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ziggywiggy's avatar

I am totally going to skip the comments on this because I am a NY Democrat and I don't feel like being shit on. Because I know how this is going to go. Obviously all of us voted for Adams in the primary(not me) and really wants this to crap be happening,(not me), but have at it you guys.

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Migrants are only a burden when they first arrive. After a few months, they work and contribute to the economy where the economy needs it the most.

Immigration is supposed to be the responsibility of the federal government. As a nation, we are stuck in the year 1996, which is the last year when the US Congress revised immigration law. In that year, our federal legislators decided that the thing we needed to do was to criminalize immigrants for mundane, victimless crimes like "overstaying one's visa." They did it to distract from their own stupidity in passing trade agreements like NAFTA that created new rights for multinational investors but none for multinational workers.

So here we are, almost 30 years later, and we still have no national plan for dealing with the challenge of human migration except to place blame on the migrants themselves. So where do they go? They go to where other migrants have gone before, including family members. They go to where they are treated with a little more fairness and a little less bigotry. They go to places like New York City.

But even New York City can experience too much influx too fast. The task of helping migrants to get their economic footing should be spread more fairly across America. If we did this, as a nation, there would be no more local crises caused by overcrowding.

So in conclusion, Cardi B. might have a point -- if she is willing to propose that migration is not New York City's specific responsibility, but a national challenge that needs a national plan that treats migrants as human beings and not as a problem.

Mayor Eric Adams doesn't have any point at all. He is bad across the board. My condolences to all New Yorkers who have to suffer this man's mean-spirited bigotry. He betrays everything that his great city is supposed to stand for. I hope the Statue of Liberty clobbers him with her torch.

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