THE BIDEN INVASION - Health inspections for foreign nationals entering our country illegally have gone out the window. That's enabled the importation of many diseases which affect livestock and other agricultural output, and already these things are happening. Legal immigrants and even returning U.S. citizens must pass these inspections to protect the U.S. food supply. But under Joe Biden's catch-and-release, illegals are exempt from such cumbersome requirements. MONICA SHOWALTER
Wednesday, September 20, 2017
JOBS: NOT FOR LEGALS IN AMERICA'S OPEN BORDERS - WHAT HAPPENED TO WORKSITE ENFORCEMENT? - JERRY KAMMER'S BOOK SPILLS THE TRUTH OF THE WAR AGAINST THE AMERICAN WORKER
Washington, D.C. (September 20, 2017) – A new book offers the most comprehensive and detailed account yet of three decades of failed workplace enforcement to weaken the magnet of jobs that pull illegal immigrants to the United States. Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Jerry Kammer, now at the Center for Immigration Studies, combines archival research with numerous interviews of key players to offer a readable, compact history of the 1986 act banning the employment of illegal immigrants, and the subsequent bipartisan failure to follow through. This timely book comes just as Congress again takes up debate on the tools needed to control illegal immigration. After five years of congressional back-and-forth, a bipartisan deal was struck in 1986 that coupled a one-time amnesty for about three million illegal immigrants with mandated civil and criminal sanctions against employers who knowingly hired unauthorized workers in the future. But soon after passage of the Immigration Reform and Control Act, the enforcement component of the compromise began to be undermined. Kammer's book traces that process over four administrations, with special emphasis on the Clinton and George W. Bush eras. As a result of that failure there are now three times as many illegal immigrants in the U.S. as before IRCA. Many of the politicians involved remain central to the debate today. Sen. Chuck Schumer, for instance, while still in the House of Representatives brokered the final deal to pass IRCA in 1986, and then gutted the back-taxes provision in the amnesty portion of that law. Sen. Rob Portman was a staff member of the 1970s presidential commission that recommended passage of employer sanctions, and withheld his support for the 2013 Gang of Eight bill because "if we don't fix the workplace, we cannot have an immigration system that works." The 128-page book is available in paperback or Kindle at: https://www.amazon.com/What-Happened-Worksite-Enforcement-Immigration/dp/1974356760/ The book: · Traces the failure of worksite enforcement to multiple causes: structural flaws in IRCA that prevented establishment of a credible system for worker authorization verification; the political clout of business interests and immigration advocacy groups; the demoralization of federal authorities; and the ambivalence of public opinion that, while favoring limits on immigration, often recoiled from the human consequences of enforcement. · Notes the ongoing failure of the executive and legislative branches to reform the defective worker verification process. The report says the Government Accountability Office functioned almost like a Greek chorus at congressional hearings, with its many unheeded warnings about the need for a credible system. · Contrasts former INS commissioner Doris Meissner's assurance before the 1996 election that the government meant business when it came to enforcing immigration laws at the workplace with her 2007 acknowledgement that, "We never really did in any serious way the enforcement that was to accompany the legalization of the people who were here illegally." · Notes that Congress, instead of fortifying worksite enforcement, spent billions of dollars on the politically less controversial Border Patrol. Kammer said, "I think a key period was the 1990s. Clinton was serious about enforcement, but he lost interest after he was reelected. The death of civil rights icon and former Democratic Rep. Barbara Jordan in early 1996 was also a terrible blow to the prospects for improving the fraud-ridden worker identification (I-9) process." The United States has yet to attain Ronald Reagan's goal of a "reasonable, fair, orderly, and secure system of immigration." But Kammer's work provides the foundation for meaningful on worksite enforcement, which is back in the news with Rep. Lamar Smith's reintroduction of a mandatory E-Verify bill in the House and talk of packaging a DACA amnesty with an E-Verify mandate.
JEFF SESSION’S LONG BATTLE FOR THE AMERICAN
WORKER He is the only one in the country
that has consistently spoken out for the AMERICAN WORKER!
“Mexican drug cartels are the “other”
terrorist threat to America. Militant Islamists have the goal of destroying the
United States.Mexican
drug cartels are now accomplishing that mission – from within, every day, in
virtually every community across this country.” JUDICIALWATCH
HILDA SOLIS WAS BARACK OBAMA’S
SECRETARY OF ILLEGAL LABOR BEFORE MEXICANS VOTED HER IN AS LOS ANGELES COUNTY
SUPERVISOR WHERE SHE IS RAPIDLY EXPANDING THE MEX WELFARE STATE IN LOS ANGELES
COUNTY.
HILDA SOLIS – The Mexican Fascist
Party of LA RAZA “THE RACE” building LA RAZA SUPREMACY over Legals and the
Mexican welfare state in America’s open borders.
“Labor Secretary Hilda Solis, a
former California congresswoman with close ties to the influential La Raza
movement, announced the “We Can Help” project with great fanfare a few days ago.”
“Prosecutors say the girl, who was 11-years-old at the time, went to a
medical center where it was determined she was pregnant. Officials say she
would have conceived the child at ten years of age.”
END THE
MEX INVASION – IMPOSE BORDER to OPEN BORDER E-VERIFY and put EMPLOYERS OF
ILLEGALS IN PRISON!
Notice how we never hear the phony populist
Trump talking about E-VERIFY!
