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New York City Mayor Eric Adams has taken a leading role among Democrats in conceding the damage done to local communities by the Biden administration’s policy of allowing millions of illegal border crossers to remain in the United States. Adams recently raised eyebrows in his party by saying the arrival of thousands of illegal asylum-seekers, with their enormous demands for economic and social services, “will destroy New York City.”
Month after month, I stood up, and I said, ‘This is going to come to a neighborhood near you,'” Adams told a community meeting last week. “Well, we’re here. We’re getting no support on this national crisis. … Let me tell you something, New Yorkers. Never in my life have I had a problem that I did not see an ending to. I don’t see an ending to this. I don’t see an ending to this. This issue will destroy New York City.”
City officials estimate that more than 110,000 migrants have arrived in New York in the current crisis. Adams said the cost of caring for them will balloon the city’s deficit and force cuts in services for New York residents. “I said it last year when we had 15,000,” Adams said, “and I’m telling you now, with 110,000, the city we knew, we’re about to lose.”
It’s remarkable to hear a prominent Democrat say something like that, given that this is a problem created by a sitting Democratic president. But for all his candor, Adams still cannot admit what is causing the crisis that he says threatens to destroy his city.
“It started with a madman down in Texas deciding he wanted to bus people up to New York City,” Adams said, referring to Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott, who several months ago began busing groups of willing migrants to New York. But here’s the thing: Abbott recently announced that Texas has sent more than 13,300 migrants to New York since August 2022. New York, however, says it has received more than 110,000 migrants.
If New York has received 110,000, but only 13,000 came from Texas, then where did the other 97,000 or so migrants come from? If Mayor Adams knew, he might better understand the source of New York’s problem.
I asked Jessica Vaughan, director of policy studies for the Center for Immigration Studies, a group that favors more restrictions on immigration. “It’s ridiculous for Mayor Adams to blame Gov. Abbott for this problem when only 13,000 came on buses organized by Texas,” Vaughan responded in an email exchange. “Besides, many of them probably were looking to get to New York anyway. Texas is mainly facilitating what the migrants want to do already.”
But how did the 97,000 get to New York? First of all, the Biden administration appears to be directly arranging flights of illegal border crossers to the New York area. Beyond that, Vaughan notes: “Some are taking buses organized by non-governmental organization contractors in Texas and other border states, who are being paid by the federal government, with taxpayer money. Some, including ‘gotaways’ who evaded the Border Patrol, are traditionally coming on their own or assisted by smugglers. Some are coming from the northern border, also experiencing record illegal entries.”
Vaughan noted that “one attraction” for the illegal border crossers is “New York’s self-designation as a sanctuary city.” The migrants know the city will feed them, give them a place to stay, deliver other social services, educate their children, give them a municipal ID and a driver’s license. Even if they get in trouble with the law, they know they will not be turned over to immigration authorities.
Adams speaks as if he is helpless to deal with the sheer volume of migrants — which, it should be noted, is less than the number of migrants who arrive at the southern border every couple of days. But the mayor has powers of his own. “He could take steps to mitigate the problem,” Vaughan said. “Why not try to work with Gov. Abbott instead of calling him a madman? Demand that Biden shut down the flow on the border? Refuse to allow the migrants to be bused in and sheltered in inappropriate places like hotels, at least without coordination with New York officials? (Putting the migrants in hotels is almost certainly a violation of zoning laws, which is how 30 New York counties obtained restraining orders against migrant placements in their jurisdictions.) Warn potential employers that hiring illegal workers will not be tolerated. Try to work with ICE to identify and remove the criminals among the new arrivals.”
“There is a lot Adams could do,” Vaughan concluded. “He is the mayor, not a doormat.”
But first, Adams would have to admit the source of the problem — and it is not Greg Abbott. New York’s migrant problems result from policies promised by candidate Joe Biden in the 2020 presidential race and delivered by President Joe Biden in the two years and eight months since January 2021. Railing about a “madman” in Texas will not solve a problem that started in the White House.
