The mayor of New York, Eric Adams, stated this Monday (5) that the United States' federal immigration policy is to blame for his city's migration crisis. “The national government must resolve this. No city should face the challenges we face here,” said the city manager.
According to Adams, Joe Biden's administration should rescue New York from the financial crisis caused by the mass arrival of illegal immigrants.
“New Yorkers did not create an international humanitarian crisis, but New Yorkers are forced to deal with this crisis almost entirely alone,” Adams said during a speech in which he referred to federal legislation as a “failed policy.”
In October last year, the city council filed a lawsuit to request the suspension of the so-called “right to shelter” in the largest American city, given the crisis generated by the arrival of immigrants. The law, which has been in effect since a legal agreement signed in 1981, mandates that the city provide temporary housing to any homeless person who requests it.
However, the current migratory situation faced in the city, whose expenses already reach billions, led the Democratic administration to call for changes to the rules related to the matter. “We are past our breaking point. New Yorkers’ compassion may be limitless, but our resources are not,” said the manager.
To the portal National Reviewformer New York mayoral candidate Curtis Sliwa said that the city administration is also to blame for the current migration crisis due to its local policies, which encouraged the arrival of immigrants.
“Adams laid out a full, cradle-to-grave menu of what we were going to do for migrants during his mayoral campaign – treat them better than our own homeless people. He is the only one to blame for this. He started all this and now he doesn’t know how to finish it, he doesn’t know how to close the door to the continuous flow of arriving migrants,” Sliwa said.
According to the Republican politician, the Democratic mayor could restrict several programs throughout the city to discourage the flow of migrants. For example, the city could end a soon-to-be-launched $53 million program that will give prepaid credit cards to illegal immigrants. Furthermore, the program will provide immigrants with almost US$1,000 per month (R$4,900) for food and children's supplies. Sliwa also pointed to Adams' use of a hotel to house migrants as another policy that encourages illegal immigration.
Since April last year, more than 164,000 migrants have been placed in shelters in New York, with many still residing in hotels and offices transformed into temporary shelters or camps set up to accommodate them.
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