NYPD officers force back hecklers as they jeer and boo Eric Adams as he hosts rally calling for asylum seekers to get right to work quicker in NYC: ‘Close the border now!’

Eric Adams was jeered and jeered by hecklers as he led a rally calling on the Biden administration to help the city deal with the migrant crisis.

The New York City mayor called on the White House to expedite work visas for asylum seekers and “give them the opportunity to contribute to our society.”

But his speech at the Foley Square event on Thursday was met with opposition from three anti-migrant protesters who called on President Joe Biden to “close the border now.”

They were pushed back by New York City Police Department (NYPD) officers and escorted out of the area.

It comes as New York City has struggled with the influx of more than 100,000 migrants since April 2022, leaving shelters full and leaving many on the sidewalks in Manhattan.

Mayor Eric Adams has begged for money to deal with the crisis and has called on President Joe Biden to declare a state of emergency on August 9.

He urged the White House to expedite the path to work for asylum seekers to help with the issue at its meeting in lower Manhattan on Thursday.

‘Let them work! Give them the opportunity to contribute to our society,’ says Adams.

The mayor also called for them to be granted extended temporary protection status.

“We say we need to expedite work visas. It’s just common sense. Thousands of jobs are available to be filled,” he added.

“Our resources are not endless… The solution does not lie in New York City alone. The solution is New York State and the United States.”

Adams said his mission was to keep pace with providing shelter for the thousands of migrants who arrive every day.

But his words were met with boos and jeers from three protesters present before they were led away.

One man held up a sign that read, “Mayor of New York, Eric Adams. We must call on Joe Biden to close the border now!” He also included the Spanish translation for ‘close the border now’.

As he was led away by NYPD officers, he continued to yell, “You’re putting illegal immigrants out on the street who haven’t been vetted. We don’t know who they are.’

He claimed the asylum seekers were placed before “legal migrants,” including his relatives from Colombia who waited seven years.

‘You put illegal immigrants above my relatives from Colombia? This is ridiculous, this is a nightmare,” he said.

Another man in a black t-shirt with the flag of Puerto Rico on it was taken away by police, accusing them of censorship.

A third anti-migrant protester said: ‘We are not against immigration, we want legal immigration. The problem is, if you take all these people, the city will have to spend $20 billion on the budget. What will happen to social services?’

It comes after an anti-migrant protest outside Gracie Mansion turned violent on Sunday.

An anti-illegal migrant protest led by Curtis Sliwa, the Guardian Angels founder and former mayoral candidate, gathered on 86th Street and East End Avenue, where things turned physical with a handful of counter-protesters.

Sliwa spoke out against his former opponent, who has opened more than 200 shelters across the five boroughs to try to house the tens of thousands of migrants who have arrived from the southern border.

“These migrants skipped the line,” Sliwa said. “If I were a migrant and you gave me the chance to stay ahead and stay in a hotel, give me three meals…in fact, give me more than homeless people born in America or veterans who are out of luck – you “Damned right, they’ll keep coming.”

He was adamant in his message: “Americans first, migrants at the back!”

At one point during the protest, a woman was arrested after trying to burn the American flag and stomping on it on the ground.

“We don’t need this hate! We don’t need this damn hate! That’s not what this is supposed to be, but this is what they make of it,’ she cried.

Sliwa – a longtime presence in New York media and politics since founding the “unarmed crime prevention” organization – was arrested for a second time this week after leading a protest against bringing shelters to Staten Island.

a A large group of protesters gathered on Staten Island on Monday resists the opening of a new migrant reception centre.

Hundreds of heated but peaceful protesters gathered to protest by using an unused schoolhouse to house migrants who have flooded New York City.

Protesters showed up to oppose the use of the closed St. John Villa Academy as a 300-bed makeshift shelter for some of the thousands of asylum seekers transferred from the border to New York City.

The migrant situation has created tensions among Democrats within the state.

As New York City’s homeless shelter system became overwhelmed and the cost of housing migrants in hotels and temporary shelters rose, Adams began organizing bus trips himself to take migrants to other parts of the state, to the frustration of officials in those communities .

Lawyers for Hochul and Adams have spoken in court about the best housing and resources to care for the migrants.

The state has earmarked up to $1.5 billion for its response to migrants. Hochul asked Biden for financial assistance to help cover those costs, and is expected to need $4.5 billion next year.

In addition, the governor requested that the city and state be allowed to use federal property to house migrants.

Shelters in New York City are nearly full and officials have scrambled to set up temporary housing in hotels, recreation centers, gyms and a hospital parking lot. The city is legally obliged to provide shelter to anyone who needs it.

Republicans are already seeing the response to this wave of migrants as an opportunity to campaign in the 2024 election.

“New Yorkers won’t forget what happened on Kathy Hochul’s watch,” Laska said.

“They won’t forget that communities across the state are under pressure and unable to handle this influx of migrants, and that the real solution is to close the border.”