illegal immigration

Sanctuary State Illinois: Newly Arrived Migrant Accused of Beating Wife, Children

December 1, 2023 by John Binder Leave a Comment

A Honduran national, who recently arrived in the United States via the southern border, is now accused of beating his wife and children in the sanctuary state of Illinois.

Walter Sanchez-Baquedano, 24, recently arrived in Illinois after crossing the border with his wife and two children. On October 28, Waukegan police officers responded to a call from Sanchez-Baquedano’s residence where his wife was found scared and crying.

According to his wife, Sanchez-Baquedano accused her of cheating on him and became violent. Initially, Sanchez-Baquedano grabbed a dish and smashed it on the ground, Lake County Assistant State’s Attorney Manuel Mandujano alleges.

Then, as the couple’s five-year-old child begged Sanchez-Baquedano not to hit his mother, he allegedly kicked the child in his back multiple times before punching his wife in her face again and again.

As the woman fought Sanchez-Baquedano off, Mandujano alleges, he grabbed their two children and took off on foot. Eventually, Sanchez-Baquedano returned to the residence.

Following his arrest, Sanchez-Baquedano was charged with four counts of domestic battery and is being held in Lake County Jail ahead of his bench trial on Dec. 18.

The state of Illinois is one of 12 states in the nation that enforces a statewide sanctuary policy to protect criminal illegal aliens from being turned over to the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency for deportation.

John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Email him at [email protected]. Follow him on Twitter here.

Chicago Suburbs Block Government-Imposed Migrant Housing with Big Hotel Taxes

December 1, 2023 by Warner Todd Huston Leave a Comment

Two Chicago suburbs have enacted steep $1,000-per-month taxes on hotels in an effort to stop plans by the state of Illinois to use the facilities for long-term migrant housing.

The latest city to enact this harsh tax is northwest suburban Schaumburg, which implemented the tax for those staying longer than 30 days after hearing that state officials were looking at three hotels in the city to use for long-term housing for illegal aliens, the Daily Herald reported.

The general procedure in the past has been for the state to contract directly with hotel operators without involving local government officials.

The first city to enact such a tax — aimed to convince hotels not to engage in such contracts — was Rosemont, a town with a long strip of hotels that usually caters to the convention business. The hotels surround the Donald E. Stephens Convention Center, an 840,000 sq. ft. facility that hosts a wide array of events.

Rosemont is also right at the eastern edge of O’Hare International Airport, and many of the hotels in the city cater to travelers out of one of the world’s busiest hubs.

Rosemont Mayor Brad Stephens, though, was alarmed by plans being floated by Chicago developer Mike Reschke, who was hoping to pull in up to eight hotels in the area to host thousands of illegals.

Like Mayor Stephens, Schaumburg Mayor Tom Dailly was alarmed by the plans for the region’s hotels. “The goal here is to protect our hotels,” he recently said.

Still, Schaumburg Village Manager Brian Townsend pointed out that there are already migrants in his town, and they have settled in just fine. And he insisted that the steep hotel tax is not an effort to keep migrants away from Schaumburg.

“We want to make sure it’s done in a planned and responsible way,” Townsend explained. “We’ve developed a solution we think works.”

Both cities added provisions that residents affected by house fires or other disasters or corporate employees living in the area for an extended but not permanent period would be exempt from triggering the tax.

Schaumburg and Rosemont apparently hope to avoid the experience of Burr Ridge Mayor Gary Grasso, who, in September 2022, discovered that the city of Chicago had dropped off dozens of illegals at the Burr Ridge hotel after the hotel agreed to house migrants. The housing plan, though, was a total surprise to Grasso and his city council, neither of which were informed of the plan ahead of time.

The two towns are also likely wary of the idea of housing migrants in hotels, especially after the many problems seen at similar facilities in Chicago.

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Chicago’s 42nd Ward Alderman Brendan Reilly, for instance, became highly concerned after city officials contracted with a hotel in his Ward when the area surrounding the hotel became a locus for criminal behavior, prostitution, drug dealing, litter, and noise complaints.

Reilly wrote a letter to the mayor’s office in July, speaking of the “concerns my office receives daily regarding new arrivals living at the Inn of Chicago.”

Reilly warned that his voters are expressing “concerns about migrants loitering, littering, illegally parking their vehicles, and leaving human waste on the sidewalks near the hotel.”

