NY City

NY City became a sanctuary city under the guiding hand of liberal Mayor Bill de Blasio in 2017. A sanctuary city has rules which bar them from cooperating with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). This is a public declaration which shows how compassionate the people are as represented by the inscription written on the famous stature in NY harbor which says in part, give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free. This in today's vernacular goes by the uncomplimentary phrase, virtue signaling. So far so good. Then over a 2 year period Texas sent 250,000 migrants to NY City as a part of the 200,000 that were coming into Texas each month and the patience of the residence of NY City were tested. NY City is spending $1.5 billion per year to care for migrants including providing 16,532 hotel rooms. Besides housing, the migrants get food stamps, financial assistance and free childcare. Migrant crimes now represent 75% of the arrest and are clogging up the courts. Mayor Adams has asked the federal government for help because the citizens of NY City are not happy. Similar situations have developed in other cities like Chicago.