Driven By Hype, Hoarding, And Black Money
A report from WESH. “Homeowners in Central Florida are still struggling to get insurance payouts and rebuild their lives months after Hurricane Milton made landfall in October 2024. Sandra and Arnie Brazis walked WESH 2 through their Ormond Beach home of nearly 40 years after a massive tree crashed through the roof in October. The roof has been fixed, but the home remains empty and gutted by the damage. Repairs have been continuously delayed by the Brazis’ insurance. ‘They have not come through with what we need to fix. All I’m asking is money to fix our home,’ Sandra said. Contractors estimated fixing the Brazis’ home would cost between $185,000 and $205,000. Citizens offered them about $80,000. ‘What don’t you see in this picture? And then they give us only $19,000 to replace all of our living room. Like our living room, dining room, kitchen, bedroom, appliances. What’s that going to give us, you know? And we’re insured for much more than that,’ Sandra said.”
“They hired Chris Gaudreau, a public adjuster, to help them fight the offer from Citizens. He said this happens all the time. Gaudreau said, ‘It’s the nature of the business. They [insurance providers], you know, they want to underpay, and hopefully, the homeowners will walk away.’ As for the Brazis, they remain hopeful. ‘I’m not going to give up. No, I will fight to the end,’ Sandra said.”
The Wall Street Journal. “LaPlace, La., is the sort of town that is becoming a no-go zone for major insurance companies.It is only about 10 feet above sea level and has an alarming history of serious storms and flooding. So Nadia Hart was happy that Lighthouse Excalibur Insurance, a small Louisiana insurer with an ‘A’ rating for financial stability, was willing to write a policy on her three-bedroom house in town. And many are getting a critical stamp of approval from Demotech, a tiny Ohio rating company with a unique take on grading financial stability. But Demotech’s rosy outlook doesn’t always pan out. Insurers it rated were 30 times as likely to become insolvent as those graded by its main rivals, according to a Wall Street Journal analysis of failures since 2017.”
“That’s just what happened to Hart’s insurer after Hurricane Ida barreled into southern Louisiana in August 2021. Lighthouse imploded after 16,000 of its 30,000 customers in the state put in claims. Hart is still waiting, 3½ years later, for money to pay for repairs to her home. ‘I lost everything,’ said the disabled single mother. Hart said that although she had never heard of Demotech, she assumed the A grade it gave Lighthouse meant the insurer could be relied on. ‘That’s why I’m kind of shocked they collapsed so fast,’ she said. ‘You could easily get a $200 billion loss if a Category 5 storm hits Miami,’ said John Neal, the former chief executive of the Lloyd’s of London insurance marketplace. ‘A small insurer, you get that kind of loss—bang, they’re gone.'”
From NJ.com. “Foreclosures in several New Jersey counties are up significantly from a year ago, according to a report from Property Shark. Of the 12 New Jersey counties included in the New York Metro data area, foreclosures were up in all but two. Somerset saw the biggest increase. Foreclosures were up 54% there, from 24 to 37; followed by Morris County, which had a 50% increase, from 36 to 54; and Hudson County, which had a 49% increase, from 35 to 52 foreclosures. There were 804 foreclosures for all 12 counties in the second quarter of 2025. That’s a 23% year-over-year increase and a 34% quarter over quarter jump. Michael Read, of Bridgeway Mortgage & Real Estate Services in Morristown, said that these numbers aren’t that high. ‘The 54 foreclosures in Morris County, in the grand scheme of things, is not a lot when you think about how many loans there were during that time,’ he said. ‘This is leftover stuff from people playing the system during the pandemic. They took forbearance, stopped paying their mortgage and at some point you run out of runway. I would assume these numbers are going to go up dramatically at some point as the system catches up.'”
“James Hughes of Keller Williams NJ Metro Group in Montclair said one of his clients took forbearance during the pandemic, which adjusted their mortgage rate from 2.5% to 7%. That and increases in property taxes ‘put them in a position where they could no longer afford the home,’ he said. Those homeowners are now fending off foreclosure, he said, by selling their home. ‘They’re going to end up walking away with money because during the time they’ve owned the property, the value went up significantly,’ Hughes said.”
From Arizona Family. “Some Phoenix homeowners are taking a stand against one of their neighbors, who wants to build a casita. It would hover over the backyard of Joe and Rosanne Schneider, who are doing all they can to stop the project before it starts. ‘This will be a two-story building,’ said Rosanne Schneider. ‘It will be a tower that you can see from the street and all around the neighborhood.’ The Schneiders learned about their neighbor’s plans to build the casita a couple of months ago. But the Schneiders insist that what their neighbor is planning is not intended for anyone to live in and the size and height of the structure do not fit in with their small community, off 12th Street and Glendale Avenue in Phoenix. The Schneiders are also worried about the ADU impacting their property value. ‘You can’t put a 60 by 21-foot wall 3 feet from somebody’s property and expect their house to maintain its value,’ said Rosanne Schneider. ‘You can’t have windows peering into your backyard without losing value if you want to sell your house.'”
KRON 4 in California. “Open houses happen every weekend, and realtor Tracey Esling says one day they’re packed, and then the next weekend no one shows up. It’s an unpredictable industry, but she’s starting to notice slow improvements. ‘I think we’re seeing a push down, we’re definitely feeling pressure, downward pressure on the price point,’ Esling said. The president of the Bay East Association of Realtors says houses are stacking up. The city of Pleasanton, for example, has 145 homes for sale, and homes average 41 days on the market. A big reason for that, according to Esling, is that most buyers have to put at least 20 percent down. ‘There was a time when we had the 80-10-10, the 80-15-5 — that allows for 10 percent down and borrowing the other 10 percent,’ Esling said. ‘We aren’t seeing those as much yet.’ The good news, according to Esling, is that with more homes on the market, buyers have room to leverage and negotiate prices.”
From Bisnow on California. “Large-scale deportations of immigrant workers lacking permanent legal status have pervaded Los Angeles for almost two months, casting a chilling effect on typically bustling neighborhoods as people take refuge at home. For business owners in neighborhoods that have been hit especially hard, this sheltering in place means drastically decreased foot traffic and missing workers, resulting in decreased revenue that will impact bottom lines — and the ability to pay rent. One generational owner in the Fashion District has already lost a tenant since June 6. The June 6 raid and subsequent immigration actions in the neighborhood have created conditions that are working against his tenants, he said, adding that smaller-scale immigration detainments have taken place often in the neighborhood since early June. ‘It created a crunch in cash flow,’ he said. ‘Folks could not pay their rent as expeditiously as they normally do.’ He has two more tenants he says are ‘shaky’ and considering closing up shop due to the double whammy of fear of more raids and the slowdown in business.”
Boston Real Estate Times in Massachusetts. “A rare real estate opportunity is coming to market as The Linden, a newly constructed 70-unit luxury apartment complex in West Roxbury, is set to be sold at a public foreclosure auction on Wednesday, August 13, 2025, at 12:00 PM. ‘This is an extraordinary opportunity to acquire a newly built, high-quality multifamily asset in a thriving Boston submarket,’ said Marianne Sullivan, President of Sullivan & Sullivan Auctioneers. ‘Rarely does a property of this scale, quality, and readiness come to market through foreclosure.'”
The Globe and Mail. “Major players in B.C.’s housing industry are calling on federal and provincial governments to loosen restrictions on foreign investment in Canadian homes to avoid a crash they say will deepen the country’s housing crisis. Hani Lammam, executive vice-president at the long-time Vancouver building company Cressey Development Group, said residential construction in major cities in Canada can’t function without the ability to get capital from somewhere besides Canadian citizens, companies or pension funds. People who are looking to buy are generally unwilling to tie up large sums of money for a long time before a project is completed. ‘To rely on the end user is asking too much, to have to make a buy decision four or five years before,’ he said.”
“In Vancouver, major companies have been laying off staff, projects have been paused and some have declared bankruptcy. Developers with the financial ability to do it are slashing prices, and at least one condo project was cancelled even after presales started. In Toronto, sales have been crashing and the inventory of condos has been rising. A July 15 report from Urbanation, a Toronto company that tracks the condo market, said there were about 24,000 unsold units by the end of June, while sales are at a dribble. The Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area saw only 502 condo sales in the second quarter of 2025. ‘We have not seen layoffs for builders like this in more than a decade,’ said Chris Gardner, CEO of the 5,000-member Independent Contractors and Businesses Association. ‘I think people in government don’t understand how serious this is and how rapidly things are unwinding.'”
From Mansion Global. “A shift is underway in London’s ultra-luxury housing market, according to a report released Monday by Beauchamp Estates. Rising crime and cost of living are driving Americans to the U.K., the report said, while most Middle Eastern buyers are from the United Arab Emirates, alongside clients from Qatar and Saudi Arabia. ‘With London prices now below their 2014 values and a significant supply of trophy homes available for sale discerning domestic, Gulf and U.S. buyers have seen a ‘once in a generation’ opportunity to acquire a large family home in the U.K. capital,’ Jeremy Gee, managing director of Beauchamp Estates, said in a statement. Overall, sales of ultra-luxury homes in London dropped 13% to £694 million in the first half of 2025 compared to the same time period the previous year, the data showed. This drop was far less than the 23% drop in sales between 2024 and 2023, indicating a current leveling out of the market, according to the report.”
From Ynet News. “The head of Israel’s National Economic Council has recommended curbing banks’ ability to influence apartment pricing in a move aimed at reducing housing costs and easing the country’s growing surplus of unsold homes. Avi Simhon, who chairs the committee examining bank involvement in real estate, said in an interview with Ynet that banks should be barred from restricting developers’ ability to lower prices once a financing agreement has been signed. ‘It creates a chilling effect,’ Simhon said. ‘Developers want to offer discounts to move inventory, but the banks are standing in the way.’ Simhon estimated that removing such restrictions could lead to a 10% drop in home prices within several months. Home prices in Israel have risen roughly 35% in the past four years, despite high interest rates, declining sales, and the effects of war. The number of unsold new homes has surged past 80,000—double the typical figure, Simhon said. ‘If developers are free to drop prices, others will follow. That’s how we create momentum,’ he said. ‘This could return prices to 2021 levels.'”
