Sunday, December 5, 2021

JOE BIDEN AND MAYORKAS' EXPANDING FOREIGN OCCUPATION OF AMERICA - Biden’s Refugee Camp ‘Larger than Half the Towns in New Jersey’

The data revealed also that most Afghan arrivals in the U.S. live on welfare.


NY Times: Biden’s Refugee Camp ‘Larger than Half the Towns in New Jersey’

HOLLOMAN AIR FORCE BASE, NM - NOVEMBER 04: Afghan men stand in a line waiting to enter a processing tent in an Afghan refugee camp on November 4, 2021 in Holloman Air Force Base, New Mexico. The Department of Defense and US Department of Homeland Security's initiative, Operation Allies Welcome, …
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One of President Joe Biden’s United States military base-turned-refugee camps is now “larger than half the towns in New Jersey” in terms of population, the New York Times detailed.

Fort Dix in New Jersey is among a series of military bases the Biden administration has turned into quasi-refugee camps where more than 70,000 Afghans have been temporarily housed after having been flown to the U.S. with minimal vetting.

The Biden administration hopes to bring a total of 95,000 Afghans to the U.S. with plans to resettle them across 46 states.

At Fort Dix, about 11,000 Afghans are currently being housed at the base with a constant stream arriving every week through the Philadelphia International Airport in Pennsylvania.

The Times reported:

After fleeing Afghanistan as the Taliban seized power, she and her mother and four siblings were routed through Germany before arriving at what has become known as Liberty Village, a community that swelled nearly overnight to hold a population larger than half the towns in New Jersey. [Emphasis added]

It is the only location still accepting new Afghan arrivals from overseas, according to the Department of Homeland Security. It is likely to be among the last sites to shut down, based on its housing capacity and proximity to Philadelphia, the main U.S. port of entry for the new arrivals, officials said Thursday as they offered the first media tour of the encampment. [Emphasis added]

As many as four planeloads of Afghans continue to arrive in New Jersey each week from overseas safe havens where 3,300 people are waiting their turn to enter the United States as part of the largest evacuation of war refugees since Vietnam. [Emphasis added]

To date, according to the latest data, the Biden administration has resettled roughly 36,000 Afghans across the U.S. since September with another 37,000 Afghans still temporarily living on U.S. military bases awaiting resettlement.

At Fort Dix. alone, 3,500 Afghans have left the base for resettlement in the U.S.

Biden’s massive Afghan resettlement operation is about to see an even bigger boost thanks to Republicans and Democrats in Washington, D.C. Last week, 19 Senate Republicans and Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) voted with Democrats to give Biden an additional $7 billion in American taxpayer money to fund the operation.

With the new funds coming, Biden’s Afghan resettlement operation will cost American taxpayers more than $13.3 billion. The funds also ensure the operation has no end date. Specifically, the funding bill defines foreign nationals who say they have been impacted by the withdrawal in Afghanistan as “individuals at risk” who can take part in “relocations” to the U.S.

The nation’s Afghan population has exploded since former President George W. Bush started the Afghanistan War in 2001. The number of Afghans living in the U.S., for instance, has shot up to 133,000 in 2019 — more than three times the 44,000 Afghans who lived in the U.S. before the start of the war.

The data revealed also that most Afghan arrivals in the U.S. live on welfare.


Biden DHS Withholds Afghan Refugee Report

White House estimates up to 95,000 Afghans will be resettled in U.S.

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The Biden administration has yet to present to Congress a report detailing the number of Afghan refugees in the United States and on overseas military bases—in violation of a law that required those disclosures by Dec. 1.

A provision in a government funding bill passed Sept. 30 required Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas to produce a detailed accounting of Afghan refugees both in the United States and abroad to Congress within 60 days. The Washington Free Beacon has learned that Congress has yet to receive any report from DHS.

The violation of a congressionally mandated deadline comes as more than 124,000 people were airlifted out of Afghanistan by Aug. 30, the last day of the United States' presence in the country. Of those, the White House says it anticipates up to 95,000 Afghans will be resettled in the United States. Many of the Afghans who arrived in the United States this fall lacked identification paperwork, raising terrorism and public safety concerns. The Free Beacon reported in September that Afghan refugees who arrived in the United States did not receive COVID-19 tests before departing Kabul.

