New Video Shows Thousands of Migrants Headed on Foot to Southern US Border

Jeni said:
NYC Dem Calls for Investigation After Migrants' Expensive, Unregistered Cars Were Towed from Shelter

NYC Dem Calls for Investigation After Migrants' Expensive, Unregistered Cars Were Towed from Shelter​



By Elizabeth Weibel January 10, 2024 at 3:20pm

New York City Assemblywoman Jaime Williams (D) called for an investigation to be conducted after expensive and unregistered vehicles were towed from a migrant shelter.

Williams recorded a video posted to Facebook in which several unregistered vehicles were towed from a migrant encampment at Floyd Bennett Field.

The Assemblywoman told the New York Post (NYP) that she was astonished to find the pricey cars belonged to migrants who had been “begging for food and money.”

Look up there is VIDEO but i need to assume it is all made up and "think hard before buying into this...."
again what is visible but does not help a narrative does not exist.
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From Rupert Murdoch's mouth to God's ears.

The video shows a lot of flashing lights and not much else. The idea that a couple of cars being towed is any way reflective of the group of migrants being housed in a tent at F Bennet Field or migrants in general is ridiculous.

They shouldn't have been housed in a tent at the airfield to begin with, which would have alleviated the need of sheltering them in the school to survive the storm. All that is 100% on the Mayor.
 

Happyflowerlady said:
Last night I was watching a video showing migrants being moved into a school in New York, and they said that the school will now be closed for the children , so they will probably be schooled from home, like happened during the pandemic, when the schools were closed.
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I believe this was just for one day due to severe weather coming in. It's nothing to be afraid of and was temporary from all I have read and heard. Lots of fear mongering via exaggerations to make people afraid.

On Jan. 9, New York City officials evacuated nearly 2,000 asylum-seekers living in a tent shelter to James Madison High School to shelter during severe storms moving through the area. The city moved the migrants back to the tent shelter early the following morning.
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Students were told that classes would convene virtually Jan. 10 because of the school's use as a "temporary overnight respite center."
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PolitiFact - Ron DeSantis said a NYC school displaced students to house migrants. Here’s what happened.
 
Devi said:
I don't recall ever supporting insurrection or denying an election. I have said that I've gotten vaccines, but didn't like this one. And this is a big deal to you?
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We already went through this, don't know why you want to keep bickering, I'm not interest in it. I said it was the source of the propaganda you were spreading here. If you want to make it about you and start your childish bickering again, count me out. This is getting old.

SeaBreeze said:
Just going by whose propaganda you're spreading, an insurrectionist supporter, election denier, anti-vaccine, etc.
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SeaBreeze said:
We already went through this, don't know why you want to keep bickering, I'm not interest in it. I said it was the source of the propaganda you were spreading here. If you want to make it about you and start your childish bickering again, count me out. This is getting old.
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Someone quoted it, so I responded. I do not agree that I was spreading any kind of "propaganda" according to you, but I think you're right — it's getting quite old. Ignore.

Added: It's interesting that you call my posts "propaganda" when you don't fault others saying the same thing. Anyway, Ignore is beautiful.
 
Widow of Vietnam Vet said:
I believe the NY Post before I believe what VA says.
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Rupert Murdoch's other company- Fox "news"

"Dominion CEO John Poulos told reporters, "Fox has admitted to telling lies about Dominion that caused enormous damage to my company, our employees and the customers

[The customers he's referring to is you, the voters, and the US election system that FOX, and Rupert Murdoch didn't mind destroying in the search for profit.]


that we serve. Nothing can ever make up for that. Throughout this process, we have sought accountability," he said. "Truthful reporting in the media is essential to our democracy."

Fox News released a statement shortly after a settlement was announced.

"We acknowledge the Court's rulings finding certain claims about Dominion to be false," the statement said. "This settlement reflects FOX's continued commitment to the highest journalistic standards. We are hopeful that our decision to resolve this dispute with Dominion amicably, instead of the acrimony of a divisive trial, allows the country to move forward from these issues."

