Eric Adams Announces Funding Cuts for Police, Schools to Pay for City’s Illegal Immigrant Crisis

Democratic Mayor Eric Adams of New York City announced Thursday that police and schools would be subject to budget cuts to pay for the city’s immigration crisis.

Adams announced that libraries would be closed on Sundays and that the New York Police Department would freeze police hiring as part of efforts to address housing costs for immigrants arriving in the city. according to the New York Times. The city is offering Immigrants travel free to any place like the number. exceeded 130,000, but many say they will not leave the city. (RELATED: ‘This Shouldn’t Be Happening’: Eric Adams Blasts Biden Over Immigrants in New York City)

NEW YORK, NEW YORK – JUNE 6: Hundreds of asylum seekers line up outside the Jacob K. Javits Federal Building on June 6, 2023 in New York City. New York City has provided shelter to more than 46,000 asylum seekers since 2013, when the city passed a law prohibiting city agencies from cooperating with federal immigration agencies unless there is a warrant for the person’s arrest. (Photo by David Dee Delgado/Getty Images)

“No city should be left alone to handle a national humanitarian crisis, and without the significant and timely support we need from Washington, DC, today’s budget will be just the beginning,” Adams said Thursday. The police force is expected to fall below 30,000 as a result of the cuts, The New York Times reported.

Republican governors. Greg Abbott of Texas and David Ducey of Arizona began transporting migrants on buses to New York City and other so-called “sanctuary” cities in 2022.

Adams previously Announced that a class of 250 school safety officers would not be hired Tuesday, asking parents to volunteer to fill gaps created by the canceled hiring.

“In all my time in government, this is probably one of the most painful exercises I’ve ever gone through,” Adams said.

The Department of Education’s budget will be $1 billion over two years, according to Adams.

More than two million illegal immigrants have been encountered at the US-Mexico border during fiscal year 2023. according according to data published by the United States Customs and Border Protection, after 2,206,436 encounters in fiscal year 2022 and 1,659,206 in fiscal year 2021.

Crime in New York City has increased, causing Aim close a store in Harlem due to concerns about employee safety in September.

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