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Yep. But mentioning the empty housing and the fact we could house every homeless man, woman and child in this country is apparently “communist”/“socialist.”
Eric Adams makes Mitt Romney look like Bernie Sanders. >

Eric Adams makes Crotch Capers 3 look like Naughty Nurses 2! >

Wtf is going on… I just saw this same reference in my local city subreddit. >

It’s a South Park Reference >

But was the episode recent because…
If not, what a coincidence to read these two comment threads within the same minute. >

Coincidence is God’s way of remaining anonymous.
-Albert Einstein >

I prefer his later stuff after he changed his name to Rammstein. >

I saw Rammstein in Chicago last September, unbelievable show. >

I’m not even a fan of them, and I can easily see how their shows could be some of the most entertaining and fun time.
(Fun fact: I hate bro-country. Luke Bryan was hands down the most fun I’ve ever had at a concert. And I hate his music.) >

I was immersed in the stadium country thing in high school, it was all my friends were into (for context I was into like, High On Fire, Nine Inch Nails, The Residents, Primus, Ween, etc). I got dragged to a few of those shows, and while the stadium country thing isn't my bag (I'm more into cosmic country, Gram Parsons and whatnot), I can see the appeal. It's just not for me. Rammstein, on the other hand....everyone should experience that once in their life. >

This guy gets worse every time he opens his mouth >

It’s NYC… if you don’t know the history of NYC how did you become mayor? >

It's NYC. It's not some progressive paradise lol. Half the time they have a fucking Republican mayor like they do now. >

People like to think NYC is some coastal progressive paradise but in reality it’s about 45% conservative by population and it’s the home of Wall Street. NYC is one of the most corrupt cities in the country. >

Giuliani and Trump are NYC icons too. >

LMFAO Trump is not an icon here. Most sane people hated him before everyone else 😂 >

We didn’t hate him so much as thought he was a womanizer and a joke. If he wanted to cheat on all his wives and brag about literally anything he’s ever done, you do you man. It’s not my thing but it wasn’t hurting anyone
When he became president that’s when it all changed. The evil, narcissistic and incompetence became clearer and started affecting all of us >

Yes, but also it says something that <10% of Manhattaners voted for Trump. He was probably hated before. >

They are all democrats so they voted that way before Trump. It didn’t really matter what candidate the republicans put up he wasn’t getting their votes >

Yes, but it's very different when more than 90% of the people who live where you have lived and promoted yourself for years and years all decide that you shouldn't be president. Even Romney almost got 14.92% there. >

"Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!" >

“The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt. I am the Lord your God.”
Leviticus 19:34 >

Jesus died so that we wouldn’t have to do that shit anymore. 
-Christians (every time I ask why they don’t do the stuff commanded by God in Leviticus) >

“But God's written message, the truth, will abide forever. All His promises will be fulfilled. His redemptive truth cannot be annulled or changed. He will accomplish what His powerful Word proclaims, and He will achieve the purpose for which His Word was sent.”
Isaiah 55:10–11
“35 For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in , 36 I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me.’
37 “Then the righteous will answer him, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you something to drink? 38 When did we see you a stranger and invite you in, or needing clothes and clothe you? 39 When did we see you sick or in prison and go to visit you?’
40 “The King will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.’
Matthew 25:35-40 >

Thank goodness we reject policy based on Religion. That settles it. Immigration violates Church and State separation. >

“Look, you’ve got it all wrong! You don’t NEED to follow ME, You don’t NEED to follow ANYBODY! You’ve got to think for your selves! You’re ALL individuals!
                                   -Brian Christ >

IM FUCKING CRAIG! 

