I’m quite confident that they will offer some excellent ideas on securing the border and discouraging people from coming illegally, right?
New York Democrats finally get aggressive in border fight
Democrats in New York are finally going on the attack over border security and crime — just in time to test the strategy in the first House election of the year.
It took cinematic levels of dysfunction in Washington — from the scuttled impeachment inquiry into the homeland security secretary to failed attempts at a border deal — for Democrats to get mobilized around the politically volatile issues after years of playing defense.
Just this week, both centrist Democratic politicians and liberal coalitions put forth strategies to try to recover ground. Gov. Kathy Hochul demanded the migrants who attacked police officers in Times Square be jailed and New York City’s police commissioner lamented a “wave of migrant crime” in efforts to show spine on the matter.
Progressives sharpened their own message, writing in a memo: “There is no connection between immigration and crime,” while blaming Republicans in an email for “the same xenophobic playbook we’ve seen countless times from Donald Trump and others before.”
Nope, no crime
Tax-payer supported migrants who moved to NYC have caused a surge in crimes. In the past year alone there was more than 1,200 arrests for crimes including endangering children, assaults, grand larcenies and robberies. pic.twitter.com/98f1UrK039
— Andy Ngô ?????????? (@MrAndyNgo) February 4, 2024
No crime
Migrant moped gang steals hard working Americans phones and hires hackers to clean out their bank accounts. Who funds this? Where is Biden’s DOJ since this is organized crime and domestic terrorism? pic.twitter.com/0mcOp7xmf5
— • ?IS??I?? ™ • (@4Mischief) February 8, 2024
OK, let’s see them getting aggressive
The left-leaning [NY Working Family Party] and its allies have been scrambling to combat the political onslaught from the right with nuance and statistics: The memo that Archila’s party released Tuesday stressed that the Times Square violence is an anomaly — a claim backed up with academic studies — and argued newcomers have for centuries enriched communities.
1199SEIU, the politically influential health care workers union, proffered similar points.
“You have to keep saying nobody is for chaos and disorder,” interim Political Director Helen Schaub said in an interview. “But the alternative to chaos and disorder has to be an orderly legal immigration process versus just shutting it down because, frankly, that hurts all of us.”
Basically, it’s all about messaging. No offerings for actually dealing with the illegal alien problem. That’s them getting aggressive. I wonder how this will play in the SCNY areas overrun with illegals, especially those committing crimes.
