Only 2%(LESS THAN 2%) of the 140K migrants who have come to NYC have applied for work permits.
(They didn’t come to America to work … they came for the free shit that the Democrats promise to losers to vote Democrat.)
Only about 2% of the tens of thousands of migrants who have poured into the Big Apple since the asylum seeker crisis started have actually applied for work authorization through the city, the latest data shows.
Roughly 3,200 asylum seekers in New York City have filed the required paperwork needed to start earning a legal paycheck — some 18 months after the relentless migrant influx first began, according to figures provided by City Hall.
1,495 of those work authorization applications have been filed through the city’s Asylum Application Help Center since the facility opened back in June, the figures show.
Meanwhile, another 1,700 work applications were submitted last month when the Biden administration sent Department of Homeland Security staffers to Gotham for a two-week stretch to help speed through the bureaucratic process.
It isn’t clear how many of them, if any, have since been granted approval.
Still, it’s just about a 2% fraction of the 139,500 asylum seekers who have come through the city’s intake system since spring 2022 — though that number also accounts for migrants who aren’t eligible to work, including children.
Others may have applied for approval to earn a paycheck in the US through non-profits or on their own, but that data wasn’t immediately known.
“New York City is not the only entity helping migrants with their applications,” a City Hall spokesperson said. “We welcome the support of so many partners in helping asylum seekers take the next step in their journeys.”
While the city knows there are more than 42,000 adult migrants in its care, the number who are actually work-eligible is a mystery because the city, state or feds haven’t been fully tracking the asylum seekers after they cross the border.
Currently, there are 65,500 asylum seekers being put up in the more than 200 Big Apple-run shelter sites scattered across the five boroughs.
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