Governor Hochul suddenly realizes we have a border crisis

By golly, she gets it!

New York has been awash in budget-busting border crossers for many months now, and Gov. Hochul has be♛en in near-total denial.

Suddenly, it see♕ms, the light bulb has popped on: The border, she declared Sund🥂ay, “is too open right now.”

Governor, you don’t say!

“People coming from all▨ over the world are . . . simply saying they need asylum and the majority of them seem to be ending up in the streets of New York, and that is a real problem,” Kathy-come-lately told “Face the Nation.”

And she also has a prescription: “We want [Congress to place] a limit on who can 🃏come ac🅺ross the border.”  

From heᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚr lips to Chuck Schumer’s ears. Also, Hakeem Jeffries’ – and especially Joe Biden’s. 

And it would be very useful for Mayo🍰r Adams to hop aboard Hochul’s shiny new busted-border bandwagon, too.🅷

Both he and the governor have been dancing around the core issue – America’s non-existent southern border, and Washington’s refus🃏al to resto🌜re it – for many months now. 

And for too long, Hochul seemed content to lܫet Adams deal with the consequences on his own.

What happens to New York City stays in New York City, right? Except maybe now that the border-crosser tsunami threatens to crash down north of Westchester, Hochul has decided to pay 𝄹attention.

Or maybe ඣshe has pollsꦰ showing upstate and suburban voters paying very close attention themselves.

Whatever.

So now Hochul and Adams are demanding big federal bucks to help pay the bills – an🐼d Schumer, Jeffries and Bide🔥n have even conspired to toss occasional couch change their way.

But too little, too late – which always is going to be the case so long as Washington’s patience with illegal border-crossers exceeds New York’s ability to cough up sufficient cash tꦫo cover the costs.

New York City, it’s worth repeating again and again and again, has largely itself to blame for its dilemma. Gotham, as a matter of l𒁃ong-standing (and quite foolish) policy, will put a roof over anybody who wanders into the five boroughs.

Thus the city is a migrant magnet. And it will remain so as ꩲlong as its “right-to-shelter” policꦜy is in effect. And, until it’s gone, New York’s poverty pleadings will be taken seriously by no one.

But a serious move to deep-six free room-and-board for all comers could cause Washington to take Hoch🌳ul’s busted-border epiphany as an election-year-eve r🍸ed flag.

That is, if border-security cowardice is causin♉g cobalt-blue New York to grow weary of its near-numberless migrants, what must✃ the rest of the country be feeling?

Make that dreading.

An estimated💫 260,000 economic migrants hopped the border last month alone. Where – no, how? –ꦆ does it end?

However, that’s for the (near) future. Right now, here’s an open-arms “welcome aboard” to Kathy Hochul, and never 🤡mind wh⭕at caused her awakening.

But now comes the heavy lifting, madame governor. Now you need to push your clamp-down-the-borꦑder prescription to folks who can do something abo🍃ut it. 

Right?

No doubt Chuck Schumer will be delighted 🎐to take your call. Hope you pla🍒ce it soon.

Email: bob@bobmcmanus.nyc