From New York Times, I'm Michael Barrow. This is The Daily.

Today, in New York, the arrival of more than 100,000 migrants seeking asylum over the past year has become a crisis for the city's shelter system, schools and budget.

Now, according to my colleague, Nick Fandos, it's also become a political crisis for the state's democratic leaders.

It's Wednesday, September 6th.

Good afternoon. I'm speaking to you today so you're aware of what your state government is doing to address the unprecedented migrant crisis.

Nick, tell me about this speech from the governor of New York.

So, the governor of New York, Kathy Hocal, announced a couple of weeks ago that she was going to be making a major address to the state. These are pretty unusual for her.

I'm fully aware that New Yorkers are concerned that over the past year, more than 100,000 asylum seekers have arrived in our state, requiring a historic humanitarian response.

And she wanted to talk about the migrant crisis that's been building over the last year here in New York and the new phase that New York seemed to be entering into as literally thousands of asylum seekers come into the state every week.

Many of you are starting to see open space turn into enormous temporary shelters, buses arriving at hotels and several upstate counties.

And what was particularly notable about this speech was not the way she was diagnosing the problem, but where she was putting the blame.

This crisis originated with the federal government, and it must be resolved through the federal government.

So, for the first time, the governor of New York, and she's a Democrat, a proud Democrat, came out and was putting the blame pretty squarely at the feet of the White House and President Biden, saying, we need your help, you got to step up here.

That's why today I have sent a letter to President Biden formally requesting immediate executive action.

And as if she hadn't been clear enough, the governor then puts out a press release, actually naming President Biden, pointing the finger at him explicitly.

It is past time for President Biden to take action and provide New York with the aid needed to continue managing the ongoing crisis.

So, she's naming names, and the name she's naming is the Democratic President of the United States, which means this isn't quite the normal course of events.

A Democratic governor from a very Democratic state directly critiquing in public her Democratic president.

Yeah, you're totally right, Michael, and it's even more striking because the governor had been very careful to take a more conciliatory approach to Washington as New York has been dealing with this crisis.

She's been trying to talk to the White House regularly, which has been a pretty stark contrast to Eric Adams, the mayor of New York, and her counterpart as kind of the big Democratic leader in New York.

This is one of the largest humanitarian crises that this city has ever experienced.

Who for months now has just been slugging at the White House.

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