What a great idea allowing millions and millions of illegals over our border was for Democrats…
…until some of them wound up where those Democrats live, that is.
Here is the latest example of what happens when NIMBY (Not In My Back Yard) becomes IMBY, excerpted from Daniel Henninger’s article for the Wall Street Journal, via msn.com:
The idea of circular firing squads in politics is usually associated with House Republicans. But we may never have seen anything like the circle of mutual Democratic destruction taking place in New York among Mayor Eric Adams, Gov. Kathy Hochul and the party’s nominal leader, President Joe Biden.
The issue is illegal migrants and the so far unanswerable question is where to put the more than 107,000 who have poured into the city the past two years. With migrants, New York is no longer a sanctuary city. It’s a Democratic battleground.
New York’s Democrats want the migrant problem fixed, because if it festers, disgusted state voters likely will elect more Republicans to the U.S. House next year, as they did in 2022 when the GOP won a net gain of three seats. An August Siena College Poll found 82% of New Yorkers consider the migrant influx a serious problem. The Biden White House, apparently, does not. It has stiffed every request for help from New York—as well as from Democratic governors in Illinois and Massachusetts.
The Adams administration estimates that by 2025 it will spend a mind-boggling $12 billion on the migrants. But despite the migrants and the Covid economic downturn, the city has been signing new labor contracts with public unions that will contribute to a budget deficit of nearly $14 billion by 2027.
A startling image from the crisis this summer was hundreds of migrants sleeping on the sidewalk in front of the historic Roosevelt Hotel, blocks from Grand Central Terminal. For weeks, residents of Staten Island have gathered almost nightly to protest the housing of migrants in a closed Catholic school. With no Republican available for even pro forma blame, New York’s Democrats have turned on each other, including the incumbent president.
“This crisis originated with the federal government,” Gov. Hochul said two weeks ago. Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas returned fire with a letter accusing the state and city of a litany of “structural” migrant mistakes. He offered a list of federal migrant-housing sites, including one in Atlantic City, N.J. The GOP should have a 2024 political ad in the works with Mr. Mayorkas saying the border is closed, not open or secure.
Mayor Adams, after criticizing the White House for months (“We need an emergency action down at the border”), attacked Gov. Hochul for not compelling upstate counties to house migrants. That would be the parts of New York that tend to vote for Republicans. The governor’s lawyers cracked back with a 12-page letter dumping on Mr. Adams’s migrant efforts but offering their own housing site list—all inside the city, such as Aqueduct Race Track.
The chances are zero that the White House will acknowledge that its border policy, or nonpolicy, is responsible for an intraparty crisis. Gallup’s late-August poll put approval for Mr. Biden on migrant policy at 31%. New York’s Democrats are left with not much more than standard-brand buck passing. Republican House candidates watch and wait.
We may live in an era of personality-driven politics, but New York is proving that even in a blue state, the tolerance for misgovernance has limits.
Democrats versus Democrats. And on what? On allowing untold millions (does anyone really know how many) of illegals into the country. Illegals about whom we know exactly nothing.
-Who are they?
-Why did they come here? To better themselves? To get freebies they can’t get elsewhere? To take down a country they hate?
-Where are they? An estimated 107,000 (just a guess, of course) in New York City alone, but what about the millions of others? Where do they live?
-Where do they sleep?
-How do they get money?
-Do they work? If so, do they work for far less than legals, allowing corporations to make windfall profits from their misery while simultaneously screwing U.S. citizens?
-How many of them are children? Do they go to school? Do they illegally work in factories (numerous examples of this have already been found)? Are they bought and owned by people we don’t know? For sex trafficking?
-How many of them are operatives from countries like Iran and China and North Korea, which hate the U.S. and would be more than happy to take it down. How many are here specifically to conduct terrorist activity?
We don’t know the answers to any of the above questions.
But what we do know is that Democrats were just fine with this massive influx of illegals…as long as they stayed far, far away in places like Arizona and Texas…with a small number in their cities so they could show how liberal/benevolent they were without really being inconvenienced very much.
But getting a proportionate amount of them – as New York City has? Hey, wait a minute. They’re supposed to stay somewhere else. THAT’S NOT FAIR!!!!
When NIMBY becomes IMBY. Very, very instructive. Very heated…
…and guaranteed to get even more heated, as Joe Biden’s puppeteers – the people running this country in place of our obviously, visibly senile President – continue allowing illegals to pile into what used to be the United States of America.
