Tuesday, July 25, 2023

JOE BIDEN'S MASSIVE HOUSING CRISIS - Mayor Eric Adams (D) said migrants will likely cost New York City taxpayers close to $3 billion this fiscal year alone after they have already spent some $1.4 billion to house, feed, and care for the new arrivals.

 

More Than 60% of Migrants Remain in New York City Shelters as Mass Immigration Exacerbates Costly Rents

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - JUNE 6:Hundreds of asylum seekers line up outside of the Jacob K. Javits Federal Building on June 6, 2023 in New York City. New York City has provided sanctuary to over 46,000 asylum seekers since 2013, when the city passed a law prohibiting city agencies …
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More than 60 percent of migrants who have arrived in New York City since the spring of last year remain in taxpayer-funded shelters across the city’s five boroughs. Mass immigration has also only exacerbated the city’s sky-high rents that are often out of reach for working and lower-middle-class New Yorkers.

Data published in the Wall Street Journal this week reveals that of the more than 90,000 migrants who have arrived in New York City since April 2022, almost 61 percent are still living off taxpayers in shelters.

Mayor Eric Adams (D) said migrants will likely cost New York City taxpayers close to $3 billion this fiscal year alone after they have already spent some $1.4 billion to house, feed, and care for the new arrivals.

The issue has become so widespread that migrants now outnumber native New Yorkers in the city’s shelter system, with the city housing about 55,000 migrants compared to roughly 50,000 New Yorkers.

Meanwhile, mass immigration to New York City has only helped send rents skyrocketing for native New Yorkers and those moving to the city.

The median rent today in the city is about $3,700 a month, according to data compiled by Zillow. This represents a $200 increase compared to the same time last year. The city has the most inventory of rental properties, starting at $5,000 a month and going all the way to $150,000 a month.E

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Last month, rents in New York City hit a new high, with the median rent for a one-bedroom apartment across the five boroughs costing a pricey $3,900 a month — a nearly nine percent increase compared to the same period the year before.

The addition of tens of thousands of newly arrived border crossers and illegal aliens, on top of those thousands of legal immigrants who arrive monthly, coincides with New York City’s increasing unaffordability for working and lower-middle-class New Yorkers.

A 2017 study published in the Journal of Housing Economics found that “increases in immigration into a metropolitan statistical area are linked with rising rents and home prices in that metropolitan statistical area and neighboring metropolitan statistical areas.”

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Mass immigration’s impact on boosting housing costs for Americans is so pronounced that New York Magazine recently admitted that it is “bad for housing prices.”

In 2013, a study by the Michael Bloomberg-funded New American Economy, which promotes mass immigration, explained how the importing of tens of millions of immigrants over decades had helped raise housing costs by $3.7 trillion for the next generation of homebuyers but spun the figure as the creation of “housing wealth.”

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

Investors: Biden’s Mass Migration Inflates Americans’ Housing Costs

Migrants queue at the border wall to be received by Border Patrol agents after crossing the Rio Bravo river (or Rio Grande river, as it is called in the US) from Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua state, Mexico to El Paso, Texas, US on December 21, 2022. - Title 42, a President …
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President Joe Biden’s flood of legal and illegal migrants is inflating the costs that ordinary Americans and their grown children must pay for housing, according to the Wall Street Journal.

“Global Migration Boom Keeps Housing Costs High: Surging immigration is boosting rents and supporting home prices, complicating inflation flight,” said the headline above a July 15 article in the Wall Street Journal.

The report cited a May study by Goldman Sachs, which said in an email that “rebounding immigration” is helping investors by bumping up housing prices:

[A] post-pandemic recovery in immigration appears to be boosting population growth, thereby lifting housing demand and limiting house price downside (Exhibit 5). This dynamic appears especially important in Canada and Australia, where immigration and population growth have rebounded most strongly.

Source: Haver Analytics, Goldman Sachs Global Investment Research

Similarly, an investigation of 18 countries by Canada’s leading bank, the Bank of Montreal, concluded that a one percent hike in population — via migration births or migration — spikes housing prices by three percent. In an email to Breitbart News:

We have shown in the past that there is a very clear-cut positive relationship between population growth and real home price increases (roughly, every 1% rise in the former translates to a 3% increase in the latter. For inflation, the relationship is less obvious. But, looking at 18 countries from 1999 to 2022 suggests that there is at least a weak positive relationship.

Source: BMO Economics, Haver Analytics

Establishment media outlets rarely recognize the impact of migration on housing, even when reporters try to cover the overcrowding and crime in taxpayer-funded shelters for migrants. This silence is also seen in many polls that portray immigration as a non-economic issue unrelated to housing or wages.

But Breitbart News has extensively covered the huge impact of migration on housing and wages in the United States, Canada, Australia, and other countries.

Since January 2021, President Joe Biden has admitted roughly eight million migrants into the United States, about one migrant for every American birth during the same period.

His flood includes roughly 3.2 million migrants welcomed across the southern border, 1.5 million “got-away” people who were allowed to sneak across the border, 800,000 “overstay” illegals in 2022, two million legal immigrants, and more than 500,000 temporary white-collar workers.

This Biden flood doubled the nation’s population growth, creating a population shock that was bound to impact housing prices.

