The Southern border crisis is now in your community

The New York Post’s October 19 front-page story detailing the planeloads of young illegal migrants being secretly flown into Westchester County Airport has directly and inconveniently brought the southern border story into the wealthy suburban bedroom communities of New York.  It also underlined the increasing ferocity of the progressive left’s illegitimate assault on traditional America.

The story is particularly revelatory because illegal immigration has, up until now, not been something that residents of suburban New York, Connecticut, or New Jersey particularly worried about.  But Westchester County Airport is located in Rye Brook, N.Y. and abuts affluent residential neighborhoods in Purchase, N.Y.; Greenwich, Conn.; and beyond.

When the clandestine flights were first made public in August, Democrat county executive George Latimer at first professed ignorance, and the local media were happy to bury the story.  He would only say the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services had authorized the flights.  However, the New York Post’s new front-page story of the secret, early-morning flights of thousands of illegals, bolstered by multiple photographs, revealed the magnitude of the resettlement activities.

At this writing, Latimer had not released a statement, but the presence of county police at the airport clearly indicates that his administration is aware of the secret flights and resettlement.

Christine Sculti, his Republican opponent for County Executive in the November 2 election, said, “Mr. Latimer has been stonewalling the residents of Westchester County for months regarding their legitimate public health and public safety concerns, as well as the public’s right to know.  I join residents who are rightfully fed up with Mr. Latimer’s failure to stand up to the White House and I consider his failure

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