Mayor Eric Adams’ agreement, announced Friday, to limit the time migrants can stay in shelters at taxpayers’ expense, is smoke and mirrors. It’s designed to fool you into thinking he’s solving a problem when he’s actually caving to the migrant industrial complex.
Adams claims the agreement, with the Legal Aid Society and the Coalition for the Homeless, will allow the city to evict adult migrants from city-run shelters after 30 days, saving taxpayers money and limiting the need for more shelters. Not true.
The fine print says migrants have a shot at staying longer if they obtain a driver’s license, follow shelter rules and show good behavior, or — get this one — apply for public benefits. And this is a “non-exhaustive” list of reasons making migrants eligible to stay longer.
The agreement also applies only to single adults. A staggering 78% come with children and get priority placement in hotels. The city currently spends a whopping $387 a night for food and a roof alone for each family, and shells out more money for free medical care, education and legal services. This agreement does zero to alleviate those staggering costs.
The deal dooms New York City to fiscal disaster, because it will continue to be the No. 1 destination for migrants seeking a free roof over their heads. The Big Apple is now Migrant Central.
Worst of all, nothing in the agreement empowers the mayor to evict troublemakers who have repeat run-ins with police. The migrants who beat up cops in Time Square were living in shelters, courtesy of taxpayers, and already had long rap sheets.
When troublemakers are arrested and give a shelter address, the shelter should be contacted and told they no longer qualify. Why should taxpayers be footing the bill to house criminals?
Notorious gangs like Tren de Aragua and MS-13 recruit from the shelters. How convenient that taxpayers pay to house these gangs’ lackeys.
In October, Adams imposed a 30-day limit on adult migrants but wound up in court when Legal Aid and the Coalition challenged. A long negotiation ensued, ending with Friday’s agreement.
Since 1981, Legal Aid and the Coalition have fought successfully to impose a “right to shelter” on New York. Now these two self-appointed guardians of the downtrodden — not elected by anyone — insist that the “right” applies not just to New Yorkers but anyone from anywhere in the world who wants shelter here. That’s crazy.
After months of negotiating, Adams capitulated. No one at the table was looking out for taxpayers or New Yorkers who see their services being cut and their neighborhoods disrupted by the proliferation of shelters. The multibillion-dollar shelter industry came out a winner, but Joe Public got shafted.
As the agreement was announced, Deputy Mayor Anne Williams-Isom praised the “right to shelter” and Legal Aid Society for the work they do. They’re all in bed together.
Josh Goldfein, a Legal Aid attorney, explained that despite the settlement, “no migrant would be left out on the streets.” In fact, the agreement bans the city from even making migrants sleep overnight in chairs while waiting to be placed, imposing stricter shelter requirements than before.
A “right to shelter” for anyone who shows up on Gotham’s doorsteps means New Yorkers who want sanitation services, police and fire protection, and other city amenities go to the back of the line. Their services get cut to pay for sheltering migrants. Adams needs to battle aggressively, up through the highest courts, to get that “right” reexamined.
Only New York has a “right to shelter,” and it makes the city the top destination for migrants. New York City spends more than 10 times as much as Los Angeles per migrant and more than five times as much as Chicago.
To top it off, the agreement and the Adams administration are renaming migrants “new arrivals,” whitewashing the laws they broke to get here.
Expect hundreds of thousands more to see these welcome signs and come. Who wouldn’t come?
On Sunday, Adams praised the city’s “responsible policies” and blamed “Republican extremists” for the border crisis. Sorry, Mr. Mayor, but the crisis here in New York City is due to the lavish benefits local Democrats insist on offering “new arrivals.” There’s no whitewashing that.
Betsy McCaughey is a former lieutenant governor of New York and chairman of the Committee to Reduce Infection Deaths. Follow her on Twitter @Betsy_McCaughey. To find out more about Betsy McCaughey and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate website at www.creators.com.
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If you are stupid enough to vote to be ruled by the treasonous, woke, socialist Democrat Party….. then live with what you have voted for!
Another reason they promote and import the pain killing stupefying legal and illegal drugs they use to narcotize the public into fits of social submission, economic government dependency, and party created delirium, that controls the city dwelling people whose minds become every bit as imprisoned as the bodies of the people they now release from prison, knowing full well that when the human mind is imprisoned in socialist indoctrination, what need is there to jail their bodies when they can be used in vote stealing , street violence, democrat party inspired street demonstrations to never let their opportunistic self-made social crisis’s go to waste, when the opportunity to seize more power presents itself. When the social programs created to treat the delirium actually begin to work and THE PEOPLE begin to heal, they just import even more damaged people from the dregs of other failed nations to refill the ranks of their legions of looneys, to keep their quota of American frogs imprisoned within their slow boiling party political pots, where the heat never gets raised too fast that they might consider jumping out before getting totally fried, or maybe vote for another party candidate.
AND IF as we’ve seen many times, illegals DON’T read/speak english, HOW THEN LEGALLY CAN THEY GET DRIVERS LICENSES!
Also who’s vehicles are they using, to DO THE DRIVING TESTS IN, and which companies are giving them the LEGALLY NEEDED Vehicle insurance?!
” The art of Governement is to take as much money as possible from one party of citizens and giving it to another .” Author Unknown.
According to former democrat President, Muslim, Brack H. Obama, ” We are, And Always Will Be, A Nation Of Immigrants.”
Bait them into the city with promises of sanctuary and shelter, then toss them on to the streets to create a New York “Helter Skelter” without the Simon and Garfunkel fallout shelter, just the sounds of silence, left alone on streets of cobblestone with feelings of isolation, rejection and the search for meaning in a noisy Democrat destroyed city world.
“Hello darkness, my old friend
I’ve come to talk with you again
Because a vision softly creeping
Left its seeds while I was sleeping
And the vision that was planted in my brain
Still remains”
Within their sounds of silence”,,,that was born of the Democrat unfulfilled promises that soon becomes the sounds of social insanity that makes what happened to child womb stabbed, Helter Skelter murdered actress Sharon Tate, just the Hollywood dress rehearsal for the aborting secular vision of their promised Brave New World of, abused women, weapon wielding drugged out street people attackers, who cave when the enormity and consequences of their political crimes put on the same mask of their created social street crimes.
And even if they are ‘evicted’ where exactly are they going to go ?!?
Live on the streets ? In the NYC subway ? Praying on the weak and vulnerable ?
I wonder if the damn Democrats ever thought of sending the illegal immigrants that have entered our country illegally HOME to their own country?
Problem with this Eric Adams Mayor is he is so dense he could not tell the difference between a migrant or a migrain, thus WE THE PEOPLE end up with both.
Based on what we’ve seen recently on Outnumbered and other shows, for all we know, they could DELIBERATELY TRY TO Target any unoccupied building, to claim squatters rights…
The secret is to arrive in your politically and illegally purloined home well armed, and just shoot them before they can open their mouths or pull out the phony lease contract,,,,, and then claim you were just coming home, tired worn out and hungry, and got frightened when you found a strange intruder inside who kept shouting “Manus arriba” and coming at you in a threatening manner. Plain case of self defense, minus the political and judicial costs and shnnanigans.
IN blue states, they’d still find a way to shank you over for doing that.
When Trump gets in, he’ll (hopefully) ship this refuse back where it came from.
IF trump gets in you mean.