[FoxNews] New York will spend $12 billion on illegal immigrants in the next three years while our troops suffer
New York City Mayor Eric Adams plans to pilot prepaid debit cards to 500 illegal migrant families who have already received a voucher to stay in select hotels for 28 days — credit cards which can be used at illegal migrants’ leisure for up to $10,000 each in taxpayer money with no ID check and no fraud control.
Those who violate the program’s stipulations "risk" being removed from it, but not from the country. The cost of caring for illegal migrants in New York is estimated to reach $12 billion over the next three years.
Then there is the American service member — who not only obeys the rule of law but puts his or her life on the line to protect it and our way of life. How is it that in New York, illegal migrants receive better compensation than American service members do while deployed overseas?
While on the Korean Response Force, Captain Christopher Wilson wrote a letter to Congress on behalf of his soldiers. He noted that several soldiers in his company were making less while deployed than while serving stateside. He rightly called this discrepancy "unacceptable."
The Military Times reported that in Wilson’s company, enlisted soldiers always receive $452.56 a month in basic allowance for sustenance. While deployed, however, those soldiers suffered $399.90 in monthly meal deductions, even if they don't use base dining halls. The only entitlement for the deployment itself which off-set this deduction was $195 a month of assignment incentive pay.
The current system results in more than $200 lost each month for each deployed soldier and their family. While soldiers with dependents receive an additional $250 per month in family separation allowance, this does not begin to compensate for the actual additional childcare costs of one-parent households.
This means that these soldiers each received about $1,860 less cumulatively during a nine-month deployment than they would have had they not deployed over the same nine months. To add insult to injury, if inflation continues on its current trajectory, the problem will only get worse.
Meanwhile, in New York, illegal migrants are about to be given prepaid debit cards — each person receiving about $360 monthly — which for a family of four would be roughly $1,440 per month. Thus, while an average military family is suffering from a deficit of $1,860 over a period of nine months, a similarly sized illegal migrant family is being given nearly seven times more by virtue of illegally occupying the country.
As Wilson’s letter highlights:
"The fact that some of our Soldiers are paying more while deployed is not even the worst hole in the current system which requires a presidential declaration to enable the tax exclusion. Because Somalia was not declared a combat zone in 1993 [which means the American Soldiers deployed there did not qualify for the Combat Zone Tax Exclusion (CZTE)], the 43 Soldiers that paid the ultimate sacrifice during Operation Restore Hope (Black Hawk Down) were also forced to posthumously pay income tax on every cent they made with their dying breath."
Rather than the tax exclusion being dictated by a presidential declaration of an area as a "combat zone," it should apply whenever a soldier is deployed.
This issue was recently brought before the House Armed Services Committee by California Republican Rep. Mike Garcia. Garcia cited him directly, stating that when service members deploy, they lose some of their food subsidies. Garcia went on to say that this is both a financial concern for our service members and a retention concern for the force at-large — and therefore a national security concern.
Before states can pass new legislation to support illegal migrants, Congress should update outdated legislation in support of our troops.
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Congress should adjust the current tax exclusion into a "Deployment Income" tax exclusion (DITE) for any service members on an overseas tour of duty.
On Wilson’s deployment, the average sergeant with a spouse and children received an additional $45 a month once all deductions and entitlements were aggregated. Forty-five dollars a month is nowhere near enough to cover even one day’s average childcare costs.
If the tax exclusion were reformed, the average sergeant would retain $724 more each month — enough to cover 21 hours of childcare monthly in his or her absence.
DITE would exempt the less than 0.1% of Americans currently serving on overseas deployments or rotations. Considering the U.S. averages over $100 billion dollars in increased tax revenue year-over-year and because this is a tax exclusion and not a revenue allotment, it would not even require an enumerated allocation in the next National Defense Authorization Act.
Unlike the illegal migrants that disregard our laws, our soldiers put their lives on the line protecting them. Our military is shrinking, and it is no wonder. Unless we take care of them, we will find ourselves with no one to take care of us.
[PJMedia] A peek at the Danish crime statistics from 2010-2021 delivered a gut punch to the globalists looking to tear down Western cultures by gavaging "asylum seekers" into Europa ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... and North America. It turns out that Moslems commit violent mostly peaceful crimes way more than people of Danish descent.
Back in 2020, Mattias Tesfaye, Denmark's minister for Immigration and Integration, did the unthinkable and decided to create a category for criminals from the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), mostly Arab and/or Moslem nations. Guess what Denmark learned? MENA immigrants colonists have a higher tendency for unemployment and violent mostly peaceful crime than any other ethnic group in Denmark.
FACT-O-RAMA! Moslem/Arab men are convicted for rape in Denmark seven times more than Danish-born men.
Leftists flipped their wigs when Denmark "singled out" the group — largely Moslem men — for committing the lion's share of crimes.
