New York City Mayor Eric Adams headed to El Paso this weekend to visit the\u00a0U.S.-Mexico border\u00a0as his city has become overwhelmed with thousands of migrants that have been bused north in recent months, straining public resources to their limits.
\nAfter arriving in El Paso Saturday evening,\u00a0Mayor Adams\u00a0called the surge of migrants a “national crisis” that demands a national solution.
\nAdams said that he and El Paso Mayor Oscar Leeser were “on the front lines, and we need federal support.”
\nThe visit came after the city submitted an emergency mutual aid request to New York State for help to shelter arriving asylum seekers.
\n“We are now seeing more people arrive than we have ever seen \u2013 averaging over 400 people each day this last week, with 835 asylum seekers arriving on one single day alone, the largest single-day arrival we\u2019ve seen to date,” Adams\u00a0said in a statement. “All this is pushing New York City to the brink.”
\nThe city reportedly received more than 3,100 asylum seekers in the past week, with 835 arriving last Thursday alone.
\nSince the spring of 2022, Adams noted that the city had taken in around 40,000 asylum seekers, opening 74 emergency shelters and four humanitarian relief centers.
\nMayor Adams told Caribbean Power Jam Radio on Friday he expected the influx of migrants to cost the city as much as $2 billion.
\nAdams\u2019 press secretary said Friday the mayor\u2019s trip to El Paso will include “multiple stops at and near the U.S. southern border” as the city “continues to face an unprecedented influx” of asylum-seekers.<\/p>\n