suburban lodgings. In Denver, officials refer to
them discreetly as �guests� and you needn�t bother inquiring about their
inns or addresses.

The people enjoying these free digs aren�t privacy-conscious jet-setters,
but the secrecy surrounding them might be comparable: They�re some of the
millions of migrants who have illegally crossed into the U.S. since the
Biden administration relaxed most border controls.

No one knows exactly how many people have poured across the southwestern
U.S. border since President Biden took office, or where they�ve gone
since. The official number of encounters by Customs and Border Patrol
stands at 5.2 million people, logged over the last two full federal
fiscal years and fiscal 2023 through March. But that number is imprecise
because it includes repeat encounters with the same people and omits the
many who slipped into the country unnoticed by border agents.

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Under President Biden, the U.S. smashed past the 200,000 monthly
encounters mark for the first time in July 2021 and it has repeatedly
topped that record in the months since. By comparison, in fiscal 2020,
which ended a month before Biden�s defeat of President Trump, the U.S.
averaged 38,174 monthly encounters at the border, according to CBP
figures.

Because of an official lack of transparency, all those people and the
circumstances by which they have arrived and remained have made it hard
to take stock of the historic influx. Through midnight flights and buses
from the border to far-flung locales, the administration has made it
difficult to identify where the migrants are now living and receiving
services. Also unclear are the costs associated with the arrivals.

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But flares have been sent up � especially over immigrant sanctuary cities
like New York, Denver and Chicago, which have long promised to house
migrants. While those cities are providing housing and other services for
a small fraction of the recent migrants, the costs are significant for
these budget-strapped metropolises.

Denver plans to spend $20 million in the first six months of this year to
provide housing to migrants. Officials say this works out to between $800
and $1,000 per week per person.

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In January the state of Illinois turned down Chicago�s request for more
funds, saying it had already spent close to $120 million on its �asylum
seeker emergency response� � or roughly $33,000 per migrant.

New York City Mayor Eric Adams has asked for more than $500 million in
federal aid, while pegging the city�s spending at between $2 billion and
$3 billion.

Other data points of the opaque costs of Biden-era illegal immigration
include Massachusetts� estimate that it will need $28 million to launch a
program to provide driver�s licenses to undocumented residents. The state
is seeking a share of the omnibus spending bill passed by Democrats in
December 2022 when they controlled both houses of Congress, which
included $800 million for cities grappling with the influx.

These numbers are incomplete in part because it is hard to separate the
added cost of recent migrants from costs for the millions of undocumented
immigrants who were in the country before the recent surge.

A March study by the conservative Federation for American Immigration
Reform estimates that, after accounting for taxes paid by undocumented
migrants, they cost taxpayers over $150 billion per year � a 30% increase
since 2017.

Yet FAIR acknowledges the problem of fixing costs has become more
difficult, given the record-breaking numbers of illegal crossers in the
past two and a half years and efforts by some government agencies to mask
their spending.

�We often had to grapple with a paucity of easily accessible official
data,� the report notes. �Many state and federal entities do not publish
detailed data that they collect, making it difficult to reliably separate
illegal aliens from citizens of lawful immigrants. We have also
encountered cases where the current administration has revoked or
restricted documents published by previous administrations in order to
reduce the visibility of data which shines a negative light on their
immigration policy agenda.�

Those totals also involve far more than simple food and board. To arrive
at its staggering sum, FAIR includes estimates of the costs in education,
health care and law enforcement.

�The irony is not only are these sanctuary jurisdictions turning to
Washington with their hands out, but that they still refuse to join with
governors like Greg Abbott and Ron DeSantis in demanding that the federal
government take decisive steps to stanch the influx of new migrants,�
FAIR spokesman Ira Mehlman told RealClearInvestigations, referring to the
Republican chief executives of Texas and Florida, respectively. �The
obvious hypocrisy of declaring yourself a sanctuary jurisdiction while
complaining about the costs and burdens associated with it are
undeniable.�

Groups that favor more relaxed border security measures, such as the
Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights and the American Immigration
Council, did not respond to RCI�s request for comment; the liberal
Brookings Institution declined to comment.

Cities housing many migrants have a hard time estimating costs. New York
Mayor Adams has asked for more than $500 million in federal aid, while
pegging the city�s spending one time at $2 billion and another time at $3
billion. Those are the sorts of bills New York has racked up putting what
they call �asylum seekers� or �migrants� in hotels.

And Adams, whose requests sometimes include the claim �we are all in this
together,� wants to spend even more. This month, he floated the idea of
paying college tuition for illegal immigrants if they attend New York
state schools outside the city.

Using Adams� own number of some 40,000 illegal immigrants that New York
City has foot the bills for, it means taxpayers are spending roughly
$150,000 per person to host new arrivals. In March, City Hall scaled back
its count of the number of its immigrants to 12,700, which meant the
taxpayers� were spending nearly $5 million a day to take care of them,
according to a New York Post analysis.

The Office of the New York City Public Advocate, which helps immigrants
navigate the benefits available to them, did not respond to multiple
requests for comment. A spokeswoman for Adams declined to address
questions about spending, pointing instead to various links the city
maintains for immigrants and noting the city has expanded a New York
County Supreme Court decision in 1981 regarding shelter for homeless
people to cover immigrants.

Whatever the current official number of illegal immigrants New York is
dealing with it is but a fraction of those that have poured into various
Texas communities along the border.

Officials at El Paso�s City Hall, one of the ground zeroes in the illegal
immigration crush, did not respond to phone calls and emails seeking
comment on its spending. But Gov. Abbott said his Operation Lone Star,
launched in March 2021, has �allocated more than $4 billion to do the
federal government�s job and secure the border,� Abbott�s spokesman
Andrew Mahaleris said.

It was Abbott who began busing illegal immigrants to some of the
sanctuary cities that declare themselves so welcoming, such as New York,
Denver and Chicago.

�Texas began busing migrants to sanctuary cities last April to provide
relief to our overrun and overwhelmed border communities,� Mahaleris
said. �Mayors Adams, [Muriel] Bowser and [Lori] Lightfoot were all too
happy to tout their sanctuary city statuses until Texas bused over 16,900
migrants, collectively, to their self-declared sanctuary. Instead of
complaining about dealing with a fraction of the border crisis Texas
communities see every day, these hypocrites should call on President
Biden to take immediate action to secure the border � something the
president continues failing to do.�

Lightfoot, departing as mayor of Chicago after her defeat in February,
first turned to Illinois for millions to help the Windy City cope with
its several thousand illegal immigrants Texas provided. In January,
however, the state turned her down, saying it had already spent close to
$120 million on its �asylum seeker emergency response.�

That response came last September when Illinois Democratic Gov. J.B.
Pritzker issued an �emergency disaster proclamation.� His proclamation
and the words of other state leaders presented a schizophrenic picture in
which they portray Illinois as a �welcoming beacon of hope� and complain
they weren�t given �official advance warning.�

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