The President's Daily Brief - October 28th, 2022. Liberal “Sanctuary Cities” Continue to Be Overrun by Illegal Immigrants

Episode Date: October 28, 2022

It’s October 28th. You’re listening to the President’s Daily Brief. Your morning intel starts now. ------ FIRST UP,  The Midterm Elections are approaching and the issue of immigration is driving part of the conversation of who to vote for. We’re going to talk about the costs of that illegal migration — based on a shocking $1B claim from New York City’s Mayor. As always, I’m keeping an eye out for developing stories. Put these two on your radar. First, a wind farm in Germany is being torn down to expand a coal mine. We’ll discuss that. Second, lights are going out all across Ukraine, and so too are people joining protests all across Europe. I’ll give you both of those updates related to the War of Attrition in Ukraine. And as always, we’ve got a listener question. Today it’s about the prospect of electoral fraud in Pennsylvania. ------ Please remember to subscribe if you enjoyed this episode of the President's Daily Brief. Email: [e-mail] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's October 28th. You're listening to the President's Daily Brief. I'm your host and former CIA officer Brian Dean Wright. Your morning intel starts now. First up, the midterm elections are approaching and the issue of illegal migration is driving part of the conversation of who we ought to vote for. We are going to talk about the costs of that illegal migration based on a shocking $1 billion claim from New York City's mayor. As always, I'm keeping an eye out for developing. stories. Put these two on your radar. First, a wind farm in Germany is actually being torn down to expand a coal mine. We'll discuss that. Second, lights are going out all across Ukraine and so are people joining protests all across Europe. I'll give you both of those updates related to the war of attrition in Ukraine. And as always, we've got a listener question today. It's about the

prospect of electoral fraud in Pennsylvania. But first, let's get started with today's main brief. For the past six months, we've been talking a lot on the PDB about illegal migration and how it's overwhelmed our southern border. We are seeing record numbers of illegals crossing over about 2.3 million this year. That's according to the U.S. government's latest numbers released a week ago today. And as you likely know, that 2.3 million number doesn't include the hundreds of thousands of more illegals who are called gotaways, or those folks who stuck across the border without being caught. So this morning we are going to remind ourselves about some of the costs of those folks coming to America illegally. And we're going to start with

one city that's gotten a lot of press about this problem, and that is New York City. So to refresh our memories, the mayor of that sanctuary city, a man named Eric Adams, is now declaring a state of emergency because he's having to deal with about 20,000 or so illegals. Now when we talk about the costs, there are very obvious ones. For example, shelter. Mayor Adams is having to provide tents and hotel rooms, even considering the rental of a cruise ship and a vacant summer camp. I've shared that with you previously.

Meanwhile, he's also providing them an education. According to Mayor Adams, the city enrolled 5,500 migrant children into its public school system in just the past couple months. But that is coming at a cost. The city is already facing a teacher shortage. So the addition of thousands of new students is stretching schools to the brink. So just one example.

In the Hell's Kitchen neighborhood of Manhattan, they received over 100 migrant children this year, and it's pushed the average class size from 25 students to 38 students. In addition, most of these kids don't speak English. And without enough bilingual teachers, well, teachers are forced to spend extra time assisting these foreign students at the expense of other kids. and just to make sure that you don't think that that's my opinion, listen to the president of one of New York City's education councils, someone named Lucas Liu, who framed the problem in this way. Quote, getting 40 to 50 asylum students obviously is going to have an impact on the classroom and space in the school. And even what's happening in the curriculum.

If the teacher needs to spend extra time supporting these migrant students, well, are the other students getting the assistance that they need, in the classroom? End quote. So if you add up all of these extra expenses for the 20,000 illegals from shelter, food, schooling, medical, and so on, Mayor Adams is now claiming that he will need up to $1 billion extra dollars by the end of this year to pay for it all. Now, if you were as shocked as I was at that number, an extra $1 billion this year for 20,000 migrants, well, you you should do what I did. Triple check that number because it is so outrageous to make you think that it's wrong. But I'm telling you it's not.

That is what he's claiming, according to the mayor's office and media reports from CBS, ABC, Fox News, and others. And it's just shocking and worth repeating, actually, one billion extra dollars for one city with 20,000 migrants, when the whole of America has just had 2.3 million and, counters in the last year. Look, as bad as that is, and it is, there's another big cost here that we're missing. It might impact you directly or someone you love. So to understand what this risk is, I want you to ask yourself this. What do these 20,000 migrants do during the day?

What keeps them busy? Well, many try to find work because either they want to or they need to, especially if they're supporting family back in their home countries. But that's a problem. You see, most of these 20,000 illegals in the New York City area are asylum seekers. And according to U.S. law, asylum seekers are not allowed to work for at least 180 days after they apply for asylum. And if they do get a job before that time, well, that jeopardizes their asylum applications. But, you know, many of these illegals are doing it anyway.

