NYC Mayor Declares State of Emergency

The arrival of 17,000 illegal immigrants bused to New York City from Texas prompted Mayor Eric Adams (D) to declare a state of emergency. “We simply cannot handle such a flood of indigents seeking to sponge off of our welfare system,” Adams asserted. “It is simply not fair for Gov. Abbott (R) to inflict this calamity upon us. These people should stay in Texas where they belong.”

While Abbott has initiated the busing of around 3,000 illegal migrants to New York City, El Paso Mayor Oscar Leeser (D) has sent about 7,000 illegal immigrants to NYC. Lesser contends that “our program is completely different from Gov. Abbott’s. We have the full support of President Biden for what we are doing.”

Abbott was unmoved by what he called “Adams’ hypocrisy on the issue of illegal border crossings. He opposes efforts to secure the border. He asserts that these invaders have a right to go wherever they please. He piously proclaims New York to be a sanctuary city. Then he objects when I send 3,000 of the 730,000 illegal border-crossers that have entered Texas over the last year to his ‘sanctuary’ city after they willingly accept our offers to bus them there.”

Hoping that police harassment might deter future trips, Mayor Adams unleashed teams of police to inspect the buses’ tire pressure, windshield wiper fluids, headlights, and other equipment. “If we can increase the level of inconvenience and delay for the drivers and the bus company owners we may persuade them not to come again,” he said.

Robert Reis, driver of one of the buses said “I doubt this petty interference will deter future trips. We are helping these immigrants to fulfill their dreams of becoming Americans. We drop them off wherever they want to get off along the route from El Paso to New York City. Four got off in Dallas, four got off in Nashville, and 30 got off in New York. What is the Mayor doing but trying to obstruct these dreams?”

Meanwhile, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NYC), a leading progressive ideologue, castigated Adams “for putting these people in tents located in my district. We all know that these tent cities foster criminal behavior. If we have to have them they should be put in Staten Island so Republicans can bear the brunt of the negative consequences spawned by increasing the number of these unproductive members of society in our city.”

By John Semmens