The Highwire with Del Bigtree - MIGRANT SURGE: MISPLACED CHILDREN AND COMMUNITIES IN CRISIS

Episode Date: October 23, 2024

The impact of the migrant crisis on local resources has hit an unprecedented level and even the mainstream media are reporting the outrage. Hear about the agencies that are coordinating this mass infiltration and the terrifying scale of child endangerment.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-highwire-with-del-bigtree--3620606/support.

One of the biggest conversations, not only in America, but other countries as well, is some of the results of the unchecked migration coming into the countries. And remember, people that brought up anybody, whether it was government or media, that brought up legitimate concerns that surrounded this where, you know, let's take us through the kind of attacks. It was first, it was you're a racist, then it was your far right, whatever. But now something's changed. Local media is actually being forced to cover these points in balanced ways. look at this. All right. We're talking about the impact the migrant crisis is having on Massachusetts resources. New York City planning to continue using pricey Manhattan hotel rooms to house some of the city's 200,000 plus migrants. The governor announced over the weekend she plans to turn a former

state president in Norfolk into an emergency shelter. Influx of migrants moving to Logan's board causing some government officials there to speak out saying the current growth is not sustainable. More than 6,000 people still live in city-run migrant shelters. August of 2022, the city of Chicago has spent more than $400 million, according to the city's spending website. New York City going to close the Randall's Island migrant shelter by the end of February. However, the city is now looking for 14,000 hotel rooms to shelter migrants all the way through 2025. 25% of the city's hotel stock is now dedicated to migrants. That's an insane number. We got 150 right now, New York City hotels being.

taken over by migrants. The cost is 2.3 billion. No, it's closer to five billion. For several months, we've been reporting on a hotel in Taunton that has really absorbed a lot of the migrants as they have come to our area in the Bay State there when they started showing up last April. That hotel was turned into an emergency shelter. Among those migrants are about 60 school-age children who are now in school in the city of Taunton. The overall growth of school enrollment jump up. nearly 150 kids in three years. This year, there are 207 Haitian students in Logan Sports schools up from 14 in 2021.

We got kids who go to school who cannot sit in the classroom. They've never had any kind of schooling. The language gap. The language barrier is a big challenge. I don't think our school system can contain that many and can sustain what they're doing right now. This story every time I watch it blow.

I mean, I think of the movie Idiot. every time. Only idiots would allow a nation decide to run a country this way. Let's just let hundreds, like just hundreds of thousands in New York alone. And that's a major city with luckily enough hotels. Las Vegas would probably be a good stop too. Let's see all the major cities. But then you have all the small towns. For what? For what? And you know the question I'm asking myself, Jeffrey, is honestly, like what great atrocity is happening? You know, you know, you know, in these other countries of these people that need to come here that's worse than it was a year ago or five years ago or 10 years ago or 20 years ago.

I mean, I get it. There's other nations that have difficulties, but there's rules to how you come in here. There's rules on what you need to be able to provide and just giving up our hotels at top-rated, expensive hotels. And guess what? Those hotels aren't taking a discount. You know, for a fact, they're not saying, oh, we'll take it. half price on everything. Go ahead and just have a move in here. You know they're paying top

dollar for it. This is just pure madness. Yeah, and it seems like the hotel owners probably are making a lot of money off this. I'm sure. Income as well, because they don't have to shop on Expedia or wherever they go to make sure they can fill the rooms that night. But we saw this. Guaranteed, when this is all over, our government, meaning we taxpayers are going to get a giant bill for new carpets, new paint, and total renovations of every single one of these hotels. One of them is finally all over when some sanity kicks in this country. And we saw a change in March of this year when outlets like CNN, who has been just sympathetic to the Biden administration and almost a propaganda arm, never saying anything bad,

started to write headlines like this. Joe Biden promised to absorb two million asylum seekers in a heartbeat in 2019, he now faces an immigration crisis. So that was kind of a signal that things were about to change. They needed to change. And you saw at that point, Mexico stepped up enforcement on their end and their country of migrants coming across to the U.S. border. And then the Biden administration in June, just a couple months later after that article, tightened some of the asylum seeking restrictions for people coming. And in September now, just last month, the latest numbers, we're at an all-time low of border, they call them encounters. People still coming over the border. However, the last three to four years have looked like this.

This is just the beginning of this year, to give you an idea how close we are to this. Authorities encountering record number of migrants at the border each day amid unprecedented surge. And on the other side of this coin, there's this headline out of Newsweek. USC's biggest yearly surge in immigrant population for 20 years. Now, these are people that are coming legally. And this is mostly from China, India, and Mexico making up those numbers. So you have these two stories converging, illegal versus legal. But one of the big stories is the parole program.

