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December 6, 2023
Jack Montgomery
Immigration
News

NYC Will Spend $4.3 BILLION on Hotels & Services for Migrants This Year.

Spending on hotels and other services for migrants in New York City will hit $4.3 billion by the end of 2023. This is an increase of 48 percent on earlier estimates.

Democrat Mayor Eric Adams and the city government have been reluctant to provide a breakdown of the spending. Its contract with the Roosevelt Hotel, now a major migrant processing facility, has only recently been released. Key details are redacted, such as the amount the city is paying “per room per day”. The city claims this is a “trade secret” – despite the fact hotels advertise their rates publicly.

The contract was made through a city-controlled Health and Hospitals Corp rather than a bona fide city agency. This allowed the contract to escape comptroller scrutiny.

In terms of known costs, the Floyd Bennett Field migrant camp is already costing $1.7 million a month. This includes the cost of ferrying minors to subway stops by bus and providing them with city-funded MetroCards, so they can attend school. There are only around 195 minors in the camp, but transport costs will hit $625,000 by the end of 2023.

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Spending on hotels and other services for migrants in New York City will hit $4.3 billion by the end of 2023. This is an increase of 48 percent on earlier estimates. show more
November 30, 2023
Jack Montgomery
News

WATCH: Anti-Israel Protesters Ruined New York’s Christmas Tree Lighting Ceremony.

The Rockefeller Center Christmas tree lighting ceremony in New York City was marred by arrests and clashes on Wednesday. Anti-Israel demonstrators carrying Palestinian flags and, in one case, a swastika sign descended on the event, running into police barricades about a block away.

At least seven people were arrested attempting to disrupt the lighting of the 80-foot-tall Norway spruce. Video shows demonstrators and police officers throwing fists at each other, and flags being swung like clubs.

Around 1,000 people are reported to have participated in the demonstration. Nardeen Kiswani, of the Within Our Lifetime organization, claimed demonstrators were simply asking for “an end to the ongoing bombing of Gaza, the end to the siege and blockade that continues to place a chokehold on the Palestinian people.”

Eyewitnesses, however, say “the crowd came and attacked,” resulting in a “melee” with the police.

The lighting took place on the so-called International Day of Solidarity With the Palestinian People, instituted in 1977.

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The Rockefeller Center Christmas tree lighting ceremony in New York City was marred by arrests and clashes on Wednesday. Anti-Israel demonstrators carrying Palestinian flags and, in one case, a swastika sign descended on the event, running into police barricades about a block away. show more
bused migrants
November 30, 2023
William Upton
News

TX Gov. Abbott: 70,000 More Migrants Coming to DC, NYC, Chicago, More.

Texas Governor Greg Abbott has announced plans to send nearly 70,000 migrants to Democrat-run ‘sanctuary cities’ across the United States as his state continues to bear the brunt of the crisis at the U.S. southern border. In a post on X (formerly Twitter), Gov. Abbott said his administration will send over 12,500 migrants to Washington, D.C., 25,000 to New York City, 20,000 to Chicago, 3,200 to Philadelphia, 7,400 to Denver, and 1,100 to Los Angeles. The Texas Governor warned President Joe Biden he will continue busing migrants out of Texas until the southern border is secured.

The National Pulse previously reported Texas had already bused 50,000 migrants to ‘sanctuary cities’ this past September as part of Gov. Abbott’s Operation Lone Star. Earlier this year, the Texas state government launched a portal where Americans can donate to fund the busing effort. As of May 11, 2023 nearly $500,000 in donations have been dedicated to what the Governor’s office calls “Border Transportation Funding.”

President Biden’s open border policies have played a significant role in driving his public approval ratings to record lows. Sixty-eight percent of respondents to a recent Morning Consult poll said they support increased funding for border protection. In terms of voters’ top issues going into the 2024 election, only the economy ranked higher than border security. Former President Donald Trump, who has promised to end the border crisis and remove those who came to America illegally, currently enjoys the largest general election poll lead his campaign has ever registered in three election cycles.

