Chicago admits they can’t take in anymore illegal immigrants!
Another sanctuary city is asking for help from the government (tax money / the people’s money). Does your city need more money? Why don’t you just tax the people in your city? Call it a temporary immigration tax. You, as the city, decided to be a sanctuary city. Everything was fine, and you cared less about how many illegal immigrants crossed the border until the border cities started busing the immigrants into your city. You didn’t expect that to happen. Elections have consequences!
Illinois Governor J. B. Pritzker (D) sent a letter to President Joe Biden asking him to support the state more because they are reaching a breaking point.
Mayor Adams packs for 4-day Latin America trip to ‘learn more’ about migrant crisis
Why go on a 4-day trip to Latin America if you only have to visit the border states or just turn on your different news channels to watch the border crisis? It was all good until they bused them into your state. New York is a sanctuary city, so deal with it. Let New Yorkers pay for it, not the taxpayers who do not support the open border. Just ask other sanctuary cities for financial help.
NY Daily News: 4 day Latin America Trip
NYC mayor wants more aid to offset $12B in costs for housing migrants
Sanctuary cities like New York are asking the administration for $12 billion to offset the cost of housing migrants. They choose to be sanctuary cities; why should you, the taxpayer, bail them out? You were all for it until border cities started busing illegal migrants to your state.
With thousands of migrants still arriving in New York City, Mayor Eric Adams is renewing his appeal to the federal government to help the city avert a budgetary crisis as expenses mount.
NEW YORK — With thousands of migrants still arriving in New York City, Mayor Eric Adams on Wednesday renewed his appeal to the federal government to help the city avert a budgetary crisis as expenses mount — now projected at $12.2 billion by the end of next year — because of the influx of people coming from the southern U.S. border seeking temporary care and shelter.
“Our compassion may be limitless, but our resources are not. This is the budgetary reality we are facing if we don’t get the additional support we need,” Adams said during an address that sought to put the onus on the Biden administration to help relieve his city from the growing financial burden.
“New Yorkers did not create an international humanitarian crisis. But our city’s residents have been left to deal with this crisis almost entirely on our own,” the mayor said.
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security recently dispatched a small team to New York City to help determine how the federal government should respond.
The federal government has so far promised the city $140 million to help, although the city has yet to receive any of that money. A city spokesperson later clarified that requests for that money have been made but the delay could be because of routine bureaucratic reasons.
Since the spring of 2022, nearly 100,000 migrants have arrived in New York City seeking shelter.
With the city’s shelters near capacity and more migrants arriving, the crisis is unlikely to abate anytime soon. As of Sunday, the city said it was housing more than 82,000 people, including nearly 30,000 children.
The Legal Aid Society and the Coalition for the Homeless, among the mayor’s most vociferous critics, echoed the mayor’s plea for help.
“This is a moment that requires the full resources and authority of government from all levels, and the city should not have to shoulder the response without meaningful assistance from both the Biden and Hochul administrations,” the groups said in a statement.
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul does not dispute the city needs more money, saying “it is far more expensive than anyone had imagined.”
She said she expects to ask lawmakers in Albany to provide another $1 billion to help the city, on top of the $1 billion already allocated.
Source: ABC News
What a change. After years of saying the border is safe, the administration now allows border wall construction in Texas.
It looks like busing the immigrants to some democratic-led states worked. The fact is that they only have to deal with a fraction of what the border states have to deal with. The Biden administration says it is using executive power to allow border wall construction in Texas. Why did they wait that long? Or why did they cancel all the laws that were in place when they took office? They really needed to wait until millions crossed the border and a fraction got shipped to some democratic states? You decide.
Source: APNEWS
McALLEN, Texas (AP) — The Biden administration announced they waived 26 federal laws in South Texas to allow border wall construction on Wednesday, marking the administration’s first use of sweeping executive power to pave the way for building more border barriers — a tactic used often during the Trump presidency.
The Department of Homeland Security posted the announcement on the U.S. Federal Registry with few details outlining the construction in Starr County, Texas, which is part of a busy Border Patrol sector seeing “high illegal entry.” According to government data, about 245,000 illegal entries have been recorded in this region during the current fiscal year.
“There is presently an acute and immediate need to construct physical barriers and roads in the vicinity of the border of the United States in order to prevent unlawful entries into the United States in the project areas,” Alejandro Mayorkas, the DHS secretary, stated in the notice………
In Reversal, Biden Moves to Expand Border Wall
When he was running to unseat Donald Trump in 2020, Joe Biden promised there would be “not another foot” built of the border wall, a divisive manifestation of Trump’s four-year crackdown on migration into the country.
Now Biden is adding to Trump’s wall.
