The Ladies of the View suggested Friday that migrants “should be resettled elsewhere” because America is a “great country” as they discussed their disappointment with Mayor Eric Adams’ handling of the crisis facing New York City.
New York Mayor Eric Adams warned earlier this week that the 10,000 illegal asylum seekers arriving every month will “destroy” the city.
It’s a dramatic change for the mayor, who promised during his campaign that New York would remain a haven under Adams’ administration, saying in 2021: “We must protect our immigrants. Period of time.’
Discussing Adams’ comments, The View host Ana Navarro said migrants put “enormous pressure” on cities, communities and social services – adding: “They need to be settled elsewhere.”
Navarro’s co-host Sara Haines agreed, saying, “They need to be spread out.” Navarro is a Republican, while Haines describes himself as a moderate leftist who grew up in a conservative household.
But many social media users condemned the women’s comments, accusing them of expressing a “not in our backyard” attitude, as many other states are also struggling to cope with the influx of migrants.
More than 10,000 migrants arrive every month, of which more than 110,000 are spread across the metro.
Ana Navarro, co-host of The View, said migrants fleeing to New York City ‘should be resettled differently’
The passionate discussion during the talk show was sparked by a video of the mayor of New York addressing angry residents during a town hall meeting on Wednesday.
Excerpts showed Adams admitting he saw no solution to the migrant crisis problem while condemning Joe Biden’s lack of help.
Adams said, “Let me tell you something, New Yorkers. Never in my life have I had a problem that I couldn’t see an end to. I don’t see an end to this,” he admitted. “This issue will destroy New York City. Destroy New York City.”
There are now nearly 60,000 migrants in the care of the city, and about 21,000 new migrant children will be attending school this year.
Joy Behar, host of The View, said the crisis “will only get worse because of global warming and climate change, because people in certain parts of this world will no longer be able to live.”
Navarro then compared the Big Apple’s migrant crisis to her experiences as an immigrant in Miami in the 1980s.
She compared the current migration to New York City to the Mariel boatlift – when a mass emigration of Cubans travels from the Cuban port of Mariel to the United States between April 15 and October 31, 1980.
This comparison concerns the buses of migrants who arrive almost daily: more than 10,000 arrive monthly and more than 110,000 are spread across the metro.
Mayor Eric Adams opened more than 200 shelters across the five boroughs to try to house the 100,000 people who have arrived from the border
Navarro, a Cuban immigrant, compared the Big Apple’s migrant crisis to her experiences as an immigrant in Miami in the 1980s.
Alyssa Farah Griffin, former White House strategic communications director and Donald Trump staffer who is now co-host of The View, said, “New York is finally getting a taste of what border states have been dealing with for decades.”
Griffin said, “This is a Biden problem right now because he’s the president. This was a problem under Trump. It has been a problem for over 25 years. We haven’t had major immigration reform in this country in decades.”
In a desperate attempt to ease the migrant crisis, Mayor Eric Adams opened more than 200 shelters across the five boroughs to try to house the tens of thousands of migrants who have arrived from the border.
The mayor’s office estimates that the migrant issue will cost New York City $12 billion over three years.
Adams had previously announced plans to discourage migrants from coming to the Big Apple by telling them the “city was full.”
Adams said the Big Apple is receiving more than 10,000 migrants every month as he warned the city could be transformed forever
New York Mayor Eric Adams discussed the migrant crisis at a town hall on Wednesday, warning it will ‘destroy’ the Big Apple
Sara Haines told her other co-hosts that the immigration system has been “broken” for years and that “neither side has fixed it.”
Haines said, “There are 500 jobs waiting in the state’s agricultural areas.” She explained, “The permits don’t come through DC
“Mayor Adams goes to Kathy Hochul, who says we won’t call anything into session,
“If this is an emergency and we’re all saying lives are at stake, come back from your break – wherever it is – sit down and deal with it.”