From Business Today. “India’s real estate market is no longer about affordability—it’s about survival, says CA Nitin Kaushik, who argues that middle-class Indians are being priced out of basic housing in what he describes as an economy propped up by hype, hoarding, and black money. In a hard-hitting LinkedIn post, Kaushik compares a ₹2.5 crore 3BHK in Mumbai’s suburbs to a ₹3 crore 3BHK in Dallas, Texas, noting the absurdity of such price parity in two vastly different economies. The real gap, he writes, isn’t the sticker price—it’s the income. India’s average per capita income stands at ₹1.96 lakh a year. In the U.S., it’s ₹55 lakh.”
“‘The Indian real estate market isn’t driven by affordability,’ Kaushik says. ‘It’s driven by hype, hoarding, and black money.’ The result is a distorted housing market where buying a home has become a financial trap for young Indians. ‘A middle-class couple in India has to save for 25–30 years to afford a decent house in any metro city,’ he notes. In the U.S., with proper planning, that timeline is closer to five to seven years. Kaushik argues that India’s so-called ‘housing boom’ is not progress, but ‘economic slavery in disguise.’ Millennials are left with two bleak options: live with parents indefinitely or take out a 25-year home loan that swallows half their monthly income. Despite 1.1 crore unsold housing units in India, property prices continue to rise. Kaushik attributes this to deliberate market distortion: ‘Builders, banks, brokers — everyone’s eating. Except the common man.'”
“The rigged system, he writes, is upheld by institutional players who benefit from inflated valuations and avoid triggering a market correction. Meanwhile, young Indians earning ₹40,000 a month are expected to buy ₹2 crore homes—often with little help and even less financial security. Calling it ‘daylight robbery with a RERA stamp,’ Kaushik urges a rethink of what we celebrate as aspirational living. ‘Affordability died a decade ago,’ he writes. ‘Let’s stop pretending otherwise.'”
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‘Hughes of Keller Williams NJ Metro Group in Montclair said one of his clients took forbearance during the pandemic, which adjusted their mortgage rate from 2.5% to 7%. That and increases in property taxes ‘put them in a position where they could no longer afford the home’
That’s some sound lending right there Jim.
‘Those homeowners are now fending off foreclosure, he said, by selling their home. ‘They’re going to end up walking away with money because during the time they’ve owned the property, the value went up significantly’
Bless yer heart for comforting these poor bashtards Jim. Just about the only times we hear from this sh$thole is either foreclosures or some kind of fraud.
Montclair
It used to be a a place full of wealthy people.
There were a lot of middle level bankers that lived in these NJ town to get bigger houses. A bunch of that has tightned up – especially as the have moved operational units to NC, Colombus OH, Plano TX etc.
‘If developers are free to drop prices, others will follow. That’s how we create momentum,’ he said. ‘This could return prices to 2021 levels’
That’s the spirit Avi!
‘The Schneiders are also worried about the ADU impacting their property value. ‘You can’t put a 60 by 21-foot wall 3 feet from somebody’s property and expect their house to maintain its value,’ said Rosanne Schneider. ‘You can’t have windows peering into your backyard without losing value if you want to sell your house’
It was still way cheaper than renting Rosanne. There are photos of a similar plywood shed at the link.
There are photos of a similar plywood shed at the link.
It feels so third world
I’ve said it before, just when you thought they couldn’t make that sh$thole any worse, they started approving giant backyard sheds. Can’t park in the garage as it is, how many cars will they have on the street?
We’re not many steps away from the corrugated metal shanties in Lagos or Rio. I keep hearing how we “need” all these immigrants to build homes or whatever. I’ve been watching some yt videos of home inspections, and maybe it’s better if we don’t build anything new for a while and properly fix up what we have. The abandoned houses in Destroit might be sturdier than today’s McMansions.
The irony is that while it may not make their home seem more valuable it will raise the comps so their assessment will probably go up along with their taxes. It’s a win-win or something.
Realtors are liars.
It’s an unpredictable industry, but she’s starting to notice slow improvements.
Realtors are liars. The cratering is getting worse and no amount of NAR spin and dissembling can explain away the data.
Are we out of the recession woods?
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Top economist identifies last ‘remaining firewall’ before recession
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Jul 28, 2025
The American economy may be on the brink of a recession, with the labor market now viewed as the final line of defense.
Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody’s Analytics, warned that although layoffs remain low, hiring has slowed sharply. To this end, he projected just 90,000 jobs would be added in July, signaling potential stress in the economy, he said in a July 28 X post.
With fewer industries expanding their workforce, Zandi noted that the strength of the labor market remains the last “firewall” against a broader downturn.
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https://finbold.com/top-economist-identifies-last-remaining-firewall-before-recession/
We’re due for a downturn dip, but I’m starting to become a little skeptical that we’ll have a full-blown crash.
When 47 took office, I knew it would be a year of upheaval as 47 upsets the Deep State apple cart. Now I think the upheaval is going to be closer to 18 months — i.e. things should be more stable by Labor Day 2026 or so. I think that’s how long it’s going to take before all of these initiatives — deportations, tariffs, Fedgov RIFs, tax cuts, foreign investment, etc — bring positive results to the kitchen table, so to speak.
I don’t share your sanguine view. While the Fed-juiced Ponzi markets are hitting new highs, the social breakdown is accelerating, as evidenced by the mob attacks on random whites in Cincinnati and the loon who shot up the Blackstone bldg. Radicalization and desperation are only increasing, and the captured, feckless uniparty is aligned with the rapacious corporate and private equity interests that are robbing this country blind. This doesn’t bode well for the future, especially with such a heavily armed population rife with mental illness.
“We’re due for a downturn dip, but I’m starting to become a little skeptical that we’ll have a full-blown crash.”
When everyone throws caution to the wind and gambles recklessly because they are sure this time is different and no future downturn will ever arrive is when you should assume the crash position.
Oh, I’m still in crash position. However, 47 is starting to institute a structural change in the economy. What would happen IF he really was able to pull off these tariffs, pull the aid going to foreign countries, deporting millions of immigrants (and their free bennies), bring back manufacturing, cut off the H1-bs and similar visas, MAHAs the kids, builds up a vocational base, cuts down on the general welfare, and basically puts this country back on to solid footing with real jobs, better families, freed up housing, and the rest? We very well could avoid a crash.
However, I admit that’s optimistic. Ideally, we would hang on until November 4, 2026, and then let it all crash down, with a real recovery just in time for President Vance.
Ironically, what would be called a Crash could turn out to be a much better situation for the average American.
This is why charts and varied time perspectives are so important. It is easy to get tricked by short term fluctuations. Don’t worry tho, no one could see what is coming.
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The Fed risks a deflationary spiral by not cutting rates, these bond experts say
A so-called ‘Kindleberger Spiral’ could materialize if capital flows dry up
By Steve Goldstein
Published: July 29, 2025 at 5:07 a.m. ET
Only the Fed can step in to avoid a liquidity crisis, one bond investor says. Photo: Getty Images
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The Federal Reserve, by not cutting interest rates, is risking the creation of a deflationary downturn called a Kindleberger Spiral, a leading bond manager says.
The concept comes from a famed economist, Charles Kindleberger, who wrote a seminal book on the Great Depression in 1973 that received an update from leading economists Brad DeLong and Barry Eichengreen in 2013. The idea is that when beggar-thy-neighbor tariff policies are widespread, the central bank of the world’s reserve currency has to provide liquidity to offset the loss caused by the contraction in capital flows.
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https://www.marketwatch.com/story/the-fed-risks-a-deflationary-spiral-by-not-cutting-rates-these-bond-experts-say-76b1523f
“Kindleberger was a leading architect of the Marshall Plan. In 1945–1947 he served at the Department of State as acting director of the Office of Economic Security Policy, and briefly from 1947 to 1948 as counselor for the European Recovery Program.” —wiki
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Federal Reserve holds rates steady despite Trump’s calls for lower borrowing costs
The Federal Reserve has defied Donald Trump’s calls to slash borrowing costs, keeping US interest rates on hold for the fifth meeting in a row.
The central bank said on Wednesday that it opted to keep rates at 4.25-4.5 per cent, citing a “solid” labour market and “somewhat elevated” inflation.
Two members of the rate-setting Federal Open Market Committee dissented, with governors Christopher Waller and Michelle Bowman backing a quarter-point cut. It marked the first time since 1993 that two governors dissented on a rate decision.
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Greg Abel’s Blueprint for Berkshire: Why Cash is Still King in Warren Buffett’s Empire
By Daniel Liberto
Updated May 27, 2025
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Greg Abel, center in tie, has perhaps the biggest act to follow in corporate history after Warren Buffett steps down.
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Greg Abel is in a tough position. He’s about to replace the most famous investor in the world as CEO of Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (BRK.A., BRK.B) at a time when economic uncertainty is the big story, value investing isn’t as popular, and some shareholders are questioning why the company is hoarding record amounts of cash—almost $350 billion.1
Warren Buffett has said that Berkshire will be better under Abel’s management and has said Abel understands businesses “extremely well.”2 So what can we expect from Abel next? What has he said is “absolutely critical” for Berkshire’s future?
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https://www.investopedia.com/warren-buffett-greg-abel-cash-11730706
“This is leftover stuff from people playing the system during the pandemic. They took forbearance, stopped paying their mortgage and at some point you run out of runway. I would assume these numbers are going to go up dramatically at some point as the system catches up.’”
This will be hitting everywhere and soon. End of the runway is here for millions.
I didn’t see this yesterday. This is from yesterday’s thread, from Maria the illegal immigrant and the six kids.
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“My dream is to have a house where I could welcome my mom and get her visa,” Alba said. … She would like to see land be made available to farm workers so that they could grow their own crops and sell the bounty themselves.
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Well Maria, arable land IS available, all over this country literally dirt cheap. Some even comes with a house. Almost every day, Pensacola Joe here at HBB posts a listing for a Florida property with a house and enough land for you to grow and sell your bounty. Call the realtor and put in an offer. But don’t try to apply for an FHA or USDA or even Fannie Mae loan. You just got cut off from that.
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Oh wait, by “be made available,” you mean given for FREE, don’t you. Along with your free food and health care. Well EFF YOU. I was 40 before I felt comfortable buying a property. You get nuthin’.