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Texas Governor Greg Abbott has announced plans to send nearly 70,000 migrants to Democrat-run 'sanctuary cities' across the United States as his state continues to bear the brunt of the crisis at the U.S. southern border. In a post on X (formerly Twitter), Gov. Abbott said his administration will send over 12,500 migrants to Washington, D.C., 25,000 to New York City, 20,000 to Chicago, 3,200 to Philadelphia, 7,400 to Denver, and 1,100 to Los Angeles. The Texas Governor warned President Joe Biden he will continue busing migrants out of Texas until the southern border is secured. show more
November 29, 2023
Corruption
Politics

Deutsche Bank Testimony Destroys AG Letitia James’s Case Against Trump.

Deutsche Bank executive David Williams testified in Manhattan on Tuesday, arguing that net worth can be elevated on self-reported financial statements for “high-wealth clients,” massively undermining New York Attorney General Letitia James‘ lawsuit against former President Donald J. Trump.

The lawsuit argues that Trump inflated his assets to obtain favorable terms from banks and insurers, portraying Deutsche Bank as Trump’s biggest victim. Williams, however, drew attention to the bank’s standard practice of independently reducing a client’s stated asset values before loan approval, which was the case with Trump.

Deutsche Bank lent hundreds of millions of dollars to Trump for properties in Miami, Chicago, and Washington. In the years 2011 and 2012, the bank cut Trump’s stated net worth from roughly $4.2 billion to $2.3 billion, but approved the loans based on Trump’s history of successful developments and other criteria. “It’s not unusual or atypical for any client’s provide financial statements to be adjusted to this level to this extent,” Williams explained.

“We expect clients provided information to be accurate,” he continued, but “at the same time, it’s not an industry standard that these financial statements are audited they [are] largely reliant on the use of estimate…”

In defense, Trump, who denies any wrongdoing and claims the case is politically motivated, will call four current and former Deutsche Bank employees to testify. This includes Rosemary Vrablic, the family’s former private banker.

Trump, alongside his sons Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump, has testified that no banks have been victimized by the alleged inflated valuation and asserts that the banks have made a considerable profit from interest on the loans.

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Deutsche Bank executive David Williams testified in Manhattan on Tuesday, arguing that net worth can be elevated on self-reported financial statements for "high-wealth clients," massively undermining New York Attorney General Letitia James' lawsuit against former President Donald J. Trump. show more
November 23, 2023
Jack Montgomery
Crime
News

NYC Mayor Eric Adams Accused of Sexual Assault.

Democrat New York City Mayor Eric Adams has been accused of sexually assaulting a former colleague in a legal action brought under the Adult Survivors Act, initially passed to help writer E. Jean Carroll bring a case against Donald Trump.

State Supreme Court filings reported on by The Messenger state the plaintiff, currently being kept anonymous, “was sexually assaulted by Defendant Eric Adams in New York, New York in 1993 while they both worked for the City of New York.”

Mayor Adams was serving in the New York City Police Department, where he brags he “kicked… crackers’ ass,” in 1993. The filing against him also lists the NYPD and the Guardian Association of the NYPD as defendants.

The Democrat is already facing intense legal scrutiny, with federal investigators raiding the home of his fundraising chief, Brianna Suggs, amid allegations he received illegal campaign contributions from Turkish businessmen, apparently in the belief they would be rewarded with city contracts.

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Democrat New York City Mayor Eric Adams has been accused of sexually assaulting a former colleague in a legal action brought under the Adult Survivors Act, initially passed to help writer E. Jean Carroll bring a case against Donald Trump. show more
November 13, 2023
Jake Welch
Politics

Trump Attorney Alina Habba Plans to File For Mistrial ‘Very Soon’.

Alina Habba, former President Donald Trump’s attorney in the New York civil fraud case, announced her intentions to file for a mistrial “very soon” over the weekend while demanding New York Attorney General Letitia James to dismiss the case.

