Cuomo agrees with Adams about immigrants in NY: “the city cannot bear the burden”

Former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo questioned the actions of the Biden and Hochul administrations regarding the immigration crisis. Cuomo, without directly mentioning President Biden or Gov. Kathy Hochul, expressed support for Mayor Eric Adams on the burden immigrants pose to the city.

“We have an immigration problem,” Cuomo said. “It’s a hot political issue now, so the federal government and the state government don’t want anything to do with it, and they left it to the city of New York,” he said.

And he added: “But how can New York City serve 130,000 immigrants? “Mayor Adams is right: the city cannot bear the burden alone.”

In his speech at the Brooklyn Christian Cultural Center, Cuomo singled out the controversial plan to house 2,000 immigrants at Floyd Bennett Field, calling it lacking common sense.

He described the site as a former airstrip, a floodplain and a “transportation desert.” He warned that this decision would isolate thousands of migrants who need help and that the cost would fall on taxpayers, as reported by the New York Post.

Talk about the future of NY

Cuomo, who had to resign from office in 2021 due to sexual harassment allegations, addressed other issues facing the city, state and nation, such as anti-Semitism, the homelessness crisis and political dysfunction.

“Now is the time for people of good will and common sense to speak up and get involved,” he said, according to the Post. “Remember, most politicians are like weather vanes: they point which way the political wind blows. And now extremist forces are taking us off course.”

He called on citizens to get involved and speak out loudly about the future of New York City.

Support for Adams

This is not the first time the former governor has publicly supported Adams’ complaints about immigrants in the city. In late September, Cuomo said the mayor was right to warn that the immigration crisis could “destroy” the five boroughs.

“The simple truth is that New York City is overloaded,” the former governor said then, according to the Post. “We cannot take more than we have taken. And the simple truth is that New York City cannot foot the bill for this immigration problem,” he added.

Cuomo said the steps the state and feds have taken (or not taken) to address the immigration crisis so far “make no sense.”

And in early September, Adams predicted that the problem could “destroy” New York City as the White House turns a deaf ear to the thousands of asylum seekers arriving in the Big Apple each month.

“The federal government has to do its job. Manage the population, do it smartly. And do it fairly. And the federal government has to foot the bill. Because the last ones who should have to pay for it are the taxpayers of New York City,” he said.

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