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Biden Approves Migrant Camp at NYC Airfield Despite Residents’ Opposition

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JOHN BINDER

23 Aug 20230

2:35

President Joe Biden is ignoring concerns from Brooklyn, New York, residents and has greenlit a plan that will see at least 2,000 single adult male border crossers and illegal aliens housed in a former naval airfield facility — paid for by New Yorkers.

On Tuesday, residents in southeast Brooklyn protested New York Gov. Kathy Hochul’s (D) plan to turn Floyd Bennett Field, owned by the federal government, into a massive migrant camp.

The former naval airfield sits along Jamaica Bay and near multiple neighborhoods including Gerritsen Beach, Roxbury, and Breezy Point.

“I live here, I grew up here,” one resident told News 12. “It’s going to make the neighborhood way more dangerous.”

During the protest, former GOP candidate for New York City mayor Curtis Sliwa blamed Biden’s lax enforcement of federal immigration law for the more than 100,000 migrants that have arrived in the city since the spring of last year.

“The people here feel that they have been betrayed,” Sliwa said at the protest. “No transparency whatsoever. It’s like ‘Pay your taxes, shut up, raise your kids, and we’ll tell you what you’re going to do.’ Well, we’ve had enough, no more of the illegal aliens. Enough is enough, this is Joe Biden’s problem.”

People attend a protest against a tent shelter for migrants at Floyd Bennett Field in the Brooklyn borough of New York City on August 22, 2023. (Paul Frangipane/VIEWpress)

People attend an anti-migrant protest led by Guardian Angels founder Curtis Sliwa at Floyd Bennett Field on August 22, 2023 in the Marine Park neighborhood of the Brooklyn borough of New York City. (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)

People attend an anti-migrant protest led by Guardian Angels founder Curtis Sliwa at Floyd Bennett Field on August 22, 2023 in the Marine Park neighborhood of the Brooklyn borough of New York City. (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)

People attend an anti-migrant protest led by Guardian Angels founder Curtis Sliwa at Floyd Bennett Field on August 22, 2023 in the Marine Park neighborhood of the Brooklyn borough of New York City. (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)

People attend an anti-migrant protest led by Guardian Angels founder Curtis Sliwa at Floyd Bennett Field on August 22, 2023 in the Marine Park neighborhood of the Brooklyn borough of New York City. (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)

People attend a protest against a tent shelter for migrants at Floyd Bennett Field in the Brooklyn borough of New York City on August 22, 2023. (Paul Frangipane/VIEWpress)

People attend an anti-migrant protest led by Guardian Angels founder Curtis Sliwa at Floyd Bennett Field on August 22, 2023 in the Marine Park neighborhood of the Brooklyn borough New York City. (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)

People attend an anti-migrant protest led by Guardian Angels founder Curtis Sliwa at Floyd Bennett Field on August 22, 2023 in the Marine Park neighborhood of the Brooklyn borough New York City. (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)

Despite concerns from nearby residents, Hochul confirmed on Wednesday that the Biden administration had approved her plan to house thousands of border crossers and illegal aliens at the airfield.

Hochul, praising the effort, said New Yorkers will pick up the tab for the migrant camp.

“I’m viewing this as a significant development by the administration … to acknowledge that we need more help here,” Hochul said.

The migrant camp at the airfield will be among many set up in New York City. Also this week, Mayor Eric Adams (D) opened a mega migrant shelter on Randall’s Island that will disrupt recreation services for school children as it sits on three soccer fields.

That mega shelter may soon house about 3,000 single adult male border crossers and illegal aliens at a cost of $20 million every month for New York City taxpayers. This is in addition to the $12 billion bill that New Yorkers are projected to pay to provide housing, food, care, and public services to migrants arriving from the southern border.

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

GOP Immigration Debate Shifts to Wages

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NEIL MUNRO

23 Aug 20230

4:43

The GOP’s presidential candidates are grappling with immigration’s impact on Americans’ pocketbooks, marking a huge break from the establishment’s focus on expanding the overall economy with immigrant workers, consumers, and renters.

“These responses are way better than they would have been before Trump showed Republican politicians [in 2016] that you can actually benefit from responding to your constituent’s concerns instead of ignoring them,” Mark Krikorian, director of the Center for Immigration Studies, told Breitbart News.

Breitbart News asked, “Will you support cutting legal immigration levels into the United States until wages stabilize for middle and working-class Americans?”

Former President Donald Trump answered:

Yes. We will immediately restore the full suite of policies we had in 2020, which includes the Public Charge regulation, the sponsor vetting and repayment policies (implementing the curbs from the 1996 law), the Travel Ban (which will be expanded further), and the Healthcare 212 Act (barring the entry of new residents who will depend on the state for healthcare).

Trump also promised to protect American tech graduates from companies’ growing use of imported and cheap H-1B visa workers:

In order to protect American STEM workers, we will reimplement all of our historic actions regarding H-1B workers, including the termination of the visa lottery, the non-displacement rule, and the highest salary first rule.

“Our policy will be to prevent any immigration that hurts Americans or American jobs,” he said.

Former Vice President Mike Pence answered Breitbart’s wage question by arguing that inflation will drop as illegal migrants are sent home:

If we end illegal immigration, we’ll cut that number down by a quarter, and American citizens can expect to notice it in their pocketbook as their money no longer gets debased by Bidenflation.

Pence also promised to implement the E-Verify system to deter the hiring of illegal migrants: “Yes, and the federal government must pick up the tab for implementation and not thrust another unfunded mandate on the American people.”

Aides to Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis responded, “DeSantis will seek to reduce immigration that undercuts American jobs and wages. The immigration system should provide a net benefit to Americans, our economy, and our country.”

DeSantis’s deputies also cited wages in response to a question about reforming the H-1B program used to import foreign graduates for U.S. jobs, saying:

Ron DeSantis believes that the H1-B program has been used to undercut American wages and will work to reform the program to ensure that H1-B visas do not displace or undermine American workers.

The deputies added:

The United States should not have an immigration system that is going to lower wages for working Americans. The level of immigration permitted, skilled and unskilled, should be that which is best for America—and not set according to the demands of foreign entities or political trends. This will be the outlook utilized by the DeSantis Administration when making such policy determinations.

That is a huge shift from 2016 when Jeb Bush competed against Trump’s populist pitch by promising to import more migrants to grow the economy:

I view fixing a broken [immigration] system as a huge opportunity to get to that four percent [national economic] growth. We can grow by 4 percent through all sorts of policies, but immigration has to be a part of it.

Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley responded, “We need to bring in immigrants based on merit and based on those who will lift our economy up—not based on some arbitrary number.” But she did promise to enforce the E-Verify system if elected.

South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott said, “Once my Administration has secured our border and restored our basic national sovereignty, then I will be willing to discuss the legal immigration system.”

Anti-woke businessman Vivek Ramaswamy provided a general statement that included a promise to “gut” the H-1B visa program: “It’s a form of indentured servitude that only accrues to the benefit of the company that sponsored an H1-B immigrant. I’ll gut it.”

A statement from aides to Doug Burgun, the North Dakota governor, said, “He knows that until the border is truly secure, the crisis at the border will never end, and there can be no true solution to the other immigration issues facing our nation.”

Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie declined to answer the questions.