New York City Mayor warns of an impending migrant crisis spilling onto the streets due to a budget crunch, emphasizing the right to sleep outdoors. Mayor Adams of New York City is warning that the migrant crisis could soon spill out onto the streets, as the city faces a budget crunch.
He blames the surge of asylum seekers arriving in the five boroughs for sweeping cuts to city services and has promised to cut the cost of housing migrants by 20%.
New York City Mayor warns of an impending migrant crisis spilling onto the streets due to a budget crunch, emphasizing the right to sleep outdoors. Adams emphasized that people have the right to sleep on the streets, and he wants New Yorkers to understand that they cannot stop them.
Adams has repeatedly called out the Biden administration for not helping the city enough, stating that the flow of migrants from the out-of-control southern border is a national problem and that the feds are not doing enough to help.
He has given city departments until this month to slash an initial 5% from their budgets and warned them to brace for an additional two rounds, totalling another 10%, early next year.
Hizzoner also said he will trim 20% from the cost of sheltering the more than 140,000 migrants who have come through the Big Apple, with 65,000 still under city care.
However, he has yet to detail how he plans to pull it off. The mayor’s goal is to not have children in the sleeping-in-the-street industry and not have everyday people sleeping on the streets.
Adams addressed the issue at a roundtable discussion on a media hosted by John Catsimatidis, calling on business leaders to help him address the asylum seeker issue.
He said that while 50% of the migrants have been stabilized, there are still over 65,000 in their care and need to be allowed to work to fill the employment positions that many have.
He also called on the federal government to have a decompression strategy so other cities, counties, and municipalities can also share in the burden.
The state, which has doneled out $2 billion to help with the crisis, may be moving away from chipping in for migrant shelters and instead focusing more on other costs like legal services.
City Budget Director Jacques Jiha said that could mean “more drastic action” and that they are exploring different exit strategies, such as tweaking 30- and 60-day camps for shelter to move migrants out quicker.
