Mayor Adams slams Hochul on migrants, calls for state to use executive order

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Mayor Adams slams Hochul on migrants, calls for state to use executive order

By Kevin Sheehan and Bernadette Hogan
August 17, 2023

Mayor Adams fired back Thursday after Gov. Hochul’s legal team wrote a scathing critique of the handling of the migrant crisis that is taking a financial bite out of the Big Apple.

Hizzoner complained it’s not right that New York City is responsible for housing “over 99 percent” of the shelters, arguing the crisis is statewide. He called on Hochul to issue an executive order to stop localities outside of NYC from banning migrant shelters.

“I think this is a national and statewide issue that has been unjustly dropped into the lap of New York City residents. We only make up .05 of the landmass in New York State!” a frustrated Adams said during a Manhattan-based press conference Thursday.

“That’s just unfair to New York City,” he added.

“We are going into individual court cases where everyone is finding creative ways not to be the state and country that we are,” Adams told reporters.

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Source:  https://nypost.com/2023/08/17/eric-adams-complains-nyc-unfairly-shouldering-most-of-the-migrant-crisis/