Posted on 09/08/2023 12:45:44 AM PDT by Libloather
New York City mayor Eric Adams issued a grave warning on Wednesday as he told the nation the city will be destroyed by the current migrant crisis - but the Democrat was singing from a very different song sheet only a year ago.
Last August, Adams went to Port Authority to welcome a bus full of asylum seekers sent from Texas by Republican governor Gregg Abbot, who argued progressive cities should also bare the costs of the influx of asylum seekers crossing the southern border.
Speaking to reporters at the time, the mayor said: 'As the mayor of New York, I have to provide services families that are here, and that's what we're going to do - our responsibility as a city, and I'm proud that this is a Right to Shelter state, and we're going continue to do that.'
But the buses kept coming, and a year later, Adams is pleading for federal and state aid - asking a judge to suspend the Right to Shelter policy as the city struggles to find room for the 110,000 asylum seekers that have arrived since the Spring of 2022.
In May he made major changes to the 40-year-old 'Right to Shelter' law that guarantees a bed for anyone who needs it in the city, as his government asked for federal and state help to deal with the surge of migrants that he now says could destroy New York as we know it.
With Executive Order 402, Adams suspended aspects of the law, meaning the city no longer had to provide migrant families with their own room and could direct them to a communal shelter instead.
In July, he told migrants the city was out of room, and to said it would distribute flyers at the US-Mexico border telling newly arrived migrants...
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New York City will keep paying for migrants' care in Erie County
Uh huh.
That’s a shame. Illegal aliens better duck - hurricane Lee is on the way.
Winter is just around the corner and there is no more room at the inn. What is the plan when the illegals start freezing on the streets of NYC and Chicago?
Like many here, I sleep well at night knowing NYC and Chicago is getting it good and hard for electing these knuckleheads.....
Right? Good Lord. My tagline isn’t funny anymore. Crying out loud dogs and cats are smarter than any liberal.
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