Corey Johnson, a former Democratic New York City Council chair, said Wednesday that the migrant crisis in the city demonstrated a 'failure' of the federal government.
Former New York City Council chair said Wednesday that the city's migrant crisis shows"failure" of the federal government.
"There was a $350 million pot of FEMA money that cities could apply for. New York City has already incurred well over $1 billion in costs to house 62,000 migrants and has only been awarded $30 million from FEMA. The costs associated with this is going to bloom out to $4.2 billion over the next year. It is an untenable situation. We are a city of immigrants.
Johnson also said he believed Adams was right to demand help from the Biden administration and responded to comments from Rep. Mike Lawler, R-N.Y., who said Adams was doing the"very thing he decried" by sending migrants out of the city. "When we say we are a sanctuary city, we welcome immigrants, we do not go after undocumented people, we are city that does not do things that we have seen in other cities across the country in having I.C.E. agents outside where people are trying to get help. That’s what we mean. This is an unprecedented crisis that is driven by violence in Central America and Mexico and is now overwhelming cities, Los Angeles, Chicago and New York has been the epicenter of it.
MANHATTAN - NY - 05/02/2023 - New York Mayor Eric Adams speaks to family members of fallen NYPD Officers while attending the NYPD Memorial Day Ceremony where new names were added to the Memorial Wall located in the lobby of the headquarters."Hearing the numbers going down is good news, but it’s small comfort to us because the word we’re getting is that the majority of these individuals who are crossing, it’s still high numbers, are coming to New York State.
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