It Begins... NYC's Families Face Grim Housing Reality
NYC Mayor Eric Adams Details Budget Proposal, Including Billions For Migrants
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nfPOflhwkA
“That’s all these people do is rob and steal. They should feel lucky that they’re here, but they’re out there committing crimes. We don’t know anything about them. We don’t know what they’ve done in these other countries.”
Speaker Mike Johnson Doubles Down: No Deal on Border
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) once again rejected a deal to fund Biden’s continued border operations coupled with tens of billions in foreign aid on Wednesday.
Johnson had shot down a deal on Saturday, tweeting “absolutely not” after details emerged of a draft deal crafted by Senate negotiators.
“We’re not playing politics at this,” Johnson said at a Wednesday press conference. “We’re demanding real, transformative policy change, because that’s what the American people need and deserve, and that they’re demanding as well.”
Johnson’s comments came hours before a meeting at the White House with President Joe Biden and other congressional leaders to discuss the supplemental funding deal. Senate negotiators have been working for months to craft a border compromise that could pass muster and allow the foreign aid to continue flowing as well.
The Speaker has advocated H.R. 2, a comprehensive border security package that would reinstate many of President Donald Trump’s policies that Biden ended, leading to the unprecedented migrant crisis.
In December, law enforcement encountered more than 300,000 migrants, a new record.
Migrants cross the Rio Grande into the U.S. through Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua State, Mexico, on January 2, 2024. (Herika MARTINEZ/AFP)
Johnson is the lone skeptic in congressional leadership of the White House’s strategy for pairing the two issues. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) have worked with Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and the Biden White House to find the right pressure point to force Johnson to action.
Before the White House meeting, Johnson appeared unmoved, insisting H.R. 2 must be the starting point for negotiations.
“House Republicans are standing on that line,” he said. “I will tell the president that today. I’ve been saying that consistently since the moment I was handed this gavel, and that’s never changed.”
For decades, terms such as “comprehensive immigration reform” and “comprehensive border security” have been thrown around by advocates of open border bills that ultimately failed. Johnson pushed back on calls to once again push similar legislation, insisting that the provisions of the House bill are crafted to work together to fix the problem, and that removal of one or more of the major provisions would render the bill ineffective at stopping the flow of migrants.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) stand for a photo at the U.S. Capitol July 27, 2023, in Washington, DC. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)
“I don’t care what you call it,” Johnson told reporters. “I’m telling you that these elements are important in order to make the change that is necessary. No one should be playing politics at this. There’s too much at stake.”
Approval of Biden’s handling of the border is underwater, with independents and Democrats rejecting his failure to address the issue. Democrat officials across the nation have pleaded with Biden to take action to address the unprecedented numbers of unhoused migrants flooding their cities.
Skeptics of Biden’s border deal say his cynical election year priority is to “hide and house” migrants, providing nothing more than a temporary band-aid on the problem by removing migrants from the streets and perhaps temporarily reducing the crime that accompanies their arrival.
WATCH — Chicago Alderman: “I’m a Democrat,” but Biden “Let the Border Remain Open” and Migrant Surge Is Causing Crime:
Johnson laid out why it is critical for Republicans to use their leverage to provide a real solution that could last beyond an election year.
“Fentanyl is the leading cause of death for Americans age 18 to 49,” he said:
Trafficking is a scourge. The cartels on the border down there are making billions of dollars trafficking humans into the U.S. Sixty to 70 percent of the people that cross at Eagle Pass, which is the main funnel right now, are single adult males between the ages of 18 and 40.
These are not huddled masses of families seeking refuge and asylum. These are people who are coming here probably with ill design.
Johnson also echoed sentiments of the American people in demanding the Biden administration lay out a path to victory before funding Ukraine’s war, which has been at a stalemate for a year, demanding “accountability for the funds.”
“We need to know that Ukraine would not be another Afghanistan, and you see a lot of the American people scratching their heads having real questions about why [American aid] would continue without those appropriate answers. So I’m gonna push for those.” Johnson continued. “But before we even talk about Ukraine, I’m gonna tell the President what I’m telling all of you and we’ve told the American people: border, border, border. We have to take care of our own house. We have to secure our own border before we talk about doing anything else.”
Bradley Jaye is a Capitol Hill Correspondent for Breitbart News. Follow him on X/Twitter at @BradleyAJaye.
narcomex on, under, over and in america's open and undefended border!
