{"id":260,"date":"2023-10-01T13:28:01","date_gmt":"2023-10-01T13:28:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/?p=260"},"modified":"2023-10-26T13:29:28","modified_gmt":"2023-10-26T13:29:28","slug":"nyc-mayor-adams-chief-adviser-urges-feds-to-close-the-borders-amid-migrant-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/2023\/10\/01\/nyc-mayor-adams-chief-adviser-urges-feds-to-close-the-borders-amid-migrant-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC Mayor Adams\u2019 chief adviser urges feds to \u2018close the borders\u2019 amid migrant crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/2023\/10\/01\/nyc-mayor-adams-chief-adviser-urges-feds-to-close-the-borders-amid-migrant-crisis\/\">Daily News<\/a> &#8211; Lewis-Martin\u2019s comments came after\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/2023\/09\/07\/mayor-adams-drops-bombshell-says-migrant-crisis-will-destroy-nyc\/\">months of criticism from the mayor<\/a>\u00a0against his fellow Democrat President Biden, saying the White House needs to do more to help the city handle an influx of tens of thousands of migrants.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you\u2019ve got the top people in charge saying \u2018close the borders,\u2019 it shows the xenophobia that is part of this administration,\u201d Councilwoman Shahana Hanif, a Brooklyn Democrat who heads the Council\u2019s Committee on Immigration, told the Daily News. \u201cIt\u2019s dangerous, and it emboldens violence. We should be very worried about that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The mayor\u2019s office did not immediately answer a request for comment about the criticism. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/2023\/10\/01\/nyc-mayor-adams-chief-adviser-urges-feds-to-close-the-borders-amid-migrant-crisis\/\">Read More<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/2023\/10\/01\/nyc-mayor-adams-chief-adviser-urges-feds-to-close-the-borders-amid-migrant-crisis\/\">Daily News<\/a> &#8211; Lewis-Martin\u2019s comments came after\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/2023\/09\/07\/mayor-adams-drops-bombshell-says-migrant-crisis-will-destroy-nyc\/\">months of criticism from the mayor<\/a>\u00a0against his fellow Democrat President Biden, saying the White House needs to do more to help the city handle an influx of tens of thousands of migrants.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you\u2019ve got the top people in charge saying \u2018close the borders,\u2019 it shows the xenophobia that is part of this administration,\u201d Councilwoman Shahana Hanif, a Brooklyn Democrat who heads the Council\u2019s Committee on Immigration, told the Daily News.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong><small><a href=\"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/2023\/10\/01\/nyc-mayor-adams-chief-adviser-urges-feds-to-close-the-borders-amid-migrant-crisis\/\">READ MORE<\/a><\/small><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":288,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/288"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}