NYC Mayor Adams says city is at ‘breaking point’ with arrival of migrants sent from Texas

New York City Mayor Eric Adams stated Wednesday that the city is at a “breaking point” resulting from 1000’s of migrants who’ve been sent by bus from Texas in latest weeks. 

“In the last few months, we have experienced an unprecedented surge of asylum seekers arriving from the southern border,” Adams stated Wednesday. 

“In this new and unforeseen reality, where we expect thousands more to arrive every week going forward, the city’s system is nearing its breaking point. As a result, the city’s prior practices, which never contemplated the bussing of thousands of people into New York City, must be reassessed.”

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has been bussing migrants to New York City; Washington, D.C.; and Chicago in an effort to supply border cities aid and lift consciousness in regards to the disaster. 

Since early August, Texas has sent greater than 2,200 migrants to New York City, 7,900 migrants to the nation’s capital and about 300 migrants to Chicago. 

“They all are concerned about a few dozen or a few hundred migrants coming to their town,” Gov. Abbott advised Fox News earlier this week. “We get that many per hour in almost every community across the border. So we’re dealing with this all the time.”

Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser has requested twice for the National Guard to be activated to “help prevent a prolonged humanitarian crisis in our nation’s capital resulting from the daily arrival of migrants,” however the Pentagon has denied each requests. 

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Illinois Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker stated Tuesday that he is activating 75 National Guard troops to help with the inflow of migrants, accusing Gov. Abbott of “a heartless display of politics over people.” 

There have been greater than two million migrant encounters at the southern border thus far this fiscal yr, a brand new report excessive, together with greater than 200,000 every of the previous 4 months. 

New York Mayor Eric Adams speaks throughout a news convention at City Hall in New York City on Jan. 24, 2022. 
(REUTERS/Brendan McDermid)

Texas launched Operation Lone Star final yr, authorizing the National Guard to crack down on crime at the border. 

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Since March 2021, greater than 302,000 migrants have been apprehended by means of Operation Lone Star simply in Texas, leading to greater than 19,700 legal arrests and the seizure of 340 million deadly doses of fentanyl, in keeping with Abbott. 

Mayor Adams, in the meantime, stated that “no city official, advocate, or court ever could have contemplated” the “reality” of the migrant disaster. 

A migrant household sits after being processed on May 5, 2022, in Roma, Texas. 
(Brandon Bell/Getty Images)

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“Since May, this administration, on its own, has safely and efficiently provided shelter, health care, education, and a host of other services to more than 11,000 people predominantly from Central and South America who are seeking a better life,” Adams stated Wednesday. 

“While some may want to use these extraordinary circumstances as an opportunity to play an unproductive game of gotcha, we remain focused on supporting each of these individuals and families who need our city’s help.”