[Adapted from the latest Radio Derb, now available exclusively on VDARE.com]

Here’s a little number that was stamped on vinyl just sixty years ago, in 1963. The performer is the late Pete Seeger.

[Clip: Pete Seeger, Little Boxes.]

Plainly Ol’ Pete wasn’t a fan of suburbia. He scoffed at the shoddy-built houses inhabited by middle-class professional types who played golf and drank their martinis dry.

What a bunch of dull, conformist losers! Listen to us young rebels! We’ll stir things up, pull down those ticky-tacky little boxes, build something … I dunno … better. Yes, a better America! Freer, more equal, more creative! No more dull conformism

So how’d that work out?

And where am I going with this? To the suburbs, obviously.

You’ve seen those news pictures and videos of thousands, tens of thousands of people from all over the world storming across our southern border into the U.S.A.

Where are they all going? So far their main destinations—and the destinations the border-jumpers themselves favor—have been our big cities: New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Denver, and so on.

Big-city budgets are buckling under the strain, though. New destinations are needed: destinations like … the suburbs.

Rockland, Westchester, Nassau, are New York City’s inner-suburban counties. Orange, Putnam, Suffolk, outer-suburban.

Imagine my feelings, as a happy suburbanite in Suffolk County, when I saw the cover of my May 8th New York Post with a headline two inches high: SUBURBAN WARFARE. (It’s our featured image at the top of this article).

Below that were pictures of two middle-aged men. The one on the right, a black guy, I recognized as Eric Adams, New York City’s corrupt and clueless mayor. The one on the left, a white guy, was a stranger to me.

What’s it all about? Well, as I told you last week, Mayor Adams is in a bind.

Like the urban fools who elected him—and indeed, like Pete Seeger, who was a New York City native—Hizzoner is a far-left love-the-world Progressive. He has been immensely proud of his New York status as a Sanctuary City for illegal aliens, the city’s law-enforcement authorities forbidden to aid in the enforcement of immigration laws.

In Spring last year, governors and mayors in Southern border states started shipping their colossal burden of border-jumpers to big cities in the North, including New York. That has left Mayor Adams looking like the fool he is.

More than sixty thousand illegals have arrived in the city these past twelve months. The city has had to take over hotels and homeless shelters and erect more than 120 emergency shelters as well as eight “humanitarian relief centers.” [ NYC building that once housed ‘Brooklyn’s hippest hotel’ turned into migrants shelter, by Carl Campanile and Haley Brown, NY Post, May 5, 2023 ]

NYC building that once housed 'Brooklyn's hippest hotel' turned into migrants shelter https://t.co/8T1mfecEcr via @nypmetro >><> A shelter for illegal aliens – while at the same time homeless citizens, some hungry and mentally ill – get ZERO resources.

— Bo Snerdley (@BoSnerdley) May 8, 2023

The cost is in the low billions—close to a thousand dollars per working adult city resident. The impact on life in the city—on hospitals, schools, and law enforcement—can only be imagined.

What’s a big-city mayor to do under such dire circumstances? Dump on the suburbs, that’s what. Last Friday, May 5th, we learned that the Adams administration has leased space in two hotels in Rockland County, northwest of the city.

Yes: Mayor Adams wants to ship a few hundred illegals to inner-suburban Rockland County. That, of course, is just to start with: as we all know by now, a few hundred illegal aliens soon becomes a few thousand, then a few ten-thousands, and so on, to the tens of millions currently living here in defiance of our laws but with the smiling approval of our Ruling Class.

The Rockland County authorities are furious. Apparently, they weren’t consulted: Adams just leased space in those two hotels without any notification to county or town officials.

Here was County Executive Ed Day—he’s the white guy with Adams on that New York Post front cover—speaking on a local radio station last weekend, quote:

Mr Adams, you can try to run us over and I will reach up and grab you by the throat for the people of Rockland County. Within that cadre of people who are coming here, who are not vetted, we have child rapists, we have criminals, we have MS-13. There’s a reason why there’s a process.[Rockland County exec warns cops are ‘deployed’ if NYC tries to bus migrants there, by Jesse O’Neill and Jorge Fitz-Gibbon, NY Post, May 7, 2023]

Don’t hold back there, Sir. Tell us how you really feel.

Retired NYPD Cop elected as Rockland County NY Executive warns County, Town cops are 'deployed' if NYC Mayor tries to bus illegal migrants there to the quiet suburban community https://t.co/wo4AqJz3d5

— Blue Lives Matter