Who is supporting the immigrant caravan?

[CU88a]

After bomb threats today, officials had to evacuate two elementary schools in Springfield, Ohio, and move the students to a different location. They had to close a middle school altogether. This is the second day bomb threats have closed schools and public buildings after MAGA Republicans have spread the lie that Haitian immigrants there have been eating white people's pets. Haitian immigrants, who were welcomed to Springfield by officials eager to revitalize the city and who are there legally, say they are afraid.

Hunter Walker and Josh Kovensky of Talking Points Memo today explained where the lie had come from and how it had spread. More than two months ago, they wrote, Ohio senator J.D. Vance, who is Trump’s vice presidential running mate, began to speak about Springfield at a Senate Banking Committee hearing, trying to tie rising housing prices to immigrants. The next day, at the National Conservatism conference, Vance accused “illegals” of overwhelming the city.

On August 10, about a dozen neo-Nazis of the “Blood Tribe” organization showed up in Springfield, where one of their leaders said the city had been taken over by “degenerate third worlders” and blamed the Jews for the influx of migrants. The neo-Nazis stayed and, on August 27, showed up at a meeting of the city council, where their leader threatened council members. On September 1, another white supremacist group, Patriot Front, held its own “protest to the mass influx of unassimilable Haitian migrants” in the city. Right-wing social media posters pushed the story, usually with “witnesses” to events in the city coming from elsewhere.

In late August, posting in a private Facebook group, a resident said they had heard that Haitian immigrants had butchered a neighbor’s cat for food. Vance reposted that rumor to attack Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris, on whom he is trying to hang undocumented immigration although it was Trump who convinced Republicans to kill a strong bipartisan border bill this spring. Springfield police and the city manager told news outlets there was no truth to the rumors.

Nonetheless, on September 10, Vance told his people to “keep the cat memes flowing,” even though—or perhaps because—the rumors were putting people in his own state in danger.

Trump repeated the lie at the presidential debate that night, claiming, “In Springfield, they’re eating the dogs, the people that came in, they’re eating the cats. They’re eating, they’re eating the pets of the people that live there.” Today, President Joe Biden demanded Trump stop his attacks on Haitian-Americans, but Trump doubled down, promising to deport the Haitian immigrants in Springfield if he is elected, although they are here legally.


OLD SOVIET AND HIS ILK ARE DEPLORABLE

[MDlaxfan76]

After bomb threats today, officials had to evacuate two elementary schools in Springfield, Ohio, and move the students to a different location. They had to close a middle school altogether. This is the second day bomb threats have closed schools and public buildings after MAGA Republicans have spread the lie that Haitian immigrants there have been eating white people's pets. Haitian immigrants, who were welcomed to Springfield by officials eager to revitalize the city and who are there legally, say they are afraid.

Hunter Walker and Josh Kovensky of Talking Points Memo today explained where the lie had come from and how it had spread. More than two months ago, they wrote, Ohio senator J.D. Vance, who is Trump’s vice presidential running mate, began to speak about Springfield at a Senate Banking Committee hearing, trying to tie rising housing prices to immigrants. The next day, at the National Conservatism conference, Vance accused “illegals” of overwhelming the city.

On August 10, about a dozen neo-Nazis of the “Blood Tribe” organization showed up in Springfield, where one of their leaders said the city had been taken over by “degenerate third worlders” and blamed the Jews for the influx of migrants. The neo-Nazis stayed and, on August 27, showed up at a meeting of the city council, where their leader threatened council members. On September 1, another white supremacist group, Patriot Front, held its own “protest to the mass influx of unassimilable Haitian migrants” in the city. Right-wing social media posters pushed the story, usually with “witnesses” to events in the city coming from elsewhere.

In late August, posting in a private Facebook group, a resident said they had heard that Haitian immigrants had butchered a neighbor’s cat for food. Vance reposted that rumor to attack Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris, on whom he is trying to hang undocumented immigration although it was Trump who convinced Republicans to kill a strong bipartisan border bill this spring. Springfield police and the city manager told news outlets there was no truth to the rumors.

Nonetheless, on September 10, Vance told his people to “keep the cat memes flowing,” even though—or perhaps because—the rumors were putting people in his own state in danger.

Trump repeated the lie at the presidential debate that night, claiming, “In Springfield, they’re eating the dogs, the people that came in, they’re eating the cats. They’re eating, they’re eating the pets of the people that live there.” Today, President Joe Biden demanded Trump stop his attacks on Haitian-Americans, but Trump doubled down, promising to deport the Haitian immigrants in Springfield if he is elected, although they are here legally.


OLD SOVIET AND HIS ILK ARE DEPLORABLE

JD just tripled down on Meet the Press this AM.
Says he is just repeating what his constituents are saying…claiming now that there is video of a Haitian eating a cat…

Amidst bomb threats…

[NattyBohChamps04]

JD just tripled down on Meet the Press this AM.
Says he is just repeating what his constituents are saying…claiming now that there is video of a Haitian eating a cat…

Amidst bomb threats…

Lots of bomb threats for multiple days. Death threats, proud boys and white supremacists coming to town. MAGA is really trying to start something prior to the election to ramp up the hate/fear vote.

[MDlaxfan76]

JD just tripled down on Meet the Press this AM.
Says he is just repeating what his constituents are saying…claiming now that there is video of a Haitian eating a cat…

Amidst bomb threats…

Lots of bomb threats for multiple days. Death threats, proud boys and white supremacists coming to town. MAGA is really trying to start something prior to the election to ramp up the hate/fear vote.

