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The war on illegal migration

  

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By:  vic-eldred  •  12 hours ago  •  53 comments

The war on illegal migration
“They’re not gonna stop us. We made a promise to the American people, President Trump has made a promise to the American people, we’re gonna make this country safe again,” said a stone-faced Homan. “We’re not stopping. I don’t care what the judges think, I don’t care what the left thinks, we’re coming,” he added.


Trump's point man on the border Tom Homan promised that the Trump administration’s mass deportations will not stop despite a federal judge illegally blocking the president from invoking the Alien Enemies Act to deport alleged Venezuelan gang members without a hearing.  The Trump administration flew roughly 250 alleged migrant gangbangers to El Salvador’s mega prison Saturday, where they were taken into custody by America's key ally in the war on illegal migration :  El Salvador's president, Nayib Bukele.


The gang members were treated appropriately in El Salvador:

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Salvadoran police officers escort shackled alleged Tren de Aragua gangbangers deported from the US. via REUTERS

To evict migrants without a hearing, the administration cited the Alien Enemies Act. In addition to the deportation of gang members, the administration has indicated that it will contest a 20-day limit on how long child migrants can be detained.
The government deported Rasha Alawieh, a Lebanese kidney transplant expert at Brown University, over the weekend though she had a visa. She was deported because she attended a Hezbollah leader’s funeral during a trip to Lebanon.  
The administration detained Mahmoud Khalil, a leader of pro-Palestinian protests, this month. Another student activist at Columbia, Ranjani Srinivasan, apparently warned by someone, fled to Canada when immigration agents revoked her visa and showed up at her home.
The administration may bring back the travel ban (now certified as LEGAI) only this time 43 countries may be on the list.


Trump is keeping his promise.


In other news:

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Israel  hit Gaza with a series of "extensive strikes" overnight Tuesday, vowing to open the "gates of hell" because Hamas has not released the remaining hostages. Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Israel Katz said the Israel Defense Forces is targeting Hamas terrorists throughout the region and will act with "increasing military force" against Hamas from now on.

Israel hits Gaza with 'extensive strikes,' killing over 400 and ending ceasefire


In his call with Vladimir Putin today, Trump will, in essence, negotiate how much territory Russia has to give up in order to get a peace deal with Ukraine.

After a standoff involving the police, Musk’s DOGE team entered the headquarters of the U.S. Institute of Peace, an independent agency, and evicted its officials who were refusing to leave.

The Department of Veterans Affairs has finally ended transgender treatments.

The president ended Secret Service protection for Hunter and Ashley Biden.

Trump privately told auto executives to prepare to operate under fair trade tariffs.

The administration asked 20 prominent law firms about their DEI policies in their recruitment, suggesting they could have discriminated against white candidates.

Harvard will offer free tuition for students whose families earn less than $200,000. (Are they going around the SCOTUS?)

A swath of the southern and central Plains faces severe fires with dry air and wind gusts of up to 40 miles per hour.

Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore, the NASA astronauts who have been stuck at the International Space Station for months, are headed back to earth thanks to Elon Musk.

 


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Vic Eldred
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1  author  Vic Eldred    12 hours ago

Good morning and welcome to the news.

The question has been asked as to whether Columbia University consciously stacked its classes full of activists.

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Rikki Schlott has a great piece about it in the NY Post today.

Columbia in chaos after seeking out social justice activists

 
 
 
Vic Eldred
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2  author  Vic Eldred    12 hours ago

JFK Files to be released later today

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Jeremy Retired in NC
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3  Jeremy Retired in NC    12 hours ago
I don’t care what the judges think, I don’t care what the left thinks

It's baffling as to WHY the left wants to keep criminals in the country?.

It's even more baffling how a "judge" can overlook law to support the lefts idiocy.

The government deported Rasha Alawieh, a Lebanese kidney transplant expert at Brown University, over the weekend though she had a visa. She was deported because she attended a Hezbollah leader’s funeral during a trip to Lebanon.  
The administration detained Mahmoud Khalil, a leader of pro-Palestinian protests, this month. Another student activist at Columbia, Ranjani Srinivasan, apparently warned by someone, fled to Canada when immigration agents revoked her visa and showed up at her home.

