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The Hill ran a very encouraging elections story on Wednesday headlined, “Appeals court rules NYC law allowing noncitizens to vote in local elections violates state constitution.” Ruh-roh! If they can’t even vote, now what is New York supposed to do with all those extra migrants?

Bless the diligent plaintiffs, including state representative Nicole Malliotakis (R-NY), who challenged “Local Law No. 11 of the City of New York, which created a new class of voters eligible to vote in municipal elections who are not United States citizens.”

Appeal Court Justice Paul Wooten struck down the insane law, writing that, “We determine that this local law was enacted in violation of the New York State Constitution and Municipal Home Rule Law, and thus, must be declared null and void.”

The goofy, irrational 2022 law, supported by New York City Mayor Eric Adams, also lost at the trial court level. The City appealed that earlier decision, and has now lost again. Back in 2022, the Associated Press estimated Local Law 11 would create over eight hundred thousand new non-citizen voters.

Who knows how high that number has now climbed?

The Hill reported the City is carefully considering its next move. In other words, despite crying in public about all the illegal migrants infesting the City, behind the scenes it is doing everything it can think of to turn them into low-information voters.

While the grotesque parody of incompetence that is Secretary Mayorkas was busily reassuring credulous reporters that the border is totally secure, corporate media was spinning like a psychotic top, throwing sparks, billowing black smoke, desperately racing against the clock to concoct a coherent cover narrative that could possibly distract the public from concluding Joe Biden’s many failures are going to get us all killed — or worse — after an illegal Venezuelan migrant was arrested Friday for the horrifying rape and brutal murder of Laken Riley, 22, a young UGA nursing student slain while she was out for a jog on campus.




The accused, José Antonio Ibarra, 26, jumped the border back in September 2022, without showing any papers or passing through customs. That kind of First Class free entry is, apparently, a privilege reserved for ganged-up criminals. You try entering the U.S. without showing your papers sometime and let me know how it works out. You know, in a few years. After you get out of jail.

Anyway, that we know of, U.S. authorities were given at least three chances to stop José before he killed somebody. They failed every single time. The feds first found José near El Paso, Texas, but released him into the general population citing poorly-defined “further processing” under loose Biden asylum rules. José was then arrested at least twice while he was hanging out in New York City, including for a very serious charge of endangering a child, but each time was immediately released without bail, with authorities rushing under local sanctuary-city rules to get José out before any federal deportation process could start up.

Athens police also arrested José’s brother, Diego, charging him with having a fake green card. The University of Georgia had hired Diego to work in the school cafeteria, in spite of his fake green card, his face tattoo, and in spite of the the awkward fact that he’d been arrested in September for drunk driving without a license and separately for shoplifting, and then skipped all his court dates. Guess what happens if a citizen skips their criminal court date?

But it was almost like Diego was sure nothing would happen. For some reason.




The University of Georgia apparently had no problem with any of Diego’s red flags and hired him anyway where he was well positioned to closely observe students just like Laken.

All these sad facts are well known, or else they will be soon, although you have to push through a lot of corporate media noise to find them. Yesterday, Elon Musk called out the Atlanta Journal-Constitution for burying the lede by blandly referring to José as an “Athens man.”




Perhaps in self-defense, albeit weakly, the Journal-Constitution published an online op-ed this morning headlined, “OPINION: Death of student in Athens highlights America’s lax immigration policies.”

You don’t say.

A bigger story is developing; a story about the shameful and reprehensible way the corporate media is handling these sad facts. The big papers — the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and the Washington Post — are simply ignoring Laken’s murder, hoping to wait it out until all this offensive anti-immigrant racism is obscured as the news cycle trundles onward. The young nursing student’s horrifying death is being better covered by the alphabet networks, but you can still scour the headlines until your eyes bleed without discovering anything about Jose’s immigration status, his criminal record, or his government-granted immunity from ordinary prosecution.

In some truly shocking examples of irresponsible journalism, some platforms are twisting themselves into politically-correct pretzels in a desperate effort to avoid mentioning the inconvenient immigration facts. Like the Associated Press, which even tried to spin Laken’s murder as sports news:




Now remember, this is the same exact corporate media that mercilessly mocked President Trump in 2018 for correctly warning it was a bad idea to let undocumented illegal migrants run around because it increases the risk of violent crime. At the time, media lampooned Trump’s warnings, labeling them as Trump’s racist “Mexican Rapist Claim”:




President Trump probably should not hold his breath waiting for any apologies. But he was obviously right. And all of corporate media was badly, murderously wrong.

ATHENS, GA — Following the murder of a Georgia college student at the hands of an illegal immigrant, police issued a statement warning women to avoid jogging within 2,000 miles of an open border, particularly the southern border the U.S. shares with Mexico.

"We know this is a tough time for our local community," Police Seargent Dan Jackson told reporters. "Due to the nature of the situation, we highly recommend women avoid jogging by themselves within at least 2,000 miles of any open border."

"In fact, to be extra safe, women should just avoid going outside by themselves altogether for the time being."

Jackson said police are still trying to determine what is causing the spike in crime in Athens and around the country but just to be safe they recommend women who wish to go jogging by themselves avoid the area within a 2,000-mile radius of the location where millions of people are streaming into the country completely unchecked.

"Again, we refer the public to mainstream media reports reassuring the public that this incident had nothing to do with illegal immigration and that it's mostly the fault of women who think they can just leave their houses without putting themselves in danger. It's definitely not the stream of who-knows-who coming across our southern border."

As of publishing time, newly released police reports identify the race of the alleged assailant in the USA murder as "white" and his occupation as "just looking for a better life."

I am not exaggerating when I say that the way the media and Democrats have tried to sweep the cause of Laken Riley's death under the rug is the most shameful and embarrassing thing I've seen in my life.

Laken Riley was murdered last week, allegedly by an illegal alien from Venezuela who had been detained at the border, released into the US, arrested then released after a violent crime in New York, then made his way to the "sanctuary" city of Athens where he stalked and killed Laken Riley while she was jogging on a Georgia college campus.

Since then, the Fake News media and the Democrat Party have been working overtime to make you forget everything about this case.

https://hotair.com/david-strom/2024/02/28/denver-to-furlough-workers-to-hire-illegals-n3783753

They are not migrants, they are 'newcomers': Biden faces fury over new politically correct phrase for border crossers during historic crisis

Eagle eyed lawmakers immediately started slamming the White House for using the 'misleading' term 'newcomers'

Former United States Border Patrol Chief Rodney Scott has blasted Democrat President Joe Biden and accused the White House of punishing him for raising national security concerns over the illegal migrant crisis.

In a revealing critique, Scott lambasted the Biden administration for what he perceives as a significant mishandling of border security policies.

According to Scott, his warning about Biden’s open border policies led to his “early retirement,” Fox News reported.

Scott claims his forced early retirement stemmed from critical feedback on border security, signaling deep administration-policy friction.

The former head of the United States Border Patrol has publicly expressed his discontent with the current administration’s approach to managing the U.S. border.

Scott alleges that his departure was not voluntary but a direct result of his outspoken criticisms concerning the operational strategies at the border.

According to Scott, a meeting between President Biden, current Border Patrol Chief Jason Owens, and RGV Sector Chief Gloria Chavez was nothing more than a staged “photo-op” in Brownsville, Texas.

He suggests that such events are designed for media consumption rather than addressing the real issues at hand.

Scott goes on to accuse the Biden administration of undermining border security through the reversal of 94 executive actions previously set during the Trump era.