“Sanctuary” is apparently just virtue-signaling rhetoric for New York
New York is a so-called “sanctuary state,” one of eleven, and New York City is a sanctuary city. As such, it won’t cooperate with federal immigration authorities on reporting or deporting illegal aliens, and supposedly has a welcoming and protective attitude. A number of those states instituted their sanctuary policies when Trump was president, in a show of opposition to mean old Trump. New York, however, has an earlier history with that status:
New York City became a sanctuary city under Mayor Ed Koch in the 1980s.
Elected officials wanted to make sure asylum seekers would not be afraid to report crimes or enroll their kids in public school and get medical care over fear of being deported. …
Sanctuary city policies have evolved over the years under new administrations and city councils.
Just before President Trump took office then Mayor Bill DeBlasio and the city council speaker re-affirmed the city’s commitment to protecting immigrants.
But talk is cheap. A huge influx of illegal arrivals is fine for nasty states such as Texas, which after all were already full of … Texans. New York didn’t really mean it wanted to deal with illegal immigrants in any sort of numbers. Mayor Adams is not pleased:
Mayor Eric Adams warned that the raging migrant crisis will “destroy” New York City and tore into President Biden for ignoring his pleas for help, saying the White House has given “no support” for the thousands of asylum seekers arriving each month.
“I’m gonna tell you something, New Yorkers, never in my life have I had a problem that I didn’t see an ending to. I don’t see an ending to this,” Adams said at a town hall on the Upper West Side Wednesday night. “This issue will destroy New York City. Destroy New York City.”
Hizzoner took aim at Biden for not stepping in with federal assistance as the city has received more than 110,000 migrants in the past year.
“Month after month I stood up and said this is gonna come to a neighborhood near you. Well, we’re here, we’re getting no support on this national crisis, and we’re receiving no support,” Adams said.
Some are being bused from Texas – estimates are 13,000 total – but since it is also estimated that 10,000 are coming per month to New York City, it seems that the Texas-sent contingent is only a small part of the whole.
“All of us are going to be impacted by this. I said it last year when we had 15,000 and I’m telling you now with 110,000. The city we knew, we’re about to lose, and we are all in this together, all of us,” he added.
Hey Mayor Adams, maybe it’s time to stop being a Democrat and supporting Biden. Because it is Biden and the Democrats who have created this situation, perpetuated it, and defended it. Mayor Adams is one of those people who have been mugged by reality, but I am virtually certain he will not take that next step.
This was the totals and destinations Texas had sent to various cities over two months ago. More, more, more need to be sent to lots of places. I admit I was skeptical of this (mostly because I didn’t think they would have the follow through) but it has been incredibly revealing.
https://twitter.com/GovAbbott/status/1676731431962423296
Adams may believe himself as to the causes and possible cures. That would be strange in anybody who graduated from elementary school. Except for a liberal or progressive.
On the other hand, he may know better but also knows he’d better not let on. Can’t refer to reality or his base will abandon him, along with state and local democratic/lib/prog organizations. That could be awkward.
So he has to do what he’s currently doing and…nothing will improve, and in fact nothing will stop getting worse.
Does he have enough time in the NYPD for his pension?
“Virtually” certain?
Here is the new plan from the Biden administration.
Let’s make them stay in Texas.
https://twitter.com/BillMelugin_/status/1699885574377898440
The typical AWFL hears “sanctuary city” and thinks “interesting ethnic restaurants, inexpensive maids, nannies, and gardeners, and it makes those horrendous MAGA people mad.”
Reality: I have been to almost all of Latin America and a good bit of the lesser developed world in Asia, mostly for work. These places are a cesspool of corruption, crime, and dysfunction. ANYTHING that makes our country more like those places represents a huge own goal, but our ruling class seems intent on making that happen.
“ Hey Mayor Adams, maybe it’s time to stop being a Democrat and supporting Biden. Because it is Biden and the Democrats who have created this situation, perpetuated it, and defended it.”
