Upscale Residents Protest as Biden Converts Scottsdale Hotel into ICE Detention Center

 

The precinct for Scottsdale’s Homewood Suites voted for Joe Biden, 51% to 47%. Today, this upscale Arizona neighborhood regrets its decision.

Two hundred residents protested Saturday after ICE took over the recently closed hotel to house more than 1,200 illegal immigrants. No public input was requested, not even from the Scottsdale Police Department, which was notified of the decision a day before migrants were transferred.

Government usually detains the undocumented in poorer neighborhoods where they’re more easily ignored by the media. But this zip code has nearly three times the state’s median income, making it harder to hide the ongoing border crisis.

“Over the Memorial Day Weekend, we were notified about the hotel and the illegals that were moved in under the cover of darkness without any kind of consultation from the local community,” protestor Lisa Seger said.

“My wife and I drove by last night and sure enough, they have armed guards and we have pictures taken by other homeowners unloading buses with people with backpacks into the facility,” said resident Geoff Gunsalus. “So we’re concerned that none of us have been put on notice. There was no due process.”

Angry neighbors soon learned their city government has no legal authority to override ICE’s decision. The facility is closed to the public and local journalists were denied entry.

Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich wants to get to the bottom of it. “The President is using Arizona as an experiment with his reckless border policies,” the elected Republican said. “I will continue to stand up for Arizonans and do everything I can to stop the Biden Administration’s attempt to abolish ICE. All of us will pay the price, not only with our tax dollars, but also with our national security, and the safety of our families.”

He demanded DHS provide details about the process, if migrants are being screened for diseases and criminal records, and cost to the taxpayer.

When the border is protected and the problem unseen, it’s easy to support lax enforcement and vague promises of “compassion.” Last fall, the Biden sticker on your Tesla earned approving nods from neighbors and you rest assured that you were on the side of the angels. Nine months later, you’re on a 108-degree sidewalk screaming “NIMBY!” and wondering why Democrats smirk as they drive by.

Politics is funny that way.

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  1. RufusRJones Member
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    kedavis (View Comment):

    The Columbia Bugle 🇺🇸

    @ ColumbiaBugle

    It’s too late. You guys knew what you were doing when you pushed amnesty.

    I don’t know if they EVER really know what they are doing. Which is why they should never have been in office, especially not falsely.

    My new theory is the left and the Democrat party is always for more central planning and social engineering no matter what. Somebody throws out some ideas and then they see if everybody gets excited enough. You keep doing this and everything moves left all of the time.

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  2. kedavis Coolidge
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    RufusRJones (View Comment):

    RufusRJones (View Comment):
    Even then, these people are so uneducated and these places are rife with crony capitalism and economic cartels.

    I was talking to a Republican about this the other day. People need to get it straight in their heads about why people come here. Uneducated people’s labor is more valuable in the United States because these countries are run so poorly. This guy was trying to tell me that we are just losing out on their business, and they will do business in a different country. That is ridiculous. Then throw in the question if all of the remittances are so damaging to both the United States and the original country.

    Your typical Maga type will talk about tight labor markets being good for the poor and the middle class. I really hate that theory but the way the Fed, the financial system, and economic regulation is organized, we probably don’t have any alternative. We need the immigrants mathematically speaking, but we just aren’t set up for it, policy-wise.

    The other thing is, everybody that isn’t under actual one way political or religious persecution needs to go through regular immigration channels. There is no reason we should be so nice to people that aren’t going through ports of entry. Why is this so hard?

    It’s mostly because they only feel, they don’t think.

     

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  3. RufusRJones Member
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    Can you imagine ending up in Scottsdale after this?

     

     

     

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  4. Stad Coolidge
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    Kevin Schulte (View Comment):

    What if a real Governor sent his National Guard in and detained all ICE agents, followed by busses to buss the invaders to the other side of the boarder ? Then release said agents with a nasty message for their boss.

    I’d love it . . .

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  5. Stad Coolidge
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    Doug Watt (View Comment):
    Your state has no lawful authority over a US Post Office, Federal Court, Federal Office building, much less ICE facilities.

    Who said it was lawful?  Do it anyway . . .

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  6. RufusRJones Member
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    Stad (View Comment):

    Doug Watt (View Comment):
    Your state has no lawful authority over a US Post Office, Federal Court, Federal Office building, much less ICE facilities.

    Who said it was lawful? Do it anyway . . .

    No kidding. It’s absolutely amazing how many unlawful things are done these days. When you hear a lawyer explain DACA it’s absolutely mind blowing. 

    This is why Steven Miller is doing gods work with that new organization he has.

