A proposed law in New York could allow mentally ill male inmates to assume a non-male identity and be granted access to women&#8217;s prisons, according to a women&#8217;s advocacy group.
Yesterday, the New York Senate added an <a href="https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2023/S2860" target="_blank" rel="noopener">amendment</a> to Senate Bill 2860, euphemistically called the &#8220;gender identity respect, dignity and safety act,&#8221; that would allow male prisoners to be placed in a correctional facility or other institution that matches their self-determined &#8220;gender identity.&#8221; According to the women&#8217;s advocacy group, these &#8220;other institutions&#8221; added to the bill likely include <a href="https://omh.ny.gov/omhweb/forensic/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">psychiatric facilities</a> for the criminally insane and possibly high-risk sex offenders.
&#8220;The Bill expands beyond correctional facilities to extend to &#8216;other institutions&#8217; housing incarcerated individuals,&#8221; said Amanda Stulman, the USA director for Keep Prisons Single Sex (<a href="https://usa.kpssinfo.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">KPSS</a>). &#8220;Presumably, this would include forensic mental health facilities. So, this New York Senate Bill would presumptively house mentally ill incarcerated men with mentally ill women.&#8220;
In criminal law, when individuals are found &#8220;<a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/not_guilty_by_reason_of_insanity" target="_blank" rel="noopener">not guilty by reason of  insanity</a>,&#8221; they are generally required to undergo psychiatric treatment in a mental institution. Aside from 44 prisons, New York State has several maximum-security psychiatric facilities for criminals, including <a href="https://omh.ny.gov/omhweb/forensic/bisot/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">two locations</a> that treat high-risk sex offenders. Oakview in Marcy, New York, which houses 303 residents, and Bridgeview in Ogdensburg, which houses 92 residents, are home to individuals &#8220;deemed as high risk to sexually offend and in need of intensive treatment while serving prison sentences.&#8221;
Senate Bill 2860 would allow anyone who &#8220;self-identifies&#8221; as not just transgender, but even &#8220;gender nonconforming,&#8221; &#8220;nonbinary&#8221; or as having an intersex condition, to &#8220;presumptively&#8221; be placed in a facility that houses the opposite sex. According to the bill, inmates are not required to demonstrate or provide documentation that their “gender identity” existed prior to incarceration, and their records are permitted to be kept confidential.
In addition to housing placement, this new bill would allow inmates state-sponsored access to cross-sex hormones and surgeries to affirm their &#8220;gender identity,&#8221; but also the right to deny using hormones or surgery, which may have castrating effects that would make their presence safer for women.
&#8220;As with the laws and policies of many other jurisdictions, the provisions of this proposed New York Bill permit any inmate, at any time, making no modifications to their body or presentation, to claim a &#8216;gender identity&#8217; which requires a correctional system to place them in cross-sex housing,&#8221; Stulman told The Daily Wire.
&#8220;They cannot be challenged or denied on the basis of lack of sincerity or past crimes, no matter how much their criminal history is one directed at women,&#8221; she added.
All correctional officers and staff are required to address the inmate by his new name and pronouns, and be given access to &#8220;commissary items, clothing, personal property, and programming and educational materials consistent with gender identity.&#8221; Male inmates would also be allowed to be searched by female corrections officers. Any violation of these stipulations, and the inmate can sue the state, paid for by the state.
Additionally, the bill would limit the use of &#8220;involuntary protective custody,&#8221; a safeguarding practice that keeps trans-identified male inmates segregated from the female population, because it is deemed &#8220;harmful&#8221; to the male inmates&#8217; wellbeing.
According to the bill, a denial of placement into the women&#8217;s ward shall not be based on &#8220;discriminatory reasons&#8221; like their sex characteristics or if female inmates complain about being housed with males. They may, however, be denied placement if there is &#8220;clear and convincing evidence&#8221; that they &#8220;present a current danger of committing gender-based violence against others.&#8221;
Another amendment to the bill was the implementation of a time restriction that would require prison officials to make a determination on prisoner placement within a two-day period. Stulman said this poses serious potential risks to women, as two days is not nearly enough time to conduct a proper mental health and risk assessment of male inmates.
&#8220;Incarcerated women are rightly petrified while state legislators imagine themselves as civil rights heroes,&#8221; Stulman told The Daily Wire. &#8220;But this is no &#8216;civil rights&#8217; movement. There is no &#8216;right&#8217; for male inmates, however they identify, to be incarcerated with women.&#8221;
&#8220;Such an idea is contrary to decades of American and international jurisprudence, including the United Nations’ Mandela Rules, the Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners. Rule 11(a) provides: &#8216;Men and women shall so far as possible be detained in separate institutions; in an institution which receives both men and women, the whole of the premises allocated to women shall be entirely separate,’” she added.
Stulman&#8217;s organization, Keep Prisons Single Sex (KPSS), which has both United Kingdom and United States representation, campaigns for single-sex accommodation within the prison system and access to data on male inmates in women&#8217;s facilities. KPSS penned a <a href="https://usa.kpssinfo.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/KPSS-Submission-to-New-York-Senate-on-Bill-2860.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">letter</a> to the bill&#8217;s sponsors and the <a href="https://www.nysenate.gov/committees/crime-victims-crime-and-correction" target="_blank" rel="noopener">committee</a> on Crime Victims, Crime and Correction, highlighting their concerns with the new bill and citing past incidences of sexual assault committed by male inmates permitted to house with females nationwide.
According to KPSS, <a href="https://usa.kpssinfo.org/data-from-california-shows-that-1-3-of-the-men-seeking-to-transfer-to-womens-prison-are-registered-sex-offenders/">33.8%</a> of the incarcerated men seeking to transfer to women’s prisons in California are registered sex offenders. The Federal Bureau of Prisons issued a <a href="https://www.bop.gov/inmates/custody_and_care/docs/fbop_annual_prea_report_2020.pdf">2020 report</a> that found sex offenders are responsible for approximately 50% of sexual offenses that occur in prisons.
The bill is currently in committee, likely to be put on a calendar to be voted on, debated, or amended. The bill&#8217;s lead sponsor, Julia Salazar of the 18th Senate District, did not respond to The Daily Wire&#8217;s request for comment and clarification in time for publication.

