Posted on 01/16/2023 8:00:49 AM PST by fluorescence
Jan. 16 (UPI) -- New York City Mayor Eric Adams traveled to El Paso, Texas, and visited the U.S.-Mexico border over the weekend, during a trip in which he criticized the federal government for its response to the migrant surge and announced plans to coordinated with the rest of the country's mayors to find a solution.
Adams traveled to Texas for the two-day trip that began Saturday and included stops at the southern border, the Office of New Americans' El Paso branch and the Sacred Heart Church, where he told migrants outside that he was going to fight "for their right to work and experience the American dream."
During a press conference Sunday with fellow Democrat El Paso Mayor Oscar Leeser, Adams told reporters that he is working to create a coalition of mayors across the country to find solutions to the migrant surge and secure federal support.
"I'm going to extend my hand to the mayors across to this country to say together we did not create this problem, but together we will find solutions, but those solutions must be implemented by the federal government," he said.
"I'm extremely disappointed of what we have done to the cities of this country and the impression that we're not seeing a level of urgency of getting this issue resolved."
.@NYCMayor stopped by the U.S. @EPCountyTXONA to learn about what they are hearing from arriving asylum seekers.
Last week, more than 3,100 asylum seekers arrived in New York City, with a record 835 arriving in a single day, according to the city. Since last spring, more than 40,000 migrants have arrived in the city, causing local officials to open 74 emergency shelters and four humanitarian relief centers.
The arrivals come amid a surge at the U.S. southern border with U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials tallying a record more than 2 million encounters during the 2022 fiscal year.
In October, Adams declared a state of emergency to coordinate efforts to construct relief efforts to deal with the influx of migrants, including the creation of the relief centers.
Adams told reporters Sunday that no city deserves the migrant situation they are facing.
"Our cities are being undermined. And we don't deserves this, migrants don't deserve this and the people who live in the cities don't deserve this," he said. "We expect more from our national leaders to address this issue in a real way."
Adams said he will be in Washington, D.C., this week to attend the U.S. Conference of Mayors to speak with his counterparts about the issue.
D.C. Mayor Lori Lightfoot, a Democrat, said she "wholeheartedly" agrees with Adams that this is a national problem the demands a national solution.
Like New York City, D.C. is one of several Democratic-led cities Texas Republican Gov. Gregg Abbott has bussed migrants to amid his open criticism of the the Biden administration and the Democratic Party's response to the surge.
Lightfoot said she also visited the border in October to understand the situation, and that they need to work with their federal parters to address the urgent needs of migrants in their cities.
"We continue to strain under the challenge of how to accommodate the rise in asylum-seekers and the escalating associated costs, which have been left primarily to cities to manage," she in a statement. "I once against urge all of us, especially federal leaders, to work together to address this national challenge."
The trip comes after President Joe Biden made his first visit of his administration to the border last week.
Did tHey sanitize the border for his visit like they did for biden?
[[”I’m extremely disappointed of what we have done to the cities of this country and the impression that we’re not seeing a level of urgency of getting this issue resolved.” ]]
Well sir Adam’s, it is your ilk that won’t take the obvious measures to secure our borders. Al. You and Our ilk do is keep,the borders open and the urn around and blame Republicans when they send you a taste of the medicine you force them to take. You aren’t looking for solutions- you are loo,ing for a way to keep the borders open and ALL the illegals in Texas and other select republican states!
Build the wall.
Send ALL the illegals to those Mayor’s cities. NO federal funds.
Dang! This is funny!!!!!
“announced plans to coordinated with the rest of the country’s mayors to find a solution.”
Oh, yeah. Sure.
“...together we will find solutions, but those solutions must be implemented by the federal government,”
President Trump had the problem solved. But HATE TRUMP was more important than anything else.
This phony posturing and pontificating by Adams and all the other Dems about “finding solutions” makes me sick. The solution is damn obvious to anybody with two functioning brain cells.
Major BARF ... this tool, and, his evil party are the ones CAUSING this problem.
Go back and deal with your rat infested/urine saturated cesspool.
NYC has a population of about 8.8 million which is 2.4% of the US 330 million. An even distribution would mean NYC taking in 48000 of those 2 million.
IF adams was serious about the problems in ny he would have went to the border with his OWN bus load of illegals and sent them back himself.
Sounds like a plea for a couple million more Illegal Aliens to be brought to these cities...
These people really need to read the constitution. Go ahead and waste tax payer money and have a few burritos, but those not in the WH don’t have a clue who runs the border. Once these illegals cross the line, the feds will no longer control their movement.
I see he spoke to “migrants”. Unfortunately, it doesn’t appear that he spoke to any of the American residents of El Paso who are drastically negatively impacted by the “migrants”.
Build the friggin’ wall and make the area an A-10 Warthog Training Range to cover it. That will stop all this needless invading of America by foreign “refugee” party goers.
I’m confused..find a solution to what?
King Brandon said everything is aok on the border.
And also,inflation is good.
Migrants are ‘drinking all day,’ ‘having sex in the stairs’ in taxpayer-funded NY hotels
Fox News ^ | 1.12.2023 | Jeffrey Clark
Posted on 01/12/2023 9:35:57 AM PST by Carriage Hill
An employee at Row, one of New York City’s best known hotels, became a whistleblower Wednesday after he released video and photos of illegal immigrants trashing the hotel and leaving fresh food out to rot. “It’s a disgrace,” Row New York City employee Felipe Rodriguez said on “The Ingraham Angle.” “The chaos that we see at the Row today is [caused] by migrants being drunk, drinking all day, smoking marijuana [and] consuming drugs,” Rodriguez said.
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He should come to Staten Island.
835 arrive in Texas every hour
DC Myor Lori Lightfoot?
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