Immigration Watch International (2): Mayor Eric Adams said Friday that 900 migrants arrived in New York City in a single day this week — and warned that the influx of new arrivals will cost over $4 billion.

Monday, May 22, 2023

Mayor Eric Adams said Friday that 900 migrants arrived in New York City in a single day this week — and warned that the influx of new arrivals will cost over $4 billion.

During an appearance on Caribbean Power Jam Radio, the exasperated mayor said an average of 300 to 500 migrants are arriving in the city each day.

“Last week and a half ago, we got 4,200 people in one week. This week, we got 900 people on one day … We’ve run out of space, you know, where to put people and then whenever we try to find creative ways, people are pushing back and say, ‘Well, we don’t want it on our block. We don’t want it in our community,’” he lamented.

“The federal government has now created this crisis and it’s really undermining our whole city. That’s what I needed New Yorkers to understand. This is undermining all of the progress we have made because of the failure of our federal government.”

Adams added that the surge of arrivals — some of whom are being welcomed at the storied Roosevelt Hotel in Midtown — comes with a $4.5 billion price tag.

“Listen, but the bottom line is we have to go somewhere. And if we don’t go somewhere that people are going to be living like in other municipalities on the streets, in train stations, all that we’ve done to get people off the streets, out of our train stations,” he said.

Adams also responded to allegations that asylum seekers are getting special treatment while New York’s own homeless population languishes without resources.

“I was at a homeless shelter on Randalls Island and [a man] said, ‘You know, asylum seekers are able to have all these things that I’m not able to get here in my shelter.’ I said, ‘Brother, you could go to the same shelter they’re in.’

“You know, the shelters are not — wherever the asylum seekers are, it is not only for the asylum seekers — anyone could go there … There’s nothing asylum seekers are getting that any other person who was here beforehand can’t, and anyone who’s a new arrival can get.”

Adams blamed the misconception on “different sources” dead set on creating “chaos” in the city.

Hizzoner’s latest comments on the migrant situation come just one day after he slammed the New York City Council for its apparent lack of support. “We’re not going to be disrespected,” the former NYPD captain said during the tense video conference.

“There is too much work that needs to be done. My team has sacrificed too much time, energy and dedication to this city.”

https://nypost.com/2023/05/19/mayor-adams-900-migrants-in-one-day-will-cost-nyc-over-4b/

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Postings from Brisbane, Australia by John Ray (M.A.; Ph.D.) -- former member of the Australia-Soviet Friendship Society, former anarcho-capitalist and former member of the British Conservative party.

Why is "La Raza" the one Spanish term that is NEVER translated in the American mass media? Because translating it would make it a lot less respectable. It means "THE RACE" -- The mixed Hispanic "race" of Mexico. Racism is fine South of the Rio Grande only, apparently.

The "line" of this blog is that immigration should be SELECTIVE. That means that:

1). A national government should be in control of it. The U.S. and U.K. governments are not but the Australian government has shown that the government of a prosperous Western country can be. Up until its loss of office in 2007, the conservative Howard government had all but eliminated illegal immigration. The present Leftist government has however restarted the flow of illegals by repealing many of the Howard government regulations.

2). Selectivity should be based on "the content of a man's character, not on the color of his skin", as MLK said. To expand that a little: Immigrants should only be accepted if they as individuals seem likely to make a positive net contribution to the country. Many "refugees" would fail that test: Muslims and Africans particularly. Educational level should usually be a pretty fair proxy for the individual's likely value to the receiving country. There will, of course, be exceptions but it is nonetheless unlikely that a person who has not successfully completed High School will make a net positive contribution to a modern Western society.

3). Immigrants should be neither barred NOR ACCEPTED solely because they are of some particular ethnic origin. Blacks are vastly more likely to be criminal than are whites or Chinese, for instance, but some whites and some Chinese are criminal. It is the criminality that should matter, not the race.

4). The above ideas are not particularly blue-sky. They roughly describe the policies of the country where I live -- Australia. I am critical of Australian policy only insofar as the "refugee" category for admission is concerned. All governments have tended to admit as refugees many undesirables. It seems to me that more should be required of them before refugees are admitted -- for instance a higher level of education or a business background.

5). Perhaps the most amusing assertion in the immigration debate is that high-income countries like the USA and Britain NEED illegal immigrants to do low-paid menial work. "Who will pick our crops?" (etc.) is the cry. How odd it is then that Australians get all the normal services of a modern economy WITHOUT illegal immigrants! Yes: Before the pandemic, you usually COULD buy a lettuce in Australia for a dollar or thereabouts. And Australia IS a major exporter of primary products.

6). I am a libertarian conservative so I reject the "open door" policy favoured by many libertarians and many Leftists. Both those groups tend to have a love of simplistic generalizations that fail to deal with the complexity of the real world. It seems to me that if a person has the right to say whom he/she will have living with him/her in his/her own house, so a nation has the right to admit to living among them only those individuals whom they choose.

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Immigration Watch International (2)

Monday, May 22, 2023

Mayor Eric Adams said Friday that 900 migrants arrived in New York City in a single day this week — and warned that the influx of new arrivals will cost over $4 billion.

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