Posted on 12/26/2023 9:45:48 PM PST by george76
Mayor Eric Adams said Tuesday that he’s baffled he can’t get a meeting with the White House to talk about the Big Apple’s burgeoning migrant crisis — even as thousands of asylum seekers arrive in the city every week.
“The federal government said to New York City: ‘We’re not going to do our job — you do our job. You take care of 4,000 people a week, Eric, you and your team,'” Adams said at a press conference.
“Those who should have been helping us in government — every step of the way, [they] just critiqued us,” he lamented. “I’m not seeing the light at the end of the tunnel from the federal government.”
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Cities should not be handling national problems.”
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The Big Apple has struggled over the last year-and-a-half to deal with mammoth numbers of incoming migrants — a figure that’s now exceeded 161,000, according to city officials on Tuesday.
That includes about 4,000 who arrived just last week — making 16,000 in the last month, Adams said — and more than 68,000 who remain in city care.
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His handlers suckered him into running for mayor the first time. He had no idea he was the mark to them.
If asks himself the question and answers honestly, he'd know there's no way he'd play the fool twice. With that in mind, he needs to pull back, shrug like Atlas, and work on whatever he really intends to do in retirement. He was already retired from the NYPD before he took the bait to run for mayor.
He can run a competition with Jao Bai-din to see who takes more vacation days.
Don’t worry Eric there are thousands more on the way
Keep ‘em coming!
Yo, Eric, you created a sanctuary city and now you’re getting to implement it.
it baffles you, because you’re stooopid...
Obama is not interested in resolving the issue.
While you’re right, this goes way beyond incompetence.
Must be the first time Mayor Eric Adams got the finger by a white guy.
This cracks me up. As a former New Yorker 36 year texas resident. They are complaining about a drop of water when we have a flood daily. They should use their influence and stop it for all states and not just whine.
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