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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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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.
It’s mostly because they only feel, they don’t think.
Can you imagine ending up in Scottsdale after this?
I’d love it . . .
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.
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.
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?
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.
Wait! The audit is NOT over yet!
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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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?
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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Maybe we can be nice, but not so…. accomodating?
I dunno, that house in the background doesn’t look that bad, compared to how a lot of people live.
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.
I intended for people to watch the video. My mistake.
It’s important to understand where we are and what progress actually looks like. It’s also important to understand the opposite.
Does not exist.
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.
That gentleman would be horrified to see who represents his state now.
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.
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/periodic-table-new-american-right-david-marcus
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!
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.
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.