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Nearly 20 Shot Friday into Sunday Night in Mayor Brandon Johnson’s Chicago
Nearly 20 people were shot Friday into Sunday night in Mayor Brandon Johnson’s (D) Chicago.
ABC 7 reported that at least 18 people had been shot during the weekend by 9:01 p.m. Sunday night.
CBS News noted that a 16-year-old girl was among the gunshot victims.
The 16-year-old was inside a home “in the 7200 block of South Honore Street” when a white sedan pulled up, and someone inside the vehicle opened fire shortly after 9:00 p.m. One bullet shattered a window, then struck the girl, who suffered non-life-threatening injuries.
Shortly thereafter, a man and woman, both 25 years old, were shot while in a parked vehicle. A white sedan pulled close, and someone opened fire. Both are in good condition.
Breitbart News pointed out that at least 27 people were shot in Johnson’s Chicago last weekend. Five of those shooting victims succumbed to their wounds.
A database maintained by the Chicago Sun-Times shows 420 people were killed in Chicago from January 1, 2023, through September 17, 2023.
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8 Shot Dead in Under 48 Hours in Democrat-Run Philadelphia
Eight people were shot dead in less than 48 hours stretching from Saturday into early Monday morning in Democrat-run Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
The first fatal shooting occurred just before 7:00 a.m. Saturday, according to CBS News, and left a 50-year-old man dead.
6 ABC reported that the next shooting, at 8:49 a.m. Saturday, left 33-year-old Edward Harlem deceased with a gunshot wound to the neck.
Minutes later, at 9:30 a.m. Saturday, a 45-year-old woman was found shot to death in a home “in the 100 block of East Pastorius Street.” The woman was identified as Patricia Hall.
At 12:15 p.m. Saturday, 26-year-old Andre Moore was shot multiple times and killed. He was “in the 7300 block of N. 19th Street” when the shots rang out.
The next fatal shooting, at 11:27 p.m. Saturday, left 22-year-old Tamere Mountcastle dead “in the 1400 block of W. Chew Avenue.”
Twenty-six-year-old Dashon Land was shot and killed “in the 2800 block of N. Bonsall Street” about 2:15 a.m. Sunday. Few details were provided on the shooting other than Land being identified as a New Jersey resident.
At 9:37 p.m. Sunday a 48-year-old man was shot in the chest and killed “in the 5200 block of Sydenham St.”
The eighth fatal shooting in under 48 hours took place at 12:22 a.m. Monday when a 42-year-old man was fatally shot “in the 2400 block of Aramingo Avenue.”
AWR Hawkins is an award-winning Second Amendment columnist for Breitbart News and the writer/curator of Down Range with AWR Hawkins, a weekly newsletter focused on all things Second Amendment, also for Breitbart News. He is the political analyst for Armed American Radio and a Turning Point USA Ambassador. He was a Visiting Fellow at the Russell Kirk Center for Cultural Renewal in 2010, a speaker at the 2023 Western Conservative Summit, and he holds a Ph.D. in Military History, with a focus on the Vietnam War (brown water navy), U.S. Navy since Inception, the Civil War, and Early Modern Europe. Follow him on Instagram: @awr_hawkins. You can sign up to get Down Range at breitbart.com/downrange. Reach him directly at awrhawkins@breitbart.com.
Let New York City Die
And enjoy the view as it happens.
One of life’s pleasures is watching liberalism destroy itself. Maybe that’s mean, but honestly, after all the damage the left has done to the country, I find it increasingly difficult to give a damn when one of the monsters they’ve unleashed on the country returns to destroy their castle. I rather enjoy it, actually.