"Amazing, why not give them a little symbol to stitch on their clothes, so we can keep an eye on them," a social media commentator blasted, trying desperately to compare the peaceful Jews of Europe sent to concentration camps with the violent mostly peaceful and unemployed Moslems of Denmark.
Moslems in Denmark are allegedly "very frustrated" at being "stigmatized" for their wildly out-of-proportion crime and unemployment rates.
As expected, lefty rags bemoaned the Islamophobia ...the irrational fear that Moslems will act the way they usually do... that "besieged" Moslems are feeling as they continue to be the most dangerous people in Denmark. Other members of the Pravda press spoke of Denmark's horrific "rape culture" but refused to point out who the rapists are most likely to be.
Who could have foreseen a Moslem rape epidemic in Denmark? Thousands of women in the UK and the police who ignored the sexual assaults at the hands of mostly Moslem Paks for fear of being called a "racist."
PJ Media's own Robert Spencer has covered the brutality of Asian grooming gangs Moslem rapists in the UK for years, as well as the way the police sat on their hands and allowed it to happen.
Back in 2016, when the rape epidemic was terrorizing Denmark (as it still is), politicians chose not to deport the attackers or curtail the entry of more. They decided to sponsor classes informing them that rape was unacceptable. It doesn’t seem to have worked. Perhaps that’s because the Qur’an allows the "sexual enslavement of infidel women" (see 4:3, 4:24, 23:1-6, 33:50, and 70:30, as explained in Robert Spencer’s groundbreaking book, "The Critical Qur’an," page 63).
Moslem men had to choose to either follow the words of a Western teacher condemning rape or Allah, who condones it. How did Denmark think that was going to go down? Just as in the UK, Denmark threw women under the bus to avoid offending Moslem rapists and the "woke" jackpuddings who support them.
Denmark are honest enough to publish true crime figures. What does this mean for our country, which is open to foreign criminal gangs? https://t.co/UncaIl64H2
[Jpost] Hamas has largely expected a ceasefire and withdrawal of IDF soldiers to allow its members to return to pockets across northern and central Gaza, including Shifa hospital.
Over the last week, the Israel Defense Forces have been carrying out a complex raid at Shifa Hospital. The hospital is a large, sprawling compound. The raid began a week ago, on the evening of March 17. For seven days, the IDF has been combing buildings and the area, clashing with terrorist gunmen, and detaining suspects. Reports say around 800 suspects were found, and 500 of them are confirmed members of Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad. This is the largest number of terrorists found in one spot since the war began and one of the IDF’s most important and complex operations of this type since October 7.
All of this requires a larger spotlight. How is it possible that so many terrorists, mostly men in their 20s to 50s, all came to this hospital over the last months? They had to have come in the last few months because the IDF first operated to clear the area around Shifa of terrorists in November. This means that these men infiltrated again. These are men with records, some of them involved in terrorism going back many years, including plots in the West Bank linked to the 2014 war as well as the October 7 attacks.
The IDF has emphasized that it found numerous Hamas commanders and a large swath of the PIJ command at Shifa. “At the beginning of the war, we destroyed the underground infrastructure dug under the hospital, and we confiscated military equipment and weapons hidden in it. The terrorists’ command center at Shifa Hospital was dealt with then. The terrorists fled in the previous operation when we called to evacuate the compound,” IDF spokesperson Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari said on March 21.
He also noted that the IDF operated differently to catch Hamas by surprise this time. “We raided the compound by surprise. The operation was led by the 162nd Division and carried out by special forces units led by Shayetet 13, in full cooperation on the ground, shoulder to shoulder with the ISA and Unit 504 for intelligence extraction in the field. We used deception tactics in this operation, and it was this that led to the success and apprehension of all 358 terrorists, and there are more still inside this compound who haven’t managed to escape. This led to Hamas and the Islamic Jihad being severely damaged as a result of the operation,” Hagari said.
We know that after the raid began, the terrorists retreated to key areas of the hospital and holed up in the emergency room, the maternity ward, and the Shifa burn ward. This fits the usual modus operandi of Hamas. They see hospitals as key assets and nodes in their command and control of Gaza. They believe the IDF would not want to work in a hospital and end up with the place being destroyed. The IDF has said now, on March 24, that Hamas has caused damage to many areas of the hospital.
Hamas clearly felt safe at the hospital. They knew that Israel had raided this area in November. For instance, in November, the IDF exposed a tunnel system under the Qatari building at the hospital. The IDF had to go back into the Qatari building again during the raid over the last year. The fact that Hamas felt secure in this area may relate to another recent raid by the IDF targeting the Hamad Towers near Khan Yunis. This project, funded by Doha, was supposed to provide nice suburban apartments for Gazans. Hamas appears to have infiltrated the towers over the last few months. In both cases, Hamas appears to have felt that they were safe at Shifa and at the Hamad towers. Now, they have lost almost 1,000 terrorists in both places when you add up all the people detained in the two operations over the last few weeks.
WHAT DOES HAMAS TAKE INTO ACCOUNT?
