Mayor Eric Adams applauded President Biden’s call for the Republican-controlled Congress to pass comprehensive immigration reform in his State of the Union speech Tuesday night, while repeating his plea for a “national solution” to the scores of asylum seekers who’ve flooded into some of the nation’s largest cities — including New York — over the past year.
But Biden’s 70-minute address devoted very little time to outlining a strategy for better handling the flow of mostly Latin American migrants over the southern border, besides his call for House Republicans to help him pass “comprehensive immigration reform.” He did also call on the GOP for more funding for border agents and to provide a path to citizenship for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals recipients — also known as Dreamers, farm workers and others here on a temporary basis.
