On Sunday Former New York Gov. David Paterson warned about a “city versus country revolt” against the federal government over the migrant crisis — and claimed “we probably need” such drastic action to wake up the clueless Biden administration.
Speaking with John Catsimatidis on WABC 770AM radio’s “Cats Roundtable”, Paterson was speaking directly to the migrant issue currently facing New York. He said, “The federal government just decided they are sending the people in, and we should just be happy. I don’t know what it is that they expect. They sent really no money.”
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“It could in some ways backfire when other cities have the same problem as New York City,” he said of the White House’s stance. “There might be a kind of city-vs.-country revolt — which we probably need at this point.
“I think most people are very sympathetic to the plight of the migrants and would like to help. But as in any situation, even when you’re giving to charity, you give as much as you can, not as much as they think you should.”
Paterson also mentioned a court order, which was publicized, that compelled the state to write a letter to the city and Mayor Adams about complying with some of the shelter laws. to that he said, “Further more, I don’t think this is a problem by the city or the state. I think it’s because by the federal government who shipped 160,000 in their current venture and there is no municipality on the planet that can handle that number of people coming in at the same time.”
He defended Mayor Adams on his open stance to welcome migrants to New York City, saying that at that time, he could not have possibly envisioned the massive number that would come all at one time.
He believes in the next few months, “as we get into September, October, November, the same discussion that we’ve had is just going to intensify”, supporting Adams’ call for urgency int his matter.
In addition, Paterson mentioned another cause for concern are the increasing number of new students coming in upstate and the shortage of teachers there who do not have the resources to deal with the influx.
“This is the kind of plan that should never have been enacted within a year. [The Biden administration] should have taken a year to try to adjust the facilities and the capacity of a city or a town or wherever you’re sending migrants,” Paterson said.
