4 Aug, 2023 13:47

US has ‘no illusions’ about Ukrainian counteroffensive – Pentagon

Department of Defense Press Secretary Pat Ryder admits that Kiev is in for a hard fight

The Pentagon realizes that Ukraine’s counteroffensive will not be an easy task given the strong defensive positions established by Russian forces, US Defense Department Press Secretary Pat Ryder said on Thursday.

Speaking to reporters, Ryder was asked to respond to criticism that the US has been too slow in supplying Kiev’s forces with tanks, long range missiles and other weapon systems, which in turn has held up Ukraine’s counteroffensive.

The press secretary stressed that the US and its allies have been “very aggressive in providing Ukraine with a variety of capabilities”but admitted that the Pentagon holds “no illusions that this – this fight that Ukraine finds itself in – is an easy fight.”

Ryder suggested that the real issue was that Russia has had time to build up strong defenses in the territories it controls.

“Ukraine is taking the fight to them and it’s going to be a tough fight,” the official said.

He noted that theUS has been “training the Ukrainians since 2014”and that Washington is “confident” that Kiev’s forces have “significant combat capability available to them and that they're going to employ that at a time and place of their choosing.”

Ukraine’s forces launched a series of major attacks on Russian positions in early June, in what is believed to have been the start of Kiev’s much-touted counteroffensive. However, met with formidable Russian defenses and vast minefields, Ukraine has so far suffered heavy casualties, while failing to achieve any significant territorial gains.

On Friday, Russia’s Defense Ministry claimed that since launching the counteroffensive, Kiev has lost over 43,000 troops, more than 4,900 pieces of heavy weaponry, including German-made Leopard tanks and US-made Bradley infantry fighting vehicles, and some 747 artillery guns.

The slow pace of the operation and Kiev’s heavy losses have reportedly become a point of frustration for Ukraine’s backers in the US and NATO, with several Western media outlets reporting that further military support to the country could be contingent on the counteroffensive’s success.

Meanwhile, the head of Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council, Aleksey Danilov, admitted on Wednesday that Kiev does not have an exact timetable for progress in its counteroffensive, and insisted that “no one but us can impose deadlines.”

(Another ringing endorsement of the inevitable win of Ukraine by US Military and Government!KEK)

https://www.rt.com/russia/580833-us-ukraine-tough-fight/

President Trump Attorney John Lauro Discusses Special Counsel Indictment Background and Former AG Bill Barr Flawed Legal Statements

August 3, 2023 | Sundance | 290 Comments

Ugh, it’s the Mrs. Hannity show; unfortunately, it’s the venue for President Trump’s attorney John Lauro to outline the defense perspective.If you can get beyond the pontificating of Ingraham, the interview is good to see the legal context and reference points of Mr. Lauro. WATCH:

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2023/08/03/president-trump-attorney-john-lauro-discusses-special-counsel-indictment-background-and-former-ag-bill-barr-flawed-legal-statements/

https://youtu.be/sNRG-98tlWo

What if Trump Stops Playing Along?

BY ATHENA THORNE 8:34 AM ON AUGUST 04, 2023

By now, we’re used to getting the BREAKING news alerts. “Oh, Trump must have been indicted again,” we sigh, or “Huh, guess he pleaded ‘not guilty’ again.” We no longer even bother to click through. The tragic and demoralizing utterly partisan corruption of our once-great American justice system is complete, and we are in such uncharted territory that we have no clue what to do at this point.

For me, the no-longer-American justice system crossed the Rubicon when they raided a former president’s private home. That was unprecedented and tragic enough for me to lose my respect for the DOJ. And naturally, once our country tilted over the top of the waterfall, it has only picked up speed on its plunge to the disastrous chaos below.

It’s time for former — and possibly future — President Trump to grab that branch that’s sticking out halfway down and refuse to fall any further.

In Fulton County, Ga. — which was featured prominently in the film “2000 Mules” for likely illegal ballot harvesting — despicable and racialist Soros DA Fani Willis has been working on her own Get Trump! indictment. And as if the entire world doesn’t know who Donald Trump is, Fulton County Sheriff Pat Labat has promised to, at long last, secure that coveted mug shot.