Their Turkeys have come home to roost
Stolen elections have consequences.
Send more, many more buses Gov Abbott. Fools squealing like Adams, who strongly pushed “sanctuary” status, is a form of heavy metal music.
ABC News ran a story last night about the 1 year old who died of fentanyl poisoning at that NY daycare center… and went on to whimper and moan about the horror of such a situation…
Not ONCE did they mention China, the cartels or the border being wide open for this poison.
The civil war the Left desires is coming.
Or that the owner of the “day care center” and her husband are here illegally.
Curtis Sliwa of the Guardian Angels should run for mayor again in 2027. His platform should have as non negotiable points A) abolish New York City’s status as a “sanctuary city” B) firing Alvin Bragg and having him thrown in prison for selective and malicious prosecution C) privatizing the Board of Education, which wastes over $20,000 per pupil annually on “education” and firing Educational Industrial Complex bureaucrats of Randi Weingarten’s ilk D) deploying the National Guard to assist NYPD in a crime emergency E) supporting a consumer boycott of The New York Times
Sounds like NYC needs another few million alien invaders
No, no, no! My kids finally, after years of hard work, made it out of Queens County (part of NYC) and were able to buy a house in a quiet, leafy, nearby village outside of the city. Adams has threatened to send “migrants” to those villages to destroy them. He doesn’t need any more of those invaders!
Adams is Bidens doormat.
I’ve got zero sympathy for Adams or NYC. Actions have consequences and these are the natural consequences of years of pro-illegal alien policies in the city and putting the madman Biden into the Presidency. You break it, you buy it.
Keep sending! more to Chicago Keep kicking the asses of the people who called for defunding the police
Shivanthi police hater got what she deserved this hate comes from Obama the Master of hate.
The bottom line is… What are we going to do about the takedown of this country?
ONE CAN’T BE A DEMOCRAT AND PRESUME THAT AMERICA STILL HAS SOVEREIGN BORDERS. THAT IS NOT PART OF THE GLOBALIST GAME PLAN TO BUILD A SERF CLASS
Watch: GOP Counts the ‘Staggering’ Economic Pain of Migration
Chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee Rep. Mark Green (R-TN) is counting the vast and growing transfer of taxpayers’ funds to the companies and non-profits that support President Joe Biden’s growing population of poor migrants.
The costs are rising for Americans in New York City, Arizona, Chicago, Tennessee, Maine, and many other states, said Green.
“Those dollars are ultimately being extracted from the wallets of hard-working, taxpaying men and women of this country, all to subsidize mass illegal immigration while families are struggling to make ends meet in a period of high inflation,” said Green. “It is staggering and infuriating.”
But, but this is what the oligrchs wanted….Its their policies, didn’t they understand their cities would be deluged with illegal aliens of all cultures and more crime…. Looks like there was no forethought into what would actually happen, it was all about expanding districts and gaining votes, but dior consequences are happening.
Actually if you look at recent worldwide mass migration it is evident that they want to eliminate the white race.
Of course, they understood it. It was their goal. It was also Barack Obama’s goal. Obama’s life-long wish come true is to destroy the white homelands and America.
Obama is about hate. He always was. He just hid it well.
These are third world invaders, the vast majority military aged single males.
Not a real asylum seeker or migrant in the bunch.
Not a woman or child to be seen among them either.
Go Woke Go Broke
Every time
Adams complains about 10,000 invaders coming into NYC every Month whereas Texas has been dealing with 7,000 a DAY.
Adams says he was a City that welcomed such people as these invaders, so he got them and then complained just like the mega rich in Martha’s Vineyard… NIMBY..
I dont like to say this to such people like Adams and the New Yorker’s that voted for him and the DemocRAT Party but I feel I must…. WE TOLD YOU SO…. So now you can join in the chorus of racist racist racist 24/7.