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Adams warns New Yorkers that 'we cannot stop' migrants

from sleeping on the streets
Adams recently announced stinging budget cuts
By Adam Shaw Fox News

Published November 22, 2023 1:11pm EST

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New York City Mayor Eric Adams is warning residents of the Big Apple that there is
nothing they can do to stop migrants sleeping on the streets, as the sanctuary city
scrambles to contain an out-of-control crisis.

Adams, who slashed budgets in multiple departments due to the spiraling costs of the
migrant crisis, said on Tuesday that the goal is not to have people sleeping on the streets,
but the "visible signs of this crisis is going to start to show itself."

Adams said that over 140,000 migrants have come into the city since last year and
"thousands are still coming in each week" and numbers are increasing.

ADAMS SAYS ‘DC HAS ABANDONED US’ AS NYC SLASHES BUDGETS OVER MIGRANT
CRISIS

"Believe it or not, there are migrant and asylum seekers who are saying, ‘We want to sleep
on the streets.’ And so people have a right to do so, we need to be clear on that in New
York City, because of the city council’s actions people have a right to sleep on the streets
that we cannot stop. I want New Yorkers to understand that," he said.

In terms of how the city will deal with the crisis, Adams said "every day there is a level of
maneuvering that we have to do to deal with the flow of migrants and asylum seekers
here."

"Nothing is off the table," he added.

"We thought we were headed back south in the numbers. We thought we were going to be
dealing with 2,400 to 2000. I was just told that we were up to 3,000, some weeks we go up
to 4,000."

NEW YORK DEMOCRATS OVERWHELMINGLY SAY MIGRANTS ‘SERIOUS’ PROBLEM:

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New York City Mayor Eric Adams has been questioning the city's right to shelter mandate. (Lev Radin/Pacific
Press/LightRocket via Getty Images)

The remarks are the latest sign from the mayor’s office of a continually worsening crisis
for the city, which has repeatedly boasted about its welcoming stance towards immigrants
— including those in the country illegally.

The city has repeatedly blamed the federal government for inaction, demanding it provide
more funding and a "decompression strategy." It has caused a rift between the Democratic
mayor and the Biden administration, which has pointed to moves to expedite work permits
along with hundreds of millions of dollars in funding to help cities like New York City.

Separately, the White House has requested an additional $14 billion in emergency funding
for border operations, which includes an additional $1.4 billion in grants to help local
governments and nonprofits.

Adams has made it clear who he blames for the crisis.

NEW YORK CITY TO REDUCE POLICE NUMBERS, SLASH BUDGETS DUE TO BILLIONS
SPENT ON MIGRANT CRISIS

"DC has abandoned us, and they need to be paying their cost to this national problem,"
Adams said this week during a town hall in Brooklyn, according to Politico.

Last week, Adams announced cuts across all government agencies due to the city having
spent $1.45 billion in fiscal 2023 on the migrant crisis and nearly $11 billion expected to
be spent in 2024 and 2025.

His office said that the New York Police Department will freeze hiring to bring numbers
below 30,000 by the end of fiscal year 2025 from over 33,000. There will also be deep cuts
to education, including the universal pre-kindergarten program, and sanitation.

The budget cuts drew fury from the city's teachers and police unions, but Adams has
repeatedly said their anger should be directed elsewhere.

"I people all the time when they stop me on the subway system, ‘Don’t yell at me, yell at
tell
DC,’" Adams s aid on Monday according to Politico. "We deserve better as a city."
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Adam Shaw is a politics reporter for Fox News Digital, primarily covering immigration and border
security.

He can be reached at adam.shaw2@fox.com or on Twitter .

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