The Huge Apple’s ongoing migrant disaster seems to be no huge deal for a number of the girls at “The View.”
Pleasure Behar, 80, Ana Navarro, 51, and Sunny Hostin, 54, have been hit with backlash for downplaying Mayor Eric Adams’ claims that the disaster might “destroy” town.
On Friday’s version of the speak present, Behar performed an excerpt of Hizzoner talking at a city corridor assembly earlier this week, the place he acknowledged: “I don’t see an ending to this. This problem will destroy New York Metropolis. We’re getting 10,000 migrants a month.”
“Little dramatic, isn’t it?” Behar — who reportedly boasts a $14 million property portfolio — requested the present’s viewers after slicing from the clip.
“He has a aptitude for drama,” Navarro chimed in.
Hostin — whose 10-bedroom Westchester house is at the moment in the marketplace for $4.495 million — stated she was “disillusioned” in Adams’ feedback, regardless of admitting there was a “drawback” with the massive numbers of arrivals.
“They’re searching for refuge,” the previous prosecutor stated of the migrants. “I believed this nation, with its huge Statue of Liberty, ‘give me your weak’ and all of that is purported to be the nation that accepts folks.”
The ladies have been blasted on social media and on The View’s official YouTube channel, the place commentators often voice their assist for the celebs.
“Sunny is both mendacity or oblivious to actuality,” one YouTube viewer sniped.
“It’s straightforward to say we must be an open arms nation if you find yourself rich and reside in good neighborhoods the place there are not any homeless folks residing exterior your door on the sidewalk,” one other declared.
“That is like one thing out of a dystopian novel watching these rich dolled-up girls go on TV and declare that the chaos that’s occurring exterior proper in entrance of your eyes isn’t actually occurring. It’s wonderful” a 3rd chimed in.
A further top-rated remark learn: “To listen to them dismiss this as drama? Wow. I’m certain they reside fairly cozy away from the place these folks shall be positioned.”
On Saturday, Mayor Adams demanded that every one New York Metropolis companies implement 5% cuts in response to the ever-rocketing prices of the migrant disaster.
The slashing of the city-funded portion of Adams’ $107 billion spending plan would quantity to a several-billion {dollars} haircut over the subsequent three fiscal years.
“Because the giant inflow of asylum seekers to our metropolis started final spring, now we have warned New Yorkers that each metropolis service could possibly be impacted by this disaster if we didn’t get the assist we would have liked,” Adams stated in an announcement.
“There’s no state of affairs of a 5% reduce at each company with out layoffs,” one supply instructed The Put up. “It would imply dirtier streets and crime might go up.”