New York City Mayor Eric Adams has declared a state of emergency related to the ongoing influx of migrants into the Big Apple. The declaration comes as Texas Gov. Greg Abbott continues sending these individuals to blue areas of the country by the busload.
The city has also been trying a new method to stop the Abbott Express. As the ongoing migrant crisis continues to worsen, however, it seems unlikely the plan will work. Is it possible that New York City and others are nearing the breaking point after which they join the chorus of voices pressing the Biden administration to take serious action?
Eric Adams Declares Emergency
By the time Mayor Adams issued the emergency declaration on Friday, more than 17,000 migrants had been transported into New York City from a variety of different areas of the country. During a press conference, he explained that one in five people in the shelter system is an immigrant.
“This is a humanitarian crisis that started with violence and instability in South America and is being accelerated by American political dynamics,” the mayor complained. “Thousands of asylum seekers have been bused into New York City and simply dropped off, without notice, coordination, or care — and more are arriving every day.”
Ever since Gov. Abbott and his Arizona counterpart, Gov. Doug Ducey, began transporting migrants to New York City, Adams has complained, calling the practice “horrific.” He accused Abbott of forcing these individuals to get on the buses – a claim that was later proven not to be true as it was revealed that each signed a consent form before heading to the Big Apple.
Adams, like other mayors of cities experiencing a flood of illegals, has called on the federal government to lend its assistance in processing the overflow. But now, he is reportedly trying a new strategy to prevent these beleaguered brown people from taking refuge in one of the wealthiest cities in the country: flooding the bus companies and their drivers with traffic violations.
When the first two of several busses arrived after the plan was hatched, stopped them. Both were inspected “with a fine-tooth comb,” according to activist media outlet The Daily Beast. Law enforcement also inspected the drivers’ licenses and logbooks. After the inspections, officers left both drivers with a handful of tickets. The driver of the first bus, 38-year-old Robert Reas out of Monterrey Mexico, left with half a dozen.
Apparently, this method is “a variation on a crackdown on private sanitation trucks in 2018, which involved intensive inspections and summonsing.” The city is expected to continue using this strategy Monday through Friday of next week.
It appears Eric Adams believes that by drowning these companies with supposed traffic violations, they can discourage them from continuing to do business with Texas as it sends more illegals to the city. But, as they say in the Lone Star State, “that dog won’t hunt.”
Gov. Abbott remained steadfast in his decision to send migrants to the Big Apple. “Sanctuary cities like New York City experience a FRACTION of what Texas border communities face every day,” he posted on Twitter. “We’ll continue busing migrants to NYC, DC, & Chicago to relieve our overwhelmed border towns until [President] Biden does his job to secure the border.”
Will They Ever Learn?
Eric Adams (Photo by John Lamparski/Getty Images)
One of the most glaring parts of this story is Eric Adams complaining that Abbott not informing him when a load of migrants is on the way. However, neither he nor any of his fellow open borders advocates have whined about President Joe Biden doing the same. In November 2021, the administration dropped off 70 flights of illegal aliens in Jacksonville, Florida.
The White House also flew two flights full of migrants, including 25 minors, to Montgomery, New York, without notice. “They were transported out of the county once they got here,” Montgomery Village Mayor Steve Brescia told The New York Post on Tuesday.
“We were never informed about any flights coming into the airport. It’s just disturbing we weren’t informed of any of this,” he added. “We’re worried about the safety of the passengers who didn’t know where they were going.”
It appears Mayor Adams and others still haven’t learned their lesson. While they plead with the federal government to step in, they are not asking President Biden to take action to resolve the migrant crisis, which is what led to this current predicament. Perhaps another surge of migrant buses will encourage them to take the problem seriously.