Mayor Zohran Mamdani plans on spending another $1.2 billion next year on migrants arriving in the Big Apple, according to his preliminary budget proposal — and the combined price tag for the crisis is set to exceed $10 billion over the last half decade.

Mamdani’s fiscal year 2027 budget plan released Tuesday notes that the number of asylum seekers under the city’s care has nearly halved from 68,660 at its peak in January 2024 to 30,813 last month.

The cost of emergency city-run shelters contributed to the bulk of the expense, and Mamdani’s first financial plan notes he wants to phase them out entirely.

“As of February 2026, there is only one remaining emergency shelter site being operated outside of the DHS system, exclusively serving single adults,” Mamdani’s budget plan notes.

The city spent a massive $3.75 billion on migrants in the fiscal year 2024 budget at the height of the crisis, and $8.11 billion between the 2023 and 2025 fiscal years.

The city estimates it will spend around $1.47 billion in the 2026 fiscal year, which ends June 30.

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Gov. Kathy Hochul and state lawmakers have chipped in funding to cover $3.9 billion of migrant-related expenses.

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