EL PASO, Texas (AP) — During a visit to the Texas border city of El Paso, New York Mayor Eric Adams offered up a blistering criticism of the federal government’s response to the influx of immigrants into U.S. cities, saying, “We need clear coordination.”
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He said Sunday that cities where immigrants are flowing to need help from the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
“Our cities are being undermined. And we don’t deserve this. Migrants don’t deserve this. And the people who live in the cities don’t deserve this,” Adams said as he wrapped up a weekend visit to El Paso. “We expect more from our national leaders to address this issue in a real way.”
On the ground in El Paso last night. This is a national crisis and we need a national solution. Mayors like @OscarLeeser and I are on the front lines and we need federal support. pic.twitter.com/MkD8xZelNf
— Mayor Eric Adams (@NYCMayor) January 15, 2023
Adams said New York City has been overwhelmed. Since last spring, New York City has welcomed about 40,000 asylum seekers, and last week they saw a record of close to 840 asylum seekers arriving in one day, according to Adams.
“New York cannot take more. We can’t,” Adams said, adding that other cities also can’t take more.
“No city deserves what is happening,” he said.
Adams, a Democrat, also criticized the practice of some governors of transporting immigrants straight from the border to cities including New York City. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, a Republican, over the last year has sent buses of immigrants to Democratic-led cities as a way to maximize exposure over what he said is inaction by the Biden administration over high numbers of migrants crossing on the southern border.
Adams noted that the governor of Colorado, a Democrat, had also bused migrants to New York City. He said the actions of those two governors showed “bipartisan disrespect for cities and it was wrong.”
Adams said the federal government should be picking up the cost that the cities are incurring to help.
“We need a real leadership moment from FEMA,” he said. “This is a national crisis.”
Earlier this month, President Joe Biden also visited El Paso.
its pretty easy just ship them back with our criminals too, to Mexico
Make no mistake about this issue. The costs to NYC and USA are staggering and we will pay the bills as they come due in the coming decade.
NYS employees are being squeezed to the brink as all parts of NYC are cutting expenses to pay the luxury Hotels and catered food for these illegals. There are photos and videos of these people throwing the food in the garbage and acting like animals. The health costs related to these unemployed people arriving to our hospitals is staggering.
If these refugees are good at tunneling, maybe they can get East Side Access working.
Eric fjcc adams SUPPORTS nyc being a sanctuary city
Just wait it Adams, in about 18 yeas from now these people will have offsprings that will be able to vote, it’s all good.
You stated NYC is a sanctuary city and all immigrants are welcome, why the sudden change of heart?