“Unless somebody tells me differently, we are following our normal practices, and so it doesn’t matter your status, we’ll have a mugshot ready for you,” vowed Labat on Wednesday.

Folks, we’ve entered the part of the drama where the evil ghouls shave off Aslan’s majestic mane and mock him on the way to his slaughter. Trump is dutifully visiting the stations of the cross he bears. But Trump isn’t Jesus, and there’s no reason why he should take one more choreographed step in the Left’s disgusting dance. It’s not fair, so let’s stop pretending it is.

What if Trump simply says, “No”?

Remember, we’re cascading down the face of the cliff at this point. Every step of the way will become increasingly debasing and humiliating for the former President of the United States and front-running candidate for office in 2024 (who is, after all, the representative of the political will of half the country — you and me). What if Trump simply refuses to show up for Fani’s hate-indictment arraignment and Labat’s cuffs-and-mugshot routine?

I would pay good money to see the look of frustrated rage on the Leftists’ faces when they realize he’s not coming. Trump should force their hand. Make them send armed forces to arrest him like the thugs they are. Show the captivated world that yes, it’s true — America is gone, replaced by just another failing fascist state.

It’s not like the former president has anything to lose at this point. We all know where this is headed — Trump forcibly imprisoned. He could save himself the years of ratcheting-up humiliations and tens (hundreds?) of millions of dollars (donors’ dollars!) and just cut to the chase. Run his campaign from prison if need be against the now fully exposed fascists who put him there. The next president — even if it’s him — can pardon him and save us all the drama of this endless law-war. Shoot the moon, as they say in Crazy Eights.

Please, President Trump, do something. We remain ever grateful to you for what you did to stop the decline when you were in office. In your influence alone, you remain the most powerful leader America has today. Please lead again. Tell them you’re not going to be their gulag-bound victim, their Emmanuel Goldstein.Tell them you ain’t gonna dance no more. If they want to keep abusing their authority to attack you, don’t help them.

Don’t go to Georgia, Mr. President. Just say no.

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/athena-thorne/2023/08/04/what-if-trump-stops-playing-along-n1716116

NYT Columnist Asks, 'What if We’re the Bad Guys Here?' The Answer: Yes, You Are.

Lincoln Brown

In an op-ed piece for the New York Times on Wednesday, David Brooks had the headline, “What if We’re the Bad Guys Here?” In it, Brooks struggles with the question of why Trump has a commanding lead over the other GOP hopefuls and why he seems essentially tied with Joe Biden on a national basis. All of this despite the fact that Trump continues to rack up indictments like a grandma on a winning bingo streak at The Villages.

To his credit, Brooks does conduct a fairly exhaustive self-examination. In the piece, he enumerates the ways and provides examples of how America’s elites have lost touch with, well, everyone else. He reflects on how elitism extends to the workplace:

Over the last decades we’ve taken over whole professions and locked everybody else out. When I began my journalism career in Chicago in the 1980s, there were still some old crusty working-class guys around the newsroom. Now we’re not only a college-dominated profession, we’re an elite-college-dominated profession. Only 0.8 percent of all college students graduate from the super elite 12 schools (the Ivy League colleges, plus Stanford, M.I.T., Duke and the University of Chicago). A 2018 study found that more than 50 percent of the staff writers at the beloved New York Times and The Wall Street Journal attended one of the 29 most elite universities in the nation.

He also observes:

Members of our class also segregate ourselves into a few booming metro areas: San Francisco, D.C., Austin and so on. In 2020, Biden won only 500 or so counties, but together they are responsible for 71 percent of the American economy. Trump won over 2,500 counties, responsible for only 29 percent. Once we find our cliques, we don’t get out much. In the book “Social Class in the 21st Century,” sociologist Mike Savage and his co-researchers found that the members of the highly educated class tend to be the most insular, measured by how often we have contact with those who have jobs unlike our own.

Brooks rightly notes that the elites have manipulated the economy and the culture for their own purposes. He concludes:

But there’s a larger context here. As the sociologist E. Digby Baltzell wrote decades ago, “History is a graveyard of classes which have preferred caste privileges to leadership.” That is the destiny our class is now flirting with. We can condemn the Trumpian populists all day until the cows come home, but the real question is when will we stop behaving in ways that make Trumpism inevitable.