That's what happens when you support terrorists.

 
 
 
Vic Eldred
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3.1  author  Vic Eldred  replied to  Jeremy Retired in NC @3    12 hours ago

It kinda looks bad doesn't it.

Right now, the dems favorability poll number is at 27%.

The midterms are two years away.

 
 
 
Jeremy Retired in NC
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3.1.1  Jeremy Retired in NC  replied to  Vic Eldred @3.1    11 hours ago

I don't think this "kinda" looks bad.  It is bad.  And sadly they don't see the problem.

 
 
 
Vic Eldred
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3.1.2  author  Vic Eldred  replied to  Jeremy Retired in NC @3.1.1    10 hours ago
  It is bad.

Like all the policies they support.

 
 
 
Sean Treacy
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4  Sean Treacy    12 hours ago

I get differing opinions on the amounts of legal immigration. But illegal immigration is just lawless anarchy. Amazing to watch democrats support that. 

Trump's greatest skill is getting  Democrats to support the most batshit crazy, unpopular things in order to oppose him. 

 
 
 
Sean Treacy
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5  Sean Treacy    12 hours ago

Israel hits Gaza with 'extensive strikes,' killing over 400 and ending ceasefire

Even after Hamas threw a celebratory parade with the coffins of kids they murdered, left wing media still  just parrots whatever talking points Hamas puts out.

Hamas says 400 plus were killed? Sure. Must be true. 

 
 
 
Dig
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6  Dig    11 hours ago
"I don’t care what the judges think"

That is an astonishing statement coming from someone in control of a federal agency.

To evict migrants without a hearing, the administration cited the Alien Enemies Act

More tyranny. For one thing, that's a wartime authority, and we're obviously not at war with Venezuela.

Why don't you guys who support all this extrajudicial shit just come out and admit to being enemies of the Republic? Hmm?

A "government of laws, not of men" per John Adams, is obviously something you oppose.

 
 
 
Jeremy Retired in NC
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6.1  Jeremy Retired in NC  replied to  Dig @6    11 hours ago
More tyranny. For one thing, that's a wartime authority, and we're obviously not at war with Venezuela.

Do we not have armed forces deployed to Iraq and Syria fighting?  

 
 
 
Dig
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6.1.1  Dig  replied to  Jeremy Retired in NC @6.1    10 hours ago

And? 

From an article about the Alien Enemies Act (bolding mine)

  • The Alien Enemies Act of 1798 is a wartime authority that allows the president to detain or deport the natives and citizens of an enemy nation. The law permits the president to target these immigrants without a hearing and based only on their country of birth or citizenship.
  • The president may invoke the Alien Enemies Act in times of “declared war” or when a foreign government threatens or undertakes an “invasion” or “predatory incursion” against U.S. territory.

The people in question are supposed to be Venezuelans, not Iraqis or Syrians. They're also supposed to be members of Tren de Aragua, but there's no way of knowing for sure because there was no judicial process and no official evidence presented. 

It was a bogus use of the act, and we really have no idea who it's being applied to, just the 'word' of Trump and/or Homan.

 
 
 
Jeremy Retired in NC
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6.1.2  Jeremy Retired in NC  replied to  Dig @6.1.1    10 hours ago
It was a bogus use of the act, 

Lets try something much more reliable than "an article".  

It was a bogus use of the act,

For those who want to cry about it and keep criminals / terrorists in the country.  Reality is, this is a legal stand and it's being enforced.

 
 
 
Vic Eldred
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6.1.3  author  Vic Eldred  replied to  Dig @6.1.1    10 hours ago
The Alien Enemies Act of 1798 is a wartime authority that allows the president to detain or deport the natives and citizens of an enemy nation.

And what nation attacked the US on 9/11?

 
 
 
Dig
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6.1.4  Dig  replied to  Jeremy Retired in NC @6.1.2    10 hours ago

What do you think you're showing me there? Go ahead and post the text that disagrees with what I posted.

 
 
 
Dig
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6.1.5  Dig  replied to  Vic Eldred @6.1.3    10 hours ago
And what nation attacked the US on 9/11?

Huh? The Alien Enemies Act wasn't invoked then.

