NYC Mayor Declares State of Emergency Over Migrant Arrivals

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New York City Mayor Eric Adams has declared a state of emergency regarding an influx of migrants being bussed to the city from Texas, saying the arrival of 17k migrants since April is creating a "humanitarian crisis."
In his public statement on Friday, the mayor said the crisis "started with violence and instability in South America and is being accelerated by American political dynamics," having previously criticized Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott for sending the immigrants.
Adams also said he expects to spend at least $1B by the end of the year in efforts to assist the migrants. With more busses due to arrive on Sunday, his administration estimates the city will surpass the highest number of people ever in its shelter system.
The practice of bussing is not exclusively a Republican tactic, as the Democratic mayor of El Paso, Texas, has reportedly sent over 2.5k migrants to NYC since August and roughly 150 to Chicago.
With the city having already enrolled 5k child migrants in schools and the mayor reportedly expecting to eventually receive a total of as many as 100k migrants, NYC is calling on leaders to send some of them to other cities.
In addition to requesting $500M from the White House and seeking help from NY Gov. Hochul, Adams suspended city zoning laws to allow for a tent city on Randall's Island. The project is expected to house up to 500 migrants and will be run by the Office of Public Management and the public hospital system.

Republican narrative, as provided by New York Post. New York has long prided itself on being a sanctuary city, so now it's time for Mayor Adams and his Democratic colleagues to live up to their self-proclaimed status. The Democratic mayor of El Paso has also bussed migrants to New York because even he knows that if the Democrats don't feel the pressure that border towns experience every day, they'll never work to fix our immigration problems.
Democratic narrative, as provided by Democracy Now. The political stunts of politicians like Greg Abbott are eerily similar to the reverse freedom rides of the segregated south. In the 1960s, the racists bussed Black people to northern cities, and now they're bussing Hispanic asylum seekers. These are two sides of the same coin, and Eric Adams is right to call it out.