Betsy McCaughey
About the Columnist
Betsy McCaughey is a former lieutenant governor of New York.
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Mayor Adams' 'right to shelter' agreement will actually make NYC's migrant crisis worse
March 17, 2024 | 7:43pmMayor Adams’ agreement, announced Friday, to limit the time migrants can stay in shelters at taxpayer expense, is smoke and mirrors.
Laken Riley's life was worth no less than George Floyd's
March 11, 2024 | 6:48pmGeorgia nursing student Laken Riley was bludgeoned to death, allegedly at the hands of an illegal migrant, Jose Ibarra, who is a member of the notorious Venezuelan gang Tren de...
Tish James is turning New York into a banana republic with yet another lefty lawsuit
March 4, 2024 | 7:30pmIf she can make the Empire State into a living hell for beef producers, she can do it to any other industry.
The migrant surge brings killers and criminal gangs, victimizing innocents like Laken Riley
February 27, 2024 | 7:21pmLongest-serving NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly cautioned Sunday that New York City’s quality of life “has really deteriorated.”
Democrats' open-border trickery: gaming the census
February 20, 2024 | 6:53pmNew York is Migrant Central — the No. 1 destination in the country for illegal border crossers — and it’s no accident.
Migrant crime is turning cities into war zones
February 13, 2024 | 6:12pmCriminals posing as asylum seekers are turning American cities into war zones.
NYC's migrant crisis hits new level of madness: Free rooms, meals to thugs who are robbing us
February 6, 2024 | 6:04pmThe Democratic Party is turning New York City into a Shangri-la for international theft rings and migrants here to rob and burglarize.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott is right: America is being invaded
January 30, 2024 | 7:01pmAcross the globe, hostile nations like Russia are using migration, instead of tanks, as a weapon of war to destabilize and even bankrupt countries and facilitate terrorist attacks from within.
Dems letting migrants fly without ID are playing Russian roulette with our safety
January 23, 2024 | 5:55pmIf you’re at the airport and forget your photo ID, good luck being allowed on the plane. But many migrants without “an acceptable form of identification,” according to airport signs, don’t need...
The Supreme Court could put an end to urban squalor
January 16, 2024 | 5:38pmMost decent, hardworking people want clean sidewalks for getting to work and walking their kids to school.
American hostages held by Hamas in hell as Biden and Blinken play politics
January 10, 2024 | 6:39pmThe hostages Hamas terrorists seized Oct. 7 still in captivity struggled through their 95th day as Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived in Tel Aviv to meet with Prime Minister Benjamin...
The growing lunacy of free health insurance for migrants
January 2, 2024 | 4:30pmExtending offers of free health care to illegal migrants is an act of sheer insanity given the scope and scale of the wider US border crisis and the cost to...
Your tax dollars are paying for the 'rights for migrants' legal scam
December 26, 2023 | 2:24pmYou’re paying to be legally coerced into providing more for migrants, even at the cost of cutting vital city services. It’s absurd, but it’s about to get worse.
Wasted meals: another example of NYC's ever-expanding migrant-industrial complex
December 19, 2023 | 8:09pmMayor Adams warned this week of tax hikes and “extremely painful” cuts to city services to offset taxpayers’ money going to shelter and feed migrants.
The smart immigration policy open-borders Biden refuses to consider
December 12, 2023 | 6:17pmA country can have open borders or a generous social safety net but not both. President Biden is the poster boy for that mistake, and cities across America are paying...
No, New York lawmakers shouldn't extend the unjust Adult Survivors Act
December 4, 2023 | 4:39pmNew York state is turning its back on the rights of the accused.
It's not migrants — saving New York City requires union concessions
November 26, 2023 | 7:50pmIt’s a transparent attempt by Adams to lock in big labor’s support for his own mayoral reelection — never mind that he’s selling out city residents.
The feds' censorship machine rolls on even as election-fraud cases keep coming to light
November 22, 2023 | 4:31pmFight Voter Fraud, Inc. appeared in Connecticut Superior Court to demand the arrest of a woman allegedly caught on video stuffing ballot boxes in the 2019 Bridgeport Democratic mayoral primary.
Here are four ways to save New York City as residents flee crime and fiscal failure
November 12, 2023 | 4:25pmNew York City residents have thrown in the towel. Gotham’s quality of life is plunging, but only 18% of registered voters turned out in last week’s local election.
Election fraud is no myth — and video evidence proves it
November 6, 2023 | 5:30pmDemocrats claim election fraud is a myth. But videos don’t lie. Roll the tapes: On Nov. 1, Connecticut Judge William Clark overturned the results of the Bridgeport mayoral primary, calling...