States are spending billions on resources for migrants – NewsNation

Massachusetts has a dozen contracts totaling $116 million for housing. New York City is spending $53 million on a pilot program to distribute prepaid debit cards to migrant families meant to help them buy food and baby supplies.  And in Illinois, Gov. JB Pritzker has proposed in his new budget an additional $182 million for migrants that comes on top of $638 million already spent.