Being a sanctuary city is all fun and games until the migrants actually show up

Washington Examiner ^ | 8/04/22 | David Freddoso

[Libloather]

Good grief! Get a load of today's immigration story in the New York Times. It is some of the best unintentional comedy of this election cycle.

First, some context: The Biden administration, with its incoherent immigration policy, has been causing a humanitarian disaster that is completely overwhelming border communities in Texas and Arizona. At resident Joe Biden's direction, the Border Patrol is now forced to process and release thousands of illegal border crossers into small towns and cities in South Texas, such as Del Rio and Laredo. These municipalities are completely unequipped to deal with this Biden-generated crisis.

**SNIP**

At first, back in April, they were ridiculed for what was wrongly interpreted as a mere political stunt when they started offering migrants free bus rides to the major urban hubs of the United States.

But the migrants turned out to be eager to take advantage. And why not? The mayors of these two cities had ostentatiously declared them "sanctuary cities." They had boasted that diversity made them stronger and that migrants were welcome.

But - uh, oh, here come the migrants! And suddenly, these same mayors are now calling for their brown pants, calling out the National Guard, calling for federal funds.

New Yorkers and Washingtonians were happy to support Biden in causing this crisis while it was happening in distant cities far to the southwest. But send a few dozen busloads of migrants, and they're suddenly really, really upset about it. Call it "East Coast privilege."

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser wants to mobilize the National Guard, for which immigrant advocates are hilariously roasting her.

[Liz]

Maryann Tharappel, who directs NYC’s immigrant and refugee services.“The infrastructure in New York is not built for BUSLOADS of migrants,” she said. “We are not on the border.”

But.....to quote NYC suckup mayor:

“NYC will continue to be one ‘sanctuary city‘. But for me that of a ‘sanctuary city ‘ means more than just saying that we will not work together with ICE and we will not allow our agencies to persecute our undocumented residents, but we must go further, “said Mayor Eric Adams....

... it is essential “to make sure that these undocumented New Yorkers are being given the support they need, so that their families no longer live in the shadows of the American dream, but are part of that dream.”

[Liz]

Let the migrants go perform “acts Of love” on Jebbie and his wife........she speaks the language.

[Billthedrill]

First principle of virtue signaling is that nobody is supposed to be rude enough to take you up on it. Places like NYC and DC should be far more capable of absorbing “busloads” of illegals than the far smaller communities who have been up to now. Hollywood - now there’s a place whose inhabitants would love to have a few thousand more illegals in their front yards. We can learn so much from their generosity.

[Liz]

Hollywood - now there’s a place whose inhabitants would love to have a few thousand more illegals in their front yards. We can learn so much from their generosity.

I still sob over their tolerance and compassion......sniffle....... ok

And when Meryl Streep called sex crazed Harvey Weinstein a “god”.......l completely lost it......sob.”