Kamella Harris had a nice surprise outside her home this morning

[FreeBird]

[concha]

Rules for thee but not for me! Outrage as it’s revealed Dem-led El Paso is moving illegal migrants to NYC by bus, after White House slammed GOP governors who did the same

• El Paso's Democrat city officials have been busing migrants to NYC for weeks
• City is seeking federal reimbursement for the bus program through FEMA
• But similar moves from GOP governors have drawn furious condemnation
• Govs. Abbott and DeSantis have sent migrants to areas like Martha's Vineyard 
• White House accused them of treating migrants as 'chattel' and 'political pawns'
• Critics point out the irony, saying: 'When Democrats do it, it's perfectly fine' 

[concha]

NBC News Deletes Tweet Comparing Illegal Aliens on Martha’s Vineyard to Trash

[Ga96]

repubtards ok with border crossing as long as they do it.

[I AM IRONMAN]

45 minutes ago, Ga96 said:

repubtards ok with border crossing as long as they do it.

As usual you make no sense you babbling jackass.

[Nolebull813]

When dems fake outrage about them sending illegals to dem cities, they never say where they should be instead. If they can’t come to NYC, DC and Chicago, where do they go? They never explain that. 

[Nolebull813]

I have my seen dems this mad about the treatment of illegals since they were in Obamas cages 

[FreeBird]

The look of Dems when they got the only immigrants on their island deported 😂 

[concha]

[OldTerrapin]

3 hours ago, concha said:

 

 

[OldTerrapin]

4 hours ago, FreeBird said:

The look of Dems when they got the only immigrants on their island deported 😂 

[concha]

[concha]

Gavin Newsom is branded a hypocrite for calling DeSantis' Martha's Vineyard migrant flight 'morally reprehensible' - after he spearheaded program to bus homeless people out of San Francisco

[DBP66]

3 hours ago, concha said:

using people for a political stunt to show how much of a red neck he is.....😪

[DBP66]

After Texas Sent Him to Washington, One Migrant Launches a New Life

 

 

Miriam Jordan

Mon, September 19, 2022 at 2:37 PM

 

 

 

A bus with migrants sent to Martha's Vineyard, the upscale vacation island off Massachusetts, by Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida, Sept. 16, 2022. (Matt Cosby/The New York Times)

When Lever Alejos of Venezuela arrived at the southern border penniless in July, he gladly accepted a free bus ride to Washington, D.C., courtesy of the state of Texas. He had no family or friends to receive him, and spent one night in the plaza across from Union Station. He soon settled into a homeless shelter.

“I have nothing,” Alejos, 29, said on his third day in the city, “but I have the will to work and succeed.”

Two months later, Alejos is making between $600 to $700 a week, saving up to buy a used car and planning to move out of the shelter.

“There is so much opportunity here,” he said Thursday, at the end of a day’s work. “You just have to take advantage of it.”

Since April, thousands of migrants, most of them Venezuelans, have been coaxed onto buses and planes heading to Washington, New York, Chicago and, last week, Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts, after enduring a perilous journey over land from their broken country to make a fresh start in the United States.

The transportation to the Democratic strongholds has been organized by Texas, Florida and Arizona, whose governors are trying to draw attention to a record surge in the number of people crossing the border, which they blame on the Biden administration’s immigration policies.

Last week, Gov. Greg Abbott of Texas dropped off two busloads of migrants near the residence of Vice President Kamala Harris, and more over the weekend. Florida’s governor, Ron DeSantis, on Wednesday chartered two small planes to fly 50 migrants to Martha’s Vineyard, the upscale vacation island off Massachusetts, which he has derided as a liberal bastion.

Democrats have called the stunts cruel, and many migrants have been left at least temporarily homeless as their new host cities scramble to help them.

But others, like Alejos, have called the free transportation a blessing. They are already employed and achieving some measure of stability. They have found jobs in construction, hospitality, retail, trucking and other sectors facing worker shortages in an economy still recovering from the impact of the pandemic.

“In most big cities, including the ones where governors are shipping migrants, employers are scrambling to find workers,” said Chris Tilly, a labor economist at UCLA. “They are meeting a need.”

Michelle Rumbaut, a hospital administrator who assists migrants in San Antonio, recalled a recent group of young Venezuelans she encountered who were determined to reach New York, where jobs awaited them.

