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Biden and Hochul policy ‘madness’
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Former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Sunday that Big
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Apple Mayor Eric Adams “is right” to warn the migrant crisis
could “ destroy” the five boroughs .
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Cuomo, 65, sided with Adams while bashing their fellow
Dems — President Biden and successor Gov. Kathy Hochul
— over migrant policies he called “madness.
“The federal government has failed to manage the problem,”
Cuomo told the largely black congregation at God’s Battalion
of Prayer Church in Prospect Lefferts Garden, Brooklyn — a Florida woman found in alligator's
friendly audience that has welcomed the scandal-scarred jaws was arrested for trespassing two
months ago
thrice elected governor in the past.
“The plain truth is New York City is overloaded,” said the 82,463
former gov, who has been rumored to be plotting a political
comeback after stepping down from his post in 2021 during
an avalanche of sexual misconduct and harassment
allegations.

“We cannot take more than we have taken. And the plain truth is New York City cannot pay the bill for this
migrant problem,” Cuomo said, echoing comments he made on his podcast last week.
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blasting many of his fellow Democrats on the migrant crisis and crime.
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Cuomo then blasted Hochul, his former lieutenant who was elevated to Albany’s top job in the wake of his sidewalk sheds despite Mayor Adams'
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resignation. The former governor has denied the accusations against him.
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Hochul, for example, has refused to try to force other parts of the state to take migrants.

Cuomo said the steps that the state and feds have taken — or not — to deal with the migrant crisis so far
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“It’s madness,” Cuomo said. “Mayor Adams is right. This is unsustainable, and it’s unjustifiable.” Miley Cyrus goes
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“I’m gonna tell you something, New Yorkers, never in my life have I had a problem that I didn’t see an event after admitting
ending to. I don’t see an ending to this,” Adams said at the time at a town hall on the Upper West Side . she ‘went a little too
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Cuomo said Sunday, “It’s not a New York City problem, it’s a federal and a state problem first. bachelorette trip for
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“The federal government has to do its job. Manage the population, do it intelligently. And do it fairly. And wedding
the federal government has to pay the bill. Because the last people who should have to pay it are the

taxpayers of the City of New York,” he said.

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“It’s time to stand in solidarity with Mayor Adams when he says this should not be on the shoulders of
New York City residents alone. We need help from the federal government and the state government.”

Cuomo also bashed his own party over crime.

“Hard truth, people out there on the street or afraid of crime. That is the truth,” Cuomo said.

“And you have too many politicians, and I’m a Democrat, too many Democrat politicians who are hear no
evil, see no evil, speak no evil. ‘What crime?! I don’t see no crime! It’s a Republican conspiracy.’

“Makes no sense,” Cuomo said. “Because crime hurts our people. Seventy to 80% of the victims of crime, Miley Cyrus goes back to brunette for
the first time in 10 years
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Former Gov. David Paterson’s praise Sunday of Gov. Kathy Hochul echoed The Post
editorial board’s support of her recent new stronger stance on the migrant crisis.
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”‘Defund the police’ are the three dumbest political words ever uttered,” he added, referring to lefties’
push to take money away from cops.

The former governor’s speech echoed predecessor ex-Gov. David Paterson’s recent barrage of
criticism of current Democratic standard bearers on the migrant crisis and crime.

Paterson again took to the airwaves Sunday to discuss the topics but praised Hochul, who like him was
elevated to office in a sex scandal, for recently taking on the feds over the migrants.

“Gov. Hochul in the last few days has really changed her position about the migrants, completely
supporting what Mayor Adams has been saying for a couple of months, which is that this is really a
federal problem that got dropped on New York City and New York state without any particular assistance;
no plan to solve the problem,” Paterson told host John Catsimatidis on WABC 770’s “Cats Roundtable” on
Sunday.

Adams, for his part, took a more conciliatory tone than usual Sunday when asked whether his partners in
government were rising to the occasion.
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“Iwant to thank the president, I want to thank his team,” Adams said, referring to the White House’s
decision to clear a pathway for migrants from Venezuela and Afghanistan to work , on WABC’s “ Up Close
With Bill Ritter .

“We have been speaking about this for several months, now meeting with the White House team, several
conversations with the White House Chief of Staff,” Adams said.

“And you know, thank the governor for even adding her voice to it,” Hizzoner added.

But he also continued to sound the alarm bell on the migrant influx — which has seen more than 110,000
asylum seekers come to the Big Apple since spring 2022.

“We cannot spike the ball, because this is not going to deal with all of the migrants and asylum seekers
who are in this city,” Adams said. “We have about 60,000 in our care, 10,000 a month, and many of those
new arrivals won’t be able to apply for the TPS [Temporary Protected Status] and for the other benefits of
this [Venezuelan and Afghanistan] initiative.”

Cuomo’s Sunday church appearance came after he showed up at a prominent Brooklyn Democratic club
earlier in the month.

He had chosen the same church, God’s Battalion of Prayer Church, in March 2022 for his first public
speech after his resignation, during which he complained about being a victim of “cancel culture.”

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Basil Smikle told WCBS in March of 2022, “There might be some in the black community who feel he was
railroaded, which I think is why going to a black church on a Sunday made sense for him.

“Folks here, not just here central Brooklyn, the whole Caribbean community, they have a love for Cuomo
and they really wish he didn’t resign.”

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NYP is Trash
2 hours ago
Love seeing NY collapse under the policies they voted for.
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Copernicus 2022
1 hour ago
True. But the Progressive mantra is to gaslight facts, deny any responsibility for the
roblem, blame all the other branches of government, and then collectively agree that it
is Trump,s fault

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Nelson
1 hour ago
Concur, wonderful this year the mostly Democrat politicians received over $32,000.00
ay raise they voted in. Glad myself, left N.Y. state long ago and happy to see it was the
decision.
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Clearday
2 hours ago
Wasn’t Cuomo the guy who said that Republicans should leave NYS?
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Kenny Hawk
1 hour ago
The author of this article should stop with the “migrant crisis” nonsense! There is no "migrant
However, there most certainly is an " illegal alien " crisis!

Also, please stop referring to these people incorrectly as "migrants," which characterization
implies that these people ...
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