THE AMERICA ONE NEWS
Jun 2, 2025  |  
0
 | Remer,MN
Sponsor:  QWIKET 
Sponsor:  QWIKET 
Sponsor:  QWIKET: Elevate your fantasy game! Interactive Sports Knowledge.
Sponsor:  QWIKET: Elevate your fantasy game! Interactive Sports Knowledge and Reasoning Support for Fantasy Sports and Betting Enthusiasts.
back  
topic
NY Post
New York Post
18 Dec 2023


NextImg:Mayor Adams says he could help fix migrant crisis if he were in White House

New York City Mayor Eric Adams said Sunday that he could help fix the out-of-control migrant crisis if he was the one sitting in the White House.

Adams said he would deploy a “real decompression strategy” that has somehow escaped the Biden administration — shipping migrants from the border to all over the country and giving them three years to get it together.

“We tell them, ‘Here’s where you’re going to go for a three-year period to stabilize yourself,’ ” the Democrat told host Joe Torres on WABC-TV’s “Tiempo” of incoming asylum-seekers at the border.

“This way, instead of having 140,000 coming here or a thousand coming to Chicago, we’re spreading it out throughout the entire country.”

Hizzoner’s comments came during a series of media appearances dealing largely with the growing crisis that has seen more than 150,000 asylum seekers from the US’ southern border flooding into the Big Apple since the spring of last year.

There are now more than a reported 67,000 migrants being housed and fed on the city dime — more than three times the number at the same time last year.

Adams told CBS News that Democrats “underestimated” the impact of the influx of migrants.

He told Torres on “Tiempo” that the answer is to spread the pain.

Big Apple Mayor Eric Adams said Sunday that if he was president, migrants would be shipped across the entire US. WABC

“We have 108,000 towns, villages, cities across America,” Adams said. “In my view, many people are dealing with population issues, employment issues and they want migrants and asylum seekers that can work because we are a city and a country of immigrants.”

It’s not the first time the mayor has pitched an idea to ease the migrant burden on the city.

Officials at City Hall confirmed in October that asylum-seekers were being steered to a new “reticketing center” that could help them land a one-way plane ticket out of town — anywhere but here.

Migrants lined up in Midtown Manhattan.
More than 150,000 migrants have been processed in the Big Apple since the spring of 2022, with 67,000 still in city care. Robert Miller

The center, which is located in a repurposed church office in the East Village, was set up solely to purchase tickets for asylum-seekers who want to leave town.

Adams has also pushed migrants on communities on Long Island and upstate New York in a bid to take the strain off the overburdened city shelter system — getting pushback along the way.