I hope it is not a surprise to anyone reading this article that our southern border is WIDE OPEN. That means we are letting into our country unvetted people from around the globe, without restriction, without condition, and we are paying billions upon billions of dollars for them to live here, for free.
Anyone telling you that the border is “closed” is selling you a bill of goods. I’ve spoken a couple of times thus far with the head of the Border Patrol Council, Brandon Judd, who told me that in the entire history of the border patrol, they’ve never seen numbers like this! It’s not only not normal, it’s an invasion.
According to Democrat Presidential candidate Bobby Kennedy Jr. who went down to investigate it first hand, most of the people crossing the border are not asylum seekers, as the demagogic Biden administration falsely claims. Putting aside for a moment the horrific human trafficking for the sex-trade industry, the rampant drug smuggling, and the anti-American terrorist types coming across to commit crimes, most of the other people are coming here in search of a better life - not asylum. Two very different things, folks. Of course there is nothing wrong with wanting to migrate to our country to try to live the American Dream! However, we have immigration laws, created to protect our citizens, our families, our resources, our way of life. Those laws are being broken every single day, because the Biden administration is refusing to enforce them. They are refusing to protect us. Just because the politicians in charge refuse to enforce our laws, does NOT mean those laws are repealed, or don’t exist. They do exist. Which means the vast majority of people entering our country through the southern border are doing so illegally. If you do something that is illegal, are you rewarded with a free ticket to anywhere in the country, free housing, free food, free healthcare, free education, etc.? Hmmmm, I don’t think so.
Kennedy made a documentary about his investigative trip to the southern border entitled, “Midnight at the Border” which is definitely worth a watch. Find that here.
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Cochise County is one of the counties in Arizona that borders Mexico. Cochise County Sheriff Mark Dannels reported in a recent interview that so far this year there have been more than 2,500 border-related crimes committed in Cochise County, and the year isn’t over yet! And that’s just one county, in one state.
For those Americans who think the open border doesn’t affect them since they don’t live in a border state like Arizona or Texas, guess again. Thanks to the Biden administration’s refusal to enforce our laws and to allow anyone and everyone to walk across our border, and then put them on buses and planes to disburse them across our country (on your dime), every single state in our nation is now a border state.
Let’s take a look at New York, for example. The state itself, (not just New York City), has been declared a “sanctuary state” by the radical left Democrats that run New York. So, hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants are coming to New York and getting so many free services, it’s unbelievable. Here’s one news article that uncovered some of the astonishing contracts that New York has signed to provide free services to the illegal immigrants, on YOUR hard-earned tax dollars, without your consent. Of course it seems like we’ve got some good old fashioned corruption mixed in there, just to make your blood boil further…
REVEALED: Migrants in New York City hotels and shelters are costing the taxpayer $5BILLION: Eyewatering contracts show $140m is being spent on security, $45m on asylum applications and $7m on laundry
NYC has spent billions setting up emergency shelters across the five boroughs
More than 120,000 migrants have arrived in the city in the last 18 months
Mayor Adams has said the crisis will cost the town $12billion over three years
Published: 07:16 EDT, 29 October 2023 | Updated: 12:42 EDT, 29 October 2023
New York City has signed nearly 200 eyewatering emergency contracts totaling over $5billion to house and care for migrants, paying as much as $140M for security, $45million in legal aid services and $7million in laundry.
Mayor Eric Adams has signed $5,056,744,415 in nearly 200 contracts for migrant services since last year, when he declared a state of emergency, allowing City Hall to bypass a competitive bidding process to address the surge of asylum seekers.
While the mayor's office has been slow to give answers about the contracts, a report from the comptroller's office offers insight into how the city has spent the funds, which equal as much as the annual budgets of the Fire, Parks and Sanitation Departments combined.
More than 120,000 migrants have arrived in the city in the last 18 months, with over 60,000 of them still staying in the city's shelters. Adams, a Democrat, has said NYC could have more than 100,000 migrants in homeless shelters by 2025 and has warned the situation could 'destroy' New York.
The city has spent the bulk of the money setting up Humanitarian Emergency Response and Relief Centers (HERRCs) across the five boroughs in hotels, landmarks, former schools, parking lots, sports fields, office buildings and even dorms. It's also paying for food, transportation, security, interpreters, legal advise and other services for the migrants.
More than 120,000 migrants have arrived in the city in the last 18 months, with over 60,000 of them still staying in the city's shelters
Mayor Eric Adams (left) and NY Governor Kathy Hochul initially welcomed migrants from the southern border but have since pleaded for them to stop coming after NYC became overwhelmed
The biggest contract is with the Hotel Association of New York City (HANYC), which represents at least 100 of the more than 140 hotels being used as shelters. The contract with HANYC had an original price tag of $237million, but the city extended it until August 2026, which ballooned the cost to a staggering $1.37billion total.
