Rightist American Pig <nowomr@protonmail.com> wrote in
news:uc9a5a$3s7i5$3@dont-email.me:

> You fuckers elected that stupid whore Hochul and dumbass Adams. You
> declared yourself a sanctuary city and state. Deal with it.

Mayor Adams talks about himself an awful lot.

When he�s not referring to himself in the third person, embellishing his
�perfectly imperfect� life story or presenting someone else�s experience
as if it were his own, he�s claiming ownership of �my teachers,� �my
police officers� and �my fast food workers,� along with �my homeless
shelters,� �my schools� and �my jails.�

But now the leader who boasts that God chose him for this role is
talking about how, when it comes to the migrants arriving here, �this is
not Mayor Adams� job. This is the job of the people of the city of New
York.�

And about how �this is a moment where people need to stop asking, �Eric,
what are you doing?� This is a moment we need to ask, �What are we
doing?� �

When a mayor this fond of himself and assertive about maintaining
control changes the subject from �I� to �we,� he�s breaking the glass
and sounding the alarm.

But his fellow Democrats aren�t in any rush to answer that call.

President Biden and Gov. Hochul have made plain that however much the
mayor coaxes, cajoles and complains they have no intention of catching
his hot potato while more migrants keep arriving here to join the more
than 100,000 who�ve already made it, most of them presently staying in
city shelters of one kind or another.

A Siena public poll released Tuesday helps explain why, and clearly
shows what press coverage and Democrats� political rhetoric have often
obscured.

In a poll that has Biden up 13 points over Donald Trump in their
prospective 2024 rematch, a staggering 86% of registered voters in New
York City and 77% of Democrats statewide said �the recent influx of
migrants coming to New York� is a serious problem for the state.

A significant majority of voters in the city, 58%, said �New Yorkers
have already done enough for new migrants and should now work to slow
the flow of migrants to New York.�

Just 38%, presumably including the lady in the harbor, said �New Yorkers
should accept new migrants and work to assimilate them into New York.�

The city numbers match up with those statewide, where 58% of voters say
New York has done enough while 36% favor acceptance and assimilation.
Even Democrats were split on the question, 48%-48%.

The last year seems to have soured New Yorkers on immigration generally,
with more voters in the city and across the state seeing �migrants
resettling in New York� over the past two decades or so as a burden
(44%) than as a benefit (39%). The only notable exceptions to that harsh
consensus were Latinos, 31% of whom saw migrants as a burden while 51%
saw them as a benefit, and people making six figures, who were evenly
divided.

There�s an old adage for cowardly pols, about how you don�t get blamed
for what you don�t do that bears out in the Siena numbers.

While Hochul has been largely MIA over a FUBAR year, New York City
voters mostly approve, 48%-43%, of �the job [she] is doing to address
the recent influx of immigrants in New York� even as Adams, who�s been
at least trying to do his job, however imperfectly, is underwater at
46%-48%.

Outside of the city, both pols� approaches have been wildly unpopular at
the same time that nearly half of suburban and upstate voters, along
with a vast majority of voters in the five boroughs, support the idea of
�relocating new migrants from temporary living conditions in New York
City to more permanent housing in communities around the state.�

But while Adams has called for that �decompression strategy,� Hochul,
seeing that just 27% of suburban voters approve of her migration
approach while 55% disapprove, has flatly declared she won�t do that
while making the very dubious claim that would be outside of her
authority as governor.

Hochul seems to think that the best way to keep her job is to not do her
job.

Sadly, she may be right, while the mayor who she�s all but abandoned �
and who seems afraid to say so out of fear the city would be punished,
as if it isn�t being punished already � is certainly right that the
arrival in a short span of a 100,000 needy people, and more coming, who
aren�t legally allowed to work is fundamentally a circumstance no city
can adequately respond to on its own.

The trouble is there�s no help coming any time soon from the courts or
the governor or the president.

The buck isn�t stopping here, but the migrants are.

Siegel (harrysiegel@gmail.com) is an editor at The City and a columnist
for the Daily News.

https://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/ny-oped-public-sours-on-migrants-and-
pols-run-for-cover-20230826-ja4mfj75lbernbom32hoa5f75a-story.html