They were exhausted and traumatized after witnessing young girls being raped, trudging past dead fellow migrants and being robbed on their monthslong journey to reach the United States, she recalled.

But they immediately found work clearing trees for real estate developers in the San Antonio area, amassing enough money to buy one-way flights to New York.

Migrants like Alejos are at once symbols of a humanitarian crisis, pawns in a partisan debate, and people simply following the economics of supply and demand.

Most face an uphill battle to win their asylum cases. But it will be years before the legal process is complete, and those who lose their cases tend to live the rest of their lives in the shadows, trying to stay employed and out of the grasp of immigration officers tasked with deporting them.

In the meantime, they are both straining the resources of cities trying to provide them social services, and also filling a gap in the nation’s labor market.

While as many as 8 million immigrants are working in the United States without authorization, asylum applicants eventually receive employment permits while their cases are pending.

Since 2015, Venezuelans fleeing hardship have been pouring into South American countries — Colombia, Ecuador, Brazil, Chile. All told, nearly 7 million have left the country in that time, more than 1 out of 5 Venezuelans.

As the coronavirus pandemic hobbled those economies, Venezuelans began leaving South American host countries for the United States. Others began migrating directly from Venezuela, as word spread that Venezuelans were being allowed to enter the United States and then apply for asylum.

They represent the fastest-growing group of migrants arriving at the Mexico-U.S. border.

On their 3,000-mile trek to reach that border, they must traverse the Darien Gap, a 60-mile stretch through dense jungle, where migrants said they have fallen prey to bandits, drug traffickers and human smugglers. At a post at the route’s end, Doctors Without Borders reported that it had attended to 100 victims of rape in the first five months of 2022.

This year, Alejos decided he had to brave that arduous journey.

Solidly middle class in Venezuela, he was struggling to keep his machine-repair shop afloat amid the country’s economic collapse. In Venezuela these days, many people make just a few dollars a day.

To pay for the odyssey across seven countries, Alejos sold his repair shop in his hometown, Barquisimeto, in northern Venezuela for the miserly sum of $750. “That was my down payment on a new life,” he said.

His trek through the Darien Gap was a nightmare, he said. Mexican officials and cartels were menacing.

When he finally waded across the Rio Grande to Texas, he turned himself in to U.S. border authorities, who processed him, gave him immigration papers and delivered him to a shed, where other Venezuelans also had been dropped off.

Then, they were offered a free bus to Washington, or a $50 bus ride to San Antonio.

In late July, they arrived in Washington.

Within days, Alejos found work in construction. By the second week, he was sending money home to support his 7-year-old son, Christopher, and saving to buy a cellphone. By late fall, he plans to move out of the shelter to his own place.

After an allergic reaction to chemicals on his construction job, he quit and came across an ad on a Facebook page of Venezuelans in Washington. A company was looking for people to work at events — football and soccer games, conferences and private parties in a variety of capacities.

Soon, he was stocking concession stands with food and other supplies the day before games, and serving spectators hot dogs, nachos and beer during the events. He has worked at FedEx Field in Maryland; college facilities, such as the University of Virginia’s Scott Stadium; and other venues in the area.

Sometimes, he has been asked to work as a bartender, server or dishwasher.

That is not dream work, he said, but it is a good start — and he is giving it his all.

“I always show initiative, performing extra tasks here and there that my supervisor notices,” he said. “This could lead to something bigger; I’m gaining experience.”

“What I need now is to achieve financial stability, he said. “Next will come professional growth.”

He sends his son $150 twice a month.

“Christopher’s quality of life has improved 100% since I came to this country,” he said, citing better nutrition, new clothes, outings to restaurants and visits to an amusement park.

For himself, Alejos has acquired a new cellphone and earbuds, shirts and trousers, and shoes. “I try to keep my priorities straight,” he said. “I’m not splurging. I am trying to build an emergency fund.”

In three weeks, he hopes to buy a 2012 Honda Civic.

His only regret is that his schedule does not allow him to attend in-person English classes. But he has found a way to teach himself, the Duolingo language-learning app — and then he tries to practice with customers.

Alejos said that he had followed instructions he received from authorities to check in at the local immigration office, and that he planned to apply for asylum.

