You know, when I got elected, I said, I'm the new face of the Democratic Party, those working class people that's going to fight for a working class agenda. And even when we came down to which I think was a turning point was The migrants and asylum seeker crisis... 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. (24:58–25:07)
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Asserts that the migrant and asylum seeker crisis has cost New York City $7.7 billion.
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