Migrant Crisis 'Will Destroy NYC', Adams Says At UWS Town Hall

NEW YORK CITY— Mayor Eric Adams told Upper West Siders Wednesday night the city's migrant crisis will "destroy New York City," a comment his critics say is dangerous fear-mongering.

"This issue will destroy New York City," Adams said at a town hall at The Riverside School for Makers and Artists. "I don’t see an ending to this."

This comment as New York faces an influx of more than 100,000 asylum seekers — 70 percent of whom are families with kids — whose need for shelter and support could cost the city more than $4 billion, according to City Hall estimates.

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The rising cost — and mounting outrage over a City Hall response that has seen migrants housed in tents and sleeping on sweltering city streets — has spurred Adams to target President Joe Biden with frustrated demands for cash.

Adams' increasingly bold rhetoric earned the Democratic mayor an unexpected ally this week in the form of Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy.

"Mayor Adams is right," the California representative said in a press statement. “New York City deserves better.”

McCarthy also quoted Adams declaring at a press conference last week, "Any plan that does not include stopping the flow at the border is a failed plan."

If the top Republican in the House of Representatives is pleased with Adams' stance, advocates at the Legal Aid Society and the Coalition for the Homeless are not.

The groups accused Adams of fear-mongering they warned could have a dangerous effect on the people who've come here seeking help.

"His dystopian comments dehumanize and villainize people who fled unimaginable situations in their home countries merely for an opportunity to provide for their families and secure a better life," the advocacy groups said in a joint statement.

"This dangerous rhetoric is something you’d expect from fringe politicians on the far-right of the political spectrum, not from the mayor of a city that has always welcomed and celebrated its diverse and critically important immigrant community.”