Migrant Work Permits are No Real Answer to New York’s Crisis But Just a Red Herring; Work Permits Won’t Magically Solve NYC’s Migrant Crisis — they’ll make it worse

Migrant work permits are no real answer to New York’s crisis but just a red herring:

Gov. Kathy Hochul has now joined Mayor Eric Adams and others in demanding President Joe Biden fast-track work permits for the tens of thousands of “asylum seekers” swamping the city.

Sorry: That’s no answer to the illegal-migrant crisis, for a host of practical and principled reasons; fact is, it’s just a red herring.

All it does is give the gov and mayor something politically safe to demand of the prez now that it’s blatantly obvious he won’t deliver anything like the billions in emergency aid that they’ve been calling for.

That lets them avoid pushing for the only thing the administration could and should do to stop the endless inflow — namely, stop letting them into the country in the first place.

For starters, federal law says “seekers” can’t apply for work permits until six months after they’ve filed their initial asylum request, and it takes at least another two months to get the work OK — a delay that’ll surely grow now that millions more are trying.

Are Adams and Hochul asking for our migrants to jump to the head of line? Even if Biden could do that, it’d rightly infuriate every other part of the nation grappling with the same issues.

More, it would vastly increase the numbers coming to Gotham: Word would go out instantly that you should come to New York City — it not only guarantees free shelter but also rapid access to legal work papers. —>READ MORE HERE

Work permits won’t magically solve NYC’s migrant crisis — they’ll make it worse:

After weeks of fighting, Gov. Kathy Hochul and Mayor Eric Adams finally agreed with each other on how to fix the migrant crisis.

The answer, they said last week, is faster work permits from Washington.

When these two agree on something to do with migrants, you know it’s probably wrong.

“We must expedite work visas,” Adams said Thursday at a Lower Manhattan rally. “We’re calling on our national leaders.”

The fact he had to show up to protest President Joe Biden in making this request isn’t the greatest sign of any breakthrough in cooperation from DC.

Hochul isn’t faring better.

She went to Washington to make the same request — but couldn’t even score a meeting with the president.

It’s just as well Biden isn’t listening because Adams and Hochul don’t have a case.

The argument is that the sooner migrants can work, the sooner the city can relieve itself of the burden of sheltering 60,000 newcomers. —>READ MORE HERE

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