Eric Adams reports on the White House’s help in reducing the flow of migrants

The U.S. federal authorities, in particular President Joe Biden, helped New York to cope with the crisis and the flow of migrants, which the governors of the southern states, dissatisfied with the administration’s policies, are expelled by buses.

The number of asylum seekers arriving in the city from the southern border, exceeds 21 thousand. To overcome the influx of migrants, the U.S. administration has applied the “strategy of pressure reduction”, the mayor said. Thus, 8-10 buses with migrants used to arrive in the city, but after the city authorities’ contacts with the White House, the number of buses was reduced to two.

“We’ve been through the storm. We don’t think we’ve reached the end of it, but we need to take a real look at how the administration has handled the crisis. We would have continued to get ten buses a day, nine buses a day, it would have made a big impact on the future of our economy,” the mayor said.

“This is a national problem, and we need to focus on this problem on a national level. The president has taken the first step toward that. We’ve said that we need to stop the flow and that it’s important. We got past the first phase. It was to stop the flow, to slow it down. We think we can do that. And now we’re still negotiating with the administration to get the dollars,” Adams said.

At the beginning of October the mayor of New York declared a state of emergency due to the large flow of illegal immigrants arriving in the city, mainly from South American countries. The system of shelters for the homeless at that time was 100% loaded.

This year, authorities in Arizona, Texas and Florida began to send foreigners who entered the United States after illegally crossing the border with Mexico by bus to Washington, New York and other major cities on a mass scale. Thus, they protest against what they consider to be the overly lenient migration policy of the U.S. President.