Eric Adams admits Biden admin will not help NYC with illegal immigrant crisis

In an interview with WPIX-TV, Adams said, that a low for the city in 2023 was "150,000 migrants and asylum seekers that put a real bump in the road of our recovery effort in the city."

He said "Everything’s on the table" when discussing what the city would cut to pay its debts. "But we want to minimize the impact to lower-income New Yorkers, our educational institutions, our public safety, and keeping our city streets. But everything’s on the table.”

"Our insurance policy was the federal government. They're not paying us," Adams said, using a house as an analogy for the city. "so everything in that household is going to be impacted."

In regards to the impact of illegal immigrants on the system, Adams admitted, "We underestimated the impact of the migrant and asylum-seeker issue that’s impacting major cities in this country." When asked about getting help from the Biden administration he said, "I believe that we are not seeing that.”

After a meeting with the congressional leaders of the Biden administration earlier this month, Adams said he was not optimistic about getting help from the federal government to deal with the illegal immigrant crisis plaguing New York City.

He noted that "seeing the impact of the migrant and asylum seeker issue, how it is taking away from the resources that should go to the day‑to‑day services of running the city" was making residents weary and angry. He noted that he "did not walk out from DC with any level of optimism that anything is going to drastically change."

"It is clear that for the time being, this crisis is going to be carried by the cities," he said, as his city deals with a $7 billion budget deficit because of the toll the actions that the federal government's policies have taken on the city.

"As I left Washington DC, I did not leave with optimism, I left with the cold reality that help is not on the way in the immediate future," Adams said.

Adams was forced to cut the budget for the New York City Police Department last month, taking the department below 30,000 personnel.