Over 67K migrants are living in NYC shelters - more than triple the 2022 holiday season total - as Mayor Eric Adams calls Biden's lax immigration policies 'baffling'

New York City Mayor Eric Adams again called out the Biden administration and the federal government over it's 'baffling' inability to address the Big Apple's migrant crisis.

Adams, a Democrat, has often clashed with the president and Democrats in Washington, constantly begging Washington for money to solve a disaster that he claimed will 'destroy my city.'

It comes alongside the news that there are now over 67,000 migrants living in the city's shelter system, over triple the 21,300 at this time last year.

When asked why his fellow Democrats running the show in DC have ignored it despite his repeated, in-person pleas to do something, Adams was at a loss for words and said the problem is now spreading.

'I find it baffling because now you are hearing the coalitions that started with Eric, now it has gone to Chicago, Massachusetts, Denver... so many municipalities are joining me and saying this is impacting our city, so I'm not sure why we're not seeing a response' Adams told ABC 7. 

Adams, once seen as a potential rising star for the party, took it a step further and suggested that he would have the fix for the problems - which he says Democrats have 'underestimated' - were he president.

His 'real decompression strategy' would ship migrants from the border across the country and give them a three-year deadline to get themselves settled. 

'We tell them, 'Here's where you're going to go for a three-year period to stabilize yourself.' 

'This way, instead of having 140,000 coming here or a thousand coming to Chicago, we're spreading it out throughout the entire country,' he added. 

Adams says that the good would outweigh the bad if you simply spread the migrants out. 

'We have 108,000 towns, villages, cities across America. In my view, many people are dealing with population issues, employment issues and they want migrants and asylum seekers that can work because we are a city and a country of immigrants.'

The Senate has pushed off its holiday recess to work on a border security and foreign aid package in what could be a breakthrough on immigration policy - that has not been dealt with by Congress in decades. 

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said talks had made 'good progress' on Thursday on a package that would include money for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan and would bolster border security measures in exchange. 

One idea under consideration is to allow Homeland Security officials to stop migrants from applying for asylum at the southern border if the total number of crossings on a day exceeds 5,000. 

Hardliners on both sides of the aisle in the House are expected to oppose the deal: conservative Republicans will say it doesn't live up to H.R. 2, their party-line immigration bill and that they oppose Ukraine aid in general. Progressive Democrats will oppose border restrictions. 

In New York, Adams has introduced a 30 day limit for single adults in temporary shelter housing. 

The mayor's administration has been struggling to deal with a massive surge of migrants that has seen over 140,000 arrive since last year. 

'I don't see an ending to this. This issue will destroy New York City,' Adams declared in September.

Adams has estimated the city will spend $12 billion over the next three years to handle the influx, setting up large-scale emergency shelters, renting out hotels and providing various government services for migrants.

Earlier this month the Democrat announced a $110.5 billion budget, claiming cuts across all departments were necessary after the city spent $1.45 billion in fiscal 2023 on the migrant crisis.

The budget cuts would cause NYPD officers to be cut by a fifth, or 13.5 percent, by postponing the next five academy classes, bringing officers below 30,000 - down from 36,000. 

Education would also take a $1 billion hit over two years and it would cause a delay in the rollout of composting in the Bronx and Staten Island, causing reduced trash pick-ups as well as cuts to the city's pre-K programs.

The New York Public Library, Brooklyn Public Library and Queens Public Library also would need to eliminate Sunday service due to the budget cut.

'Without sufficient funding, we cannot sustain our current levels of service, and any further cuts to the Libraries' budgets will, unfortunately, result in deeper service impacts,' the libraries said in a statement.

The cuts would also decrease funding for two children's programs: summer school and universal prekindergarten.

Adams has long warned about the potential of budget cuts to help offset the rise in costs for housing migrants. He has pleaded with the federal government for more resources, but they have fallen on deaf ears.