In this case, I’m talking about the illegal alien invasion happening at our southern border. Far too many “conservative news” outlets refuse to call it that, opting instead to roll with the words the left have bastardized – calling illegals “migrants.” They aren’t migrants – migrants migrate, meaning they come and go, for whatever reason (food, seasons, work, etc.). These illegal aliens aren’t going anywhere, at least voluntarily, ever. They need to be forcibly removed – deported – and Joe Biden is not the man who’s going to do that. He’s the one who started this idiotic, destructive game of red rover with the world through Mexico, he simply does not care about the devastation in his wake – he’ll be long-dead by the time the real price is known, unless he’s replaced by someone who actually cares about Americans.
There isn’t a Democrat in the country who can be described as someone who cares about Americans more than illegal aliens. Not one.
That’s what makes it all the more sweeter now that we’re seeing liberal cities and states suffer the economic pain they happily supported being forced on conservative areas along the border.
Remember when these people insisted illegals were the economic engine driving the country? That’s been the standard left-wing lie, er, line for a decade. They were better than horrible Americans, worked harder, contributed more to society (even though, thanks to language barriers and illiteracy even in their native tongues, they weren’t able to participate in it), and committed fewer crimes than we awful Americans.
That’s now been exposed for the lie it is, as Democrat after Democrat whine and complain about the costs associated with a relatively small number of illegals compared to what their “progressive” open borders policies force border towns to endure on a weekly basis.
If illegals were so wonderful, New York City, Chicago, etc., wouldn’t be whining about the strain on their social services, they’d be counting the increased tax revenue and begging for more to be sent to their areas.
But everything Democrats have said about illegal aliens has been a lie. They aren’t an economic plus, they’re a disaster. To the extent they pay taxes (and don’t work under the table), it amounts to a drop in the bucket compared to cost of social programs they Hoover up like Hunter Biden in a room full of cocaine-covered hookers. Their kids cost a fortune to educate because they know no English and can’t even read in their own language. American children suffer, but no Democrat gives a damn.
Now New York is pleading for mercy. After a year of illegals flooding the city, still amounting to a fraction of their population and about half of what Texas experiences monthly, they’re going broke. That boost the economy hasn’t materialized, just a bunch of working age men not working, but drinking themselves into a stupor in the city’s expensive hotels while wasting food the city buys for them. The only growth industries surrounding these illegals are prostitution and drugs.
Crimes skyrocketed and Americans suffered. Democrats said nothing because they don’t care, they want the potential future voters.
But the money, oh the money. New York City Mayor Eric Adams now says these illegals “will destroy New York City.” Good, and good riddance.
That the financial hub of the world, with a population of more than 8 million, can be crippled to the point of bankruptcy by just over 100,000 illegals over a year is a testament to the lies liberals tell.
So, let New York die. Let Chicago die. New Jersey, Massachusetts, everywhere these sanctuary leftists rule and are currently choking on what they’ve supported imposing on others, let them collapse. And enjoy the view as it happens.
This is what these Democrats voted for, at least when it was impacting only red areas along the border. Well, to quote the great John McClane from when he saved Nakatomi Tower from a different terrorist invasion, “Welcome to the party, pal.” They loved to virtue signal to their friends about how enlightened they were compared to those racist rednecks complaining of invasion. Now that they have to step over sleeping junkies and bodily waste to just go to the grocery store or take their kid to school, it’s different. It impacts them now. And they want it to stop.
They don’t want the invasion to be stopped and the border secured, they want it to stop impacting them, that’s all. They’re better than everyone else, they’re progressive! Send these troubles back to the great unwashed, suckers who live in buildings without a doorman where zero members of the chardonnay club have any kids currently transitioning, or even a chardonnay club to begin with.
No thank you. Let these cities choke to death on their compassion by proxy attitude, and just sit back and enjoy the view. I will.
Try the reality that illegal immigrants are routinely given free public housing by the U.S., based on the fact that they are uneducated, unskilled, and largely unemployable. Those are the criteria, and now importing poverty has never been easier. Shockingly, this comes as millions of poor Americans are out in the cold awaiting that housing that the original law was intended to help.
