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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?
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
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.
“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
Increasingly Rare Jaguars Targeted for Fangs, Bones, Pelts
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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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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Delco Woman Describes Trauma Suffered In Sanctuary County — Sharon Devaney is the inaugural guest on Communityreviews.org Podcast which aired today, Sept. 11.
Sharon describes the on-going misery she is experiencing stemming from an April 10, 2017 accident in Haverford Township, Pa. in which her car was struck by one driven by an illegal alien as she drove her daughter to her parents.
Sharon was left crippled by the crash and suffered cancelling on social media and other orchestrated attacks when she spoke out against illegal immigration.
Police had refused to arrest the driver who was from Trinidad and Tobago since Delaware County, where Haverford is located, is a sanctuary county.
Sharon said she also experienced cancelling when she notedthat Delco’s congresswoman, Mary Gay Scanlon (D-Pa5) is supporter of Marxist groups.
She said that her children’s books began getting bad reviews on Amazon, whereas before they were universally praised.
We wrote about Sharon on Aug. 20.
CommunityReviews.org began in 2019 and allows for anonymous airings of community concerns.
Here is the podcast: https://rumble.com/v3gugqa-communityreviews.org-podcast-1.html#1
Delco Woman Describes Trauma Suffered In Sanctuary County
Great Replacement In Chester Pa? — Upland Mayor and Delaware County Council candidate Bill Dennon tells us that immigrants — mostly apparently from Guatemala — are being moved to Chester, Pa. under the noses of its residents.
Bill says these people are being sheltered in decrepit housing and living in squalor.
Mayor Thaddeus Kirkland seems indifferent but then he is a lame duck and when did he ever care about anything anyway?
For what it’s worth, the Democrat-controlled Delaware County Council is also shrugging its shoulders.
Create A Catastrophe By The Numbers
By Joe Guzzardi
850,000 visitors who overstayed their visas and remained in the country in 2022. Included in visa overstays are tourists, H-1Bs, J-1s, and F-1s as well as assorted other visa categories of which dozens are State Department-approved.
More executive branch overreach: the Biden administration has expanded its migrant program to accept up to 522,000 asylum seekers into the U.S. per year. In January the president announced he would let up to 360,000 asylum seekers into the country annually, provided they apply through the CBP One phone app. That program has since been expanded from 1,000 appointments per day to 1,450, meaning up to another 162,000 migrants could be ushered into the U.S. In Biden’s view, these are legal immigrants even though the vehicle he created that allows them to enter, the CBP app, has not been congressionally approved and is illegal. Meanwhile, the CBP app entrants will be using their work authorized status to displace low-skilled black, Hispanic and other diverse Americans from the job market.
What’s certain is that the border surgers’ and visa overstay totals, whatever they may be, represent record levels of illegal immigration that’s Biden’s unlawful agenda. Neither Biden nor DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas have the authority to authorize releasing aliens, or as happens in most cases, to grant them parole with work authorization. Despite the cooked-books style of revised DHS accounting, Southwest border encounters are still roughly four times the level at which President Obama’s DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson said constituted a crisis. Federal law requires that all these illegal aliens be detained throughout their asylum proceedings, but most are being released. Immigration lawyers call CPB’s subversion aiding and abetting illegal immigration a federal felony subject to fines and imprisonment.
The fall-out from Biden’s lawless immigration agenda is well underway. Every day, an estimated 1,000 needy migrantsarrive in New York. The city, by its own admission, doesn’t have adequate housing or food to properly care for them. Tent cities abound. Mayor Eric Adams is pleading for federal assistance. Other big city mayors in Chicago and Washington D.C. also begged for funding to cope with the migrant overflow. In Massachusetts the alien emergency is so dire that Governor Maura Healey and Lieutenant Governor Kim Driscoll have implored residents to share their homes with aliens. Their desperate refrain: “Become a sponsor family…. Have an additional family be a part of your family.” Taxpayers are subsidizing illegal aliens most every move once they’ve crossed the border. One estimate puts the aggregate cost to date at $20.5 billion./p>
With 18 months to go in Biden’s presidency that will include a lame duck session when any immigration outrage is possible, the nation’s intake of illegal immigrants could approach ten million, roughly the size of Los Angeles Country. Remember too that legal immigration continues on autopilot, and brings in annually more than one million lawful permanent residents with lifetime valid work permission. Those new LPRs can petition their immediate and non-nuclear family members, a total that Princeton University conservatively calculates as three persons per new immigrants. Today’s one million LPR’s is tomorrows three million new U.S. residents. Chain migration drives most U.S. population increases, and arriving migrants may be pregnant and could eventually grow his existing family.
From 1990 to today, the U. S. grew by 82 million people, and the nation is on a reckless course to match or exceed that unsustainable pattern. In 2022, all immigrant classifications included, the nation added 6.9 million people—the state of Indiana’s population. Those that entered legally, 1.1 million, may have job and English language skills. Illegal immigrants, however, are poor, unskilled, and will be dependent on affirmative government assistance programs. They’ll need the basics—housing, medical care, education, all of which will be taxpayer provided.
Absorbing the new arrivals will adversely alter Americans’ quality of life. The American Farmland Trust reported that over the last 20 years, the U.S. has lost more than 11 million acres of farmland to development to accommodate the nation’s soaring population. Housing hasn’t kept up with immigration-driven population growth, and prices have spiked. Over the past two decades, immigrants currently account for about 33 percent of all U.S. household growth, and have been a critical factor in the housing market’s recent boom. Blue collar workers and citizens aspired to own their first homes have been most adversely affected.