JD and Trump understand what they are doing endangers lives. They simply don’t care.

Trump is definitely a sociopath so is incapable of actually caring about others beyond their direct impact on him. So, expected.

JD may also be a sociopath. He certainly has demonstrated a heck of a lot of disregard for others so maybe so.

[old salt]

Nothing to see here folks. Move along.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/us-bor ... ments.html

https://nypost.com/2024/09/16/us-news/s ... he-border/

[old salt]

JD just tripled down on Meet the Press this AM.
Says he is just repeating what his constituents are saying…claiming now that there is video of a Haitian eating a cat…

Amidst bomb threats…

Lots of bomb threats for multiple days. Death threats, proud boys and white supremacists coming to town. MAGA is really trying to start something prior to the election to ramp up the hate/fear vote.

Bomb threats originated overseas.

https://nypost.com/2024/09/16/us-news/o ... r-country/

[a fan]

JD just tripled down on Meet the Press this AM.
Says he is just repeating what his constituents are saying…claiming now that there is video of a Haitian eating a cat…

Amidst bomb threats…

Lots of bomb threats for multiple days. Death threats, proud boys and white supremacists coming to town. MAGA is really trying to start something prior to the election to ramp up the hate/fear vote.

Bomb threats originated overseas.

https://nypost.com/2024/09/16/us-news/o ... r-country/

And gee, OS.....why Springfield.

Oh, that's right, you and your TInFoilHat buddies, who believe everything Trump said. You inject yourself with bleach yet?

[old salt]

JD just tripled down on Meet the Press this AM.
Says he is just repeating what his constituents are saying…claiming now that there is video of a Haitian eating a cat…

Amidst bomb threats…

Lots of bomb threats for multiple days. Death threats, proud boys and white supremacists coming to town. MAGA is really trying to start something prior to the election to ramp up the hate/fear vote.

Bomb threats originated overseas.

https://nypost.com/2024/09/16/us-news/o ... r-country/

And gee, OS.....why Springfield.

Oh, that's right, you and your TInFoilHat buddies, who believe everything Trump said. You inject yourself with bleach yet?

Go ahead -- deny that Aurora & Springfield are having difficulty in accommodating the unanticipated (& unsupported) surge of migrants in need of public support. Unlike Martha's Vineyard, they can't call the Governor to send in the National Guard to relocate them.

Just give TdA gang bangers work permits & they won't be a problem.
No problem, until it impacts your property value or your kids' schools or rec leagues.

Traffic safety is an issue, even in my local travels. ...dodging jaywalkers & unlighted bicycles in dark clothes after dark.
Defensive driving takes on a whole new aspect. I welcome diversity. I'm proud of the way our city & county accommodate newcomers & low income residents. I'm happy to share the road, but I fear the unintended consequences -- like rolling somebody up.
https://www.eyeonannapolis.net/2023/01/ ... run-crash/
Forest Drive is one one end of my daily dog park route, returning home just after dusk, ...head on a swivel
https://www.thebaltimorebanner.com/opin ... KYFSIU2XE/
Another day, another accident on Forest Drive, Annapolis’ most dangerous roadway

Officials are looking for ways to reduce crashes and improve livability along heavily traveled Forest Drive in Annapolis.
The accidents occur with dreadful regularity on Forest Drive in Annapolis.

A longtime Naval Academy employee died in January while crossing an intersection near her home. Weeks later, a bicyclist was killed just after turning at a busy intersection. This month, a kid running across to the McDonald’s was hit by a car and critically injured.

Between each death or serious injury, rear-end collisions, fender-benders and crashes involving motorists who get smacked while turning in front of oncoming traffic continue. They happen at rates much higher than the statewide average. There was another one Monday.

Now, Anne Arundel County is about to release findings from its first major safety study in decades of Forest Drive, the most dangerous roadway in Maryland’s small-town state capital. After six months of research and community meetings, the authors say several steps should make it safer.

A draft of the study recommends lowering the speed limit from the current 40 mph. Suggestions include better traffic signals and road markings, more pedestrian crossings and improvement of those that exist. The final draft is also likely to include recommendations to extend combined sidewalks/bike paths, divide opposing lanes of traffic and reconfigure the most accident-prone intersections.

All of these ideas, if adopted, will compete for money with other county road projects. A state project focused on improving where Aris T. Allen Boulevard meets Forest Drive is in the planning stages. Even if construction begins on the easiest fixes soon, it will only represent the start of decades of work to make Forest Drive safer.

“Even if we can do little things now, there’s going to be a bigger picture and a need to do more,” said Adam Greenstein, the project manager at the Department of Public Works leading the study.

That’s because Forest Drive is more than just a road, it is the edge of Annapolis — a place outside of the Instagrammable areas where you’re more likely to find poverty, affordable housing and congestion.

It is a place of great peril, but also of promise.

“If I had like a magic wand, ideally … I’d try to put in little traffic circles instead of stoplights, slow the cars down,” Alderman Brooks Schandelmeier shouted over the thunderous roar of traffic during a recent walk. “I would widen the sidewalk and make these outer lanes for biking or transit with a cute little trolley bus like in downtown Annapolis.”

“I would make a place to linger.”

When people think of Annapolis, Forest Drive is not what comes to mind. It isn’t filled with historic homes and offers no views of sailboats on the water. But for many of the 60,000 or so people who live within the city limits or just outside of them on the Annapolis Neck, the county road that courses through the city south of downtown is part of daily life.

