The NGO's financing the start of all this must be shut down. If you threaten or harm human beings or damage property, you must be arrested. If you are illegal, you get deported. It's FAFO time.
Waving Mexican flags, surrounding ICE buildings, throwing rocks at police cars is giving a loud middle finger to America and Americans. I am done tolerating the lack of understanding of what it takes to live here. If the powers that be don't act now, we may never be able to return to a normal America.
I'm Catholic, too, and have given money to Catholic Charities in the past, usually when there's an emergency situation in some desperately poor country. Are they given to subsidizing illegal immigrants?
CC does some very good work, but they have also played a significant part in encouraging and facilitating illegal immigration. Not positive about the exact numbers but according to Crisis magazine.com "According to Forbes, in 2022 Catholic Charities USA was the 13th-largest U.S. charity. Of $4.7 billion in total revenues, Catholic Charities received $1.4 billion from government support. " Much of this was to support this ongoing and most recent invasion of our country.
My understanding is that CC also funds services for these illegals outside of the US, notably in MX where they have an extensive network of facilitators and support, including instructions on how to evade ICE and make unjustified claims for asylum.
So the Big Beautiful Bill contains a 5% tax on remittances out of the country. Seems that billions and billions flow to Mexico annually and Madame President called for action against it. The last call on June 4. Coincidence?
I think he should make an announcement remittances will go up by 1% each time he needs to back-up a police department. If you’ve ever been in a Walmart Service Dept.on a Friday night, the line to do wire transfers to Mexico stretches out the door. They are furious about the Remittances, even though THEIR president taxes it coming into Mexico.
IDK. That is just what the bill says. Right now it leaves the country untouched. And it goes all over the world. Mexico and India are just the largest. Mexico does tax it as it comes in.
No. Remittances have always been tax free. The money transfer companies have an effective lobby. There was a proposal to tax the remittances back in the early 2000s, but it never went anywhere in the Senate. I don't think the House even looked at it.
Born in Ventura County in 1952, sold my tiny house in Hawthorne and left CA as LA was burning during the Rodney Kind riots. Wrote a paper in junior college during the bracero era that basically said, if you allow the illegals to stay and they become citizens, who in their right mind thinks they will vote to send their illegal friends and family home? Went back for my 40th high school reunion in 2010 and saw the Ventura County beaches and parks overwhelmed with Hispanics, both legal and illegal, and had to escape when told honkies weren't welcome. You are right when you say the numbers of illegals reported are grossly understated. SoCal? Best weather in the world. But I fear the invasion has been a success, and nothing will change, especially given the progressive political climate that cares nada about the financial mess the state and nation are in. I'll never go back.
Peachy sounds pissed off, and rightfully so. I am in LA County and far from the apocalypse that is LA City. The current riots were predictable and just in time for summer, which is riot season in California. My best guess is 90% of the rioters (the news is laughably calling them protestors) don’t give two shits about illegal aliens being rounded up by ICE. Most of these people see a mob and want to join it because inside the mob they can release their pent-up anger, destroy things, commit crimes, and get away with it. It’s cathartic, and thrilling. The other 10% are hardcore anarchists and subversives and nihilists who want to destroy society for the sake of destruction. No plan to rebuild a new society, just complete destruction. Witness the destruction and burning of the five Waymo vehicles for no reason, the endless spray painted profanities and slogans on walls, streets, every surface. Peachy is right: these anarchists want to kill cops. The only reason the anarchists aren’t using firearms is because they know they will die if they open fire with a weapon and they are too cowardly to die for their cause.
Los Angeles is gone. It’s a toilet. Let Karen Bass and the other commies on the City Council have it. Embrace and amplify. Like PIL once sang, “This is what you want, this is what you get.”
Que the movie Escape From LA. Snake Plissken is wanted on the set.
