Mayor Adams says the price tag to care for asylum seekers in NYC has tripled to an eye-popping $12 billion. He says without help from federal or state officials, he'll have to make impossible decisions about cutting city services. MKramerTV reports.
And while the silence from the Biden administration has been deafening, the governor immediately stepped up by saying she would add to the $1 billion already budgeted for New York City.
The governor has also agreed to have the state foot the bill to open an new shelter on Randall's Island and another in the parking lot at the Creedmoor Psychiatric Center in Queens. She said she is also trying to convince the Biden administration to let the migrants work, to change their status from asylum seekers to something called"temporary protective status," or TPS.
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