 
 
 
Vic Eldred
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6.1.6  author  Vic Eldred  replied to  Dig @6.1.5    10 hours ago

It doesn't matter we are still at war with terrorism.

 
 
 
Jeremy Retired in NC
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6.1.7  Jeremy Retired in NC  replied to  Dig @6.1.4    9 hours ago
Go ahead and post the text that disagrees with what I posted.

I did.

 
 
 
Jeremy Retired in NC
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6.1.8  Jeremy Retired in NC  replied to  Vic Eldred @6.1.6    9 hours ago

They don't quite grasp that.  

 
 
 
Dig
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6.1.9  Dig  replied to  Vic Eldred @6.1.6    9 hours ago

The Global War on Terror isn't an officially declared war, obviously. It's a non-literal moniker, similar to the War on Drugs.

 
 
 
Vic Eldred
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6.1.10  author  Vic Eldred  replied to  Jeremy Retired in NC @6.1.8    9 hours ago

The terrorists don't come from any one country, nor do they formally declare war.

 
 
 
Jeremy Retired in NC
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6.1.11  Jeremy Retired in NC  replied to  Dig @6.1.9    9 hours ago
The Global War on Terror isn't an officially declared war, obviously.

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Vic Eldred
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6.1.12  author  Vic Eldred  replied to  Dig @6.1.9    9 hours ago

That doesn't make it any less real. 

Why don't you want security threats removed?

 
 
 
Dig
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6.1.13  Dig  replied to  Jeremy Retired in NC @6.1.7    9 hours ago
I did.

Actually, you didn't. I asked for the part that disagrees with what I posted.

What's the matter, can't find it? That's understandable, considering it isn't there.

But don't let that stop you from continuing to parrot lies about it that you probably heard on Trump TV or something. Nobody expects honor, integrity, or intellectual honesty from supporters of a criminal tyrant.

 
 
 
Dig
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6.1.14  Dig  replied to  Jeremy Retired in NC @6.1.11    9 hours ago
Now THAT was fucking hilarious.  

You don't actually think Congress made an official declaration of war on 'terror', do you? 

 
 
 
Jeremy Retired in NC
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6.1.15  Jeremy Retired in NC  replied to  Dig @6.1.13    9 hours ago
I asked for the part that disagrees with what I posted.

Then read the links.  

 
 
 
Jeremy Retired in NC
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6.1.16  Jeremy Retired in NC  replied to  Dig @6.1.14    9 hours ago

That is what it states on all my orders sending me to Afghanistan and Iraq.  

 
 
 
Dig
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6.1.17  Dig  replied to  Vic Eldred @6.1.12    9 hours ago
That doesn't make it any less real. 

It does as far as an official invocation of the Alien Enemies Act. You kinda need a particular nation state for that.

Why don't you want security threats removed?

Who says I don't? That's not the issue.

The issue is Trumps disloyalty to the rule of law and potential violations of rights. There are perfectly legal ways to go about the various things he's doing, reducing the size of government included. Why can't he do things in a legal and proper way? He has the White House and both houses of Congress, for crying out loud. What's the problem? 

 
 
 
Igknorantzruls
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6.1.18  Igknorantzruls  replied to  Dig @6.1.17    9 hours ago
The issue is Trumps disloyalty to the rule of law and potential violations of rights. There are perfectly legal ways to go about the various things he's doing, reducing the size of government included. Why can't he seem to do anything in a legal and proper way? He has the White House and both houses of Congress, for crying out loud. What's the problem?

Exactly ! He is a mental midget miscreant wanna be messiah gone wild, constantly acts like a bullying tantrum taking child. 

 There are acceptable ways to go about things under the rule of law as distinguished in our Constitution, that Trump thinks is toilet paper. What a POS he is.

 
 
 
Dig
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6.1.19  Dig  replied to  Jeremy Retired in NC @6.1.15    8 hours ago
Then read the links.

I'll take that as an admission that you don't know what the hell you're talking about.

 
 
 
Jeremy Retired in NC
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6.1.20  Jeremy Retired in NC  replied to  Dig @6.1.19    8 hours ago

Looks more like your inability or willingness to read the links.  