Free Sh*tters gonna free sh*t.
How much taxpayer money are those six kids getting? Medicaid, free school lunches, Obamaphones, food stamps, etc.
Free Sh*tters gonna free sh*t.
They learn fast.
Are there any small plots of land available arable land in Mexico, perhaps with some irrigation? Why not grow and sell her bounty there? I guess she’d have to fend off some cartels.
“Are there any small plots of land available arable land in Mexico, perhaps with some irrigation?”
Any arable land with irrigation is not for peons.
Quick history lesson: Mexico has trumpeted its “agrarian reform” for about 100 years now.
The cornerstone of “la reforma agraria” are “ejidos”, communal plots the MexGov lends in perpetuity to peasants. The ejidos are often poor quality and the peasants (campesinos) can barely eke a living from them.
Anyway, this is probably where Maria’s request for a free piece of land comes from.
Thank you. So maybe Maria can try her hand at this in Mexico? Of course she wouldn’t be getting any gibs.
Heh, as an aside, I just learned from Chatty that the Homestead Act was not repealed until 1976, and only generally because they ran out of land. Homesteading was allowed in Alaska as late as 1986. FYI the Homestead Act is when you claim 160 acres, stay on the land 6 mo/year and farm and improve it. If you can do that for five years and pass an inspection to prove you’ve farmed the land, you are “proved up” and you are given the deed to the 160 acres. Charles Ingalls (Pa in the Little House books), eventually proved up his 160 acres in De Smet in 1886.
If the kids are under age 18, they are getting SNAP, Medicaid, and public schooling with meals. There doesn’t seem to be much political appetite for taking that away from the kids, especially if they’re citizens. Illegal parents aren’t entitled to those benefits, but the kids might bring in enough SNAP to support the illegal parents too.
There’s a common theme in these articles: husband gets deported and wife hunkers down at home in the US and tries to live off the kid’s benefits “until things calm down.” But with hubby’s income gone, it’s not enough for rent, and wife is afraid to go out to work because she’s illegal too. Also I imagine at some point, the wife has to go for her “check-in” at the courthouse.
I think we’re going to see more self-deportations in the next year, and it’s not going to be pretty. But if the citizen kids accompany the mother, they won’t be getting SNAP.
This is going to get interesting in about 10 years, when all these citizen kids come back to the US, with their English and their birthright citizenship. Are they going to resent the 47 Admin? Oh you bet.
Birthright citizenship was enacted after the Civil War to guarantee citizenship to former slaves and their descendants (see also: the phrase Blood In The Soil).
Popping out chilrens in USA after crossing illegally, this was never intended for you.
I don’t care how p*ssed off those chilrens are at 47, you’re a Johnny Come Lately in a built up civilization you contributed nothing to the creation and development of.
Even the realtor is unable to find any positive adjectives to polish this turd. It would likely cost more to demo the house than the lot is worth for that area.
https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/6112-Brosnaham-Ave-Pensacola-FL-32503/44651346_zpid/
Looks like the foundation experienced soil settling.
Gotta love spray foam repairs. Believe it or not it has become a big trend in DIY automotive repair as well. Even the USPS has authorized it for major exterior structural damage nearby. It’s extremely versatile stuff.
wow
that place is a dump
55k?????????????????
maybe 5 grand, tops
looks like a Detroit house.
But it comes with a free car, have you seen the price of cars lately? This is clearly a bargain. Don’t miss out!
Quite a demanding owner for such a shithole. Odds are they get no offer.
I had to look up a couple things for the Business Today article on India.
A “crore” is 10 million. Usually it refers to 10 million rupees, but can refer to other large quantities, such a 1.1 crore houses being 10.1 million unsold housing units.
1 US dollar is 86 rupees.
3 BHK means a house with 3 Bedrooms, a Hall [living room], and Kitchen. They specifically list the K for kitchen because some Indian homes have just a tiny kitchenette, put the kitchen outside the house, or has a shared kitchen. K means a dedicated kitchen room.
The article says that Indian couples might not be able to afford a house and so they have to take out a 25-year loan. Er, that doesn’t mean the house isn’t affordable. In the US that’s standard practice. So I’m not sure why they make this comparison.
The article says that Indian couples might not be able to afford a house and so they have to take out a 25-year loan
My experience in the third world is that houses, however humble, are owned outright. Ditto with cars. That said with the bubble prices people who would have saved up are now putting maybe 50% down and financing the rest. I just took a looksie and mortgage rates in Mexico can be as high as 12%. About the same in India.
such a 1.1 crore houses being 10.1 million unsold housing units.
11 million might be workable math.
The Phoenix article has a photo (video screencap) of an ADU under construction and a masonry block wall. Sincere question: is that masonry block wall poorly built? The blocks do not look aligned.
Probably no worse than the ADU
“…an ADU under construction…”
The issue with these Arizona ADUs is whether they will be allowed as short term rentals or leased annually, and, for now, the property owner must also be the primary resident.
Neighborhood groups want long term leased tenants, but lobbied groups also want the option of short term rentals. The big money knows that homeowners cannot afford their mortgages at today’s higher interest rates and increased insurance premiums, so the ADUs are meant to supplement the mortgagee’s income.
They’re just refilling the punch bowl, IMHO.
is that masonry block wall poorly built? The blocks do not look aligned.
Looks misaligned to me as well.
Gov. Tim Walz just signed a bill into law that allows illegals to be issued with drivers’ licenses. Ever since their importation of half the population of Somalia starting in the 1990s, Minnesota’s Democrat-Bolsheviks have been at the forefront of advancing the Great Replacement and other globalist agendas.
https://x.com/WallStreetApes/status/1950512641840976147
2/8/2017:
“White working class Americans have become “lazy” and might have to replaced in the workforce by “new Americans” emigrating from other countries, The Weekly Standard editor at large Bill Kristol said this week.”
Good. Get ’em in a database where they can be found more easily.
And many are getting a critical stamp of approval from Demotech, a tiny Ohio rating company with a unique take on grading financial stability.
Dodgy fly-by-night rating companies in Ohio are probably more credible than the Big 3 ratings agencies that gave AAA ratings to toxic-waste MBSs so Goldman Sachs could hive them off on unsuspecting “investors” as Housing Bubble 1.0 was melting down.
The Big Short Rating Agencies
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xZx1lf2tvs
It’s the way the world works!
The CEO of Blackstone’s REIT was one of four people killed when a mentally ill gunman with a grudge against the NFL ignored the GUN FREE ZONE signs at Blackstone’s HQ building and engaged in a shooting spree, with an unarmed security guard (thanks to NYC gun control laws) being unable to stop him – imagine that.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14954551/Wesley-LePatner-Manhattan-shooting-Blackstone-drinks-colleague-lobby-Tamura.html
I got this earlier today from my foreclosure subscription:
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It’s just a gully.
I see this as ‘we’re back in business, baby’ it’s been a long a time but as you know this is just the beginning. Soon they will be so swamped they wont know what to do with them all. That little list brought a twinkle to my eye. Thanks for posting.
$23B In CMBS Loans Are Stuck
Billions in CMBS loans are sitting idle, reaching maturity with no resolution in sight. Unresolved loans make up 75% of delinquent loans tied to commercial mortgage-backed securities, up from 42% three years prior.
There are $23B of these delinquent loans at or near maturity, according to Trepp analysis reported by Bloomberg.
Loans originated when interest rates were at or around zero are due for repayment. But in a wildly different environment, with higher interest rates and spiking tariffs on imports, borrowers don’t know their next move, Trepp Chief Economist Rachel Szymanski told Bloomberg.
Some are opting out of the refinancing or repayment routes to resolve their CMBS debt. Instead, many are treading water, paying their interest while waiting until the Federal Reserve gives an update about interest rates. The next decision will be announced July 30, though most investors expect the central bank to hold rates steady.
The stall is bottlenecking the capital markets, Szymanski said. Not all the frozen loans are distressed, but distress is rising, especially for aging office CMBS debt.
According to Trepp, 11.08% of office buildings tied to CMBS loans are delinquent, a 49-basis-point increase from December and a new record high. Investors tied to single, older office assets are being hit with losses when loans sell.
A $233M CMBS bundle backed by Sprint’s former HQ, a 20-building office campus in suburban Kansas City, resulted in just $146M for creditors when the loan sold in May. The riskiest portion, worth $65M, was fully wiped out.
Prompted by an unstable market, few refinancing options and falling property values, lenders are sticking to the extend-and-pretend playbook. Instead of taking back assets with falling values, they are stretching loan terms to delay refinancing or payouts.
https://www.bisnow.com/national/news/capital-markets/23b-in-cmbs-loans-remain-up-in-the-air-as-maturity-looms-130343
Somerset saw the biggest increase. Foreclosures were up 54% there, from 24 to 37; followed by Morris County, which had a 50% increase, from 36 to 54; and Hudson County, which had a 49% increase, from 35 to 52 foreclosures.
Is that a lot?
Chasen Cos. Collapse: Lavish Executive Pay, $39.5M Debt, and Questions Over Missing Jet Amid Bankruptcy
Despite its deteriorating finances, Chasen Companies paid founder Brandon Chasen over $21,000 biweekly (over $500,000 annually) and his top executives up to $9,600 per week, continuing until November 2024, well after lawsuits for unpaid bills began.
Bankruptcy filings reveal that Chasen Construction has over $39.5 million in liabilities and $0 in assets, including a bank account with a negative balance. Revenue plummeted from $77 million in 2023 to $0 in 2025.
Creditors are questioning the unreported March 2025 transfer of a $5 million company jet to a privacy trust, TVPX Aircraft Solutions, suspecting an attempt to shield it from bankruptcy proceedings.
With stalled developments and visible construction debris in key Baltimore locations, the collapse of Chasen Cos. has drawn scrutiny. A meeting of creditors is scheduled for August to investigate potential financial misconduct and examine executive compensation.
https://www.citybiz.co/article/723830/chasen-cos-collapse-lavish-executive-pay-39-5m-debt-and-questions-over-missing-jet-amid-bankruptcy/
‘They’re going to end up walking away with money because during the time they’ve owned the property, the value went up significantly,’ Hughes said.”
