Monday, March 29, 2021

SOCIOPATH BRIBES SUCKING LAWYER KAMALA HARRIS - I'M NOT WORRIED ABOUT JOE'S INVASION. THESE ARE THE ILLEGALS WHO WILL ELECT ME PRESIDENT SOON.

 

Kamala Harris ignores border, focuses on mansion renovations

Kamala Harris, who is famous for her giggling, is suddenly frowning these days.

Reportedly, she's upset at the speed of vice presidential mansion renovations, and somehow being homeless at Blair House, is frustrated with 'living out of suitcases.'

According to her sometime shopping buddies over at CNN:

It has been more than two months since Kamala Harris was sworn in as vice president of the United States, a historic moment for the country, as Harris is the first woman and the first woman of color to hold the second highest office in the land. Yet, Harris -- along with her husband, Georgetown Law professor Douglas Emhoff -- is still, ostensibly, living out of suitcases, unable to move into the private residence reserved for the vice president because it's still undergoing renovations.

It's unclear why the renovations are taking so long, said one administration official, but it's a situation that has left Harris increasingly and understandably bothered, according to several people who spoke to CNN about her situation. "She is getting frustrated," said another administration official, noting with each passing day the desire to move in to her designated house -- a stately, turreted mansion two-and-a-half miles from the White House -- grows more intense.
The second couple continues to live in temporary housing at Blair House, the President's official guest quarters, just across Pennsylvania Avenue from the White House.
She's upset at living out of suitcases? At the luxury digs of Blair House, which has its own hair salon?  There's a solution for that -- she can move back into her own $1.7 million condo down the road off ritzy Dupont Circle, bought by her and her husband as part of their $8 million real estate portfolio. The photos here show that it's actually pretty nice. 
 
She can go to that one and not feel so very .... homeless.
 
Kamala the Phony has lots of ways of proving herself as that, and this public housing kvetch is just her latest instance..
 
One question that remains up for grabs is whether she actually ordered the renovations on the vice presidential mansion, which, as a historic house built in 1893, will always take longer. Some sources report that she did, wanting a fancy gourmet kitchen. CNN, citing a Harris spokewoman, says she didn't. There are some chimney renovations they're working on, for sure. Hope those are up to greenie environmental snuff. as people in California on her watch were no longer permitted to burn wood in chimneys.
 
As for the kitchen, Harris has advertised herself as liking to cook. She did this stunt making Jamaican food she couldn't have learned at daddy's knee, given that her parents were divorced, and in a fresh factory-folded apron, making many question whether she really did like to cook, or just liked Instagram pictures showing her cooking.
 
Here's another thing to raise doubts: CNN said she was a frequent patron of Stachowski's Market in Georgetown (which would be mighty convenient to walk to from her Dupont Circle condo). A look at the menu shows $16 pre-made sandwiches, and $9 pre-made salads. There is a small meat counter for sure, serving gourmet fancies such as duck confit, lobster, soppressata, and duck pate. Guess that's everyday food for her. But it appears from the Yelp page that most of what they are about is being a deli. As in, "don't have to cook."
 
Way down in the piece, CNN reports that Kamala seems to be visiting the vice presidential mansion a lot and checking up on the renovations. It's apparently how she occupies her time. It wouldn't be surprising if she did, her niece Meena, seems to spend all her time on Instagramming herself in various "lifestyle" settings. Given Kamala's trivial giggliness, it might be the family culture.
 
What it's not is doing actual work. Especially not the work she's actually getting paid for. Breitbart News reports that Kamala is dodging the responsibilities of the big task to stanch the border that had been fobbed off on her by addled Joe Biden:
 

Vice President Kamala Harris is dodging a Wednesday request by President Joe Biden to bolster the enforcement of migration laws in Mexico and Latin American countries.

On March 24, in a televised statement, Biden directed  Harris to get the Mexican and Central American governments to forcibly block poor migrants moving towards the United States. Biden said: “The Vice President … agreed to lead our diplomatic effort and work with those nations to accept returnees and enhance migration enforcement at their borders — at their borders.” [emphasis added]

Biden said that Harris would work with “the countries that need help in stemming the movement of so many folks, stemming the migration to our southern border,” and added that it was a “tough job.”