Thus, the tent cities, and by coincidence, the worst of these emerging shantytowns are in blue sanctuary cities loaded with illegal immigrants - Orange County, San Francisco, San Diego, Seattle, New York...Is there a connection? At a minimum, it's worth looking at. MONICA SHOWALTER
LA Mayor: Our Cities are a Mess Because of a Republican Conspiracy
"What they're trying to do is destabilize cities."
Whether it’s New York City or Martha’s Vineyard, no place actually wants to be a sanctuary city.
New York City’s Mayor Eric Adams warns that the tidal flood of illegal alien migrant invaders could destroy the city.
Chicago’s woke pro-crime Mayor Brandon Johnson warned, “Let me state this clearly: The city of Chicago cannot go on welcoming new arrivals safely and capably without significant support and immigration policy changes.”
And Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass lives in fear that the invaders will show up.
“What they’re trying to do is destabilize cities … it’s the narrative that these are Democratic-run cities and that we don’t know how to govern and that everything is chaotic here,” Bass told Axios’ Russell Contreras during Axios Visionarios in Los Angeles.
“We live in a city that welcomes immigrants, and so I think we have been able to handle it, but I am fearful that any day planes could start coming.”
The idea that LA or NYC is a mess because of some Republican conspiracy to destabilize cities is an interesting narrative.
Is this what they’re going with as their excuse?
We have homeless everywhere, out of control crime, and medieval diseases… because Republicans are trying to make us look bad?
Busing in illegal aliens is at least one thing that Bass and her ilk can somewhat blame Republicans for, but Bass is actually worried about ‘planes’. And the vast majority of illegals showing up are not being sent by Republicans. The Biden administration chose to keep the border open and to then transport illegals around the country. That’s not on Republicans, it’s on her party.
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Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism.
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Homeless RV Encampments are Polluting LA Water and Beaches | Barry Coe
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Try the reality that illegal immigrants are routinely given free public housing by the U.S., based on the fact that they are uneducated, unskilled, and largely unemployable. Those are the criteria, and now importing poverty has never been easier. Shockingly, this comes as millions of poor Americans are out in the cold awaiting that housing that the original law was intended to help.
Thus, the tent cities, and by coincidence, the worst of these emerging shantytowns are in blue sanctuary cities loaded with illegal immigrants - Orange County, San Francisco, San Diego, Seattle, New York...Is there a connection? At a minimum, it's worth looking at. MONICA SHOWALTER
Racist Mayor: Los Angeles’ Karen Bass
The racist radical's career was built on two race riots.
[Editor’s note: Make sure to read Daniel Greenfield’s contributions in Jamie Glazov’s new book: Barack Obama’s True Legacy: How He Transformed America.]
Several months before Karen Bass left Congress to run for mayor, she blamed black disinterest in getting vaccinated on white people stealing all their vaccines. ”Individuals from other parts of the community who are white are coming into inner city areas they probably have never been in before seeking vaccines,” the racist politician claimed.
In Mayor Karen Bass’ world, when white people get shots they’re stealing them from black people. Every black problem can ultimately be blamed on white people. Even when black officers beat a black man, it’s because they’re a bunch of racists.
When Tyre Nichols was fatally beaten by five black officers during a traffic stop gone wrong, Bass could only focus on the white people who weren’t there. “Even with the black officers, I wonder how they would have reacted if it was a young white person?” she mused.
When Bass isn’t attacking white people based on race, she’s also attacking black people by denying their race. On Al Sharpton’s MSNBC show, Bass claimed that Justice Clarence Thomas was not an “African-American voice”, and argued that Larry Elder also wasn’t really black.
“We can’t get confused by Larry Elder,” Bass claimed. “I don’t care what Larry Elder looks like.”
When Biden considered Bass as his veep and then before her mayoral run, the media launched an effort to obscure her extremism and make her seem like just another urban politician.
But Bass allegedly began her career with ties to the Black Panthers and Maoists before becoming a community organizer. “If she’s an L.A. Black Panther – that was Geronimo Pratt territory,” David Horowitz had observed. “They were a street gang – the L.A. Panthers. And they were led by a lunatic named Geronimo Pratt.”
