The Democrat mayor of Edison, New Jersey Sam Joshi seemed like a MAGA Republican in an interview with WABC-TV posted Tuesday through which he vowed to return unlawful aliens bussed from Texas again to the border as a result of he says they could possibly be armed and their identities can’t be confirmed, making them a safety and well being danger:
“Edison Township law enforcement officials didn’t know if any of these forty people had been carrying weapons, they couldn’t be recognized, and that could be a main drawback. That’s a significant safety danger, it’s a well being danger and we’re simply not going to tolerate that.”
Joshi was responding after over a dozen busloads of migrants arrived from Texas over the weekend to drop the migrants off at practice stations in northern New Jersey in an effort to skirt an edict by New York Metropolis Mayor Eric Adams concentrating on migrant buses from Texas dropping the migrants off within the metropolis.
Joshi posted to Facebook on Sunday:
I’ve turn out to be conscious that Governor Abbott of Texas is as soon as once more transporting unlawful migrants to cities all throughout the US. I need to be very clear- if any bus, practice or airplane of unlawful migrants come to Edison, I’ve instructed our legislation enforcement and emergency administration departments to constitution a bus to move the unlawful migrants proper again to the southern Texas/Mexican border.
Over time I’ve expressed my disagreement with the idea of “sanctuary” cities and states and I received’t permit Edison to be subjected to its penalties. Our border insurance policies must be strengthened to cease unlawful migrants from getting into our nation.
Edison is a municipality with a major immigrant inhabitants and I’ll proceed to assist solely authorized immigration.
Joshi told News12 New Jersey (excerpt):
“Our place in Edison Township is that they’re not welcomed right here. They’re not. They’re unlawful and so they belong on the opposite facet of the border,” Joshi stated. “We don’t need them in Edison, interval. That’s the underside line.”
MIGRANTS CRISIS: #Edison Mayor Sam Joshi says he didn’t know the #migrants wished to enter New York and he’s not permitting them to remain within the township. https://t.co/P7jmouyXqT
— News12NJ (@News12NJ) January 2, 2024
WABC-TV video report with Mayor Joshi:
Fellow Democrat Mayor Steve Fulop of Jersey Metropolis criticized Joshi’s anti-illegal alien stance in a publish on-line Tuesday, “My household got here to the US for security after the Holocaust when almost each particular person in my household was murdered. Importantly, most of those individuals are coming right here as a result of they’re additionally determined for security, meals, and life. We should be good in how we strategy this and have a statewide answer but additionally we MUST be compassionate first right here and assist the place we are able to. Our values in Jersey Metropolis and New Jersey have by no means been about turning our again to folks in want + we shouldn’t begin now as a result of a political sound chunk is straightforward.”
My household got here to the US for security after the Holocaust when almost each particular person in my household was murdered. Importantly, most of those individuals are coming right here as a result of they’re additionally determined for security, meals, and life. We should be good in how we strategy this and have a… https://t.co/iuTSJ1WfOr
— Steven Fulop (@StevenFulop) January 2, 2024
