Illegal Immigration Ad Reportedly Rejected By CNN

Illegal Immigration Ad Reportedly Rejected By CNN — CNN has reportedly refused to air this ad condemning the Biden’s dangerous and deadly open border policy.

So we will.

It’s pretty effective.

Someone should send it to Delaware County Council.

Say her name, Laken Riley.

Illegal Immigration Ad Reportedly Rejected By CNN -- CNN has reportedly refused to air this ad condemning the Biden's dangerous and deadly open border policy.
Laken Riley

Young Male Illegals In Delco’s Shuttered Hospitals??

Young Male Illegals In Delco’s Shuttered Hospitals?? — Delaware County’s rulers were thrown into a tizzy, Monday, March 4, when a story broke that its two large shuttered hospitals — Delaware County Memorial in Upper Darby and Springfield — were going to be used to house young male illegals.

Councilwoman Christine Reuther called the claim a “paranoid fantasy.” She said that she has “literally no idea” as to what it was about.

The matter was again brought up, and stridently denied, at yesterday’s County Council meeting.

It’s believable the deniers are telling the truth and have no clue as to any plan to house illegals.

Prospect Medical Holdings owns the buildings. The county wouldn’t have much say as to what happens if the federal and state governments back a “non government organization” like HIAS Pennsylvania to use them for illegal housing.

Regardless, housing the illegals is not the paranoid fantasy.

The paranoid fantasy is housing the illegals and giving them guns.

That’s the paranoid fantasy.

Young Male Illegals In Delco's Shuttered Hospitals??
Wolverines, baby

Defensive Delco Council Shrilly Denies Issue With Illegals

Defensive Delco Council Shrilly Denies Issue With Illegals — Delaware County Council, tonight, March 6, perversely promoted multiculturalism when given first-hand accounts of suffering caused by illegal aliens and reports of law enforcement unable to keep them in custody when they commit crimes.

Sharon Devaney of Haverford Township described how she was permanently disabled in 2017 when a car traveling 70 mph and driven by an illegal, t-boned her Toyota Camry at Lawrence and Ellis roads. She had been dropping off her daughter with her parents before work. The illegal was not insured and in violation of numerous laws yet the police released her without charges.

Ms.Devaney implored council to change Delco’s status as a sanctuary county.

A “sanctuary city” or county is a jurisdiction that limits or denies its cooperation with the national government in enforcing immigration law

Kathy Williams of Haverford also demanded Delco stop welcoming illegals.

She noted an incident in which three illegals were captured by Ridley Police after stealing a car. Police informed ICE who ordered that they be freed.

Joy Schwartz of Upper Darby followed with a third request to end the sanctuary county status.

“This wave — I’ll call it an invasion — is like nothing I’ve seen before,” she said.

She brought up the reports of plans to house illegals in the shuttered Springfield and Delaware County Memorial hospitals.

The response from officialdom was shrill and defensive.

Solicitor Jonathan Lichtenstein vehemently denied Delco being a sanctuary county. He said such reports were “massive misinformation.”

He said the claims stem from Delco agreeing to join the US Department of States Refugee Resettlement Program in January 2020.

Um, no.

The claim stems from at least 2016 when Center for Immigration Studies included Delco on its list of sanctuary cities, and where it remains.

Ms. Devaney’s testimony obviously backs this claim.

By the way, Wikipedia list Delco as one of Pennsylvania’s 18 sanctuary jurisdictions.

Our officials don’t appear to have a handle as to what’s happening.

Christine A. Reuther dismissed Ms. Devaney’s claim that the problem was illegal immigration and that Delco was protecting illegals.

“I heard someone say we’ve been a sanctuary county since 2014, which I’m sure would surprise our previous councilmembers who I can’t imagine would have voted to have made us a sanctuary county,” she said.

Well, John McBlain wasn’t happy when we pointed it out.

Ms Reuther made light of the remarks made by Ms. Devaney.

“I feel bad for anybody who has been victimized by a bad uninsured driver,” she said.

She said that illegal immigration was just an election issue.

Ms. Reuther said the county didn’t even have an immigration commission.

Um, yes, you do.

