The migrant problem has to be fixed at the border.

0:00 Speaker 1 What is today is the Labor Day weekends, Governor David Pattison, and he has many things he wants to talk about, especially what the heck is going on in New York, which does migrant crisis? Governor Pattison bring us up to date.

0:16 Speaker 2 Well, John, I’d like to start out on a positive note and give a shout out to two women elected officials who I think really have distinguished themselves since the last time we talked. One is Governor Hockel, who has now challenged the federal government, who this past Wednesday went to Washington to the White House to seek assistance and

0:39 has even been critical of this whole idea of how we got to this point in the first place. The other shout out goes to congress Member Nicole Maliat Takers, who I think explains the whole situation and how it all happened better than anybody. And she’s talking about the fact that had they planned for this prior to sending

1:03 the migrants, how the Federal Park Service and a lot of the service agencies could have prepared for it in the states where the migrants were going to be set. Instead, they didn’t do that. She also points out that these asylum hearings are not going in the favor of the migrants.

1:22 They’re about fifty percent. So if you could calculate that from the very beginning, that would have been a reason not to allow that many people to come in. And I couldn’t agree more So. I think both of those women are really addressing the situation. I think you’re going to see more of this in other cities and other

1:43 states because I have no idea when they planned this, where did they think we would be in September of twenty twenty three. Where did they think that all these people would go?

1:55 Speaker 1 And Governor Hoko I said the other day on radio that I commend Governor Hogel because Mayor Adams says, well, why don’t you move these people out of the city into one of the other counties, And Governor Hockel refused, uh, And we had a lot of county leaders, county chairman and executives like Bruce Blakeman and said no way in

2:20 Nassau County and Suffolk County. The joke I told is, you know, they wanted to move them into West Hampton Airport. And I sleep with one gun underneath my pillows. I live in the beach house. I said, now I have to live sit with two guns underneath my belt.

2:40 Speaker 2 Well, fortunately, John, most of the migrants I think are not coming here armed or are they necessarily criminals. They’re very much like our ancestors, many of them not really mine, but who came here with very little and were able to earn a living. But the problem is that we’re coming up on the beginning of the school year and

3:05 we’ve already heard that there’s a rise in COVID nineteen cases and a number of different diseases that continue to kind of hinder our progress. And normally, you know, when you would think that we would be testing the young people because all of them are going to wind up in school somewhere and that’s going to be even more

3:29 of a disaster.

3:31 Speaker 1 There’s but you know what we want. Look, we believe in immigration, all of us, but it’s checks and balances, and we just we don’t want those kids going to school. Would our kids if they haven’t been checked for diseases?

3:46 Speaker 2 And this is one of those situations John, where ideologically, probably if there was a safe way to do this, I think the overwhelming number of people to have a lot of sympathy for some of the countries that these migrants are immigrating from, and some of the dictatorships and the drastic measures that are taken against individuals, the drug cartels,

4:13 and the whole thing. But as is always the case, you can only be as helpful as your means allow. And what we’ve basically done is we have oversaturated certain parts of the country with this migration. And while no one wishes ill on the people are coming here, it’s overcrowding the system. And what I was thinking about, and

4:41 I’m talking to people about this is sin so many migrants were coming if they instead of just doing it haphazardly and suddenly after the exploration of Title forty two, what they also failed to do was to think about what the migrants would do with they’d get here. So what if they sent some money to set up programs

5:03 to train people in some of the skilled areas that they would need. I mean, they wouldn’t go to the Board of Education, which is short teachers, but they could go to a lot of the trade industries and get jobs there so that when they got here they might even have a chance to find a place to live.

5:20 Speaker 1 That certainly makes common sense. The other one that I suggested to Mayor Adams is the fact that if you put everybody on Rikers Island and vetted them like they did Ellis Island. And I even said, why don’t we name change the name of Rikers Island to Ellis Island too, So you vet everybody there, you make sure they don’t

5:45 have any diseases, you make sure they’re not terrorists, you make sure they’re not drug dealers, and you let them out to society individually instead of just putting them on the streets.

5:56 Speaker 2 In New York, John, that’s brilliant. Near the turn of the last century into the nineteen hundreds, during that period of time, one point three million people came through Ellis Island. But the difference between now and then is the jobs were already available. They had planned to allow the immigration during that particular time, and that’s why when you hear

6:20 people talk about going through Ellis Island, I mean, it may have been tough when they first got here, finding work and that sort of thing, but it wasn’t near the just catastrophe that we’re living with. And it’s a self inflicted wound issued by the federal government who has yet to explain why they would do this in the

6:42 first place without any real means of giving these people a chance. This as much of a disservice to the immigrants themselves as it is to the population that they’re moving into.

6:53 Speaker 1 The other day, Governor Nicole Mayor Takis made aoretically allegation that the minute we give some of these migrants work permits, then under the theory that the city council voted for it already, they’ll also be entitled to vote in city elections.

7:20 Is that why Eric Adams is pushing. No.

7:26 Speaker 1 I mean that has been straightened down.

7:29 Speaker 2 Immigrants were allowed to vote in twenty two states back during the same time in the beginning of the twentieth century, and but it’s been kind of established that you’ve got to become a citizen of the United States to vote.

7:47 That’s the only way it’s going to happen, except in school board elections, you know, communities sort of situations like that. That’s probably some interpretation of some legal eagle that wants to try to make it appear that you can get around that. But you’ve got to be a citizen of the United States to vote.

8:07 Speaker 1 And I am all for that. I stand for that, and Governor Patterson, we got a minute left. Anything else you want to tell people.

8:17 Speaker 2 Well, I just think that Mayor Adams is held up pretty well. He’s gone through a lot of criticism, but he has criticized the federal government. He’s even criticized the state. He got himself kicked off the president’s re election campaign committee.

8:33 But I think that people want Mayor Adams to tell the president to shut down the border. Now, when you’re a mayor of a city and you’re telling the president of a country what to do, you’ll get more than just being kicked off a campaign committee. So if you’re a Republican, you saw what happened.

8:50 Speaker 1 You saw what happened to Governor Cuomo when all of a sudden the White House didn’t like him.

8:56 Speaker 2 Yeah, exactly, and that could happen to Mayor this well. So so just to summarize, it’s just that, uh, you know, talk radio listeners and hosts can talk about that because there’s no ramification. So I don’t think they should be goading Eric Adams into another fight where he and the city could get hurt.

9:17 Speaker 1 God bless you have a great Labor Day weekend, and we’ll talk again real So thank you guys.

9:22 Speaker 2 Thank you John. Always good to talk to you.