


In what’s becoming a familiar refrain, Eric Adams teed off on the migrant crisis during a town hall Wednesday night.
“I’m gonna tell you something New Yorkers, never in my life have I had a problem that I didn’t see an ending to. I don’t see an ending to this.” he lamented.
“This issue will destroy New York City. Destroy New York City.”
OK.
So what are you going to do about it?
You are the mayor of New York City. This is why the people elected you — to solve problems.
To make sure that Gotham doesn’t fall.
Yet you’re acting like the guy with the “End of Days” sign outside of Penn Station, a bystander to your own disaster.
We don’t need more rants. We need solutions.
First, let’s lay the blame where it belongs: President Joe Biden.
It’s his open border policies, and complete disregard for NYC, that have fueled this crisis.
Fellow Democrat Kathy Hochul has been no help, refusing to suffer any political backlash as governor for accepting migrants outside of New York City.
It is your fellow Democrats, not Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, who are behind this.
Abbott, whom you call a “madman,” bused a tiny fraction of the migrants here today, but guess what? This is where they all wanted to come anyway.
Why? Because you are beholden, not to a law or a court decision, but to an “agreement” struck with ultra-liberal groups decades ago that claims New York City has a “right to shelter.”
It is a “right” that exists nowhere else in the United States.
A “right” is a giant neon sign flashing “come on in!” to the rest of the world.
A “right” that Does. Not. Exist.
Stop it. Now. Want to finally take responsibility?
At the town hall, Adams said: “110,000 migrants we have to feed, clothe, house, educate the children, wash their laundry sheets, give them everything they need, health care.”
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Have to?
Joe Biden isn’t providing it. Kathy Hochul isn’t. Nor are governors and mayors across the country.
The mayor likes to wax poetically about how we’re a nation of immigrants, quoting Emma Lazarus as he stares into the middle distance.
But those generations of migrants arrived with the hope of a better future in America, one that they knew would require struggle.
They lived in tiny apartments and scraped by, slowly building a better life for their children, and their children’s children.
That is the calculus of immigration.
That the endeavor is worth it despite the grind.
Having taxpayers give illegal migrants a hotel room, three meals a day, and laundry — well, who wouldn’t come here?
That has broken the traditional immigrant equation; 90% of the world would take this deal — and, as you rightly say, this is unsustainable.
Adams claimed Wednesday night, “We are all in this together, all of us,” but we’re not.
We are hostage to a mayor who refuses to stand up for the city he represents.
Mr. Mayor, you have begged and pleaded with the president for months, and all Joe Biden has done is spit in your face.
No one is coming to help.
New York City must help itself.