Senate Republicans, such as James Lankford (Okla.), criticized the Biden administration's lack of compliance with the law at a time when Democrats are asking for $7 billion in additional funding for Afghanistan resettlement efforts.

"The Homeland Security Committee has not held a single public hearing on Afghan refugees or DHS oversight. Not one Biden administration official has testified under oath to the Homeland Security Committee on this process, even though the Biden administration has made DHS the lead agency on the resettlement process," Lankford said in a statement. "This is continued unchecked federal taxpayer spending with no oversight and no end in sight."

The report was mandated to provide the exact number of Afghan refugees in the United States, overseas military bases, and third-party countries. DHS was also required to provide "the number of Afghan evacuees at overseas bases or other staging areas who have been flagged as potential security concerns or risks."

Biden's chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan earned bipartisan criticism, with lawmakers questioning whether the White House was prepared for a flood of refugees desperate to avoid living under Taliban rule. Thousands of Afghans have already been resettled throughout the United States, although details about their identities are relatively unknown.

In September, two Afghan refugees were arrested on assault charges related to incidents at a Wisconsin military base. The following month, the Biden administration blocked a bipartisan delegation of lawmakers from entering a refugee facility in Qatar—a move which prompted anger from Democrats such as Rep. Lou Correa (D., Calif.), who said he was "furious."

Free Beacon report revealed the Biden administration also refused to make public an annual report of immigrants violating the terms of their visas. Both former presidents Barack Obama and Donald Trump posted that report on the DHS website for at least the previous five years.


LOS ANGELES COUNTY ALONE PUTS OUT $1.3 BILLION YEARLY TO THE DEMOCRAT PARTY'S ANCHOR BABY WELFARE STATE. JUST ONE COUNTY. THE STATE OF CA HANDS ILLEGALS $35 BILLION YEARLY IN SOCIAL SERVICES TO KEEP ILLEGALS HAPPY AND VOTING DEM FOR MORE!

"This is how they will destroy America from within.  The leftist billionaires who orchestrate these plans are wealthy. Those tasked with representing us in Congress will never be exposed to the cost of the invasion of millions of migrants.  They have nothing but contempt for those of us who must endure the consequences of our communities being intruded upon by gang members, drug dealers and human traffickers.  These people have no intention of becoming Americans; like the Democrats who welcome them, they have contempt for us." PATRICIA McCARTHY

Today’s anchor baby population exceeds the annual number of U.S. births. Whereas four million Americans are born every year, the anchor baby population stands at five million.


Many Democrats understand that the welfare checks for foreign children will encourage more illegal immigration, he said:

They know what’s going on. But they know that they can’t say what their true goal is, which is actual open borders with open, uncontrolled migration both ways. And this is a step toward getting rid of borders.

“It’s a globalist mindset and it welcomes anything that moves toward open borders,” he concluded. NEIL MUNRO

Afghans Brought to U.S. by Biden Deliver 250 Children, Securing Birthright American Citizenship

HOLLOMAN AIR FORCE BASE, NM - NOVEMBER 04: An Afghan family walks through an Afghan refugee camp on November 4, 2021 in Holloman Air Force Base, New Mexico. The Department of Defense and US Department of Homeland Security's initiative, Operation Allies Welcome, aims to support and house Afghan refugees as …
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Hundreds of children have been born to newly-arrived Afghans who were brought to the United States as part of President Joe Biden’s massive resettlement operation since mid-August, securing birthright citizenship in the process.

Biden started the operation in the midst of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan — bringing at least 70,000 Afghans to the country for resettlement with minimal standard vetting procedures.

Since then, Republicans and Democrats in Congress have bankrolled the operation to the sum of more than $13.3 billion in American taxpayer money.

According to data from the U.S. Army, more than 250 U.S.-born children have been delivered to newly-arrived Afghans since the end of August.

Most of the children have been born to Afghans temporarily living on various U.S. military bases which the Biden administration has converted into refugee camps until non-governmental organizations (NGOs) resettle the Afghans across 46 states.

Despite their parents having only arrived over the last few months, the U.S.-born children of Afghans are able to secure birthright American citizenship thanks to the nation’s so-called anchor baby policy.

The policy allows any foreign national, regardless of whether they have ties to the U.S. or not, to secure birthright American citizenship for their child so long as they are born within the physical perimeters of the country.

