HOW IS NAFTA JOE BIDEN DEALING WITH AMERICA'S HOMELESS??? - WELL, ACTUALLY HE ISN'T. - President Joe Biden’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is considering opening a migrant hotel in Yuma, Arizona, Mayor Douglas Nicholls (R) says.

 

Report: Biden’s DHS Looks to Open Migrant Hotel in Yuma, Arizona

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JOHN BINDER

17 Jun 2021212

3:13

President Joe Biden’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is considering opening a migrant hotel in Yuma, Arizona, Mayor Douglas Nicholls (R) says.

In an interview with KYMA News 11, Nicholls confirmed that DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas is looking to open another one of the Biden administration’s migrant hotels — the first step in releasing border crossers and illegal aliens into the United States interior.

The migrant hotel in Yuma, Nicholls said, could be opened this month and the non-governmental organization (NGO) Endeavors would likely be given the contract by DHS to facilitate the hotel.

Already, the Biden administration has American taxpayer-funded contracts with Endeavors to operate migrant hotels along the U.S.-Mexico border — two of which are in Phoenix, Arizona. Endeavors is mostly funded by the federal government, United Way, the state of Texas, and the nonprofit SourceAmerica.

Nicholls said the migrant hotel in Yuma would keep border crossers in rooms for no more than 72 hours before transferring them to another shelter or putting them on buses and commercial domestic flights into the U.S. interior. Nicholls said:

One family per room is what I’ve been told, so they’re not putting 2 or 3 different families in the rooms. Within a couple of days, within the 72-hour window to get them moved on to other communities and shelter systems and they will help facilitate them getting tickets to their ultimate destination that would be funded by the migrants themselves or their sponsors.

The migrant hotel in Yuma would be one of the many migrant hotels funded by an $86 million operation set up by the Biden administration and funded by American taxpayers.

Last week, Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich (R) wrote to Mayorkas, asking him not to open a migrant hotel planned for Scottsdale, Arizona, which would be close to schools, neighborhoods, and a senior living facility. Brnovich wrote:

The root causes of the current crisis are problems of the Biden administration’s own making, including policies that have administratively and intentionally crippled ICE’s important law enforcement mission and incentivized illegal immigration. While everyone rightly expects that migrants should be treated humanely, a new detention facility at the Hotel Property should not be established.

Putting border crossers in migrant hotels is the first in a series of steps in the Biden administration’s expansive Catch and Release policy. After staying in the taxpayer-funded hotels for a few days, the border crossers are then bused or flown on domestic commercial flights into the U.S. interior.

American taxpayers, meanwhile, are footing the bill.

Migrant hotels set up in Texas by the Biden administration are costing taxpayers about $72,000 per border crosser awarded a room, according to Center for Immigration Studies analysis.

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

Watchdog: Top 3 Victims of Human Trafficking Are Addicts, Runaways, Illegals

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EDWIN MORA

17 Jun 202125

6:00

Drug addicts, runaways, and illegal aliens are the three top targets of sex and forced labor traffickers, according to a new report by the Human Trafficking Institute (HTI).

The vast majority of prosecutions last year involved sex trafficking cases.

HTI‘s report, released early this month, is primarily based on its tally of 579 active criminal trafficking prosecutions at the federal level in 2020, 94 percent of which involved sex and six percent forced labor. There were 1,007 defendants and 1,499 victims.

Of the 200 active civil human smuggling lawsuits last year, 91 involved sex trafficking and 109 forced labor.

“Although the Report does not include data on defendants’ country of origin, both U.S. citizens and foreign nationals were active defendants in human trafficking cases in 2020,” the assessment pointed out.

Over the last two decades, the report found that foreign nationals, primarily adult females from the Western Hemisphere, “were more likely” than other victims to be exploited in forced labor cases.

HTI reported:

[Fifty-three percent] of foreign national victims [over the last two decades ended] up in forced labor cases compared to 47% (384) in sex trafficking cases. Also contrary to general trends among victims regardless of nationality, 78% (588) of foreign national victims were adults compared to just 22% (165) that were children.

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Finally, over the past 20 years, 55% (420) of foreign national victims in federal human trafficking cases came from the Western Hemisphere, 33% (248) from East Asia and the Pacific, 4% (33) from Europe and Eurasia, 4% (32) from South and Central Asia, 3% (26) from Africa, and less than 1% (3) from the Near East.

