Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) urged primary voters Friday to vote for candidates who are opposed to
the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal and who will fix the
immigration system so that it serves American interests.
“Make sure — because this could be the last chance — that the votes
you cast is for a person who is going to, with courage and
steadfastness, fix the immigration system that’s so broken and is
impacting adversely Americans’ safety, their wages, their hospitals,
their schools, those kind of things,” Sessions said Friday during an
appearance on the Howie Carr Show.
“And also we need to know with absolute clarity: are you for or against the Trans-Pacific Partnership,” he added.
Sessions said the presidential election will decide if the trade
agreement passes and stressed that “It must not pass.” He added that
this election could be the last one to decide the immigration question.
“This may be the last opportunity the American people will have to
have their will imposed and create a lawful immigration system that
serves the national interest,” he said.
The Alabamian acknowledged that there are other issues at play this
cycle but argued immigration and TPP are the most consequential matters
at stake this primary election.
“So I know we have to talk about the economy, national security, and
the military, and the budget, and it’s hard to know who’s got the best
idea,” Sessions said. “But on these two issues, I think the voters
should say, ‘If you’re not going to be right on those, I’m not voting
for you in this primary and I’m not going to vote for you as president.’
I really think it’s that important.”
Illegal Immigration's Third World Momentum
By Frosty Wooldridge, www.newswithviews.com
October 10, 2005
http://www.newswithviews.com/Wooldridge/frosty86.htm
Part I: What It Is
Part II: What is Does
By Frosty Wooldridge
October 10, 2005 (now how bad is it?)
Writing about America’s immigration crisis week after week raises my
blood pressure, level of depression and creates maddening frustration
levels as I observe inaction by the majority of American citizens. All
fifty state governors do nothing to stop it, won’t speak against it,
and, in many cases encourage it. Governor Bill Owens of Colorado,
Baldacci of Maine, Janet Napolitano of Arizona and Richardson from New
Mexico assist it. Although, this summer, Napolitano and Richardson
issued ‘states of emergency’ in their states as illegals overran them.
The majority of senators do nothing as well as the majority of the House
of Representatives. Major and smaller city mayors and city councils
harbor illegal aliens with sanctuary policies. Even Los Angeles, with
more gangs and crime than you can imagine, continues Special Order 40
that allows killers, rapists, drug distributors, MS-13 members and other
human grease to remain protected from arrest.
Have you ever wondered why Third World countries are SO desperate? Why
people flee? Why most citizens are illiterate? Why corruption is
standard operating procedure? Let’s compare the ‘Rule of Law’ in America
to the ‘Dis-rule of Law’ in countries like Mexico.
In my book, “IMMIGRATION’S UNARMED INVASION: DEADLY CONSEQUENCES”—I
wrote about Third World Momentum as seen from the seat of my bicycle as I
traveled throughout the world on six continents. I saw first hand all
aspects of Third World Momentum. That’s why it is SO frustrating that
US citizens don’t ‘get it’ or ‘see it’ and our president and Congress
ignore it on purpose as they become a part of the ‘Dis-rule of Law’ in
America. But I’m here to tell you that we’re flushing ourselves down
the toilet faster than a bullet train. What is happening in America is a
‘systemic’ or ‘endemic’ corrupt system from Bush right on down the
federal system.
An example of it shows you the incompetence of Michael Brown at FEMA and
his horrifically incompetent handling of Katrina. At the height of
Rome's decay, emperors appointed unqualified candidates to high office.
Caligula appointed his horse to the Senate, where the horse enjoyed the
reputation as the wisest and least harmful of that “august” body.
Last week, a reader wrote the exact aspects of Third World Momentum.
After his interview, you will be offered a half dozen stories from U.S.
citizens that bring it home as to how fast this country is spiraling
into Third World status.
Heath Boatwright, Athens, Georgia understands what I have been trying to convey to the American public for years.
“In the last few years, I have found myself in a world where many refuse
to discuss openly and honestly the issues that the United States is
facing,” Boatwright said. “Hearing you on Coast to Coast with George
Noory was refreshing to say the least. Although, I will tell you that it
did not make me sleep better, and in fact I had to wake up and ponder
for a moment all that you had said.”
“When you discuss Third World Momentum I know first-hand what you are
talking about,” Boatwright said. “However, sadly, few Americans can
grasp what you are talking about. I attended college at The University
of Georgia. I received a BA in history, with a focus on Latin American
history and I speak fluent Portuguese. I have traveled to South America
many times and visited some of the most destitute and impoverished
people there. Unfortunately, when I discuss this issue with most people,
they call me a xenophobe, a racist, a bigot, and an ignorant person who
does not appreciate other cultures.”
“Yet, how can I fit this description if I have ventured out into the
world, bothered to learn another language, and reached out an open hand
to the poor in far away places?” he said. “Also, how can I be a racist
if the very person I chose to marry is not even an American (my wife is
from Brazil)? While my love for the people and the region of Latin
America runs deep, I would not trade my fate for theirs. I would also
not trade my fate for nearly anyone in the Middle East, China, India,
and so on.”
