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ILLEGALS IN OPEN BORDERS ADVOCATE SEN CHUCK SCHUMER'S STATE - NYC: 20K Illegal Migrant Children Estimated to Enter Public Schools...with No Proof of ANY Vaccinations

  



NYC: 20K Illegal Migrant Children Estimated to Enter Public Schools...with No Proof of ANY Vaccinations

NICK KANGADIS | SEPTEMBER 5, 2023
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If you’re a New Yorker, one question you have to begin to think to ask yourself is, ‘Why does the New York City treat illegal immigrants better than people who are legally allowed to be here?’ Of course, the typical New Yorker who stayed in that city won’t ask themselves that, because they fall in lockstep with the hive mind mentality of that area. But, you’d think common sense would eventually take over and make one ask themself the aforementioned question.

Breitbart reported that around 20,000 illegal migrant children will be attending New York City public schools this year, but they don’t have to have any proof of vaccination for COVID-19.

For context, the kids of actual New Yorkers do have to have that same proof of vaccination.

If you ask city officials, they explain that they can take care of 20,000 illegal migrants children and their families, because “120,000 families left the New York City” public school system in the last few years since the COVID pandemic began.

Okay, then why the double standard for actual citizens of this country when it comes to the proof of vaccination? Well, it could be that New York City school officials don’t want to have to explain why they’re not decreasing their budgets following the exodus of so many families to other states that don’t have the draconian measures in place that New York does.

Related: Illegal Alien Arrested 7 TIMES In His First Two Months In NYC

Oh, but wait, my friends. It gets better.

Not only do the illegal migrant children’s parents NOT have to show proof of a COVID vaccination for their child, they DO NOT have any proof of vaccination “against communicable diseases like polio, measles, mumps and rubella,” according to a city official, also reported by Breitbart.

“Vaccination rates for certain diseases are low in some of the most common countries of origin, with rates hovering around 50 percent for polio as an example,” New York City Health Commissioner Ashwin Vasan warned in an April agency letter.

Think of this as another case where sick people are put in nursing homes infecting others, possibly killing them, without any repercussions for people like disgraced former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) and current Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D).

The difference between this and that instance is that the entire city is being used as the nursing home instead of specific locations.

This is just another example of why big cities are on the decline, with people opting to move to less oppressive areas around the country.

NBC News covered this story with their own slant. Watch below:

 

 

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BLAME OBAMA GODFATHER GEORGE SOROS FOR THE CRIME TIDAL WAVE? - Soros-Aligned, Soft-on-Crime Texas D.A. Resigns to Avoid Removal Hearing – then Announces Run for Senate

 

Soros-Aligned, Soft-on-Crime Texas D.A. Resigns to Avoid Removal Hearing – then Announces Run for Senate

CRAIG BANNISTER | SEPTEMBER 6, 2023
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Rather than face a hearing on a petition seeking his removal from office for refusing to protect the citizens of Nueces County, Democrat Texas District Attorney Mark Gonzalez resigned Tuesday, then announced his candidacy for Republican incumbent Ted Cruz’s Senate seat.

On September 12, a hearing at Nueces County Courthouse was scheduled regarding a petition to remove Gonzalez from office, which cites several charges of the George Soros-aligned district attorney’s dereliction of duty, including:

  • High Rate of Criminal Dismissals: Nearly three of every four criminal cases, including at least one murder indictment, were dismissed in Nueces Country over a three-year period.
  • Mishandling of Murder Cases: Gonzalez’s office has faced accusations of prosecutorial misconduct in a murder case for, admittedly, providing access to confidential case files.
  • Mishandling of Evidence: Gonzalez’s office lost evidence in the case of a doctor facing 14 felony counts of sexual assault, alleged by 14 victims.
  • Failing to Pursue Charges Against Violent Offenders: The Nueces District Attorney’s office has repeatedly denied motions to revoke the probations of those who have violated the terms of their release, including at least one individual who was later arrested on murder charges.

 

D.A. Gonzalez has described himself as a “Mexican biker lawyer covered in tattoos” - one of which reads “Not Guilty.”

In his resignation letter, Gonzalez announces that he is seeking election to the U.S. Senate and blames “MAGA-aligned political radicals intended to end my term early, weaponizing our already overworked courts to remove me from office.”

However, Gonzalez then defends himself by citing Democrats’ own politically-motivated weaponization of the justice system against the leading Republican candidate for president:

“I refuse to play this rigged Republican game, particularly considering the Republicans’ hypocrisy, as their presumptive presidential nominee is under indictment in four jurisdictions across this beautiful country and no less revered.”


Philadelphia’s Police Commissioner Resigning as Crime, Drugs Ravage City

Philadelphia Police Commissioner Danielle Outlaw speaks during a news conference in Philadelphia, Tuesday, Dec. 14, 2021.
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Democrat-run Philadelphia’s Police Commissioner Danielle Outlaw is preparing to resign as crime and drug use take a heavy toll on residents.

More than three years after taking the role, Outlaw will step down on September 22, Fox 29 reported Tuesday, adding she will soon thereafter take the job of deputy security chief at the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.

“It has been my honor and privilege to serve during Mayor Kenney’s administration and alongside each member of the Philadelphia Police Department. The hard work, resilience, and professionalism of our force is truly commendable,” Outlaw stated.

Her resignation comes as several gunmen killed one person and wounded eight others during a recent block party in the city, Breitbart News reported, adding, “Philadelphia’s Office of Controller pointed out there have been 270 homicides in the city thus far in 2023. Nearly 250 of those homicide victims were killed with guns.”

In addition, Philadelphia is also facing a crisis with tranq — also known as Xylazine –addicts roaming near Kensington and Allegheny Avenues amid the area’s drug epidemic.

The “zombie drug” rots the flesh of users who sometimes must undergo amputations.

“It’s called Xylazine, or tranq, an animal tranquilizer cut with America’s street drug of the moment, fentanyl,” Sky News reported in February.

Video footage shows the horrific toll it takes on the bodies of victims:

More than 500 homicides occurred in Mayor Jim Kenney’s (D) Philadelphia in 2022, “making 2022 the second consecutive year that the threshold of at least 500 homicides has been reached,” Breitbart News reported in January.

When speaking of her resignation, Kenny said Outlaw “has worked relentlessly for three and a half years during an unprecedented era in our city and a number of crisis situations,” adding she deserves to be praised for working to bring “long-overdue reform” to the agency.

Breitbart News has extensively covered issues surrounding the city of Philadelphia.


A ‘poop’ rampage in Wyoming is an important insight into today’s homeless


The headline at the Daily Mail was eye-catching: “Squatters take over Wyoming city: Vagrants leave millions of dollars worth of damage to motel and 500lbs of human feces in downtown area - as Casper fights off a homeless invasion.” It was an image at odds with how we think of Wyoming; that is, a clean, naturally beautifully conservative state. But the homeless plague is everywhere, and the situation in Casper reminds us that most of today’s homeless are not just ordinary people down on their luck; they are dysfunctional drug addicts who are the inevitable result of 60 years of leftist drug policies.

The Daily Mail has the details behind the headline:

Squatters have taken over a Wyoming city after some left millions of dollars worth of damage to a motel and others left 500lbs of feces in the downtown area.

Casper, the second-largest city in the state, is home to 60,000 residents but now also has about 200 homeless people.

Some have seized various properties that are empty or abandoned, including an abandoned Econo Lodge motel that hasn’t operated since November.

Casper Mayor Bruce Knell described the extent of destruction as akin to ‘third-world-country stuff’.

The remainder of the article explains that the hotel, after suffering water damage, was foreclosed upon and boarded up. However, homeless drug addicts broke into the 300-room hotel and used it as a giant latrine and shooting gallery. The mayor is at his wit’s end:

Image by Mayor Bruce Knell (note the needles on the table). Public domain photo by a public official.

City officials admit they have run out of ideas with how to effectively deal with the growing numbers of vagrants and note that fines and arrests do not seem to be working when it comes to sorting out the problem.

‘We know very well we cannot litigate our way or arrest our way out of the problem, but our police need some teeth to start dealing with the squatting,’ Mayor Knell said. ‘They’re just causing so many problems.’

‘In desperate times people do desperate things, and unfortunately we’re the ones left having to deal with it,’ he continued.

Did you catch the error in the mayor’s thinking? He says that the homeless people occupying Casper are victims of “desperate times.” But it’s apparent from the destruction in the hotel that these people are not the victims of the Biden economy. These are the same people who have taken over the streets in Seattle, San Francisco, and Los Angeles: They are drug addicts.

One of the things the left has pushed since the 1960s is lax drug policies. Indeed, Biden is contemplating loosening restrictions around pot. But the reason Western culture developed its drug policies wasn’t because every political office was filled with a joy-hating religious fundamentalist. It’s because promiscuous drug use destroys people and, by extension, destroys societies.

Sure, as hippies loved to argue, the Indians used peyote, but they did so in a controlled way through religious ceremonies. What we’ve created now is a bacchanal of substance abuse.

