Mayor Eric Adams garnered effusive praise from an unlikely source for ripping President Biden’s failure to address the unrelenting migrant crisis: former GOP Vice President Mike Pence.
During the radio interview, Pence said Biden erred by rolling back the Trump-Pence administration’s stricter border policies, including constructing a wall along the US-Mexico and a “return to Mexico” rule for migrants who crossed the border illegally.Migrants arriving at the Port Authority Bus Terminal in Manhattan on September 4, 2023.Pence criticized Biden for rolling back policies like “return to Mexico” and the construction of the border wall.
“Joe Biden incoherently stopped construction of the wall. You can go down there and see the girders lying on their sides for miles rusting in the sun.” Pence added, “You put all those things back into effect and you will secure the southern border of the US. I will do that on Day One [if elected president],” he said.More than 107,000 migrants have passed through New York City since early 2022, and 57,000 currently receive assistance or shelter, according to Mayor Eric Adams.
Adams has claimed the cost to shelter and provide other services to the asylum seekers — which so far is budgeted $5.2 billion —He has repeatedly appealed to Biden for help, including financial assistance and expedited work permits for migrants, but to no avail.
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