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Well, They DID Ask For It....

And the Bay Area Cities of Oakland and San Francisco are getting it good and hard. Now the cities' "leaders" hope to reverse the course they've set. Rots a ruck with that, kids! But we're getting a lot of it, as well:

https://www.courthousenews.com/bay-area-mayors-push-to-reverse-police-cuts-and-expand-surveillance-tools/

The mayors of Oakland and San Francisco once championed diverting police funding to social services. Now they both want to hire more officers and give police more tools to investigate crimes.

San Francisco Mayor London Breed talks to reporters inside the community room of the city's newest Navigation Center, built to house homeless people near the Embarcadero.

SAN FRANCISCO (CN) — More than a year after moving to cut and redistribute police funding in the wake of racial justice protests, two city leaders in Northern California are now pushing to hire more officers, crack down on crime and expand police surveillance powers.

The mayors of San Francisco and its across-the-bay neighbor Oakland recently unveiled proposals to increase police presence in their cities and broaden law enforcement’s ability to use surveillance tools, such as license plate readers and access to private security camera networks. The proposals come as both cities struggle with an increase in homicides and violent crime and a recent spate of brazen robberies targeting high-end retailers and cannabis dispensaries. 

Across the bay in Oakland, Mayor Libby Schaaf recently asked for city legislators to approve money to hire more officers. The request came after department staffing fell below 678, the threshold the city must meet to keep collecting a special tax approved by voters in a 2014.

On Tuesday, Schaaf penned a letter to Governor Gavin Newsom calling for the state to continue sending California Highway Patrol officers to enforce traffic laws in Oakland and to install license-plate readers around highway ramps and major city arteries. The request comes amid a recent spike in homicides, car jackings and robberies in Oakland this year.

Meanwhile, here in Orygun, it's beginning to dawn on some folks that while feeling all good and touchy-feely may be one thing, the results are definitely another:

Major cartels, including ones from China, Mexico, Russia, Argentina, Bulgaria and other countries, are now growing marijuana year-round and committing other egregious crimes, such as human trafficking and slavery, to support their illegal activities because Oregon has made it hard for police and farm inspectors to do their jobs.

Illegal marijuana operations run by domestic and international cartels are expanding throughout Oregon thanks to the state’s liberal laws and inadequate regulations, which impact the legal and illegal drug industries as well as law enforcement’s ability to address drug crimes.

For example, police in Oregon are prohibited by law from asking about nationality or immigration status, according to a report by The Epoch Times. In addition, legal hemp farmers are not obligated under Oregon law to allow inspectors onto their property to search for illegal marijuana cultivation operations on their farms.

Josephine County Sheriff Dave Daniel confirmed that drug traffickers are now coming to Oregon. He told The Epoch Times:

“Drug traffickers have flocked here from every state in the nation and nearly a dozen countries.”

Oregon’s Jackson County has declared a state of emergency as cartels have stolen water, intimidated residents and enslaved more than 10,000 illegal immigrants.

Oregon math: sanctuary state for illegal aliens + legalized pot=Mexican drug cartels + human slavery.

Albany Police Captain Brad Liles told The Epoch Times in a separate report that Chinese operators had major and sophisticated indoor growing operations: Portland , Oregon 800 murders. Drug cartels setting up in “ open borders” move. More undocumented migrants coming in daily. https://t.co/mrOjDWfMOc

In the small town of Philomath, one illegal operation took place in a two-story warehouse structure with 11 rooms and 5,000 square feet. According to Philomath Chief of Police Ken Rueben, the warehouse contained 4,000 plants in varying stages, from starters to fully-grown plants ready to harvest.

The sophisticated facility even used generators, air filtration devices and electronically controlled temperature and humidity based on the age of the plants.

https://www.lawenforcementtoday.com/oregon-attracting-international-drug-cartels-that-use-narco-slaves/

Five suspects allegedly connected with a Chinese organized crime group headquartered in New York were arrested during the raid, according to Chief Rueben.

Just a few blocks further up the hill from my place, there used to be a small grocery and deli. It's now a pot shop. Same story down the hill; that place used to be a small massage studio/health food shop. It all happened in the space of just a couple of years.

Transformation, dude!

 

 

 

Why They Come

Migrants from Central America are rushing to the U.S. illegally not because of violence or natural disasters in their home countries but because of jobs, a major new study found, challenging claims that they are asylum-seekers fleeing persecution.

The study also calculated that migrants from the emigration hubs of El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala pay smugglers $1.7 billion a year to be shepherded into the U.S. illegally.

