Is Everyone Welcome to Come to the USA?

Yes, says Boston Mayor.

Days after British Prime Minister Kier Starmer said right-wing extremists (patriots) are not welcome to Britain, a clip from Boston Mayor Michelle Wu has resurfaced claiming that “every single human being” has a right to come to America for shelter.

While it may see the Prime Minister and mayor are not on the same page, it’s actually a matter of semantics. Both appear to be hard-left woke extremists and both seem set on destroying Western culture through displacement. To my knowledge, neither has vociferously condemned the invasion by militant Islamic terrorists into Western countries.

In a recently resurfaced GBH radio interview, Boston Mayor Michelle Wu declared: “Every person, every single human being, has the legal right to come to the United States and seek asylum or shelter, and those policies have been in place for a long time.” This isn’t a slip of the tongue. It’s the logical endpoint of her sanctuary-city ideology—and it reveals a worldview that treats American citizenship as an outdated inconvenience rather than a hard-won privilege.

Wu’s phrasing is deliberately expansive. Yes, U.S. law allows anyone physically present at a port of entry to apply for asylum if they credibly fear persecution. Approval rates hover around 30-40 percent, and claims must meet strict standards. There is no constitutional or statutory “right to come” for the planet’s eight billion people, nor a guaranteed right to indefinite shelter at taxpayer expense. Wu’s statement collapses the distinction between application and admission, turning a narrow humanitarian safeguard into an open invitation. It’s the kind of rhetorical sleight-of-hand that fuels record border encounters and overwhelms cities.

The practical fallout lands hardest on Boston residents. While Wu champions “welcoming” policies and funnels millions into immigrant legal aid and services, local taxpayers foot the bill for shelters, healthcare, and education strained by surges. Massachusetts’ broader emergency shelter system has burned through hundreds of millions in recent years—nearing or exceeding $1 billion annually at peak—before reforms finally began curbing the flow. Meanwhile, veterans sleep on streets, working families wait years for affordable housing, and public safety concerns mount in neighborhoods where cooperation with federal immigration enforcement is treated as betrayal. Wu’s defiance of the Trump administration’s demands for basic ICE collaboration isn’t principled leadership; it’s performative elitism that prioritizes non-citizens over the people who actually elect her.

What makes Wu’s stance especially corrosive is its contempt for sovereignty. Citizenship is not a global human right—it is a reciprocal bond between a nation and its people, earned through birth, naturalization, or lawful process. Declaring the entire planet entitled to “seek shelter” here renders that bond meaningless. It signals to the world that America’s generosity has no limits, no vetting, and no regard for the rule of law. When mayors like Wu frame border enforcement as cruelty rather than necessity, they erode public trust and invite the very chaos they then blame on others.

Boston deserves better than a mayor who mistakes ideology for governance. Wu’s words aren’t compassionate—they’re reckless. They accelerate a system already groaning under abuse, punish citizens for the crime of expecting their government to put them first, and expose the hollow core of sanctuary extremism. If every human truly has a right to America, then no American truly has a country left to call their own.

https://kenngividen.substack.com/p/is-everyone-welcome-to-the-usa