Monitoring Desk
LOS ANGELES: The mayor of New York, Eric Adams on Sunday declared that “there is no room in New York” for busloads of migrants being sent to America’s most populous city.
The comments came as Eric Adams, a Democrat, traveled to the Mexican border city of El Paso. He was also critical of the Democratic US President Joe Biden administration, saying “now is the time for the national government to do its job” about the immigrant crisis at America’s southern border.
New York city mayor visit unprecedented
The visit of a New York mayor to the Mexican (southern) border city of El Paso in connection with the issue of immigrants is unprecedented.
Busloads of migrants have been shipped north to New York and other cities by the Republican-run states. That has aggravated a housing crisis in New York and a worsening homeless crisis in the city.
Adams’s trip to El Paso comes after he said the migrant influx into New York could cost the city as much as $2bn. The city is already facing a major budget deficit.
In recent months the Republican governors of Texas and Florida have sent thousands of migrants seeking sanctuary in the US to cities run by Democratic politicians, including Washington, D.C, New York, and Chicago.
