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California 'lost its mind,' Ariz. sheriff says, suggests Chinese government 'complicit' in migrant deluge
As Texas authorities button-up a longtime border influx point at Eagle Pass, the shift of migrant flows to a treacherous mountain in California suggests policies by leaders in Sacramento have failed, one border-county sheriff told Fox News.
Pinal County Sheriff Mark Lamb, a Republican who is also running in the primary to potentially face Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, I-Ariz., and Rep. Ruben Gallego, D-Ariz., said his western neighbors have “lost their mind” on border policy.
“It doesn’t help the rest of us when they do silly things like that when they offer free sex changes, free health care, free housing;. All that does is entice people to come here, and we don’t need that,” Lamb told “Jesse Watters Primetime” Monday.
Lamb was reacting to reports of a migrant influx at Jacumba Hot Springs, Calif., where the border lacks a fence partially because the official boundary is the peak of an imposing, very steep mountain.
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Migrants in line in Jacumba, California (Robert Gauthier/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)
Fox News national correspondent Bill Melugin witnessed a steady stream of migrants making the treacherous journey over the escarpment and into a small flat area adjacent to Interstate 8.
Many of the thousands of migrants in recent months in that area hailed from China. A CBS News report cited some with rolling luggage and reportedly spoke to one college graduate migrant who had flown from China to Ecuador due to its lack of visa requirements, and then on to Tijuana, which lies just across from San Diego.
Lamb claimed there have been 37,000 Chinese nationals to cross the border in the past year, and that the current rate is on pace to hit 20,000 over the past four months.
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He warned, however, that these migrant flows may be different than those from other countries, as America’s chief economic rival has a very different governmental system than nations in Central America and elsewhere.
“What I keep telling people, when you hear these numbers about Chinese nationals, it’s not like America — people can’t just come and go as they please out of a Communist country. The Chinese government has to be complicit in this,” Lamb said.
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“And so when you see it, the number like 20,000 in the first four months, that is very alarming, especially when they’re military-age men.”
Host Jesse Watters also shared video from independent journalist Nick Shirley, who captured hidden camera footage of the posh and formerly-public Row Hotel in New York, which has been converted to a migrant-only establishment.
Shirley reported such hotels have signed contracts with “outside sources” that pay the migrants’ rents at an estimated rate of $200 per night, which would work out to $7.2 million a month according to the reporter.
“I don’t know when Americans are going to wake up that those are our tax dollars paying for those rooms,” Lamb said in response.
The sheriff said he flew in a helicopter over the border region earlier Monday and witnessed several of what he characterized as “NGO camps” that also included tent structures “full of trash.”
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A man armed with a knife was shot by L.A. police officers responding to an assault with a deadly weapon call overnight, authorities said.
According to the Los Angeles Police Department, officers with the Hollenbeck Division responded to an apartment complex in the 3000 block of Glenn Avenue in Boyle Heights at 1:45 a.m. Saturday after callers reported a male suspect was armed with a knife and had just assaulted someone in the complex.
Arriving officers found the suspect in front of the residence, but he did not comply with officers’ commands to drop the weapon. He then advanced toward the officers and an officer-involved shooting occurred, LAPD confirmed.
“The suspect was struck by gunfire and remained non-compliant,” the LAPD Public Information Officer said on X early Saturday morning. “Officers deployed a 40mm foam round and ultimately took the suspect into custody.”
Video obtained by KTLA shows the man being loaded into an ambulance and taken to a hospital; officials said he was transported in stable condition, adding that his knife was recovered at the scene and booked as evidence.
No officers or community members were injured during the incident. The man’s name was not released.
Dangerous rip currents and high surf are forecast for Los Angeles County beaches, including the Malibu Coast this weekend.
The National Weather Service has issued a hazardous beach statement, warning of the potentially deadly beach conditions. The dangerous conditions are forecast to last from Saturday evening to Monday morning.
“There is an increased risk of ocean drowning,” the NWS forecast reads. “Rip currents can pull swimmers and surfers out to sea. Waves can wash people off beaches and rocks, and capsize small boats nearshore.”
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A guide to surviving rip currents from the National Weather Service (NWS)
Minor Beach erosion and coastal flooding is possible through the weekend. The flooding is most likely to occur during evening high tides from 7 p.m. to 11 p.m.
Beachgoers are advised to stay out of the water and remain near lifeguard towers. Jetties and tidepools are also especially dangerous during the weekend forecast.
“Rock jetties can be deadly in such conditions, stay off the rocks,” the NWS forecast reads.
Similar hazardous beach conditions are also in the forecast for Santa Barbara County. A high surf advisory is also in effect for Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo counties this weekend, where 10 to 15-foot waves will be possible.
If you live or want to live in Los Angeles, the city controller has released a new dashboard highlighting some of the city’s most notorious problem rental properties, a tool designed to help renters avoid future headaches.
“This project comes at a time when tenants are reporting harassment and illegal evictions violating the City’s Rent Stabilization Ordinance, Just Cause for Eviction Ordinance and Tenant Anti‑Harassment Ordinance, but very few of the complaints end up leading to strong enforcement or real accountability,” L.A. City Controller Kenneth Mejia said in a media release Thursday.
The new Top 100 Problem Rental Properties dashboard includes a searchable database of all residential addresses with reported housing violation cases within the city of Los Angeles, a ranked list of the 100 addresses with the most violations and an interactive map.
“There has never before been an uncomplicated way for anyone to look up years’ worth of violations by address,” Mejia said in the release.
Data for the dashboard was compiled from multiple sources, including the Los Angeles Housing Department, Los Angeles City Planning and the L.A. County Assessor’s Office, according to the controller’s office.
The release also identified the top three addresses with the highest number of reported housing violations:
1. 636 1/2 North Hill Place, Chinatown
192 housing violation cases
2. 11700 West Wilshire Boulevard, Sawtelle
166 housing violation cases
3. 6650 West Forest Lawn Drive, Hollywood Hills
113 housing violation cases
“Our new dashboard is an easy‑to‑understand public tool that we hope will help renters and organizers document patterns of harm, as well as put pressure on both landlords and the City to act,” Mejia said. “Everyone deserves safe, stable and dignified housing.”
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