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Downtown Syracuse, shown here overrun with refugees

By Immigration Editor Emma Goldman with
Maria Boroaroma on Staten Island

How much more bad news can one President take?

Already reeling from galloping egg price inflation (down back to around $2/dozen), economic stagnation (with unemployment at a 40-year low), his craven withdrawal from Afghanistan (after 20 years of useless war and destruction), his midterm wipeout (which also didn't happen), and the collapse of the stock market (near its all-time highs), our doddering Commander-in-Chief (who has deftly pulled together a worldwide alliance to beat back Russian aggression) now faces his most ominous challenge, according to All Media:

The unconstitutional use of razor sharp floating killer barriers in the Rio Grande by Texas and the equally unconstitutional effort to criminalize giving an undocumented mother a ride to CVS to pick up her prescription by Florida are not the border crises that the Newspaper of Record is worried about.  

Instead, it's a supposed crisis caused by the fact that refugees are coming to cities to New York without the legal ability to work for six months, thanks to anti-immigrant legislation passed by Congress.

We'll get to the solution to this calamity after we let The New York Times outline its full horrors:

Eric Adams, the mayor of the nation’s largest city, declared this week that without a federal bailout and clampdown at the border, swelling migration “will destroy New York City.” The nation’s second-largest city, Los Angeles, has promised to sue Mr. Abbott. And the liberal mayor of the third-largest city, Chicago, began pleading last month for the White House to step in.

“Let me state this clearly: The city of Chicago cannot go on welcoming new arrivals safely and capably without significant support and immigration policy changes,” Mayor Brandon Johnson said.

It was nice of Eric to drive in from his home in Jersey City to warn that New York City, although it survived a mass terrorist attack and a devastating superstorm, is about to collapse under the strain of refugees who have moved there to live and work.

The Mayor of Chicago was able to put the problem in non-hysterical fashion, which is that cities need further support, mostly financial, to accommodate the new arrivals until they can become self-supporting.

It's not the economic issue that has GOP bigot-fluffers salivating; it's the possibility of using the specter of an “alien invasion” to animate white racists in the North and preserve its narrow House majority, which is regarded as otherwise unsalvageable due to the current shambolic dumpster fire that is the Republican-run House:

A year later, the migrant waves he helped set in motion have put northern “sanctuary” cities increasingly on edge, their budgets stretched, their communities strained. And a border crisis that has animated Republican politics for years is now dividing the Democratic Party. Humanitarian impulses are crashing into desperate resource constraints and once-loyal Democratic allies have reluctantly joined Republicans to train their fire on President Biden.

Let's put to one side for the moment the inconvenient facts that refugees are not coming to places like New York because they are supposed “sanctuary” cities and that Biden did not set in motion any “waves” (unless by that the Times means that he has refused to illegally bar all asylum admissions unlike his crooked depraved predecessor who opened his campaign with a lie-filled rant about Mexican rapists and assassins). We just note that the Times, in its imitable fashion, tries desperately to euphemize the white racism and hysteria that accompanies most of the opposition to refugee resettlement.  

The bucolic charm of Staten Island is threatened by refugees

Let's go to Staten Island, where opposition to sheltering a handful of refugees is undoubtedly based on economic anxiety, or condescending elites, or whatever the f*** else apologists for white racism like to trot out:

STATEN ISLAND - Protests continued Tuesday night on Staten Island, where hundreds of demonstrators marched through the streets with megaphones, signs and American flags.

"I realize it’s a sanctuary city, but there has to be a limit to our compassion," said protester, Michele Rubin. "We don’t have the infrastructure, we are not vetting anybody, we don’t know if anybody has a criminal background or what they did in their country of origin."

The borough has been at the center [Surely, far edge? – Ed.] of New York City's migrant crisis since the end of last month, when the Adams administration started to house asylum-seekers at St. John Villa Academy. 

Fun fact: refugees are vetted by CBP and ICE before being released.  Adults with criminal records are detained.  But you wouldn't know that by watching Rupert Murdoch's Fox New York bulls*** volcano, WNYW-TV.

In fact, cities and towns across New York State are in desperate need of workers, as even the Times had to admit:

“I’d hire probably 20 people tomorrow,” said Mr. Buicko, the president of the Galesi Group, a Schenectady-based developer, who said prospective workers are still waiting for legal authorization. “It’s crazy that we can’t fill a void, we don’t have population growth, and we’ve got people that we’re just bringing in, sitting around doing nothing.”

Mr. Buicko is not alone. Across the state, many large and small employers have expressed an overwhelming willingness to hire recent asylum seekers; migrants are even more eager to work.

The only bar to refugees becoming productive workers is the legal requirement that asylum seekers wait 180 days before they can receive work authorization.  Until then they must be supported by family, friends, or whatever aid cities like New York (pre-utter collapse) can provide.

Joe Biden can't waive that requirement because it's in the statute.  He could provide a type of temporary status for certain refugees based on state of origin, thus creating a two-tier system separating favored refugees from the rest.

There's actually another solution.  Instead of flushing $432,000,000 down the toilet of Jersey Eric's useless friends, that kind of money could be turned to good use.

States with rational Democratic governors like Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey, and Illinois, all favored destinations for refugees, could provide cash grants to refugees willing to work on state-sponsored projects, many of which could involved caring for the newly-arrived.  Shelters need to be built out, children need tutoring, the sick need health care aides.  All these tasks could be provided by refugees themselves in exchange for the grants, which would also permit them to become self-sufficient and move out of the strained shelter system.

I hear you asking how states can pay refugees who are legally barred from working.  Fortunately, thanks to dead bent Supreme Court Justice Nino Scalia, now holding court in a much hotter place with his friend Torquemada, state sovereignty cannot be questioned.

Thank you, Nino Scalia!

At least that's what he said when evil Kenyan-born Socialist Barack Obama tried to restructure Medicaid to compel states to cover lots of folks who needed health care but couldn't afford it.  

That is forbidden, according to Scalia and his fellow Defenders of the Faith:

Coercing States to accept conditions risks the destruction of the “unique role of the States in our system.” ....“[T]he Constitution has never been understood to confer upon Congress the ability to require the States to govern according to Congress’ instructions.” New York, 505 U. S., at 162. Congress may not “simply commandeer the legislative processes of the States by directly compelling them to enact and enforce a federal regulatory program.” 

NFIB v. Sibelius, 567 U.S. 519, 677 (2012) (dissent)(although on this point this was the majority opinion)

What could be closer to the core of state sovereignty than its decision to spend its money as it sees fit, in the absence of a Fourteenth Amendment violation? And who could bring such a challenge? A bunch of goons on Staten Island?

Seems like a small legal risk to us, and well worth running if the alternative is to subject President Biden and every Democrat running for Congress to 16 months of GOP smears about the invasion of Mexican rapists and all of us to Jersey Eric's thirsty rants about the imminent collapse of the city he likes to hang out in from time to time.