Forest Drive is a “stroad,” in urban planning parlance, a cross between a street where people live and a road where they get from point A to B as efficiently as possible. The hybrid does neither job well.

For those who drive it daily, the dream is to hit as few red lights as possible. For people who walk to school or a bus stop, it can be a nightmare.

“You have the cars going incredibly fast on it. There’s not much of a barrier on the sidewalk protecting people,” Schandelmeier shouted, saying the noise was painful. “So it just kind of feels a little nerve-racking and unsafe.”

Forest Drive is not particularly long, as major traffic arteries go.

It stretches 2.8 miles from Bywater and Chinquapin Round roads in the west to Arundel on the Bay Road in the east, where it becomes Bay Ridge Road for the last few blocks. An old section of Forest Drive veers off at the start, heading into the historic Black neighborhood of Parole.

There are 19 intersections down the peninsula, controlled by 11 traffic signals. An estimated 58,000 vehicles pass through the first intersection every day, dropping to 30,000 at the last one.

County Councilwoman Lisa Rodvien, who represents the Annapolis area, is an advocate for affordable housing. She sees the corridor as a corridor that could be a better place to live.

But when she hears from constituents about Forest Drive, she mostly hears concerns about traffic and the additional congestion that additional development would bring. When there is an accident, particularly one involving a pedestrian, there’s a fair amount of victim-blaming.

“That’s irksome to me,” Rodvien said.

A fair amount of development is already proposed along the corridor. Providence Point, an assisted-living center in the works for more than a decade, faces a court challenge but is making progress. The Willows, a workforce housing complex, is in limbo along with other major projects amid a fight over the adequate public facilities law.

Today, Forest Drive is dotted with older, small shopping and office centers, gas stations and comparably affordable single-family homes. There’s a stand that sells green mangos in front of a tienda and laundry, with signs advertising overseas cash transfers in Spanish.

Mateus cuts up green mangos for sale outside a small tienda and laundry on Forest Drive, where some neighborhoods are home to the city's Hispanic population.

The most dangerous intersections serve public housing and townhouse communities, where families living below the poverty line are the ones most likely to use the sidewalks or bus stops. Many of those sidewalks are, simply put, bad. Narrow in some places, clogged with piles of fallen leaves, sweet-gum balls and broken branches in others, it is not a great place to walk.

Stopping at Tyler Avenue, Schandlemeier said he could see the intersection — occupied now by an old seafood market, an auto shop, a liquor store and a gas station — someday reborn as a mix of shops, offices and homes.
“It can bring buildings closer up to the street, which helps make walkability a little more favorable because you don’t have to walk across an asphalt strip where cars are zipping in and out,” he said. “If you kind of do away with things designed around the car, it helps cut down on some of those potential pedestrian points of conflict.”

Mixed-use development would provide space for denser, less expensive housing than the single-family houses filling city neighborhoods today. Schandelmeier said the idea is being considered during the comprehensive plan update, a once-a-decade refresh of the map for growth underway now.

The concept has been defeated in the past. Six years ago, the city came up with a plan to reimagine Forest Drive as more of a boulevard, with businesses and medium-density housing encouraging people to walk, bike and spend time outside. It would have spread the character that makes Annapolis so desirable to the city’s edge. Some area residents, worried about more traffic, convinced the City Council to send the plan back for further study.

Schandelmeier just lost another attempt. His plan to encourage “missing middle” housing that young people can afford died in a lopsided council vote.
“Do I keep wasting my time?” he said. “Do I sacrifice my early 30s with a bunch of people who don’t seem to prioritize issues that young families or working-class families?”

Some of these same ideas emerged from community meetings during the county traffic safety study, with participants saying they want Forest Drive to be more friendly for walking and biking, with mass transit that serves people who live there now.

Greenstein, the project manager, said the city and county have a good partnership right now, but there has to be consensus and commitment to that kind of future that goes beyond his study. It would take decades to accomplish.
“That takes bigger thinking, and tens to hundreds of millions of dollars to make it more like a street than a road,” he said.
“This is just one piece of the puzzle, and what the community needs in the future is more than that.”

[CU88a]

JD just tripled down on Meet the Press this AM.
Says he is just repeating what his constituents are saying…claiming now that there is video of a Haitian eating a cat…

Amidst bomb threats…

Lots of bomb threats for multiple days. Death threats, proud boys and white supremacists coming to town. MAGA is really trying to start something prior to the election to ramp up the hate/fear vote.

Bomb threats originated overseas.

https://nypost.com/2024/09/16/us-news/o ... r-country/

And gee, OS.....why Springfield.

Oh, that's right, you and your TInFoilHat buddies, who believe everything Trump said. You inject yourself with bleach yet?

Go ahead -- deny that Aurora & Springfield are having difficulty in accommodating the unanticipated (& unsupported) surge of migrants in need of public support. Unlike Martha's Vineyard, they can't call the Governor to send in the National Guard to relocate them.

Just give TdA gang bangers work permits & they won't be a problem.
No problem, until it impacts your property value or your kids' schools or rec leagues.

