After having rolled out the welcome mat, New York City Mayor Eric Adams now tells illegal immigrants to look elsewhere.
A Right to Shelter
The Wall Street Journal explains Why New York Is a Magnet for Migrants
More than 81,000 migrants have come to New York from the southern border since last spring. On May 13, Mayor Eric Adams deemed the Roosevelt an arrival center for migrants. Most of its occupants are families, but it functions mainly as an intake center for new arrivals. It delivers a “range of legal, medical, and reconnection services, as well as placement, if needed, in a shelter or humanitarian relief center,” according to a city press release.
The city has at least 176 emergency shelters in such places as school gyms and churches, and the number keeps growing.
“Because Chicago, Philadelphia, etc. don’t have a right to shelter—anything like New York’s—New York has the much larger migrant crisis,” says Stephen Eide, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute.
On May 23 Mr. Adams petitioned a state judge to modify the city’s right-to-shelter obligations under the 1981 consent decree in Callahan v. Carey. He specifically asked for language that would ease the city’s obligations if it “lacks the resources and capacity to establish and maintain sufficient shelter sites, staffing, and security to provide safe and appropriate shelter.” Mr. Adams later said in a statement: “It is in the best interest of everyone, including those seeking to come to the United States, to be upfront that New York City cannot single-handedly provide care to everyone crossing our border.”
Self-Imposed Sanctuary City Crisis
Also consider Eric Adams and the Self-Imposed Crisis of a Sanctuary City
Mayor Eric Adams last week groused that local hotels and shelters are overrun with migrants whose care will cost the city about $5 billion this fiscal year. As New York politicians do, he’s begging the feds and ordinary city-dwellers to open their wallets. “This is not Mayor Adams’s job. This is the job of the people of the city of New York,” he said last week. “We need every New Yorker that has something to offer to play a role.”
Apparently, paying the nation’s highest taxes isn’t enough. Mr. Adams recently floated the idea of sheltering migrants in private homes. How rich considering that city regulations set to take effect next month will effectively prohibit New Yorkers from renting out their apartments on Airbnb. The home-sharing site estimates the new “de facto ban” will eliminate 95% of its revenue in the city.
Naturally, the result will be higher demand and prices for rooms at hotels, including those where the city is paying $256 a night on average to shelter migrant families. Some hotels, like a Holiday Inn Express in Brooklyn, are making upward of $300 a night housing migrants. This doesn’t include the cost of food, medical care and social services, which adds another $127 a day per migrant family.
Meantime, to prevent evictions from soaring rents, the City Council last month voted to expand housing vouchers, which will cost as much as $36 billion over five years. State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli last week warned the city could face a $40 billion budget shortfall over the next three years—most of which doesn’t stem from costs of caring for migrants.
What Mr. Adams wants is for Americans in the rest of the country to help underwrite the city’s progressive folly. Sorry, not our job.
Go Esewhere
The BBC reports Adams now is handing out flyers at the Mexican border telling illegal immigrants ‘We Have No More Room‘.
New York City plans to distribute fliers at the southern border warning migrants there is “no guarantee” they will receive help if they come there.
Mayor Eric Adams announced the plan on Wednesday, arguing the city could not handle any more migrants as it has taken in 90,000 since April last year.
“We have no more room,” said the leader of America’s biggest city.
Republican-led states have been transporting migrants to Democratic-run areas in protest at border policies.
As a part of the plan, Mr Adams, a Democrat, also announced that single adult migrants will only be able to stay in the city’s shelters for 60 days and will need to reapply for a space after that.
Critics of Mr Adams’ new plan argue it violates the city’s right-to-shelter rules, which guarantee temporary housing for those in need. Mr Adams has attempted to weaken those rules amid the influx of migrants.
Mayor Adams’ Flyer
The flyer is in Spanish and English.
No Guarantees?!
“There is no guarantee we will be able to provide shelter and services to new arrivals.“
Say what?
What happened to the right to shelter?
Lesson of the Day
When you give people rights that don’t exist, expect problems, and lots of them.
For starters, the city faces a $40 billion budget shortfall.
Not to worry, Adams has a plan “This is not Mayor Adams’s job. This is the job of the people of the city of New York,” said Adams.
If you live in New York City, I advise having a plan to get the hell out as soon as you can. This applies to California and Illinois too.
Big Tech Should Pay Its “Fair Share”, the Best Way is to Leave California
Regarding California, please see Big Tech Should Pay Its “Fair Share”, the Best Way is to Leave California
Regarding Illinois, we escaped just over three year ago.
Escape Illinois
On July 10, 2020 I noted It Takes 3 Weeks to Escape Illinois
“Everyone is leaving. No one is coming,” a U-Haul agent told us a few weeks ago.
