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#NYC: City Hall and 100,000 migrants abandoned. Harry Siegel, TheCity.com

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🗓️ 11 August 2023

⏱️ 9 minutes

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#NYC: City Hall and 100,000 migrants abandoned. Harry Siegel, TheCity.com
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0:00.0

This is CBS, I In The World, I'm John Bachelors, Manhattan, the big apple right now, overwhelmed

0:11.1

with a challenge as a sanctuary city of waters said to be 100,000 migrants from the Mexican

0:18.4

Texas border.

0:20.1

Now in the city seeking aid, seeking work, these are families dominated by families and

0:26.8

single men from Central and South America.

0:30.4

They have language skills, some of them some do not.

0:33.5

Right now the city, Mayor Adams leading, is taking responsibility for housing, shelter,

0:38.7

food, medical attention.

0:40.8

However, the bill is gigantic, according to the Wall Street Journal editorial most recently.

0:47.2

It's 9.8 million a day across the shelter population.

0:51.7

The shelter population has always been there but more than 57,000 are now said to be migrants

0:58.4

who have added to the burden, the asylum seekers.

1:01.7

Now the scale of this is difficult to grasp, so I welcome Harry Segal, a senior editor

1:08.0

at the city and online journal, he writes his column for the New York Daily News.

1:12.7

To help me understand what the mayor is saying 9.8 million dollars a day sounds unsustainable,

1:19.4

but then again, he's not going to take away the sanctuary city.

1:23.2

That was a political rhetorical decision some years ago by major cities in the North.

1:29.1

However, the mayor is appealing for help.

1:32.3

Where is he being heard?

1:33.7

Where is he not being heard?

1:34.7

Good evening to you, Harry.

1:36.0

Who's listening to the mayor?

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