Habba explained during an interview on Fox News that, although she will file for a retrial imminently, the motion will depend on the same far-left judge, Arthur Engoron, who issued a gag order on the 45th President.

“The problem is, with all of these things, such as filing a motion for recusal, which we have done twice, is that the judge has to be the one that decides, is he going to recuse himself? Does he feel that there was a mistrial,” Habba explained.

“It’s a bench trial. We have one judge. And it’s the same judge that issued the gag order that has to make those determinations. So, at this point, I don’t have any reason to believe he shouldn’t after what we have learned, if it’s true,” she added.

Trump’s legal team is set to begin its defense on Monday in the Big Apple, where the former President faces a $250 million lawsuit brought by the city’s vengeful far-left Attorney General James.

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Alina Habba, former President Donald Trump's attorney in the New York civil fraud case, announced her intentions to file for a mistrial "very soon" over the weekend while demanding New York Attorney General Letitia James to dismiss the case. show more
November 12, 2023
Jack Montgomery
Immigration
Politics

Speaker Johnson Tells NYC to End ‘Sanctuary’ Policy If It Wants Migrant Money.

House Speaker Mike Johnson has indicated Democrats in New York City need to ditch their “sanctuary city” policies and end restrictions on local police cooperating with federal deportations if they want money to alleviate the city’s migrant crisis.

“The idea that you would maintain a sanctuary city status and then cry out to the federal government for assistance in what you’ve done is, to me, unconscionable,” Johnson said.

New York City Mayor Eric Adams cheered Joe Biden when he halted border wall construction in 2021, and had long claimed the Big Apple should be a “sanctuary” for illegal aliens – but his stance has shifted now conservative border states have begun busing migrants to him in large numbers.

Speaker Johnson also blamed the Biden regime for the crisis, noting that “in some ways, [they’re] not able to control what happens with the economy that they’ve created, but [they] could change the border policies overnight, and they are unwilling to do it.”

He singled out Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, in particular, as “one of the worst Cabinet secretaries in the history of the United States.”

Johnson said the border crisis was proving “terribly destructive” in a variety of ways, citing fentanyl trafficking as “an absolute catastrophe; the leading cause of death is overdoses for Americans aged 18-49” alongside human trafficking and other criminal activity “enriching the cartels.”

“It goes on and on and on. And all of that traces back to [Democrat] policy decisions.”

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House Speaker Mike Johnson has indicated Democrats in New York City need to ditch their "sanctuary city" policies and end restrictions on local police cooperating with federal deportations if they want money to alleviate the city's migrant crisis. show more
November 2, 2023
William Upton
Election Integrity
News

Feds Raid NYC Mayor Adams’s Fundraising Chief in Spiraling Election Finance Case.

New York City Mayor Eric Adams is facing increasing scrutiny over a 2021 campaign finance scandal that saw a former police department colleague, a book keeper, and four construction executives indicted in July for using straw donors to make illegal contributions. Brothers Shahid and Yahya Mushtaq, two of the construction executives implicated in the illegal campaign finance scheme, pleaded guilty in late October to a single misdemeanor conspiracy charge and agreed to cooperate in a larger ongoing investigation.

The scheme intended to inflate the Adams campaign’s finances which would increase matching funds it received from the city. The construction executives and former police inspector Dwayne Montgomery – a friend of Adams – believed their efforts would earn them lucrative city contracts once Adams was elected.

Compounding the Mayor’s problems, the home of Brianna Suggs – Adams’s fundraising chief – was raided by the FBI earlier today.

Suggs is reported to have been questioned by agents from the New York FBI office’s public corruption division. A prolific fundraiser, Suggs has already raised $2.5 million for Adams’s 2025 re-elect, and is an integral member of Mayor Adams’s inner-circle.

