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WHAT IS AMERICAN’S REAL DREAM ACT?
YESTERDAY OBAMA BEMOANED THAT HE WAS UNABLE TO HAND HIS ILLEGAL VOTERS REDUCED EDUCATION FEES, AND A LA RAZA “THE RACE” PATHWAY TO MORE OF THE AMERICAN DREAM… even as they refuse to speak English and rant and rave what we owe their Mexican flag. Indeed, the fastest growing party in America is THE MEXICAN FASCIST PARTY of LA RAZA, whose motto is “For the Race everything, and for others nothing!” VIVA LA RECONQUISTA.
However Obama’s LA RAZA DREAM ACT was a mere formality. He, and his corrupt La Raza infested administration will continue to widen the borders for an ever depressed wage here. He will continue to push homeland security into HOMELAND SECURITY = PATHWAY TO CITIZENSHIP. He will continue to neuter I.C.E., as all his La Raza Dems, such as Boxer, Reid, Pelosi, and war profiteer – donor Dianne Feinstein have demanded. He will keep promising illegals more devices for amnesty will be perpetrated on the American people (legals), and E-Verify will be sabotaged. Obama has only to remind illegals what he has done to the American people on the behalf of the occupiers in Arizona!
THERE ARE ONLY EIGHT (8) STATE WITH A POPULATION GREATER THAN LOS ANGELES COUNTY, WHERE HALF OR MORE OF THE POPULATION ARE ILLEGALS USING STOLEN SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBERS. THE SAME COUNTY PAYS OUT $600 MILLION A YEAR IN WELFARE TO ILLEGALS, WHILE THE STATE ITSELF PAYS OUT $20 BILLION A YEAR IN SOCIAL SERVICES TO ILLEGALS! Anything to keep those wages depressed!
WHEN OBAMA SAID “CHANGE”, what he mean was the accelerated version of transferring what was left of the Bush economy to the rich, that hadn’t been surrendered to them under Bush, Hillary, Billlary, Bush, and their war profiteer, and Obama donor, Dianne Feinstein!
WE CAN’T FIX OUR NATION UNTIL WE END TAKE DOWN THE MEXICAN FLAG, AND RID OURSELVES OF LA RAZA MEX SUPREMACY!
Christmas in America
24 December 2010
Christmas in America this year reveals two starkly different social realities.
Three years since the onset of the recession in December 2007, the majority of the US population is facing staggering levels of unemployment, home foreclosures, hunger and poverty. For millions of working-class families, buying gifts this year required scraping together scarce dollars, borrowing from friends and relatives or adding more debt to their already overloaded credit cards.
At the other pole of society, America’s ruling elite, which has presided over this economic catastrophe, is celebrating its good fortune. The recent deal by President Obama and the Congressional Republicans to extend tax cuts to the richest two percent of the population tops off a year of record corporate profits and an 85 percent surge on the S&P 500 stock index.
2010 is expected to be the second most profitable year for Wall Street investment firms on record. The biggest five banks—JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs and Citigroup—have put aside at least $90 billion for year-end bonuses that could top last year’s payouts.
While some of the bailed-out banks cancelled their annual Christmas parties, hoping to avoid unpleasant publicity, private equity firm Blackstone Group rented out New York’s entire Metropolitan Museum of Art to throw a lavish holiday bash for its buyout specialists and traders.
Meanwhile, economists anticipate little hiring and expect unemployment to remain at nine percent or above throughout 2011 and beyond.
A recent poll by the Pew Research Center found that more than half of the US labor force (55 percent) has “suffered a spell of unemployment, a cut in pay, a reduction in hours or have become involuntary part-time workers” since the recession began.
Nearly a third of all working families—comprising some 45 million people—are categorized as low-income, making less than twice the official poverty rate. Millions of low-paid workers who had risen out of poverty earlier in the decade have now fallen back into the abyss.
A new study by the US Conference of Mayors on hunger and homelessness in 27 major cities found a staggering 24 percent jump in the demand for food assistance in 2009, with unemployment cited as the number one factor driving people to seek emergency aid. The number of homeless families rose by 9 percent, and two thirds of the cities reported that shelters were so overcrowded that they had to turn people away. The National Coalition for the Homeless reports there were at least 2,600 deaths in 2009 among people living on the streets.
Poverty rose across the US but most sharply in the Southwest and South and across depressed industrial states like Michigan and Ohio. The most severe increase was in Maricopa County, Arizona (Phoenix, Glendale, Scottsdale), where 135,000 more residents were added to the poverty rolls between 2006 and 2009. Second was Wayne County, Michigan (Detroit and Dearborn), where poverty rose by a staggering 19.7 percent and claimed 458,811 victims in 2009.
The US Census found that Michigan was the only state in the US to have a net loss in population over the last decade, while the US population grew by 10 percent overall. The mass exodus of workers and college graduates from Michigan points to a historic change in American society.
