You wouldn’t have known it from the Democratic mayoral primary — dominated by promises of free stuff and anti-ICE grandstanding — but New York keeps driving residents away. Only Andrew Cuomo, in passing at a Queens rally, mentioned that from 2023 to 2024 Gotham lost 327,000 residents, per a May 15 Census report.
That 3.7% drop was the largest hemorrhage of any big city in the country. It might make sense to stop the trend by doing something about high taxes and subway crime — but progressives are actually panicked about something else: a looming loss of still more Empire State seats in Congress, as determined by population count.
Their solution isn’t to hold on to high-earning taxpayers fleeing to Florida. Instead, they want to make sure residents not even eligible to vote — non-citizens, including illegal immigrants — aren’t so afraid of ICE that they don’t respond to Census