Seriously, do you people know what’s going on?

Dr. Monica Taylor expressed anger at the words used by those describing the crisis and claimed those expressing the concerns were directing them at immigrants rather than the flood crossing the border in violation of our laws.

She also dismissed Ms. Devany’s experience saying the person who nearly killed two people while crippling one while speeding through a busy intersection was just an “uninsured driver” and it was not an immigration issue.

So tell us Dr. Taylor, where do you think this person took her test for her driver’s license?

Swarthmore College student Jonas Salk (phonetic) praised sanctuary cities and multiculturalism.

Ms. Reuther made a puzzling statement in her objections to the concerns expressed about illegal immigration.

“They can speculate about what we might do or tell you what they might do if they were sitting up here but to simply say that ‘Oh gee maybe somebody that has nothing to do with any of this who to be quite honest with you isn’t necessarily supported by every member of County Council in a run for higher office, who can’t affect any sort of usage for any sort of property that doesn’t belong to the county is just fearmongering.”

So who is this person running for higher office not necessarily supported by every member of County Council? We doubt it’s a Republican.

Defensive Delco Council Shrilly Denies Issue With Illegals

Closed Hospitals To House Illegals In Delco?

Closed Hospitals To House Illegals In Delco? — A couple weeks ago we reported on a story going around that Gov. Josh Shapiro will close some Penn State satellite campuses to house illegals.

Chuckles Sports is now saying that Delaware County Pa.’s shuttered hospitals — Delaware County Memorial Hospital in Upper Darby and Springfield Hospital — will now be used to house illegals.

What does Delaware County Council say about this?

In other news, Pennsylvania Secretary of State Al Schmidt gave a warning to those concerned about election transparency and integrity.

“In recent years, we’ve seen bad-faith actors attempt to exploit these changes by spreading lies and baseless conspiracy theories, and attempting to delegitimize our safe, secure, and accurate elections,” Schmidt said in a statement Feb. 29. He noted that the Shapiro administration has created a task force to “combat this dangerous misinformation and continue providing all eligible voters with accurate, trusted election information.”

Hey Al, why not just let counties audit their voting machines as they see fit?

UPDATE: Just saw a letter from Delaware County Councilwoman Christine Reuther where she says Chuckles Sports is spreading a “paranoid fantasy” and that she has “literally no idea” as to what the concerned citizen is “talking about.”

She then pointed out that “the county does not control those properties.”

Hey Christine, maybe you should make a few phone calls and get an idea before you give a knee jerk response.

Our hope is that you are right and that it is a paranoid fantasy.

On the other hand, it was our hope you were going to come through after expressing what we thought was sincere sympathy to the moms suffering at the capricious hands of Children and Youth Services.

Our hope certainly didn’t pan out there, did it?

Closed Hospitals To House Illegals In Delco

Closed Hospitals To House Illegals In Delco

Penn State To Close Campuses To House Illegals????

Penn State To Close Campuses To House Illegals???? — Put this in the crazy rumor category but too many crazy rumors have come true so we just can’t discount it.

The crazy rumor is that Gov. Josh Shapiro is going to close some Penn State satellite campuses to house illegals.

We really and sincerely hope this is just a crazy rumor and that we can all get a good laugh about it someday.

Penn State To Close Campuses To House Illegals???? -- Put this in the crazy rumor category but too many crazy rumors have come true we just can't discount it.

Biden Seeks Civil War To Appease Chinese?

Biden Seeks Civil War To Appease Chinese? — Texas has placed razor wire barriers on the Mexican border against the wishes of the federal government. The Biden administration is demanding they remove it.

Why did Texas have to secure the border which should be a federal job?

Why is Biden opposing them? Why is he making threats?

What if Texas ignores Joe, as Gov. Greg Abbott says he plans on doing?

Does Biden order federal troops in to remove the wire? What if there is resistance? Shooting?

Big wars have started over smaller things. That kind of turmoil here would give an excuse to cancel the election and certainly clear the board of whatever China wants to do.

It frankly seems that the President of the United States is working for Beijing.

By the way, federal law indisputably prohibits the border crossings that are occurring. Texas is not the one in the wrong.

