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Should Mayor Adams reach out to Latin American countries regarding migrant crisis?

New York City mayor, Eric Adams, has been vocal about the multitude of hardships facing the Big Apple in regards to the migrant crisis that has seen over 120,000 asylum seekers and migrants arriving in NY. Some estimates have said that there can be up to 1,000 people per day seeking refuge in the city. Images out of New York showed migrants sleeping on the streets because there was no room to house them. Unable to find the support he was looking for from New York Governor, Kathy Hochul, and Biden’s federal government, Adams took the unconventional step this past...

Commentary / Current Events

September 15, 2023

Can you be pro-immigrant while also acknowledging there is a resource problem?

This week on Nuance we discussed the battle lines being drawn over the migrant crisis in New York City. NYC mayor Eric Adams is being criticized for his recent statements regarding the migrant crisis in New York City. Is Mayor Adams’ candid acknowledgment of the budgetary and resource challenges posed by the influx of the over 100,000 migrants to NYC in the past year inherently anti-immigrant? “Immigration is the New York story. It is the American story. But as I declared nearly a year ago, we are facing an unprecedented state of emergency due to the asylum seeker crisis,” said...