He will have to argue his case before an immigration judge but said that he had yet to be notified about his first court date. The process typically unfolds over several years. The chances of winning are slim, and applicants are ordered to depart from the United States if they lose. But by the time a decision is issued, many migrants have established themselves, a disincentive to leave.

While thousands of migrants have been swiftly expelled to Mexico or deported back to their countries under a pandemic-related health order known as Title 42, Venezuelans are not subject to the policy because Mexico will not accept them and the United States does not have diplomatic ties with Venezuela.

In his free time, Alejos explores his adopted city with fellow Venezuelans, visiting the Natural History Museum, the Zoo, Chinatown and the Capitol.

“I always try to see something new on my days off,” he said, and often during the outings he posts selfies on Facebook.

He misses his family, he said. But he is philosophical about his circumstances.

“Often you have to suffer to be compensated down the road,” he said.

After spending a night in the street and another in a shelter where he felt unsafe, Alejos has been staying at a different shelter that he described as tidy, comfortable and orderly. “Each person has a locker; the sheets are clean; showers have hot water and there’s Wi-Fi — all the services,” he said.

“I feel fortunate the governor put me on a bus to Washington,” Alejos said. “It opened up doors for me.”

[On2whls]

49 minutes ago, DBP66 said:

After Texas Sent Him to Washington, One Migrant Launches a New Life

 

 

Miriam Jordan

Mon, September 19, 2022 at 2:37 PM

 

 

 

A bus with migrants sent to Martha's Vineyard, the upscale vacation island off Massachusetts, by Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida, Sept. 16, 2022. (Matt Cosby/The New York Times)

When Lever Alejos of Venezuela arrived at the southern border penniless in July, he gladly accepted a free bus ride to Washington, D.C., courtesy of the state of Texas. He had no family or friends to receive him, and spent one night in the plaza across from Union Station. He soon settled into a homeless shelter.

“I have nothing,” Alejos, 29, said on his third day in the city, “but I have the will to work and succeed.”

Two months later, Alejos is making between $600 to $700 a week, saving up to buy a used car and planning to move out of the shelter.

“There is so much opportunity here,” he said Thursday, at the end of a day’s work. “You just have to take advantage of it.”

Since April, thousands of migrants, most of them Venezuelans, have been coaxed onto buses and planes heading to Washington, New York, Chicago and, last week, Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts, after enduring a perilous journey over land from their broken country to make a fresh start in the United States.

The transportation to the Democratic strongholds has been organized by Texas, Florida and Arizona, whose governors are trying to draw attention to a record surge in the number of people crossing the border, which they blame on the Biden administration’s immigration policies.

Last week, Gov. Greg Abbott of Texas dropped off two busloads of migrants near the residence of Vice President Kamala Harris, and more over the weekend. Florida’s governor, Ron DeSantis, on Wednesday chartered two small planes to fly 50 migrants to Martha’s Vineyard, the upscale vacation island off Massachusetts, which he has derided as a liberal bastion.

Democrats have called the stunts cruel, and many migrants have been left at least temporarily homeless as their new host cities scramble to help them.

But others, like Alejos, have called the free transportation a blessing. They are already employed and achieving some measure of stability. They have found jobs in construction, hospitality, retail, trucking and other sectors facing worker shortages in an economy still recovering from the impact of the pandemic.

“In most big cities, including the ones where governors are shipping migrants, employers are scrambling to find workers,” said Chris Tilly, a labor economist at UCLA. “They are meeting a need.”

Michelle Rumbaut, a hospital administrator who assists migrants in San Antonio, recalled a recent group of young Venezuelans she encountered who were determined to reach New York, where jobs awaited them.

They were exhausted and traumatized after witnessing young girls being raped, trudging past dead fellow migrants and being robbed on their monthslong journey to reach the United States, she recalled.

But they immediately found work clearing trees for real estate developers in the San Antonio area, amassing enough money to buy one-way flights to New York.

Migrants like Alejos are at once symbols of a humanitarian crisis, pawns in a partisan debate, and people simply following the economics of supply and demand.

Most face an uphill battle to win their asylum cases. But it will be years before the legal process is complete, and those who lose their cases tend to live the rest of their lives in the shadows, trying to stay employed and out of the grasp of immigration officers tasked with deporting them.

