Well, what do you know? Mayor Eric Adams’ chief adviser Ingrid Lewis-Martin just spoke out loud what her boss has only hinted about but almost every other sane person has long known: President Joe Biden and Congress, she said, need to “close the border.”
“We need the federal government, the Congress members, the Senate and the president to do its job: Close the borders,” demanded Lewis-Martin.
And get this: Gov. Kathy Hochul, too, said the border is “too open right now.”
Though “it’s in our DNA to welcome immigrants,” the gov added, “there has to be some limits in place, and Congress has to put more controls at the border.”
Sure is about time for plain, honest language.
Yeah, Deputy Mayor for Communications Fabien Levy quickly tried to walk back Lewis-Martin’s truth-telling, tweeting a blancmange of a statement that City Hall believes the country should continue to welcome immigrants but employ a “decompression strategy” to disperse them fairly across the nation.
But Lewis-Martin’s remarks likely reflect Adams’ own private thinking, even if he lacks the backbone to be as blunt as his aide and Hochul, since the comment flies in the face of some of his fellow Democrats.
Indeed, that’s why Adams is planning a trip to Mexico to tell migrants not to come.
And he’s been warning recently that runaway migrant costs will “destroy the city,” a veiled plea for Biden to provide direct relief as well as to get better control of the border.
Of course, out-of-touch progressives did attack Hizzoner’s team for the comment.
Yet Adams, as mayor, and Hochul, as governor, are most responsible for the fate of the city and state.
They have to deal with the consequences of Biden’s open-border insanity.
And as fellow Democrats, they’re best situated to talk sense to Biden.
Now if only Biden would listen . . .
