Opinion | Mayor Adams and New York’s Immigration Crisis

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To the Editor:

“Mayor Adams Turns His Again on Immigrants and His Metropolis’s Legacy,” by Mara Homosexual (Opinion, Aug. 4), is deeply offensive to 1000’s of New York Metropolis public servants who’re nearly single-handedly managing a world disaster.

Within the span of a 12 months, our shelter inhabitants has greater than doubled. We’ve manufactured house for greater than 95,000 asylum seekers, opened 194 websites, welcomed 1000’s of scholars into colleges, helped submit greater than 1,300 asylum functions and partnered with tons of of nonprofits. We’ll spend billions on this disaster.

We’ve achieved all this whereas Monday-morning quarterbacks like Ms. Homosexual ask why we aren’t doing extra, with no point out of labor authorization, which is what asylum seekers ask for many of all.

We discover Ms. Homosexual’s comparability of Mayor Adams to Gov. Greg Abbott of Texas and Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida wildly off-base, to not point out insulting. Mayor Adams leads an administration that has cared for 95,000 asylum seekers. Governors Abbott and DeSantis trafficked migrants to the Northeast. These two approaches are plainly not the identical.

We’re doing the whole lot we are able to, and we’ve found out easy methods to do loads of issues that appeared unattainable, too.

The actual query is: Why aren’t Washington or Albany doing extra? If Ms. Homosexual’s ire had been directed in a special path, it’d assist to get our metropolis the assistance we want.

Camille Joseph Varlack
Ingrid P. Lewis-Martin
Sheena Wright
New York
The writers are, respectively, chief of employees to Mayor Eric Adams, chief adviser and first deputy mayor.

To the Editor:

Kudos to Mara Homosexual. Certainly, this metropolis needs to be welcoming immigrants and asylum seekers with each useful resource we’ve. Not solely is it the appropriate factor to do, however historical past and present economists inform us it’s going to revenue the town immensely.

Actually, a number of of our employment sectors — development, restaurant and meals service, and residential well being care — are in want of recent entry-level staff and will practice this inhabitants into jobs that will enable them to turn out to be financially unbiased.

Not solely is the administration response too restricted and divisive, nevertheless it additionally ignores and frustrates the superb response of people and organizations which have constructed and staffed a thrift store, opened welcome desks in homes of worship, and stepped ahead with the whole lot from sneakers to authorized help to well being data to English courses.

The outpouring of care is big and could be bigger if teams weren’t always ignored, annoyed or denied entry to shelters and inns. Partnerships with these teams may ease the burden on the town and improve the welcome from a metropolis of immigrants to our latest New Yorkers.

Ruth W. Messinger
New York
The author, a social justice marketing consultant and an immigrant middle volunteer, was the Manhattan borough president from 1990 to 1997 and the Democratic nominee for mayor of New York in 1997.

To the Editor:

Re “Prosecutors Search Protecting Order Over Proof” (information article, Aug. 6):

Donald Trump was particularly directed at his arraignment to not try and threaten or intimidate witnesses. He has had comparable directives by judges in his different pending circumstances to not use threatening incendiary language.

So he posts in capital letters shortly after the final listening to “IF YOU GO AFTER ME, I’M COMING AFTER YOU!” — a transparent risk to judges, prosecutors, witnesses and attainable jurors.

Skilled federal prosecutors have acknowledged that if another defendant so blatantly violated courtroom orders, they’d possible be despatched to jail to await trial.

On the very least there needs to be a right away listening to and a transparent unmistakable message that yet one more violation and he’ll be despatched to jail. I’m so uninterested in Donald Trump flouting the foundations and getting away with it.

Richard Goetz
Delray Seashore, Fla.

To the Editor:

Jurors are requested rigorously to look at the proof introduced in a trial, in accordance with a decide’s directions. Donald Trump has already lashed out at prosecutors, judges and potential witnesses and has exhorted his followers to take motion.

Except jurors (and any relations) are assured safety or anonymity throughout and after any trial, who would have the ability to train the wanted care to function a juror in any of the upcoming trials of Mr. Trump?

To the Editor:

Re “G.O.P. Blueprint for ’25: Gutting Local weather Progress” (entrance web page, Aug. 5):

It’s laborious to fathom simply how irresponsible, wrongheaded, nihilistic and radical the Republican Get together’s Mission 2025 is.

It’s dangerous sufficient that these Republican so-called leaders deny the science of local weather change, which scientists agree on nearly unanimously, however additionally they plan to roll again federal efforts to answer this disaster. These persons are harmful past perception.

We can’t allow them to be put in positions of energy. They should be stopped, for the sake of human civilization on this fragile, beautiful small planet.

Paul Harper
Minneapolis

To the Editor:

First, Republicans sidetracked significant gun laws, then they made their anti-abortion stance a central and dropping technique within the 2022 midterm elections, and now they’ve given voters but another excuse to shun them on the polls in 2024.

Whereas the previous president takes up many of the print ink and tv protection, the specter of persevering with world local weather change stands alone as essentially the most urgent situation of our time.

It’s a actual head scratcher to me that the Republican Get together is making a call to intestine local weather coverage within the midst of essentially the most drastic warmth waves menacing populations across the globe, however nothing appears to face in the way in which of the Republicans taking pictures themselves within the foot as soon as once more.

Democrats needs to be taking to the airwaves instantly to denounce this idiotic and critically ill-timed coverage resolution.

Henry A. Lowenstein
Newport, R.I.

To the Editor:

Re “In Elite Soccer, Risking Profession to Be a Mom” (entrance web page, Aug. 1):

I observed a lot hand-wringing within the feedback concerning the potential damaging results on kids of getting moms whose consideration is usually divided between them and careers as elite athletes.

What’s lacking from that evaluation is the unimaginable advantages to kids of rising up touring the world, seeing their moms obtain greatness and being cared for not solely by moms and dads, but additionally by prolonged households and caring teammates.

We should always welcome the presence of youngsters and search to create supportive, caring communities for them in all professions.

Emily Hoppe
Baltimore