“Why is it that in the United States, to appreciate a culture you must
also want to live like it?” Boatwright said. “I have dedicated much
study to that region of the world, and I can tell you flat out that
there is another mentality that exists in most Third World nations, and
that mentality is manifesting itself here in the United States, daily.
Many say that Latin America is "laid back". I have pondered on this
observation and realized that you could also put it another way. In
Latin America, if it is good enough for today, it is good enough. In
Latin America, if you want to get something done, you will have to
circumvent law. This is the type of Third World Corruption that you
speak of.”
“So many in Latin America circumvent the law, that they rarely bother to
realize that here, in the US, circumventing the law is the worst way to
get things done,” he said. “Corruption is so rampant in those regions
that it becomes a mechanism by which the society functions. This is why
so many illegals come here--reproduce fake Social Security numbers,
register their cars from one state to another to avoid mandatory auto
insurance, go to the hospital using a fake name, buy items on credit
using their brother's name is who now back in Mexico, refuse to learn
English, and bear several children with no means of supporting them.
They do this because they are modeling what they do in their culture.”
Boatwright continues, “Here is another fact about Latin America, and I
believe most other Third World nations: those who reside there rarely
bother to take accountability for their country’s problems. In Latin
America, problems are blamed on corruption, foul government, and in
certain intellectual circles-”past colonialism”. I have yet to encounter
one single illegal person in the United States who is willing to admit
that he is contributing to the detriment of my nation. In Latin America,
you live side by side with abject poverty, illiteracy, hunger, and
disease. You do this daily and it simply becomes part of the landscape.
Latin America, and again most Third World countries, has a problem of
what I call ‘mobilization.’”
“This is a situation where thousands mobilize and figure out methods to
get things done, either by circumventing the law, or based on the
current corrupt system they face, but few ever mobilize to truly resolve
the issues they face,” Boatwright said. “I do not find it ironic at all
that once one illegal alien discovered that he could come here to the
US, work illegally, get healthcare, and generally avoid any type of
legal prosecution, he later found himself surrounded by millions of his
fellow countrymen. Again, this is my point: in Latin America, you have
no problem getting people to mobilize in a way that ignores the current
law, because people in that region do not live in fear of the law, it
generally does not function anyway, and now they have seen that it also
does not function in the United States.”
“Perhaps I sound harsh in my description, but I know exactly what I am
talking about,” Boatwright said. “I know that region of the world well, I
also know so well the manner of thinking that many bring with them when
they enter the United States illegally. This manner of thinking, I
believe, is the greatest threat that we face in the future. Finally, I
have a deep interest in appreciating and understanding other cultures,
but I also have an appreciation for my own. I want to let you know that I
understand fully what you are talking about. I would like to ask you if
you have ever considered going to our nation’s college campuses and
discussing this issue. I mention college campuses because I do not know
if you are aware that on the American campus it is virtually a universal
opinion that illegal immigration is okay. Geography is a required
course in most curriculums, and most people grasp the concept of
overpopulation, but few can connect that to illegal immigration.”
If I could give you Heath Boatwright’s or my experiences up close and
ugly, every single American today would call the White House, Senators
and Congressmen as well as governors and mayors—and DEMAND our
immigration laws be enforced and deportations begin immediately for 20
million illegal aliens. But if you don’t or won’t, part II of this
series will show you Americans living with the consequences that reach
into every sector of our country. This ‘thing’ is moving faster than
most Americans realize, and once it’s imbedded, I fear that large scale
civil violence will be the result.
If the signers of the 1965 Immigration Reform Act could see today what
they rained down on America 40 years later, not one single senator or
congressman would have signed it. But why won’t they rescind it? Why
won’t they stop it? It’s their country and their children’s future,
too.
(
http://www.newswithviews.com/Wooldridge/frosty87.htm)
ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION’S THIRD WORLD MOMENTUM
Part II: What It Does
By Frosty Wooldridge
How does Third World Momentum manifest itself in America? Again, let’s
review Boatwright’s definition: “Corruption is so rampant in South
America that it becomes a mechanism by which a society functions.”
Look at the corruption at the Federal level in the U.S. today. The
majority of senators and congressmen refuse to uphold their oaths of
office by aiding, abetting and assisting illegal aliens by the millions.
Kennedy and McCain lie through their teeth with their latest guest
worker amnesty bill for 20 million illegal aliens. Did Bush not lie
about weapons of mass destruction to wage his cowboy war in Iraq? Has
he not submitted a totally unqualified lawyer for a supreme court
justice in Miers? Didn’t he learn from Michael Brown’s incompetence
with Katrina? Congress supports the corruption of the H-1b, H-2b, L-1
visas affecting over one million American jobs. What about Congress’
complicity in corruption of outsourcing, insourcing and offshoring over
three million American jobs? How about Bush’s blatant disregard for
his oath office as he allows millions of illegal aliens to invade and
remain in our country? Our own president is in violation of Federal
law—USC 8, 1324—274, 275, 276, 277. Bush is not alone because both
sides of the aisle assist him against American citizens.
