Aw, man – cat fight in Gotham!

It looks like the illegal “migrants” who have made their way to New York City – both at the invitation of New York’s mayor Eric “Sanctuary City” Adams and courtesy of bus rides to blue paradise from helpful Republican governors – have strained relations between the two most important elected officials in the state. They are busy casting aspersions at each other over their combined levels of incompetence.

Governor Kathy Hochul fired the first salvo.

New York City’s mayor Eric Adams says an unprecedented surge of asylum seekers has left the city at a breaking point but he’s now facing new criticism from the state’s governor Kathy Hochul. @gabegutierrez reports. pic.twitter.com/hyUHBtzUZv

— TODAY (@TODAYshow) August 17, 2023

The governor sent a rip-roaring letter to Adams via her state lawyers that lays out everything the state has done so far to assist and mitigate the crisis the city pretty much brought on itself. It’s clinically thorough, while simultaneously leveling a broadside at the city administration aka Adams.

…The leaders of New York City and New York State, where officials say the arrival of migrants has set off a humanitarian crisis, seemed to turn on each other this week, after the state sent a scathing letter accusing the city of resisting its help and being slow to act.

In the letter Tuesday night, a lawyer representing Gov. Kathy Hochul faulted Mayor Eric Adams’s management of New York’s migrant crisis in sharp terms, puncturing the appearance of city-state harmony that the two leaders have spent much of their tenures cultivating.

This is a small sample of the smack-down handed out in the actual document itself. It’s got “Get your act TOGETHER” laced all through it.

…A lack of coordination from the City to date has impeded the State’s ability to foster productive relationships and discussions, including with the counties and localities that have offered to help. In particular, the City chose to send migrants to counties and localities outside of the City with-little-or-no notice to or coordination with the State or those counties and localities. That has created opposition and has led to litigation that might have been mitigated or avoided if the City had acted in concert with the State and with the counties and localities where it sent migrants. Moreover, the City’s failure to inform the State of critical incidents that have occurred in shelters outside of the City has compounded these difficulties.

Holy SMOKING ruins. She lays Adams out flat in just that paragraph alone, and there are 12 pages of whup-ass to this thing.

For those curious these are the scenes outside one of the many migrant facilities in NYC today. Companies like DoorDash employ them and there's just lines of bikes. This is the Roosevelt Hotel. It costs us 9.8 million dollars a day, while New Yorkers starve on the street. Share! pic.twitter.com/w6g4fC43H4

— Brennan Stultz (@theinkbubble) August 14, 2023

Mayor Adams was feeling hurt and defensive at his press conference today, when they asked him about the gov’s missive. It’s just not fair, he insisted. New York City is just…well…just an itty bitty piece of dirt compared to everywhere else.

It ain’t fair, I tell you.

…Hizzoner complained it’s not right that New York City is responsible for housing “over 99 percent” of the shelters, arguing the crisis is statewide. He called on Hochul to issue an executive order to stop localities outside of NYC from banning migrant shelters.

“I think this is a national and statewide issue that has been unjustly dropped into the lap of New York City residents. We only make up .05 of the landmass in New York State!” a frustrated Adams said during a Manhattan-based press conference Thursday.

“That’s just unfair to New York City,” he added.

That’s not really the strong response that Adams needs to make his case, but it sure puts the emphasis on the governor’s. The mayor would have been better advised to keep the whine to a minimum and maybe take a page from one of his Democratic compadre’s interviews.

Try blaming Joe Biden and do it in sincere, measured tones.

New York City continues to struggle with the influx of illegal immigrants.

Joining us to discuss the crisis, we have Democratic city councilman @BobHoldenNYC.https://t.co/0t3Kg1YWz4 pic.twitter.com/26h6GrmP1a

— Capitol Report_NTD (@capitolreport) August 17, 2023

Things are looking grim…

The Roosevelt Hotel NYC The intake center for migrants.
Migrants are now awaiting housing at a nearby waiting room until they are housed. I was told that there
scabies disease circulating around there . 🎥 @LeeroyPress
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— Viral News NYC (@ViralNewsNYC) August 14, 2023

…and Adams is facing increasing pushback with every ad hoc plan he and gang of merry men pull out of their day planners. Every place they settle on after weeks of agonizing over choices comes up bupkiss.

Migrants New York Residents protest against tent city at Creedmor pic.twitter.com/JEmN91umXF

— Ron (@ronamdavadi) August 9, 2023

Oddly enough, that was one of the things in the governor’s letter. It contains a long list of sites the state had immediately identified as suitable for migrant shelter use that they would make available to the city, in anticipation of a housing crisis.

But, hello – the state was never asked for the facilities. Never contacted about them by the city.

It’s all so unfair, Mayor Adams?

They tried to tell him.