Eric Adams says New York City’s migrant crisis will DESTROY the Big Apple as he warns that 10,000 illegal asylum seekers arriving EVERY month will flood EACH of the five boroughs: ‘The city we knew, we’re about to lose’
- New York City Mayor Eric Adams has warned the migrant crisis will ‘destroy’ NYC
- The former top cop’s fury comes as over 110,000 refugees have flooded the city
- He admitted he doesn’t see a solution – and slammed the lack of help from Joe Biden
By WILL POTTER FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
UPDATED: 11:13 EDT, 7 September 2023
New York City Mayor Eric Adams has torn into the migrant crisis crippling the Big Apple – which he warned will ‘destroy’ the city without urgent action.
Speaking to furious residents at a town hall meeting on Wednesday, he admitted he doesn’t see a solution to the problem as he slammed the lack of help from Joe Biden.
‘Let me tell you something, New Yorkers. Never in my life have I had a problem that I did not see an ending to. I don’t see an ending to this,’ he conceded. ‘This issue will destroy New York City. Destroy New York City.’
The former top cop grew emotional as he talked about buses of migrants arriving on a near-daily basis, with over 10,000 arriving every month. Upwards of 110,000 are littered across the metro, and Adams’ office has estimated the issue will cost New York City $12billion over three years.
Authorities are concerned that without an exit ramp, the situation could soon reach boiling point as furious protestors have clashed on the streets of the Five Boroughs while more migrants are left homeless by the limited space.
New York City Mayor Eric Adams took aim at the migrant crisis at a town hall on Wednesday, warning that it will ‘destroy’ the Big Apple without urgent recourse.
The migrant crisis has plagued Adams’ time as mayor since he took office in January 2022, and the former police officer warned Wednesday the problem is only getting worse.
‘We’re getting 10,000 migrants a month,’ he said. ‘Now we’re getting people from all over the globe have made their minds up that they’re going to come through the southern part of the border and come into New York City.’
The city has a legal obligation to give shelter to those who make their way to the metro, and Adams has desperately turned to a variety of city landmarks, makeshift shelters and temporary housing as short-term solutions.
Almost every decision he makes over the issue has caught the ire of New Yorkers, who slated the transformation of the historic Redbury and Roosevelt hotels into exclusive migrant shelters last month.
The mayor’s desperation to provide housing even saw him propose moving refugees into the Manhattan’s notorious MCC prison – the same run-down facility where Jeffrey Epstein killed himself in 2019.
Families have been prioritized for spaces in the hotels, leaving thousands to wait on streets for space to open up or move to shelters.
Last month, the city’s deputy mayor for health and human services Anne Williams-Isom said the number of migrants in New York’s homeless shelters is over 57,000 – over half the total.
In March, city officials launched a 24-hour center to handle the numbers, and created a new agency to help coordinate efforts. 
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Adams said the Big Apple is receiving over 10,000 migrants every month as he warned the city could be transformed forever 
Thousands of asylum seekers have been bussed to major cities from border states including Texas as unprecedented numbers continue to enter the United States 
Adams has pleaded for months for help with the migrant influx, and has slammed President Biden for ‘failing’ to help New Yorkers
In Staten Island, a former Catholic school has become the epicenter of the borough’s fury at the influx as several protests have been staged at the campus, where a 300-bed site has been set up.
Adams’ former mayoral rival Curtis Sliwa, the head of vigilante group Guardian Angels, rallied the Staten Islanders on Tuesday as he pledged to shut down the nearby Verrazzano and Goethals Bridges to create travel chaos in protest of the situation.
Sliwa and Adams have been in a war of words over the persistent issue, with the mayor branding his activist opponent a ‘buffoon’ last month.
New York officials have been sounding the alarm for months over their inability to right the ship, with Adams cautioning that his office estimates the issue will cost the city in the region of $12 billion in just three years.
He declared a state of emergency in the fall and has repeatedly labelled the deluge a ‘humanitarian crisis’. The mayor’s failed requests for more federal funding led him to condemn President Biden in April for ‘failing’ the city.
The crisis is also far from contained to New York, as numerous major metros have also struggled with housing asylum seekers. In Chicago, residents were stunned to find a police precinct had been turned into a shelter in May. 
In Staten Island Locals raged about the city’s handling of the migrant crisis, which is costing officials millions every day as the buses continue arriving from the southern border
Adams has desperately turned to a variety of city landmarks, makeshift shelters and temporary housing to find room for the migrant influx, including former Catholic school St. John Villa Academy (pictured) in Staten Island 
Curtis Sliwa whipped the crowd into a frenzy on Tuesday night as the migrant crisis continues to plague New Yorkers
The problems at the southern border were significantly escalated when Title 42, a pandemic-era border policy that gave officials advanced powers to detain people, ended in May.
The day the policy expired on May 12, the number of illegal border crossings topped 10,000 – a figure that was maintained for several days.
A large number of the refugees have moved from Venezuela amid the country’s ongoing economic decline, with more than seven million residents leaving the nation of 29 million people as of February, reports The New York Times.
While the vast majority of the seven million have opted for neighboring countries, many have made their way to the US. From 2015 to 2018, only around 100 Venezuelans were stopped annually at the border.
From October 2021 to August 2022, that number stood at 150,000.
As well as the unprecedented numbers of asylum seekers flooding over the border, the reason New York has been hit so dramatically is also down to bus-loads of migrants being sent by frustrated southern states.
A leader in the move to bus migrants north has been Texas Governor Greg Abbott, who has shuttled thousands to New York in a successful attempt to provoke controversy over the issue.
The large buoys were placed in the river over the summer by Governor Greg Abbott’s administration as part of the Republican’s escalating attempts to stop immigrants
A judge has ordered Texas to move a floating barrier that Gov. Greg Abbott placed on the river between the U.S. and Mexico to deter migrants from entering the U.S. 
The large buoys were placed in the river over the summer by Abbott’s administration as part of the Republican’s escalating attempts to stop immigrants
Abbott has said the move is due to a need to bring the issue to the spotlight, but officials claim Texas is far better equipped and has far more resources to deal with the influx than the Big Apple.
As well as the buses, many migrants have also made their own way to New York City.
Abbott’s handling of the migrant crisis in his own state took a major hit this week, however, as a judge ordered him to remove a floating barrier that the governor had placed on a river between the US and Mexico to deter border crossings.
The large buoys were placed in the river over the summer by Abbott’s administration as part of the Republican’s escalating attempts to stop immigrants.