Three things:
1. Realtors are liars.
2. Realtors are liars
3. The FOMO lemmings who bought at the peak of the scamdemic era bubble won’t be “walking away with money” – they’ll be forced to bring cash to the table to get out from under their alligators.
Maryland Senator to laid off federal employees: ‘You did important work’
It has been a difficult summer for thousands of federal workers in the D.C. area, who are seeking new employment after being laid off due to “Department of Government Efficiency” cuts.
A group of former federal employees and their children met Tuesday with U.S. Sen. Chris Van Hollen, of Maryland, and U.S. Sen. Peter Welch, of Vermont, who told them it is important that their work is not forgotten.
The Democratic lawmakers thanked them for their service and acknowledged the challenges they face.
“I also want to apologize for the shabby way your government has treated you and your families,” Van Hollen said. “It’s absolutely outrageous what we’ve witnessed from the Trump administration.”
The former federal employees included those who worked at the U.S. Agency for International Development, which for decades has provided assistance in countries around the world. It was one of the first agencies to be gutted by President Donald Trump’s administration through DOGE, the team tasked by the president with slashing federal spending.
One of those who came to the Hart Senate Building to meet with Van Hollen was Denise Joseph of Waldorf, Maryland, who is losing her job at the U.S. Department of Education, along with close to 1,400 others.
Joseph was emotional as she told Van Hollen that she had worked in the department for nearly a decade.
“Without me, they don’t have someone to help train the staff, build competencies,” she said.
Joseph worked in the Office of Postsecondary Education, helping to manage grants, scholarships and various programs.
Her job will officially be gone as of Aug. 1.
https://wtop.com/local/2025/07/maryland-senator-to-laid-off-federal-employees-you-did-important-work/
This is the same senator who flew to El Salvador attempting to bring back a deported illegal gang member.
“Important work” LOLZ
Joseph worked in the Office of Postsecondary Education, helping to manage grants, scholarships and various programs.
All of this FedGov largess was aimed at advancing globalist agendas, to the detriment of the people who work hard, play by the rules, and pay the bills. Learn to pick crops, Comrades of Proven Worth!
Agreed, 100%
It’s funny, the media hasn’t been able to find one starving savage to parade around since the money got shut off. The only visible problem is that Las Vegas is no longer hopping. Weird.
“…Las Vegas is no longer hopping.”
I remember a friend’s sister moved to Las Vegas. She was blessed with an ample bosom on a slender body, and she was on the hunt for a wealthy sugar daddy. No time for college, she was always looking for an angle, but time was not on her side.
You mean cutting off gov employees? The probationaries who bought houses 2 months into getting the job, and after the election, are holding a bag and they’re probably starving right now. Even I knew enough to wait two years before buying a home.
But most of these people have been with the fedgov 15-20 years. They are either eligible for a tidy severance or a nice early retirement.
+1 and thank you for #Noticing
As Trump’s tariff deadline looms, a clothing factory in the tiny African nation of Lesotho goes dark
MASERU, Lesotho (AP) — The deafening roar of hundreds of sewing machines has gone silent. Spools of thread in every color are covered in dust. The warehouse is dark and empty.
In the tiny African nation of Lesotho, clothing manufacturer Tzicc’s business has dried up in the face of tariffs imposed by U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration. A few months ago, work was steady. The factory’s 1,300 employees has made and exported sportswear to American stores, including JCPenney, Walmart and Costco.
But when Trump announced sweeping new tariffs on nearly all U.S. trading partners in April, Lesotho found itself topping the list, with a rate of 50% — higher even than that of China, where the economy is 8,000 times larger. Officials here and economic experts said they were baffled.
Since then, Trump backed off — temporarily. During a monthslong pause for trade talks, the U.S. has charged a baseline 10% tariff and announced new rates for dozens of countries starting Friday. Lesotho’s rate will be set at Trump’s whim, with aides suggesting that tariffs charged on goods from smaller African countries could top 10%.
The damage has already rippled through Lesotho’s economy, where textile manufacturing comprises the largest private industry with more than 30,000 workers in 2024.
For Tzicc and its customers, the threat and apparent singling out of Lesotho were enough. Management decided to rush to deliver preexisting orders before tariffs resumed. But American buyers stopped placing new orders. With no work left, virtually all the factory’s employees were sent home — potentially permanently.
“Well, unfortunately, we finished,” factory compliance manager Rahila Omar said, pointing out the irony of the strategy as she walked among rows of silenced and covered machines. “That is why now we don’t have any work.”
In March, a month before slapping Lesotho with the 50% tariff, Trump described it as a place “nobody has ever heard of,” struggling to pronounce the nation’s name in a speech criticizing U.S. foreign aid.
It’s true Lesotho is a “very minuscule economy,” as its own trade minister, Mokhethi Shelile, described it.
As textiles grew to become Lesotho’s main export, some 75% of its product went to the U.S. Lesotho became known as Africa’s denim capital. If an American purchased jeans from a U.S. brand such as Wrangler or Levi’s, they may have been “Made in Lesotho,” as tags still note.
Shelile said he was in the process of negotiating AGOA’s September renewal when he was awakened in the middle of the night by texts from aides bearing news of the 50% U.S. tariffs.
“No, this cannot be real,” Shelile remembers thinking. “What did we do to deserve this?”
According to the Trump administration, Lesotho charges a 99% tariff on U.S. goods. The government here said it doesn’t know how the U.S. calculated that.
In theory, the tariff decision was based on trade deficit: Lesotho’s exports to the U.S. were around $240 million last year — mainly clothing and diamonds — and imports from the U.S. were only $2.8 million. But in practice, the math is more complicated than that. And in reality, Lesotho simply cannot afford to import more U.S. products. Nearly half the population lives below the poverty line.
“The trade deficit that exists between Lesotho and the U.S. is a natural trade deficit that can happen when you have these types of disparities between two economies,” Shelile said. “It cannot be breached and certainly cannot be breached by imposing tariffs.”
“No matter how we slice it, we’ve already had a lot of losses,” Shelile said. “People have lost quite a lot money. And to claw back and come back to where we were before this is going to take time.”
Mapontso Mathunya used to work on Tzicc’s cutting room floor and is now unemployed. Her husband also is out of a steady job. With two young children, Mathunya was the family’s breadwinner. She now tries to sell snacks and cigarettes on the street but finds it a daily struggle to bring home even a few cents.
“Our financial burden has been heavy,” she said. “Things are bad.”
Today, just a few blocks away, former employees try their luck looking for work at other factories that are still operating. Most are turned away.
“Life is difficult,” former worker Mathunya said. “There is nothing, nothing at all. People don’t have money.”
https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/trumps-tariff-deadline-looms-clothing-135013483.html
This part doesn’t square with the rest: “Management decided to rush to deliver preexisting orders before tariffs resumed. But American buyers stopped placing new orders.”
As far as I know, people are still buying jeans. So why did the American buyers stop placing orders? At worst, jeans would cost 10% more at WalMart.
Tariffs are not based on retail price. They are based on the bulk wholesale value at point of entry. So the increase in retail price will be a fraction, I think.
incorrect
at worst Jeans would cost Walmart 10% more, not the end consumer. (and given the size of wal mart, they would probably tell them to eat the tariff, they ain’t paying one dime more)
Also, africa is a big country with lots of people in it, why can’t you sell to them?
continent, not country. pffffffffttttttttt
we so need an edit button for dumb mistakes like that.
Oh, I see. It looks like the buyers shifted their orders to other countries, in anticipation of the 50% tariffs of Lesotho that are forthcoming.
Lesotho is in real trouble. There is no way they are going to be able to make up the trade deficit by buying expensive American products, even if they had reciprocal tariffs at 10% or 0%.
. There is no way they are going to be able to make up the trade deficit by buying expensive American products,
Maybe they can take our illegals and make a few bucks replacing South Sudan.
If they were a little smarter they would open their own ali express and let us buy direct. It would probably be the best deal around. Afri-express? Sadly, it would collapse in fraud and corruption within like 6 months.
6 months?????????? pffffffffft it would never get off the ground. It would all be stolen/grifted/frauded long before the first widget got sold.
Tariffs and judicial chaos shake investor confidence in Mexico
A growing wave of uncertainty is freezing investment plans in Mexico, the US’s largest trading partner, rattling domestic and foreign business leaders alike.
Investors are weighing Donald Trump’s decision to impose tariffs on 1 August. The plan so far – levies on Mexican-made cars, steel, aluminum, metal parts and tomatoes. And they are pondering the push by the Mexican president, Claudia Sheinbaum, to overhaul the country’s judiciary in ways critics say undermine legal certainty and could roll back democratic gains.
No wonder they are increasingly unsure how to proceed. Plans to launch new operations in Mexico – or expand existing ones – are being reconsidered, postponed or quietly shelved.
“Foreign investment is probably lower than it otherwise would have been at this point in the year,” said Tom Fullerton, an economics and finance professor at the University of Texas at El Paso. “It is still not clear whether the Trump administration is going to allow the USA to remain in USMCA [United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement, the free trade agreement negotiated under Trump’s first presidency]. t is also not clear how the judicial landscape will change within Mexico.”
Already, about 65,000 jobs have been lost in Juárez alone, due to a myriad of factors, including increased factory automation, said Jerry Pacheco, president and CEO of the Border Industrial Association.
“We’ve lost at least three deals since the steel and aluminum tariffs went up to 50% in Santa Teresa, so it creates an uncertain business environment,” Pacheco said. “The US and Mexico economies are so intertwined and depend on each other that if US companies are suffering because of steel and aluminum tariffs, Mexico is gonna suffer also.”
No clear rebound is in sight here on the border or beyond.
“Everything has been put on hold,” said Víctor González, owner of Solinda, a precision machine-manufacturing company based in the central Mexican state of Aguascalientes, referring to what he hears from colleagues and business associations. “One of the reasons is the reform of the judicial system. The other is tariffs.”
An indication of possible impacts could be General Motors’ June announcement of a $4bn investment in US factories in Michigan, Kansas and Tennessee. That fits the company’s strategy to revive its US manufacturing footprint, which Trump has demanded.
GM revealed that the Blazer and Equinox, sport utility vehicles that for years have been assembled in Mexico, will be built at plants in Tennessee and Kansas starting in 2027.
