"But just as pessimism is contagious, so is the Happy Warrior approach.
Mayor Adams, to judge by recent statements on the migrant crisis, does not subscribe to that belief.
His remarks Monday were so gloomy, they verged on hopelessness.
“It’s not going to get any better — from this moment on it’s downhill,” Adams told reporters.
“There is no more room.”
Yikes.
The mayor was speaking after a video revealed hundreds of asylum-seekers sleeping on sidewalks outside Manhattan’s historic Roosevelt Hotel, which the city turned into an intake center for the never-ending stream of desperate humanity descending on Gotham.
Disaster has come to the central business district, but it’s not going to stop there, Adams warned.
“Eventually this is going to come to a neighborhood near you, and it is — 91,000 people,” he added, citing the total number of migrants thought to be in the five boroughs.
/.../
Although President Biden’s open-border policy is ultimately responsible for the disaster roiling New York and other cities, Adams has consistently made a bad situation worse.
He apparently intends to stay the course no matter how much he compounds the problems Biden created.
The mayor’s first mistake was to welcome thousands of early migrants by rolling out the welcome wagon and boasting about the city’s sanctuary status.
That was more than a year ago, with just a few thousand illegal border crossers in the city, but the mayor still doesn’t seem to realize there is no limit to the number who can come here.
Soon it will be 100,000, then 125,000, then 150,000, all of them wards of local taxpayers.
It is a problem that will swamp the bureaucracy, lead to reduced services to residents and spill over into social problems.
As always, the poor will pay the highest price for government failure.
Exhibit A is the appearance of seedy brothels and a daylight sex market in Corona, Queens.
It’s a direct result of the migrant crush, which often involves sex-trafficking of young women, police tell The Post."
https://nypost.com/2023/08/01/mayor-...crisis-in-nyc/
Tankar? Hur stora vinstlotter blir det för staden?
Mayor Adams, to judge by recent statements on the migrant crisis, does not subscribe to that belief.
His remarks Monday were so gloomy, they verged on hopelessness.
“It’s not going to get any better — from this moment on it’s downhill,” Adams told reporters.
“There is no more room.”
Yikes.
The mayor was speaking after a video revealed hundreds of asylum-seekers sleeping on sidewalks outside Manhattan’s historic Roosevelt Hotel, which the city turned into an intake center for the never-ending stream of desperate humanity descending on Gotham.
Disaster has come to the central business district, but it’s not going to stop there, Adams warned.
“Eventually this is going to come to a neighborhood near you, and it is — 91,000 people,” he added, citing the total number of migrants thought to be in the five boroughs.
/.../
Although President Biden’s open-border policy is ultimately responsible for the disaster roiling New York and other cities, Adams has consistently made a bad situation worse.
He apparently intends to stay the course no matter how much he compounds the problems Biden created.
The mayor’s first mistake was to welcome thousands of early migrants by rolling out the welcome wagon and boasting about the city’s sanctuary status.
That was more than a year ago, with just a few thousand illegal border crossers in the city, but the mayor still doesn’t seem to realize there is no limit to the number who can come here.
Soon it will be 100,000, then 125,000, then 150,000, all of them wards of local taxpayers.
It is a problem that will swamp the bureaucracy, lead to reduced services to residents and spill over into social problems.
As always, the poor will pay the highest price for government failure.
Exhibit A is the appearance of seedy brothels and a daylight sex market in Corona, Queens.
It’s a direct result of the migrant crush, which often involves sex-trafficking of young women, police tell The Post."
https://nypost.com/2023/08/01/mayor-...crisis-in-nyc/
Tankar? Hur stora vinstlotter blir det för staden?
