NYC Mayor Mamdani Announces Free Chilldcare for All — Including Illegal Aliens

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani just announced his free “childcare for all” program.

There are no requirements except that parents live within the school district.

You don’t even have to be a U.S. citizen!

Isn’t that great?

Watch Mayor Mamdani’s announcement here:

🚨 JUST IN: NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani announces “FREE” government-funded childcare for ALL — INCLUDING illegal aliens

This is going to be freaking LOADED with fraud.

REFUSE TO SEND FEDERAL DOLLARS, 47! We do NOT want to fund Mamdani’s fraud! pic.twitter.com/vyOmQ2jdzm

— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) March 3, 2026

This means that soon, New York taxpayers will be on the hook for paying for illegal immigrants to send their kids to daycare — just like Mamdani and AOC promised in an ad about the program!

Watch this:

Direct quote from AOC and Zohran Mamdani saying illegals get free childcare

“Any New York City parent, regardless of your occupation, income or immigration status is eligible to sign their child up”

Democrats all said this was a ‘conspiracy theory’pic.twitter.com/p636Tzz6U9

— Wall Street Apes (@WallStreetApes) February 24, 2026

But, I thought Democrats promised that illegal aliens do not receive government benefits?

Were they lying to us all this time?

NYC residents are going to pay higher taxes now so that illegals can get free childcare. Let that sink in.

— Paul A. Szypula 🇺🇸 (@Bubblebathgirl) February 24, 2026

Mayor Mamdani is slowly rolling out the program, starting with four predominantly lower-income areas in New York.

This year, it will cost taxpayers $73 million.

Next year, when the program expands, that number jumps up to $425 million!

The New York Times has more details:

Mayor Zohran Mamdani has chosen four areas of New York City to kick-start his push to provide free child care for 2-year-olds — an early step in what is sure to be a long road to fulfilling his promise to create a universal child care system.

The first 2,000 seats in the program, known as 2-K, will be distributed across a diverse set of largely — but not exclusively — low-income parts of the city in four of the five boroughs and will be available this fall. Mr. Mamdani announced the plan at a news conference with Gov. Kathy Hochul, who is funding the expansion, in Upper Manhattan on Tuesday morning.

The city will work with existing child care providers in Canarsie, Brownsville and Ocean Hill in Brooklyn; Washington Heights and Inwood in Manhattan; Fordham and Kingsbridge in the Bronx and Ozone Park, Richmond Hill, Woodhaven and the Rockaways in Queens to provide the seats.

Children who live in five local school districts that include those neighborhoods — districts 6, 10, 18, 23 and 27 — will have access to the seats.

The spaces being offered this fall represent only a fraction of the seats the Mamdani administration hopes to create for 2-year-olds over the next four years, at which point it estimates the program will be universal. About 12,000 2-K seats will be available next fall, and advocates estimate that about 55,000 children will use the program once it is fully built out.

Despite a public victory lap from Mr. Mamdani and Ms. Hochul over their agreement that the state would put up $73 million for the first year of 2-K and about $425 million for the second, there is not yet a plan to fund the program after that. But on Tuesday, Ms. Hochul hinted that she was willing to put up more money for the program in future years.

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That’s a whole lot of money — paid for by the tax dollars of the American people.

Not to mention, this program is almost guaranteed to be yet another breeding ground for fraud.

Do the “parents” need have an actual child to qualify for free childcare or is this a Somali 🏴‍☠️ style child care system 🤨

— Albanach (@albanach68) March 4, 2026

What a disaster in the making…