#NYC: Mayor Adams shoulders the migrant surge & What is to be done? Harry Siegel, The City, New York Daily News
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🗓️ 22 June 2023
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#NYC: Mayor Adams shoulders the migrant surge & What is to be done? Harry Siegel, The City, New York Daily News
https://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/ny-oped-the-definition-of-dysfunction-on-migrant-policy-20230610-7w7dm7reeva7dfvzozwnvnb3jm-story.html
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| 0:35.2 | This is CBS, I am the world. I'm John Bachelors, welcoming Harry Siegel, |
| 0:39.9 | a senior editor at the City and online Journal of New York City, as well as a columnist for |
| 0:44.6 | the New York Daily News. Migrants, that story is global. The global south migrating to the |
| 0:50.8 | global north, climate change, bad governance, accident war. It's going on in Central America |
| 0:58.3 | at the Mexican border. It's going on in Europe at the border between Turkey and Greece, |
| 1:04.8 | and the Mediterranean basin. It's even going on in England as young people brave the North Sea |
| 1:11.8 | and the channel to cross to a better world in the Great Britain. Well, the stories in New York City, |
| 1:18.9 | the migrants are associated with some particular countries, but really it's from everywhere. |
| 1:25.2 | Migrants from Venezuela were mentioned some weeks. And the mayor of New York, Mr. Adams, |
| 1:31.4 | has been struggling to find a solution for the overwhelming numbers that continue to dominate |
| 1:37.3 | the city, especially in Central City. Harry, a very good day to you. The mayor is struggling, |
| 1:42.8 | as all mayors are, with the homeless story. So far, his response has been to use the hotels. |
| 1:50.0 | He did reference private homes. He did reference church facilities. What is the story about |
| 1:57.2 | finding people places to stay that have come from very far away and are not likely to return quickly? |
| 2:04.3 | Good evening to you. Hey, good evening, John. So we're in a, it had been the biggest migration of |
| 2:12.4 | people around the world since World War II. I think now it's bigger in the world, |
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