Rather than directly dealing with the crisis at the southern border, the Biden administration has potential plans to send migrants from New York to New Jersey to help with the housing issues, but according to Democratic New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy, he doesn’t “see any scenario” where his state can help.
With a surge of migrants overwhelming the New York City housing and social programs, the Biden administration is looking into whether or not the Atlantic City International Airport in New Jersey could help in the care and relocation of the migrants. The Democrat NJ Governor, who once declared that NJ is a “sanctuary” state, is not offering any help and suggested that the security crisis at the southern border must be addressed rather than shifting the burden from state to state.
“I don’t see any scenario where we’re going to be able to take in a program in Atlantic City, or frankly elsewhere in the state,” Murphy said in an interview on News 12 NJ. “You need scale, enormous amount of federal support, resources that go beyond anything that we can afford. Putting everything else aside, I just don’t see it. I would suspect that that will continue to be the case.”
The Governor said that the federal government must “responsibly and humanely secure our borders” and allow migrants a pathway for legal status.
“We’ve always been a nation of immigrants, but that doesn’t mean it can be the Wild West,” Murphy declared.
New York City Mayor Eric Adams has been begging for help from the federal government and has received nothing. In a letter from the Biden administration, they outlined a plan in which migrants may be sent to New Jersey, but that doesn’t seem likely.
