Adams’ Migrant Crisis: Sidelining New Yorkers
Mayor Adams is losing his focus (“Busloads arriving each day,” Oct. 7).
If any state of emergency for New York City is needed, it is the state of emergency because of crime, not migrants. Send the migrants back.
Mayor, your job is to take care of the residents of New York City, not the migrants. Do the job you were elected to do.
John Chorzepa Queens
The issues confronting New Yorkers are becoming more severe daily.
Violent crimes on the subway give riders pause as to whether to risk safety versus the expense of driving into Manhattan. Many city residents who have lost their apartments find themselves in city shelters.
In the meantime, rather than addressing the needs of tax-paying citizens, the mayor is running around worrying about how to house, school, feed and provide medical services to individuals and families who entered the country illegally.
As a matter of social policy, shouldn’t residents’ needs and problems be priority No. 1? They do not appear to be.
Yakov Moshe Brooklyn
Our mayor declares a state of emergency due to asylum seekers coming into the city.
He, along with our governor, supports New York being a sanctuary city, giving free education, food, clothing and housing to migrants.
This, all while taxpayers foot the bill. This money could be used to combat crime, improve education or address the homeless problem. Politicians should take care of their own house, you might say, by taking care of New Yorkers. Joseph Comperchio Brooklyn
Adams has a homelessness problem, exacerbated by the arrival of thousands of illegal immigrants.
These individuals have been pawns from the start, being encouraged by the Biden administration to enter the country.
At first, border towns were invaded and overwhelmed, but no one outside those states seem to care about the havoc this caused. Basically, the local officials were told to shut up and put up.
Instead of blaming Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis for this recent influx, Mayor Adams should place full responsibility on the person in the White House and demand that the border be secured.
Sallyanne Ferrero
Naples, Fla.