NYC Mayor Eric Adams says city will need to spend $1 BILLION to care for 17,000 migrants

New York City Mayor Eric Adams called on the Biden administration to crack down on the border crisis as he declared a state of emergency in the Big Apple.

Adams condemned the bus programs led by Texas Governor Greg Abbott, which have brought about 17,000 migrants to the Big Apple.

The mayor said five to six buses have been arriving every day since September, with nine arriving yesterday and eight on Friday.

Since April, New York has set up 42 emergency shelters, enrolling 5,500 children in a public school and trying to help asylum seekers connect with family and resources.

But Adams warned the city could eventually see 100,000 new migrants arrive by the end of the year, taking its toll on New York’s budget.

“We expect to spend at least $1 billion on this crisis by the end of the fiscal year, all because we have a functional, compassionate system,” Adams said.

The mayor called on the federal government to tighten border controls, provide funds to cities overburdened by the influx of migrants, and encourage other cities to take in the immigrants.

‘We need a realistic decompression strategy at the border that slows down the outflow of asylum seekers. said Adams. “We need a coordinated effort to move asylum seekers to other cities in this country to ensure that everyone does their part.”

He issued emergency orders to expedite the construction of ‘tent towns’ to house the 17,000 arriving migrants, such as the latest built in Randalls Island (pictured)

Since September, five to six buses full of migrants arrive daily (above), eight buses arrive on Thursday and nine on Friday

The mayor noted that the city’s shelters were already at nearly 100 percent capacity, with about 61,000 people in the system, 20,000 of them children.

“While our compassion is limitless, our resources are not,” Adams said. “This is untenable.”

Adams appealed to hotels and non-profit organizations for temporary housing for the new migrants, and urged the private sector for donations to help the tense city.

Despite the city’s latest construction of a ‘tent town’ on Randalls Island to accommodate the influx of migrants, the mayor used emergency powers to call on city services to expedite the construction of additional ‘humanitarian aid centers’.

‘Unless we take immediate action that’ [Randalls Island] in a few days the center will be full,” the Adams warned. “And we’ll have to open another, and another, and another, even when winter comes.”

The mayor also claimed that if officials in Texas and Arizona, where most of the migrants come from, had first contacted New York to coordinate a plan, the city would have been able to allocate a budget to to help the migrants .

“But we didn’t get the support and information we asked for, and now New York City is being forced to bear much more than its share of this national crisis.”

“Our right to shelter, our social services and our values ​​are being exploited by others for political gain,” the mayor added, condemning the bus program.

This is a story in development.