Thousands of migrants keep coming into NYC every month — will Adams finally say stop

“Mi casa es tu casa,” contra Eric Adams, just isn’t an immigration coverage.

Not for New York — and never for the nation.

Adams final week supplied up Gracie Mansion as a hostel for border-hoppers — proper after he instructed that peculiar New Yorkers open their very own houses.

It was a barely insane proposal, and he rapidly backed away from the Gracie gambit.

But it surely underscored hizzoner’s “Who, me?” method to the migrant disaster — with its budget-crushing prices and socially destabilizing potential.

Adams is rarely at a loss for dramatic — if typically empty — gestures.

Opening Gracie wouldn’t work for “authorized causes,” he backtracked, however by no means thoughts.

“I feel main the problem of the migrant drawback is each substantive and symbolic,” he declared — including “as I all the time say, good generals lead from the entrance.”

Heh.

That’s our modest mayor.

However Adams definitely is appropriate concerning the symbolism: Providing to show your spare bed room over to unlawful immigrants doesn’t do something for “the migrant drawback” — it simply makes your metropolis a migrant magnet.

As for good management — effectively, not a lot.

Clearly not from Metropolis Corridor — however most particularly not from New York’s power-packed congressional delegation.

Actually, when the 2 strongest Democrats in Congress — Senate Majority Chief Chuck Schumer and Home Minority Chief Hakeem Jeffries — hail from Brooklyn, you’d assume metropolis can be higher handled.

You’ll be fallacious.

All Gotham will get from these two is pious blather and an occasional, wholly insufficient pot of federal disaster money.

Keep in mind when all politics was native?

No extra.

Now all politics is self-serving, partisan hackery.

No affordable individual believes there are simple options right here.

Financial migration is a worldwide phenomenon — but if there’s a lesson to be taken from the previous decade, it’s that ignoring the issue simply makes it worse.

And that’s the Biden method.

The administration chooses to outline it away — piping phony stats to assert progress whereas uncountable 1000’s cross the border illegally yearly.

Schumer and Jeffries are too terrified of Biden to say boo (additionally Kathy Hochul, don’t overlook her.)

And the one time Adams dared complained concerning the White Home, he obtained his hand slapped laborious.

He’s been quiet since.

However, the mayor stands in a bullseye.

An unsustainable variety of Biden’s border-hoppers head straight to New York — 13,000 have been processed by the Roosevelt Resort reception middle over the previous month, and a pair of,000 simply final week.

To not be flip, even when Hizzoner have been to accommodate them in each nook of Gracie Mansion, there can be extra arrivals within the morning. And extra, the day after.

Billions have already been spent, and billion extra will probably be obligatory; the present tab runs to $8 million a day. Fairly quickly that effectively will probably be dry too.

So let’s fake now not works; Common Adams really is on the entrance, and now it’s time for him to steer — to talk loud fact to self-serving energy.

E-mail: bob@bobmcmanus.nyc