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In recent months, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida, along with other elected officials in border states, have used taxpayer dollars to send migrants from their states to New York and other cities such as Washington, D.C. and Chicago. More than 22,000 new asylum seekers have been processed through New York City’s intake system since April, with nearly 17,000 of them currently residing in city shelters and emergency centers, according to the Adams administration.
Since 2015, the brothers have given more than $350,000 in support of Abbott and Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick of Texas, according to campaign finance data. The brothers and their company have also contributed $55,000 in support of DeSantis over the past two years. No Democrats appear in the brothers’ list of campaign contributions during that time.
“I think that Governor Abbott, what he’s doing, is just so inhumane,” Adams told reporters in August after migrants began arriving in the city this past summer. City finance records show SLSCO has been paid more than $700 million for a number of past contracts dating as far back as 2016, including on-call disaster recovery, debris removal, and the construction of new homes under the city’s Build It Back program following Hurricane Sandy.
Hanif has questioned the Adams administration before about its use of SLSCO to provide services to migrants in light of the firm’s border wall contract.
Ugh.
A Texas company that’s done work in NYC going back more than 10 years. Not many vendors do this work. If there is fraud it’s between the lobbyists here in NYC that helped them win the contract. Did the state or the city do an open bidding process?
I believe the expression you're looking for is: knowing which side of one's bread is buttered.