In the meantime, they are both straining the resources of cities trying to provide them social services, and also filling a gap in the nation’s labor market.

While as many as 8 million immigrants are working in the United States without authorization, asylum applicants eventually receive employment permits while their cases are pending.

Since 2015, Venezuelans fleeing hardship have been pouring into South American countries — Colombia, Ecuador, Brazil, Chile. All told, nearly 7 million have left the country in that time, more than 1 out of 5 Venezuelans.

As the coronavirus pandemic hobbled those economies, Venezuelans began leaving South American host countries for the United States. Others began migrating directly from Venezuela, as word spread that Venezuelans were being allowed to enter the United States and then apply for asylum.

They represent the fastest-growing group of migrants arriving at the Mexico-U.S. border.

On their 3,000-mile trek to reach that border, they must traverse the Darien Gap, a 60-mile stretch through dense jungle, where migrants said they have fallen prey to bandits, drug traffickers and human smugglers. At a post at the route’s end, Doctors Without Borders reported that it had attended to 100 victims of rape in the first five months of 2022.

This year, Alejos decided he had to brave that arduous journey.

Solidly middle class in Venezuela, he was struggling to keep his machine-repair shop afloat amid the country’s economic collapse. In Venezuela these days, many people make just a few dollars a day.

To pay for the odyssey across seven countries, Alejos sold his repair shop in his hometown, Barquisimeto, in northern Venezuela for the miserly sum of $750. “That was my down payment on a new life,” he said.

His trek through the Darien Gap was a nightmare, he said. Mexican officials and cartels were menacing.

When he finally waded across the Rio Grande to Texas, he turned himself in to U.S. border authorities, who processed him, gave him immigration papers and delivered him to a shed, where other Venezuelans also had been dropped off.

Then, they were offered a free bus to Washington, or a $50 bus ride to San Antonio.

In late July, they arrived in Washington.

Within days, Alejos found work in construction. By the second week, he was sending money home to support his 7-year-old son, Christopher, and saving to buy a cellphone. By late fall, he plans to move out of the shelter to his own place.

After an allergic reaction to chemicals on his construction job, he quit and came across an ad on a Facebook page of Venezuelans in Washington. A company was looking for people to work at events — football and soccer games, conferences and private parties in a variety of capacities.

Soon, he was stocking concession stands with food and other supplies the day before games, and serving spectators hot dogs, nachos and beer during the events. He has worked at FedEx Field in Maryland; college facilities, such as the University of Virginia’s Scott Stadium; and other venues in the area.

Sometimes, he has been asked to work as a bartender, server or dishwasher.

That is not dream work, he said, but it is a good start — and he is giving it his all.

“I always show initiative, performing extra tasks here and there that my supervisor notices,” he said. “This could lead to something bigger; I’m gaining experience.”

“What I need now is to achieve financial stability, he said. “Next will come professional growth.”

He sends his son $150 twice a month.

“Christopher’s quality of life has improved 100% since I came to this country,” he said, citing better nutrition, new clothes, outings to restaurants and visits to an amusement park.

For himself, Alejos has acquired a new cellphone and earbuds, shirts and trousers, and shoes. “I try to keep my priorities straight,” he said. “I’m not splurging. I am trying to build an emergency fund.”

In three weeks, he hopes to buy a 2012 Honda Civic.

His only regret is that his schedule does not allow him to attend in-person English classes. But he has found a way to teach himself, the Duolingo language-learning app — and then he tries to practice with customers.

Alejos said that he had followed instructions he received from authorities to check in at the local immigration office, and that he planned to apply for asylum.

He will have to argue his case before an immigration judge but said that he had yet to be notified about his first court date. The process typically unfolds over several years. The chances of winning are slim, and applicants are ordered to depart from the United States if they lose. But by the time a decision is issued, many migrants have established themselves, a disincentive to leave.

While thousands of migrants have been swiftly expelled to Mexico or deported back to their countries under a pandemic-related health order known as Title 42, Venezuelans are not subject to the policy because Mexico will not accept them and the United States does not have diplomatic ties with Venezuela.

In his free time, Alejos explores his adopted city with fellow Venezuelans, visiting the Natural History Museum, the Zoo, Chinatown and the Capitol.

“I always try to see something new on my days off,” he said, and often during the outings he posts selfies on Facebook.

