Those of us who remain rooted in reality have understood for months (if not years) that the surge of illegal immigrants crossing the border amounts to a national crisis.
Since Biden’s election, U.S. Customs and Border Protection has recorded absurdly high rates of encounters with illegal immigrants, including unaccompanied children, with numbers routinely exceeding 200,000 per month. According to the
Pew Research Center
, we haven’t seen these levels in more than two decades.
ERIC ADAMS RAMPS UP CALLS FOR HELP AMID NYC MIGRANT INFLUX: ‘BREAKING POINT’
But until recently, the attitude shown by Democratic Party figures was one of either feigned ignorance, abject apathy, or even varying levels of celebration. No human is illegal, we were told. Except for when this crisis lands on their doorstep, of course.
After years of incentivizing illegal immigration, including an “unprecedented”
$2.1 billion
of New York’s state budget toward COVID-19 aid for illegal immigrants, New York City is apparently full.
According to New York Mayor Eric Adams’s office, 26,000 of the 38,000 illegal immigrants in New York City are being housed in hotels, at taxpayer expense, of course. One hotel, the Row, cost taxpayers a total of about $650,000 per night and yet was reportedly
trashed
by New York City’s suddenly unwelcome visitors.
How shocking that illegal immigrants have continued to flood into the country when Democrats such as Eric Adams are housing them in upmarket New York City hotels!
When small Republican towns across the country were collapsing beneath the weight of unfettered illegal immigration, Democrats such as Adams refused to even acknowledge reality. Many others would scoff at conservative protests, labeling them as sources of the same old bigotry we should expect from the supposedly uncaring and unempathetic Right.
Then why did Eric Adams — again, the mayor of New York City — rush to El Paso, Texas, this weekend and declare the border crisis a “national crisis,” placing the blame at the feet of the federal government?
“We are not pointing the finger at El Paso. We are not pointing the finger at Houston. We’re pointing the finger where we should be pointing, and that’s our national government,” Adams
said
. “This is a national problem. We must have real immigration reform.”
Welcome to the party, pal.
But the problem here is that Adams and his ilk are not motivated by a desire for true immigration reform. Instead, like the
residents of Martha’s Vineyard
, they just want the problem to go away.
“The absence of sorely needed federal immigration reform should not mean that this humanitarian crisis falls only on the shoulders of cities,” Adams said in a
statement
.
Because it’s one thing for small, ill-equipped, and nationally ignored conservative border towns in states such as Texas to be overrun with illegal immigrants, left to suffer alone under the waves of societal issues that appear as a consequence. It’s quite another for the realities of open border policies to hit the swanky streets of urban elites in New York City.
They’re fine to have the country’s door open, as long as their own doors remain firmly shut.
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