Mayor Adams slams Hochul on migrants, calls for NY state to use executive order

Mayor Adams fired back Thursday after Gov. Hochul’s legal team wrote a scathing critique of the handling of the migrant crisis that is taking a financial bite out of the Big Apple.

Hizzoner complained it’s not right that New York City is responsible for housing “over 99 percent” of the shelters, arguing the crisis is statewide. He called on Hochul to issue an executive order to stop localities outside of NYC from banning migrant shelters.

“I think this is a national and statewide issue that has been unjustly dropped into the lap of New York City residents. We only make up .05 of the landmass in New York State!” a frustrated Adams said during a Manhattan-based press conference Thursday.

“That’s just unfair to New York City,” he added.

“We are going into individual court cases where everyone is finding creative ways not to be the state and country that we are,” Adams told reporters.

Gov. Hochul ripped City Hall’s handling of the migrant influx through her lawyer Wednesday, claiming not only has Adams been slow to respond to the crisis, but he’s even refused to use several locations as shelters provided by the state – despite claiming the shelter system is past its “breaking point.”

The situation appeared to reach a climax earlier this month when dozens of migrants slept outside the historic Roosevelt Hotel-turned-shelter after the city told them they couldn’t provide a bed for the night.

“There was never a desire to have anyone sleep outside. The dam burst! I don’t know how to get it clearer…for a year and eight months, no one was sleeping on our streets. I stood up at this podium day after day, stating that eventually, the dam is going to burst,” Hizzoner said.

“When the damn bursts, the water flow, and that water, in this case, were human beings that had to sleep outside of the Roosevelt Hotel.”

The city is appealing the decades-old right-to-shelter mandate requiring the Big Apple to provide a temporary bed to individuals who ask, arguing the migrant crisis has placed an emergency strain on the system.

In the meantime, City Hall instituted a new policy requiring single adults to reapply for shelter placement after 60 days in order to make room for families with children. So far, 2,900 individuals have received the notices.

Adams has appealed to the state to help house additional migrants, but in the Wednesday letter, the Hochul administration explained they’re not on board with moving more migrants outside the five boroughs.

“The sites that were given to us, some of them were in floodplains, some of them were not suitable to build. And so we analyzed each site,” said Adams, explaining why his staff denied the governor’s sites.

“We did not ignore any of the sites as part of our 3,000 sites that we looked at to house over a hundred thousand people.”

Meanwhile, Adams’ budget officials predict the crisis will cost $12 billion over the next three years should the steady flow of migrants into the Big Apple fail to slow down.

Roughly 101,200 migrants have arrived in the city since the spring of 2022, and over 58,500 are living in 201 taxpayer-funded shelters, according to the latest tally provided by City Hall.

https://nypost.com/2023/08/17/eric-adams-complains-nyc-unfairly-shouldering-most-of-the-migrant-crisis/

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