An aide to New York City Mayor Eric Adams admitted that the influx of illegal migrants from the Texas border is sucking the city’s resources dry.
As Texas Gov. Greg Abbott continues to fly migrants from the border into NYC every week, Adams has catapulted the city toward a $10 billion deficit by 2026.
Hidden camera footage from conservative media outlet Project Veritas captured City Hall staffer Chris Baugh saying that the ordeal has “flooded” their system.
“I think what Abbott has done has proven effective,” Baugh said. “We have more people in social services than we have ever had potentially in history.“
Baugh said that Adams has rejected a plan to cap migrants at 20,000, adding that his staff would have quit if he had limited the numbers.
“The optics of this are bad for Biden and they’re bad for the mayor,” he said. “I think Biden saying I’m going to give away money to New York City because they can’t take care of these migrants is going to be just bad politics for him — and frankly I don’t know how much Biden is going to appreciate a mayor saying, ‘hey you owe blue cities money because of this migrant crisis’.
“Eventually it’s going to make Biden look bad which we’re a month out from the midterms and he’s not going to like that,” he continued. “It’s a very perilous situation and I don’t know that Eric Adams is capable enough to navigate it.”
The official said Adams has no plan to manage the future migrant influx and doesn’t want to raise taxes. He then suggested temporarily suspending aged care and migrant services to cut costs.
“This city has a ‘right to shelter’ law. Republicans are like, ‘here’s 11,000 people we don’t want to deal with’ and our laws state we have to take care of them. That’s the law of the city [but they are] not telling us when these people are coming, they’re not telling us when the buses are arriving, they’re not telling us who’s on them,” Baugh said.
“We’re building a tent city. We’re parking these people in plastic tents on Randalls Island. They’re not getting good stuff. We’re kicking them out of hotels because it’s tourist season and hotels want to raise their rates.“It’s a f– ked proposition any way you look at it,” he continued.
Abbott has sent dozens of migrant-filled buses to Washington, D.C., New York City, and Chicago in recent weeks, arguing that border towns in Texas are overwhelmed, and officials in liberal cities should face the realities of the southern border crisis.