Illinoisans Leave State in Record Numbers, and So Are We
On January 2, 2020 I announced Illinoisans Leave State in Record Numbers, and So Are We
I am pleased to report we loaded our U-Haul rental yesterday and I am on the road driving to our new home in Utah.
Right now we are just a few hours into the trip, but we have crossed the state line and are now in Iowa.
It took three weeks to leave Illinois because one-way out U-Hauls were booked up that much in advance.
Sort of funny after all of the virtue signaling that Mayor Adams did with his “Diversity is a Strength” and mocking the states and big cities that were not “sanctuaries”. Ironically, that mockery will not be apologized for as he understand why they were never sanctuaries to begin with. He’s not as good as Martha’s Vinyard (the “sanctuary” that got rid of their immigrants in under 48 hours) … but it is funny that he went from virtue signaling wokester to, “Oh sh– … this isn’t anything like what we thought.” Sort of like Obama’s 2007 promise to have all the troops home from Afghanistan and Iraq within 12 months of being elected.
Just more change you can believe in.
They were not to change behavior. They were to make it much harder for Russia to conduct war by raising the costs and cutting Russian state revenues.
People who think you have the right to housing and education do well to think what would happen to those rights if you were marooned alone on a desert island.
Not that fundamental rights such as personal autonomy and bodily integrity DO still apply in such circumsances.
More and more I hear people who think we need to put up all these ‘asylum’ seekers being hit with the counter:
If you favor it so much, put them up yourself.
Don’t steal my children’s housing !
It don’t belong to your children till they’ve paid for it, Mr. Freeloader.
New York City Mayor Eric Adams in an interview with Vanity Fair in Dec. 2021:
““The Job Is Not Hard”
Well, it is little wonder he made that statement considering his quoted statement in this post about a difficult task in dealing with an influx of immigrants to the city he was elected mayor:
“This is not Mayor Adams’s job. This is the job of the people of the city of New York,” he said last week. “We need every New Yorker that has something to offer to play a role.”
When the going gets tough, point the finger at millions of others to do the difficult work and deny doing it yourself. After all, that is why they elected you mayor, is it not? /sarc
There is a lot of vacant commercial real estate in New York City. They would make great high rise apartments for illegals.
Call it a sanctuary city or call it Right to Shelter. It is only a symptom of a much greater problem. We do not have an immigration policy and we openly encourage people to enter our country. As Mayor Adams is demonstrating it is easy to signal your virtue until the problem shows up in your back yard and you are forced to pay for it.
An immigration policy and a protected border will virtually eliminate this issue for Adams and others.
We absolutely have an immigration policy. That’s why we have legal (those who follow the policy) and illegal (those who don’t) immigrants. And we do protect the border, at least the southern border. Just not enough to stop the illegals.
But humans are smart. When people come from poor countries and know, without a doubt, that someone will employ them in this country, they’re going to find a way to sneak in. Whether along the southern border, by sea in the east and west, or they can cross over from Canada.
The only way someone will employ an illegal is if the penalties for doing that don’t exist or are not enforced. If every employer was put on notice that they must verify employees or face a hefty fine then there would be few jobs for illegals except for self employment like dealers, pros and bag snatchers. Also cut off all taxpayer funded services. Most would self deport and few would bother to come. Then with few illegals it would be easier to locate and detain that do cross or remain.
Then it would be possible to increase legal migration as well as organised temporary guest workers such as seasonal harvest labour going to vetted farms to uphold proper working conditions.
OMG!
Think of the uncut lawns!
Think of the leaky roofs!
Texas should send more to Washington D.C. That’s where the decision makers are. They are the ones do deal with this problem.
… and let them explain all that when they stand in front of their God on Judgement Day
Which God?
The bareheaded guy or the one wearing a turban?
Without hypocrisy, the liberal brain has no basis.
“After having rolled out the welcome mat, New York City Mayor Eric Adams now tells illegal immigrants to look elsewhere.”
Martha’s Vineyard.
In three weeks, Martha’s Vineyard will have plenty of room to house immigrants as 180,000 people will go home until next summer. Perfect opportunity to house immigrants for the next nine months.
Thera is a lot of space in Ivy League campuses. Sending there migrants from Cuba, Venezuela and Argentina would be a marvelous practical lesson about communism (Hey, Fidel and kids, don’t take my beers and marijuana, private property), freedom of speech and inclusive language (If you don’t stop singing Guantanamera at 6.00 am I will #$#%** you)…
I live in Florida and know a lot of illegal Cuban immigrants. Almost all of them come through Texas. Most just climb over any fences they encounter.