 
 
 
Igknorantzruls
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6.1.21  Igknorantzruls  replied to  Jeremy Retired in NC @6.1.20    8 hours ago
read the links

not on the day after St Paddys'

 
 
 
Dig
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6.1.22  Dig  replied to  Jeremy Retired in NC @6.1.16    8 hours ago
That is what it states on all my orders sending me to Afghanistan and Iraq.

You know you can look this stuff up, right? The War on Terror had no official Congressional declaration.

 
 
 
Jeremy Retired in NC
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6.1.23  Jeremy Retired in NC  replied to  Igknorantzruls @6.1.21    8 hours ago

That's your problem not mine.

 
 
 
Igknorantzruls
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6.1.24  Igknorantzruls  replied to  Jeremy Retired in NC @6.1.23    8 hours ago
That's your problem not mine.

I have no problem at all being my problem, do you ?

 
 
 
Dig
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6.1.25  Dig  replied to  Jeremy Retired in NC @6.1.20    8 hours ago
Looks more like your inability or willingness to read the links.  

The act is only 3 sections long, with a single paragraph for each. It's not exactly an exhausting read. If you won't post the part or parts relevant to Trump using it the way he has, then I'm done here. I'm not playing this stupid game with you.

 
 
 
Jeremy Retired in NC
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6.1.26  Jeremy Retired in NC  replied to  Dig @6.1.22    7 hours ago
You know you can look this stuff up, right?

So look it up.  Nobody is stopping you.  

 
 
 
Vic Eldred
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6.1.27  author  Vic Eldred  replied to  Dig @6.1.17    5 hours ago

I think he has been doing things in much the same way Obama and Biden did.

 
 
 
Greg Jones
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6.1.28  Greg Jones  replied to  Dig @6.1.25    4 hours ago

The bigger question is why you support and sympathize with illegal aliens many of whom are mostly likely terrorists,

 
 
 
Vic Eldred
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6.1.29  author  Vic Eldred  replied to  Dig @6.1.17    an hour ago
It does as far as an official invocation of the Alien Enemies Act.

You do know that the SCOTUS has ruled on this, right?

In 1948, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld Truman’s use of the AEA and ruled that the law itself was constitutional (Ludecke v. Watkins, 33 US 160). Importantly, the high court stated that a president’s decision under the Act "precludes judicial review of the removal order." In other words, a judge cannot second-guess the president.

GREGG JARRETT: The law supports Trump's deportation of violent gang members, despite judge's errant ruling | Fox News

 
 
 
Dig
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6.1.30  Dig  replied to  Greg Jones @6.1.28    42 minutes ago
The bigger question is why you support and sympathize with illegal aliens many of whom are mostly likely terrorists,

Leave it to you (and the people who voted your comment up, apparently) to completely misunderstand something.

The issue is the improper and unlawful invocation of the AEA during peacetime, denying non-enemy aliens due process of law.

 
 
 
Dig
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6.1.31  Dig  replied to  Vic Eldred @6.1.29    33 minutes ago
You do know that the SCOTUS has ruled on this, right?

What they upheld in 1948 (by only one vote, btw) was the continuing use of the act after the war, not an out-of-the-blue peacetime invocation of it.

The WW2 use of the AEA began during an actual war, and applied to Japanese and Germans because those were the countries we were at war with.

After reading through the opinions, including dissents, Ludecke v. Watkins was about the continuing use of the powers after the war had ended, not whether use of the act was valid in the first place, because having been invoked during an actual war with actual enemy nations, it was.

Trump is trying to invoke it in peacetime for use against individuals from a country we are not at war with, meaning they are not 'enemy aliens'.

 
 
 
Dig
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6.1.32  Dig  replied to  Vic Eldred @6.1.27    18 minutes ago
I think he has been doing things in much the same way Obama and Biden did.

And you would be wrong. Shockingly so.

 
 
 
1stwarrior
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6.2  1stwarrior  replied to  Dig @6    7 hours ago

Dig - if ya really wanna know which laws are being enforced, check out 8 U.S.C. 1300 series - all dealing with immigration and dealing with how to return ILLEGALS to their home of origin or to a country that will accept the ILLEGALS.

Technically, we don't need to parrot what the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 when we have the "NEW" laws on the books - that the Dems/Libs don't believe in enforcing either.

