New York:
Eric Adams, the Democratic mayor of New York, sounded the alarm this week over the monetary pressure his metropolis faces as hundreds of asylum seekers arrive every month — many despatched by Republican governors after crossing the southern US border.
“This difficulty will destroy New York Metropolis,” Adams mentioned Wednesday night at a public assembly the place he responded to residents’ questions.
He mentioned 10,000 migrants are arriving every month “from all around the globe” and that 110,000 folks have proven up since Greg Abbott, the Republican governor of Texas, started sending migrants to New York aboard buses.
“We now have to feed, material, home, educate the youngsters, wash their laundry sheets, give them every little thing they want, healthcare,” he mentioned.
Along with New York, Abbott has been sending migrants to different cities ruled by Democrats, together with Washington and Los Angeles.
Different Republican governors, and a few Democrats, have adopted swimsuit and commenced transporting migrants out of their jurisdictions.
Sending migrants to Democratic strongholds has turn out to be a political cudgel for the American proper as a way of denouncing President Joe Biden’s immigration coverage, which they are saying has allowed undocumented migrants to cross the border with Mexico in massive numbers.
Metropolis leaders nonetheless say that their assist methods haven’t been set as much as obtain such massive numbers of migrants.
Mayor Adams, a Black former police officer who hails from the reasonable wing of the Democratic Occasion, estimated final month that offering assist providers to the incoming migrants at $12 billion over three years.
“New Yorkers’ compassion could also be limitless, however our assets aren’t,” he mentioned in early August.
Whereas describing Abbott as a “madman,” Adams on Wednesday additionally repeated complaints that the federal authorities at the moment beneath his get together’s management was not adequately addressing the problem.
“We’re getting no assist on this nationwide disaster and we’re receiving no assist,” the mayor mentioned.
Homeless and migrant advocates condemned the remarks by Adams, with two teams calling them “reckless and unproductive fear-mongering.”
“This harmful rhetoric is one thing you’d count on from fringe politicians… not the mayor of a metropolis that has all the time welcomed and celebrated its various and critically vital immigrant neighborhood,” the Authorized Assist Society and the Coalition for the Homeless mentioned in a joint assertion Thursday.
The governor of New York, Kathy Hochul, visited Washington in late August to debate the problem, together with with White Home officers.
Hochul and Adams have referred to as for the federal authorities to hurry up work authorizations for the asylum seekers.
“1000’s of jobs can be found to be stuffed, to offer the providers we’d like within the metropolis,” Adams mentioned final month.
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