For a recent episode of his popular podcast, Dr. Phil McGraw toured New York City’s subway alongside Mayor Eric Adams.
In touring the subway, McGraw and Adams came face to face with the city’s homeless crisis.
“The two approached a ‘perfect example’ [of the crisis] as they encountered what appeared to be a homeless man sleeping in a hallway of a subway station,” according to Fox News. “A sergeant explained the process at work to check in with him.”
“Adams said that while the process begins with a Department of Homeless Services (DHS) worker, there’s a need for a police officer ‘because this person could wake up, if he’s schizophrenic or bipolar, he could wake up with a weapon,'” as reported by Fox News.
And indeed, he was 100 percent right, because as soon as the DHS worker confronted the homeless man, he began freaking out and acting a lot like deceased criminal Jordan Neely.
Watch below:
“See how fast it can turn?” Adams asked rhetorically in response to the homeless man shrieking at the DHS worker.
His point was that many people underestimate how quickly the homeless can become loud and potentially violent when confronted.
“That’s what the people who are pushing back on what we’re doing — they don’t know how quick this could change,” he said, taking a shot at those who think dealing with the homeless is an easy matter.
At one point the homeless man shrieked that he’s an American citizen who’s not being properly taken care of by the country. Adams, a Democrat, agreed with him on this point.
“Think about this for a moment,” he said. “Doing what we’re doing is costly. If we had $6.5 billion we could do more, but instead of that we had to deal with a national problem.”
What national problem? The influx of tens of thousands of illegal aliens.
“The city states that anyone, if they’re documented or undocumented, that if you need a place to stay, housing, we have to give you housing, by our state constitution,” Adams noted.
And that’s why the shelters in NYC are now all full and overrun, meaning men like the homeless fellow seen in the video above are out of luck.
“When I came into office, we had 65,000 people in our care already,” Adams said during a separate Dr. Phil podcast appearance. “With the migrants and asylum seeker crisis, that’s an additional 220,000. That overwhelmed this city. The right to shelter law, we went to court and fought for this.”
“The right to shelter law never was intended for humanitarian crisis of housing everyone across the globe. As the law was in place before we challenged the right to shelter, it stated, you can come from anywhere on the globe, come to New York and stay on taxpayers’ dime for as long as you want inside our shelter system. That just made no sense,” he added.
Listen:
To Adams’ credit, he managed to somewhat alleviate the crisis by giving illegals in New York City a deadline.
“No, this is what we did. This is why we were successful, because this is so important: we put a timeline on it,” he explained. “We were saying now to the migrants and asylum seekers that you can’t come here and stay as long as you want. We’re now giving you 30 days if you’re a single adult, 60 days if you are a family with children, and within that timeframe, you have to find your path.”
“Now, that 225,000 that we’ve had, 170,000 went on the next step of their journey. Some decided they want to be re-ticketed back to the countries that they came from, some went to the destinations that they wanted to go to in the first place, but 170,000 have moved on. We took a lot of criticism. People say we were inhumane for giving people a deadline. They attacked us for it. No, what’s inhumane is having a child raised in a shelter system. You’re less likely to graduate from high school if you are in the shelter system and you don’t educate you will incarcerate,” he added.
According to a report from Fox News published in August, the migrant crisis alone — never being the equally pressing homelessness crisis — is poised to cost the city $10 billion by 2025.
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V. Saxena is a staff writer with a decade of experience as a professional writer, and a lifetime of experience as an avid news junkie. He holds a degree in computer technology from Purdue University. Saxena also contributes to BizPac Review.
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