LOS ANGELES TO DUMP THEIR HOMELESS FOR OSCAR NIGHT - BUT THEY SURE ARE NOT GOING TO DUMP THEIR 5 MILLION ILLEGALS!

 

City of Los Angeles Accused of Hiding the Homeless Ahead of the Oscars: ‘They Kicked Everybody Out of Union Station So It Looks Better for the Image’

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ALANA MASTRANGELO

24 Apr 20211,198

2:51

The Oscars are a day away and are already coming under fire. The city of Los Angeles is being accused of hiding the homeless as Hollywood prepares to toast itself ahead of Sunday’s 93rd Academy Awards ceremony. One man told local news he was told to either move or have his things demolished.

The celebrity-studded ceremony is being held at Union Station in Los Angeles, an area bedeviled by homelessness. But on Sunday, the homeless will not be seen anywhere near Union Station, according to a report by Fox 11 Los Angeles.

“They came to us about a week ago saying that we had to move by Friday, 6 p.m. because they were trying to clean up for the Oscars and they told us if we didn’t move, they were gonna just demolish our stuff,” DJ, a man living in a tent in LA, told Fox 11. “They forced us to go to the Grand Hotel on 3rd and Figueroa and they kicked everybody out of Union Station so it looks better for the image.”

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Andy Bales of Union Rescue Mission — an organization dedicated to helping the homeless through food, shelter, education, counseling, and long-term recovery programs — told Fox 11 that anytime there is a big national event, the city tries to sweep the homeless under the rug.

“We shouldn’t be about putting on a good show, we should be about doing good for our brothers and sisters, our neighbors who are suffering on our streets,” Bales said.

An entrance to Union Station is blocked off during preparations for the 93rd Academy Awards in Los Angeles, California on April 23, 2021. – The Oscars be broadcast live from Union Station, on April 25, 2021. (VALERIE MACON/AFP via Getty Images)

Los Angeles city council member Kevin De Leon denied the claims, saying that “while the 93rd Academy Awards are being held at Union Station this year, and despite irresponsible rumors, NO unhoused residents are being forced to relocate.”

“Since being sworn in, my office has been painstakingly working to house those experiencing homelessness throughout my district and we were able to offer housing options to unhoused residents in the vicinity of Union Station,” De Leon added.

But to the city of Los Angeles, DJ offered the following advise: “If you’re gonna have your awards show, don’t have it where the homeless people are and you don’t have to worry about it.”

A massive wall of security fencing has been erected around the event venue.

While the homeless get ushered elsewhere, celebrities present at the Oscars on Sunday can enjoy gift bags containing free liposuction, designer skin creams, gold-plated cannabis vaporizers, “affirmation candles,” vegan bubble bath, IV vitamin infusions, and more, according to a report by The New York Times.

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THE COUNTY OF LOS ANGLES PAYS OUT $1.3 BILLION YEARL TO ILLEGALS TO KEEP THEM COMING AND VOTING DEM FOR MORE! GOOGLE IT!

Federal judge orders Los Angeles to remove all homeless people from Skid Row

Adam Mclean

8 hours ago

Federal Judge David O. Carter issued a ruling on Tuesday ordering the city and county of Los Angeles to carry out the removal of all homeless people from downtown’s Skid Row neighborhood by October.

Skid Row, infamous for hosting one of the largest concentrations of homeless people in the United States, is plagued by all the attendant miseries that come with living on the streets. Those in the area report rampant drug abuse, and sanitation has been so poor as to see the reemergence of diseases like Typhus.

A man covers his face with a mask as he walks past tents on skid row, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez, File)

Official surveys have largely been suspended since the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic last year, but it is certain that under such conditions the virus has ripped through the homeless population. There are just short of 5,000 homeless people living in Skid Row, with about half of them unable to find any form of shelter and sleeping outdoors on any given night.

The order comes on the heels of the forced eviction of the homeless encampment in Los Angeles’ Echo Park at the end of March. Echo Park, previously home to several hundred people was cleared out overnight. When enforcing the eviction, the Los Angeles Police Department arrested journalists and National Lawyers Guild observers and beat protesters, breaking several people’s bones.

As for the homeless themselves, the city’s answer has been to place them in temporary shelters, taking advantage of some programs made available during the pandemic. However, such relocations are always temporary.

The experience of all efforts to alleviate the homeless crisis in the last decade has followed roughly the same formula.

The homeless population concentrated in a given area—usually a wealthy one or one that could otherwise be prime real estate—are rounded up and taken to remote shelters. In the process, any sort of community that would have been built up is torn apart as people are taken to different centers. Then, after a time, when whatever funds were made available dry up, or voucher programs expire, a portion of them find themselves on the streets again, only in a new area, typically a much poorer one, where they will be less of a burden on property values. This was the case with the removal of the homeless encampment in Anaheim several years ago, and more or less the same could be expected today.

