Cuomo blasts Biden, Hochul for not doing sufficient on NYC migrant disaster: ‘Mayor Adams is correct’

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By Carl Campanile and Jorge Fitz-Gibbon

Former Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Sunday bashed the Biden and Hochul administrations over the migrant disaster, saying each left the beleaguered metropolis to fend for itself.

Cuomo, talking on the Christian Cultural Middle in Brooklyn, added that the plan to deal with as much as not less than 2,000 migrants at Floyd Bennett Discipline “defies widespread sense.

“Floyd Bennet Discipline is an previous airstrip,” the 65-year-old disgraced ex-New York gov informed the viewers on the church. “It’s a flood plain. It’s a transportation desert. It’s going to successfully isolate 1000’s of migrants who want our assist and deserve our assist.

“And it’s going to value taxpayers thousands and thousands of {dollars},” he mentioned.

Cuomo — who fell wanting calling out President Biden and Gov. Kathy Hochul by title however made it clear he was focusing on his fellow Dems — added that New York Metropolis Mayor Eric Adams has been left to grapple with the greater than 130,000 migrants who’ve flooded the 5 boroughs since spring 2022.

“We’ve got a migrant subject,” Cuomo mentioned. “Now it’s a scorching political potato, so the federal authorities and the state authorities need to don’t have anything to do with it, and so they left it to New York Metropolis.

“However how can New York Metropolis deal with 130,000 migrants?” he mentioned. “Mayor Adams is correct — town can’t bear the burden alone.”

Cuomo, who was pressured to resign from workplace in 2021 over wide-ranging allegations of sexual harassment, additionally ran by a litany of different ills dealing with town, state and nation — from rampant antisemitism and the homeless disaster to the political dysfunction crippling the nation’s capital.

He completed his 8-minute speech with a name to arms.

“Now it’s time for folks of goodwill and customary sense to talk up and get entangled,” he mentioned. “Bear in mind, most politicians are like climate vanes — they level wherever the political wind blows. And now the extremist forces are blowing us astray.

“My associates, what’s occurring as we speak issues,” Cuomo added. “Now could be the time on your voice as a citizen, as a congregant, as a member of the group to talk up and to talk out loud and proud for the way forward for town of New York.”

The White Home and Hochul’s workplace didn’t reply to requests for remark from The Publish on Sunday.