In addition to the straw donor scheme and Suggs’s FBI raid, other contributions to Adams’s 2021 campaign are drawing the attention of federal investigators. At least three individuals who, according to campaign finance records, contributed $5,000 each to the mayor’s campaign claim they don’t recall ever making the donations.

Vito Pitta, a lawyer for the mayor’s campaign, claimed “the campaign followed every rule and best practice” when processing political contributions. The New York City Campaign Finance Board is in the process of auditing the contributions.

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New York City Mayor Eric Adams is facing increasing scrutiny over a 2021 campaign finance scandal that saw a former police department colleague, a book keeper, and four construction executives indicted in July for using straw donors to make illegal contributions. Brothers Shahid and Yahya Mushtaq, two of the construction executives implicated in the illegal campaign finance scheme, pleaded guilty in late October to a single misdemeanor conspiracy charge and agreed to cooperate in a larger ongoing investigation. show more
November 1, 2023
Jake Welch
Immigration

Hundreds of Migrants Set Up Makeshift Cities With Markets in New York.

Hundreds of illegal migrants have begun building a “mini-city” under the Brooklyn-Queen Expressway (BQE) in New York City, which includes a makeshift nighttime market offering food, drinks, clothes, and even haircuts on the street for $15.

Despite the area having been sanitized and tidied by city authorities after a number of migrants erected tents living beneath the BQE over the summer, local residents argue the area is busier than ever, with migrants once again pitching their tents and laying their mattresses down between rows of cars and rubbish bins.

A large percentage of the migrants – the majority of whom claim to be either Latin American or African – have been kicked out of city-run shelters after 30 days of residence and have not found alternative or permanent accommodation.

Local residents have already begun complaining about the situation again; one lamented, “There’s smells of urine and trash everywhere, and it’s just sad that the city doesn’t seem to care about the people that live here, that are from here, that pay taxes.”

“New Yorkers seem to be second-class citizens in all of this — and that’s the most upsetting part of it all,” the local resident added. The majority of New Yorkers concur, with 64 percent believing the city must reduce the number of migrants moving in. The vast majority blame Joe Biden for the ongoing crisis.

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Hundreds of illegal migrants have begun building a "mini-city" under the Brooklyn-Queen Expressway (BQE) in New York City, which includes a makeshift nighttime market offering food, drinks, clothes, and even haircuts on the street for $15. show more
Biden
October 24, 2023
Immigration
Politics

64% of New Yorkers Say Biden Caused Migrant Crisis.

A large majority of New York voters blame Joe Biden for the escalating migrant crisis, with 84 percent of respondents characterizing the situation as a serious problem, and 57 percent declaring it as a “very” serious issue. Only 12 percent of those surveyed believe the issue is not severe. The study further unveils that Biden’s handling of the migrant surge is disapproved by 64 percent of voters, while only 29 percent gave their approval.

New York has seen an influx of tens of thousands of migrants, hurting Biden’s popularity in the traditionally Democrat-leaning state. Siena College pollster Steve Greenberg stressed Democrats, Republicans, independents, men, women, upstaters, downstaters, black people, white people, Latinos, Catholics, Jews, and Protestants all regard the crisis as a serious issue.

Sixty-four percent of voters agree that New York should work to “slow the flow” of migrants from the border, as opposed to the 29 percent who believe the state should welcome and help assimilate them. Additionally, 54 percent of voters surveyed regarded migration as more of a burden than a benefit.

New York City Mayor Eric Adams, who used to push “sanctuary” policies and celebrated when Biden halted border wall construction, now says the migrant crisis “will destroy” the Big Apple if it continues.

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A large majority of New York voters blame Joe Biden for the escalating migrant crisis, with 84 percent of respondents characterizing the situation as a serious problem, and 57 percent declaring it as a “very” serious issue. Only 12 percent of those surveyed believe the issue is not severe. The study further unveils that Biden's handling of the migrant surge is disapproved by 64 percent of voters, while only 29 percent gave their approval. show more