Poor Eric Adams. Governing a “sanctuary” city that is absolutely fed up with those people it has promised to give sanctuary to is a real headache. This week he came up with a new verb to describe the effects of the 160,000-plus illegal migrants that have moved to New York City so far during the Biden administration. The verb is “devastating.” Back in August, he said the influx was “destroying” the city. But back then he laid the blame squarely on a “madman in Texas,” meaning Texas Governor Greg Abbott, who has been sending busloads of migrants to New York and other cities in an attempt to mitigate the truly “devastating” influx the open-borders policy of Joe Biden has brought to his state.
In Adams’s comments yesterday, there was no mention of that “Texas madman.” Yesterday, though no names were mentioned, Adams was referring to the real madman, the one in the White House, when he complained of the federal government saying, in effect, “We’re not giving you anything.”
In his speech, Adams warned (again) that three years of continued influx of illegals at 2,500 to 4,000 per week would cost the city $12 billion.
In a related story, the New York Post is reporting that, as a result of the illegal influx, a cottage sex industry has sprung up in Queens among Venezuelan prostitutes. According to the mayor, these women would like to work legally, but the “national government” won’t allow them, so they’ve had to reluctantly turn to prostitution.
This is what happens when you create an atmosphere that people can’t provide for themselves — you can’t work, you can’t provide for your job and have to turn to illegal activities to do so.
“Reluctant” or not, the sex workers have transformed the neighborhood along Roosevelt Avenue in Corona, Queens, into an “open-air market for sex dubbed the ‘Market of Sweethearts.’”
One disgruntled local told the Post:
The prostitutes are out here now at all hours, day and night. We want families and children to be able to walk down the street without women soliciting them for sex. . . . This doesn’t feel like New York anymore. It’s like Bangkok, the red light district. It’s like a market in a third-world country.
Is it possible that even New Yorkers are getting a little fed up with that greatest of all strengths, diversity?
See the New York Post for more details.