[Adapted from the latest Radio Derb, now available exclusively on VDARE.com]
Right here’s the late Judy Garland with “Give my regards to Broadway …”
Ah sure, Broadway; the Nice White Approach, the Avenue of Desires. Does any thoroughfare in america have such a romantic, evocative title?
And on West fiftieth Avenue, midway between Broadway and eighth Avenue, stands the Sq. Lodge. It’s formally named the Sq. Lodge at Instances Sq., however that’s a stretch: Instances Sq. is definitely 5 blocks south; however I’ll simply put that all the way down to promotional license.
That is the very coronary heart of New York Metropolis. Residing there have to be actual costly, proper?
Proper: determine six thousand a month for a one-bedroom condominium.
The Sq. Lodge is appropriately well-appointed. There’s a Japanese restaurant and bar within the foyer and the rooms are Artwork Nouveau type with subtle furnishings, plush beds with down comforters and deluxe linens, flat-screen TVs with cable. and toiletries from C.O. Bigelow downtown, “the oldest apothecary in America.”
Nice! Let’s guide a room!
Nonetheless, for those who go to the lodge web site at squarehotelnyc.com, all you get is a plain discover saying “THE SQUARE HOTEL HAS TEMPORARILY CLOSED. Please pardon our look as we slip into one thing new.”
Unusual! Can a pleasant institution like that, so centrally situated, have gone out of enterprise?
No: the Sq. Lodge may be very a lot in enterprise—simply not with Americans or authorized residents. It’s in enterprise with the Metropolis of New York. The Mayor of that metropolis, Eric Adams, has crammed up its 141 rooms with unlawful aliens.
For the lodge and the town, it’s win-win. The lodge is getting straightforward cash from the town and assured full occupancy with out having to offer conventional lodge providers. And Mayor Adams will get to fake he has the inflow of illegals into his sanctuary metropolis underneath management.
And upper-middle-class New York theater-goers get to be ok with themselves. Retiree Judie Rudman, 57, who got here to see Arthur Miller’s “Enemy of The Folks” along with her husband and three children, informed the New York Put up that
I’m extra involved concerning the migrants than the theater goers. If they’ve a spot to remain it makes the town safer.[ Chic hotel in heart of Broadway converted to migrant shelter in latest sign of growing NYC migrant crisis , by Carl Campanile and Marie Pohl, May 5, 2024]
There are after all additionally some losers.
There are potential vacationers with one much less place to remain in midtown Manhattan.
There are native retailers with correspondingly fewer clients.
There are lodge workers whose providers will not be required underneath the minimal new regime.
And there are the occasional victims of a mugging or a knifing by Venezuelan hoodlums resident on the lodge.
What do you get whenever you combine Shut Rikers, Decriminalize every thing, defund police, the Increase The Age act, ban the gang database and facial recognition expertise, throw in limitless migrants ? A teen getting stabbed by a gang of 18 migrants final night time.https://t.co/mGNkSFNhRZ
— RealNewYorker212 (@RealNewYorker2) February 23, 2024
❗🇻🇪⚔️🇺🇸 – That is how 15-year-old Jesús Alejandro Rivas-Figueroa was arrested.
The Venezuelan migrant delinquent who shot a Brazilian vacationer and a New York police officer after they confronted him a few shoplifting on Thursday night time. pic.twitter.com/TmZhH5f3A4
— 🔥🗞The Informant (@theinformant_x) February 10, 2024
And, after all, there are (or shall be) American voters.
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Discovering appropriate high-class lodging for international scofflaws is now massive enterprise throughout. Related Press informed us final month concerning the metropolis of Denver, which is rolling out a brand new, formidable migrant assist program, together with six-month condominium stays and intensive job preparation for individuals who can’t but legally work [Denver makes major shift in migrant response by extending support to six months but limiting spaces, by Jesse Bedayn, April 10, 2024].
In addition to six months’ lease there additionally comes free meals and utility help, a free laptop, a pay as you go cellular phone and metro bus passes, coaching programs on English language, computer systems, monetary literacy, and employees’ rights, and assist with the paperwork for the scofflaws’ bogus asylum functions.
In the meantime, up there within the State of Maine, the city of Westbrook desires to make use of personal properties and church buildings as shelters for unlawful aliens [Westbrook Wants to Turn Private Homes and Churches Into Homeless Shelters—90 percent of welfare recipients in Westbrook are “New Mainers,” according to a city official, by Seamus Othot, MaineWire, May 20, 2024].
Our enemy is concentrating on the Whitest states to switch us. pic.twitter.com/QJv3spLHBj
— RAMZPAUL (@ramzpaul) Might 22, 2024
Wait a minute: Is Westbrook, inhabitants 20,400, a sanctuary, er, city?
Is Maine a sanctuary state?
If neither, why don’t the city fathers simply name in ICE to arrest and deport the scofflaws?
Does any authorities in our nation—The Biden Regime or state, municipal, or native ranges— give a flying fandangle about Americans?
Or about honest however rigorous enforcement of the nation’s legal guidelines, duly handed by our elected representatives?
To ask the questions is to reply them.
John Derbyshire [email him] writes an unbelievable quantity on all kinds of topics for every kind of retailers. (This not consists of Nationwide Assessment, whose editors had some type of tantrum and fired him.) He’s the creator of We Are Doomed: Reclaiming Conservative Pessimism and several other different books. He has had two books revealed by VDARE.com com: FROM THE DISSIDENT RIGHT (additionally out there in Kindle) and FROM THE DISSIDENT RIGHT II: ESSAYS 2013.
