Adams again called on the state and federal government for more financial and logistical help in dealing with the influx of migrants.
Wednesday that if migrants continue coming to the city at their current rate, it will cost $12 billion over the next three years to care for and house an estimated 100,000 migrants—as thousands of asylum-seekers and others make their way from the U.S.-Mexico border to the nation’s largest city.... [+]
Hall press conference, Wednesday Aug. 9, 2023, in New York. Adams is calling on the federal government to declare a national emergency to ease the financial crisis the city is facing as it struggles to accommodate thousands of arriving migrants. the city will spend $4.7 billion on migrant support this year; so far in fiscal year 2023 the city has spent about $1.45 billion.
Over the course of the next three years, Adams said the city will need to find an additional $7 billion to “meet rapidly expanding needs” if it doesn’t get help and migrants continue coming to the city at their current pace. In addition to monetary help, Adams called on the state to create a statewide decompression strategy to ensure every county is assisting with the uptick, and increase the number of state-run and provided sites to house migrants.
Adams asked the federal government—in addition to financial help—to declare a state of emergency at the border, more evenly distribute asylum seekers across the country and start expediting work authorizations for asylum seekers.“New York City has been left to pick up the pieces of a broken immigration system,” Adams said Wednesday.
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