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  7. Doug Watt Member
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    Here is a battle that Arizona residents should begin to focus on now. Mark Kelly will be running to return to the Senate in 2022. The Republican Party needs to find a candidate that will not make the pilgrimage to Cindy McCain’s front door for a blessing in this election. Tie Mark Kelly to Biden’s border debacle, as well as his wife’s anti-gun rights organization, and for goodness sake try to find someone that is a good campaigner, and try to end the stand-alone campaigns that have damaged the Republican Party in the last ten or so years. 

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  8. RufusRJones Member
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    Doug Watt (View Comment):
    Mark Kelly

    Gun grabber with an engineering degree. Gigantic net worth for some reason. 

    Is he articulate about gun policy at all or is he just like the rest of them?

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  9. WI Con Member
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    Front Seat Cat (View Comment):

    That’s unbelievable – the whole immigration fiasco is unbelievable. Who is suffering here? Kids – babies. Shameful. They have no plan. Even the president of Guatemala said this mass migration is due to Biden’s policies – not “climate change and economy” – as Harris is trying to say, who knows zero about the role she is in.

    Expect more under cover of night operations – you people that voted this administration in are getting what you deserve. Unfortunately for the rest of us, we are under the same mantle (until the upcoming elections).

    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/harris-guatemala-potential-migrants-turned-back-do-not-come

    Would love to see the Climate “Science!!” that establishes the relationship between an increase in surface temperatures and migration to “cool/temperate AZ, TX, NM and CA!

    So at 1.6 degrees increase they just observe mass-packing? At 2.0 degrees they just start walking North (not South towards the colder polar temperatures.

    Our press is a joke, a bad one.

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  10. Columbo Inactive
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    Wait! The audit is NOT over yet!

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  11. Gary Robbins Member
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    Doug Watt (View Comment):

    Here is a battle that Arizona residents should begin to focus on now. Mark Kelly will be running to return to the Senate in 2022. The Republican Party needs to find a candidate that will not make the pilgrimage to Cindy McCain’s front door for a blessing in this election. Tie Mark Kelly to Biden’s border debacle, as well as his wife’s anti-gun rights organization, and for goodness sake try to find someone that is a good campaigner, and try to end the stand-alone campaigns that have damaged the Republican Party in the last ten or so years.

    Let me lay down a marker.

    I truly hope that I can vote for the Republican for Senate this time.  In 2018, I voted for Republican Martha McSally over Kyrsten Sinema.  But, in 2020, Martha McSally had gotten so Trumpy, I could not vote for her, and I held my nose while voting for Mark Kelly.  If we nominate Andy Biggs, Paul Gosar or Kelli Ward, I will again be forced to vote for Democrat Mark Kelly.  But if we nominate a Republican like Arizona Governor Doug Ducey, I will happily vote for him over Mark Kelly.  The choice is stark. 

    A vote for a Trumpy Republican in the primary is a vote for Mark Kelly in the general election.  

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  12. RufusRJones Member
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    Everything Moves Left All Of The Time

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  13. Old Bathos Member
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    Gary Robbins (View Comment):

    Doug Watt (View Comment):

    Here is a battle that Arizona residents should begin to focus on now. Mark Kelly will be running to return to the Senate in 2022. The Republican Party needs to find a candidate that will not make the pilgrimage to Cindy McCain’s front door for a blessing in this election. Tie Mark Kelly to Biden’s border debacle, as well as his wife’s anti-gun rights organization, and for goodness sake try to find someone that is a good campaigner, and try to end the stand-alone campaigns that have damaged the Republican Party in the last ten or so years.

    Let me lay down a marker.

    I truly hope that I can vote for the Republican for Senate this time. In 2018, I voted for Republican Martha McSally over Kyrsten Sinema. But, in 2020, Martha McSally had gotten so Trumpy, I could not vote for her, and I held my nose while voting for Mark Kelly. If we nominate Andy Biggs, Paul Gosar or Kelli Ward, I will again be forced to vote for Democrat Mark Kelly. But if we nominate a Republican like Arizona Governor Doug Ducey, I will happily vote for him over Mark Kelly. The choice is stark.

    A vote for a Trumpy Republican in the primary is a vote for Mark Kelly in the general election.

    Does that mean that a renunciation of Trump is a prereq for the GOP candidate?! Not the issues?  Not the policies a Democrat would endorse and promote?   The NeverTrump ethos, as I understand it, was that Trump’s personal and character failings made him unfit to be president.  But now a candidate who does not himself or herself have such defects and could be outstanding in all other respects will fail the Robbins test if not expressly anti-Trump?

