‘No room for migrants’- New York Mayor
The mayor of New York, Eric Adams, travelled to the Mexican border City of El Paso on Sunday and declared that “there is no room in New York for busloads of migrants being sent to America’s most populous city.”
Eric Adams, a Democrat, was also critical of the administration of Democratic U.S. President Joe Biden, saying, “now is the time for the national government to do its job” about the immigrant crisis in America’s southern border.
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The visit of a New York mayor to a southern border city about immigrants is unprecedented. Republican-run states have shipped busloads of migrants north to New York and other cities. That has exacerbated a housing crisis in New York and a worsening homeless crisis in the city.
Adams’s trip to El Paso comes after he said the migrant influx into New York could cost the city as much as $2 billion when the town is already facing a significant budget shortfall.
In recent months the Republican governors of Florida and Texas have sent thousands of migrants seeking sanctuary in the U.S. to cities run by Democratic politicians, including New York, Chicago, and Washington, D.C.
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