At the state level, we’ve got governors like Bill Owens of Colorado
endorsing a booklet in Spanish helping illegal aliens to imbed
themselves into our welfare and workforce systems. All contrary to
Federal law! Governor Baldacci of Maine, Napolitano of Arizona and
Richardson of New Mexico do everything in their power to help
illegals—contrary to their citizens. Most other state governors say
nothing! Local mayors in Denver, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Atlanta,
Chicago, Boulder, Detroit, New York, Miami and dozens of other cities
support ‘sanctuary policies’ that allow illegals to work and live in
America—CONTRARY TO FEDERAL LAW.
These actions typify Third World Momentum: When laws of a country are
not enforced and lawlessness becomes the norm. The United States races
toward Third World status because of this ongoing erosion of our once
lawful society.
I could give you dozens of examples from my own experiences in Third
World countries, but the following constitute American citizens writing
letters describing it in their own communities—so you’ll see their
responses to show you what’s happening in the United States.
Dane said, “I used to live in El Paso, Texas and the same thing has
happened there. Unchecked border crossings, population uncontrolled,
schools trashed and litter everywhere. El Paso used to be a city you
could brag on, now it is just the opposite. I left, as many have done
and do not intend to return. We are even looked down on if we can't
speak Spanish. These people are taking over and crime rules the streets
of El Paso. I also foresee a huge water shortage some day. Before long
El Paso will hit one million for a population and by then the place
should be a complete nightmare.”
Dirk of Nevada said, “Even more dangerous than the incoming disease,
crime and even terrorism is the fact that most immigrants don’t have an
appreciation for the freedoms outlined in the Constitution and Bill of
Rights. Illegals are being taught in public schools with taxpayer money.
The fact that Bush supports the illegal invasion; opening our country
to possible terrorist attack, and NEVER remarks about the importance of
learning the Bill of Rights, proves that he is a traitor.”
Guy of LeHigh, OK said, “I am NOT racist, so understand please, I am NOT knocking anyone, but I am stating FACTS.
“I live in southern rural Oklahoma, and I can say that even legal
immigration is bad here. Local large scale companies have NO problem
hiring illegal aliens at all. We have a plastics producing plant 40
miles from where I live, and they have been busted NUMEROUS times for
employing over 50 percent of their workforce, who are illegal aliens
from Mexico. The reason they were caught the last time was easy as this:
The Social Security Administration noticed that the workers who were
illegal were sharing social security numbers of dead residents near
where I live.
“Oddly enough, the company (Solo Cup) somehow did NOT notice the 100
illegal aliens had the same social security numbers. You worked four
twelve hour shifts a week, sometimes five days a week, and I got paid on
the upper scale of a respectable $7.00 an hour. By allowing them to
work there, the company kept their payroll wages down. Of course, almost
NO ONE WANTS to work there anyway, a job of last resort one might say.
Long hours, bad pay, no benefits. But then again, that is true for many
Oklahoman communities now.
“For example, did you know that besides Arkansas, we have one of the
lowest high school graduation rates? We have a very high teen pregnancy
rate. And that in the county I live, we have the HIGHEST unemployment
rates in the USA, coupled with the highest welfare rates. Not only that,
not one but over five companies locally have left to go overseas
because of the cheap labor, and one of the companies (Wrangler Jeans) up
and left for Mexico.
“Why pay us $5.00 an hour when you can pay $5.00 a day in Mexico and India?
Mark from Ocean Shores, WA said, “As merchandiser I travel about in the
coastal towns of Washington. I have seen first hand an intensification
of illegals. They are taking the few jobs we have here in an already
depressed economy--those that aren't roaming the streets in gangs. Now,
Washington is a long ways from the Mexican border. I see the congress
and senate as being totally corrupted. I can't help but feeling the
golden era of the USA is over and done. However, we got to give them
hell.”
George of Sacramento, CA said, “There are so many ways that we're being
taken advantage of. When a lot of people come over here and become
legal, they send for their parents who come here, haven’t worked a day
in their lives here, and apply for SSI at $700 per month. So, just
because Mom and Dad are seniors they make about $1400 per month
together. And they laugh up their sleeves at us all the way to the bank!
I know that some of them go back to their country of origin and because
of their SSI being deposited directly into their bank accounts, they
can spend that money from anywhere. I'm sick of it. Talk about Third
World corruption in our own country!”
Shelli of Glendale, CA said, “I'm a payroll auditor who audits a lot of
construction companies, ranging from sole proprietor to corporation. I
see so much underground economy it makes me want to scream. Contractors
are constantly using illegal immigrants for their slave labor.
Contractors pocket all the money. For example, it's not unusual to see a
business owner's wife on the payroll making more in a week than an
illegal employee in their employ makes in a month.
“What angers me is when a business owner hems and haws about the high
cost of workers compensation insurance, but then hires illegals and
doesn't report their payroll. "They only worked for a day or two" or
"They're not a regular employee, they only worked a few weeks." Yeah, a
couple weeks like that and a hardworking LEGAL American could've used
the money to help support his family. Let's talk about watering down
wages! These guys are working for $10/hr in jobs that used to start at
$18 -- and that was years ago.”