In the United States, the inflation in housing “was by far the biggest contributor” to inflation in March 2023, said a tweet by Kathy Jones, an economist at Charles Schwab & Co. Her tweeted chart shows the dominant share of shelter inflation in dark blue:

The flood of immigrants and the resulting price hikes are pushing up rents along the coasts and in the interior states. USAToday.com reported on July 5:

In Columbia, Tennessee, an hour outside Nashville, tenants have been organizing after seeing their rents explode in the past several years, causing more people to become homeless.

Judy Schwartz-Naber, a Walgreen’s employee … has seen her rent double from $450 to $900 a month in the past seven years. She said there’s “a lot of fear out there” as people face more threats of eviction.

The high price of city housing also keeps many young Americans in their rural communities, while migrants and their children crowd into urban housing. This process ensures that migrants and their children get the economic opportunities of urban living that would otherwise have gone to Americans’ kids, according to a pro-migration academic, Leah Boustan. “No matter which country their parents came from, children of immigrants are more likely than the children of the U.S.-born to surpass their parents’ incomes when they are adults,” economic historians said in a 2022 article for Time.com.

“Of all the worrisome trends in the American economy, the easiest one to turn around with the greatest downstream positives is to stop artificially juicing demand for housing through loose border policies,” Andrew Good, an analyst at NumbersUSA — an immigration reform group — told Breitbart News.

Real estate investors have a major influence over the GOP and the Democrat Party. On July 18, the New York Timesketched the huge role of real estate investors in New York politics:

[Mayor Eric] Adams has raised $1.3 million since January for his 2025 re-election effort in the latest reporting period, drawing maximum $2,100 donations from real estate magnates like Marc Holliday, the chief executive of SL Green, the city’s largest commercial landlord, and its founder, Steve Green; and Alexander and Helena Durst, members of The Durst Organization real estate dynasty, according to new filings with the city’s Campaign Finance Board.

About $550,000 came from donors outside New York City who live in the suburbs, Florida and other states — a continuation of a pattern displayed early in his tenure, when he held fund-raisers in Beverly Hills and Chicago in his first months in office.

The real estate industry once again also provided the largest donor base for Gov. Kathy Hochul, a Buffalo Democrat who narrowly won a full four-year term in November. Of the $4.5 million her campaign raised in the first six months of the year, more than $950,000 came from developers and real estate investors, and more from other industries with business before the state, according to an analysis of her public filings by The Times.

“Most of our elites are dead set against slowing down the [migration] train,” Good said, adding, “Voters have to make an off-ramp for themselves, and even more crucially, for their kids and grandkids.”

Extraction Migration

The federal government has long operated an unpopular economic policy of Extraction Migration. This colonialism-like policy extracts vast amounts of human resources from needy countries, reduces beneficial trade, and uses the imported workers, renters, and consumers to grow Wall Street and the economy.

The migrant inflow has successfully forced down Americans’ wages and boosted rents and housing prices. The inflow of compliant and hardworking migrants has also pushed many ordinary or less-productive Americans out of careers in a wide variety of business sectors and has contributed to the rising death rate of poor Americans.

The lethal policy sucks jobs and wealth from heartland states by subsidizing coastal investors with a flood of low-wage workers, high-occupancy renters, and government-aided consumers.

The population inflow also reduces the political clout of native-born Americans because the population replacement allows elites to divorce themselves from the needs and interests of ordinary Americans.

In many speeches, border chief Alejandro Mayorkas says he is building a mass migration system to deliver workers to wealthy employers and investors and “equity” to poor foreigners. The nation’s border laws are subordinate to elite opinion about “the values of our country” Mayorkas claims.

Migration — and especially labor migration — is unpopular among swing voters. A 54 percent majority of Americans say Biden is allowing a southern border invasion, according to an August 2022 poll commissioned by the left-of-center National Public Radio (NPR). The 54 percent “Invasion” majority included 76 percent of Republicans, 46 percent of independents, and even 40 percent of Democrats.

WILL YOU VOTE AGAIN FOR NAFTA JOE BIDEN AFTER HE AND MAYORAS USHERED OVER THE BORDER MILLIONS DURING A TIME OF HOMELESS AND HOUSING CRISIS?


New York Comptroller: Taxpayers Fleeing, Slowing Economy Are Driving $36 Billion Budget Shortfall

On Friday’s broadcast of the Fox Business Network’s “Cavuto: Coast to Coast,” New York State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli (D) discussed the state’s projected $36 billion budget shortfall over three years and stated that taxpayers leaving the state is part of the issue along with the fact that the economy is slowing down.

DiNapoli stated, “I think there are a couple of factors happening: There’s no doubt the economy certainly is slowing and we are feeling the effects in the current year collections of the slowdown, as far as financial services, Wall Street’s a very important part of the economy in New York State, so it’s kind of catching up. And, in terms of our budget planning process, in New York, we have a somewhat strange calendar of the fiscal year. It starts on April 1, and, of course, you don’t have your hard tax collection date until April 15. So, the budget that was put in place, frankly, was based on more optimistic numbers. But, in the current financial plan — the Division of Budget — was taken down each year for the next few years, $5 billion in revenue and we’re now slightly ahead of current updated projections, which have been lowered, but the weakness, Neil, has been in the personal income tax collections.”

