New York City Mayor Eric Adams claimed that the migrant crisis is so bad that 50% of all hotel rooms in the city are being occupied by illegal aliens.
Adams made the comments on Wednesday while addressing criticism for his handling of the crisis.
“In order to address an onslaught, you have to have places you can put people. Almost half of all hotel rooms now are taken up by asylum seekers. Think about that. I’m not sure what it’s going to take before people hear what I am saying,” said Adams in a media briefing in Harlem.
“New York City is the hotel capital. We’re the hotel capital — tourism, visitors, sporting events, graduations,” he added. “It’s a major economic engine for us. Almost 50% of those hotel rooms are being taken up by migrant asylum seekers.”
The Democrat has been lambasted on all sides for his handling of the issue, but others of his own party lined up to accuse him of exaggerating the problem.
Migrants are NOT Illegals !!!! Illegals Are NOT Migrants > Deport them ALL !!!!!
Thank you!
Oh, NY Dems, now they’re ILLEGAL immigrants! How your song has changed!
Tough munchos, Mayor Adams. You wanted a sanctuary city, you got it! Suck it up and stop your whining.
Send more! Send more! They can handle it. Aren’t they the greatest city in the world, so they say. Send more.
Of course Eric Adam’s has no plan for this. His solution for any problem is to throw more cops at it, and that doesn’t apply to this.