Mayor Adams rounded on his fellow Democrats Friday over the burgeoning immigration crisis at New York City and the rest of the country, declaring a “state of emergency” amid the growing number of asylum-seekers being bused to America’s largest metropolis from the border. 

In a speech at City Hall, the mayor said the city is facing what he called a “manufactured” humanitarian crisis because some 17,000 asylum-seeking migrants have been bused up from the border since the spring. New York’s shelter system is near capacity with 61,000 residents, he said, and if present trends continue the city will be housing 100,000 people early next year at a cost of more than $1 billion.