The argument over the migrant crisis escalated between New York City Mayor Eric Adams and Gov. Kathy Hochul when he went after her handling of the migrant crisis.
A New York Law School professor asked Adams about relocating all the migrants arriving from the border states, mainly Texas.
Adams went after Texas Gov. Greg Abbott but also his own governor:
“You think I enjoy displacing children playing soccer on Randall’s Island? I don’t enjoy disrupting the community in Staten Island. I don’t enjoy watching this happen to New York City residents. But we are required to provide basic care,” Adams said. “And that’s why Governor Hochul has been a partner on subway safety, on crime, on a host of things. But I think this issue, I think the governor’s wrong. She’s the governor of the State of New York. New York City is in that state. Every county in this state should be part of this. We have 0.05 of the landmass in this state, and we have almost 99% of the migrant asylum seekers.”
Hochul reached out to the Biden administration, but also reminded Adams about an agreement from 1981:
“In 1981, the city of New York and the Coalition for the Homeless signed an agreement that the city would provide shelter to anyone who seeks it. This is an agreement that does not apply to the state’s other 57 counties which is one of the reasons we cannot and will not force other parts of the state to shelter migrants,” she said.
On August 18, I wrote about the cat fight between Adams and Hochul.
A lawyer representing Hochul sent a 12-page scathing letter to Adams over his handling of the migrant crisis in NYC and in response to a list of requests the city sent to a state judge in Manhattan.
The city’s top request asked the state to “implement a State-wide relocation program to resettle groups of New Arrivals throughout the State’s counties in proportion to the counties respective share of the State population.”
Adams sued 30 counties that issued executive orders to stop accepting migrants.
Adams declared New York City a sanctuary city. Hochul always made it known New York would “welcome” migrants.
Abbott took up their offers since migrants overrun small Texas border towns every single day.
Adams wants every New York county to accept migrants since the city is running out of room. It’s not so easy, is it?
Other counties have started to resist, especially Erie County, because of two alleged rapes at a hotel housing the migrants.
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