The U.S. is among one of only two nations in the developed world to have such a policy.

For Afghans, the policy is significant as many new arrivals have yet to secure visas or refugee status and thus will rely heavily on their U.S.-born child’s birthright American citizenship to obtain green cards years from now.

Former President Trump had said he was readying a plan to end birthright citizenship with an executive order that likely would have been challenged by open borders organizations, forcing the issue potentially up to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Trump, though, did not sign any such order while in office.

To date, the U.S. Supreme Court has never explicitly ruled that the U.S.-born children of illegal aliens must be granted automatic American citizenship, and a number of legal scholars dispute the idea.

Many leading conservative scholars argue the Citizenship Clause of the 14th Amendment does not provide mandatory birthright citizenship to the U.S.-born children of illegal aliens or noncitizens, as these children were not subject to U.S. jurisdiction as that language was understood when the 14th Amendment was ratified.

Today’s anchor baby population exceeds the annual number of U.S. births. Whereas four million Americans are born every year, the anchor baby population stands at five million.

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

The List: 19 Senate Republicans Give Biden Over $13B to Resettle Unlimited Flow of Afghans Across Their States

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President Joe Biden’s massive Afghan resettlement operation, with no end date, has been funded by Congress to the sum of more than $13 billion thanks to 19 Senate Republicans who helped advance the plan.

Late Thursday evening, House Democrats and Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) passed a government funding bill that will keep the federal government operating through mid-February. In the bill is more than $7 billion in funding for the Biden administration to resettle an unlimited number of Afghans across the United States.

In the Senate, 19 Senate Republicans joined Senate Democrats to send the bill to Biden’s desk — now authorizing, in total, $13.3 billion for the administration to resettle Afghans after 49 House and Senate Republicans voted in September to fund the resettlement operation $6.4 billion.

These 19 Senate Republicans who backed the bill are:

  • Roy Blunt (R-MO)
  • Richard Burr (R-NC)
  • Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV)
  • Bill Cassidy (R-LA)
  • Susan Collins (R-ME)
  • John Cornyn (R-TX)
  • Lindsey Graham (R-SC)
  • Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-MS)
  • John Kennedy (R-LA)
  • Mitch McConnell (R-KY)
  • Jerry Moran (R-KS)
  • Lisa Murkowski (R-AK)
  • Rob Portman (R-OH)
  • Mike Rounds (R-SD)
  • Marco Rubio (R-FL)
  • Richard Shelby (R-AL)
  • Thom Tillis (R-NC)
  • Roger Wicker (R-MS)
  • Todd Young (R-IN)

In the bill, Afghans and other foreign nationals are identified as “individuals at risk” who can take part in “relocations” to the U.S. “as a result of the situation in Afghanistan.”

Senate Republican support for Biden’s Afghan resettlement operation comes even as Republican voters are deeply opposed to the plan, multiple polls have shown. The latest Pew Research Center survey shows that 63 percent of GOP voters oppose the plan.

In addition, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas has admitted that “not all” Afghans are being vetted through standard in-person interview procedures.

“We are not conducting in-person, refugee interviews of 100 percent individuals,” Mayorkas told lawmakers last month during a hearing.

Afghans are being temporarily housed across various U.S. military bases in Texas, New Jersey, Virginia, Wisconsin, Indiana, and New Mexico. From there, they are resettled across 46 states, at a rate of about 4,000 resettled every day, as non-governmental organizations (NGOs) help to secure them jobs.

The nation’s Afghan population has exploded since former President George W. Bush started the Afghanistan War in 2001. The number of Afghans living in the U.S., for instance, has shot up to 133,000 in 2019 — more than three times the 44,000 Afghans who lived in the U.S. before the start of the war.

The data revealed also that most Afghan arrivals in the U.S. live on welfare.

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


With increasing homelessness, a soft approach to criminal prosecution, and the ongoing embracing of illegal immigration, violent crimes are increasing after having seen a reduction the past few years.” P.F. WHALEN

Undeterred, on September 2, state lawmakers sent a budget to Governor Newsom calling for $600 million in spending increases and a reduction in state revenue with the extension of earned income tax credits for immigrants and illegal aliens.  Balance sheet be damned, California must cater to illegal aliens. P.F. WHALEN


Senate Republicans Seek to Ban Biden’s $450K Payouts to Border Crossers

KEARNY, NEW JERSEY - OCTOBER 25: U.S. President Joe Biden gives a speech on his Bipartisan Infrastructure Deal and Build Back Better Agenda at the NJ Transit Meadowlands Maintenance Complex on October 25, 2021 in Kearny, New Jersey. On Thursday during a CNN Town Hall, President Joe Biden announced that …
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A group of Senate Republicans is seeking to ban President Joe Biden’s administration from carrying out a circulated plan that would provide border crossers, subjected to former President Trump’s “Zero Tolerance Policy,” with $450,000 payouts.

