‘I’m going to tell you the truth’: Kyrsten Sinema blasts her former boss and says decision to send $130 MILLION of migrant money to New York instead of border states is because Senate leader Chuck Schumer is from NEW YORK
Kyrsten Sinema held a roundtable in the border city of Yuma on WednesdayShe said she was livid so much money for migrant relief was going to New YorkAnd she claimed it was because the leader of the Senate was from New York
By Rob Crilly, Senior U.S. Political Reporter For Dailymail.Com In Gila Bend, Arizona
Published: 04:10 BST, 3 August 2023 | Updated: 04:46 BST, 3 August 2023
Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema turned on her former boss on Wednesday, blasting the decision to send $130 million to New York to help it cope with an influx of migrants and saying it was only done because Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer is from the state.
Sinema quit the Democratic Party last year and now has more freedom to speak her mind as an independent.
She did just that at a roundtable for first responders in the border city of Yuma on Wednesday as she heard how the migrant crisis had affected their work.
She was asked why so much cash from the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s Shelter Services Program was being sent to New York, more than 2,500 miles away from Yuma.
And she said she was ‘livid’ that frontline border areas had lost cash to cities that did not have the same level of problem.
Sen. Kyrsten Sinema held a meeting for first responders to discuss the border crisis on Wednesday in the southern Arizona city of Yuma
Sinema blasted her former boss, saying the reason so much migrant money had ended up in New York was because the Senate leader (Chuck Schumer, pictured) was from there
‘My staff is gonna be really upset but I’m gonna tell you the truth here,’ she said.
‘The reason the money is going to New York is because … the leader of the United States Senate is from New York. That is how a bunch of money went to New York.’
Her fury was clear in her facial expression. And in the heat of the moment she appeared to err, saying the House Speaker was from New York.
In fact Republican Rep. Kevin McCarthy is from California. But her target may have been the Democratic leader in the House, Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, who is from New York.
She announced she was leaving the party last December and has enjoyed taking pot shots ever since.
She continued to say that the money should not have been diverted from border areas
‘The money was intended, and there’s language that was put in in the law that said it should be going for decompression at the border,’ she said.
‘The fact that a yeoman’s amount of this money went to New York City in my opinion is wrong because they are not a border state and they are not facing the kind of pressure that we are facing here.’
The program was created by Congress to help Customs and Border Protection manage processing, prevent overcrowding at the agency’s short-term facilities, and ease stress on host communities.
Migrants gather outside of the Roosevelt Hotel where dozens of recently arrived migrants have been camping out as they try to secure temporary housing in New York
But Sinema says Arizona is bearing the brunt of the crisis. In May, it was coping with record numbers of arrivals and here almost 300 newly arrived migrants were being released
Arizona received about $45.4 million in the first round of funding, and will receive another $23.9 million.
In contrast, New York received about $30 million in the first round, and is due to receive another $104.6 million.
‘I am livid that the administration is sending money to a part of the country that while it has a lot of folks showing up in their shelters, they don’t have folks wandering the streets of our small towns,’ she said.
‘And communities that are facing heat exhaustion, showing up without basics like formula. People will come across the border with chickenpox.
‘What we’re experiencing here in Arizona, is matched only by what folks are experiencing in southern Texas. Those are the two communities that are experiencing this crisis.’
At the same time New York continues to deal with thousands of migrants arriving each month. Many have come on buses from southern states, where governors sent migrants north to highlight the troubles with border security.
On Wednesday it emerged the city may even set up a tented camp in Central Park.
The proposed migrant plan, first reported by the Gothamist, also considers 3,000 other locations in New York, including tourist public green spaces, as places to erect emergency housing for the crushing influx of migrants.
In response to the Gothamist report, Deputy Mayor for Health and Human Services Anne Williams-Isom said: ‘Everything is on the table.’
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