Adams declares a state of emergency in New York due to illegal immigrants sent to the city by the governor of Texas

New York City Mayor Eric Adams declared a state of emergency on Oct. 7 in response to the arrival of thousands of immigrants brought by bus from the southern US border in recent months. He asks for help from the administration of US President Joe Biden, and overcrowded shelters in the city are trying to accommodate the new arrivals. Read more about the situation told the publication CBS News.

There are not enough beds in the city's shelters, Adams said. They are home to over 61 homeless New Yorkers and illegal immigrants, including 000 children. The mayor said that a fifth of those in shelters are immigrants. The city has enrolled 20 newly arrived illegal children in public schools.

At current rates, Adams noted, the local shelter system could host 100 people next year. In addition, he said, by July next year, the city will have to spend more than $000 billion to receive and accommodate immigrants.

To date, New York City has converted more than 40 hotels into makeshift shelters and plans to set up a tent city on Randall Island. But, Adams stressed, the city won't have the money or housing to support thousands of migrants to help the local homeless.

“Now we have a situation where more people are coming to New York than we can accommodate, including families with babies and young children,” the mayor stated. “Once the October 7 bus immigrants are granted asylum, we will surpass the largest number of people in the recorded history of our city’s asylum system.”

Since the spring, more than 17 migrant asylum seekers have arrived in New York on hundreds of buses from Venezuela, Cuba, Nicaragua and other Latin American countries, according to city data.

Thousands of migrants are in New York because Texas state officials are putting them on buses to New York, Washington, D.C., and Chicago, Illinois, to protest the Biden administration's handling of record border detentions. reported in the last year.

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Officials in El Paso, Texas are offering migrants free bus rides to New York City as part of an effort to reduce overcrowding in local shelters largely due to a surge in the number of Venezuelans seeking asylum.

Adams said officials sending migrants to New York used the city's values, social services, and asylum laws for "political gain."

“We didn't ask for this,” he said. “There has never been any agreement to take on the job of supporting thousands of asylum seekers. This responsibility was simply transferred to us without warning."

Renée Eze, spokeswoman for Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, called Adams' remarks disingenuous and said the mayor should tell President Biden to be tougher along the US-Mexico border.

“A real emergency has arisen on the southern border of our country, where small Texas border towns are flooded with hundreds of migrants every single day, and the Biden administration is letting them go,” Eze said.

In his speech, Adams urged federal and state officials to help New York take in migrants by increasing funding and resources, as well as providing new legal powers. He called the current situation "unsustainable".

Adams asked the state of New York to support the establishment of migrant assistance centers. He suggested that Congress pass laws that would speed up the process of allowing asylum seekers to work in the US, which would enable them to find work. He wants lawmakers to overhaul the immigration system, including by legalizing illegal immigrants already living in the US.

The federal government, according to Adams, should implement a "decompression strategy" along the US-Mexico border to "slow down the flow of asylum seekers" and ferry illegal immigrants to other cities.

The Department of Homeland Security said it is "leading a comprehensive effort to support cities" that accept illegals, including by having the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) expedite requests from groups and officials seeking federal reimbursement for their travel expenses. illegal immigrants.

"We will continue to do our best to support cities, but some governors are deliberately creating chaos and confusion with their violent political stunts," the department said in a statement.