IT’S IMPORTANT to look at the timing here to understand the likely Hamas calculations. In early March, reports indicated that Israel would be pressured into a ceasefire before Ramadan. That meant that the ceasefire was supposed to start around March 10. However, Hamas increased its demands and refused to provide a list of living hostages. Hamas believed that Israel would be pressured into a ceasefire without hostages being released. Israel did reduce operations in Gaza and redeploy some units, but the IDF also stepped up raids in Gaza. This included raids over the last few months in areas the IDF cleared back in November, among them a raid into Shati and then into Zaytun. However, the IDF also warned those in Zaytun about the raid before it happened.
Hamas assumed they would get a warning if the IDF was returning to Shifa. They also assumed that the IDF was facing pressure after having raided Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis. Hamas figured Israel wouldn’t go back to Shifa, and therefore, almost 1,000 terrorists appear to have congregated there. These large numbers of men congregating together would have been clearly visible. They would have seemed well fed, unlike the tens of thousands of others sheltering near the hospital. In some cases, these men would have been armed. They didn’t need to be armed all the time because arms were stored in various places. Hamas operates like a mafia, and mafia members don’t always need to be armed. The weapons are stored in easy-to-reach locations so members can get to them if necessary. Still, Hamas would have felt secure at Shifa, like returning to their homes, so they didn’t need weapons. They assumed the ceasefire would let them set up a command center there to resume control of northern Gaza, where an estimated 30,000 people are located.
Hamas appears to sometimes operate in Gaza in plain clothes and without weapons, except when it needs weapons. For instance, Hamas gunmen have been involved in killing civilians who were trying to access aid. It appears Hamas is responsible for some of the incidents at the Kuwaiti roundabout near Gaza City. This means that Hamas arms its men when it needs to but often, the men seem to mill around without weapons. When the IDF raided Shifa, at least 180 terrorists were eliminated in gunfights. The terrorists also have mortars nearby.
The overall picture that emerges is that Hamas returned to Shifa because it believed a ceasefire would be announced in early March. When the ceasefire didn’t happen, it likely consulted with its leadership, which is based in Gaza and abroad. It likely heard from them that the West was pushing for the ceasefire and that Hamas should not worry too much; they would soon be reconstituted in northern Gaza.
The surprise raid upset their plans. However, Hamas is still operating in the north and also in central Gaza and the south. For instance, it fired rockets at Ashdod on Monday from Deir al-Balah in central Gaza, the first rocket fire of this kind in two months.
Hamas understands the timeline in Gaza. It can read Western media and watch debates at the UN and the news. It is waiting for a ceasefire. It knows it is hosted abroad by two Western allies and assumes that its hosts and patrons will help return the terror group to power in Gaza and help it come to power in the West Bank. For Hamas, places like Shifa are the natural nodes in their empire of terror in Gaza that they need to reconstitute to take power again.
[Jpost] Iran doesn’t care that much about the tactics in Gaza, it cares more about the grand strategy.
Iran’s president Ebrahim Raisi believes that the war in Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... will lead to a "transformation in the unjust order that rules the world." He made the claims at a gathering on Monday, according to Iran’s pro-government Fars news.
Iran’s president appears to believe that the war in Gaza will accelerate various processes in the global order. He said that after the war the new world order is "very close and achievable."
In Iran’s view the war in Gaza is part of a larger process. It could be seen as a kind of first shot of a major war in the world. This war is not always being fought on battlefields.
It may be other types of struggles, such as Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... joining BRICS and the SCO, two economic groups that are linked to China or Russia, and which Iran wants to be part of in order to balance the western-led economies such as the G7.
WHY RAISI'S STATEMENTS MATTER
Iran’s president’s statement matters. It shows how Iran is thinking about October 7 and the long term plans that Iran has. Iran sees the fighting in Gaza as a benefit. It also sees the suffering of Gazooks as a benefit. What that means if that Iran believes it can use suffering in Gaza to take advantage of the war, and exploit it for its own interests.
Iran’s president also "described Paleostine as the most important issue in the Moslem world, and stressed that the resistance by the Paleostinian people in the Gaza Strip will lead to changes in the status quo in the world," Fars News said.
His comments show the janus-face of Iran’s talking points. On the one hand it claims to back the Paleostinians. But it also wants to exploit them as part of its war on the West and its war on Israel. Iran also wants to use the war to reduce US influence in the region.
Iran is also working with Russia, supplying drones to Moscow to be used in Ukraine. Russia also sees the war in Ukraine as part of a war on the US-led world order. China is taking advantage of the Ukraine war and the October 7 war.
It's important to listen to the words of Raisi because it isn’t that often that Iran openly says how it will exploit and use this war to reshape the region and the world.
Iran has long-term plans. As such Iran doesn’t care that much about the tactics in Gaza, it cares more about the grand strategy. It doesn’t care that much about a ceasefire. It is happy to see the war go on and on.
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