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In Migrant Crisis, NYC Still Can’t Face Reality
Mayor Adams keeps his blinders on.
New York City Mayor Eric Adams has taken a leading role among Democrats in conceding the damage done to local communities by the Biden administration’s policy of allowing millions of illegal border crossers to remain in the United States. Adams recently raised eyebrows in his party by saying the arrival of thousands of illegal asylum-seekers, with their enormous demands for economic and social services, “will destroy New York City.”
Month after month, I stood up, and I said, ‘This is going to come to a neighborhood near you,'” Adams told a community meeting last week. “Well, we’re here. We’re getting no support on this national crisis. … Let me tell you something, New Yorkers. Never in my life have I had a problem that I did not see an ending to. I don’t see an ending to this. I don’t see an ending to this. This issue will destroy New York City.”
City officials estimate that more than 110,000 migrants have arrived in New York in the current crisis. Adams said the cost of caring for them will balloon the city’s deficit and force cuts in services for New York residents. “I said it last year when we had 15,000,” Adams said, “and I’m telling you now, with 110,000, the city we knew, we’re about to lose.”
It’s remarkable to hear a prominent Democrat say something like that, given that this is a problem created by a sitting Democratic president. But for all his candor, Adams still cannot admit what is causing the crisis that he says threatens to destroy his city.
“It started with a madman down in Texas deciding he wanted to bus people up to New York City,” Adams said, referring to Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott, who several months ago began busing groups of willing migrants to New York. But here’s the thing: Abbott recently announced that Texas has sent more than 13,300 migrants to New York since August 2022. New York, however, says it has received more than 110,000 migrants.
If New York has received 110,000, but only 13,000 came from Texas, then where did the other 97,000 or so migrants come from? If Mayor Adams knew, he might better understand the source of New York’s problem.
I asked Jessica Vaughan, director of policy studies for the Center for Immigration Studies, a group that favors more restrictions on immigration. “It’s ridiculous for Mayor Adams to blame Gov. Abbott for this problem when only 13,000 came on buses organized by Texas,” Vaughan responded in an email exchange. “Besides, many of them probably were looking to get to New York anyway. Texas is mainly facilitating what the migrants want to do already.”
But how did the 97,000 get to New York? First of all, the Biden administration appears to be directly arranging flights of illegal border crossers to the New York area. Beyond that, Vaughan notes: “Some are taking buses organized by non-governmental organization contractors in Texas and other border states, who are being paid by the federal government, with taxpayer money. Some, including ‘gotaways’ who evaded the Border Patrol, are traditionally coming on their own or assisted by smugglers. Some are coming from the northern border, also experiencing record illegal entries.”
Vaughan noted that “one attraction” for the illegal border crossers is “New York’s self-designation as a sanctuary city.” The migrants know the city will feed them, give them a place to stay, deliver other social services, educate their children, give them a municipal ID and a driver’s license. Even if they get in trouble with the law, they know they will not be turned over to immigration authorities.
Adams speaks as if he is helpless to deal with the sheer volume of migrants — which, it should be noted, is less than the number of migrants who arrive at the southern border every couple of days. But the mayor has powers of his own. “He could take steps to mitigate the problem,” Vaughan said. “Why not try to work with Gov. Abbott instead of calling him a madman? Demand that Biden shut down the flow on the border? Refuse to allow the migrants to be bused in and sheltered in inappropriate places like hotels, at least without coordination with New York officials? (Putting the migrants in hotels is almost certainly a violation of zoning laws, which is how 30 New York counties obtained restraining orders against migrant placements in their jurisdictions.) Warn potential employers that hiring illegal workers will not be tolerated. Try to work with ICE to identify and remove the criminals among the new arrivals.”
“There is a lot Adams could do,” Vaughan concluded. “He is the mayor, not a doormat.”
