City Hall official admits NYC can’t afford migrant surge: Undercover video

An aide to Mayor Eric Adams has unleashed on Hizzoner’s ability to handle an influx of illegal migrants from the Texas border that is sending the city “broke.”

As the federal government continues to fly migrants from the border into the “sanctuary city” of New York and Texas Governor Greg Abbott sends busloads every week, “it’s flooded our system,” says City Hall staffer Chris Baugh, who was recorded on hidden camera by undercover journalism outfit Project Veritas.

“I think what Abbott has done has proven effective … We have more people in social services then we have ever had potentially in history.“

Ultimately [the city is] struggling to comply with our own law, the ‘right to shelter’ law.”

Abbott’s determination to keep sending migrants to New York has put Adams in a “perilous” political situation and has catapulted the city toward a $10 billion deficit by 2026, now that “free” federal COVID Money has dried up, Baugh says, in a recording obtained exclusively by The Post.

“We’re asking for it but I don’t think there’s federal help to be offered.

“I don’t think [President Joe] Biden is in a position where he is going to be like, ‘OK New York, here’s a billion dollars.”

Adams has rejected a plan to cap migrants at 20,000, and his staff would have quit if he had limited the numbers, according to Baugh, a member of the mayor’s advance team. “The optics of this are bad for Biden and they’re bad for the mayor. “I think Biden saying I’m going to give away money to New York City because they can’t take care of these migrants is going to be just bad politics for him — and frankly I don’t know how much Biden is going to appreciate a mayor saying, ‘hey you owe blue cities money because of this migrant crisis’.

“Eventually it’s going to make Biden look bad which we’re a month out from the midterms and he’s not going to like that.

“It’s a very perilous situation … and I don’t know that Eric Adams is capable enough to navigate it.”

Project Veritas

Project Veritas

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Baugh says Adams has no plan to manage the future migrant influx. The mayor doesn’t want to raise taxes but the only alternative is cutting services, and Baugh nominates aged care and migrant services as options.

“This city has a ‘right to shelter’ law. Republicans are like, ‘here’s 11,000 people we don’t want to deal with’ and our laws state we have to take care of them. That’s the law of the city [but they are] not telling us when these people are coming, they’re not telling us when the buses are arriving, they’re not telling us who’s on them . . .

“We’re building a tent city. We’re parking these people in plastic tents on Randalls Island. They’re not getting good stuff. We’re kicking them out of hotels because it’s tourist season and hotels want to raise their rates.

“It’s a f– ked proposition any way you look at it.”

Baugh last hit the news in July after he was mugged in broad daylight while scouting a location in Brooklyn for a planned visit by Hizzoner.