AMERICA: NO LEGAL NEED APPLY!
“The percentage of
foreign-born workers in the U.S. labor force has more than tripled over the
last four decades and while the U.S. represents just 5 percent of the world’s
population it attracts 20 percent of the world’s immigrants, according to a new
report.”
Open the floodgates of our welfare
state to the uneducated, impoverished, and unskilled masses of the world and in
a generation or three America, as we know it, will be gone.
Those most impacted are middle class
and lower middle class. It is they whose jobs are taken, whose raises are
postponed, whose schools are filled with non-English speaking children that
absorb precious resources for remedial English, whose public parks are trashed
and whose emergency rooms serve as the local clinic for the illegal
underground.
THE SECRET REPORT ON ILLEGALS TAKING
MIDDLE AND HIGH END JOBS…. What? You thought they only took the shit jobs?
Excerpt:
Aliens enter the United States without authorization for many reasons, but for
most of them the goal is to secure employment at much higher wages than are
available in their native countries. While breaking the law provides very
significant economic benefits to these illegal workers and to the businesses
that hire them, it comes at a cost to American workers. According to Harvard
economist George Borjas, recent empirical research indicates that American
workers suffer a reduction of $99 billion to $118 billion in annual wages
because of illegal immigration.1
The economic rewards of unauthorized employment
of aliens are not limited to the higher wages of the illegal workers and the
lower labor costs of their employers. Unauthorized alien workers and their
employers also enjoy multi-billion dollar tax deductions and tax credits that
were enacted into law for the benefit of law-abiding workers and businesses.
The Right
Way to Save DACA: Now, Congress Must Ensure that E-Verify Goes National, and
That Chain Immigration As We Know It Ends
President
Trump has arranged a soft landing for the illegal immigrants benefiting from
President Barack Obama’s unconstitutional DACA program. Now it’s up to Congress
to craft a solution for this unique category of illegal immigrants — in a way
that doesn’t do more harm than good.
The Deferred
Action for Childhood Arrivals program might well have ended abruptly Tuesday,
by judicial order, since 10 states had threatened to sue if the administration
didn’t act — with a deadline of this week. Instead, the nearly 800,000 illegal
immigrants will be able to keep their work permits for up to 21/2 more years,
as the program is wound down.
Whatever the
merits of the individuals involved — illegal immigrants who sneaked across the
border or overstayed a visa before age 16 — the DACA program itself is illegal
and had to be ended. No less an authority than Obama said in 2011 that enacting
what would eventually become DACA “would not conform with my appropriate role
as President.”
BLOG: SEE JUDICIAL WATCH ON ILLEGALS VOTING BELOW
But as the
2012 election neared, his aides saw that Hispanic voter registration numbers
were below the 2008 level and panicked. So to energize Hispanic voters to go to
the polls and vote for an administration that had not delivered on its
immigration promises, Obama decreed DACA.
The program
provides more than just a two-year, renewable exemption from immigration law;
it also results in a work permit, Social Security number, driver’s licenses,
access to the Earned Income Tax Credit welfare program and more.
The question
now is, What will Congress do with the six-month grace period before DACA
permits start expiring?
The DACAs
aren’t just the most sympathetic group of illegal immigrants; they’re a special
case. Though almost all are now in their 20s and 30s, they grew up here and
have developed their identities as Americans. Some didn’t even know they were
illegal aliens until they went to get a driver’s license in high school.
So an amnesty
for them — and only for them — can be justified as a prudent act of mercy.
There’s a lot of support for amnestying the DACAs, even among immigration hawks
like Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.).
But any
measure considered by Congress would be harmful unless it addressed the two
drawbacks of any amnesty.
One, all
amnesties encourage future illegal immigration — by sending the message abroad
that crime pays, as it were — and they set in motion future increases in legal
immigration, as relatives of the amnesty recipients take advantage of the
chain-migration provisions of our current immigration program.
That’s why
any legislative solution to this problem must include both enforcement measures
and legal immigration cuts. Though the President has made a border wall a
centerpiece of his enforcement strategy, he already has all the authority he
needs from Congress to build one; he only needs some extra funding, which in
and of itself would be an insufficient tradeoff for legalizing DACA.
The chief
item the President needs from Congress regarding enforcement is to require
universal use of the E-Verify program. This is a free, online system that
enables employers to check the information they already have to collect from a
new hire (name, age, authorization to work) and to ensure he is telling the
truth about who he is.
Last year,
roughly half of all new hires were screened through the system, but use of the
system is still voluntary. Only Congress can make it mandatory, which would be
the single most important step toward weakening the magnet of jobs that drew
the parents of the DACAs here in the first place.
The second element Congress must
incorporate in any DACA amnesty is abolition
of the immigration categories that permit
chain migration of an endless procession of
relatives. Fully two-thirds of the million legal
immigrants we take in each year are selected
because they already have relatives here.
After an
amnesty for the DACAs, they would be able to bring in their relatives,
including the parents who put them in this difficult position in the first
place. Cotton’s RAISE Act would, among other things, focus family immigration
only on husbands, wives and little kids, ensuring that any DACA amnesty would
not create a future surge of immigration.
A stand-alone DACA amnesty would, at least, be legal. But it
would be a mistake. These young people must be granted formal permission to
stay in a way that limits the harmful
Princeton Economist: Nearly Half of U.S. Men Who Dropped Out of
Workforce on Opioid Painkillers
The opioid crisis is growing in America, and it may be the reason many
men are dropping and staying out of the workforce, according to a new study.
