There are lots of drawbacks to publicly declaring your major metropolis a "sanctuary city."
Most of them are very, very obvious.
Like this:
At least six more Big Apple schools are set to start temporarily housing migrants in their gyms, prompting all hell to break loose Monday among parents frantic over safety and potential learning disruptions.
"To bus people to our school and expect the community to absorb them is just insane," fumed Virginia Vu, a PTA member and parent at Brooklyn's MS 577 in Williamsburg — adding some parents have already threatened to at least temporarily pull their kids out of the sixth-through-eighth grade school.
Hmm what's that now? "Expecting a community to absorb a ton of illegal immigrants" is unreasonable and inadvisable? You mean we shouldn't just tolerate the wholesale abdication of border enforcement and allow our cities to be completely swamped by people who entered the country illegally? Is that what you mean?
Well, fancy that. Turns out when you bring those sorts of problems away from the border towns and into New York, the national calculus changes a bit.
I don't think we need to go over the extreme risks that are inherent to housing a bunch of unvetted, anonymous people in close proximity to vulnerable children. The potential catastrophes that can result from that arrangement are fairly obvious.
Even in the absolute best-case scenario emerging from this ridiculous decision, kids are going to have to unfairly shoulder a large part of the burden:
"The students will be trapped inside and will not be able to go outside for recess or physical education, which will be a huge detriment to their wellbeing. ... These kids just came through COVID, and now they're being locked inside the classroom."
I suppose it truly is too much to ask that we just enforce our border policies, stop letting thousands and thousands of migrants cross the border illegally, and start to act like, you know, a real nation with real borders and real laws.
