When my father was a little boy, he arrived to America by ship from a refugee camp in Europe after World War II.

One of the first things that he experienced when he stepped foot on American soil in Boston Harbor, when he was standing there with his family, they're all holding

all their possessions in the world. Whatever they were carrying, that was all they owned in the world.

And they're standing there and a stranger, an American man walks by, spots my father, comes over

and buys him a good humor ice cream bar.

Chocolate. My dad, to this day, can tell you what it tastes like. It tasted like heaven.

Now, today, when children, like my dad, refugee children, like what my father was when he first came here,

now today when refugee children come to America, this is what greets them.

Oh, what you're doing? There are around there.

There are around 60,000 asylum seekers in New York City.

Many of them are from Venezuela, a country that has been decimated by a Russian-backed authoritarian regime that has created a famine in the country, creating a refugee crisis that rivals Syria, another Russian-backed mass murdering, torturing

regime. And we've had idiots on the far left that had tried to muddle the truth on what's really

going on in Venezuela, how the government's at fault there, the brutal policies there, and as well as in Syria.

And that has,

I believe, depleted any sort of public interest in helping those countries and muddling the truth, as I mentioned. And now we're seeing this migrant crisis coming to the U.S.

in part, not just because of what the U.S. has done, but also from just typical

global indifference when those are children being terrorized. I have been reading about this in the

news. If you want to know how to help the asylum seekers in New York City, look at the show

notes for this week's bonus episode.

And unfortunately, New York City right now has a Republican mayor who pretends to be a Democrat.

His name is Mayor Adams. He pals around with Republicans. There's some interest in Russian dark money ties around him. I'll leave that to Olga Lottman to talk about next time she's on the

show.

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