DailyMail.com has repeatedly reached out to HANYC requesting a list of the hotels under the umbrella contract being used as shelters but has not received a response.
The billion-dollar contract with HANYC does not include all the hotels the city is using as shelters, and City Hall is paying a wide range of rates for the rooms, from $120 a night to nearly $400, leading to concerns that taxpayers are not getting the best possible deal.
The Roosevelt Hotel in Midtown Manhattan has become the intake center for new arrivals, earning the title of the new Ellis Island, and is currently housing 3,000 asylum seekers. The city has leased the hotel from its owner, Pakistan International Airlines, for a whopping $220M.
The Stewart, Row, The Watson, The Wolcott, among others, have also inked hefty contracts with the city, as listed on the DailyMail.com map.
Many of the hotels being used as shelters were struggling to fill their rooms during and after the pandemic, and the contracts with the city were a way for the hotels to keep and even increase their profits.
The Holiday Inn in the Financial District, for example, charged around $110 a night for a room, and only expected to be 70 percent full, but the city guaranteed full occupancy for $190 a room as pat of the $34million deal.
Councilmembers have began demanding answers about the contracts, with oversight committee chair Gale Brewer pointing out that the city has a $140million contract with Arrow Security. That means the city is paying a minimum rate of $33.81 an hour for security services - significantly higher than the average rate for a private security guard.
City Hall has also been overpaying for laundry services, and records show they have spent at least $7million on laundry. As DailyMail.com previously reported, NYC is paying three times more for contracted laundry services at some migrant shelters than it does at homeless shelters.
While the city usually pays 99 cents per pound of laundry at homeless shelters, it's currently paying DocGo $1.50 per pound, HappyNest $1.60 per pound and Garner $3 per pound.
DocGo and Garner Environmental's costs include other services such as security, food and medical, but HappyNest is solely for laundry services.
The City Council is now carrying out an audit into how a $432million no-bid contract was handed to medical firm DocGo, which has been accused of mistreating migrants and having little experience in caring for asylum seekers.
Migrants from Africa, Mexico, and Venezuela line up outside the Roosevelt Hotel in Manhattan in August. The hotel has been dubbed 'Ellis Island' as it's where the migrants are being processed
People seeking asylum sit outside a shelter built to house newly arrived migrants on the campus of the Creedmoor Psychiatric Facility in Queens on October 23
Bags containing a pillow, towel and bed sheets are placed on cots inside a tent shelter in Queens in August
A map from the Mayor's Office showing the location and density of hotels and shelters which are officially known as Humanitarian Emergency Response and Relief Centers (HERRC)
The city has also spent at least $18million in interpreter services, according to the comptroller's data, which shows two payments to Accurate Communications.
In addition, it paid over $310million Rapid Reliable Testing NY, LLC 'to expand the scope of work to include social and casework services and CDI and ASL translation services.'
The Health and Hospitals agency also paid at least $355million in just two contracts for food services with LIC Com, LLC and Rethink Food NYC Inc.
Many of the migrants have been bused north by Texas governor Gregg Abbot in a campaign to call out what he calls open-border policies by Democrats. They have arrived without housing or jobs, forcing the city to erect emergency shelters and provide various government services, with an estimated cost of $12billion over the next few years.
The per-person cost of each migrant has gone from $363 earlier this year to $394, officials said on Monday as councilmembers questioned why the price tag is rising. City officials said hotel costs and shelter space have increased over the last year, as has demand.
With hotels and other locations combined, the city has opened at least 250 emergency shelters for migrants. Back in March, there were just 103, demonstrating how the crisis continues to worsen.
The tent shelter opened at Randall's island's youth soccer fields is costing the city a reported $20million a month. Data from the comptroller's office shows the city has spent at least $20million for trailer showers for asylum seekers.
Adams said on September 9 that spending would be slashed by 15 percent through next spring to cope with the influx. He told city agencies that they would each need to cut spending by 5 percent by November at the latest. There will then be another 5 percent slash in January and a final hack down in April.
As it ran out of room, the city also opened emergency shelters in vacant buildings and open spaces like the field at Randall's Island, which is costing the city a shocking $20million a month to run.
At least another $45million has gone to help migrants with their asylum applications - the Department of Information and Technology paid over $18million in one contract for 'PMQA Services for Asylum Seekers Applications.'
