Tag: illegal immigration

95-year-old veteran kicked out of nursing home to make way for migrant housing, lawmakers say

A 95-year-old Korean War veteran said he was given less than two months’ notice to figure out where he was going to live after the nursing home he resided in was sold to become a facility for undocumented migrants.

Veteran Frank Tammaro joined Rep. Nicole Malliotakis, R-N.Y., a vocal critic of New York City’s handling of the migrant crisis, at a press conference on Monday to discuss the reported deal.

“The thing I’m annoyed about is how they did it, it was very disgraceful what they did to the people in Island Shores,” Tammaro said, referencing the assisted living facility he was in.

He said that Island Shores “gave us time to get out,” but not enough time to protest the decision to boot residents – which Tammaro said he tried to do.

“Then one day there was a notice on the board. I think that gave us a month and a half to find out where we were going to go,” he said. “I thought my suitcases were going to be on the curb because I’m not that fast.”

“If it wasn’t for my daughter, they would’ve been on the curb. That was it. I said, ‘No, no, no, no, you’re not moving me,’ and they said, ‘Yes, yes, yes we are.’ Everything was done behind closed doors – we didn’t have a chance to actually make any attempt to stop them because there wasn’t enough time.”

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Eric Adams is hiding the cost of the city’s migrant boondoggle

To learn why it’s a bad idea for Washington to issue a blank check to Mayor Eric Adams to house an unlimited number of migrants, listen to Thursday’s City Council hearing on how Adams is awarding billions of dollars in contracts for migrant services.

Councilwomen Gale Brewer (Upper West Side) and Julie Won (western Queens) grilled Adams officials for 3.5 hours on how, exactly, the city is spending taxpayer money for shelter and other services, costing $11 million each day.

As Comptroller Brad Lander, the city’s independent watchdog, told questioners, 10 city agencies have signed 194 contracts worth $5.1 billion with private providers to house, feed, clothe and offer medical care and private security to more than 100,000 newcomers, including 60,400 in city shelter.

Fifteen months ago, the city suspended its checks-and-balances processes to control waste and fraud in contracts, with Adams declaring an “emergency.”

This means the city doesn’t have to follow its procedures of competitive, sealed bids but can just pick the contractor city officials think is appropriate, with no objective criteria.

As Molly Wasow Park, Adams’ social-services commissioner, informed the council of a $240 million contract for thousands of hotel rooms across the city, “I don’t know that anybody bid exactly for the same suite of services. It is a somewhat unusual function.”

Discretion and opacity are never good when handing out billions of dollars.

But they’re particularly worrisome in this administration.

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Outraged protesters block bus carrying migrants on Staten Island: ‘You’re not welcome!’

Outraged Staten Island residents took to the street Tuesday night to physically block the arrival of an MTA bus carrying asylum seekers to a newly converted shelter — a move that Mayor Eric Adams called “ugly,” even as over 100,000 migrants have been shipped to the Big Apple since last year.

The group of unruly protesters, captured on video wailing and banging on the sides of the bus, halted traffic just before 10 p.m. after intercepting the bus, which was headed to the former Island Shores senior assisted living facility.

Police said 10 people were taken into custody, with nine being issued summonses for disorderly conduct.

A 48-year-old man, identified as Vadim Belyakov, was charged for allegedly assaulting an officer who was trying to make an arrest.

One video taken of some of the protesters outside the facility at Father Capodanno Boulevard and Midland Avenue showed people whistling and screaming, “You’re not welcome!” and “You are illegal!”

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Leaked Images Show Biden Admin’s Planned ICE ID Card for Illegal Immigrants

Newly revealed images reveal the Biden administration’s ongoing development of an identification card for illegal aliens.

The ID, known as the ICE Secure Docket Card, is part of an effort to modernize documentation of illegal aliens released into the United States, according to a report from Fox News.

The Docket Card is designed to “modernize various forms of documentation provided to provisionally released noncitizens through a consistent, verifiable, secure card,” according to Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

The card includes a photograph, biographic identifiers and “cutting-edge” security features, claims ICE. It aims to “improve current, inconsistent paper forms that often degrade rapidly in real-world use.”

The card is still in the development phase and could be expanded further depending on the outcome of the pilot program, according to the Fox report.

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Border Patrol Set ‘Bookout’ Targets To Bring Migrant Custody Numbers to ‘Manageable’ Levels Amid New Surge

Florida’s attorney general accuses the Biden administration of intentionally destroying the nation’s border with Mexico.

“Biden and Mayorkas have become so brazen that they are now implementing mass-release quotas for immigrants surging into our country,” Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody Tuesday said in a statement.

“As a federal judge already recognized, these releases are unlawful, yet the Biden administration is ordering Border Patrol to release even more immigrants into the interior.”

In response to the escalating numbers of migrants at the southern border, Border Patrol leadership established daily “bookout” targets last month, Moody claims.

Moody said recently-obtained U.S. Border Patrol emails outline new proposed “bookout targets” for field chiefs and deputies to “bring in-custody numbers to manageable levels.” She noted CBP redacted actual numbers.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s Acting Deputy Chief emailed new targets August 8 after a phone call with leaders to discuss “in-custody numbers,” Moody noted.

During the call, she said, CBP leaders revealed “the rate of daily encounters continues to surpass the daily permanent bookouts and in-custody numbers continue to rise.”

These targets aim to keep the number of illegal aliens in custody at a manageable level, potentially leading to releases of larger numbers of illegal border crosses into the U.S. interior.

The agency has proposed “daily bookout targets” for each sector, based on seven-day averages.

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NYC migrants living in temporary shelters don’t need vaccinations to initially enroll in public school

Migrants living in temporary shelters in New York City don’t need vaccinations to initially enroll in the city’s public school system.