Craig Christ >

Brother of Craig List. >

New York was made up of immigrants lol >

*is >

Lots of them seem to have forgotten >

Have you read the articles on this? Texas is shipping migrants to homeless shelters, and NYC can’t keep up. NYC has a legal obligation to house anybody who needs it. There is physically not enough space for more homeless people in NYC, who in this case happen to be migrants. >

Bet you there's more than enough airbnbs for everybody. >

I think the Airbnb owners would protest the government seizing their property :( >

Perhaps simply taxing them for using residential property for commercial means? >

They do. They’re taxed at hotel rates in NYC >

There's "no room" only for anyone who's poor, really. That's really the issue. These cities today are for rich people only thanks to housing prices, and they're the only ones who leaders care about. If the migrants had wealth no one would tell this to them. It's only poors who are not welcomed or are told there's "no room." >

That doesn't really address the issue at hand. Where should they live and who will pay for their housing? Hotels and landlords have their own bills to pay. We can't expect them to give people free housing. Even if housing prices were cut in half, that money would still have to come from somewhere. Would you be willing to pay rent for an immigrant family? They'll probably be able to find a job eventually, but it will be at least a few months of you paying their rent before they're financially stable. >

You can say the same for the rising homeless population in NYC and elsewhere. At the end of the day the issue is lack of affordable housing and the poor being pushed out of the city. My point is this wouldn't be an issue now if leadership had cared about making the city affordable. What is the mayor doing to make it so people can afford to live in the city without straining it?
When immigrants flowed into NYC by the millions over a century ago, they found countless cheap, often shoddy and decrepit but cheap, apartments to live in. The fact NYC can't handle an influx of even a few thousand such poor people today is a sign of it both becoming a city for the rich only now. A city which can't handle even this modest number of migrants is a shame honestly. >

1,000s of apartments be removed from availability to become airbnbs doesn’t help >

If the US doesn't have a birthrate high enough to supply corporations with cheap labor, then they will have to rely on immigration. Not sure why republicans are against it. >

Immigration will save us ultimately. >

Unless birth rates begin falling across the entire world. Then what? >

People will still want to come regardless. Quality of life is still better than a lot of places. >

Which is quite scary, cos a lot of the US is rough. >

Whole true, I'd still rather be homeless in a place that isn't being shelled >

Agreed, much better to be in the nation doing the shelling >

Do you think France will notice if we re-gift? >

New overton window, whodis? >

Someone recently told me how far left the Overton window had moved.
... >

I mean, if he meant since the beginning of recorded history he's generally correct. It's all a matter of timescale. >

Ummm does anybody want to tell him? >

Which is a lie, because they need low paid workers for shitty jobs >

It's a weird spot - they want low-wage employees, but they don't want to give them a place to live. They want people, but they don't want to treat them like people. >

Conservatives: "sounds about right" >

"Why should they get to live it up in a place like New York doing such lowly jobs on wages so much higher than around here in bumfuck nowhere?"
(you try to explain it to them) 
"SHUT UP with your ivory tower bullshit!" >

Yeah Right?  No Italians or Irish. Ya feel me? >

capisce >

There isn’t even “room” in large parts of NYC for middle class people anymore, let alone migrants. >

Agreed. People making six figures are struggling in some cases. Our problem with homelessness is out of control. >

Well he’s not wrong. There’s not even enough space for New Yorkers. Oh no wait, there’s plenty of room in Trump Tower. >

Trash title. Read the article.
Yes, he says this. And it's being taken out of context to make him seem anti-immigrant, but what he's referring to is the bus loads of immigrants being illegally sent to NYC on busses.
They're going to be out $2 billion because of what they're already doing, and can't afford to keep maintaining this political ploy by these lunatics.
If you just read the quote as it is, it sounds bad, but in reality he's another victim of the Republican insanity and click bait news. >

He’s also a shitty mayor. Dude has been ass since he’s taken office >

He's a slumlord who lets his buildings fester with rats and roaches while he does nothing about it.
He's also dumber than a box of ball hair. >

He's also a nepotist pos >

How did cities in Texas survive for so long? Amazing >

And in that way, the New York Mayor serves (and reveals) his function and allegiance to capital and private property above all else. >