The Department of Information and Technology also paid $10million for 'Integration Services for Asylum Seekers.' DailyMail.com has reached out to the mayor's office for information on what that entails.
The Department of Health and Hospitals paid over $24million to use Manhattan's Candler Building as 'hotel space,' per the comptroller's office.
Migrants who crossed into the US from Mexico are met with concertina wire along the Rio Grande on September 21
Migrants heading north line up to take a boat in Bajo Chiquito in the Darien province of Panama, Thursday, October 5
Haitian migrants wade across the Tuquesa river after trekking through the Darien Gap in Bajo Chiquito, Panama, Wednesday on October 4
The Department of Homeless Services has signed the most contracts connected to the migrant crisis, at 119, with a total price tag of $2.2billion. Health and Hospitals follows, with 38 contracts, with a price of $2.1billion.
'These facilities provide asylum seekers and their children a one-stop concentration of services, including medical care, nutrition, language access, mental health support, school enrollment, social programs, technology, and reunification resources,' the agency said regarding the shelters. 'HERRC staff have administered over 26,000 vaccinations to asylum seekers and enrolled over 13,000 people in health insurance.'
The migrant surge has caused both Mayor Adams and Governor Kathy Hochul to backtrack on the city's Right to Shelter policy - a unique measure that requires NYC to offer accommodation to homeless people.
Adams already amended the law back in May, and last week he limited shelter stays for migrants with children to 60 days. Individuals already had a limit of 30 days.
The mayor had heralded the shelter requirement at the start of the crisis as a display of the city's empathy toward asylum seekers. In the months since, his rhetoric has hardened as the city has spent more than a billion dollars to rent space in hotels, erect large emergency shelters and provide government services for migrants who arrive without housing or jobs.
Governor Hochul, who also first welcomed asylum seekers last year, is supporting the city's effort to suspend the right to shelter.
Hochul endorsed the city's challenge to the requirement in a court filing in October, telling reporters that the mandate was never meant to apply to an international humanitarian crisis.
They really do think you are stupid… An “international humanitarian crisis”??? How about a self-induced, dangerous, illegal policy being implemented by the “powers that be” who clearly do not have your safety or your interest at hand.
Upset? Want to do something about it? Good.
Local elections are on Tuesday November 7th. VOTE! And vote wisely. Furthermore, there’s a Presidential election in just 12 months. Start recruiting your friends and family now to vote out every single politician (federal, state and local) currently in office who isn’t aggressively trying to seal our southern border. I don’t care if they are Democrat, Republican or something in between. If they aren’t actively working to close the border, then they are endangering our families and our way of life, and they do not deserve to be in office and continue to live off the tax payers’ backs any longer.
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DoJ, Border Patrol, Immigration, etc are all subsidiary companies of your local parent companies - the United States, and the United States of America. These local parent companies are in turn owned by another parent company, and up the line it goes.
Anything happening that seems corrupt, or crazy, or treasonous, is occurring because of deliberate decisions. It isn't a mistake, or an unintended consequence, or incompetence. "Democrats and Republicans" is just a part of the distraction narrative for arguments between supposedly opposite camps, along with various other 'bread n circuses' entertainment that keep the people from looking behind the curtain.
Nothing that emanates from the corporates (trading as a govt) bears any semblance of truth. Nothing.
It is high time for Torches and Pitchforks.
Start talking about that, everywhere you go, every day.
Tell everyone that the only option is total removal of the parasitic class and all their rules.
We the People are more than capable of running everything.
How do I know? Because we already do it.
None of the parasite class could organise a orgy in a brothel.
Had Enough Yet?
Good article Bobbie.
DoJ, Border Patrol, Immigration, etc are all subsidiary companies of your local parent companies - the United States, and the United States of America. These local parent companies are in turn owned by another parent company, and up the line it goes.
Anything happening that seems corrupt, or crazy, or treasonous, is occurring because of deliberate decisions. It isn't a mistake, or an unintended consequence, or incompetence. "Democrats and Republicans" is just a part of the distraction narrative for arguments between supposedly opposite camps, along with various other 'bread n circuses' entertainment that keep the people from looking behind the curtain.
Nothing that emanates from the corporates (trading as a govt) bears any semblance of truth. Nothing.
It is high time for Torches and Pitchforks.
Start talking about that, everywhere you go, every day.
Tell everyone that the only option is total removal of the parasitic class and all their rules.
We the People are more than capable of running everything.
How do I know? Because we already do it.
None of the parasite class could organise a orgy in a brothel.
Imagine young fighting age men stuffed into every Hotel and empty Office building and then Bang!!
The Grid goes down and its survival time baby!!