Biden Seeks Civil War To Appease Chinese

Biden Seeks Civil War To Appease Chinese?

Panicked Biden Building Trump’s Wall

Panicked Biden Building Trump’s Wall The Federalist reports that Biden has signed waivers for 26 federal laws — including the Clean Water Act, the Safe Drinking Water Act and the Endangered Species Act — to build, at least part of, Donald Trump’s border wall with Mexico.

To be built are 17 miles of barrier in the Rio Grande Valley Sector.

Is Joe reading us?

Panicked Biden Building Trump's Wall

Immigration Law Time Limits Parole But Is Not Being Enforced

Immigration Law Time Limits Parole But Is Not Being Enforced

By Joe Guzzardi

To add to the hundreds of thousands, and perhaps millions, of words that have been written about President Biden’s unconstitutional, criminal disregard for protecting the homeland would serve little purpose. Now is the time for outlining what must be done, assuming a patriotic administration replaces Biden’s.

Simply put, with a new administration, an effort to return aliens home – removed compassionately, but nevertheless sent back to their native countries – will have to begin immediately.

Assuming the incoming administration makes immigration enforcement a priority, a significant decrease can be made in the presence of those who willfully mocked U.S. laws, aided and abetted by the president and his corrupt staff. If anyone doubts what Biden is up to, the president explained his mission:

“I’ve also directed my team to make historic increase [sic] in the number of refugees admitted from Latin America. People fleeing violence and persecution, who simply want their kids to have a better life.”

Wrong! Biden was purposely deceptive. The arrivals aren’t refugees or escaping so-called violence; they’re coming for jobs and social services.

Naysayers will claim that removing what could be more than 10 million illegal aliens, the total that’s predicted to have entered in a single Biden term by January 2025, is an impossible task, and they’re right. As an example of what could be accomplished given the hypothetical new administration’s commitment to enforcing immigration law, consider that the Department of Homeland Security, created from scratch 14 months after 9/11, is today the third largest federal agency, a behemoth that employs 240,000. Only the Departments of Defense and Veteran Affairs are larger. With political will, desperately needed, much can be achieved in little time.

For starters, the newly dedicated-to-preserving-U.S.-sovereignty 119th Congress could focus on the nearly 750,000 Venezuelans that have received Temporary Protected Status, a total which includes the 470,000 that the Biden administration recently designated for the sole purpose of saving New York Mayor Eric Adams’ political hash. Manhattan, wrote one critic, looks like a refugee camp. Doling out work permits is certain to lure more Venezuelans to the border, and eventually to New York.

On September 23, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, Biden’s right-hand man in the subversive plot to destroy historic America, designated Venezuela’s TPS for 18 months. Conveniently for the hoped-for new White House team, Venezuelan TPS will expire March 2025. The three-month time period between the January 2025 inauguration and TPS’ expiration date is plenty of time for the incoming president to assemble a dedicated team of immigration officials. And while those officials are investigating Venezuela, they might as well look hard at other “temporary” foreign-born residents like Somalians whose TPS designation was granted in 1991 – three decades ago. TPS should be, if not eliminated, dramatically cut back.

The incoming administration should also review the tens of thousands of illegal immigrants who have received parole improperly. Parole status allows for an individual to temporarily come to the U.S.; there are time limits. From the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services website:

“We typically grant parole for no more than one year, although we may grant parole for a longer duration depending on the reason for the parole. Parole ends on the date the parole period expires…”

Since the parolees have no compelling reason to remain, and assuming they’ve exceeded their fixed time limits, they must be deported.

Cleaning up the TPS and parole mess would just be the iceberg’s tip, but nevertheless a good start. Since TPS and parole include work authorization, the designees’ removal would open up hundreds of thousands of U.S. jobs for Americans And the chance is good that once the word got out that enforcement is a reality, self-deportation could follow, at least to some degree. Self-deportation means that illegally present individuals, aware that removal may be at hand, decide to leave on their terms rather than on the fed’s timetable.

