“What's needed to discourage illegal immigration into the United States has been known for years: Enforce existing law.” ….. CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR
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http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2011/07/notes-on-us-social-crisis.html
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UNEMPLOYMENT IN MEXICO UNDER 6%... UNEMPLOYMENT IN PARTS OF MEXICAN OCCUPIED CALIFORNIA, WHICH PAYS OUT $20 BILLION PER YEAR IN WELFARE TO ILLEGALS, IS NEARLY 30%!
REALLY WANT TO VOTE FOR AN INCUMBENT LA RAZA DEM AGAIN? OBAMA IS HISPANDERING DAILY FOR THE ILLEGALS’ VOTES!
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2011/07/unemployment-in-mexico-under-6-in.html
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http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2011/05/joe-american-legal-vs-la-raza-jose.html
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Notes on the US social crisis
By Naomi Spencer
20 July 2011
The economic crisis manifests itself in virtually every facet of working class living conditions in the US. New state budgets include devastating cuts to basic social programs, even as the job and housing markets continue to worsen and need grows.
17,000 apply for 1,800 jobs in Louisville, Kentucky
In the span of a few days, 16,837 people lined up at the Kentucky Office of Employment & Training last week to apply for 1,800 openings at Ford’s Louisville Assembly Plant. The company will select applications to review through a lottery process.
The positions, many nightshift line jobs assembling the Escape SUV beginning in the fall, will pay only $15.51 per hour—half that previously earned by autoworkers in the US. Benefits will not begin for new hires until after eight months on the job.
Steven Stone, the United Auto Workers chairman at the Louisville plant, defended the wages. He commented to the Louisville Courier-Journal, “Those are good jobs even though they are ‘two tier.’ ” The Louisville plant is among the first in the country to implement the two-tier system.
The line-up is similar to a 2009 run on job openings at General Electric’s Louisville plant, when 10,000 applicants vied for 90 positions. Kentucky is attractive to corporations concentrated in the Midwest because of its “business friendly” tax structure and low wages. Louisville has higher than 10 percent unemployment and widespread poverty.
“Nobody’s working. You stand in the unemployment line, and you’re there for hours. It’s unbelievable,” one resident told local channel WDRB Fox 41. After being unemployed for a year, he explained, “I’m behind on everything. The bank’s after me. I’m just barely making it.”
State Medicaid programs confront end of federal “stimulus” funds
The fiscal year beginning July 1 marked the end of 2009 federal “stimulus” funds. For Medicaid programs, which are jointly funded by the federal government and the states, this signals the drying up of billions of dollars in aid for ailing budgets, even as the health care program for the poor buckles under record enrollment.
According to a report by Federal Funds Information for States, Hawaii’s federal funding has plunged 16 percent. Louisiana, Washington, Alaska, Nevada and many other states saw declines of more than 10 percent. The fall in funding will translate into major cutbacks in eligibility and access to care for millions of people.
California terminates Adult Day Health Care program
Some 37,000 low-income, disabled, and elderly adults are being “transitioned” off the Adult Day Health Care program with no alternative safety net in place.
Ten centers serving the program have been closed, including one in San Francisco’s Richmond District. Advocates told the San Francisco Chronicle that shuttering the centers would push recipients into nursing homes, emergency rooms or mental institutions within the span of a few months. In San Francisco, nursing homes have long waiting lists due to bed shortages.
Directors at 290 other facilities received letters last week from Department of Health Care Services director Toby Douglas announcing they would be allowed to remain open after September 1, when funding is to be cut off. Care providers have filed a lawsuit in state court against the budget cut, arguing it puts too many patients at risk of institutionalization, in violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act.
Illinois ends indigent burial program
An Illinois program that funded funeral services for the destitute has been eliminated. The state had paid for more than 10,000 burials each year, although funeral homes were poorly reimbursed.
“You start getting an influx of these types of calls that are public aid as most people remember it,” Gallatin County Coroner Tony Cox told local news channel WSIL 3. “You’re not getting any money, or you’re having to wait for a long time. As you can see, it’s pretty obvious it can really affect that business.”