    Instead of a man with moral defects, the Democrats nominated a candidate who actually has no moral core whatsoever, a man who lies in absurdly obvious ways and then attacks those who notice without a glimmer of internal conflict. I think Biden would pass a lie detector test even if he changed answers later on in the test if asked again. Trump bloviates and talks sh*t about things he knows nothing about but seems to have far more self-awareness than the malignant buffoon in the White House now. 

    It was the particular oddity of the NeverTrump position that by definition it was not possible for Trump’s opponent to be more unfit or perhaps the gross unfitness of the Democrats makes it even more of a statement to vote for him.  Is that it?

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  14. RufusRJones Member
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  15. Jon Gabriel, Ed. Contributor
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    Doug Watt (View Comment):

    Here is a battle that Arizona residents should begin to focus on now. Mark Kelly will be running to return to the Senate in 2022. The Republican Party needs to find a candidate that will not make the pilgrimage to Cindy McCain’s front door for a blessing in this election. Tie Mark Kelly to Biden’s border debacle, as well as his wife’s anti-gun rights organization, and for goodness sake try to find someone that is a good campaigner, and try to end the stand-alone campaigns that have damaged the Republican Party in the last ten or so years.

    FYI, Kelly has an opponent as of today. Don’t have much info on this guy, but here’s his very generic announcement ad.

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  16. kedavis Coolidge
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    RufusRJones (View Comment):
    There is no reason we should be so nice to people that aren’t going through ports of entry.

    Maybe we can be nice, but not so…. accomodating?

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  17. RufusRJones Member
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    kedavis (View Comment):

    RufusRJones (View Comment):
    There is no reason we should be so nice to people that aren’t going through ports of entry.

    Maybe we can be nice, but not so…. accomodating?

    Actually, entering the country between ports of entry (i.e. illegally) is a crime [8 USC 1325] punishable by up to 6 months in jail, regardless of whether or not you demand asylum. 2nd offense is a felony [8 USC 1326]. Under last Admin, we prosecuted thousands for these offenses.Quote Tweet 

     

     

     

     

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  18. RufusRJones Member
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    In Del Rio, Texas, an ICE agent, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, says the number of criminal aliens being released onto the streets is beyond belief. 

     

     

     

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  19. kedavis Coolidge
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    RufusRJones (View Comment):

    Can you imagine ending up in Scottsdale after this?

     

     

     

    I dunno, that house in the background doesn’t look that bad, compared to how a lot of people live.

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  20. kedavis Coolidge
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    Old Bathos (View Comment):
    It was the particular oddity of the NeverTrump position that by definition it was not possible for Trump’s opponent to be more unfit or perhaps the gross unfitness of the Democrats makes it even more of a statement to vote for him.  Is that it?

    Who cares?  I always thought people – most people, anyway – had free will, agency, stuff like that.  Apparently not Gary, though.  Not if some candidate “forces” him to vote for more evil.

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  21. RufusRJones Member
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    kedavis (View Comment):

    RufusRJones (View Comment):

    Can you imagine ending up in Scottsdale after this?

     

     

     

    I dunno, that house in the background doesn’t look that bad, compared to how a lot of people live.

    I intended for people to watch the video. My mistake.

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  22. RufusRJones Member
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    kedavis (View Comment):

    Old Bathos (View Comment):
    It was the particular oddity of the NeverTrump position that by definition it was not possible for Trump’s opponent to be more unfit or perhaps the gross unfitness of the Democrats makes it even more of a statement to vote for him. Is that it?

    Who cares? I always thought people – most people, anyway – had free will, agency, stuff like that. Apparently not Gary, though. Not if some candidate “forces” him to vote for more evil.

    It’s important to understand where we are and what progress actually looks like. It’s also important to understand the opposite.

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  23. RufusRJones Member
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    Does not exist. 

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  24. Misthiocracy got drunk and Member
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    There’s a house on my street with a “refugees welcomed here” poster in the window.  Each time I walk by I have to resist the urge to knock on the door and ask just how many refugees they’ve actually welcomed into their home. 

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  25. RushBabe49 Thatcher
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    RufusRJones (View Comment):

     

    Does not exist.

    That gentleman would be horrified to see who represents his state now.

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  26. RufusRJones Member
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    I think this is a pretty good summary of what you have to deal with if you are against the Trump wing. It’s pretty hard to deny that this is where we are. 

     

     

    The six elements or factions outlined above have much in common, but are far from monolithic. The Catholics and Border Hawks have some issues, the Anti-Identitarians and the Fringe are not always on the same page, but there is now emerging a common enemy, and nothing else accommodates strange bedfellows quite so snugly. That enemy is of course major corporations who are fast becoming the source of illiberal change in our society much more quickly than any wholly political force ever could.

