Just as a long-awaited meeting to plead for illegal alien bailout money from the Biden Administration was set to begin, New York Mayor Eric Adams scurried back from Washington on the news of a federal raid on his chief fundraiser. The situation has troubling consequences for Long Island and the rest of suburban New York as the city struggles to relocate more than 130,000 migrants Adams has invited into his sanctuary city.
The mayor’s growing criticism of the president for enabling the migrant surge must have rubbed someone in the administration the wrong way, as the raid on Brianna Suggs took place while he was en route to the Capitol. Suggs is a key operative in the mayor’s never-ending quest for campaign funds, and her targeting by the feds sends an ominous message to any major public figure speaking out over the issue. Adams is already in court on various fronts: in one case, he’s trying to get out of a past agreement requiring the city to provide housing for anyone who asks for it, and in another, he’s suing New York towns and counties who are trying to block him from sending the migrants their way.
A massive immigrant camp Adams and Gov. Kathy Hochul set up at Brooklyn’s Floyd Bennett Field has turned into an epic flop as migrants bussed there are turning around and leaving because of the desolate accommodations of the tent city. Biden, Hochul, Adams, and their Democrat colleagues have held out America as a welcome place with ample opportunities for asylum seekers, but those coming here are realizing a different reality. More than 50 percent of the hotel space in the Big Apple is bursting with migrants on the dole, and the administrations are still fumbling to arrange for work permits to allow some of the new arrivals to at least make a legal living.
The Suffolk County Legislature has hired a special counsel to advise its leaders on their options in handling a crisis that has overwhelmed communities across the country. Municipal law expert Peter Bee of the Mineola law firm of Bee Ready Fishbein Hatter and Donovan is expected to report on steps the county can take to prevent its schools, social service network, and fire and ambulance departments from being overburdened. The Legislature’s presiding officer, Kevin McCaffrey, stressed that local taxpayers should not be forced to shoulder the costs of a problem caused by the open-door policies of city and state officials. “We don’t need any more wards of the state in Suffolk County,” McCaffrey said, warning, “They’re not coming here by the busload; they’re coming in vans.”
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Coverage by independent journalists details a steady stream of migrants heading up to the US-Mexico border, where they are taken into custody and transported by agencies under contract with the Biden administration to any city of their choice. Many are selecting New York, a scenario you won’t see covered in the mainstream media. Prior to his aborted Washington visit, Adams did a whirlwind tour of South America, supposedly to let everyone know that his city is no longer open to the migrants who, so far, have come from more than 125 different countries. He has yet to announce that New York is no longer a sanctuary for migrants, which he said is the official policy of the city. With the escalating conflict in the Middle East, many worry that the open border is allowing through terrorists who are connecting with sleeper cells already established in New York and other U.S. cities. An attack of the magnitude of 9-11 is not out of the question if not disruptions on a smaller scale by people who have not been vetted upon entry by the U.S. government.
The U.S. is home to between 16.8 million and 29 million illegal immigrants, according to estimates from the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) and Yale University. Of that amount, 3.8 million have entered since President Biden took office in 2021. Former President Donald Trump, looking to beat Biden in a rematch of their 2020 battle, said he would immediately begin deporting the illegals if he wins back the Oval Office.
Mayor Adams had been pushing for a meeting with the White House for months and was expected to make his case that the migrant crisis “will destroy New York City,” and Biden will have to come up with billions of dollars to pay for the mess. Apparently, considering the raid on his chief fundraiser, the administration doesn’t want to hear it.