Now, Sheinbaum has realized her predecessor’s dream of radically reshaping Mexico’s judiciary, to the benefit of their all but hegemonic Morena political party. A scarcely attended election in June – turnout was just 11% – replaced career judges, magistrates and supreme court justices with those chosen by popular vote.
Many fear that consolidating control over the courts will erode institutional checks and balances. With judgeships and other judicial posts dominated by ruling party loyalists, arbitrary or ideologically driven rulings may flourish, critics fear. All nine newly elected supreme court justices have ties to Sheinbaum, former president Andrés Manuel López Obrador, or their left-leaning party.
“What investors are looking for is certainty and rule of law,” said Tony Garza, US ambassador to Mexico under the George W Bush administration who now works on trade and other issues at White and Case, a law firm. “What they’re getting with tariff threats and judicial elections is chaos and incompetence.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/30/trump-tariffs-mexico-us-trade
Orlando residents sentenced in $146 million payroll fraud scheme
ORLANDO, Fla. —
Three Orlando residents were sentenced for a $146 million construction payroll scheme that defrauded the Internal Revenue Service and workers’ compensation insurers.
Senior U.S. District Judge Timothy J. Corrigan sentenced Eduardo Anibal Escobar, 45, Carlos Alberto Rodriguez, 36, and Adelmy Tejada, 57, for conspiracy to commit wire fraud and conspiracy to commit tax fraud.
Escobar was sentenced to 4 years and 9 months in prison, Rodriguez was sentenced to 3 years and 4 months in prison, and Tejada was sentenced to 18 months in prison plus 6 months of home detention. Each pleaded guilty on April 3.
Court documents explain that from about January 2015 to about August 2024, the defendants conspired to facilitate the payment of construction workers “off the books” to avoid paying payroll taxes and workers’ compensation insurance premiums.
The scheme also facilitated the employment of undocumented workers who were not legally authorized to work in the United States, the release said.
Court documents explain that the defendants, through their companies, T. Escobar Construction and C. Escobar Construction, entered into agreements with hundreds of construction subcontractors to enable the subcontractors to obtain contracts with, and perform work for, construction contractors.
In exchange for six to eight percent of the subcontractor’s payroll, the defendants caused certificates of insurance in the name of the defendants’ companies to be sent to construction contractors from which the subcontractors wished to obtain work, representing that the subcontractors worked for their companies and were covered by the companies’ workers’ compensation insurance, per the release.
The company’s insurance policies were based on applications representing that the policies would cover a handful of employees and a minimal payroll.
As a result of the defendants using their certificate of insurance to represent that the subcontractors worked for their companies, the insurers unwittingly covered hundreds of workers.
A total of $146,077,535 in payroll checks were deposited into the bank accounts of the defendants’ companies, from which they withdrew cash to pay the subcontractors’ workers, after subtracting their 6 to 8 percent fee—all without withholding, or paying over, payroll taxes to the IRS.
The asset forfeiture is being handled by Assistant United States Attorney Jennifer M. Harrington.
https://www.wesh.com/article/orlando-residents-sentenced-146-million-payroll-fraud/65543796
‘The scheme also facilitated the employment of undocumented workers who were not legally authorized to work in the United States’
When this case was first reported I had a feeling it revolved around hiring illegals. It would be too difficult to move so much payroll around with US citizens cuz they are in the system. Illegals aren’t. A by product was they were cheating workers comp too.
I can hear it now… But they paid their taxes and they did their time!
Unfortunately it looks like they paid the actual workers in cash, so they would be hard to find.
They all got phones, that can all be tracked
they called them into work somehow.
San Jose tattoo artist fighting deportation arrested on criminal charges in Berkeley
A San Jose tattoo artist who is facing ICE deportation was arrested and is now being held for mental evaluation after authorities say he attempted three carjackings along a commercial stretch of Berkeley on Sunday.
Guillermo Media Reyes, 31, has become a rallying cause for immigrant rights groups who say he is facing ICE deportation because of his community activism after he served prison time for attempted murder.
At 5 a.m. Saturday, police say Reyes called 911 to report a woman screaming in a vacant house on Prince Street in Berkeley, next door to where Reyes has been staying. Police arrived and found a broken window in the back and Reyes suffering from cuts to his hand.
Officers left, but four hours later, a big-rig driver alerted authorities that he was approached by a shirtless man, later identified by authorities as Reyes, who allegedly stole his cell phone and tried to take his truck, which was hauling several vehicles on San Pablo Avenue. However, the truck quickly stalled, and Reyes ran off. Police say the trucker’s phone was later abandoned.
Farther north on San Pablo Avenue, Reyes allegedly went into a local café’s kitchen and then to a rental car agency next door. Medics were summoned to a “medical emergency” at the café, possibly a fentanyl overdose, according to dispatch traffic, but Reyes fled north as emergency responders arrived.
Reyes then went to the rental car office next door, authorities say, where he allegedly took a handheld radio. Employees said he next went into an office and called 911.
According to police, Reyes went across the street, where firefighters saw the attempted carjacking of a Prius from a customer in line at a local bakery. A toddler was in the back seat of that victim’s car as Reyes attempted to drive off, authorities say, but the car wouldn’t start because the keys were not inside.
Reyes allegedly then went across the street to a woman filling up at a gas station. Police say the 70-year-old woman struggled at her door with Reyes and doused him with gasoline to fend him off. She was knocked to the ground during the confrontation.
Fire officials eventually spotted Reyes, who was detained and given Narcan, according to dispatch recordings. He was described as “combative and altered” by the authorities who took him to the hospital. After being booked by police, he was taken for a mental evaluation at a local hospital.
https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/san-jose-tattoo-artist-fighting-deportation-arrested/3925308/
‘a rallying cause for immigrant rights groups’
Hyper violent drugged out nutjob.
How much you want to bet that his lawyers say he has to stay in the US because he can’t get his drugs in any other country, and so deporting him and leaving him to withdrawal would be cruel and unusual punishment, or something like that? I suppose he can find those drugs in his home country too.
“has become a rallying cause for immigrant rights groups”
Muh Resistance really does pick some winners to “rally” for. Loosers.
Just a regular morning in Bezerkly.
Small Canadian exporters are covering cost of U.S. tariffs
Most small businesses are absorbing some or all of the costs associated with U.S. tariffs, according to new data by the Canadian Federation of Independent Business (CFIB). With a deadline for a new trade deal looming on Aug. 1, CFIB is calling on Ottawa to release Canada’s retaliatory tariff revenues to support small businesses.
On imports from the U.S., nearly seven in 10 small businesses paid the full Canadian tariff, with the median cost of $9,000. On exports, 63 per cent covered costs directly or shared them with their U.S. customers, paying a median of $25,000. “It is clear that most small exporters have had to eat much of the cost of U.S. tariffs in order to keep their American customers,” said Dan Kelly, CFIB president.
Ottawa has collected billions in additional tariff revenue on U.S. imports compared to last year. “If no deal is reached by Friday, Canada must immediately return the revenue collected from our counter tariffs to small businesses to help them weather the ongoing harm and massive economic uncertainty,” Kelly said. “Many have been holding out, delaying critical decisions hoping for enough certainty to plan for the future. Without an immediate deal, many are facing some terrible choices, including laying off key workers.”
https://www.northernontariobusiness.com/press-release/small-canadian-exporters-are-covering-cost-of-us-tariffs-11004394
Elbows up Dan.
Trump Administration Faces Backlash for Mocking Immigrants in ‘Disgusting’ Spin on Viral Jet2 Holiday Trend
The Trump administration is facing backlash for its recent social media post. The backlash started when the White House official account posted a video with their take on the Jet2 holiday trend. Netizens rushed to the Internet to call out the post while labelling it as “absolutely disgusting.”
The Jet2 holiday trend has taken the internet by storm for the past few months. Social media users have been using the trending audio to shed light on disastrous moments from their vacations.
The audio comes from an advertisement for the British tour operators Jet2 that came out in 2022. “Nothing beats a Jet2 holiday,” actress Zoe Lister can be heard saying in the audio. Jess Glynne’s song ‘Hold My Hand’ starts playing in the background.
The White House’s official X account took to the platform to post its take on the trend. The video showed ICE agents transporting immigrants from vans onto planes that would fly them out of the country.
At the end of the video, a screenshot of the US government app CBP Home flashes on the screen. The app can be used by immigrants to self-deport themselves according to the government’s guidelines. The President also appears in the video, making the video more inappropriate than it already is.
Trump can be spotted pointing at the camera and smirking. The White House received immense backlash for the “disgusting” video it posted. The post wasn’t exactly received well by netizens, with many noting how blatantly the government was mocking these immigrants.
“Mind you, this is an official United States government page,” one user pointed out. “Have some class,” another wrote. “Even as a Trump supporter, that was on the cringe side,” a third added.
“This is awful. You all should be ashamed of yourselves!” a user pointed out. “STOP MAKING FUN OF THEM!!!!!” another urged. Several others noted how insensitive the post was and criticized the White House social media account for mocking the situation.
There was no lack of comments that pointed out how “horrible” and “cringe” the post was. On the other hand, it was well received by a large number of MAGA supporters. Many noted how the White House social media team needed to be given a raise.
Another added, “These videos are so awesome. Someone is doing an incredible job!” A second added, “I voted for this.” Another netizen noted how “epic” the video was.
https://www.inquisitr.com/you-should-be-ashamed-trump-administration-faces-backlash-for-mocking-immigrants-in-disgusting-spin-on-viral-jet2-holiday-trend
“STOP MAKING FUN OF THEM!!!!!
deportation IS the moderate choice.
And self deportation is the intelligent choice. Just go home.
For many of them it has been smooth sailing for one or more decades. They are plugged into the free cheese network. Going home means giving up a standard of living that is greater than that of the average college grad back home and going into poverty. Hence their hope that if they lie low for enough time that “things will calm down” and it will be back to smooth sailing.
Never forget, they are here for the money.
47 will stay President longer than they can stay solvent.
Class? Like Biden’s trans WH assistant, Christmas trans party, or topless chick in lawn?
OK.
How ICE is using the LAPD to track down immigrants for deportation
When Los Angeles police arrested Jose Juarez-Basilio in March on suspicion of threatening his ex-wife’s new romantic partner, he was released after spending less than 24 hours in jail.
