Eric Adams likened the influx of migrants to a “natural disaster” and again tore the feds

This is a catastrophe.”

Furious Mayor Eric Adams on Monday demanded that the federal government take a COVID-level response to help the Big Apple provide housing and social services to the thousands of migrants who have arrived in the city from the southern border.

Hizzoner escalated his rhetoric hours after the mayor’s office announced new plans to open a temporary shelter at the cruise ship terminal in Brooklyn’s Red Hook neighborhood and released statistics that put the number of arrivals at over 41,600.

“Where is our national response?” Adams asked during a press conference in the Bronx.

“I can understand those who look at what we are doing through the prism of a normal situation,” he continued. “I’m going to ask them to look at it in a crisis situation.”

“The same thing we looked at COVID, the same way we react to a major flood, the same way we react to a natural disaster,” he added.

These remarks were the latest in a weeks-long attempt by Adams to ratchet up pressure on leaders in Washington and Albany, as evidenced by his controversial statement that “there is no room in the hotel.”

In addition to asking for $2 billion, Adams demanded that Biden do more to stop the border crossing and pushed Gov. Kathy Hochul to move migrants from New York to communities outside the five boroughs.

During her fall campaign, Hochul said the request would only be considered after the migrants received their work papers, a process that could take months.

Meanwhile, Adams defended his treatment of a wave of South American arrivals, many of whom had come to New York from Venezuela to seek asylum in an attempt to escape the country’s widespread political violence and economic collapse.

“If you have an emergency, or a hurricane, or a terrible flood, we used this during COVID-19,” Adams said, clearly frustrated by the criticism.

“People have forgotten about it. We used ships during COVID-19, people forgot about it,” he continued. “We used ships to accommodate people. We set up tents in Central Park. We had trailers in front of the hospitals because the morgues were full.”

“When there is a crisis, you must use all your tools,” the mayor added.

Advocates for the homeless and indigent have criticized temporary housing in buildings at Red Hook Docks as “unnecessarily” exposing “future residents to the elements during the coldest months of the year.”

“Hotels have always been the best short-term option,” the Homeless Coalition and Legal Aid Society said in a statement, “as opposed to pitching tents in inaccessible parts of New York that are prone to flooding.”