A bipartisan coalition of City Council members is calling on Gov. Kathy Hochul and the state to sue the Biden administration in a bid to toughen up its soft border policies, in part because the pre…
$12B NYC migrant crisis relied on almost every city agency to help — even making the arts distribute clothes: report
“We are urging you to take immediate legal action to prevent further harm to New York caused by the federal government’s failure to secure our borders, prevent the flow of migrants into our city and state, and provide any financial remuneration for the crisis they have created,” wrote Councilman Robert Holden , Minority Leader Joseph Borelli and the rest of the eight-member “Common Sense Caucus” in a letter Friday to Hochul.
“Your private and public appeals to the White House for assistance have been met with indifference or silence,” the members wrote the governor. “We believe the president and his administration have left you no choice but to go to the courts for redress.” Biden’s “negligence” has “caused undue financial injury to the city and state, which is preventing our governments from being able to fulfill their constitutional obligation to provide for their citizens,” they wrote.
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