    The Anti-Media is the sworn enemy of the corporate media, the Border Hawks fight the corporate addiction to cheap labor and free trade, the Catholics decry the decadence and cheap sexuality of the corporate world, the Anti-Identitarians see corporations adopting the illiberal agenda of critical race and gender theory, the Fringe faces an existential threat of being banned from platforms, and the Torch Bearers see in unbridled corporatism the foil for their political ambition. 

    The time for conservative deciding has passed. The decision has been made and the American conservative movement is now a populist, nationalist, Reform Party minded body. 

    It matters very little if our corporate liberal media chooses to accept this. It is true. 

     

    https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/periodic-table-new-american-right-david-marcus

     

     

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  27. Columbo Inactive
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    Gary Robbins (View Comment):

    Doug Watt (View Comment):

    Here is a battle that Arizona residents should begin to focus on now. Mark Kelly will be running to return to the Senate in 2022. The Republican Party needs to find a candidate that will not make the pilgrimage to Cindy McCain’s front door for a blessing in this election. Tie Mark Kelly to Biden’s border debacle, as well as his wife’s anti-gun rights organization, and for goodness sake try to find someone that is a good campaigner, and try to end the stand-alone campaigns that have damaged the Republican Party in the last ten or so years.

    Let me lay down a marker.

    I truly hope that I can vote for the Republican for Senate this time. In 2018, I voted for Republican Martha McSally over Kyrsten Sinema. But, in 2020, Martha McSally had gotten so Trumpy, I could not vote for her, and I held my nose while voting for Mark Kelly. If we nominate Andy Biggs, Paul Gosar or Kelli Ward, I will again be forced to vote for Democrat Mark Kelly. But if we nominate a Republican like Arizona Governor Doug Ducey, I will happily vote for him over Mark Kelly. The choice is stark.

    A vote for a Trumpy Republican in the primary is a vote for Mark Kelly in the general election.

    Would you take the time to review your political instincts with reality? A little introspection and self awareness would be a good thing as wrong as you consistently are.

    The Arizona audit is ongoing and will reveal democrat cheating. Boo!

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  28. JamesSalerno Inactive
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    1. Repeal minimum wage

    2. Eliminate the welfare state. At the bare minimum make it only available to American citizens

    3. Replace the border wall with landmines

    These are your three options for solving the problem. It’s kind of sad that out of all three, option 3 is the only one that could realistically happen. 1 and 2 only exist in an alternate universe. 

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  29. kedavis Coolidge
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    JamesSalerno (View Comment):

    1. Repeal minimum wage

    2. Eliminate the welfare state. At the bare minimum make it only available to American citizens

    3. Replace the border wall with landmines

    These are your three options for solving the problem. It’s kind of sad that out of all three, option 3 is the only one that could realistically happen. 1 and 2 only exist in an alternate universe.

    If #3 happened, corrupt Mexico would just set up catapults on their side and give people a parachute.

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  30. Gary Robbins Member
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    Columbo (View Comment):

    Gary Robbins (View Comment):

    Doug Watt (View Comment):

    Here is a battle that Arizona residents should begin to focus on now. Mark Kelly will be running to return to the Senate in 2022. The Republican Party needs to find a candidate that will not make the pilgrimage to Cindy McCain’s front door for a blessing in this election. Tie Mark Kelly to Biden’s border debacle, as well as his wife’s anti-gun rights organization, and for goodness sake try to find someone that is a good campaigner, and try to end the stand-alone campaigns that have damaged the Republican Party in the last ten or so years.

    Let me lay down a marker.

    I truly hope that I can vote for the Republican for Senate this time. In 2018, I voted for Republican Martha McSally over Kyrsten Sinema. But, in 2020, Martha McSally had gotten so Trumpy, I could not vote for her, and I held my nose while voting for Mark Kelly. If we nominate Andy Biggs, Paul Gosar or Kelli Ward, I will again be forced to vote for Democrat Mark Kelly. But if we nominate a Republican like Arizona Governor Doug Ducey, I will happily vote for him over Mark Kelly. The choice is stark.

    A vote for a Trumpy Republican in the primary is a vote for Mark Kelly in the general election.

    Would you take the time to review your political instincts with reality? A little introspection and self awareness would be a good thing as wrong as you consistently are.

    The Arizona audit is ongoing and will reveal democrat cheating. Boo!

    Well the Arizona Audit has been at it for months and so far hasn’t found anything.  The Dems will likely take the legislature after this waste of time and money.  

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