NYC Mayor Says Some Migrants ‘Participated’ In ‘A Robbery Pattern’

 New York City's Democratic Mayor Eric Adams acknowledged this week that some illegal immigrants who have recently arrived in the city are engaged in "robbery."

Adams made the comments during a press conference on Tuesday.

“Do I believe that there are some immigrants who are committing crimes in the city? Yes. Yes, Adams responded to a reporter who asked him about the issue.

He was quick to point out that immigrants are not solely responsible for the city's criminal activity, such as an increase in grand theft autos.

“There are people who are committing crimes in all walks of life. It's not just migrants and asylum seekers. I think we have a lot of immigrants who have committed crimes. We have a lot of non-immigrants who are committing crimes,” Adams said.

“And so I don't want to go along with anybody saying that the increase in GLA [grand larceny auto] that we saw in the city was just migrants. no it's not. It was long-term New Yorkers who also committed to the GLA,” the mayor added. “But are there crimes that migrants have committed? Yes, there are.”

The reporter pressed Adams on what data he was using to claim that immigrants committed crimes.

Adams responded, "For example, there was a robbery pattern." "We recognized that it was a robbery pattern, and there were some migrants who participated in that robbery pattern."

About 161,000 migrants, mostly from Venezuela, have arrived in New York City since the spring of 2022, and about half of them are still in the care of the city. The crisis has forced the city to open new shelters and cut the budget of every city agency, including police, public schools and sanitation.

Adams predicted that the influx of immigrants would cost the city up to $12 billion.

Both Adams and New York Democratic Governor Kathy Hochul have urged the Biden administration to deliver federal aid to ease the strain on the city, even calling on Washington, D.C. to ask for help. Have also traveled to.

In September, Biden expanded work authorizations for migrants, which Hochul called “a way out of the migrant crisis,” but the approval process is still extremely slow as they struggle to deal with bureaucracy.

“You put a person in an environment where they can't work, they can't support themselves. It's not a good scenario,” Adams said Tuesday.

Texas and other Southern states have bused hundreds of illegal immigrants to New York and other Democrat-run sanctuary cities to protect some border towns from flooding.