The federal government did not allow me to stop the buses from coming in, did not allow me to allow them to work. Some of them were waiting a year and a half to two years to work. City law required me to feed house and clothes, educated 50,000 children. And so when I saw this was, this was devastating us financially. Cause those dollars should have gone to the services of our city. (25:22–25:28)
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Asserts that New York City law mandates the city to provide for and educate 50,000 migrant children.
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