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Proposed New York Law Could Put Criminally Insane Male Inmates In Women’s Prisons, Advocates Fear

Proposed New York Law Could Put High-Risk Male Sex Offenders In Women's Prisons, Advocates Fear

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Two New York GOP leaders are calling for answers from the Biden administration over secretly transporting migrants across the U.S. after dozens of Columbian immigrants have moved to the upstate community of Jamestown.
Republican Reps. Claudia Tenney and Elise Stefanik expressed their concern in a Wednesday letter that was co-signed by fellow New York GOP Congressmen Nick Langworthy, Michael Lawler, and Marc Molinaro.
“We write following reports that your administration is actively settling migrants in Upstate New York communities,&#8221; the <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/01/26/reps-tenney-stefanik-demand-biden-answer-for-ny-migrant-surge/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">letter</a>, obtained by the New York Post, stated.
“[W]e wish to express our outrage at the secrecy with which your administration has and continues to carry out these national relocation operations,” the lawmakers wrote. “This unprecedented influx of migrants into the United States is an obvious sign of your administration’s failed policies at the Southern Border.”
The letter cited a report of more than 30 Columbian migrants living in the city of Jamestown, a community of just over 28,000 people. The Western New York town is 285 miles from New York City.
Earlier this month, Republican Chautauqua County Executive P.J. Wendel expressed his concern over the relocation of migrants in Jamestown, seeking support from Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul.
“Even if it’s 100 families, our school districts are small,” Wendel <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/01/13/tiny-upstate-new-york-town-faced-with-nyc-like-migrant-influx/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>. “Those schools don’t have the resources. If they don’t have a Spanish teacher, what are they going to do?”
“It could be overwhelming for us because how are we supposed to be helping these people?” he added.
The letter to the Biden administration is seeking information on how the White House is monitoring the status and locations of the migrants they’ve relocated since January 2021. They are also requesting the destination of migrants that have been relocated to New York State since January 2021, among other demands.
Stefanik, the House Republican Conference chair, also blasted the Biden administration for &#8220;open border policies&#8221; she views as a threat to national security.
“Joe Biden’s open border policies have made every state a border state, and Far Left Albany Democrats’ radical agenda is exacerbating the impact of the Biden border crisis in New York,” Stefanik said last month, <a href="https://www.post-journal.com/news/new-york-news-apwire/2022/12/new-york-braces-for-more-asylum-seekers/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according to</a> The Post-Journal.
The letter comes as New York City Democratic Mayor Eric Adams has continued highlighting concerns over the migrant surge. The mayor has stated the influx could cost the city as much as $2 billion.
“With more than 41,000 asylum seekers arriving in New York City since last spring and nearly 28,000 asylum seekers currently in our care, our city is at its breaking point,” Adams <a href="https://www.nyc.gov/office-of-the-mayor/news/050-23/mayor-adams-placement-new-humanitarian-emergency-response-relief-center" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in a Saturday press release.
Adams also <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nyc-to-house-migrants-at-cruise-ship-terminal-mayor-eric-adams-confirms" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced</a> that New York City would temporarily house migrants at a cruise ship terminal.
In addition to migrants bused to New York from Texas, the Biden administration has reportedly flown migrants into the state. In July, The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/aircraft-records-reveal-secret-migrant-flights-across-u-s" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> two flights had transported migrants to Westchester County. The migrants were reportedly shuttled from the flights on buses to other locations in New York.

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New York GOP Leaders Demand Answers For Migrant Relocation In Upstate Town

