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An article in the OBSERVER headlined "City becoming minor player in migrant debate," written by John Whittaker. He states that Jamestown continues to find itself "on the periphery," in his own words.
He continues to state that in the larger state and national discussion of migrants seeking asylum in the United States, New York City Mayor Eric Adams is continuing to push Gov. Kathy Hochul to send more migrants to upstate cities. This is a move that 65% of New York City voters who were polled in late January by Quinnipiac University agree with. The poll released sampled 1,310 registered New York City voters.
Among the topics of local interest, it dealt with Adams' mid-January proposal to send some of the migrants seeking sanctuary to areas of upstate New York. Some of our cities are losing populations. Adams also stated if this is done and the dollars come in to support those who are helping migrants and asylum seekers to incentivize this help, we believe we can help those cities that are struggling and at the same time, give people a good start in this country.
After reading this article, I could not continue on reading this propaganda. Yes, propaganda. First of all, these people are not migrants. They are illegal aliens who illegally crossed our southern border.
We don't know who they are or what their medical problems are. We don't know what they are transporting illegally into our country -- drugs and illegally dealing with young girls, deals which have been proven by other experts. The facts are that New York City has been and still is a sanctuary city.
Now they want their problems with those illegal aliens to be sent upstate. My answer is -- keep your problems in New York City and bear with the consequences that New York City caused on their own.
Upstate areas don't need your problems that you created as a sanctuary city to start with. We don't need it -- and the taxpayers are on the hook again.
Richard Makuch is a Dunkirk resident. Send comments to editorial@observertoday.com