Whatever number of people manage to find some stability afterwards—acquiring and maintaining a steady income, securing whatever healthcare they might need, and so on—are offset by those newly homeless people who have not been able to afford shelter, who have been evicted, or otherwise.

A new twist being promoted today is the creation of “Tiny Homes Villages,” which are essentially city sponsored Hoovervilles. In North Hollywood’s Alexandria Park, the city has opened a small village of ultra-tiny homes, each of which is a single room of about 50 square feet.

The clearance of Skid Row by October will necessarily mean a major police crackdown in the area. The neighborhood has a homeless population an order of magnitude greater than that which until recently existed in Echo Park. The police operations will be correspondingly greater.

While the media and parts of the Democratic Party have hailed the ruling as a legal mandate to meaningfully address the crisis, the suit was brought against the city by the “LA Alliance for Human Rights.” That organization—one would not guess from the name—is an alliance of landlords and business owners who are concerned about how the homeless crisis is impacting commerce and property values. The have themselves extolled the clearing of Echo Park, and have pointed to it as a model for further “cleanups.”

Home to Hollywood and Beverly Hills, the greater Los Angeles metropolitan area is, after New York City’s, the wealthiest in the country. California, moreover, is the wealthiest state in the nation, and yet it is consistently the epicenter of America’s homeless crisis. The presence of massive wealth by itself is clearly insufficient to preclude homelessness. In fact, the piling up such unprecedented fortunes in a few hands necessitates the immiseration of a significant section of the population.

The reality is that any progressive resolution to the homeless crisis is impossible without the implementation of a massive social program, replete with billions being put into public relief funds, or without dealing with the high cost of living in the city and the state. In other words, the homeless crisis cannot be solved in any real sense without reckoning with capitalism, the social and economic system that created it, and expropriating the wealth of the ruling elite.

The only conclusion that can be drawn from this is that Joe Biden really doesn't care that there's a border surge and actually wants a bigger one. He's likely to get his wish with this one, with a bigger surge about to begin. 

Biden Stops Fining Illegal Aliens Who Do Not Depart U.S., Cancels Their Debt

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JOHN BINDER

23 Apr 20211,966

3:08

President Joe Biden’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has stopped fining illegal aliens who refused to depart the United States, the agency revealed.

In an announcement on Friday, DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas stated that the agency has stopped issuing fines to illegal aliens who refused to depart the U.S. despite previously stating that they would depart.

Former President Trump, with the authority of the Immigration and Nationality Act, finally started requiring the federal government in 2018 to issue fines to illegal aliens who refused to depart the U.S. after the provision failed to be enforced for more than 20 years.

As Breitbart News reported at the time, the Trump administration  started fining illegal aliens up to $500 every day they refused to depart the U.S. In some cases, illegal aliens racked up fines of close to $500,000 for violating federal immigration law.

Mayorkas, in a statement, said DHS has rescinded the use of fines on illegal aliens, claiming the authorized policy is not effective in deterring illegal immigration. DHS stopped issuing the fines on January 20 but had not announced the policy change until Friday.

“There is no indication that these penalties promoted compliance with noncitizens’ departure obligations,” Mayorkas said in a statement. “We can enforce our immigration laws without resorting to ineffective and unnecessary punitive measures.”

In addition, illegal aliens fined by the Trump administration will have their debt cancelled by the Treasury Department, a news release states:

After reviewing detailed data regarding the issuance of such fines since 2018, it was clear to Secretary Mayorkas and Acting Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Director Tae Johnson that the fines were not effective and had not meaningfully advanced the interests of the agency. ICE intends to work with the Department of Treasury to cancel the existing debts of those who had been fined. [Emphasis added]

The move is only the latest that the Biden administration has undertaken to gut interior immigration enforcement.

Under current enforcement guidelines, DHS is preventing about 9-in-10 deportations with “sanctuary country” orders that have resulted in a 70 percent drop in the number of criminal illegal aliens in federal custody and an 80 percent reduction in arrests of illegal aliens.

Analysis conducted this month predicts that 1.2 million border crossers will be apprehended at the U.S.-Mexico border this year, not including those illegal aliens who successfully crossed into the country. This would be a level of illegal immigration not seen since the Great Recession.

Today, there are anywhere between 11 to 22 million illegal aliens living in the U.S., costing American taxpayers about $134 billion every year.

John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Email him at jbinder@breitbart.com. Follow him on Twitter here. 

