Rep. Malliotakis Rips NYC Mayor’s Idea of Housing Illegal Migrants in Private Residences

Mayor Adams: “It is my vision to take the next step to this, sort of the faith-based locales, and then move to private residents. There are residents who are suffering right now because of the economic challenges, they have spare rooms, they have locales, and we can find a way to get over the 30-day rule and other rules that government in its place. We can take that $4.2 billion — $4.3 billion, maybe, even now, that we potentially have to spend, and we can put it back into pockets of everyday New Yorkers, everyday houses of worship, instead of put it in the pockets of corporations and some of those corporations come from outside our city.”

WEBSTER: “Look, let’s begin, I know you’re not a fan of this plan, right?”

MALLIOTAKIS: “Of course I’m not a fan of this plan. It’s absolutely outrageous. Not only does New York City have a housing crisis, we have an affordability crisis. People are renting apartments for thousands and thousands of dollars, people are having difficulty paying their mortgage, paying their rent, keeping up with their property taxes that have increased year after year, and the mayor is now telling hard-working taxpayers that they need to pay so individuals who have crossed illegally at the border last week can live rent-free? I mean, what planet are we living on? It’s absolutely outrageous. And the mayor, I’ve said before, needs to challenge — and he is, by the way, finally, after I’ve been calling him for years to challenge this right-to-shelter law, it will finally go before a judge because it was intended for homeless New Yorkers, right, citizens who fell on difficult times, became homeless, to give them shelter, not for individuals who just entered our country last week or citizens of other countries. And of course this will continue to just incentivize individuals to come over our border. That’s exactly what’s going to happen. He says they keep coming. They keep coming because you are giving them free housing.”