We have been watching this develop over the last few days and oh my! Kamala Harris is encouraging the mayhem and so is governor hairdo. He is actually challenging Trump to arrest him. The President of Mexico has defacto declared war on the US. FAFO people. The police chief started yesterday by saying they were not going to cooperate with ICE. The tune changed last night when the mostly peaceful rioters were trying to kill the police. "Summer's here and the time is right for fighting in the streets"
And Snake, Kurt Russell, has moved to the desert along with his long time love Goldie Hawn, because their home was invaded twice by thieves, while they were at home! And they didn't want to live with bodyguards forever.
I know exactly what you mean. In 1972 my in-laws planned to make a huge trip across the country to visit relatives in California. My husband got so excited because he had been there for two years as a young teenager when his parents tried to make a go of life in California. Sadly, it didn’t work out for them and they moved back across the country. But here was my husband all excited. “Please take an our son with you” he said. “ I want him to experience California. I wish I could go again too”. That was then. It was a wonderful, magical, beautiful place to live and work. Then.
Last night hubs and I were watching what appeared to be a CA ABC news affiliate streamed through the Chicago affiliate app. The commentary by the anchors was WILDLY wrong, but stated as obvious fact. It was quite shocking actually. Blatant propaganda. I hope enough people remember 2020 to not do the virtue signaling thing at large again. So far, nothing in my newsfeed yet, thankfully!
I wrote TV, Film, theatre in LA for 7 LONG years. I'm Latino ( no one uses the term Latin X except White Liberals) It got worse and worse every year re: homeless and number of immigrants. I left for the Red State of Fla mid-pandemic - where all of LA ( not just under all the highways) was looking like CALCUTTA ( 200 homeless tents on Beverly Drive?)
NONE OF THIS - is about - ahem - seeking "better opportunities" - not since 2020. There was a promise made to 35 million illegals ( about 25 mil of them military-trained): COME TO THE U.S. - we'll FUND your trip, provide you housing, pay for health care. You will NEVER HAVE TO RETURN. (90% of the invaders were SINGLE MALES)
The price? When we (Democrat Marxists) say the word - you must be willing to fight Americans, and destroy any city we've put you in - do WHATEVER YOU WANT - to whomever you want - we will turn a blind eye. We need you, now, for the NEW WORLD ORDER. (Funny thing is - they'll all be destroyed first thing - once the government is completely Democrat supermajority in all areas).
This is all orchestrated by the CCP, Venezuela, the DNC - with Soros and Clinton the tip of the spear, the UN, and Israel - thru NGOs - with the military violence to come all orchestrated and coordinated by the IDF.
We are about to see 200 cities in flames in the U.S...unless Trump arrests Newsom, Bass for treason - and 100,000 alien combatant foot soldiers in LA.
The only thing that's changed since the Rodney King riots of March 3, 1991 is the race of the rioters. Fortunately the African-Americans of LA have stayed in the shadows of this riot only because they agree with the deportation of all illegal aliens....unless like Mayor Karen Bass they are Communists.
I'm a gringo, my wife is Hispanic and I call our sons Rednexican. (despite many of the folks clutching for pearls when I do so). I have worked in Mexico for over 30 years, taking a good paying job away from a Mexican citizen.
Over the weekend I was on a blog regarding the riots, believe Trump decision to send in the National Guard is valid and correct, and stated such.
I was responded to with multiple comments as to being racist and why do I hate Mexicans?
What most people don't realize is that the influx of people created higher prices and lower wages. Rents (housing) rates went up in urban areas where the illegals were flown into. This created housing shortages. They drove down the labor rates in the construction trades. This put pressure on families who are citizens. If 10,000 illegals were pulled out of the carpentry trade in New York wages would go up 5-10 dollars per hour. How do I know this? I own a company that employs 250 carpenters. Why cant we give our younger adults a chance to start their own small business. Why isn't there landscaping trucks with Smith Landscaping? Why does it have to be Sanchez Landscaping. My thought is this: Ge trim of every illegal immigrant. The one s that are loved will be hidden from view by their friends. I know three or four that I would put in my house until success is achieved. I just dont feel guilty anymore about this.
