Sunday, July 14, 2019

UPPER WEST SIDE SUFFERS WIDESPREAD BLACKOUTS - LOTS OF ILLEGALS FAILED TO PAY THEIR ELECTRIC BEFORE ICE HAULED THEM AWAY


Manhattan, Upper West Side Suffer Widespread Blackouts

NEW YORK, NY - JULY 13: A large section of Manhattan's Upper West Side and Midtown neighborhoods are seen in darkness from above during a major power outage on July 13, 2019 in New York City. Thousands of New Yorkers are without power as a major outage left portions of …
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Parts of Manhattan and the Upper West Side experienced blackouts Saturday evening, leaving thousands without power, according to reports.

NBC New York, citing the Con Edison power outage map, reports over 44,000 customers are without power. “We are responding to extensive outages on the Westside of Manhattan. We will share more information as it comes in. Thank you,” the utility giant wrote on Twitter.

We are responding to extensive outages on the Westside of Manhattan. We will share more information as it comes in. Thank you.

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The Daily News reports:
Subway service was stalled in Manhattan and Queens on all the lines designated by letters, which the MTA calls its “B Division.”
“We’re trying to get people out of subways. We’re trying to get people out of elevators. It’s a big mess,” said an MTA source. Subway riders were walked through tunnels and led to the station at Columbus Circle, an MTA source said. An early unconfirmed report said there was a transformer fire at 12th Ave. around W. 54th St.
According to the NYPD, police are responding to possible blackouts plaguing the Columbus Circle subway station, while the FDNY has received reports about the outages and inoperable elevators.



LIGHTS OUT: A New York City subway station goes dark as a power outage affects parts of midtown and extending up to the Upper West Side of Manhattan. https://abcn.ws/2jMdrrh 

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The Empire State Building and a portion of the New York skyline is dark amid a widespread power outage affecting parts of midtown Manhattan. https://abcn.ws/32ph0VR 

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A Jennifer Lopez concert at Madison Square Garden was called off due to the outages.



WATCH: JLo concert canceled at Madison Square Concert amid Manhattan blackout.

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The outage is “due to a manhole fire earlier this evening,” New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said, adding “Disruption is significant.”

.@NYCEmergencyMgt is working with the NYPD, FDNY and city agencies to respond to power outages in Manhattan due to a manhole fire earlier this evening. Disruption is significant.

We’ll have further updates soon — please follow @NotifyNYC.

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“We are in constant communication with Con Ed, who has an effort underway to begin restoration of power by midnight tonight,” New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said in a statement.
Saturday’s extensive blackout falls on the anniversary of the 1977 New York power outage, which left most of the Big Apple dark.



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"The latest federal data concludes there are more than 925,000 illegal aliens, in total, with final deportation orders who have continued living freely in the U.S. About 20 percent of these illegal aliens have at least one criminal conviction and almost all are not in federal custody. Roughly 60 percent of these illegal aliens come from Mexico, El Salvador, Honduras, and Guatemala."


"New York is a sanctuary city which actively opposes immigration actions by federal law enforcement officers. The city uses taxpayer funds to advise illegal aliens on ways they can evade immigration authorities, including at local fairs and seminars. One such seminar provided free MetroCards to attendees."


Bill De Blasio Assists Illegals: ‘We Will Do Everything We Can to Protect You’

More than 80 demonstrations took place across the country, marking the National Day for Dignity and Respect. (TIMOTHY CLARY/AFP/Getty Images)
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In a series of tweets published Saturday, Democrat presidential hopeful and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio insisted that those residing illegally in the Big Apple stand their ground against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

“Let’s be blunt here: @realDonaldTrump has turned ICE into a political weapon against our immigrant communities,” de Blasio wrote in a Saturday morning tweet. “To everyone worried this weekend: this is your city.”
In an attempt to comfort those living in the city illegally, de Blasio added, “We will do everything we can to protect you.”







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Let's be blunt here: @realDonaldTrump has turned ICE into a political weapon against our immigrant communities. To everyone worried this weekend: this is your city. We will do everything we can to protect you.




Another tweet directed at illegal aliens, issued by the official NYC Mayor’s Office in both English and Spanish, stated, “You have rights.” Included in the tweet was information on how illegal aliens can seek “legal advice” and guidance on what to do “if you’re worried about being separated from a child.”

New Yorkers who are approached by ICE: You have rights.

If you're worried about being separated from a child, you can choose a backup caregiver called a "standby guardian."

