New York City, like D.C., is experiencing a little of life as a border state after Biden’s unprecedented open borders surge of illegal aliens flooded the city.
New York City Mayor Eric Adams on Tuesday demanded the federal government help pay for what he said was a wave of asylum seekers pouring into the city, claiming its safety net was being strained by busloads of people coming from border states and elsewhere.
But as opposed to D.C., the problem in New York City is exacerbated by its “right to shelter” mandate, which means any homeless asylum seeker who comes to town, by any means, has to be put in a bed somewhere.
It worked in San Fran and it’s doing wonders for NYC.
“Currently, New York City is experiencing a marked increase in the number of asylum seekers who are arriving from Latin America and other regions. In some instances, families are arriving on buses sent by the Texas and Arizona governments, while in other cases, it appears that individuals are being sent by the federal government,” Adams said in a statement, adding that more than 2,800 asylum seekers had entered the shelter system in recent weeks.
Adams knows perfectly well that Arizona and Texas aren’t sending buses to NYC, they’re sending buses to D.C. But blaming Biden and, more accurately, the leftists who turned the federal government into a coyote busing program for illegals would be politically dangerous.
It’s safe to blame Ducey and Abbott, even though it’s a lie.
But the offices of both Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey denied Adams’ claim, saying in separate statements that they were in fact sending asylum seekers to Washington – but not to New York City.
In turn, a spokesperson for Adams responded to those pushback claims, saying that the governors “should have more compassion for those seeking asylum in this country,” and repeated the city’s request for federal assistance.
Doubling down on a lie with some virtue signaling is perfectly of this decade.
According to the New York City Department of Homeless Services, there were 28,885 individuals classed as a member of a “family with children” in the shelter system as of Sunday. That’s about 12% higher than the daily average in March, the last month for which such data are available, and also about 12% higher than this time last year.
Open borders work.
The Legal Aid Society slammed Adams for blaming the shelter crisis on asylum seekers, saying the real problems were bureaucracy and a lack of affordable housing.
Sure. Let’s just provide free housing and free everything to all of Latin America. And the rest of the planet. The Legal Aid Society will pay for it.
Meanwhile, Republican Rep. Lee Zeldin, who recently won the Republican primary in the race for New York governor, pinned the blame on the Biden administration.
“Their weak border policy is then made worse by what amounts to a travel agency flying the illegal immigrants to destinations all across the country, including New York,” he said. “The obvious consequence is that New Yorkers are now stuck dealing with the consequences. The solution is that the surge of illegal entry across our southern border needs to be shut down, the Remain in Mexico policy must be enforced.”
And we all know that’s not happening for some years now. Meanwhile America is being destroyed.
CogitoErgoSum says
Does Adams know for certain all the migrants are coming to NY by bus? Apparently the feds are using late night or very early morning flights into airports across the county to disperse planeloads of migrants under the cover of darkness. They don’t do their dirty deeds in the broad daylight. At least the governors are honest about what they are doing: the feds are not. They are liars and incompetents – doing the bidding of their lying and incompetent leader, Joe Biden. Besides, don’t bother Old Joe now; he’s battling cancer and covid (no he isn’t).
CogitoErgoSum says
On a second reading of this story I see that it does mention the feds but it bears repeating and more detail. The federal government of the U.S. is failing to enforce immigration laws and dispersing across the country those who have no respect for the laws of the land. When a government turns against its own people, it is time for the people to get rid of that government. Let’s hope it can be done peacefully but if this continues past November, we are headed for deep trouble in this country.
James Lincoln says
CogitoErgoSum says
“Let’s hope it can be done peacefully but if this continues past November, we are headed for deep trouble in this country.”
Yes.
As long as the midterm elections in November are free and fair “enough”, Republicans will take back the House – and possibly the Senate.