The Daily Mail has reported on what’s become apparent ever since Colorado and Washington state legalized pot: It’s terribly damaging, with links to severe mental health problems, such as depression, bipolar disorder, suicidal ideation, psychotic breaks, and schizophrenia. (That doesn’t even count its role as a gateway drug for other, harder drugs.) Additionally, for every Louis Armstrong and Lee Child who uses pot as a creative engine, there are thousands of people who simply become inert, for pot turns most people into slackers.

Back to Casper: If desperately poor people destroyed by the Biden economy had broken into that hotel, they would have done their best to treat it like a home. They would have created a latrine area outdoors, in the back, and would have preserved the rooms so that they were livable. The people who broke in, though, were merely focused on protecting themselves from the elements while they engaged in the behaviors flowing from their addictions. Their drug use reduced them to animal status.

Casper is experiencing the results of a deliberately created national drug policy intended to destroy America. I have no advice for Casper beyond warehousing these people (literally putting them in a warehouse) and depriving them of drugs. Then, the ones who are still crazy should be institutionalized, while those who are merely dried-out drug addicts should be imprisoned. But basically, one damaged town is just a pebble trying to block the raging stream of an intentionally broken culture. (Having said that, now that I’ve learned that Casper has an LGBTQ+ advisory committee, meaning the city has gone woke, I’m less sorry for it than I was before.)


NEVER UNDERESTIMATE THE DEMS' DESTRUCTION OF AMERICA AS THEY FILL THEIR POCKETS!


California Highway Patrol Policing Open Air Drug Use in San Francisco’s Tenderloin District

FILE - People sleep near discarded clothing and used needles on a street in the Tenderloin neighborhood in San Francisco, on July 25, 2019. London Breed, the mayor of San Francisco, declared a state of emergency in the Tenderloin district Friday, Dec. 17, 2021, in an effort to reduce overdose …
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California Gov. Gavin Newsom is pulling officers from the California highway patrol to San Francisco’s Tenderloin district as part of a multi-agency initiative to crack down on open air drug dealings and drug use.

Since May 30, highway patrol officers have made 100 drug related arrests, CNN reported.  In one instance, a highway patrol officer arrested a drug dealer allegedly selling 33 grams of fentanyl which had the potential to kill 16,500 people.

Local authorities have apprehended 300 suspected drug dealers since the protocol changes. 

Gov. Newsom’s office announced that California highway patrol officers have seized enough fentanyl to kill 2.1 million — three times the population of San Francisco — since deploying officers to the Tenderloin district since May 1.

Additionally, in the first six weeks of the operation, the CHP seized over 957 grams of methamphetamine, 319 grams of cocaine, and 31 grams of heroin and made 92 felony and misdemeanor arrests – including on charges related to possession of fentanyl, illegal firearm possession, driving under the influence, and domestic violence.

However, many of those arrested on drug dealing and drug use charges are released back onto the streets as soon as their case is filed, according to district attorney Brooke Jenkins, who was elected in 2022. Her office has filed 1,000 drug dealing cases, and she said they have put in motion to detain 200 of the most serious offenders awaiting trial. However, the judges only remanded 17 of those charged, leaving the rest to return to the streets.   

“I’m not going to take the blame when my prosecutors are going in and arguing that these people have to remain in custody,” Jenkins told CNN. “The judges are not doing their part and that has to be revealed.”

RELATED: San Francisco Man Saves Stranger from Apparent Fentanyl Overdose 

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While overall crime is down by 1 percent when compared to the same period ending in 2022, drug offenses have climbed by 36 percent, the San Francisco Standard reported.

While authorities are releasing most of those charged with drug dealing and drug use; the prison population reached 1,000 for the first time in years last month. Now officials are discussing whether to reopen a jail closed three years ago for being “seismically unsafe, outdated and in disrepair.”

Some have called the arrests made for open drug use simply putting a Band-Aid on the epidemic. 

“We can’t fill the jails with people to fuel the political agendas of a few politicians,” Diana Block, a member of the No New SF Jails Coalition told the Standard. “We refuse to turn back the progress that we in San Francisco have fought for for years.” 

San Francisco May Lose Lucrative Tech Conference Because of Drugs and Homelessness, Organizer Says

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San Francisco could lose a massive conference that brings in millions of dollars because of the city's homelessness and rampant drug use.

Marc Benioff, cofounder and CEO of Salesforce, said his company may be hosting its final "Dreamforce" tech conference in San Francisco this year, pointing to attendees' fears about safety in the city. Benioff said he projects the event, which will run from Sept. 12-14, will bring 40,000 people to the city and inject $57 million into the downtown economy.

"If this Dreamforce is impacted by the current situation with homelessness and drug use, it may be the last Dreamforce," Benioff told the San Francisco Chronicle on Tuesday. He has told the outlet in previous years that attendees have complained about the situation in San Francisco.

Salesforce has given tens of millions of dollars to fight homelessness and crime, but the city continues to struggle with public safety, an issue that has prompted dozens of businesses to close or relocate.

Homicides in San Francisco have increased nearly 40 percent from 2020 to 2022, and deaths from fentanyl have spiked.

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 Piece of Berlin Wall Placed in Mexico near U.S. Border Barrier as ‘Message’

A view of the 12-meter-long, about 3-ton piece of the fallen Berlin Wall donated to the city of Tijuana in Mexico on August 15, 2023. (Carlos Moreno/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
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Mexican officials in Tijuana placed a three-ton section of the former Berlin Wall near the U.S. border with a message to “build a society that knocks down walls and builds bridges.” The message ignores the stark difference in purpose between the two barriers.

During a ceremony in August, Tijuana Mayor Montserrat Caballero and former Mexican Foreign Secretary Marcelo Ebrard installed the 12-meter high segment of the fallen Berlin Wall — a wall designed by the former Soviet Union to keep communist-controlled German citizens locked inside and became an icon of the Cold War-era. Guards would frequently use deadly force to stop their citizens from fleeing the oppressive regime.

In sharp contrast, the U.S.-built border barrier is designed to stop the illegal flow of migrants across the border from Mexico into California.

A view of the 12-meter-long, about 3-ton piece of the fallen Berlin Wall donated to the city of Tijuana in Mexico on August 15, 2023. (Carlos Moreno/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

A view of the 12-meter-long, about 3-ton piece of the fallen Berlin Wall donated to the city of Tijuana in Mexico on August 15, 2023. (Carlos Moreno/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

A plaque on the wall segment donated by the Falling Walls Foundation bears a message from Mayor Caballero which reads, in part, “”May this be a lesson to build a society that knocks down walls and builds bridges,” Fox News reported.

Mayor Caballero acknowledged the difference in purpose of the two walls. “The social and political conflict is different than the Berlin Wall, but it’s a wall at the end of the day,” the Tijuana mayor said.

The mayor added that she respects the idea that the U.S. must enforce its own borders. She then added that the U.S. border wall represents “violence” and “family separation.”

Migrants climb the gate of the Guatemala-Mexico international border bridge in Ciudad Hidalgo, Chiapas. (FILE: Pedro Pardo/AFP/Getty Images)

Migrants climb the gate of the Guatemala-Mexico international border bridge in Ciudad Hidalgo, Chiapas. (FILE: Pedro Pardo/AFP/Getty Images)

She did not explain if a Mexican border wall along its border with Guatemala also represents “violence” and “family separation.”

Bob Price is the Breitbart Texas-Border team’s associate editor and senior news contributor. He is an original member of the Breitbart Texas team. Price is a regular panelist on Fox 26 Houston’s What’s Your Point? Sunday-morning talk show. Follow him on Twitter @BobPriceBBTX.

THESE ARE NOT 'IMMIGRANTS', THEY ARE ILLEGALS! 

Josh Hawley: U.S. Is a ‘Nation of Americans,’ Not of Immigrants

HOUSTON, TX - FEBRUARY 05: American flags wave during the Super Bowl LI Pregame Show at NRG Stadium on February 5, 2017 in Houston, Texas. (Photo by Christopher Polk/Getty Images)
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The first priority of federal immigration policy should be to help the extended family of American citizens, Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) said.

“Missourians know that while this country has a noble heritage of welcoming strangers from many lands, we are a nation of Americans,” Hawley wrote in an op-ed for Fox News.

Hawley used the “nation of Americans” term in place of the establishment’s “Nation of Immigrants” narrative that was created in the Cold War. The vocabulary change is needed because he is calling for a reformed immigration policy that is intended to help existing Americans:

When you come to this country, you join a family – the American family. And in America, we stick up for one another, believe in one another, fight for one another. Unfortunately, our ruling elite has given up on all that. They’ve become globalists first and Americans second.

Hawley’s focus on the government’s obligations to citizens is sharply different from the Democrat coalition of investor groups and progressive allies.

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Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) speaks during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing (Photo by Carolyn Kaster-Pool/Getty Images).

In general, the Democrat coalition views ordinary Americans as replaceable consumers, renters, and workers in a relentless global economy, or as decorative greeters outside a “Nation of Immigrants.”