On Friday, Symone Sanders, Harris’s press secretary, redefined the request.

“The president asked the vice president to take on the diplomatic effort, with Mexico and countries in the northern triangle to address the root causes of migration,” she said. “There are many reasons that move these folks to make this dangerous journey.”

“This is an amazing dismissal by a vice president of her president in a very public fashion,” said Ken Cuccinelli, who served as deputy homeland security chief under President Donald Trump. “I cannot ever remember seeing this happen before.”

There's speculation that her party doesn't want this issue resolved at all, and instead seeks to import Democrat voters. I'm a little skeptical. I think the job was too big for Joe, it was cutting into his poll numbers, and Kamala was only interested in her living quarters with not much else to do. President Obama fobbed it off on Joe, and now Joe was kicking the can down the line to Kamala in a bid to keep her busy and out of mischief. I argued that here.
 
But Kamala, it turns out is, way too lazy to get involved in actual work, the hard work of negotiating with Latin countries for some kind of border enforcement to pull the Biden/Harris administration's chestnuts out of the fire for them and their self-created crisis. Kamala will never command respect from such people, not just for her administration's fecklessness, but from her own giggling and history of sleeping her way to the top. They've seen this type before -- in names like ... Isabel and Evita.
 
Instead, she's focused on the decoration of her living quarters, and determined to keep at it, marshalling the press for it, apparently, which is what she likes to do. The real power behind the Biden throne is not her, but likely, Susan Rice, if Richard Grenell has it right. Maybe she's making this fuss with her reporter shopping buddies as her way to get Joe to allow her to move into the White House, just to shut her up. Who knows? All we know for sure is that she's full of cupidity and incorrigibly phony.

Kamala Harris Has No Scheduled Meetings on Border Crisis After Tasked by Joe Biden

NEW HAVEN, CT - MARCH 26: U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris takes questions from reporters following a roundtable session about reducing childhood poverty at the Boys and Girls Club of New Haven on March 26, 2021 in New Haven, Connecticut. Harris is traveling to New Haven, Connecticut to promote the …
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Vice President Kamala Harris is leading the response to the crisis on the border despite not having any meetings scheduled to address the situation.

Harris, who President Joe Biden selected to lead the response, has “no immigration meetings or public events scheduled Monday, according to her diary released by the Office of the Vice President,” reported the New York Post. She also neglected to make media appearances over the weekend.

The administration said Friday, “The president asked the vice president to take on the diplomatic effort, with Mexico and countries in the northern triangle to address the root causes of migration.”

“This is not work that will be addressed overnight,” White House chief spokesperson Symone Sanders said. “This is a challenging situation, as you heard the vice president and president speak to but it’s diplomatic work that needs to be done and Vice President Harris is Looking forward to doing it.”

The void of urgency from Harris comes after Biden was asked Sunday what he thought of former President Trump’s future visit to the southern border.

Biden responded, “I don’t care” if Trump visits the border.

The administration’s lack of response contrasts with a visit by 18 GOP senators, who went to the southern border to inspect Biden’s detention facilities, wherein Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) accused the administration of increasing the gravity of the crisis by ending Trump’s successful border policies.

This is in “direct consequence of policy decisions by the Biden Administration to stop building the wall, to return to the catch and release, and to end the stay in Mexico policy,” Cruz summarized.


DHS Readies Welcome for 800,000 ‘Family Migrants’

U.S. Border Patrol agents question families as a group of unaccompanied minors (R), awaits Border Patrol transport after they crossed the-Rio Grande into Texas on March 25, 2021 in Hidalgo, Texas. A large group of families and unaccompanied minors, mostly teenagers, came across the border onto private property, where Border …
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President Joe Biden’s border agencies are preparing reception centers to help a huge inflow of perhaps 800,000 family migrants this year, along with a record inflow of unaccompanied children and a growing wave of single men, according to media reports.