Nearly
half of the men in the U.S. who dropped out of the workforce are on opioid
painkillers, Princeton University economist Alan Krueger wrote in a Brookings
Institute study released this week.
“The
opioid crisis and depressed labor-force participation are now intertwined in
many parts of the U.S.,” Krueger wrote in the Brookings Institute study.
Krueger
found that nearly half of the men surveyed “take pain medication on a daily
basis, and in nearly two-thirds of these cases they take prescription pain
medication.”
“Labor
force participation has fallen more in areas where relatively more opioid pain
medication is prescribed,” he wrote.
Krueger
said the men surveyed took painkillers either as a result of being out of the
workforce for a prolonged period or because they had a condition that required
the use of painkillers and could not work because of the condition.
“The
results of this survey underscore the role of pain in the lives on nonworking
men, and the widespread use of prescription pain medication,” he wrote. “Fully
47 percent of NLF (not in labor force) prime age men responded that they took
pain medication on the previous day.”
He
added that nearly two-thirds of the men who took pain medication said they were
taking prescription meds.
“These
figures likely understate the actual proportion of men taking prescription pain
medication given the stigma and legal risk associated with reporting taking
narcotics,” Krueger said.
NBC
News cites data from the Bureau
of Labor Statistics that show the labor force participation rate, comprised of
people who are working or actively looking for work, reached an all-time high
of 67.3 percent in the U.S. in early 2000.
The
labor force participation rate reached a 40-year low in September 2015, dipping
to 62.4 percent, as the American economy grew very slowly under
former President Barack Obama.
Krueger
said the labor participation rate in the past decade declined faster than the
decade preceding it.
“The
share of non-college educated young men who did not work at all over the entire
year rose from 10 percent in 1994 to more than 20 percent in 2015,” he wrote.
The
decline roughly coincides with the beginning of the opioid epidemic, when the
number of unintentional overdoses from prescription painkillers quadrupled since 1999, according
to the National Institute on Drug Abuse.
A
survey from NIDA found that 91.8 million
people, roughly one in three Americans, used opioid painkillers such as Vicodin
and OxyContin in 2015.
President
Trump declared the national opioid
crisis a “state of emergency” on August 10 and vowed to “fight the deadly
epidemic.”
Excerpt: Now, given the fact that there are
about 900,000 H-1Bs in the country at any one time, and about eight times as
many illegal alien workers, why do I have the impression of more enforcement of
the H-1B law, than of employer sanctions? At least proportionally? Not that
there is much of either.
Given the numbers cited above, there should be
roughly eight times as many employer sanctions court cases as H-1B ones. In
both kinds of cases the employer is exploiting aliens, shouldering aside U.S.
workers, and violating the INA. There would seem to be a moral equivalence
here, one violation being as deplorable as the other.
Excerpt: President Trump has arranged a soft
landing for the illegal immigrants benefiting from President Barack Obama's
unconstitutional DACA program. Now it's up to Congress to craft a solution for
this unique category of illegal immigrants — in a way that doesn't do more harm
than good.
The Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals
program might well have ended abruptly Tuesday, by judicial order, since 10
states had threatened to sue if the administration didn't act — with a deadline
of this week. Instead, the nearly 800,000 illegal immigrants will be able to
keep their work permits for up to 2.5 more years, as the program is wound down.
Excerpt: Aliens enter the United States without
authorization for many reasons, but for most of them the goal is to secure
employment at much higher wages than are available in their native countries.
While breaking the law provides very significant economic benefits to these
illegal workers and to the businesses that hire them, it comes at a cost to
American workers. According to Harvard economist George Borjas, recent
empirical research indicates that American workers suffer a reduction of $99
billion to $118 billion in annual wages because of illegal immigration.1
The economic rewards of unauthorized employment
of aliens are not limited to the higher wages of the illegal workers and the
lower labor costs of their employers. Unauthorized alien workers and their
employers also enjoy multi-billion dollar tax deductions and tax credits that
were enacted into law for the benefit of law-abiding workers and businesses.
Winning: Companies Hire Americans Instead of Foreign
Visa Workers
President Donald Trump’s
populist “Hire American” policy is forcing employers to hire more Americans at
higher wages, theWall Street Journal admits.
The pressure is highlighted by seasonal
employers in Massachusetts who were forced to hire Americans when Trump’s
populist coalition stymied their lobbying efforts to expand the use of H-2B
foreign contract workers. According to the Journal, which has
long urged the large-scale use of foreign workers:
“I have more Americans working than I’ve ever
had,” says Josh Aronie, executive chef at the Home Port Restaurant in the
Vineyard fishing village of Menemsha. He also reports his restaurant has been
short of staff and many of the workers he does have don’t know the basics of
cooking or even how to read the orders…
Nationwide data on the leisure and hospitality
sector also shows a tightening labor market. In June, average hourly earnings
in the sector increased 4% from a year earlier, according to government data
analyzed by Moody’s Analytics …
At the Home Port Restaurant in Menemsha, Mr.
Aronie recalls meeting with his small staff in a panic this June just a few
days before the scheduled opening. He had applied for 18 H-2B visa workers and
received none. Because of the staffing crunch, the restaurant initially was open
just five nights a week, and didn’t open for lunch until late July. Mr. Aronie
jokes about the qualification he requires for hiring: “Are you breathing?