I live in Brooklyn and there’s new buildings going up everywhere. Every single worker is Hispanic, and I’m sure most are illegal. Construction used to be a great union work for Americans. SUVs pull up, and Hispanic women pull coolers out and sell the guys lunch. Probably paying off their cartel debts, and no money spent in the neighborhood, of course.
One day ICE will pull up to one of those residential towers. They will empty it. The contractors will have to pay a premium for manpower. That's when the tide will turn. Believe me, there are labor brokers who charge contractors by the hour. They have 2-300 employees. I would make a bet they dont get paid overtime and the state and federal governments dont get their taxes. It's just crazy. Ninety percent of Williamsburg was built with Spanish, Go to your local bagel shop. Everyone there is Spanish working for cash , no withholding taxes, no overtime.
Years ago, when I left California for Atlanta, I was surprised here to learn that construction on a new hospital had come to a sudden halt because of a “green card check.” It was something I’d heard as a joke in the San Francisco Bay Area as a way to handle the crowds at a community college bookstore.
I think California has finally reached that Britney Spears moment where it truly qualifies for a Mental Health Conservatorship. It is no longer capable of handling its finances and, due to its diminished capacity, is also capable of great self harm.
I’m getting the feeling that, as a nation, we may have made a big, profound, mistake - or rather a series of them. People who should have known better let this happen, but we all share responsibility. We dropped our guard; we were too tolerant; we chose the wrong leaders; we let parties have their way; we ignored life-lessons.
And now we’ve put ourselves (with the insidious help of forces we neither understand or even know) in a very difficult position. Moreover, to make matters worse, we have no idea now true, representative, or significant, anything we hear or see on media really is.
Oh we actually have a good idea. It is almost all lies, almost all the time. Much of the lying is shading some element of the truth to make it sound differently ("Fiery but mostly peaceful protests") but those are lies nevertheless. I generally assume the opposite of what MSM shows and it usually turns out to be close to correct.
Everyone knew in the 60s that it was a bad idea to import Pakistanis to every corner of the world, yet it was done against our wills, and our will was made crystal clear. Now we have industrial scale rape gangs.
Nothing is as it looks. There is a reason they want us to be preoccupied with all the noise so we won't look behind the window and see what is slowly creeping up. Wonder what the greaseball Ca governor and XYZ had long chats about???
Illegal aliens are criminals because they broke the law - 8 U.S. Code § 1325 - when entering America. That is not a good way to begin a path to citizenship by breaking America’s immigration laws and there are ways to citizenship – just ask all of the many legal immigrants who came here legally: https://lizlasorte.substack.com/p/borders-and-boundaries-and-freedom?r=76q58
The NGO's financing the start of all this must be shut down. If you threaten or harm human beings or damage property, you must be arrested. If you are illegal, you get deported. It's FAFO time.
Waving Mexican flags, surrounding ICE buildings, throwing rocks at police cars is giving a loud middle finger to America and Americans. I am done tolerating the lack of understanding of what it takes to live here. If the powers that be don't act now, we may never be able to return to a normal America.
The only way to shut them down is violence.
Okay
You know the people who fund and run those NGOs are safely out of harm's way. Using the peasants to do their dirty work.
The peasants are just cannon fodder. They are are simply a tool for anonymous, America as Founded hating evil people.
It doesn't matter what happens to the peasants. Their sacrifice is for "the greater good," you know.
I am Catholic, and the first to be hit with restrictions should be Catholic Charities.
I'm Catholic, too, and have given money to Catholic Charities in the past, usually when there's an emergency situation in some desperately poor country. Are they given to subsidizing illegal immigrants?
Also, BTW: The Judge in Milwaukee that assisted an illegal in trying to avoid arrest by ICE was the past leader of CC in WI.
Oh yes, I saw that and thought that's not good. It's clearly become an NGO for progressives. Too bad for them.
