by Frank Holmes, reporter
Blue states that spent years virtue-signaling their moral superiority to conservatives by designating themselves “sanctuaries” for illegal immigration are having a rude awakening.
Thanks to bold Republican governors from border states, liberals have had to deal with the consequences of their actions…and they don’t like it.
Now, some of the country’s most “progressive” places have told illegals, “No mas!”
The massive influx of illegal immigrants “will destroy New York City!” said New York City’s Democratic mayor, Eric Adams, at a constituents’ meeting Wednesday night.
“Never in my life have I had a problem that I didn’t see an ending to. I don’t see an ending to this,” Adams told his voters.
Adams claimed the city now has 110,000 illegal aliens inside the five boroughs. That’s just over 13 months after Texas’ Republican governor, Greg Abbott, started sending busloads of aliens to the sanctuary cities that claim to want them.
That number includes 21,000 children who just started school in the city’s public elementary, middle, or high schools.
Adams ticked off the countries that illegals have come to NYC from, including Venezuela, Ecuador, Russia, and West Africa.
“We’re getting people from all over the globe that made their minds up that they’re gonna come through the southern border and coming to New York City,” the mayor griped.
The Democrat blamed the requirement to feed, clothe, and house the hordes of illegal aliens flooding into the city for part of the Big Apple’s $12 billion deficit.
Adams took a swipe at President Joe Biden, saying, “We’re getting no support on this national crisis.”
Actually, Biden is making things worse. Not only are his open-borders policies responsible for the largest number of illegal aliens entering the U.S. in American history, but he’s laying even heavier burdens on the city.
Biden’s Department of Education sent a 415-word, two-page “Guidance on Project Open Arms” to the city’s schools, saying the teachers have to teach students in their own language—whatever language that may be. If the teacher can’t speak their language, they have to “identify a staff member at your school who can communicate,” according to the DOE.
The huge financial strain is going to force cuts in government programs meant for the city’s 8 million legal residents, Adams said on Wednesday night.
If this continues, he warned, “the city we knew, we’re about to lose. And we are all in this together.”
BREAKING: Mayor Adams basically conceding New York City is done because of illegal immigration and warns New Yorkers illegals will flood ALL neighborhoods. pic.twitter.com/Lj5E3BSvDX
— nycphotog (@nycphotog) September 7, 2023
That’s a huge flip-flop from Adams, who supported having foreign citizens vote in citywide elections—and he’s not getting any sympathy from neighboring states, either.
New Jersey has refused to receive a shipment of illegal “migrants” from New York City to help lighten its burden, after the Biden administration threatened to fly them into Atlantic City International Airport.
“I don’t see any scenario where we’re going to be able to take in a program in Atlantic City or frankly elsewhere in the state,” said Democratic Governor Phil Murphy on an “Ask Gov. Murphy” segment broadcast on August 31.
Murphy also hinted that Biden should take care of his own problem. Caring for so many illegals would require an “enormous amount of federal support, resources that go beyond anything that we can afford.”
This is the same Phil Murphy who promised in October 2017 that, if voters elected him governor, ‘We’ll be a sanctuary – not just city – but state.”
To be anything less than a sanctuary city—a city that refuses to report criminal aliens to ICE for deportation—would violate the spirit of “inclusiveness” and transgress “the goodness of America.”
But that was then. Now, Murphy tells illegals to take a hike.
Like Adams, Murphy has had a major change in perspective…but they’re not the only left-wingers getting mugged by reality.
Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey had to call out the state’s National Guard to deal with the problem.
Healey, a liberal Democrat, activated 250 guardsmen to get illegals off the streets and take them to housing, provided at taxpayers’ expense. Massachusetts has set up 1,500 temporary shelters since the beginning of 2022.
Massachusetts calls on the National Guard, for assistance with the Influx of Immigrants
🎙️ Flor Robledo pic.twitter.com/sguPGkevg5
— VOZ (@Voz_US) September 5, 2023
In Chicago, illegals crowd native-born Americans out of homeless shelters—and illegals took over O’Hare airport last week.
“I don’t want them there. Take them someplace else or send them back to Venezuela,” one woman told Chi-town city leaders.
WATCH:
CHICAGO RESIDENT ON ILLEGAL MIGRANTS: "I don’t want them there. Take them someplace else or send them back to Venezuela…
THIS IS WRONG!
You've got 73% of the people homeless in this city – black people.
WHAT HAVE YOU DONE FOR THEM?!" pic.twitter.com/ByamEoqcy9
— Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) September 1, 2023
All of these areas have a few things in common: They’re all sanctuary cities. They all have high crime and high taxes. And they’re all run by liberal Democrats.
Democrats rode into power by promising bigger welfare checks and more generous benefits to the poor…and they were so successful, they decided to sweeten the offer by holding it out for people who weren’t U.S. citizens.
Their taxpayer-funded, freeloading lifestyle and promise not to turn illegal aliens over to the federal government has acted like a magnet for illegal immigrants around the world to come into Democratic states, cities, and hamlets…and suck them dry.
Sanctuary city policies have been so terrible even far-Left Democrats—their longest and most passionate supporters—are beginning to abandon them. For once, all Americans should follow their lead.
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.”