Easing work rules will only make New York’s migrant crisis worse

One more time: Getting legal jobs for illegal migrants is not the answer to New York’s unprecedented migrant crisis.

Yet the state Civil Service Commission is looking to loosen rules to let migrants with federal work authorization take jobs in the state workforce — and skip over unimportant trifles like English proficiency or proof of previous employment.

Even more absurdly, Gov. Kathy Hochul’s office is trying to sell this nonsense as part of a push to modernize the state workforce and eliminate red tape.  

Sorry, Gov: This is the opposite of forward-looking reform.

Civil Service Commissioner Timothy Hogues promises that the new rules, if adopted, would apply to all New Yorkers equally.

That is lower standards for all hires. Great.