(The Center Square) — New York Gov. Kathy Hochul is telling migrants to “go somewhere else” as she tries to dissuade more asylum-seekers from traveling to the state amid another surge of immigration along the U.S.-Mexico border.
In remarks during a CNN appearance, Hochul said New York has “reached capacity” for accepting new migrants and urged them to apply for asylum before leaving their countries or seek shelter in other states if they arrive.
“If you’re going to leave your country, go somewhere else,” Hochul said. “We have to let the word out that when you come to New York, you’re not going to have more hotel rooms.”
Hochul also said she supports efforts to update or suspend New York City’s right to shelter law, which requires the city to provide housing, food and other necessities for homeless individuals, regardless of their immigration status. She said it was never intended to be a “universal right or obligation on the city to have to house literally the entire world.”
Hochul’s remarks appear to be a shift in her stance on immigration for the Democrat who has previously defended New York’s “sanctuary” state status and its storied history of accepting large numbers of asylum seekers.
She has also pushed for work authorization for migrants and lobbied President Joe Biden to extend the temporary protected status to tens of thousands of Venezuelan asylum seekers that allows them to work in the U.S. legally. Critics say policies are encouraging more migrants to enter the country illegally.
New York City has had an influx of more than 116,000 asylum seekers over the past year amid a surge of immigration along the U.S.-Mexico border. The surge coincided with the end of the pandemic-era Title 42 policy that required migrants to stay in Mexico while requesting asylum, which expired in May.
Hochul’s comments echo those previously made by New York Mayor Eric Adams, a fellow Democrat, who in June began distributing flyers on the U.S.-Mexico border as part of a new marketing campaign to dissuade new arrivals from settling in the city.
Adams has criticized the Biden administration for not doing enough to secure the southern border, and has said the migrant crisis will “destroy” New York City if the federal government doesn’t provide more funding and resources to the city.
New York Republicans have long called on Hochul to rescind the state’s sanctuary designation and New York City’s right to shelter law, saying the policies are drawing more migrants to the state.
“New York City’s leaders chose to be a sanctuary city, putting out a welcome mat for every migrant who arrives in the country,” a group of state GOP lawmakers wrote to Hochul earlier this month. “They chose virtue signaling over good government policy, and so must bear the consequences.”
Last week, several Republican congressional lawmakers filed a lawsuit seeking to block New York City from using Brooklyn’s Floyd Bennett Field or other federally owned sites in the Gateway National Recreation Area to provide temporary housing for migrants.
Rep. Nicole Malliotakis, R-N.Y., and other GOP lawmakers have also called on Democrats in the U.S. Senate to pass a border security bill approved by the House earlier this year.
The Quote,” Who is Watching The Watchman,” comes to mind when thinking about the Border Patrol, It seems that the ( BORDER- PATROL is More often seen helpin illegal Aliens by cutting Barbed Wire to let Immigrants cross Americas open botders than are tryong to stop illegal immigrants.
BECAUSE the Dept of injustice is likely ORDERING THEM TO do so… IMO A CRIME IN and of itself.
i have an idea governor let these so called migrants live in the governors mansion with you!
this unholy invasion is 100% a democrat party plot to destroy america!
Absolutely! If schools still taught history the way history unfolded, more of our youth would see the “light” and understand the path on which Democrats trod. The Nazi Party used tactics closely patterned by modern Democrats seeking a ‘one-party’ system here in the United States. Democrats now translate the First Amendment of the Constitution as allowing anyone to do whatever they want to, believe whatever they believe, and express their opposition to anything they disagree with, so long as these beliefs and actions are sanctioned by the DNC! Sanction cities and states are welcome entities proposed and supported by the DNC, as long as the illegal aliens seek no such sanctuary status in Democrat-controlled cities!
” The absolute way to destroy people is to deny or obliterate their oun understanding of their History.” George Orwell
– The democrat leftist, under President Joe Biden, is destroying Historic Relics.” Author unknow.
Krmson, that is WHY THEY HAVE taken control OVER OUR schooling system..
The democrats have the support and the backing of illegal aliens by the religious like this Quote says,” When Facsism /Communism, comes to America, It will be wrappef in the Flag and Carrying A Cross.” Sinclair Lewis
THING IS< these invaders are flying PROUDLY I might add, THEIR OWN FLAG.. So they must not FEAR THEIR OWN NATION.
sounds very RACIST to me.
ITS only ‘racist’, when we conservatives do it.. WHEN they do it, its a-ok…
“Democrat New York Gov. Kathy Hochul is telling migrants to “go somewhere else” as she tries to dissuade more asylum-seekers from traveling to the state amid another surge of immigration along the U.S.-Mexico border.”
“New York City’s leaders chose to be a sanctuary city, putting out a welcome mat for every migrant who arrives in the country,”
“They chose virtue signaling over good government policy, and so must bear the consequences.”
Never mind closing the border and stopping this Democrat Party’s encouraged and supported illegal immigrant invasion, “Just go somewhere else” not to New York the self proclaimed sanctuary city. Stop whining you Democrats asked for, encouraged and are supporting this illegal immigrant invasion.
Its proof they care NOT HOW this is impacting the rest of the nation, just “AS LONG AS ITS NOT IN THEIR OWN backyard.
Need to send a few dozen bus loads back to Martha’s Vineyard, and a few more, a few more after that.
JUST DRIVE those bloody busses BACK OVER THE BORDER.. Preferably all the way to the SOUTHERN TIP of south america!
What liberals say:
” We welcome all immigrants to America. Unlike those evil conservatives, we believe in inclusivity and diversity!”
What liberals really mean:
“We don’t give a fart in a windstorm about illegal aliens just as long as they stay in places like Texas. We don’t want them coming up here and cramping our lifestyle. We want them to stay in the red States so that ultimately we can get and keep power for ourselves. They only use we have for wetbacks is to cut our yards and take out our trash. Other than that we couldn’t care less if they live or die.:
So the state of New York is so very proud to virtue signal, but as always when it comes time to deliver, the racist democrats turn their backs on the brown and black races! The Democrats have always been racist and will never change! It is a good thing for them that the minorities believe what ever the Democrats tell them, and think the elites will give them free **** for ever!
” Its hard to free fools from CHAINS they Revere.” Author Unknow.
Guest must be spread out and initiatives have to be set to accommodate how these guests will kind of merge into this society. They’re not going anywhere. just like we did, regardless of what the Native Americans said (almost got them exterminated) or did, we came anyway. People on the globe will always move around especially under peculiar circumstances (pressures from their native homeland). It is what it is.
“New York Gov. Kathy Hochul is telling migrants to “go somewhere else”…”. Too late bitc#, Many years too late. And BTW, they aren’t migrants, they are ILLEGAL aliens.