He misses his family, he said. But he is philosophical about his circumstances.

“Often you have to suffer to be compensated down the road,” he said.

After spending a night in the street and another in a shelter where he felt unsafe, Alejos has been staying at a different shelter that he described as tidy, comfortable and orderly. “Each person has a locker; the sheets are clean; showers have hot water and there’s Wi-Fi — all the services,” he said.

“I feel fortunate the governor put me on a bus to Washington,” Alejos said. “It opened up doors for me.”

So basically, distributing the migrants to places where there are more opportunities turns out to be a good thing.  

[DBP66]

17 minutes ago, On2whls said:

So basically, distributing the migrants to places where there are more opportunities turns out to be a good thing.  

yea...and that's what the Federal gov't was doing...not 2 clowns who want to run for Pres. and want to score some points with the red-neck Republicans by using people for a political stunt...SAD...look at how excited he got some clowns here!

and this is a "good thing" until we start the "illegal immigrants are stealing our jobs" red-neck talk...you guys need to make up your simple minds.

[I AM IRONMAN]

22 minutes ago, DBP66 said:

yea...and that's what the Federal gov't was doing...not 2 clowns who want to run for Pres. and want to score some points with the red-neck Republicans by using people for a political stunt...SAD...look at how excited he got some clowns here!

and this is a "good thing" until we start the "illegal immigrants are stealing our jobs" red-neck talk...you guys need to make up your simple minds.

Again…..your property would help soooo many ILLEGAL immigrants……make the call…or is it NIMBY with you as well?

[concha]

[I AM IRONMAN]

Waiting for 66 to open up his property

[On2whls]

38 minutes ago, DBP66 said:

yea...and that's what the Federal gov't was doing...not 2 clowns who want to run for Pres. and want to score some points with the red-neck Republicans by using people for a political stunt...SAD...look at how excited he got some clowns here!

and this is a "good thing" until we start the "illegal immigrants are stealing our jobs" red-neck talk...you guys need to make up your simple minds.

Unless the federal government run by Jozo the clown had a comprehensive plan to deal with the easily predictable unprecedented influx, he should never have precipitated it.  BTW, where is the plan? How much funding, housing, job creation and management has been secured by each state to deal with the surge?  Don’t look too hard to find one, it doesn’t exist.  
It’s pretty embarrassing for our country to have let it get to the point that it has.  
The left threw the match on the hay bale and are now crying arson at the right.  Typical bullshit political theater.

Using immigrants as political pawns you infer?  Well Biden’s strategists told him he needed to loosen up the border to secure the Hispanic vote.  There’s not much more more political than that.  
But don’t worry, it will all work out.  There’s still plenty of hard working middle class folks to levy more taxes against to pay for all this.  

[DBP66]

42 minutes ago, I AM IRONMAN said:

Again…..your property would help soooo many ILLEGAL immigrants……make the call…or is it NIMBY with you as well?

then I'd have to worry about Trumpers protesting on my block....😉

[I AM IRONMAN]

1 minute ago, DBP66 said:

then I'd have to worry about Trumpers protesting on my block....😉

Well then everyone can claim that…so back they go to their country.

NIMBY!😭😭😭😭

[DBP66]

20 minutes ago, On2whls said:

Unless the federal government run by Jozo the clown had a comprehensive plan to deal with the easily predictable unprecedented influx, he should never have precipitated it.  BTW, where is the plan? How much funding, housing, job creation and management has been secured by each state to deal with the surge?  Don’t look too hard to find one, it doesn’t exist.  
It’s pretty embarrassing for our country to have let it get to the point that it has.  
The left threw the match on the hay bale and are now crying arson at the right.  Typical bullshit political theater.

Using immigrants as political pawns you infer?  Well Biden’s strategists told him he needed to loosen up the border to secure the Hispanic vote.  There’s not much more more political than that.  
But don’t worry, it will all work out.  There’s still plenty of hard working middle class folks to levy more taxes against to pay for all this.  

and what did the right do?...they separated families....why do you suppose they started busing them around right before the elections??

[DBP66]

1 minute ago, I AM IRONMAN said:

Well then everyone can claim that…so back they go to their country.

NIMBY!😭😭😭😭

and who's going to mow your lawn??...😉