Some of the thousands of illegal immigrants in New York City will be heading to the suburbs after the city received less than a tenth of the federal funds it requested from the Biden administration to handle the crisis.

New York City applied for $350 million from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to house and care for thousands of illegal immigrants seeking asylum in the U.S. On Friday, the Biden administration informed the Big Apple that it would send the city $30 million, POLITICO reported.

“Let us be very clear: This is both disappointing and woefully insufficient for a city that has carried the cost of sheltering, feeding, and supporting more than 60,000 asylum-seekers in the last year,” Mayor Eric Adam’s spokesperson Fabien Levy said in a statement. “New Yorkers have stepped up tremendously throughout this crisis and we look forward to working closely with our congressional delegation to remedy this serious mistake.”

On the same day as Biden’s snub, Adams announced that his administration will begin sending illegal immigrants out of New York City to ease the burden the influx of illegal immigrants has placed on the city. Two hotels in Orangeburg and Orange Lake — which are located in Rockland County, New York — will temporarily house 300 single adult males.

Rockland County Supervisor Teresa Kenny said in a Facebook post that Adams called “to notify me of plans to house migrants at a hotel in Orangetown,” according to Fox News.

“I agree that this calls for a Federal, not a local solution … to send these people to a location that is not equipped to meet their needs, is a betrayal of that often-expressed desire by NYC to be a sanctuary for them,” Kenny added.

Adams called out the Biden administration last month, saying that the president’s border policies have turned New York City into a disaster. New York City will spend $4.2 billion to house and care for illegal immigrants by the middle of 2024.

“The city is being destroyed by the migrant crisis,” Adams said.

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The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) earmarked $322 million Friday for communities along the southern border facing the brunt of the border crisis, such as El Paso, Texas, according to POLITICO. DHS said that it will send a second round of funds totaling $360 million to cities beyond the border, which will likely include New York City.

“This first round of funding was focused primarily on the needs of border communities due to the urgencies they are confronting,” the department said in a statement. “Several interior cities also received funding. The City of New York received the most of any interior city by a significant margin given its challenges.”

Illegal immigrants are expected to flood into the U.S. after Title 42, the Trump-era public health order keeping illegal immigrants in Mexico as they wait for asylum claims, ends on May 11.

Through the first six months of fiscal year 2023, which began in October, there have been more than 1.2 million border encounters, according to Customs and Border Protection data. That doesn’t include illegal immigrants who crossed and escaped detection.

There are at least 34,800 illegal immigrants currently being housed in shelters throughout New York City, according to the latest data from City Hall, the Post reported. Last year, Governor Greg Abbott (R-TX) began sending buses of illegal immigrants to leftist “sanctuary cities” across the U.S., including New York.

A lawyer for several women who say they were victims of convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein has sent a letter to the Department of Justice asking why the FBI “utterly failed” to investigate the well-connected financier.

The letter, sent this week to FBI Director Christopher Wray, Attorney General Merrick Garland, and DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz, says that the FBI knew about allegations about Epstein back in the 1990s but failed to take any substantial action. 

“As counsel to many survivors of the Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking conspiracy, we write regarding the failure of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to properly, adequately, or timely investigate the sex trafficking of hundreds of girls and young women,” a letter from lawyer Jennifer Freeman says. “The FBI utterly failed to investigate serious allegations involving Epstein’s, and perhaps others’, child sex abuse materials (CSAM), significant additional criminality which, until recently, has been disregarded, disrespected, and essentially denied.”

The women want an explanation for why it took so long for substantive legal action to be taken against Epstein and asked the DOJ to investigate the FBI over its handling of the Epstein case.

One woman, Maria Farmer, said she had told the FBI that Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell sexually abused her and that she had seen other signs that the two of them were “committing multiple, serious, sexual abuse crimes, including hands-on sexual abuse, against minors and vulnerable young women.”

While working for Epstein in New York City, Farmer, an artist, said that she witnessed young girls entering and leaving Epstein’s mansion, and said that she was later abused by Epstein and Maxwell while working on a project in Ohio. She said that they threatened to burn all her artwork after she confronted them about stealing photographs of her partially dressed 11-year-old sister. 

“Deathly afraid, on August 29, 1996, Ms. Farmer reported in detail Epstein’s and Maxwell’s criminality to her local police department, the NYPD Sixth Precinct. The NYPD said that while they could address the local fire threats, they were unable to do anything about other possibly illegal activities occurring outside their jurisdiction, such as the abuse and theft perpetrated in Ohio, and other illegal activities,” the letter says. 

Farmer says that she then filed a complaint with the FBI but did not hear back until 2006, roughly ten years later. During that investigation, the letter says that complaints about CSAM were overlooked.

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“Amazingly, despite a plethora of evidence of a far-reaching conspiracy to traffic women, and numerous red flags concerning possible CSAM, federal law enforcement stood by silently and didn’t take action,” Freeman wrote. 

The letter says that hard drives from Epstein’s Palm Beach home went missing leading up to his 2008 conviction, and are still missing today. In 2008, Epstein was sentenced to 18 months in prison for state level prostitution charges and received a secret non-prosecution agreement with federal prosecutors. 

“After the slap-on-the-wrist sentence, Epstein and others continued their criminal enterprise, while the FBI did little more for another decade,” the letter continues. “The FBI’s repeated and continual failures, delays, and inaction allowed Epstein and others to continue their sex trafficking conspiracy for nearly a quarter of a century.”

Referencing recent reporting that current CIA director William Burns met with Epstein in 2014, the letter suggests that Epstein may have links with the government. 

“There is strong circumstantial evidence in the public domain that Epstein’s special relationship with the government explains the FBI’s failure to investigate or prosecute Epstein in 1996, the special treatment he received from 2005 to 2008, and the failure to investigate the possible wrongdoing of important public officials and powerful businessmen,” the letter says.

Epstein died in August 2019 while being held in the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Manhattan, awaiting trial for sex trafficking related charges.