The view of Americans as disposable economic factors and political tools dominates President Joe Biden’s administration. An example is Biden’s officials boast of “equity” as they deliver more poor migrants into the U.S., taking homes and jobs that would otherwise go to Americans.

The administration’s language also reflects that view.

The job-seeking migrants are frequently described as “asylum seekers” and as refugees fleeing hate in the hope of a better life. In February 2021, for example, Biden signed an Executive Order ordering the government to welcome both illegal and legal migrants as “New Americans,” thereby removing the government’s distinction between American citizens and illegal migrants:

 New Americans and their children fuel our economy, working in every industry, including healthcare, construction, caregiving, manufacturing, service, and agriculture. … They contribute to our arts, culture, and government, providing new traditions, customs, and viewpoints.

“The Federal Government should … embrace the full participation of the newest Americans [including illegal migrants] in our democracy,” the document states.

This “New American” and other humanitarian language allows Democrats — and their donors — to feel good when they focus their attention and empathy on the low-wage and grateful migrants instead of helping young Americans build families:

Hawley, however, asserted that immigration policy must help existing Americans, not migrants:

We need an immigration policy that works for the citizens of this country, not the global elite. That begins with securing the southern border. Enough apologies and temporizing. Build the wall. Fund the border patrol. Back ICE. You can count on me to fight for all of the above.

Next, we need to reform our legal immigration system to make it work for Missouri workers.  For decades now, we’ve admitted millions of immigrants with few or no skills – the percetage of foreign-born is at its highest levels in nearly a century. These low-skill immigrants are competing for jobs with folks in our own country struggling to find work, while driving down wages for those who are working hardest.

It’s time to do right by American workers. Limit the number of low-skilled immigrants who come to this country. End the visa lottery system. End chain migration. Replace that with a skills-based immigration system that prioritizes the training and know-how we need to create new jobs in this country for our own people.”

Other pro-American activists have tried to promote language that helps Americans refocus their immigration system on Americans’ needs–without any need to demean poor migrants.

“This country has prioritized the importation of cheap labor,” including cheap legal immigrants, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fl) said in his 2023 book, titled Decades of Decadence: How Our Spoiled Elites Blew America’s Inheritance of Liberty, Security, and Prosperity.

Former Sen. Jeff Sessions — who was President Donald Trump’s first champion in the 2016 campaign — is calling for a “positive immigration policy“:

A positive immigration policy would use firm enforcement to admit highly skilled people who can deliver significant economic gains, while restricting the admission of less-skilled people who are more likely to earn low wages in our market and need to rely on taxpayers for support—not because of any moral shortcoming on their part, but because that’s the economic reality that we face.

Hawley is expected to face former Sen. Claire McCaskill — a pro-migration Democrat — in the 2024 elections.

Biden’s policy of Extraction Migration has added at least four million foreign workers as it tries to reinflate the cheap-labor bubble.

That flood of migrants was urged and welcomed by business groups because it cuts Americans’ blue-collar wages and white-collar salaries. It also reduces marketplace pressure to invest in productivity-boosting technologyHeartland states, and overseas markets. and it reduces economic pressure on the federal government to deal with the drug and “Deaths of Despair” crises.

Biden’s easy-migration policies are deliberately adding the foreigners’ problems to the lengthening list of Americans’ problems — homelessnesslow wages, a shrinking middle class, slowing innovation, declining blue-collar life expectancy, spreading poverty, the rising death toll from drugs, and the growing alienation of young people.

June 3-6 YouGov poll of 1,500 citizens asked, “In general, do you think immigration makes the U.S. better off or worse off?”

A 36 percent plurality of all respondents said immigration — legal and illegal — makes the country “worse off,” while just 31 percent said immigration makes the nation “better off.” Registered voters were split: 37 percent answered “worse off,” and 35 percent said “better off.”


Van Drew: Biden’s Thinking of Sending Migrants to Smaller City with Critical Security Operations to Save a Sanctuary City

On Friday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Fox & Friends,” Rep. Jeff Van Drew (R-NJ) reacted to reported plans by the Biden administration to send migrants to Atlantic City International Airport in Egg Harbor Township, NJ by pointing out that the plan is to send migrants to a town of 50,000 people to help alleviate stress on New York City, a city with a population of 8.3 million people that chose to be a sanctuary city and noting the security risks of housing migrants at an airport that has both an FAA Technical Center and the 177th Fighter Wing of the New Jersey Air National Guard.

Van Drew said, “They can’t provide the resources. This is a town of 50,000 people. Atlantic County can’t do it. This town can’t do it. It should have never happened. Hopefully, it won’t happen. We’re going to fight this with every ounce of strength that we have. It is the wrong thing. When we said what was happening at the southern border was going to affect the entire United States of America, this is what happens. It’s not just — I want people that are listening out there [to understand], this is not just an Arizona problem or a Texas problem or a California problem. This is a United States of America problem, and now they want to come into our beautiful county, our beautiful South Jersey, and try to ruin that as well.”

He continued, “There’s also a national defense issue here. This is a very, very important issue to understand. We have the FAA Technical Center there, [which is] doing very important work, some of which is very significant for the safety of this country and air flight and we have our F-16s that are there as part of our defense as well, as part of the Air National Guard, the 177th Fighter Wing.”

Van Drew added, “We don’t want to be a sanctuary airport. If they want to be a sanctuary city in New York City. That’s up to them. It’s hurting the city tremendously, too.”

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Now it's record illegals, pouring across the border

Did it seem like a lot of illegals entering the country earlier, back when they were massing under that famous bridge in Texas? Back before the hullabaloo about Joe Biden ending Title 42 pandemic restrictions and introducing Title 9? 

Now it's ... even more:

According to the Washington Post:

Record numbers of migrant families streamed across the U.S.-Mexico border in August, according to preliminary data obtained by The Washington Post, an influx that has upended Biden administration efforts to discourage parents from entering illegally with children and could once again place immigration in the spotlight during a presidential race.

The U.S. Border Patrol arrested at least 91,000 migrants who crossed as part of a family group in August, exceeding the prior one-month record of 84,486 set in May 2019, during the Trump administration. Families were the single largest demographic group crossing the border in August, surpassing single adults for the first time since Biden took office.

Overall, the data show, border apprehensions have risen more than 30 percent for two consecutive months, after falling sharply in May and June as the Biden administration rolled out new restrictions and entry opportunities. The Border Patrol made more than 177,000 arrests along the Mexico border in August, up from 132,652 in July and 99,539 in June.

Wait till the weather cools down.

Obviously, something isn't right here. We are looking at catastrophe-level failure of the Biden border approach and the consequences for us are going to be grave.

When Biden lifted Title 42 pandemic restrictions on illegal border crossings last May, he and his minions declared victory over the border surge, and even had a few numbers to prove it. Illegal border crossings, ever so briefly, went down in June.

Biden's spokeswoman, Karine Jean-Pierre, even tried to use that June number to deflect a question about the resumed surge, gaslighting with that earlier number:

 

 

That was because so many new means of emigrating to the U.S. through the asylum claim route were opened to migrants beyond normal legal immigration channels -- processing centers for asylum claims up and down Central and even South America, an app that accepted all asylum claims as legitimate called CBPOne, and federally financed busings from Central America all the way across the border, that they went the easier route while it still had slots available.

They had it all under control with that new plan.

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas even issued a stern warning to all who would cross illegally in the wake of these new programs:

"Starting tonight, people who arrive at the border without using a lawful pathway will be presumed ineligible for asylum. We are ready to humanely process and remove people without a legal basis to remain in the U.S.  We have 24,000 Border Patrol Agents and Officers at the Southwest Border and have surged thousands of troops and contractors, and over a thousand asylum officers to help enforce our laws. Do not believe the lies of smugglers. The border is not open. People who do not use available lawful pathways to enter the U.S. now face tougher consequences, including a minimum five-year ban on re-entry and potential criminal prosecution. Together with our partners throughout the federal government and Western Hemisphere, we are prepared for this transition."

But after filling up all those questionably legal slots for "legal" entry, illegals took Mayorkas' warning for about as much weight as its worth, and continued to stream over, knowing that if they crossed into the U.S. illegally, they would be permitted to stay. Instead of being sent back, as threatened, they were promptly discharged into the interior of the country, on "parole" with a promise to appear at a local Homeland Security station once they reached their destination of choice. 

Word got out. Now we are seeing more illegals than ever, streaming over, knowing that nobody is going to stop them so long as Joe Biden stays president.

I wrote about this as the Robert Moses effect earlier, the fact that building more highways in areas with pent-up demand only leads to more traffic. The same can be said of illegal border crossings, given that some 900 million people worldwide would like to emigrate from their home countries (including more than half of Honduras and just less than half of Ecuador), the majority of whom are seeking to come to the U.S., according to a Gallup survey.