But scrolling up for a moment, one of Brooks’ more interesting comments was:

Like all elites, we use language and mores as tools to recognize one another and exclude others. Using words like problematic, cisgender, Latinx and intersectional is a sure sign that you’ve got cultural capital coming out of your ears. Meanwhile, members of the less-educated classes have to walk on eggshells, because they never know when we’ve changed the usage rules, so that something that was sayable five years ago now gets you fired.

This reminds me of an incident in high school. It was the last few months of my senior year. I was never in the cool kids’ clique and, to be honest, I never thought to try to join. In perfect sync with a scene straight out of the yet-to-be-made “The Breakfast Club,” a popular girl commented to me that everyone in the school looked up to her clique and wanted to hang out with them and be like them. I commented, “No, we don’t.” One of my friends piped up “We’ve pretty much just been putting up with you all this time.” The stunned silence that followed was delicious….

And don’t think for a moment that it has escaped our attention that every time someone on your side is at risk of getting their keister put in a sling, one of you manages to light your hair on fire and run around the building waving your arms screaming “Trump!” “January 6!” “White supremacy!” It’s getting tedious, sir. You need a new schtick. You don’t even know who we are.

So, Mr. Brooks, I am glad to see that the scales have fallen from your eyes, at least in the short term. Perhaps you and yours at some point may even acknowledge that we have souls. Until that day, here is a message for you to take back to the Carr’s Water Cracker crowd: the only ones who benefit from white privilege are you. Oh, and from now on, you can change your own damn oil.

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/lincolnbrown/2023/08/03/nyt-columnist-asks-what-if-were-the-bad-guys-here-the-answer-yes-you-are-n1716007

It Sure Looks Like the Saudis Are Playing Keep Away with Joe Biden

Stephen Green August 04, 2023

Our friends, the Saudis, appear to be playing geopolitical Keep Away with Presidentish Joe Biden and America’s energy security — with an assist from Russian strongman Vladimir Putin.

You remember how to play Keep Away, don’t you? Two or more kids toss a ball back and forth, with a third kid in the middle trying to intercept the ball. Oftentimes, the kid in the middle didn’t actually want to play. Two bigger kids would come along, snatch his ball, and force the smaller kid into a game he couldn’t win.

Biden is the smaller kid. The ball is oil prices. The bigger kids are Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and Putin.

Last month I reported that I’d been thinking of Biden while “filling my Jeep’s smallish 15-gallon gas tank to the tune of $50 when it still had a couple of gallons left.” Prices were way back up (and up more since then), despite Biden “emptying our Strategic Petroleum Reserve to force down gas prices in time for the midterms,” with the promise to “fill ‘er back up once prices dropped low enough.”

“Yeah, about that,” I concluded, “The SPR is probably never going to be refilled.”

What I didn’t know until this morning is that’s true in part because of actions taken by Riyadh and Moscow.

Biden released oil from the SPR at record rates in 2022. He ordered so much oil released (some of which ended up in China) that he cut our strategic reserves in half. It hasn’t been so low since 1983.

The White House plan, such as it was, was to replace the 250+ million barrels that Biden siphoned off once oil prices were “at or below $67 to $72 per barrel.”

ASIDE: President Trump asked Congress for money to top off the SPR in 2020, when COVID lockdowns forced oil prices down to about $24. “We’re going to fill it right up to the top — saving the American taxpayer billions and billions of dollars, helping our oil industry,” Trump said at the time. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi refused. Oil now costs more than triple what it did then.

Here’s where it gets funny, assuming you’re in a dark enough mood to laugh at our misfortune.

On Tuesday, the White House announced that they would not, after all, buy six million barrels to replace a tiny fraction of what Biden pissed away —because prices mysteriously shot up too far above his $72 target.

https://pjmedia.com/vodkapundit/2023/08/04/it-sure-looks-like-the-saudis-are-playing-keep-away-with-joe-biden-n1716117

Jobs Disappoint: America Created Just 187,000 Jobs in July But Wage Growth Picked Up

John Carney4 Aug 2023

Employers in the United States added 187,000 workers to their payrolls in July, the Department of Labor said Friday, less than expected.

The unemployment rate, however, fell to 3.5 percent.

