-We begin today’s rattle with an interesting story about an Indian-or Muslim, depending upon PR needs of the open borders squad-athlete who was ushered into this country by our very own Senator Chuck Schumer. Unfortunately, this gifted sportsman is also a sex offender. Perhaps this isn’t quite as bad as having an alien interning for your office who is also a registered sex offender, but it does make you question the collective wisdom of our Democratic friends in Congress. Maybe we shouldn’t be taking their advice, vis-a-vis, controversial immigration decisions made by the Executive branch.

-In a reminder that there are actually rational people living in The People’s Republic of Vermont, the voters of Rutland have just turned out their incumbent mayor, Chris Louras, after he attempted to deluge their town with Muslim refugees from Syria and Iraq. While ignoring the public’s deep discontent with our government’s refugee resettlement programs-when not imputing racism and bigotry to Americans who express reservations about these schemes-is the norm, even the alternative weekly was forced to concede the enormous political consequences of this decision.

-For those of you who were wondering whatever happened to the thousands of unaccompanied minors who were allowed to enter into this country, wonder no more. According to an in-depth backgrounder from the Center for Immigration Studies, our government has absolutely no clue what it’s doing. While over 80 percent of their sponsors are illegal aliens, 44 percent of the UACs in question were ordered deported. Have the vast majority of these children been deported? Of course not, silly!

-You may ask yourself, “Why is this important?” It’s a good question. After all, it’s not as if these individuals will bring brutal Central American inter-gang warfare to the placidity of our nation’s suburbs, right? Well, I have some bad news for you on that score. It turns out that Latin American gangs, including MS-13, one of the most prolific and ruthless criminal networks in the Western Hemisphere, has actually established a pretty firm beachhead in our own backyard. Naturally, almost all of these gangbangers are criminal aliens. In an ironic twist, the moniker of the man who made an abortive attempt to unify the Mara Salvatrucha within the United States is, you guessed it, Dreamer.

-For those of you who think Europe’s approach to immigration is any less self-defeating and preposterous than the United States, I give you France. A nation where municipal authorities in Calais are attempting to prevent thousands of migrants from recreating the notorious refugee camp known as The Jungle. The biggest proponents of turning The Camp of the Saints into reality are, of course, other Europeans who believe Western civilization is uniquely evil. The ostensible plight of migrants from the third world is simply a cudgel with which the Gramscian left-with the help of corporate bean counters-can beat native Europeans into submission.

-After all, what are a few dozen, or a few hundred, honor killings in the grand scheme of things? Is the systemic dehumanization and murder of girls in nations which were responsible for the idea of religious toleration and freedom of conscience too high a price to pay for erecting the beautiful mosaic? When bad whites are saying intemperate, obnoxious things about people who are off-white, doesn’t that negate their entire philosophical worldview?  Even if that perspective is confirmed multiple times every single day?

-Everyone knows that the real reason millions of Muslims across the world support ISIS, Al Qaeda, and similar jihadist networks is because there isn’t enough inclusion in Hollywood casting decisions. See, the real villain isn’t Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. It’s those bastards who refused to green light an all-Muslim reboot of Star Trek!

-The cognitive dissonance at work in the mind of an an open borders leftist must be overpowering. They want to live in a high-trust, quasi-collectivist techno-utopia-along the lines of something created by Gene Roddenberry-yet simultaneously support policies which make this already far-fetched goal virtually impossible. The mentality of a social justice warrior in high dudgeon can be found in this VICE piece, which laments the role homeless shelters have been playing in the deportation of migrants. The traditional liberal concern for the working class and the poor is discarded when it conflicts with the categorical imperative, i.e. preserving diversity. The spiritual hollowness and intellectual vapidity of this type of leftist ‘thinking’ was brilliantly and caustically skewered by George Orwell nearly a century ago. It’s good to know that some things haven’t changed all that much.

-I’d like to leave you on a good note, so here’s some refreshing news to come out of Austria. 8 Iraqi men have been convicted of the gang rape of a tourist. Unlike the Middle Eastern cab driver in Halifax who was, to all intents and purposes, high-fived by a Nova Scotia judge for raping an unconscious passenger, these rapists were actually given (relatively) stiff prison sentences. What’s more, we’ve discovered that these horrific incidents actually constitute an anomaly within the Islamic immigrant community.

Migrants and refugees from other countries expressed concern that the crime will make Austrians hostile toward all newcomers.

“Eight people raping a woman — that’s honor-less! Such a thing doesn’t exist in our religion,” Burhan Akbas, a migrant from Turkey, said.

