New York’s migrant crisis is so bad that even Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul is stepping up her attacks on US border policies, demanding “a limit on who can be found” and more agents to catch illegal immigrants. legal
Hochul addressed Congress in comments Sunday, but still risked the wrath of the Biden administration as it grapples with the crisis that is wreaking havoc in the Big Apple and across the country.
“It’s too open right now,” Hochul bluntly he said on CBS’ “Face the Nation.” of the country’s southern border with Mexico, where a record of more than 260,000 migrants crossed just last month.
“We want [Congress] have a limit on who can cross the border,” said the governor, who has been criticized in the past for being too easy on the White House over the debacle.
“People coming from all over the world are finding their way, simply saying they need asylum, and most of them seem to be ending up on the streets of New York, and that’s a real problem for New York City York,” he said. said
“It is in our DNA to welcome immigrants. But there have to be some limits,” the governor said.
“Congress needs to put more controls on the border,” Hochul said. “You talk about eliminating positions for the Border Patrol, well, we actually need to double or quadruple those numbers.”
Hochul’s comments come less than two weeks after she told CNN, “You have to make sure we can also have border controls and not welcome more people who think they’re coming to work.”
“It really needs to be slowed down at the border because the volume just keeps growing and growing,” the governor said at the time.
“So we also need to properly communicate that we are at our limit. ‘If you’re going to leave your country, go somewhere else.'”
The governor specifically called out congressional Republicans both Sunday and last month on the issue, angering some Republicans.
“The only people Hochul has to blame are those in his own party,” Rep. Nicole Malliotakis (R-SI/Brooklyn) told The Post.
“House Republicans passed our border security bill in May without help from Democrats, and the Senate has taken no action to pass our bill or any other immigration measure,” said the pol New York City.
“Besides, [Hochul] should stop encouraging illegal immigration to New York with its offers of free college tuition, health care and driver’s licenses,” Malliotakis said.
House GOP Conference Chairwoman Elise Stefanik, who represents New York state communities along the Canadian border, added, “Kathy Hochul sees the same polls that we’re looking at, and she and the New York Democrats are in free fall.”
Hochul’s comments Sunday come as New York City continues to grapple with the more than 110,000 migrants who have arrived and entered its shelter system since the spring of 2022.
The governor has pushed for state funds to help shelter and feed the wave of migrants, including to pay for a large tent city erected on Manhattan’s Randall’s Island this summer.
New York City Mayor Eric Adams has said the cost of housing and feeding the influx of migrants will likely reach $12 billion over three years, threatening many services in the Big Apple .
In August, Hochul finally blamed the White House for the migrant mess, saying President Biden needed to step up and offer more aid as the state drowned in the flood of migrants.
“This crisis originated with the federal government and must be resolved through the federal government,” he said he said at the time.
Hochul has already joined Adams in signing up to the city’s “right-to-home” law, which guarantees New Yorkers the right to housing, a rule that has benefited the sol· asylum seekers
“The original premise behind the right to shelter was, to begin with, for homeless men on the street, people with AIDS, that was [then] extended to families,” the governor said last month.
“But he never imagined that it was an unlimited universal right, or an obligation for the city, to literally host the whole world,” he said.
Adams has been trying to change the rule to try to free up more housing for those most in need.
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