It was costing us billions of dollars. Totally $7.7 billion now total. We were getting 4,000 a week, you know, 8,000 every two weeks. And we had to. 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. (25:12–25:19)
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Asserts that the federal government prevented New York City from stopping migrant buses and allowing migrants to work.
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