Candace Owens has hit out at New York City Mayor Eric Adams as he makes efforts to fly migrants out of the area.
After 122,000 migrants arrived in the Big Apple in the last year, Adams insisted the Big Apple is “at capacity”, even visiting Mexico to discourage more arrivals.
His bid to discourage migrants is a stunning reversal from his previous policy where he said cities should bear the cost of the influx of asylum seekers crossing the southern border.
Owens says the fact Adams is now floundering to struggle in his bid to deal with the migrant influx is “glorious to see” given his past sentiments.
Candace Owens says Eric Adams' '180' is 'glorious to see'
GB NEWS / REUTERS
“We are watching the Mayor of New York do a complete 180”, she told GB News.
“He says ‘we don’t have the capacity to support this and it is changing the dynamics of our city’, that is the point, buddy.
LATEST DEVELOPMENTS
“This is never about racism or xenophobia. It was about practicality and what actually works.”
GB News’ Patrick Christys compared the situation to what we are seeing in Britain, a country struggling amid a housing crisis.
He told Owens “we wonder why there’s a massive housing crisis and we welcome something like 1.2 million new people to this tiny island every single year.”
“The answer is staring you right in the face, it comes from mass, uncontrolled immigration.”
New York Mayor Eric AdamsWiki Commons images/ Metropolitan Transportation Authority of the State of New YorkSpeaking at the beginning of the crisis, Adams held a significantly different tone when speaking about the migrant crisis.
“As mayor of New York, I have to provide services families that are here, and that’s what we’re going to do”, he said.
“Our responsibility as a city, and I’m proud that this is a Right to Shelter state, and we’re going to continue to do that.”
Speaking last week, the Mayor discussed the need for an “international response” to the crisis, arguing it is not confined just to New York.
In August, the US Border Patrol made 181,509 arrests at the Mexican border, a 37 per cent rise from July but little changed from August 2022.
Speaking ahead of his trip to Mexico where Adams sought to gain a grasp of the problem at its root, he said “we want to give an honest assessment of what we’re experiencing here in this city. We are at capacity.
“We're going to tell them that coming to New York doesn't mean you're going to stay in a five-star hotel.
“It doesn't mean that, the mere fact that you come here, you automatically are going to be allowed to work.”