Excellent.” He has paid a premium to hire three people via a Boston-based temp
agency.
Many seasonal employers prefer to hire H-2B
workers instead of Americans because those visa workers must stay with the
company for the entire season and must work at government-set hourly rates.
Those lower rates for seasonal workers also allow employers to pay lower rates
to full-time, year-round American staff.
Employers also prefer foreign workers because
the current pool of unemployed Americans includes many immature and untrained
youths, unmotivated adults on government aid programs, plus marginalized
Americans, such as inner-city youths and unemployed drug users who are the
customers of the Mexican drug cartels.
Amid pressure from donors, GOP leaders tried
this year to expand the H-2B program from roughly 115,000 H-2B workers up to
roughly 200,000 resident H-2B workers. But the lobbyists and GOP leaders —
including House Speaker Paul Ryan — were largely blockedby John Kelly when he was serving as the secretary of the
Department of Homeland Security. Kelly allowed only an extra 15,000 H-2B
workers, and promised to oppose any increase in 2018.
The public’s opposition to greater use of H-2B
has also forced employers in other states to recruit and pay Americans.
The Journal reported:
In Alaska, Silver Bay Seafoods, a big user of
the program, received 31 H-2B visas this year for workers to help process
salmon, down from more than 900 in 2016. The company responded by spending more
than $1 million to recruit workers in 32 states, plus U.S. territories such as
Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
“It’s very difficult to find people to do this
work,” says Joe Misenti, general counsel for Silver Bay. The company succeeded
in hiring about 1,600 workers, replacing all of the foreign workers with
Americans, counting those from the U.S. territories.
The same trend is visible in the agriculture
sector, where the loss of cheap illegal aliens is forcing employers to raise
wages and also to hire Americans to build and operate labor-saving farm machinery.
The result of the H-2B fight boosts the growing
evidence that young Americans will gain if the federal government reduces the
annual inflow of foreign temporary workers.
In 2016, for example, federal data shows
that former President Barack Obama gave federal “Employment
Authorization Document” work permits to at least 2.3 million migrants for U.S. jobs, and approved visas for
roughly 500,000 outsourcing workers, such as the H-1B white-collar workers,
H-2B blue-collar workers and H-2A agriculture workers. Those temporary workers
were in addition to the routine inflow of 1 million legal immigrants and
roughly 400,000 illegal immigrants.
The combined inflow delivered almost 4 million legal foreign workers to Americans’ economy in 2016, just as 4
million young Americans turned 18 and began looking for decently paid jobs.
Many polls show that Americans
are very generous, they do welcome individual immigrants, and they do want to
like the idea of immigration. But the polls also show that most Americans are
increasingly worried that large-scale legal immigration will change their
country and disadvantage themselves and their children.
Americans’ median pay packets have been flat since 1973, even
though the vastly expanded federal government has justified its own salaries
and its many massive spending and policy programs as a sure-fire way to
boost education, productivity, and wages.
The
colossal 44-year failure of the federal government to help grow American men’s
wages — or even to reduce poverty rates — is laid bare in the latest
report from the Census Bureau, “Income
and Poverty in the United States: 2016.”
The dense report includes
myriad detailed tables of data around one shocking chart, which reveals no
growth in men’s wages for the past 44 years, or since President Richard Nixon
was beginning his second term in office.
Median earning of full-time, year-round workers, 15 years and
older, 1960 to 2016.
The sudden flatline
followed a 31 percent rise in all men’s median wages from 1960 to 1972.
During the 44-year period
since 1973, income among women grew by roughly 30 percent as more skilled and
trained women entered the market, gained experience, and were promoted to
better-paying jobs. Those opportunities and contributions are good news — but
they do not change the reality that men’s income has been flat for 44 years.
In fact, the report notes
that “the real median earnings of full-time, year-round working men were 1.1
percent lower in 2016 than in 2007.”
There
are many explanations for the flat income, such as the massive growth in the
labor supply when 30 million additional American women and roughly 30 million
immigrants joined in the marketplace competition for good jobs. For example, a
pro-immigration panel at the prestigious National Academies of Science
estimated in 2016 that the huge government-imposed inflow of immigrants
since 1965 has imposed a hidden 5 percent “immigration tax” on Americans’ pay
packets.
Technology has made many
individuals workers more productive but also sidelined many others, such
as newspaper printers and steelworkers. Peaceful international trade has
allowed men to sell more products overseas but also allowed employers to hire
foreign workers instead of Americans. Whatever the combinations of reasons, the
mid-point for men’s income has been flat for 43 years, according to the Census
Bureau.
The flat-earnings chart
needs some explanation:
It shows only
inflation-adjusted, pre-tax pay packets, so it excludes the impact of
inflation, taxes and government benefits, such as food-stamps and tax-breaks
for children, or of Obamacare’s subsidies and spending obligations.
It shows median income,
which is the midpoint of the income scale. Half the people earn above the line,
half the people earn below the line. Average income would be higher, but less
revealing, because a higher share of income is going to the highest earners,
compared to back in the 1970s.
The chart shows the income
of year-round, full-time workers, excluding part-workers or seasonal workers,
or those who work on-and-off under contracts. The chart does not make
distinctions by race.
