(Originally appeared in NewsMax.)
New York City, in terms of its politics and worldview, is more than blue; it’s deep-blue.
Gotham claims to be progressive, opening, and welcoming, but recently showed itself to be racist. That is, if it’s to be judged by its own standards.
Eric Adams, the mayor of New York, recently traveled to the Mexican border city of El Paso, Texas and announced “there is no room in New York” for busloads of migrants being sent to America’s most populous city.
The remarks came during a Jan. 15 news conference. What does that say about a city where Latinos represent the second-largest race or ethnic group?
It’s easy to criticize the mayors and governors of border states who are having to deal with the problem of virtually unchecked migration across the southern U.S. border.
Mayors like Adams can put forth solutions not grounded in fact and talk about compassion for people they haven’t even met or are likely to ever meet.
Just five months ago, Adams said, “More than 100 years ago, Ellis Island opened its doors to welcome in those ‘yearning to breathe free.’ Now, more than ever, it’s clear that we are again dealing with a humanitarian crisis created by human hands. While other leaders have abdicated their moral duty to support arriving asylum seekers, New York City refuses to do so.”
Now Adams compares New York to El Paso, as a front-line city having to deal with the immigration crisis.
The 110th mayor of New York’s solution is that the cities need more money from the federal government.
That was until some governors of borders states, in particular Texas and Florida, started shipping busloads of migrants from their cities to municipalities like New York, Washington D.C., and Chicago, where mayors talked about how the U.S. needed to be more compassionate and allow these migrants into the country, despite that violating U.S. law and sovereignty.
As soon as the first bus appeared, the mayors in those cities acted like their towns would collapse, ignoring the fact, that the mayors and states they criticize about this issue have been dealing with it for years.
With New York City on the receiving end of just a fraction of the migrants that the border states are dealing with, the city has seen its housing and homeless crisis exacerbated, according to Reuters.
It’s estimated that the migrants coming to New York City could cost The Big Apple as much as $2 billion, which will also exacerbate its budget shortfall?
Well, isn’t that a shame?
If the city that never sleeps is receiving, say, 10% of all the migrants flooding the border (which it isn’t), that would mean the border states are left having to deal this up to $18 billion in costs from migrants.
If we were to look at the actual numbers Adams is complaining about (3100 since September 2022) versus how many migrant encounters Customs and Border Patrol had last year (more than 2.3 million), Adams really doesn’t have much to gripe over.
Even comparing the number to the city’s population of 8.3 million residents, New York City doesn’t have as much to complain about compared to mayors of cities like El Paso, which has a population less than 679,000 people, and it has certainly seen more than 3,100 migrants since September.
The answer to the problem isn’t more money from Uncle Sam, (money the federal government doesn’t have).
The answer is that the government needs to secure our borders, enforce our laws, and send illegal immigrants back to their home countries. The answer is to head off the problem before it becomes one.
It’s easier to be proactive and stay healthy, versus attempting to recover your health, after you’ve fallen ill.
Michael Letts is the Founder and CEO of In-Vest USA, a national grassroots nonprofit organization helping to re-fund police by contributing thousands of bulletproof vests for police forces through educational, public relations, sponsorship, and fundraising programs. He also has over 30 years of law enforcement experience. Read More Michael Letts reports — Here.