People walk by the Inn of Chicago, a hotel being used for temporary housing for newly arrived migrants, on May 10, 2023, in Chicago, Illinois. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)

The alderman also noted that residents are reporting that illegals “have been seen selling narcotics and engaging in lewd activity, including possible prostitution” in and around the location.

Residents organized in Chicago’s Hyde Park neighborhood in August when the city quietly arranged to house migrants in the Lake Shore Hotel in the district. The hotel had been used to stockpile dozens of migrants in the past, and residents said that crime, loitering, drugs, litter, and other forms of lawlessness increased immediately upon the arrival of the border crossers.

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8-week-old baby has been added to the ‘terrorist watch list’ for J6 events

November 30, 2023 by BlazeTV Staff Leave a Comment

If you clicked on this article expecting it to be some kind of satire, sadly, you’re mistaken. This is all too real.

Glenn Beck invites former federal air marshal Sonya Hightower-LaBosco to discuss this utterly absurd situation.

If you weren’t already aware, our Department of Homeland Security has ordered federal air marshals to closely monitor people affiliated with January 6, and apparently that includes a 2-month-old baby who wasn’t even conceived at the time the J6 events took place.

“You have to tell me if this is true: did we actually use the air marshals to track a 4-week-old baby?” Glenn asks.

“Yes, Glenn, we’re doing that now,” Sonya sighs. “It’s an 8-week-old baby that’s on the terrorist watch list.”

You’re probably thinking there must have been some kind of error in the system, but no. Not one but three federal air marshals have been assigned to follow this baby should he/she travel.

“Did the parents do something?” asks Glenn, who cannot fathom what he’s hearing.

“I think the father” faced a charge “for parading at January 6,” Sonya explains. “He either walked through the Capital or he did something of that nature on January 6.”

However, it wasn’t until the child’s mother (without the father present) went on a trip to visit family that she noticed her infant’s boarding pass was marked with an “SSSS,” signifying that the baby had been placed on the federal watch list.

The entire situation is so ludicrous, it’s almost funny — except for the fact that since the beginning of Biden’s disastrous reign, our borders have remained wide open, allowing any number of actual terrorists into our country, but instead of monitoring those people, we’re using federal resources to track an infant who wasn’t even conceived at the time January 6 took place.

If that wasn’t bad enough, there’s more.

“The air marshals are not on board of our planes now because they’re not only just following babies and children, but they are also on our border,” says Glenn.

“That is correct,” confirms Sonya, explaining how the air marshals “have been forced to go down to the border for over two years now” to fulfill “non-law enforcement duties” instead of doing what the department was created to do: prevent terrorist attacks on planes.

“They are doing nothing — nothing – that they should be doing to thwart hijackings in the aircraft,” she sighs. “My biggest concern is that we’re going to have another 9/11.”

“We’re ushering in illegals, we’re catering to the illegals, and the American people, who buy plane tickets and pay security fees and expect to be safe, have no nobody looking out for them.”

This absence of air marshals on our aircrafts has likely contributed to the increasing number of plane incidents we’ve seen, such as the United flight attendant who was stabbed on a flight back in 2022 or the number of incidents where passengers attempted to breach the cockpit.

“22 years that we have tried to prevent [9/11] from happening again, and we are being handcuffed by this administration,” laments Sonya.

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Foreign-Born Population Hits 49.5 Million Under Biden – Largest Ever in American History

November 30, 2023 by John Binder Leave a Comment

The nation’s foreign-born population has hit an unprecedented 49.5 million, the largest ever recorded in American history, under President Joe Biden.

Analysis by Steven Camarota and Karen Zeigler at the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) revealed that in October the foreign-born population reached almost 50 million, increasing by 4.5 million foreign-born residents since Biden took office in January 2021.

Put another way, the Biden administration has added more immigrants to the nation’s population than the annual number of U.S. births in fewer than three years. Similarly, the growth of the foreign-born population under Biden exceeds the resident populations of 25 states.

“At 15 percent, the foreign-born share of the U.S. population is also the highest ever recorded in American history,” Camarota and Zeigler wrote:

As the debate rages over the ongoing border crisis, this finding is important because administrative numbers such as border encounters or even legal immigrant arrivals do not measure the actual size of the immigrant population, which is what ultimately determines immigration’s impact on the country. [Emphasis added]

Chart via Center for Immigration Studies

In numbers even excessive for a liberal White House, Biden has doubled the monthly inflow of immigration. Under former President Barack Obama, for example, the foreign-born population grew by about 68,000 every month and under former President Donald Trump it grew by about 42,000 a month.