Biden’s Departments of Justice (DOJ), Homeland Security (DHS), and Health and Human Services (HHS) are working to settle with a number of border crossers represented by the ACLU, who claim they have suffered trauma as a result of the Zero Tolerance policy.

As part of the settlement, attorneys with the DOJ, DHS, and HHS are considering a plan that would give each border crosser about $450,000 and family units about $1 million. The total cost of the payouts would reach $1 billion.

Now, Sens. Thom Tillis (R-NC), Tom Cotton (R-AR), John Cornyn (R-TX), and Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) are seeking to stop the payouts — introducing legislation that would ban the federal government from using American taxpayer money on settlements with illegal aliens.

“While American families are struggling anxiously just to keep pace with President Biden’s inflation, the President now wants to make millionaires out of people who crossed the border illegally,” McConnell said in a statement. “It’s beyond parody. Obviously, this would only exacerbate the Democrats’ border crisis and incentivize the riskiest and most dangerous kinds of illegal immigration.”

Titled the “Protect American Taxpayer Dollars from Illegal Immigration Act,” the legislation would prevent federal funds in legal settlements, including those from the Judgement Fund, from going toward any individual who violated federal immigration law.

“It would be unthinkable to pay damages to a burglar who broke into your home for the ‘psychological trauma’ they endured during the crime,” Cotton said:

And yet the Biden administration wants to reward migrants who illegally entered our country with up to $450,000 each for just that reason. The Biden administration’s promises of citizenship and entitlement programs have already caused the worst border crisis in history—a huge cash reward will make it even worse. This is the height of insanity. [Emphasis added]

Sens. James Risch (R-ID), Jim Inhofe (R-OK), Jerry Moran (R-KS), Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), John Boozman (R-AR), Josh Hawley (R-MO), Kevin Cramer (R-ND), Lindsey Graham (R-SC), Steve Daines (R-MT), Joni Ernst (R-IA), Mike Crapo (R-ID), Mike Lee (R-UT), Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV), James Lankford (R-OK), John Hoeven (R-ND), Bill Hagerty (R-TN), Richard Shelby (R-AL), Rick Scott (R-FL), Roger Wicker (R-MS), Mike Braun (R-IN), John Thune (R-SD), Tommy Tuberville (R-AL), Todd Young (R-IN), Susan Collins (R-ME), and Mitt Romney (R-UT) are cosponsoring the legislation.

As Breitbart News last reported, the payouts have stalled following immense backlash from the American public.

About 63 percent of Americans told CBS News/YouGov pollsters that they are opposed to the payouts, including 64 percent of swing voters, and even 4-in-10 voters who supported Biden against Trump in the 2020 presidential election.

Polls from Rasmussen Reports and the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) have shown similar results where a majority of Americans, including likely swing voters, oppose the payouts.

As Breitbart News has noted, the $450,000 payouts to border crossers would far exceed the compensation provided to the victims of the September 11, 2001, Islamic terrorist attacks and of the Boston Marathon bombings.

In addition, analysis by the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) calculated that the single payout for a border crosser under the proposal could feed 42 American families for an entire year.

Meanwhile, the total cost of the payouts could provide homes to nearly 80,000 homeless Americans for a year or could forgive student loan debt for more than 27,000 American college students and graduates who are struggling to move up the economic ladder.

