The Trump administration warned of Big Apple officials this month that was ready to recover another $ 106 million in federal funds linked to the costs of migrants, but Mayor Eric Adams promised Tuesday to fight against the federals to maintain the mass.
A senior FEMA official told the city in the letter on April 1 that the United States government was eliminating a trio of subsidies already awarded by a total of $ 188 million, including the fonded tasks of approximately $ 80 million in February of the White House in February.
Cameron Hamilton, a senior official who performs the duties of the administrator, wrote that resuming the mass route is in line with the repression of the National Security Department on illegal immigration under President Trump.
“The department, consisting of President Trump’s direction, focuses on advancing on the essential mission of enforcing immigration laws and ensuring the border,” Hamilton wrote in the letter obtained by Tuesday.
“Consequently, the subsidy programs that support, or have the potential to support, illegal immigration through the financing of illegal activities or support illegal foreigners that is not consistent with the DHS application approach does not perform the current agency’s current practices.”
Federal financing was the first duration of Congress, the presidency Biden in response to the New York immigration crisis, in which 230,000 asylum seekers had descended to Gotham.
Adams described the “illegal” federal plan and said that the city’s law department is “currently determining the best legal resource to take to ensure that money remains in New York City, where it was assigned and belongs.”
He added that the subsidies of the federals are “that the minimum taxpayers of New York deserve”, and federal dollars must reimburse the city for money already spent on migrants.
“As I have repeatedly said, New York City did not create crisis, it was captivated by decades of federal inaction and not approve an integral immigration reform. However, New Yorkers said and residents of other important cities in the whole country.
“With the minimum aid of the federal government, our administration has managed skills an unprecedented immigration crisis, the duration that is 234,000 people have entered our city that the refuge, which costs taxpayers around $ 7.5 billion in just three yes.”
The Legal Action City previously touches after the $ 80 million was withdrawn.
The ardent statement of the Democrat on Tuesday occurs when the Mayor’s critics argue that he has been too soft with Trump in the hope that his criminal case since then would disappear.
The possible legal confrontation with Trump also arrives a week after Adams announced that he was seeing the next Democratic primary and, instead, he ran for re -election in an independent line.
Hizzer has been pursued by accusations that he and his department of justice and Trump agreed an agreement in which federal prosecutors would withdraw the positions of corruption against Adams if he helped with the application of immigration of the White House.
Both Adams, whose accusation was dismissed by a judge last week, and the Department of Justice has denied any Quid Pro quo.
Hamilton, the FEMA official, wrote that the city has 30 days to challenge the termination of subsidies.
Federal officials also withdrew $ 100 million from Covid-19 not spent the help of the Adams administration to submit a statement in support of a lawsuit against the cuts at the beginning of this month.
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