Hold on to Your Huddled Masses: New York City Doesn’t Want Any More Illegal Immigrants

I am certain that, at some point, New York City Mayor Eric Adams must have been given the nickel tour of the Big Apple. At the very least, he must be aware of the massive statue in New York Harbor with the inscription on the base that reads:

Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,
With conquering limbs astride from land to land;
Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand
A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame
Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name
Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand
Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command
The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.
“Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!” cries she
With silent lips. “Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”