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

BLACK LIVES LOOT - Melrose residents, business owners step up to help fight crime


BLACK CRIME TIDAL WAVE

"Dangerous Going Into Work": Rise in Retail Employee Attacks | NBCLA




Melrose residents, business owners step up to help fight crime



 

Miami Beach business owners say videos show crime is out of control

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgiU1CHOwGM

 

 

Insane: Hammer-wielding thieves invade Concord jewelry store, wiping store clean

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NY0QR0zJ6EE

 

Suspect arrested after throwing Molotov cocktail at Brooklyn deli, slashing man

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4diGwxzLKE

 

BLACK LIVES MURDER AND LOOT AND HAVE FOR A VERY LONG TIME!

 https://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2021/11/black-terrorism-in-america-murder-loot.html

 

Dr. Williams comments on another reality: that the rate of black homicide and armed robbery as well as other violent crimes are as is as much as 15–30 times more than whites

 

In reality, BLM is the very embodiment of Marxism, anti-Semitism, and racism—a trifecta of wickedness capable of destroying any society. John Perazzo 

 

Blacks are also overrepresented among perpetrators of hate crimes—by 50 percent—according to the most recent Justice Department data from 2017; whites are underrepresented by 24 percent. This is particularly true for anti-gay and anti-Semitic hate crimes.

 

Shocking video shows brazen thieves stealing from Ulta Beauty store

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhCTrcTzFYQ

 

Man targeted by would-be robbers turns the table on suspects by opening fire in Fairfax

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLnN0cGgoPs

 

 

Surveillance video of Kirkwood home invasion

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SitCOS3YXSU

 

Killing caught on camera

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kr0XvtpkE78

 

Intruder shot, killed after kicking in door, charging occupant with a knife

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PXJz38_7a8

 

VIDEO: Burglary suspected thwarted by gun-toting homeowner

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-N1A9xT9cCA

 

Mother armed with shotgun scares off burglar in Miami Gardens

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5o2eSvS8KPU

 

Video: Neptune Beach resident shoots at 3 armed robbers, police say

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjWxoHK-H5E

  

Woman arrested in Jacksonville in connection with execution-style killing in New York

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZ1bRRHVZUg

 

 

Surveillance video shows man stealing coveted puppy from pet store

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WsqXrzqFD5o

 

Shooting outside North Miami Beach fast food restaurant under investigation

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwwD7_BAacA

 

Thieves crash UHaul into auto parts store

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-fAr-bP3Ds

 

Woman who livestreamed her looting spree in Chicago released from prison the same day she arrived to serve her 17-month sentence

 

https://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2021/11/blacks-and-looting-case-against-taeshia.html

 

By Thomas Lifson

I’d like to be able to say “only in Chicago,” which seems to have become the world capital of street crime, but alas, “criminal justice reform” runs rampant – as do criminals, even those convicted of felonies

Surveillance video shows man stealing coveted puppy from pet store

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WsqXrzqFD5o

 

EXCLUSIVE: Two San Francisco Prosecutors Quit, Join Effort to Recall City's DA'

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqTfK2pRXs0

 

BIG SPIKE IN SHOPLIFTING, THIEVES GET MORE BRAZEN, POVERTY DANGER AHEAD WARNING

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4BMXf2G6h8

 

Walgreens Closes Five Bay Area Stores amid Shoplifting Surge

https://www.breitbart.com/economy/2021/10/13/walgreens-closes-five-bay-area-stores-amid-shoplifting-surge/

 https://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2021/10/black-lives-loot-walgreens-closes-five.html

 

 VIDEO

WATCH: Ulta Beauty Ransacked During Store Hours in Chicago

https://www.breitbart.com/crime/2021/09/28/ulta-beauty-ransacked-during-store-hours-chicago/

  

11 Suspects Sought In $100K Handbag Heist At Palo Alto Louis Vuitton Store

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzIkiCOuQNE

 

Video shows suspected thieves sprinting out of California Neiman

Marcus with designer handbags

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1ctqHXAcXM

 

Brazen shoplifting video in San Francisco becomes issue in California recall

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAIcsHh8vso

 

 Brazen, Serial Shoplifter Appears In Court As DA Vows To Crack Down On Retail Thefts

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvvnsvVJrdE

 

Busting an Organized Shoplifting Ring

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYFvtPM2su4

 

Vicky Nguyen Gets Inside Look At Retail Theft Rings | TODAY

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97x6bLB5RhM

 

 San Francisco locals react to rampant shoplifting, break-ins | Fox News Digital Original 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BU6o2MIuMQc

 

Target Cuts Store Hours in San Francisco Due to Shoplifting Surge

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NNjdF0cCuQ

 

Group steals $30K from store in seconds | FOX6 News Milwaukee

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_S2pX-VRZXc

 