Unquestionably, new immigrants arrive in the U.S. to become consumers; their intention to buy goods and services is the main reason corporate America is so welcoming. But immigrants will also consume natural resources, most importantly water. The U.S., beset by relentless drought, is drying up, especially in the nation’s Western states, and rain isn’t falling fast enough to offset increased water consumption. When water supplies are limited, and more people consuming the essential resource, shortages will get acute. Ask the 40 million residents of the seven states that rely on the Colorado River for water what their feelings are about more and more immigrant water consumers lowering the reservoirs.
A final, important note:The White House’s hell-bent-for-leather welcome-the-world immigration agenda is unarguably a disaster for sovereign America. The media coverup is nearly as criminal and corrupt as Biden’s governance. America’s future is in your hands—you the voters. When Congress returns after Labor Day, the election 2024 cycle will begin in earnest. As you evaluate the White House, Senate and House of Representative candidates, focus on whether the incumbent has stepped up in an effort to protect the American nation or supported and encouraged Biden as illegal immigrants overwhelm the country. Immigration is the most critical issue on the ballot. Fight back with the most important tool you have—your vote.
Joe Guzzardi is a Project for Immigration Reform analyst who has written about immigration for more than 30 years. Contact him at jguzzardi@ifspp.org.
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Delco Woman Still Suffers From Crash Caused By Illegal — Sharon Devaney’s life got worse when her Toyota Camry was t-boned at Lawrence and Ellis roads in Haverford Township, Pa. about 8 a.m., April 10, 2017.
Sharon, then 44 of Havertown, was dropping her daughter off at her parents before work.
She said it was lucky that the crash was on her side as her girl, who was just a middle-schooler, might not have survived.
As it was, Sharon was left with permanent injuries to both legs.
“I used to go running. I can’t run any more,” she said. “I can’t bike. There is so many things I can’t do.”
She said the other driver was doing about 70 mph when she hit. She was an illegal alien from Trinidad and Tobago.
Police would tell her they couldn’t turn her over to immigration authorities as Delaware County had declared itself a sanctuary county.
And that was when it was controlled by the GOP.
We wrote about it which brought forth much protesthing from the powers that were.
Anyway, the lady from Trinidad escaped serious punishment and she remains in the area today.
Sharon began making illegal aliens an issue.
This was the right thing to do. Exempting a group of people from the laws of the land is basically committing social suicide, after all.
She said, however, this made her the subject of a vicious harassment campaign.
A series of customers claiming bad service and implying racism caused her to leave a job as a massage therapist in Lawrence Park. She had never before received complaints and her children are bi-racial.
She said that for the first time the children’s books she wrote started getting bad reviews on Amazon.
Her Facebook account was cancelled and the Haverford Township Free Library wouldn’t let her do a book reading.
Remember, she is a township resident and a published author. Her books are not controversial.
This is a library that has no problem letting large, sexually confused males dress as women and read to children.
She was also was rejected for an opening on the Library Board.
Sharon has had both knees replaced and four surgeries on her legs. Doctors are afraid to do any more on her left.
“I had to learn to walk again twice,” she said.
She has a handicapped placard for her car. She walks with a brace. In winter when its icy she needs a cane.
“It’s humiliating,” she said.
Delco Woman Still Suffers From Crash Caused By Illegal
Scary Report From Panama About Illegal Influx — Noted war correspondent Michael Yon has been in Panama covering the impending surge of immigrants as the Biden administration prepares to abandon Title 42 on May 11.
Title 42 was the health law imposed during the coronavirus pandemic to control migration at the U.S.-Mexico border.
Yon, in a terrifying tweet, described it as a “war invasion”.
“These people will later be armed, uniformed, and informed they can take your life and your property,” he said. “Folks who have followed my war work for many years know that I do not write flippantly or inaccurately. And that I am careful with my words. You. Are. At. War. Lethal war. Ultimate consequences. Including genocide. Randomly pick any of my work over the past twenty years. Read a dozen random dispatches. Do an audit of my accuracy. Inaction now is death later.”
He also says that the masses of people have made disease rampant in Panama and that the Chinese have weaponized dengue fever.
Mayor Adams Goes To El Paso
By Bob Small
Seeing a line on the scroll at the bottom on Fox 29 10 p.m. news we wondered whether we’ve seen it correctly. This was that Mayor Eric Adams (NYC) went to El Paso to meet with the mayor of El Paso to discuss the immigrant crisis, keeping in mind that immigrants are persons who are in crisis due to lack of solutions due to various federal governments.
At first the search (using Duck Duck Go) of the meeting above only lead to four items of the first 10 on the first page, but by three days (Jan. 18) there were there were 20 articles using “Mayor Adams visits El Paso”.
In the Politico article, Adams called it a “fact finding mission”, and he was hosted by fellow Democrat Mayor Oscar Leseer of El Paso. He pledged to start a “coalition with mayors facing similar situations”.
Next week at the annual US Conference of Mayors. (Hear that Mayor Kenney?) where he will try to coordinate American mayors to say “How do we respond to this directly?”
He further stated “There should be one (FEMA) to coordinate everything that is happening dealing with migrants and asylum seekers in our country”. He went on to say that the city spent $366 million and received just a total of $10 million from a combination of FEMA and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer.
Adams told Fox News that the refugee resettlement, “should be coordinated by our national government, not only done locally by these NGO’s, but it should be done by our national government. That is not happening.”
Others, however, are concerned that Adams is trying to foist his problems on all taxpayers.
Hopefully, we will have a bipartisan effort so that we can have a coherent federal plan to work with the migrants and the cities, rather than dumping “the migrant crisis” on the cities by federal inaction.