Episode Transcript: #2049- Coleman Hughes
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What's up? Good to see you man. What's cracking?
I'm good, I can't complain.
We were just talking about you live in New York City and whether or not the migrant crisis is a real thing.
It's a real thing. You notice it in Port Authority.
And I think when Eric Adams gets in front of the country and says,
I can't handle this, I think he's telling the truth.
And some people have accused him of racism bizarrely, but I don't think it comes from that.
I looked into this and the part people don't know about this story is really the full unfolding of it.
It goes back to the 1930s.
New York State made a constitutional amendment to the state constitution
which required the state to provide housing for the homeless, essentially.
And it was sort of vaguely worded.
So in the 80s and 90s, the courts in New York began interpreting that more and more strictly.
Almost no other state, I'm not sure if any other state actually has something in its state constitution requiring that kind of a thing.
So basically what happened is the judges ended up interpreting this more strictly.
Obviously the original purpose of this is for New Yorkers that are homeless to be housed.
But they ended up interpreting it so strictly that when the Republican governors in Texas and Florida began sending a few thousand migrants