Mayor Eric Adams warns that the migrant crisis is coming to every neighborhood as the city runs out of places to house the never-ending influx.
How about finally acting to stop the flow, Mr. Mayor — or at least to move some of it along, out of the city?
With illegal migrants sleeping on the streets outside of the Roosevelt Hotel intake center, the city’s plainly past its limit.
It simply can’t absorb 100,000 men, women and children who can’t work legally, have at best limited English and generally low skills.
The feds refuse to send significant cash to help, or to stem the flow.
They won’t move on Adams’ plea for expedited work permits (a move that, anyway, would make even more of a farce of US immigration law).
The city’s given them free shelter, free meals, free transportation and even free baby supplies (plus, for some, free cable and free video games).
Now it’s plain out of room, yet Legal Aid, the Coalition for the Homeless and other lefty advocacy groups threaten to sue if Adams makes good on his threat to no longer house migrants.
Let ’em sue: The “right to shelter” has no statutory basis, and it’s become a suicide pact.
More: Get serious about moving migrants out of the city.
A few dozen sent to Florida, Texas and even Canada show it’s possible.
Heck: Start turning the buses back.
It’ll cause a huge stink, at the least — but that stink might actually get results.
At least, more results than the empty promise of a federal liaison.
President Joe Biden already ousted Adams from his re-election campaign over the mayor’s modest migrant-crisis complaints.
Let’s see what he does when Hizzoner starts actively refusing to play punching bag.
This story originally appeared on NYPost