Biden, on the other hand, has grown the foreign-born population by a whopping 137,000 every month since taking office. More than half — about 2.5 million — of those arriving under Biden, the CIS researchers note, are illegal aliens with the remaining two million arriving as legal immigrants.

More than 6-in-10 foreign-born residents who have arrived since Biden became president are from Latin America while others are primarily from Sub-Saharan Africa, the Caribbean, and the Middle East.

Though much attention is given to illegal immigration, the nation’s policy of annually importing more than a million legal immigrants accounts for 75 percent of the total foreign-born population today.

Without reductions to legal immigration levels, the foreign-born population is expected to hit 70 million by 2060.

American voters continuously tell pollsters they want cuts to overall immigration, mostly legal immigration. The latest survey from Rasmussen Reports showed 56 percent of likely voters want legal immigration levels cut to at least 750,000 admissions a year — including a plurality who said they want to see fewer than 500,000 admissions a year.

Likewise, 62 percent of likely voters said they oppose current immigration law which allows for so-called “chain migration,” the process where newly naturalized citizens can sponsor an unlimited number of foreign relatives for green cards.

Most relevant to the CIS analysis, nearly 7-in-10 likely voters said they want immigration-driven population growth either slowed or halted altogether so that the U.S. population can stabilize at a comfortable rate.

John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Email him at [email protected]. Follow him on Twitter here.

Veteran Blasts NYC Officials for Kicking Him Out of Senior Home to Make Room for Migrants: ‘It Isn’t Fair’

November 29, 2023 by John Binder Leave a Comment

Frank Tammaro, a 95-year-old veteran of the Korean War and lifelong New Yorker, is blasting the New York City officials involved in kicking him and other seniors out of an assisted living home to make room for border crossers and illegal aliens.

In September, Tammaro appeared alongside Rep. Nicole Malliotakis (R-NY) at a press conference where he revealed that he and more than 50 other senior citizens, including seven other war veterans, were being kicked out of Island Shores Senior Residence in Staten Island.

“I felt horrible. It’s no joke getting thrown out of a house,” Tammaro told Fox News Digital in a recent interview with Megan Myers and Teny Sahakian.

For Tammaro, it is yet again a situation where cities, states, and the federal government refuse to prioritize veterans who fought overseas.

“I was not in combat, but these boys that went over and went into combat and now they’re all settled in there with their lives and everything else and they’re all disrupted,” Tammaro said. “It isn’t fair.”

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Behind closed doors, Tammaro soon learned that the non-governmental organization (NGO) Homes for the Homeless, which owns Island Shores, had cut a deal with New York City officials to transform the assisted living home into a migrant camp.

“It was scary, very scary. Especially when I don’t get around like I used to,” Tammaro said of being kicked out of his home where he intended to stay. “I didn’t know where I was going.”

Owners of hotels, facilities, and other locations across the city have cut similar deals with Mayor Eric Adams (D) because they are paid lucratively with local taxpayer money to take in hundreds, sometimes thousands, of border crossers and illegal aliens.

Tammaro soon moved into a different assisted living home but decided not to return after taking a fall that landed him in the hospital. Now, he has moved into his daughter’s home in Midland Beach, Staten Island.

“I do get upset when I see them handing out all this money and all these things, and I’m paying taxes and getting kicked out. I’ve never got anything from the city or the state,” Tammaro said of the border crossers and illegal aliens getting a seemingly free ride on the taxpayer’s dime.

Tammaro’s daughter, Barbara Annunziata, said she has been unable to get her father a healthcare aide because their insurance keeps rejecting him. Meanwhile, she sees border crossers and illegal aliens living for free, at the taxpayer’s expense.

“I don’t understand it at all. It’s not fair to anybody. These migrants … they’re getting everything and I can’t get nothing for him. It angers me,” Annunziata told Fox News Digital.

At the end of the day, Annunziata said it is as simple as Americans — in Tammaro’s case, a native New Yorker — being put last while the world’s migrants are given priority.

“They’re worried about the migrants more than they’re worried about the U.S. citizens,” Annunziata said.

John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Email him at [email protected]. Follow him on Twitter here.