The short stay behind bars was all it took to trigger his deportation roughly three months later.
Even though no charges were filed against Juarez-Basilio, the seemingly routine run-in with police put the 35-year-old undocumented Mexican man on the radar of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, which tracked him down and removed him from the country.
LAPD Chief Jim McDonnell has frequently pointed to a longstanding policy known as Special Order 40, which bars officers from stopping a person for the sole purpose of determining their immigration status. The policy, implemented in 1979, seeks to assure the city’s growing immigrant community that they can come forward as witnesses or victims of crimes without fear of deportation.
But given how complicated the country’s immigration landscape has grown in the half century since, it’s time that the LAPD took steps beyond the policy, Councilmember Hugo Soto-Martinez said.
“I thought Special Order 40 was the right thing to do at that time,” he said in a recent interview. “Do I think it meets the moment right now? Of course not.”
Of particular concern, he said, is the LAPD’s handling of data collected from automated license plate readers, devices deployed around the city that track the movements of vehicles. Police officials have insisted that the information is not shared with ICE. But other local law enforcement agencies have flouted their own similar rules in the past, raising concerns that the LAPD may not keep its word.
“You can’t go through something like this for a month and expect the public to trust any law enforcement that participates in this,” said longtime civil rights attorney Connie Rice. “The immigrant community is asking: ‘Aren’t you supposed to be protecting us?’”
Juarez-Basilio’s case shows how the LAPD indirectly enables ICE to conduct deportations even while abiding by Special Order 40 and officially staying out of immigration enforcement.
Records show he was taken into custody March 23 on suspicion of making criminal threats. Court filings describe an incident in which he was accused of holding an unknown object under his T-shirt while menacing his ex’s new partner.
When Juarez-Basilio was booked into a San Fernando Valley jail and fingerprinted, it pinged the Pacific Enforcement Response Center, an ICE facility in Orange County.
Court records show an ICE agent investigated Juarez-Basilio and learned that he had been deported three times previously and illegally reentered the country, which is a federal crime — not just a violation of civil immigration laws.
Juarez-Basilio posted bond and was released before ICE agents could arrest him. The Los Angeles County district attorney’s office declined to file charges, citing a lack of evidence.
ICE agents were waiting to take him into custody after a hearing in federal court last month.
He was one of at least 30 people arrested by the LAPD in recent months who were subsequently detained by immigration agents for illegal re-entry after deportation, according to a review of criminal court filings.
In several others, the LAPD alerted federal authorities to felony arrests, as in the case of two United Kingdom citizens who were arrested for possessing guns after being pulled over in Hollywood in late June for failing to halt at a stop sign in a black Rolls-Royce. Both men had overstayed their visas, court records show.
Police in some states, mostly in the South, have for years assisted ICE by handing over jail inmates accused of immigration violations. Trump has threatened to cut off federal funding to cities such as L.A. that refuse total cooperation on immigration enforcement.
Christy Lopez, a Georgetown Law professor who once worked for the Civil Rights Division at the U.S. Department of Justice, said cities that defy Trump face a choice. Refusing to back down risks losing federal funds. It also imperils cooperation with agencies such as Homeland Security Investigations, which sometimes partners with local law enforcement to take down drug cartels, prevent terrorism and investigate other major crimes. Such ties are only expected to grow tighter with L.A. set to host the 2028 Olympic Games.
Earlier this year, the Stop LAPD Spying Coalition, a prominent watchdog group, sent a letter to the city’s Police Commission warning that information collected by LAPD officers during routine pedestrian and traffic stops is flowing into massive databases — where they can be mined by immigration authorities to aid in tracking down a wanted person.
“Immigration enforcement can’t happen without a vast network of local police and prosecutors who serve as the federal government’s eyes and ears on the ground, ensuring that any person booked into custody for any arrest — no matter how trivial and no matter if ultimately false or thrown out in court — is immediately put on ICE’s radar,” the letter said.
Stephen Downing, a former LAPD deputy chief who helped draft Special Order 40, said that it was intended as more of a “law enforcement tool” to address the city’s encroaching gang violence than a means “really to protect immigrants from immigration.”
“It recognized that these people were in the community, they were part of the community, and we needed them for crime control. We needed them to report crime,” said Downing. “It wasn’t so altruistic as it may have seemed at the time.”
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-07-30/ice-raids-lapd-special-order-40
Does anybody with an above room temperature IQ in this country actually believe GDP increased by 3% in the last quarter?
We might as well replace all these government economists with a magic 8 ball. Save a lot of taxpayer money and we’d get more honest and accurate economic estimates than the lies that get shoveled upon us day after day, year after year.
Former Iraqi Information Minister Baghdad Bob would blush with shame and mortification if asked to put across the whoppers coming out of our Soviet-style BLS and CPI data fabrication bureaus.
So, do you think these bureaus have converted from pro-Democrat numbers to pro-Republican numbers?
Whose numbers and where can I find them that would be considered accurate?
I personally think they’re just pro-government narrative – what the boss wants, the boss gets. Boss wants an excuse to cut rates – inflation stats take a big dive. Boss wants to crow about the strong economy – phantom job growth. No one really believe any of this garbage. Just look at the comments on any message board or youtube video about the economy – the vast consensus is that it sucks. Plandemic fueled inflation needs to be rolled back completely.
Not saying I don’t support Trump, he’s making good moves on the economy and booting illegals is fantastic – about freaking time.
Break-in leads to 6 arrests; some suspects now in ICE custody
Six women with Maryland addresses face charges in Massachusetts, and some are in the custody of federal immigration officials after being found inside a Norwood home by the homeowners, police say.
According to a statement from the Norwood Police Department, the case began on July 25, when officers were called to a home in the area of Neponset Street at 12:30 p.m.
“Upon arrival, officers spoke with the residents, who had returned home to find several female suspects inside the home. When confronted by the homeowners, the suspects fled to a waiting vehicle and left the area,” police wrote.
Later that day, an officer spotted a vehicle matching the description and attempted to pull it over. The operator failed to stop and led police to Dean Street before six occupants exited the vehicle and ran into the woods, police said.
One of the women was quickly arrested by the pursuing officer. Police said the others were spotted behind a nearby business, where two more were arrested and two others were caught as they tried to cross a nearby river. The sixth was caught shortly thereafter.
According to court records, the women returned home because a young girl had forgotten her doll.
“During booking, two suspects were found to have obscured or altered fingerprints, preventing initial identification. Norwood Police worked with Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), to confirm all suspects’ identities. All six individuals had Maryland addresses, and several had active warrants from other states for similar offenses,” police said in a statement.
Police identified the suspects as Mirabela Caldarau, 42; Jajela Chiciu, 41; Flavia Caldararu, 22; Emilia Sardaru, 36; Mihaela Ion, 33; and Elizabeth Sardaru, 21. They face charges including breaking and entering during daytime, conspiracy, possession of burglarious instruments and resisting arrest.
A neighbor says there usually aren’t any problems in the community:
“45 years I’ve been here and there’s been no real problem,” they said. “I’m happy nothing happened. Nobody got hurt. That’s the bottom line.”
After an arraignment on Monday, police said three of the six women were released on bail and taken into Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody. Two men who arrived to post bail were also taken into ICE custody.
Three other suspects remain held at this time, police said.
“A preliminary investigation indicates the suspects are allegedly part of an organized group engaged in similar criminal activity across multiple states. All are related, including the two males who arrived to post bail,” police wrote.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/break-in-leads-to-6-arrests-some-suspects-now-in-ice-custody/ar-AA1Jwqo3
‘Two men who arrived to post bail were also taken into ICE custody’
Some mental giants we’re dealing with.
After an arraignment on Monday, police said three of the six women were released on bail and taken into Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody. Two men who arrived to post bail were also taken into ICE custody.
I love a happy ending,
Interesting names. Romanian/gypsy?
That region for sure.
good catch.
They already live on the edge. Trump’s immigration crackdowns now threaten their housing
In Santa Rosa, a mother of six children says she’s struggling to pay the rent following her husband’s deportation — but fears eviction if she even requests to move into a smaller place from her landlord.
In Los Angeles, a Latino family sued their landlord and a real estate agent over illegal eviction, only for an attorney to suggest they were likely to be detained by immigration agents before the case could go to trial.
In Oakland, renters have been asked if they were “legal” by a landlord seeking to push them out.
Once they find a place to rent, tenants without legal immigration status are less likely to assert their tenant rights and more likely than others to cram into overcrowded housing leased by friends or family members. Such arrangements often expose tenants to subpar living conditions, deprive them of legal protections because their name is not on the lease, and puts them at higher risk of homelessness should even one of their housemates lose income, said Melissa Chinchilla, a researcher with the Latino Policy and Politics Institute at UCLA.
Seventy percent of foreign-born Latinos in California who are homeless lived in housing they did not hold the lease for, compared to 46% of U.S.-born Latinos, a June 2025 study by the University of California San Francisco found.
And once an undocumented immigrant becomes homeless, it is harder for them to regain housing, Chinchilla said.
“They may not be able to provide a credit check,” she said. “They may be paid cash. So they may not have that history of their income.”
All those fears and barriers have been dialed up to 11 as Trump has returned to the White House with more force and focus on aggressive, indiscriminate immigration enforcement.
Under his administration, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the Internal Revenue Service and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development have agreed to share residents’ personal data with ICE, which will soon see unprecedented levels of funding. Proposed cuts to immigrants’ access to public benefits such as early childhood education, health care and housing programs threaten the livelihood of families who rely on those services.
“Unfortunately, people’s worst fears are being confirmed,” said Cynthia Moreno, a senior data analyst with the Equity Research Institute.
In the Central Valley, attendance at tenants’ rights workshops has dropped as immigrants fear being targeted by ICE at large events, said Daniela Juarez, a registered legal aid attorney with California Rural Legal Assistance.
“Organizations have stopped advertising their Know Your Rights Workshops and counting on word of mouth instead — for fear of becoming a target. Others are choosing to only do workshops by appointment to not expose their clients,” she wrote in an email. “Overall, they have all seen a chilling effect in services and are worried it will only get worse.”