"As much evidence as we've seen, there still is plenty more that hasn't been made public. In a trial, the documents and statements that have been redacted, which are likely to constitute some of the most damning evidence against Fox, would have been revealed," said Tom Wienner, a retired Michigan corporate litigator who has been following the case closely at NPR's request.

US$787 MILLION settlement to avoid revealing the depth of their deception.

Why does Rupert Murdoch hate the US and it's system of government?
 
VaughanJB said:
It's worth remembering that migrants won't be familiar with the the ease you can move around New York. Let alone how to walk anywhere.
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That's absolutely ridiculous. If you have eyes you can see where you are and what is around you. There are also plenty of people to assist in directions. Everything is right in front of your face at Floyd Bennett. You're being silly, just to be contrary, Vaughn. A bus stops Right Outside, if it were a snake it would bite you. Bus. Right there. Right in front. Heck, even *I* could help with directions. In Spanish.
 
Pepper said:
That's absolutely ridiculous. If you have eyes you can see where you are and what is around you. There are also plenty of people to assist in directions. Everything is right in front of your face at Floyd Bennett. You're being silly, just to be contrary, Vaughn. A bus stops Right Outside, if it were a snake it would bite you. Bus. Right there. Right in front. Heck, even *I* could help with directions. In Spanish.
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How far from the tents to the bus stop?

I haven't bounced around NYC social service agencies, but some of the others that I have are brutal, and inflexible. The US agencies just the same. I imagine for non-citizens getting help to apply for asylum and work permits has a very slow learning curve. Having never been a migrant I can't imagine what they're facing.
 
This is from a few months back. The New York mayor said in a news conference that his plan was to be moving the illegals into faith-based dwellings (church rescue missions, or into the actual churches ? ) and then moving them into people’s homes.
What he said (I listened to his video) was that people are struggling financially now, and the government will pay people to put the illegals in their homes.
Sadly, I can see people who are struggling financially having to allow illegals into their homes. This will be people who mostly can’t even speak English, and may have come from a gang member background somewhere.
Even if the person is not dangerous, it would be hard to communicate with them, and the home resident will be the one preparing food, washing clothes, and basically become a servant to the illegal people in their house.
What happens when the government stops paying ?

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Happyflowerlady said:
This is from a few months back. The New York mayor said in a news conference that his plan was to be moving the illegals into faith-based dwellings (church rescue missions, or into the actual churches ? ) and then moving them into people’s homes.
What he said (I listened to his video) was that people are struggling financially now, and the government will pay people to put the illegals in their homes.
Sadly, I can see people who are struggling financially having to allow illegals into their homes. This will be people who mostly can’t even speak English, and may have come from a gang member background somewhere.
Even if the person is not dangerous, it would be hard to communicate with them, and the home resident will be the one preparing food, washing clothes, and basically become a servant to the illegal people in their house.
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If someone takes in people for money it doesn’t mean they will cook and clean for them. In fact they may expect the migrants to do that for them. It’s risky in so many ways especially if you can’t evict them if you want to. The mayor has a lot of wishful thinking going on unless he is paying so much that churches and residents decide to do it.
 
Vaughan said
"T here is no connection between health care for migrants, and health care for vets. If you're unhappy with how vets are treated, contact your representative and change the law. Doing so will have zero impact on what is done for migrants. This is a fallacy, I'm afraid. No-one is making a choice between migrants and vets. Just like the story about how vets were being turned out of hotels and their places were given to migrants. Turns out the story was completely false."


If you're unhappy with how vets are treated, contact your representative and change the law."

I have done that- Not through my representative but because of an unusual circumstance, involving the former POTUS..


