Of all the self-inflicted wounds in a modern First World country, a "sanctuary city" is maybe the most richly hilarious (even as it's really depressing at the same time):
Drone footage reveals the sheer scale of a huge ‘tent city' that's under construction in New York City to deal with a massive influx of migrants.
Work was well underway Wednesday on a shelter roughly the length of two football fields, which will accommodate up to 2,000 migrants. Foundations were in place at the site that indicated several more of the massive structures will be built.
The facility — excuse me, facilities, there are going to be more than one — is being built on Randalls Island, right in the thick of things. Nothing could go wrong with that, no siree.
Mayor Eric Adams admitted that the massive influx of migrants is "stretching our system to its breaking point and beyond," and it "has become more and more of a Herculean effort to find enough beds every night."
I dunno if anyone's forgot to tell His Honor this, but: If you keep advertising yourself as a "sanctuary city" for illegal immigrants, then illegal immigrants are gonna keep seeking out sanctuary there. And you're going to have to keep building these massive facilities to house them.
The mayor could try making, I don't know, a public pronouncement or something that New York is no longer a "sanctuary." That might help.
