New York City’s mayor is crying the blues after the sanctuary city has begun reeling from large numbers of illegal aliens flocking to the Big Apple for, well, sanctuary.
“Let me tell you something, New Yorkers,” Mayor Eric Adams said Wednesday. “Never in my life have I had a problem that I did not see an ending to. I don’t see an ending to this. I don’t see an ending to this.”
“This issue will destroy New York City,” Adams continued during a town hall meeting on the Upper West Side. The mayor said that New York City is getting about 10,000 migrants a month.
“Now we’re getting people from all over the globe have made their minds up that they’re going to come through the southern part of the border and come into New York City.”
The sanctuary city guarantees all illegals arriving in Gotham housing and help with food and finding a job. After receiving thousands of illegals from Texas, Adams struck a deal to house them in the Roosevelt Hotel.
After the hotel became fully occupied, new illegal arrivals began sleeping on the sidewalks outside the hotel. Complaints from area residents prompted the city to create large encampments for single male arrivals.
In a recent move to address the situation, Adams announced the transformation of an emergency respite site into the Humanitarian Emergency Response and Relief Center at Austell Place in Long Island City.
This decision comes as the number of illegals in the city’s care nears 60,000, with more than 110,000 illegals having arrived in New York City since the previous spring, according to a Fox News report.
“As asylum seekers have continued to arrive in New York City at an average rate of more than 2,400 every week, conditions on the ground required that the city transition the site to a large-scale congregate setting for single men,” the mayor said in a statement.
The relief center will initially provide shelter for up to 330 single men, but plans are in place to expand its capacity to accommodate almost 1,000 asylum seekers.
The newly expanded site will be the 16th large humanitarian relief center, adding to the more than 200 shelter sites currently in operation, the report noted.
Health and Human Services Deputy Mayor Anne Williams-Isom said in a separate news conference that as of September 3, the city was caring for over 112,300 individuals, including 59,700 asylum seekers.
She noted more than 10,100 asylum seekers were processed through the city’s intake center since September 2022, and in the week ending September 3, more than 27,000 new asylum seekers entered the city’s care.
“Hundreds of asylum seekers continue to arrive to our city every day and our heads are barely being kept above water,” Williams-Isom said. “There are solutions to this emergency. We need expedited work authorization, additional financial support, a federal declaration of emergency, a national and a state wide decompression strategy to relieve the pressure that we are feeling here in New York City. ”
“There are solutions here,” she continued. “The status quo is not working, and New Yorkers are demanding that we do more.”
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