City Council pushing bill to provide free mental health services to migrants | #citycouncil
Metro exclusive By Jon Levine Published March 30, 2024, 8:16 a.m. ET The new bill “would require the Mayor’s Office of Community Health to have at least one mental health coordinator at any location where refugees and migrants receive services from the city. CineLens/peopleimages.com – stock.adobe.com Big Apple lawmakers may need their heads examined. Newly […]
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Mayor Adams’ ‘right to shelter’ agreement will actually make NYC’s migrant crisis worse
Betsy McCaughey Opinion By Betsy McCaughey Published March 17, 2024, 7:43 p.m. ET New York City Mayor Eric Adams speaks to media during the St. Patrick’s Day Parade on Mar. 16, 2024. Getty Images/Craig T Fruchtman Mayor Adams’ agreement, announced Friday, to limit the time migrants can stay in shelters at taxpayer expense, is smoke […]
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Texas Gov. Abbott hits Mayor Adams on migrants sent to NYC by Biden, El Paso Democrat
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott accused Mayor Eric Adams of hypocrisy for attacking his migrant-relocation program while giving a pass to President Biden and the Democratic mayor of El Paso. The broadside came amid Adams’ repeated threats to sue “Texas” — without specifying who — over the busloads of migrants who’ve been arriving almost daily in […]
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Mayor Adams needs to fight crime, not Texas Gov. Abbott
Since his election, Mayor Adams has consistently focused on crime and the reasons behind its lethal rise. He has battled fellow Democrats in the City Council and Albany over their changes to bail laws and other measures that make the problem worse. Yet with NYPD statistics showing he has made only marginal progress, Adams’ attention […]
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Mayor Adams’ wake-up on migrant flights
Doesn’t Mayor Adams read The Post? He must have missed the past nine months of our reporting on Joe Biden’s secret midnight flights bringing illegal migrants to New York from the southern border practically every night. He must have missed our reports on charter buses dropping them off at city-owned affordable housing in The Bronx […]
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