This comes at an unusually inconvenient time for Biden, given that there's an election on, and big city governments are starting to feel the impact of the earlier waves of illegal immigration on Joe Biden's watch, with overcrowded schools, mass retail theft sponsored by Mexico's cartels, and angry city governments facing bankruptcy based on the billions they are shelling out to feed and house the illegals, sometimes shipped there for free by red-state border governors who are overwhelmed with border crossings at the sharp end. Already we have seen historically blue counties switch to red in these border areas. Polls show that even a majority of Democrats are concerned with the unguarded border and lax entry policies into the U.S. According to CNN, there's been a complete breakdown in communication between beleaguered New York City and the Biden administration over its failure to enforce U.S. border and immigration laws. New York is crying 'uncle.' 

The Bidenites aren't helping them one iota. They're understaffed by thousands the Border Patrol. They've welded open the border wall in its fragmentary places, and are selling the already purchased raw materials for the wall for scrap. What's more, they've pulled military troops supposedly there to help, although there has been a bit of back and forth on it. There is evidence they've bankrupted FEMA to pay for illegals as they stream in, leaving U.S. citizens in distress, in places like Maui, high and dry.

The only thing they aren't doing is helping. 

Now they're getting more. And they're counting on the mainstream media and the American public not to notice. 

What kind of operation is this? The great replacement they claim is a conspiracy theory? Seldom has a crisis grown this big without some kind of mitigating response. Instead, all they do is exacerbate it, making it worse than ever. Polls show that most Americans including many Democrats, are getting very concerned about this. With even the Washington Post being forced to notice this, the Bidens just think they can lie it away.

Let's see how that works out for them, come 2024.

Image: Screen shot from Fox Business video, via YouTube


Poll: Voters More Concerned About Border Crisis than War in Ukraine

MATAMOROS, MEXICO - MAY 11: Migrants swim across the Rio Grande as they try to enter the United States on May 11, 2023 in Matamoros, Mexico. A surge of migrants is expected with the end of the U.S. government's Covid-era Title 42 policy, which for the past three years has …
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United States voters believe by a 2-1 margin that dealing with the crisis on the southern border is more important than aiding Ukraine to resist Russian invaders, according to a Rasmussen Poll.

The poll surveyed 1,024 likely voters between Aug. 21 and 23, shows that 60 percent of respondents say that “getting the migrant crisis at the U.S. border under control” is more important for national security, while only 30 percent say “supporting Ukraine in its war against Russia” is the more important national security issue. Ten percent were not sure.

U.S. President Joe Biden (R) welcomes President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky to the White House on December 21, 2022 in Washington, DC. Zelensky is meeting with President Biden on his first known trip outside of Ukraine since the Russian invasion began, and the two leaders are expected to discuss continuing military aid. Zelensky will reportedly address a joint meeting of Congress in the evening. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

President Joe Biden welcomes President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky to the White House on December 21, 2022 in Washington, DC.(Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

More Americans also think that the issues at the southern border are a “crisis.”

Sixty-five percent of voters think the United States–Mexico border is experiencing a “crisis,” while 24 percent say it’s not. Only 11 percent were not sure. These findings are essentially unchanged since May, Rasmussen said.

In other results, respondents felt that Republicans were more capable of handling the border problems, though only by a slight majority. Overall, 45 percent said they trust Republicans more to handle the crisis, while 42 percent still trust the Democrats on the issue. 13 percent were unsure. This has also remained unchanged, as a similar result was found in April.

Drilling down to party split, even 51 percent of Democrats agreed that the border problems are a “crisis.” 84 percent of Republicans agreed with that characterization. Also, 60 percent of respondents who do not identify with either party said the situation at the border is a crisis.

Unsurprisingly, Republicans (81 percent) and Democrats (79 percent) feel their own party can best handle these national security issues. But a majority of those who claim to be unaffiliated gave the GOP the edge, with 42 percent saying Republicans are better positioned to deal with national security, while 31 percent said they trust the Democrats on the issue.

Joe Biden came in for a drubbing on immigration, Rasmussen added. Only 33 percent say he has done a good job on immigration, while 42 percent gave him a poor rating.

There are also similar majorities across racial boundaries on the crisis. 56 percent of white respondents, 65 percent of black respondents, and 68 percent of other minorities say that the southern border is in crisis and is more important to deal with than Ukraine.

The poll has a margin of error of plus or minus 3 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence.

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SOURCE: 590K Migrant Got-Aways This Year — Exceeds Last Year Same Period

A border patrol officer fails to arrest a migrant running after jumping the United States border fence to San Diego, from Tijuana, Mexico, Tuesday, Dec. 25, 2018. Discouraged by the long wait to apply for asylum through official ports of entry, many Central American migrants from recent caravans are choosing …
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Border Patrol officials estimate approximately 590,000 migrants got away without being apprehended after illegally crossing the border. This estimate, described as “extremely conservative,” represents about a seven percent increase over the same period last year.

According to a source operating under the umbrella of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Border Patrol officials estimate nearly 590,000 migrants got away without being apprehended since October 1, 2022. During the same period last year, agents reported approximately 550,000 got-aways.

Migrant “got-aways” are an estimate of migrants that are observed crossing the border and are not apprehended. A good number of these are detected by Border Patrol agents being out in the field to make these observations. Some others are observed crossing by camera operators or other detection equipment but no agents are available to make the apprehension. Still others are part of larger groups where only a certain number of the group were apprehended.

The El Paso Sector led the nation with approximately in August with approximately 8,000 got-aways. This was followed by more than 4,500 in the Tucson Sector and 3,500 in the San Diego Sector.

The source reported nearly 26,000 got-aways in August.

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In some sectors like the Rio Grande Valley and Del Rio Sectors, officials reported approximately 1,400 and 2,500 respectively. These lower numbers could be a result of overcrowded detainment and processing centers that take agents off the line, the source stated.

The source reports that Border Patrol is holding approximately 20,000 migrants per day in detention and processing centers. This requires extra manpower to feed, care for, and transport these migrants. Also, large migrant group crossings tend to tie up all available resources in order to get the migrants out of the potentially deadly heat along the southwest border in the summer months.

The lower got-away numbers are contrasted by the migrant apprehension rate which approached 180,000 in August, Breitbart Texas reported. The Tucson Sector led the nine southwest border sectors with just under 48,000 migrant apprehensions. This was followed closely by the Rio Grande Valley Sector’s apprehension of slightly more than 46,000 migrants.

Randy Clark is a 32-year veteran of the United States Border Patrol. Prior to his retirement, he served as the Division Chief for Law Enforcement Operations, directing operations for nine Border Patrol Stations within the Del Rio, Texas, Sector. Follow him on Twitter @RandyClarkBBTX.

Bob Price is the Breitbart Texas-Border team’s associate editor and senior news contributor. He is an original member of the Breitbart Texas team. Price is a regular panelist on Fox 26 Houston’s What’s Your Point? Sunday-morning talk show. Follow him on Twitter @BobPriceBBTX.

Editor’s Note: The apprehension numbers reported for August 2023 come from unofficial Border Patrol reports obtained by Breitbart Texas. CBP officials will release official numbers in about two weeks.

WATCH: Large Migrant Group Walks Across Biden Admin’s ‘Closed Border’ into Texas

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EAGLE PASS, Texas — In what has become an almost daily occurrence, a large group of more than 100 migrants crossed the Rio Grande just north of Eagle Pass to surrender to awaiting Border Patrol agents during the early morning hours on Friday. Shortly after 4:00 a.m., Breitbart Texas watched as the large group of mostly family unit migrants approached a rallying point staffed by the Border Patrol, where they surrendered to claim asylum.

The migrant group consisted of adult males and females — many carrying infants and toddlers. According to a source within CBP not authorized to speak to the media, large groups have been crossing into the area north of the city daily, at almost the same hour.

“You can almost set your watch to it, around 5:00 am, we expect between 100 and 300 to show up at the same spot daily,” the source says. “We just wait for them, they just keep coming”

In the video, the migrants can be seen crossing a bridge over an irrigation canal just east of the Rio Grande. After fording the river, the migrants are guided to the rally point where the agents take a quick tally of the numbers in the group. On Friday, the agents separated the group based on nationality and family unit status and began taking basic biographical information.

According to the source, the large migrant groups consist of mostly Venezuelan, Cuban, and Nicaraguan citizens. The source told Breitbart the migrants are bringing children with them in hopes of avoiding removal and achieving a quick release into the United States to pursue asylum claims.

According to CBP, the number of migrant families being encountered along the southwest border has nearly doubled in the last several months. In July, more than 60,000 migrant family units were encountered by the Border Patrol nationwide compared to 31,266 in June. The source says the migrants are skilled at gaming any attempts to enforce immigration laws by finding loopholes to avoid removal.

“They realize that we can only detain children and infants for so long before we release them to a non-government shelter, that’s the first step to freedom in the United States,” the source added.

Despite repeated social media messaging by President Biden’s Department of Homeland Security advising the public “The U.S. border is not open to unlawful migration,” more migrant family units entered the country in July than in all of FY2020, when 52,230 were encountered. Between October and July, more than 425,000 migrant family units were encountered by the Border Patrol entering the United States between ports of entry.