George of Fountain Hills, AZ said, “I have been teaching part time at
both the Maricopa Community Colleges and Arizona State University for
the past five years. The discipline that I teach is mathematics. For
the past five years I have been telling students and friends that the
United States is the new emerging third world nation. Few people
understand what this nation faces. Fewer people care what is happening.
“What I would like to tell you is my experiences in the higher
educational system here in Arizona. I can frame the whole attitude by
the statement of Chuy Carreon, Mathematics chair of Mesa Community
College. Chuy once said that MCCD is NOT here to educate, just here to
give out information.
“It should be noted that the remedial courses represent about 50 per
cent or more of all the mathematics courses taught at the community
colleges here in Arizona.
Jack of Denver, Colorado said, “We have sanctuary cities in Denver and
Boulder. Last spring, Officer Don Young was killed by an illegal alien,
Raul Gomez, who had been stopped for three traffic violations. He had
no license or insurance and was NEVER arrested, before he killed Young
with a shot to the back of the officer’s head. It shows two levels of
law enforcement and one is corrupt. Last month, an illegal alien,
Francisco Montero of Boulder, driving on a revoked DUI license and
having been arrested nine times with three phony ID cards, killed a
Lafayette motorcyclist, Dale Englerth, by turning into the cyclist.
Montero should have been deported long ago, but now, he’s killed a
father and husband.”
You can multiply these examples of Third World Momentum by millions of
cases of rape, fraud, burglaries, stealing jobs, loss of IRS income
taxes, prison costs, judicial costs, schools bankrupting, language
chaos, spreading diseases and worse. How can continued illegal alien
migration serve this country when it creates so much harm?
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Interior Enforcement Disintegrates Further in 2015: Year-end deportation statistics show continuing drop in deportations
By CIS, December 2015
http://cis.org/Interior-Enforcement-2015-Deportations
Excerpt:The
number of interior deportations is now less than one-third of what it
was in 2011, before the Obama administration implemented policy changes
that greatly restricted the types of cases that ICE officers and agents
could pursue for deportation. The number of criminal alien deportations from the interior is less than half of what it was in 2011.
ICE
Director Sarah Saldana said that she was "proud of the numbers" when
she testified at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on December 2,
2015.
In a press release announcing the numbers today, DHS
falsely says "the number of convicted criminals removed from the
interior continued to increase." In fact, only the share of deportations
that are of criminals has increased – the actual number has fallen, as
noted above.
In
September, DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson said, “We take seriously our
obligation to secure our borders.” No one believes that — especially not
Central Americans thinking about coming to the United States.
DHS’s Deportation Announcement Is ‘Fundamentally a Political Exercise’
By Mark Krikorian
National Review Online, December 30, 2015
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/429112/deportation-announcement-political-exercise
This was the start of the lead story on the
Washington Post’s Christmas Eve front page:
The
Department of Homeland Security has begun preparing for a series of
raids that would target for deportation hundreds of families who have
flocked to the United States since the start of last year, according to
people familiar with the operation.
As I told the reporter, I’ll believe it when I see it. A few further thoughts:
Why now?
The surge of Central Americans across the border — both adults with
kids in tow (who are the subjects of this latest leak) and the
“unaccompanied” “minors” who got so much coverage — subsided after the
summer of 2014 because the administration bribe-threatened Mexico into
doing a better job of policing its own southern border. But now there’s a
renewed surge, presumably because Mexico’s zeal is waning and because
Central Americans see that the U.S. isn’t deporting many of those who
came earlier. Heck, even deportations of criminals are dropping. Border
Patrol statistics show the magnitude of this new surge. In the first two
months of the current fiscal year (October and November), border
apprehensions of unaccompanied minors were more than double those in the
same period last year, and apprehensions of “family units” nearly
triple. If the rate continues, the flow of minors will approach the 2014
peak, and the flow of families will exceed it.
In
itself, the White House may not consider that a problem, given the
administration’s implicit belief that these people have a right to come
here. But there’s an election in about 10 months, and not many voters
share the Obama crowd’s anti-borders views. That’s why my
colleague Dan Cadman notes that “the plan is fundamentally a political
exercise.” The Democrats will gather in Philadelphia in late July for
Herself’s coronation, and it could prove awkward for her if a renewed
surge of illegals across the border is still in the news. Herself’s
silence in response to the news of the planned raids, contrasted with
Sanders’s and O’Malley’s fulminations against them, suggests she’s in on
the whole thing.
Making the border-surge story go away will be one of DHS’s main election-year priorities.
So why the leak?
It might seem odd to announce the onset of “raids” that haven’t even
been given final approval yet. It could be a trial balloon, a planned
leak to gauge public reaction. But more plausible is the theory that
I’ve heard from moles inside DHS: A senior official leaked the news
specifically to outrage Obama’s leftist base in an effort to prevent the
deportations from ever happening.
