Reporters Ask the Mayor: Illegal Migrant Housing Bust and More
The Brian Lehrer Show
WNYC
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 28 February 2024
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
Mayor Adams holds one off-topic press conference per week, where reporters can ask him questions on any subject. Elizabeth Kim, Gothamist and WNYC reporter, recaps what he talked about at this week's event including the dispersement of an illegal migrant shelter housing over 70 new New Yorkers in the basement of a furniture store in Queens, potential shifting of sanctuary city policy, and Adams' defense of his program to dispense prepaid cards to migrands for food and baby supplies.
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