Traffic safety is an issue, even in my local travels. ...dodging jaywalkers & unlighted bicycles in dark clothes after dark.
Defensive driving takes on a whole new aspect. I welcome diversity. I'm proud of the way our city & county accommodate newcomers & low income residents. I'm happy to share the road, but I fear the unintended consequences -- like rolling somebody up.
https://www.eyeonannapolis.net/2023/01/ ... run-crash/
Forest Drive is one one end of my daily dog park route, returning home just after dusk, ...head on a swivel
https://www.thebaltimorebanner.com/opin ... KYFSIU2XE/
Another day, another accident on Forest Drive, Annapolis’ most dangerous roadway

Officials are looking for ways to reduce crashes and improve livability along heavily traveled Forest Drive in Annapolis.
The accidents occur with dreadful regularity on Forest Drive in Annapolis.

A longtime Naval Academy employee died in January while crossing an intersection near her home. Weeks later, a bicyclist was killed just after turning at a busy intersection. This month, a kid running across to the McDonald’s was hit by a car and critically injured.

Between each death or serious injury, rear-end collisions, fender-benders and crashes involving motorists who get smacked while turning in front of oncoming traffic continue. They happen at rates much higher than the statewide average. There was another one Monday.

Now, Anne Arundel County is about to release findings from its first major safety study in decades of Forest Drive, the most dangerous roadway in Maryland’s small-town state capital. After six months of research and community meetings, the authors say several steps should make it safer.

A draft of the study recommends lowering the speed limit from the current 40 mph. Suggestions include better traffic signals and road markings, more pedestrian crossings and improvement of those that exist. The final draft is also likely to include recommendations to extend combined sidewalks/bike paths, divide opposing lanes of traffic and reconfigure the most accident-prone intersections.

All of these ideas, if adopted, will compete for money with other county road projects. A state project focused on improving where Aris T. Allen Boulevard meets Forest Drive is in the planning stages. Even if construction begins on the easiest fixes soon, it will only represent the start of decades of work to make Forest Drive safer.

“Even if we can do little things now, there’s going to be a bigger picture and a need to do more,” said Adam Greenstein, the project manager at the Department of Public Works leading the study.

That’s because Forest Drive is more than just a road, it is the edge of Annapolis — a place outside of the Instagrammable areas where you’re more likely to find poverty, affordable housing and congestion.

It is a place of great peril, but also of promise.

“If I had like a magic wand, ideally … I’d try to put in little traffic circles instead of stoplights, slow the cars down,” Alderman Brooks Schandelmeier shouted over the thunderous roar of traffic during a recent walk. “I would widen the sidewalk and make these outer lanes for biking or transit with a cute little trolley bus like in downtown Annapolis.”

“I would make a place to linger.”

When people think of Annapolis, Forest Drive is not what comes to mind. It isn’t filled with historic homes and offers no views of sailboats on the water. But for many of the 60,000 or so people who live within the city limits or just outside of them on the Annapolis Neck, the county road that courses through the city south of downtown is part of daily life.

Forest Drive is a “stroad,” in urban planning parlance, a cross between a street where people live and a road where they get from point A to B as efficiently as possible. The hybrid does neither job well.

For those who drive it daily, the dream is to hit as few red lights as possible. For people who walk to school or a bus stop, it can be a nightmare.

“You have the cars going incredibly fast on it. There’s not much of a barrier on the sidewalk protecting people,” Schandelmeier shouted, saying the noise was painful. “So it just kind of feels a little nerve-racking and unsafe.”

Forest Drive is not particularly long, as major traffic arteries go.

It stretches 2.8 miles from Bywater and Chinquapin Round roads in the west to Arundel on the Bay Road in the east, where it becomes Bay Ridge Road for the last few blocks. An old section of Forest Drive veers off at the start, heading into the historic Black neighborhood of Parole.

There are 19 intersections down the peninsula, controlled by 11 traffic signals. An estimated 58,000 vehicles pass through the first intersection every day, dropping to 30,000 at the last one.

County Councilwoman Lisa Rodvien, who represents the Annapolis area, is an advocate for affordable housing. She sees the corridor as a corridor that could be a better place to live.

But when she hears from constituents about Forest Drive, she mostly hears concerns about traffic and the additional congestion that additional development would bring. When there is an accident, particularly one involving a pedestrian, there’s a fair amount of victim-blaming.

“That’s irksome to me,” Rodvien said.

A fair amount of development is already proposed along the corridor. Providence Point, an assisted-living center in the works for more than a decade, faces a court challenge but is making progress. The Willows, a workforce housing complex, is in limbo along with other major projects amid a fight over the adequate public facilities law.

Today, Forest Drive is dotted with older, small shopping and office centers, gas stations and comparably affordable single-family homes. There’s a stand that sells green mangos in front of a tienda and laundry, with signs advertising overseas cash transfers in Spanish.

Mateus cuts up green mangos for sale outside a small tienda and laundry on Forest Drive, where some neighborhoods are home to the city's Hispanic population.

The most dangerous intersections serve public housing and townhouse communities, where families living below the poverty line are the ones most likely to use the sidewalks or bus stops. Many of those sidewalks are, simply put, bad. Narrow in some places, clogged with piles of fallen leaves, sweet-gum balls and broken branches in others, it is not a great place to walk.

Stopping at Tyler Avenue, Schandlemeier said he could see the intersection — occupied now by an old seafood market, an auto shop, a liquor store and a gas station — someday reborn as a mix of shops, offices and homes.
“It can bring buildings closer up to the street, which helps make walkability a little more favorable because you don’t have to walk across an asphalt strip where cars are zipping in and out,” he said. “If you kind of do away with things designed around the car, it helps cut down on some of those potential pedestrian points of conflict.”

