New York Democrats fear looming political 'disaster' over migrant crisis: 'Ticking time bomb'

A former adviser to New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg warned New York Democrats' handling of the immigration crisis could "backfire" for the party in the next election.

Worried Democrats told The New York Times that if party leaders fail to fix the crisis, it will cost them dearly in the next election, after the party lost four House seats on Long Island and in the Hudson Valley to Republicans in the 2022 midterms. Kristine Parks is an associate editor for Fox News Digital. Read more.

"It’s just a question of when this all sort of explodes," Democratic political consultant Charlie King, a former lieutenant governor candidate, told the paper. "I just don’t know how long you can evade this, and I don’t know that it gets better in the next 18 to 24 months."