Face the Nation: Mayor Eric Adams

Interview

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"Good morning."

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"I was briefed this morning with the elected officials, and I communicated while I was abroad with my police leaders to make sure that we will monitor the protests here in the city. One has the right to protest, even if I strongly disagree with any form of celebrating such a horrific incident like this. But we are going to monitor to make sure that people do it in peaceful way. There are going to be, I'm sure, pro-Israel, pro-organizers as well, and we're going to make sure that people abide by the law."

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"It was extremely important. And, you know, this is my style of governing. You know, people know I go to the crime scenes when victims of police violence. I'm going to go when there's a horrific fire on the ground."

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"This is a children crisis that we are facing and I wanted to communicate with their local CBOs, local elected leaderships there, and the local citizen and residents to learn from them, but also to send a clear message on their medias, New York is out of room. And we need to communicate that."

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"Yes. And I want to thank the governor because we see what's happening to this city. And when you look at the flow, think about this for a moment, 375,000 migrants, asylum seekers, went through the Dairien Gap this year. That's 100,000 more than last year, 200,000 more than 2021. Of just this -- the first -- the last week of September, we had over 3,700 asylum seekers that came to New York City. That's an increase -- we were getting 600 a week, which was unsustainable."

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"And now we're up to getting anywhere from eight -- almost 800 a week. These numbers are not sustainable and it's not sustainable in Chicago, where people are living in police precincts, Los Angeles, Houston, Washington. This is just not right what is taking place."

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"Well, our legal team is not asking for a suspension. We want clarification. This is a humanitarian crisis that we are facing. This is not what the architects of right to shelter thought about when you were dealing with those New Yorkers who needed shelter. We can't have a rule that one can come from anywhere on the globe and come to New York City and remain in New York City as longs as they want and taxpayers must pick up the cost."

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"And so we want clarification coming from the courts."

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"You know, one of the most troubling aspects of this conversation, as people regulated this to just a Mayor Adams and the president's conversation. We need to really wake up. This is a global crisis of movements of human beings for several different reasons, based on which country you're looking at. And we need to reexamine not only our long-term immigration policies, but how do we allow people on a pathway of being self-sustaining."

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"The only reason we are who we are as a country is because people had the right to work. I keep saying, that's the precursor to sleep that allows you to experience the American dream."

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"Not being able to be self-sustaining, pay into the tax base of all groups, not only just the Venezuelans, the rule and policy that was put in place would impact, we believe, 15,000 to 17,000 in that area."

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"But we have people coming from west Africa, South America, Central America, China, all over the globe is coming to this hemisphere."

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And we need to be prepared with the right policies to get this done correctly.

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