Welcome back to the Ten Blocks podcast. This is Brian Anderson, the editor of City Journal.

Joining me on today's

show is Daniel Di Martino. He's a graduate fellow at the Manhattan Institute, where he researches

immigration policy, and he's a PhD student in economics at Columbia University. He's also the founder

of the Dissident Project, which seeks to educate young Americans about the failure of socialist

regimes worldwide.

Daniel, thanks very much for joining us on 10 blocks.

Thank you for having me, Brian.

New York City is facing, as most of our listeners probably know, a migration crisis.

So Mayor Eric Adams recently traveled to D.C.,

Washington, D.C. to request billions more in federal aid to help deal with 40,000-plus migrants

who have come to the city since last spring. Because city law guarantees people a right to shelter, the New York City government has

had to provide housing for these newcomers, many of whom don't have friends or family

whom they can stay with in the city. But the available shelter capacity has been overwhelmed.

It was overwhelmed quite rapidly. And the situation seems to be pretty dire. Is that your reading of it? Yes. It is true because of the numbers

and the fact that most of the migrants that have been arriving to New York City are, as you say, people

who have no other contacts in the United States. So they really have no other choice than

to live in a shelter at the beginning. Now, people have been, some of these migrants have

been put up in three-star hotels with government, the government

picking up the tab. In a piece that you've written for a city journal that's forthcoming,

you point out a kind of inversion of priorities. So New York City makes it easy for illegal

immigrants to live off of government, LaGse, but hard for them to find work

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