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Eric Adams: “230 something thousand, that's 1.5 the size of Albany…”

Featuring: Eric Adams, Democratic | Mayor of New York

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Interview with Mayor of New York Eric Adams

Published | Video Starts at 09:46

So it was more about the humanitarian crisis that the city effectively had by having thousands of new people coming in. And you had this quote before, you said coming without a plan. Right, right, right. 230 something thousand, that's 1.5 the size of Albany, dropped in our city. Nowhere to go now. This is what we could have done. Secure the border, allow people to come in through a process that we vetted to make sure they were not criminals, and then say to them, hey, states, you have population problems. (09:46–09:55)

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Asserts that 230,000 migrants, equivalent to 1.5 times the population of Albany, arrived in New York City.

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