The Los Angeles mayor has since claimed that she began her activism in 1973 as part of the Campaign Against Police Abuse. “If you were going to be an activist in Los Angeles in 1973, you had to be involved in police abuse because the police were always abusing us,” she claimed, alleging that the police had broken into her house and vandalized her car.
That was also the year she visited Castro’s Cuba as part of the Venceremos Brigade: a Cuban Communist front group. The leftist political elite that would rule Los Angeles was coming into being around alliances between white Communists, the Black Panthers and the Young Lords. The smarter black and Latino nationalists like Bass became community organizers. It was then that Bass met close ally, future Los Angeles mayor and fellow ‘Brigadist’ Antonio Villaraigosa. It was Villaraigosa whose backing first got Bass into the State Assembly and to whom she owes much of her subsequent political career including taking over his old job.
That two out of three members of a Cuban Communist front group have been running Los Angeles since 2005 testifies to how successful the seventies radical coalition has been.
As a community organizer, Rep. Bass described the burning of Korean stores during the L.A. race riots as a happy event. “Like a miracle, a large chunk of the stores we wanted to close were burned to the ground,” the city’s future mayor had gushed.
“If people burned down those stores, they must have been unhappy with them,” she suggested.
The L.A. race riots provided Bass with a national platform. The media was eager to interview local activists and politicians were seeking answers about how to stop the violence. While Rodney King and countless Asian store owners suffered, Bass benefited enormously.
“This is a terrible thing to say. We all felt bad for his beating. But we cheered the fact that it was finally documented,” Bass mused in ‘Burn, Motherf****r, Burn!’, a recent documentary, while watching footage of the beating.
“We need to figure out how to rebuild this city with quality and turn tragedy into opportunity,” she suggested at the time.
Historical revisionism is second nature to Bass and a decade ago she had taken to describing the race riots as a “rainbow uprising” and “a multiracial affair that involved whites, African Americans, Latinos and Koreans in the violence.”
The BLM riots in 2020 provided Bass with another opportunity. “If I didn’t do this now, if I didn’t push as hard as I possibly could, I would live to regret it, because you never know when these moments are going to come,” she suggested while pushing her anti-police bill.
Much as the L.A. riots helped move Bass into political office, the BLM riots let her make the leap from congress to running the city. Like most mayors, Bass has promised to fix public safety, but her idea has been to replace police officers with social workers when responding to some calls.
In 2020, her office co-sponsored a briefing on “Black Lives Matter: Social Work and the Future of Policing” at which a brief claimed that “policing is a core institution of white supremacy.”
Bass’ career began with claims of racism and has reached its peak with more of the same.
And despite more recent claims to be a uniter and a peacemaker, she has never left her radical causes behind that allegedly go back to ties with the racist Black Panther hate group.
In 2016, Micah X. Johnson, a Black Lives Matter supporter, set out to murder white police officers. He succeeded in killing 5 of them. This racist attack was one of a series of violent assaults on law enforcement officers by black nationalists. Next year the FBI issued a report warning about what it called “Black Identity Extremists” targeting police officers. It listed Johnson alongside a number of other black nationalists, separatists and supremacist attackers.
Bass took the lead in demanding that the report be suppressed. “If we don’t get them to publicly retract it, denounce it and send out clarification, we can still de-legitimize it,” she urged.
“Could you name an African-American organization that has committed violence against police officers? Can you name one today that has targeted police officers in a violent manner?” she demanded to know despite a long history of such behavior from black nationalist groups.
Bass appeared to have forgotten not only about the Black Panthers, including branches such as the Black Liberation Army, responsible for the murder of at least 5 police officers, not to mention contemporary supremacist groups like those in the Black Lives Matter movement.
