VIDEO: NYC Mayor Adams discusses migrants
(NBC) - New York City Mayor Eric Adams fielded questions today about migrants who have been sent to his city and talked about the governors who are responsible.
An asylum seeker took her own life in a New York City shelter, Mayor Eric Adams said Monday, lamenting the tragedy that befell the woman he says came to the United States in search of a better life.
Following a press conference on an unrelated topic, the governor said the failure was the governor's who sent the asylum seekers to.
"Eleven-thousand-six-hundred asylum seekers and migrants are in this city, 85-hundred are in our system, we opened up 23 emergency shelters, we're not going to leave any stone unturned," said Mayor Eric Adams.
"The failure was the governors that sent people on a multi-day bus ride without proper food, without medical care, without the basic necessities. Telling them they had to be treated in this inhumane way, that's the failure," said Mayor Eric Adams.
"I think the governor of Texas and others are at fault for creating this man-made humanitarian crisis, that's what I think they're at fault for," said Mayor Eric Adams.
"The mayor of El Paso, and I want to be clear, I thought I said it yesterday and I'll say it again, we are not telling anyone that New York can accommodate every migrant in the city.
"We're not encouraging people to send eight, nine buses a day, that is not what we're doing.
"We are saying that as a sanctuary, as a city a right to shelter, we're going to fulfill our obligation, that's what we are doing and we reached out to Governor Abbott and stated - can we coordinate?
"Identify whose traveling here that we don't have to guess this - they refused to do so.
"We reached out to the mayor of El Paso who is willing to sit down and share what his concerns are and what our concerns are and figure out a humane way to coordinate and we're clear - we cannot handle all of your migrants, Mayor of El Paso.
"We were able to communicate with them. We were not able to do that with Governor Abbott's team, we spoke with them, they stated they were going to inform us and they did not," said Mayor Eric Adams.
