Illegals make list of demands for FREE 'culturally appropriate food,' housing, and immigration lawyers
A group of immigrants who have set up camp in Denver, Colorado, have been ordered to vacate their makeshift homes under a bridge and near train tracks — but they’re refusing to budge.
Some of the immigrant encampments also feature Palestinian flags.
While the immigrants have been asked to move to indoor shelters funded by the city, they have instead come up with a list of 13 demands to Mayor Mike Johnston.
“They took the time to break into our country illegally, go all the way to Denver. The least we can do is get them a house to live in,” Pat Gray mocks.
The immigrants reportedly have “had their grievances in the past” regarding the food provided by the city.
“There have been so many complaints about the food being spoiled, or not being enough, and malnutrition amongst children,” immigrant “advocate” V. Reeves tells reporters, adding that “they're not receiving any kind of official housing or immigration document support which is incredibly necessary.”
Included on the list of demands is that the immigrants will cook their own food with fresh, culturally appropriate ingredients provided by the city instead of pre-made meals, and that shower access will be available without time limits and can be accessed whenever.
They also demand regular medical professional visits, referrals/connections for specialty care to be made as needed, and free immigration lawyers per family.
Housing support is to be provided to the immigrants as well as a “clear, just process before exiting someone for any reason.”
All the shelter residents will receive connection to employment support, including work permit applications.
“You can’t make this stuff up,” Gray says, astounded.
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Are liberal cities actually REVERSING course on crime policies?!
For some inexplicable reason, liberal cities thought decriminalizing petty crime, defunding the police, and softening up the justice system would somehow lead to improvements.
Well, it didn’t. While they might be surprised that their woke policies failed miserably, Sara Gonzales is certainly not shocked.
On Tuesday this week, frustrated San Francisco voters “overwhelmingly voted in support of several ballot measures aimed to quell the spike in crime and drugs,” reports Sara.
“They voted for Measure E — to expand police powers by making it easier for officers to pursue suspects and provide the police force with new cameras and drones, and Measure F, which will require drug screenings for adults receiving welfare.”
Both Measure E and Measure F passed with a “60%” approval rate.
“What a crazy, crazy shift,” says Blaze head researcher and writer Jason Buttrill. “It was just a couple of years ago when they were ushering in Chesa Boudin as the radical DA,” who’s “basically a Marxist.”
San Francisco isn’t alone in its backtracking either.
“Oregon also is re-criminalizing drugs,” says Jason, and New York Gov. Kathy Hochul is “now putting the National Guard in the subway.”
While these reversals in crime-related policies are certainly encouraging, Sara can’t help but wonder if it’s “too late to put the genie back in the bottle,” especially considering Biden’s open border policies.
Millions of illegal immigrants have been ushered into this country, and yet many liberal politicians continue to say that “there is not a rise in immigrant crime.”
“Ask the family of Laken Riley if there’s a rise in immigrant crime,” says Jason.
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'A slap in the face': Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs vetoes bill that would allow police to arrest illegal aliens
Arizona is beleaguered by illegal aliens and is now home to the number-one national hot spot for illegal border crossings. U.S. Customs and Border Protection data indicates migrant encounters in the Tucson sector were up 182.4% in the first four months of fiscal year 2024 over the same period last year, dwarfing the counts of other areas along the southern border.
Keen to tackle this problem, Republicans in the Arizona legislature passed Arizona Border Invasion Act, SB 1231, last month. The bill, greatly similar to the one ratified by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott in December and recently permitted by a federal appeals court to go into effect, would make illegal border crossing a state crime and empower state and local police to arrest foreign nationals who steal into the Grand Canyon State.
By way of veto, Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs killed this effort to clamp down on illegal immigration on Monday.
"This bill does not secure our border, will be harmful for communities and businesses in our state, and burdensome for law enforcement personnel and the state judicial system," Hobbs wrote in a letter to Senate President Warren Petersen. "Further, this bill presents significant constitutional concerns and would be certain to mire the State in costly and protracted litigation."
State Sen. Janae Shamp (R), the bill's sponsor, blasted Hobbs over her veto, saying, "Democrats are choosing to live in an alternate reality that ignores the facts. The facts are that illegal immigrants are crossing the border at a rate our state and our country cannot sustain. The facts are that border-related crimes are at an all-time high in our communities and are no longer safe."
