New York City Mayor Eric Adams issued a stern warning to residents amid a surge in immigration into the city, saying the growing crisis could not get any better.
“Eventually this will come to your neighborhood,” Adams said of the growing immigration crisis. according to New York Post. Adams stressed that he and his team are working to avoid the tent cities that plague other municipalities, despite the lack of available indoor space.
Speaking at a press conference at City Hall, Eric Adams said: “It can’t get any better…it’s going downhill from this moment on. There’s no room left.”
Adams said he wanted to “localize this madness” so that people sleeping outdoors could be contained to specific areas of the city. pic.twitter.com/C7YQT3b6KG
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Adams’ comments were clearly influenced by: large group of immigrants People sleep on cardboard boxes outside Manhattan’s historic Roosevelt Hotel. This relief center is currently over capacity. “I was at the Roosevelt mansion on Saturday,” Adams said, according to the New York Post. “When I went there on Sunday, people were queuing around the block, damaging the business there. …We installed a bus for the cooling system, which is not sustainable,” he said. continued.
Established as a reception center and refuge for families soon after the crisis began, Roosevelt provides beds under a decades-old “Right to Evacuation” settlement with City Hall and the courts. is legally required. But according to the New York Post, migrants outside the hotel have been waiting for days for bed, and many have reportedly been forced onto the streets.
Adams voiced his frustration with Washington, D.C., explaining that President Joe Biden’s offer to act as a liaison to deal with the immigration crisis wasn’t enough, and what the city needs to do to overcome the problem. said it had already clarified whether “We need to allow people to work. Nothing is more anti-American than not being able to work! We need to control our borders,” Adams claimed, the paper reported. (Related: More illegal immigrants live in New York City than homeless: report)
“It doesn’t get any better,” Adams said of the crisis. “It’s been downhill since this moment.”
Adams estimates that New York City’s immigration losses will total $4.3 billion in just two years. Meanwhile, according to the New York Post, Biden has only pledged $143 million to stave off the crisis.