Call 311 and say ActionNYC for more legal advice. Head to http://nyc.gov/KnowYourRights  for more information.




De Blasio also warned illegal aliens in New York City of “reports of attempted but reportedly unsuccessful ICE enforcement actions in Sunset Park and Harlem.”
He also stated that the New York City Mayor’s Office of Immigrant Affairs and other advocates in the area were “connecting with residents and distributing resources door to door.”







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Receiving reports of attempted but reportedly unsuccessful ICE enforcement actions in Sunset Park and Harlem.@NYCImmigrants and advocates are connecting with residents and distributing resources door to door.

Remember: you have rights. Call 311 and say ActionNYC for help.




report from the New York Times earlier this week said ICE would launch a massive deportation raid, which would target ten major cities and 2,000 illegal aliens.
Last month, President Donald Trump announced he would delay the raids of illegal aliens for two weeks in order to give Congress more time to work out a bipartisan solution to the immigration crisis at the border.
Speaking to press outside of the White House on Friday, Trump discussed the imminent ICE raids and said, “It starts on Sunday, and they’re going to take people out and they’re going to bring them back to their countries.”







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NEW: Pres. Trump on anticipated ICE raids: "It starts on Sunday, and they're going to take people out and they're going to bring them back to their countries...We're focused on criminals as much as we can, before we do anything else." https://abcn.ws/32ofGm3 




He added, “We’re focused on criminals as much as we can, before we do anything else.”
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Abolishing ICE Means Letting the Worst Criminals Imaginable Stay in the USA
By Hubert Collins
American Thinker, July 11, 2019
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https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/07/abolishing_ice_means_letting_the_worst_criminals_imaginable_stay_in_the_usa.html

Abolishing ICE Means Letting the Worst Criminals Imaginable Stay in the USA

The call to abolish ICE is repeated over and over again in American politics. This mantra is likely to be repeated with even greater frequency and intensity as the race for the Democrats’ presidential nomination heats up.
But what does ICE actually do?
A quick look at some of their actions from the past few weeks reveals the agency to be an unambiguous force for good.

Date: June 21, 2019
The street value of that much cocaine is north of one billion dollars. Though opioids have been getting almost all the attention whenever our country’s drug epidemic is discussed, thousands are killed by cocaine every year, too. The number is climbing as well.  The Washington Post notes that, “Overdose deaths from cocaine increased by about 18 percent each year during the five-year [2011-2016] period.”
Date: June 21, 2019
The man in question, Houcine Ghoul, was a strong supporter of ISIS, and believed in violently imposing Islam worldwide. In their press release on the matter, ICE gives this background to his case:
The investigation into Ghoul’s conduct began in April 2014 when Ghoul posted a photo online that explicitly displayed support for the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), a designated foreign terrorist organization. This photo displayed an individual holding a sign with the Arabic phrase, “The victory of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria,” and then below in English, “ISIS,” and “N. Carolina, USA,” the state where Ghoul was then residing. The photo later appeared in an online propaganda video posted by others to display worldwide support for ISIS. Though he did not use his actual name or identity for the online accounts, Ghoul provided a self-description within the account, “Extremist, terrorist, tough, brain-washed, radical, I love explosions, booby trapping, beheading the enemy, and am among the supporters of establishing the religion with the sword.”
Later, when Mr. Ghoul applied to become an American citizen, he lied and claimed to have never been affiliated with a terrorist government or advocated the overthrow of a government. Now, he’s one less threat to worry about.
Date: June 24, 2019
ICE targets the worst of the worst, and notes that while all were in the country illegally, the arrest records of this bunch also included, "assault, battery, domestic violence, traffic offenses, driving under the influence, drug possession, drug trafficking, larceny, illegal re-entry after deportation, illegal entry, resisting officers, and aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.”
Looking over the details of this action also reveals how porous our southern border really is. Quite of a few of these criminals had been arrested and deported years ago. For example, one 25-year-old Honduran who had a prior conviction for aggravated assault with a deadly weapon had been deported before. Now that he has been apprehended, he faces “federal prosecution for re-entry after deportation.” Another arrestee, a 32-year old Mexican had also been deported before. This guy is an active gang member with prior convictions for robbery, evading arrest, and aggravated assault.
Who wants these thugs in America?
Date: June 25, 2019
Here again, we see how ICE only targets active criminals -- often of the most despicable sort. They make this as clear as can be:
ICE deportation officers carry out targeted enforcement operations daily nationwide as part of the agency’s ongoing efforts to protect the nation, uphold public safety, and protect the integrity of our immigration laws and border controls….  During targeted enforcement operations, ICE officers frequently encounter other aliens illegally present in the United States. These aliens are evaluated on a case-by-case basis, and, when appropriate, they are arrested by ICE officers.
The rap sheet of this round-up included, “drug possession, assault, dangerous drugs, illegal entry, larceny, marijuana possession, possessing a weapon, failure to identify and identity theft.” The most monstrous of them all being a Honduran man wanted for the rape of a minor.
So when politicians say they want to abolish ICE, are they saying America should give these people citizenship and leave them alone?
Date: June 26, 2019
Another case of a horrendous human being committing crimes in the US after having been deported. This man, José Ramón Aguilar-Moreno, had been sent back to El Salvador in 2003 after he was convicted of sexually abusing a child. But he came back and started posting child pornography to Facebook. He got busted and now faces up to 80 years in prison.
When Kamala Harris says she wants to abolish ICE, is she hoping for the support of men like this?
Date: July 3, 2019
In 2016, Michael Cerdas Molina was convicted of sexual assault against a minor in his native Costa Rica. He tried to dodge prison time by hiding out in the US. But now ICE has busted him, and he will complete his sentence in his homeland.
Under what rationale should this man have been allowed to stay here?
Date: July 3, 2019
The prior convictions of this group is enough to give you goosebumps: “three counts of murder, two counts of rape, two counts of aggravated assault, five counts of aggravated assault with a weapon, two counts of assault, sexual assault,  three counts of attempted murder, burglary, child abuse, lewd act on a minor, driving under the influence, larceny, stolen property, two counts of firearm possession, two weapon offenses, traffic offence, forgery, three counts of robbery, resisting arrest, auto theft, and seven drug convictions.”
Now each and every one of them is back in Cambodia where they came from, and headed for prison, where they belong.
Supporters of terrorism, drug-peddlers, murderers, rapists, child pornographers, and violent criminals. These are just some of the terrible people ICE has rid us of in just the last three weeks.
ICE shouldn’t be abolished; it should be expanded.

