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Hakeem’s Hometown Migrant Crisis

The House minority leader, and speaker-in-waiting, is in the middle of a pickle in his own backyard that might cost him the gavel.

Hakeem Jeffries
House minority leader Hakeem Jeffries is in the middle of a fight being waged by New York Mayor Eric Adams and Governor Kathy Hochul—publicly demanding federal funds, lands, and work permits for migrants—against Joe Biden. Photo: Shannon Finney/Getty Images
Tara Palmeri
September 8, 2023

It’s the political third rail that Democrats don’t want to touch: A surge of more than 100,000 migrants over the last 18 months into New York City, thousands of miles from the southern border, filling homeless shelters, overloading city services, and fueling outrage on the covers of the New York Post and the Daily News, alike. Mayor Eric Adams, the ambitious and scandal-prone Democrat who was once viewed as a rising star in the party, recently called it a humanitarian crisis that will cost some $12 billion to solve over the next three years.