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TRUMP EFFECT: Deep Blue State Cracks Down On Illegal Immigration After Election

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While a number of blue states have vowed to “fight back” against the Trump Administration by openly defying federal immigration law, New York appears to be going in the opposite direction.

New York City Mayor Eric Adams announced that two “migrant hotels” — the Hotel Merit in Manhattan and the Quality Inn JFK in Queens have already been closed. An additional 10 shelters are set to close statewide by the end of the year, just over two weeks before Trump will formally take office.

New York City alone has accommodated more than 220,000 illegal aliens and asylum seekers since 2022, Adams confirmed earlier this month. This accounts for about half the population of the state capital of Albany.

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In addition, the city’s sprawling migrant shelter on Randall’s Island, which was designed to house up to 3,000 people, will be shuttered by the end of February.

The 10 statewide shelters scheduled for closure by December 31 are located in Albany, Dutchess, Erie, Orange and Westchester counties, according to a report from Fox News. The shelters were opened in response to a massive influx of illegal aliens arriving in the state, thanks in part to efforts from red state governors like Greg Abbot of Texas and Ron DeSantis of Florida to bus border crossers to “sanctuary” states.

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A report from the New York Post found that city taxpayers are paying roughly $352 per night to house the migrants, about half of which is going towards housing. Additional funds went towards food, cleaning and social services. The Post further reported that there are roughly 210 city-run shelter sites scattered across the city’s five boroughs, while experts have pegged the total cost of the crisis at $12 billion for the state.

As of this report, there are roughly 58,000 illegal aliens and asylum seekers residing in taxpayer-funded New York City shelters.

City and state officials have claimed the decision was made in response to declining border encounters at the border. After record-setting numbers of illegal immigration in 2022 and 2023, the Biden Administration finally cracked down on illegal immigration ahead of the 2024 election.

While the vast majority of counties moved right in 2024, the shift was especially pronounced in New York and neighboring New Jersey.

In New Jersey, the Democrat margin of victory went from 16 percentage points in 2020 to just about five in 2024, leading some political analysts to label the Garden State as a potential battleground going forward.

The trend held across the Northeast and New England, as the Democratic Party’s margin in New York was just about cut in half, dropping from D+24 in 2020 to D+12 on Tuesday. Maryland also shifted nine points in Trump’s direction, as did Massachusetts, while Connecticut and Rhode Island each shifted by about seven percentage points.

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