Only about a quarter (52) of foreign national victims in 2020 active cases entered the U.S. on a visa last year.

“Ninety-five percent (41) of these victims were trafficked into the United States, and 5% (2) were exploited after entry,” the report noted.

HTI acknowledged that its assessment only provides a snapshot of how human smugglers involved in forced labor and sex trafficking operate domestically. The watchdog only provides an exhaustive review of prosecutions (criminal and civil) in federal court, excluding state-level cases.

The report said:

In 2020, the top victim vulnerabilities in active cases were substance dependency (38%, 139), having run away from home (28%, 100), undocumented immigration status (17%, 63), homelessness (10%, 37), being in the foster care system (10%, 35), having been previously trafficked (8%, 28), limited English language skills (6%, 22), financial debt (4%, 15), intellectual disabilities (4%, 14), and prior incarceration (2%, 6).

The vast majority of the victims last year were women (92%), primarily girls (61%). Of the 8% male victims, the bulk were boys (6%).

HTI noted:

For girl victims, the top vulnerabilities were having run away from home (63%, 95) and being in the foster care system (23%, 34);41 for women, substance use dependency (59%, 109), and undocumented immigration status (23%, 43);42 and for men, undocumented immigration status (64%, 7) 6 and intellectual disabilities (36%, 4).

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Overall, 53% (789) of victims in active human trafficking cases were children and 47% (709) were adults. Victims’ ages spanned five decades, with the oldest being 50 years old and the youngest being less than one year old. The average age of victims in both sex trafficking and forced labor cases was 16 years.

The victim vulnerabilities also differ by age, the report said, adding:

For child victims, running away from home was by far the most common vulnerability (63%, 100), followed by being in the foster care system (22%, 35), substance dependency (18%, 28), homelessness (9%, 14), and having been trafficked in the past (9%, 14). In comparison, the top vulnerabilities for adults were substance dependency (55%, 111), undocumented immigration status (25%, 51), homelessness (11%, 23), limited English language skills (9%, 18), and financial debt (7%, 15).

Most traffickers work independently of “trafficking rings” and rarely kidnap a stranger off the streets, the report said. Instead, traffickers carefully target their victims based on the vulnerabilities they can exploit in face-to-face exchanges.

Bloomberg: Tech Workers Happy to Take Pay Cut to Escape Democrat-Controlled Cities

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LUCAS NOLAN

17 Jun 202136

2:30

A recent report from Bloomberg claims that tech workers at payment processor Stripe are opting to take a ten percent cut to their salary in order to work remotely full time. The goal for most of these workers is to move out of Democrat strongholds like New York City and the San Francisco Bay Area to live and work in more affordable and safer areas.

Bloomberg reports in an article titled “Stripe Saw Major Uptake of Staff Offer to Move With 10% Pay Cut,” that payment processor Stripe saw a surprisingly “major uptake” of a recent offer the company made to staff: Leave cities like New York and San Francisco, work remotely full-time and take a $20,000 bonus, but receive a 10 percent pay cut to their base compensation.
John Collison, Stripe’s co-founder and president, said on Tuesday on Bloomberg Television: “We saw pretty major uptake. There were a lot of people where they took advantage of all the remote working that was going on last year to be able to move to be closer to their families, to somewhere they wanted to move previously.”

Stripe, which is dually headquartered in Dublin, Ireland and San Franciso, has been considered a leader among other Silicon Valley firms in its embrace of remote work. The company began hiring engineers working remotely from home as early as 2013 and six years later opened a fully remote engineering hub.

“We have not come to our ultimate stance or ultimate decision of what the exact mix of in-office versus remote will be,” Collison said. “Everyone has been working remotely during a pandemic but I think that’s going to be very different from the steady state of working remotely.”

The payment processor became the most valuable U.S. startup in March, drawing a $95 billion valuation after raising $600 million in a fundraising round. But Collison and his brother Patrick, a Stripe co-founder and current CEO, are not focused on an initial public offering just yet.

“We still have no plans to IPO,” Collison said. “We’re having lots of fun building Stripe. Maybe we do, maybe we don’t someday but right now we have no plans.”
Read more at Bloomberg here.

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