 Major Arrest In $1 Million Apple Store Thefts

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0SCIkKgu7A

 

 Apple Store Robbery Suspects Arrested

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GT9Jc7lB_Zo

 

 Pricey Heist Lasts 34 Seconds, Ends With $200K Jewelry Stolen

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09aI0HAqtBM

 

 Jewelry heist captured on video at Avenues Mall store

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6goU5Fj_b8

 

 

Credit Card Thieves Caught on Tape Using Skimmers | Nightline | ABC

News

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAP7sVh4smc

 

Man Trapped Inside of Store After Serial Thieving Spree | I Survived a Crime | A&E

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmLUEQUd6pQ

 

 

Threats of More Lawlessness in New York

 

Cal Thomas

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"Lawlessness is lawlessness. Anarchy is anarchy is anarchy. Neither race nor color nor frustration is an excuse for either lawlessness or anarchy." - Thurgood Marshall

Eric Adams, the incoming mayor of New York City, met last week with Hawk Newsome, a co-founder of Black Lives Matter (BLM) of Greater New York, and about a dozen other members of the organization. According to local Fox5 TV, Newsome threatened "riots, fire and bloodshed" if Adams reinstate the NYPD's controversial anti-crime unit. That unit was disbanded  last year due to rioting that followed the murder of George Floyd. The unit was credited with reducing some violent crime in the city, but also blamed for a spate of police shootings that targeted residents of Black and brown communities.

Adams reacted by saying he won't stand for inflammatory language or threats. Good for him. One hopes Adams, a former police officer, follows through. There is far too much intimidation from groups that have never held public office or been held accountable for their actions. BLM is not alone. We can also include the Proud Boys, followers of QAnon, and the riotous MAGA crowd that stormed our Capitol on Jan. 6.

Looting and destruction of property seems to have become the norm in major cities. Prosecutors and judges do not appear to enforce the law so much as see the criminals as victims of society's main ills -- racism, poverty, ignorance. They seem to care less about the real victims, who are business owners and law-abiding citizens.

When BLM burst on the scene, many white people, including friends of mine, engaged in virtue signaling by putting the group's logo on their social media pages and their signs in their front yards. Large companies contributed money. Few - and virtually none in the media - delved into the philosophy and background of BLM.

The Heritage Foundation, a conservative Washington, D.C., think tank, did. It found a 2015 interview with BLM leaders Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors and Opal Tometi in which Cullors said, "Myself and Alicia in particular are trained organizers. We are trained Marxists." That same year, reported Heritage, "Tometi was hobnobbing with Venezuela's Marxist dictator Nicolas Maduro of whose regime she wrote: 'In these last 17 years, we have witnessed the Bolivarian Revolution champion participatory democracy and construct a fair, transparent election system recognized as among the best in the world.'"

Venezuelans who have fled the country would disagree. Others who have stayed struggle to obtain basic needs, including medicine, food, and lifesaving surgery.

The threats of anarchy in New York and elsewhere should be met with a promise from Adams. He should announce that if people break the law they will be arrested and put in jail. If they destroy property or loot, they will be forced to pay back businesses several times the value of the property. If they are on government assistance, their payments will be reduced or eliminated until the debt is paid. Gun ownership should be made easier for business owners and private citizens. Those intent on breaking the law should be advised if they threaten someone with a weapon the targeted person will have the support of the legal system if he or she shoots in self-defense.

Coddling criminals invites more lawlessness. Watch videos  of people looting stores in San Francisco with no reprisals. Watch video  of the Capitol riot. Police seem afraid to intervene given the anti-police sentiment. Shop owners, too. Criminals rule in many of our cities. Leftist judges and district attorneys who let them get away with their crimes, or minimize their penalties, should be voted out of office in cities where they are elected, just as is now being done with some school board members who have promoted teaching of subjects opposed by parents.

Eric Adams should not be bullied. Thurgood Marshall would likely have had his back.

https://www.breitbart.com/economy/2021/10/13/walgreens-closes-five-bay-area-stores-amid-shoplifting-surge/

 

Walgreens Closes Five Bay Area Stores amid Shoplifting Surge

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PAUL BOIS

The ongoing shoplifting surge has forced Walgreens to close five more San Francisco stores as local law enforcement continues to do next to nothing to curtail the problem.

