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Mayor Eric Adams’ agreement to limit the time migrants can stay in shelters at taxpayers’ expense, is smoke and mirrors. It’s designed to fool you into thinking he’s solving a problem when he’s actually caving to the migrant industrial complex.
Adams claims the agreement, with the Legal Aid Society and the Coalition for the Homeless, will allow the city to evict adult migrants from city-run shelters after 30 days, saving taxpayers money and limiting the need for more shelters. Not true.
The fine print says migrants have a shot at staying longer if they obtain a driver’s license, follow shelter rules and show good behavior, or — get this one — apply for public benefits. And this is a “non-exhaustive” list of reasons making migrants eligible to stay longer.
The agreement also applies only to single adults. A staggering 78% come with children and get priority placement in hotels. The city currently spends a whopping $387 a night for food and a roof alone for each family, and shells out more money for free medical care, education and legal services. This agreement does zero to alleviate those staggering costs.
The deal dooms New York City to fiscal disaster, because it will continue to be the No. 1 destination for migrants seeking a free roof over their heads. The Big Apple is now Migrant Central.
Worst of all, nothing in the agreement empowers the mayor to evict troublemakers who have repeat run-ins with police. The migrants who beat up cops in Time Square were living in shelters, courtesy of taxpayers, and already had long rap sheets.
When troublemakers are arrested and give a shelter address, the shelter should be contacted and told they no longer qualify. Why should taxpayers be footing the bill to house criminals?
Notorious gangs like Tren de Aragua and MS-13 recruit from the shelters. How convenient that taxpayers pay to house these gangs’ lackeys.
In October, Adams imposed a 30-day limit on adult migrants but wound up in court when Legal Aid and the Coalition challenged. A long negotiation ensued, ending with Friday’s agreement.
Since 1981, Legal Aid and the Coalition have fought successfully to impose a “right to shelter” on New York. Now these two self-appointed guardians of the downtrodden — not elected by anyone — insist that the “right” applies not just to New Yorkers but anyone from anywhere in the world who wants shelter here. That’s crazy.
After months of negotiating, Adams capitulated. No one at the table was looking out for taxpayers or New Yorkers who see their services being cut and their neighborhoods disrupted by the proliferation of shelters. The multibillion-dollar shelter industry came out a winner, but Joe Public got shafted.
As the agreement was announced, Deputy Mayor Anne Williams-Isom praised the “right to shelter” and Legal Aid Society for the work they do. They’re all in bed together.
Josh Goldfein, a Legal Aid attorney, explained that despite the settlement, “no migrant would be left out on the streets.” In fact, the agreement bans the city from even making migrants sleep overnight in chairs while waiting to be placed, imposing stricter shelter requirements than before.
A “right to shelter” for anyone who shows up on Gotham’s doorsteps means New Yorkers who want sanitation services, police and fire protection, and other city amenities go to the back of the line. Their services get cut to pay for sheltering migrants. Adams needs to battle aggressively, up through the highest courts, to get that “right” reexamined.
Only New York has a “right to shelter,” and it makes the city the top destination for migrants. New York City spends more than 10 times as much as Los Angeles per migrant and more than five times as much as Chicago.
To top it off, the agreement and the Adams administration are renaming migrants “new arrivals,” whitewashing the laws they broke to get here.
Expect hundreds of thousands more to see these welcome signs and come. Who wouldn’t come?
Adams recently praised the city’s “responsible policies” and blamed “Republican extremists” for the border crisis. Sorry, Mr. Mayor, but the crisis here in New York City is due to the lavish benefits local Democrats insist on offering “new arrivals.” There’s no whitewashing that.
You are aiming at the wrong target, there’s a big building used for bureaucracy in Turtle Bay.
The IOM is the UN’s migration agency and it has this on its website:
The IOM Strategic Plan is aimed at delivering on the promise of safe, orderly, and regular migration.
REGULAR migration.
Defund the UN now!
“If you don’t look after yourself who will? If you ONLY look after yourself then what are you?”
Jewish bible.
Here’s some more, oh ye of little faith:
Love for Enemies, Luke 6:27-36
27 “But to you who are listening I say: Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you,
28 bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat you.