The Senate Unanimously passed the Bill (S 221) -look it up- there are 2 bills under 221- my bill regards VA and the NPDB that arose from my husband's death, and years of my investigation into the VA, regarding how they hide their malpractice stats and I expect the House to, in 2024, unanimously pass it, as well. I had plenty of evidence to support this situation.

I have been around the VA block since 1981 and my husband's death was due to VA health care. I subsequently, after I settled with VA for wrongful death, was awarded a direct SC death due to his disabilities and exposure to Agent Orange in Vietnam.
I am a well known disabled veteran's advocate on the net and have over 50 posts, on 2 versions of large a vet web site, where I was for 25 years. I lost two disabled veteran husbands.

So I respectfully disagree with you-and if you are a vet in the VA health Care system I am glad that you are happy with your care.
I wish I could use my real name here as I did on the veteran's site, but that has brought me a few problems, Very few in the past 25 years, as the sole female and civilian on the site, but maybe I will use it here in the future.

I was a VA volunteer for two separate VAMCs ,as well, since 1983, and my daughter is a veteran too!
I graduated at age 65 from the American Military University -with Honors -, their first civilian graduate. That enhanced my work with combat veterans.
 
I've been on these forums for a good many years now, and I've never seen such extreme nonsense as there is in this thread.

A suggestion that places of worship and private homes might consider volunteering to offer shelter, or maybe employ, desperate people who have nothing? Many with babies and young children? Within one or two replies, the word "forcing" gets into the discussion. Suddenly we are being forced to take strangers into our homes. And we are forbidden to evict them. And some of them "may come from a gang member background, somewhere." Classic fear-mongering.

Psst, if you rent a room in your house to someone who was born in the US, how do you know for sure that that person doesn't have a "gang member background somewhere?" Even a legal background check can be forged. Of course there are always some bad apples among any group of people. But these ridiculous generalizations are cruel and evil.

Some of these immigrants manage to find work, usually difficult physical labor, and get a car? Oh, the horror! They should be riding in a goat cart, or maybe just walking, no matter how many miles.

Medical care? Nah, let them just die out there on the streets where they are living. Nobody invited them here, serves them right.

Hatred of one's fellow man seems to persist through the centuries, for some of us, anyway. There are still plenty of people in this country who are advocates of slavery. (Why else the objections to taking down works of art celebrating Confederate "heroes?")

For those who are not knowledgeable about this, I suggest reading some history of the treatment of the immigrants to this country back around the year 1900, when so many of them came pouring in from Europe and Asia. Yes, they had the legal signed papers, at least I assume most of them did, but otherwise they were really not that different from today's immigrants. And the usual bunch of locals objected to them, saying they were dirty, smelly, spoke a different language, were ignorant, and who knows what criminal activities they were bringing here? (Never mind that they were living in conditions that most of us wouldn't even house our pets in.) It took them one generation or less to become the most patriotic Americans we've ever had.

I do think we are evolving into a higher level of morality, but it's sort of a "two steps forward, one step backward" process. And the usual suspects always seem to come down on the usual side of these issues.
 
Sunny said:
I've been on these forums for a good many years now, and I've never seen such extreme nonsense as there is in this thread...
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Strongly disagree with your obvious assessment of most other member's posts that obviously did not agree with your personal view. Your arguments may have some limited truth and validity however IMO were posed in exaggerated ways for obvious purpose. Your personal views are however useful and welcome as you represent a portion of citizens that have value for members to understand and are often posed so in news media.
 
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I like your post, @Sunny, except for this:
"Some of these immigrants manage to find work, usually difficult physical labor, and get a car? Oh, the horror! They should be riding in a goat cart, or maybe just walking, no matter how many miles."

I was speaking of NYC. There is no problem walking here except if you are lazy or disabled; besides which, they have already shown they can walk many miles for a goal. They are given FREE MTA cards. They are complaining, at least at Floyd Bennett, that they have to take a bus to the subway.

