Posted on 03/30/2024 7:11:11 AM PDT by MtnClimber
“Let me tell you something New Yorkers, never in my life have I had a problem that I did not see an ending to — I don’t see an ending to this…This issue will destroy New York City.”
This dire warning last September, just six months ago, from Mayor Eric Adams predicting that New York City was headed for destruction because of the euphemistically termed “migrant crisis.”
Adams didn’t stop there, “Every community in this city is going to be impacted. We have a $12 billion deficit that we’re going to have to cut — every service in this city is going to be impacted. All of us.” All of that is true, and the $12 billion also happens to be the amount city officials say the migrants will cost the city in just over three years.
Despite those catastrophic warnings, what have the New York Democrats done in the last six months? They decided to work on distributing prepaid debit cards to hundreds of illegal immigrants already enjoying free hotel rooms in New York City. The distribution of the prepaid cards to 500 migrant families is just the pilot for a $53 million program, which they intend to expand. I guess that $12 billion deficit that was going to kill the city needed a little booster shot. And yes, Mayor Adams, the “migrant crisis” won’t have an ending when you keep creating incentives for people to come.
The cards, we are told, are supposed to be used only for food and baby products only. The illegal immigrant has to sign an “affidavit” promising to use it only for that. Okey-dokey. And we’re assured city bureaucrats will keep an eye on what they’re using it for, and they can revoke the cards if abused. Sure.
Many simply wish that politicians, when spending our tax dollars, would have the same empathy for American citizens as they do illegal immigrants. But for some reason, that’s not the case with the Democrats. For perspective, Bryan Llenas at Fox News reported the $53 million prepaid card scheme is more than twice what New York state plans on spending in 2025 for:
- Department of Veterans Services $21M
- Office of National and Community Service: $18M
- Division of Human Rights: $25M
- Cancer Services Program: 19.8M
During the pilot, the migrant families will receive the card pre-loaded with up to $350 a week for six weeks. In one month, illegal immigrants could receive $1400 in what is essentially food stamps. And yet, Newsweek reports, “The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP) predicted in October 2023 that the average monthly Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) amount given to a recipient would be $219 for a single-person household for 2024. The average for a family of four will be $713, meaning that if the prediction is correct, the migrant cards are loaded with at least twice that…”
Free hotel rooms. Free prepaid debit cards. Free healthcare. It almost seems as though Democrats want the crisis to continue. Biden’s actions certainly indicate that. Last month we finally saw the result of Biden’s open border and the success of the incentives offered by blue states. In figures that come from U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) we now know, “Nearly 7.3 million migrants have illegally crossed the southwest border under President Biden’s watch, a number greater than the population of 36 individual states…” Moreover, “Taken together, nearly 10 million migrants have crossed into the U.S. illegally during the Biden administration, a record Biden’s critics assert could only be achieved by intentionally refusing to enforce the law.”
Make no mistake, this is a deliberate policy as the Democrats were shocked by Trump’s success at re-gaining control of our borders and the immigration process. This catastrophe is by design and meant to not only punish Americans for daring to want secure borders, but appears to be an effort to make it impossible to regain control of the country’s immigration process. It is the ultimate gambit to make America’s sovereignty, and American citizenship, meaningless.
Important values, customs, and laws are being crushed under the boots of the Democrats—financial independence gone, privacy gone, censorship thriving, squatting mocks the sanctity of home ownership, classical education destroyed, police abandoned, military unprepared, and now foreign nationals valued more than our veterans, seniors, and disadvantaged.
In the meantime, Adams has also announced that body scanners will be placed in the subway to catch “bad people carrying bad weapons.” Now innocent, law-abiding people will have to be body scanned to get into the subway because New York defunded the police, won’t arrest the “bad guys,” and when they do they release them right away. Maybe we could spend that $53 million for illegal immigrants on more transit cops instead. But no, that would ruin the point of using chaos to “fundamentally change” the United States while expanding the totalitarian boot of government.
We don’t vote right so these people are here to replace us.
Since when did illegal aliens get free housing, phones and so much cash, etc, that our own citizens do not even receive.
It illustrates which group is valued.
We’re not going to be just collateral damage; we’re the primary targets.
Since Liberals ran out of BS to secure votes for themselves.
So many US minorities have succeeded (continue to succeed) that Liberals’ ideology is now dated, lame and irrelevant. A new and totally dependent class of lazy losers are needed for Liberals to buy votes and run their game again.
Creating a mass of surly, demanding and alienated voters is how Liberals policies succeed.
During the pilot, the migrant families will receive the card
pre-loaded with up to $350 a week for six weeks. In one
month, illegal immigrants could receive $1400 in what is
essentially food stamps.
Sounds like a lot of street pooping may be coming their way.
Intake has to become output.
Also,throwing $$ at them WHILE co planning abput their presence in their “overwhelmed cities”
Idiot democrats. Those people found their way here, they can find their way back where they came from. Stop the hand-outs. They will leave on their own. Keep it up and more will come. That’s how it works.
The 2020 presidential election was the biggest mistake the ignorant dumbasses in this country have ever made. They deserve the misery Biden and his freak show have dumped on them.
Read yesterday that a lot of law enforcement departments are reporting that each new mob of illegal aliens is becoming more and more aggressive. America is theirs now because Americans didn’t want it anymore.
And the answer is:
Who is John Galt?
They are not illegal migrants; they are illegal invaders.
How about all the NGOs, federal and state agencies, hotels, activists involved in the invasion? They are making lots of money. Aren’t there some laws these individuals are breaking in this human trafficking scheme? How about the police officers suppressing James O’Keeffe’s reporting? Are any laws being broken?
I know the democrats support a lawless society, but those involved in replacement by human trafficking, should be held accountable if laws are broken. My gosh, a grandma from North Dakota who was waved into the Capitol, into the Capitol, was arrested and incarcerated!
According to Bastiat, legal plunder can be committed in “an infinite number of ways. Thus, we have an infinite number of plans for organizing it: tariffs, protection, benefits, subsidies, encouragements, progressive taxation, public schools, guaranteed jobs, guaranteed profits, minimum wages, a right to relief, a right to the tools of labor, free credit, and so on, and so on. All these plans as a whole — with their common aim of legal plunder — constitute socialism”. Bastiat also made the following humorous point: “If the natural tendencies of mankind are so bad that it is not safe to permit people to be free, how is it that the tendencies of these organizers are always good? Do not the legislators and their appointed agents also belong to the human race? Or do they believe that they themselves are made of a finer clay than the rest of mankind?”[12]
Bastiat’s message is clear...the only proper role of the law (i.e. government) is to safeguard the individuals right to his/her life, liberty and property. Any actions by the government beyond this limited sphere will actually act to violate the rights of one group at the expense of another.
Yes and you know how Hitler got rid of the bodies the collection of them isn’t done YET.
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