In
immigration matters, the fox guards the henhouse in this
administration, from former La Raza VP Cecilia Muñoz directing policy in
the White House to former police chief of San Francisco — San Francisco
— Heather Fong in charge of DHS dealings with state and local law
enforcement (and on the short list to become the next head of the Border
Patrol). It is perfectly plausible that one of the many anti-borders
zealots appointed to jobs in DHS figured that stopping the deportation
of illegal aliens is more important than giving Herself political cover
going into the November election.Will it work? The short
answer is “no.” The Post reports that the “number targeted is expected
to be in the hundreds and possibly greater.” Hundreds? The illegal-alien
families are coming across the border at a rate of about 200
per day,
and more than 100,000 have come over the past couple of years. Even if
these deportations actually happen, a few hundred is a drop in the
bucket and isn’t going to make much of an impression on people in
Central America debating whether to head out for the United States.
What
does
make in impression is news from friends and relatives that they’re all
being allowed to stay. When illegals bringing kids with them are
apprehended, almost all are released with a notice (which they call a
“permiso” or permit to be in the U.S.) instructing them to present
themselves on such-and-such a date. It should come as no surprise that
few do so. Data from earlier this year show that the overwhelming
majority of illegal-alien families just ignore their hearing dates (look
for “Absconded from Proceedings“ in Table 1) — and get away with it.
Even
the administration’s efforts to dissuade people from coming have
backfired. DHS has been running public-service announcements in Central
America warning people not to come because new arrivals are not eligible
for Obama’s various unilateral amnesties. They advise that “there are
no permits for the people trying to cross the border without papers” and
warn of “immediate deportation of those trying to cross the border
without documents.” But Hondurans et al. aren’t idiots — their friends
and relatives in the U.S. have told them, accurately, that there are
permits for people crossing without papers and that there’s no immediate
deportation of people from their countries. The lack of credibility
earned by such obvious lies means that it will be doubly hard to change
the perceptions of prospective illegals.
What to do?
There are steps we could take if we actually wanted to stop the surge,
though there’s little chance Obama’s minions would even consider them.
Congress has authorized “expedited removal” for illegals under certain
circumstances, allowing them to be removed without having to go before
an immigration judge. This would apply to most of the illegals in
question, but Obama’s not using this authority.
Expedited
removal doesn’t apply to illegals who seek to avoid deportation by
claiming asylum. But even here there’s a first cut, called a “credible
fear” determination, to weed out people who shouldn’t even be put in the
pipeline for a full evaluation of their claims, allowing their
expeditious removal. The problem is that under Obama almost everyone
makes the first cut — and few are detained pending the resolution of
their claims — so that all you need to say is “asylum,” and you get to
stay.
Most basically, an administration could simply
force Mexico to take back people who just minutes before crossed through
their territory into ours. Mexico is cooperative in receiving back its
own citizens who are arrested by the Border Patrol, but not with regard
to OTMs (Other Than Mexicans). That means we have to either detain them
or let them go and hope they show up for their hearings.
But
Canada takes back non-Canadians trying to sneak across our border, and
Mexico sends non-Guatemalan Central Americans back across its own
southern border with Guatemala. A president interested in controlling
illegal immigration would insist on this. Nor should an asylum claim
preclude return across the border; genuine asylum seekers would ask for
it in the first country they reach, meaning Central Americans should be
required to apply in Mexico, not here.
In
September, DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson said, “We take seriously our
obligation to secure our borders.” No one believes that — especially not
Central Americans thinking about coming to the United States.
326,000 Native-Born Americans Lost Their Job in November: Why This Remains the Most Important Jobs Chart
By Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge.com, December 5, 2015
. . .
We
are confident that one can make the case that there are considerations
on both the labor demand-side (whether US employers have a natural
tendency to hire foreign-born workers is open to debate) as well as on
the supply-side: it may be easier to obtain wage-equivalent welfare
compensation for native-born Americans than for their foreign-born
peers, forcing the latter group to be much more engaged and active in
finding a wage-paying job.
However,
the underlying economics of this trend are largely irrelevant: as the
presidential primary race hits a crescendo all that will matter is the
soundbite that over the past 8 years, 2.7 million foreign-born Americans
have found a job compared to only 747,000 native-born.
The result is a combustible mess that will lead to serious fireworks
during each and every subsequent GOP primary debate, especially if Trump
remains solidly in the lead.
. . .
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-12-05/326000-native-born-americans-lost-their-job-november-why-remains-most-important-jobs
Placating Americans with Fake Immigration Law Enforcement
How our leaders create fantasy 'solutions' for our immigration-related vulnerabilities.
By Michael Cutler
FrontPageMag.com, December 4, 2015
. . .
Therefore
the Visa Waiver Program should have been terminated after the terror
attacks of 9/11 yet it has continually been expanded.
It
is clear that the overarching goal of a succession of administrations
and many members of Congress, irrespective of political party
affiliation, is to keep our borders open and take no meaningful action
to stop that flow of aliens into the United States.
. . .
