New York Mayor Eric Adams headed to El Paso, Texas, over the weekend to see the other end of the flow of tens of thousands of asylum-seekers pouring into Port Authority, as Americans find themselves wondering how things ended up like this and what can be done about it.
It shouldn’t be up to Adams alone or his host, El Paso Mayor Oscar Leeser. This is a national situation and needs to be addressed on the national level.
For starters, shutting down the border or stopping all asylum claims is ludicrous, immoral and illegal. But so is accepting chaos and official inaction, which is what Adams and Leeser have been trying to deal with coming from Washington. It’s up to the federal government to effectively manage the population movement, ensuring an asylum evaluation process that is both complete and efficient.