Democrats to Americans: Screw you

By Eric Utter

A serious question: How is it that any Democrats ever get elected to national office? Cheating now leaps to mind, but, other than that? Their policies fly in the face of the beliefs and values of a distinct and measurable majority of Americans. But they don’t even care about the poll numbers.

• Most Americans are adamantly against defunding the police, African Americans included. Most Americans are against Democrat plans to pack the Supreme Court.
• Most Americans are against leaving their border(s) open and rewarding those who choose to come here illegally by giving them free goods and services.
• Most Americans are against the concept and practice of unlimited immigration.
• At least a slight majority of Americans realize that abolishing the oil, gas, and coal industries and enacting the Green New Deal will destroy their nation’s economy and dramatically worsen their lives-- and those of their descendants. And:
• Most Americans do not believe man-caused global warming/climate change is an existential threat to their country or the planet as a whole.
• The large majority of Americans are against late-term and “after-birth” abortions.

Etc., etc., etc.

And Democrats seemingly reply, “Frankly, Americans, we don’t give a damn!”

And they somehow end up in office, anyway.

Who should be “pushing back,” Maxine? Who should be taking to the streets in protest, Kamala?

California Governor Newsom faces right-wing recall

Rafael Azul

1 April 2021

Organizers of the campaign to recall California Governor Gavin Newsom handed in more than 2 million signatures by the March 17 deadline; this figure is significantly higher than the 1.5 million signatures needed to trigger the recall. Given preliminary estimates indicate an 80 percent validation rate, there is a high probability that a recall vote will take place this October or November, a year before the governor finishes his first term.

In expectation that the recall petition will meet the requirement and force a vote, the California Democratic Party has launched an anti-recall website, StopTheRepublicanRecall.com.

California Governor Gavin Newsom (AP Photo Rich Pedroncelli, File)

There is nothing progressive about the drive to unseat California governor Gavin Newsom—StopTheRepublicanRecall correctly points out that it is being organized by a collection of right-wing, evangelical, ultra-nationalist, xenophobic and fascist groups and individuals.

It appeals to some of those affected by the coronavirus pandemic, but principally small businessmen and others whose economic interests have been hurt by lockdowns, not to those suffering from the health effects of the pandemic and the current drive, spearheaded by Newsom, to reopen schools and businesses no matter what the cost is in terms of lives.

The Newsom administration in California, like the Biden administration, places corporate profits ahead of the health needs of working class families and the poor. As of last Sunday, California had reported 3,613,780 infections and 56,833 deaths. Only 11.7 percent of the state’s population has been vaccinated. Despite this horrible toll, schools are being reopened and lockdown measures significantly eased.

Like President Biden, Newsom is faithful to the needs of the financial oligarchy and supports its policy of herd immunity during the COVID-19 pandemic. By aggressively pushing for the reopening of the state’s economy and of public schools, the governor is turning his back on science and endangering California families.

However, the recall campaign is not because Newsom’s policies endanger Californians, or for his attacks on the working class, but because, in the view of its ultra-right supporters, Newsom has been too slow in these attacks.

The words of the petition outline a rabid attack on democratic rights and working class families, and a free-market defense of big business:

Governor Newsom has implemented laws which are detrimental to the people of this state and our way of life. Laws he endorsed favor foreign nationals in our country illegally, over that of our own citizens. People in this state suffer from the highest taxes in the nation, the highest homelessness rates, and the lowest quality of life as a result. He has imposed sanctuary state status and fails to enforce immigration laws. He unilaterally over-ruled the will of the people regarding the death penalty. He seeks to impose additional burdens on our state by the following: removing the protections of Proposition 13 [limiting the state’s ability to raise property taxes], rationing our water use, increasing taxes and restricting parental rights.

Additionally, the campaign website recallgavin2020.com blames the governor for emptying prisons, locking down the population and for other grievances associated with right-wing, ultra-nationalist and fascist organizations such as QAnon, the John Birch Society, the California Patriot Commission, Christian fundamentalists and the anti-immigrant movement.

Their issues include support for treating workers as “independent contractors,” opposition to sex education in schools, opposition to supportive housing and benefits for the homeless and immigrants, opposition to increases in the minimum wage, opposition to COVID-19 restrictions of church services, and—in addition to calls for the reopening of public schools and colleges—support for the death penalty, for the police, and for the unrestricted right to carry weapons.

Last week, an opinion poll released by Nexstar Media found that 38 percent of those surveyed would vote to recall the governor, 42 percent would vote against, 13.9 percent have not decided and the rest would not vote. A February poll by the Institute of Governmental Studies of the University of California found that just 36 percent of California voters were in favor of the recall.

