Posted on 11/22/2023 1:30:24 AM PST by Libloather
New York City Mayor Eric Adams said on Monday that Washington D.C. "has abandoned us" in regards to the ongoing migrant crisis the city and other parts of the country are facing - days after he announced stinging budget cuts to education and policing due to the crisis.
"D.C. has abandoned us, and they need to be paying their cost to this national problem," Adams said during a town hall in Brooklyn, according to Politico.
The "sanctuary" city has seen over 130,000 migrants come into the city since last year, a relatively small number of which have been bussed in via Texas.
While it’s just a fraction of the more than 2.4 million migrants encountered at the southern border in the last fiscal year, the city has been overwhelmed, with Adams warning the crisis could "destroy" the city and demanding more federal help.
Last week Adams announced cuts across all government agencies due to the city having spent $1.45 billion in fiscal 2023 on the migrant crisis and nearly $11 billion expected to be spent in 2024 and 2025.
His office said that the New York Police Department will freeze hiring to bring numbers below 30,000 by the end of fiscal year 2025 from over 33,000. There will also be deep cuts to education, including the universal pre-kindergarten program, and sanitation.
The budget cuts drew fury from the city's teachers and police unions.
"This is truly a disaster for every New Yorker who cares about safe streets," police union President Patrick Hendry said. "Cops are already stretched to our breaking point, and these cuts will return us to staffing levels we haven’t seen since the crime epidemic of the ‘80s and ‘90s."
Adams has told residents to blame the feds.
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Liberals.
Its always someone else that causes their problems, right?
Look for the Federal Investigation that has started looking into the finances of Mayor Adams to really heat up, remember no one f*cks with a Biden, especially and old demented one.
As long as they did not bring in illegals, he was okay with his city being a sanctuary.
Feds should compensate NYC on a per-illegal-immigrant basis. Ditto Texas and Florida, which have 1000x the illegals that NYC has.
See how that works?
Quite the sob story. We dug this hole so deep we are having trouble getting out. Somebody help us because we can’t help ourselves.
its laughable.
Asdams needs to makeanother trip to Texas...this time to beg for money instead of making a refuhee welcome statement.
Alsu Admas slashed the police budget so that NYPD goes from 33,000 police to 29,000.
NYC is coming to an end.Migrants will rule. No bail rules.MS-13 rules.
New Yorkers will join the Florida exodus by the millions.
NYC will have no tax base.
DC abandoning any area probably is a good thing. DC does not exist to help.
“The nine most terrifying words in the English language are: ‘I’m from the Government, and I’m here to help’.”
Or his puppet master Obama.
Amazing - “Sanctuary City” proponent experiences first-hand the evils of such policies and then blames others as he does the most stupid and destructive thigs he can to ‘ameliorate” the problems after supporting the policies that caused his problems....
Every Rat city needs to feel the pain they have wrought. They deserve nothing less than total destruction, just like the Cambodia killing fields.
sanctuary city = burn baby burn
Illegals would cost nothing if you gave them nothing, no food, no shelter, no medical, no schooling, no support whatsoever.
Come through legally, get a job, be self sufficient and welcome to America.
How about cutting that first?
To meet their "right to housing" requirement, I'm sure they can find plenty of cardboard boxes or even buy some pup tents.
I blame Adams.He could have not had NYC act as a magnet for them. Can’t believe he’s making me pine for the days of Big Bird.
Liberals
Now it’s time to pay your fair share for the things you pushed on everyone else.
If Trump was President this would not be a problem - elections have consequences, so suck it up and tax New Yorkers to pay for what they voted for.
It was all a cash grab. This moron thought the Fedgov would give him billions of $ too take the illegal scum in. Then he could continue putting them up in hotels owned by his Chinese buddies and gettjng his take.
He’s intentionally cutting the police budget to make the problem worse. He could cut so many other things but he knows this will make things worse. It’s almost laughable.
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