(Washington Insider Magazine) For months now, Eric Adams has been calling for a nationwide response to the immigration crisis, warning of the impact of dealing with large numbers of immigrants within a city.
The mayor of New York City, Eric Adams, began a visit to the United States border with Mexico this Saturday in which he asked state and federal authorities to propose requests to the city, which has received almost 40,000 immigrants and applicants. asylum since last spring.
For months now, the official has been calling for a nationwide response to this crisis, warning of the impact of dealing with large numbers of immigrants within a city.
In a radio interview offered on Friday, Adams specified that it would cost between $1.5 and $2 billion dollars to take care of the immigration situation, warning that this could significantly aggravate the Big Apple’s budget deficit.
“That money comes from our schools. It comes from our public safety, our hospitals, our infrastructures,” warned the Democratic mayor.
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Adamas has been consistently critical of the Joe Biden government’s response to the massive arrival of undocumented immigrants into the country, and considered during Friday’s interview that it is “irresponsible” that there is no “true national response.”
New York has received tens of thousands of immigrants and asylum seekers, many of them being sent on buses by the Texas government, as a strategy to distribute immigrants and protest the border crisis.
Adams noted Friday that about 400 people a day have arrived last week, highlighting the threat of a collapse of the shelters and hotels the city uses to house them.
“Based on our projections, we anticipate that we will be unable to continue to house asylum seekers, and have issued an appeal for assistance to New York State beginning this weekend,” Adams said.
The Democrat indicated that the request made to the State is reserved for acute emergencies only, and materialized in the request to house 500 immigrants, but “if the city continues to see how the numbers swell, we will also have to increase our estimates.”
Although no further details of Adams’ visit this Saturday have been provided, the NYC mayor is expected to be present in El Paso, Texas, as well as other nearby areas, in addition to attending the media on Sunday.
This article is written by Jerald Jimenez.