Many states have seen a large increase in the number of indigent burials over the past several years. In some city morgues, the bodies of poor residents lie unretrieved or unclaimed for years on end.
Harrisburg funeral director Mike Weirauch explained that while funerals cost him $4,000 to prepare, the state compensated only $1,655. “It’s not that you don’t care, it’s just that if you have very many of these…after a while you couldn’t stay in business because all your money is going out and none is coming back in.” Funeral home directors have reported a rise over the last few years in cremations, which are less expensive than burials, as families struggle with finances.
Sales fall at dollar stores as poor customers forgo “extras”
Citing high fuel prices and worsening financial distress among the working poor, dollar stores reported lower-than-expected quarterly earnings last week. For largely the same reasons, Dollar General, Dollar Tree, and Family Dollar previously saw gains in revenue with the onset of the economic crisis.
Family Dollar spokesman Josh Braverman told the Wall Street Journal that the store’s customer base of families earning less than $40,000 has expanded to include households making up to $70,000. At the same time, the Journal noted, “their price-sensitive customers, pummeled by high unemployment, stagnant wages and soaring gasoline prices, are buying more food and other basics like cleaning products, which have relatively low profit margins, and fewer higher-margin discretionary products, such as apparel and home decorative items.”
Toys, clothing, and other items from the winter remain unsold on shelves, and summer items have failed to sell well even with deep discounts.
Profits soar for pawn shops, predatory lending companies
Pawn shop operator Ezcorp Inc. reports an average 46 percent annual increase for five years running, and a doubling in its stock value over a year ago. The company’s soaring profits are a direct measure of desperation in the working class, as millions of people sell their jewelry, musical instruments, and other personal possessions to make ends meet.
“Payday loan” outfit Advance America Cash Advance has also seen its stock price double; Cash America International stock rose 64 percent. Such companies prey on people with poor credit ratings, offering quick loans with usurious fees and interest.
Profits at debt collection agency Encore Capital Group have risen 50 percent in the past year. Encore primarily targets those who have fallen behind in credit card repayments.
North Carolina cuts legal aid, drug treatment funding
Legal aid programs to the poor are being slashed across the country. In North Carolina, regional district attorney offices have seen funding for witness protection, victim assistance, and domestic violence programs cut. The state cut $38 million from its court system, eliminating more than 300 staff positions.
North Carolina Conference of District Attorneys director Peg Dorer told the Winston-Salem Journal July 16 that the cuts will especially impact smaller counties, which have been historically understaffed.
The state also cut funding for drug treatment courts. These courts were designed to manage nonviolent, drug-addicted offenders as an alternative to the draconian sentencing laws that have condemned millions of people across the country to prison.
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SINCE 2005, HOW MANY MILLIONS OF ILLEGALS HAVE CLIMBER OUR BORDERS OR CRAWLED UNDER THEM IN TUNNELS, AND ENDED UP RIGHT IN ONE OF OUR JOBS???
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December 7, 2005
Most Mexican Immigrants in New Study Gave Up Jobs to Take Their Chances in U.S.
By NINA BERNSTEIN
A report about the work lives of recent Mexican immigrants in seven cities across the United States suggests that they typically traded jobs in Mexico for the prospect of work here, despite serious bouts of unemployment, job instability and poor wages.
The report, released Tuesday by the Pew Hispanic Center, was based on surveys of nearly 5,000 Mexicans, most of them here illegally.
Those surveyed were seeking identity documents at Mexican consulates in New York, Atlanta and Raleigh, N.C., where recent arrivals have gravitated toward construction, hotel and restaurant jobs, and in Dallas, Chicago, Los Angeles, and Fresno, Calif., where they have been more likely to work in agriculture and manufacturing.
Unlike the stereotype of jobless Mexicans heading north, most of the immigrants had been employed in Mexico, the report found.
Once in the United States, they soon found that their illegal status was no barrier to being hired here. And though the jobs they landed, typically with help from relatives, were often unstable and their median earnings only $300 a week, that was enough to keep drawing newcomers because wages here far exceeded those in Mexico.