"Our governor proudly vetoed the Arizona Border Invasion Act that would have given our law enforcement the tools to keep citizens like Laken [Riley] safe and alive," continued Shamp.
Contrary to Hobbs' suggestion that SB 1231 would have burdened law enforcement, Shamp underscored that the Arizona Sheriff’s Association "unanimously supported this bill."
"The legislature did its job to protect our citizens but Governor Hobbs failed to do hers. This veto is a slap in the face to our law enforcement, to victims of border-related crimes, and everyone else who will inevitably feel the wrath of this border invasion in one way or another," added Shamp.
Republican state Rep. Steve Montenegro, who sponsored a mirror bill of the legislation, suggested that Hobbs had turned her back on Arizonans and demonstrated with her veto that she's "siding w/Washington DC instead of Arizona families."
Hobbs' veto was alternatively celebrated by leftist and pro-migrant groups.
The activist group Living United for Change in Arizona called the legislature's February passage of the bill "undemocratic," then claimed it was "thrilled" over Hobbs' unilateral action.
"Today we thank Governor Hobbs for striking a major blow to Arizona Republicans' attempt to bring in a new era of anti-immigrant hate and legalized racial profiling to our state," LUCHA executive director Alejandra Gomez said in a statement. "Today is a reflection of the power of democracy and the power of people when they come together to fight against racism, hate, and just plain bad policy."
Under SB 1231, illegal entry would have been classified as a class 1 misdemeanor. If the illegal alien was previously convicted of illegal entry, they would be charged under the vetoed bill as a class 6 felony. The bill would have simplified matters for courts to send foreign nationals packing.
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Senate Republicans acknowledge Biden has 'created the largest child trafficking ring in US history'
Senate Republicans accused President Joe Biden Wednesday of creating "the largest child trafficking ring in U.S. history."
The video accompanying the statement, which contains remarks from various senators, including Ted Cruz (Texas) and Josh Hawley (Mo.), echoes recent remarks made by Tim Ballard, the former Department of Homeland Security agent whose relentless pursuit of child traffickers across the globe is the subject of the massively successful new film "Sound of Freedom."
Cruz says in the footage that "the Biden administration has utterly failed to secure the border and has encouraged parents to send their minor alien children on dangerous trips to the United States unaccompanied. It’s failed to protect these children after they’ve been let into the United States."
Footage of Hawley slamming the United States Department of Health and Human Services back in June is also featured, with the senator from Missouri saying, "It's a conveyor belt of children being forced through the system, and what's the priority of HHS? Just get 'em out as fast as we can."
During the same hearing, Hawley said, "This administration has let tens of thousands of children be sold into slavery. ... They are doing nothing about it."
Sen. John Cornyn (Texas) says in the video posted to the Senate Republicans' Twitter page, "Biden does not care about the 300,000 plus unaccompanied children that have been placed with sponsors since he became president."
According to U.S. Customs and Border Protection, over 390,300 minors crossed the U.S.-Mexico border into the nation unaccompanied over the past three fiscal years.
The New York Times, whose reportage was invoked in the video, stressed earlier this year, "These are no children who have stolen into the country undetected. The federal government knows they are in the United States, and the Department of Health and Human Services is responsible for ensuring sponsors will support them and protect them from trafficking exploitation."
The Biden White House has reportedly accelerated the process by which the minors are dispatched from shelters to eager adults, in part as a result of the deluge of illegal aliens entering the facilities. Caseworkers have complained that the process of vetting sponsors has similarly been rushed, meaning there's no telling what kinds of people many of these kids are ending up with.
The Center Square reported that as of early 2022, it was determined that over 45,000 migrant children had gone missing. That total has more than doubled in the months since, accounting for the 85,000 missing children figure used in the Senate Republicans' post.
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Child liberator Tim Ballard recently raised similar concerns during an interview with the Daily Signal. He too assigned blame to Biden and his administration, claiming their support for open borders has helped to feed the "economy of pedophilia."
"Thousands of them ... are under 5 years old," said Ballard. "Why is a 3-year-old showing up at the border? ... Well, I can tell you why, because they show up with a name — the name of the sponsor that they're given by the trafficker."