Is it only a Democrat thing to ignore the Spirit of the Constitution and grant extraordinary Powers to the President? Or is it the inevitable social corruption that results from a flawed Constitution? Maybe if we had a Constitution where the Citizens were granted Standing to contest government malfeasance things might be different? Today, a Governor got slapped down by a Federal Judge in trying to defend his border. Apparently Federalism is dead in fact and spirit. Not even Congress has standing with judges to contest the President’s actions. There’s only one end to a (naturally) corrupted unlimited government: the same end that has come for every government in the last 50,000 years.
What goes around, comes around…
Plenty of these are decent people encouraged by promises of welcome arms, food, housing, and jobs.
Get the message out south of the border that here is poverty, no work, little food, rat infested housing and animus from the locals and many may change their minds.
It’s quite possible that Eric Adams is as incompetent, stupid, dumb and ignorant as Kamala Harris. Though I must admit Adams has superior speaking skills which, as a result, make him a far better bullshit artist. One can at least understand what he is saying.
He is all talk and only talk, but otherwise worthless.
Rest assured when he is no longer the mayor (he probably will win a second term because, well……. NYC voters) he will be hired by Harvard or other institution of “higher learning” so that he can share his knowledge and experience with budding “public servants.”
Adams is now claiming NYC will go bankrupt.
We all know how this will end.
Joe Biden will fork over to NYC and NY State a few billion dollars to “solve” the problem.
Case closed.
Let’s hope Texas and Florida and other border states send hundreds of busloads to the exact streets where DHS officials and the Bidens live and vacation in Maryland, as well as to NY, Chicago, SF, etc.
Mayor Adams is one of those people who have been mugged by reality,
But probably not enough. Maybe if a gang of his ‘welcomees’ downed him and emptied his pockets he’d have a few more seconds of regret, but again, he’d demand help from the Feds – meaning you and me.
Fullmoon: What about “getting the message out” that if you enter the US illegally, you’ll be arrested and/or sent back? Oh . . . wait. That’s no longer “operative.”
The classic article on the folly of sanctuary-city policies is Heather Mac Donald’s 2004 piece, “The Illegal-Alien Crime Wave”: https://www.city-journal.org/article/the-illegal-alien-crime-wave
Follow-up reading for Sgt. Joe Friday on the persistence of culture, equivalent to the weakness of assimilation: https://www.nas.org/academic-questions/36/2/rethinking-immigration
In the 80s “sanctuary cities” were sold to the public because of civil wars in Central America. As I understand it, those wars have been over for some time, but sanctuary cities remain. Crime became the new rationale (when one was even needed), but that seems like something countries ought to be able to deal with on their own. Now sanctuary cities are supposed to be about climate change (if a reason is even needed). I wonder how much any of those justifications have been the true reason for the policies.
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Like Biden, Adams was chosen because the alternatives seemed too radical, and like Biden, Adams never showed the common sense and independence of mind that voters thought he might have. After his election, Adams even compared himself to Biden — they were both “winners” riding a high wave. The comparison was ridiculous because Biden’s flaws were clear by the time, but it’s become all too apt.
I think perhaps Adams’ comments have been misconstrued to mean that he opposes illegal immigration and wishes something to be done about it. Not so, good readers. What he means is that the federal government must send his city billions of dollars with which to grease his palm and all the others in the system who benefit financially from illegal immigration; the NGO’s and “non-profits” whose employees make a very nice living, thank you taxpayers, from importing and dispersing illegals once they get here. Adams, like every other hypocritical democrat socialist-in-name-only merely wants to sound off on the issue rather vaguely, so stupid voters can draw the conclusion that he opposes illegal immigration but those in the know in the federal government will respond by sending bags of cash into his coffers.
It will be interesting to see whether Mayor Adams means what he says respecting the supposed destruction of his city by this whole affair, because if he does, then I would think certain kinds of preventive actions would be indicated. If, after a period of observation, we see that he’s either unwilling or unable to take those actions, then we’ll have our answer.