New York’s migrant crisis could cost each of the state’s 10.7 million taxpayers an average of $215, according to a recent analysis by the campaign of GOP state Senate candidate Gina Arena, The New York Post reports. The report estimates the state needs some $2.3 billion to house and care for the influx of asylum seekers.

Arena, who is running against incumbent Democrat Sen. Pete Harckham in NY-40, which encompasses parts of Rockland, Westchester, and Putnam counties, said “It’s time to wake up to what we’re doing to taxpayers.”

Arena said the spending is straining taxpayer resources. “At this point we’re paying members of Venezuelan gangs – in tax dollars – to turn Times Square into a criminal zone. That’s how messed up New York has become under one-party progressive rule,” she said.

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