Shelters harboring more than three times as many aliens as this time last year had New York City Mayor Eric Adams (D) calling out a “baffling” response from the Biden administration.
(Video: WABC)
Tired figures dating back more than 20 years about the number of illegal aliens residing within the United States had been put to rest as over 8 million known crossings were recorded within just the first three years of President Joe Biden’s term.
Similarly abandoned was Adams’ vocal advocacy for the Big Apple being a sanctuary city as handling an estimated influx of 140,000 aliens left Hizzoner crying for federal help and making drastic budget cuts.
Sitting down with WABC anchor Joe Torres, the mayor spoke to the overrun shelter system housing over 67,000 aliens, more than triple the 21,300 reported at this time in 2022.
“I find it baffling because now you are hearing the coalitions that started out with Eric, now that coalition has gone to Chicago, Massachusetts, Denver, all over so many other municipalities are joining me and saying this is impacting our city, so I’m not quite sure why we’re not seeing a response that we should be receiving,” said Adams criticizing the Biden administration for failing to heed calls for assistance from the leftist policy gone awry.
Adams has made quite the show of shuffling illegals around the five boroughs, even attempting to get them sent upstate, spending hundreds of millions on hotels and temporary shelters before slashing funds for first responders while holding his hand out to Uncle Sam.
On Sunday, he made clear that if he were in charge he would use the same strategy to spread the problem around rather than solve the open border crisis.
Referring to his plan as a “real decompression strategy,” the mayor conflated illegal aliens with legal immigrants as he laid out, “We have 108,000 towns, villages, cities across America. Someone comes in legally vetted, we tell them, ‘Here’s where you are going to go for a three-year period to stabilize yourself.’…This way, instead of having 140,000 coming here or a thousand coming to Chicago, we’re spreading it out throughout the entire country — which mind you, many people are dealing with population issues, employment issues and they want migrants and asylum seekers that can work ’cause we are a city and a country of immigrants.”
Negotiations have continued in the Senate as the Washington establishment has attempted to couple securing the southern border and providing aid to Israel with billions more spending for Ukraine. Even Senate Leader New York Sen. Chuck Schumer (D) felt the heat as colleagues including scandal-ridden New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez asserting “If [Schumer] thinks he can send us home for the weekend, quietly cave to Republicans’ anti-immigrant demands while nobody is watching, and then ambush Democrats expecting us to vote yes with a smile, he is TERRIBLY MISTAKEN.”
Meanwhile, Sunday, Utah Sen. Mike Lee (R) provided commentary on the negotiations sharing a post from Texas Rep. Chip Roy (R) that documented the situation in Eagle Pass, Texas, and added credence to Adams’s take on the president’s failure to act.
“[Biden] to Republican in Congress: ‘If you’ll give me $106 billion for Ukraine etc. I’ll finally stop the madness at the border. I’ve had the authority all along, but this time I’ll REALLY do it,'” wrote Lee om X. “Americans to Republicans in Congress: ‘If you fall for that line you’re all fired.'”
POTUS to Republicans in Congress: “If you’ll give me $106 billion for Ukraine etc. I’ll finally stop the madness at the border. I’ve had the authority all along, but his time I’ll REALLY do it.”
Americans to Republicans in Congress: “If you fall for that line you’re all fired.” https://t.co/SYqekdHhsa
— Mike Lee (@BasedMikeLee) December 18, 2023
Native of Brooklyn, NY, Kevin Haggerty is a graduate of Hunter College where he studied Cultural Anthropology and Geography. An avid reader and truth seeker, he currently resides in Texas with his wife and their dog and, when he isn't researching current events and their impacts, you'll find him spending time with friends and family or working on his next novel.
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