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  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."
context: 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. >
  
  "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) >
  
  That is not even close to what that means... There are entire theses written on how Jesus fulfills many of the complex prophecies and rules in the OT in surprising ways, when once fully understood and grasped paints a beautiful (I think) narrative of a God who works perfection from imperfection. BUT... I've met the people you are describing and they've never even read the book. They couldn't even be bothered to listen to the audio book and watching a movie is stretching it. Whatever you say they're just looking to use the bible to justify doing whatever they wanted to do in the first place like a big fortune cookie. >
  
  Can I get a link? >
  
  Thanks. >
  
  No problem >
  
  New York was made up of immigrants lol >
  
  So therefore it must let immigrants in forever? >
  
  I think there should be a balance. To say there’s no room for immigrants seems very biased. I presume if the immigrant was rich there would suddenly be room. What they’re really implying is, if you’re poor and an immigrant gtfo. But maybe I’m just misinterpreting reading between the lines. >
  
  Here's the thing- Ronald Reagan granted a blanket amnesty in the 80's to give the House time to figure shit out... they've fucked around and found out that you can't offload this forever. We don't have housing (because no one will legislate protection for renters, illegal or no), healthcare, or injury protection for these workers, but we're more than willing to take advantage of their labor.
  Any give on this for "illegals" will make room for protection for "legal" workers. Because corporations and investors won't "share" their profits by paying their workers what they're worth, nothing will change. >
  
  
  Ronald Reagan granted a blanket amnesty in the 80's to give the House time to figure shit out...
  
  And in 2006 the house passed a bipartisan border security act, with a deal being made to strengthen the border in return for long term undocumented migrants to have a path to legal residency. 
  The Democrats kept up their side of that and massively increased border security. >
  
  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 >
  
  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 >
  
  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 >
  
  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. >
  
  Someone downvoted this.
  Eric... that you, buddy? >
  
  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. >
  
  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. >
  
  Just another fucking cop. >
  
  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 >
  
  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. >
  
  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. >
  
  How did cities in Texas survive for so long? Amazing >
  
  To be fair, it’s the right-wing politicians who are behind sending these people to NYC. It’d make much more sense, if the idea is to spread the migrants around, to send some to Little Rock, some to Fargo, Grand Forks; Wichita, Des Moines, Tulsa, Lincoln, Omaha etc. Sending them to the most expensive city in America is a recipe for failure & these republicans obviously know this. 
  Clearly the republicans think this is funny & don’t care how many migrants are harmed throughout this process. >
  
  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! >
  
  There is no housing shortage. 17 million homes sit vacant in this country. A ton are in NYC. >
  
  NYC has plenty of empty homes that are pied e terre and owned by the rich who come into the city once a year. There are thousands of vacant apartments that are unlivable in their current state that landlords refuse to bring up to code because then they'd lose their tax breaks for having a vacant apartment. The entire housing system in NYC needs to be reformed and much more reasonable housing needs to be built. >
  
  40,000 migrants have been sent to NYC so far with thousands more arriving per week on some weeks. Seizing rich people's apartments and finding and reparing these vacant apartments you think exist probably isn't enough capacity. Besides that, housing is only one need of these people. You can stick them in a penthouse overlooking Central Park, but they still need food, clothes, job opportunities, etc. There needs to be a federal or at least a multi-state plan for how to give these people some reasonable chance of success without sinking the places they're arriving at.