Among respondents to the survey, those who settled in Atlanta and Dallas were the best off, with 56 percent in each city receiving a weekly wage higher than the $300-a-week median. The worst off were in Fresno, where more than half of the survey respondents worked in agriculture and 60 percent reported earning less than $300 a week. The lowest wages were reported by women, people who spoke little or no English, and those without identification.
To some scholars of immigration, the report underlines the lack of incentives for employers to turn to a guest worker program like the one proposed by President Bush because their needs are met cheaply by illegal workers - and all without paperwork or long-term commitment.
Guest workers might instead appeal to corporations like Wal-Mart, the scholars said, where service jobs are now the target of union organizing drives.
"You can't plausibly argue that immigrant-dominated sectors have a labor shortage," said Robert Courtney Smith, a sociologist and author of "Mexican New York: Transnational Lives of New Immigrants." Instead, he said, the report and evidence of falling wages among Mexican immigrants over time point to an oversupply of vulnerable workers competing with each other.
But Brendan Flanagan, a spokesman for the National Restaurant Association, which supports a guest worker program, disagreed. "In many places it is difficult to fill jobs with domestic workers," Mr. Flanagan said. "We've seen a simple lack of applicants, regardless of what wage is offered."
Although the survey, conducted from July 2004 to January 2005, was not random or weighted to represent all Mexican immigrants, it offers a close look at a usually elusive population.
Those surveyed were not questioned directly about their immigration status, but they were asked whether they had any photo identification issued by a government agency in the United States. Slightly more than half over all, and 75 percent in New York, said they did not.
The migration is part of a historic restructuring of the Mexican economy comparable to America's industrial revolution, said Kathleen Newland, director of the Migration Policy Institute, a research organization based in Washington.
The institute released its own report on Tuesday, arguing that border enforcement efforts have failed. Workplace enforcement, which has been neglected, would be a crucial part of making a guest worker program successful.
For now, Mexicans keep arriving illegally.
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What Illegals get for free from us..... (what do you get for free?)
Take, for example, an illegal alien with a wife and five children. He takes a job for $5.00 or 6.00/hour. At that wage, with six dependents, he pays no income tax, yet at the end of the year, if he files an Income Tax Return, he gets an "earned income credit" of up to $3,200 free.
He gets $518.00 each month for each child born in the USA until that child reaches 18....
He qualifies for Section 8 housing and subsidized rent.
He qualifies for food stamps.
He qualifies for free (no deductible, no co-pay) health care.
His children get free breakfasts and lunches at school...often the mother brings other children not in the school along for the free breakfast...
He requires bilingual teachers and books.
He gets free bus transportation to and from school....we have to pay upwards of $300.00 per year for our children to ride the bus...
He qualifies for relief from high energy bills.
If they are, or become, aged, blind or disabled , they qualify for SSI. If qualified for SSI they can qualify for Medicaid. All of this is at the expense of the American taxpayer.
He doesn't worry about car insurance, life insurance, or homeowners insurance. And in California they do not smog their cars so the air is polluted by over a million more cars
Taxpayers provide Spanish language signs, bulletins and printed material.
He and his family receive the equivalent of $20.00 to $30.00/hour in benefits.
Working Americans are lucky to have $5.00 or $6.00/hour left after paying their bills and his.
Worst of all is this....if this illegal gets amnesty he can bring up to 90 of his relatives into the states to leech even more from the tax payers....if they are elderly they qualify for Social Security benefits without paying a dime into the system...
Cheap labor? YEAH, RIGHT!
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MEXICANOCCUPATION.blogspot.com
EXPORTING POVERTY... we take MEXICO'S 38 million poor, illiterate, criminal and frequently pregnant
........ where can we send AMERICA'S poor?
The Mexican Invasion................................................
Mexico prefers to export its poor, not uplift them
March 30, 2006 edition
http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0330/p09s02-coop.html
Mexico prefers to export its poor, not uplift them
At this week's summit, failed reforms under Fox should be the issue, not US actions.