That's the finding from an investigative report by Blue. Bloomberg news out earlier this week. And what Bloomberg found was that these illegals are gravitating towards jobs like those in construction, restaurant kitchens, delivery services, and childcare services. And that's because those industries largely pay in cash and require little to no documentation. Now, some of us might be tempted to say, well, who cares? We, the rest of us, benefit from that cheap labor because it gives us cheap products. Or, you know, those jobs kind of stink, so I'm glad somebody wants them.

Well, with great respect, clearly that argument is not coming from an existing worker in those industries because there are people doing that work in New York City right now. And they're already getting paid low or minimum wages. And why does that matter? Well, it means that these existing workers are now having an increasingly difficult time demanding higher wages. and that's because they have this new very cheap competition in the form of these illegal migrants. And that is precisely what the Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine found in a 2017 report entitled

The Economic and Fiscal Consequences of Immigration. So what the report found is exactly what we're seeing in the New York City area this morning. If you are a low-skilled American, especially with a high school diploma or less, including if you're an immigrant who arrived just a few years ago, well, then you are substantially harmed by illegal migrants like the 20,000 now in New York City. Those illegals folks push down wages for blue-collar workers with low-skilled jobs. Let me give you but one very small example.

Bloomberg News interviewed a 33-year-old woman, an illegal migrant-seeking asylum, and she applied for a seamstress job in Manhattan, even though legally she shouldn't have. regardless, the company actually offered her a job, but at $10 an hour. Well, that is less than the city's minimum wage of $15 an hour. So that means two things. First, this poor woman is being taken advantage of and shame on that company.

Second, at $10 an hour, she is now making it harder for the other employees to demand better wages or better working conditions. And that's a really, really big deal for the people of New York City. According to the mayor's office, 37% of the city's residents are immigrants. And of that, 7% are illegals. That's about 500, 580,000 people, often very poor people who now have fresh competition. And folks, if that's happening in New York City with 20,000 illegal migrants, I want you to imagine what's happening in cities all around America. because it's worth repeating, we had 2.3 million encounters last year at the southern border,

and at least half of those folks are now in America, looking for jobs and depressing wages for our most financially vulnerable friends and neighbors. So with that, let's pivot from facts and data this morning to analysis and opinion. Because reasonable people can disagree here on what this all means, how much we should really care and what to do about it if we do care. So whenever this issue comes into the headlines, I always think of a man named Cesar Chavez. As a lot of you probably know from your history books, Mr. Chavez was born in Yuma, Arizona in 1927. He worked in the fields as a young man, and he saw a bunch of injustices.

And so he went on to found the United Farm Workers Union of America. He advocated for higher wages and better working conditions for the mostly Hispanic workers that he represented in the agricultural industry. Folks, he was viciously and tenaciously against illegal migration, specifically illegal Mexican migrants coming across the border to work, who undermined his union members, most of whom were legal Mexican workers. So if you're not aware, Cesar Chavez said and did stuff back the 1960s and 70s that would frankly make us blush today. So his brother, for example, set up what they called wet lines to stop or beat up illegals trying to cross over. from Mexico. In other words, they were Hispanic vigilante groups targeting other Hispanics. Plus, Cesar Chavez called these illegal border crossers, illegals, and much, much worse. In fact, there's one infamous exchange with a co-founder of his union, a woman named Dolores Huerta.

She was objecting to his use of the words wetback and illegals, saying, quote, the people themselves aren't illegal. The action of being in this country maybe is illegal, end quote. Well, Chavez snapped back at her saying, quote, you guys get these hang up about words. Damn it, how are we supposed to build a union? They're wets, you know, they're wets, and let's go after them, end quote. That's some pretty inflammatory stuff.

By the time he died in 1993, some people argue that he shifted his positions on what language is appropriate to use in this debate or whether America should let illegals in. But the point remains then and now. There are very serious and profound costs to a country, to a city, to an economy, and of course, to Americans and our lives, when you have no functional borders. And instead, you embrace a policy of, well, if you can get here, you can stay here. And that's what we're seeing this morning all across America, from New York City to Yuma, Arizona. Folks, we have overwhelmed schools and American kids who are not learning as well as they could.

We have overburdened hospitals and doctors who are taking on new patients, which delays care for others. And all told, and boy, boy, we should say this again, in New York City, all of those costs are going to run about a billion dollars just for one year. But there's another cost, isn't there? It's a cost for working class America, like a seamstress in Manhattan, working for 15 bucks an hour who had been hoping to get a raise. But then, as Bloomberg's investigation showed, a 33-year-old illegal migrant showed up, desperate, and was offered 10 bucks an hour. So now our native seamstress has got some very cheap competition.