 
 
 
Dig
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6.2.1  Dig  replied to  1stwarrior @6.2    24 minutes ago
if ya really wanna know which laws are being enforced

The issue here is about invoking the AEA during peacetime in order to summarily remove and imprison aliens in a third-party foreign nation without due process of law.

Technically, we don't need to parrot what the Alien Enemies Act of 1798

Don't tell me, tell Trump. 

 
 
 
Vic Eldred
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7  author  Vic Eldred    10 hours ago

VP: "Last month, migrant crossings were down 94%, to their lowest number all time, and that happened just in two months of serious border enforcement... Last month, for the first time in over a year, the majority of job gains went to American citizens born on U.S. soil. "

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Vance touts Trump wins at US-Mexico border as border crossings drop | Fox News

 
 
 
Jeremy Retired in NC
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7.1  Jeremy Retired in NC  replied to  Vic Eldred @7    9 hours ago
VP: "Last month, migrant crossings were down 94%, to their lowest number all time, and that happened just in two months of serious border enforcement

Didn't the left keep telling us that cutting crossings was impossible?

 
 
 
Vic Eldred
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7.1.1  author  Vic Eldred  replied to  Jeremy Retired in NC @7.1    9 hours ago

Oh ya, they needed that bill to secure the border. The bill that actually made it harder to secure the border.

 
 
 
Jeremy Retired in NC
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7.1.2  Jeremy Retired in NC  replied to  Vic Eldred @7.1.1    9 hours ago

Don't forget that the "bill" also included BILLIONS to Ukraine.

 
 
 
Vic Eldred
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7.1.3  author  Vic Eldred  replied to  Jeremy Retired in NC @7.1.2    9 hours ago

It had a lot tucked into it. Not much of it involved real border security, but they did find 3 Republicans to sign onto it.

 
 
 
Sean Treacy
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7.1.4  Sean Treacy  replied to  Vic Eldred @7.1.1    6 hours ago

I wonder if this actually made a single leftist think for a second.  As we've seen play out on this site day after day, many parroted the "cutting crossings is impossible" and only a bill that would make things objectively worse would somehow help things.  Now to even get to that point was, of course, demonstrates a serious avoidance of facts as Biden's actions to open the border were all public record.

But still, to have that nonsense so conclusively rebuked with irrefutable data the last few months should have caused some serious self examination and demonstrate the need to think critically rather than simply parrot Democratic talking points, I would think.  Sadly, it doesn't seem to have had any effect. 

 
 
 
Vic Eldred
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7.1.5  author  Vic Eldred  replied to  Sean Treacy @7.1.4    5 hours ago

It is clear who runs that party.

Today Chuck Schumer cancelled a book tour and went on "the View" to explain why it was better to keep the government open.

 
 
 
Vic Eldred
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8  author  Vic Eldred    4 hours ago

Mayor Eric Adams pulled in a sad $36,000 from just a few dozen donors over the last two months, it was revealed Tuesday — as questions swirl over his faltering re-election campaign.

The incumbent Democrat raised $36,121 from 42 relatively unknown donors between Jan. 12 and March 13, according to the latest campaign finance disclosures.

That’s chump change, especially compared to the Democratic mayoral primary frontrunners.

Socialist candidate Zohran Mamdani pocketed an impressive haul of $845,000 over the same period and ex-Gov. Andrew Cuomo, the leader in the polls, pulled in $1.5 million in donations since announcing his campaign March 1.

NYC Mayor Eric Adams pulls in sad $36K of donations as questions swirl over dying re-election campaign



Shall I explain the reason that one corrupt NYC politician sinks as another corrupt and derelict NY politician rises?

The difference is that the mayor has been associated with Trump and that is disastrous in shit city.

 
 
 
Vic Eldred
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9  author  Vic Eldred    4 hours ago

Just in:

The FBI extradited one of their  “ten most wanted” targets, an MS-13 boss,  from Mexico to the US this week.

The feds believe Francisco Javier Roman-Bardales is “a key senior leader of MS-13” and took him into custody Monday night after Mexican authorities nabbed him.

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Javier Roman-Bardales

The alleged gang leader is now behind bars in the US, where he will face charges.

FBI extradites 'most wanted' MS-13 leader from Mexico

 
 

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