Eric Adams Complains Migrants Were ‘Unjustly Dropped’ In NYC After Touting Sanctuary City Status
GRETCHEN CLAYSON
REPORTER
August 17, 2023
8:40 PM ET
New York City Mayor Eric Adams expressed his frustration Thursday over the ever-growing migrant population in the Big Apple, despite its self-proclaimed sanctuary city status.
“This is a national and state-wide issue that has been unjustly dropped into the lap of New York City residents,” Adams complained. The mayor then went on to explain that the city itself only makes up 0.05 of the entire land mass of the state of New York, but is still housing “over 99% of the migrants.”
New York City became a sanctuary city under the Democratic administration of Ed Koch in the 1989. Koch’s administration wanted to ensure that asylum seekers in NYC could enroll their children in public school and receive medical care without fear of being deported. Eventually, city employees — particularly police officers — were no longer permitted to ask migrants about their immigration status. In 2014, Mayor Bill De Blasio “dramatically reduced” NYC’s cooperation with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
https://dailycaller.com/2023/08/17/eric-adams-migrants-unjustly-dropped-sanctuary-city-new-york-city/