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'We Have No More Room': 'Sanctuary' NYC Mayor Pleads For Help Amid Migrant Influx

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During a Wednesday press conference, NYC Mayor Eric Adams admitted defeat to the immigrant bussing policies of Texas and Florida.

For over a year, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and Texas Governor Greg Abbott have shipped illegal immigrants from the southern border to places like New York City and Chicago. This policy keeps their states free–and shows the liberal states the tangible, difficult results of leftism. 

Now, Adams has finally called for help.

“We stated several months ago that we have reached full capacity, and that full capacity was verbalized, and now New York is just going to be visually actualized,” Adams claimed. “We’re going to see how much of our cup has basically runneth over. We have no more room in the city, and we need help.”

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As a result, Adams is calling upon the state and federal governments for assistance, blaming them for leaving New York City helpless.

“This cannot continue, is not sustainable, and we’re not going to pretend as though it is sustainable,” Adams declared. “This is wrong that New York City is carrying the weight of a national problem.”

Adams followed up his plea for help with unflattering words for Abbott.

“Unlike Texas, where Governor Abbott is ordering troops to push migrant children into the Rio Grande and deny asylum seekers drinking water, our city has continued to respond with humanity and compassion," he accused.

Here’s hoping that the immigrant influx will help leftist states realize that America is, indeed, the best country on Earth – and we need to secure our borders to keep it that way.

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Upstate Motel Kicks Out Guests After NYC Moves Migrants In

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A motel in upstate New York kicked out guests this week to make room for a busload of migrants from New York City.

The facility, a Super 8 motel in Rotterdam, kicked guests out without warning, including some in poverty, the Times Union reported. Officials reportedly had signed a contract with the hotel to house the migrants who originally were sent from Texas.

"There are so many questions we have," Rotterdam town supervisor Mollie Collins said. "Because we haven’t been given any information."

Some of those kicked out of their rooms were people who get assistance from the Department of Social Services in Montgomery County, a neighboring jurisdiction.

New York City mayor Eric Adams (D.), who has overseen the busing of migrants to other parts of the state despite advertising his city as a sanctuary city, said the displaced guests were offered "extended stay" lodging at no charge nearby.

"Guests at that hotel were all offered to be relocated and booked for an extended stay at a comparable hotel in the same area free of charge," Adams’s office said. "All but one reservation took our contractor up on that offer and instead preferred to be re-booked at the comparable hotel on a daily basis, which we facilitated."

New York City this week announced it will distribute notices at the U.S.-Mexico border to tell migrants to "consider another city."

"Please consider another city as you make your decision about where to settle in the U.S.," the notice reads in English and Spanish.

New York City sued counties that refused to accept migrants from the city in June. Thirty-three counties and one town were named in the suit. The localities filed emergency orders to keep migrants bused in from New York City from staying in their hotels.

Adams first called for busing migrants to surrounding counties in May. Localities quickly declared emergencies, including Rockland and Orange Counties, which were slated to receive hundreds of migrants to fill their hotels. Both counties are named in the suit.

Adams has criticized Texas governor Greg Abbott (R.) for "deciding to play politics with people's lives" by busing migrants to other states.

"Yes, New York City will remain a sanctuary city under an Adams administration," Adams tweeted while campaigning for mayor in 2021.

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Mayor Eric Adams Giving Fliers to Illegal Aliens at Border Begging Them Not to Resettle in Sanctuary City NYC

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Mayor Eric Adams’ administration will begin warning illegal aliens at the United States-Mexico border not to travel and resettle in New York City, telling them that the cost of housing is high and that they are not guaranteed shelter or care.

Since the spring of last year, more than 90,000 border crossers and illegal aliens have arrived in sanctuary New York City. The majority, about 55,000, are living off local taxpayers in city-run hotel rooms, shelters, and other facilities.

Now, Adams has said his office will begin issuing fliers to border crossers and illegal aliens begging them not to travel to New York City — warning them about the high cost of living and housing prices and asking them to “please consider another city” to resettle.

Flier via NYC.gov

On Thursday, Adams said New York City has “reached full capacity.”

“We’re going to see how much of our cup has basically runneth over. We have no more room in the city and we need help,” Adams said.

Last month, Breitbart News reported how Adams has started sending border crossers and illegal aliens to other states and cities — a policy he has long blasted Texas Gov. Gregg Abbott (R) for implementing, calling it “anti-American.”

The sheer volume of border crossers and illegal aliens staying in shelters has increased the system’s population by more than 110 percent since Adams took office. To afford subsidizing new arrivals, Adams has said New Yorkers will see public services like meals for senior citizens and library hours cut.

Every day, illegal immigration is costing New Yorkers nearly $8 million, and by the middle of next year, Adams predicts it will have cost more than $4.2 billion.

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

  Who Really Benefits From Illegal Immigration? | Victor Davis Hanson

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Report: ‘Dangerous’ NYC Migrant Shelters Filled with Gang Members

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - JUNE 6:Hundreds of asylum seekers line up outside of the Jacob K. Javits Federal Building on June 6, 2023 in New York City. New York City has provided sanctuary to over 46,000 asylum seekers since 2013, when the city passed a law prohibiting city agencies …
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New York City’s migrant shelters are plagued with “volatile” and “dangerous” conditions, prompting a search by city officials to hire private security guards for the facilities, a report details.