"[The Department of Health and Human Services] gets the kids and they by law have to call the number. 'Hi, we have Jose Gonzalez, Mr. George Smith.' 'Yeah, yeah, that's my kid, whatever.' 'Okay,'" said Ballard, dramatizing a hypothetical conversation between a prospective predator and an unwitting facilitator at the HHS.
"They used to actually fly down and have to pick the kid up. Not any more. Our taxpayer dollars will then send the kid by plane or bus to this George, the sponsor; no background check, no DNA, nothing. And they deliver the kids. Our taxpayer dollars are literally — for the first time in American history — our taxpayer dollars are going to facilitate the last leg of a child-trafficking event," said Ballard.
"$14 million a day are landing in the pocket of smugglers and traffickers, thanks to the Biden-Harris border policy," continued Ballard. "The only compassionate policy is border enforcement — barriers, walls. Why? And the 'Sound of Freedom' talks about this. Because the walls and the barriers lead the children who are being hurt into that funnel of rescue. Trained women and men in uniform are there. Those kids want to go through the port of entry. ... Those kids pray for a wall. The wall will save their lives."
Children smuggled into the United States by cartel members and other criminal elements have not all ended up in the hands of pedophiles.
The Times indicated that migrant children in the country illegally are frequently "ending up in dangerous jobs that violate child labor laws — including in factories that make products for well-known brands like Cheetos and Fruit of the Loom."
Beside sex slavery and laboring for woke ESG-conscious companies like PepsiCo. and Ben & Jerry's, some migrant minors are also stuck doing the bidding of the criminals who sent them.
Goliad County Sheriff Roy Boyd of Texas told the Center Square that cartels employ teenage boys and men claiming to be minors to execute crimes on American soil on behalf of the cartels.
"Cartels don’t allow indebted illegal aliens to reside freely in the United States and attend high school unless that person is there for the purpose of providing a revenue stream for the cartel," said Boyd. "This usually includes distributing drugs, recruiting locals into employment with the cartel, or as was the case in the Midwest last year, the movement of local teenage girls into cartel custody for forced prostitution."
Further to the Senate Republicans' video statements, Sen. Bill Hagerty (R-Tenn.) claimed, "President Joe Biden has turned our southern border into an endless turnstile of illegal immigration, and human and drug smugglers are taking advantage of it. This is a heartbreaking humanitarian crisis beyond proportion."
Beyond the horrors faced by the minors and women trafficked into the nation, the illegal immigration under Biden's watch is costly for Americans, both in terms of blood and treasure.
As of June 2023, over 8 million illegal aliens have entered into the country, reportedly exceeding the populations of 38 states.
TheBlaze reported in May that the annual cost of illegal immigration to taxpayers is $151 billion and rising.
While shelling out cash to pay down the cost of Democratic ambitions, some American families are forced to dig graves. U.S. Customs and Border Protection indicated that there were 60 criminal noncitizens convicted of murder in 2021 and another 62 the following year. 15 murder convictions have already been given to illegal aliens this year. In the four years preceding Biden's tenure, there were no more than three murder convictions a year.
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RFK Jr. highlights the Biden administration's failure, stresses it's 'not that hard' to seal the border — and Trump's wall is part of the solution
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has once again called out the Biden administration for its catastrophic failure to secure the nation's southern border, stressing that sealing the boundary is "not that hard" to do — particularly when President Joe Biden's predecessor managed fairly well.
Kennedy, Biden's top rival ahead of the 2024 Democratic presidential primary, dispelled mischaracterizations about his positions advanced by the liberal media and answered pressing questions about America's restoration at the NewsNation town hall Wednesday night.
The mediator, NewsNation's Elizabeth Vargas, referenced the comments Kennedy made earlier this month after he had traveled to Yuma, Arizona, to survey the fallout of the Biden administration's border policies.
"This is not a good thing for our country. It's not a good thing for these people. And it's unsustainable," Kennedy said in a June 6 cellphone video, with illegal aliens from China, Peru, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, and Cameroon reportedly behind him.
The Democratic presidential candidate also told NewsNation's Ali Bradley in early June that the border under Biden is a "dystopian nightmare" that clearly could have been prevented, in part by bolstering defensive infrastructure, leaning on Mexico and Central American countries to stem the flow of migrants, and entertaining a baseline willingness to enforce the law of the land.
