Growing Tensions Between the City, State and Feds Over NYC's Migrant Crisis
The Brian Lehrer Show
WNYC
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 31 August 2023
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
The Adams administration is still struggling to deal with the influx of migrants coming to the city. Elizabeth Kim, Gothamist and WNYC reporter, and Jeff Coltin, Politico reporter and co-author of the New York Playbook, talk about how the mayor is handling it, his related conflicts with the state and the Federal government, and more local news. Plus, what's next for Rikers Island?
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| 0:00.0 | It's the Ryan Lair Show on WNYC. Good morning everyone. |
| 0:11.9 | Coming up later in the show, our third and final session with |
| 0:15.1 | Janay Desmond Harris, aka Dear Prudence from Slate, will do one more |
| 0:20.0 | session of reading letters asking for advice that people wrote in |
| 0:24.8 | and doing our best to offer some advice and one more time will |
| 0:28.0 | crowdsource the advice. So listeners, if you're someone who likes |
| 0:31.5 | to give advice, be ready to tune in later in the show during our |
| 0:35.8 | second hour for one more round with Dear Prudence, real name |
| 0:40.6 | Janay Desmond Harris from Slate's column and podcast call Dear |
| 0:44.8 | Prudence that's coming up. We begin today with one of the most |
| 0:48.4 | consequential questions facing New York City and the whole |
| 0:51.5 | area right now, really the whole state and really the whole |
| 0:54.7 | nation and really our whole western hemisphere. Who is |
| 0:58.3 | responsible for sheltering the nearly 60,000 recently arrived |
| 1:02.9 | migrants currently under the city's care. There are about a |
| 1:06.5 | hundred thousand who've arrived altogether to the New York |
| 1:09.8 | City area in the last year or so. It's about 60,000 currently |
| 1:14.2 | being housed by the city or other places around here. If you |
| 1:18.1 | follow the news, much these days you're seeing all these |
| 1:21.2 | democratic party leaders and odds with each other, like a |
| 1:25.2 | game of hot potato, you're responsible more for this. No, you're |
| 1:28.5 | responsible more, Mayor Adams, Governor Hocal, President |
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