Mayor Eric Adams has only one strategy for the migrant crisis that has brought the city’s homeless-shelter population to six figures: Wrangle billions from Washington.
This gambit will continue to fail, as it has for a year — and for two solid political reasons, from national Democrats’ perspective.
At best, federal aid would be pointless.
New York is a solidly Democratic state.
At worst, federal aid will make the problem worse — and more visible to national swing voters.
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Nicole Gelinas is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and contributing editor at City Journal. Follow her on Twitter here.
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