The Washington Post reported March 28 that officials at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) expect:

… roughly 500,000 to 800,000 migrants to arrive as part of a family group during the 2021 fiscal year that ends in September, a quantity that would equal or exceed the record numbers who entered in 2019, according to government data reviewed by The Washington Post. Officials are now racing to find facilities to house these families ahead of their release, along with additional staff to process an increase in humanitarian and asylum claims.

The extra facilities are being used to provide legal advice and paperwork to help the migrants move permanently into Americans’ labor markets and housing markets.

The reports do not describe any steps the federal government is taking to deter, stop, or reduce the inflow. The inflow will generate billions of dollars in smuggling revenue for coyotes and for the drug-smuggling cartels that control access to the U.S. border — and plus many billions in extra revenue and profits for U.S. companies.

In fact, Biden’s deputies, including border chief Alejandro Mayorkas, have already dropped nearly all of President Donald Trump’s anti-migration policies. Those policies allowed officials to quickly fly nearly all migrants back to their home countries, often 2,000 miles distant.

Under Mayorkas, officials have quickly reduced the share of family migrants who are rejected under the Title 42 anti-coronavirus measure to under one-in-six per day. Trump’s appointees used the Title 42 rule to block nearly all migrants.

The Wall Street Journal reported March 26 that the number of children and teens delivered to the border for entry under the Unaccompanied Alien Children (UAC) doorway “will rise substantially for at least the next two months, according to internal projections.” According to the report:

The government estimates that about between 18,600 and 22,000 children could cross the border in April. For May, officials are estimating the figure could rise to roughly between 21,800 and 25,000.

Border Patrol officials have said they expect taking more than 16,000 children into custody this month, a record for any month at the border since at least 2010, according to government data. In February, the figure was about 9,300, up from 5,700 in January.

If just 20,000 young migrants per month use this UAC route, that would add 240,000 migrants to the year’s inflow.

On March 24, Breitbart News reported 130,000 additional migrants had sneaked across the border since October 1. That number is almost four times as many migrants as in 2020, when an estimated 69,000 migrants crossed illegally.

But these record numbers may wildly underestimate the number of foreigners who push their way through Biden’s and Mayorkas’ half-open doors.

Roughly 42 million people south of Texas want to migrate into the United States, said a March 24 warning from Jim Clifton, the chairman and CEO of the Gallup polling company.

The share of families, UACs, and adults change in each year’s inflow.

This year, there is evidence more families are sending older children through the UAC door while the fathers and young men sneak over the wall until they can get transport to go north. Most media coverage treats the different streams as unconnected, but the migrants share a cellphone communications network that keeps them in close contact with each other, the coyotes, and their illegal-migrants families already living in the United States.

Mayorkas is a zealous proponent of the Cold War claim that the United States is a “Nation of Immigrants” and is encouraging the migrants by rewriting regulations and policies to widen small side doors in U.S immigration law.,

The law allows roughly 1 million legal immigrants per year, just as 4 million Americans turn 18. But Mayorkas is following the law as he welcomes a theoretically unlimited inflow of migrants via the side doors for asylum, UACs, parolees, and refugees.

Amid the inflow, Mayorkas has also disengaged the regulatory brakes on the inflow of young migrants. For example, he has told illegal migrants they need not fear arrest if they pay coyotes and cartels to deliver their children to government agencies for subsequent pickup. He has also rejected proposals to exclude older, job-seeking teenagers from the separate UAC migration process.

The pro-migration policies set by Mayorkas are reviving the “extraction migration” economic policy that was largely blocked in 2019 by President Trump.

The Mayorkas policy is pulling many migrants — old and young, work-ready or sick — out of Central American and into the U.S. economy, where they spur economic activity by serving as cheap workers, government-aided consumers, and high-occupancy renters.

Each additional poor migrant is an economic boon for U.S. employers and investors — but an economic loss for employers and taxpayers. For example, older migrants boost government healthcare spending, much to the advantage of healthcare companies. Child migrants increase K-12 education spending, much to the advantage of teachers and companies that sell school supplies. Adult migrants work, eat, buy things, and sleep, so creating additional revenue for employers, groceries, retailers, and renters.