According to unofficial reports obtained by Breitbart Texas, Border Patrol agents apprehended just under 180,000 migrants in August, an increase over July, signaling the migrant crossings are not likely to slow down anytime soon.

Randy Clark is a 32-year veteran of the United States Border Patrol.  Prior to his retirement, he served as the Division Chief for Law Enforcement Operations, directing operations for nine Border Patrol Stations within the Del Rio, Texas, Sector. Follow him on Twitter @RandyClarkBBTX.


SOURCE: 180K Migrants Apprehended in August by Border Patrol — Up 2nd Straight Month

Texas DPS troopers apprehend a large migrant group while deployed under Operation Lone Star. (Texas Department of Public Safety)
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Border Patrol agents apprehended just under 180,000 migrants in August, according to unofficial reports obtained by Breitbart Texas. This represents an increase of about 35 percent over July and is just under the total from August 2022.

Border Patrol agents in the nine southwest border sectors encountered more than 179,000 migrants in August. This compares to 132,652 apprehensions in July and 99,539 in June. The August apprehensions also nearly matched the number of apprehensions in August last year.

The August apprehensions bring the year-to-date numbers to slightly more than 1.82 million migrants. This compares to just under 2 million migrant apprehensions during the same period last year.

The Tucson Sector led the nine southwest border sectors with just under 48,000 migrant apprehensions. This was followed closely by the Rio Grande Valley Sector’s apprehension of slightly more than 46,000 migrants.

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In July, Tucson Sector agents apprehended 39,215 migrants — up 136 percent over July 2022. The August apprehensions represent an increase of 23 percent from the July Southwest Land Border Encounters report. Since October 1, 2022, Tucson Sector agents apprehended nearly 322,000.

El Paso Sector apprehensions continue to lead the nation in year-to-date numbers with just over 389,000 migrant arrests. The Del Rio Sector remains in second place with just over 347,000 migrant arrests.

Randy Clark is a 32-year veteran of the United States Border Patrol. Prior to his retirement, he served as the Division Chief for Law Enforcement Operations, directing operations for nine Border Patrol Stations within the Del Rio, Texas, Sector. Follow him on Twitter @RandyClarkBBTX.

Bob Price is the Breitbart Texas-Border team’s associate editor and senior news contributor. He is an original member of the Breitbart Texas team. Price is a regular panelist on Fox 26 Houston’s What’s Your Point? Sunday-morning talk show. Follow him on Twitter @BobPriceBBTX.

Editor’s Note: The apprehension numbers reported for August 2023 come from unofficial Border Patrol reports obtained by Breitbart Texas. CBP officials will release official numbers in about two weeks.

JOE BIDEN IS AND HAS ALWAYS BEEN A BILLARY CLINTON GLOBALIST DEM FOR OPEN BORDER. THEN SENATOR BIDEN HELPED BILLARY CLINTON PERPETRATE N.A.F.T.A. FOR WALL STREET. IT WAS THE BEGINNING OF THE END OF MIDDLE AMERICA!

Biden Targets Six Communities to Dump New York City’s Migrants

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President Joe Biden’s deputies have targeted six poor communities in New York and New Jersey as locations to resettle the foreign migrants now overflowing government-funded shelters in New York City.

The list of sites was sent to state officials, and promptly leaked to Bloomberg, which reported:

Most of the sites are outside of the city, including Stewart International Airport, a small Hudson Valley facility frequently used by private jet owners. The Atlantic City location is even in another state, New Jersey.

One recommended site, Massena International Airport, is 365 miles (588 kilometers) from the city, in remote St. Lawrence County on New York’s Canadian border. It serves as a US Customs port of entry from Canada.

There are two sites in Schenectady, one near Bear Mountain State Park, one near Newburgh; and one site in New Jersey at Atlantic City Airport.

“The burden put on our citizens would be overwhelming and the effect on the school system, roads and resources to accommodate them would be devastating,” responded Laura Pfrommer, the Republican Mayor of Egg Harbor Township in New Jersey. She added:

The humanitarian crisis created by the federal government is not appropriately dealing with the issues of immigration has unfairly resulted in small communities having to bear the brunt of this inaction … We strongly urge the federal government to actually deal with the situation at the border and not shift the responsibility to communities.

The list names also five sites in New York City, including Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn, which has been approved by New York officials.

The state’s Democrat politicians know the resettlements are unpopular, and that prior efforts have prompted protests and reversals. So they are reluctant to let the city’s Democrats shove their city-made migrant problem outside the city before the 2024 elections.


White House on Majority of Americans Living Paycheck-to-Paycheck: Wages Only Started Outpacing Inflation Recently

On Thursday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Katy Tur Reports,” White House Council of Economic Advisers Chair Jared Bernstein responded to a majority of Americans saying they’re living paycheck-to-paycheck and those who aren’t feeling the economy improving by acknowledging that “it’s early days for those wage gains,” and so he’s “very sympathetic to the idea that people need to see them continue, and I think if the job market stays tight, they will.”

Guest host Alex Witt asked, “[A]s you know, a majority of Americans still say they are living paycheck-to-paycheck. So, what is the message to those people who don’t really personally feel the economy improving, despite the White House’s messaging?”

Bernstein responded, “Well, I think there, we have to consider what we’ve been talking about in terms of current events, where we have, again, a strong labor market supporting consumer spending and real wage gains. But it’s early days for those wage gains, by the way. So, I’m very sympathetic to the idea that people need to see them continue, and I think if the job market stays tight, they will. But I think we also need to look around the corner. You see a president that is working day in and day out on behalf of the American people. The prescription drug announcement that came out earlier this week, it’s going to help the incomes of millions of seniors by allowing them to spend less on prescription drugs. This morning, we announced a proposed overtime rule, so that people could get fair overtime pay on the job, and, of course, there’s the deep investment agenda behind Bidenomics, which is supporting manufacturing across this country in rural areas, in urban areas, in blue states, in red states. So, we believe that the current dynamics in the economy are moving in the right direction, but we’re planting the speeds for a more prosperous future as well.”

Follow Ian Hanchett on Twitter @IanHanchett


61% Are Now Living Paycheck-to-Paycheck; Personal Savings Rate Falls

As of July, Americans are saving less – and more than half are living paycheck-to-paycheck – new reports reveal.

“61% of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck — inflation is still squeezing budgets,” CNBC reported on Thursday, citing a new Lending Club study on July 2023 consumer trends.

Also on Thursday, the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) released its “Personal Income and Outlays” report for July, revealing that Americans’ average personal savings rate fell from 4.3% in June to 3.5% in July.

July’s 3.5% savings rate is a mere quarter of its 13.4% level when former Pres. Donald Trump left office and more than twice the 7.2% savings rate recorded during Trump’s first full month in the White House.

Adjusted for inflation, “real” disposable personal income (DPI) for July - personal income less personal current taxes – fell, compared to the previous month, the BEA reports:

  • Total personal income increased $45.0 billion, at a 0.2% monthly rate, in July.
  • Disposable personal income was virtually unchanged from June.
  • “Real” disposable personal income decreased 0.2% for the month.
  • “Real” personal consumption expenditures increased 0.6% in July, reflecting increases of 0.9% in spending on goods and 0.4% in spending on services.
  • The Personal Consumption Price Index increased 0.2%, compared to the previous month.

 

The business and economic reporting of CNSNews is funded in part with a gift made in memory of Dr. Keith C. Wold.

Personal Savings Rate

 


ONE OF BIDEN'S BIGGEST BRIBESTERS IS LARRY FINK OF BLACKROCK. THEY PUMPED MORE THAN $30 MILLION INTO JOE'S ELECTION CAMPAIGN WITH JOE'S PROMISE THAT HE WOULD FLOOD AMERICA WITH MILIONS AND MILLIONS OF ILLEGALS WHO WILL ALWAYS BE RENTERS.

THEN FINK/BLACKROCK WENT OUT AND ACQUIRED $60 BILLION (not million) IN RENTALS.

AFTER THAT THE RENTS WENT UP AND UP AND UP.


BLACKROCK IS JOE BIDEN’S BIGGEST BRIBESTER.

Mr. Kennedy calls the issue a “crisis,” and directed blame on companies like BlackRock, State Street, and Vanguard.

 

EXCLUSIVE: RFK Jr. Proposes 3 Percent Mortgages, Says Corporations Make Housing Crisis Worse

EXCLUSIVE: RFK Jr. Proposes 3 Percent Mortgages, Says Corporations Make Housing Crisis Worse

Democrat presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. waves to the audience after delivering a foreign policy speech at St. Anselm College in Manchester, N.H., on June 20, 2023 (MORE BELOW)


Democrat-Corporate Alliance: Big Banks, BlackRock, Pfizer Back Hochul Plan to Have Americans Bail Out New York for Illegal Immigration

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - JULY 31: NY Gov. Kathy Hochul attends a press conference on gun violence prevention and public safety on July 31, 2023 in New York City. Mayor Adams was joined by NY Gov. Kathy Hochul, NY Attorney General Letitia James, and members of local and state …
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The nation’s biggest banks on Wall Street, investment firms, and pharmaceutical companies are among a number of multinational corporations throwing their support behind a plan from New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) that would have American taxpayers bail out the sanctuary state for an illegal immigration influx.

