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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Am seeing more and more ms-13 people
Enjoy it, New Yorkers! It’s what you voted for!
“Put them on a row boat and wish them well”.
Insensitive, unless you leave their boats UPWIND!
Your existence and the quality of same, is not something you put in the hands of Washington DC. That’s your responsibility Mr. Mayor.
One thing we know for sure is the Hon. Mayor and his cronies won’t be suffering any of those cuts. Cuts are for “the little people “. One has to wonder why the cities are throwing their own citizens under the bus in order to cater to the illegals. The folks in charge must see something beneficial to themselves personally.
“Its always someone else that causes their problems, right?”
Slashing budget for the sake of the sanctuary city status? That is not going to sit well with the legal taxpaying residents.
“As long as they did not bring in illegals, he was okay with his city being a sanctuary.”
A true sanctuary city poser... harboring the lawbreaker crowd. Wait until all those thousands of illegals go into anarchist mode. They are not here to be your laborer class, they want all the free stuff.
They’re not immigrants/migrants.
They are ILLEGALS.
Since New York resigned from America, there need be no American support
Of course the illegal immigration problem is a fiscal drain, but Adams wants to hide two decades of mismanagemnent by NYC’s Democratic government. The fiscal problems have many more roots than the new illegal residents.
Mayor Adams is a mental midget. He should be taking these people in through the Lincoln tunnel and letting him go out through the Holland tunnel onto the Jersey turnpike on the way to Washington DC. Washington deal with this problems with the bodies that will be invading from New York City. Yo Adams problem solved.
Embrace the suck.
Drop Dead!
They are ILLEGALS , you don’t drain tax payers for these Leeches
I heard they’re giving Illegals turkeys before citizens , you can bet they’ll sell the turkeys
He needs to put his big boy pants on and deal with the problem instead of crying for Big Daddy.
The problem is that rats solution to problems is more opm.They are not familiar with another method of problem solving.
Adams is one of the slow thinkers has no idea how he got the job in the first place.
With democrats you never leave the plantation.
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