El Chapo's Sons Send A Disturbing Letter To The Media
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'Does The Border Need To Be Closed?': Reporters Press Eric Adams For Strong Position On Migrants
'We Cannot Compromise': NYC Councilmember Sounds The Alarm On NYC's Migrant Influx
NYC Mayor Eric Adams BLASTS Biden Over WAVES of Illegal Migrants
Migrants turn New York into a crime pit -report
Celebrate diversity.
In New York, they're getting diversity of morals all right, and lots of migrant cultural enrichment, too, while we're at it.
According to the New York Post, which did some authentic street reporting on the impact of 2,000 illegal migrants in Brooklyn's Floyd Bennett Field:
Since mid-November, new lawlessness has plagued the area, with shoplifting, panhandling, gutter scams, and, according to some, signs of street prostitution.
And the once-serene, federally-run site — a historic former airfield off Flatbush Avenue near the Marine Parkway Bridge — has itself become an eyesore, where vicious brawls and pot-puffing are common, those living there said.
“This sh-t is out of control,” said a 20-year veteran NYPD cop when asked about the migrants at Floyd Bennett Field, a fraction of the 164,000 illegal border crossers bused to New York since spring 2022 — and 68,000 currently in the city’s care.
“That’s all these people do is rob and steal. They should feel lucky that they’re here, but they’re out there committing crimes. We don’t know anything about them. We don’t know what they’ve done in these other countries.”
They found hard police data to support the sentiment they found from the angry locals:
NYPD records from Nov. 27 through Jan. 7 show upticks in car thefts (37.5%), robberies (29.4%), and petit larceny (8.2%) in the 63rd Precinct, which covers the neighborhoods near Floyd Bennett Field, compared to the same period a year earlier.
It's important to note that high as those figures are, they are very likely underreported, as nothing is being done to stop migrant crime.
The kind of migrant crime coming in is pretty spectacular, of the kind that you see in the hillside shantytowns of Caracas or Medellin. The Post reported prostitution among migrants selling flowers, scams to extort money from New Yorkers by having one migrant run into traffic to get lightly hit by a passing car with his buddies in the back filming the incident on their cell phone cameras after which the migrant demands a $500 payout in order to avoid being taken to court. Other migrants, the supposedly pitiful single moms on the go operate like gypsy families, filing into malls and having children distract staff while mom steals goods, or the kids do, stuffing their stolen goods on the kids to avoid any serious charges as if that were still being done these days. They also like to go begging, at all hours, banging on doors for free stuff from the public, despite the support the city is giving them. One day of begging will bring an illegal migrant about $160 a day which is even higher than New York's inflated minimum wage, and why migrants shun offers of work because begging in the underground economy pays more. City officials have instituted migrant curfew to fight it but don't hold your breath. Car stealing is big. Communicable diseases are rampant. Among themselves, the migrants live the wife-beater lifestyle, with reports of migrants assaulting one another over food and petty matters, bringing more crime, yelling, loud music, and plagues to the otherwise placid parts of outer Brooklyn.
It's as if New York has imported the worst of the third-world shantytowns through its sanctuary city and right-to-shelter law and is making its own city like third world cities. But immigrants enrich, as the lefty saying goes. The only people they are enriching is themselves.
The lesson here is that if migrants are coming here for free stuff, it's not always just government/taxpayer free stuff they are after. Illegal migrants are demonstrating that they'll take all kinds of stuff for free -- and the public is just as lucrative.
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Brooklyn principal defends decision to force kids into Zoom class in order to house illegals
Is the old bunny-slipper commute from the extended COVID school closures something blue-city educrats get nostalgic about?
Might be, given this principal's inexplicably raging response to parents who objected to their children being thrown out of their own school and shunted off to Zoom classes, so that illegals could be housed at the school instead.
According to the New York Post:
A Brooklyn high school principal lashed out at parents who ripped her decision to boot students out of the classroom the day after 2,000 migrants moved in for a night.
“How dare someone say that I don’t care about kids,” roared James Madison High School principal Jodie Cohen on a Zoom call Tuesday at parents seething that she “sold the kids out” by having them go remote the day after the migrants were evacuated from Floyd Bennett Field because of a torrential rain storm.
“I don’t understand how people who never come on a Zoom like this could take an opportunity like this evening to throw mud,” Cohen said, her voice breaking.
“This [emergency] is for one night, one night!”
The principal explained she decided to have students attend school remotely on Wednesday because it wasn’t clear how quickly the building would be ready for classroom use after the migrants were bused back to their shelter.
