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New York Post
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- Politics
- New York Post
We're only just beginning to suffer the consequences of Biden's disastrous open-border policies
The spiteful open-borders legacy of Joe Biden will plague America for generations to come, long after the former president is a fading bad memory. Somewhere between 10 million and 12 million foreign nationals are believed to have entered the United States illegally under his watch, to add to the existing 12 million to 20 million illegal aliens. Almost all were unaudited. 4 America is only just beginning to feel the effects of Joe Biden's disastrous border policies. AFP via Getty Images They stormed the border for four years without background checks of the sort that American citizens must undergo to purchase a firearm or take out a loan. At a time when citizens were expelled from the military for not submitting to the experimental mRNA COVID inoculations, millions of foreign nationals, with the Biden administration's encouragement, crossed the southern border, exempt from any vaccination requirement or medical examination. When Americans were required to present multiple forms of identification to apply for a mandatory 'real ID' to fly in 2025, millions of illegal entrants were flown across the country, often stealthily and under the cover of night, without any valid ID at all. On some days, the Trump administration has managed to deport 800 of Biden's illegal aliens. But 10 times that many entered illegally each day under President Joe Biden. President Donald Trump's border patrol would have to deport over 8,000 people every day of his four-year tenure just to undo what Biden wrought by his dismantling of federal immigration law. Some 500,000 illegal entrants are believed to have criminal records — a number greater than the population of Oakland, Calif. 4 A large group of migrants cross the U.S.-Mexico Border at the Rio Grande river on Tuesday, October 3, 2023 in El Paso, Texas. NYPJ Indeed, new reports relate almost every day that another illegal alien has murdered, raped or assaulted an American citizen. The culpable left often champions violent illegal-alien criminals facing deportation. Their apparent assumption is that hurting Trump politically justifies hurting Americans even more by protecting criminals instead of sending them home. Thousands of these unknown criminals are deadly land mines waiting to explode. There are nearly 300,000 Chinese nationals in American universities, the vast majority admitted without serious background checks. They are welcomed by elite campuses because they pay the full cost and at a premium, with few questions asked about why exactly they came or what they are doing. No wonder, then, that in the last decade, Harvard's Kennedy School of Government is reported to have trained and graduated hundreds of Chinese nationals who were either Communist Party members or the children of prominent Chinese communist apparatchiks. 4 A member of the Texas National Guard uses a riot shield to block the passage of the parents of two small children as they crawl through the concertina wire after crossing the U.S.-Mexico Border at the Rio Grande river on Wednesday, October 4, 2023 in El Paso, Texas. NYPJ In other words, at a time when the United States is locked in an escalating Cold War with China, our universities find great profit in enrolling and educating the communist elite who threaten Taiwan, imprison and oppress the Uyghurs, jail Hong Kong dissidents and send both bio- and agro-terrorists into the United States. Not a day went by during the last two years without Middle Eastern, pro-Hamas visa students on some campus swarming students in libraries, assaulting and bullying Jews, trashing iconic buildings, illegally camping out in student quads and screaming to bring the intifada home to the United States. Neither the Biden administration nor spineless college presidents took any action, despite such flagrant violations of both the terms and spirit of student visas. Most recently, Yunqing Jian, a 33-year-old Chinese national with ties to the University of Michigan, was arrested as an 'agro-terrorist.' The alleged mission of Jian, along with his girlfriend, was to seed toxic fungus into Midwestern farmland as a way of destroying the American food supply and thereby starving his hosts. Sometimes the baleful Biden immigration inheritance was simply a matter of allowing 'tourists' and 'visitors' to stay far after their visas had expired — without consequences. 4 Egyptian national and terrorist, Mohammed Sabry Soliman, along with his entire family, deliberately overstayed their visas. So, for example, Egyptian national and terrorist, Mohammed Sabry Soliman, along with his entire family, deliberately overstayed their visas. They were all residing here illegally when Soliman allegedly firebombed Jews, crying out 'Free Palestine' as he tried to burn them up. Americans overwhelmingly polled against this Biden border nihilism. Indeed, the House impeached his henchman, Alejandro Mayorkas, secretary of Homeland Security. Yet Biden, or his handlers in the shadows, would not stop destroying the borders and immigration law. So why would a president deliberately cause such mayhem that will cost hundreds of lives and billions of dollars in the years to come? Was the reason Biden's characteristic incompetence or dementia? Or did Biden simply want to alter the demography to find a constituency for his otherwise unpopular agendas? Did he wish to grow the welfare state? Was Biden hoping to expand the DEI agenda by bringing in the poor and supposedly oppressed as new fodder in the Left's Marxist binary of victimized versus victimizer? No one knows why Biden did it, only that he did — and we will suffer his nihilist legacy for years to come. Victor Davis Hanson is a distinguished fellow of the Center for American Greatness.
