Somehow this city keeps making the headlines. In just the past few months, we’ve published here at least a dozen posts regarding its problems with what the city fathers are now saying have been 100,000 illegal migrants finding their way there in the past year and a half. Now, NYC was a big city before this started, but few cities this side of Asia can tolerate that kind of influx, especially since each and every one of those migrants is (1) homeless, (2) without other resources, and (3) not legally in this country, so they can’t legally hold jobs or drive or do anything like people do who support themselves. Not that all that many of them want to.
Instead, they rely on the city and the state to foot the bill. Now that bill, according again to the NYC brass, is likely to top a whopping $12 billion by 2025. A hefty number of the migrants form a large part of the city’s homeless, the total number of which was estimated to be about 75,000 six months ago, before much of the influx arrived. Some of the migrants are in the shelter system (currently 57,000), but not all. The shelters alone cost $300 million a month and $3.6 billion a year.
New York’s mayor likes to blame Southern governors like Texas’ Greg Abbott for his problems, but he should look a little closer for someone to blame, namely Washington, DC. Texas has bused maybe 11,000 migrants to NYC, Chicago, and a few other cities, but the numbers of migrants who have crossed over the unguarded border into Texas number is in the millions.
If, as Adams says, NYC is full, then Texas is fuller.
And, as we say every time, though NYC brought it on itself with its incessant, sanctimonious bleating about being a sanctuary, it’s the administration of Joe Biden that is ultimately to blame. Whether demented old Joe admits it or not, the buck stops there.
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