National Guard refuses to hand out NYC’s pamphlets telling migrants not to come, ‘consider another city’By Carl Campanile and Craig McCarthy
July 20, 2023
Mayor Eric Adams’ plan to hand out flyers at the border and at Big Apple migrant sites — telling asylum seekers to “consider another city” — is getting abject refusal from the National Guard and federal authorities, The Post has learned.
When a city deputy working with the Humanitarian and Emergency Relief Centers requested National Guardsmen pass out the leaflets, the soldiers declined — saying there was no green light from superiors, a source told The Post.
The National Guard assists in processing hundreds of migrants at dozens of city sites, emergency relief centers and hotels.
National Guard spokesman Col. Richard Goldberg had a more blunt reply to the query: “We are not.”
“It’s not in our mission set,” he said. “It’s not a mission set we can pass to our members.”
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Source:
https://nypost.com/2023/07/20/national-guard-resists-handing-out-nyc-flyers-urging-migrants-not-to-come/
