New York City, which has attracted more than 133,000 illegal migrants over the past couple of years, has been yelling “No mas!” for months. Despite opening more than 210 emergency shelters to deal with the influx, and repurposing dozens of formerly storied hotels, and kicking around every idea from housing their new charges in jails, insane asylums, schools, cruise ships, you name it — nothing this “sanctuary” city has done has been enough.
The opening of shelters mitigrated the homeless problem for awhile, but as space has dried up, the homeless problem has worsened. To make room for the ever-arriving newcomers, the city has a 30-day limit on public shelters for single adults. Many of those being evicted have no more prospects at the end of their 30 days than they did before, so the number of homeless keeps growing.
Now, yet another idea has entered the fevered brains of the city’s leadership. To offer an option to the single migrant kicked out of his migrant hotel, the city is opening a “reticketing office” in a vacant church in the East Village. This office will act as a sort of magical, expense-paid gateway out of New York, by offering a free, one-way ticket to just about anywhere else in the world.
Response from the new New Yorkers has been mixed. One grabbed a plane for Morocco, but many others, having ended up in the supposed Promised Land, don’t want to go anywhere else. They know that the kind of generosity available in sanctuary cities with right-to-shelter laws is rare in today’s world.
For more, see the NY Post.