29 If someone slaps you on one cheek, turn to them the other also. If someone takes your coat, do not withhold your shirt from them.
30 Give to everyone who asks you, and if anyone takes what belongs to you, do not demand it back.
31 Do to others as you would have them do to you.
32 “If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? Even sinners love those who love them.
33 And if you do good to those who are good to you, what credit is that to you? Even sinners do that.
34 And if you lend to those from whom you expect repayment, what credit is that to you? Even sinners lend to sinners, expecting to be repaid in full.
35 But love your enemies, do good to them, and lend to them without expecting to get anything back. Then your reward will be great, and you will be children of the Most High, because he is kind to the ungrateful and wicked.
36 Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful.
Deuteronomy 15:8:
“But you shall freely open your hand to him, and shall generously lend him sufficient for his need in whatever he lacks.”
Proverbs 19:17:
“One who is gracious to a poor man lends to the Lord, And He will repay him for his good deed.”
Isaiah 58:7:
“Is it not to divide your bread with the hungry and bring the homeless poor into the house? When you see the naked, cover him; And do not hide yourself from your own flesh.”
Matthew 25:35:
“For I was hungry, and you gave Me something to eat; I was thirsty, and you gave Me something to drink; I was a stranger, and you invited Me in.”
Matthew 5:5
Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth.
Those quotes apply on a one for one basis, it does not apply when it involves millions of people crossing the border illegally. They show contempt for your laws, values, customs, and culture. You help individuals when they need help not unlawful group. . The bible does not require an individual to be stupid.
Blessed are the Stupid, for they will lose what little they have.
Those who do not take care of their own families (and own people) first are worse than unbelievers.
1 Timothy 5:8.
Yes, Obama supported the UN Global Compact on Migration, Trump refused to join it in 2017 and of course Biden signed it in 2021 in the midst of his border destruction. The globalists are using the UN, along with all the dictators, the Chinese and Muslims there, to destroy America.
Democrats love mandates. Democrats love illegals. Let’s combine the two and mandate that Democrats house illegals. Four illegals for each room and hallway in their homes. There isn’t a downside. It’s all upside.
Only if the mandate includes a “Gun Free Zone” sign at every such residence.
Letitia James has found the solution. Seize all the assets of real estate moguls, and then there is all kinds of housing available.
What could go wrong?
She should be disbarred this Lady is evil a lust for power
New York voters elected Bill Deblasio twice. They then voted for Eric Adams over Curtis Sliwa by a large margin. New York City has a million Jews and Sliwa is pro Jewish with superb credentials. Evidently many NY Jews turned their backs on Sliwa in favor of Adams. They will soon feel the bitter results of their foolish actions. These “liberal” Jews seem unable to ever learn from history.
NYC to be a total Slum./Ghetto in America Lady Liberty moves to Florida
Let the NYers who voted for this be mightily inconvenienced and disgruntled about the collapse of their city into a third world hell hole. Anyone who supports Adams and his circle or the woke Governor deserve the stench of the trench they call home.
James should be arrested and Charged with Aiding and Abetting Life in Prison for her and the entire Cabinets of Obama Clinton(Bill)and Biden and all Open Border s Politics
Hey NYers, you voted for this. Enjoy!
There isn’t enough money in all of Christendom to pay me to live in New York City.
Just look at all those hard working migrants in that photo. Now think what every major city in America will look like in the next five to eight years as millions of illegal aliens come pouring into America. Even the nearby suburbs will look like that photo. Don’t be surprise when the wonderful U.S. government start to force homeowners to take in one or more illegal aliens. You will have to do their laundry, and cook for them
as well.
Move all those ”migrants” to the Upper East Side of Manhattan, they can set up on Park Ave or Madison in the 60-70-80th cross streets areas, lets see how that plays out, let these low IQ dudes walk among the rich and famous of NYC and lets see how that plays out, hows about a few hundred or so hanging out on the sidewalks outside an Art Gallery or two down in SOHO.
NIMBY was coined in the 1990s, maybe earlier, but it sure seems to be the motto of The Left today.