The governor of New York has criticized the management that the mayor of the city, Eric Adams, is doing in relation to the immigration crisis. A lawyer for Kathy Hochul sent a 12-page letter in which she said the mayor had rejected several proposals for help from the governor:
The city has not made timely requests for regulatory changes, has not always promptly shared necessary information with the state, has not implemented programs in a timely manner, and has not consulted the state before taking certain actions.
According to the letter, the governor offered several proposals to the mayor and, one by one, they were rejected. According to The New York Times, the Democratic politician offered up to a dozen state-controlled sites that could become shelters to house more than 3,000 migrants arriving in the city. However, the mayor did not accept that help.
She also criticizes Adams' lack of initiative that ignored the governor's proposal to create large "tent-based or base camp sites" for single adult men. An initiative that she proposed to the mayor in June 2022 and that Adams took months to implement.
Along with this, Hochul explained that the city also did not act quickly enough to help migrants complete the paperwork that would allow them to obtain work permits. As a result, thousands of people who could be working, and thereby have the income to not need to live in shelters, are not working.
