Morning Wire - NY’s Tent City & Government Funding Showdown | 11.14.23

Episode Date: November 14, 2023

New York sends illegal immigrants to a Brooklyn tent city, anti-Israel protests lead to a UK government shakeup, and Texas Congressman Chip Roy’s plan for government funding. Get the facts first with Morning Wire. ZBiotics: The drink before drinking with ZBiotics. Get 15% off your order with promo code WIRE at http://www.ZBiotics.com/Wire Shopify: Get a $1 per month trial at https://www.shopify.com/morningwire American Home Shield: Save $50 when you join American Home Shield. Visit http://www.ahs.com/MorningWire Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

New York City relocates migrants from their Manhattan hotels to a tent city in Brooklyn. What are the challenges with the new facility? And what are the city's remaining options? I'm Daily Wire, editor-in-chief John Bickley, with Georgia Howe. It's Tuesday, November 14th, and this is Morning Wire. Anti-Israel protests erupt in the U.K. and a high-ranking official is fired after accusing police of going too easy on rioters. And government funding expires this week. Speaker Johnson put forth a spending plan, but a house member we spoke to says there aren't enough cuts to satisfy conservatives. I do not support it. I will oppose it. I will oppose it probably at every step along the way.

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to return to the Roosevelt Hotel as the Big Apple struggles with the growing crisis. The federal government approved use of a national park to house migrants back in August, but now those being offered space there claim that it's too remote for them. Here to discuss the discontent at the tent city as Daily Wire contributor David Marcus. Dave, use of this land had been seen as a big win for New York leaders. What's going wrong here? Morning. What's going wrong is that Floyd Bennett Airfield is basically as far away from everything as a place can be in New York City. It is the southeast corner of Brooklyn, which is the southeast borough of Gotham. There's very little public transportation.

So, you know, for any migrant who has a job, which in many cases might be illegal in and of itself, or who has a kid in school, it's an untenable place to live. But with 120,000 migrants flooding New York in the past 18 months, there are no good options. Now these migrants, though, are jumping on buses right back to Midtown and the Roosevelt Hotel. And that's only making that situation worse. Yeah. Also, more and more migrants, they arrive every day. Right. Is this more of the mixed messages we've heard from New York officials?

On the one hand, they insist the city is at capacity, but they also continue to create more housing options. Yes, and it's the same rock of being a sanctuary city and hard place of being a right to shelter city that Adams has been dealing with since day one of this crisis. By law, he has to house. these people. One almost wonders if the choice of Floyd Bennett Field itself being so far away from everything is a not so subtle message that staying in New York is not going to work out for these migrants. In fact, here's what city councilman Joe Borelli had to say about just that.

I believe we are finally seeing the beginning of the end of this migrant crisis. The mayor has indicated he wants people out of the system. And what better way to do that than to pull some of the hotel contracts and tell people that, you know, their time is up and this is where you can stay if you want to stay in the system. If the situation at the airfield doesn't work out, could Mayor Adams still be forced to consider sort of more central locations like Central Park? Yes, and that remains the absolute last thing that Adams wants to do. New York is about to go into the holiday season, traditionally a massive moneymaker, but instead of ice skating in Central Park or taking in the giant tree at Rock Center, tourists will be treated to an out-of-control migrant crisis and the occasional

pro-Palestinian protest that shuts down local infrastructure. John, none of that screams have a holly jolly Christmas. No, it doesn't. Meanwhile, residents are concerned about these facilities being too close to schools or parks. I mean, toss a dart at a map of New York City, and there's going to be a good reason why it's not a great place for a Bidenville tent city. As the locals say, though, it is what it is. Finally, in addition to the strain on housing, this crisis has cost New York City an awful lot of money.

Do we know how much at this point? Back in August, Adams pegged the cost to the city at $12 billion. To put that in perspective, in 2020, the NYPD, the largest police force in the nation, had an official budget of only $6 billion. And obviously, those financial losses, even if offset in part by the federal government, I mean, that's a cost New Yorkers will be paying for a very, very long time. Yeah, sounds like it.

Dave, thanks for reporting. Thanks for having me. That was Daily Wire contributor, David Marcus. Is your business selling a little or a lot? Shopify helps you do your thing, however, you chiching. Shopify is the global commerce platform that helps you sell at every stage of your business, from the launch your online shop stage,

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firing the country's home secretary after she criticized the demonstrations. Here with the latest is Daily Wire Senior Editor, Cabot Phillips. So Cabot, a massive shakeup in the UK, which has been home of some of the largest anti-Israel demonstrations in the world just this past month. What do we know? Well, this weekend we saw some stunning images coming out of London, where hundreds of thousands of people marched in solidarity with the Palestinians and Hamas, demanding a ceasefire and calling on British leaders to cut off all support of Israel. For context, some have estimated this could be the single largest protest in British political history. While organizers and many in the media said the event was mostly peaceful, we did see a number of violent moments, as a number of participants lopped fireworks and rocks at police, and others clashed with right-wing counter-protesters who said they were there to protect historical monuments from desecration. Throughout the day, attendees went viral online after yelling things like death to all Jews, while others chanted Kaibar, a reference to a battle in 628, in which Muslim soldiers slaughtered Jews in Saudi Arabia.