Well, no. She doesn't care about the kids in her care, not as much as she cares about foreign nationals illegally present in the U.S., or even more likely, herself, and the New York City political machine that enables these illegals and needs to call in a public school principal from time to time for a favor.
A search of her salary on OpenGovPay.com shows that she makes a pretty penny in that blue city.
According to that site:
In 2016, Jodie Cohen made $162,521 by working as a Principal at the James Madison Hs - K. Jodie Cohen salary was 62% higher than the average and 73% higher than median Principal salary in 2016.
Jodie Cohen salary was 141% higher than average James Madison Hs - K salary and 98% higher than median James Madison Hs - K salary in 2016.
Sound like a blue-city politician couldn't call her up to call in a favor?
This salary, with all its vacay and bennies, by the way, is nearly a decade old. Odds are good it has risen since.
Cohen justifies her move by saying it was just one day of Zoom classes for the kids.
But actually, it's more than that.
It's a test run for more instant Zoom pivots for the kids in the name of accommodating illegals, meaning, they're getting their routine for it all lined up.
And while sure, it's just one little night, it's also the normalization of kicking kids out on short notice any time a city official mismanages a situation with illegals and needs a bailout from the schools.
Illegals: 1; Kids 0.
The schools are neither constructed, nor zoned for illegal immigrant housing, and Cohen's claimed concern about what kind of condition the schools might be in after one night of turning the grounds over to unvetted illegals suggests that property damage and theft of the children's and the school's property were anticipated outcomes.
Does that serve the children of the school, or the interests of the political machine that continues to have its interest in importing the world's lower middle classes into New York City for a full free ride at the expense of the city's children.
Cohen's angry response to parents pretty well tells us it's all of those things, because she should have been apologizing to parents for her bad judgment and improper use of school resources, putting children last.
It tells us a lot about the political machine that seems to be her priority over the education of children: They hate them. And based on the angry response from parents, the parents know it.
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3,500 migrant families being evicted from NYC shelters
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4c6EGxWPJwk
At the rate we are going, soon the entire world may migrate to America for free food, shelter, education, health care, and even voting rights. The latter perk is the real reason Democrats want open borders as Americans won’t vote for their nonsensical proposals and candidates.
Chuck Schumer Suggests DACA Amnesty Needed to Spike U.S. Population as Nation Hits Record 331.9M Residents
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Senate Majority Chuck Schumer (D-NY) suggests an amnesty for millions of illegal aliens eligible and enrolled in the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program is necessary to spike the United States population even as a record 331.9 million people reside in the U.S.
During a press conference this month, Schumer and other Senate Democrats urged ten Senate Republicans to back an amnesty for 3.3 million illegal aliens enrolled and eligible for Obama’s DACA program — providing them with green cards to remain permanently in the U.S. and, eventually, gain naturalized American citizenship.
As part of that plea, Schumer said an amnesty for millions of illegal aliens is necessary to drive up the U.S. population and low birth rates among Americans.
“… we have a population that is not reproducing on its own at the same level that it used to,” Schumer said. “The only way we’re going to have a great future in America is if we welcome and embrace immigrants, the DREAMers, and all of them.”
Schumer also said the Democrats’ “ultimate goal” is to provide amnesty to all 11 to 22 million illegal aliens living across the U.S.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, accompanied by House and Senate Democrats, speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Sept. 6, 2017. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)
The suggestion comes as the U.S. population has increased to the highest total in history, hitting 331,893,745 residents in 2021, driven mostly by legal immigration. For comparison, the population in 1970 stood at 203 million residents.
At current legal immigration levels, whereby more than a million foreign nationals are given green cards annually, the nation’s foreign-born population is expected to hit 70 million by 2060. In 1970, the foreign-born population was fewer than ten million.
Likewise, Schumer’s claim that an amnesty for illegal aliens would boost low birth rates among Americans is unlikely as fertility rates among foreign-born Americans have dropped more rapidly than fertility rates among native-born Americans.
“The total fertility rate for all women (immigrant and native-born) in America in 2019 was 1.76. Excluding immigrants, it would be 1.69 — the rate for natives. The difference is .06 children, or a 4 percent increase in overall total fertility rate in the United States,” Center for Immigration Studies research shows, suggesting more immigration would have a minimal impact on the nation’s low birth rate.
Unmentioned by Democrats, as well as many Republican lawmakers, is crafting a national family agenda that would help boost American birth rates. Hungary’s government has implemented such an agenda, focusing on economic initiatives to make it less expensive for parents to raise children while working.