Following Vargas' invocation of Kennedy's earlier claim that the border is a "dystopian nightmare," Josue Pasillas, the son of Mexican immigrants, asked the presidential candidate about his plan to address immigration.
"I don't think that it's going to be possible to get an immigration reform package through Congress until we seal the border," said Kennedy. "In the last three years, 7 million people have come across the border illegally. ... The cartels are now running U.S. immigration."
According to U.S. Customs and Border Protection, over 1.6 million people stole into the U.S. between October 2022 and May. Between October 2021 and September 2022, roughly 2.4 million illegal aliens were encountered at the border, and there were another 1.7 million encountered during the same stretch the previous fiscal year.
"The cartels are now advertising all over the world that there's an open border and they're bringing people in. They give them videos about exactly what to do. They fly to Mexico. They're given visas there, internal visas in Mexico. They go from Mexico City on a plane to Mexicali. They're loaded on fleets of buses and then brought to the border and they cross," said Kennedy.
Contrary to Vargas' suggestion that many migrants are ultimately ousted, the Democratic candidate stated, "Illegal immigration — everybody gets in. I watched it."
"The only role of the Border Patrol is to stamp them in and check if they have a criminal record. If they don't, they are brought to the airport and they are given a ticket to any city in the United States that they want to go to."
Although Kennedy has previously emphasized the adverse impact illegal immigration has on America, particularly on its poor and working-class citizens, he highlighted during Wednesday's town hall that under the Biden administration, illegal migrants shuttled over by the cartels are "being exploited, they're being extorted, they're being raped, they're being robbed."
After Kennedy impressed upon the audience the dire nature of the border crisis, Vargas pressed him for a remedy.
"It's not that hard," said Kennedy, admitting former President Donald Trump's wall will be part of the solution and highlighting how illegal border entries were a tiny fraction during Trump's tenure of what they are now.
"I was against Trump's wall, but having seen it down there, I see that ... we're required to give a physical barrier," said Kennedy. "Certain highly densely populated areas, you need a physical barrier."
Kennedy indicated that while it is advisable to fill in the gaps, it is untenable to build a border wall all the way from San Diego, California, to Brownsville, Texas. Instead, along vast stretches of the "hinterland," he indicated he would install ground sensors and towers "like they do in Israel."
Kennedy said that, as a Democrat, he was "very embarrassed" by the actions taken and policy changes made by the Biden administration, which have resulted in the global "presumption that everybody gets in. ... No nation can survive if they can't protect their borders."
‘Not that hard’ to seal the border, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says | RFK Jr. Town Hall youtu.be
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ABC News reporter blames Republicans for invasion at southern border, claims Biden didn't invite illegal migrants to 'come on over'
In a recent interview with Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, ABC News' Martha Raddatz suggested that Republican critiques of the Biden administration's open-border policies — not the policies themselves — are to blame for the invasion under way at the southern border.
By way of strategically faulty memory, Raddatz also claimed that President Joe Biden never called on illegal aliens to "come on over."
What are the details?
Raddatz, the reporter who wept bitterly on television when former President Donald Trump was elected in 2016, discussed the border crisis with Abbott in an interview on ABCs' "This Week" that aired Sunday evening.
"You talk about the border wall, you talk about open borders, I don't think I've ever heard President Biden say, 'We have an open border, come on over,'" said Raddatz.
Raddatz may not have heard Biden struggle with those exact words, but in the first Democratic primary debate, she might have caught Biden say that when he is president, illegal aliens should "surge to the border. ... We're a nation that says, 'You want to flee, and you're fleeing oppression, you should come.'"
\u201cFlashback:\n\nIn the first Democratic primary debate, Biden says when he\u2019s president, illegal immigrants should \u201cimmediately surge to the border\u201d\u201d— Tom Elliott (@Tom Elliott) 1615979889
In recent years, Biden has gone beyond explicitly telling foreign nationals who knowingly violate American territorial sovereignty "to come," promising them health care; an end to detentions of illegal border crossers; an end to deportations; and amnesty.
The Biden administration spent billions to halt construction of the previous administration's planned border wall and was instrumental in lifting the Trump-era Title 42 border policy, which served as a partial bulwark against illegal immigration and foreigner-borne disease during the pandemic.
