We at PJ Media and the rest of the Town Hall gang have chronicled New York City Finding Out after F'ing Around by declaring itself a sanctuary city.
Current NYC Mayor Eric Adams has been doing that first part the hard way as the border crisis has sent nearly two hundred thousand illegal migrants to the City That Never Sleeps, accommodating them by displacing native New Yorkers.
But evidently, even he is getting tired of doing that because Mayor Adams attempted to modify the City's 'right to shelter' laws because of the sheer costs of keeping these hundred thousand migrants (and counting) off the street.
A quick refresher: New York City passed 'right to shelter' laws in 1981 after the court case Callahan v. Carey ruled the homeless had a right to be given shelter, meaning if they asked for a place to stay, they get one.
The law has been challenged many times in its near-43-year existence, mostly for logistical reasons.
And the border crisis is the biggest logistical issue yet, as our friend Rick Moran detailed back in October.
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Mayor Adams and the Legal Aid Society, which NBC New York mentions represents those in shelters, eventually reached an agreement on how to keep the sheer number of migrants off the street that continue coming in.
The solution?
Single adult migrants over the age of 23 who are not disabled or have "extenuating circumstance[s]" cannot reapply to stay in city-run shelters past 30 days (people under that age get 60 days). No definition of "extenuating circumstances" was described by NBC, but you can bet your sweet bippy that people will figure out how to stretch that definition like taffy.
"New York City has led the nation in responding to a national humanitarian crisis, providing shelter and care to approximately 183,000 new arrivals since the spring of 2022, but we have been clear, from day one, that the ‘Right to Shelter’ was never intended to apply to a population larger than most U.S. cities descending on the five boroughs in less than two years," said Mayor Adams.
Part of me almost feels sorry for the guy (not him personally, I just happen to have a sister in Brooklyn) having to try and take care of that many people carted up to his city from the border, but I remember they asked for this by saying they would not turn them over to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) because racism or something.
Still, just earlier this month, our Vodka Pundit Stephen Green detailed how only five counties in the whole state of New York are accepting the migrants coming into the City, and that could very well drop down to four.
Stephen put it best when he said, "Upstate and Long Island county officials are giving Adams the single-finger salute beloved by NYC residents."
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As he said as well, Mayor Adams wouldn't have to deal with any of this in the first place if the Biden Administration would just do its job to secure the border it knows it can do and deport everybody crossing illegally, but that would go against the agenda.