Since 2010, Hungary’s fertility rate has increased from 1.25 to 1.59 births per woman.
John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Email him at jbinder@breitbart.com. Follow him on Twitter here.
WAGES WILL NEVER BE DEPRESSED ENOUGH TO SATISFIEND THE BOUGHT AND OWNED POLITICIANS!
NO, STAGGERINGLY EXPENSIVE 'CHEAP' MEXICAN LABOR DID NOT BUILD THIS NEVER GREAT NATION! LOOK WHAT IT DID FOR NARCOMEX!
HOW ARE THEY GOING TO GAME THE BORDER AND LAWS?
Lead Republican Sen. James Lankford (R-OK) worked with his colleagues to craft a border compromise to enable passage of tens of billions of dollars in foreign aid, including to Ukrainians to prolong their war with Russia that has been at a stalemate for months.
According to the Immigration Accountability Project, the proposed Senate deal would:
- Increase green cards by 50,000/year
- Work permits for adult children of H-1B holders
- Immediate work permits to every illegal alien released from custody
- Taxpayer-funded lawyers to certain UACs and mentally incompetent aliens
- Expulsion authority for a limited number of days only if encounters exceed 5K/day over a seven-day period
- Restrict parole for those who enter without authorization between ports of entry
Rep. Nadler: Migrants Are ‘The Lifeblood of this Country’ NOPE! THEY'RE THE LIFEBLOOD OF THE NAFTA DEMOCRAT PARTY!!!
Democratic Rep. Jerrold Nadler believes migrants — but not Americans and their children — are the “lifeblood ” of the United States.
Nadler, who is the top Democrat on the House judiciary committee, made the visceral claim at a hearing Thursday as he denounced criticism of migration into the United States and his home city of New York:
We will hear an argument largely devoid of facts and wrong in the law that immigrants are a drain on public benefits, rather than the lifeblood of this country.
“How can … [the migrant share] one of six of the population represent the lifeblood of the whole country?” responded Mark Krikorian, director of the Center for Immigration Studies. He continued:
It’s not just mathematical nonsense, it’s insulting …It’s a clear indication that they just don’t think Americans are any good, and that we need better people to come from abroad to inhabit our country.
They’re saying that Americans are decadent and aren’t good enough, and someone else needs to come in to either replace them or wake them up. They’re saying Americans need competition because they’ve gotten soft. It’s like the big businessman, factory owner who’s against unions because he wants to make sure he can keep his workers on their toes and not demand too much.
“It’s a figure of speech [and] it’s clearly an insulting usage, but they certainly don’t see it in any kind of race sense,” said Krikorian.
Alongside his”bloodline” comment, Nadler rubbed salt in the wound by claiming that migrants are more important than Americans and are the replacements for Americans’ absent births:
We need immigrants to this country. Forget the fact that our vegetables would rot in the ground if they weren’t being picked by many immigrants, many illegal immigrants.
The fact is that the birth rate in this country is way below replacement level, which means our population is going to start shrinking … This is a problem faced by every major country in the world. Few countries, however, have the means to solve this problem through immigration. People want to immigrate to the United States …We are very lucky in that respect, and we should promote it and regulate it properly.
Nadler — like his colleague Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) — did not mention the growing evidence that migration is a cause, not the cure, for Americans’ declining birthrates amid stagnant wages and spiking housing costs.
“They’re saying that having babies is a job Americans will do, so it’s Congress’s responsibility to procure more bodies” via immigration, Krikorian said, adding:
It’s the government’s responsibility to see if there are obstacles that be removed so that people can have the number of kids they want, and survey data shows that couples don’t have as many kids as they want.
Nadler’s dismissive comments about Americans are commonplace among pro-migration Democrats.
“One day without [illegal] immigrants, you don’t eat,” Rep. Delia Ramirez (D-Ill), who is the Chicago-born daughter of illegal immigrants, told a September 2023 hearing.
In the same hearing where Nadler spoke, Indian-born Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) declared that “study after study has proven that the U.S. economy is driven by immigrants, both documented and undocumented.”
Nadler’s “bloodline” comment came after an October media uproar over the news that Donald Trump had claimed in September that migration is “poisoning the blood of our country.”
