Mayor Eric Adams of NYC has a way of dominating the headlines. Maybe it’s the screwball plans he concocts to deal with the “migrant crisis” afflicting his city.
Followers of this website are well aware of the schemes and plans and nutty suggestions Hizzoner has voiced over the past couple of years. From initially offering to house illegal migrants in his own home of Gracie Mansion to renting out all the rooms in hundreds of city hotels to erecting huge tents to stuffing the excess into disused jails, lunatic asylums, schools, etc, to farming them out upstate or Canada, to you-name-it, the mayor has run the gamut of possibilities.
Most recently, Adams has concentrated on mitigating the number of migrants arriving by chartered buses. He has issued edicts restricting the drop-off of passengers to one city location and to one narrow window of time. At the same time, he has sued 17 bus companies that — chartered by Texas Gov. Abbott — have transported about 33,600 illegal migrants from Texas, claiming they’ve violated a local law forbidding the transport of indigents into the state.
(The 33,600 migrants sent by the State of Texas are only a fraction of the estimated 161,500 total who have come to NYC — and only the merest fraction of the millions who have come across the border into Texas — but Adams likes to blame them all on Abbott.)
Now Adams wants to expand the ban by blocking arrival by trains and planes as well. It’s not clear how that will work, but it will likely work about as well as his bus-ban — that is, not very. Bus drivers have simply taken to dropping their passengers in New Jersey.
As we’ve pointed out, Mayor Adams need look no further than his own ideological fellow travelers for the real malefactor in this drama. And there is evidence he realizes that, because amid all the litigation and executive orders, he is also calling for an end to the decades-old “Right to Shelter,” which, along with “sanctuary” status, has functioned as a “pull” on migrants far stronger than Gov. Abbott’s nearly insignificant “push.”
What the mayor, blinded by woke ideology, cannot see is that the solution to both his and Gov. Abbott’s problems is the same: shut down the border. Until then, the problem does nothing but constantly expand.