The costs, however, are borne by working Americans and their children. Americans’ wages are pressured down, their workplace training and investment are diverted, their housing prices are pushed upwards, and their schools have to deal with many migrants who do not speak English or who prefer to get jobs.

These southern migrants tend to impact blue-collar Americans of all colors. However, U.S. graduates are damaged by the inflow of foreign white-collar workers via different side doors in the nation’s immigration laws.

The costs of migration are also imposed on people in migrant-sending countries. Many migrants are shamed and pressured into taking the dangerous trek northwards. The resulting loss of young people also minimizes pressure for political reform of the corrupt, authoritarian countries.

But the process is also used by progressives to let them pose as champions of the migrants who have been forced from their countries by the progressives’ support for extraction migration. 

CALIFORIA THE THIRD WORLD DUMPSTER STATE - THE TROIKA OF CORRUPTION FEINSTEIN, PELOSI AND KAMALA HARRIS AT WORK..... MAKING THEMSEVES RICH SUCKING OFF BRIBES

 

A cot with a plastic-looking green mattress in a narrow white room with patches of missing paint.
A cell at the Fresno County Jail. Credit:Craig Kohlruss/The Fresno Bee

California Sent $8 Billion to Counties to Improve Jails and Services But Failed to Track the Money, Says Auditor

The audit, requested following a surge of jail deaths reported on by The Sacramento Bee and ProPublica, found that county and state officials failed to adequately account for billions in spending.

Series:Overcorrection

Crisis in California Jails

This article was produced in partnership with The Sacramento Bee, which was a member of the ProPublica Local Reporting Network in 2019.

A decade after California embarked on a sweeping prison overhaul that diverted thousands of inmates to county jails, state and local governing bodies have failed to adequately track billions of dollars intended for improving county lockups and rehabilitating offenders, a state audit has found.

The lack of oversight has created enormous budget surpluses, opaque spending practices and progress reports to lawmakers that are “inconsistent and incomplete,” California Auditor Elaine M. Howle’s office said in a wide-ranging report issued Thursday.

The 2011 law signed by former Gov. Jerry Brown, which called the changes “realignment,” was designed to drastically reduce the population of California’s prisons, which were so overcrowded that the U.S. Supreme Court stepped in. The law sent billions of dollars to counties to bolster county jails and services throughout the state in exchange for housing more inmates.

But the audit, which was requested more than a year ago by a state senator following a surge of jail deaths reported on by The Sacramento Bee and ProPublica, found that county commissions that monitor the money and the California Board of State and Community Corrections have failed to adequately account for the spending.

“Without comprehensive planning and oversight, counties cannot ensure that their decisions regarding the use of public safety realignment funds are well informed,” the report says. “In addition, we found that counties do not adequately evaluate their realignment programs to determine their effectiveness or to ensure that they are spending public safety realignment funding in the most prudent manner.”

Howle’s report was focused on Fresno, Alameda and Los Angeles counties.

The report said the Board of State and Community Corrections neglected to give lawmakers a clear accounting of how money is spent. That board has also been the subject of recent scrutiny in the California Legislature for its oversight of county jails and unclear mission.

The lack of accounting made it difficult to accurately gauge what has worked and what has not in the decade since offenders were diverted from state prisons to county jails.

“Without appropriate oversight of realignment efforts by the corrections board, the state lacks the information needed to assess the impacts of public safety realignment,” the report says, “which could aid the Legislature in decision making and planning potential policy changes.”

$8 Billion to Improve Conditions in California Jails

Statewide, counties have received more than $8 billion to cover the increased local costs of 2011’s public safety realignment. The changes also created county committees to oversee the distribution of the funds that come from state taxes and fees. The so-called Community Corrections Partnerships, made up of leaders from departments in each county, field budget requests, sometimes debate them, and forward their recommendations to county boards of supervisors.

