Mayor Eric Adams in El Paso, Texas for first-hand look at migrant crisis

NEW YORK — Mayor Eric Adams is in Texas on Sunday getting a first-hand look at the migrant crisis alongside the U.S.-Mexico border and hoping to assemble perception on easy methods to take care of the inflow of asylum seekers in New York City. 

Adams stated he went to El Paso to look at how the crisis is impacting the area people and what processes are getting used. Other stops on the journey embrace an area shelter, processing facility and talks with public officers. 

The mayor spent his first day at the southern border Saturday surveying an space the place migrants usually cross and talking with El Paso’s mayor in regards to the crisis overwhelming each of their municipalities. 

Since final spring, practically 40,000 asylum seekers have arrived in New York City. 

“The federal government should have stepped in from day one and that’s what we’ve been asking them to do. New York City is a right to shelter city,” stated Murad Awawdeh, from the New York Immigration Coalition. 

Adams introduced his plan to fly to Texas the identical day he issued an emergency aid request to the state for assist sheltering the migrants, which Adams claimed value town as a lot as $2 billion. 

Gov. Kathy Hochul responded on Saturday. 

“This is an issue that is heartbreaking for all of us to see these individuals who traveled so far under such difficult circumstances just in search of the American dream. I told the mayor I’d be continuing to help him. We’ve been helping him for many months. We’ll continue to give him support,” stated Hochul. 

Advocates stated President Joe Biden and Congress should act. 

“The federal government could solve this problem overnight by allowing people work authorization,” stated Jack Goldfein, from the Legal Aid Society. 

Goldfein argued there’s loads town can do till authorities assist arrives. 

“There are tens of thousands of New Yorkers already in the New York City shelter system who would move out if the city would assist them,” stated Goldfein. 

Adams is predicted to conclude his journey by late Sunday afternoon and provides an replace to New Yorkers from El Paso earlier than returning.