Opinion | Eric Adams and the Migrants in New York
To the Editor:
Re “In New York Metropolis, Outrage Over the Choices for Housing Migrants” (entrance web page, Could 19):
In his defensive posture towards those that don’t need migrants housed at school gyms — “What have you achieved for the migrants?” — Mayor Eric Adams fails to acknowledge and assist the superb people and organizations within the metropolis who are welcoming these people, offering them meals, clothes and providers.
Even worse, he has now thrown these volunteer teams out of the Port Authority and denied them entry to the accommodations.
The mayor touts the variety of faiths which might be a part of town’s cloth, however is now apparently denying entry or entry to the mosques, church buildings and synagogues in all boroughs which might be organizing welcomes, sheltering and serving these newcomers.
In a remaining insult, his spokesman, Fabien Levy, now blames these teams for encouraging individuals to reach. That is false and meanspirited from starting to finish. He ought to be ashamed.
Ruth W. Messinger
Aix-en-Provence, France
The author, a social justice advisor, was a member of the New York Metropolis Council (1978-88) and the Democratic nominee for mayor of New York in 1997.
To the Editor:
Re “Criticizing Biden, Adams Diverges From Democrats” (entrance web page, Could 21):
Mayor Eric Adams is completely justified in his persistent and vocal advocacy relative to the immigrant disaster in New York Metropolis. His requests for assist, each monetary and strategic, are solely affordable.
The disaster is, in truth, a nationwide one requiring federal motion to deal with it. The burden on New York Metropolis that it has created is disproportionate, unfair and unsustainable. And a federal grant of $30 million when town is going through a $4.3 billion gap in its finances is laughable.
The mayor’s first accountability is the well-being of his constituency, not the potential impact his advocacy might need on President Biden’s marketing campaign. If and when the assistance arrives, the criticism will stop.
And as for being “conspicuously absent” from the Biden marketing campaign’s record of surrogates, if the president begins diverting migrants to the cities on that record as he ought to, you may be positive the mayors of these cities can be proper beside Mayor Adams protesting simply as loudly!
To the Editor:
Re “Stranded Afghans Danger Crossing a Jungle” (entrance web page, Could 21):
I do know I converse for my cohort of Peace Corps volunteers who had the privilege of serving in Afghanistan within the mid-Nineteen Sixties and early Seventies, and for the nonprofit with which I’m affiliated, the Afghan Ladies Monetary Help Fund.
For a rustic that welcomed us, embraced us (actually and figuratively) and displayed such heat and hospitality to every of us, it’s heartbreaking and painful to learn this piece.
The Afghan individuals gave to every of us way over we ever might have ever imagined. Our lives had been actually modified without end.
How ironic that the Afghans who did a lot to assist and defend the People current of their nation and who manifest all these admirable human traits that we People espouse have had the welcome mat pulled out from below them. Disgrace on us.
Jonathan Greenburg
North Caldwell, N.J.
To the Editor:
I perceive the impulse to pin the human tragedy for a lot of Afghans on the Biden administration’s withdrawal from Afghanistan. However to take action excuses the mixed results of virtually 20 years of failed U.S. coverage in Afghanistan throughout Republican and Democratic administrations.
U.S. imperialism is a idiot’s errand. I’m so sorry that Taiba and her household, featured in your article, and so many different Afghans are paying the horrible human price. How about if subsequent 12 months the U.S. authorities owns as much as its errors and welcomes 250,000 Afghans?
Jeremy Pressman
West Hartford, Conn.
The author is a professor of political science and director of Center East research on the College of Connecticut.
Skeptical About Support to Ukraine
To the Editor:
Re “A Vocal G.O.P. Minority Pledges It Will Complicate Extra Support for Ukrainians” (information article, Could 20):
You possibly can imagine that Vladimir Putin and his cronies ought to be tried as conflict criminals — and you may by no means have voted for a Republican presidential nominee — and nonetheless imagine that Republicans against unqualified navy and monetary assist for Ukraine are on to one thing.
There are three excellent causes: Vietnam, Iraq and the countless try at nation-building in Afghanistan. Important details about what led to those wars and the way they had been carried out contradicted the official casus belli and eroded public assist. Rely on the same sample for the Russia-Ukraine battle.
Though no American troops’ lives are at stake, neither is something important to our safety. Many People imagine that Europe is sufficiently old to resolve its personal issues.
Carlyn Meyer
Englewood, Colo.
‘No Solution to Deal with Our Children’
To the Editor:
Re “Texas Bans Medical Take care of Minors in Transition” (information article, Could 18):
There may be clearly a generational tectonic shift in gender id happening. Laws to stop younger individuals from getting high-quality transition medical care ignores the suggestions of America’s main medical organizations. This legislation is a cynical, dishonest play for votes and cash. It’s no approach to deal with our children.
To the Editor:
Re “A Requiem for 7 Thoroughbreds” (Sports activities, Could 20) and “A Baffert Horse Wins on the Identical Day That One other Is Fatally Injured” (Sports activities, Could 21):
Studying these articles was sickening. Eight magnificent animals had been exploited, destroyed and disposed of for cash and thrills for grasping people.
Horses could like to run, however the canard that they like to race in these insane competitions is definitely as false because the declare that canines and roosters like to combat. For all its fancy trappings, horse racing isn’t any higher than different types of animal cruelty that civilized society has outlawed.
Let people race if they’re so motivated, however cease glamorizing the torture, together with racing, of helpless animals for sport.
Judy Olinick
Middlebury, Vt.
Hating the Workplace, Not Simply the Commute
To the Editor:
Re “Workplace Employees Don’t Hate the Workplace. They Hate the Commute,” by Farhad Manjoo (column, Could 22):
No, a few of us hate the workplace additionally — the annoying conferences, the company workplace politics, the soul-sucking fluorescent lighting, the important thing playing cards, the pointless jargon (and the extra nouns the higher, apparently), the individuals scheduling you for conferences with out checking first to be sure to’re out there, the e-mail the e-mail the e-mail, the pointless boosterism, the loud talkers, the individuals who can’t be bothered to do issues correctly and/or are at all times asking the identical questions on the identical issues, and so forth.
I miss neither the commute nor the workplace.
Kevin J. O’Conner
Bellingham, Wash.