Let me tell you this, you don’t want to have to compete with these guys. They’ve spent their whole lives trying to figure out how to turn a used paper clip they found on the side of the road into a meal. They hussle and will do absolutely anything for money. I know four guys who all came in the ’90’s and are millionaires. They all started doing construction work in S. Florida, did a whole lot of contracting with no papers at bottom dollar, worked their way to being licensed contractors, and finally made it with a lot of illegal labor. South Florida is a growth machine because of these guys. And once they naturalize, they vote Republican.
Jon,
Clearly you don’t realize that Cuba is amazing. People flee because the healthcare is so great and everybody earns a livable wage. They’re just a little behind on climate change with the use of polluting ICE vehicles, but that’s OK.
This terrifies obese unskilled white guys.
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One’s mass or skin tone doesn’t matter if the rules are followed by all players.
A couple more collapsed FL condo buildings might shake things up, but in the meantime a person with the attributes you described would probably be brought to the attention of the ‘proper authorities’ while the person Jon described would be hired by someone looking to save a few dollars.
Totally agree. Colleges should start housing their paying students in tents to free up the dorms for immigrants. Immigrants should also get free tuition. What virtue signaling college student wouldn’t give up their dorm room to help an immigrant?
It hit me the other day that political correctness belongs to the right now. They call it anti-woke, and they lose their minds if you say something they don’t like.
People are people…
You lefties can say whatever you want and I won’t lose my mind . Just don’t demand that I use your pronouns or expect me to not use”triggering” language.
When I came to this country I became a house painter. Old Jewish ladies locked their radar on my dirty clothes when I walked back to my $15/w room.
Last week I lounged a “gentle” slide tackle on a young carpenter’s shin, a “no Comprendo English” new immigrant. He was surprised, smiled and became friendly.
These contract guys worked day and night and finished their job fast, making good money.
When factories left NY City artist converted the large cheap spaces into art studios, dance studios, film studios and studio apartments. It was a truly artistic windfall era. Many movies and music videos were filmed in those wide open spaces. High ceilings, rustic brick walls. And who could forget those cool industrial cage elevators. It worked well.
Unfortunately all good things must come to an end. The scene started getting stale. Especially those industrial fans and the fire escape ladder scenes.
Maybe the factories start returning if enough residents leave? The workers are showing up that’s for damn sure.
NYC is dead and probably never coming back. It was officially killed off during the pandemic when they shut everything down, destroyed businesses, scared everyone away from using mass transit, let crime run wild, and rolled out the mandates. Yes, there will always be people that swear by NYC, but almost every state has a major city (or two) these days.
NYC will never, ever return to what it used to be.
You don’t need all that stuff for digital art… and there’s a whole lot more of that than tangible art getting made. Those buildings will end up full of immigrants. They won’t care if they have to share a bathroom.
The art scene in New York is ten times that of California.
And in Martha’s Vineyard too!!!
California is too agricultural, the place is full of fruits and nuts.
I don’t understand how the “migrants” are costing money. I thought they were a net positive. The sanctuary cities and states should be seeing their tax revenues increase more than any costs. Isn’t this exactly what is desired if you declare your region (City or State) a sanctuary? They should be happy.
All of my California friends will argue all day saying that illegals pay taxes too.
Everybody pays taxes. You simpletons only consider one aspect of taxes. The income tax. However, that is an idiot’s definition. There are so many other taxes. It’s just that the simple mind of a slave desires a simplistic answer. Which is why they’re slaves. Simply too sorry to develop nuance.
Simpletons are we? I know, as does the typical poster here, that income tax is just the largest of the many taxes, fees, excises, duties, levies and imposts that affect us. And if you have no income you pay no income taxes. So if they pay any other tax besides income tax then they have some income. Now excluding the working poor or those living on their SS contributions then if they are paying say fuel tax or sales tax then that income came from government handouts so any tax they paid was from money that was given to them and that portion that didn’t go to pay taxes was also given to them, and all of it came from the pockets of the sub 50% of the population that are net taxpayers. So those net tax payers are of course concerned/angry about how much of THEIR tax dollars go to the illegal sponges.
Social security isn’t a giveaway. It represents about 10% of the money paid in. Yeah, you’re definitely a simpleton. Luckily, you probably got your convid boosters as well. You deserve the consequences of your embracing of ignorance.
Don’t forget that the IRS taxes a portion of Social Security if you are above a subsistence income. Theoretically that’s the employer’s contribution you didn’t pay taxes on.
They do. I’ve seen the payroll ledgers at a mega farm in SoCal.
I lived in Communistfornia for 25 years and the Mexican illegals and legal immigrants had small cash only businesses. When you don’t pay the 13% to the state and xx% to the feds, you can do well. I never resented their entrepreneurship and tax evasion. The state did its best to waste money.
The state continues to do its best to waste money.
The migrants aren’t expensive… the grift going on among the people allegedly taking care of them is.
