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Along with all the other issues that New Yorkers are facing — like subway attackers, crime, and the homeless — now they have to deal with a migrant crisis. So on Friday, when Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Jerry Nadler, and other Dems met in front of the Roosevelt Hotel for a press conference, protesters erupted in anger.
Poor Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. The Congressional rep from New York’s 14th district could barely get a word in. Sandy from the Bronx suddenly wasn’t as beloved as she thought she was.
She had just toured the migrant facility at the Roosevelt Hotel and started speaking when the shouting erupted.
AOC asked for — what else? more money and immediate jobs:
I think that there are three points of consensus here that are very important in getting a solution to that issue. The first is that there is consensus here across geographies and state on increased federal resources to cities and municipalities dealing with this issue.
The second is to allow for work authorizations so that folks in here can get to work and start supporting themselves as soon as possible. They are prevented from getting jobs. They are prevented from employment and that is part of the strain on our public systems. The faster that folks can access the work that they’re asking for, legally, the better we can solve.
New Yorkers weren’t having any of it.
JUST IN: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez tries giving a press conference on the migrant crisis in Manhattan but gets absolutely drowned out by angry New Yorkers.
Surprised she's not just crying about it at the border like she did when Trump was in office.
AOC, who was shouting over… pic.twitter.com/M3PdyPMShA
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) September 15, 2023
Why doesn’t this woman understand that migrant problems stem from a wide open border? Or that migrants in the very hotel behind her have jumped the line ahead of those who are playing by the rules. Like the stepchildren of protester David Rem, who told the New York Post:
My wife’s children, Diego and Lina, have been waiting seven long years in Medellin, Colombia, to come to this country legally. They have paid all the immigration fees and have been fingerprinted by the FBI. They have done everything right — they have been waiting and they haven’t broken federal law by crossing the border illegally, so why not them?
Don’t bother to ask AOC. She can’t make political hay out of the plight of these kids.
New York City’s famed Roosevelt Hotel became a migrant shelter in May, and since then 41 people have been arrested there. Most of the arrests have been for domestic violence.
Local business owners have been unhappy with the situation as well, since many migrants can’t find room in the hotel itself, and have been sleeping outside in front of shops.
Here’s what has been happening inside the Roosevelt at the intake center:
Exclusive footage from inside the Roosevelt Hotel NYC . the intake center for processing migrants for coming in to NYC. The Roosevelt had a massive crowd of migrants in the waiting area. Just because you don’t see it, it doesn’t mean it’s not happening ..
Exclusive footage from inside the Roosevelt Hotel NYC . the intake center for processing migrants for coming in to NYC. The Roosevelt had a massive crowd of migrants in the waiting area. Just because you don't see it , it doesn't mean it's not happening ..
(This was sent in by a… pic.twitter.com/xGW755fyzE— Viral News NYC (@ViralNewsNYC) September 13, 2023
And outside …
100s of migrant families wait to send their kids off to school. City officials stated that around 19000 migrant kids were enrolled in NYC public schools. City officials stated migrant kids don’t have to get vaccinated to enter the school but will work on getting them vaccinated …
The Roosevelt Hotel NYC
100s of migrant families wait to send their kids off to school.City officials stated that around 19000 migrant kids were enrolled in NYC public schools .
City officials stated migrant kids don't have to get vaccinated to enter the school but will work… pic.twitter.com/TlqU06LtQO
— Viral News NYC (@ViralNewsNYC) September 13, 2023
New York City isn’t the only big city to be faced with migrants that no one invited. So is Chicago. And, like the Big Apple, the Windy City also self-righteously called itself a sanctuary city.
Now they, too, have a migrant crisis on their hands. But just like other big cities with liberal mayors at the helm, Chicago is pushing its own citizens to the back of the bus.
Currently there are about 1000 migrants arriving in Chicago nearly every week, with taxpayers picking up the bill. But they’re not staying in swanky places like the Roosevelt Hotel. Instead, they’ve been residing at O’Hare Airport and police stations, as well as designated shelters.
But Mayor Brandon Johnson, former social studies teacher, Chicago Teachers Union organizer, and Cook County Commissioner — who is in far over his socialist head — has the perfect solution to the migrant problem.
Poster by Abbey Hambright by Abbey Hambright is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0.
Let’s build them tents, he said. Or rather, “winterized base camps.”
And, sounding like AOC, Johnson told the Chicago Sun-Times:
These families are coming to the city of Chicago … If we do not create an infrastructure where we’re able to support, and quite frankly, contain these individuals who have experienced a great deal of harm, individuals who are desperate…
That we can make sure that we invest in people who have been marginalized in this city under previous administrations while also staying true to our values.
So let’s house them in what basically amounts to refugee camps. With winter coming, no less.
I’m a native of Lake County, IN, which borders Cook County and Chicago on its northwest, so I’m familiar with Chicagoland winters. They’re bloody cold, and I don’t see how “winterized” tents will provide adequate shelter when the temps drop into the teens and single digits. Below zero temperatures happen in January, too. Just ask Jussie Smollett.
On top of that, the city is facing a budget shortfall of $538 million in 2024, of which $200 million is a result of the migrant crisis.
But will Brandon Johnson or Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez break down and demand that the Biden administration close the border? Nope. The migrant crises in both these major American cities are a direct result of the failure of progressive policies. If only their constituents would realize that when you elect Democrat leaders, this is what you get.
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Well, you can camp out in the winter, even up north. After you pony up close to $1,000 for the proper equipment. (Almost certainly more now; it was close to $400 when I lived in New Hampshire, so I may not have the inflation completely accounted for.)
Hate_me says: It doesn’t cost anywhere near $1000 to camp out in the north. You simply need to know how to build a fire.
Has the Granite State really fallen that far?
I grew up in northern NYS, and we’d spend at least a week every January in the woods with nothing but an axe, a knife apiece, a change of clothes, cans of food, and some irons for hobo pies (we also brought a loaf of bread and some butter). We’d build a lean-to out of the local pine trees, using the stringier barks to tie them together.
Had it been legal to hunt at the time, we’d have forgone the cans of food.
NTSOG says: AOC: “more money and immediate jobs”.
Was it not bubble head AOC who boasted about stopping Amazon building offices in New York?
Can this fool walk and chew gum at the same time?
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