Posted on 06/23/2023 10:08:52 PM PDT by Libloather
New York City Mayor Eric Adams used taxpayer funds to send migrants to red states including Texas and Florida with some even being sent as far as South America and China despite trashing Republican governors for sending them to the Big Apple.
Adams, a Democrat, spent about $50,000 of the city's money to send 114 migrant households elsewhere in the world as the city is overrun with asylum seekers in the tens of thousands.
A total of 28 families were sent to Florida with 14 being sent to Texas, a few were sent to Colombia and one family to China. The migrants were allowed to choose where they were sent, reports Politico.
The mayor has previously slammed Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and Texas Governor Greg Abbott for bussing migrants to New York and other northeastern locales in what he called a 'political stunt.'
'This was part of a political ploy and that's what we need to understand,' Adams said on CNN at the time.
'I mean, what was his purpose of sending a planeload to Martha's Vineyard? He just felt as though he wanted to get into this horrendous action,' he added in a press conference, according to ABC News.
Abbott has sent around 9,700 asylum seekers to New York City, according to Politico. DeSantis has flown about 85 migrants to Massachusetts and California.
Kate Smart, a spokesperson for the mayor, bizarrely tried to contrast the city's efforts with those of Florida and Texas.
'New York City has, as we have discussed very publicly for months, worked to connect individuals with friends, family, and networks whether in New York City or outside of it,' Smart said in a statement.
'We are not coercing people to leave, we are not suggesting or recommending locations...
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Stop calling those who are purposely destroying America, stupid. It is a plot and a plan. It’s marxist theory as revealed by Saul Alinsky
Red states should just send them back.
They were likely other than Mexican.
Probably Chinese border jumpers. Hence the return trip to China
China would at least give them jobs, working alongside the Uyghurs.
I do not call the leaders stupid. I call the millions of blind followers stupid. The leaders are quite Machiavellian.
Ah, you all are probably right, they were Chinese.
I forgot to apply the fist rule of American politics in 2023.
1. Nothing good happens.
Yeah, NY probably worked with the Chinese govt to get some assets back that we could have gotten some intel out of. Chinese nuclear scientists or something.
*** Chinese will do anyhing ***
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