Mixed-use development would provide space for denser, less expensive housing than the single-family houses filling city neighborhoods today. Schandelmeier said the idea is being considered during the comprehensive plan update, a once-a-decade refresh of the map for growth underway now.

The concept has been defeated in the past. Six years ago, the city came up with a plan to reimagine Forest Drive as more of a boulevard, with businesses and medium-density housing encouraging people to walk, bike and spend time outside. It would have spread the character that makes Annapolis so desirable to the city’s edge. Some area residents, worried about more traffic, convinced the City Council to send the plan back for further study.

Schandelmeier just lost another attempt. His plan to encourage “missing middle” housing that young people can afford died in a lopsided council vote.
“Do I keep wasting my time?” he said. “Do I sacrifice my early 30s with a bunch of people who don’t seem to prioritize issues that young families or working-class families?”

Some of these same ideas emerged from community meetings during the county traffic safety study, with participants saying they want Forest Drive to be more friendly for walking and biking, with mass transit that serves people who live there now.

Greenstein, the project manager, said the city and county have a good partnership right now, but there has to be consensus and commitment to that kind of future that goes beyond his study. It would take decades to accomplish.
“That takes bigger thinking, and tens to hundreds of millions of dollars to make it more like a street than a road,” he said.
“This is just one piece of the puzzle, and what the community needs in the future is more than that.”

???

You are blaming Annapolis/Anne Arundel County traffic on immigrants and poor people?

[a fan]

JD just tripled down on Meet the Press this AM.
Says he is just repeating what his constituents are saying…claiming now that there is video of a Haitian eating a cat…

Amidst bomb threats…

Lots of bomb threats for multiple days. Death threats, proud boys and white supremacists coming to town. MAGA is really trying to start something prior to the election to ramp up the hate/fear vote.

Bomb threats originated overseas.

https://nypost.com/2024/09/16/us-news/o ... r-country/

And gee, OS.....why Springfield.

Oh, that's right, you and your TInFoilHat buddies, who believe everything Trump said. You inject yourself with bleach yet?

Go ahead -- deny that Aurora & Springfield are having difficulty in accommodating the unanticipated (& unsupported) surge of migrants in need of public support. Unlike Martha's Vineyard, they can't call the Governor to send in the National Guard to relocate them.

Just give TdA gang bangers work permits & they won't be a problem.
No problem, until it impacts your property value or your kids' schools or rec leagues

Sell your hate and fear and lack of historical knowledge somewhere else. You and your buds in the KKK have been selling this hate of non-white immigrants for well over 100 years. It doesn't work on me. You think we had zero immigrants in America until three years ago. Neat-o.

Now we know why you don't want kids to crack a history book...you want to tell them that immigration never happened in the US, and that Trump and Vance's wive's families are from the Onondoga Nation, and weren't these same immigrants that you're convinced is destroying our nation.

[NattyBohChamps04]

And no one overseas is interfering in our election... lol.

[Kismet]

JD just tripled down on Meet the Press this AM.
Says he is just repeating what his constituents are saying…claiming now that there is video of a Haitian eating a cat…

Amidst bomb threats…

Lots of bomb threats for multiple days. Death threats, proud boys and white supremacists coming to town. MAGA is really trying to start something prior to the election to ramp up the hate/fear vote.

Bomb threats originated overseas.

https://nypost.com/2024/09/16/us-news/o ... r-country/

And gee, OS.....why Springfield.

Oh, that's right, you and your TInFoilHat buddies, who believe everything Trump said. You inject yourself with bleach yet?

Go ahead -- deny that Aurora & Springfield are having difficulty in accommodating the unanticipated (& unsupported) surge of migrants in need of public support. Unlike Martha's Vineyard, they can't call the Governor to send in the National Guard to relocate them.

Just give TdA gang bangers work permits & they won't be a problem.
No problem, until it impacts your property value or your kids' schools or rec leagues

Sell your hate and fear and lack of historical knowledge somewhere else. You and your buds in the KKK have been selling this hate of non-white immigrants for well over 100 years. It doesn't work on me. You think we had zero immigrants in America until three years ago. Neat-o.

Now we know why you don't want kids to crack a history book...you want to tell them that immigration never happened in the US, and that Trump and Vance's wive's families are from the Onondoga Nation, and weren't these same immigrants that you're convinced is destroying our nation.

Somebody gave both my grandfathers work permits upon arrival in America - they both succeeded in new jobs with new skills beyond those they had previously mastered and they both made great contributions to this country despite many natives considering them lowlife foreigners.

So, Saltine...respectfully - Eff you

[old salt]

JD just tripled down on Meet the Press this AM.
Says he is just repeating what his constituents are saying…claiming now that there is video of a Haitian eating a cat…

Amidst bomb threats…

Lots of bomb threats for multiple days. Death threats, proud boys and white supremacists coming to town. MAGA is really trying to start something prior to the election to ramp up the hate/fear vote.

Bomb threats originated overseas.

https://nypost.com/2024/09/16/us-news/o ... r-country/

And gee, OS.....why Springfield.

Oh, that's right, you and your TInFoilHat buddies, who believe everything Trump said. You inject yourself with bleach yet?

Go ahead -- deny that Aurora & Springfield are having difficulty in accommodating the unanticipated (& unsupported) surge of migrants in need of public support. Unlike Martha's Vineyard, they can't call the Governor to send in the National Guard to relocate them.

