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MIDTOWN MANHATTAN Migrants sleep outside a hotel, while others line up for benefits at a Red Cross ofice. New York City, already housing 70,000 homeless children and adults in shelters with another 4,000 living on the streets, now has had to accept 60,000 migrants bused up from the southern border.
“We’re seeing it in New York and Chicago, but not just those places; it’s in Denver . . . and everywhere. Every city is having this now. And I think that’s only going to get worse.” — Todd Bensman
them. City officials say the task is simply overwhelming. In June, New York City of-
ficials tried to solve their crisis by working with state officials to relocate large numbers of migrants to other cities and counties. But officials in those smaller jurisdictions said “no thanks,” and issued emer- gency orders rejecting any at- tempt by New York officials to move the city’s migrants into their area. Upstate leaders pointed out
that Manhattan progressives certainly hadn’t consulted them when they elected to become a sanctuary destina- tion. Why then should they be expected to help shoulder the burden they’d brought on themselves? New York City leaders re-
sponded with a massive law- suit asking the courts to force more than 30 counties and towns to accept migrant place- ments within their jurisdic- tions. Among them: Dutchess, Suffolk, Putnam, Onondaga, Broome, and Niagara coun- ties, to name only a few.
New York’s growing civil
war over unbridled immigra- tion is just the latest sign that the prolonged, historic influx of undocumented aliens un- der the Biden administration can no longer be contained in America’s largest cities. It’s already spreading well
beyond the blue sanctuary strongholds that have been the focus of news reports.
MIGRANT DILEMMA Now, it appears the crisis is spilling into America’s heart- land. Todd Bensman of the
Center for Immigration Studies reports that with the 2024 election loom- ing, the incoming tide of humanity is beginning to affect every medium- sized city and county in the nation. “You just can’t have that
kind of population surge in such a short period of time and not have people every- where in these cities feel it in a negative way,” says
DESTINATION A Venezuelan outside a church on the fashionable resort island of Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts, after being flown there by presidential hopeful Gov. Ron DeSantis, R-Fla.
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Bensman, author of Overrun: How Joe Biden Unleashed the Greatest Border Crisis in U.S. History. “We’re seeing it in New York
and Chicago, but not just those places; it’s in Denver . . . and ev- erywhere. Every city is having this now,” he tells Newsmax, adding, “And I think that’s only going to get worse.” As Bensman suggests —
and if the reaction in upstate New York is any indication — good optics for the TV cam- eras at the border could turn into political dynamite in 2024 in the suburbs and beyond.
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