Since the spring of last year, more than 84,000 border crossers and illegal aliens have arrived in New York City with about 50,000 remaining in shelters across the city, now outnumbering native New Yorkers.

Gregory Floyd with Teamsters Local 237 told the New York Post that the migrant shelters are too dangerous for the unarmed peace officers he represents. Some, Floyd said, are gang members.

“There are migrants who are gang members in these facilities,” Floyd told the Post.

“It’s volatile. It’s dangerous,” he continued. “We don’t know if all these migrants are properly vetted. My members are unarmed.”

As Breitbart News reported, more than six-in-ten border crossers and illegal aliens who have arrived in New York City since the spring of last year are living off local taxpayers in subsidized housing and shelters — including luxury hotels like the Roosevelt Hotel.

The sheer volume of border crossers and illegal aliens staying in shelters has increased the system’s population by more than 110 percent since Adams took office. To afford subsidizing new arrivals, Adams has said New Yorkers will see public services like meals for senior citizens and library hours cut.

Every day, illegal immigration is costing New Yorkers nearly $8 million, and by the middle of next year, Mayor Eric Adams predicts it will have cost more than $4.2 billion.

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




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The sheer volume of border crossers and illegal aliens staying in shelters has increased the system’s population by more than 110 percent since Adams took office. To afford subsidizing new arrivals, Adams has said New Yorkers will see public services like meals for senior citizens and library hours cut.

Empty suit, empty suites: Joe Biden's government of empty buildings

We often ask who's running the government with a White House led by doddering Joe Biden.

But with a new audit out, maybe the real question is what is the government.

According to the Washington Examiner:

The evacuation of federal headquarters during the COVID-19 crisis appears to have become permanent and costly with up to 90% of several agency headquarters empty, according to a federal audit.

At least 6 of 24 Washington area headquarters are 90% empty, including several that manage federal office space and employees such as the General Services Administration and the Office of Personnel Management.

The audit from the Government Accountability Office found that just six agencies were operating with half of their staff in the office during the first three months of 2023, the latest sign that efforts to get federal employees back into the office after the coronavirus crisis and after years of encouraging telework have failed.

The findings echo private sector reports. In Washington, private offices are less than 40% full.

Turns out the government buildings Joe Biden presides over in his expensive, bloated government are about as empty as the old dotard's head.

It's like we have a pretend president, presiding over a pretend government.

Practically every agency headquarters is something like 80% empty.

But the empty buildings still stand, as if to suggest that something had been there. Mainly, it's the illusion of power and importance.

Overall, Uncle Sam owns or leases 511 million square feet. That includes some 1,500 buildings and 7,685 leases. It costs $7 billion a year to maintain buildings and lease others, said GAO.

The auditing agency urged headquarters to consider consolidating or dumping space and to even consider joining with other agencies to share space.

But many rejected that advice. “One official said their leadership is reluctant to share headquarters space with other agencies because it could lower their perceived standing as a cabinet-level agency,” said the audit report.

One thing the audit also notes is that these empty buildings waste a lot of electricity even with no one in them. So as Joe Biden tries to shove us into green vehicles and pay more at the pump to bankroll his energy transition, he's busy burning electricity ... on nothing.

The Wall Street Journal, in an editorial on the matter, has noted that even the worst empty building problems in the private sector, such as vacant office towers in big blue-run cities, are dwarfed by the emptiness of the federal government buildings

The near-uniform emptiness across different agencies is another way the government stands out. Weekly attendance in the bottom quarter of surveyed offices is a measly 9%, and not one reported attendance above 50%. Compare that with corporate offices in New York, where average in-office attendance surpassed 50% last month, according to turnstile operator Kastle Systems.

 The question is: Why are we paying for this? If the federal government can't get its post-COVID pandemic-era employees to come back to the office, then it's time for layoffs. If the government can function as it does on 20% of its people, then maybe it's time to lay the other 80% off.

The Journal notes that Congress does have a law for getting rid of empty government office space and recovering the expense for taxpayers:

The Federal Property Management Reform Act of 2016 mandates that the executive branch create and carry out annual plans to reduce its unused space. The law was passed by a GOP Congress and signed by President Obama, but it has spurred little action. The GAO report says the law has “improved the focus on real property management,” yet concedes that “federal agencies continue to have unneeded space.”

House Republicans seeking a small victory could demand that the Office of Management and Budget enforce the law and help federal agencies shed some of their extra space. The merits of working from home may be up for debate, but there’s no need to fund empty offices from the public purse.

Which should be a good project for the House and Senate. 

Already, we know that at least some of them are trying to get something done.

Recall, for instance, that back in March, Sen. Bill Cassidy of Louisiana grilled Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra on why the parking lots were so empty at 10:30 a.m. on a weekday at many of his agency's offices, which I wrote about here:

“How many are at their desk as opposed to being at home, or someplace else, the coffee shop or whatever?” Cassidy asked Becerra, after the cabinet secretary said that the department’s employees were working full time.