Just give TdA gang bangers work permits & they won't be a problem.
No problem, until it impacts your property value or your kids' schools or rec leagues

Sell your hate and fear and lack of historical knowledge somewhere else. You and your buds in the KKK have been selling this hate of non-white immigrants for well over 100 years. It doesn't work on me. You think we had zero immigrants in America until three years ago. Neat-o.

Now we know why you don't want kids to crack a history book...you want to tell them that immigration never happened in the US, and that Trump and Vance's wive's families are from the Onondoga Nation, and weren't these same immigrants that you're convinced is destroying our nation.

Somebody gave both my grandfathers work permits upon arrival in America - they both succeeded in new jobs with new skills beyond those they had previously mastered and they both made great contributions to this country despite many natives considering them lowlife foreigners.

So, Saltine...respectfully - Eff you

They entered legally. Good for them.

[Kismet]

JD just tripled down on Meet the Press this AM.
Says he is just repeating what his constituents are saying…claiming now that there is video of a Haitian eating a cat…

Amidst bomb threats…

Lots of bomb threats for multiple days. Death threats, proud boys and white supremacists coming to town. MAGA is really trying to start something prior to the election to ramp up the hate/fear vote.

Bomb threats originated overseas.

https://nypost.com/2024/09/16/us-news/o ... r-country/

And gee, OS.....why Springfield.

Oh, that's right, you and your TInFoilHat buddies, who believe everything Trump said. You inject yourself with bleach yet?

Go ahead -- deny that Aurora & Springfield are having difficulty in accommodating the unanticipated (& unsupported) surge of migrants in need of public support. Unlike Martha's Vineyard, they can't call the Governor to send in the National Guard to relocate them.

Just give TdA gang bangers work permits & they won't be a problem.
No problem, until it impacts your property value or your kids' schools or rec leagues

Sell your hate and fear and lack of historical knowledge somewhere else. You and your buds in the KKK have been selling this hate of non-white immigrants for well over 100 years. It doesn't work on me. You think we had zero immigrants in America until three years ago. Neat-o.

Now we know why you don't want kids to crack a history book...you want to tell them that immigration never happened in the US, and that Trump and Vance's wive's families are from the Onondoga Nation, and weren't these same immigrants that you're convinced is destroying our nation.

Somebody gave both my grandfathers work permits upon arrival in America - they both succeeded in new jobs with new skills beyond those they had previously mastered and they both made great contributions to this country despite many natives considering them lowlife foreigners.

So, Saltine...respectfully - Eff you

They entered legally. Good for them.

They entered by getting on a boat and presented themselves at a port of entry. They didn't ask in advance or use any other "legal process". After they arrived, they were subject to the same kind of derogatory name-calling and bigotry you currently use.

So, again, respectfully - Eff off .

[old salt]

Traffic safety is an issue, even in my local travels. ...dodging jaywalkers & unlighted bicycles in dark clothes after dark.
Defensive driving takes on a whole new aspect. I welcome diversity. I'm proud of the way our city & county accommodate newcomers & low income residents. I'm happy to share the road, but I fear the unintended consequences -- like rolling somebody up.
https://www.eyeonannapolis.net/2023/01/ ... run-crash/
Forest Drive is one one end of my daily dog park route, returning home just after dusk, ...head on a swivel
https://www.thebaltimorebanner.com/opin ... KYFSIU2XE/
Another day, another accident on Forest Drive, Annapolis’ most dangerous roadway

Officials are looking for ways to reduce crashes and improve livability along heavily traveled Forest Drive in Annapolis.
The accidents occur with dreadful regularity on Forest Drive in Annapolis.

The most dangerous intersections serve public housing and townhouse communities, where families living below the poverty line are the ones most likely to use the sidewalks or bus stops.

???

You are blaming Annapolis/Anne Arundel County traffic on immigrants and poor people?

That's the demographics of the jaywalkers & unlighted bicyclists & drivers in accidents or traffic stops which I observe on a daily basis.
That's the demographics of the neighborhoods which Forest Dr traverses. That is the reality.

[old salt]

JD just tripled down on Meet the Press this AM.
Says he is just repeating what his constituents are saying…claiming now that there is video of a Haitian eating a cat…

Amidst bomb threats…

Lots of bomb threats for multiple days. Death threats, proud boys and white supremacists coming to town. MAGA is really trying to start something prior to the election to ramp up the hate/fear vote.

Bomb threats originated overseas.

https://nypost.com/2024/09/16/us-news/o ... r-country/

And gee, OS.....why Springfield.

Oh, that's right, you and your TInFoilHat buddies, who believe everything Trump said. You inject yourself with bleach yet?

Go ahead -- deny that Aurora & Springfield are having difficulty in accommodating the unanticipated (& unsupported) surge of migrants in need of public support. Unlike Martha's Vineyard, they can't call the Governor to send in the National Guard to relocate them.

Just give TdA gang bangers work permits & they won't be a problem.
No problem, until it impacts your property value or your kids' schools or rec leagues

Sell your hate and fear and lack of historical knowledge somewhere else. You and your buds in the KKK have been selling this hate of non-white immigrants for well over 100 years. It doesn't work on me. You think we had zero immigrants in America until three years ago. Neat-o.

Now we know why you don't want kids to crack a history book...you want to tell them that immigration never happened in the US, and that Trump and Vance's wive's families are from the Onondoga Nation, and weren't these same immigrants that you're convinced is destroying our nation.

