A New York City Councilman is issuing a dire warning about the city's future due to a migrant influx.
Councilman Robert F. Holden spoke about the issue in an interview on Monday's Good Day New York.
"We're bursting at the seams now. How can we take thousands more, by the day by the way, so this is getting to be a situation where we can't house them and that's a critical situation," Holden said. "We have no room in New York City."He also used a position touted nationally by Republicans. "The answer is to secure the border," Holden says. "We're a sovereign nation. We should get to choose who comes in."
The New York City Council will begin holding hearings on Monday on the city's response to the arrival of tens of thousands of asylum seekers. Many have been bused to the city from Texas. "Secure the border. I'm going to say that," Holden says. "It's not popular with the city council but anybody else have other ideas?""We can't absorb this many people coming into New York City," Holden says.
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