Amid a surge of migrants crossing into the country, the administration is moving forward with construction of 18-foot tall steel fencing along about 17 miles of land near the Rio Grande in southern Texas, according to a notice published in the Federal Register on Thursday. The notice describes the area as one where Border Patrol agents have seen high numbers of people crossing between ports of entry.
“There is presently an acute and immediate need to construct physical barriers and roads in the vicinity of the border of the United States in order to prevent unlawful entries into the United States.” Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas wrote in the notice.
In the Oval Office on Thursday, Biden made clear that he was moving forward with wall construction grudgingly, in order to comply with funds appropriated by Congress in 2019. He said he had tried and failed to get Congress to redirect the funding it had allocated for wall construction in south Texas. “The money was appropriated for the border wall. I tried to get them to reappropriate, to redirect that money. They didn’t. They wouldn’t. In the meantime, there’s nothing under the law other than they have to use the money for what it was appropriated for. I can’t stop that,” he said.
Read more: Amid House Chaos, Biden Faces Shrunken Legislative Agenda
He was then asked if he believes border walls work. Biden said, “No.”
Border Patrol agents and experts have said physical barriers at the border can be helpful in the right locations. In areas close to cities and Border Patrol stations, barriers can slow down migrants trying to cross between ports of entry or direct them to cross in areas with more surveillance. But in remote areas, where it can take hours or days to patrol, Border Patrol agents find sensors and cameras are more useful than barriers, which are expensive and time-consuming to maintain and repair.
The new sections of wall are set to be built along a section of the Rio Grande in Starr County, Texas, that winds south from the Falcon Dam to McAllen. Some of the new steel bollards will run through the Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge, raising concerns that the barriers and road construction needed to maintain them will disrupt fragile wildlife habitat and animal migration patterns.
The Associated Press reported earlier on the Federal Register notice, which cites powers given to the Secretary of Homeland Security to waive environmental laws and other restrictions to speed up the construction of barriers and roads along the U.S. border.
The Border Patrol’s Rio Grande Valley sector in Southeast Texas is considered an area of “high illegal entry,” according to the notice published Thursday, and Border Patrol agents encountered more than 245,000 people trying to enter the US between ports of entry in that area during the 10 months leading up to early August. That rise in entries, Mayorkas stated, prompted him to use his authority to “install additional physical barriers and roads.”
During his 2016 presidential campaign, Trump promised to build a wall across the entire 2,000-mile border. By the time he left office, he’d installed just over 450 miles of tall steel fencing, most of it replacing existing barriers. Trump only constructed 52 miles of new border wall.
Four years later, Biden was clear as a presidential candidate that he wasn’t going to add to the border wall. “There will not be another foot of wall constructed on my administration,” Biden said during an interview in August 2020.
On his first day as President, Biden filed a formal proclamation that halted construction of Trump’s border wall and ended Trump’s declaration of a national emergency on the southern border. “It shall be the policy of my Administration that no more American taxpayer dollars be diverted to construct a border wall,” Biden wrote in the Federal Register on Jan. 20, 2021. That proclamation blocked funds for wall construction that Trump had ordered diverted from military spending and other projects.
Biden also paused all funds that Congress had already designated for border wall construction and ordered those projects be reviewed. “Building a massive wall that spans the entire southern border is not a serious policy solution,” Biden wrote. “It is a waste of money that diverts attention away from genuine threats to our homeland security.”
Now Biden is ending that pause, albeit reluctantly, as he claimed he had no choice but to use money Congress allocated during his predecessor’s tenure for its stated purpose.
Source: Time.com
Immigration Border:
The administration wants you to believe that the border is secured.
9/17/2023: More than 2,200 people have crossed illegally since midnight, Border Patrol sources said, including children crawling under barbed wire.
Democrat Gov. Kathy Hochul calls in National Guard amid New York’s worsening migrant crisis
Democratic New York Gov. Kathy Hochul announced Monday she is calling in the National Guard to assist in the ongoing migrant criss.
Hochul announced an additional 150 National Guard members will be deployed to address the migrant crisis and help with case management to get asylum seekers work permits – particularly Venezuelans who now qualify for temporary protected status.
The additional 150 members bring the total number of National Guardsmen supporting the mission to 2,200. The governor said 250 National Guard members will focus solely on case management to help the Venezuelans who came before July 31 to apply for Temporary Protected Status – and then work authorization…….
Source: Fox News
These buses are not from Texas, they are the Biden administration’s buses
Vice President Kamala Harris claimed in an interview that the US border with Mexico is secure. Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-TX), who represents a district along Texas’ border with Mexico, says that is not true. View CNN Video
Families crossing U.S. border illegally reached an all-time high in August.
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.
Source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2023/08/31/border-families-record-crossings-biden/
