Posted on 10/05/2023 2:03:14 AM PDT by Libloather
Desperate New York City Mayor Eric Adams has pleaded with a judge to end the city's longstanding 'right to shelter' law as he struggles to house more than 122,000 migrants who have flooded the Big Apple since last year.
Adams, 63, sent a letter Tuesday evening urging a judge to dismiss the city's legal obligation to provide shelter to adults, claiming the 1981 law should be void in a state of emergency.
The letter, sent to New York Supreme Court justice Erika Edwards, warned that the huge influx 'shows no signs of abating', while citing a staggering 159 percent increase in the number of people in the city's care since April 2022.
As he scrambles for solutions, Adams travelled south of the border on Wednesday in an attempt to deter migrants from moving to New York City after entering the US.
Adams' anguish over the situation is a stark contrast to his previous public posturing over migrants, where he claimed only a year ago that he was 'proud' to house asylum seekers as he vowed to 'continue to do that.'
However, the embattled mayor's letter faced quick backlash from homeless advocacy groups who claimed that the move would 'gut' rights offered to homeless people.
The former police officer has seen his time in office plagued by the migrant crisis, as he claimed in his letter that 'New York City has done more than any other city in the last 18 months to meet this national humanitarian crisis.'
In a statement alongside the letter, Adams added: 'With more than 122,700 asylum seekers having come through our intake system since the spring of 2022, and projected costs of over $12 billion for three years, it is abundantly clear that the status quo cannot continue.'
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We have to stop this kind of thing as a part of the reform.
A hundred and twelve thousand. Big deal. What happened to all that virtue?
Haha. You built it, you sleep in it, liberal idiots.
Socialism is great...until you run out of other people’s money.
If the judge suspends anything, he/she should start with Adams.
Warning: Language very NSFW.
Indeed. re my tagline.
REPORT: New York City Hospitals and Medical Centers Are Being Overwhelmed by Illegal Immigrants
Medicaid will bankrupt NYS.
And since states can't declare, guess who will foot the bill.
Note to the other 49: And don't blame us. We didn't vote for this, either.
We didn’t vote for this.
NYC has RCV for the same reason the state just went all main-in.
We do NOT vote for this.
This is scary. It’s like the building belongs to a foreign country. There are no signs that photographing is not allowed.
Hey Adams, NYC population is down nearly half a million people over the last three years. So you picked up 140k invaders, where’s the problem? Suck it up buttercup.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/york-city-lost-5-3-100000482.html
I looked up the address: 320 West 31 street. Touro College.
Story about someone who wanted it bad and got it worse.
From May...
https://www.thecity.nyc/2023/5/17/23727079/migrants-exit-brooklyn-school-gyms-eric-adams
Note the mention of Touro...
Ex-NYPD, former firefighters hired as unofficial ‘fire wardens’ to monitor migrant centers
If those are double dippers, isn't that illegal in NYS...
Well, looky here. That building is slated to be demolished. Scroll down to 320 W. 31st St
https://www.humanscale.nyc/penn-for-all/to-be-demolished/
So they’re housing illegals in buildings that are slated to be demolished? no wonder Adams is crying that there is no more room!
Embrace the suck, you Marxist asshat...
Is he some sort of racist?
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