Huh?  As a NYC taxpayer this is a problem. What do you think the city should do differently? >

Agreed. I think some of these people don’t understand nyc. They think migrants cost no money and we have infinite places to live. To acknowledge simple math and homeless people is not something they want to consider, they’d rather view all opposition to migrants as exclusively grounded in racism >

If you’ve been to New York City, you’d understand he isn’t exaggerating about the housing crisis >

NYC would have plenty of room for migrants if it would just build more housing and not let nimbys sandbag the process >

Have you ever been to NYC? It’s packed with high rises. There is no room to build horizontally, only vertically. We are not talking about the state here man. And why is it the mayors job to raise taxes on the city residents to care for all the immigrants that Texas and Florida GQP governors are shipping to blue  cities. You are being played when you should be pissed at the federal gov for doing nothing to help along with Texas and Florida exacerbating the problem. >

A fuckload of the NYC metro (and city proper) is completely inundated with suburban-style sprawl, massive stroads, and single-family-only zoning. Robert Moses really fucked the city up and doomed it to an unsustainable and short-of-housing future. 
Let’s rip out some highways, upzone, and get some more housing built. It’s possible, but nobody has the political will to upset the NIMBYs. >

Who gonna pay for it? You? You ready to pay more city taxes? >

Sprawl and single-family-only zoning actually ends up costing a municipality more to maintain than denser zoning. 
It doesn’t cost anything to upzone. It’s literally changing the rules for developers to follow to let them build more dense units and mixed-use spaces. It doesn’t cost a municipality literally anything to upzone besides the cost of the legislators’ time. >

Nothing stopping you from petitioning your own property to be rezoned for this use, but something tells me you want to expropriate other people's property. >

So if you didn’t actually ready the article, here is the part where you should get mad at Texas and Florida. The mayor of NYC is angry that the feds are not controlling where migrants are going. The mayor estimates that the influx of immigrants will cost NYC residents 2 billion dollars a year, which they do not have. So is it really fair for everyone in America to throw stones at this guy while letting the GQP conduct economic warfare  against blue states? The answer is no. The mayors job is to govern those that live in the city, not take on the burden of housing immigrants from Florida and Texas. That is a federal responsibility to facilitate. Stop making this a race issue. The GQP are playing us liberals like a fiddle right now. >

Then why doesn’t he go against the fact that Florida and Texas are the ones fucking him over? Why doesn’t he mention that what Florida & Texas have done is unethical & immoral? The mayor of NYC knows exactly what he’s saying & how he’s wording it. 
Tired of people like you giving assholes like adams a free pass just because. >

The thing is, NYC touts itself as a sanctuary city, a city of second chances, and a city that will take in the poor and hungry. When the mayor (Eric Adams) makes a statement like that it detracts from the city's reputation and loses its own virtues. >

How much can he do though? There is a limit to the number of people they can keep. It should be the Federal government who organizes between the states. The mayor is just saying no one is acting with a clear plan. >

Idk man I just wish the migration thing got idk overhauled via legislation cause fuck am I tired of this “political” issue. We have the space / resources and room for migrants and immigration can be an economic multiplier - just our system is old and needs fixing. >

What does NYC have room for?   This guy may be a jerk, but isn’t this the city with thousands of working homeless???   Can we get a room and bed for every American citizen before we plan on throwing the next wave onto the street? >

Yet New Yorkers will vote this clown into office again. Just like Chicago keeps voting for Beetlejuice.
Maybe go for a lesser known candidate instead of jumping on the bandwagon and voting en masse because the party demands it. >

Makes sense. It is the most densely populated city in the United States. I don't know who looks at NYC and says, "Yeah, this place could use more people." >

Apparently the leaders believed this when they designated the city as a sanctuary city. 
Things not going well at home? Come suffer in the most crowded city in the US! >

NYC designating themselves as a "sanctuary city" was one of the worst things they did for themselves the past 7 years. >

