For Biden, telling New York ‘drop dead’ is a winning messageBy Nicole Gelinas
August 13, 2023
Mayor Eric Adams has only one strategy for the migrant crisis that has brought the city’s homeless-shelter population to six figures: wrangle billions from Washington.
This gambit will continue to fail, as it has for a year — and for two solid political reasons, from national Democrats’ perspective.
At best, federal aid would be pointless.
New York is a solidly Democratic state.
At worst, federal aid will make the problem worse — and more visible to national swing voters.
If the definition of crazy is doing — or saying — the same thing repeatedly and expecting a different result, Adams qualifies.
He was at it again last week: “New Yorkers have been left to deal with this crisis almost entirely on our own,” he said. “We are compelling Washington to help.”
But he ignores the fact New York helped make this crisis.
Yes, President Joe Biden has failed to secure the border, and Biden and Congress have failed to create — and enforce — a rational immigration and asylum policy.
But New York is the only city in the country bent on doing the impossible: giving every single person who arrives here, from anywhere in the world, for any reason, indefinite shelter.
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Source:
https://nypost.com/2023/08/13/for-biden-telling-new-york-drop-dead-is-a-winning-message/
