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HOCHUL: “But we really need to stop the incoming. We’re still seeing about 3,000 a week. That’s absolutely unsustainable. We’re working so hard, spending millions of dollars, state dollars, to build shelters to house 3,000 here, 2,000 here, 1,000 here. It’s still not enough. So the word has to get out that New York has always been that place of welcoming immigrants. All of us came from somewhere, our parents and grandparents, but there is a limit to who we can house at this time. And we need the rest of the country to step up. Most importantly, it starts at the border with enforcement, and it also has to start in Washington with commonsense immigration reform, which I know we’re capable of because as a young attorney for Senator Moynihan back in 1986, I worked on the last major immigration reform, and it was a bipartisan compromise. That’s the last time we really saw statesmanship in Washington, and that’s what I’m calling for now."