People in the area of Floyd Bennett all live in what we call a "2 Fare Zone" meaning bus to train to bus, etc. MTA has taken care of the second charge. They have no business complaining about that when it is done every day by the local residents. Chutzpah! It is not the women with children complaining, it is the Single Men.

NYC is a walking city. Residents of Manhattan walk miles a day, it's just what is done, and walking is sometimes faster than a bus. Sometimes? Many times. Only you exaggerated with a "goat cart." Gotta go somewhere? Get there, especially with a free metro card. I do not wish these folks ill at all, but why is this load different than all our immigrants through NYC history?
 
Why do so many posts lack using illegal when referring to the immigrant "crisis" <----word now being used by the mayors of sanctuary cities.

Housing illegal immigrants takes land & tents.

Then there are homeless experiencing this.
Bulldozers wipe out tent city in Massachusetts
 
The impact is beginning to show. Somehow the word illegal isn't part of describing the migrant "crisis". Note the word "could" is used before the word slashed. Not said by the mayor is the other option is to raise taxes to continue funding essential services. He does mention the option of spending millions to bus the illegal immigrants somewhere else.


Denver Mayor Mike Johnston is warning the liberal city that budgets for city departments could be slashed by up to 15% in order to deal with the massive cost of the ongoing migrant crisis it is facing.

Johnston said this week that the city needs to compensate for about $180 million in spending on sheltering illegal immigrants who have come there either by themselves or via buses from Texas.


Johnston is one of a number of mayors who have appealed for more federal aid, asking for over $5 billion.

Help might be on the way.

The Biden administration is currently seeking around $1.5 million from Congress as part of the border section of its supplemental funding request.


MSN
 
David777 said:
Strongly disagree with your obvious assessment of most other member's posts that obviously did not agree with your personal view. Your arguments may have some limited truth and validity however IMO were posed in exaggerated ways for obvious purpose. Your personal views are however useful and welcome as you represent a portion of citizens that have value for members to understand and are often posed so in news media.
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As are the quoted headlines from the NYP which are totally misleading, but you had/have no objection to those. Is it because they agree with your point of view?
 
Knight said:
The Biden administration is currently seeking around $1.5 million from Congress as part of the border section of its supplemental funding request.


MSN
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So Fox reports Biden admin is seeking $1.5 million. Really?

It's obvious FOX didn't proof read this story and anyone w a clue knows they're not seeking $1.5 million yet here it's actually presented as a fact.
 
If it were me & I was a mayor in one of sanctuary cities experiencing the illegal immigration crisis. I'd be looking for cities with an affluent population that doesn't have much in the way of diversity.

Someplace like

Sun Valley, Idaho Population 2024
 
againstthegrain said:
So Fox reports Biden admin is seeking $1.5 million. Really?

It's obvious FOX didn't proof read this story and anyone w a clue knows they're not seeking $1.5 million yet here it's actually presented as a fact.
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That is all you took out of the article. No wonder the "crisis" being experienced by sanctuary city mayors doesn't seem to faze you.
 
againstthegrain said:
We had 500+ Peruvian families that moved here last year. The community did what it needed to do to see that they were fed and housed, all through charitable organizations and donations.
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Maybe it's not as rosy as you post.

Idaho Hunger Coalition: Plight of homeless Peruvian families is greater than a housing dilemma


The Wood River Valley has a long, rich history with Peruvians. In particular, they share a love for sheepherding. So, it was no surprise to see, post-pandemic, a new stream of Peruvian families to the Sun Valley region. But something is very different this year.

The region's employers need workers to fill a long list of job openings, in all corners of the service industry. And while Peruvians have indeed been anxious to meet that need, their own needs – for housing, hunger and much more – have been left out of the conversation.

“It was unfortunately some short-term thinking. Let’s fill this immediate need with this workforce, but we have no housing options for them,” said Brooke McKenna, co-executive director of The Hunger Coalition which brought the growing crisis to public officials earlier this month. “That’s really scary, shortsighted thinking.”
 

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