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Greg Abbott Slams Eric Adams Over Laughable Lawsuit, Uses Left's Standards Against Them
This is one of the most ridiculous lawsuits I've ever seen. As RedState's Ward Clark pointed out in his write-up, bus companies (or transportation companies of any kind) are not required to pay for the accommodations of their passengers once they reach their destinations. New York City is a proud "sanctuary city" and should be expected to abide by their proclamations. That means caring for illegal immigrants once they arrive.
To suggest that it is the bus companies in question that are somehow financially liable for Adams' failure to uphold the far-left values he preaches is asinine. Again, it's one of the most insane suggestions I've seen from a politician.
Abbott responded within hours, slamming Adams and turning the left's pro-illegal immigration standards against him.
Certainly, the governor is correct that Adams is an idiot because the only other explanation is that he's filing a frivolous lawsuit for political clout. That deserves a swift rebuke from the court system, including sanctions. There is zero basis to sue charter companies for not providing housing for illegal immigrants in the cities they voluntarily chose to go to.
As Abbott notes, it is the left's standard that illegal immigrants are given legal passage into the interior, and that includes a right to move between states. Adams doesn't run a personal fiefdom. He has to abide by the right of free travel across state lines afforded in the Constitution just like any other elected official.
Eric Adams Suing Bus Companies Bringing Migrants From Texas to NYC
Boohoo. Cry me a river, Mayor. You wanted to be a sanctuary city. You face nothing compared to what Texas deals with on a daily basis.
“New York City has and will always do our part to manage this humanitarian crisis, but we cannot bear the costs of reckless political ploys from the state of Texas alone,” Adams said. “Texas Governor Abbott’s continued use of migrants as political pawns is not only chaotic and inhumane but makes clear he puts politics over people.”
Adams argued the companies have violated the law by not paying for the migrants.
“And that’s why we’re suing to recoup approximately $700 million already spent to care for migrants bused here in the last two years by the state of Texas,” he said in a video announcement.
Critics say his efforts are misdirected, as the Biden administration bears responsibility for allowing the migrants into the country in the first place and is currently suing Texas over its new law making illegal entry a state crime.
Adams argued the companies have violated the law by not paying for the migrants.
“And that’s why we’re suing to recoup approximately $700 million already spent to care for migrants bused here in the last two years by the state of Texas,” he said in a video announcement.
Critics say his efforts are misdirected, as the Biden administration bears responsibility for allowing the migrants into the country in the first place and is currently suing Texas over its new law making illegal entry a state crime.
Jonathan Turley: New York's Lawsuit Against Bus Companies Is 'Motivated by Pure Hypocrisy'
Turley writes:
That law doesn't sound like something a sanctuary city would have on the books. And as Turley notes, it hasn't stopped the Biden administration from flying planeloads of illegal immigrants into New York. They even have special lines at the airport for undocumented illegals boarding flights. Maybe he should sue President Biden since he's responsible for brining "public charges" into the city.
New York City Democrat Mayor Eric Adams Imposing 11 PM Curfew on Illegal Aliens
If this latest trial balloon becomes city-wide policy, illegal border crossers in state shelters would be required to be in their rooms by 11 p.m. each evening, according to the New York Post. They will also be required to stay in their rooms until 6 a.m. barring emergency situations.
Shelter participants who violate the rule three times in a month could face expulsion, although exceptions can be made for those with work or school obligations or who have appointments during those hours.
Adams announced that the city will try the policy out at a small number of shelters across the city.
According to the Post, local residents around one shelter began complaining when illegal immigrants started going door-to-door begging for food and clothing around New York’s Floyd Bennett Field where hundreds of illegals were being housed.
Resident David Fitzgerald, for one, called the loitering and begging migrants an “invasion.”
In this pivotal time, the recent sales of $60 billion in failed Signature Bank loans — the largest in history with thousands of properties — will be liquidated over the next several years, providing guidance on new market values. Doug Harmon’s team at Newmark handled that deal.