The chart shows
individuals’ income, not the income of households, which has fluctuated as
the average number of children or adults has declined.
The chart only shows income,
but not the quality of goods in the stores, such as Starbucks coffee, cheap
products imported from China, high-tech music players, improved autos or better
health-care. That rise in product quality from competing companies — not
claimed policy improvements from federal agencies — has provided the vast
majority of material gains for Americans amid flat incomes.
The
details are provided on Table A-4, on page 49 of this PDF.
The median earnings for all
men employed year-round was $51,640 in 2016, which is still far below the
$54,030 earned by full-time men in 1973. It is also below the $51,938 earned in
the 2000 Internet boom, or the $52,222 earned in the 2007 property bubble when
large-scale legal and illegal immigration provided employers with millions of
alternative imported workers.
The post-1973 reality of
flat income is a huge contrast to the rapid growth from 1960 up to the 1973 oil
shock and the reopened inflow of immigrant labor after 1965. During the
twelves years 1960 to 1972, the median average wages for all males — including
minorities, seasonal workers, and contract workers — rose from by 31 percent,
from $31,926 to $41,013.
When the income of all men
is gauged, the Bureau concluded that all men’s median income in 1973 was
$41,935. It dropped after 1973 and rose back up to $43,360 in 1999 as companies
competed for the few unemployed workers during the first Internet boom. Income
crashed in 2008 to a depression-low of $39,636 in 2012 once the federal
government’s real-estate bubble burst. Since then, income has slowly climbed
back to $42,220 in 2016 amid the continuous public protest against the federal
government’s cheap-labor economic strategy, which is exemplified by the
bipartisan 2013 “Gang of Eight” amnesty legislation.
Other data in the report
shows that the nation’s poverty rates have barely budged since the 1960s,
although many people in the United States are wealthier than many people n
Europe. For example, the percentage of American said to be in poverty was 11.1
percent in 1973 and 12.7 percent in 2016.
That national poverty rate
climbed, in part, because of the population of Latinos spiked from 10.8 million
in 1973 to 57.6 million in 2016. Poverty among Latinos was 19 percent in
2016, little changed from 1973.
The report also noted that:
The official poverty rate
decreased by 0.8 percentage points between 2015 and 2016. At 12.7 percent, the
2016 poverty rate is not statistically different from 2007 (12.5 percent), the
year before the most recent recession.
In real terms, median
earnings of full-time, year-round working women in 2016 were 2.3 percent higher
than their 2007 median, the year before the most recent recession. The real
median earnings of full-time, year-round working men were 1.1 percent lower in
2016 than in 2007.
In 2017, the number and
percentage of shared households remained higher than in 2007, the year before
the most recent recession. In 2007, 17.0 percent of all households
were shared households, totaling 19.7 million households. In 2017, 19.4
percent of all households were shared households, totaling 24.6 million
households.
THEIR
ASSAULT ON THE AMERICAN WORKER WILL NEVER END!!!
DACA
recipients currently hold upwards of 700,000 U.S. jobs. An ultimate end
to the program
– with DACA recipients not getting amnesty –would result in a
700,000 job stimulus for American workers. This would amount to nearly
30,000 new U.S. job openings for American workers every month once the
program is officially phased out. ------ John Binder
Although
screening for DACA was previously touted as being sufficient in keeping criminals
out, United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) revealed that
more than 2,100 recipients had their status revoked for being criminals or gang
members.----- John Binder
‘Amnesty Don’ Trends at Number One on Twitter in Washington,
D.C.
Following
President Trump’s choosing to make a deal that will give amnesty to nearly
800,000 illegal aliens currently protected by the Deferred Action for Childhood
Arrivals (DACA) program, Breitbart News plastered the headline “Amnesty Don” on
its front page.
Since Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced the ultimate end
to the DACA program, under which hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens were
given work permits and temporary protected status, Trump has remained unclear
on whether he would stick to his anti-amnesty campaign promises or cave to the
political establishment.
At his White House meeting with moderates, as Breitbart
News reported, Trump is set to
choose a legislative deal that quickly legalizes the nearly 800,000 illegal
aliens on DACA, without getting any pro-American immigration reforms in return.
Following the report, “Amnesty Don” peaked at the number one
trend in Washington, D.C. on Twitter, the social media outlet the President is
most known for using.
DACA recipients currently hold upwards of 700,000 U.S. jobs. An
ultimate end to the program – with DACA recipients not getting amnesty
–would result in a 700,000 job stimulus for American workers. This would amount
to nearly 30,000 new U.S. job openings for American workers every month once
the program is officially phased out.
Although screening for DACA was previously touted as being
sufficient in keeping criminals out, United States Citizenship and Immigration
Services (USCIS) revealed that more than 2,100 recipients had their status
revoked for being criminals or gang members.
John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Follow him on
Twitter at @JxhnBinder.
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MEX INVASION – IMPOSE BORDER to OPEN BORDER E-VERIFY and put EMPLOYERS OF
ILLEGALS IN PRISON!
Notice how we never hear the phony populist
Trump talking about E-VERIFY!
AMERICA: NO LEGAL NEED APPLY!
“The percentage of
foreign-born workers in the U.S. labor force has more than tripled over the
last four decades and while the U.S. represents just 5 percent of the world’s
population it attracts 20 percent of the world’s immigrants, according to a new
report.”
