NYC Mayor Adams Doubles Down on Criticism of Hochul’s Handling of Migrant Crisis
“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.”
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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Can’t these Democrats just try to get along?!
Not when their political calculations become intramural as is the case here. The ‘cool kids’ in NYC made a bad miscalculation in believing that their virtue signaling about their ‘sanctuary’ status would never have a significant cost. Now they want the State of NY to bail them out while simultaneously refusing to tell the Biden Admin to seal the border. For bonus points they blame Abbott and DeSantis for shipping illegals out of border communities that have been overwhelmed for more than a decade.
It’s all deflection with types. They seem to have a basic inability to accept blame much less accept that their own actions have consequences. Instead they try and deflect and blame others; like the child who breaks a lamp then claims ‘it wasn’t me’.
NYC declared itself a sanctuary, only those who declared themselves sanctuaries should bear costs related keeping illegals. Adams, act like a man, suck it up
still find it amusing that these clowns voted for the open border guy and now are shocked that there are “migrants” to be found in their sanctuary city/state
More than ever we need Operation Wetback II
Eisenhower was a genius with big balls, but the country wasn’t woke back then.
“Their strength is our diversity” sure ended when it was in your backyard.
Some people. many people, call them migrants.. I noticed that fuzzy slippers called them illegal aliens, which you don’t see too often. I call them invaders.
Can they both lose?
Eric Cartman will be in a quandry now. Which is better, cripple fight or leftist fight?
I have never swayed from Illegal Aliens. Similarly, Portland has a few homeless, but the majority of the problem is feral humans.
And just to be clear, I am a geezer.
Full ‘geezerdom’ is the point in life where your age is determined by carbon dating instead of birthdays.
“Hippie fight!”
Plenty produce feral children, which become the source of endless misery for the rest of us. Except f0r rare exceptions, they are unsalvageable.
He SHOULD be doubling down on the BIDEN administration, along with EVERY other Mayor and Governor of EVERY state.
Why not send them to Martha’s Vineyard? They got rid of every illegal and now have plenty of room.
Ooops, I misspoke. They got rid of all except one. He showed a forged Hawaiian birth record.
If any of them have restaurant experience I understand there is an opening as a chef.
Nice one!
Wrong state. That’s Maura Healy’s Final Option, not Kathy Hochul’s.
And before daring to discommode the nobility on Martha’s Vineyard, Healy can still play the card she used when it happened last time: calling out the National Guard.
Aw!
Nothing kills a honeymoon faster than the undisclosed stepkids showing up at the door unemployed.
“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.”
Ha ha ha ha ha! “Woke Ed Koch” for the win!
Popcorn get your hot buttery pop corn here
Watch the cage match..
Dumb and Crazy is a match made in Hell. Or New Yor,k.
Adams complains that NYC is only 0.05% of New York state yet accounts for 99% of the migrant asylum seekers. What he doesn’t mention is that NYC also accounts for 45% of the state’s population while the next 4 largest cities account for another 4.5%. It is thus basically the tail that wags the dog. It is also the only location to have abundant accommodation.
Adams wants the counties to take their proportional share of migrants, but they’re not sanctuary cities and Adams hasn’t given any reason to think they have the facilities to deal with a horde of migrants overrunning them.
But I guess as long as it’s no longer New York’s problem it’s a solution, right?
I was shocked to find out today that NYC is 68% nonwhite.
Chappaqua is nice this time of year
Several BnB rooms available, I’m sure
“I LOVE NY” signs are popping up all over Mexico and South America . . .