The
obvious question is why the Visa Waiver Program is considered so
sacrosanct that even though it defies the advice and findings of the
9/11 Commission no one has the moral fortitude to call for simply
terminating this dangerous program.
The answer can be
found in the incestuous relationship between the Chamber of Commerce and
its subsidiary, the Corporation for Travel Promotion, now doing
business as Brand USA.
The Chamber of Commerce has
arguably been the strongest supporter of the Visa Waiver Program, which
currently enables aliens from 38 countries to enter the United States
without first obtaining a visa.
The U.S. State Department provides a thorough explanation of the Visa Waiver Program on its website.
Incredibly,
the official State Department website also provides a link, “Discover
America,” on that website which relates to the website of
The Corporation for Travel Promotion, which is affiliated with the travel industries that are a part of the “Discover America Partnership.”
. . .
http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/261005/placating-americans-fake-immigration-law-michael-cutler
Immigration Enforcement as Political Football By Dan Cadman
CIS Immigration Blog, December 28, 2015
. . .
According
to the story, the plan has been kicked around exhaustively in the upper
echelons of the administration for some time, with no final decision
being made. My own take is that the story was deliberately leaked by
administration officials as a trial balloon to gauge public reaction to
the proposal. And, although the media suggest that the idea emanated
below, either at DHS or its subordinate agency Immigration and Customs
Enforcement (ICE), which would undertake the raids, that idea is beyond
laughable. The leaders at all levels of DHS and its subordinate agencies
are minions selected by the White House for their pliability. If this
plan emanated anywhere, it arose from politicos at the highest levels
who have their eye on the upcoming presidential election.
. . .
But
there's this pesky perception that Democrats are weak on immigration
enforcement, something that has become increasingly unpalatable to the
public in light of the now undeniable connection between immigration and
matters of terrorism and national security, so disastrously highlighted
in France and the rest of Europe with its runaway migrant crisis and
infiltration by jihadists.
So what to do to win back
the independents and centrists? "Hey! I've got an idea! Let's get tough
on a tiny segment of the illegal population, one that will look like
we're really doing something! Let's have some raids on those scofflaws
we let in a year ago last summer who didn't even bother to go to their
court hearings. They're expendable. Besides, it will send a message back
to Central America that they still haven't gotten: no more surges! At
least, not until after the election, for God's sake."
If
one were to accept the idea that the plan is fundamentally a political
exercise, and that it was floated by way of a leak to prepare the public
(and the small but outraged base of open borders advocates) for what
will follow, then the reactions of the other two significant Democratic
candidates was what Louisianans would call "lagniappe" – that little
extra something, the gravy on the rice, the icing on the cake. Bernie
Sanders and Martin O'Malley, both of whom have irritated the DNC to no
end with their accusations of favoritism, took the bait and immediately
leapt into the rhetorical fray to denounce the proposed raids. By
contrast, The Hill newspaper tells us, "Democratic presidential
candidate Hillary Clinton, who has been more cautious than Sanders or
O'Malley with regard to immigration policy in general, has not commented
on the reported deportation raids."
. . .
http://www.cis.org/cadman/immigration-enforcement-political-football
Cruz/Sessions Bill Would Stop Sneaky Obama Sabotage of Skilled U.S. Workers
By Michelle Malkin
MichelleMalkin.com
Heads-up, America.
President Obama is dropping a New Year’s Eve bomb on the nation’s best and brightest workers.
. . .
What can be done to stop this?
As
I noted on Twitter two weeks ago, a new bill co-sponsored by longtime
reformer Sen. Jeff Sessions and GOP presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz
would not only restore U.S. worker protections in the flawed H-1B
program, but would also prevent “continued use of the non-statute-based
Optional Practical Training (OPT) Program, and the creation and use of
other similar programs, which have also been used to displace American
workers under the guise of student training.”
Good to
know there are at least two Senators on Capitol Hill who aren’t snoozing
while President Obama tries to throw U.S. high-skilled workers and
talented U.S. college grads under the bus in the dark of the last night
of 2015.
What about the rest of the politicians in Washington on both sides of the aisle? Have they all hopelessly sold out?
. . .
http://michellemalkin.com/2015/12/31/cruzsessions-bill-would-stop-sneaky-obama-sabotage-of-skilled-u-s-workers/
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Obama Floods The U.S. Job Market With Foreign Competition
Investors Business Daily, December 31, 2015
Politics:
Skirting Congress once again, President Obama seeks to admit another
100,000 foreigners to work here when jobs are few and labor-market
participation is low. Whatever this is, it's not in the interest of U.S.
workers.
This time, the president isn't seeking to
flood the country with tens of thousands of indigent, border-surging
migrants in search of bigger benefits packages.
Instead,
he plans to award via executive order work permits to 100,000 foreign
college grads (including deportable aliens) to compete with U.S. workers
for jobs.
. . .
The move is especially nefarious not just
because it stands as another example of executive overreach but also
because foreign workers already have U.S. workers at a disadvantage.
