Tuesday's Terrible Absurdities: When The Best Laid Plans of Liberals Backfire
You had to love this headline from Hotair:
They’re illegal migrants, mind you, in our country in violation of our laws, and the liberal boobs running New York City are cowering fear of offending them. Even better (or worse, if you’re a fairly normal person with a functioning brain), they’re cowering in fear of offending their party’s own activists.
Here’s an excerpt from that story:
Immigration activists are stirring the pot in New York City. Migrants were scheduled to be moved from the Watson Hotel in Hell’s Kitchen on Sunday night, but they refused to leave. They are to be moved to a new shelter in Brooklyn with all the same services they receive at the hotel. It’s not good enough.
The new shelter is at the Brooklyn Cruise Terminal. Mayor Adams announced last week that the Brooklyn Cruise Terminal would be a migrant mega-shelter. It will hold up to 1,000 single adult men. This is the fifth Humanitarian Emergency Response and Relief Center opened in NYC since the migrant buses began arriving in 2022. The Watson Hotel is going to be turned into a family facility so the single adult men have to go.
Some of the migrants, supported by the immigration activists, refused to leave. They congregated outside on the sidewalk. Police mobilized around the hotel at about 10:00 p.m. as more than 50 migrants stood outside. Activists assisted with food, water, and translation. The single men weren’t budging.
When a city bus arrived, a small number of men jumped on but the majority stayed in front of the hotel. Activists complained that the migrants were being forced out of the hotel.
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So, there we go. Mayor Adams, an imbecile on the same grand scale of former doofus mayor Bill De Blasio, created this problem by awarding these law breakers - the overwhelming majority of whom are military age males traveling alone - with accommodations so ritzy they never want to leave. Sort of destroys the standard liberal “they just want to come here to work!” mantra, doesn’t it?