by Donna on September 18, 2022 11:09 am
I didn't look for the post I made about 6 months ago (too tedious w/o a search function) but I did find the article I cited - a piece that appeared in the New York Post on 10/18/21. From that piece:
Planeloads of underage migrants are being flown secretly into suburban New York in an effort by President Biden’s administration to quietly resettle them across the region, The Post has learned.
The charter flights originate in Texas, where the ongoing border crisis has overwhelmed local immigration officials, and have been underway since at least August, according to sources familiar with the matter.
Last week, The Post saw two planes land at the Westchester County Airport, where most of the passengers who got off appeared to be children and teens, with a small portion appearing to be men in their 20s.
Westchester County cops stood by as the passengers — whose flights arrived at 10:49 p.m. Wednesday and 9:52 p.m. Friday — got off and piled into buses.
Some of them were later seen meeting up with relatives or sponsors in New Jersey, or being dropped off at a residential facility on Long Island...
Around 12:30 a.m. Saturday, it stopped in Syosset, Long Island, at the campus of MercyFirst, a nonprofit sponsored by the Catholic Sisters of Mercy that provides housing and services for “children and adolescents who are the victims of societal problems,” according to its website...
MercyFirst has a contract to supply the federal government with residential services for “immigrant youth,” according to the site...
As local cops stood by, a group of between 10 and 15 people wearing matching white baseball caps and carrying duffel bags got off the plane and onto a charter bus near a dormant cargo terminal.
After a two-hour ride, the group arrived around 1 a.m. Sunday at the Twin Oaks Academy, a juvenile detention center in the Apalachicola National Forest near Tallahassee, where staffers were waiting to open a gate topped with barbed wire...
Meanwhile, a spokeswoman for Democratic Westchester County Executive George Latimer tried to downplay the situation as “nothing new.”
This is similar to when HHS, under the Trump administration, housed almost 1,000 migrant children in Westchester — without the County’s prior knowledge or approval,” spokeswoman Catherine Cioffi said in a written statement.
Then, as opposed to now, there was no outcry by anyone.”
The White House insisted Monday that the flights only carry children and teens, and the US Department of Health and Human Services said, “It is our legal responsibility to safely care for unaccompanied children until they can be swiftly unified with a parent or a vetted sponsor.”
Our Office of Refugee Resettlement facilitates travel for the children in its custody to their family or sponsors across the country,” HHS spokesman Jorge Silva said.
In recent weeks, unaccompanied children passed through the Westchester airport en route to their final destination to be unified with their parents or vetted sponsor.”
nypost.com
by HatetheSwamp on September 19, 2022 5:33 am
Great example of conservative incapability for making equitable comparisons.
Perhaps my fondest memories of the old forum is po's, of all people's, regular assertions that others inability to make equitable comparisons.
It's likely that, with his last breath, pb'll chortle, smirk, utter, " Equitable comparisons," and as his last breath leaves his lungs, be heard to exclaim, "bahahahahah..."
Bahahahahahahahahahaha, ahhhhhhhhhhh.
Tears, cheers, high fives, hugs and photos were shared at Friday’s morning’s goodbye, thus ending one chapter and beginning another in a saga that began when the migrants boarded two planes in San Antonio, Tex., with false promises of jobs and housing in Massachusetts.