Another ICE Sweep Nets Illegals In Triple Digits, This Time In New Jersey

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It’s not as if President Trump and the Attorney General haven’t been telegraphing their punches when it comes to questions of illegal immigration. But all the warnings in the world don’t seem to be helping illegal aliens – particularly those who have run into additional trouble with the law – avoid capture and deportation in record numbers. That happened again this week as ICE pulled off another highly successful operation in the Garden State. New Jersey residents now have more than one hundred fewer illegal aliens roaming around, most of them with serious criminal records.
The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency announced Tuesday the arrest of 101 illegal immigrants, targeting criminal aliens, illegal re-entrants, and immigration violators, and including immigrants convicted of drug- and child-pornography-related offenses.
The arrests were the product of a five-day operation in New Jersey, spearheaded by ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO). Among those arrested, 88 percent were convicted criminals, and 80 percent had prior felony convictions.
ICE put out their own press release with the full details of those who are soon to be either leaving for home or heading to prison, and they include plenty of gang members.
These individuals were arrested in the following counties in New Jersey: Atlantic (2), Bergen (6), Burlington (7), Camden (11), Cumberland (3), Essex (14), Hudson (15), Mercer (6), Middlesex (11), Monmouth (3), Morris (1), Passaic (9), Somerset (4), and Union (6) and the following counties in New York: Kings(1), New York (1), and Suffolk (1). They range from age 20 to 71 years old and all were previously convicted of a variety of offenses. Some of the convictions included sexual assault on a minor, child abuse, possession of narcotics, distribution of narcotics, robbery, trespassing, DUI, fraud, possession of child pornography, domestic violence, battery, receiving stolen property, theft, possession of a weapon, burglary, larceny, aggravated assault, aggravated assault on law enforcement, assault by auto, shoplifting, invasion of privacy-recording sexual act without consent, resisting arrest, endangering the welfare of a child, and illegal reentry.
Rape, assault, drug dealing, child pornography… they really ran the full gamut. Other operations taking place at the same time, particularly in Baltimore, targeted members of MS-13 and other gangs, removing drugs and illegal weapons from circulation. During comments delivered in Charm City, Jeff Sessions reminded everyone that sanctuary city policies were making law abiding citizens less safe and making it more dangerous for immigration officials to do their jobs. But that wasn’t going to slow them down.
There was also a less than subtle reminder that even illegal aliens who haven’t been convicted of any additional crimes would not be “safe” from detention and deportation if they were caught up in a sweep. We’ve arrested more than 300,000 illegal aliens just in 2017 and enforcement efforts are only going to increase if new funding requests for ICE and the Border Patrol are approved.
With so much dismal news eating up the front pages these days, it’s nice to see some positive progress on at least one front.