“We are in the early stage of a reset of property values,” said Peter Braus of Lee & Associates NYC. “In 2024, we will see the acceleration of the difficult environment for owners who have been treading water.”
While many owners “are tied to lower values and high loans,” according to Andrew Scandalios of JLL, opportunities abound for buyers ready, able or willing to transact. James Nelson of Avison Young noted that those tend to be foreign buyers and sellers.
One of the most significant buildings set to hit the market this year is the Roosevelt Hotel at 45 E. 45th St. Its owner, the government of Pakistan, is hiring JLL to make the deal.
On the buy side, a Monaco-based family office paid $38 million for 144 Fulton St., which is leased to the world’s largest Chick-fil-A. Japanese coffee company, Geshary, spent $38 million for 560 Fifth Ave. The Mori Trust Co. of Japan paid $998 million for a 49.9% stake in 245 Park Ave. And Korea’s Hyundai Motors spent $22.5 million for the Liberty Inn at 500 W. 14th St. and $275 million for the brand-new 15-17 Laight St. space.
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“We are in the early stage of a reset of property values,” said Peter Braus of Lee & Associates NYC. “In 2024, we will see the acceleration of the difficult environment for owners who have been treading water.”
While many owners “are tied to lower values and high loans,” according to Andrew Scandalios of JLL, opportunities abound for buyers ready, able or willing to transact. James Nelson of Avison Young noted that those tend to be foreign buyers and sellers.
One of the most significant buildings set to hit the market this year is the Roosevelt Hotel at 45 E. 45th St. Its owner, the government of Pakistan, is hiring JLL to make the deal.
On the buy side, a Monaco-based family office paid $38 million for 144 Fulton St., which is leased to the world’s largest Chick-fil-A. Japanese coffee company, Geshary, spent $38 million for 560 Fifth Ave. The Mori Trust Co. of Japan paid $998 million for a 49.9% stake in 245 Park Ave. And Korea’s Hyundai Motors spent $22.5 million for the Liberty Inn at 500 W. 14th St. and $275 million for the brand-new 15-17 Laight St. space.
NYC building sales slump despite plummeting prices because of crippling regulations, high interest rates
High interest rates, crippling regulations and large vacancies caused by work-from-home and pandemic downsizing are to blame.
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What?! New York City Declares Social Media an 'Environmental Toxin'
It pretty much goes without saying that once any city has turned itself into a beautiful bastion of good governance and peace it becomes important for them to start focusing down on the little nit-picks and quibbles... you know, root out the last issues that might bedevil their happy and content populace. Such must be the case in New York City, we have to assume, since they've completely done away crime and robbery and 'hate crimes' against 'Black, Jewish, Muslim or LGBTQIA+' people so now they can focus on one of the few things still troubling the populace of the Big Apple - Using Social Media.
It's entertaining that New York, which legalized the use of recreational of marijuana in 2021, is in 2024 looking to stigmatize using Twitter as being an 'environmental toxin' even as residents make complaint after complaint after complaint about the pungent clouds of pot smoke hovering over much of the city. But of course it's people having access to and using Twitter or Facebook that's the 'environmental toxin'.
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And they will all get re-elected.. hell, a Republican probably won't even bother to run.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott calls NYC's plan to give migrants pre-paid credit cards to buy food 'insanity' as 37,600 migrants have flooded New York City from the Lone Star State since August 2022
- Adams estimated the $53 million scheme will save the city $600,000 a month
- It has drawn outrage from many, including native New Yorker 50 Cent
- 'It sounds like insanity is behind it because it really is offensive,' said Abbott
Texas Governor Greg Abbott continued his long-running feud with New York City Mayor Eric Adams over the disaster at the border, calling the Big Apple's plan to give migrants in the city pre-paid credit cards 'insanity.'