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Fox News host <a href="http://www.dailywire.com.topic/jesse-watters/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jesse Watters</a> said on Wednesday that New York might be in better shape if the state were to dump current Democratic Governor <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/hochul-wont-hire-back-unvaxxed-health-care-workers-despite-overturned-mandate-worker-shortage/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kathy Hochul</a> and bring back disgraced former Governor Eliot Spitzer, who was also a Democrat.
Spitzer earned a reputation for holding financial services professionals accountable and rooting out corruption while serving as attorney general of New York — becoming known as the &#8220;Sheriff of Wall Street&#8221; before he became governor in 2007. He <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/07/nyregion/08york.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">won in a landslide</a>, earning 69% of the vote — but <a href="https://www.npr.org/2008/03/12/88134976/spitzer-resigns-after-sex-scandal-pressure" target="_blank" rel="noopener">resigned</a> after serving less than two years following reports that he had patronized a prostitution ring.
Watters referenced Spitzer during Wednesday&#8217;s broadcast of the network&#8217;s popular afternoon panel show &#8220;The Five,&#8221; during a conversation about Hochul&#8217;s refusal to reinstate medical professionals who were fired for failing to comply with vaccine mandates even though the state has since dropped the mandates.
Judge Jeanine Pirro quoted Hochul, who explained her decision by claiming that healthcare professionals who did not have the COVID vaccine were putting patients at risk of developing COVID while they were receiving care.
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After airing a clip of Hochul&#8217;s comments, Pirro and her co-hosts discussed the fact that the vaccines have been proven to not stop transmission of the virus.
&#8220;She doesn’t know that vaxxed and unvaxxed can still transmit the virus? She doesn’t know that, and she’s the governor?&#8221; Watters asked. &#8220;I mean, what an idiot. Let’s say I go into the ER with a gunshot wound, and I’m bleeding out, you think I care if the nurse is unvaxxed? I think bullets are more dangerous than the ‘rona virus.&#8221;
Watters went on to tie in bail reform and the state&#8217;s still-rampant crime problem, saying, &#8220;We’re [more] afraid of people getting shot than we’re afraid of COVID at this point.&#8221;
That was when he suggested New Yorkers might fare better under the leadership of former Governor Spitzer, saying, &#8220;I don’t care if he sleeps with escorts. He was smart.&#8221;

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A 15-year-old girl from New York was <a href="https://abc7ny.com/kayla-green-stabbing-teen-arrest-sentencing/12731011/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">issued</a> a sentence of three to nine years on Tuesday after submitting a guilty plea over lethally stabbing a peer.
The girl’s name was not disclosed because she is only fifteen years old.
The Westchester County District Attorney’s office <a href="https://www.westchesterda.net/january-2023/6863-15-year-old-sentenced-for-fatal-stabbing-of-mount-vernon-teen-kayla-green">released</a> information regarding the sentencing, stating that the girl had pleaded guilty to first degree manslaughter for the deadly stabbing of Kayla Green, who was 16 years old at the time of her death.
“A teenage defendant senselessly took the life of Kayla Green, and in doing so, left a community devastated. As a family and the Mount Vernon community remain in mourning, I want to reiterate my commitment to working with our vital community partners for meaningful violence prevention and intervention, especially for our youth,” District Attorney Miriam E. Rocah said.
“I know that nothing can cure the pain of losing a child. My Office will do what it can within the bounds of New York’s laws to seek accountability in these cases,” Rocah added.
The incident took place on April 8, 2022, when the 15-year-old stabbed Kayla Green after a school event became violent, according to the DA’s office.
According to <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/new-york-girl-15-sentenced-9-years-jail-fatal-stabbing-cheerleader-rcna67381" target="_blank" rel="noopener">NBC News</a>, the day included a parade at Mount Vernon High School. A fight started with some of the cheerleaders following the off-campus events, the former Mount Vernon City School Superintendent, Kenneth Hamilton, reportedly said in April.
Green was stabbed with a knife in the abdomen and was taken to Jacobi Medical Center where it was determined that she was deceased.
The 15-year-old will be held in NYC Office of Children and Family Services’ custody until she turns eighteen. She will then be transferred to the NYS Department of Corrections and Community Supervision, the DA office also reportedly stated.
Ahead of the sentencing, the defendant said she was sorry for what she had done.
“I am sorry my actions took away a big sister. I am sorry my actions took away a daughter,” she <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/01/24/teen-girl-gets-3-to-9-years-in-prison-in-death-of-kayla-green/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>, <a href="https://www.lohud.com/story/news/2023/01/24/mount-vernon-teen-sentenced-fatal-stabbing-cheerleader-kayla-green-juvenile-detention/69833590007/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">per Lohud.com</a>.
“I think of all the different choices I could have made that day that would have left Kayla alive and saved her family this heartache. But that is why everyone is here today, because I made bad choices,” she stated.
Green’s mother, Lavern Gordon, also spoke out.
&#8220;Justice did not occur today. Mockery did,&#8221; Gordon said. &#8220;My family is broken and our heart will never mend from this loss of my daughter.&#8221;