A huge outcry would follow attempts to remove unlawfully present aliens. But the reality is that once a foreign national decides to enter illegally, he knows that he faces three possibilities: 1) remain indefinitely and undetected, 2) be legalized in a sweeping amnesty and 3) be deported. For decades, the first two outcomes have played out. But Biden’s refusal to protect the country is so devastating that Democratic bastions nationwide like New York City, Chicago, Philadelphia, San Francisco and Los Angeles, all brought to their knees by the migrant invasion, are begging the White House for relief, pleas that are ignored.

The invasion cannot continue. Schools, hospitals, housing and budgets are at near-collapse. Immigration expansionists have prevailed for more than half a century – too long. Herbert Stein, economic advisor to Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford, summed up today’s chaos best. Stein, referring to the shift in the U.S. balance between foreign debts and foreign assets, but in a remark applicable to the ongoing invasion, said: “If it can’t go on forever, it won’t.”

Joe Guzzardi is an Institute for Sound Public Policy analyst who has written about immigration for more than 30 years. Contact him at jguzzardi@ifspp.org.

Immigration Law Time Limits Parole But Is Not Being Enforced

Immigration Law Time Limits Parole But Is Not Being Enforced

Texas Sheriff Describes Terrifying Future In Chesco If Border Doesn’t Get Controlled; Gives Endorsement To Roy Kofroth

Texas Sheriff Describes Terrifying Future In Chesco If Border Doesn’t Get Controlled; Gives Endorsement To Roy Kofroth — A J Louderback flew in from Texas to campaign for Republican Roy Kofroth to become Chester County ‘s next sheriff.

He gave a terrifying talk about what is happening on the Mexican border and what looms for Pennsylvania.

It was held last night, Oct. 1, at the Maplecroft Building in Phoenixville.

Louderback served five terms as Jackson County sheriff which is about half-way between Houston and Mexico. He stepped down to run for Congress in 2022 and now serves as a border liaison officer for the State of Texas.

He was invited by former Chesco Sheriff Bunny Welsh who met him while serving at a round-table for local law enforcement leaders during the Trump Administration.

Sheriff Welsh preceded incumbent sheriff, Fredda Maddox, who is stepping down to run for Common Pleas Court judge.

The Democrats have nominated Kevin Dykes, her number two, to replace her.

The election is Nov. 7.

Kofroth ran a glazier business for 40 years along with World Martial Arts Academy starting in 1999. Kofroth was a long-time student of martial arts and had attained a rank of 6th Dan in Tang Soo Do. Upon his retirement as a glazier, he took a security post with the Sheriff’s Office. He was asked to become a deputy and graduated from the Police Academy at age 59, which was twice the age of the next-oldest student.

He left the department in July saying he could not stand what it had become. Morale has fallen through the floor, it’s down 40 deputies and the judges in the courthouse are resorting to private security.

“The office doesn’t need to change,” Kofroth said. “It needs to go back to what it once was.”

He said it was not about money but about the morale.

Texas Sheriff Describes Terrifying Future In Chesco If Border Doesn't Get Controlled; Gives Endorsement To Roy Kofroth
A J Louderback and Roy Kofroth

“The office was solid and we loved coming back to work,” he said.

Sheriff Welsh introduced Louderback.

She said that six-years ago she declared that every county is a border county and every state is a border state.

The reality of those words is apparent to all but the most blind.

Or those who get their information from The Philadelphia Inquirer or pick your evening news.

Louderback said local elections are far more important than many realize and strongly encouraged a vote for Kofroth.

“You need to support this man,” he said. “I’m in the people judgement business. You got a good man.”

He then went on to describe what was happening on the border.

“I’m going to try to give you the magnitude as what we are facing, ” Louderback said.

He said Jackson County is on what is called a corridor which is a path to a major city — in this case Houston — for trafficked humans. Houston is America’s largest hub for human trafficking.

There are 5,000 cartel operatives in the city, and 16-year-olds can make $1,000 a head in bringing people in.

The typical load is 13 persons.

Louderback said the cartels have far bigger budgets than the local governments of Texas. He noted the rather large room in which the event was being held and said a cartel would have no problem filling it to the ceiling with $100 bills.

He said cartel kingpins live in the United States and their children attend American schools.