CC does some very good work, but they have also played a significant part in encouraging and facilitating illegal immigration. Not positive about the exact numbers but according to Crisis magazine.com "According to Forbes, in 2022 Catholic Charities USA was the 13th-largest U.S. charity. Of $4.7 billion in total revenues, Catholic Charities received $1.4 billion from government support. " Much of this was to support this ongoing and most recent invasion of our country.
My understanding is that CC also funds services for these illegals outside of the US, notably in MX where they have an extensive network of facilitators and support, including instructions on how to evade ICE and make unjustified claims for asylum.
And next: ban the shamrock. No more ethnic symbols!
So the Big Beautiful Bill contains a 5% tax on remittances out of the country. Seems that billions and billions flow to Mexico annually and Madame President called for action against it. The last call on June 4. Coincidence?
We should make it 75%. Fuck them all. This is just another way to steal from US - to fund failed nation states.
Exactly. I had read about the money going out earlier. In May, 2024 it was so much the Mexican Federal Reserve almost could not handle it.
Schwab just withheld 25 percent of my dividend from a European Company. So what's the problem with five percent?
I think he should make an announcement remittances will go up by 1% each time he needs to back-up a police department. If you’ve ever been in a Walmart Service Dept.on a Friday night, the line to do wire transfers to Mexico stretches out the door. They are furious about the Remittances, even though THEIR president taxes it coming into Mexico.
Why only 5%?
My question too. It should be at least 25%.
IDK. That is just what the bill says. Right now it leaves the country untouched. And it goes all over the world. Mexico and India are just the largest. Mexico does tax it as it comes in.
And wasn't it George W. Bush who made them tax free?
No. Remittances have always been tax free. The money transfer companies have an effective lobby. There was a proposal to tax the remittances back in the early 2000s, but it never went anywhere in the Senate. I don't think the House even looked at it.
I don't know. I would be surprised if there was ever a tax on the remittances. But he has lots of 'explaining to do IMO so maybe.
Born in Ventura County in 1952, sold my tiny house in Hawthorne and left CA as LA was burning during the Rodney Kind riots. Wrote a paper in junior college during the bracero era that basically said, if you allow the illegals to stay and they become citizens, who in their right mind thinks they will vote to send their illegal friends and family home? Went back for my 40th high school reunion in 2010 and saw the Ventura County beaches and parks overwhelmed with Hispanics, both legal and illegal, and had to escape when told honkies weren't welcome. You are right when you say the numbers of illegals reported are grossly understated. SoCal? Best weather in the world. But I fear the invasion has been a success, and nothing will change, especially given the progressive political climate that cares nada about the financial mess the state and nation are in. I'll never go back.
Peachy sounds pissed off, and rightfully so. I am in LA County and far from the apocalypse that is LA City. The current riots were predictable and just in time for summer, which is riot season in California. My best guess is 90% of the rioters (the news is laughably calling them protestors) don’t give two shits about illegal aliens being rounded up by ICE. Most of these people see a mob and want to join it because inside the mob they can release their pent-up anger, destroy things, commit crimes, and get away with it. It’s cathartic, and thrilling. The other 10% are hardcore anarchists and subversives and nihilists who want to destroy society for the sake of destruction. No plan to rebuild a new society, just complete destruction. Witness the destruction and burning of the five Waymo vehicles for no reason, the endless spray painted profanities and slogans on walls, streets, every surface. Peachy is right: these anarchists want to kill cops. The only reason the anarchists aren’t using firearms is because they know they will die if they open fire with a weapon and they are too cowardly to die for their cause.
Los Angeles is gone. It’s a toilet. Let Karen Bass and the other commies on the City Council have it. Embrace and amplify. Like PIL once sang, “This is what you want, this is what you get.”
"release their pent-up anger, destroy things, commit crimes, and get away with it."
You left out looting...
Yes, you’re right! Too many atrocities to count…
But what will Karen Bass and the other commies on the City Council do when there is no longer any tax base to exploit?