When I moved from NYC my Russian mover was not happy with my $175 tip.
How dare the republicans deciding where illegals go. Only democrats are allowed to do that.
Right! And how many of these idiot New Yorkers will still vote Dem in 16 months?
That 90K will be 130K?
Just absolutely crazy.
The followers of Jesus are fobbing the poor off on someone else… as Jesus taught.
Send the buses to the north side of Chicago. The media welcoming committee is Eric Zorn, Heidi Stevens, Neil Steinberg, Rex Huppke and Joan Esposito. There is room for 11,000 immigrants @ 400 /sq-ft each at Sears-Willis Tower alone.
Mish, time for an article on the Ruble. I know you think sanctions never work but at some point even you will have to adjust your conclusions.
Have you truly considered the implications of the word “never” in that statement? If he thinks it will never work, maybe that’s what he meant. Or maybe not. He does claim to be a libertarian, but he did just promote a republican candidate for grand poobah. I have no idea who the libertarian candidate is, and I don’t care, but I would think a real libertarian would be out there using their platform to promote libertarian ideas and candidates. But maybe that’s just me.
This all looks so hilarious. That is until you look at how it all works. The US encourages people to illegaly migrate here in hope of a better life. They hope for this better life because they come from countries that we have ruined. They are then subject to being used as political pawns and are all classified as one entity by the simple minded slaves. At the heart of it all; this whole system is just one mean spirited pile of crap. All because most people refuse to grow a spine and rule themselves.
It’s not quit down 50% against usd. Explanation, Putin lovers?
I’d like to order a ton of Made in Russia items as well as go on vacation there. Pick up one of those furry Russian hats with a red star of course. Maybe even a wife and citizenship.
It would give me a shitload of pleasure to see my liberal American compadres stewing in the insanity that they support.
Tell Bernie Sanders “hi” for me.
Bernie Sanders is busy voting to send more and more and even more money to Ukraine.
You should do it, Comrade! The glory of Russia awaits. You might even get conscripted!
You need to keep up. “Comrade” is a term used in Russian politics only by the Russian Communist Party, which is a very very minor player over there now.
Da, Comrade…. And accordink to Fearless Leader, collapse of USSR was greatest tragedy of history.
They want to be commies, they just can’t make it work because they’re drunks first and foremost.
The only big drunk was the American puppet Boris Yeltsin.
You know that isn’t true, but you believe it like gospel. Such is the life of a trumpling.
Define “work”. The explicit goal of sanctions was to change Russian behavior. How’s that working out?
They were not to change behavior. They were to make it much harder for Russia to conduct war by raising the costs and cutting Russian state revenues.
They were advancing. Then their paid army turned on them and quit. Now they’re gonna sit in their trenches and get slaughtered till Russia bleeds out.
The change I was hoping for? Not yet…. but an encouraging change.
Considering that the area captured by Ukraine since the June offensive started is less than the area captured by Russia then how do you figure Russia is bleeding out? Especially as the kill ratio is 10:1 in Russias favour and With Russia having over 100 million and Ukraine now between 12 and 15 million from 50 million 35 years ago then it is the Banderites who will bleed out (well, except those who flee with their loot)
And how much has. Russia captured since June? Is their objective to get slaughtered and give up bits of land?
Sanctions did not do the intended job did they?
The job was to get rid of Putin.
Secondarily, drive down Russia’s oil revenue.
That did not work either.
Didn’t work yet…. Same thing I told you about the exchange rate months ago.
Insecure nuclear armed manbabies are so 2016…
Ukraine permanently lost the eastern provinces, unless the West pours trillions of dollars into the war and puts boots on the ground. Is that what you want?
While you’re cheering on the low ruble, are you also cheering on the fact that you have personally paid hundreds of dollars/euros more for electricity/natural gas/oil and any product that requires those since the start of the war?
Well, the sh**libs have “solved” that problem – by labeling anyone that complains about the rising prices as a “Putin apologist”.
It ain’t permanent till the Ukrainians stop shelling them.
Hundreds of dollars is a blip for me, so no, I’m not…. and I suspect it’s the same for most here.
Further I don’t believe Ukraine should just roll over for Russia so I can save a few hundred bucks a year.
… and I find it a surprising new level of pathetic that you guys are trying to deflect from your putin support with inflation wailings. Let’s have the demons again… that was more fun.
Zardoz is a typical sh*tlib – “Hundreds of dollars is a blip for me”. Riiiiiight.
Meanwhile, half the country is so broke that they can’t afford a $500 emergency without going (deeper) into debt.
Such anger! Much spittle!
Off topic. The Ruble/USD exchange rate is now over 100. But how much does it matter, no that Russia is cut off from US and western Europe, and most of its trade is with China, India and the Global South and is based on the bilateral currencies?