New York City Mayor Eric Adams followed the lead of his Washington, D.C. counterpart this week in complaining about an increase in the number of asylum seekers from Latin America coming to the Big Apple. More than “2,800 people from Latin America and other regions entered the shelter system over the last several weeks,” he exclaimed, and for that reason the city NEEDS FEDERAL MONEY and lots of it!
Mayor Adams went on to explain what a burden it is to be So Darn Good:
This is a real burden on New Yorkers as we are trying to do the right thing. We already have an overburden shelter system, so now we are talking about as you stated: food, clothing, school. This is going to impact our schools because we do not turn away individuals because they are undocumented. There is just a whole host of things, that this is going to produce and that’s why we need help in getting this done and the right coordination.
In other words, we here in New York like to provide lots of stuff and we like for everybody else to pay for it. Sounds fair. Almost symbiotic, when you think about it.
Now twenty-eight hundred is the tiniest drop in the biggest bucket for border communities in Texas and Arizona, which are being inundated on a daily basis with numbers greater than their own populations. But since those communities are not important like Hizzoner Mayor Adams and other big-city Dems, “those people” can go pound sand.
Adams and the media would like you to assume this is the fault of some really mean Republican governors, that NYC is receiving busloads of migrants courtesy of the respective governors of Texas and Arizona. That indeed is the situation in Washington, D.C. But not so in New York, says Republican New York Rep. John Katko, who yesterday told Fox News:
The governors from Texas and Arizona are not sending [the migrants] to New York City. It’s people working on behalf of the Biden Administration. They’re called non-government organizations that process the illegal aliens and them send them out all over the country without notifying communities.
For that reason, Katko has the following advice for the unhappy big-city Democrats: Call 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
Oh, and one more thing. In his prepared statement Mayor Adams added, rather mechanically, “New York is a city of immigrants that welcomes newcomers with open arms.” He might have added further, “. . . but not as much as we welcome money from everybody else!”
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