New York Mayor Eric Adams stated: a condition of state of emergency on Friday over the “humanitarian crisis” of thousands of asylum seekers who are sent to his city from outside the state.
Adams beat the Texas Gov. Greg Abbott for aggravating the problem and argued Emergency execution order 224which is “directing all relevant city services to coordinate their efforts to respond to the humanitarian crisis of asylum seekers and to build the city’s humanitarian relief and relief centers,” according to a city hall statement.
“We’re talking potentially 100,000 people going into next year, in months,” Adams told reporters.
New York City has opened 42 hotels as emergency shelters and placed 5,500 migrant children in public schools since “this humanitarian crisis began” in “quick and urgent action” with “virtually no coordination from states sending them,” according to a city hall statement.
City hall said it is calling on Albany and Washington to help pay a $1 billion bill for services to migrants.
The major gave Texas Gov. Abbott to blame for worsening the situation by saying he is “lying” about his role in sending migrants to New York and that he is “untrustworthy”.
An Abbott representative repudiated the criticism and told Adams to blame the White House.
“Instead of complaining about a few thousand migrants being taken by buses to his self-proclaimed sanctuary city, Mayor Adams should call on President Biden to take immediate action to secure the border — something the president continues to fail to do,” he said. Abbott’s spokesperson Renae Eze in a statement. a statement to NBC News.
Abbott, other GOP governors and at least a big city Democratic mayor have sent migrants to other states.
Adams called on all parties to come to an agreement and stop the haphazard shipment of people.
“I think it’s a matter of a national government decompression strategy to make sure we can ensure that these asylum seekers are dispersed all over the country,” Adams said. “We should all work on solving this problem.”
The mayor said the city’s resources are becoming scarce as officials seek to provide housing, food, transport, health care and administrative assistance to migrants.
“New York has been a role model for how to effectively use our infrastructure to address a crisis and ensure we treat people in a humane way,” Adams said.
“So we don’t say, ‘Well, this is what we need to do.’ No. We say (this is) what we are morally responsible for.”
The mayor also reprimanded city councilors who are said to be demanding measures against the influx but are unwilling to shoulder the burden.
“‘House people, but not in my district,'” Adams said. “You can’t have it both ways.”