Metropolis progressives are apoplectic that Mayor Eric Adams refuses to go to conflict with the feds in protection of violent illegal-migrant criminals.
“That is about concern and chaos,” moaned state Sen. (and mayoral challenger) Zellnor Myrie at a Thursday rally exterior Kings Hospital, denouncing a memo advising metropolis public-hospital employees to not put themselves in hurt’s approach ought to ICE brokers come knocking.
Authorized Support Society lawyer Kathllen Klift referred to as the memo “deeply alarming.”
“Why are we right here at a hospital? Church buildings have been secure havens, faculties have been secure havens. These security nets have been taken away,” bleated Metropolis Councilwoman Rita Joseph (D-Brooklyn).
Actuality test: It’s a federal crime to deliberately conceal, harbor or protect from detection an individual who’s in america unlawfully.
That the Biden crew had no want to hunt out any of them doesn’t grant some magic immunity now.
Nor are feds seeking to do sweeping raids of faculties, hospitals or another public facility.
They’re going after “asylum seekers” who’ve harmed innocents — in a sane world, each metropolis official can be doing every thing potential to assist.
However the de Blasio-era “sanctuary” legislation forbids that — satirically making what the progs declare to concern even extra doubtless, that’s that the feds will wind up arresting different migrants as a result of they don’t get assist in focusing on the dangerous guys.
In fact, Gotham’s loony left can solely take into consideration one enemy: “I’m notably disillusioned that we have now a mayor who’s extra of an assistant to Donald Trump than a mayor for New York Metropolis,” tweeted Public Advocate Jumaane Williams.
Williams additionally accused Adams of displaying a “lack of management” that’s “harming” metropolis communities.
No, he’s defending them as greatest the sanctuary legislation permits: instructing metropolis staff to keep away from battle with ICE.
Within the face of a Justice Division memo warning that native officers are sure to cooperate with immigration enforcement and will face prison prosecution in the event that they as a substitute intrude, what else ought to he do?
Extra vital: Williams, Myrie and the remainder of the bleating progressive class are out-of-step with the overwhelming majority of New Yorkers who need illegal-migrant baddies rounded up and faraway from the town.
The “concern and chaos” is coming from extremists who can’t or received’t pull their heads far sufficient out of their ideological fever goals to acknowledge easy actuality.
