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Posted on: December 19, 2024 at 14:04:40 CT

Mayor Adams: When we saw the numbers coming in, we were getting at one time almost 8,000 a week, 16,000 every two weeks. I mean, we could just do the math, unsustainable. And at that time, the right to shelter, we were being sued by advocates that required us to give everyone a bed by a certain number of times. We were getting buses 2, 3 a.m. in the morning. And we reached out to the White House, 10 trips to Washington, D.C., asking them for help in securing the border and stopping this flow.

I went down to El Paso and also went down to the Darien Gap, and I saw the flow and the threat that we were receiving. We didn't get the support. We got $200 million out of a $6.5 billion deficit. And so many people believe that, okay, Eric, it's in your rearview mirror. It happened already. You've got $170,000 now.

No. The damage that we are going to see long-term from spending $6.5 billion, $200 million could have gone to those chronically absent children. We could have put $100 million into the senior care, helping people with medical debt relief. So when you start to look at the long-term impact of the services we did not provide, it's going to start materializing in the years to come. That is the destruction that I was talking about.