Migrants Burst New York City’s ‘Infinite Compassion’ Bubble

Unable to re-ticket NYC migrants in any appreciable numbers, New York City has started distributing flyers at the southern border warning there is “no guarantee” of shelter and encouraging them to go elsewhere.

“Our compassion is infinite. Our space is not,” said Dr. Ted Long, senior vice president at NYC Health + Hospitals, the agency that operates much of the emergency housing for NYC migrants.

The New York Times noted that the flyers “do not convey much compassion” as they detail the city’s high cost of housing, food, and transportation, and feature a map with arrows pointing north from the border to South Dakota, Vermont, Wisconsin and a handful of other states — but not New York.

Mayor Eric Adams appears a bit unhinged by his predicament. In May, he accused Texas Gov. Greg Abbott of shipping migrants to cities “run by Black mayors.”

Undeterred, Abbott has accelerated his migrant transports. A fifth busload of migrants from Texas arrived in downtown Los Angeles over the weekend. In addition to the 7,900 NYC migrants who have accepted courtesy rides to New York thus far, 9,700 have been voluntarily shuttled to Washington, D.C.; 2,300 to Chicago; and 1,500 to Philadelphia. Denver, a new destination since mid-May, has received more than 160 migrants so far.

The departees from Texas are, of course, a tiny fraction of migrants entering the state. Texas’ Operation Lone Star, a multi-agency border enforcement effort launched two years ago, has apprehended 383,000 illegal immigrants, making more than 29,000 criminal arrests involving 26,000 felony charges.

If Mayor Adams is discommoded by the arrival of 7,900 NYC migrants bused in from Texas his bigger beef ought to be with the Biden administration whose feckless border policies have enabled more than 90,000 migrants to enter his city since the spring of 2022.

While the administration fictitiously claims a 70 percent decrease in illegal border crossings since Title 42 was lifted in early May, Adams said his city has seen no slowdown. A whopping 2,500 migrants continue to arrive daily (a minuscule portion of which comes via Abbott’s buses).

New York’s real problem starts with Washington, and has been compounded by the city’s “infinite compassion.” Its hubristic bubble is bursting as we speak.