For
one thing, they're able to work cheaper. Unlike Americans, most have
had free tuition rides from their sponsoring countries and carry no
student loan debt. This enables them to tolerate lower wages than
American grads saddled with high loan costs that can't be shirked even
in bankruptcy court.
The foreigners are also exempt
from ObamaCare rules that can add as much as $20,000 in costs per
domestic worker for employers struggling to compete in the low-growth
economy that Obama has overseen.
In short, Obama's move
to bring in highly educated foreign labor hurts U.S. white-collar
workers as much as the border surge undermined blue-collar workers.
. . .
http://news.investors.com/ibd-editorials/123115-787723-obama-floods-the-us-job-market-with-foreign-competition.htm
Somali Charged in Terrorism Ring Worked at Major U.S. Airport
Judicial Watch Corruption Chronicles, December 30, 2015
. . .
The
security lapse is astounding considering that a decade and a half ago
Islamic terrorists used airplanes that had departed from major U.S.
airports as weapons of mass destruction. The reality is however, that
security is unbelievably lax for airport baggage handlers and other
facility employees. The severity of the problem was highlighted earlier
this year when the feds busted a huge, multistate operation in which
baggage handlers at a northern California airport were transporting
illegal drugs across the country. The baggage handlers circumvented six
airport security measures and provided marijuana to outbound passengers
for distribution in cities throughout the United States, according to
the federal complaint which is largely redacted. Incredibly, the
Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has determined that full
screening of airport employees would not lower the risk to the public.
Around
the same time that the alarming details in the Wasame case started
trickling out, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the monstrous
agency created to prevent a repeat of 9/11, launched a "review" of the
visa program that permitted the San Bernardino terrorist to enter the
U.S. In an announcement made public earlier this month, DHS reveals that
it has formed a "working group to scrutinize each step" of the now
famous K-1 "fiancé" visa process. The goal is to improve background
checks and better scrutinize visa adjudication practices worldwide to
"ensure that the highest level of consistent standards is being met."
. . .
http://www.judicialwatch.org/blog/2015/12/somali-charged-in-terrorism-ring-worked-at-major-u-s-airport/
Suicidal Liberalism Will Never End Illegal Immigration
By Heather MacDonald
Frontpagemag.com, December 31, 2015
. . .
Why
is the Secure Communities program and the opposition to it so
significant? Its ultimate goal is to delegitimate deportation entirely
as a response to illegal entry. Conservatives have let themselves get
sort of hung up on the issue of the fence. They talk exclusively about
we've got to build a fence and if you notice the Left doesn't really
push back very hard against the fence. Why? Because the Left understands
that far more important than the fence is this delegitimation of
deportation because even if we build a fence there's always going to be
people who get through. The issue is what happens next.
The
Left is so confident that it is starting with the hardest case. It is
saying, even an illegal alien criminal should not be deported. If you
can't deport somebody in the country illegally, any formal immigration
policy is an absolute nullity because the only penalty for illegal entry
is deportation. It is the only penalty that actually responds to the
law breaking.
I've never heard the Left actually
disclose what it thinks should be an appropriate and legitimate response
to illegal entry. But for the sake of argument, let's postulate that
the Left would agree somebody's in the country illegally. There should
be a penalty. The Left would say that penalty will be paying a fine. If
that is the penalty, that is no deterrent at all. It just simply becomes
the cost of illegal entry.
. . .
http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/261272/suicidal-liberalism-will-never-end-illegal-frontpagemagcom
What’s Driving the Latest Surge of Illegal Immigration From Central America
By Josh Siegel
The Daily Signal, December 29, 2015
. . .
Though
the official could not comment on the nature of the compliance due to
the ongoing litigation, Rosenblum and other immigration experts say the
government is detaining families for less time, releasing them in three
weeks or less to pursue their asylum claims in immigration court.
Chris
Cabrera, the vice president of the National Border Patrol Council, the
union for Border Patrol agents, told The Daily Signal that immigrants
from Central America seem to be responding to the new detention
procedures.
“I would say it’s a major reason we’re
having the surge because people know we won’t detain them and are going
to release them,” said Cabrera, who is a Border Patrol agent stationed
in McAllen, Texas.
Cabrera said the women and children
usually seek out the Border Patrol, rather than hide from them, to ask
for asylum protection. He said nearly all of them are claiming they have
a credible fear of returning to their home country.
Cabrera
contends that the extra resources required to process the women and
children leave officers without the manpower to secure the border,
although the Texas National Guard is still patrolling the Rio Grande
Valley in an extension of a mission that began last year.
. . .
http://dailysignal.com/2015/12/29/whats-driving-the-latest-surge-of-illegal-immigration-from-central-america/
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BARACK OBAMA AND PAUL RYAN PARTNER FOR OPEN BORDERS, NO CAPS ON FOREIGN INVADERS, AND NO LEGAL NEED APPLY.
KEEPING WAGES DEPRESSED WITH ENDLESS HORDES OF IMMIGRANTS KEEPS THEIR PAYMASTERS HAPPY AND PROFITABLE!
