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New York Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie
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“I think because of the situation that we’re in, it’s like you’re just trying to stick your finger in all of the holes where water is coming through,” Heastie said as he visited the Albany suburbs of Rotterdam and Colonie. “At some point, I’m sure we’ll try to review what’s going on. But I think right now, the state and particularly the city of New York are just trying to play catch up.”
As a Progressive Democrat, Heastie is a staunch supporter of President Biden’s open border policy and New York’s sanctuary declaration, which the migrants are taking as an invitation to flood into the Empire State. He’s done nothing to stop the immigrant flow except to commit more than one billion in taxpayer dollars for migrant services.
Rather than visit the Super 8 or Best Western hotels which have become controversial migrant shelters, Heastie dropped in on an aquatic center and a food bank accompanied by members of his assembly delegation.
Back at home, New York Mayor Eric Adams has run out of places to put the nearly 100,000 migrants that have taken the Democrats up on their offer of sanctuary. And he’s running out of money with a price tag of $12 billion that he estimated the crisis will cost the city over the next two years.
“There’s no way the state is going to be able to financially deal with this migrant crisis without federal intervention,” Heastie told reporters.
“We’re under extraordinary circumstances.”