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Gov. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/kathy-hochul" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kathy Hochul</a> (D-NY) indicated Monday that she won&#8217;t permit the hiring of health care workers who&#8217;ve declined to get the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/covid-19-vaccine" target="_blank" rel="noopener">COVID</a> vaccine, despite her vaccine mandate being overturned in the courts and a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ny-healthcare-upended-over-vax-mandate-hospital-stops-delivering-babies-er-closes-wait-times-explode" target="_blank" rel="noopener">serious healthcare worker shortage</a>.
A state Supreme Court judge in Syracuse last week <a href="https://www.syracuse.com/health/2023/01/syracuse-judge-strikes-down-ny-vaccine-mandate-for-health-workers-state-overstepped-authority.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">struck down</a> the statewide vaccine mandate for medical staffers. The mandate was first implemented by former Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D-NY) in 2021, and then Hochul supported the edict when she became governor.
&#8220;Our healthcare systems are in desperate need of staff right now, we’ve had ambulances waiting five hours at our local emergency rooms to unload patients,&#8221; Rochester-based reporter <a href="https://twitter.com/WHEC_JLewke/status/1617630135431368710?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jennifer Lewke</a> <a href="https://www.whec.com/top-news/hochul-is-speaking-in-rochester-at-145-p-m-about-housing-and-lead-exposure-proposals/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> Hochul. &#8220;The hospitals and nursing homes say they’re waiting for DOH [New York State Department of Health] guidance on whether they can hire any of those workers back. What’s the latest on that?&#8221;
Hochul said she&#8217;s considering legal options to challenge the decision that overturned the mandate and highlighted recruitment efforts for more vaccinated healthcare workers.
The Democrat also acknowledged that the shortage is &#8220;a problem,&#8221; while claiming the answer is not to hire ousted unvaccinated workers. &#8220;I don’t think the answer is to have someone who comes in who is sick, be exposed to someone who can give them coronavirus, give them COVID-19,&#8221; the governor told Lewke. &#8220;I don’t know that that’s the right answer. In fact, I’m pretty sure it’s not.&#8221;
&#8220;I think everybody who goes into a healthcare facility or nursing home should have the assurance, and their family members should know, that we have taken all steps to protect the public health and that includes making sure that those who come in contact with them at their time of most vulnerability, when they are sick or elderly, will not pass on the virus,&#8221; Hochul added.
Lewke again pressed the governor, &#8220;Couldn’t there be other safety precautions, masking? Or other mechanisms in order to allow some of them back in? I mean we’re at crisis level here in our hospitals and nursing homes.&#8221;
Hochul said she understood &#8220;the balance&#8221; but asserted that she &#8220;cannot put people into harm’s way, because when you’re going to a health care facility, you expect that you’re not going to come out sicker than you went in, I think that’s something every New Yorker would expect.&#8221;
Hochul is suggesting only unvaccinated people can pass along the virus, but <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/effectiveness/why-measure-effectiveness/breakthrough-cases.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), it&#8217;s &#8220;likely that vaccinated people with breakthrough infection or people infected without symptoms can spread the virus to others.”
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Hochul Won’t Hire Back Unvaxxed Health Care Workers Despite Overturned Mandate, Worker Shortage

Gov. Kathy Hochul Won't Hire Unvaxxed Health Care Workers Despite Overturned Mandate, Shortage Crisis

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Former House Speakeri <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/nancy-pelosi-permits-massive-raises-for-house-staffers-that-will-allow-them-to-make-more-than-lawmakers/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Nancy Pelosi</a> is blaming Governor Kathy Hochul (D-NY) for the Democratic Party&#8217;s failure to retain control of the House of Representatives in the 2022 midterm elections.
Although Democrats fared better than they were expected to in the midterms — and Republicans only squeaked by with a slim majority — Pelosi claimed that Democrats could have kept the majority if Hochul had realized sooner that crime was a key issue with voters in her state.
Pelosi made the case in an <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/21/opinion/nancy-pelosi-maureen-dowd-interview.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">interview</a> with Maureen Dowd for The New York Times, arguing that down-ticket Republicans fared better in New York because Hochul had not had longer coattails.
&#8220;She said that she believed the Democrats could have held onto the House in November if top New York pols had realized that the key issue in that state was crime,&#8221; Dowd explained.
&#8220;The governor didn’t realize soon enough where the trouble was,&#8221; Pelosi said of Hochul, adding that the issue should have been addressed much sooner.
Hochul took a lot of heat from Republicans — not the least of which was her opponent in the 2022 gubernatorial race, Lee Zeldin (R-NY). In addition to calling Hochul out repeatedly for not addressing the issue, Zeldin found himself at the center of a couple of crime stories that he then used to great effect to bolster his point.
During one campaign stop, Zeldin himself was <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/breaking-republican-congressman-and-ny-gubernatorial-candidate-lee-zeldin-attacked-at-campaign-event/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">physically assaulted</a> — however, he and several others were able to subdue his attacker and hold him until police arrived to take him into custody. Zeldin, who was unharmed, resumed his speech on bail reform after the man was taken away — but his attacker&#8217;s quick release from jail only served to back up Zeldin&#8217;s claims that New York was not doing enough to put violent criminals behind bars and keep them there.
Later in the campaign, a <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/twin-daughters-of-ny-gov-hopeful-lee-zeldin-hide-as-shooting-unfolds-outside-home/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">shooting took place</a> just outside Zeldin&#8217;s Long Island home — while his teenaged daughters were in the house doing school work.
&#8220;After my daughters heard the gunshots and the screaming, they ran upstairs, locked themselves in the bathroom and immediately called 911,&#8221; Zeldin explained. &#8220;They acted very swiftly and smartly every step of the way and Diana and I are extremely proud of them.&#8221;
The shooting was reportedly unrelated to Zeldin personally.

