Posted on 09/26/2023 6:26:26 PM PDT by CFW
"[I]f there were a right to shelter embedded in the State Constitution, all county and local municipalities upstate would be compelled to provide shelter to any and all migrant asylum seekers within their borders," he wrote.
AStaten Island judge on Tuesday ordered that immigrants be removed from a former school that had been used as a shelter, siding with Republicans who had challenged the housing effort.
New York City is currently struggling to address an influx of illegal immigrants, who have flocked to the sanctuary city and overwhelmed its housing capacity. More than 110,000 illegals have arrived in the Big Apple in the past year, of which about 13,000 arrived due to an effort by Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott to bus illegal immigrants to sanctuary cities amid a broader surge in border crossings.
At issue in the case is New York City's use of the St. John Villa Academy building as a temporary migrant shelter and has moved hundreds of people into the building. Staten Island Supreme Court Justice Wayne Ozzi ordered the removal of the illegals housed in there, asserting that a "right to shelter" likely does not exist in the state constitution, Fox News reported.
"[I]f there were a right to shelter embedded in the State Constitution, all county and local municipalities upstate would be compelled to provide shelter to any and all migrant asylum seekers within their borders," he wrote. "Obviously they have not. A right to shelter, if it exists, would apply statewide, not just in New York City."
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110,000 geeze, NY officials are a bunch of pikers!!!!
The people of my old home town Staten Island are Republican hostages. Those that say ‘They are getting what they vote for have no idea what Staten Island is all about.
But NYC is a “sanctuary city!” Didn’t the proponents of that charade take housing into account in the past? Of course, that was when a few dozen “asylum seekers” trickled into the city per yr. Now it’s an in-your-face assault so it’ll be hard for the bleeding hearts to ignore the monstrosity the sanctuary city movement has created.
Let’s triple it.
Same could be said for Illinois.
I say quadruple it, at least. What's the old saying?
Misery loves company? Everybody in NYC needs to be as miserable as possible.
It's a liberal state of mind anyway.
My husband was born on Staten Island.
THIS IS GREAT. Force someone to surrender and come to the conclusion that this isn’t working out well.
Staten Island, where this is happening, is very conservative. Voted Zeldin over Hochul 2 to 1. Have talked about seceding from NYchitty for a while now.
I wish them the best of luck seceding. Unfortunately for them they're in the middle of the shif storm that's only going to get worse. Best they can do is stay on top of it as best they can. The rest of that place needs to reap the whirlwind they created.
Staten Island is a block of sanity. For a long time, parts of Long Island and upstate were, too. The crazy was contained to NYC.
Then it spread, like a zombie virus.
God bless the Republicans held hostage in NY.
Well, those mongrels are here to stay, so we may as well get as many of them as possible to blue cities. If anybody should suffer for this debacle/collapse of a nation, it should first be those who cause it.
desertsun.com
Christopher Damien
Palm Springs Desert Sun
Sept 25, 2923
Sheriff’s deputy caught with 520,000 fentanyl pills
Jorge Oceguera-Rocha was middleman for Mexican cartel
Prosecutors filed two felony charges Monday against a Riverside County sheriff’s deputy accused of carrying more than 100 pounds of fentanyl in his vehicle. They also alleged for the first time that he had likely ties to a Mexican drug cartel.
Jorge Oceguera-Rocha, 25, was charged with one felony count each of possessing fentanyl for sale and transporting narcotics. He’s also accused of being armed with a loaded firearm during a drug offense, which could get him a longer sentence if convicted.
Oceguera-Rocha, who resigned after being pulled over and arrested Sept. 17, appeared in court in Banning on Monday and pleaded not guilty to all charges.
The Riverside County Sheriff’s Department filed a request to increase his bail to $5 million soon after his arrest, saying he’s a flight risk because of the possible connection to a Mexican drug organization. The Riverside County District Attorney’s Office said Monday that a judge granted that request at the time, but added that it will be reviewed during a court hearing at a future date.
Last week the sheriff’s department said in a news release that it had been investigating a drug ring when it identified one of its own employees, Oceguera-Rocha, as playing a central role in transporting narcotics in the county.
It then opened an investigation into him in September, according to an affidavit filed in court Monday along with the prior bail request. The documents include details about the investigation that had not previously been made public.
Investigators intercepted Oceguera-Rocha’s phone calls and on Sept. 16 learned he was planning to travel to an “identified narcotic stash location” in Victorville, sheriff’s department Investigator Joshua Ricard wrote in the affidavit.
At about 1 p.m. that day, investigators saw Oceguera-Rocha driving near Banning and a couple hours later spotted him again in San Bernardino County. At around 3 p.m., Oceguera-Rocha arrived at a home in Victorville, where he made a phone call to a family member, Ricard wrote. Oceguera-Rocha entered the garage of the home and about 10 minutes later emerged, according to the affidavit.
Investigators followed him as he drove back to Banning, and as he neared Calimesa, a “narcotics detection interdiction deputy conducted a traffic stop” near the Oak Valley exit of I-10, Ricard wrote, adding that a trained dog alerted to the likely presence of narcotics in the vehicle.
There's plenty more where those came from.
As a former Chicagoan, my heart goes out to Staten Islanders.
Staten Island is mostly Italian and Irish working class folks.
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