“When such people come here and screw up like that, then everybody will think that Chechens, Afghans, all refugees from war areas are all the same,” Mansur Salamou, an asylum-seeker from Chechnya, said. “But it’s not like that. For example, the majority of us — we also cause problems, commit crimes. But no rape! Only criminal assaults and robberies.”

See, Europeans?! You only have to worry about being assaulted and robbed by the millions of North African and Middle Eastern refugees and migrants making their way towards Europe. What a relief.

Miami-Dade is the latest city to come to the realization that Donald Trump really is President of the United States. Just like the Sheriff of Suffolk County, Carlos A. Giménez has recognized the new reality of a federal government which will actually enforce its immigration laws. The Obama cronies who were placed within the immigration bureaucracy, who used their positions to implement unconstitutional amnesties, are in the process of being purged. Of course, our own mayor has continued to insist that he will defy federal and state laws in order to ensure the safety of criminal aliens. He and other blue state partisans, as well as their accomplices in the media complex, have yet to realize that no matter how much they whine, Hillary Clinton is not President and neither is Barack Obama.

A new era is upon us.

Or, at the very least, begins to shift. The first loose brick turns out to be Suffolk County, where Sheriff Vincent DeMarco has decided to abandon his county’s sanctuary city policy. Hopefully, this is the first of many such reversals throughout the country. My only response to this pseudo-scholarly op-ed by open borders fanatics is, “Wanna bet?”

In the hallowed tradition of Tammany Hall, New York City’s Democratic Party apparatus has found yet another way to bastardize our city’s electoral process. The anti-American caucus on the City Council has decided to moot a bill which would permit non-citizen voting in municipal elections. Where Comrade Di Blasio stands on this matter remains to be seen, although considering some of his recent actions regarding undocumented citizens, it’s not to hard to imagine him signing this proposal into law.

After all, why bother cultivating actual voters when you can simply mint new ones?

As Hurricane Sandy makes its approach, it’s important to have access to relevant, useful information. In addition to possible flooding in low-lying and coastal areas, there’s also a high wind warning from the National Weather Service. You can find more information about Sandy’s development by looking at an interactive tropical storm tracking map, courtesy of Newsday. Another useful resource is a map of New York City hurricane evacuation zones from the New York Times.

Needless to say, if you’re planning on using public transportation this week, you might encounter some difficulties. For a good view of what Sandy looks like at the moment, NASA has an animation based upon the observations of the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration. That said, the most important thing is to stay safe. For those of you  with power, check out Angel Clark’s mesmerizing photo slideshow and video of the damage Sandy has already inflicted upon Maryland and Delaware.

As for the rest of you, stay safe.

According to V.M.’s account, she entered the U.S. in 1998 and worked as a domestic for an employee of the United Nations from 1998 through 2005.

In October 2005 she accepted an offer from the George family to work as a domestic, doing the family’s cooking, cleaning and providing child care.

Her hours of work were 5:45 a.m. to 11 p.m. seven days a week.

V.M.’s account said no employment or tax forms were ever completed or signed by her.

During the 5-1/2 years she worked for the family she said she never saw a dentist or a doctor and was required to sleep on the floor in a bedroom closest to be close to the children.

V.M. will likely successfully sue for hundreds of thousands of dollars in owed wages.  Most illegals in her situation don’t get so lucky.

One part of the country that has been devastated by illegal immigration is in our own backyard, Long Island, New York. In fact, one reason for County Executive Steve Levy’s enduring popularity among Long Islanders not dependent upon the votes or labor of illegal aliens, i.e. most of Suffolk County, is the strong stance he has taken against accommodating illegal aliens.

He has not disappointed his fans with his latest comments on the recent passage of the DREAM Act by his former party in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy questioned prioritizing spending money on this instead of other initiatives Friday. “It is a case of mixed priorities when Congress can find millions in funding for students who are not here legally, yet fails to find adequate funding to help our senior citizens heat their homes,” he said in a statement.

Another standout in the struggle against DREAM, and all other forms of amnesty, is Long Island Rep. Peter King-future chairman of the Homeland Security Subcommittee:

Rep. Peter King (R-Seaford) said while “well-intentioned,” the bill would “provide amnesty and send a mixed signal.” “There should be no amnesty of any type for illegal immigrants until our borders are secure . . . That is why I oppose it,” he said through a spokesman.

So, while the lame duck elected officials in Washington D.C. continue to disappoint their constituents, there are at least a few courageous, sensible politicians in the public realm. Kudos to Mr. Levy and Mr. King! You’re doing yeoman’s work.