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New York City will temporarily house migrants at a cruise ship terminal to help handle the growing influx of asylum seekers, according to Democratic Mayor Eric Adams.
Adams shared plans for the 1,000-person shelter at the Brooklyn Cruise Terminal in a press release on Saturday.
“With more than 41,000 asylum seekers arriving in New York City since last spring and nearly 28,000 asylum seekers currently in our care, our city is at its breaking point,” Adams <a href="https://www.nyc.gov/office-of-the-mayor/news/050-23/mayor-adams-placement-new-humanitarian-emergency-response-relief-center" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>.
“We continue to surpass both our moral and legal obligations and meet the needs of people arriving in New York, but as the number of asylum seekers continues to grow, we are in serious need of support from both our state and federal governments. This fifth Humanitarian Emergency Response and Relief Center will provide approximately 1,000 asylum seekers with a place to stay, access support, and get to their final destination,&#8221; the mayor added.
Deputy Mayor for Public Safety Philip Banks III also noted that the addition of the shelter is the fifth Humanitarian Emergency Response and Relief Center.
“As the numbers and demographics shift, so does our approach. What remains is our focus on addressing their needs, providing them with critical services, and ensuring a foundation is there for them to begin building their new lives,&#8221; Banks said.
The city has already opened 77 hotels as emergency shelters, set up navigation centers to help migrants, and partnered to enroll children in public schools through Project Open Arms, among providing other forms of assistance.
Adams recently visited the southern border in El Paso, Texas, and declared a state of emergency last year over the surge in migrants. The mayor has repeatedly called for federal assistance, claiming that efforts have been blocked by Republicans.
“Just a few days ago, I was in El Paso to see for myself how the asylum seeker crisis is affecting our border states and our entire nation. What I saw was not a state problem or a city problem. It is a national problem, driven by global forces, impacting regular people,” Mr. Adams <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/18/nyregion/eric-adams-immigration-asylum.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in a speech at the U.S. Conference of Mayors following his Texas trip.
“Every attempt to deal with immigration on a national level through legislation has been sabotaged, mostly by right-wing opposition. And cities are bearing the brunt of this failure,” he added.
Adams has also been a vocal opponent of Governor Doug Ducey (R-AZ) and Governor Greg Abbott (R-TX) busing migrants to faraway cities.
Ducey&#8217;s busing program ended when he left office on January 2. As of mid-December, his office <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/meetthepressblog/texas-ariz-governors-bussed-16000-migrants-north-rcna61270" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> it had sent 80 buses carrying 2,916 migrants to Washington, D.C.
Abbott&#8217;s busing plans have been more aggressive. Texas has transported more than 5,200 migrants to New York City since August.
In addition, Texas has bused 9,100 migrants to the nation&#8217;s capital since April, more than 1,500 migrants to Chicago since August 31, and more than 890 migrants to Philadelphia since November 15, <a href="https://gov.texas.gov/news/post/operation-lone-star-disrupts-cartel-activity-along-bidens-open-border" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according to</a> the governor&#8217;s office.
The Daily Wire previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/new-york-city-homeless-shelter-population-hits-record-numbers-following-influx-of-migrants" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> that New York City’s homeless shelter population reached record levels in October, with more than 60,000 people in its shelter system.
“This is not an everyday homelessness crisis, but a humanitarian crisis that requires a different approach, and these humanitarian emergency response centers will take on a multitude of looks with the similarities that they will all help triage and provide immediate support to arriving asylum seekers. We will continue to respond with care and compassion as we deal with this humanitarian crisis made by human hands,” Adams <a href="https://www1.nyc.gov/office-of-the-mayor/news/741-22/mayor-adams-placement-family-focused-humanitarian-emergency-response-relief-center" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> at the time.

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A <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/united-nations-call-on-russia-to-pay-ukraine-war-reparations/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">United Nations</a> women&#8217;s rights committee rejected a pro-life organization&#8217;s request to screen The Daily Wire&#8217;s &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/videos/what-is-a-woman" target="_blank" rel="noopener">What is a Woman?</a>” after declaring the groundbreaking documentary did not align with the panel&#8217;s &#8220;values.&#8221; 
The Committee on the Status of Women, New York, referred to within the global body as NGO CSW/NY, and a convener for the United Nations&#8217; annual meeting on women&#8217;s rights, rejected the International Youth Coalition&#8217;s request to hold a screening of the film starring Matt Walsh at an upcoming conference because it did not adhere to their new guidelines. 
“Unfortunately, your request to host an event has been denied as your event does not align with NGO CSW/NY’s values and/or mandate,” read the letter turning down the proposal.
The summary rejection stunned Austin Ruse, president of the Center for Family and Human Rights (C-Fam), the youth coalition&#8217;s parent organization.
&#8220;How ironic is it that a conference on women does not want to consider the question, &#8216;what is a woman?'&#8221; Ruse said. &#8220;It is also unfortunate that this UN conference is not interested in diverse voices.&#8221;
The NGO Committee of the UN Commission on the Status of Women issued new &#8220;<a href="https://ngocsw.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Virtual-Safety-Guidelines-and-Principles.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">safety guidelines and principles</a>&#8221; that pro-life and pro-family groups are <a href="https://c-fam.org/friday_fax/un-committee-moves-to-block-pro-lifers/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">concerned</a> will have the effect of blocking their participation in UN conferences. 
&#8220;In past years, many pro-life and family organizations, including C-Fam, have hosted events, but are now unwelcomed with the new guidelines,&#8221; <a href="https://c-fam.org/friday_fax/un-committee-rejects-matt-walsh-documentary-on-women/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a> Craig-Austin Rose of C-Fam.
The new guidelines state that participants must acknowledge that &#8220;sexism, racism, classism, heterosexism, transphobia, global North domination and other institutionalized forms of oppression exist.&#8221;
&#8220;This is an antiracist space meaning that we welcome, value and revere an intersectional approach to feminism,&#8221; the guidelines read. 
&#8220;An anti-racist space requires that all of us need to consider our positionality and work actively not to replicate white patriarchal structures including subjugating voices of Black women and women of color,&#8221; the guidelines continue.
In response to the new guidelines, C-Fam organized a petition that included signatures from 600 organizations in 119 countries that urged UN Women to allow pro-life and pro-family representation. 
&#8220;The NGO Committee on the Status of Women is blocking non-governmental organizations that do not subscribe to progressive Western views about the family and women’s issues from participating in the NGO/CSW Forum, including many organizations with ECOSOC status,&#8221; the petition <a href="https://c-fam.org/wp-content/uploads/UN-Women-Letter-Final-011723.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">states</a>. &#8220;We appeal to you to ensure that organizations that hold traditional views about the family and women’s issues are not discriminated against in UN debates.&#8221;
The 67th annual NGO CSW/NY Forum is set to take place March 6-17, 2023, at the United Nations Plaza in New York.