Louderback said the cartels fear no Mexican law enforcement or Texas law enforcement or federal law enforcement. What they only fear, he said, are other cartels.

He said they have factory-made armored vehicles with turrets and .50-caliber machine guns.

Louderback said there are running gun battles just across the border every night, and cartel soldiers have been found 80 miles deep into Texas.

“What Biden has done will harm us for decades,” he said.

He said the running gun battles will be coming here.

He said the Darien Gap in southern Panama is the staging area for illegal immigrants from around the world.

Louderback said the camps there produce 6,000 tons of trash a day along with a dozen bodies.

He said the immigrants are often Venezuelan, Chinese and Russian. Their identities are untraceable as those nations don’t share data with us.

Many of these immigrants end up working for corporations responsible for our vital infrastructure.

“My concern is national security,” he said.

Louderback says the border states ceded border rights to the federal government in the 1920s. He said, though, that Texas is fighting federal inaction by building its own border wall — it has built about 40 miles using the same contractor as the one President Trump was using in the construction of his wall — and and laying concertina wire in areas away from ports of entry, where it has control.

Also by using the Texas National Guard.

“Without the Texas National Guard, we’d be in trouble,” he said.

He said, however, that the Biden Administration works to undermine these efforts, and this undermining is premeditated.

“All this is not by mistake,” he said. “It’s designed to get people into this country.”

Louderback said one of Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s greatest fears is the Biden Administration arresting a Texas peace officer for “deprivation of rights” regarding an illegal.

He said the Border Patrol estimates that 8 million have entered illegally in the last three years. He says the estimate was honestly made but it’s still just a guess.

Louderback says Eagles Pass, TX has a population of 3,000 but most provide refuge for 17,000 illegals.

“Yet New York complains . . . ” he said. “What we have in Texas is coming here.”

He strongly urged the adoption of E-verify, and that those who understand the magnitude of the danger discuss it with those who still get their information from the 6 o’clock news.

Shout out to Kat and Lisa of AdorableDeplorables.us who staffed a booth with some neat merchandise at the event.

Texas Sheriff Describes Terrifying Future In Chesco If Border Doesn’t Get Controlled; Gives Endorsement To Roy Kofroth

Illegal Immigration And Illicit Wildlife Trade

Illegal Immigration And Illicit Wildlife Trade

Increasingly Rare Jaguars Targeted for Fangs, Bones, Pelts

By Maria Fotopoulos

Converging and growing criminal operations in human and drug trafficking, money laundering, and wildlife trade – legal and illegal – add more pressure to animal species already under threat of extirpation in Central and South America, according to new research from the Jack D. Gordon Institute for Public Policy in Florida.

Incredibly rich in biodiversity, Central and South America are home to 17 percent of Earth’s wildlife, as well as crime and violence – Latin America has more than 40 of the 50 most dangerous cities in the world. The combination makes the region ripe for environmental exploitation. 

In “Triads, Snakeheads, and Flying Money: The Underworld of Chinese Criminal Networks in Latin America and the Caribbean,” the authors of the research, Leland Lazarusand Alexander Gocso, write: “China is, by far, the largest market for illegal wildlife products.” Lazarus and Gocso describe several Chinese criminal groups that were infiltrated by an NGO, ELI, to obtain information and evidence in order to disrupt illicit activities in the wildlife trade in Latin America.

Among the criminal operators are the M2 Network (Mexico-2) which operates in the United States, Mexico and China, with a base in Baja California; M3, located in Central Mexico and run by Cantonese Chinese nationals; Bolivian-based SA4 (South America-4); SA1 in Suriname, with Brazilian, Guyanese and French Guianan operatives, and SA8 operating in many countries. All are names most Americans likely have never heard of. These bad actors traffic in a variety of off-limits sea creatures, including abalone, sea cucumber, seahorses, sharks and totoaba. The criminal organizations operating in Latin America also traffic in jaguars for their body parts. Weighing in between 220 and 350 pounds, the jaguar (Panthera onca) is one of the world’s five big cats, an apex predator who plays a major role in keeping ecosystems in check.

