The New York Daily News on how voters must under that Republican politicians created the migrant chaos:

Recent polling shows that New York Democratic voters are souring on Gov. Kathy Hochul and Mayor Eric Adams on their handling of the migrant situation; while we can and certainly do criticize both on aspects of their approach, let’s remember who set the stage for this crisis, and who benefits politically.

Republicans have for decades refused any rational approach to contending with humanitarian migrant flows, rooting themselves firmly in the camp of feel-good and pointless symbology and insistence on draconian enforcement that is both illegal and immoral, as perhaps best exemplified by Donald Trump’s obsession with a border wall.

There have been individual GOP legislators willing to hammer out real solutions that would treat migrants as what they are — would-be refugees entitled to a legal process and not, as it’s incredible we even have to point out, an invading army or a horde of savages — but they have for some time been the minority, and dwindling.

Look at the so-called Gang of Eight of bipartisan senators who 10 years ago managed to garner 68 Senate votes for a bill that would offer a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants and improve access to agricultural visas, among other things, before then-house Speaker John Boehner let it die on the vine.

The two remaining Republican senators are Lindsey Graham — now a Trump lackey who in 2021 said “what we’re trying to do is basically say, if you come to America, you will no longer be allowed to apply for asylum here,” and suggested that migrants apply for asylum in their home countries, which is impossible under U.S. law — and Marco Rubio — who supported Florida Gov. Ron Desantis’ coercive flights of Venezuelan migrants to Martha’s Vineyard and suggested those who opposed them “want to destroy this country.” Slim pickings for a sensible conversation.