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When relatives couldn’t reach 81-year-old Wilomeana &#8220;Violet&#8221; Filkins, they went to her apartment in upstate New York to check on her on August 19, 1994.
They found their beloved Filkins dead, bludgeoned to death in her living room in what appeared to be a robbery. An autopsy determined she had died from multiple blows to the back of her head, CBS 12 <a href="https://cbs12.com/news/nation-world/cold-case-wilomeana-violet-filkins-jeremiah-james-guyette-1994-elderly-woman-robbed-murdered-killed-apartment-new-york-east-greenbush-fingerprint-table">reported</a>.
It was 1994, so the case was expected to be solved quickly with the help of DNA and forensic technology, but it took decades for Filkins’ family to get an explanation.
For three years, police had nothing to go on, until personal property belonging to Filkins was found behind a cemetery in a neighboring town. Police surmised that Filkins was robbed, and her white four-door Plymouth Reliant was stolen and used to dump her stolen property.
Again, the case went cold, but in 2019, police received a tip from a woman who said her ex-boyfriend, Jeremiah Guyette, had started crying when he mentioned robbing a woman and hitting her, NBC News <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/man-took-life-police-questioned-1994-murder-was-just-identified-allege-rcna66661">reported</a>. The ex-girlfriend remembered Guyette saying “that poor old woman.” She also recalled him saying “this can’t be true” and “I’m sure she’s fine.”
East Greenbush Police Detective Sgt. Michael Guadagnino and a New York State Police investigator attempted to interview Guyette on October 1, 2019, but said he became defensive and upset before refusing to speak with authorities and demanding an attorney.
The next morning, police discovered Guyette had taken his own life in the garage of his home in Rosendale, New York, some 70 miles south of where Filkins had been murdered 25 years earlier.
A family member later told police that after police approached Guyette, he called her panicking and saying he didn’t want to go to prison, NBC reported. That family member also told authorities that Guyette told her when he was younger that he had planned to rob a bank and steal a car in order to raise money to go to college.
This same relative had made arrangements for Guyette to speak with an attorney.
Police resubmitted physical evidence from the crime scene, including an unknown fingerprint found on a wooden coffee table, to see if anything matched Guyette. Three years later, following the COVID pandemic, police were finally able to determine that the fingerprint belonged to Guyette, Guadagnino told reporters earlier this week.
Guyette served in the Air Force, worked as a New York school bus driver, and also drove a bus for elderly people. He never had been considered a person of interest until his ex-girlfriend came forward.

