Is “Put America Last” an nativist slogan? It's not enough that Joe Biden said in 2020 that many illegal aliens are “more American than most Americans.” It's not enough that New York City spent literally billions of dollars on hotel rooms for illegal aliens. It's not enough that the Big Apple has poured more than $50 million into prepaid credit cards for immigrants. It is not enough that New York state provides an illegal driver's license. There's also a kicker.
All the while, the city was spending millions of dollars on a program to provide lawyers to defend trespassers against deportation.
In addition, New York jurisdictions that dared cooperate with federal deportation efforts were fined $60 million.
It is a nativist concept of virtue. They open their borders and let in illegal immigrants, then treat them better than citizens.
Citizenship, a strange concept
The Daily Caller reported on the matter yesterday:
Hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants have flocked to the Big Apple over the past few years, and authorities are shelling out billions of dollars for food, housing, travel and a variety of other government-funded accommodations. The wave of illegal immigration to New York City, with its generous sanctuary city laws making it an attractive jurisdiction for many undocumented immigrants, ultimately only forced New York City to tighten restrictions on shelter stays. Mayor Eric Adams announced full evacuation measures in September 2023. Reduce all government agency budgets by 5%.
But as residents continue to face a deepening immigration crisis on their doorstep, the city has for years maintained a near-steady flow of funding for one particular service: pro bono lawyers for immigrants facing deportation orders. was maintained. Taxpayers spent $17.35 million in fiscal year 2022, $16.6 million in fiscal year 2023 and an additional $16.6 million in fiscal year 2024 for the New York Immigrant Family Unity Project (NYIFUP), according to city budget data.
NYIFUP is an initiative made up of lawyers who provide free legal representation to foreign nationals in immigration proceedings. While the city directs taxpayer funds to other nonprofit organizations that provide a variety of immigration services, NYIFUP attorneys specialize in representing aliens detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). .
This program is also effective. Activist website Bronx Defenders reports:
Studies have found that 97% of immigrants detained without legal representation unsuccessfully challenge their deportation. On the other hand, having access to a lawyer can increase your chances of success in your deportation case by as much as 1000%.
If you do the right thing, you will be punished.
And woe to New Yorkers who help protect the Republic's borders. As the New York Post reported yesterday,
A federal judge has ordered Suffolk County taxpayers to pay more than $60 million for the county sheriff's “violations” in detaining illegal immigrants at the request of ICE and the Department of Homeland Security. That's the insanity of New York law (or New York politicians). guided him to do so.
Suffolk County Executive Ed Romaine this week lamented the insanity of federal Judge William Kuntz's ruling, saying it must be appealed because it is based on questionable interpretations of both federal and local law. said.
Kuntz said the Suffolk County Sheriff's Office has no right to illegally detain people here because the relevant federal law itself “considerates such assistance only when consistent with state and local law.” It found that it “acted without the legal authority under federal law” in honoring the request.
The Post disputes claims that Suffolk's actions violate state law. But the more serious problem, as the paper points out, is the anti-American immigrant spirit that pervades New York. For if a county's enforcement violates state law, that only means that state law is inherently lawless. And that needs to change.
Note here that illegal immigration is a serious problem on Long Island. (Suffolk County occupies the eastern half of the island.) First, El Salvador's violent gang MS-13 operates in the area, committing murders and other heinous crimes.
Whose country is it anyway?
Needless to say, these immigration policies don't work well in Peoria. Consider the top-rated MSN comments related to Post articles. User Ronald Hanson wrote:
It's really sad that illegal aliens receive more benefits, protection, and in some cases even more consideration than nationals… Don't they realize that this undermines (denies) their credibility when prosecuting citizens (?), why foreigners who ignore our laws and enter our country illegally are not prosecuted, so why should citizens be prosecuted? Must be prosecuted for some crime(?) Selective execution against citizens! ?!This is completely ridiculous, disrespectful, and such a slap in the face to “we the people” who employ these public servants, not gang members.
But do the fundamental problems really lie with politicians (also known as “public servants”), as the Post and Hanson say? In the end, it is “we the people'' who choose them.
Oh, and most voters don't want the radical immigration policies in question. But under representative government, you don't get what you want.
You will get what you voted for.
People support nativist politicians based on other concerns, like abortion or gun control, but often don't realize it's an all-encompassing deal. The left will do what they do to twist and take advantage of Nancy Pelosi's line. Governor Kathy Hochul's selection means many things, not the least of which is her priority to advocate for undocumented immigrants.
As I said, the problem is mental. Immigration was institutionalized a long time ago, but this system needs to be rethought. Is the United States underpopulated? Are our roads and schools not crowded enough? Are our services not strained enough? And above all:
Aren’t we divided enough?
Perhaps it is time to move from a norm of immigration to a norm of stability. After all, it's hard to maintain a nation while embracing the internationalist obsession with constantly moving a country's population around like chess pieces, as if it were as natural as breathing. It is.