As shitty as this is, I get it. NYC is under a massive housing shortage. Ya know where there's plenty of room for migrants? The gigantic state of Texas where they're all coming from! >

They are coming from Latin America. >

What I hear is, "New York is not given sufficient federal assistance to handle the immigrants that are being bussed in from the states that are using immigrants as political chess pieces, which seems like a really shit way of handling an admittedly complicated and fraught issue that, yes, the Federal government overall is struggling to handle." >

Saying “the Federal government overall is struggling to handle” implies that there has been any meaningful tactic and approach laid out by the federal government to attempt to handle the problem.
The only action the current administration has taken this far has been to attempt to repeal title 42 (which legally they should be able to do) but was blocked (not for relevant judicial reasons), but because it is almost unanimously agreed upon that the repeal of title 42 is the only thing holding back the flood gates.
Also if NYC can’t handle the immigration levels that they are seeing via charter bus, then border towns that are fractions of the size don’t have any hope so yes they are being used as political chess pieces…but it is also one of the few reasonable things these towns/states can do when they themselves don’t have the resources and bandwidth to handle the crisis. Both can be true at once and in this case I believe they both are true. >


State funding for border security grew from $110 million in 2008-2009 to nearly $3 billion for the 2022-2023 budget cycle

We should get that 3 billion. >

What’s your justification?
The latest numbers I could find are from October of 22 where Adams says more than 17000 people have been bussed from the border into the city.
Let’s say since October that number has doubled and NYC is now home to 35000 asylum seekers from the border.
In December El Paso saw an increase in crossings to 2400 per day. DHS estimates daily crossings would be 9000 - 14000 a day when title 42 is removed.
So by my math, El Paso, a city 1/13th the size of NYC is experiencing an influx of more migrants per month than have been sent in total to NYC over the past year.
El Paso is just one of the many border towns. So yea, if we do this “equitably” NYC would get a couple million at best. >

The problem is NYC has no place to put them either. Right now they are going in hotels. The cost of putting them up in hotels or rentals is 4x the price in NYC than El Paso or other smaller town in Texas. That’s a waste of tax payers money, unless of course, NYC is better at processing them than Texas as it looks likes Texas just doesn’t want to deal with them. In that case, give the border money to NYC and other blue states and let them handle it. Abbott had years and years to get a handle the problem, but it seems like he just uses it as a campaign issue he’ll fix the next time he’s elected. And voters of Texas believe him. >

what they should do is send them to old military bases for processing and then send in small groups to any counties that will take them in exchange for compensation.
this is what american used to do with asylum seekers. spread them all over. put them in schools to learn english and our history/culture. basic grammer/high school and then teach them trade and put them to work...
sadly most of the jobs have been sent to overseas and the rest done by immigrants legally brought in to do them andor increasing done by machines/ai >

New York has an uncanny ability to elect the bottom-of-the-barrel worst Democrats every single time >

All I heard was oink oink oink >

I hate this mayor >

That will probably get Abbot and DeSantis to send him their next load >

What a fucking moron. And Ellis Island is an amusement park! >

Still can’t believe we had a few fantastic mayoral candidates on the primary ballot and my fellow dems went for this elephant is donkey’s clothing. >

This is what "blue no matter who" gets you, for anyone who isn't aware yet. The guy's a republican in every way but party registration. >

But he proclaimed NYC a sanctuary city and said any and all are welcome. I guess he didn't expect to be called on it >

Adams reminds us that NYC primary voters are just as dumb as those in Confederate states. >

Democrats when they have to deal with the migrant influx instead of crying about how horrible it is that we were building a wall in Texas thousands of miles away from them. Love how quickly they turn on it. It’s hilarious I hope Texas keeps busing them to New York DC and all these other places where these fucking hypocrites lives >

Meanwhile in reality there are countless empty apartments being hoarded by rich people and airbnb pests. Im not surprised that a pretend new yorker like adams is ignoring the housing crisis. Hes a real shame for the city.