Somebody gave both my grandfathers work permits upon arrival in America - they both succeeded in new jobs with new skills beyond those they had previously mastered and they both made great contributions to this country despite many natives considering them lowlife foreigners.

So, Saltine...respectfully - Eff you

They entered legally. Good for them.

They entered by getting on a boat and presented themselves at a port of entry. They didn't ask in advance or use any other "legal process". After they arrived, they were subject to the same kind of derogatory name-calling and bigotry you currently use.

So, again, respectfully - Eff off .

Boo Hoo. They entered legally. They encountered the same things all immigrants did, & you're still whining about it. It didn't hurt you, but you're still a resentful a-hole about it.

[MDlaxfan76]

JD just tripled down on Meet the Press this AM.
Says he is just repeating what his constituents are saying…claiming now that there is video of a Haitian eating a cat…

Amidst bomb threats…

Lots of bomb threats for multiple days. Death threats, proud boys and white supremacists coming to town. MAGA is really trying to start something prior to the election to ramp up the hate/fear vote.

Bomb threats originated overseas.

https://nypost.com/2024/09/16/us-news/o ... r-country/

And gee, OS.....why Springfield.

Oh, that's right, you and your TInFoilHat buddies, who believe everything Trump said. You inject yourself with bleach yet?

Go ahead -- deny that Aurora & Springfield are having difficulty in accommodating the unanticipated (& unsupported) surge of migrants in need of public support. Unlike Martha's Vineyard, they can't call the Governor to send in the National Guard to relocate them.

Just give TdA gang bangers work permits & they won't be a problem.
No problem, until it impacts your property value or your kids' schools or rec leagues

Sell your hate and fear and lack of historical knowledge somewhere else. You and your buds in the KKK have been selling this hate of non-white immigrants for well over 100 years. It doesn't work on me. You think we had zero immigrants in America until three years ago. Neat-o.

Now we know why you don't want kids to crack a history book...you want to tell them that immigration never happened in the US, and that Trump and Vance's wive's families are from the Onondoga Nation, and weren't these same immigrants that you're convinced is destroying our nation.

Somebody gave both my grandfathers work permits upon arrival in America - they both succeeded in new jobs with new skills beyond those they had previously mastered and they both made great contributions to this country despite many natives considering them lowlife foreigners.

So, Saltine...respectfully - Eff you

They entered legally. Good for them.

They entered by getting on a boat and presented themselves at a port of entry. They didn't ask in advance or use any other "legal process". After they arrived, they were subject to the same kind of derogatory name-calling and bigotry you currently use.

So, again, respectfully - Eff off .

Boo Hoo. They entered legally. They encountered the same things all immigrants did, & you're still whining about it. It didn't hurt you, but you're still a resentful a-hole about it.

The Haitians in Springfield are legal also.

The racist, nativism should be rejected as fundamentally anti-American.

[old salt]

JD just tripled down on Meet the Press this AM.
Says he is just repeating what his constituents are saying…claiming now that there is video of a Haitian eating a cat…

Amidst bomb threats…

Lots of bomb threats for multiple days. Death threats, proud boys and white supremacists coming to town. MAGA is really trying to start something prior to the election to ramp up the hate/fear vote.

Bomb threats originated overseas.

https://nypost.com/2024/09/16/us-news/o ... r-country/

And gee, OS.....why Springfield.

Oh, that's right, you and your TInFoilHat buddies, who believe everything Trump said. You inject yourself with bleach yet?

Go ahead -- deny that Aurora & Springfield are having difficulty in accommodating the unanticipated (& unsupported) surge of migrants in need of public support. Unlike Martha's Vineyard, they can't call the Governor to send in the National Guard to relocate them.

Just give TdA gang bangers work permits & they won't be a problem.
No problem, until it impacts your property value or your kids' schools or rec leagues

Sell your hate and fear and lack of historical knowledge somewhere else. You and your buds in the KKK have been selling this hate of non-white immigrants for well over 100 years. It doesn't work on me. You think we had zero immigrants in America until three years ago. Neat-o.

Now we know why you don't want kids to crack a history book...you want to tell them that immigration never happened in the US, and that Trump and Vance's wive's families are from the Onondoga Nation, and weren't these same immigrants that you're convinced is destroying our nation.

Somebody gave both my grandfathers work permits upon arrival in America - they both succeeded in new jobs with new skills beyond those they had previously mastered and they both made great contributions to this country despite many natives considering them lowlife foreigners.

So, Saltine...respectfully - Eff you

They entered legally. Good for them.

They entered by getting on a boat and presented themselves at a port of entry. They didn't ask in advance or use any other "legal process". After they arrived, they were subject to the same kind of derogatory name-calling and bigotry you currently use.

So, again, respectfully - Eff off .

Boo Hoo. They entered legally. They encountered the same things all immigrants did, & you're still whining about it. It didn't hurt you, but you're still a resentful a-hole about it.

The Haitians in Springfield are legal also.

The racist, nativism should be rejected as fundamentally anti-American.

Are you sure they are ALL on TPS status. There were also Haitians entering via the S border.
Biden allowed them in,without securing impact funds for the communities where they settle en masse ?

[MDlaxfan76]

JD just tripled down on Meet the Press this AM.
Says he is just repeating what his constituents are saying…claiming now that there is video of a Haitian eating a cat…

Amidst bomb threats…

Lots of bomb threats for multiple days. Death threats, proud boys and white supremacists coming to town. MAGA is really trying to start something prior to the election to ramp up the hate/fear vote.

