It appears New York City has run out of room at 200 locations for a non-stop wave of illegal aliens, including the historic 1,000-room Roosevelt Hotel in Manhattan, and now men, women, and children are sleeping outside on city sidewalks.
An estimated 93,200 illegal aliens have arrived in New York City since 2022, according to The New York Post, which said an average of 2,500 are arriving every week from the U.S.-Mexico border. Many are being bused there by Republican governors.
Reacting to his overrun city, Mayor Eric Adams complained about the situation Monday at a city hall press conference.
“I've been very clear on what we need: We need to control the border,” he said. “We need to call the state of emergency and we need to properly fund this national crisis."
Mark Krikorian, executive director of the Center for Immigration Studies, points out – like many others have done – Adams has bragged New York is a “sanctuary city” that welcomes “immigrants,” referring to border-crossing illegal aliens.
“That may have been okay when illegal immigrants came in dribs and drabs,” Krikorian says, “but because of Biden administration policies at the border, we've had an unprecedented wave of illegal immigration. And a lot of those people are going to New York.”
Mayor Adams and other politicians, all Democrats, are publicly complaining the Biden administration is doing very little to help city government house and feed the illegals.
“The president’s asleep at the wheel on this one, folks, and I’m a Democrat,” Robert Holden, a city councilman from Queens, complained at the press conference.
Despite the very real problem New York City is facing, Krikorian tells AFN he is skeptical Mayor Adams is concerned about the southern border itself.
“That would put him at odds with the administration and ally him with Republicans in Congress, which he's not going to want to do,” he says. “So I'll believe that when I see it.”