Orrin Heatlie, a retired Yolo County sheriff’s sergeant and leader of the recall campaign, declared that “the people of California are speaking loud and clear. We have cleared another milestone,” when he announced that his group’s 2 million signature goal had been reached. He lives in Folsom, California, outside Sacramento, site of the infamous state prison.

Heatlie is notorious for calling for installing microchips in undocumented immigrants so the government could monitor their movements. He wrote in 2019, “Microchip all illegal immigrants. It works! Just ask Animal control!”

The recall campaign began in June 2020. Legally, the petitioners had 160 days to collect the required number of signatures, until mid-November. Anticipating that they would not have enough signatures by that deadline, Heatlie and his California Patriot Coalition appealed in October to a Sacramento court, asking for more time, arguing that the restrictions imposed by the government in response to the COVID-19 pandemic “severely inhibited” their ability to circulate petitions and gather signatures in support of the recall effort.

Sacramento Judge James Arguelles agreed with the recall campaign, declaring their argument “persuasive”. The ruling was made final on October 16, 2020, when California Secretary of State Alex Padilla did not present any arguments challenging the group’s request.

The attitude of the Democrats and the courts was far different when they considered the request of the Socialist Equality Party 2020 campaign, when attorneys for Joseph Kishore and Norissa Santa Cruz, the party’s candidates, asked for the signature requirements to be suspended because the COVID-19 pandemic made it too dangerous to approach voters.

Democrats vociferously opposed the SEP effort, claiming that putting the SEP on the ballot “would cause voter confusion and frustration of the democratic process.” Attorneys representing Governor Newsom and Secretary of State Padilla argued that the SEP should have deployed “66 signature gatherers, working five days a week for 15 weeks, to obtain the requisite number of signatures.” This in the midst of a global pandemic, when social distancing rules effectively barred the type of contact required to collect signatures.

However, confronted by a right-wing petition, backed by sections of the Republican Party, both Padilla and the courts were happy to oblige, granting an additional four months to collect signatures. The court’s decision gave new impetus to Recallgavin2020. Donations increased, paid petitioners were hired. As of February 2021, the campaign had raised over $2.5 million, with hundreds of out-of-state donors.

In Arkansas, former governor Mike Huckabee’s Political Action Committee donated $100,000. Tens of thousands of dollars have come from Texas, Oklahoma, New York, and Florida. Last December in Orange County, California, a reactionary evangelical group known as Prov 3:9 donated $500,000, from a donor who opposed the governor’s decision to close churches during the pandemic. (Prov 3:9 takes its name from a biblical text that admonishes rich people to use their riches to honor God, in return for more wealth for the super-rich).

The announcement that 2 million signatures had been obtained came the day after Newsom delivered his third “State of the State” speech in Los Angeles’ Dodger Stadium, in which he dismissed his critics as “a few nay-sayers and dooms-dayers” motivated by “outdated prejudices.” He pledged to his big-business backers, “we will not be distracted from getting shots in the arms and our economy booming again.”

In his speech, Newsom promised to fight for “equity” among Californians, a far cry from his actual record as the choice of the multi-millionaires both to become mayor of San Francisco and then governor. He showed his devotion to “equity” with his October 2019 veto of a $2 billion affordable housing bill to address the homelessness crisis in the state, financed by a tax on wealth.

With this veto Newsom exposed himself as a fiscal austerity conservative, no less than the Republicans. “The one thing that concerns me and should concern everybody is our ability to balance the books,” said Newsom as he killed the bill. More recently, Newsom has repeatedly blocked additional funds for schools.

By describing the recall campaign as the work of a “handful” of supporters of former President Trump attempting to “divide America,” Newsom has followed the script laid out by President Biden and the Democratic Party. He minimizes the significance of the recall drive, much as Biden has done with regard to the national Republican Party and the assault on Congress of January 6, 2021.

When California Democratic Party chair Rusty Hicks had observed that some of the groups and individuals who participated in the January 6 attack, are also part of the recall effort, he was compelled to back down from the comparison. But San Diego Mayor Todd Gloria agreed, declaring that it was possible to “draw a straight line from” the January 6 event to the recall effort.

A Newsweek report published on January 28 found that the groups initially involved in pushing the recall included the Oath Keepers, the III Percenters and the Proud Boys. One such figure involved is Proud Boys’ member and recently-elected Sacramento County Republican Party’s Central Committee member Jeffery Perrine, who was documented on social media demanding that “illegal immigrants should have their heads smashed into the concrete.”

Interviewed on The View television program on March 16, Newsom continued to downplay the recall drive, pointing out the small proportion of the electorate required for a recall to get to the ballot compared to other states and to the number of people who cast their ballots for Trump in California.