Bomb threats originated overseas.

https://nypost.com/2024/09/16/us-news/o ... r-country/

And gee, OS.....why Springfield.

Oh, that's right, you and your TInFoilHat buddies, who believe everything Trump said. You inject yourself with bleach yet?

Go ahead -- deny that Aurora & Springfield are having difficulty in accommodating the unanticipated (& unsupported) surge of migrants in need of public support. Unlike Martha's Vineyard, they can't call the Governor to send in the National Guard to relocate them.

Just give TdA gang bangers work permits & they won't be a problem.
No problem, until it impacts your property value or your kids' schools or rec leagues

Sell your hate and fear and lack of historical knowledge somewhere else. You and your buds in the KKK have been selling this hate of non-white immigrants for well over 100 years. It doesn't work on me. You think we had zero immigrants in America until three years ago. Neat-o.

Now we know why you don't want kids to crack a history book...you want to tell them that immigration never happened in the US, and that Trump and Vance's wive's families are from the Onondoga Nation, and weren't these same immigrants that you're convinced is destroying our nation.

Somebody gave both my grandfathers work permits upon arrival in America - they both succeeded in new jobs with new skills beyond those they had previously mastered and they both made great contributions to this country despite many natives considering them lowlife foreigners.

So, Saltine...respectfully - Eff you

They entered legally. Good for them.

They entered by getting on a boat and presented themselves at a port of entry. They didn't ask in advance or use any other "legal process". After they arrived, they were subject to the same kind of derogatory name-calling and bigotry you currently use.

So, again, respectfully - Eff off .

Boo Hoo. They entered legally. They encountered the same things all immigrants did, & you're still whining about it. It didn't hurt you, but you're still a resentful a-hole about it.

The Haitians in Springfield are legal also.

The racist, nativism should be rejected as fundamentally anti-American.

Are you sure they are ALL on TPS status. There were also Haitians entering via the S border.
Biden allowed them in,without securing impact funds for the communities where they settle en masse ?

The Republican Governor and Republican Mayor say they are legal.
And "invited" by them. Filling jobs, 8,000 new ones over the past decade. Why do you doubt them?
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/gop-gov ... =113690058

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39voRIZciVI

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politi ... rcna171558

Is it skin color again? "s-hole countries" perhaps?
Or because Trump and Fox and Newsmax told you they are illegal?

Obviously there are undocumented in all parts of the US, from all sorts of countries, but that is apparently NOT the situation in Springfield that is causing some stress on social services and housing prices.

IF you are actually concerned about "impact funds", take it to MAGA Congress.
They won't even fund more border agents if it's a Dem Admin asking.
So, blame it on MAGA/Trump.

BTW, were there "impact funds" for all the prior waves of immigration to this country?

Here’s what you cut and ignored with your diversion that “some” Haitians may not be documented versus “most” are legally in Springfield, invited and filling jobs, invigorating the economy of Springfield. Businesses opening and booming in a previously declining area. Paying taxes.

Sure, perhaps this community needs some help catching up with investments in social services, because the declining community had not kept up. And the Republican governor and legislature had not helped… promises coming, but why look to federal direct help before state and local?

But ok, JD, what federal funding have you proposed legislatively for Springfield or any other community?

[Kismet]

JD just tripled down on Meet the Press this AM.
Says he is just repeating what his constituents are saying…claiming now that there is video of a Haitian eating a cat…

Amidst bomb threats…

Lots of bomb threats for multiple days. Death threats, proud boys and white supremacists coming to town. MAGA is really trying to start something prior to the election to ramp up the hate/fear vote.

Bomb threats originated overseas.

https://nypost.com/2024/09/16/us-news/o ... r-country/

And gee, OS.....why Springfield.

Oh, that's right, you and your TInFoilHat buddies, who believe everything Trump said. You inject yourself with bleach yet?

Go ahead -- deny that Aurora & Springfield are having difficulty in accommodating the unanticipated (& unsupported) surge of migrants in need of public support. Unlike Martha's Vineyard, they can't call the Governor to send in the National Guard to relocate them.

Just give TdA gang bangers work permits & they won't be a problem.
No problem, until it impacts your property value or your kids' schools or rec leagues

Sell your hate and fear and lack of historical knowledge somewhere else. You and your buds in the KKK have been selling this hate of non-white immigrants for well over 100 years. It doesn't work on me. You think we had zero immigrants in America until three years ago. Neat-o.

Now we know why you don't want kids to crack a history book...you want to tell them that immigration never happened in the US, and that Trump and Vance's wive's families are from the Onondoga Nation, and weren't these same immigrants that you're convinced is destroying our nation.

Somebody gave both my grandfathers work permits upon arrival in America - they both succeeded in new jobs with new skills beyond those they had previously mastered and they both made great contributions to this country despite many natives considering them lowlife foreigners.

So, Saltine...respectfully - Eff you

They entered legally. Good for them.

They entered by getting on a boat and presented themselves at a port of entry. They didn't ask in advance or use any other "legal process". After they arrived, they were subject to the same kind of derogatory name-calling and bigotry you currently use.

So, again, respectfully - Eff off .

Boo Hoo. They entered legally. They encountered the same things all immigrants did, & you're still whining about it. It didn't hurt you, but you're still a resentful a-hole about it.

Not so respectfully, up yours a-hole