New York mayor Eric Adams has pointed out to hopeful migrants that there's no more room in the Big Apple for foreign mendicants, according to this story. If this is true, the financial capital of the western hemisphere has taken a first step back into the Medieval era.
At the end of the feudal times cities were surrounded by walls meant to protect the inhabitants from raiders, bandits and opposing armies. At sundown the gates were closed and guarded. No one was admitted unless the correct answers were given to the guards. As nation states developed, defenses were extended to the national borders. City walls remained but weren't as heavily defended until organized armies threatened. This was when siege warfare became important and the civilian population was an object of conquest as were the military forces.
If Mayor Adams is serious about protecting NYC from hordes of impoverished aliens, he might try to stop them from entering the city at all. In fact, many smaller jurisdictions already are closed to strangers, gated communities, college campuses, various businesses, etc. Manhattan being an island that shouldn't be too difficult physically but there might be a constitutional problem. Since Homeland Security isn't enforcing immigration law, putting those bureaucrats in prison should be the first priority.
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