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BELOW IS WHY MEXICO HAS EXPORTED NEARLY 40 MILLION OF THEIR PEOPLE TO LOOT US:
Illegals make more than US workers
Joe Legal works in construction, has a Social Security Number and makes $25.00 per hour with taxes deducted.
Jose Illegal also works in construction, has NO Social Security Number, and gets paid $15.00 cash "under the table".
Ready? Now pay attention...
Joe Legal: $25.00 per hour x 40 hours = $1000.00 per week, or $52,000.00 per year. Now take 30% away for state and federal tax; Joe Legal now has $31,231.00.
Jose Illegal: $15.00 per hour x 40 hours = $600.00 per week, $31,200.00 per year. Jose Illegal pays no taxes. Jose Illegal now has $31,200.00.
Joe Legal pays medical and dental insurance with limited coverage for his family at $600.00 per month, or $7,200.00 per year. Joe Legal now has $24,031.00.
Jose Illegal has full medical and dental coverage through the state and local clinics at a cost of $0.00 per year. Jose Illegal still has $31,200.00.
Joe Legal makes too much money and is not eligible for food stamps or welfare. Joe Legal pays $500.00 per month for food, or $6,000.00 per year.. Joe Legal now has $18,031.00.
Jose Illegal has no documented income and is eligible for food stamps and welfare. Jose Illegal still has $31,200.00.
Joe Legal pays rent of $1,200.00 per month, or $14,400.00 per year. Joe Legal now has $9,631 .00.
Jose Illegal receives a $500.00 per month federal rent subsidy. Jose Illegal pays out that $500.00 per month, or $6,000.00 per year. Jose Illegal still has $ 31,200.00.
Jose Illegal receives a $280.00 per family member/ month federal CASH AID for four family members . Jose Illegal has $ 43,200.00.
Joe Legal pays $200.00 per month, or $2,400.00 for insurance. Joe Legal now has $7,231.00.
Jose Illegal says, "We don't need no stinkin' insurance!" and still has $ 43,200.00.
Joe Legal has to make his $7,231.00 stretch to pay utilities, gasoline, etc.
Jose Illegal has to make his $ 43,200.00. stretch to pay utilities, gasoline, and what he sends out of the country every month.."actually Jose illegal doesn't pay for most utilities in many states as he gets county assistance to pay the bills and his late fees"
Joe Legal now works overtime on Saturdays or gets a part time job after work. "and pays a higher tax rate if he earns above a certain amount"
Jose Illegal has nights and weekends off to enjoy with his family.
Joe Legal's and Jose Illegal's children both attend the same school. Joe Legal pays for his children's lunches while Jose Illegal's children get a government sponsored lunch. Jose Illegal's children have an after school ESL program. Joe Legal's children go home.
Joe Legal and Jose Illegal both enjoy the same police and fire services, but Joe paid for them and Jose did not pay.
. . .. AND THEN JOE LEGAL STILL GETS THE TAX BILL TO SUPPORT ALL THIS "CHEAP" MEXICAN LABOR, AND THE CRIME TIDAL WAVE THAT COMES WITH THE OCCUPATION!
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http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2011/07/unemployment-for-legals-not-high-enough.html
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“The president's straddling can work for the time being. But unless he wants to end up in the sawdust, acrobat Obama will eventually have to hop on one horse and lead the way. That would have to be the horse named "Enforcement First." CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR
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FROM JUDICIAL WATCH
http://www.judicialwatch.org/blog/2011/jun/nclr-funding-skyrockets-after-obama-hires-its-vp
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THE ENTIRE REASON THE BORDERS ARE LEFT OPEN IS TO CUT WAGES!
“We could cut unemployment in half simply by reclaiming the jobs taken by illegal workers,” said Representative Lamar Smith of Texas, co-chairman of the Reclaim American Jobs Caucus. “President Obama is on the wrong side of the American people on immigration. The president should support policies that help citizens and legal immigrants find the jobs they need and deserve rather than fail to enforce immigration laws.”
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