As Breitbart News reported, Hochul unveiled the bailout this week — promising to lobby President Joe Biden for millions, potentially billions, in American taxpayer money that would ensure border crossers and illegal aliens in New York secure jobs, healthcare services, housing vouchers, and free public transit.

“It is past time for President Biden to take action and provide New York with the aid needed to continue managing this ongoing crisis,” Hochul said in an address.

Hochul’s bailout plan is now receiving praise from the corporate lobby, a number of whom are donors to the upstate Democrat.

In a letter from the Partnership for New York City — a coalition of massive multinational corporations — business executives write to Biden that they fully support such a bailout and ask that he consider moving ahead with the plan.

“We write to support the request made by New York Governor Hochul for federal funding for educational, housing, security, and health care services to offset the costs that local and state governments are incurring with limited federal aid,” the executives write.

Most importantly to the corporate lobby, the executives note they want to see the Biden administration release border crossers and illegal aliens into the United States interior with work permits so they can take American jobs and expand the labor market.

Mass immigration is a boon for Wall Street, real estate investors, and corporations as it adds millions of new consumers to the economy, new residents who need housing, and new workers whom employers can hire to keep the price of labor down.

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“… there is a compelling need for expedited processing of asylum applications and work permits for those who meet federal eligibility standards,” the executives continue:

Immigration policies and control of our country’s border are clearly a federal responsibility; state and local governments have no standing in this matter.

There are labor shortages in many U.S. industries, where employers are prepared to offer training and jobs to individuals who are authorized to work in the United States. The business community is also providing in-kind assistance and philanthropic support to organizations that are addressing the immediate needs of this largely destitute population.

Executives who signed the letter represent corporations like Pfizer, Paramount, JPMorgan Chase, BlackRock, the WNBA, Citibank, Macy’s, AlleyCorp, Wells Fargo, Blackstone, Etsy, Goldman Sachs, Hearst, Maverick Capital, McGraw Hill, Tapestry Inc., the Georgetown Company, MetLife Inc., the IBM Corporation, LVMH, HSBC Bank USA, Deutsche Bank, Vox Media, and Apollo Global Management, among others.

“… we urge you to take immediate action to better control the border and the process of asylum and provide relief to the cities and states that are bearing the burdens posed by the influx of asylum seekers,” the executives write to Biden.

A number of the executives who signed the letter served as major donors to Hochul’s gubernatorial re-election bid last year against former Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-NY).

Hochul donors whose companies signed the letter include those linked to Vornado Realty Trust, the Related Companies, Tishman Speyer, the Fisher Brothers, and Standard Industries.

Already, American taxpayers are billed $143 billion annually for costs associated with illegal immigration. This estimate does not include any of the social and economic costs — such as higher housing prices, depleted wages, lost jobs, increased crime, and strained public resources at hospitals and schools.

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


Biden Admin Blames NY for Not Communicating Better With Illegal Immigrants Who Are Overwhelming City

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The Biden administration responded Monday to criticism from New York elected officials over the migrant crisis, citing "structural and operational issues" with the state and city’s response.

Homeland Security secretary Alejandro Mayorkas sent letters to Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul and New York City mayor Eric Adams, citing two dozen areas where the city needs to improve its response to the crisis, Politico reported. The letters urged the city to improve data collection and "communications" with migrants in order to facilitate applications for asylum and work authorization.

The letters come the day after an anti-migrant protest in the city turned violent outside the mayor’s official residence.

Hochul and Adams have both criticized the federal government for not doing enough to alleviate the crisis.

At the same time, tensions have risen between Adams and Hochul over the handling of the crisis. Hochul recently criticized Adams, blaming him for the shortage of migrant housing. On Tuesday, Adams hit back, saying Hochul needed to aid the city in processing migrants by having other New York counties share the burden.

recent poll showed that 82 percent of New Yorkers consider the influx of migrants a "serious" problem, with 54 percent saying it is "very serious."


BLACKROCK IS JOE BIDEN’S BIGGEST BRIBESTER.

Mr. Kennedy calls the issue a “crisis,” and directed blame on companies like BlackRock, State Street, and Vanguard.

 

EXCLUSIVE: RFK Jr. Proposes 3 Percent Mortgages, Says Corporations Make Housing Crisis Worse

EXCLUSIVE: RFK Jr. Proposes 3 Percent Mortgages, Says Corporations Make Housing Crisis Worse

Democrat presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. waves to the audience after delivering a foreign policy speech at St. Anselm College in Manchester, N.H., on June 20, 2023

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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said that if elected president, he would create a 3 percent mortgage for Americans guaranteed by the government and funded by the sale of tax-free bonds, and he would work to make it less profitable for large corporations to own single-family homes in the United States.

 

“If you have a rich uncle who co-signs your mortgage, you will get a lower interest rate because the bank looks at his credit rating. I’m going to give everyone a rich uncle, and his name is Uncle Sam,” Mr. Kennedy said at a recent town hall in Spartanburg, South Carolina.

 

Mr. Kennedy added that the first 500,000 of those 3 percent mortgages would be reserved for teachers.

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Since entering the 2024 presidential race and announcing he would challenge President Joe Biden for the Democrat party nomination, Mr. Kennedy has promoted a platform centered on “healing the divide” and “restoring the middle class.”

 

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speaks to a crowd at a town hall in Richmond, Va., on Aug. 23., 2023. (Jeff Louderback/The Epoch Times)

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speaks to a crowd at a town hall in Richmond, Va., on Aug. 23., 2023. (Jeff Louderback/The Epoch Times)

He recently traveled around South Carolina talking to voters about his ideas.

 

“Both President Trump and President Biden are running on platforms that they’ve brought prosperity to this country. But when I travel around South Carolina and other states, I’m not seeing that,” Mr. Kennedy told an audience in Charleston. “I’m seeing people who are living at a level of desperation that I have not seen in this country ever.”

 

Soaring Costs and Debt

Mr. Kennedy chastised the Biden administration, noting that the country has seen higher food prices, credit card debt, and energy costs, as well as an affordable housing crisis.

 

“In the last two years, the price of housing has gone from $250,000 average to $400,000. Interest rates have gone up 20 percent, and we don’t need to have that happen,” Mr. Kennedy said. “There are ways that the federal government can help people without driving up the debt.”

 

Making it easier for Americans to buy single-family homes without competing against institutional investors is a priority, Mr. Kennedy said.

 

A Wall Street Journal report in 2021 showed that 200 corporations were aggressively buying tens of thousands of single-family houses, including entire neighborhoods, and significantly increasing rental prices.

 

Pew Charitable Trusts, a nonpartisan research organization based in Philadelphia, reported that investors purchased 24 percent of the single-family homes bought in 2021. In 2022, the number climbed to 28 percent of single-family home purchases, according to the organization.

 

A MetLife Financial Management study contends that institutional investors could own up to 40 percent of single-family homes by 2030.

 

“Americans are being shut out of the American dream,” Mr. Kennedy said.

 

Mr. Kennedy calls the issue a “crisis,” and directed

blame on companies like BlackRock, State Street,

and Vanguard.

 

A 2017 academic paper published by Cambridge University Press reported that the three firms constitute the largest shareholder in 88 percent of S&P 500 firms.

 

“And now they have a new target, which is to gain ownership of all the single-family residences in this country. And they are on a trajectory to do that,” Mr. Kennedy told an audience in Greenville, South Carolina.

 

“Usually, when a company buys a home with a cash offer, there is an LLC with an ambiguous name. It often can be traced back to one of those big companies,” Mr. Kennedy explained.

 

Mr. Kennedy added that Larry Fink, the CEO of BlackRock, is a World Economic Forum board member.

 

“The WEF is a billionaire boys club that meets in Davos every year and has a plan, which is New World Order and what they have called the Great Reset,” Mr. Kennedy noted. “Klaus Schwab, who wrote the book on that agenda, says that you will own nothing and you will be happy. They are well on their way to accomplishing that first part.”

 

Corporate Investments in Ohio

Earlier this year, Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) introduced legislation called the “Stop Predatory Investing Act” that would ban federal tax breaks on interest and depreciation for corporations (JOE BIDEN’S CRONY, LARRY FINK OF BLACKROCK) that own 50 or more single-family rental homes. If passed, the bill would make it less profitable for large investment companies to buy so many homes.

 

In Cleveland, Mr. Brown said, institutional investors own 70 percent of homes in one zip code.

 

The same problem exists in neighborhoods like Cincinnati’s East Price Hill, Mr. Brown remarked.

 

"In 2021, the last year we have complete data at this point, investors bought 15 percent of homes, and nearly 50 percent of homes in some communities like Price Hill,” Mr. Brown told reporters. “It drives up prices and makes it harder for relatively low-income families. That's where they prey on people."