The racist violence that Bass had denied existed would arrive 2 years later: destroying neighborhoods and wrecking lives. LAPD officers were among the more than 2,000 officers assaulted nationwide by the black nationalists whose hatred Bass had tried to cover up. In the year of BLM, LAPD officers were assaulted 1,172 times: nearly double that of 2019. Over a hundred of those officially occurred during the violent riots she had described as “peaceful”.
Bass labeled the existence of the racist violence as “misinformation on particular networks that have basically lied about what happened over the protests–you know the majority of the protests were peaceful. They’ve only focused in on the ones where there was looting and rioting, and so that–and then they have demonized the Black Lives Matter movement.”
Race riots once again created an opportunity for Bass to rise while a city mourned.
The Los Angeles that Mayor Karen Bass rules over is a shadow of its former self. Overrun by legalized crime, people are fleeing in droves even as she promises to have the answer.
And her answer is a familiar one that dates back to her early anti-police activism.
A year after the riots, Bass told the Washington Post that she was worried about crime and violence, not about the victims, but that their existence would sideline her pro-crime agenda.
“I’m worried about the spoke in crime and violence that we’re seeing becoming an excuse to say, ‘No, we don’t need reforms. We need more police,’” she complained. “I have my fingers crossed that this time, we will not make that mistake: “Let’s pass more laws. Let’s incarcerate more people. Let’s have more police.’”
That does not bode well for public safety in Los Angeles. When Bass talks about public safety, she does it in terms of accusing the country she lives in of being a racist oppressive system.
Bass said that she was very happy to see “so much discussion has happened around systemic racism” and the “openness to examining our history, to examining the institutions of society, and for looking at where policing fits in there.” While Mayor Karen Bass wants to “examine” America’s history, it’s important to examine her history and understand how a racist came to take power in one of the greatest cities in the world.
Karen Bass’ career was bookended by two race riots. How long until there will be a third?
Other Parts of the Series:
Part I: Chicago’s Lori Lightfoot.
Part 2: LA’s Eric Garcetti.
Part 3: DC’s Muriel Bowser.
Part 4: KC’s Quinton Lucas.
Part 5: SF’s London Breed.
Part 6: Philly’s Jim Kenney.
Part 7: St. Louis’ Tishaura Jones.
Part 9: Seattle’s Jenny Durkan.
Part 10: Minneapolis’s Jacob Frey.
Part 11: Charlottesville’s Nikuyah Walker.
Part 12: Portland’s Ted Wheeler.
Part 13: Atlanta’s Keisha Lance Bottoms.
Part 14: NYC’s Bill de Blasio.
Part 15: Enfield’s Mondale Robinson
Part 16: Boston’s Michelle Wu
Part 17: Chicago’s Brandon Johnson
Daniel Greenfield
Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism.
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THE FENTANYL COMES OVER THE OPEN BORDER FROM JOE BIDEN'S CRONIES IN RED CHINA THEN THROUGH NARCOMEX
Ryan Smith, a 36-year-old homeless addict, falls asleep after smoking fentanyl in Los Angeles, Thursday, Aug. 18, 2022. Nearly 2,000 homeless people died in the city from April 2020 to March 2021, a 56% increase from the previous year, according to a report released by the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health. Overdose was the leading cause of death, killing more than 700. Jae C. Hong / AP
A NATION IN MELTDOWN AS DEMOCRATS FLOOD THE COUNTRY FROM BORDER TO OPEN BORDER WITH ILLEGALS
THIS IS WHAT THE GLOBALIST NAFTA DEMOCRAT PARTY HAS DONE TO ONE SANCTUARY CITY
I Went To Every Single Homeless Camp In Los Angeles
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Fentanyl's scourge plainly visible on streets of Los Angeles
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In a filthy alley behind a Los Angeles doughnut shop, Ryan Smith convulsed in the grips of a fentanyl high — lurching from moments of slumber to bouts of violent shivering on a warm summer day.
