New York City is now handing out taxpayer-funded tickets to Canada for illegal immigrants who want to leave the Big Apple.

Some of these migrants are accepting the tickets and hoping to find a better life by hopping another border.

Will the media describe this as human trafficking, as they have done when Republican governors send these folks to blue states?

The New York Post reports:

Migrants abandon NYC for Canada with taxpayer-funded bus tickets

Disgruntled migrants fed up with the Big Apple’s crime and grime are taking off to the Great White North — on bus rides paid for by New York taxpayers, The Post has learned.

National Guard soldiers have been helping distribute tickets at the Port Authority Bus Terminal in Manhattan to migrants who want to head upstate before crossing into Canada, several migrants said.

Venezuelan native Raymond Peña and his family arrived at a gas station bus stop in Plattsburgh, NY — about 20 miles south of the Canadian border — at 4 a.m. Sunday.

“The military gave me and my family free bus tickets,” Peña said. “I am going to Canada for a better quality of life for my family.”

A National Guard source confirmed that soldiers at the bus terminal were directing migrants to workers who hand out the free tickets.

Mayor Eric Adams’ administration pays various companies that run programs for migrants that include “re-ticketing” so they can travel to other cities, a City Hall source said.

How ironic is it that some of these people are leaving New York because of crime?

“I wanted to live in New York because I thought it would be a better future for my daughters,” she said. “But as the days went by, I saw insecurity, many homeless people, many people who shout and are disrespectful, and many people on drugs.” https://t.co/vtwYlYeuup

— Nicole Malliotakis (@NMalliotakis) February 6, 2023

These “asylum seekers” were facing such terrifying situations back home that they can’t handle the crime and decay of….New York City
https://t.co/ZWvHF12AzX

— Buck Sexton (@BuckSexton) February 6, 2023

Jesse Watters had a laugh over this tonight. Watch:

Jesse Watters satirizes the complaints of illegal aliens being sent to #Canada by the National Guard, who claim that New York is too dangerous. pic.twitter.com/zh3CdJpkGW

— Whatfinger (@Whatfinger1) February 7, 2023

None of this insanity would happening if Joe Biden would just do his job and protect our southern border.

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The ratings for the Grammy Awards show were terrible, but you would never know that if you were going by the headlines in the liberal media.

Multiple news outlets hailed the ratings this year as being very good.

They weren’t.

They were only a slight improvement over recent years. Hardly a great night.

The talking point is that the ratings were the best since 2020.

Variety reported:

Grammys Ratings: Audience Jumps to 12.4 Million Viewers, Biggest Since 2020

The 65th annual Grammy Awards telecast brought in 12.4 million in total viewers on Sunday night according to Nielsen’s time zone-adjusted fast national ratings, making it the most viewed show of the night and the largest audience for the ceremony since 2020.

That’s up 30% from last year’s show which drew in approximately 9.6 million total viewers after Live+Same Day tallies came in later in the week. The 2022 ceremony served as the first in-person Grammys show following the Coronavirus pandemic.

Same thing at the Hollywood Reporter:

TV Ratings: Grammy Awards Hit Three-Year High for CBS

The Grammy Awards reached a three-year high for CBS on Sunday night, but as with most awards shows, their numbers are still well below pre-pandemic levels.

The 65th Grammys, back in their usual winter home after running in April and March the past two years, delivered 12.4 million viewers, according to time zone-adjusted fast national ratings from Nielsen and including streaming on Paramount+ and CBS apps. (Final ratings, which will give a better sense of the on-air and cross-platform breakdown, will be available Tuesday morning.) That’s a nearly 30 percent improvement on the 9.59 million people who watched the 2022 awards — though the latter figure is a TV only audience.

John Nolte of Breitbart News puts the numbers in perspective:

How about a little context to make sense of just how awful 12.4 million viewers is…?

Back in 2020, the Grammys drew 18.7 million viewers, and that was considered a disaster. At the time, 18.7 million, which is 50 percent higher than this Sunday night’s viewership, was nearly an all-time low…

The only reason the entertainment media can spin this 12.4 million debacle into something other than a debacle is due to the 8.8 million who watched in 2021 and the 8.9 million who watched in 2022.

So, yeah, I guess 12.4 million is higher than 8.8 million, but two times zero is still zero, y’all.

This is an award show that consistently drew 20 to 30 million viewers between 1976 and 2019. Between 2010 and 2017, the Grammys consistently delivered in the mid-20 millions or better. In 2012, nearly 40 million tuned in.

In recent years, millions of Americans have rejected entertainment awards shows for reasons which are obvious to everyone but the folks in the entertainment industry.

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