New York City’s mayor cancelled a trip to the southern border over the weekend due to security concerns.
The Democrat was expected to meet with U.S. immigration leaders in Brownsville and McAllen, Texas as his city struggles to house new migrants seeking asylum.
Adams’ office later said the U.S. State Department flagged safety concerns that cause him to cancel the trip.
Adams said Friday he planned to speak with immigration leaders who “all applaud what we have done” and want to “rally around us and have other municipalities come and see what we’re doing to duplicate what we’re doing.”
In September 2023, Adams said illegal immigration will “destroy” New York City.
“Let me tell you something New Yorkers: Never in my life have I had a problem that I did not see an ending to. I don’t see an ending to this. I don’t see an ending to this. This issue will destroy New York City, destroy New York City. We’re getting 10,000 migrants a month,” he said at the time.
“One time we were just getting Venezuela, now we’re getting Ecuador, now we’re getting Russian-speaking coming through Mexico, now we’re getting Western Africa, now we’re getting people from all over the globe have made their minds up that they’re going to come through the southern part of the border and come into New York City.
“And everyone is saying, ‘It’s New York City’s problem.’ Every community in this city is going to be impacted. We have a $12 billion deficit that we’re going to have to cut every service in this city is going to be impacted. All of us.”
Adams added that problems from illegal immigration are “going to come to your neighborhoods. All of us are going to be impacted by this.”
In June 2023, American Faith reported Adams allegedly encouraged residents to house the foreign nationals in their private homes.
“It is my vision, uh, to take the next step of this to go to the faith-based locales and then move to private residents,” Adams said.
“There are residents who are suffering right now because of economic challenges. They have spare rooms, they have locales,” he continued.