Study: Deporting Illegal 

Aliens Saves Americans 

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Guatemalan immigrants deported from the United States, get on a bus as they leave the Air Force base in Guatemala City on June 22, 2018. - A group of 108 Guatemalan immigrants who tried to cross illegaly to the US under the "zero tolerance" migratory policy where deported. (Photo by …
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BLOG: THE NUMBER OF ILLEGALS IS ACTUALLY MORE THAN 40 MILLION! NOW DO THE MATH.

Deporting the roughly 11 to 22 million illegal aliens living across the United States saves American taxpayers hundreds of billions in public costs, analysis finds.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is expected to conduct a mass deportation effort next week, where at least 2,000 illegal aliens who have final orders for removal will be arrested, detained, and deported from the U.S.
American taxpayers stand ready to benefit significantly from the deportation of thousands of illegal aliens, all of whom have been ordered deported and have refused to leave.
The latest analysis from the Center for Immigration Studies Director of Research Steven Camarotta compared and contrasted the cost to American taxpayers of millions of illegal aliens living in the U.S. over a lifetime and the cost of deportation.
Based on research from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, the cost of illegal aliens to American taxpayers over a lifetime is about $746.3 billion. Compare this to the cost of a single deportation, which is about $10,854 per illegal alien based on Fiscal Year 2016 totals.
Overall, deporting every illegal alien in the country would amount to a cost savings of about $622 billion over the course of a lifetime. This indicates that deporting illegal aliens is six times less costly than what it costs American taxpayers to currently subsidize the millions of illegal aliens living in the U.S.
“There’s a high cost of cheap labor,” Camarotta told Breitbart News.
Last year, President Trump’s administration deported more than 256,000 illegal aliens from the U.S. Assuming that the cost of deportations has been largely unchanged since the Obama administration, this would mean that last year’s deportations, alone, cost about $2.8 billion.
Compared to the annual $116 billion that the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) estimates illegal immigration costs taxpayers, deportations conducted last year were more than 40 times less costly.
The latest Harvard/Harris Poll finds that a majority of Americans support Trump’s plan to mass deport illegal aliens following inaction from Congress. This includes support from more than 8-in-10 Republican voters and more than 5-in-10 swing voters.
As Breitbart News has chronicled, there are about 1.7 million illegal aliens from Central America and Mexico, alone, living in the U.S. despite already being ordered deported or having pending deportation orders.
The latest federal data concludes there are more than 925,000 illegal aliens, in total, with final deportation orders who have continued living freely in the U.S. About 20 percent of these illegal aliens have at least one criminal conviction and almost all are not in federal custody. Roughly 60 percent of these illegal aliens come from Mexico, El Salvador, Honduras, and Guatemala.
John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Follow him on Twitter at @JxhnBinder.


