{"id":1806767,"date":"2023-01-16T06:49:58","date_gmt":"2023-01-16T11:49:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1806767"},"modified":"2023-01-16T06:51:09","modified_gmt":"2023-01-16T11:51:09","slug":"small-upstate-ny-town-faces-wave-of-migrants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/small-upstate-ny-town-faces-wave-of-migrants\/","title":{"rendered":"Small Upstate NY Town Faces Wave of &#8220;Migrants&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsmall-upstate-ny-town-faces-wave-of-migrants%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1806767&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/89bf8c09-6f18-4b9d-8c85-dc308d12d001-1110x740-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\"   style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>By this point, most of us have heard the phrase, \u2018<em>Every town is now a border town<\/em>\u2018 because of the ongoing Biden border crisis. People often think of cities like Chicago, Los Angeles and New York City as places where thousands of migrants live in tents and on the streets. These are not cities. \u201ctowns.\u201d What happens when illegal immigrants arrive in a city? Jamestown, New York, population 28,000, is approximately six hours from New York&#8217;s Big Apple. It is located just outside of the Ohio border. <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/01\/13\/tiny-upstate-new-york-town-faced-with-nyc-like-migrant-influx\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">are starting to find out<\/a>. Residents of this small village learned recently that up to 35 illegal migrants from Colombia had settled in their community. More are likely to arrive soon. (NY Post)<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>In this small town \u2014 about as far as one can get from the southern border without entering Canada \u2014 residents are bracing for an influx of migrants that could\u00a0<a id=\"reader.external-link.num-0\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/01\/13\/eric-adams-tells-kathy-hochul-to-take-500-ny-migrants\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">cause a crisis similar to the one that has New York City<\/a>\u00a0Faced with a fiscal cliff<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf a city of 8 million people can be overwhelmed by a couple thousand migrants, imagine what a couple hundred can do to overwhelm a small rural community upstate?\u201d Sen. Joe Borrello (R &#8211; Jamestown) has been warned.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt wouldn\u2019t take many migrants to overwhelm the system,\u201d He added.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I\u2019ve been to or traveled through Jamestown many times over the years because it sits on the primary interstate leading to Ohio. It\u2019s one of those \u201cdon\u2019t blink or you\u2019ll miss it\u201d These communities are scattered throughout the upstate region. They had their own homelessness problems before the border crisis. They are Phil, Mark, or Judy. But aside from a couple of churches, there really aren\u2019t any large-scale shelters or free food outlets in Jamestown.<\/p>\n<p>Ten migrants have taken over a three-bedroom townhouse. Although the conditions are difficult, some local charities have helped a few of them get jobs at local thrift stores and other shops. That situation won\u2019t hold for long, however, particularly if a lot more of them start showing up. It\u2019s also worth pointing out that Jamestown is in upstate New York and they get <em>Winter is real<\/em> there. This morning, the temperature was 17 degrees as the sun rose. It can be fatal to sleep outside.<\/p>\n<p>Why did Jamestown become the preferred destination for Colombian migrants, even though it is not listed on any maps? Some migrants spoke through translators to describe the experience as a game of telephone. One family of migrants found a relative in Jamestown and offered to let them stay. The news that one family had a few extra rooms quickly spread down the grapevine. It was soon picked up by the migrant camps near the border. \u2018<em>Jamestown is the place to go for resettlement<\/em>.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>This was it. Soon, when asked about their travel plans, more Colombians answered that they needed transportation to New York City. The migrants are now being shipped by border officials, who are relieved. <em>Anywhere<\/em> so they didn\u2019t ask any questions. Many more are reportedly on their way.<\/p>\n<p>The locals are anxious about the future. Already, some people are selling fake Social Security Cards and Licenses to some of these individuals. People who cannot find legal work have taken up drug sales. As is the case with many communities that have large numbers of illegal migrants and homeless, crime rates rise as more people are added to the ranks. Jamestown boasts a total of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jamestownny.gov\/departments\/police-department\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">60 police officers<\/a> There are less than a dozen patrol vehicles. They are not allowed to leave their village if a crime wave occurs.<\/p>\n<p>The village council shouldn\u2019t expect any federal aid from Washington to deal with this mess. The White House has bigger fish to fry and a little town like this won\u2019t generate enough headlines to spur the government to act. It would be incongruous to provide housing and services for hundreds upon hundreds of immigrants living in Jamestown. It would be to stop migrants from coming to the country looking for a home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By this point, most of us have heard the phrase, \u2018Every town is now a border town\u2018 because of the ongoing Biden border crisis. People often think of cities like Chicago, Los Angeles and New York City as places where thousands of migrants live in tents and on the streets. These are not cities. \u201ctowns.\u201d &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1806770,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[5458,5371,3819,9167,11932,10528],"class_list":["post-1806767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report","tag-bongino","tag-migrants","tag-report","tag-town","tag-upstate","tag-wave"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1806767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1806767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1806767\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1806770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1806767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1806767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1806767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}