Joe Borelli: ‘New York Can Just Pay Dallas’ Budget for What We Are Paying for This Migrant Crisis’

RUSH TRANSCRIPT:
BAIER: “Councilman Borelli you’ve formed this common sense caucus. You have a number of proposals here together allowing the NYPD to communicate with ICE. Enable ICE to collect suspects in custody. Ballot measure to repeal restrictions on deportation, retention, and removal. Obviously, that’s not in the purview of the New York City police. But what do you see coming together on there that you’ll be able to get done?”
BORELLI: “Look, we believe we have public support. We believe that New Yorkers are frustrated, they are seeing rising crime numbers where there are high concentrations of migrants. Whether you agree with the policy or not. If you are a resident of even the most progressive neighborhoods in New York, you are noticing that there is more crime. And not just the crime aspect, but also the money aspect. This year it’s going to cost us $5 billion to house and care for this population, that would make our migrant spending the ninth most expensive city budget in the United States, we would be about the same as the city of Dallas, in other words, New York can just pay Dallas’ budget for what we are paying for this migrant crisis. I think New Yorkers have finally said enough is enough. We are not getting any value out of this. It’s not playing out. The Democrats have said this would somehow enhance New York City, unfortunately, until we see a change at the top, I don’t think anything is going to change at the southern border to alleviate those coming in.”