IT ALSO FINISHES OFF THE AMERICAN MIDDLE CLASS!
DHS plans New Year's Eve present for millions of foreign workers
DHS plans New Year's Eve present for millions of foreign workers
By Anna Giaritelli • 12/31/15 12:39 AM
The Federal Register will publish a new Department of Homeland Security regulation
Thursday that instructs the State Department to give millions of
employment authorization documents to aliens prior to authorizing green
cards.
The new regulation was designed to override current visa caps outlined in the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952.
"This
is a backdoor plan to circumvent Congress and bust immigration caps,
executed during a time of record immigration, lowering wages and
eliminating jobs for Americans," an anonymous Senate staffer told the Washington Examiner.
The
move comes after a discovery earlier this year that the Obama
administration had printed up millions of work permits to issue to
people who are in the country illegally.
"During
the past year, the wealth of the world’s billionaires surged past $7
trillion and the top 1 percent now controls half of the world’s wealth."
Income inequality grows FOUR TIMES FASTER under Obama than Bush.
"In
the sphere of world economy, any expectation of an upturn has given way
to the reality of permanent crisis. In the United States, six years
into the so-called economic “recovery,” real unemployment remains at
near-record highs, wages are under attack, and health care and pensions
for millions of Americans are being wiped out."
"The
essential and intended consequence of government policy over the past
seven years has been to vastly increase social inequality. During
the past year, the wealth of the world’s billionaires surged past $7
trillion and the top 1 percent now controls half of the world’s wealth.
In the US, the scale of social inequality—and therefore political
inequality—is so great that one recent scientific study concluded that
“the preferences of the vast majority of Americans appear to have
essentially no impact on which policies the government does or doesn’t
adopt."
On the threshold of the New Year
On the threshold of the New Year
31 December 2015
As the year 2015 ends, a general mood
of fear and foreboding predominates in ruling circles. It is hard to
find a trace of optimism. Commentators in the bourgeois media look back
on the past year and recognize that it has been a year of deepening
crisis. They look forward to 2016 with apprehension. The general sense
in government offices and corporate boardrooms is that the coming year
will be one of deep shocks, with unexpected consequences.
The
Financial Times’
Gideon Rachman gives expression to this pervasive feeling in his
end-of-the-year assessment published on Tuesday. “In 2015, a sense of
unease and foreboding seemed to settle on all the world’s power
centers,” he writes. “All the big players seem uncertain—even fearful.”
China “feels much less stable.” In Europe, the mood is “bleak.” In the
US, public sentiment is “sour.”
Significantly, Rachman singles out
as the “biggest common factor” in the world situation “a bubbling
anti-elite sentiment, combining anxiety about inequality and rage about
corruption that is visible in countries as different as France, Brazil,
China and the US.” This observation reflects a growing recognition
within the corporate media that the coming period will be one of immense
social upheavals.
Rachman’s comment and others like it that have appeared in recent days confirm the assessment made by the
World Socialist Web Site
during the first week of 2015. The intervals between the eruption of
major geopolitical, economic and social crises have “become so short
that they can hardly be described as intervals,” we wrote. Crises
“appear not as isolated ‘episodes,’ but as more or less permanent
features of contemporary reality. The pattern of perpetual crisis that
characterized 2014—an essential indicator of the advanced state of
global capitalist disequilibrium—will continue with even greater
intensity in 2015.”
In
defending its rule, the ruling class seeks to cover over the reality of
capitalism beneath a mass of lies and hypocrisy. War is cloaked in the
language of freedom and democracy; antisocial domestic policy is
portrayed as the pursuit of equality and freedom. But—and this is
characteristic of a period of crisis—more and more, the essential nature
of capitalism—a system of exploitation, inequality, war and
repression—comes into alignment with the everyday experiences of broad
masses of people. Illusions are dispelled; the essence appears.
In
the sphere of world economy, any expectation of an upturn has given way
to the reality of permanent crisis. In the United States, six years
into the so-called economic “recovery,” real unemployment remains at
near-record highs, wages are under attack, and health care and pensions
for millions of Americans are being wiped out. Europe is growing
at less than 2 percent a year, and large parts of the European
economy—including Greece, the target of brutal austerity measures
demanded by the European banks—are in deep recession. China, presented
as a possible engine of world economic growth, is slowing sharply.
Brazil and much of Latin America are in deep slump. Russia is in
recession.
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Meanwhile,
the easy-money policy of the world’s central banks has produced a new
wave of speculative investment, centered in junk bonds and other forms
of debt, which is beginning to unravel in a process that parallels the
crisis in subprime mortgages prior to 2008.
The
essential and intended consequence of government policy over the past
seven years has been to vastly increase social inequality. During the
past year, the wealth of the world’s billionaires surged past $7
trillion and the top 1 percent now controls half of the world’s wealth.
In the US, the scale of social inequality—and therefore political
inequality—is so great that one recent scientific study concluded that
“the preferences of the vast majority of Americans appear to have
essentially no impact on which policies the government does or doesn’t
adopt.”
Joseph Kishore