While an unprecedented number of illegal aliens have stolen across the southern border since Biden took office (over 2.37 million in 2022 and 1.73 million in 2021), officials anticipate a greater flood after Title 42 is eliminated on Dec. 21.
Shifting blame
In the final stretch of the interview, Raddatz cited the opinion of unnamed sources, claiming that it was the rhetoric employed by Republican critics of Biden's open-borders policies that has been driving illegals to make the crossing.
"People I have heard say [that the border is open] are you, are former President Trump, Ron DeSantis — that message reverberates in Mexico and beyond. So they do get the message that it is an open border, and smugglers use all those kinds of statements," said Raddatz.
Abbott responded, "It was known from the time that Joe Biden got elected that Joe Biden supported open borders. It's known by the cartels who have sophisticated information. Whether or not the Biden administration is going to enforce the immigration laws or not is known across the world, but most importantly known among the cartels."
Border states, White House bracing for migrant surge when title 42 ends l This Week youtu.be
Newsbusters' Kevin Tober called Raddatz' allegation "obviously absurd."
Republicans "can proclaim the border to be open, but if it wasn’t, migrants would be unable to get into the United States in the numbers that they are," wrote Tober.
Despite suggesting that Republicans were to blame, in the segment, Raddatz spoke to a pair of illegal aliens who confirmed that Biden's border policy changes was what prompted their journey.
Although Raddatz may have trouble remembering, last year, an illegal alien informed her that he would "definitely not" have tried to cross while Trump was in office; that his reason for coming was "basically" because Biden was now in office.
\u201cABC's Martha Raddatz to illegal alien who crossed the border: "Would you have tried to do this when Donald Trump was president?"\n\nIllegal alien: "Definitely not." \n\nRaddatz: \u201cDid you come here because Joe Biden was elected president?" \n\nIllegal: \u201cBasically\u201d\u201d— Steve Guest (@Steve Guest) 1616337430
Eric Swalwell calls for Russian students to be kicked out of American universities
On Thursday, Congressman Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) suggested that the United States deport Russian college students and shutter the Russian embassy in Washington, D.C in response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Post Millennial reported.
While on “CNN Newsroom,” Rep. Swalwell said, “Frankly, I think closing their embassy in the United States, kicking every Russian student out of the United States, those should be on the table.”
He continued, “Vladimir Putin needs to know every day that he is in Ukraine, there are more severe options that could come.”
“This is the largest invasion in Europe since World War II, and these are the harshest sanctions that any country has experienced since World War II,” the congressman added, “There will be more to come.”
On Saturday, Western allies agreed to ramp up the sanctions placed on Russia by blocking Russian banks from accessing the SWIFT network.
In a joint statement, leadership from the European Commission, France, Germany, Italy, Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States committed to amplifying financial sanctions by prohibiting Russian banks from using the telecommunications network to conduct international and domestic transactions.
By preventing Russia from utilizing the SWIFT network, Western leaders will effectively isolate them and make it incredibly difficult for the Russian economy from making either short- or long-term gains. These sanctions, notably, interfere with Russia’s ability to export natural gas and oil. Fuel exports compose more than half of Russia’s GDP.
Vodka — one of Russia’s most iconic exports — is also being affected by Western sanctions. The Canadian government is stopping the sale and importation of Russian-made products. And in the United States, several state governments have called for the removal of Russian vodka from liquor stores.
After invading Ukraine and even before Western nations issued sanctions, Russia’s economy began to crater. Currently, a Russian ruble is worth about 0.012 U.S. dollars. The Russian currency is less valuable than some in-game currencies for video games.
Rep. Swalwell currently serves on the House Intelligence Committee.
Previously, per federal investigators, Swalwell had a close personal relationship with a woman named Christine Fang. As it turns out, Ms. Fang was a spy for the Chinese government. Rep. Swalwell and Ms. Fang were involved while Swalwell served on the House Intelligence Committee.
Upon learning of Ms. Fang and Swalwell’s relationship, high-ranking members of the House Republican Caucus called for his removal from the House Intelligence Committee.
In mid-January, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) said that if the Republican Party wins a majority in the House of Representatives after the 2022 midterms, Rep. Swalwell will be stripped of his role on the House Intelligence Committee.
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