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New York City Mayor Eric Adams visited El Paso, Texas, over the weekend, where he said he and fellow municipal leaders around the country would be teaming up to pressure the federal government for assistance handling the migrant crisis.
Adams touched down Saturday evening for what was billed as a 24-hour fact-finding mission, hosted by El Paso Mayor Oscar Leseer, a fellow Democrat. More than 40,000 migrants who have arrived in border towns like El Paso have subsequently traveled to New York City in the last year, an influx Adams has warned is overwhelming his administration’s ability to provide services.
During a press briefing Sunday, he pledged to form a coalition with mayors facing similar situations.
“I knew it was time for me, not to try to handle this problem from the city, but to come in to interact with the mayors across the country,” Adams said. “This has fallen on our cities. And I am now going to coordinate my mayors across the entire country to say: How do we respond to this directly?”
Next week, Adams plans to be in Washington, D.C., to bring up the issue at the United States Conference of Mayors.
Whether the Senate, Congress or President Joe Biden, who visited El Paso last week, will respond to the nascent coalition is unclear.
The city spent $366 million on services for asylum seekers last year, and Adams expects that sum to rise to $2 billion through June. Thus far, New York City has received just $8 million from the Federal Emergency Management Agency and $2 million from Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer......
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/01/15/eric-adams-new-york-migrants-conference-of-mayors-00078007
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Remember when the Libratards mocked Greg Abbott for sending busloads of immigrants to NYC? What a bunch of morons
Abbott's plan worked. As soon as it started hurting New Yorkers' pocket books they started worrying about the border.
Adams touched down Saturday evening for what was billed as a 24-hour fact-finding mission, hosted by El Paso Mayor Oscar Leseer, a fellow Democrat. More than 40,000 migrants who have arrived in border towns like El Paso have subsequently traveled to New York City in the last year, an influx Adams has warned is overwhelming his administration’s ability to provide services.
During a press briefing Sunday, he pledged to form a coalition with mayors facing similar situations.
“I knew it was time for me, not to try to handle this problem from the city, but to come in to interact with the mayors across the country,” Adams said. “This has fallen on our cities. And I am now going to coordinate my mayors across the entire country to say: How do we respond to this directly?”
Next week, Adams plans to be in Washington, D.C., to bring up the issue at the United States Conference of Mayors.
Whether the Senate, Congress or President Joe Biden, who visited El Paso last week, will respond to the nascent coalition is unclear.
The city spent $366 million on services for asylum seekers last year, and Adams expects that sum to rise to $2 billion through June. Thus far, New York City has received just $8 million from the Federal Emergency Management Agency and $2 million from Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer......
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/01/15/eric-adams-new-york-migrants-conference-of-mayors-00078007
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Remember when the Libratards mocked Greg Abbott for sending busloads of immigrants to NYC? What a bunch of morons
Abbott's plan worked. As soon as it started hurting New Yorkers' pocket books they started worrying about the border.