EDISON, NJ – The mayor of Edison New Jersey, Democrat Sam Joshi declared that immigrants are not welcome in his city. Responding to an influx of busses full of migrants from Texas arriving in Secaucus, the North Jersey mayor said he does not want those migrants to end up in his city.
The comment comes after a busload of migrants arrived in Edison this week. Joshi said if it was up to him, he would send the migrants back across the border.
“Our position in Edison Township is that they’re not welcomed here. They’re not. They’re illegal, and they belong on the other side of the border… We don’t want them in Edison, period. That’s the bottom line,” Joshi said. “I had directed my police department, as well as my emergency management, to charter a bus that would take them straight back to the other side of the border if they were actually to come out. The good thing is they didn’t, they got the message and they just left Edison altogether.”
New Jersey, declared a sanctuary state by New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy upon taking office six years, is also shifting its stance on illegal immigration. Last year, Murphy said he also did not want the illegal migrants from Texas coming to his state.
“I don’t see any scenario where we’re going to be able to take in a program in Atlantic City or frankly elsewhere in the state. We are already seeing folks in New Jersey that have probably swelled into Jersey from New York City or from other locations, but you need scale, an enormous amount of federal support – resources that go beyond anything that we can afford — putting everything else aside,” Murphy said.
Murphy went on to blame President Joe Biden for the immigrant crisis that has finally come ashore in New Jersey.
“The federal government and Biden administration has neglected its responsibility to deliver on its promises to formulate a solution, dragging countless state and local governments into a problem that is solely their responsibility to fix,” he said.
The governor has not commented on the latest incidents of busses arriving in the Garden State.