You're seeing a city that made an amazing recovery in spite of 240, something,000 migrants and asylum seekers that came into the city that We had to spend $7.5 billion on [migrants and asylum seekers] to, you know, follow the federal laws and the city laws. And so I need to continue doing what I have done, and that is what I'm focused on doing. So, you know, the migrant situation here, as you just brought up, has certainly left an impact in New York. (06:06–06:15)
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