Delco Fights Dropbox Camera Request And Loses

Delco Fights Dropbox Camera Request And Loses — The Pennsylvania Office of Open Records has ruled that Delaware County must supply all video surveillance — including body cameras — of ballot drop boxes from the 2020 election.

The request was made by county resident Patricia Bleasdale.

Further, the county must provide the procedure for Board of Election review of video surveillance, and the name of the vendor of the software used to evaluate and identify repeat visitors to drop boxes across all locations.

Also required to be surrendered are the policy/procedure, manuals and memoranda addressing the video surveillance requirement — including verbal directions — governing the preparation and installation of the boxes along with the movement and storage of the boxes through midnight, Nov. 8, 2020.

Well done, Pat Bleasdale.

Now ask yourself all former teenagers, why would the county fight this?

Just a thing to make you go hmmmm.

And while on the subject of Delco drop boxes wouldn’t it be nice to see the surveillance logs from 2022? How many suspicious incidents were noted by those watching? How many times were patrol cars sent to investigate something?

Surely 42 locations watched 24/7 for a month would have warranted something noted as unusual.

Right?

Delco Fights Dropbox Camera Request And Loses
Well Delco make history again?
Delco Fights Dropbox Camera Request And Loses

Dr Robert Sklaroff, Patriot R.I.P.

Dr Robert Sklaroff, Patriot R.I.P. — We just learned that Dr. Bob passed away. He was born in 1951. He had metastatic prostate cancer.

His obituary was published by Joseph Levine & Sons, on Aug. 14.

For a man of his accomplishments, the passing of Robert Sklaroff went far too little marked.

His numerous professional citations on the web continue to describe him in the present tense.

Dr Robert Sklaroff, Patriot R.I.P.
Dr Robert Sklaroff

He was an oncologist/hematologist affiliated with several local hospitals, notably Nazareth. He was retained as an expert witness over 500 and testified as such 60 times.

He was a contributor here with his last column coming on Aug. 4, just before he death.

The last time we saw him was at the Phyllis Schlafly Eagles Event in April. He did not let on he was in ill health.

Dr. Bob was a patriot who loved this country. He carried with him a copy of the U.S. Constitution.  He was a strong supporter of election integrity and Donald Trump. He was active in Jewish causes in Montgomery County, and an opponent of big tobacco. He wrote for The Times of Israel.

He helped institute safer designed needles for nurses, fought medical insurance monopolization, and was instrumental in passing the Pennsylvania Holocaust education bill.

He is survived by his brother Harvey, and son, Michael.

R.I.P., Dr. Bob. You are missed.

Labor Force Participation Rate Falling, Bigger Drop Coming

Labor Force Participation Rate Falling, Bigger Drop Coming

By Joe Guzzardi

Dramatic footage taken recently that showed thousands of migrants crossing the Rio Grande River, and walking into El Paso represents compelling evidence that the Biden administration’s immigration policy is out of control. A massive Border Patrol facility in El Paso erected to ensure immigrants were not detained outside in the elements has blown past its four-digit capacity. Hundreds of people were left to endure near-freezing temperatures, and to sleep on the street with small campfires their only warmth. Since December 12, El Paso border patrol agents have interdicted more than 10,000 aliens, as per data city officials shared

But the videos tell only a portion of the current immigration muddle. The other part of federal immigration policy plays out behind the scene in the abyss of obscure immigration legislation that gets little media play even though all Americans, especially workers, are directly affected. 

In early December, mostly unnoticed, President Biden and his Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas extended Temporary Protected Status (TPS) to about 337,000 aliens from Haiti, Nepal, Sudan, Honduras, Nicaragua, and El Salvador. Originally slated to leave the U.S. on December 31, TPS holders got a re-up from DHS. The agency prolonged their residency period and their work permits until June 20, 2024, a benefit that allows them to compete with Americans in the U.S. labor force. In July, Biden extended TPSfor Syrians just as he had done previously for Cameroonians and Venezuelans before that. Again, more work permits all around—granted by executive decree. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services lists 16 nations that have been granted TPS including some countries hostile to the U. S.— Afghanistan, Somalia, Syria, Venezuela and Yemen.

Labor Force Participation Rate Falling, Bigger Drop Coming

From the macro perspective —the physical immigration component at the open border, and the administrative giveaways from Capitol Hill— working-age migrants are crossing undeterred, and the TPS community is rewarded with employment permission. By the time Biden’s first term ends, millions of foreign nationals will have work permits. Only the smallest fraction of the illegal immigrants “temporarily” protected or the illegal border crossers, many of whom will eventually receive asylum or parole, will return home. Instead, they’ll become a permanent part of the U.S. labor force. Those who don’t received federally authorized employment permits may work in the underground economy, ordered by Mayorkas as off-limits to Immigration and Customs Enforcement that might otherwise begin removal actions.

Rushing to provide work permission on a large scale to the newly U.S. settled worldwide immigrant population is terrible timing, and will have severe long-term labor implications. In addition to the estimated 6.5 million illegal immigrants who will have entered the U.S. during Biden’s four years in the White House, the administration has increased TPS recipients by 500,000

With the U.S. labor market struggling, adding thousands of work authorized immigrants will make employment conditions tougher for Americans. When the Bureau of Labor Statistics announced that in November the economy created 263,000 jobs, the media was euphoric. But, buried in the news was the telling fact that the labor force participation rate had dropped to 62.1 percent from 63.4 percent nine months ago. The share of people working remains below pandemic levels.

An October Wall Street Journal story reported that 4.5 million Americans are working two jobs to keep apace with inflation. A Prudential Financial Inc. survey that the Journal also published found that 81% of Gen-Z and 77% of millennial workers said they have pursued gig work or are considering extra side work this year “to supplement their income…”

A dramatic influx of work authorized legal and illegal immigrants will exacerbate the problem that 100 million Americans are classified as “not in the labor force.” Moreover, one in six prime working age men, 25-54, has no paid work at all, a condition that economist Nicholas Eberstadt calls the rise of the “non-working class,” and its associated despair, “America’s invisible crisis.”

Biden’s multi-layered assault on U.S. workers—his welcome the world open borders that will include employment authorization and his administratively granted work permission for TPS designees demonstrates his callous disregard for American workers and their families.

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Joe Guzzardi is a nationally syndicated newspaper columnist who writes about immigration and related social issues. Joe joined Progressives for Immigration Reform in 2018 as an analyst after a ten-year career directing media relations for Californians for Population Stabilization, where he also was a Senior Writing Fellow. A native Californian, Joe now lives in Pennsylvania. Contact him at jguzzardi@pfirdc.org.

Labor Force Participation Rate Falling, Bigger Drop Coming

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