The range of the jaguar in the past included all of Mexico and Central America, most of South America and parts of the United States, but now has shrunk by approximately 50 percent, according to the World Wildlife Fund. Except for an occasional lone male who may migrate possibly seeking a mate, there are no jaguars in the United States or Canada, and they are no longer found in El Salvador and Uruguay. 

It’s not breaking news that wildlife numbers continue to drop as human numbers increase. The human population in Latin America and the Caribbean has increased from 168 million in 1950 to 665 million today. The jaguar population is now estimated to be only 163,000 (2017), across 18 countries, with the majority of jaguars in Brazil, Columbia and Peru, down from an estimated 300,000 in 1960. Habitat loss due to ever-encroaching land appropriation by humans is the primary cause of diminishing wildlife. For big cats, farmers and ranchers are another threat. Poaching is another significant threat to this cat and other animals, with environmental crimes now accounting annually for an estimated $110 billion to $281 billion “industry” worldwide.

From the murders of these stunning sentient beings, Chinese buy jaguar skins for decoration and jaguar fangs for jewelry. Chinese also want jaguars for “traditional Chinese medicine,” or what others might call bogus drugs. The jaguar’s body is boiled and turned into a paste that is promoted for healing joint pain, pumping up sexual potency and improving health. A jar of jaguar paste in China reportedly sells for $3,000. As well, a “bone wine” is concocted from jaguars. 

Per the Lazarus-Gocso research, Mexican criminal organizations sell “legal and illegal wildlife products to Chinese traders in exchange for fentanyl and methamphetamine, which they send to the United States, Europe, and elsewhere.” In a piece for the Brookings Institution, “China-linked wildlife poaching and trafficking in Mexico,” author Vanda Felbab-Brown writes that, more so than in other areas of the globe, in Mexico, “poaching and wildlife trafficking for Chinese markets is increasingly thickly intermeshed with drug trafficking, money laundering, and value transfer in illicit economies.”

With the deadly example of the current fentanyl-fueled drug crisis in the U.S., what happens south of the border clearly doesn’t stay south of the border. In 2022, with no mitigation of Biden’s Border Crisis, more than 110,000 people died in the U.S. from fentanyl, according to statistics compiled by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Also from CDC data, from 2016 to 2021, fentanyl drug deaths in the U.S. increased by 279 percent. Certainly when the federal government responsible for ensuring the safety and security of our border willfully opens it to 8 million illegal aliens in under three years, any pretense of upholding law and order is gone. The net impact is an administration that is enabling and enriching drug cartels, human traffickers and other criminal organizations, encouraging them to continue and grow illegal activity.

Lazarus-Gocso outline broad policy prescriptions for policymakers in China, Latin America and the U.S. But with criminal operators essentially aided and abetted by the current iteration of the U.S. government, and as multiple criminal activities converge, it’s reasonable to expect an increase in wildlife crime until there is a major change in leadership with responsible priorities.

For a reversal, strong countermeasures need to be developed, working with the multiple involved countries, and then deployed. Don’t expect much from China, the major recipient of the illegal wildlife trade from this area. First, thanks again to the Biden administration, U.S.-China relations are strained. So until there is a change in U.S. leadership, working together seems unlikely.

Second, systemic corruption in China’s government shields operators who traverse both legitimate and illegitimate businesses. Lazarus-Gocso reference a Chinese approach to business which stresses “harmony and tolerance, even in illicit activities like extortion.”

Third, China deflects responsibility, most evident in its response to the fentanyl crisis in the U.S., taking the position that it’s the responsibility of the U.S. and Mexico to keep the precursor chemicals for fentanyl from illicit drugmakers.

Needed too is a much-more educated and engaged body politic who understands the implications of wildlife loss and will pressure leadership to develop the policies and working relationships that will provide for the safety and security of jaguars and other wild living beings.

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How can you help?

Work for the safety and security of the jaguar: panthera.org

Support commonsense immigration policies: numbersusa.com

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Maria Fotopoulos writes about the connection between overpopulation and biodiversity loss, and from time to time other topics that confound her. On FB @BetheChangeforAnimals and givesendgo.com/calliescathouse.

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