In the preliminary report for June, the Labor Department had said that the economy added 209,000 jobs and the unemployment rate was 3.6 percent. The June jobs number was revised down to 185,000 on Friday.

Average hourly wages roe 0.4 percent for the month, slightly more than expected. Compared with a year ago, average hourly wages are up 4.4 percent.

Somewhat offsetting this, however, the average hours worked fell to 34.3 hours. This is the lowest since 2020. Hours worked is often considered a leading indicator of demand for labor, with declining hours indicating a softening of the labor market.

The labor force participation rate was unchanged at 62.6 percent.

Economists had forecast the economy would add around 200,000 jobs, with the range of forecasts in the Econoday survey running from 150,000 to 300,000. The wide range suggests a lot of uncertainty about the strength of the labor market.

Earlier this week, the Labor Department said that job listings came in at 9.6 million on the last day in June, just where they were in the downwardly revised figure for the end of May. Jobless claims, which are a proxy for layoffs, rose slightly last week to 227,000 from 221,000 in the prior week, figures low enough to suggest that demand for labor remains very high.

Until last month, when the jobs figure came in lower than expected, the monthly jobs numbers were repeatedly coming in higher than expected. The labor market has shown a surprising resilience in the face of rapid interest rate hikes by the Federal Reserve.

https://www.breitbart.com/economy/2023/08/04/jobs-disappoint-america-created-just-187000-jobs-in-july/

Harris: We Shouldn’t Restrict Abortion Even After Point of Viability

Ian Hanchett4 Aug 2023

During an interview with Milwaukee’s TMJ4 News on Thursday, Vice President Kamala Harris answered a question on demands for protections for the unborn at the point of viability while still allowing some abortion by stating that “the government should not be telling women what to do with their bodies.”

TMJ4 Chief Political Reporter Charles Benson asked, “Wisconsin has an 1849 abortion ban law in place after the Supreme Court decision was reached on Roe v. Wade. Prior to that, it was a 20-week ban on abortion. So, my question for you is, what is your position on protecting reproductive rights while those and others are saying they want some protection as well for fetus viability?”

Harris answered, “Let’s start with this: And I think it’s very important for us to all agree that one does not have to abandon their faith or deeply-held beliefs to agree the government should not be telling women what to do with their body. She should be able to make that decision, if she chooses, with her pastor, her priest, her rabbi, whomever. But the government should not be telling women what to do with their bodies. And so, when we look at this issue and we know that the highest court in our land just took a constitutional right that had been recognized from the women of America, from the people of America, I think we all have to step up and say that we need to have leaders lead by having some level of compassion and understanding that they should trust women to make decisions that are in their best interest and that they, women, are in the best position to know what is in their own best interest. It’s that simple.”

Benson then asked, “No laws?”

Harris responded, “It’s not about saying that — it is about saying that we need to, first of all, codify and put back into place the protections of Roe v. Wade. That is what we are fighting for. And when Congress does that, the president will sign it.”

(Every word they speak aloud is bringing the judgement of God upon them daily!)

https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2023/08/04/harris-we-shouldnt-restrict-abortion-even-after-point-of-viability/

Weeds and Undergrowth Hindering Ukrainian Counteroffensive, Says UK(More Excuses)

Oliver JJ Lane4 Aug 2023

The fact farmers haven’t been able to tend their land in warzones for a year and a half is being blamed for the slow progress of the Ukrainian counteroffensive as the weeds reclaiming the land snarl up progress.

Thick weeds and undergrowth in Ukrane’s warzones are helping to camouflage Russia’s defenses and make mines harder to detect, Britain’s Ministry of Defence explains as the counteroffensive grinds on.

While Ukrainian authorities, including President Zelensky, have at times had to explain away the slow progress of the counteroffensive, they can at least now blame the prevailing conditions on the ground. Published in one of the UK’s periodic intelligence digests, the MOD noted “Undergrowth regrowing across the battlefields of southern Ukraine is likely one factor contributing to the generally slow progress of combat”, and this was caused by 18 months of farmers being unable to access their land.

The weather was also a factor, the MOD said, saying “the return of weeds and shrubs [was] accelerating under the warm, damp summer conditions… The extra cover helps camouflage Russian defensive positions and makes defensive mine fields harder to clear.”

