‘I Don’t See an Ending to This’: NYC Mayor Adams Predicts Migrant Crisis Will ‘Destroy’ City

The influx of more than 110,000 migrants — and counting — will “destroy New York City,” Mayor Eric Adams said during a community event Wednesday in Manhattan, offering a dire view of the city’s position in the growing crisis.

“Let me tell you something, New Yorkers: Never in my life have I had a problem that I cannot see an ending to,” Adams said during the wide-ranging event at a school on the borough’s Upper West Side. “I don’t see an ending to this.”

“This issue will destroy New York City.”

The crisis — which began last year with Texas Gov. Greg Abbott sending busloads of migrants to cities nationwide in protest of what he described as President Biden’s lax immigration policies — has left the city staring down a $12 billion budget hole, while spreading municipal resources paper-thin.

“Every service in this city is going to be impacted,” Adams said during the event, part of which was highlighted by local freelance journalist @nycphotog on X, formerly Twitter. “All of us.”

The mayor challenged his constituents, demanding to know what they had done to stop the crisis.

“As you ask me a question about migrants, tell me what role you played,” he said, before turning over the floor to attendees. “How many of you organized to stop what they’re doing to us?”

But Adams also again took aim at forces outside the city, characterizing Abbott as “a madman down in Texas [who] decided he wanted to bus people up to New York City,” and saying the city is “getting no support on this national crisis.”

The issue has found Adams frequently and openly at odds with fellow Democrats Biden and Gov. Kathy Hochul.

While awaiting help from outside the city, Adams called on New Yorkers to stick together, rather than devolve into borough-on-borough bickering.

“The city we knew, we’re about to lose,” he said. “And we’re all in this together. All of us.”