Mr. Adams Goes to the Border

As if New York City’s homelessness, vagrancy and mental-health crises weren’t troubling enough, a new group of needy people are now trawling the streets for change and any other help they can get.

They are migrants who have crossed the southern border and been bussed to Gotham by authorities tasked with reducing the pressure bearing down on border states by circulating the newcomers elsewhere.
 

The added burdens prompted Mayor Eric Adams to visit El Paso, Texas, over the weekend, where he vowed “to pressure the federal government for assistance handling the migrant crisis,” as Politico reported. Let us hope President Biden gets the message: that it is of the utmost urgency—for the sake of border areas, blue states and cities, and the migrants themselves—to close the gates to trafficked “asylum seekers” at the border.