The California Constitution prohibits county officials from using that money to cut their own costs elsewhere. But lax spending rules and limited scrutiny from both state and county officials have allowed them to do just that, McClatchy and ProPublica reported in December 2019.

The money is farmed out for county services, including to sheriffs who run jail and probation departments that supervise offenders.

However, of the three counties reviewed, the auditor’s office said the committees had overseen less than 20% of the realignment funding, partly because of an overly narrow interpretation of the law about what they are responsible for.

According to the auditor’s office, realignment funding is far more expansive than has been documented previously in the county committee reports. It encompasses billions of additional dollars that counties receive to pay for an array of county services under a bundle of laws related to the realignment legislation, from trial court security to foster care services.

But those funds have been left off the financial reports for years, meaning they have not been subject to scrutiny and oversight. The reason? Local and state officials defined what constitutes realignment money more narrowly, saying it refers only to the express changes wrought by AB 109, which reclassified sentences and diverted offenders away from state prison and sent them instead to county jails or put them under local supervision. They say it does not include the constellation of other services a county offers, even if some of that money could be linked to realignment.

The auditor’s report takes a “very technical reading” of what encapsulates realignment funding, Fresno County officials said in their formal response. There was a “fundamental disconnect” between the auditor’s findings and the longstanding interpretation and practice among counties divvying up the money for the past 10 years, they said.

Kathleen Howard, the correction board’s executive director, called for lawmakers to give the board more direction. She said the auditor’s more expansive interpretation “makes little sense.”

The auditor’s office disagrees.

“We stand by our report’s conclusion that the corrections board’s interpretation of the scope of public safety realignment is overly narrow,” the report says.

Surge in Jail Deaths in Fresno Since 2011

For the reports that do exist, counties release broad outlines of how they parcel the money out every year. But their disclosures provide little to no detail on how agencies spent the funds and whether they’ve reduced recidivism or improved social services.

Both the impact of the spending and the money itself can be difficult to track due to the opaque nature of reporting on the spending, the audit says.

“Fresno could not provide expenditure reports that readily identify how much its sheriff’s office and probation department spent from any public safety realignment account, including the Community Corrections account, because its accounting system does not track its expenses in a manner that would allow it to provide this information,” the auditor’s office wrote.

More than a year ago, state Sen. Sydney Kamlager, D-Los Angeles, requested the audit and included Fresno County in her request because of a surge in jail deaths in the years since the 2011 realignment. She referenced the reporting from The Sacramento Bee and ProPublica that found the number of in-custody deaths doubled in the seven years since realignment compared to the seven years prior — a finding the auditor’s office also noted.

She also included Los Angeles County in her request because of ongoing tension between the board of supervisors and the sheriff, and she included Alameda County because an ongoing audit demand was turned down.

THE LAWLESS COP CLASS AND THE LAWLESS LAWYER CLASS - BOTH ARE SUBSTANTIALLY NOTHING MORE THAN PARASITES ON SOCIETY


“The Ball Was Dropped by All”: How Cops Got More Than $400,000 in Unlawful Sick Day Payouts

Records in 25 New Jersey towns show that police officers took annual payments for unused sick days despite a law forbidding the practice. The payments add up to nearly half a million dollars from 2017 through 2019. The cops may have to pay it back.


This story was co-published with the Asbury Park Press, which was a member of the ProPublica Local Reporting Network in 2020.

In 2010, New Jersey lawmakers wanted to put a stop to the six-figure payouts police officers and other public employees could get by cashing in their unused sick days at retirement. They capped the sellbacks at $15,000 for anyone hired after the law took effect.

Six years later, Vernon Township, a small town in northern New Jersey, changed its police contract to allow officers to cash in their sick days annually, in addition to at retirement. Over the years 2017 and 2018, officers hired after the 2010 law took effect were paid more than $13,000, according to town payroll records.

Vernon is one of 25 towns identified by the Asbury Park Press and ProPublica as having made payments for unused sick time to officers covered by the 2010 law, totaling more than $460,000 between 2017 and 2019. Now, New Jersey’s acting state comptroller has deemed those types of payments illegal. In some cases, the officers might need to pay that money back.

