By Phil Orenstein President of Queens Village Republican Club
If Curtis Sliwa was our mayor, Lee Zeldin governor, and if Donald Trump was president today, our city, state, country, and the world would not be in the chaos it’s in today. Voters are waking up to this reality and reexamining their voting habits.
According to a recent Rasmussen poll of likely voters, more than half of voters in America said they will vote for Trump in the 2024 general election. What’s more, 30% of Democrats and 50% of Black voters are likely to vote for him.
In the Eagles’ song “Hotel California,” you can check out but “you can never leave.” The same apparently holds true for 1000 or so illegal aliens living off the taxpayer dollar at the Creedmoor Migrant Center on Hillside Avenue in Queens. The migrant center has been open for more than 60 days; however, the residents who were interviewed had no plans to leave, had no idea where they would live and had no job prospects.
On one recent afternoon, about twenty or so illegal aliens from Venezuela sat at the bus stop in front of the center, waiting for a bus that would never come, drinking from small “nip” bottles of alcohol. One had a larger bottle of alcohol that he was pouring into cups for others, at the makeshift “bus stop bar.” Several illegal aliens from African countries were smoking marijuana nearby, while a few other North Africans sat quietly reading the Quran.
The Venezuelans were too inebriated to conduct an interview and became aggressive when this reporter tried to take their photo, not understanding that in a democracy, it is legal to take a photograph in a public place where there “is no expectation of privacy.” At one point, there were too many illegals at the bus stop to pass by on the sidewalk.
One illegal alien from Sudan, who gave his name as “Adam,” said that he paid smugglers “thousands of dollars” for his initial passage from Sudan to Europe and then onward to Venezuela, where he made the trek with other North Africans to the southern border of the United States. Adam, like the majority of other military-age illegals from North Africa, Russia, China, Ukraine and other criteria countries, conveniently “lost” his passport, so there is no way to determine his true identify or if he was affiliated with any subversive or terrorist organizations. These potential “sleeper agents” can now blend in with ethnic communities in NYC.
In the legal asylum system, overseen through US Embassies, name checks would have been performed to vet foreign nationals like “Adam,” and he would have most likely been refused entry to the US after it was determined that he was visiting for economic – or possibly nefarious – reasons. This invasion of more than 100,000 unvetted, aggressive young men was aided and abetted by globalist traitors in the Biden Administration, who have refused to protect the US border – and it some cases – have welded open the once-secure border wall constructed during the Trump administration.
The “open-borders” appears to be an intentional, coordinated policy, with the assistance from the communist government of Venezuela – a close ally of Communist China. The Venezuelans are providing a safe haven and rest stop for the northward US “Trojan Horse” invasion. The Biden Administration is either too inept – or complicit – in order to address this national security issue. Human smuggling has become a multi-billion-dollar industry, that has all of the profit of drug trafficking – but few of the legal risks. The illegal alien invasion of New York City has also become a “cash cow” for the social justice warrior grifters in NYC Mayor Eric Adams’ office.
The NYC Covid-19 “Test and Treat” office has reinvented itself overnight as the “asylum seekers” office, managing the migrant shelters throughout the city. This year’s budget alone is $4.7 Billion dollars, larger than the budgets for most militaries around the world. This money will line the pockets of social workers, bureaucrats, construction companies, food companies and a prominent security company, all of whom have lucrative contracts with the City.
The mix of young, single men, drinking and doing drugs, with nothing to do and no means of income is creating a toxic atmosphere for the local community. Residents have complained that crime has risen in the two months since the opening of the migrant center and there have been at least two attempted home invasions in that neighborhood, which occurred on October 4 and October 7. Some have speculated that the perpetrators may be from the Creedmoor migrant center, since a mask from NYC Health and Hospitals was found at the scene of one of the attempted break-ins. A police spokesperson from NYPD Precinct 105, however, said there was “no evidence” that anyone from the Creedmoor migrant center was involved in the attempted home invasions, claiming that that NYPD has “seen no increase in crimes” since the center opened. Regardless, local residents feel insecure, and many avoid the area now because of the public drinking, drug use and overall threatening atmosphere. “They (the illegal migrants) are feeling more comfortable here now and they are becoming more bold,” said one long-time community activist. “The residents feel afraid. Our political leaders are offering no help. They are only asking for more money – but the solution is to close the border.”
While traveling through upstate New York over the Labor Day weekend, I encountered many desolate towns just aching for business and industry to exist there. Once thriving towns, in decline for decades, with infrastructure still standing, they are now boarded up and idle ghost towns.
From smaller towns to larger cities in upstate New York, the potential for industry and a better way of living can be achieved with the right vision. New York has been accustomed to packing more people into the crowded Five Boro cityscape like sardines, always with progressive politicians pushing for more low-income housing.
The Sept 20th editorial “New York State of Gloom” in the New York Post says it best: “…our unaccountable electeds may be in for a rude awakening. Because it’s not clear that anything other than a humiliating political defeat will ever drive home the message.”
In the upcoming NYC election, the message is much more important than the messenger. People are still voting Democrat even while our neighborhoods are being flooded with illegal migrants and our city is in chaos. But it’s urgent that we recognize the only ones who can solve this issue are Republicans, who will close the border, eliminate sanctuary policies, and put American citizens first over migrants. Democrat policies are the cause of the invasion of so-called “asylum seekers,” the vast majority of whom are here illegally. The party of illegal immigration is solely to blame for the chaos our city is in. You may agree with Democrats on many other issues and find Trump repugnant, but in this coming election for NY City Council, in order to save our city and state, you have to send a powerful message to Democrats that you’re not going to put up with the destruction of New York City by the influx of illegal migrants.