And it's hitting small towns. And these are being affected. Downtrotten towns in the U.S., former mill towns that have closed, and they never really restarted back up, things like that. This is the headline, how 2,000 Haitian migrants change Rust Belt Town of Charleroy, Pennsylvania. How did that happen? Well, for the last two years, there's been what's called a mass parole program for Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguan's, and Venezuelans. And collectively, it's called the CHMB program.

And that was paused. So how that worked was if you were in one of those countries, you can basically just fill out a form, answer some questions, and you get a ticket to fly anywhere you want into the United States. and then you'll have to show up at some point for a parole, you know, immigration check to see if you can stay in the country. But you get that plane ticket and you can come here. And that program was paused in August for three weeks because massive fraud was shown. People were filling out the same address on thousands of forms.

You had people answering the same questions exactly the same on tens of thousands of forms. So, I mean, it was a rubber stamp process. But nonetheless, they started it back up. And you can see here in this program, this is the Customs and Border Patrol's own website. It says through the end of August 24, nearly 530,000, Cubans, Canadians, arrived lawfully on commercial flights who were granted parole under these processes. The reason this was formed is Biden administration said, hey, maybe if we do this, people won't be legally across the border trying to get into the country.

So this thing was this commercial flight program, parole program, was surged. And what was happening was the people coming from this. program were being placed in these towns. And so now you get stories like this. This is out of the City Journal just last week. It's called a troubled place. In Charlotte, Rhode, Pennsylvania, the local population grapples with a surge of Haitian migrants. Now, there's just over 4,000 people in this town, so they're being inundated with about 2,000 Haitians, according to local officials. So you can understand what that does. And it says in this article in recent years, a debate has raged about, quote, replacement migration, which has left some left-wing critics,

have dubbed a racist conspiracy theory, but in Charlotte, Roy, replacement is plain reality. And what are they talking about with that? Remember, in 2000, we covered this several times on the show. There's a United Nations document made from their population division, the Department of Economic and Social Affairs from the UN, and it's literally called Replacement Migration. And it's kind of just wargaming these scenarios. Well, we can probably do this, but we're going to have to make sure the social and political fabric of these regions can absorb this, and are ready for this, but I think we can do this because they say they need to help economies because of an aging population. So we need to bring in all of these migrant families and everybody

so that can keep the economy up. And that same talking point, a lot of people say, well, that's a conspiracy theory, but it's interesting because that same talking point is on the lips of people in major power positions in our government, one of them, Chuck Schumer, Senate Majority Leader. Take a listen to this. The only way we're going to have a great future in America is if we welcome and embrace immigrants, the dreamers, and all of them, because our ultimate goal is to help the dreamers, but get a path to citizenship for all 11 million or however many undocumented. There are here.

11 million an hour, whatever, I've lost count. The only way, the only way. Look, I mean, we know we have a melting pot in America is what makes it beautiful. But to allow illegal, you know, migration, like you have. no border and I've been to the border by the way there's nothing happening there except all right and they come across with no ID we don't know who they are we don't ask to figure it out we put them on planes ship them all of the country it's purely crazy and then to say the solution then is to just give them citizenship because that's going to really you know halt the the the the

on flowing march towards our country mean at some point you got to say it doesn't work this way you're not going to be allowed in you got to go a legal route like any other intelligent nation or business would run its front door. Maybe we should put the heads of Kellogg's on our border, and they can block migrants from coming in, since they'll block children who are just trying to ask for healthy food. So you have these people in power positions, like Biden, like Chuck Schumer there, and they're saying what they're saying,

and they're allowing these surges to happen. They're saying we need to legalize everyone, however they get here, we legalize them. But then there's a whole other So we go back to the City Journal article and we look and it talks about the NGOs and the non-governmental organizations. They're providing the migrants coming here with resources. They're called National Resettlement agencies. And it says in this article, these agencies are affiliated with more than 340 local offices nationwide and have received some 5.5 billion in new awards since 2021.

And because they are technically non-governmental institutions, they are not required to disclose detailed information about their operations. So again, at almost every level, you see a lot of secrecy here, not a lot of official reporting. And the scale of sophistication we're seeing, you know, we see that UN document and people say, well, that was just an idea. And now you're seeing a lot of people come over the border. Well, they're just trying to escape, you know, their country because there's bad things happening there. But there is this major level of official sophistication all the way from the Darian Gap. We have Michael Yan on to talk about that all the way to the United States. And it's at every level this has been set up and coordinated, you know, really with a fine-toothed comb.