“What we make sure we care about is that they’re performing and they’re delivering,” Becerra said.

There was a whiff of what the problem here was in that answer, as Becerra kept gaslighting her about all his employees performing their jobs well.

Obviously, these characters view the big buildings with their agencies' names on them as proxies for their own power and importance. That will make getting rid of these costly hulks and husks all that much harder.

But they do need to get rid of them if for nothing else to save the taxpayers money. The federal government is already overspending us into inflation, and that activity has consequences. Cutting the fat in government, and shedding the excess buildings is probably the only way to restore our economy to health. This situation is not a sign of national vigor, or growth, or anything positive -- and you can bet that nations such as China and Russia are taking note.

Congress should tell these agencies they can finance themselves through selling their excess buildings that their employees won't work in, and getting rid of those who aren't showing up to work, because they aren't going to hand them another dime until they do.

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Biden Reduces Illegal Migration by Allowing in 500,000 Migrant Invaders

The CBP One app currently allows up to 529,250 migrants

I have a plan to win the drug war, let’s legalize drugs. Also, let’s end murder by legalizing murder. The mass migrant invasion at the border? That’s easy. Just legalize the invaders. That’s Biden’s plan.

And the media reports this with a straight face.

The Biden administration has welcomed over half a million migrants under programs designed to reduce illegal border entries or offer a safe haven to refugees, using a 1950s law to launch the largest expansion of legal immigration in modern U.S. history

Exciting! Finally, we can reduce illegal border entries by allowing the invaders in legally.

In less than two years, the administration has allowed at least 541,000 migrants to enter the U.S. through the immigration parole authority, which gives federal officials the power to authorize the entry of foreigners who lack visas, according to internal government statistics, court records and public reports.

The unprecedented use of the parole authority has allowed officials to divert migration away from the southern border by offering would-be migrants a legal and safe alternative to journeying to the U.S. with the help of smugglers and entering the country unlawfully

Instead of trying to stop them from invading America illegally, Biden has authorized them to invade America legally. We don’t want invaders going to the trouble of unsafely and illegally invading us when Biden can just authorize them to invade us legally and safely.

Taken together, the immigration parole programs created by the Biden administration amount to the most significant expansion of legal immigration in three decades. And to the dismay of Republican critics, the administration has done so unilaterally, without explicit consent from Congress, which has not expanded legal immigration levels since 1990 amid decades of partisan gridlock.

Congress, laws, who cares about these things? Presidents should have the authority to do any leftist thing they want, but no authority to do any conservative thing. That’s pretty simple, isn’t it?

The number of migrants paroled into the U.S. is expected to increase even further. The program powered by the CBP One app currently allows up to 529,250 migrants to be processed each year

Good news. Illegal crossings are down… because they’re now legal.

Officials, for example, have credited the CBP One app and program for Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans — as well as stricter asylum rules — for a dramatic drop in illegal crossings along the southern border in recent weeks.

Also if you create a big hole in the walls of banks, fewer people will break into the front of the bank.

The senior DHS officials said they expect migrants to leave the U.S. once their parole expires if they have not gained permanent status by applying for programs like asylum or visas for relatives of Americans.

“If they, at the end of the two years, have not found a lawful pathway in the U.S., our expectation is that we will be seeking to remove those individuals,” one official said.

Like all the millions of illegal aliens already in the United States. Is there a human being on earth dumb enough to believe this lie?

The Biden administration continues to illegally seize and wield unlimited authority to implement radical leftist goals. All of those goals, like the border invasion, add up to the destruction of America.

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Biden’s DOJ Awarded $300 Million in Taxpayer Money to Sanctuary Cities

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President Joe Biden’s Department of Justice (DOJ) gave hundreds of millions in American taxpayer money to sanctuary cities, those jurisdictions protecting illegal aliens from arrest and deportation, in 2021, new data reveals.

Federal data compiled by the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) shows that in 2021, Biden’s first year in office, the DOJ awarded about $300 million to 11 sanctuary states and 86 sanctuary counties and cities that refuse to turn criminal illegal aliens over to the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency for arrest and deportation.

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The taxpayer money was funneled to the sanctuary jurisdictions through three DOJ grant programs: the State Criminal Alien Assistance Program (SCAAP), the Byrne Justice Assistance Grants (JAG), and the Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) program.

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CIS researchers Jessica Vaughan and Nathan Desautels wrote:

The awards to sanctuaries represented more than 40 percent of the available funding under these programs. Sanctuary jurisdictions are receiving this funding despite having adopted policies to hinder cooperation between local law enforcement agencies and federal immigration authorities. As a result, the federal government is subsidizing agencies that may be violating federal law and undermining public safety. [Emphasis added]

The majority of SCAAP and Byrne JAG program funding went to sanctuary jurisdictions in 2021; 58 percent of the SCAAP funding and 68 percent of the Byrne JAG funding went to sanctuaries, while 28 percent of the COPS funding went to sanctuaries. [Emphasis added]

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In particular, Chicago, Illinois; San Francisco, California; Washington, DC; San Bernardino County, California; and Nassau County, New York were among the top sanctuary counties and cities in the nation to secure tens of millions in DOJ funding in 2021.

