New York City Mayor Eric Adams said that migrants should be warned that there is “no more room” in the city for them.

While speaking in El Paso and observing the conditions at the Texas/Mexico border, Adams called on increased coordination from the federal government to handle what he called a “national emergency.”  Adams said he learned that websites are giving asylum seekers a false impression about what they can expect in The Big Apple.

“We learned today, which was very informative and that’s why it was important to come here, that there are websites that are advertising that New York City….basically the streets are paved with gold. That there’s automatic employment, that you’re automatically going to be living in a hotel,” Adams said.

 
 

“There’s a conversation among those who are asylum seekers and migrants who are given the false impression that if you come to New York City, everything is fine. We have to give people accurate information.”

 
 

“And that is what some of the centers are doing here. They are truly explaining to people that this is what is happening in New York right now. In New York, you go there, you’re going to be living in congregate settings, that there is no more room in New York. That should be coordinated by our national government.”

Adams called on a coordinated response by FEMA and for congress to enact immigration reform.  El Paso Mayor Oscar Leeser said in September 2022, Adams told him New York City would welcome migrants sent by the busloads.  During Sunday’s press conference, Adams said cities are being undermined.

“Because today it’s El Paso” Adams said. “Tomorrow it could be their cities.”