Betsy McCaughey

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

Mayor 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

Georgia 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

If 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

Longest-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

New 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

Criminals 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

The 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

Across 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

If 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

 Most 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

The 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

Extending 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

You’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

Mayor 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

A 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

New York state is turning its back on the rights of the accused. 

It's not migrants — saving New York City requires union concessions

It’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

Fight 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

New 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

Democrats 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...