This city is buckling under the self-inflicted illegal immigration crisis it’s been handed by our derelict president.
City and state leaders in New York seemingly have no answers to the influx of illegal immigrants—nearly 100,000 in 2023—besides throwing money at the problem and cannibalizing other state-funded services.
This isn’t just an abstract number. The Big Apple is being transformed by the crisis.
I’ve personally witnessed the effects. A migrant center has been set up at St. Brigid School near Tompkins Square Park in the East Village. It’s about half a mile from where I live.
The Catholic school, which already had been shuttered, is being used as a holding area where asylum-seekers are housed and fed.
From what I’ve seen, almost all the illegal immigrants who pass through there are men in their 20s. They often gather in large bands in and around Tompkins. The southeast corner, next to the center, is now covered in trash.
New York has plenty of trash bags on sidewalks due to an inefficient waste management system, but that’s not what I’m talking about. There is literally trash strewn all over the ground, including a nearby area where children play.
The building for migrants ...