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Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg warned that a forthcoming book by a former prosecutor may jeopardize the criminal investigation into former President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/donald-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Donald Trump</a> and his business empire.
Leslie Dubeck, the general counsel for Bragg&#8217;s office, sent a letter to publisher Simon &amp; Schuster on Wednesday about &#8220;People vs. Donald Trump&#8221; by Mark Pomerantz ahead of its expected release next month, <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/ex-trump-prosecutors-book-draws-warning-from-manhattan-district-attorney-11674080493" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according to The Wall Street Journal</a>.
“Based on the pre-publication descriptions of his book and the benefit of current knowledge of the matter, but without access to the manuscript, this office believes there is a meaningful risk that the publication will materially prejudice ongoing criminal investigations and related adjudicative proceedings,&#8221; the letter says.
Pomerantz abruptly resigned along with one other prosecutor leading the Trump inquiry in February of last year after Bragg <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/23/nyregion/trump-ny-fraud-investigation.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reportedly expressed doubts</a> about the case he inherited from his predecessor. In a <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/prosecutor-says-trump-guilty-of-numerous-felonies" target="_blank" rel="noopener">resignation letter</a> that later came to light, Pomerantz <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/prosecutor-says-trump-guilty-of-numerous-felonies" target="_blank" rel="noopener">insisted</a> Trump was &#8220;guilty of numerous felony violations.&#8221;
Trump has broadly denied any wrongdoing, but Bragg recently scored a conviction against the Trump Organization for criminal tax fraud and falsifying business records. A judge ordered the company <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-organization-hit-with-max-penalty-in-tax-fraud-case" target="_blank" rel="noopener">to pay the maximum penalty of $1.6 million</a> last week.
Pomerantz&#8217;s book offers a “fascinating inside account of the attempt to prosecute former president Donald Trump&#8221; and “tells the story of his unprecedented investigation, why he believes Donald Trump should be prosecuted, and what we can learn about the nature of justice in America from this extraordinary case,&#8221; <a href="https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/People-vs-Donald-Trump/Mark-Pomerantz/9781668022443" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according to a description</a> on the publisher&#8217;s website.
News outlets reporting on Dubeck&#8217;s letter noted that it did not say Bragg&#8217;s office was seeking to block the book&#8217;s publication. But copies of the letter were sent to New York City’s Conflicts of Interest Board and the commissioner of investigation, which <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/na" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Washington Post said</a> could lead to formal reviews.
The letter says the district attorney&#8217;s &#8220;interest here is to protect the integrity of this office’s pending criminal investigations and proceedings regarding the former President,&#8221; and notes that the office is available to review the manuscript within a 60-day period.
Both Pomerantz and Simon &amp; Schuster appear to be standing firm. “I am confident that all of my actions with respect to the Trump investigation, including the writing of my forthcoming book, are consistent with my legal and ethical obligations,” Pomerantz said in a statement.
“We stand behind Mark Pomerantz and his book, &#8216;People vs. Donald Trump,&#8217; and look forward to sharing this important and timely work with readers when it is published on February 7,&#8221; the publisher said.
<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/13/politics/trump-organization-investigation-timeline-alvin-bragg/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Bragg told CNN</a> last week that the inquiry would move on to the &#8220;next chapter.&#8221; Prosecutors have reportedly <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/21/nyregion/trump-bragg-stormy-daniels.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">returned a focus</a> to a hush-money payment to porn star Stormy Daniels, who claims to have had an affair with Trump, during the 2016 campaign. The former president denied having a sexual encounter with the porn actress.
Trump announced in November that he is embarking on a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-trump-launches-third-bid-for-white-house" target="_blank" rel="noopener">third campaign</a> for the White House. Trump faces a number of other investigations, which he often assails as being part of a politically motivated &#8220;witch hunt&#8221; against him. These include a <a href="https://ag.ny.gov/press-release/2022/court-rules-favor-attorney-general-james-and-orders-donald-trump-and-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">civil probe</a> into the Trump Organization headed by New York Attorney General Letitia James, a <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/alisondurkee/2022/11/15/georgia-trump-2020-investigation-fulton-county-heats-up-following-midterms/?sh=20efa1875ff4" target="_blank" rel="noopener">2020 election inquiry in Georgia</a>, and criminal investigations in the Justice Department <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-responds-to-doj-tapping-special-counsel-to-handle-two-of-its-criminal-investigations-into-him" target="_blank" rel="noopener">now led by special counsel Jack Smith</a>.

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Many cities that cracked down on <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/homelessness" target="_blank" rel="noopener">homelessness</a> have been hit with legal challenges over their new restrictions.
New York City, Dallas, and other cities that tried to aggressively address their homeless problem — and the drug, crime, and public nuisance issues that accompany it — are now <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/as-cities-get-tough-on-homelessness-legal-battles-follow-11673960273?mod=us_lead_story" target="_blank" rel="noopener">defending</a> their policies in court.
In New York City, civil rights groups are attempting to block Mayor Eric Adams&#8217; initiative to hospitalize homeless people who are severely mentally ill and appear to be a danger to themselves.
“If severe mental illness is causing someone to be unsheltered and a danger to themselves, we have a moral obligation to help them get the treatment and care they need,” Adams <a href="https://nypost.com/2022/11/29/nyc-to-involuntarily-commit-more-mentally-unstable-people/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> when he announced the plan.
In December, several civil rights groups <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/new-york-city-plan-to-involuntarily-hospitalize-some-mentally-ill-homeless-faces-legal-challenge-11670540243?mod=article_inline" target="_blank" rel="noopener">asked</a> a federal judge to block the policy, claiming it is unconstitutional and violates the Americans with Disabilities Act.
New York&#8217;s policy sometimes involves confiscating homeless people&#8217;s belongings as they are removed from public property and taken to a hospital. The city&#8217;s move comes amid concerns that the city&#8217;s homeless crisis is becoming more visible and spiraling out of control.
Also last month, Dallas was <a href="https://www.dallasobserver.com/news/dallas-sued-for-banning-panhandlers-from-standing-on-medians-15486363" target="_blank" rel="noopener">sued</a> over its October policy restricting people hanging around road medians, where homeless people often panhandle. City officials said the policy is for public safety because people can get hit by passing cars. However, the homeless people and their advocates who sued the city argued the policy violates their First Amendment rights.
Albuquerque was <a href="https://www.kxan.com/news/national-news/ap-new-mexico-city-sued-for-hounding-harassing-the-homeless/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">sued</a> last month by homeless people and the ACLU of New Mexico for removing homeless encampments and arresting and fining people living on the street, allegedly violating their civil rights.
Similarly, Phoenix was <a href="https://www.12news.com/article/news/local/valley/aclu-sues-city-of-phoenix-stop-sweeps-homeless-camp/75-232de857-bdf8-411d-9e13-e8250fe89d70" target="_blank" rel="noopener">sued</a> last month by the ACLU of Arizona over sweeps of a huge homeless encampment downtown.
“Rather than confront its housing crisis head-on and invest in sustainable solutions to homelessness, the City is terrorizing the very people it should be helping,” the complaint reads.
In San Francisco, which has one of the nation&#8217;s worst homeless and drug crises, homeless people and their advocates sued the city for fining and arresting homeless people as a way to get them out of public spaces. They also complained that the city throws out homeless people&#8217;s tents and other belongings without enough warning.
Recently, the Ninth Circuit federal appeals court has limited what some West Coast cities with severe homeless crises can do to address the problem if they can&#8217;t offer appropriate shelter.
“It is a serious, serious, problem, probably the biggest crisis we’re facing right now, and I think these decisions are at the heart of what has gone wrong here,” attorney Theane Evangelis, who <a href="https://www.gibsondunn.com/lawyer/evangelis-theane/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">defended</a> an Oregon city&#8217;s homeless policy in the 9th Circuit, told <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/as-cities-get-tough-on-homelessness-legal-battles-follow-11673960273" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Wall Street Journal</a>.
“They’ve caused paralysis at a time when we need action,” Evangelis said.
A federal judge has temporarily banned San Francisco from taking those actions to combat the homeless issue, citing Ninth Circuit rulings.
Back in 2021, Austin was sued for not doing enough to address the city&#8217;s homeless problem. A group of Austin business owners and others <a href="https://www.kxan.com/news/local/austin/save-austin-now-business-owners-say-austin-is-failing-to-enforce-camping-ban-in-new-lawsuit/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">sued</a> the city for not enforcing its public property camping ban.