In one especially shocking incident, an angry mob surrounded British cabinet minister Michael Gove in a train station. You can hear the chaotic scene as police rush in to push back the crowd and evacuate Gove. All told, around 150 people were arrested throughout the weekend, while police say they're investigating an untold number of anti-Semitic hate crimes that took place throughout the day. And it's worth noting, the demonstrations took place on Armistice Day. It's the country's equivalent to Veterans Day here. A number of World War I and two monuments were to face throughout the day. the weekend, outraging many British leaders, especially those on the right. Now, let's get to the response to these demonstrations, because that's what led to this historic

action from the country's prime minister. What happened there? Yeah, so throughout the last month, one of the loudest voices speaking out against these anti-Israel protests has been Suella Braverman, the country's home secretary. Braverman serves as the country's head of law enforcement and denounce the demonstrations as a, quote, hate march. She also accused police of, quote, double standards in dealing with these anti-Israel protesters and has called on the country to shut the event down before it took place. Breverman has spoken extensively in the past about the country's immigration crisis and pushback on what she calls the dangers of multiculturalism.

Inadequate integration and a misguided dogma of multiculturalism have proven a toxic combination for Europe over the last few decades. And then in an op-ed last week, Breverman wrote that the protests this weekend were, quote, not merely a cry for help for Gaza, but an assertion of primacy by certain groups, particularly Islamists. Critics accused her of Islamophobia and intolerance, claiming she was emboldening the so-called far right.

While Prime Minister Rishi Sunak initially appeared to side with her, he also called for police to shut the protest down last week. As calls for her resignation mounted, he did succumb to the pressure and fired her Monday. Sunak also replaced a number of other high-level cabinet members, most notably bringing in former Prime Minister David Cameron to serve as foreign secretary. So quite the restructuring in the UK.

Right. Now, all of this comes amid a broader debate over the country's immigration policies. How does that play into this? That is an important part here for sure. It's worth remembering that Britain is experiencing a migrant crisis of their own, as millions have been welcomed into the country

legally and illegally in recent years. Last year, for context, around 1.2 million people entered the country. That's just what officials disclosed. And while that may not sound like much compared to America, remember that Britain's population is around one-fifth the size of ours, so that is the equivalent of six million people entering the U.S. in one year,

roughly three times what we saw last year state side. And in Britain, those migrants have come predominantly from Muslim countries in Africa and the Middle East. Critics in the UK have long warned of the potential unrest that mass immigration could have there, pointing out that many of these new residents do come from cultures that do not embrace Western notions of free speech, women's rights, religious liberty, etc. there is no question that many of those taking part in and leading these protests this month are recent migrants, which has just put a new spotlight on the immigration debate in the country. Right. This is a debate that's happening across Europe. Cabot, thanks for reporting.

Any time. Ahead of the government funding deadline this Friday, House Speaker Mike Johnson has proposed a two-step temporary measure. The bifurcated continuing resolution would fund some agencies through mid-January and others until early February. Johnson says his plan, would help separate funding debates on things like border security and Ukraine aid. But Democrats and some Republicans have signaled that they'll vote against the Speaker's Stop Gap proposal. Here to discuss the spending battle is one of those Republicans, Texas Representative Chip Roy. Congressman, thank you for joining us. Speaker Johnson has put forward

sort of a compromise funding bill here. First, where do you stand on it? He's a good man, he's a good friend. But to put forward a bill that will continue the spending levels that were adopted in the massive omnibus spending level last December, $1.7 trillion bill, annual $1.6 plus trillion of spending, and perpetuate the policies, even more importantly, whether you're talking about abortion, tourism, a DOD, and transgender surgeries, and DEI and critical race theory, whether you're talking about wide open borders. The list goes on and on. I am opposed to doing that.

I can swallow doing some of those things if you're getting meaningful change, but not perpetuating the same damn policies for $60. to 75 days. So I'm going to fight it at every turn this week. And we need to go back to the drawing board and do our job, which is to send something that actually cuts spending, actually deals with the border, actually does some of the things we said we were going to do. Otherwise, we might as well hand the damn gavel over the Democrats. And what exactly would that look like? You say cut some spending and increase funding for border security. Is that correct? Well, yeah, the bill that we put forward back in September would have cut spending by 8% for

non-defense, non-veteran funding and secured the border with the HR R2. We then had a different version later. We actually had some conservative opposition to those things because they did not like the idea of a continuing resolution. Well, fine. I don't love the idea of it either. But here we sit. And what I'm not going to do is perpetuate the same thing and move to kick the can down the road and maintain the status quo. We put together something this last week that we thought would have gotten 217 Republican votes that would have yes, bifurcated the so-called CR, that is, continued resolution into pieces. The purpose, the purpose. The president of purpose of which was to isolate DHS spending so we could have a fight on the border. But that didn't

happen. And then all we got was the same spending levels instead of cuts. We wanted to have some spending cuts in the form of paying for the supplemental disaster of FEMA spending that they added to the tune of $16 billion a month ago. And unfortunately, they didn't include that. And by the way, they added a full extension of the farm bill until the end of September, which by the way is food stamps, does nothing about Chinese Communist Party ownership of land, does nothing to make sure that small business and ranchers and farmers are able to stand up against big ag, and they just want us to keep doing the same old, same old.

And nobody send me here for that. If a handful of Republicans agree with you, then it looks like we're heading toward another impasse. Do you see a potential compromise solution coming in the next few days? Well, I think right now where we're headed is either conservatives get rolled and a deal is cut with Democrats, which would be a colossally bad idea, or we go back to where we think we should be,

which is you've got to pick a fight and go sell to the American people, and you either pick a fight, say, on the border and force change or pick a fight on some other important issue, spending cuts. Or you do, like I said, we were trying to do, which is try to thread the needle and be able to say, look, if you want to extend this a little longer and have a debate over another issue, then you need to get some spending restraint

and you need to set up the right fights come January. And so, look, I don't think it's looking good. And if it does end up getting done in the next couple of days, I can promise you it ain't going to be a good bill because it means that, frankly, conservatives would have gotten rolled. We'll see how the speaker navigates this battle. Congressman, thank you so much for joining us. That was Texas Republican Chip Roy.

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