During the first half of the 20th century, Michigan’s population exploded as Southern and Appalachian migrants, along with European and Middle Eastern immigrants, flooded into the state’s auto factories. Between 1900 and 1950, Detroit’s population grew six-fold, reaching nearly two million.
The next half-century, however, saw the Motor City’s population fall by half to 951,000 in 2009. During the last decade the state, which lost more than 600,000 jobs, has seen a reverse migration as workers and young people who could afford it fled to other states. They left behind conditions of destitution and social decay, which are even worse than those that led their forefathers to come to Michigan in the 1920s and 1930s.
The rise and fall of Michigan parallels the rise and fall of American capitalism, from the unchallenged industrial power in the world—accounting for 50 percent of the world’s GDP in 1950—to a society in deep decline, with dismantled and rusting industries, a broken infrastructure and millions unable to meet their basic needs.
The corporate and political establishment responded to the economic decline of the US and the rise of powerful international competitors in the 1970s and 1980s by systematically dismantling industries it deemed unprofitable and unleashing a class war against the living standards and social position of the working class that continues to this day.
The deindustrialization of America coincided with the rise of a powerful financial aristocracy whose accumulation of wealth has less and less to do with production and far more with financial swindling and speculation. After this led to the bursting of the subprime mortgage bubble and the 2008 financial crash—and the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression—the super-rich were handed the keys to the US Treasury to cover their gambling losses.
Now the Obama administration and both big business parties insist that all forms of social spending, from Medicare and Social Security, to the public schools and city services, must be slashed to the bone to pay for the burgeoning budget deficits. This only underscores the fact that the financial elite controls the entire political system and the working class is deprived of any means to defend itself through the existing political setup.
Everywhere throughout the world the refrain is the same: the working class must accept austerity in order to pay for the bailout of the rich. This is the demand of every political party and trade union that defends the capitalist system.
The class struggle is escalating internationally, from mass strikes and student protests in Greece, Spain, Italy and Britain, to the growing militancy of workers in China, Bangladesh and throughout Asia. In the coming year, as the demands for wage cuts and the gutting of social benefits is escalated in the US, the American working class will also enter into mass battles.
These struggles will pit workers directly against the Obama administration and the Democratic Party, which has demonstrated that it defends the wealthy elite no less ruthlessly than the Republicans.
The working class needs to forge its own mass political party to advance its own interests and to secure its basic social rights to good-paying jobs, health care, education and housing. This means a struggle to put an end to capitalism, a system that benefits the rich at the expense of the masses of working people, and replace it with socialism.
The Socialist Equality Party urges workers to read our program and make the decision to join the SEP.
Jerry White
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The U.S. Department of Illegal Alien Labor
President Obama's Labor Secretary Hilda Solis is supposed to represent American workers. What you need to know is that this longtime open–borders sympathizer has always had a rather radical definition of "American." At a Latino voter registration project conference in Los Angeles many years ago, Solis asserted to thunderous applause, "We are all Americans, whether you are legalized or not."
That's right. The woman in charge of enforcing our employment laws doesn't give a hoot about our immigration laws –– or about the fundamental distinction between those who followed the rules in pursuit of the American dream and those who didn't.
While in Congress, she opposed strengthening the border fence, supported expansion of illegal alien benefits (including driver's licenses and in–state tuition discounts), embraced sanctuary cities that refused to cooperate with federal homeland security officials to enforce immigration laws, and aggressively championed a mass amnesty. Solis was steeped in the pro–illegal alien worker organizing movement in Southern California and was buoyed by amnesty–supporting Big Labor groups led by the Service Employees International Union. She has now caused a Capitol Hill firestorm over her new taxpayer–funded advertising and outreach campaign to illegal aliens regarding fair wages:
"I'm here to tell you that your president, your secretary of labor and this department will not allow anyone to be denied his or her rightful pay –– especially when so many in our nation are working long, hard and often dangerous hours," Solis says in the video pitch. "We can help, and we will help. If you work in this country, you are protected by our laws. And you can count on the U.S. Department of Labor to see to it that those protections work for you."
To be sure, no one should be scammed out of "fair wages." Employers that hire and exploit illegal immigrant workers deserve full sanctions and punishment. But it's the timing, tone–deafness and underlying blanket amnesty agenda of Solis' illegal alien outreach that has so many American workers and their representatives on Capitol Hill rightly upset.
With double–digit unemployment and a growing nationwide revolt over Washington's border security failures, why has Solis chosen now to hire 250 new government field investigators to bolster her illegal alien workers' rights campaign? (Hint: Leftists unhappy with Obama's lack of progress on "comprehensive immigration reform" need appeasing. This is a quick bone to distract them.)
