Showing posts with label Migrant crisis. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Migrant crisis. Show all posts

Saturday, August 31, 2024

The J.D. Vance Project 2025 Housing Plan: Mass Arrests and the Elimination of 20,000,000 people

"I think it's interesting that people focus on, well, how do you deport 18 million people? Let's start with 1 million.  And then we can go from there," Just Dishonorable Vance said.

Lost in the whirlwind of the last months in the 2024 election cycle is the Monstrous Republican Plan to round-up 20,000,000 people and eliminate them.

Now, read very carefully.  Yes, I'm sure you've heard Republicans claim this is just going to be a deportation program for "illegals" and is going to be very legal with absolutely no evil intent.  Well, that's just malarkey or more directly complete and utter horse shit.

Republicans are Fascists.  One tenet of fascism is you issue orders;  a Fascist like Couch Fucker Vance or ugly weirdo Trump, issues the immoral, impossible, or insane dictates, then leaves it bureaucratic state to implement them.  They know people who believe in service or government or law&order will try and figure out how best to make this "lawful" order happen despite all the logistic difficulties, moral quandaries, and illegal gray areas.  This is precisely what happened in Iraq and Poland, during the illegal torture program Bush and Cheney dictated, which Don Rumsfeld ordered, and John Yoo sanitized, and Naval Lawyer Ron DeSantis vigorously defended.  They relied on regular CIA agents and normal everyday people to carry out the actual acts of torture without specifying how and thus the upper levels of the Bush Regime got away with their War Crimes.

Project 2025 Housing/Deportation Plan
And make no mistake, the mere act of ordering Law Enforcement to round-up millions of people is going a monstrous crime and rend the Nation apart.  I think when local Police forces collapse under the strain of such unlawful commands, and (some) State Police Departments refuse to follow orders, that's when Project 2025 people are expecting there to be plenty of rightwing paramilitary volunteers whom they can deputize to go around pulling people out of restaurant kitchens, kicking in doors of homes in the middle of night and pulling them from their beds.

Stephen Miller euphemistically called the Concentration Camps he and the Republicans will set up "The Staging Grounds"...

And Vance hasn't just spoken about rounding-up and eliminating 20,000,000 once but over and over and over and over again.  But, the Corporate Media's job is never to push for policy details from the likes of Trump or Vance, it's to polish those turds and bothsides every issue while working tirelessly to tamp down Harris/Walz momentum.

“People always say, Well, isn't it really difficult logistically to get all these illegal immigrants out of the country? Well, first of all, the first thing you have to do is stop the bleeding,” Vance said. “The second thing is, okay, well, ‘now that we've gotten illegal immigration as close to zero as physically possible, what are you and President Trump going to do about the 20 million illegal aliens who are here?’ And I think of it, it's kind of like somebody asking me, ‘well, that's a really big sandwich. It's 10 times the size of your mouth. How are you possibly going to eat the whole thing?’”

J.D. Vance is about squared away as a Soup Sandwich.  That fucking fat fascist has attached himself to America's Hitler, the Shit Sandwich he and the Republicans want to feed the American people bite after bite after bite is nothing less than the destruction of the United States of America.

Addendum: I should add that Laws enacted by States, such as Illinois Legislature passing the Illinois Way Forward Act in 2021, to buttress smaller laws passed by Counties and Chicago to protect Immigrants would not stand in the Way of the Totalitarian Trump Secret Police rounding up and brutalizing hispanic peoples.  Although I don't know any self-respecting Sheriff or municipal Deputy Chief who is going to take orders fro Steve Bannon or Stephen Miller all got up in Fascist garb.

ETA:

The Fucking New York Times is once again all on-board with Nazi proposals and has to make sure the BothSides BothSides BothSides BothSides narrative is the narrative of the Corporate Media.

Monday, March 25, 2024

Measles, Migrants, and MAGA infections

Every now and then Republicans and rightwingers inadvertently admit that they do not believe the bullshit they spout;  this is evident when it comes to vaccines and germ theory.

While the Faith Healer General Joseph Lapado was telling parents it's okay to send your kids to school with measles and it's okay to send your unvaccinated kids into a cloud of miasma because Measles is a Woke Plot other Republicans across the country while decrying unvaccinated migrants being allowed into the country.

Just 9 years ago stalwart Reactionary outlets like National Review decried the growing AntiVaxx community;

The anti-vaccine movement has led to an increase in preventable infectious diseases, such as measles. Now, an infected person at Disneyland apparently caused nine children to get sick–and eight had not been vaccinated.  This is reckless and irresponsible.

The ardent right-winger who wrote this would be pilloried these days because nowadays every good conservative believes vaccines are poison and a plot to alter your DNA.  

Back in 2000 the MMR vaccine was so effective that Measles was considered eradicated in the United States.  Then came Andrew Wakefield's absolute bullshit lies about MMR as the leading to the cause of Autism and white people decided there was enough Herd Immunity around that they wouldn't "poison the blood" of their precious white child.  After all they never heard of anyone suffering from measles!

And so being 3 generations removed from the trauma of losing an infant, toddler, or young child to a curable disease, Parents have set their children up to suffer from diseases long since thought eradicated or at least conquered.  I can't imagine what the grandparents of these people would think knowing their descendants are wantonly and willfully ignoring what seemed like medical miracles to people years ago.

So, Chicago is now at the beginning of a Measles outbreak and the most affected are very young children.  Of course, in Chicago many unvaccinated children come from poor households or homeless families without easy access to health care for children.