Families are also afraid to appear in court for housing-related issues as immigration agents regularly detain people at courthouses across the country. In March, news of such an arrest outside the Sonoma County Probation office rippled through the immigrant community in Santa Rosa, said Patrick McDonnell, a housing attorney with Sonoma County Legal Aid.
“We have a lot of clients who are basically willing to take a deal that is not the best deal that we could get them in order to not have to be present in a courthouse,” said McDonnell.
During Trump’s first administration, immigrants withdrew from federal food benefits due to fear of getting targeted by immigration enforcement or hurting their chance at becoming citizens. Chinchilla said she fears history will repeat itself. Already, Trump is asking states to share information about food voucher recipients, prompting a lawsuit from California and 18 other Democratic-led states.
“This fear was already there. I can only imagine how much more heightened it is now that we know it’s a reality that people’s information is really being shared with Immigration and Customs Enforcement,” she said.
In Santa Rosa, a woman named Karen, who asked to be identified only by her first name because of her immigration status, lives with four of her six children in a two-bedroom apartment. The monthly rent is $2,299, according to the lease she shared with CalMatters. After ICE deported her husband — who earned the bulk of the family’s income as a gardener — back to Honduras in April, she said, she has scrambled to keep her family housed.
She contemplated asking the property manager to move the family to a smaller apartment. That would mean packing all five family members into a one-bedroom unit, but it would technically be affordable, she said. But Karen, who said she overstayed her visa from Honduras, worries that the mere request might provoke her landlord to initiate eviction proceedings. She said she’s also reticent to look for work herself, given her lack of legal status. Instead, she said, the family is scraping by on the income of her one working-age daughter and on money borrowed from family members while she considers her options.
For renters like Karen who, as a result of a deportation, simply don’t have the funds to pay the rent, California’s expansive tenant protections don’t offer a remedy, even if she were willing to go to court, said McDonnell at Sonoma County Legal Aid.
“The reality is there’s no silver bullet or solution to a lack of money to pay the rent,” he said.
The fear of retaliation from landlords has created what advocates describe as a chilling effect on immigrant renters, which “substantially undercuts” California’s strong tenant protection laws, said David Hall, co-directing tenants’ rights attorney with Centro Legal de La Raza, a nonprofit legal aid group in Oakland.
Some local governments, such as Los Angeles County and the cities of Long Beach and Los Angeles, are establishing donation-funded programs to help immigrants make rent and other payments. The state also has several immigrant assistance programs, and California lawmakers authorized a $25 million boost earlier this year to provide legal services to immigrants through nonprofit organizations.
But those dollars get spent down really fast, and “there’s always more need than there are dollars in the account,” Hall said.
In rural California, resources are scant and more scattered and hard to reach without a car, Juarez said.
“There’s evictions everywhere — there’s just less help to combat them in our rural communities and we could use all the help we can get,” she said.
https://calmatters.org/housing/2025/07/trump-deportation-housing-immigrant-renters/
‘Proposed cuts to immigrants’ access to public benefits such as early childhood education, health care and housing programs threaten the livelihood of families who rely on those services’
Tell me about that cheap labor again?
Tell me about that cheap labor again?
The Chamber of Commerce loves the subsidies
This is bad bad bad. It’s clear that the illegal alien community has been allowed to work without authorization for too long, and living off freebies for too long. They were “one paycheck away” and now they’re stuck. Please please self-deport instead of living on the streets.
ICE arrests undocumented man accused of child sexual abuse in Montgomery County
A man from El Salvador who is accused of sexually abusing children was arrested in Montgomery County over the weekend, according to officials with the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Oscar Adalberto Penate, 56, was arrested by ICE on Sunday, July 27 in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, officials said.
Penate was arrested by the Pottstown Township Police Department on July 22, 2025, after he was charged with involuntary deviate sexual intercourse with a person less than 16 years of age and indecent assault of a person less than 13 years of age among other related charges, ICE said.
According to a statement by ICE officials, Penate was released from the Montgomery County Correctional Facility before being arrested by their agents over the weekend.
According to Penate, he told officials that he crossed the border to enter the United States back in 1998.
Ice also mentioned that Penate had been arrested back in 2001 by the Houston Police Department. Penate is expected to stay in ICE custody as he waits for removal proceedings. This arrest of Penate comes after several ICE raids that have recently occurred in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.
In a statement, a county spokesperson told NBC10 earlier this month that Montgomery County has no authority over the municipalities and police departments.
“Each municipality has independently elected officials who make their own policy decisions related to their municipal employees, including their local police departments,” the spokesperson wrote. “Montgomery County’s policy is in place to ensure that all County employees only share information with federal agents when required by law and/or accompanied by a judicial warrant.”
https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/ice-arrests-man-in-pottstown-pennsylvania-oscar-adalberto-penate/4244928/
Let’s make sure and protect the child molesters in ‘our community’!
“involuntary deviate sexual intercourse with a person less than 16 years of age and indecent assault of a person less than 13 years of age”
This is who William Kristol wants you replaced with.
I believe I saw this apprenhension on X. It took four guys to bring him down.
Man faces deportation to Mexico after Big Isle drunken driving case
A citizen of Mexico who authorities say has been in the U.S. illegally since 2019 is facing federal criminal charges after the U.S. Department of Homeland Security learned he was arrested for drunk driving following a crash June 3 at Honolii Beach Park.
Jose Luis Gonzalez Cruz, aka “Jose Gonzalez, ” is scheduled for a waiver of indictment and guilty plea Aug. 7 before Chief U.S. District Judge Derrick K. Watson. He is facing a single charge of illegally reentering the country after being removed.
Gonzalez Cruz “came to the attention of of DHS’ Homeland Security Investigations because of a June 2025 arrest by the Hawaii Police Department for allegedly operating a vehicle under the influence of an intoxicant, driving without a license, and operating without insurance, ” according to court records.
On June 22, 2019, Gonzalez Cruz, “a Mexican citizen and never a U.S. citizen, ” was served with an Expedited Order of Removal, and he was deported to Mexico from Nogales, Ariz., according to federal court documents.
Three years later, on Aug. 31, 2022, Gonzalez Cruz was arrested by Hawaii police officers for consuming or possessing intoxicating liquor while operating a motor vehicle and operating a vehicle under the influence of an intoxicant.
Gonzalez Cruz had his driver’s license suspended and revoked for two years. On May 13, 2023, he was arrested again and charged with contempt of court for missing a court date, but the charge was later dismissed, according to state court records.
On June 3, witnesses told Hawaii police officers that Gonzalez Cruz drove a car into an unoccupied vehicle at Honolii Beach Park.
“Witnesses ensured Gonzalez Cruz remained until police arrived. Police arrived to smell Gonzalez Cruz with a strong odor of alcohol and observed his red and watery eyes, ” according to a June 16 criminal complaint filed in U.S. District Court.
He showed signs of “impairment after performing field sobriety tests, ” and his blood alcohol level was 0.149, over the .08 legal limit.
That same day, a “Form 1-200 Warrant for Arrest of Alien ” was issued for Gonzalez Cruz, and on June 4 an immigration detainer was lodged with Hawaii police.
A review of a series of documents from his Alien Registration File showed law enforcement that he was deported from the United States to Mexico on June 22, 2019, at Nogales, Ariz.
He did not have permission to come back to the U.S., according to federal court records.
Homeland Security Investigations agents, with the help of a Spanish speaker, conducted a recorded interview with Gonzalez Cruz. He allegedly told agents he was “previously removed from the United States approximately six years ago ” and confirmed his signature on documents in his Alien Registration File.
Gonzalez Cruz allegedly told agents that his “most recent entry into the United States was-approximately ten days after he was removed on June 22, 2019.”
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/man-faces-deportation-mexico-big-160500932.html
I am curious about how he got to Hawaii. Don’t you need to show an ID to board a flight (pre FJB)?
Man faces deportation to Mexico after Big Isle drunken driving case
I keep reading about illegals getting caught because of a DUI.
Maybe, just maybe, you drink at home for the next 3.5 years (at least) and walk to get more beer if you need it.
On one hand if that gets them apprehended and deported, then good. On the other hand, they cause accidents when DUI.
“operating a vehicle under the influence of an intoxicant, driving without a license, and operating without insurance”
How many more billions of dollars do legal citizens pay for auto insurance to cover for Biden and Kamala’s illegals?
If it hadn’t been for Autopen Joe
Border been closed long time ago
Where did you come from, where did you go?
Where did you come from, Autopen Joe?
https://youtu.be/mOYZaiDZ7BM?si=3RyMj6EhzMFL8Oh-
Longtime Anchorage resident detained by ICE as advocates note new trend in Alaska worker deportations
Paola Guzman was going from one housecleaning job to the next in mid-July when her family got word she’d been arrested.
Guzman, an Anchorage resident for more than 20 years, hadn’t committed a criminal offense, said Aldo Coyotl, her 22-year-old son. Instead, she was taken into custody as an undocumented worker by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers.
Guzman, 41, is being held at the ICE facility in Tacoma as she awaits a bond hearing next week.
Coyotl, a University of Alaska Anchorage student hoping to become an air-traffic controller, said his parents moved to Alaska in 2003. They didn’t come to make trouble but to make better lives for their family, he said.
Now his mother has become one of scores of undocumented workers caught up in the Trump administration’s ongoing immigration crackdown.
“I want people to know in Alaska what’s going on,” Coyotl said. “Just for the public to know, this is going on in Alaska. I think they’re doing a good job of hiding it.”
Immigration rights advocates say Guzman’s seizure tracks with a trend they’re seeing in Alaska: federal authorities detaining undocumented workers under the guise of inspecting a company’s hiring records.
Guzman has worked for Janco Commercial Cleaning LLC, an Anchorage janitorial services company, for years — Coyotl said some of her cleaning clients have known him since he was a toddler. He said it appears his mother got caught up in a larger investigation into the company’s worker practices.
Jeff Mockbee, Nevada-based Janco executive vice president, declined to answer a number of questions about Guzman’s arrest and the company, including whether other employees have been detained.
“Please note that at Janco, we support our employees, clients and take following the law seriously,” Mockbee said in an emailed statement after forwarding questions to legal counsel. “Unfortunately, we cannot discuss this matter at this time.”