So we look at this map. This is for the fiscal year of 2024 with these resettlement agencies. You can see how many there are here in the United States. There's a handful of churches, but there's also a lot of U.S. Committee for refugee immigrants. So directly government-funded agencies that are working through this. But what's happening in Charlotte Roy, there's meatpacking company. This is just kind of one of the symptoms, but we're seeing it played out in larger format throughout the country. One of the local media here is saying feds investigating company that supplies immigrant workers for Charlewaite Meatpacking plant.

So they're investigating a staffing firm called Prosperity, that's hiring undocumented migrants for a company called Fourth Street Foods. This is a major American-wide meatpacking industry. And the court documents are showing that they're paying these undocumented workers cash under the table. They're housing them. Lots of people in one house. They're busting them back and forth to work. In fact, they found almost a million dollars in cash when the feds raided the head of this staffing agency. So there's a lot of shady stuff going on here.

So it seems like it's blossoming in these cottage industries of people taking advantage of the fact that these people are here illegally. Also going on, now let's move away from Pennsylvania. We have Logan Sport, Indiana. Headlines, same thing coming out of there. Loganport officials say immigrant population growth unsustainable. But this is another angle here, talking about resources and impacts on communities. It says in the article, Cass County Health Department administer Serenity Alter told the Cass County Commissioners during their September meeting that new students are coming to Logan Sport schools in large numbers. A lot of them are

coming unaccompanied, Alter said. Altar sits in a meeting with the new children enrolled in the school district and hears directly from the children as they describe their journey to the city. Quote, they fly from Haiti to Nicaragua to Mexico and then to the state they are flying to. In the U.S., she said, some have not seen their parents in seven years. It's an eye-opener. Wow. So, this is one of the big conversations here. Whether you like what's going on, you don't like what's going on, it should matter because

this story, this story I'm about to cover here is the big black eye on this issue that no one can look away from. It should just cut right through party lines. This is the headline here. It went and gone. It came and went. Not a lot of people reported on it. Biden-Paris administration loses track of 320,000 migrant children with untold numbers

at risk of sex traffic and forced labor. In the article, it says as of May 2024, there are 291,000 migrant children who arrived in the U.S. as unaccompanied minors who were set free and never given a date to appear in immigration court, meaning there's no way to track their whereabouts. It goes on to say, that is. is in addition to 32,000 children that Immigration and Customs Enforcement authorities released into the U.S. with hearing dates, but then failed to show in court, according to the 14-page report, which tracked a period from October 2018 to September 2023. So we go to that report, and again, this report is not

a politically charged report. It's not made by a right-wing or left-wing group. It's made by the actual Inspector General's Office of the Department of Homeland Security. So it's made in August. So just a couple months ago of 2024, and this was under the headline, it was an alert. So this was like, hey, you've got to pay attention to this. And they concluded this, based on our audit work. And according to ICE officials, unaccompanied UCs is unaccompanied migrant children who did not appear in immigration court are considered more at risk for trafficking, exploitation, or forced labor. They know this. And they're saying this is an alert. Immigration court hearings are often ICE's only opportunity to observe and screen unaccompanied

migrant children for trafficking indicators or other safety concerns, but not issuing NTAs, those are noticed to appears, to all UCs, ICE limits its chances of having contact with unaccompanied migrant children when they are released from HHS's custody, which reduces opportunities to verify their safety. So they're basically saying, look, you drop the ball here and there's a lot of children at risk. We have no way to verify their safety. You have no idea what's going on with them. And from our understanding of how this works at the border, there is a huge risk that these children are being trafficked, forced labor, or even worse.

Wow. I mean, that's really the horrifying part of this. And for anyone that says, oh, it's a humanitarian way to handle it. I'm telling you, as I've said, have been down to the border, we are letting the drug cartels run our border policy. Women and children are being raped, you know, on their journey here. And you hear all of these stories, these children, you know, what they just admitted to there, that some of these children haven't seen their parents in years, then who have they been seeing? What coyotes are using them? We hear these stories of the same kids. I say we see the same kids being used by different

families as they come across the border. And then how many do end up getting sent to an address that is just trafficking them for God knows what horror? And somehow we look the other way is that this is just the best we can do in a modern society. It's the greatest country in the world. You know, I need to move on because this issue is one that is just really so disturbing because, you know, you think of your own children, you think of, you know, what life you want every child to be able to experience. This is just not what we should be representing.