President Biden has foisted a humanitarian crisis on NYC: Democratic councilman
On Monday, July 31, I joined a press convention of elected Democrats from New York calling on President Biden to assist our metropolis with the unprecedented catastrophe we name “the migrant disaster.”
I’m glad extra of my elected colleagues, even the open-border progressives, are waking as much as the truth that New York should fend for itself as tens of 1000’s of migrants flood our streets and crowd our homeless shelters.
Sadly, we’re paying the value for calling ourselves a “sanctuary metropolis,” a place I opposed each as a civic chief and now as a member of the New York Metropolis Council.
The variety of migrants within the metropolis is staggering and growing by the day. Once I wrote in these pages again in April in regards to the migrants, about 55,000 had arrived in our metropolis.
Solely 4 months later, metropolis companies have processed almost 100,000 migrants and no less than 56,200 of them are being housed and fed by our social service companies.
Which means that out of roughly 100,000 whole homeless people in New York Metropolis, greater than half are migrants.
Make no mistake, sources that might in any other case go to our homeless New Yorkers are going to migrants. We’re informed that migrants will price taxpayers $4.2 billion by subsequent yr, however this can clearly improve because the disaster continues.
Town awarded a no-bid $432 million contract simply to assist us get migrants relocated to completely different cities. As my colleagues famous on the press convention, this isn’t sustainable.
Sadly, the president’s open border insurance policies led to this disaster. In his first yr in workplace, Biden issued almost 300 govt orders tied to immigration, which have been designed to make it simpler for anybody to return into our nation.
A few of these insurance policies made headlines, comparable to halting the development of the border wall and ending the profitable remain-in-Mexico coverage.
Others have been simply as damaging however didn’t get as a lot consideration, comparable to decreasing the variety of unlawful immigrants topic to arrest; stopping the enforcement of “public cost” restrictions, which prevented immigrants from getting into the US in the event that they have been more likely to depend on welfare; and elevating the variety of allowable refugees into the nation to 125,000.
Biden and his administration officers additionally unfold faux information that Border Patrol brokers have been whipping unlawful immigrants crossing the border.
The message to each would-be immigrant was clear: You need to ignore our immigration legal guidelines and rush our border. You’ll be rewarded!
There isn’t any precedent for the unlawful migration occurring in New York Metropolis and all through the nation.
We shouldn’t be gaslit into believing that is one other wave of future Individuals, a course of that aligns with our historical past as an immigrant nation.
Immigrants sometimes got here legally and plugged themselves into ethnic-based communities, starting the gradual however inevitable strategy of assimilation into the good American melting pot.
At the moment’s migrants are fed and housed by taxpayers indefinitely and prevented by legislation from working authorized jobs.
In response to one examine, in 2023 alone, New York taxpayers will shell out $9.9 billion for federal, state and native authorities packages that may serve 1 million unlawful immigrants and asylum-seeking migrants in New York state.
It is a shameful break from America’s proud custom of immigrants coming to our nation and dealing their technique to success.
Asylum seekers should not scheduled to see a decide till 10 years from now and we have now no means to trace migrants whereas they await a listening to.
New York Metropolis can’t soak up 100,000 individuals, principally single males, idling on our streets, ready for immigration and labor legal guidelines to vary.
Many have already turned to crime and I predict extra will quickly. We have already got migrant males arrested for assault and theft.
In the meantime, migrant girls are focused for intercourse trafficking and are reportedly turning to prostitution.
Look no additional than the migrant disaster to grasp why Individuals of all political stripes now not place confidence in our public establishments.
New York Metropolis doesn’t have the power to resolve this disaster by itself.
Gov. Kathy Hochul, Senator Chuck Schumer and Senator Kirsten Gillibrand have been silent on this concern.
They should take accountability and be part of us in pressuring President Biden to ship New York the sources essential to handle the disaster whereas closing the border to future migrants.
Everybody wants to talk loud and clear that New Yorkers is not going to tolerate their metropolis getting used as one big homeless shelter for Central America.
With out the intervention of the president and federal authorities, the state of affairs will solely develop extra violent and chaotic for each metropolis residents and migrants.
We have to keep in mind our values, train widespread sense and create an immigration system that permits future Individuals to return right here legally and safely.
Council Member Robert Holden (D) represents District 30 in Queens.
