“In America, we uphold the rule of law,” whined Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-Va.) at Mayor Eric Adams amid Wednesday’s House hearing on sanctuary cities — except he was assailing the mayor for upholding the rule of law.
And suggesting that Adams only came to favor deporting violent criminal illegal migrants to dodge federal corruption charges.
For the record, Eric Adams (unlike too many other New York Democrats) has never been pro-violent criminal, whatever the immigration status.
He’s an ex-cop who got elected on a law-and-order platform, for Pete’s sake.
It’s Connolly & Co. who’ve spent years nakedly and flagrantly defending the Biden team’s disregard for border enforcement, a stance so committed that it extended to waving in obvious gangbangers.
And the folks who obviously tried to muscle the mayor were the Biden officials who launched the feds’ investigation and prosecution of Adams after he broke with the Democratic “nothing to see anywhere” line on the migrant crisis.
The topsy-turvey continued at a hearing where the Dem mayor was consistently attacked by his own party, while the Republicans welcomed him in.
Rep. Robert Garcia (D-Calif.) slammed Adams for “selling New Yorkers out” by working with federal immigration authorities to get those criminal illegal migrants out of the city and country.
Again, the mayor’s obviously siding with his constituents on that: Gotham welcomes immigrants, but not thugs and goons.
It’s Dems like Garcia who’ve been busily selling out the whole country these past four years by importing murderers and rapists and drug dealers and letting them run free.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem further drove the point home in her simultaneous visit to New York City, including a stop at the subway station where illegal migrant Sebastian Zapeta-Calil allegedly burned Debrina Kawam to death for kicks.
That horror is what Connolly, Garcia and the bulk of Democrats’ leadership are de facto defending by going after our mayor.
Noem gets it. Trump gets it. Adams gets it. And America gets it.
What will it take to wake up the rest of Adams’ party?