In a report issued this month, Comptroller Kevin Walsh highlighted improper sick time sellbacks by public employees in Palisades Park, a Bergen County town across the Hudson River from Manhattan. Any sick time sellback payments other than a retirement check capped at $15,000 are unlawful, the report said. The town’s attorney, John Schettino, said police officers are not among those who received payouts for sick days. He said the town is working to get money back from employees who shouldn’t have received it and is changing its contracts to comply with the law.

A green silhouette of a police officer in front of a typewritten document with the Police Benevolent Association logo.
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A Police Union Contract Puts Taxpayers on the Hook to Defend Officers When the City Won’t

A little-known labor contract provision obligates New Yorkers to help pay officers’ legal bills in lawsuits that city lawyers won’t defend.

Series:The NYPD Files

Investigating America’s Largest Police Force

This story was co-published with THE CITY.

Even among the hundreds of videos capturing the violent police response to Black Lives Matter protests last year, this one stood out.

A muscular male officer, in a navy blue shirt with “NYPD” across the back, lunged at a young demonstrator, shoving her several feet and sending her crashing to the ground on a street in Brooklyn.

In a video shot by a reporter and shared widely on social media, the woman, Dounya Zayer, can be seen clutching her head and writhing in pain after she tumbles to the asphalt.

The mayor called the officer’s actions “absolutely unacceptable,” the police commissioner said internal affairs was investigating and, 11 days after the incident, the district attorney announced criminal charges against the officer, Vincent D’Andraia.

Zayer, 21, went on to file a lawsuit alleging that D’Andraia had violated her right to free speech, and last month, the city’s Law Department, which almost always represents officers sued for on-the-job actions, told D’Andraia it wouldn’t defend him in court.

It looked like the city was cutting the cop loose, a step rarely taken in the hundreds of lawsuits filed every year against NYPD officers. But while a city lawyer won’t be representing D’Andraia in court, it turns out New Yorkers are still paying the law firm that is representing him in the case.

That’s because every year, the city treasury effectively bankrolls a union-controlled legal defense fund for officers. The little-known fund is financed in part by a direct city contribution of nearly $2 million a year that is expressly intended to pay for lawyers in civil cases like D’Andraia’s, where the Law Department has decided an officer’s conduct is essentially indefensible. Or, as the police union’s legal plan puts it, “when the City of New York fails or otherwise refuses to provide a legal defense.”

The money isn’t supposed to be used by the union, the Police Benevolent Association, “in any action directly or indirectly adverse to the interests of the City,” according to a 1985 letter memorializing the deal that established the annual taxpayer contribution. But the agreement doesn’t define those “interests,” and the city is typically a co-defendant in such cases, as it is in the lawsuit by Zayer. So even as the city might distance itself from an officer, it could still argue that the government’s legal interests are best served by its employee having robust legal representation.

“It’s not bad public policy to invest and make sure that all sides have adequate representation,” said Zachary Carter, who ran the Law Department from 2014 to 2019.

But critics say that subsidizing such defenses could undercut police accountability by sending a message to officers that the city will back them no matter what.

“The bottom line is this is scandalous,” said Joel Berger, a lawyer who specializes in police abuse cases and who, in the 1990s, served as a senior official in the Law Department who decided when the city should withdraw representation of officers. “It was a sweetheart deal with the union and it should never have been agreed to.”

Neither the mayor’s office nor the Law Department would address detailed questions from ProPublica about the fund, including how the city squares paying for the defense of officers it won’t represent with the provision stipulating that the money not be used for any purpose “adverse to the interests of the City.”

The Legal Services Fund of the Police Benevolent Association has in recent years paid for the representation of an NYPD officer accused in a lawsuit of slamming a 75-year-old man with Parkinson’s disease against the hood of a car after the man talked back to the cop, and has paid to defend another officer who court papers charge tackled an unarmed, chronically ill, 4-foot-8-inch, 85-pound man and shocked him with a stun gun.