Unfortunately, the federal government is not alone in lavishing attention and resources on workers who shouldn't be here in the first place. As of 2008, California, Florida, Nevada, New York, Texas and Utah all expressly included illegal aliens in their state workers' compensation plans –– and more than a dozen other states implicitly cover them.
Solis' public service announcement comes on the heels of little–noticed but far more troubling comments encouraging illegal alien workers in the Gulf Coast. Earlier this month, in the aftermath of the BP oil spill, according to Spanish language publication El Diario La Prensa, Solis signaled that her department was going out of its way to shield illegal immigrant laborers involved in cleanup efforts. "My purpose is to assist the workers with respect to safety and protection," she said. "We're protecting all workers regardless of migration status because that's the federal law." She told reporters that her department was in talks with local Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials who had visited coastal worksites to try to verify that workers were legal.
No word yet on whether she gave ICE her "we are all Americans, whether you are legalized or not" lecture. But it's a safe bet.
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The Administration's Phantom Immigration Enforcement Policy
According to DHS’s own reports, very little of our nation’s borders (Southwestern or otherwise) are secure, and gaining control is not even a goal of the department.
By Ira Mehlman
Published on 12/07/2009
Townhall.com
The setting was not quite the flight deck of the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln with a “Mission Accomplished” banner as the backdrop, but it was the next best thing. Speaking at the Center for American Progress (CAP) on Nov. 13, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano declared victory over illegal immigration and announced that the Obama administration is ready to move forward with a mass amnesty for the millions of illegal aliens already living in the United States.
Arguing the Obama administration’s case for amnesty, Napolitano laid out what she described as the “three-legged stool” for immigration reform. As the administration views it, immigration reform must include “a commitment to serious and effective enforcement, improved legal flows for families and workers, and a firm but fair way to deal with those who are already here.”
Acknowledging that a lack of confidence in the government’s ability and commitment to effectively enforce the immigration laws it passes proved to be the Waterloo of previous efforts to gain amnesty for illegal aliens, Napolitano was quick to reassure the American public that those concerns could be put to rest.
“For starters, the security of the Southwest border has been transformed from where it was in 2007,” stated the secretary. Not only is the border locked up tight, she continued, but the situation is well in-hand in the interior of the country as well. “We’ve also shown that the government is serious and strategic in its approach to enforcement by making changes in how we enforce the law in the interior of the country and at worksites…Furthermore, we’ve transformed worksite enforcement to truly address the demand side of illegal immigration.”
If Rep. Joe Wilson had been in attendance to hear Secretary Napolitano’s CAP speech he might well have had a few choice comments to offer. But since he wasn’t, we will have to rely on the Department of Homeland Security’s own data to assess the veracity of Napolitano’s claims.
According to DHS’s own reports, very little of our nation’s borders (Southwestern or otherwise) are secure, and gaining control is not even a goal of the department. DHS claims to have “effective control” over just 894 miles of border. That’s 894 out of 8,607 miles they are charged with protecting. As for the other 7,713 miles? DHS’s stated border security goal for FY 2010 is the same 894 miles.
The administration’s strategic approach to interior and worksite enforcement is just as chimerical as its strategy at the border, unless one considers shuffling paper to be a strategy. DHS data, released November 18, show that administrative arrests of immigration law violators fell by 68 percent between 2008 and 2009. The department also carried out 60 percent fewer arrests for criminal violations of immigration laws, 58 percent fewer criminal indictments, and won 63 percent fewer convictions.
While the official unemployment rate has climbed from 7.6 percent when President Obama took office in January to 10 percent today, the administration’s worksite enforcement strategy has amounted to a bureaucratic game of musical chairs. The administration has all but ended worksite enforcement actions and replaced them with paperwork audits. When the audits determine that illegal aliens are on the payroll, employers are given the opportunity to fire them with little or no adverse consequence to the company, while no action is taken to remove the illegal workers from the country. The illegal workers simply acquire a new set of fraudulent documents and move on to the next employer seeking workers willing to accept substandard wages.
In Janet Napolitano’s alternative reality a mere 10 percent of our borders under “effective control” and sharp declines in arrests and prosecutions of immigration lawbreakers may be construed as confidence builders, but it is hard to imagine that the American public is going to see it that way. If anything, the administration’s record has left the public less confident that promises of future immigration enforcement would be worth the government paper they’re printed on.
As Americans scrutinize the administration’s plans to overhaul immigration policy, they are likely to find little in the “three-legged stool” being offered that they like or trust. The first leg – enforcement – the administration has all but sawed off. The second – increased admissions of extended family members and workers – makes little sense with some 25 million Americans either unemployed or relegated to part-time work. And the third – amnesty for millions of illegal aliens – is anathema to their sense of justice and fair play.
As Americans well know, declaring “Mission Accomplished” and actually accomplishing a mission are two completely different things. When it comes to enforcing immigration laws, the only message the public is receiving from this administration is “Mission Aborted.”
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