In a statement to SF Gate, Walgreens spokesman Phil Caruso confirmed “organized retail crime” has strangled San Francisco stores.

“Organized retail crime continues to be a challenge facing retailers across San Francisco, and we are not immune to that,” Caruso said. “Retail theft across our San Francisco stores has continued to increase in the past few months to five times our chain average.”

“During this time to help combat this issue, we increased our investments in security measures in stores across the city to 46 times our chain average in an effort to provide a safe environment,” he added.

Asha Safai, San Francisco Board of Supervisor for District 11 admitted to feeling “devastated” over the closure a Walgreens store that has “been a staple for seniors, families and children for decades.”

“I am completely devastated by this news – this Walgreens is less than a mile from seven schools and has been a staple for seniors, families and children for decades. This closure will significantly impact this community,” he tweeted.

 

Safai told SFGate that the shoplifting had crippled the store’s bottom-line and endangered the staff and customers to an unhealthy degree.

“This is a sad day for San Francisco,” Safai said. “We can’t continue to let these anchor institutions close that so many people rely on.”

Shoplifting has skyrocketed in San Francisco recently, likely a result of Proposition 47, which dictates stealing would not be a felony in California if the item stolen did not exceed $950.

The damage has been felt across a range of business outlets.

 

In May of this year, The San Francisco News described the situation as being “out of control,” noting that 17 Walgreens have had to close in the past five years due to rampant shoplifting in the city.

17 Walgreen locations in San Francisco have closed their doors within the last five years according to a report from the SF Chronicle. Ten of these closures transpired from 2019 to this year with the last Walgreens store to close its door as of this writing, back on March 17. The cause of the closures is due to rampant shoplifting and looting that has transpired at Walgreen locations in the city believed to be perpetuated by an organized crime ring.

On Thursday, May 13 a hearing was held by the Board of Supervisors with retailers, the SFPD, the district attorney’s office, and probation departments. Brendan Dugan, director of organized retail crime and corporate investigations, believes that San Francisco is at the center of organized retail crime. He brought up a state bust in the Bay Area from last year in which $8 million in stolen merchandise was confiscated from five suspects. The merchandise came from CVS, Target and Walgreens stores from all across San Francisco.

The lack of enforcement made shoplifters so nonchalant and casual they would often steal in broad daylight while awestruck customers documented the crime on their iPhones, allowing for some viral internet moments.

 

 

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San Francisco Safeway Cuts Hours Due to Rampant Shoplifting

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JOEL B. POLLAK

A prominent Safeway supermarket in the Castro district of San Francisco is limiting its hours due to rampant shoplifting, the latest example of a retail store closing or limiting its operations in the left-liberal city due to out-of-control petty crime.

The San Francisco Chronicle reported Saturday:

Shoppers at the Safeway in San Francisco’s Castro neighborhood will see a noticeable change to the store: It now closes at 9 p.m. due to what one supervisor described as “out of control” shoplifting.

Once open 24 hours a day, the Safeway store on Market and Church streets now has the earliest closing hours of all the Pleasanton-based supermarket chain’s San Francisco storefronts, most of which stay open until midnight.

[San Francisco Supervisor Rafael] Mandelman said theft at the Safeway at 2020 Market Street has been “out of control” and recently met with Safeway representatives “to better understand the issues at this store.” He said he also planned to meet with the San Francisco Police Department and the office of San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin “to see what is currently being done to deter theft at Safeway, and to figure out a plan to do better.”

Earlier this year, Walgreens closed 17 stores in the city due to shoplifting, which skyrocketed after California voters passed Proposition 47, a ballot initiative aimed at criminal justice reform, which reclassified thefts up to $950 as misdemeanors. As a result, such thefts are rarely prosecuted.

The crime spike began under former district attorney George Gascón, who is now district attorney for Los Angeles County, and has continued under Chesa Boudin, who now faces a likely recall election.

Joel B. Pollak is Senior Editor-at-Large at Breitbart News and the host of Breitbart News Sunday on Sirius XM Patriot on Sunday evenings from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. ET (4 p.m. to 7 p.m. PT). He is the author of the recent e-book, Neither Free nor Fair: The 2020 U.S. Presidential Election. His recent book, RED NOVEMBER, tells the story of the 2020 Democratic presidential primary from a conservative perspective. He is a winner of the 2018 Robert Novak Journalism Alumni Fellowship. Follow him on Twitter at @joelpollak.