Meanwhile, sanctuary states were the biggest sanctuary beneficiaries of DOJ grants.

RELATED VIDEO — Democrat Mayor Eric Adams Says Sanctuary NYC Didn’t “Ask for” Influx of Migrants:

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Localities in the sanctuary state of California, for instance, scored nearly $83 million while Colorado secured more than $6.1 million, Connecticut got $7.1 million, Illinois got nearly $7 million, Massachusetts got more than $11 million, New Jersey secured nearly $16 million, and New York got more than $26.7 million, among others.

Across the United States, there are about 150 sanctuary counties and cities.

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




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Fifth Bus of Migrants Arrives in LA From Texas

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July 24, 2023

A fifth busload of migrants relocated by state officials in Texas arrived in the self-proclaimed sanctuary city of Los Angeles this weekend.

"The city has continued to work with city departments, the county, and a coalition of nonprofit organizations, in addition to our faith partners, to execute a plan set in place earlier this year," the office of Democratic mayor Karen Bass said. "As we have before, when we became aware of the bus yesterday, we activated our plan."

Forty-eight migrants arrived in the city on Saturday, including 18 minors. The migrants were taken to a local school and medically examined.

It's the fifth bus to arrive from the border towns of Texas in the last month. The first bus arrived in the city on June 14.

"Texas just dropped off the 1st bus of migrants in Los Angeles," Texas governor Greg Abbott (R.) tweeted on June 14. "Small Texas border towns remain overrun & overwhelmed because Biden refuses to secure the border."

Abbott pointed to the Democrat-led city's "self-declared sanctuary status" as justification for his state's role in transporting the migrants.

"LA is a city migrants seek to go to," Abbott said in June, "particularly now its leaders approved its self-declared sanctuary status."

California governor Gavin Newsom (D.) has advertised that his state welcomes migrants. "Let me be clear, @realDonaldTrump: California is a sanctuary state," he tweeted in 2018. "We believe in the power of diversity. We have defied and resisted the xenophobic, hateful policies of your administration at every turn. We will do it again."

Texas's move comes as Abbott is set to battle the Biden administration in court over the installation of buoys with underwater netting in parts of the Rio Grande river to deter illegal migrant crossings.

The Department of Justice threatened to sue Texas if it did not remove the barriers, which are anchored to the riverbed. The buoys are set to cover 1,000 feet of the river near Eagle Pass, an area where Border Patrol agents reported the second-highest migrant crossing numbers this year. The first netting devices were set up earlier this month.

"Texas has the sovereign authority to defend our border, under the U.S. Constitution and the Texas Constitution," Abbott tweeted on Friday. "We will see you in court, Mr. President."

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Sanctuary City Los Angeles Protects Nearly 800 Criminal Illegal Aliens from Deportation in 2022

Department of Homeland Security police officers stand guard in front of the Los Angeles Immigration Court building where protesters gathered following a rally by supporters of US born daughters of undocumented Romulo Avelia-Gonzalez, who was arrested by ICE agents last week, in downtown Los Angeles, California on March 6, 2017. …
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The sanctuary city of Los Angeles, California, is bragging about its policy protecting nearly 800 criminal illegal aliens from arrest and deportation by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency last year.

A report issued by the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) reveals the extent to which city officials impose a strict sanctuary policy to shield criminal illegal aliens from being turned over to ICE agents, even when they are arrested for local crimes.

In 2022, the LAPD received 783 detainers from ICE — requests that criminal illegal aliens be turned over to the federal agency for arrest and deportation. In every case, the ICE detainer was ignored and likely hundreds of those in police custody were directly released back into the community.

LAPD officials claim public safety is their “top priority,” despite the sanctuary policy.

“Our ongoing focus is to ensure the victims and witnesses are not afraid to contact the police, report crime or become witnesses as necessary, regardless of their immigration status,” LAPD officials said.

Sanctuary city proponents, like the LAPD, often claim the policy is necessary to ensure illegal alien crime victims report such crimes to the police. Research, though, has shown that sanctuary policies do not boost crime reporting among illegal aliens.

The report comes as the Los Angeles City Council recently moved to codify its sanctuary policy into its local ordinances. Already, city officials are required to abide by California’s sanctuary state policy.

California, today, has the nation’s largest illegal alien population, with nearly 3.3 million illegal aliens residing across the sanctuary state. This is an illegal population larger than the resident populations of 20 states, including Nevada, Idaho, Arkansas, Kansas, New Mexico, and Iowa.

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

Border Encounters Quadruple Under Biden's Watch, CBP Data Show

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The number of aliens trying to enter the U.S. monthly has quadrupled during the Biden Administration – and that doesn’t even count those who slip into the country without encountering border agents – analysis of U.S. Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) data reveals.

During the Trump Administration, an average of 50,789 aliens were encountered at the border by the CBP.

Under the watch of Pres. Joe Biden and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro N. Mayorkas (February 2021-June 2023), that average is nearly four times higher: 193,337.

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Police: Mexican National Viciously Murdered Three Dallas Women

Oscar Sanchez Garcia
Dallas County Sheriff's Office

A Mexican national has been accused in the possible serial murders of three women in Dallas, Texas, and dumping their bodies along a river.

