Mayor Adams scorches Colorado’s Democratic governor for sending migrants to NYC: ‘Unacceptable’

Mayor Adams tore into Colorado’s Democratic governor Wednesday for apparently sending migrants to New York City without giving his administration a heads up.

“Everyone knows what we’re going through, and for that governor to do that, this is just unacceptable,” Adams said at a press conference in Brooklyn, adding that Colorado Gov. Jared Polis “didn’t even notify us” about the migrant transports.

Adams, who has also grown increasingly critical lately of the Biden administration’s handling of the migrant crisis, first said Tuesday he had gotten word that Polis was sending migrants to the city, which has welcomed more than 30,000 Latin American nationals since this spring as part of a wave of asylum seekers from the southern border.

The migrant influx has strained the city’s social safety net to the brink of collapse, with Adams warning he’s expecting his administration to shell out $1 billion this fiscal year on sheltering and providing services for the desperate travelers.

It’s unclear when or why Polis would’ve sent migrants to New York. It’s also not known how many migrants are apparently being transported to New York from the Centennial State.

Adams’ office did not provide more details Wednesday afternoon. Polis, a former member of Congress who has been governor since 2019, did not return a request for comment via a spokesman.

Most of the migrants in New York fled poverty and violence in their home countries and crossed the Mexican border into Texas and Arizona in hopes of obtaining U.S. asylum.

Adams has previously lambasted Republican governors in those border states for sending migrants to New York without coordination — and his harsh words for Polis marks an unusual rebuke of a fellow Democrat.

At the same time, Polis isn’t the only Democrat Adams blasted Wednesday in regards to the city’s migrant crisis.

He also took aim at progressives in the City Council who have criticized how his administration has accommodated the migrants — and urged them to instead blame Biden’s administration for not doing more to help New York.

“They’re waking up every day saying, ‘Well, why aren’t you doing this, why don’t you do that?’” Adams said of Council Democrats. “No — why don’t you tell the federal government to fix this mess that they created. This is unacceptable.”