Open the floodgates of our welfare
state to the uneducated, impoverished, and unskilled masses of the world and in
a generation or three America, as we know it, will be gone.
Those most impacted are middle class
and lower middle class. It is they whose jobs are taken, whose raises are
postponed, whose schools are filled with non-English speaking children that
absorb precious resources for remedial English, whose public parks are trashed
and whose emergency rooms serve as the local clinic for the illegal
underground.
THE SECRET REPORT ON ILLEGALS TAKING
MIDDLE AND HIGH END JOBS…. What? You thought they only took the shit jobs?
“Mexican drug cartels are the “other”
terrorist threat to America. Militant Islamists have the goal of destroying the
United States.Mexican
drug cartels are now accomplishing that mission – from within, every day, in
virtually every community across this country.” JUDICI ALWATCH
Former Sen. Jim DeMint Endorses Judge Roy Moore in Alabama Senate Race
Former Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC) announced on Thursday his endorsement of Judge Roy Moore in next week’s Alabama U.S. senate race, in another blow to the establishment-backed candidate Luther Strange’s campaign.
In a press release, DeMint, who is a leading figure in the Tea Party movement, took aim at the “Kings of the Washington Swamp” opposing Moore’s candidacy.
“The American people are tired of the lack of leadership on Capitol Hill. They want people who are willing to fight to save our country,” DeMint said. “Judge Moore has proven he has the courage and the commitment to stand up to the Washington establishment and help President Trump implement a positive agenda. That’s why the Kings of the Washington Swamp are working so hard to keep Judge Moore from becoming the next U.S. Senator from Alabama, and why conservatives are supporting him.”
Despite receiving an endorsement from President Donald Trump, Luther Strange remains the overwhelming choice for the Republican establishment. In recent weeks, the Senate Leadership Fund, a PAC affiliated with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, has flooded the state with a series of false attack ads against Moore’s campaign.
However, Roy Moore has received backing from other politicians including Head of the House Freedom Caucus Mark Meadows, as well his initial primary candidate Rep. Mo Brooks, as well as endorsements from leading figures in the populist nationalist movement, including the likes of Sarah Palin, Mike Huckabee, and Ann Coulter.
Moore currently holds a commanding lead in polls over Strange. In a recent poll conducted by JMC Analytics, Moore has a solid 47 percent lead against Strange’s 39 percent, while another 13 percent remain undecided.
“Jim DeMint has served this nation with honor and is a fine example of a Christian statesman,” Judge Moore said on the endorsement. “He is someone whom I greatly admire and hope to learn from as I prepare to serve the people of Alabama in the United States Senate.”
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Luther Strange Finance Chair Tied to Alabama Bribery Case
Alabama Senator Luther Strange’s campaign finance chair, Thompson Tractor CEO Mike Thompson, is listed on federal tax documents as an officer of the nonprofit Alliance for Jobs, which federal prosecutors say was used to bribe former Alabama state Representative Oliver Robinson, who pleaded guilty to federal corruption charges this month, AL.com’s Kyle Whitmire and John Archibald report.
Neither prosecutors nor court documents have said Thompson was in any way involved in the bribery scheme, but tax records show he was one of only two officers for the Alliance for Jobs and the Economy. According to the nonprofit’s tax filings, Thompson served as secretary for the AJE from its incorporation in 2015 through at least the end of 2016, the time period when, prosecutors say, every dollar raised by the nonprofit was used to buy influence from then-state Rep. Oliver Robinson.
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“This new detail raises further questions about Luther Strange’s official acts to oppose the EPA Superfund site while receiving $50,000 from Drummond around the same time,” he continued.
The bribery scheme
Earlier this month, state Rep. Oliver Robinson pleaded guilty to accepting bribes in exchange for opposing the expansion of a north Birmingham Superfund site into Tarrant, which could potentially have cost area companies millions of dollars in cleanup.
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According to Robinson’s plea agreement, he accepted payments through the Birmingham law firm Balch & Bingham, Drummond and the AJE to oppose the Superfund expansion.
Thompson Tractor’s headquarters are in Tarrant, near where the EPA was considering expanding the Superfund site.
Alabama State Representative Ed Henry (R-Hartselle) is calling for the release of his grand jury testimony in connection with a corruption case involving former Alabama House Speaker Mike Hubbard. Henry says now-U.S. Senator Luther Strange, who is facing a runoff Senate primary election next week against conservative Judge Roy Moore, is not telling the truth behind the anti-corruption unit he led while serving as Alabama’s attorney general.
Henry began the news conference [Wednesday] in Madison by saying he’d considered violating the law to disclose his testimony, but said he [sic] after he was warned by friends he was risking arrest, he decided to publicly ask Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall to allow his testimony to be released.
He said the testimony would show Strange hasn’t been honest about his recusal in the Hubbard investigation. Our news partners AL.com summed up the case against Hubbard.
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Alabama State Rep. Mike Ball (R-Madison) also spoke. Ball said he’d raised concerns to Strange about how Hart was using and leaking grand jury testimony. Ball said Strange didn’t appoint a special counsel as requested and instead, sent him a letter [to] say the matter had been reviewed and his office had found no wrongdoing.
MONTGOMERY, Alabama — For over one hundred years, Alabamians manufactured clothing in Alexander City for a company called Russell. Today you can still buy Russell Athletic gear in “Alex City” but it won’t be made locally.