Twenty-five-year-old Oscar Sanchez Garcia allegedly targeted prostitutes and left their bodies near the Trinity River between April and July, the New York Post reported Friday.

Authorities arrested the suspect on Wednesday, per the Dallas Police Department.

“The preliminary investigation identified Sanchez Garcia as the suspect through evidence gathered by detectives. He will be charged with three counts of murder,” the agency said.

His bail has reportedly been set at $4 million.

The man is being held on an immigration detainer while officials try to determine his legal status, according to the Post.

Surveillance footage, vehicle information, cell phone records, and DNA from sexual assault kits helped law enforcement pinpoint the suspect.

Officials said, “Kimberly Robinson, 60, was discovered dead on April 22, on the same block of Santa Fe Avenue where 25-year-old Cherish Gibson was found weeks later on June 24,” the Post article noted, adding authorities are trying to identify the third woman who was found dead on Saturday near the other victims.

Robinson’s daughter told WFAA she is relieved the man accused of stabbing her mother to death has been found, noting her mother was deeply loved.

“I just prayed a lot that this day would come. Unfortunately, I’m sad that two more people had to lose their lives before he was caught,” she said. “Regardless of the lifestyle, nobody deserves that,” she continued:

The outlet noted law enforcement said two of the three victims have ties to prostitution.

During a recent interview regarding the case, a sex trafficking victim told WFAA, “When you dehumanize a person to the point they become a commodity, that means now you’re just a product to someone that is to be paid for, used, and discarded.”

WFAA reported Thursday a passerby found Robinson underneath a bridge, naked from the waist down, and stabbed.

Two months later, a man driving along a gravel road in the area thought he drove his vehicle over a chain, but it turned out to be Gibson’s body, which was also partially naked and appeared to have stab wounds.

A man walking his dog later found the third victim.

Not long before Robinson’s body was located, Garcia was arrested for hitting his wife after she allegedly used his bank card to buy diapers, the outlet said:

In other news, an illegal alien accused of murder has been identified among the approximately 2.2 million illegals released into the United States as President Joe Biden’s (D) Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas stands watch, Breitbart News reported July 6.

The man is 31-year-old Miguel Angel Genao, and the article noted, “The Biden administration has released into American communities others wanted for murder.”




A new Center for Immigration Studies video report highlights Texas Governor Abbott’s “Operation Hold the Line”, which has state police and National Guard block immigrants at the Rio Grande River’s edge, and President Biden’s undermining of the state’s efforts to enforce the laws. Todd Bensman, the Center for Immigration Studies’ senior national security fellow, captures the border war, showing many of the initiatives undertaken by the state in and around Eagle Pass, Texas, a hot spot for illegal immigrant crossings. Bensman speaks with several illegal immigrants who successfully entered the country and with others who were discouraged and returned to Mexico. They told Bensman of their plans to go around the Texas border blockade and to search for U.S. Border Patrol officers, who the migrants feel are certain to admit them into the U.S. Bensman explains, “None of these immigrants are really giving up, because they all know full well there’s an antidote, a solution, to this Texas halt-and-block operation – it is President Joe Biden’s Border Patrol. The immigrants know that if they can bust the Texas blockade and link up with Biden’s Border Patrol agents, they will be escorted in right past Texas’s fortifications.”



California Dem Says His Party Is Throwing Money Away

July 24, 2023

A Democratic legislator in California said in a Los Angeles Times op-ed that his own party’s big spending is not solving the state’s problems.

"As many Californians know, we’ve already spent billions of dollars on the same problems—with very little to show for it," state senator Steve Glazer wrote in the Times earlier this month. "Our failures are evidence that good intentions and lots of money are not enough to fix what ails the Golden State."

Glazer voted for California’s $310 billion annual budget bill, signed into law by Gov. Gavin Newsom (D.) last month. He said he supports initiatives funded by the bill but called for better methods to check whether the loads of cash are actually improving education, homelessness, and mental health services in the state.

His comments come as California continues to lose residents and businesses to other states while suffering rampant crime and rising homelessness. More than 350 companies left California between 2018 and 2021, according to the California GlobeHomicides rose in San Francisco for the fourth year in a row last year, and over half a million residents fled California in the two years after the pandemic’s start, according to the New York Post.

Glazer pointed to spending on affordable housing, public transit, and mental health services, saying that while investment in the areas was important, the state was not giving legislators the ability to evaluate results.

"To make our progressive beliefs mean anything, the Legislature must ensure that the money we spend is actually improving the lives of the people we say we are committed to helping," Glazer warned.

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THE GREATEST DISASTER AMERICA HAS EVER FACED IS JOE BIDEN'S INVASION!

THERE ARE MORE THAN 11 MILLION ILLEGALS IN CALIFORNIA ALONE WHICH IS NOW A COLONY OF MEXICO

Before Biden was elected president, it was estimated that there were around 11 million illegal aliens in the United States. That was more than 3% of the population. Two-thirds of them had arrived legally with temporary (visitor) visas and failed to leave at the end of their authorized stay. The rest snuck across the border. Two-thirds were from Mexico and Central America, 15% from Asia, 10% from South America and The Caribbean, and the rest from Europe, Canada, Africa, and Oceania. Most of those who entered without authorization came across the southern border and were from Mexico and Central America.


