As the winter months get closer, major cities in the Northeast and Midwest are running out of room in emergency shelters for illegal immigrant families.
“When you are out of room, that means you’re out of room,” New York City Mayor Eric Adams said during a press conference. “Every year, my relatives show up for Thanksgiving, and they want to all sleep at my house. There’s no more room. That’s where we are right now.”
An aide to the mayor blamed the Biden administration for the lack of room and said they need to step up and “finish the job they started.”
“As the temperature starts to drop, it is crucial — now more than ever — that the federal government finish the job they started,” said the mayor’s spokesperson, Kayla Mamelak Altus.
“We need meaningful financial help and a national decompression strategy. New York City cannot continue to manage a national crisis almost entirely on its own.”
South Side Alderman Ronnie Mosley of Chicago said that many locals are displeased about the attention being given to new arrivals.
“Residents are seeing that after all this time of promising something for us, nothing has come of it. Now you have folks who have just come to this country, and they’re being serviced,” Mosley said.
