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Commentary By Nicole Gelinas

No, Mr. Mayor Eric Adams, You Don’t Get a Blank Check for Migrants

Economics Immigration

Sorry, no. A blank check for an uncapped number of migrants would reward New York for its broken hotel-shelter system and broken emergency-contracting system.

After his tour of El Paso Sunday, Adams’ next stop is DC — where he’ll pressure President Joe Biden to fund “the entire cost” of sheltering, feeding, clothing, educating and providing health care for at least tens of thousands of new migrants.

It’s absolutely true Biden created this mess or at least made it much worse, with no process for quickly determining who is a refugee eligible for asylum because of war or individual persecution. Instead, the White House is forcing people to wait five years for cases to be heard. In the meantime, they fall prey to sex traffickers and exploitative black-market employers.

Continue reading the entire piece here at the New York Post

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Nicole Gelinas is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and contributing editor at City Journal. Follow her on Twitter here.

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