New York Post
21-04-2025
- Health
- New York Post
Banned rat poison sold on NYC streets as expert warns ‘genuinely scary' product can kill when inhaled
The city has confiscated 140 pounds of banned rat poison this month but street vendors keep selling the stuff – as one expert warned the black market could have deadly consequences. Local medical professionals are bracing to handle more patients exposed to the effects of the poisons with one popular but 'genuinely scary' ingredient blamed for the tragic death of four kids in Texas, said Adam Blumenberg, associate professor of emergency medicine at Columbia University Medical Center. 'A lot of what [vendors] sell is illegal, but not that dangerous as long as no one actually eats it,' Blumenberg told The Post. 'I've noticed a sudden spike in rat poisons containing phosphides, which are illegal and genuinely scary. Advertisement 6 Illegal, dangerous and potentially deadly rat poison continues to be sold openly on Manhattan streets to unsuspecting locals after a recent city crackdown on the pesticides, The Post has learned. NYPJ 'Phosphides release a deadly gas which can harm or kill people who breathe it,' the doc added. 'I expect we will see serious illness and possibly fatalities in NYC related to these products.' While phosphide — sold under the label Push Out — hasn't been spotted again by officials since the city's crackdown, other illegal and dangerous rodenticides like Sniper DDVP and Tempo are readily available on folding tables along Washington Heights' St. Nicholas Avenue shopping corridor. Advertisement The toxins are often imported illegally into the US and can cause seizures, coma, cancer and death, according to the city Department of Health. Seventeen inspections led to four summonses issued to vendors for illegal poisons since the start of the month — but Post reporters found the poisons for sale along St. Nicholas Avenue as recently as Sunday. 'Yeah they've been giving us problems for selling, they say everything's illegal,' one vendor said. 'What do you mean why are we selling it? We need money, that's why.' 6 The black market rat killers can cause seizures, coma, cancer and even death in New Yorkers seeking to take pest infestations into their own hands, according to the NYC Department of Health. Advertisement While the rest of the city saw roughly a 1% decrease in rat sightings between 2023 and 2024, rat sightings in Washington Heights and Inwood's Manhattan Community Board 12 increased by more than 15% — all as Mayor Eric Adams fights a multi-million dollar war on rats. A representative for council member Carmen De La Rosa's office told The Post that the pol spoke to Washington Heights vendors in late March to warn the sellers of the dangerous and illicit nature of the pesticides — including phosphide, which spews deadly fumes when mixed with water. 'Our main fear was that people would panic and throw it down their drain, flush it down their toilet, and then create that gas,' De La Rosa's rep said. 'Most people are probably using these things in their kitchens … where we have water and other liquids, so it's a matter of making sure we can get rid of it so that no one gets hurt.' 6 The illicit poisons include include Push Out/phosphide, a chemical that produces a deadly gas when mixed with water and has been linked to the tragic death of four children in Texas in 2017. Adam Blumenberg Advertisement But the problem is hardly contained to Upper Manhattan, according to the council member's office. Most recently, the pesticides have been tied to toxic exposures in the metro region, including one family in Queens and another on Long Island. 'It's really, really, really dangerous to humans,' the rep added. 'We're not aware of any cases in [Washington Heights], but it's difficult to single out.' 6 New York City Council Member Carmen De La Rosa speaks at a press conference on pre-K education funding in 2024. Robert Miller At the root of the problem is the Big Apple's ongoing battle against rodents — but New Yorkers taking matters into their own hands may put lives on the line, officials said. 6 In April alone, the sanitation department removed about 140 pounds of illegal pesticides from 17 separate inspections and issued 'several' summonses citywide, a rep from the agency said. NYPJ 'We have landlords who are quite negligent, we have roach infestations and rodent infestations,' De La Rosa's rep said. 'They'll buy whatever they need to address the issue of these nuisances in their own house, but sometimes it's not necessarily something that's safe to use. 6 'Yeah they've been giving us problems for selling, they say everything's illegal,' one vendor on St. Nicholas Avenue between 181st and 182nd Street told The Post. 'What do you mean why are we selling it? We need money, that's why.' Nicole Rosenthal/NY Post Advertisement 'We just want to make sure everyone is OK.' More than 8,200 cases of rodenticide poisoning were reported in the US in 2023, according to the latest annual report from America's Poison Centers. While most of the health impacts were minor, more than 2,200 included treatment in a health care facility and two of those exposures resulted in death.
