New Jersey Dems see Biden migrant housing plan as election issue while GOP gains ground on crisis from NYC

New Jersey Democrats and Republicans rejected a Biden administration proposal to house NYC migrants at Atlantic City International Airport, as election consequences loom.

Though it remains to be seen when the staunchly opposed plan will actualize, the migrant crisis is largely becoming an election issue for Democrats in the Garden State, especially in the long competitive area by Atlantic City that’s been trending Republican in recent cycles, according to Politico.  Danielle Wallace is a reporter for Fox News Digital covering politics, crime, police and more. Story tips can be sent to danielle.wallace@fox.com and on Twitter: @danimwallace. 

"I don't see any scenario where we're going to be able to take in a program in Atlantic City or frankly elsewhere in the state," Democrat Gov. Phil Murphy said in an interview with News 12 last week. "We are already seeing folks in New Jersey that have probably swelled into Jersey from New York City or from other locations, but you need scale, enormous amount of federal support – resources that go beyond anything that we can afford – putting everything else aside."

But even as Democrats and Republicans both oppose the relocation of migrants at the airport, which houses F-16s from the New Jersey Air National Guard and an FAA research and test base, GOP officials have done so in more strident language and have banked on Democrat Murphy's past touting of New Jersey as a sanctuary state.