It will likely be made by workers in Honduras, El Salvador, or China.
In a strange twist of fate, one of the key figures who helped bring about this transfer of jobs out of Alabama is now campaigning for the Senate seat formerly occupied by Jeff Sessions. Even stranger still, his campaign ads promise that he will “Kill Unfair Trade Deals.”
His name is Luther Strange.
The company now known as Russell Brands was founded in 1902 by Benjamin Russell on the ashes of Alex City’s business district, which had suffered a devastating fire months earlier. Russell expanded and thrived in the decades that followed, eventually becoming the largest manufacturer of athletic apparel and uniforms in the country. It became, at one point, the exclusive producer of uniforms for Major League Baseball.
At its height, Russell employed at least 7,000 people in Alabama.
Strange enters the Russell story as a lobbyist for the powerful political broker and law firm Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP. Russell paid the firm $660,000 for Strange’s lobbying efforts between 2000 and 2006. One of Russell’s major political focuses at the time: getting the U.S. to sign onto a NAFTA-style free trade agreement with Central American countries.
Details of Strange’s lobbying efforts are hard to come by.
Whatever it was Strange did on behalf of Russell’s free-trade politics, it was effective. The U.S. Senate approved the Dominican Republic-Central American Free Trade Agreement, known as DR-CAFTA, in 2005. The very next year, Russell announced that it would move thousands of jobs out of Alabama to Mexico and Honduras.
“Russell said the company will eliminate about 2,300 jobs from its global workforce of 15,000. About 1,700 of the jobs cuts will be in the United States, with about 1,250 in Alabama,” the Associated Press reported in 2006. “About 1,200 of the U.S. jobs will eventually be replaced by hiring in Honduras and Mexico, the company said.”
The cuts initially left Alex City with 2,000 Russell jobs. But more cuts were to come. The company was purchased by Berkshire-Hathaway and merged into the Fruit of the Loom business. It has since laid off hundreds of more workers in Alex City and Wetumpka.
Russell apparel is now manufactured in facilities all over the world, including four plants in the Dominican Republic, six in El Salvador, and nine in Honduras, according to the company’s 2010 statement. Wages for apparel workers in those countries can be as low as $1 dollar per hour. The company has 19 facilities in China.
Lobbying for the Central American free trade pact was a very lucrative job for Luther Strange. But for thousands of Alabamians it was far more devastating than that 1902 fire that nearly destroyed Alex City.
A senior adviser to the campaign of Judge Roy Moore, the conservative frontrunner for the U.S. Senate in Alabama against Strange in Tuesday’s upcoming GOP primary runoff, told Breitbart News that Strange’s efforts to lobby to send Alabama jobs to Central America and elsewhere is “staggering.”
“Luther Strange’s record of self-dealing is staggering,” Drew Messer, a senior adviser to the Moore campaign, told Breitbart News. “In his former life as a Washington lobbyist, he was paid big bucks to work for implementing CAFTA, the trade debacle that sent thousands dof Alabama jobs to Mexico and Honduras and thousands of small businesses into bankruptcy. Strange’s entire career has been marked by putting his own interest over the people of Alabama.”
The Strange campaign, meanwhile, has not responded to a request for comment.
But what makes all of this even more interesting is the fact that President Donald Trump–who campaigned in 2016 against exactly the type of behavior that Strange engaged in for years as a lobbyist–is now heading to Alabama to campaign for Strange. On Wednesday evening, as more and more details about Strange’s lurid history continued dripping out to the public, Trump even called Strange “tough” on “trade,” among other issues, on Twitter.
But surely, at that time, Trump had no idea that Strange–as a lobbyist–supports shipping Alabama jobs overseas to places like Mexico, Central America, the Dominican Republic, and China. But now the White House does, and has not responded to a request for comment. On Thursday morning, Breitbart News informed White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders and communications director Hope Hicks of this forthcoming investigative reporting from Breitbart News on Strange’s history on trade, and asked them how President Trump believes this is “tough” on “trade.” They have not commented.
Despite Trump’s and Vice President Mike Pence’s decision to publicly endorse and campaign for Strange–the president will campaign for Strange on Friday, and the vice president on Monday–Moore maintains his lead in the race. Moore’s lead over Strange is in large part because despite the president’s backing politically of Strange, policy-wise Moore is much more in line with the president’s campaign agenda.
Moore, in a recent exclusive interview with Breitbart News here in Montgomery, even made clear he stands with the president on trade policy.
“I think that’s one of the strongest points I agree on with the president,” Moore told Breitbart News when asked what he would do to bring factories and jobs back to America from foreign countries.
“I agreed with the president before he was president,” he continued. “I agree with the president’s position from even before he was president. This is one of the greatest travesties in our country. I agree with free trade—our country was established on free trade—but it’s not free trade when governments become involved in the trade process like what has happened in certain foreign countries. I think that that warps this concept and it’s allowed businesses to go overseas to Mexico, China, wherever. I support the president 100 percent in bringing industry back into our country. Quite frankly, I think it can be brought back into our country—we don’t lose the technology, we don’t lose the skill sets. We can develop those again. I know steel plants, sock factories all across Alabama and the South have been taken.”
Strange, meanwhile, has said nothing of the sort–and as of this writing, refuses to do an interview with Breitbart News supporting the president on trade, and refuses to renounce his lobbyist history for the exact type of trade deals that President Trump campaigned against.
