NYC pays airfare to send some migrants back to Colombia and Peru: report

Mayor Eric Adams administration purchased plane tickets to send migrants back to Florida and Texas — the very states he has focused his ire on for shipping the asylum seekers here, records show.

The documents — obtained by Politico’s New York bureau — show that City Hall shelled out roughly $50,000 between April 2022 and April 2023 to resettle 114 of the recent arrivals outside of the five boroughs, including some who went back to South America and China.

The Post previously revealed that City Hall was paying companies to provide “re-ticketing” services to migrants, allowing them to leave New York and continue on to their final destination.

The two most common destinations for those resettlements were the Sunshine and Lone Star states.

Roughly a quarter of those resettled — 28 — opted for Florida; while another 14 picked Texas, according to Politico’s analysis. Several more opted to return back to South America, with four picking Colombia, two heading to Peru and one person opted for China, records show.

“The Texas governor chartered buses to New York City and placed asylum seekers, many of whom did NOT want to come here, on multi-day journeys without food, limited water, few bathroom breaks, and no medical attention,” said City Hall spokeswoman Kate Smart.

“New York City has, as we have discussed very publicly for months, worked to connect individuals with friends, family, and networks whether in New York City or outside of it,” she added. “We are not coercing people to leave, we are not suggesting or recommending locations, and we are not presenting any kind of false choice.“

The 114 migrants represent just a tiny fraction of the nearly 79,000 asylum seekers who have arrived in New York City since the start of the surge from the southern border last year.

More than half of the migrants are living in the Big Apple’s scandal-scarred homeless shelter system or in emergency facilities set up by the city’s public hospitals corporation.

All told, nearly 100,000 people are living in the care of the city in June, figures show, which is twice the number of last year.

“He has no choice and they have no choice at this point,” said Councilman Ari Kagan (R-Brooklyn). “It’s an unbearable situation for how long. We cannot pay for all of this. Everybody knows this.”

Adams and other Democrats in New York City have repeatedly accused Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis of playing politics by shipping asylum seekers northward — and, in the process, frequently misleading the arrivals about their final destination, the resources available in New York City and even failing to provide sufficient food and water for the journey.

The mayor has also hammered fellow Democrat, President Biden, for failing to provide additional funding to New York to help pick up the cost of housing and social service for the recent arrivals, which City Hall pegs at more than $4 billion for 2023 and 2024.

So far, the feds have coughed up roughly $100 million.