Remember when it was fashionable for blue city elites to rant at border states for trying to cope with a mass invasion of illegal migrants? New York and D.C. panicked over fairly small numbers of migrants being sent in (mostly by Biden, despite Adams’ claims otherwise) and can’t seem to figure out where to house them. Or how to house them. Or how to cope with an inch of rain.
When Mayor Eric Adams was questioned about the wisdom of erecting a tent city for 1,000 migrants in a beach parking lot in the Bronx that is prone to flooding, he insisted it was the right choice.
“We looked at 50 locations and found the best location,” Mr. Adams said last Tuesday. Besides, he noted, “people live in flood zones.”
Then it rained a modest amount over the weekend — less than an inch — and the complex flooded, and the mayor decided on Monday that the Orchard Beach parking lot was not the best location after all.
And so the city says it will fold up its tents and move them to Randalls Island, a preserve of ball fields and hulking institutional buildings wedged between Manhattan, the Bronx and Queens.
“While we would be able to put in place the necessary ponding mitigation measures, relocating the Orchard Beach humanitarian relief center to Randalls Island is the most efficient and effective path forward,” Mr. Adams said in a statement. “This new location is less prone to flooding, is closer to public transportation and will provide temporary respite to 500 asylum seekers.”
Just blame that inch o’rain on climate change and call them climate refugees. Isn’t that how it works?
Lefties meanwhile are outraged that “SLSCO, the Texas-based contractor chosen by city for site is the same contractor used by Trump to build the border wall.”
At a City Council hearing last week, officials claimed that asylum seekers would only stay for up to 96 hours at the so-called Humanitarian Emergency Response and Relief Centers. Housing and immigration advocates have criticized the plan — for which the mayor used photos in a press release of rows of orange cots lined side by side under tents as an example of what the site could look like — as potentially violating New York’s right-to-shelter law, which guarantees a shelter bed for anyone seeking one.
Where are those shelter beds supposed to come from? And the shelters themselves?
Now, remember, this is only about 13,000 or so migrants. Wait till it’s 75,000.
During an appearance on the Brooklyn-based Caribbean Power Jam internet radio station, Adams said the migrant influx was “up to 13,000 now.”
“And we could get anywhere from 50 to 75,” he said.
Of those only a few thousand were bused from Texas. Most were sent by Biden. And if NYC’s system is collapsing at 13,000, imagine 75,000 plus 2 inches of rain.
But any day now, AOC will tweet pictures of her crying outside the parking lot. Her crocodile tears should add a whole other inch.
Algorithmic Analyst says
lolol, great humor 🙂
WJ says
Wait till these migrants see just how weak the democrats really are and turn on the democrats,
Tom V says
Wait until they try to teach them about Transgender options without parental consent. Migrants families are very conservative regarding religion and their children.
Andrew Blackadder says
I do wish the media and others would stop calling people as migrants who have broken the Law by entering the USA illegally, as they are not even undocumented aliens, they are IN FACT illegal aliens that invaded America…
Im an immigrant to America, LEGALLY, please stop equating me with the people who walked across the Rio Grande demanding we take care of them rather than asking their own people, their own Governments, to take care of them.
I thought America was supposed to be full of evil racist white folks so how come all these black and brown people want into such a racist country?… Like that makes any kind of sense…
Words matter.
World@70 says
Eric Adams didn’t call them migrants, he called them “asylum seekers.” Pathetic!
groovimus says
Lets call them documented illegal aliens, as the border patrol’s mission is to document and process them, according to Mayorkas.
Angel Jacob says
Good start, send them ALL to blue cities.
Kynarion Hellenis says
People in south Texas can no longer use and enjoy their property. Their cattle are slaughtered, fences cut, homes invaded and ransacked.
When a highway adjacent fence is cut, the cattle wandering onto the road cause fatal collisions and massive liability for the landowner. Wrongful death claims can destroy these farmers and ranchers who are now just barely hanging on. The high beef prices do not increase their profit margins.
The illegal aliens benefit the drug cartels which in every way control the Mexican government. The cartels also control of the border invasion. Biden and our own government is financing this with our own money. Much of the money being paid to coyotes is money paid to the cartels. And the aliens come from every wretched third – world hell hole on the planet. This is betrayal and treason.
commonsense says
Excellent, informative post. Thanks.
Algorithmic Analyst says
Good info. Vandal-proof fences are prohibitively expensive in that situation, I would guess.
Lightbringer says
Speaking of the cartels, is it coincidental that there has been an increase in the amount of fentanyl on the streets, including candy-colored tablets and pastel-colored chalk shapes?
Algorithmic Analyst says
Thanks, excellent point. Could be disastrous.
Ali ByGolly says
When John Lindsey was Mayor of NYC he asked people leaving in the South, in poverty, to come to the Big Apple. He provided them with housing, welfare, food stamps, and the children received recreation allowances.
The response was a lot more than what today’s Mayor is dealing/ not dealing with. Lindsey who was a buffoon managed how to do this back in the 60s. To day with all our technology, and high priced consultants, the best Adams can do is Randall Island.
What an inept figurehead. Looks like a model, but acts like a blond.