Breitbart News’ Matthew Boyle reported from Montgomery, and Breitbart News’ John Carney reported from New York City.
Sen. Luther Strange is running from questions about his possible support for the Democrats’ huge “Dreamer” amnesty, which would provide citizenship to at least 3.3 million illegals and also cut wages in his home state of Alabama.
Strange’s campaign website ducks the high-profile issue, saying only that:
It is our duty to uphold and enforce immigration law. Individuals who enter our country illegally should not receive the benefits that taxpaying Americans do. Immediate deportation of criminal aliens, building President Trump’s border wall, and cutting off funding for sanctuary cities are all effective means to enforce America’s laws and strengthen its borders.
Enforcing immigration law is also crucial to protecting Americans from terrorists seeking entry into our country under false pretenses. Luther Strange stands with President Trump and supports banning refugees in terrorist countries from entering our borders.
One Alabama constituent received a similarly evasive answer, according to a report in Alabama Today:
Jack Kemp of Fosters, Ala. posted Strange’s email response on his Facebook page Tuesday, concerned that the Senator supports the Dream Act as he did not outright refute it in the email.
The reported response from Strange’s office says “Currently, this [amnesty] bill is in the Senate Judiciary Committee. I do not serve on that committee, but if this bill comes to the Senate floor for debate and a vote, I will keep your views in mind.” The Facebook post did not say Strange would oppose a DACA amnesty.
Strange offered a similarly vague description of his DACA-amnesty views in a radio adwhich criticizes Judge Roy Moore, his primary rival, for not knowing about the “dreamer’ program. The radio ad declared that Strange “is proud to stand beside President Trump who understands how serious it is to stop illegal immigration and enforce our nation’s laws.” The ad did not say that Strange would oppose a DACA amnesty.
Strange’s campaign did not respond to messages from Breitbart News.
The Senator’s evasiveness is notable because top Senate Democrats — including New York Sen. Chuck Schumer and California Rep. Nancy Pelosi — are pushing President Donald Trump to accept their unpopular Dream Act legislation without offering any exchange, such as a border wall, penalties on employers who hire illegals or passage of the popular merit-immigration RAISE Act.
The DACA issue blew up September 13 when the two Democrats declared that Trump had agreed to accept a DACA amnesty without getting funds for a border wall.
The cost of the Dream Act is far bigger than the Democrats or their media allies admit. Instead of covering 690,000 younger illegals now enrolled in former President Barack Obama’s 2012 “DACA” amnesty, the Dream Act would legalize at least 3.3 million illegals, according to a pro-immigration group, the Migration Policy Institute.
Once provided with amnesty and citizenship, the 3.3 million illegals would be able to get Obamacare grants — at an estimated cost of roughly $115 billion per decade — and also sponsor many of their foreign-based relatives to join them in the United States, so inflating the scale and cost of the amnesty.
Strange’s silence on the issue has prompted critics to say he has quietly agreed to support the amnesty, which is backed by a large swath of companies who stand to gain from the increased inflow of immigrants, who double as cheap workers and welfare-aided consumers.
For example, the amnesty is boosted by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, which has endorsed Strange. The companies pushing for the DACA amnesty include Walmart and Target. Walmart has more than 130 stores in the state, and Target has at least five stores. Both firms profit from the growing immigrant population in the state.
The state is home to roughly 150,000 immigrants, both legal and illegal, who are working in roughly 84,000 jobs. Fewer than 2,000 of these legal and illegal migrants work as agricultural workers, while at least 35,000 are working middle-class jobs in construction or the food sector, or as teachers, according to a pro-immigration lobbying group founded by billionaire Mike Bloomberg.
The number of DACA illegals in the state is roughly 4,300, but many similar-aged illegals would be eligible for the bigger Dream Act amnesty.
Pro-amnesty advocates at the White House, September 5, 2017
In July, at least 96,251 unemployed Alabamans were looking for jobs. Many other state residents have given up looking for jobs.
The inflow of extra foreign workers helps keep wages low in the state. In December 2016, for example, the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics reported:
[The] average weekly wages advanced in five of Alabama’s largest counties from the second quarter of 2015 to the second quarter of 2016. Shelby’s 2.8-percent wage increase ranked 107th among the nation’s 344 largest counties and was the only large county in Alabama to rank in the top third of the national ranking. Average weekly wage growth in Alabama’s four other large counties ranged from 2.3 to 0.1 percent. (See table 1.) … When all 67 counties in Alabama were considered, 23 reported average weekly wages under $650, 24 had wages from $650-$749, 12 had wages from $750-$849, and 8 had wages above $850.
When serving at the state’s Attorney General in 2011, Strange sought to weaken the state’s draft HB 56 law curbing the employment of illegal immigrants. He initially failed, but when Obama’s federal government later sued the state to stop enforcement of the law, Strange used his power as Attorney General in October 2013 to stop defending the law and allow most of it to be eliminated.
Reportedly, Strange also has a one-sixth share in a company which effectively trades EB-5 visas and green cards to wealthy Chinese people who want to live in the United States. On September 19, his campaign staff told WHNT that “Luther agrees with the Trump administration that there are serious concerns over the EB-5 visa program, which is not being used as originally intended. It’s time for Congress to get to work on these issues.” The Strange statement did not propose to eliminate the often-criticized EB-5 program.
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