President Joe Biden is used to GOP criticism over immigration, but Eric Adams is different.
The New York City mayor has been making noise about immigrants flooding his city for months but took the rhetoric to a new level last week."Let me tell you something, New Yorkers," the Democratic mayor said during a community meeting."Never in my life have I had a problem that I did not see an ending to. I don't see an ending to this. I don't see an ending to this. This issue will destroy New York City.
New York City has received some 110,000 immigrants over the last year and is reducing overtime pay for workers in the city's police, fire, sanitation, and corrections departments to help balance the budget. The White House has resisted calls to speed up work permits, reportedly over concerns about lawsuits and the potential for such a move to draw more immigrants to the border. Biden officials instead point the finger at Congress.
"Why on earth should Congress pass legislation effectively making these open-borders policies implemented by Secretary Mayorkas and President Biden law?" House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Mark Green told the Washington Examiner."‘Comprehensive immigration reform’ is nothing more than D.C.-doublespeak for ‘mass amnesty,’ and such irresponsible legislation like that proposed by the president would only worsen the border crisis.
"This makes life more difficult for the Biden White House and creates an optics problem, which is the only thing the administration responds to," she said. Adams's office said he is not interested in revisiting New York's sanctuary city status, but he has said its right to shelter law must be looked at. The law dates to 1981 and holds that anyone without a roof over their head can get one through a city-run shelter system.
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