 

ONLY 8% OF THE POPULATION OF SAN FRANCISCO IS BLACK. THEY PERPETRATE 40% OF THE CRIMES. 

SEVEN WALGREENS HAVE CLOSED DUE TO BLACK LOOTING. 

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San Fran patrol special officer rips Pelosi's inaction over crime surge: She doesn't care

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Is Stealing Wrong?

Not on the Left.

Thu Nov 4, 2021 

Dennis Prager

 

To most readers of this column, the question is absurd. The reason is not because the question is, in fact, absurd; it is because most readers of this column are conservative, and many are religious.

Am I implying that most leftists do not believe stealing is wrong?

Yes, I am.

As incredible as this assertion is to just about all religious people and virtually all conservatives, most leftists do not believe stealing is wrong. Since I always draw a distinction between those on the Left and liberals, let me add that I suspect most liberals think stealing is wrong. But it almost doesn't matter because they vote for people who do not think it is.

One proof is the passage of Proposition 47, a California ballot initiative passed in 2014, under which theft of less than $950 in goods is treated as a nonviolent misdemeanor and rarely prosecuted. As a result, in Democrat-run California cities such as San Francisco and Los Angeles, retail theft has soared.

Walgreens stores in San Francisco are racking up four times the average amount of theft in Walgreens stores across the country; spending on security guards in San Francisco is 35 times more than the chain's average in other cities. Walgreens has been forced to close 22 stores in the city since 2016.

As reported in the San Francisco Chronicle: "The Safeway located in San Francisco's Castro neighborhood ... was a longstanding, 24-hour fixture in San Francisco's Castro neighborhood. But as of last week, the store's hours have been cut back to 6 a.m. to 9 p.m ... A Safeway spokesperson (said) that the cutbacks are 'due to an increasing amount of theft at the store.'"

Further proof that the Left doesn't consider theft wrong — at least when committed by a person of color — was an interview broadcast on NPR last year with the author of a book titled "In Defense of Looting." The NPR interviewer threw only softball questions to the author.

In the last election, Los Angeles voters elected San Francisco's previous district attorney, George Gascon, as Los Angeles's district attorney. It was Los Angeles's way of declaring that stealing is not wrong. And it is worth noting that it is not only racial minorities and the poor who make these elections possible; it is also prosperous whites. The Los Angeles DA is a wealthy white, and he was supported by a white billionaire, George Soros.

It is hard to believe that millions of Americans do not deem stealing from stores morally wrong, so let's try to explain how this has come about.

Reason No. 1 is moral relativism. For as long as there has been a Left, it has rejected moral absolutes. As the great British historian, Paul Johnson, pointed out a half-century ago in his magnum opus, "Modern Times," the secular world applied the relativism of the natural sciences to morality.

Reason No. 2 is the reason for reason number one: the collapse of the Judeo-Christian value system and the accompanying abandonment of, and often disdain for, biblical ethics. Biblical morality posits moral absolutes — meaning that stealing is wrong for everyone, certainly people of every color. Yes, one can offer a biblical defense of a starving man stealing food for his starving family. But that is hardly what is happening in San Francisco and other American cities.

Reason No. 3 is Marxist morality. From Marx to the present, Marxism has divided the world not between right and wrong, but between economic classes. Therefore, it is morally acceptable for members of the poorer classes to steal from members of the more affluent classes. This notion has made its way into young people's minds for decades. About 30 years ago, I spoke to students from four Cleveland high schools. I asked them to raise their hand if they would steal something they really wanted from a department store if they were certain they would not get caught. Nearly all the students raised their hands. When I asked some of them to justify their reasoning, they all said the same thing: they wouldn't steal from a mom-and-pop store, but they would steal from a department store. It is OK to steal from "the rich."

Reason No. 4 is leftists' view of nonwhites, especially blacks, a view that conservatives have never shared. Leftists truly believe that blacks are intellectually and morally inferior to whites. The evidence? They do not believe blacks should be held to the same intellectual and moral standards to which leftists hold whites. Leftists do not defend whites who steal, and they hold whites to higher intellectual standards. Leftists do not argue for lowering math standards for whites, only for blacks.

The bottom line is the Left is immoral. That is why it defends stealing.