The analysts conducted a 5,000 in-person survey in the spring and ran an online survey with more than 6,000 responses, building a broad picture of the factors pushing people to leave. They concluded that while violence and insecurity are “longstanding triggers” for migration, most people cited economic reasons for wanting to leave. “Low wages, unemployment and insufficient income to cover basic necessities directly affected people’s livelihoods and contributed significantly to the desire to emigrate,” the analysts said.

The report challenges the vision of the Biden administration, which argues violence and insecurity are pushing folks to leave their homes and head north and characterizes many of the migrants as asylum-seekers.

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/nov/23/major-study-undercuts-biden-explanation-surge-ille/

It may not be easy to get here, but in countries where the average income is around $2500 a year, American pay-scales make it worth a try for most. And it makes a lot more sense than the spin Biden keeps trying to peddle.

 

 

 

A Man With A Plan

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Wednesday floated sending migrants to President Biden’s home state of Delaware, in response to the dozens of migrant flights DeSantis says have landed in Florida at the behest of the Biden administration.

"If they’re going to come here, we’ll provide buses," DeSantis said of the migrants on the flights. "I will send them to Delaware and do that."

Seems like a winning strategy to me; since Biden refuses to secure the border, let him deal with the result in his home state.

 

Since Biden's Doing Nothing, Texas Governor Greg Abbott Is

They've built their own border wall.

No Surprise

The latest Harvard-Harris poll found that 71% of Americans say migrants should be sent back to Mexico instead of released into the United States; 67% say Biden was wrong to end the Trump-era “Remain-in-Mexico” policy; 54% say the Biden Administration is creating an open border;  68% say stricter policies are needed at the border; and 73% say the surge is a crisis that needs to be dealt with immediately.

A lot of Americans have had about enough of the "open border" invasion.

 

Getting Tough In Texas

Gov. Abbott issued a disaster declaration for most of the state in response to several hundred thousand immigrants illegally entering the U.S. through Texas, which will free up funds to help address the problem. He's also starting to arrest and jail them, although I'm not sure that he's got sufficient jail space for that. But since Biden's not doing anything....

 

Illegal Aliens Seem To Be Self-Deporting

California’s most vulnerable immigrants have faced unprecedented challenges this year, with some weighing whether it’s worth staying in the United States altogether.

“It’s not even that the country is not welcoming any more, it’s just not an option any more,” said Gallegos. “I hear that all the time from people here, and from friends and family in other countries.”

“Things aren’t perfect in Mexico,” Figureo said in Spanish. But at least there’s access to healthcare, and some unemployment benefits for those who need it, he added. “In comparison to what it was in the US, the situation for us in Mexico right now is much better.”

It's not as though they were asked to come here illegally, so it's nice to see that some of them are self-deporting and returning to their own countries.

 

Down Mexico Way

Homeland Security is building the border wall faster than ever before, the department’s border chief said Thursday.

Whatever, they'll just climb over it, or tunnel under it.

 

Sanity At The Supreme Court

In a rarity, the Supreme Court has issued a unanimous ruling in upholding a U.S. law that bars people from actively encouraging illegal immigrants to remain inside the country. All nine justices on Thursday overturned a ruling by the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals which had said a federal anti-harboring statute was unconstitutional because it allegedly violated the First Amendment’s free speech guarantee.

In upholding the U.S. law, the high court also chastised the 9th Circuit judges for “drastically” veering from established judicial norms. And interestingly, the decision was written by one of the high court’s most liberal members, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg.

The Nationalist Socialist Communist Democrat Party heads are Exploding and some running down the street naked and screaming.

 

Although it should be noted that decisions from the 9th Circus Court are overturned far more often than are those of other jurisdictions. Illegal aliens should take note: the days of the free pass are over.

 

 

Too Bad, Democrats

Oregon House Democrats are condemning recent actions of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Washington County, following the arrest of a father at a school bus stop in Washington County last month. Citing the bus stop arrest, coupled with subpoenas sent to law enforcement agencies by ICE, Oregon Democrats say the federal agency's actions are politically motivated attempts to subvert Oregon's sanctuary laws.

ICE indicated Galvan-Rodriguez is a Mexican citizen who is in the country illegally. Court records show the man has two prior misdemeanor convictions in Oregon from 2004 and 2008 for non-injury hit-and-run and theft.

Just here to do the jobs that Americans won't do.

As far as I know, federal law supersedes state law. Democratics can't seem to wrap their heads around that inconvenient fact.