School registration should go hand in hand with facilitating access to immunizations, said Dr. Olusimbo Ige, Chicago Department of Public Health commissioner. “We want people to be enrolled in school and we want to give them the opportunity to settle in while also simultaneously assessing their vaccination needs and then connecting them to meet those needs,” Ige said as the agency fielded questions on social media Wednesday.

Now contrast that with Traitor Trump's ignorant declaration at his Richmond Virginia Bloodbath Rally,

Rightwing Zombie Terrorists Attack America

“I will not give one penny to any school that has a vaccine mandate or a mask mandate."

Bloodbath, indeed
. As always do not expect Republicans to be of any help in addressing vaccination because Anti-Vaxx is now a solid plank in the edifice of Fascism that Republicans are erecting. Measles is a Million times more infectious than Covid and leads to long-term illnesses but, the MAGA infection has completely consumed the Right and turned them into rampaging zombies. ➡

Of course, the rightwing response to these Measles outbreaks in Florida, Chicago, and elsewhere will be to demonize Migrants (I won't dignify the despicable rightwing term "Illegal Immigrants") because rampant racism remains the first and foremost plank of Republican ideology.  Trump and his gaggle of ghouls have already promised to round-up and "deport" millions of Migrants by militarizing local police departments and building concentration camps.

I can not express strongly enough how destructive this outright NAZI program will be for everyone; communities, police raids, police officers humanity, the illness and deaths of those captured and held.  If implemented this would destroy the United States both metaphorically and fundamentally.  But, don't expect any intellectual honesty from conservatives who claimed everything President Obama or Biden has done is the real Fascism whilst they plan to steal the 2024 Presidential Election by whatever means possible and murder millions of people.

Thursday, February 15, 2024

Chicago's migrant buses and the Governments inability to respond to a crisis Part 7: Privatization

What is he wanted for, Sheriff?
That would be of a private nature...
A private nature? That's a public office you hold, isn't it, Sheriff? - Legends of the Fall (1994)

Housing built decades ago by the US Government
Monterey, California still occupied (2017)

So, after decades of Republicans slicing the Government sausage, Chicago, Cook and the collar counties, the State of Illinois, and the federal government don't have a reservoir of construction workers or a civilian corps of engineers to send to areas which require a quick building program of housing and infrastructure.  So, the City of Chicago has to hand out contracts to private industry.

After the debacle of the Brighton Park migrant base camp last December, I wondered how much money the City of Chicago has handed out to private construction firms to do things FDR and the Works Progress Administration determined 90 years should be done by Government directly paying people to work,

Turns out it's at least $138,000,000.  And the cost to the State of Illinois is probably Half-a-Billion.

City officials paid at least $138 million in 2023 to house, feed and care for the men, women and children sent to Chicago from the southern border, according to data published by Mayor Brandon Johnson’s administration.

Of the $138 million spent by city officials to care for the migrants in 2023, more than $59 million came directly from Chicago taxpayers, according to city data.

The rest came from the state and federal governments via grants that totaled $78.8 million, according to city data.

The city paid three private firms $127 million to care for the migrants, essentially outsourcing the day-to-day responsibility for managing the humanitarian crisis that defined Mayor Brandon Johnson’s first six months in office.

By mid-November, the state spent $478 million to care for the migrants, state officials said. The bulk of those funds are not tracked by city officials, or included in the city’s database.

Since August 2022, 636 buses have arrived in Chicago, carrying nearly 29,500 people, on buses sent by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott to damage President Joe Biden’s chances for reelection and divide Democratic voters.

There are more than 14,700 migrants in 27 city shelters, with approximately 400 people waiting at police stations, O’Hare International Airport and on warming buses at the city’s designated bus “landing zone,” according to city data. The crisis has exposed deep divisions between Chicago’s Black and Latino communities and shredded the city’s social safety net.

Now, White Boomers are screaming their bigoted lead-tainted heads off about "The Migrant Crisis" and the associated costs.  But, there is no way the City of Chicago or residents or the migrants so callously sent here have received $200 Million dollars worth goods and services and it once again highlights how the Myth of Business can do it better and Government can't do anything right is grounded in the non-stop lies and propaganda of the Ronnie Raygun administration through the modern MAGA version.

And of course, white people are violently angry about the thought of the United States Government or local governments helping people.  It's the height of Entitlement because Boomers grew up in an America which was built up by government in response to the rapacious 19th century Robber Barons claiming Private Property superseded all other rights and in the face of the 1929 Republican Great Depression and refusal of Corporations to help ameliorate the crushing poverty caused by Capitalism.

The fact that FDR and the Government succeeded with Socialist programs in the 1930's has incensed Republicans for decades, the same way that LBJ's Great Society programs successes have infuriated Republicans since the 1960s.

Republicans hate America and hate you.  They have no interest in running a functional responsive government, Republicans want a Government which oppresses hundreds of millions and is owned and operated as an arm of the Rich and Powerful.

These migrant buses and planes sent to Illinois are not a cheap political stunt although they are a tawdry scheme to undermine President Biden.  What they are is a cold-blooded exploitation of poor and oppressed people, and that exactly is what the Republican Party offers their base of bigoted boomers and the world, the evil guarantee that Republicans will treat human beings as chattel and dispose of them by transportation.   The Death Camps Republicans have planned for 2025 are going to be churning though millions of people.

Addendum:
Of course, another glaring reason the City of Chicago doesn't have the money to pay people directly to help house, clothe, or fed migrants treated like garbage by Republicans is the non-stop expenditure the City incurs due to Police misconduct, brutality, abuse, and crimes.  Chicago paid out $198,000,000 in 2019, 2020, and 2021 for Chicago Police misconduct.