It’s the “as long as” part that concerns me…
somehistory says
there is a whole lot of smoke in the air at the NYC’s mayor’s office. The feds aren’t using buses…planes get them there faster and he knows it…or as Wellington so often writes, “knows it or should know it.”
the southern states being invaded are supposed to show ‘compassion” and help all those poor invaders< but adams and hocul and bowser and the others can just toss words around
gravenimage says
Yep.
Wellington says
Adams is a fool and Biden is a greater fool. How can anyone of sense and knowledge have any respect for these two men?
Leftism = idiocy and destruction from within. This has been my starting point for years and it has never failed me.
mortimer says
Republicans should pay for buses to help Texas get these invaders to RICH Dem neighborhoods as fast as possible.
GreekEmpress says
Eric Adams can cry me a river. Send him down here to the border, so he can see what happens on the front lines.
David M says
Sounds like the chickens coming home to roost. The Democrats wanted open borders, but they don’t like it so much when Joe’s policy lands the illegals in their own Dem cities.
gravenimage says
Here are a couple of things:
“NYC Mayor Eric Adams shares plan to house 3,000 illegal immigrants in HOTELS after they overwhelmed homeless shelters: Demands taxpayer cash from Biden to help”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11037703/NYC-Mayor-Eric-Adams-says-house-3-000-migrants-crossed-illegally-HOTELS.html
“Mayor Adams- More Funds For Haitian Immigrants”
https://www.nycaribnews.com/articles/mayor-adams-more-funds-for-haitian-immigrants/
Adams has long been pro-illegal immigration; not sure if he has called for open borders in so many words.
tgusa says
The dummy thinks the federal government has their own money to dole out. In other words he wants other peoples money to pay for democrat policies. Figure it out for yourself Eric but you better hurry up because democrat policies are replacing you with foreigners. I so sick and tired of the stupid that I don’t care what happens in these democrat run cities. We are witnessing Darwinism in action.
Infidel says
This story on the border took a turn for the hilarious ever since Abbott and Ducey started sending the illegals to DC. You had Bowser scream “foul”, but that’s what these governors have been screaming for the last 2 years since the borders got re-opened
I get it that Adams criticized the 2 governors for not having “more compassion for those seeking asylum in this country,” but wouldn’t the same be true of New York as well? Or does he think that New York is not a part of this country, but Texas and Arizona are?
And the 2 governors shouldn’t play defense: they should bus all those migrants first to the neighborhoods that Biden, Pelosi and Schumer live – in Wilmington, Pacifica and Brooklyn. Following that, they should send them to those blue states/cities whose governors/mayors have been virtue-signaling on open borders
gravenimage says
NYC Mayor Asks for Biden’s Help After Being Flooded With Biden’s Illegal Aliens
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The DC mayor is having the same problem. Gee, I wonder why?
Andrew Blackadder says
Stop the Bus right outside Gracie Mansion in the middle of the night and tell the illegal passengers to go knock on the front door and dont let any of those Guards bother you as they have been invited by the Mayor himself as he wants open borders and so this is what open borders look like.
Ugly Sid says
Why, the solution is obvious.
Move the key borough to an island protected by fast flowing rivers carrying traces of persistent carcinogens from three quarters of a century of the dumping of electrical transformer fluids.
Protect the locals with highest cumulative income tax rates in the nation.
Disarm the working class.
End cash bail.
Reward athleticism at the turnstiles with free subway transport.
These simple steps alone guarantee the populace will be as safe in their persons as they are safe in their vitality, protected as they are from corona virus infection by mandated concoctions produced by tort liability immune crony capitalism freed from that testing nonsense, a notorious profit inhibitor.
Problem solved!
Rob says
All part of the communist globalist plan to destroy America. Bath House Barry is behind it all
somehistory says
he and g soros
GreekEmpress says
News just reported that Tucson sector of the border where we live has the highest number of “gottaways”, because of the high percentage of our resources being sent to Texas to combat the surges there. Not surprising that we are seeing migrant crossers more frequently these days.
gravenimage says
Terrible, GreekEmpress. I know things are very bad at the border. Biden swore he would do this, and it is, sadly, one promise he has kept.