TRENTON, NJ – Phil Murphy played his m-card this week after saying he would deny illegal migrants from New York City to relocate to New Jersey. Murphy’s stance on immigration went from ‘let them in’ to ‘keep them out’ after learning President Joe Biden’s plan to relocate hundreds of migrants sleeping in the streets of New York City to the Atlantic City Airport.
Murphy stopped short of calling for building a wall along the Hudson River to keep the NYC migrant overflow out of the Garden State. In Staten Island, protesters were stopping busses headed to St. John Villa, a former all-girls private school being used by the city as temporary housing for migrants.
Those migrants came across the border under President Joe Biden’s open-border policy at the southern border. It’s a policy Governor Phil Murphy has championed until those migrants showed up at his doorstep last week.
“I don’t see any scenario where we’re going to be able to take in a program in Atlantic City or, frankly, elsewhere in the state,” Murphy said in late August. “We are already seeing folks in New Jersey that have probably swelled in New Jersey from New York City or from other locations, but you need scale, enormous amount of federal support, resources that go beyond anything that we can afford. Putting everything else aside, I just don’t see it, and I would suspect that’ll continue to be the case.”
Murphy has faced criticism from the immigration rights groups he once carried on his shoulder. New Jersey is supposed to be a sanctuary state, right?
Well, the bad news for illegal migrants seeking sanctuary in the Garden State is Governor Murphy also has a critical election to win in just two months. The entire senate and legislature is up for re-election. Thousands of illegal immigrants being bussed across New Jersey is not good for Murphy and Democrats at a time when New Jersey Republicans are gaining some momentum against Murphy, powered in part by bad decisions by President Biden and controversial decisions over the past five years by Murphy.
Republicans are hoping New Jerseyans remember the Democrat war on parental rights, the covid-19 lockdowns where the entire Democrat run state legislature let the governor run the state as a dictatorship and now, illegal immigration has arrived on the shores on New Jersey.
Murphy defended his rejection of the tired, the poor, the huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of our teeming southern border.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, somewhere else, for I dim my lamp beside the shuttered golden door!
“Let me remind you,” Murphy said. “No state has done more for our immigrant population in the past six years than New Jersey.”
Except now, Murphy has an election to win and he can’t have these migrants getting in his way.