'We won't give up': what Eric Adams will do with immigrants being taken to New York from Texas

In the past few months, New York has arrived huge number of immigrantssent from the southern regions of the USA. Because of this, the city faced difficulties. But Mayor Eric Adams advises not to be upset and believes that New York and its incredible people will cope with all the challenges. The following is a first-person translation of his address to New Yorkers:

“New York is a city of immigrants. This city is made up of hundreds of cultures, over 700 languages ​​and people born in over 150 countries. Immigrants support our cultural life and our economy. This is the past, present and future of New York.

Over the past few months, an influx of asylum seekers has been arriving in our city. Migrants from the southern border of the United States are being put on buses and sent to the streets of our city in never-before-seen numbers.

The City of New York is doing everything in its power to support the newly arrived asylum seekers in the city. We are working around the clock to provide them with medical care, food and safe places to live. In recent weeks, my administration has set up 48 temporary shelters. We opened a navigation center to offer them legal assistance, vaccinations and more. As of October 12, we have been able to assist over 19 asylum seekers.

But there are not enough places in the city's shelter system. We have already accommodated a record number of people and more are coming every day. We expect more than $1 billion to be spent this fiscal year to support immigrants. This puts an additional strain on our resources as we continue to provide basic social services to 8,8 million New Yorkers: education, health care, sanitation… To finance all of this, we need more help. So I turned to the federal government and New York State for it.

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But I want to emphasize that we will not give up! We will not change our fundamental values. We will continue to support those who come to our city.

I want to thank every New Yorker who dedicated their time and opened their hearts to help the newly arrived immigrants. I also want to commend the city's agencies for doing their best in this unprecedented situation. New Yorkers, as always, were at their best.

New Yorkers know diversity is our strength, and I'm honored to celebrate all of this city's cultures as its mayor.

Whether we are Italians, Venezuelans or Indians, we all have a common title - we are New Yorkers. We are molded from tough dough.