Officials said during a press conference on Wednesday that migrants living in temporary shelters have a certain timeframe that the vaccinations need to be obtained by once they are in school, according to FOX 5.

NYC Schools Chancellor David Banks said that since July 2022, around 19,000 students living in temporary housing have enrolled in city schools.

Banks said that “We have room for the students,” referring to the migrant children who arrived in the city.

Typically, all students aged 2 months to 18 years old who will attend public school, child care, or private school must be vaccinated  for a list of diseases before attending, according to the New York City Department of Education. There are some situations where a child can attend school if they have received the first dose of a school-required vaccine which requires multiple doses.

According to the city’s department of education, religious exemptions for mandated vaccines are no longer allowed.

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Neo-Nazi group NSC-131 holds anti-immigration protest outside Woburn hotel

Members of a neo-Nazi group demonstrated outside three Woburn hotels on Saturday, delivering anti-immigration messages about a week after city officials said that nearly 60 migrant families were being housed in hotels in the city.

Photos posted on social media by protesters and a group called New England Nazi Watch showed several demonstrators standing outside a Red Roof Inn on Commerce Way, wearing face coverings and holding a banner indicating they were part of Nationalist Socialist Club 131.

The group, also known as NSC-131, is a self-described “pro-white, street-oriented fraternity dedicated to raising AUTHENTIC resistance to the enemies of our people in the New England area.” It has been classified as a neo-Nazi organization by the Anti-Defamation League and the Southern Poverty Law Center.

The hate group took credit for the protest on the social media platform Telegram.

“NSC 131 organized an emergency mobilization in Woburn, Massachusetts to oppose invaders and their collaborators,” the group wrote. “The action was conducted in response to hundreds of Haitian invaders being housed in Woburn hotels with taxpayer dollars.”

In an email to the Globe on Monday, the group said it had protested outside three hotels.

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TEXAS STATE POLICE PURCHASED ISRAELI PHONE-TRACKING SOFTWARE FOR “BORDER EMERGENCY”

THE TEXAS DEPARTMENT of Public Safety purchased access to powerful software capable of locating and following people through their phones as part of Republican Gov. Greg Abbott’s “border security disaster” efforts, according to documents reviewed by The Intercept.

In 2021, Abbott proclaimed that the “surge of individuals unlawfully crossing the Texas-Mexico border posed an ongoing and imminent threat of disaster” to the state and its residents. Among other effects, the disaster declaration opened a spigot of government money to a variety of private firms ostensibly paid to help patrol and blockade the state’s border with Mexico.

One of the private companies that got in on the cash disbursements was Cobwebs Technologies, a little-known Israeli surveillance contractor. Cobwebs’s marquee product, the surveillance platform Tangles, offers its users a bounty of different tools for tracking people as they navigate both the internet and the real world, synthesizing social media posts, app activity, facial recognition, and phone tracking.

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Massachusetts Excludes Wealthy Sanctuary Cities From List of Communities to House Illegal Immigrants

Amid an illegal immigration crisis so bad in Massachusetts that some have been sent to Logan International Airport in Boston, the absence of affluent communities on a newly released list of communities slated to absorb the influx is raising some eyebrows.

Among the communities missing from Gov. Maura Healey’s list is Martha’s Vineyard, the ultra-liberal affluent Massachusetts atoll that made national headlines last year for shipping 49 Venezuelans off the island last year almost as soon as they arrived at the affluent Cape Cod atoll where Pride flags and Black Lives Matter signs adorn oceanfront homes and well manicured lawns.

Also absent from the list is the overwhelmingly Democrat-dominated Newton and Cambridge, despite both Boston-neighboring communities being self-declared sanctuary cities for illegal immigrants.

“The only answer for this can be hypocrisy,” Republican state Rep. Peter Durant told The Epoch Times. “You advocate for more services for immigrants, but when the rubber meets the road, you don’t want anything to do with them.”

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Illinois Law Now Forces Landlords to Rent and Sell Property to Illegal Immigrants Amidst Soaring Urban Housing Costs

Illinois has passed a law requiring landlords to open their doors to illegal immigrants.

As housing costs spiral out of control, particularly in large metropolitan areas such as Chicago, this new mandate is set to potentially increase the pool of renters by tens of thousands.

On June 30, Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker signed SB 1817 into law, amending the Illinois Human Rights Act to include “immigration status” as a protected class, Breitbart reported.

This legislation makes it a civil rights violation in the state of Illinois to ‘discriminate’ against a person based on their immigration status in a wide range of real estate transactions. Key areas covered by the law include:

  1. Refusal to engage in a real estate transaction, including sale, rental, or lease, based on a person’s immigration status.
  2. Altering the terms, conditions, or privileges of a real estate transaction due to a person’s immigration status.
  3. Refusing to receive or transmit a bona fide offer from a person based on their immigration status.
  4. Misrepresenting property availability or refusing to allow a person to inspect property due to their immigration status.
  5. Creating or distributing any communication that expresses a preference, limitation, or discrimination based on immigration status related to real estate transactions.
  6. Refusing to engage in loan modification services based on a person’s immigration status or discriminating in making such services available.
  7. Encouraging the sale, lease, or listing of property based on the notion that the value of the property has or will decrease due to the immigration status of people living in the vicinity.
  8. Intentionally causing alarm to induce property sale or lease based on the immigration status of persons entering the vicinity of the property.

“This law sets clear boundaries, protecting the rights of immigrants and ensuring that financial institutions and service providers cannot engage in discriminatory practices,” said Gillespie (D-Arlington Heights). “Putting these protections in place will promote fairness to ensure people are not unjustly denied housing.”

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