by Frank Holmes, reporter
This Thanksgiving, one major city is going Back to the Future—pumping up services to illegal aliens while slashing protection for its own citizens, who will be lucky to make it into the future.
New York City plans to spend $12 billion on its exploding illegal alien population over the next two years—and New York’s legal citizens will have pay the price in more ways than one.
New York City’s Democratic leadership has made deep cuts to vital services for the residents of the five boroughs—services like police forces, fire departments, schools, and public libraries—to take care of illegal immigrants.
Democratic Mayor Eric Adams announced he’s gutting the New York Police Department budget to its lowest level since the crime-ridden 1990s.
The cuts were necessary, so the mayor can pay for luxury hotels for the sanctuary city’s ever-growing illegal immigrant population, which has hit an estimated 100,000 in the last year.
The police force has to be slashed from 33,000 to less than 30,000 this year—the lowest total level since 1993, according to stats provided by the city’s Independent Budget Office.
In 1993, New York City was experiencing a massive crime spike thanks to the soft-on-crime policies of Democrat Mayor David Dinkins. The rollback began under Republican Rudy Giuliani.
“Cops are already stretched to our breaking point, and these cuts will return us to staffing levels we haven’t seen since the crime epidemic of the ’80s and ’90s,” said Police Benevolent Association president, Patrick Hendry. “We cannot go back there.”
All told, Adams plans to cut $132 million of the police budget this year… and that doesn’t count the other ways he’s eliminating services for U.S. citizens who live in NYC.
He’s going to cut funding for New York City schoolkids by $1 billion over the next two years, reducing staff at 653 public schools.
He’ll be getting rid of fire department employees—forcing firemen who got injured while saving New Yorkers off the payroll and into early retirement.
He’s also going to reduce funding for government preschool programs and start closing libraries on Sunday.
The mayor even plans to cut back on how often garbage collectors do their trash pick-up—so New Yorkers will have to live in filth, so illegal aliens can live in five-star hotels.
The situation has gotten Adams criticism from unexpected corners.
“Crimes are gonna go through the roof, because there is a police safety budget cut,” said rapper Cardi B. “On top of that there’s a sanitation f***king budget cut, so that means we’re gonna be drowning in rats.”
A rodent problem has plagued the Big Apple and other Democrat-run cities for years. Adams has even been ticketed for rats in his own Brooklyn townhouse.
But humans are the bigger predator problem.
“What’s going to happen to my nieces? What’s going to happen to my nephews? What’s going to happen to my cousins, my aunts, my friends that’s living in the ‘hood?” asked Cardi B.
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Adams threw the Biden administration under the bus—not for presiding over an open border, but for not shelling out taxpayer money to Democrat-run cities to house, clothe, and feed the influx of new Democratic voters.
“No city should be left to handle a national humanitarian crisis largely on its own, and without the significant and timely support we need from Washington, D.C., today’s budget will be only the beginning,” Adams said.
NYC Mayor Adams announces that the city will undergo budget cuts due to high numbers of illegal immigrants moving there: pic.twitter.com/EfN0ADqVb2
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New Yorkers elected Adams to clean up the mess left by the previous Democratic mayor, socialist Bill de Blasio. Even then-Governor Andrew Cuomo attacked Adams’ predecessor for standing by as Black Lives Matter rioters trashed the city and everyday crime rose again and again.
Now, Republicans wonder if Adams is using the crisis to finish the job the radical Left started by turning the city into a cesspool.
“The ‘Defund the Police’ crowd’s Woke dream has come true,” said New York City Council Minority Leader, Republican Joe Borelli. “Now we are defunding the police to pay for (illegal aliens’ hotel) beds.”
Adams warned in September that illegal aliens “will destroy New York.” Turning the clock back to the bad old days of unenforced laws, streets crawling with poor-but-physically-strong young men, and no police protection is the best to turn those words into a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Frank Holmes is a veteran journalist and an outspoken conservative that talks about the news that was in his weekly article, “On The Holmes Front.”