Counting 36 times he’s asked the Biden administration for money to pay for the 110,000 migrants who have flooded New York, Mayor Eric Adams said the ongoing crisis will “destroy New York City.”
“Never in my life have I had a problem that I didn’t see an ending to. I don’t see an ending to this,” Adams said during a community meeting on the Upper West Side. “This issue will destroy New York City.”
Pointing out that the Big Apple is taking in migrants from all over the world at the rate of 10,000 per month, Adams warned, “It’s going to come to your neighborhood. All of us are going to be impacted by this. Every community in this city is going to be impacted,” he said in comments that sent shockwaves throughout the Democrat establishment. “We have a $12 billion deficit, and we are going to have to cut every service in this city. The city we knew, we are about to lose.”
According to Adams, “New York is the economic engine of this entire state and country. If you decimate this city, you’re going to decimate the foundation of what’s happening. There’s a lot of blame to go around.”
Known for his “La Invitación,” a Sanctuary City offer that was publicized throughout Central America, Adams is faced with a problem he helped create. Under Biden’s open border policy, the Big Apple was flooded with immigrants, with Adams estimating it will cost the city $12 billion over the next two years to handle them.
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Faced with a long-ago court settlement that requires the city to provide shelter to anyone who needs it, Adams has run out of room to house the homeless arrivals, and has run out of money. He’s reportedly spending about $383 per day to provide shelter, food, and other care to each migrant family, with the daily tab coming in at $9.8 million. Adams was nonplussed when Hochul announced she would not force Long Island or other New York suburbs to take in the migrants, a plan the mayor was aggressively working to give himself some wiggle room. Resistance from Suffolk County and other communities moved Adams to sue 32 municipalities, arguing that solving the problem is the responsibility of all New Yorkers.
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy weighed in on the crisis, noting, “While Republicans have repeatedly pointed out the obvious since early 2021, liberal Democrats are finally coming to terms with the reality that the Biden Border Crisis is hurting the country,” he said. “It has gotten so bad even the leaders of Democrat strongholds like New York City and Massachusetts are throwing in the towel. They can’t handle the strain that the massive influx of people has had on their city and state. Every single congressional Democrat voted against H.R. 2, the Secure the Border Act. If enacted into law, this border security bill would immediately restart construction on the wall and hire more border patrol agents to stop the flow that has created the crisis throughout the country,” McCarthy said, adding, “Instead, Mayor Adams is begging the Democrat Governor of New York to take people from NYC and bus them into the suburban and rural counties that surround the city.”
But New York’s Republican congressional delegation isn’t having any of the Democrats’ finger-pointing, McCarthy continued. “In a letter to Mayor Adams and New York Governor Kathy Hochul, Rep. Nick LaLota, Rep. Elise Stefanik, Rep. Anthony D’Esposito, Rep. Nick Langworthy, Rep. Andrew Garbarino, Rep. Claudia Tenney, and Rep. Mike Lawler said their constituents should not incur the financial and public safety burden caused by the policy decisions of New York City’s elected officials. He added, “Mayor Adams is right: New York City deserves better. It’s time for New York’s very own Senator Schumer and his Senate Democrats to pass the Secure the Border Act to end this Biden-created crisis.”
Former Vice President Mike Pence, a candidate for the White House, also went to bat for the city, saying, “I’ve got to do a hat tip to the mayor of New York, who’s been willing to call out President Joe Biden and his administration for their absolute failure to secure the southern border.”
Back in May, Adams tried to blame the Republicans for the problem, positing, “It is the irresponsibility of the Republican Party in Washington for refusing to do real immigration reform, and it’s the irresponsibility of the White House for not addressing this problem.”
While Democrats attempt to shift the blame onto the Republicans, the New York Post evoked a famous headline from years past when then-President Gerald Ford refused to bail the city out of a financial mess in 1975. Featuring a front-page photo of the president, the Post blared, “Biden to City: Drop Dead.”