New York City Mayor Eric Adams (D) has announced that a program to provide prepaid debit cards to thousands of illegal aliens will soon come to a close.At the start of the year, the city began implementing the pilot program, which provided prepaid debit cards to a fraction of the estimated 60,000 migrants living in its shelters.'A total amount not to exceed $53 [million] … in accordance with the scope of services and fees.'City officials initially defended the program, claiming it would cut costs in comparison to the boxed-meal service migrants had been receiving and permitted migrants to purchase food that they prefer or that better suited their dietary restrictions. It also allowed them to buy baby supplies as needed.The amount migrants have received varies, but a family of four with two young children has typically received about $350 per week. Since the program began, about 2,600 migrants living at the Roosevelt Hotel have been given a total of about $3.2 million, a figure that officials believe is about half the cost of the boxed-meal service.However, critics raised red flags about the program almost from the moment it came to light. For one thing, it is unclear whether the purchases made on the cards have ever been monitored. While the cards reportedly work only at grocery stores, convenience stores, and bodegas, they may still have been spent on items unrelated to food and other necessities, though recipients were required to sign an affidavit promising to use them only for their intended purpose. Moreover, such prepaid debit cards have not been offered to the homeless and other poor American citizens living in the city, prompting New York Council member Joseph Borelli to describe the program as "fundamentally unfair." He and other Republicans on the council argued that the debit cards incentivized more illegal aliens to relocate to NYC.Though it was billed as a cost-saving measure, the program also came as the result of a one-year, "emergency," no-bid contract with New Jersey-based tech startup Mobility Capital Finance. The truncated process meant no competing offers and little time for thorough consideration.City Comptroller Brad Lander has since revoked the city's ability to enter into such emergency, no-bid contracts for services for migrants.The overall cost of the program has also been obscured. While some reports indicate that MoCaFi receives only $400,000 for its services, the New York Post claimed back in February that the contract itself showed MoCaFi would receive "a total amount not to exceed $53 [million] ... in accordance with the scope of services and fees" and that the $53 million sum did NOT include the money loaded onto the debit cards.Despite these concerns, the city council announced in July that it would expand the program. Now, with the contract about to expire at the end of the year, Adams has reversed course and decided not to renew it."As we move towards more competitive contracting for asylum seeker programs, we have chosen not to renew the emergency contract for this pilot program once the one-year term concludes," Adams said in a statement, WABC-TV reported Thursday.Adams did not explain further why the program had been nixed. However, City Hall spokesperson William Fowler insisted that concerns about possible waste, fraud, and abuse never came to pass, Gothamist reported."We will continue to implement and learn from innovative pilot programs like the immediate response cards program as we care for hundreds of new arrivals every week," Fowler said.The announcement regarding the demise of the program comes just days after former President Donald Trump, who campaigned heavily on securing the border and deporting the millions of illegal immigrants who entered the country under the Biden-Harris administration, decisively beat Democrat Vice President Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential election.Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

The women of "The View" have secured a coveted spot in history after being unable to control their TDS-fueled reaction to Trump’s win while live on air. “In Finland, kids in nursery school are learning to discern between fake news and real news. They should be teaching that in this country. Teach children tolerance, teach them to think critically,” Joy Behar told the panel, following Trump’s landslide win. Then, panelist Sara Haines took that comment to what Dave Rubin of “The Rubin Report” called “banana’s town.” “Well, it would help if we could regulate social media, ‘cause one of the biggest offenders is D.C. and Congress have not been able to do one thing in regards to the rogue corporations with social media,” Haines said. “If only social media would have been regulated, this wouldn’t have happened,” Rubin comments, shocked by her admission. “It’s you guys, it's the mainstream media and the machine that has pushed all of the misinformation on us.” However, Rubin doesn’t believe Haines had the craziest comment of the night — which was saved for Sunny Hostin. “I’m profoundly disturbed,” Hostin began. “I think if you look at the New York Times this morning the headline was ‘America Makes a Perilous Choice.’ I think that in 2016, we didn’t know what we would get from a Trump administration, but we know now.” “We know now that he will have almost unfettered power, and so I worry not about myself actually, I don’t worry about my station in life, I worry about the working class, I worry about my mother, a retired teacher, I worry about our elderly and their social security and their medical care, I worry about my children’s future — especially my daughter, who now has less rights than I have,” Hostin continued. The fearmongerer went on to explain that she now has “less civil rights” than she did before and that she is “profoundly disturbed that the 14th Amendment of the Constitution did not prevent someone who participated in an insurrection from becoming president of the United States.” Of her other concerns, Hostin listed “mass deportation and internment camps.” “As a woman of color, I was so hopeful that a mixed-race woman married to a Jewish guy could be elected president of this country, and I think that it had nothing to do with policy, I think this was a referendum of cultural resentment in this country,” she explained. “What we did not have is white women, who voted about 52% for Donald Trump. Uneducated white women is my understanding,” she continued, adding, “So why do you think that uneducated white women voted against their reproductive health freedoms? And why do you think Latino men voted for someone who is going to deport them?” “I don’t think white women like being called uneducated white women,” Alyssa Farah, the only sane one, fired back. “When you put people in these boxes, I think that’s a takeaway from this race.” Want more from Dave Rubin?To enjoy more honest conversations, free speech, and big ideas with Dave Rubin, subscribe to BlazeTV — the largest multi-platform network of voices who love America, defend the Constitution, and live the American dream.

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Five starfish in a highly elaborate ritual deposit at the Toltec site of Tula have been found – an exhibition of how central the ocean and its creatures were to the economy, religion, and artistic practices of pre-Hispanic times. Subject of a recent study, specialists and archaeologists alike focused on a group of calcareous plates discovered in the 1990s, found in a ritual deposit at the Burned Palace structure. They’ve been dated to between 950 and 1000 AD. The Tula Archaeological Zone in Hidalgo is under investigation by specialists from Mexico’s National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) and the Institute of Marine Sciences and Limnology (ICML) at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. The aforementioned calcareous plates (which are the bony structures made of calcium carbonate that form the skeleton of many marine invertebrates) have long been suspected to be remains of echinoderms - a variety of marine species that include sea stars, sea cucumbers, brittle stars, and urchins. These finds have been published in the latest edition of Mexican Archaeology (Arquelogica Mexica). Biggest Aztec Starfish Altar Ever, Found in Templo Mayor, Mexico City! Toltecs: Fierce Warriors Who Changed the Face of Mesoamerica for Good Read moreSection: ArtifactsOther ArtifactsNewsHistory & ArchaeologyAncient PlacesAmericasRead Later 

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