Vivek Ramaswamy Backs Democratic Mayor Who is Alarmed Over New York Migrant Influx – News18

Republican Presidential hopeful Vivek Ramaswamy has backed mayor Eric Adams amid growing alarm over the financial strain New York faces as thousands of asylum seekers arrive each month. Despite being a GOP candidate, Vivek supported the Democratic mayor saying “I don’t care if he’s a Democrat. This is the TRUTH.”

Addressing a public meeting on Wednesday, Adams the migrant issue will destroy New York City. He said 10,000 migrants are arriving each month “from all over the globe” and that 110,000 people have shown up since Greg Abbott, the Republican governor of Texas, began sending migrants to New York aboard buses.

“We have to feed, cloth, house, educate the children, wash their laundry sheets, give them everything they need, healthcare,” he said. In addition to New York, Abbott has been sending migrants to other cities governed by Democrats, including Washington and Los Angeles. Other Republican governors, and some Democrats, have followed suit and began transporting migrants out of their jurisdictions.

Sending migrants to Democratic strongholds has become a political cudgel for the American right as a means of denouncing President Joe Biden’s immigration policy, which they say has allowed undocumented migrants to cross the border with Mexico in large numbers.

Mayor Adams, a former police officer who hails from the moderate wing of the Democratic Party, estimated last month that providing support services to the incoming migrants at USD 12 billion over three years. “New Yorkers’ compassion may be limitless, but our resources are not,” he said in early August.

Slamming the  Texas governor as a “madman,” Adams said that the federal government currently under his party’s control was not adequately addressing the issue. “We’re getting no support on this national crisis and we’re receiving no support,” the mayor said.

(With AFP inputs)