You don’t have to be a ‘sanctuary city,’ Eric Adams
Zachary Faria
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New York City Mayor Eric Adams is letting illegal immigration destroy his city, but it doesn’t have to be this way. New York City should recant its “sanctuary city” label and stop encouraging illegal immigration.
The latest breakdown in the city over the influx of illegal immigrants is budgetary. Adams announced, among other cuts, that the city would cut $2.1 billion in education spending and $1.4 billion from the Department of Social Services. Adams will also, ironically, be defunding the police, instituting a hiring freeze that will see the city drop below 30,000 police officers for the first time since the 1980s.
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Adams hasn’t stopped whining about illegal immigrants being transported to his sanctuary city, despite seeing just a fraction of what smaller, less well-funded Texas border towns have had to deal with for years. This is no exception, as Adams has whined and begged for the federal government to give New York City more taxpayer dollars to help cover his own incompetence.
But this is what New York City has chosen to embrace by declaring itself a sanctuary city and encouraging illegal immigrants to cross the border illegally with promises of acceptance. New York City chose to be a sanctuary city, illegal immigrants chose to take the city up on its offer of sanctuary, and Texas chose to offer them transportation to the city to alleviate an illegal immigration crisis for which Texas hadn’t asked. Everyone gets what they claim to want, and yet New York City apparently isn’t happy with this arrangement that it has courted.
The solution is not to give New York City more money. If you can’t properly budget for being a sanctuary city, then you simply should not be one. If New York City can’t handle its influx of illegal immigrants, it should stop inviting them to cross the border illegally by claiming to be a sanctuary. Adams wants the city to have the moral superiority to lecture “intolerant” Republicans on the issue without having to actually shoulder its share of the crisis.
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Adams can’t have his cake and eat it, too, though. Either he should cancel the city’s sanctuary experiment and stop encouraging illegal immigration, or he should start preparing another round of budget cuts that will make the city less safe and less sanitary.
It is not everyone else’s responsibility to bail New York City out of its poor planning and destructive promises.