When Brandice Josey, another homeless addict, bent down and blew a puff of fentanyl smoke his way in an act of charity, Smith sat up and slowly opened his lip to inhale the vapor as if it was the cure to his problems.
Smith, wearing a grimy yellow T-shirt that said "Good Vibes Only," reclined on his backpack and dozed the rest of the afternoon on the asphalt, unperturbed by the stench of rotting food and human waste that permeated the air.
For too many people strung out on the drug, the sleep that follows a fentanyl hit is permanent. The highly addictive and potentially lethal drug has become a scourge across America and is taking a toll on the growing number of people living on the streets of Los Angeles.
Ryan Smith, a 36-year-old homeless addict, falls asleep after smoking fentanyl in Los Angeles, Thursday, Aug. 18, 2022. Nearly 2,000 homeless people died in the city from April 2020 to March 2021, a 56% increase from the previous year, according to a report released by the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health. Overdose was the leading cause of death, killing more than 700. Jae C. Hong / AP© Provided by CBS Los Angeles
Nearly 2,000 homeless people died in the city from April 2020 to March 2021, a 56% increase from the previous year, according to a report released by the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health. Overdose was the leading cause of death, killing more than 700.
Fentanyl was developed to treat intense pain from ailments like cancer. Use of fentanyl, a powerful synthetic opioid that is cheap to produce and is often sold as is or laced in other drugs, has exploded. Because it's 50 times more potent than heroin, even a small dose can be fatal.
It has quickly become the deadliest drug in the nation, according to the Drug Enforcement Administration. Two-thirds of the 107,000 overdose deaths in 2021 were attributed to synthetic opioids like fentanyl, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said.
The drug's toll spreads far beyond the streets.
Jennifer Catano, 27, has the names of two children tattooed on her wrists, but she hasn't seen them for several years. They live with her mother.
"My mom doesn't think it's a good idea because she thinks it's gonna hurt the kids because I'm not ready to get rehabilitated," Catano said.
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She has overdosed three times and been through rehab seven or eight times.
"It's scary to get off of it," she said. "The withdrawals are really bad."
Catano wandered around a subway station near MacArthur Park desperate to sell a bottle of Downy fabric softener and a Coleman camping chair she stole from a nearby store.
Drug abuse can be a cause or symptom of homelessness. Both can also intersect with mental illness.
A 2019 report by the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority found about a quarter of all homeless adults in Los Angeles County had mental illnesses and 14% had a substance use disorder. That analysis only counted people who had a permanent or long-term severe condition. Taking a broader interpretation of the same data, the Los Angeles Times found about 51% had mental illnesses and 46% had substance use disorders.
Billions of dollars are being spent to alleviate homelessness in California but treatment is not always funded.
A controversial bill signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom could improve that by forcing people suffering from severe mental illness into treatment. But they need to be diagnosed with a certain disorder such as schizophrenia and addiction alone doesn't qualify.
Help is available but it is outpaced by the magnitude of misery on the streets.
Rita Richardson, a field supervisor with LA Door, a city addiction-prevention program that works with people convicted of misdemeanors, hands out socks, water, condoms, snacks, clean needles and flyers at the same hotspots Monday through Friday. She hopes the consistency of her visits will encourage people to get help.
"Then hopefully the light bulb comes on. It might not happen this year. It might not happen next year. It might take several years," said Richardson, a former homeless addict. "My goal is to take them from the dark to the light."
Parts of Los Angeles have become scenes of desperation with men and women sprawled on sidewalks, curled up on benches and collapsed in squalid alleys. Some huddle up smoking the drug, others inject it.
Armando Rivera, 33, blew out white puffs to attract addicts in the alley where Smith was sleeping. He needed to sell some dope to buy more. Those without enough money to support their habit, hovered around him, hoping for a free hit. Rivera showed no mercy.
Catano couldn't sell the chair, but eventually she sold the fabric softener to a street vendor for $5.
It was enough money for another high.
