The immigration crisis angered even the Democrats: Adams demands that Biden solve the problem with illegal immigrants
'19.01.2023'
Nadezhda Verbitskaya
New York Democratic Mayor Eric Adams led fellow U.S. mayors who lashed out on January 18 at the federal response to the immigration crisis. Fox News.
Adams made comments at the US Conference of Mayors on Wednesday, January 18. The group called on President Biden and Congress to provide additional funding to cities, as well as ensure a more even distribution of migrants crossing the border.
Thanks to a bus program designed by Republican Greg Abbott of Texas, New York alone has taken in more than 30 migrants in the past 000 months.
“Just a few days ago, I was in El Paso to see firsthand the asylum crisis that is affecting our border states and our entire country,” Adams said. “What I saw is not a state or city problem. This is a national issue driven by global forces affecting ordinary people.”
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“Every attempt to solve the problem of immigration at the national level through legislation has been sabotaged,” he said. “Mostly right-wing opposition. And the cities bear the brunt of this failure.”
Adams urged the US not to adopt policies that could stem the flow of illegal immigration, but to expand programs to help cities deal with it.
Adams reiterated his call for Biden to appoint a "national czar" to tackle the immigration crisis
In 2021, Biden named Vice President Kamala Harris as "frontier czar." But she has made little progress on this issue.
The immigration crisis has hit record after record since Biden took office in 2021. In December, the number of migrants clustered at the southern border exceeded 250 for the first time in history. The previous record, 000, was broken in October.
In the first 100 days of fiscal year 2023, which began on October 1, US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) experienced 718 border crossings.
The White House has long tried to dismiss this surge as an annual occurrence. But historical data show that the current crisis extends far beyond the traditional annual bouts.
