‘Not Sustainable’: Texas Border City Expects To Spend $89 Million On Illegal Migrants In A Single Year

El Paso, Texas, expects to shell out $89 million to support illegal migrants over the course of one year, City Rep. Isabel Salcido said during a city council meeting Tuesday.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has reimbursed $237,000 of the city’s expenses for migrant support and hopes to receive an additional reimbursement of $5.4 million, according to a presentation given to the council during Tuesday’s meeting. The agency will also provide a $2,000,000 advance to the city.

“Hearing these numbers today, It’s clear to me and I think we can all agree that this is not sustainable to the taxpayer. It isn’t,” Salcido said.

“You’re talking about $250,000 a day; if this goes on for another year, that’s like $89 million. And I know we’re getting refunded but we’re playing catch-up,” she added

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has encountered 1,656 illegal migrants per day on average in El Paso, according to the presentation. Seventy-percent of those encountered are Venezuelan.

The reason so many Venezuelan migrants are crossing into the U.S. illegally in large numbers is due to a “perception” that they’ll be released into the country, according to a recent internal Department of Homeland Security (DHS) memorandum obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation.

In handling the influx, El Paso has chartered buses to send illegal migrants to the cities of their choosing, which include Chicago, New York City, Albuquerque, Denver and Dallas. The city has bused over 3,800 illegal migrants at a cost of around $1.8 million.

https://dailycaller.com/2022/09/28/texas-border-immigration/

YouTube Targets Russell Brand One Day Before His Show Debuts on Rumble

Chris Queen

British comedian, actor, and free-speech advocate Russell Brand has run afoul of the speech police at YouTube.

Brand announced on Tuesday that the giant video platform took one of his videos down for “misinformation” one day before his video show was set to debut on competing platform Rumble.

Naturally, YouTube censored him for bucking The Narrative™ surrounding COVID-19.

“Earlier this month we did a video about the changing narratives around COVID, the pandemic, and COVID treatments in which we cited information on official government websites, which we misinterpreted,” he said, as the Post Millennial reported.

“I’ll have to be careful talking about it now,” Brand continued. “I don’t want to make the same mistake that’s had one of your videos pulled down and an official warning issued.”

Brand asserted that he and his viewers have been “persecuted” for promoting what YouTube deems misinformation.

At the same time, Brand announced that his show, Stay Free With Russell Brand, would move to Rumble beginning Sept. 28. Brand removed both the original video and his apology video from YouTube and will host those on Rumble along with new episodes of his show.

“So both of those videos, you can watch right now on Rumble. They still live on Rumble. That’s the reason we’re joining them because they’re not going to censor our content,” he announced.

“I believe we’re at a point of crisis and things need to radically change fast, and I believe we’ll be able to communicate our message more freely on Rumble,” Brand continued. “And this misinformation strike and take down demonstrates exactly what it is we’re talking about. We made an error, in my opinion, a relatively small error, and we’re being penalized for it. That looks like censorship.”

Another advantage to Rumble is that video content appears on the site more quickly than it does on YouTube. Brand is promising to stream one hour a day on the platform.

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/chris-queen/2022/09/28/youtube-targets-russell-brand-one-day-before-his-show-debuts-on-rumble-n1632886