Declaring that Los Angeles was a “sanctuary city” for illegal aliens (despite there being no such thing in federal law) was great….until the illegals weren’t being huddled en masse in Texas and Arizona, they were coming to Los Angeles as well.
Want an example? No problem at all. From Jake Smith’s article at dailycaller.com:
The city of Los Angeles has spent more than $11.5 million in taxpayer money to cover damages at a luxury hotel turned into a homeless shelter, the Los Angeles Times reported on Wednesday.
The Mayfair Hotel, a boutique hotel in the heart of L.A., was turned into a temporary homeless shelter in 2020 as part of former Democratic Mayor Eric Garcetti’s “Project Roomkey” initiative, according to the Los Angeles Times. The Mayfair suffered millions of dollars in damages over the course of two years, and staff and security assigned to the hotel routinely dealt with violent behavior, drug overdoses and property damage.
Reports from staff and security detail homeless residents at the hotel breaking windows and throwing objects out of them onto the street below, punching through walls, vandalizing bathrooms and destroying countertops and televisions, according to the L.A. Times. Nurses assigned to the hotel described their exhausted efforts to deal with drug use and overdoses; one nurse noted that “it’s like this every day” after finding sheets of tinfoil used to consume fentanyl in one room.
Outside the hotel, residents and business owners reported similar behaviors of crime and violence from homeless residents at the Mayfair, according to the L.A. Times. One woman who worked as a cashier near the hotel said people regularly robbed her shop; another person said his car windshield was shattered with a crowbar.
Hmmm. Sanctuary status was great when it was NIMBY (Not In My Back Yard). But $11.5 million dollars later, after NIMBY became IMBY (In My Back Yard) maybe it doesn’t seem so great after all.
Or does it? Incredibly…
Democratic Mayor Karen Bass wants to revive Project Roomkey and turn the Mayfair back into a homeless shelter, but residents and business owners in the area are pushing back, according to the L.A. Times.
This is literally the suicide of a city. And, with “sanctuary” geniuses in charge of other major cities around the country, it ain’t the only one.
How much further descent into chaos and unlivable conditions must Los Angeles – and San Francisco and Seattle and Portland and Philadelphia and Chicago and…etc. etc. etc. – have to endure before it’s too late. Or is it too late already?
Well, this is what the folks in those cities voted for. I guess it’s what they wanted. I hope they’re enjoying it.