Que the movie Escape From LA. Snake Plissken is wanted on the set.
We have been watching this develop over the last few days and oh my! Kamala Harris is encouraging the mayhem and so is governor hairdo. He is actually challenging Trump to arrest him. The President of Mexico has defacto declared war on the US. FAFO people. The police chief started yesterday by saying they were not going to cooperate with ICE. The tune changed last night when the mostly peaceful rioters were trying to kill the police. "Summer's here and the time is right for fighting in the streets"
Another nail in the coffin of Governor Slick. I know voters have short memories, but I hope this finally spells the end of Newscums political career.
and Harris's
And Snake, Kurt Russell, has moved to the desert along with his long time love Goldie Hawn, because their home was invaded twice by thieves, while they were at home! And they didn't want to live with bodyguards forever.
Good for them. I couldn't live in a city these days no matter which state. Why risk your family, or living with the additional stress levels.
When I was a relatively young adult in the 1970s, I dreamed of moving to California. It hasn't been that way for a long time. Sad.
I know exactly what you mean. In 1972 my in-laws planned to make a huge trip across the country to visit relatives in California. My husband got so excited because he had been there for two years as a young teenager when his parents tried to make a go of life in California. Sadly, it didn’t work out for them and they moved back across the country. But here was my husband all excited. “Please take an our son with you” he said. “ I want him to experience California. I wish I could go again too”. That was then. It was a wonderful, magical, beautiful place to live and work. Then.
Last night hubs and I were watching what appeared to be a CA ABC news affiliate streamed through the Chicago affiliate app. The commentary by the anchors was WILDLY wrong, but stated as obvious fact. It was quite shocking actually. Blatant propaganda. I hope enough people remember 2020 to not do the virtue signaling thing at large again. So far, nothing in my newsfeed yet, thankfully!
I wrote TV, Film, theatre in LA for 7 LONG years. I'm Latino ( no one uses the term Latin X except White Liberals) It got worse and worse every year re: homeless and number of immigrants. I left for the Red State of Fla mid-pandemic - where all of LA ( not just under all the highways) was looking like CALCUTTA ( 200 homeless tents on Beverly Drive?)
NONE OF THIS - is about - ahem - seeking "better opportunities" - not since 2020. There was a promise made to 35 million illegals ( about 25 mil of them military-trained): COME TO THE U.S. - we'll FUND your trip, provide you housing, pay for health care. You will NEVER HAVE TO RETURN. (90% of the invaders were SINGLE MALES)
The price? When we (Democrat Marxists) say the word - you must be willing to fight Americans, and destroy any city we've put you in - do WHATEVER YOU WANT - to whomever you want - we will turn a blind eye. We need you, now, for the NEW WORLD ORDER. (Funny thing is - they'll all be destroyed first thing - once the government is completely Democrat supermajority in all areas).
This is all orchestrated by the CCP, Venezuela, the DNC - with Soros and Clinton the tip of the spear, the UN, and Israel - thru NGOs - with the military violence to come all orchestrated and coordinated by the IDF.
We are about to see 200 cities in flames in the U.S...unless Trump arrests Newsom, Bass for treason - and 100,000 alien combatant foot soldiers in LA.
I think you should be substacking, or writing about current events, somewhere as well. I'd follow you!
Thanks. Coming soon! Thinking about what to call my substack...have a few ideas I'm working on
The only thing that's changed since the Rodney King riots of March 3, 1991 is the race of the rioters. Fortunately the African-Americans of LA have stayed in the shadows of this riot only because they agree with the deportation of all illegal aliens....unless like Mayor Karen Bass they are Communists.
I'm a gringo, my wife is Hispanic and I call our sons Rednexican. (despite many of the folks clutching for pearls when I do so). I have worked in Mexico for over 30 years, taking a good paying job away from a Mexican citizen.
Over the weekend I was on a blog regarding the riots, believe Trump decision to send in the National Guard is valid and correct, and stated such.