But first, Adams would have to admit the source of the problem — and it is not Greg Abbott. New York’s migrant problems result from policies promised by candidate Joe Biden in the 2020 presidential race and delivered by President Joe Biden in the two years and eight months since January 2021. Railing about a “madman” in Texas will not solve a problem that started in the White House.
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Watch: GOP Counts the ‘Staggering’ Economic Pain of Migration
Chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee Rep. Mark Green (R-TN) is counting the vast and growing transfer of taxpayers’ funds to the companies and non-profits that support President Joe Biden’s growing population of poor migrants.
The costs are rising for Americans in New York City, Arizona, Chicago, Tennessee, Maine, and many other states, said Green.
“Those dollars are ultimately being extracted from the wallets of hard-working, taxpaying men and women of this country, all to subsidize mass illegal immigration while families are struggling to make ends meet in a period of high inflation,” said Green. “It is staggering and infuriating.”
He continued:
In 2022 Congress’s Joint Economic Committee reported that the opioid epidemic cost our country almost $1.5 trillion in 2020. Imagine what those costs are now.
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Medicaid spending on emergency services for undocumented aliens in FY21 alone cost $7 billion compared to $1.6 billion in FY16 … The majority of illegal aliens are uninsured and use emergency rooms to receive care of all kinds, from the routine to the severe. And as a doctor and medical entrepreneur, I can tell you those costs are being passed on to taxpayers, increasing the cost of care for the rest of us.
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It also costs money to educate the hundreds of thousands of illegal-alien children, particularly those with limited proficiency in English. In New York City, one teacher recently told the New York Post. “We’re overwhelmed — we’ve all got migrant students in our classrooms and the teachers don’t speak a lick of Spanish.”
However, government spending is also a dollar windfall for many non-profits, companies, government unions, retailers, landlords, and investors. In turn, those groups aggressively lobby Republican and Democrat legislators to raise the inflow of poor migrants.
For example, Democrats used Green’s hearing to dismiss the growing economic burden on Americans.
“Well, Mr. Chairman, here we are, again, not at a legitimate oversight hearing, but at yet another political dog and pony show,” said Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-MS), the top Democrat on the committee.
Thompson represents a rural farming community with a high unemployment rate but claimed that his district’s farmers “would have serious trouble in getting the crops out of the field” without a continued inflow of low-wage migrants.
GOP witnesses include Borelli and Jonathan Lines, a county supervisor in Yuma County, Arizona. Democrat witnesses include Aaron Reichlin-Melnick, who is the pro-migrant policy director at the industry-backed American Immigration Council.
Extraction Migration
The federal government has long operated an unpopular economic policy of Extraction Migration. This colonialism-like policy extracts vast amounts of human resources from needy countries, reduces beneficial trade, and uses the imported workers, renters, and consumers to grow Wall Street and the economy.
The migrant inflow has successfully forced down Americans’ wages as well as boosted rents and housing prices. The inflow has also pushed many native-born Americans out of careers in a wide variety of business sectors and contributed to the rising death rate of poor Americans.
The lethal policy sucks jobs and wealth from heartland states by subsidizing coastal investors with a flood of low-wage workers, high-occupancy renters, and government-aided consumers.
The population inflow further reduces the political clout of native-born Americans because the population replacement allows elites and the establishment to divorce themselves from the needs and interests of ordinary Americans.
In many speeches, border chief Alejandro Mayorkas says he is building a mass migration system to deliver workers to wealthy employers and investors and “equity” to poor foreigners. The nation’s border laws are subordinate to elite opinion about “the values of our country,” Mayorkas claims.
Migration — especially labor migration — is unpopular among swing voters. A 54 percent majority of Americans say Biden is allowing a southern border invasion, according to an August 2022 poll commissioned by the left-of-center National Public Radio (NPR). The 54 percent “invasion” majority included 76 percent of Republicans, 46 percent of Independents, and even 40 percent of Democrats.
Each migrant in New York costs the city’s taxpayers $383 per day, Joseph Borelli, the GOP leader in the New York City Council, told the hearing.
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