New York City may house the nearly 100,000 migrants that have flocked to the city under Joe Biden’s presidency in Central Park, with Deputy Mayor for Health and Human Services Anne Williams-Isom declaring, “Everything is on the table.”
New York City, Washington, D.C., and Martha’s Vineyard have seen an influx of migrants that have crossed the southern border of the United States from Mexico over the past year. In a move to protest the Biden regime’s lack of action in security, Florida and Texas both sent a number of migrants via plane and bus to serval self-declared “sanctuary cities” over the past year.
NYC Mayor Eric Adams addressed the migrant crisis at a news conference, accepting, “It’s not going to get any better… From this moment on, it’s downhill. There is no more room.”
Mr. Adams said that he wanted to “localize this madness” so that people sleeping outdoors were contained to certain parts of the city, without identifying potential locations or making it clear if people would be sleeping on sidewalks, in tents, or other forms of housing.
“Our next phase of the strategy now that we have run out of room, we have to figure out how we’re going to localize the inevitable that there’s no more room indoors,” he said at an unrelated news conference on public safety.
Tent cities in NYC’s Central Park aren’t without precedent. During the Great Depression a large shanty town, called a “Hooverville” after President Herbert Hoover, sprung up in Central Park. With New York City unable to uphold its “sanctuary city” promise, it appears a new Hooverville may be in the city’s future.
