Team Trump has shut down the illegal-immigrant flood tide at the border, but what of the millions let in under the Biden crew?
How does the nation deal with that crisis?
New York saw glimmers of it last week.
Southern District prosecutors moved to throw some sunlight into New York’s big-bucks migrant industry — hitting major shelters (the Roosevelt Hotel, Hotel Chandler and at least one other) with subpoenas in a criminal probe.
The feds want to know the names of the aliens staying at these places, and — crucially — the names of the people and businesses funding and providing services for shelter operations and all the relevant contract info.
This is years overdue; the idea that zero malfeasance was taking place amid huge rivers of cash flowing out with close to zero supervision is preposterous.
Remember, the migrant crisis has so far cost New York roughly $7 billion, forked over to pay for services for the 230,000-plus border-jumpers who arrived these past three years.
That public cash was routed through a Byzantine web of agencies and outside contractors to pay for shelter, food and other goodies.
So ignore the inevitable lefty whining about how terrible it is the Justice Department wants to know who exactly has been on the receiving end of the largesse and who has been paid to hand it out under what circumstances.
It’s the taxpayers’ money. They’re owed full transparency — and all the more so because of the massive unpopularity of illegal immigration.
Look for this probe both to turn up real dirt and to function as a model for future fed moves against similarly entrenched migrant money machines in Chicago and elsewhere.
Look forward, too, to subpoenas probing the largely government-funded “nonprofits” that encouraged and aided the mass migration.
The move comes as border czar Tom Homan went to Albany and made the administration’s intentions very plain.
“Sanctuary cities are going to get exactly what they don’t want: more agents in the community,” he said. “We’ll double the man-force if we have to.”
Doesn’t get any clearer — or more necessary — than that.
And yes, Homan will need more resources to make good on his “flood the zone” promise, but it’s exactly what the situation requires: determined pushes into the worst trouble spots created by Biden’s open-border policy.
The problem the last administration saddled America with is gargantuan in scale — that’s why only bold, big thinking and intense, targeted solutions can hope to deal with it.