It was revealed yesterday that migrants housed in one of the city's hotels will receive pre-paid cards to buy food and baby supplies, instead of the city providing meals the migrants often did not want.
Adams estimated the $53 million scheme will save the city $600,000 a month, or $7.2 million annually, drawing outrage from many across the country, including native New Yorkers like rapper 50 Cent.
Abbott, who has been in a war of words with Democrat mayors of large cities and bused thousands of them from his own border, slammed the proposal on Sunday.
'It sounds like insanity is behind it because it really is offensive. It may be the most reprehensible thing that I've seen take place over the past 48 hours,' Abbott said.
Stout New York City District Attorney Alvin Bragg, the same corpulent crime-fighter prosecuting President Trump, was also the same plump DA who released the border-jumpers without bail last week. Bragg, battered by criticism is, pillow-like, absorbing the body blows, defending his decision to release the renegade border-jumpers, and is bum-rushing a grand jury to indict the same scofflaws who beat down two cops in Times Square recently on camera and were arrested but immediately released to go about their affairs.It’s almost like they don’t want to know who these people are. For some reason.
In any case, the well-rounded, Soros-supported district attorney’s “no bail” policy will soon be put to the test when the indictments inevitably come through. Then we’ll all see whether the young men — who have no valid i.d. and are deliberately not tracked as “sanctuary policy” (so as not to put the criminals in any danger of ICE deportation) — we’ll see whether Alvin will be able to find any of them to re-arrest once he gets the indictments.
To help avoid confusion, I made this helpful infographic, so you would know where you stand in the two-tiered criminal justice system these days. You are down on the second tier, which is kind of like being assigned to deck one on the cruise ship. You might even be below the second tier, somewhere underneath the Constitutional waterline:
After I made that dandy illustration, I ran across this recent New York Post headline, so obviously we are all getting on the same wavelength:
It was actually a good news story, since last week the judge body-slammed tubby DA Bragg by dismissing all charges against a pair of New Yorkers who bought fake vaccine cards during the pandemic. Bragg had charged them — and fourteen other people — with felony possession of a forged instrument. Bragg wanted years in jail.
But in his written opinion last Tuesday, the judge dismissed all charges against the vaxx card buyers, and shoved it right back in Bragg’s fat face. According to the Post and the order, the judge found the charges constituted and injustice:
In a bizarre twist, the fake vaccine cards were sold by “adult performer” Jasmine Clifford, who wasn’t trying too hard to hide it either, since she went by her Instagram handle “AntiVaxx Momma.” Here’s one of her tamer pictures:
According to the DA’s office, who arrested and charged her with all sorts of stuff back in 2021, Jasmine sold a total of 250 vaccine cards for $200 each. Which just goes to show you how unpopular the shots are, that even though they were free, people were willing to pay $200, associate with sketchy folks, and risk arrest to avoid the jab.
Unlike the buyers, the judge did not dismiss Jasmine’s charges, but he did have some spicy words, again calling out Alvin Bragg by name, about overcharging the offense, even sprinkling in the word “ludicrous”:
The bottom line from this story is that the judge gave us another example of what I’ve been long claiming would eventually happen: judges aren’t dummies, and they are finally starting to catch on. They usually defer to government and big corporate lawyers far longer than they probably should, but after they realize they’ve been lied to, judges will start dropping the hammer.
To give you something to compare it to, the last time something like this happened was in 2010 or 2011, when judges finally woke up to the fact the bank officials were faking people’s signatures on lost loan documents, hoovering up federal aid bucks while sticking it to borrowers, and were outright lying in affidavits. When all that started becoming obvious, the judges started getting muley and picky and not taking bank attorneys’ word for anything, and as a result people got to live in houses under foreclosure for a couple extra years.
I think we’ve finally reached that point in the post-pandemic — and also perhaps in Alvin Bragg’s DA career. The judges are getting cranky. They’re getting tired of hearing all this organic fertilizer.
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