New York City is grappling with an unprecedented migrant crisis, as the city has experienced a staggering influx of over 100,000 migrants since the spring of 2022.
The once harmonious relationship between New York Gov. Kathy Hochul and Mayor Eric Adams has grown increasingly strained, as each is critical of the other's handling of the crisis.
Federal data show that about a million illegal immigrants poured into the U.S. in 2022 alone, with New York City appearing to have received most of the migrants, especially those bused from Texas.
The New York City mayor has openly denounced the governor for not doing enough to manage the crisis.
Hochul claimed Thursday that the "Right-to-shelter" mandate "Does not apply to the state's other 57 counties, which is one of the reasons we cannot and will not force other parts of our state to shelter migrants." The governor also noted, "Putting someone in a hotel on a dark, lonely road in Upstate New York and telling them they're supposed to survive is not compassion."
Adams has insisted that the governor is wrong: "Whatever obligations apply under state law to the City of New York apply with equal force to every county across New York state. Leaving New York City alone to manage this crisis - and abdicating the state's responsibility to coordinate a statewide response - is unfair to New York City residents who also didn't ask to be left almost entirely on their own in the middle of a national crisis."
A recent poll of registered New York voters shows that 82 percent of respondents consider the migrant influx a serious issue, with 51 percent and 47 percent disapproving of Hochul's and Adams' handling of the crisis, respectively.
https://spectator.org/migrant-crisis-is-destroying-new-york-city/
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