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Over the past few weeks, treasure hunters have <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/treasure-hunters-east-river-nyc-claim-mammoth-bones-1940s-joe-rogan-podcast/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">started</a> exploring New York City’s East River in an effort to find mammoth bones that they believe could be at the bottom.
The hype — and <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/01/15/divers-scour-nycs-east-river-for-mammoth-bones-following-joe-rogan-podcast/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">searches</a> — began when John Reeves, a gold miner from Alaska, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ill-tell-you-exactly-where-theyre-at-famed-gold-miner-tells-joe-rogan-possible-hidden-location-of-incredibly-valuable-mammoth-tusks" target="_blank" rel="noopener">appeared</a> on Joe Rogan’s mega-popular podcast, “The Joe Rogan Experience.” The episode was released on December 30, and in it, Reeves discussed his property where he has found several tusks and bones.
Several decades ago, when different people owned his land, the remains of prehistoric animals were found during searches for gold. Some of the items were taken to New York City to be given to the American Museum of Natural History. Reeves pointed to a draft report that discussed how some bones and fossils were dropped into the river after the museum didn’t accept them.
Reeves told Rogan he was &#8220;going to start a bone rush” and then read from the report, and announced the site of East River Drive, which is now called FDR Drive.
&#8220;We&#8217;ll see if anybody out there&#8217;s got a sense of adventure,&#8221; he said later on, noting, &#8220;Let me tell you something about mammoth bones, mammoth tusks — they&#8217;re extremely valuable.&#8221;
Reeves told a member of The Associated Press that the person should look at the draft, which he posted online.
As the Guardian <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jan/15/treasure-hunters-dive-mammoth-bones-new-york-east-river-joe-rogan" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>, Robert Sattler, one of the authors of the draft, <a href="https://apnews.com/article/oddities-allergies-joe-rogan-new-york-city-alaska-7658ee7e20ed3495a17b42727cee584c" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> the AP that another author — Richard Osborne — originated the story about the mammoth bones. Osborne, however, died in 2005. Sattler said the draft report was authentic, but it wasn’t supposed to be put in a scholarly journal. Rather, it was the beginning of something else, perhaps a book centered on Osborne&#8217;s understanding.
Sattler said he didn&#8217;t have details past what Osborne recalled, but noted that Osborne was close to the recovery of mammoth bones in Alaska when he was younger.
“He would have had some knowledge from somebody telling him that they dumped some excess material in the East River,” Sattler said.
The American Museum of Natural History pushed back on the story, possibly attempting to wave off any would-be treasure hunters. However, they were not entirely successful.
&#8220;We do not have any record of the disposal of these fossils in the East River, nor have we been able to find any record of this report in the museum&#8217;s archives or other scientific sources,&#8221; the museum said in a statement.
&#8220;I think the chances are just as good as the lottery. And people buy those tickets every day,&#8221; Don Gann said, per CBS News. Gann is a 35-year-old commercial diver from New Jersey and has been looking in the water since the early part of last week with three others.
Gann also <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jan/15/treasure-hunters-dive-mammoth-bones-new-york-east-river-joe-rogan" target="_blank" rel="noopener">noted</a> that he has seen around 24 other groups of people out looking.
&#8220;I&#8217;ve hunted for weird artifacts my entire life, so this one, it just kind of fits into my repertoire,&#8221; Gann, who was also in Discovery’s “Sewer Divers,” said.
Gann hasn’t discovered anything, but he has moved locations to a different area of the city, claiming that it would have been a more realistic dumping spot.
&#8220;If I find nothing, then I find nothing. I gave it an honest shot,&#8221; Gann said.

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