Mayor Adams drops bombshell, says migrant crisis will 'destroy' NYC

[brooklynite]

Source: New York Daily News

Mayor Adams predicted Wednesday night that the influx of more than 110,000 migrants will “destroy” New York City and continued his demands for the federal government to step up efforts to address what he called a “national crisis.”

Adams’ comments represent perhaps his starkest rhetoric yet on the situation, which began to take shape in the spring of 2022 when asylum seekers started flooding into the city after crossing into American border states — with some coming on buses sent by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott.

“I don’t see an ending to this. This issue will destroy New York City. Destroy New York City. We’re getting 10,000 migrants a month,” he said at a town hall-style meeting on the Upper West Side. “All of us are going to be impacted by this. I said it last year when we had 15,000, and I’m telling you now with 110,000 — the city we knew, we’re about to lose.”

Adams’ remarks came just hours after his administration announced the city would remove hundreds of single adult migrants from hotels and move them to a mega shelter on Randalls Island to make room families with children amid a shortage of shelter space.

Read more: https://www.nydailynews.com/2023/09/07/mayor-adams-drops-bombshell-says-migrant-crisis-will-destroy-nyc/

[JohnSJ]

1. Has Mayor Adams' outreached to the White House directly on this?

[Polybius]

2. There are huge protests in my borough of Staten Island

Adams isn't wrong, although he should have worded it in a better way.

[ck4829]

3. Is New York following in California's footsteps and prohibiting state sponsored travel to Texas?

Sounds like something they should consider.

[keithbvadu2]

9. Charge the Texas, Alabama, Florida politicians as accomplices to such illegal travel like they want

Charge the Texas, Alabama, Florida politicians as accomplices to such illegal travel like they want to do for abortion travel.

[jimfields33]

17. They tried. I think they are volunteering to go to NYC.

It’s not like those states don’t have any at all. They have many they deal with daily.

[Zeitghost]

22. What is illegal travel?

?

[keithbvadu2]

24. Like the right wingers want to do for abortion access travel.

[DownriverDem]

4. What can we send

to Texas? What needs to be done is stop employers from hiring refugees. Send them back to Texas.

[MichMan]

26. You want to prohibit all asylum seekers from working?

How would they support themselves and their families? Crime?

Seems kind of harsh.

[manicdem]

29. Wont work

They want to stay in new york, not in Texas.

You'll have to kidnap them and force them to go back to Texas.

[The Grand Illuminist]

34. And it will make it look like

Abbott and DeSantis were right. We must avoid that.

[Effete Snob]

5. "the city we knew, we're about to lose"

Unrelated to the specific issue at hand, this is a jaw-droppingly dumb statement.

For those who grew up in cities, I would like to know if you have kept "the city you knew" in, say, 1970.

Cities are dynamic and always changing.

I certainly hope to lose the city I knew, because the past is not the future.

[Sympthsical]

7. Grew up in Chicago 80s - 90s

I was very pleased with how Mayor Daley changed it. When I was a kid, the city was a tragedy just about everywhere. After his tenure, so so much better. Not perfect, but definitely reversed the decay and made it world class.

[Sympthsical]

6. The Brad Lander shot was an eyebrow raise

It's not in your article, but an audience member asked about Comptroller Brad Lander's wife heading up non-profits that get money for shelters.

Adams loved that question. He had the person who asked it repeat it for everyone to hear.

[Freethinker65]

8. Process the immigrants then send them to where housing and jobs are available?

Anecdotal, but after taking a cross country road trip, I saw many smaller towns off the interstate desperate for workers. I ate at diners and eavesdropped on locals talking about decent paying jobs that go unfilled and that younger generations raised there are not returning after getting higher education elsewhere.

[BlueKota]

16. There are constantly signs up where I live

that say, closed today because we are short staffed, on all sorts of businesses including restaurants, smaller stores, and even veterinary clinics. There are plenty of jobs out there so it's not like the immigrants would be taking jobs away from U.S. citizens.

A 24 hour veterinary clinic decided to close permanently because they cannot keep it staffed even with receptionists, and cleaning staff. Now the nearest emergency clinics for those who live in the surrounding area is an hour to two hour drive.

[EX500rider]

27. Most those jobs might require a decent command of english though. nt

[Think. Again.]

10. Oh, yes...

New York City couldn't possibly survive with immigrants coming in....

What do think think this is? Ellis Island?

[DURHAM D]

11. Apparently they need to remove that lady in the harbor.

[DavidDvorkin]

12. I bet there were New Yorkers saying the same thing in 1881

When the influx of Jewish refugees from pogroms in the Russian Empire was getting underway.

[Jose Garcia]

13. The difference is that the city wasn't expected to provide food and housing

in 1881.

[Think. Again.]

14. Yep, and New Yorkers in 1881...

...were from families that immigrated, just like today.

[Effete Snob]

15. Absolutely

And every time. The Jews, the Irish, the Italians, and on and on and on...

[ExWhoDoesntCare]

18. Difficult as it is

Ship them right back.

Yes, it's not fair to these poor asylum seekers, but shipping them back where they came from may be the only way to teach these fascist traitor thugs to knock it off.

[maxsolomon]

20. Which "Fascist Traitor Thugs" are you talking about?

the Coup leaders in the Sahel? The dictator of Eritrea? The Taliban? The narco gangs in Honduras? None of them have a motive to "knock it off".

Our laws allow the migrant to claim refugee status and enter until their claims are adjudicated.

[Zeitghost]

23. So kidnap them?

That doesn't seem like a great answer.

[Polybius]

28. How is it kidnaping if they are here illegally?

NYC can't take in this amount.

[MichMan]

25. Deport everyone back to the countries they originally came from?

Trump approves

[rockfordfile]

36. I agree

They should be sent back.

[maxsolomon]

19. Climate-driven refugees, economic refugees, failed state refugees.

The population explosion in the developing world is coming home to roost.

It's not going to let up, here or in Europe, and he's not wrong that there's aren't enough resources, in NYC, in Texas, anywhere, to handle the influx. 10K/month is 120K/year, and many of these are refugee claimants, not admitted immigrants.

There's a housing crisis as it is - this demands Federal action, and the only action the Repukes will fund would be punitive.

[PortTack]

32. The earth needs fewer ppl ...not more. You're right, resources are stretched to the limit already

[Joinfortmill]

21. Whatever he was trying to say... he failed... Don't like this dude at all.

[PortTack]

30. I have the perfect answer. Send all the shitty RWNJs to Russia or Iran or wherever and keep the

Migrants. I guarantee we’d be better off as a country

[marshall]

33. Maybe he should send some buoys to Abbott?

They seem to be on the same page now, unfortunately.

[Bayard]

35. Just what Abbott and deSantis are hoping for

I think that was the plan.