RELATED: Mayor Eric Adams Heads to Mexico — NYC Migrant Crisis at “Breaking Point”
Trump downplayed the economic factors that pull and push rational migrants into the United States, and provided a different description of migrants and migration:
We know they come from prisons. We know they come from mental institutions and insane asylums. We know they’re terrorists … It’s poisoning the blood of our country. It’s so bad, and people are coming in with disease.
Democrats pounced.
“I know there’s a debate over whether the MAGA movement fully meets the classic criteria for fascism, but can we at least agree that its language is increasingly fascist-adjacent?” responded Paul Krugman in a New York Times column. “We desperately need these [migrant] workers, among other things because they will help us cope with the needs of an aging population,” he added.
“Donald Trump channeled his role models as he parroted Adolf Hitler, praised Kim Jong Un, and quoted Vladimir Putin while running for president on a promise to rule as a dictator and threaten American democracy,” said Ammar Moussa, a spokesman for the Biden 2024 campaign.
Critics, however, declined to mention the refusal of U.S. elites to curb their agendas — such as more migration, free trade, and diversity — to help foster national solidarity.
For example, Krugman’s colleague David French at the New York Times described the growing divide between elites and ordinary people:
The statement was so indefensible and repugnant that many expected it to hurt Trump. Yet a Des Moines Register/NBC News/Mediacom Iowa Poll found that a 42 percent plurality of likely Iowa Republican caucusgoers said the [poisoning the blood] statement would make them more likely to support Trump — a substantially greater percentage than the 28 percent who said it would make them less likely to support him.
But Krugman, French, Moussa, and their progressive peers did not notice the many “blood” quotes from Democrats and pro-migration Republicans.
“We have to recognize that our diversity and … our immigrants are the lifeblood of this city,” Rep. Dan Goldman (D-NY) said in August 2022. “We need to increase the number of visas for those who are trying to enter the country lawfully.”
“New York City has always been a place for dreamers and doers, and our immigrant heritage is the lifeblood of our city,” New York City Mayor Eric Adams said in April 2023.
RELATED: NYC Mayor Eric Adams — Migrant Crisis Will Destroy New York City
“Immigration has long been the lifeblood of the United States, infusing its culture, society, and economy with a vibrant tapestry of diversity and acting as a driver for innovation,” immigration lawyer Michelle Jacobson recently said in a statement on the American Bar Association’s website.
The lifeblood theme has been turned into fashion slogans and home decor in a nation where ethnic political groups demand a greater inflow of their foreign “constituents.” and investors insist that Americans need foreign workers to staff more shifts in the low-productivity consumer economy.
Very few elites dare admit that Americans would viscerally object to their leaders’ reckless and obvious preference for foreigners — xenophilia — over fellow citizens and their vulnerable children.
Some pro-migration GOP politicians and advocates condemned Trump’s lurid claim — even as they also talked about tired Americans’ need for foreign blood.
“I think immigrants are the lifeblood of our country, and it’s important that we have immigrants,” Rep. Tony. Gonzales (R-TX) told “Face the Nation.”
“Far from poison, immigrants are a lifesaving transfusion into the American bloodstream,” responded Mark Thiessen, a conservative-leaning columnist at the Washington Post. “Our country does not have a singular bloodline to be poisoned … we are the first in human history not built not on blood and soil but on an idea.”
There are cases where immigrants can be better workers for some employers, Krikorian noted:
When employers say “immigrants are better workers,” they don’t really mean [better than] the average of federal workers in America as such. What they mean is that immigrants are better workers than any Americans they’re able to hire — and its probably true for those employers.
But, he added, “that’s not an excuse for more immigration because those ex-c0n, recovering addicts, etc., they’re not going anywhere — they’re our people, so we’ve got to help them.”
Extraction Migration
Since at least 1990, the federal government has relied on Extraction Migration to grow the economy after allowing investors to move the high-wage manufacturing sector to lower-wage countries.
The migration policy extracts vast amounts of human resources from needy countries. The additional workers, consumers, and renters push up stock values by shrinking Americans’ wages, subsidizing low-productivity companies, boosting rents, and spiking real estate prices.
The economic policy has pushed many native-born Americans out of careers in a wide variety of business sectors, reduced native-born Americans’ productivity and political clout, reduced high-tech innovation, and allowed government officials to ignore the rising death rate of poor Americans.
The policy also sucks jobs and wealth from heartland states by subsidizing coastal investors and government agencies with a flood of low-wage workers, high-occupancy renters, and government-aided consumers.
The colonialism-like policy has also killed many thousands of migrants, including many on the taxpayer-funded jungle trail through the Darien Gap in Panama.