Guzman, cleaning the first house on her list in Midtown the morning of July 17, called her husband to say she thought she was being followed, Coyotl said. She figured it had something to do with her immigration status.
The homeowner accompanied her partway to her next job, but federal agents surrounded her vehicle when she pulled up to the house, he said. They took her into custody with a warrant for her arrest.
Guzman is from Puebla, a city known for its historic architecture that’s located southeast of Mexico City.
His parents left Mexico for the U.S. and ended up in Brooklyn, said Coyotl, who was born there and is a U.S. citizen. The family made the trip to Alaska for more job opportunities.
Early in their time here, his mother was detained by authorities and asked if she wanted to return to Mexico, according to Coyotl and others familiar with the situation. Still learning English at the time, she said yes, thinking that answer meant she’d be let go, her son said.
Instead, Coyotl said, she was deported back to Mexico with him and another sibling. They returned by way of a “coyote” paid to take them back across the border, he said. Once in the United States, they used passports to return to the rest of the family in Alaska.
“She didn’t want me, a U.S. citizen, to be raised in Mexico,” he said. “She wanted me to be raised here for a better life. So she came back.”
That return trip to the U.S. has since complicated efforts for his mother to obtain legal citizenship, Coyotl said.
The Department of Homeland Security has recently “ramped up” efforts to audit I-9 forms filed by companies, according to Margaret Stock, an immigration attorney in Anchorage. The federal government requires the forms to verify employee identity and employment authorization.
Generally, she said, the I-9 raids leave undocumented workers vulnerable to arrest — Stock called it “collateral damage” — as federal agents dig into company records.
“A lot of Alaska employers do not fill out the I-9 form at all, or they fill it out incorrectly. This is particular true in service industries, including the janitorial industry,” Stock wrote in an email. “DHS has been auditing employers with an eye towards finding undocumented workers who might be identified through an I-9 audit.”
The federal agency is “supposed to go after employers, and in the past, they have,” she said, adding that employers can face steep fines in connection with I-9 irregularities.
ICE was active at workplaces in Juneau in mid-July and the federal agency is apparently conducting increased enforcement in Anchorage and other communities as well, according to Mara Kimmel, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Alaska.
Such investigations tend to end up targeting people like Guzman who are not criminals but contributing members of their communities, Kimmel said.
“We’re concerned these longtime good neighbors are getting shipped to Tacoma,” she said.
Attorneys say it’s becoming increasingly difficult for their clients to get bonded out once they’re housed at the ICE facility in Washington state. The Trump administration this month signaled that immigrants who arrived in the United States illegally are no longer eligible for a bond hearing as they fight deportation proceedings in court, according to reporting by The Washington Post.
Still, it’s far from clear the family will get the outcome they’re hoping for, Coyotl said: getting Guzman back to Alaska.
“My mom, she means the world to me,” he said. “Everything I do, I do for my parents. I just want them to have a good life. I want to pay for the life they gave to me.”
https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/anchorage/2025/07/29/longtime-anchorage-resident-detained-by-ice-as-advocates-note-new-trend-in-alaska-worker-deportations/
She’ll get used to the outhouse Aldo.
“Just for the public to know, this is going on in Alaska. I think they’re doing a good job of hiding it.”
Why would they “hide it”?
“We’re concerned these longtime good neighbors are getting shipped to Tacoma,” she said.
They make it sound like the illegals are being loaded into boxcars and being shipped to death camps, instead of simply being sent back to their home countries.
Real Journalists.
Deportation IS the moderate choice.
They should really take up the deportation before we have to get to that step.
“people like Guzman who are not criminals”
Buried in this vague story is that at some point she was deported and illegally re-entered using a coyote. That’s a criminal offense under 8 U.S.C. § 1326 (Reentry of Removed Aliens).
They keep banging the “I’m not a felon, so I get to stay” drum.
No, you don’t get to stay. You just aren’t the top priority right now.
The long term plan is to send ALL of you home.
The long-term plan is working. Pillar after pillar supporting the alien-industrial complex is being yanked. Border is closed — putting the coyotes out of business from Eagle Pass to the Darien Gap. The Wall is being built, for real this time. Money streams for NGOs, paid protests, pro bono legal, private donations, much of it coming from FEMA or HHS or USAID, are all slowing to a trickle. Individual protestors who try to interfere are being hauled off, to their surprise. IRS, HHS, and Social Secuirty are all data-sharing with DHS. I’m sure that all of that data can be merged with a little bit of DOGE magic AI and boom, you can match up fraud and find a work address. Employers are afraid too — the moment those CHNVs lost their legal work permits, meatpacker employers tossed them out of the factory instead of keeping them under the table.
The illegal aliens themselves are being isolated with no support system. It’s going to be an interesting few years.
Convicted sex offender placed under ICE detainer following Limestone arrest
A Mexican citizen wanted in New York was arrested in Athens last week after failing to register as a sex offender and is currently being held in Limestone County Jail under an immigration detainer, according to the Limestone County Sheriff’s Office.
Jairo Samuel Chavez, 38, was charged with attempting to elude law enforcement, obstructing justice using a false identity, resisting arrest and failing to register as a sex offender. The Sheriff’s Office said Chavez is a convicted sex offender out of Elmire, New York, who was previously convicted of raping a juvenile and is currently wanted in New York for violating his parole conditions.
On Thursday, deputies observed Chavez riding a bicycle on the wrong side of the road in the 15000 block of Ripley Road.
“When stopped, the individual refused to provide identification and gave a false name,” the Sheriff’s Office said.
As deputies tried to determine Chavez’s real identity, they said he fled from them on foot. After a physical confrontation, Chavez was tased by deputies and taken into custody.
During the investigation, the Sheriff’s Office said Chavez told them he was a citizen of Mexico and was born in Nuevo Laredo.
According to an affidavit, Chavez had been living at 12535 Mayfield Road in Athens for two months and failed to register as a sex offender in that jurisdiction.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/convicted-sex-offender-placed-under-231500189.html
“previously convicted of raping a juvenile”
This is who Southern Poverty Law Center and Anti Defamation League want you replaced with, and your daughters r@ped by.
#Noticing
This is Cincinnati City Councilor Victoria Parks, who wrote the 3 White elderly people attacked at their jazz festival “begged for it”. Here she is advocating for free housing, food and DEI jobs. This is the Democratic Party.
https://x.com/TheOnlyDSC/status/1950588742504157639?
Don’t say “the”.
Drop the definite article, and just say Democrat Party as its own noun.
Nobody says “the AIDS” or “the herpes” and Democrat Party should be referred to in the same manner.
Democrat Party.
There is some discrepancy in the the usage of “the”
For instance, we go to “the store” or “the office”. But we go to school (no “the”)
Then there are hospitals. Americans “go to THE hospital” but Brits just “go to hospital”
Lisa Lampenelli would stage whisper “the BLACKS . .” during her comedy routine. what seemed risque’ then is now tame.
Leanne Morgan kinda reminds me of her in the PG rated spiels. she’s coming to Netflix in a few days per a sitcom Roseanne (but solid middle class) style series.
I reckon the thing I find distracting in preview clips is all the well known, recycled actors from other TV series. hard to shake an established role.
took me awhile to stop thinking of Ed O’neill as Al Bundy instead of Jay. same w/Katey Sagal. forever Peg Bundy.
mm hmm. all right, then
recycled actors from other TV series
Remember The Love Boat? The show was good at recycling has beens as guest stars.
‘One generational owner in the Fashion District has already lost a tenant since June 6. The June 6 raid and subsequent immigration actions in the neighborhood have created conditions that are working against his tenants, he said, adding that smaller-scale immigration detainments have taken place often in the neighborhood since early June. ‘It created a crunch in cash flow,’ he said. ‘Folks could not pay their rent as expeditiously as they normally do.’ He has two more tenants he says are ‘shaky’ and considering closing up shop due to the double whammy of fear of more raids and the slowdown in business’
How do you like those 5% cap rates now generational owner?
‘A rare real estate opportunity is coming to market as The Linden, a newly constructed 70-unit luxury apartment complex in West Roxbury, is set to be sold at a public foreclosure auction on Wednesday, August 13, 2025’
Again, new lux apartment foreclosures = paid too much for the land.
‘To rely on the end user is asking too much, to have to make a buy decision four or five years before’…layoff staff, projects have been paused and some have declared bankruptcy. Developers with the financial ability to do it are slashing prices, and at least one condo project was cancelled even after presales started. In Toronto, sales have been crashing and the inventory of condos has been rising. A July 15 report from Urbanation, a Toronto company that tracks the condo market, said there were about 24,000 unsold units by the end of June, while sales are at a dribble’
These whiny b$tches are too much. They did sell the airboxes, they just can’t get FBs to close.
‘The Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area saw only 502 condo sales in the second quarter of 2025. ‘We have not seen layoffs for builders like this in more than a decade,’ said Chris Gardner, CEO of the 5,000-member Independent Contractors and Businesses Association. ‘I think people in government don’t understand how serious this is and how rapidly things are unwinding’
This is closing the circle. First, you were a racist for suggesting Chinese money launderers were driving prices to insane levels. It took five years or so for that to wear off, and then they started to clamp down. Crater. Now, please let the money launderers back in, Ima begging you! Yer all elbows up fooked now and there ain’t nothing can save you.
‘With London prices now below their 2014 values and a significant supply of trophy homes available for sale’
London super lux sinking like a turd in a well since 2014 example 10,000.
‘The Indian real estate market isn’t driven by affordability,’ ‘Kaushik says. ‘It’s driven by hype, hoarding, and black money.’ The result is a distorted housing market where buying a home has become a financial trap for young Indians. ‘A middle-class couple in India has to save for 25–30 years to afford a decent house in any metro city,’ he notes. In the U.S., with proper planning, that timeline is closer to five to seven years. Kaushik argues that India’s so-called ‘housing boom’ is not progress, but ‘economic slavery in disguise’
Long before HBB identified K-da as real estate crooks central, I was on to India in 2008. These people steal like it’s breakfast, commit murder-suicide, fook their relatives over money. Nothing ever seems to change. Puddle watchers were popping zits in junior high.
India’s population is stratified in a caste system, so there is no shame in screwing those on the lower end.
From the Dumver Post:
When the USAID money goes buh-bye