Adams warns of soaring costs as migrant kids flood school system, begs New Yorkers to ‘do more’By Desheania Andrews, Bernadette Hogan and Jesse O’Neill
August 8, 2023
An indignant Mayor Eric Adams warned Tuesday that New York City is “on the eve of a fiscal cliff’’ as the projected multibillion-dollar cost of its migrant influx was set to soar thanks partly to asylum school kids.
“We need national leadership,” Hizzoner said, repeating his demand that the Biden administration step up and do more to combat the border crisis — while also ordering New Yorkers to do the same.
“We need every New Yorker that has something to offer to play a role. This is not Mayor Adams’ job. This is the job of the people of the city of New York, and everyone should participate in that through New York City Cares, through the 100 nonprofits that we are part of and all the other groups,” the Democratic mayor said.
“Everyone needs to be a part of that, and I’m not going to allow anyone to allow this moment to go past without asking, ‘What are you doing to help people who are in need right now?’ ”
More than 18,000 children in the city’s shelter system are enrolled in public schools for the upcoming year. The figure includes non-migrant students with no place to call home but doesn’t account yet for asylum-seeking youngsters who have yet to register with the school system — a number that state and city officials have warned could be massive in the coming weeks.
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https://nypost.com/2023/08/08/adams-warns-of-soaring-costs-as-migrant-kids-flood-schools-fiscal-cliff/
