NYC mayor sends delegation to Texas border
Former Acting ICE Director Jonathan Fahey: NYC Mayor Is Part of the Problem as a Sanctuary City Mayor
(CNSNews.com) - New York City Mayor Eric Adams has announced that he’s sending a delegation of city officials to the border in Texas for a fact-finding mission, which former acting ICE Director Jonathan Fahey said Wednesday is a waste of taxpayer resources, because the problem lies in Washington, D.C.
“Why not just simply say to fellow Democrats, close the border, stop the human trafficking, stop the drug trafficking, stop the human suffering. Yeah, that would probably be a much better way to deal with it and certainly more efficient. Yeah, the Eric Adams thing is pure nonsense,” Fahey told Fox Business’s “Mornings with Maria Bartiromo.”
It’s like he’s sending a fact-finding mission to Texas. Everyone knows what's going on. We have an open border. There are people suffering. There are people dying. There are drugs coming across. There’s human smuggling.
They don't need a fact-finding mission, and the irony of it is his complaint is these are costing resources to New York City residents and taxpayers, and yet they’re going to waste taxpayer resources and sending silly fact-finding mission down there so it makes it look like he's doing something about it.
The answer’s in Washington, D.C. if they want to deal with it, and he's part of the problem. He’s one of these sanctuary city mayors that’s encouraged illegal immigration for years and years.
They won't even kick out the most serious criminals and for him they act like they should be doing something about it now, it's just so unserious. He’s got a lot of problems in New York City. He should deal with them in a serious manner and help the citizens rather than just play these little games.
He said that the Biden administration’s border policy is “two-fold.”
It's an open border, meaning that anyone can come here and it's defacto amnesty which is once you are here, you're not getting kicked out other than extreme circumstances. So that's the policy, but they don't just get a court date. Remember, they get a free cell too when they come across.
If they come to court they won't get kicked, and if they don't come to court they are not getting kicked out. It is truly amazing that this is going on and, you know, this is a serious issue and for the administration to be playing games and consistently lying about what's going on it's really a disgrace.
They are not serving the American public. They are undermining law enforcement in every respect by just letting -- letting all of these people flout our asylum laws, other laws. It's really unbelievable. It's a disgrace and it's causing so much harm but they are not going to change. They have shown no willingness. They've even gotten worse on the open-border agenda.
Everything they do is to encourage illegal immigration. Anyone that stands up against it, they call them names, they undermine them. They cut their legs from under them and they are not going to change.
Labor Sec’y Walsh: Worker Shortage Due to Lack of Immigration Reform a ‘Bigger Threat’ in Some Cases Than Inflation or Recession
On Tuesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” Labor Secretary Marty Walsh argued that “we’re going to have to have a real serious conversation in this country about immigration and immigration reform” in order to address the shortage of workers which is, in some cases, “a bigger threat to our economy than inflation is at this point, than a recession.”
Walsh stated, “Well, the first thing is we don’t have enough workers in the United States of America to fill all of the job openings that are out there. Right now, at this moment in time, more Americans are working in this country than in any other period in the history of America. So, when you think about the amount of jobs and people that are working, it’s a really incredible number. The problem is that we don’t have enough people. There [are] about five million people, I think, still, roughly…that are either looking for work or just not in the workforce, for a whole host of reasons, illnesses, child care, whatever it might be. So, at some point, we’re going to have to have a real serious conversation in this country about immigration and immigration reform. And when I talk to big business in America and I talk to businesses, every single one of them, to a person, says to me, we need to — we’re going to have to think about this long-term and how do we deal with these issue[s].”
He added, “I think, in this country, when you think about our economy, you think about our country, there [are] two sides in immigration. We don’t want immigration — or we’d like to see legal immigration. The problem is, in America, if we don’t have workers to fill these jobs, it’s going to hurt our economy overall. And if you have six million jobs, let’s just play with that number right now, let’s assume six million jobs that, if everyone went to work in America tomorrow that was eligible — or not even eligible, but they went to work, we have six million job openings. As you just said, it’s going to hurt business in our country, it’s going to hurt our economy, and in some cases, I think it’s a bigger threat to our economy than inflation is at this point, than a recession.”
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Democrat Gov. Pritzker Promises ‘Emergency Housing’ for Migrants as Rents Skyrocket for Chicagoans
Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D) is promising “emergency housing” for migrants bused from Texas even as rents in Chicago have skyrocketed for residents.
Last week, Texas governor Greg Abbott (R) started busing border crossers to the sanctuary city of Chicago after sending thousands over the last few months to the sanctuary cities of Washington, DC and New York City.
In response, Pritzker is promising migrants “emergency housing” as well as “health care screenings, the offer of COVID-19 vaccines and … additional legal resettlement assistance.”
Meanwhile, as Breitbart News has reported, Chicago mayor Lori Lightfoot has called Abbott’s sending of the migrant buses “racist and xenophobic” along with “immoral” and “unpatriotic.”
Chicago Mayor's Office / FacebookPritzker’s pledge of emergency housing for migrants comes as Chicagoans face sky-high rents and housing costs. The most recent analysis shows that Chicagoans are paying about 20 percent more on rent this year compared to last year.
Today, the average rent in Chicago is more than $2,900, which is nearly 20 percent higher than the cost of rent at the same time last year. Rents in Chicago have increased so much that tenants are forming unions to fight their landlords and the city.
Real estate investors are some of the biggest beneficiaries of mass immigration to the United States. Immigration-driven population growth, set to bring the United States population to more than 400 million by 2060, is likely to send housing prices even higher.
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.”
As legal immigration brings over a million legal immigrants to the United States annually, as well as more than a million more on temporary work visas, President Joe Biden’s administration has also implemented an expansive Catch and Release network where every month thousands of border crossers and illegal aliens are sent all over the nation to await court hearings.
In the meantime, those new arrivals need housing.
While it is unclear exactly where border crossers and illegal aliens are resettling, the administration’s Alternative to Detention (ATD) program gives insight into the level of mass immigration into each city coinciding with record-high housing costs.
In August, the Biden administration had more than 13,000 border crossers and illegal aliens in Chicago on the ATD program. In November 2020 fewer than 6,600 border crossers and illegal aliens had been sent to Chicago on the ATD program.
John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Email him at jbinder@breitbart.com. Follow him on Twitter here.
But you can't help but think that Adams and Lightfoot are overplaying their parts. Faced with intractable crises caused by their radical movement, they're relishing a crisis that they can blame on Texas and the virtue signaling that comes with it.
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