Eric Adams: There Are 500,000 Migrant Children in This Country That We Can’t Find

Reporter: “Did Mr. Homan make any specific request from the city in order to work with you in this crisis?”

Adams: “His desire is clearly, again, what my target area is, and what I’ve learned also from sitting down with him and a representative from the Biden Administration that was there in the meeting as well, we have 500,000 children who have sponsors in this country that we can’t find. We can’t find them. We don’t know if they’re doing child labor, we don’t know if they’re doing sex crimes, we don’t know if they’re being exploited. 500,000 children. There’s a level of hypocrisy that everyone that states they want to protect everyone but innocent individuals who are victims of crimes and children. I want to support and protect children and innocent people that are victims of crime. And those who don’t understand that it’s not up to me to try to convince them. I know what my job is, my goal is, and I was clear of that while running and when I became mayor. Safety means everything to me. 500,000 children, we don’t know where they are right now in this country.”