While still refusing to publicly admit that sanctuary city policies are un unmitigated disaster, New York City Mayor Eric Adams has already shown he knows that to be the case through his actions.
Amid countless challenges in accommodating them, Adams has instead decided on trying to re-settle them to the convenient location of “anywhere else on the entire planet except New York City.”
According to Newsmax:
Adams' office confirmed this week that it has set up a re-ticketing center in the East Village, where migrants hoping to find vacant beds are instead offered flights to anywhere in the world on the city's dime. City Hall's makeshift travel agency began just last weekend, it said.
"With no sign of a decompression strategy in the near future, we have established a re-ticketing center for migrants," City Hall spokesperson Kayla Mamelak said Tuesday. "Here, the city will redouble efforts to purchase tickets for migrants to help them take the next steps in their journeys."
The cost of a flight — even international — is less than the daily $394 per-migrant cost that New York City is now facing since becoming a sanctuary city and a top destination to which Abbott sends migrants. Adams said city estimates put the price tag at $4.7 billion this year alone for more than 100,000 asylum seekers.
It's not the first time Adams has flown migrants from New York. Politico reported the city spent $50,000 on travel costs over a 12-month period to resettle 114 migrant households domestically and internationally. Florida received 28 families while Texas received 14, far fewer than the number Abbott has shipped to New York.
Adams enthusiastically campaigned on keeping NYC a sanctuary city. On October 20, 2021, then-Mayoral candidate Eric Adams tweeted out “We should protect our immigrants. Period. Yes, New York City will remain a sanctuary city under the Adams administration.” Fast forward to September 2022, and when he was asked by CNN’s Jake Tapper if he still believes that, and if migrants should still come to NYC, he doubled down and responded affirmatively.
If he wants to know who to blame for this mess, he only needs to look in the mirror.
Matt Palumbo is the author of Fact-Checking the Fact-Checkers: How the Left Hijacked and Weaponized the Fact-Checking Industry and The Man Behind the Curtain: Inside the Secret Network of George Soros
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