Mayor Adams demands expedited work permits from Biden for NYC migrants at rally

Mayor Eric Adams is taking to the streets to demand another expedited work permit from the Biden administration for thousands of migrants who have poured into the Big Apple since last year.

Hizzoner told a crowd of about 200 in lower Manhattan on Thursday that the government needed to intervene, following Gov. Kathy Hochul’s visit to the White House on Wednesday to plead for help.

“We need to speed up the issuance of work visas,” Adams said at a rally in Foley Square. “It’s just common sense.

“We could continue construction of the pipeline,” he said. “This dream of working hard to build a better life for you and your family is rooted in a dream we call the American Dream, no matter where you come from, no matter how much you have in your pocket when you arrive.

“We urge our national leaders not to do this to New York. New York City deserves better.”

Hochul spent nearly three hours in a closed session with President Biden’s chief of staff Jeff Zients.

According to a report released after the meeting, the government will launch a nationwide campaign in September to instruct migrants who have been granted work permits on how to get legal jobs.

“The administration officials and the governor reiterated their commitment to continue these talks in the coming days and weeks and call on Congress to provide programs with adequate resources to support communities that are hosting migrants and to enact immigration reform,” the statement said the document.

On Thursday, a group of city council leaders joined the call for state work permits for the migrants.

“As more people seeking asylum in the United States arrive in our city, it is critical that they are allowed to work legally to support themselves, their families and our city,” one said Statement from more than half a dozen lawmakers.

“People seeking asylum can make a tremendous contribution to our economy and it is imperative that we enable that outcome,” they said.

As of Sunday, more than 107,000 migrants had been cleared from the US border in New York City — including 2,900 last week alone — and nearly 60,000 are in city shelters, officials said.

Many of the migrants have turned to WhatsApp and Facebook pages to snag jobs while awaiting an asylum decision in the US, including in housekeeping, construction and food delivery.

City and state officials, who foot the bill for housing and services for migrants, are pushing to make them accountable and self-sufficient, giving taxpayers pause.

But the city’s handling of the migrant crisis has sparked a backlash, including on Staten Island, where the conversion of the former St. John Avilla Academy Catholic school into a 300-bed emergency shelter is leading hundreds in the district to renewed calls for a move away from the migrant crisis other districts.

At Thursday’s Foley Square rally, a protester holding a sign that read ‘Close border’ was dragged away by police officers – while the mayor chanted ‘Let them work’.

The protester, former Queens City Council candidate Jonathan Rinaldi, called the mayor “Biden’s bitch.”

Additional reporting by Nolan Hicks