New York: The immigration crisis will “destroy” the city, according to the city’s Democratic mayor

Eric Adams, the Democratic mayor of New York City (USA), asserted that the immigration crisis would “destroy” the city. The major American city receives more than 10,000 economic migrants and asylum seekers per month.

Every month, New York welcomes 10,000 new economic immigrants and asylum seekers. A phenomenon that will “destroy” the city, according to Eric Adams.

“I have never in my life faced a problem that I do not see an end to,” the mayor of the major American city said Wednesday evening during a public discussion.

Within a year and a half, New York, a city with a population of 8.5 million, saw more than 110,000 immigrants settle within its walls. Some in particular are sent by Republican governors, who charter buses or planes to send migrants to New York, Washington or even Los Angeles.

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New York, by law, is required to provide shelter, food and care to anyone seeking asylum.

Thus, Eric Adams, a former African American police officer, asked the federal government for help to deal with this immigration crisis. “New Yorkers’ compassion may be unlimited, but our resources are not,” he actually said in August.

His new statements, on Wednesday, sparked severe criticism from associations defending immigrants’ rights.

Like the New York Immigration Coalition, which on Thursday accused him of “shifting the blame for mismanagement of new arrivals (…) onto vulnerable people seeking security and opportunity.”

“This dangerous rhetoric is something we would expect from a far-right politician,” the Alliance for the Homeless and the Legal Aid Society responded in a joint statement.