While the thick undergrowth was also beneficial to “small, stealthy infantry assaults”, in all it was disadvantageous to the Ukrainians, it was said.

The news of Ukrainian weeds comes amid claims their armed forces have started to abandon the NATO-standard tactics taught to them by Western nations in preparation for the counteroffensive, and are reverting to the old style. The claims come in a New York Timesreport acknowledged by Ukraine’s own state media which asserts the counteroffensive has not gone as hoped so far, but that commanders are trying to turn things around.

The NYT observes:

Ukraine’s decision to change tactics is a clear signal that NATO’s hopes for large advances made by Ukrainian formations armed with new weapons, new training and an injection of artillery ammunition have failed to materialize, at least for now.

It raises questions about the quality of the training the Ukrainians received from the West and about whether tens of billions of dollars’ worth of weapons, including nearly $44 billion worth from the Biden administration, have been successful in transforming the Ukrainian military into a NATO-standard fighting force.

As previously reported, Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky has admitted the counteroffensive is going “slower than desired” but part of the Western perspective on this was coloured by unrealistic expectations caused by a diet of Hollywood war movies. Ukraine would fight the war at its own pace, Zelensky has said, and would not “literally throw people under tanks” to expedite progress.

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2023/08/04/weeds-and-undergrowth-hindering-ukrainian-counteroffensive-says-uk/

Mark Levin: Trump’s Lawyers Should Ask SCOTUS to Stop Unconstitutional Prosecutions

Joel B. Pollak3 Aug 2023

Conservative radio host and litigator Mark Levin said Thursday on the Mark Levin Showthat Donald Trump’s lawyers should file an emergency request for the U.S. Supreme Court to stop the prosecutions of the former president.

Levin argued that Special Counsel Jack Smith, who he noted is not a presidential appointee, was using the indictments of Trump “as political weapons” to tarnish him as a candidate. He observed that Smith had asked federal judges, in both the “documents” case filed in Miami, and the “January 6” case filed in Washington, to carry out a speedy trial. That, he said, seemed designed to affect Trump’s chances in the upcoming election, and to divert Trump’s time and money from campaigning to defending himself.

“The fact is that this kind of legal warfare against a presidential and possible, if not likely, opponent to the present president, is not only unprecedented in the history of our Republic,it will destroy our electoral system for all time,” Levin argued further.

“It is not something that should be let to the various district courts or local courts to sort out in the course of regular judicial proceedings. In fact, that is part of the intended strategy by the prosecutors, who are engaged in this assault on our electoral system. They must not be rewarded for their behavior,” he said.

Levin argued that the Department of Justice, and prosecutors in New York and Georgia, were abusing the legal process, in largely Democrat-friendly jurisdictions, to tarnish the president and hurt his campaign, knowing that even if he were to be acquitted, or to overturn convictions on appeal, it would be long after the election.

“It is the process that’s the killer here, and they know it. And they’re playing the process by unloading all these indictments, by taking Trump off the campaign trail, by depleting his resources, by influencing [voters],” Levin said.

He continued: “I want to publicly encourage the Trump legal team to seek an emergency hearing before the United States Supreme Court, not to resolve legal disputes, but to at least temporarily halt the abomination of this legal warfare that is unfolding in front of us, where Democrats and anti-Trump Republicans are unashamedly celebrating the use of the courts by the Biden administration and Democrat district attorneys to further their political wishes as the rest of the nation watches in shock.”

“This unprecedented legal warfare requires an unprecedented response by the only constitutional body left that can do something about it.”

“This would not be the Supreme Court interfering in the political process,” he said. “This would be the Supreme Court defending the Constitution.”

“This is serious to the survivability of this Republic … This is one political party trying to destroy another. This is one political party trying to monopolize elections, federal law enforcement, and the entire justice system. And if they get away with it, it’s over.”

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/08/03/mark-levin-trumps-lawyers-should-ask-scotus-to-stop-unconstitutional-prosecutions/

Marc Short: Mark Meadows Was January 6 ‘Ringleader,’ He’s Likely Cooperating with DOJ

Pam Key3 Aug 2023

1:59

Former Vice President Mike Pence chief of staff Marc Short said Thursday on CNN’s “The Lead” that he believes since former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows was not named as a co-conspirator in the special counsel’s indictment, it was likely Meadows is cooperating with the Justice Department’s investigation into events surrounding January 6, 2021.

