Former NYC council chair condemns 'failure' of federal government in city's migrant crisis: 'Toxic situation'

Corey Johnson, a former Democratic New York City Council chair, said Wednesday that the migrant crisis in the city demonstrated a "failure" of the federal government.

"Clearly, the situation has shown that we are in an emergency and New York City is sort of out of space. 62,000 migrants in the last year. Over 120 hotels opened up. 4,200 migrants in the last week. And the clip you just showed of parents being upset, it never should have reached this point. The mayor called for a decompression strategy, trying to figure out ways to spread migrants out, sending people to the suburbs, you have seen county executives and people outside of New York City fighting against that. What all of this shows is really a failure of the federal level, a lack of coordination, not enough support for localities and cities that are dealing with this surge. So understandably, the mayor is saying, ‘I need some help here,’" Johnson said.  Hanna Panreck is an associate editor at Fox News.

The New York Post reported on Monday that migrants will be housed in six school gyms in New York City.