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13 October
5:51 pm

You are paying illegal migrants with our taxpayer money eight billion dollars for free food, free housing, free or free cell phone.

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Bruce Blakeman, at New York Governor General Election Debate (Spectrum News)

5:51 pm
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Why we checked itSpecific dollar figure ($8 billion) claimed for taxpayer spending on migrants in New York — a verifiable and politically significant assertion.
What we foundThe $8 billion figure overstates New York State's documented migrant spending under Hochul, conflating or inflating state-level outlays; NYC's city-level crisis spending approaches higher figures but includes costs beyond what the claim describes.
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