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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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If so, it is time for the Republican Party to go the way of the Whigs, the Know-Nothing’s, the Progressive Party and the Socialist-Workers. They were once viable parties, and they are all now long dead. I wouldn’t vote for a populist, nor would Reagan. And Reagan lauded immigrants. We can be the winning party of Reagan, or we can keep losing with Trump.
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Reagan is dead.
And, Reagan was a populist.
This is the lay of the land except for some of the cultural issues. Act accordingly. Just to be clear, this guys solutions are more statist, but no Democrat thinks like this at all. I think his main deal is, he’s trying to preserve our inflationist system so we can be the unilateral power in the world. It actually makes a lot of sense, but I’m not sure we are smart enough and honest enough to pull this off. He even admits nobody is going to do anything intelligent about it until after there is a big economic collapse.
And the first people who try will still probably get voted out of office.
This is why everybody needs to listen to those long interviews of Steve Bannon on Frontline.
I don’t need to, everyone else does.
Yes you do.
Gosh, I don’t remember Reagan throwing money around which is what populist do. I do remember Reagan cutting taxes from 70% to 50% to 28%.
You can be a populist by spending a lot or be a populist by cutting spending, spending is not relevant to the definition of populism. And whether you place the blame on him or not, spending went way up under Reagan.
Bookmark.
Reagan did his best to restrain domestic spending, but he increased defense spending to win the Cold War without firing a shot.
Actually they do. The city of Scottsdale is on the PIMA Indian reservation, with a 100 year lease or something like that. So, those power lines, water lines, sewer lines, DO run on federal territory, technically. Maybe that’s why Biden chose it?
One wonders if the Feds are paying going rates for the rooms? Also, wonder if they are using the Mayo Clinic Scottsdale to provide healthcare to the illegals? It’s just up the street.
Do they accrue Hilton points for their stay?
I believe that you are factually wrong. I grew up in Scottsdale. The only portion of Scottsdale on tribal lands was Pima Road itself, which is two miles east of Scottsdale Road, which was closed to traffic during a dispute with the tribe in the late 1960’s and early 1970’s, until Scottsdale entered into an agreement with the tribe. Decades later, the Arizona Department of Transportation entered into an agreement to locate AZ 101 solely on tribal land, and if memory serves, use and/or ownership of Pima Road went with it. I categorically dispute that the Pima Indians have title to any of Scottsdale. If you can prove to the contrary please provide documentation of your claim.
There is one exception to my assertion which is a square mile in the South Scottsdale and North Tempe area around McKellips Road. However, this section of land is far away from North Scottsdale.
One other point. When AZ 202, the South Mountain Freeway, was being built there were great hopes that like the Pima Freeway, it could be built on tribal land on the edge of the Gila River reservation. That was not to be. A bunch of homes were demolished while tribal farm lands were untouched. The State of Arizona was forced to slice through a hillside, when what would have made sense would have been to skirt around it. However, fundamentally, the State of Arizona cannot use eminent domain to seize tribal land.
Now who would want to stay at that hotel after it was a prison?
All his departments came in every year on budget. It was Congressional discretionary spending that blew a hole through the budgets.
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I think that with Reagan’s first budget (remember the “taken to the woodshed” stuff about David Stockman’s dissent) the GOP insisted on more defense spending and refused to raise taxes, the Dems (majority in the House but not the Senate) refused any cuts in entitlements or domestic spending. It was assumed that this was to be a game of chicken in which deficits would rise and somehow become painful. Then one or both sides would have to cave on spending and/or taxes. But big deficits did not seem to matter and economic growth without inflation increased government revenues and made the annual deficit smaller than expected. Since that time both parties have been largely indifferent to deficits except as an occasional rhetorical tool where they pretend to believe that the other party is ruining us with spending/tax cuts.
Act accordingly.
It wouldn’t even take any shooting. Tanks and up-armored HMMWVs with heavy weapons would make the point that these federal personnel have no authority there anymore.
That sounds about the way I remember it. I’m trying to remember how many of Reagan’s budgets were declared Dead on Arrival by the media/Democrats. Probably eight of them.
Mayo Clinic in Arizona? Well, it figures. Here in Michigan older people tend to winter in Florida. The people we know back in Minnesota tend to winter in Arizona. (I got to thinking about the difference when we former Minnesotans, now living in Michigan, started to spend parts of our winters in Texas.)
But now I looked it up to be sure, and it seems that the Mayo Clinic does both.