New York is getting its comeuppance.

In the four years that Trump was out of office, no state political establishment besides the Biden White House did more to persecute the former president through banana republic-style weaponization of courts.

What’s more, New York became the poster child of what happens when you abandon Trump’s border policies and turn them on their heads. New York City, a sanctuary city in a sanctuary state, was absolutely flooded with illegal aliens under President Joe Biden.

On the one hand lawlessness, on the other lawfare. Anarcho-tyranny. That’s pretty much the Democrat Party’s modus operandi.

Now the tables have turned. Trump is back in the White House and from the flurry of actions he’s taken so far, it looks like he means business in putting a kibosh on the state’s sanctuary status.

U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi announced Wednesday that the Department of Justice is taking legal action against New York over its sanctuary policies that abet illegal immigration in violation of federal law.

“They have a ‘tip-off’ provision that requires New York’s DMV commissioner to promptly inform any illegal alien when a federal immigration agency has requested their information,” Bondi said according to ABC News. “It’s tipping off an illegal alien. And it’s unconstitutional, and that’s why we filed this lawsuit.”

Trump’s Justice Department is also suing some of New York’s top officials, including Democrat Gov. Kathy Hochul and Attorney General Letitia James.

It should be noted that James was one of the leaders of the movement in New York to prosecute Trump.

The Trump administration isn’t just suing New York. It is cutting off federal funds that were used to facilitate illegal immigration.

Illegal aliens who poured in from Biden’s open wound at the southern border made their way to New York City en masse.

The influx of illegals transformed the Big Apple. I’ve witnessed this firsthand. A local park near where I live, Tompkins Square Park, became a daily hangout for hundreds of foreign young men. They seemed to mostly be in their teens and early 20s. The city had set up a shelter nearby. Large parts of the park quickly became a mess.

This story repeated the city over.

Many neighborhoods saw a sharp increase in crime where shelters had been set up, though the city has made it difficult to track data on the subject. Schools were occasionally shut down to house illegals. Housing became a nightmare in the city as hotels were filled to capacity.

It seemed like many of the newcomers were figuratively and literally giving the middle finger to authorities.

Illegal aliens were driving the crime surge in popular tourist areas like Midtown. Many of them have been involved in violent gangs.

The now notorious Roosevelt Hotel became a symbol of the crisis. The hotel, which allegedly received a great deal of money from the Biden administration through FEMA, became a cesspool of criminality.

The money wasn’t just going to this one hotel. FEMA was sending tens of millions of dollars to New York so that they could keep the flow of illegal aliens coming.

This wasn’t just a terrible sanctuary law hurting locals; it was a money pit costing taxpayers and diverting resources away from needy Americans.

Rep. Mark Harris, R-N.C., called it a “betrayal” in a recent interview with The Daily Signal’s Virginia Allen.

“While North Carolinians are still struggling to rebuild their communities in the wake of Hurricane Helene, FEMA sent $59 million to New York for illegal aliens to be housed in luxury hotels. This is a betrayal of the highest order,” Harris told The Daily Signal.  

I agree.

Strangely enough, Trump may have found a New York ally in his pursuit of curtailing illegal immigration. New York City Mayor Eric Adams, a Democrat who found himself on the wrong side of the Biden administration for having qualms about the scale of illegal aliens coming into his city, has expressed willingness to work with Trump.

The Justice Department recently dropped bribery charges against Adams. Critics have said this is part of a deal to make Adams cooperative, though Adams and the White House have denied it.

Adams has indicated he will reopen the shuttered Immigration and Customs Enforcement office at Rikers Island and will give ICE agents more leeway to do their jobs.

Whether through working with Adams or not it appears that the Trump administration isn’t going to let New York, either the city or the state, get away with the policies that have facilitated the arrival of hundreds of thousands of people who have no legal right to be in the United States.

New York’s political establishment wasted years trying to destroy Trump. All it seems they’ve done is fill the president with a terrible resolve.

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