Did Governors Abbott and DeSantis Break The Illegal Immigration Camel’s Back?

It appears that Governors Abbott and DeSantis, by shipping illegal aliens to sanctuary blue cities, broke the back of that camel called “illegal immigration.” However, they couldn’t have done it if Democrat policies in the COVID era hadn’t already destabilized that poor camel.

Before Biden was elected president, it was estimated that there were around 11 million illegal aliens in the United States. That was more than 3% of the population. Two-thirds of them had arrived legally with temporary (visitor) visas and failed to leave at the end of their authorized stay. The rest snuck across the border. Two-thirds were from Mexico and Central America, 15% from Asia, 10% from South America and The Caribbean, and the rest from Europe, Canada, Africa, and Oceania. Most of those who entered without authorization came across the southern border and were from Mexico and Central America.

Most of the illegals were adults, had been here more than 10 years by 2020, and were employed. Half were female, and 20% were married to Americans or permanent residents and had not yet adjusted their status. They arrived, found their way to a community, and made lives for themselves. There were still problems, some of which I wrote about earlier here. More than 90% of the illegals arrested on federal charges were already criminals. Many of them resided in sanctuary states or communities. Among them were serious, violent criminals who had been released by local authorities rather than held for pick-up by the feds in accordance with their sanctuary rules.

Most illegals lived under the radar, using false identities to get by and get jobs. That carries its own set of issues for America that I touched on here. But, by and large, they made themselves at home and took care of themselves. Given the great diversity of legal immigration over the decades, anyone coming to America can find a community that feels like home.

In fact, 60% of illegal aliens chose to live in just 20 metropolitan areas—all of them blue, almost all of them sanctuary cities. The New York metro area was #1 with about 20%, 1.1 million. Greater LA had 15%, 925,000. Then Houston, Dallas, Miami, DC, and Chicago with 500k, 475k, 425k, 425k, and 400k, respectively. After that, it trickles off. But for each of these communities, it is a significant percentage of the population, happily welcomed by local lawmakers and their constituents.

Image: Illegal aliens in New York City. YouTube screen grab.

After Joe Biden’s advice to “surge” the border, and after all the Democrat candidates for president in 2019 raised their hand and promised free health care to illegals, almost everything changed. Most estimates are that 7 million have arrived since the 2021 inauguration. I would guess that the number of illegals in this country has doubled. No matter where they arrive or where they are transported in the dead of night by the federal government or federally funded NGOs, they eventually still make their way to communities that feel like home. New York, California, Texas, and Florida are their primary chosen destinations, and many will have connections there already.

However, blue state governors and other local officials, with the encouragement of the federal government, brought us lockdowns and destroyed small business America over the past couple of years. That’s where many illegals routinely found employment. Even the ones admitted as potential asylees with work permits still must find a job. Inflation brought to you by Bidenomics has increased the price of everything—food, housing, transportation, clothing, entertainment, etc. Many illegals are entering with the intent to make a career of “program shopping”; that is, searching for government and charity programs that will provide what they need without having to work.

Sanctuary cities changed from being simply a place where the local authorities won’t report an illegal to ICE and began to provide comprehensive life-support services to these criminals. Why, I do not know. However, none of us are unaware that we have veterans and disabled Americans living in abject poverty. Our own population of substance-addicted, mentally ill homeless has less available to them than these new arrivals do. This galls many Americans, even Democrats.

Besides unemployment, the high cost of living in these urban areas has caused an exodus of taxpayers from these very cities to redder areas of the country. Many conservatives who were hanging on in places they called home let go and are making new lives for themselves and paying taxes elsewhere. A tidal wave of illegal aliens—straining city resources (as was predicted before this all happened) and increasing demands on public health, law enforcement, and overall infrastructure—has arrived. And these same cities now have fewer workers paying taxes to cover all this, as well as the typically bloated and overpaid Dem-area administrations.

Governor Abbot and Governor DeSantis were genius in paying the way for illegal aliens to the places they would rather be—New York, Chicago, Washington DC… It’s been a very public statement that those who invited and encouraged this mass movement of humanity should certainly stand behind their stand and pay for it. After several thousand illegal… But wait! How many did the feds and their NGO partners transport to those cities before the two governors acted? Those figures are nowhere to be found. This was on top of the ones already there, plus the ones from the recent influx who made their own way to preferred destinations.

So, we’ve got the illegals already safe harbored in these large blue metro areas. Then, the leading Ds in the country, including the future president, invite as many to come as can make their way here. Then, hundreds of thousands are transported from border areas by the Biden Administration. And now, New York’s Mayor Adams is saying they have reached “full capacity.” DC’s Mayor Bowser says their infrastructure is overloaded. They are blaming Abbott and DeSantis when it is they themselves and Biden that have done this. The Republican governors merely put the garnish on the plate.

Is it possible that border restrictions will finally be toughened up because of the outcry from these very prominent Democrat party members? It is our best hopeuntil the conservatives retake the administration, that is. Something for which we should all fervently pray.

Anony Mee is the nom de blog of a retired public servant.