ICE Begins Rounding Up Illegal Aliens for Deportation

July 14, 2019 Updated: July 14, 2019

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents began a nationwide sweep on July 13 targeting illegal aliens who have received final deportation orders issued by immigration judges, according to the agency’s acting director, Matt Albence.
Early on July 13, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said that he received reports of raids taking place in the neighborhoods of Sunset Park and Harlem. The sweeps were “reportedly unsuccessful” de Blasio wrote on Twitter.
President Donald Trump had previously postponed the nationwide operation at the behest of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Immigration officials previously said the action would target migrant family units whose cases were processed in an expedited fashion and resulted in a deportation order.
The vast majority of the migrants 
involved did not return to court for 
their scheduled hearings after being 
released into the United States. ICE 
sent  out letters to 2,000 migrants in 
February, advising them to report to a 
local office to be removed from the 
country. Albence told Fox News on 
July 14 that only 3 percent of the 
addressees responded to the letter.
“At this point, we have no choice but to go out and execute those lawfully-issued removal orders from an immigration judge,” Albence said.
In New York, the city’s Department of Immigrant Affairs investigated reports of ICE officers checking IDs at a subway station. The department sent an “on-the-ground team” which did not spot any ICE personnel at the location.
New York is a sanctuary city which actively opposes immigration actions by federal law enforcement officers. The city uses taxpayer funds to advise illegal aliens on ways they can evade immigration authorities, including at local fairs and seminars. One such seminar provided free MetroCards to attendees.
De Blasio, a candidate for the 2020 presidential election, has used the mayor’s office to advise illegal aliens that they do not have to open doors for or speak to ICE officers, among other measures meant to thwart the enforcement of the nation’s immigration laws.
De Blasio is not the only mayor actively obstructing federal immigration authorities. There are more than 300 state and local governments with written law, rules, or policies meant to thwart the detention and deportation of illegal aliens.
ICE released a list on July 14 detailing several cases in which illegal aliens committed crimes after being released back into the public by police departments in locales which declined to honor ICE detention requests. In one such case, an illegal alien held by the Los Angeles Police Department for drug possession was released in February last year, more than a month after ICE asked to detain him. The same criminal has since been arrested and charged with murder.
The American Civil Liberties Union filed a pre-emptive lawsuit on July 11 that aims to protect asylum seekers. Open-borders activists held demonstrations around the nation, including an event in Colorado in which attendees pulled down the American flag from a flagpole near an ICE facility in Aurora and replaced it with a Mexican flag. The protesters then defaced the American flag with graffiti and hoisted it upside down.
Administration officials have said that the coordinated move will target about 2,000 people with final deportation orders in major cities, including Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, and Miami.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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ICE Releases Report Highlighting Dangers of Sanctuary City Policies

July 14, 2019 Updated: July 14, 2019
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) released its first “Declined Detainer” report on July 14 that highlights the dangers when sanctuary cities block efforts by ICE to remove an illegal immigrant from the country.
The report, set to be released quarterly and mandated by President Donald Trump’s 2017 executive order on “Enhancing Public Safety in the Interior of the United States,” illustrates incidents that occurred during the second quarter of fiscal year 2018.
The report highlights numerous cases in which law enforcement agencies failed to honor ICE detainers after arresting illegal immigrants, who then, after being released, later committed new crimes. Arrests of illegal immigrants included cases of drug possession, murder, burglary, and rape.
“Because ICE is often not alerted by uncooperative jurisdictions when a detainer has been declined, and because ICE may only learn of the detainer having been declined after an alien is arrested for a subsequent offense, the cases contained in this report are examples of a broader public safety issue and are not exhaustive,” the report’s overview states.
The cooperation between ICE and law enforcement agencies are “critical to the effort to identify and arrest removable aliens and defend the nation’s security.”
“Every day, ICE places detainers on individuals who the agency has probable cause to believe are aliens who are removable from the United States and are currently in federal, state, and local law enforcement agency custody,” the report continued.
ICE said they place detainers on certain individuals they believe are “removable aliens in federal, state, and local law enforcement agency custody.”
One case highlighted by the report involved a 30-year-old Mexican citizen who was arrested on Jan. 7, 2018, by the Los Angeles Police Department for possession of a controlled substance. ICE issued a detainer on the same day, but the detainer wasn’t honored and he was released.
On Feb. 26, 2018, the man was again arrested by the same police department for murder and was booked into the Los Angeles County Jail. As of the writing of the ICE report, the man remains in custody. ICE says they have since issued another detainer.
Another case detailed the story of a 41-year-old citizen of Honduras who was arrested on Jan. 31, 2018, by the San Francisco Police Department for the crimes of burglary, obstructing a public officer, and appropriating lost property.
The man was booked into the San Francisco County Jail and ICE issued a detainer the same day, but the detainer wasn’t honored and the man was subsequently released by law enforcement. On April 4, 2018, the man was arrested again by the same police department, this time for transporting and selling a narcotic controlled substance. He was booked into the jail again.
The next day, ICE again issued a detainer, but as of the writing of the report, they said they believe the alien “has been released and remains at-large.”
The report doesn’t publish all cases involving declined detainers, according to its Q&A section. But it does include recent cases in which illegal aliens have reoffended after a detainer was declined, to “demonstrate the significant threat to public safety posed by declined detainers.”
Acting ICE Director Matt Albence told Fox News on July 14 that the report “is highlighting the dangers caused by some of these sanctuary cities policies.”
“The sad part is a lot of these law enforcement agencies want to cooperate with us. It’s the politicians and these jurisdictions that prevent them from doing so,” Albence continued. He said the National Sheriff’s Association is one of ICE’s closest allies.
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