NYC mayor calls for solution to border crisis during El Paso trip

New York City Mayor Eric Adams visited the southern border and called for a "national solution" to the migrant crisis on Sunday during his trip to El Paso, Texas.

"This is a national crisis and we need a national solution," Adams tweeted. He met with El Paso Mayor Oscar Leeser, a fellow Democrat, after flying in on Saturday evening. 

"Mayors like [Leeser] and I are on the front lines and we need federal support," said Adams, who plans on continuing his tour of the area Sunday.

On Friday, Adams made an emergency mutual aid request, meant only for dire emergencies, to New York State to tackle the migrant crisis. He asked the state to help shelter 500 migrants immediately and said the estimate will increase.

"We are at our breaking point," Adams said. His city has received more than 40,000 illegal migrants since last spring, including over 3,100 in the past week, he said.

"The absence of sorely needed federal immigration reform should not mean that this humanitarian crisis falls only on the shoulders of cities. We need support and aid from our federal and state partners and look forward to working together to meet this crisis head-on," Adams said. 

Record numbers of illegal migrants entered the United States last fiscal year. In an attempt to deal with the crisis, Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott bused nearly 16,000 migrants to sanctuary cities last year.