Look, I deeply and completely appreciate the counterarguments here. like cheap labor means cheap produce or cheap clothes for consumers like you and I. And as always, I defer to you on whether that's an overriding argument here. But I think it's important as we wrestle with this to think about that native-born seamstress or the legal immigrant who's been here for 20 years. We need to think about them, the working class of America. They should count for something. because when so many of us don't work next to them in, say, America's fields or factories,

it's pretty easy to forget about them. But if you're ever tempted to, just remember this. Their pain of lower wages or lost job shouldn't be our gain. Coming up, ladies and gentlemen, a closer look at what's on my radar. Two quick briefs for you, one on a wind farm in Germany and the other on the war in Ukraine. We'll be right back. Yama Vah Resort and Casino at San Manuel is California's number one entertainment destination for today's superstars. Catch the Jonas Brothers return to the Yamava Theater stage on April 30th,

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of the war in Ukraine. So Germany's government decided to authorize a nearby coal mine to expand their operations, which requires that the wind turbines be taken down, again, so that the ground can be properly mined. Well, as you can probably guess, environmental activists and the local government are both outraged, saying that it's a step in the wrong direction as the globe needs to tackle climate change. But with lawsuits now exhausted, the opposition is out of tools to stop the mine's expansion. The point, of course, is that if the wind turbines were providing sufficient electricity on a reliable basis, they would still be there. You wouldn't need to mine the coal or even have the coal plant, but you do. And it's a sobering reminder that as we push hard

into the renewable or dirty green energy revolution, that perhaps a bit of caution might be in order. Maybe we should be learning some lessons from our dear friends in Germany. Second, and speaking of the war in Ukraine, a couple pieces of news on that front. First, we've got continued bad news for the citizens of Ukraine, with Russia stepping up its bombings over the past 24 hours on Ukraine's power plants and electricity grid. The capital city of Kiev or Kiev has announced that instead of four-hour blackouts each day as planned, well, that's going to be extended for hours beyond that because of these latest bombings. So how many more hours will they have to go without electricity?

Well, as of this morning, we don't know. No one does, apparently. The damage is still being assessed, and city officials have promised and updated as soon as they know more, but as of this morning, they don't. Which takes us to the second notable update out of Europe for our war in Ukraine. We're getting reports from the Wall Street Journal and European press that citizens in Belgium, the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Germany are all taking to the streets in protest, either outraged by the high cost of living, especially energy prices, or demanding an end to the war in Ukraine.

And that's especially true in Eastern Germany, which for my history buffs, you all know that that area used to be under then-Soviet Union control for many years. So there's a degree of affinity and support for Russian interests in that part of Germany. Still, polls are showing fairly consistent support for Europe's efforts to support Ukraine, these protests, while notable and persistent, don't seem to be taking off on a mass scale. Now, that could change as the winter arrives and folks start shivering from a lack of heat, or businesses continue to struggle with high energy prices. And to that point, and listen to this, the head of the IFO Institute, which is an economic think tank that advises the German government, they're highlighting that one out of every four

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days to count a vote, well, weird things tend to happen. So let me first get everybody caught up on what Jack's referencing. Pennsylvania's acting secretary of the Commonwealth, a woman named Leah Chapman. She was on a TV show called Meet the Press, and she was asked by the host, well, how long might it take to have a final tally of the votes after the upcoming midterm elections. And Ms. Chapman replied by saying, days, well, it's really hard to estimate. So she claimed that it's because of a state law restricting when mail-in ballots could begin to be counted. So she said, the process of counting will take some time, definitely not on election night.

And then she added, quote, delays in results do not mean anything bad is happening. I mean it doesn't mean that ballots are showing up out of nowhere, end quote. Well, I mean, maybe, but I've got to say I share Jack's concern, alarm, and frankly, mistrust. Generally speaking, the longer that you wait from the time of voting to the announced results, well, the greater the chances that something rotten is going to happen. It just logically, that's true. It doesn't mean that it will. It just means that the probability rises.

So will that happen in this case in Pennsylvania? I don't know. But what I do know is that reasonable people start to lose trust in the process when these delays happen. So Jack, here's my counsel. And frankly, to everybody, vote. Vote in November. And whatever comes after that, most especially for my friends in Pennsylvania, it seems like some laws might need to be changed or y'all might need some more ballot counters.

because waiting for days or who knows how long because it's really hard to estimate, well, that's just unacceptable. And not for Democrats or Republicans and not just for Pennsylvania, but for the country. Folks, we can do better than that. And if someone tells you that it's difficult or impossible, well, then frankly, something very suspicious is probably going on. And that, ladies and gentlemen, concludes your morning brief. As always, we close out the show.

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