Short said, “I do think what’s different is at this point I think the prosecution probably has testimony from people around the president himself from the campaign who testified that there was not evidence of fraud that would have had a material difference to the election result. Or they’ve had people testify from the White House counsel’s office who said the vice president has no such magical authority to overturn the election, nor would we want Kamala Harris to have that authority in 2024. And you know, I think one name that’s obviously not in the indictment is Mark Meadows, who was kind of the ring leader of all of this and I think presumably there’s a lot of testimony from him as well. So I think a lot of those things are probably in the prosecution’s hands as well.”

Anchor Jake Tapper asked, “So you think, you don’t know for a fact but you think that Mark Meadows cooperated and did testify?”

Short said, “Well, I don’t know. I don’t know, Jake. But I would imagine that certainly if you look at the list of co-conspirators, you know, Mark was the ringleader bringing in the various lawyers in who had random theories about what the vice president could do, organized most of those meetings, organized the meetings with members of Congress, and so was a leader in much of those efforts that the president pursued in trying to convince the vice president of this magical authority. So the fact that he’s not mentioned I think would lead one to say, well, in light of so many of the other co-conspirators there must be some level of testimony that they have from Mark.”

https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2023/08/03/marc-short-mark-meadows-was-january-6-ringleader-hes-likely-cooperating-with-doj/

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All this speculation drives the news cycle for the media. It will back to Russia though! Kek

Sinema Rages Against Democrats for Sending Border Funds to NYC: ‘I Am Livid’

John Binder3 Aug 2023

Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (I-AZ) is raging on House and Senate Democrat leadership for successfully helping siphon taxpayer money, meant for America’s border communities, and sending it to New York City where more than 95,000 border crossers and illegal aliens have arrived since the spring of last year.

In June, as Breitbart News reported, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) bragged about securing roughly $105 million for New York City to cover costs associated with illegal immigration.

During a roundtable discussion in Yuma, Arizona, this week, Sinema blasted Jeffries, Schumer, and Democrat leadership for favoring deep blue New York City while United States border towns are bombarded with tens of thousands of border crossers and illegal aliens every few weeks.

“The reason the money is going to New York is because [the House Minority leader] is from New York and the leader of the United States Senate is from New York,” Sinema said. “That is how a bunch of money went to New York.”

“… It is wrong and unfair,” she continued.

“When I fought really hard to make sure that this money got included in the omnibus budget December of last year … we fought really hard to get this in. The money was intended, and there’s language that was put in the law that said it should be going for decompression at the border,” Sinema said:

The fact that a yeoman’s amount of this money went to New York City, in my opinion, is wrong because they are not a border state and they are not facing the kind of pressure that we are facing here. So when I hear from other parts of the country say “Oh, it’s hard. Our shelters are overwhelmed” — yeah, come live a day in the life of Yuma, Somerton, or San Luis. Just one day. [Emphasis added]

I want you to know that I am continuing to fight this, and I am livid that the administration is sending money to a part of the country that, while it has a lot of folks showing up in its shelter, they don’t have folks wandering the streets of our small towns and communities or facing heat exhaustion, showing up without basics like formula — people coming with chicken pox. What we’re experiencing here in Arizona is matched only by what folks are experiencing in southern Texas. Those are the two communities that are experiencing this crisis. The rest of the country are seeing some elements of it. But we are facing the brunt. [Emphasis added]

Meanwhile, New York City Mayor Eric Adams (D) has lobbied Jeffries, Schumer, and Biden to send his city billions in taxpayer money as migrants pile up on the streets outside of luxury hotels that he says are now filled to capacity with border crossers and illegal aliens.

“We need help,” Adams said this week. “And it’s not going to get any better. From this moment on it’s downhill. There is no more room.”

Adams, as Breitbart News reported, is considering a plan that would shut down children’s soccer fields on Randall’s Island and transform the area into a massive migrant camp that could house thousands of border crossers and illegal aliens.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/08/03/kyrsten-sinema-livid-democrats-sending-border-funds-nyc/