Democratic New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy said he doesn’t “see any scenario” where his state can take in migrants from New York City, despite the Biden administration’s potential plan to send them there, NJ.com reported on Thursday.
The Biden administration is considering relocating a number of migrants from New York City to New Jersey’s Atlantic City International Airport amid a surging national migrant crisis, according to NJ.com. Murphy, who previously suggested New Jersey would become a “sanctuary” state for migrants, said the plan would not work and suggested the border needed increased security to prevent the U.S. from becoming “the Wild West.”
“I don’t see any scenario where we’re going to be able to take in a program in Atlantic City, or frankly elsewhere in the state,” Murphy said during News 12 New Jersey’s “Ask Governor Murphy” on Thursday, NJ.com reported. “You need scale, enormous amount of federal support, resources that go beyond anything that we can afford. Putting everything else aside, I just don’t see it. I would suspect that that will continue to be the case.”
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