I was responded to with multiple comments as to being racist and why do I hate Mexicans?
It appears anyone who objects to Mexicans burning the city down is a racist.
Rednexican is sheer genius
What most people don't realize is that the influx of people created higher prices and lower wages. Rents (housing) rates went up in urban areas where the illegals were flown into. This created housing shortages. They drove down the labor rates in the construction trades. This put pressure on families who are citizens. If 10,000 illegals were pulled out of the carpentry trade in New York wages would go up 5-10 dollars per hour. How do I know this? I own a company that employs 250 carpenters. Why cant we give our younger adults a chance to start their own small business. Why isn't there landscaping trucks with Smith Landscaping? Why does it have to be Sanchez Landscaping. My thought is this: Ge trim of every illegal immigrant. The one s that are loved will be hidden from view by their friends. I know three or four that I would put in my house until success is achieved. I just dont feel guilty anymore about this.
I live in Brooklyn and there’s new buildings going up everywhere. Every single worker is Hispanic, and I’m sure most are illegal. Construction used to be a great union work for Americans. SUVs pull up, and Hispanic women pull coolers out and sell the guys lunch. Probably paying off their cartel debts, and no money spent in the neighborhood, of course.
One day ICE will pull up to one of those residential towers. They will empty it. The contractors will have to pay a premium for manpower. That's when the tide will turn. Believe me, there are labor brokers who charge contractors by the hour. They have 2-300 employees. I would make a bet they dont get paid overtime and the state and federal governments dont get their taxes. It's just crazy. Ninety percent of Williamsburg was built with Spanish, Go to your local bagel shop. Everyone there is Spanish working for cash , no withholding taxes, no overtime.
Years ago, when I left California for Atlanta, I was surprised here to learn that construction on a new hospital had come to a sudden halt because of a “green card check.” It was something I’d heard as a joke in the San Francisco Bay Area as a way to handle the crowds at a community college bookstore.
We can't blink. Or we will have no country. I'm in the no blink section.
Agreed. No matter what it takes. Send in the army for real.
I think California has finally reached that Britney Spears moment where it truly qualifies for a Mental Health Conservatorship. It is no longer capable of handling its finances and, due to its diminished capacity, is also capable of great self harm.
I live in Los Angeles and I support this idea.
I’m getting the feeling that, as a nation, we may have made a big, profound, mistake - or rather a series of them. People who should have known better let this happen, but we all share responsibility. We dropped our guard; we were too tolerant; we chose the wrong leaders; we let parties have their way; we ignored life-lessons.
And now we’ve put ourselves (with the insidious help of forces we neither understand or even know) in a very difficult position. Moreover, to make matters worse, we have no idea now true, representative, or significant, anything we hear or see on media really is.
Oh we actually have a good idea. It is almost all lies, almost all the time. Much of the lying is shading some element of the truth to make it sound differently ("Fiery but mostly peaceful protests") but those are lies nevertheless. I generally assume the opposite of what MSM shows and it usually turns out to be close to correct.
But, that’s a hell of a way to have to live.
The "leaders" did this and would have done it no matter what.
The only way back is to revolt. When the entire goddamned congress is locked up we can start the fix.
Everyone knew in the 60s that it was a bad idea to import Pakistanis to every corner of the world, yet it was done against our wills, and our will was made crystal clear. Now we have industrial scale rape gangs.
Nothing is as it looks. There is a reason they want us to be preoccupied with all the noise so we won't look behind the window and see what is slowly creeping up. Wonder what the greaseball Ca governor and XYZ had long chats about???
Illegal aliens are criminals because they broke the law - 8 U.S. Code § 1325 - when entering America. That is not a good way to begin a path to citizenship by breaking America’s immigration laws and there are ways to citizenship – just ask all of the many legal immigrants who came here legally: https://lizlasorte.substack.com/p/borders-and-boundaries-and-freedom?r=76q58
Peachy you are solid as a rock thank you for writing.