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   From: pharma-poison@lynkuet.com   
      
   A new Harvard/Harris public opinion poll shows two-thirds of Americans   
   now disapprove of Immigration and Customs Enforcement. That spells   
   trouble for taxpayers and everyone who wants safe neighborhoods.   
      
   A majority of Americans voted for President Donald Trump to enforce   
   immigration laws. The poll, done just after the shooting of anti-ICE   
   activist Alex Pretti in Minneapolis, indicates how Democratic political   
   rhetoric and misleading media reports are causing most Americans to   
   change their minds. Democrats in Congress are trying to hold back ICE   
   funds.   
      
   If this growing movement to hamstring ICE and let recent illegals stay   
   here succeeds, hold on to your wallet. Either the criminal migrants   
   roving the streets will rob you, or you’ll have to empty your wallet   
   yourself to pay for the welfare benefits illegals consume.   
      
   Last week, New York City cops nabbed four gun-toting criminals ages 18   
   to 20 who had just robbed a couple on West 47th Street. Of course,   
   because of New York’s pro-criminal laws, a judge let them back out on   
   the street within hours. Here’s what’s key: Three of the thugs already   
   were wanted on ICE detainers.   
      
   If politicians would let ICE do its job and remove these criminals, we’d   
   be a lot safer.   
      
   New York data show illegals commit crimes three times as often as legal   
   residents.   
      
   Politicians demanding that ICE leave their states are stabbing the   
   public in the back. Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger ordered state law   
   enforcement to dissolve any partnerships with ICE. Illinois Gov. JB   
   Pritzker is calling for the agency’s abolition. Connecticut Gov. Ned   
   Lamont is telling ICE to “go home.”   
      
   In New York, Gov. Kathy Hochul introduced legislation to limit local   
   police cooperation with ICE, which she calls “a rogue federal agency   
   that’s been unleashed on the American streets for the sole purpose of   
   creating chaos, carnage and fear.” Nonsense.   
      
   The tragic deaths in Minnesota need to be investigated, and ICE training   
   procedures need to be adapted to the new reality of subversive agitators   
   like the Chinese Communist Party-linked People’s Forum egging on crowds   
   to obstruct ICE agents. They are not trained on how to handle this   
   manufactured obstruction.   
      
   But ICE’s core mission is vital. Violent crime surged during former   
   President Joe Biden’s four years — at the same time that the U.S.   
   experienced an unprecedented influx of illegal aliens. Over 60% of those   
   arrested by ICE in the last year have pending criminal charges or   
   convictions, ICE Acting Director Todd Lyons testified to Congress on   
   Tuesday.   
      
   If ICE is allowed to do its job, our streets will be safer, and the   
   nation’s generous welfare benefits can be spent on needy Americans.   
      
   An estimated 61% of households headed by an illegal used federal welfare   
   benefits in 2024, including SNAP, Medicaid, federally supported health   
   centers, substance abuse treatment programs, mental health services and   
   Head Start.   
      
   Illegals are not eligible for these things under federal law, and Trump   
   cracked down on their use when he took office in 2025. But many blue   
   states, including California, Connecticut and New York, then shifted the   
   cost on to state taxpayers.   
      
   Lamont blamed Trump’s “harsh cuts” for increased state spending in   
   Connecticut, without actually spelling out that the money is going for   
   illegals.   
      
   Unless ICE deports a large number of those who entered the country   
   unlawfully, overstayed visas or were paroled during the Biden   
   presidency, these migrants will cost America $1.5 trillion over their   
   lifetimes. Immigrants ages 18 to 24 without a high school diploma cost   
   taxpayers the most, each consuming an average of $332,000 in lifetime   
   welfare and health benefits, according to the Manhattan Institute.   
      
   New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani couldn’t care less. He just announced   
   that the roughly 31,000 migrants depending on the city’s shelter system   
   can stay an unlimited time at an estimated cost of $270 per day per   
   family. Former Mayor Eric Adams had imposed a 60-day limit to save   
   taxpayers’ money, but Mamdani is throwing that limit to the wind.   
      
   On Friday, Mamdani barred ICE from accessing records of who uses public   
   benefits, saying, “No New Yorker should be afraid to apply for city   
   services like child care because they are an immigrant.”   
      
   Mamdani urged generosity “for the stranger among us.” Soaring rhetoric,   
   to be sure. But soon the mayor will have to deal with the reality of a   
   $12 billion budget hole and ask what sacrifices other New Yorkers should   
   have to endure to provide child care for illegals.   
      
   In 2023, Adams warned that the influx of illegals “would destroy New   
   York City.” New York cannot take care of an unlimited number of   
   “strangers among us.”   
      
   Mamdani needs to put aside the fairytale rhetoric and work out an   
   arrangement with his texting buddy — Trump — to enable ICE to do its job   
   safely.   
      
   In Gotham and across the nation, ICE is needed. Don’t fall for the   
   manufactured hysteria.   
      
   https://amac.us/newsline/politics/if-ice-is-hamstrung-hold-on-to-your-wal   
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