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“There is no more space” to receive migrants in our city, so warned Mayor Eric Adams, who visited El Paso, Texas, hoping to receive federal funds in the face of the immigration crisis facing the Big Apple, and which could cost him 2 billion dollars at a time of budget deficit.
“Our cities are being undermined and we don’t deserve this. Migrants don’t deserve this and people living in cities don’t deserve this. We expect more from our national leaders to really address this issue,” said New York City Mayor Eric Adams.
At a press conference, he also referred to the misinformation received by migrants at the border about alleged promises of employment and housing.
“There are websites that advertise that in New York City, basically, the streets are paved with gold, that there is automatic employment, and that you are automatically going to live in a hotel. We have to give people accurate information. In New York they are going to live in congregate environments and there is no more space in the city,” added the mayor.
The mayor’s words resonate in the streets of the Big Apple, where migrants roam in search of housing, as they say that the shelters are overcrowded.
“It has been a little hard because of the question of what is housing, what is work, since we do not have documents here they do not give us a work permit or anything, and also as my partner says we have two days here in the shelter to see if they give us housing,” said William Hoguera, a Venezuelan migrant.
More than 40,000 people arrived in New York in the year 2022, most of them aboard buses sent by governors of red states…. And in a single day since the beginning of 2023, 800 migrants have arrived in the city, according to the mayor.