 

Another presidential candidate agrees with Mr. Kennedy’s assessment of BlackRock, State Street, and Vanguard

 

Ohio entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy, who has emerged as one of the main challengers behind former President Donald Trump in the 2024 Republican presidential primary, wrote on social media that BlackRock, State Street, and Vanguard represent “arguably the most powerful cartel in human history.”

 

"They're the largest shareholders of nearly every major public company (even of each other)," Mr. Ramaswamy posted on X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter.

 

"And they use your own money to foist ESG agendas onto corporate boards—voting for 'racial equity audits' & 'Scope 3 emissions caps' that don't advance your best financial interests. This raises serious fiduciary, antitrust, and conflict-of-interest concerns."

 

Economic Struggle

Mr. Kennedy, who is scheduled to speak at a town hall in the Brooklyn borough of New York City on Aug. 30, criticized Mr. Ramaswamy and the other seven Republicans who were on stage at the party’s first 2024 presidential debate in Milwaukee on Aug. 23.

 

“The Republican debate last night was out of sync with the mood of the country,” Mr. Kennedy said in a statement, pointing out that the candidates “said nothing about the desperation and hardship working people face in this country. They said nothing about wages, housing costs, food costs, child care costs, and medical costs, or what we can do about it. They said nothing about the systemic corruption that enriches corporations and the elites as swaths of the former middle class fall into poverty.”

 

“Our nation deserves better than posturing and bickering masquerading as debate. Instead of arguing, we can tap into the swelling popular will to turn this country around,” Mr. Kennedy added.

 

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. addresses a crowd during a town hall in Greenville, S.C., on Aug. 21., 2023. (Jeff Louderback/The Epoch Times)

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. addresses a crowd during a town hall in Greenville, S.C., on Aug. 21., 2023. (Jeff Louderback/The Epoch Times)

At every stop in South Carolina, Mr. Kennedy said that one of his first priorities as president would be to change the tax code so that “it will be less profitable for large corporations to own single-family homes.”

 

During his address in Brooklyn, just as he did in South Carolina, Mr. Kennedy is expected to talk about the economic challenges facing American families, and his plan to address those issues.

 

Curbing credit card debt is another way to help more Americans achieve home ownership and become more financially comfortable.

 

“Many Americans are living paycheck to paycheck. The average income in this country is $5,000 less than the average cost of living. What that means is people have to make up the difference by putting those expenses on credit cards,” Mr. Kennedy told a crowd in Richmond, Virginia.

 

“We recently reached a milestone in this country with more than $1 trillion in personal credit card debt,” Mr. Kennedy said, adding that many creditors are charging interest rates of 22 percent and higher. “If it was the mafia, it would be loan sharking and they would go to jail, but for banks and credit card companies, it is considered the cost of doing business.”

 

Before concluding his remarks about credit card debt, Mr. Kennedy asked the audience a question.

 

“Who do you think owns many of those

 companies? BlackRock, State Street, and

 Vanguard,” he said. “They are strip mining the

 wealth of the American public, and their political

 clout allows them to do that, which is why I’m

 going to make it less profitable for large

 corporations to own single-family homes.”

 


NYTimes: Immigration

Spikes Housing Costs

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Mass migration has quickly spiked Canadians’ housing prices and rapidly reduced the share of Canadians who can own homes, admits the pro-migration New York Times.

“Basically southern Ontario has become unaffordable” amid a massive inflow of immigrants, real-estate agent Bryan Adlam told the newspaper for an October 8 article, and added:

“I have two clients I have right now whose budget is $500,000 to $600,000, which is not chump change,” he said. “Are they going to be renters for life? Probably. Has owning a home become unattainable for someone on the lower income echelon? I would say, yes.”

The impact was also admitted in a 2021 report by the government-run Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation:

House price surges in Toronto and Vancouver between 2015 and 2019, partly owing to much higher international migration, [and] were the catalyst for significant changes in domestic migration patterns within their respective provinces.

The rising house prices also help push young Canadians out of the major cities, the 2021 report noted:

Since 2015, a greater share of people from nearly every age cohort moved out of Toronto and Vancouver to live in other regions of their respective provinces.

For people 25-44 years old, surging house prices in Toronto and Vancouver led to a greater incidence of “drive until you qualify.” Homeownership had become too expensive in Toronto and Vancouver for many potential first-time buyers in this age group

 

“Census data released this month showed that the [homeownership] rate fell to 66.5 percent last year from a peak of 69 percent 11 years ago,” the New York Times reported.

The newspaper’s pro-migration editors downplayed the role of immigration, but the reporter repeatedly hinted at the relationship, writing:

HAMILTON, Ontario — Even with a budget of 1 million Canadian dollars, Ritu Choudhary and Nippun Goyal, a newly married couple living in Toronto, discovered that buying a house there would be impossible. The competition inside the city and nearby was so stiff that they had to consider 50 properties, before finally outbidding everyone to pay 995,000 Canadian dollars, or about $730,000.

Canada’s housing costs are already among the highest in the world, driven, in part, by robust real estate markets in its largest cities, like Toronto and Vancouver, that have a global appeal.

On October 7, the Wall Street Journal also admitted migration’s role in pricing ordinary Canadians out of good housing:

Population growth, a shortage of housing stock and low interest rates helped push up house prices in Canada’s biggest centers, prompting would-be buyers to look farther afield and drive up prices in smaller, far-flung communities unaccustomed to housing booms.

The WSJ also quoted a low-wage immigrant — with eight other family members — who are helping to drive up real-estate prices:

Kanishka Noorzai and his wife, his four sons, his parents and his younger sister arrived here in February, from Afghanistan via Albania, and settled in the Waterloo region, an urban center of a half-million people west of Toronto. After a monthslong search that took him to apartments, townhouses and other domiciles, he found a three-bedroom bungalow — at a cost of nearly $3,000 a month for a one-year lease, or “really, really above our budget,” said Mr. Noorzai, 43 years old. He is currently working part time as a security guard but is seeking full-time hours.

“I really was surprised,” he said, “because I did not think it would be that difficult to find a house in Canada. It was a nightmare.”

Noorzai’s group can likely pay for their expensive housing because it includes at least five working-age people who can pool their low wages.

Immigration is also changing the housing markets for Americans as it shifts more wealth from wages to Wall Street.

Wealthy investors are using their immigration-related profits to buy more housing that would otherwise would have put young Americans on a road to middle-class housing wealth, the Washington Post reported October *

ROUND ROCK, Tex. — Adam and Tahnya Gaston arrived in this Austin suburb in June with a toddler, a dog and enough money for a down payment. But within days they scrapped their plans for buying a house, deterred by soaring home prices and rising mortgage rates. Instead, they’re paying $4,000 a month to lease a three-story house in a new development aimed squarely at renters.

It’s one of thousands of “build-to-rent” developments springing up around the country, billed as an attainable route to single-family homes and front yards at a time when homeownership is increasingly out of reach. Developers are expected to add 105,000 homes in such communities this year, and 50 percent more by 2025, according to real estate consulting firm Hunter Housing Economics.

“We fit the demographic of people who, five years ago, would’ve bought a huge house in the suburbs,” Adam Gaston told the Post. “But now prices are crazy, and we’re making different decisions.”

Nearly all corporate-run media outlets in the United States favor migration. So their editors hire pro-migration reporters for the immigration beat. Very few of those immigration reporters want to recognize Americans’ views about migration, or the damaging impact of international migration on Americans’ pocketbooks, housing, and wealth.

But many ordinary business reporters want to follow the money, and they are freer to sketch migration’s economic impact in articles that are not directly about U.S. migration. Their articles tell careful readers about immigration’s impact on housing prices in Canada, or about fights over zoning regulations.

Breitbart News, however, extensively covers the U.S. government’s economic strategy of extraction migration and has covered the impact of migration on housing costs in the United StatesCanadaAustralia, and New Zealand.

 

 

 

New York City Wants $1 Billion to Help Exploit Biden’s Migrants

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NEIL MUNRO

7 Oct 20220

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New York City’s Mayor Eric Adams wants $1 billion from other Americans to subsidize the city’s economic strategy of importing penniless immigrants for use by New York’s business leaders.

“We need help — and we need to now,” Democratic Mayor Eric Adams said in a Friday press conference, adding:

Today we’re issuing a clear message — [the] time for aid to New York is now. We need help from the federal government. We ned help from the state of New York. Our city is doing our part and now others must step up and join us …. We need those to come through.

Adams also demanded preferential treatment from legislators nationwide:

We need legislation that will allow these asylum seekers to legally work now, not the six months … We need a coordinated effort to move asylum-seekers to other cities in this country to ensure everyone is doing their part and Congress must pass emergency financial relief for our city and others. Finally, we need a bipartisan effort to deliver long awaited immigration reform.

“We expect to spend at least $1 billion by the end of the fiscal year on this crisis, all because we have a functional and compassionate system,” he said.