Gavin Newsom, Local Lawmakers Argue over Responsibility of Homelessness in California
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California Democrat Gov. Gavin Newsom and local lawmakers argue over who should be responsible for the homelessness plaguing the state, as the governor threatened to withhold funds from those who dispute liability, according to the Wall Street Journal (WSJ).
The Democrat governor and local government officials, including many from his own political party, are arguing over the responsibility for the lack of progress in battling the ongoing homelessness problem across America’s most populated state.
The report explained that Newsom recently placed a temporary hold on $1 billion of state grants that were meant for city and county homelessness programs as he rejected the proposals from the officials that outlined how they would spend the money. He said the proposal was inadequate, even though it would have reportedly reduced homelessness statewide by two percent from 2020 to 2024.
WSJ added:
People who work in state politics say Mr. Newsom’s policy moves and comments echo many Californians’ rising frustration over housing costs and homelessness, and indicate a willingness by the governor, who recently won re-election, to pick fights with local leaders to try to get results in his second term.
Mayors and county officials, meanwhile, have said they need the Newsom administration to provide reliable, recurring revenue streams and a cohesive statewide framework to address the issue. Instead, they said, most state money comes in one-time allocations with little guidance.
Many mayors were also rankled when Mr. Newsom told the Los Angeles Times he froze the homelessness funds because local leaders needed to “deliver damn results,” adding that he would be willing to play “mayor of California” if they didn’t.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom, left, talks to Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti during a news conference at a joint state and federal COVID-19 vaccination site set up on the campus of California State University of Los Angeles in Los Angeles, on Feb. 16, 2021. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)
However, WSJ explained that local officials had said that withholding the money they were already expecting is making the problem worse. On the matter, Los Angeles Democrat Mayor Eric Garcetti said, “Lives are on the line, and we can’t afford for this work to get mired in more politics.”
The WSJ said that according to advocates, “Problems including bureaucratic slowdowns and community resistance have made it difficult to deliver services.” At the same time, researchers also said that “even as some people are successfully sheltered, others will keep falling into homelessness until housing becomes more affordable.”
Newsom recently met with over 100 local leaders and agreed at the time to release the funds he put a hold on if each jurisdiction agreed to submit a better proposal by the end of November. According to a spokesman for the governor, 21 jurisdictions had agreed and were expected to receive the frozen funds sometime this week.
For years in California, there have been disagreements over who should be in charge of the homelessness problem, as the state reportedly has over 116,000 residents sleeping on the streets — the most in the United States — in addition to being one of the most expensive housing markets across the county.
The WSJ also noted that under Newsom, the state saw a roughly 15 percent increase in the homeless population since 2019, despite having the most significant funding increase to fight the problem. In fact, since the start of the Chinese coronavirus pandemic, the state has committed around $15 billion towards homelessness, according to reports. Additionally, some majority cities like Los Angeles and San Francisco also raised taxes to help combat the problem as well.
The state’s homelessness problem also comes as Newson again reaffirmed his promise to Politico that he will not try to challenge President Joe Biden in the 2024 presidential election, despite his efforts of building a massive digital operation before the 2022 midterms.
In this Sept. 13, 2021, file photo President Joe Biden, center, smiles to the crowd as he is flanked by California Gov. Gavin Newsom and Jennifer Siebel Newsom at a rally ahead of the California gubernatorial recall election in Long Beach, CA. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)
Additionally, while the Democrat governor has been facing problems in his own state, he spent time during his reelection bid, which he largely ignored, attacking Republican governors who were running for reelection and are potential 2024 presidential candidates, such as Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and Texas Gov. Greg Abbott. He even spent money running negative ads in Florida.
Over the last five years, Newsom has won three elections in America’s most populated state. He won his gubernatorial race in 2018 and 2022 and had to go through a recall election in 2021.
Jacob Bliss is a reporter for Breitbart News. Write to him at jbliss@breitbart.com or follow him on Twitter @JacobMBliss.
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.
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