NYC comptroller shockingly says every Big Apple migrant should get a free lawyer — paid for by taxpayers

NY Post ^ | 03/20/2024 | Craig McCarthy, Emily Crane and Carl Campanile

[ChicagoConservative27]

New York City Comptroller Brad Lander has drawn outrage for claiming that giving each of the tens of thousands of migrants pouring into the Big Apple free legal representation could net billions in economic benefits for New York state.

Lander’s office said in a report that coughing up individual lawyers to rep migrants could prevent roughly 53,000 asylum seekers from being deported across the Empire State — resulting in an estimated net benefit of $8.4 billion for local, state and federal governments.

“Access to work authorization leads to higher wages. The higher earning power generates more tax revenue. Higher personal income also benefits the economy through increased consumer spending,” the report said.

[ChicagoConservative27]

Where does this jag bag get that work authorization lead to higher wages and more tax revenue??

[Tell It Right]

According to a lawyer, lawyers should get more taxpayer money.

[stanne]

Well it’s not FREE then

[blackdog]

Think about that while you are waiting for a public defender to show up for your preliminary hearing in lockup?!

[metmom]

Vote democrat and this is what you get.

Hope the leftist are happy now.

[blackdog]

Proof they already spent $454 Million!!! Guess where that is coming from?

[Eleutheria5]

No need for sanitation pick-up, police, firemen, or even comptrollers. Free lawyers for wetbacks!

[EinNYC]

Lander has always been a libtard’s libtard, a real NYC pedigreed pig.

[Red Badger]

Access to work authorization leads to higher wages?

More workers than jobs leads to lower wages................Supply / Demand. It’s a law...............

[higgmeister]

From each according to his ability, to each according to his need, don't you know?

One more slide down the slippery slope.

[Jacquerie]

Cloward-Piven in action.

[bigfootbob]

Harvard

[Alberta's Child]

I agree with this guy … as long as only NYC taxpayers foot the bill.

That place can’t reach the bottom of the barrel of suck fast enough for me.

[gov_bean_ counter]

Yo NY. Let us know when it gets bad enough.

[butlerweave]

Taxpayers from their Home Country

[chopperk]

Please explain the vested interests the American Taxpayer has in lawbreakers?

[Brown Deer]

Are the New York taxpayers paying for Trump’s lawyers?

[Rummyfan]

When does New York run out of other people's money?!

[Tell It Right]

Please explain the vested interests the American Taxpayer has in lawbreakers?

None. Grifters gonna grift. The comptroller saying more work hours should be paid for lawyers would be like Tim Cook saying people need to buy more iPhones -- whether they're needed or not. Except in this case it's not from free market decisions by consumers, but by local govt leaders spending local taxpayer money.

[Dick Bachert]

Where there are democrats there's the same insane BS!