 

Eric Adams, mayor of New York, speaks to members of the media during a New York State Financial Control Board meeting in New York, on Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2022. (Stephanie Keith/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

The demand was $500 million two weeks ago, as officials counted the cost of housing migrants who are being drawn to the free overnight shelters attracted to the jobs and schooling in the so-called “sanctuary city.”

City leaders want more migrants because they help to cut wages, inflate real-estate rents and values and boost profit for local business leaders.

The policy also generates many customers for the city’s welfare, aid, housing, education, and medical agencies. For example, Adams admitted in his speech that the city is providing overnight shelters to 61,000 homeless people each night, and is adding 5,500 migrant children to the overcrowded and failing schools needed by non-wealthy Americans in the city.

The cheap-labor migrants also provide more profits for investors in the city businesses. Without the extra labor, the investors otherwise would be forced to hire unemployed Americans in upstate New York cities, or other states such as New Jersey, Maine, New Hampshire, and West Virginia.

Overall, the Biden migrants being welcomed by Adams allow the city’s Democratic leaders to preserve their high/low economy, where a small number of wealthy landlords and investors keep political power amid a fractured city of divided, diverse, distracted, and poor voters.

Between the 1940s and about 1980, the city’s wage gap was much smaller, in part, because nearly all migrants to the city were outspoken, equality-minded Americans from nearby U.S. states, such as Pennsylvania and New Jersey.

City leaders hide their post-1990s exploitation of migrants behind the 1950s “Nation of Immigrants” narrative. That elite-imposed narrative repurposes the Statue of Liberty from a celebration of Americans’ constitution into a “Golden Door” invite for foreign economic migrants.

 

In his speech, Adams repeatedly declared his support for the Democrats’ policy of extracting migrants from poor countries, even as he tried to blame Republican governors for the resulting economic damage to American pocketbooks:

Our right-to-shelter laws, our social services, and our values are being exploited by others for political gain. New Yorkers are angry. I am angry too. We have not asked for this. There was never any agreement to take on the job of supporting thousands of asylum seekers. This responsibility was simply handed to us without warning as buses began showing up. There’s no playbook for this. No precedent.

But despite all this, our city’s response has been nothing short of heroic. From setting up welcome centers, organizing housing, health care, and transportation, New York city agencies and their community partners have done great work in the face of overwhelming need. New Yorkers as always, have responded to this crisis by pulling together as one.

Yet Adams simultaneously denied that the Democrats’ sanctuary city policies have any role in the migrants’ arrival.

“This crisis is not of our own making, but one that will affect everyone in this city now, and in the months ahead,” he insisted, before ending his speech with a contradictory flourish:

Generations from now, there will be many Americans who will trace their stories back to this moment in time. Grandchildren who will recall the day their grandparent arrived here in New York City and found compassion — not cruelty. A place to lay their head, a warm meal, a chance at a better future. Thank you New York, for doing the right thing.

Breitbart News has extensively covered the damage caused to citizens by the establishment’s policy of Extraction Migration.

 

 

Bidenomics: Five Charts the Media Don’t Want You to See

Liberal media are declaring Bidenomics a success - but, hard numbers tell a much different story – regardless of whether the measure is how much Americans are paying, earning or saving.

Gas prices:

While gas prices held steady under Pres. Donald Trump (down four cents a gallon), they’ve surged 53.1% in the first 31 months of Pres. Joe Biden’s term. From January 2021 to July of this year, the average price of a gallon of gas (all grades) has increased from $2.42 to $3.71, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

By August 28, that cost had risen another 24 cents, to $3.95 a gallon, bringing the increase under Biden to more than a dollar and a half per gallon.

Gas price graph

Real Wages:

After accounting for inflation, real wages earned by Americans have declined under Biden. In the first quarter of 2021, median weekly real earnings averaged $373. But, by the second quarter of this year, average real earnings had fallen to $365.

Under Trump, however, real wages rose from $352 on January 1, 2017, to $373 on January 1. 2021.

Real wages are calculated using Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) median usual weekly earnings for full-time employees at least 16 years old and are represented in terms of quarterly 1982-84 Consumer Price Index (CPI) seasonally-adjusted dollars.

Real wages graph

Consumer Price Index:

Consumer prices rose 7.6% in the 48 months of the Trump Administration, from a CPI of 243.618 in January 2021 to one of 262.035 in December 2020.

In contrast, prices have already risen more than twice as much, 15.9%, in just 31 months under Biden. Less than two-thirds of the way through his term, the CPI has risen from 262.650 in January of 2021 to 304.348 last month (July 2023), putting it on pace to increase more than three times as much as it did during Trump's full, four-year term.

CPI graph

Mortgage Rates:

It’s also costing far more to finance a home purchase, under the Biden Administration.

Mortgage rates today are more than twice the average rate home buyers paid when Trump left office, Freddie Mac data reveal. Under Biden’s predecessor, the average 30-year fixed mortgage rate fell by a third, from 4.09% to 2.77%. But, by August of this year, mortgage rates had more than doubled, increasing by more than four percentage points, to 7.09%.

Mortgage rates graph

Savings Rates:

With Americans earning less and spending more, their average savings rate has declined under Biden.

From February 1, 2017 to February 1, 2021, the average personal savings rate increased 86%, from 7.2% to 13.4%. But, by July1 of this year, it had plummeted to 3.5% - a mere quarter of its pre-Biden level – according to Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis (FRED) calculations, incorporating BLS data.

The business and economic reporting of CNSNews is funded in part with a gift made in memory of Dr. Keith C. Wold.

Personal Savings Rate in July 2023

 


Kroger warehouse worker dies of heat-related illness in Memphis, Tennessee

A Kroger store sign [Photo by Wikimedia Commons/mcsquishee / CC BY-NC-SA 4.0]

A worker died last Friday at a Kroger distribution warehouse in Memphis, Tennessee amid a blistering heatwave which impacted much of the United States. Tony Rufus, a Memphis Kroger Distribution Center worker, was found unresponsive Friday night and declared dead by Memphis police.

Rufus worked in the distribution center’s Salvage Department loading and unloading product from trailers. According to reports, he was sweating profusely, asking for water and was desperately seeking places to cool off in his area, which was not air conditioned. He was later found slumped over his pallet jack.

Friday’s high reached a blistering 101 degrees Fahrenheit (38 Celsius) in Memphis, and workers say the interior of the Salvage Department is often much hotter than outside temperatures. While workers are contractually guaranteed a fifteen-minute break every two hours, this is simply not enough in such dangerous temperatures.

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, between 2011 and 2021 there were 436 work-related deaths caused by heat exposure in the United States. This will no doubt get worse as temperatures rise as a result of climate change.

One group of workers who have been particularly hard hit by the increasing temperatures are delivery drivers, whose vehicles frequently lack air conditioning. At UPS, the company actually removes air conditioning systems from its vehicles after purchasing them, and at least 143 UPS workers suffered heat or dehydration-related injuries since 2015, according to OSHA reports.

Rufus’ death came only three days after the Teamsters union declared the ratification, under suspicious circumstances, of a new contract at UPS. While the union bureaucracy claimed the deal contained historic improvements, it is in reality a sellout which maintains UPS as one of the most exploited unionized workforces in the country. The contract includes an agreement with the company to include A/C for all new vehicles, a meaningless concession given that the company operators its trucks for two decades or more. Last Wednesday, the day after the contract was ratified, a UPS driver died of heat-related illness in the Dallas, Texas area.

The Teamsters also cover Kroger warehouse workers. A representative for Local 667 in Memphis claimed that before Rufus’ death they had pressed Kroger to improve its heat-related safety standards in the distribution center, including more breaks and cooler temperatures.

However, such demands were never even raised in relation to UPS hubs, which also lack air conditioning and where the vast majority of UPS employees work as low-paid part-timers. Also last Friday, temperatures reached 99 degrees Fahrenheit in Louisville, Kentucky, where the company’s massive Worldport air freight hub is located. A worker from Worldport told the WSWS that the complex, which has more than 8,000 workers, no longer even has emergency medical services on site as a cost-saving measure. Instead, Worldport shares EMS with the Louisville passenger airport a mile and a half away.

The Kroger Company is the largest grocery retailer by revenue in North America, with a workforce of over 465,000. The company is infamous for its low pay and poor working conditions, which have gotten worse during the pandemic. In fact, Kroger warehouse workers in Memphis walked off the job in March of 2020 during the opening surge of the pandemic. In 2021, 19-year Kroger veteran Evan Seyfried took his own life after being harassed and bullied by a store manager for taking COVID precautions at work.

These conditions are enforced with the complicity of the union bureaucracy. The United Food and Commercial Workers Union, which covers many Kroger store workers and workers at its subsidiaries, has forced through one sellout after another. Last year, the UFCW rammed through a contract with below-inflation raises in Indianapolis in a second vote after workers had rejected it the first time, then deleted their social media page in order to pre-empt any opposition. The UFCW also isolated a strike by King Soopers workers in early 2022.