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SUPER RICH
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TRUMPERNOMICS: THE SUPER RICH
"The tax overhaul would mean an unprecedented windfall for the super-rich, on top of the fact that virtually all income gains during the period of the supposed recovery from the financial crash of 2008 have gone to the top 1 percent income bracket."
DHS Official: Donald Trump Wants DACA Illegals to Get Amnesty, Become Citizens
President Donald Trump thinks it makes sense to sign an amnesty for young illegal immigrants and to let them become citizens, an official from the Department of Homeland Security told Senators on Tuesday.
“Under a rational bill, these [DACA] individuals would be able to become lawful permanent residents with a pathway to citizenship,” Michael Dougherty, the assistant secretary for border, immigration and trade policy, told GOP Sen. John Kennedy during a Tuesday hearing of the Senate judiciary committee.
The statement reflected Trump’s turnabout since his election campaign when he promised to send all illegals homewards, including the 800,000 younger illegals who got work permits via former President Barack Obama’s 2012 “DACA” amnesty.
However, Dougherty declined to provide Kennedy with any guidance about what security measures, border-wall improvements or immigration reforms must be packaged to create an “rational” amnesty for the younger illegals, whose numbers include roughly 3.3 million of the approximately 12 million illegals residing in the United States.
“So the president believes they should be allowed to stay,” Kennedy asked Dougherty, 92 minutes into the hearing.
“The president, yes, would like to work with Congress to get a solution,” Dougherty answered the Lousiana Senator.
“Under what conditions does the president believe they should be allowed to stay?” Kennedy asked.
“I don’t have those details for you, sir,” replied Dougherty.
“We need all the assistance we can get,” said Kennedy, whose used the “dreamers” term to describe the illegals, not young Americans.
“We need clarity from the administration,” said North Carolina GOP Sen. Thom Tillis told the administration officials. Tillis is pushing his own pro-business amnesty bill that would allow the illegals to get citizenship in 15 years.
Administration officials have promised to provide clarity in a few days, once they have completed a strategic plan for immigration reform. They began preparing the pan following the disastrous September 13 meeting in the White House with the Democrats’ leaders in the Senate and House, Minority Leader Sen. Chuck Schumer and Minority Leader Rep. Nancy Pelosi. The Democrats emerged from teh meting claiming that Trump had agree to a no-strings, no-wall amnesty for the 3.3 million younger illegals.
The White House plan is expected to include parts of the popular RAISE Act, which would raise Americans’ wages by cutting unskilled “chain migration” arrivals of new citizens’ family relations. That bill is backed by Trump, Georgia Sen. David Perdue and Arkansas Sen. Tom Cotton.
Dougherty told the Senators that the White House’s priorities include “border control, expanding the ability to quickly remove people who enter illegally and do not claim asylum, better vetting, reducing visa overstays, reforming non-immigrant business visas and establishing a merit-based system that favors skilled immigrants,” according to a Reuters report.
The Senators and witnesses did not talk about the scale and cost of an amnesty, which could quickly reach a record-breaking 3.3 million — not counting subsequent chain migration — at a record-breaking cost of at least $116 billion over ten years. Democratic Senators portrayed the young illegals as an economic boon to the United States, even though relatively few have productive skills.
Democratic Senators pleaded with Trump’s officials to not push for any concessions in an amnesty deal, hinting the illegal-immigrant political activists are unable to accept any conditions or compromise that might hinder amnesty and government aid for their siblings, parents and foreign relatives. Young illegal immigrants protesting outside the White House told Breitbart News in September that they oppose immigration reductions, enhanced enforcement or funding for a border wall.
“Building a wall can’t stop people coming into different countries … it is a better opportunity for their families,” said Jessica A. who was part of a group from Trinity Washington University in Washington D.C. “I can’t say that needs to stop,” she told Breitbart.
“Please do not put the burden on the Dreamers to accept every aspect of comprehensive immigration reform to get a chance to become citizens of the United States,” Illinois Democratic Sen. Dick Durbin said vehemently. “That is too much to ask,” he said, adding that leaders could talk about “‘some reasonable way” on “border security.” Durbin also used the term “dreamer” to describe young illegals, not young Americans.
Texas Republican Sen. John Cornyn called for a series of small-scale immigration bills. “I don’t think we’re capable of passing a comprehensive immigration bill,” he said, so Congress should start with border security and interior enforcement bills. “That is the first step — not the last step,” he said. “We need to regain the [voters’] trust … the American people simply don’t trust us to solve the problem.”
Trump’s tax
plan: The wish list of the American oligarchy
2 October 2017
On Wednesday, the Trump administration outlined a tax “reform”
proposal that would be one of the largest upward redistributions of wealth in
human history. The plan would essentially establish in law what is increasingly
apparent in fact: The United States is an oligarchy.
The proposal would reduce the top individual income tax rate from
39.6 percent to 35 percent, cut the corporate tax rate from 35 percent to 15
percent, eliminate the estate and gift tax, and allow wealthy individuals to
establish “pass through entities” in which their own personal income, including
from wages, would be taxed at just 25 percent.
The release of the tax plan comes at a time of desperate need for
hundreds of millions of people in the US. The US territory of Puerto Rico
remains submerged without electricity, food, water, fuel or medicine. Houston
is devastated in the wake of Hurricane Irma, and Florida in the wake of
Hurricane Harvey. The industrial Midwest faces an opioid epidemic that takes
the lives of tens of thousands each year. Everywhere millions lack adequate
health care, education and infrastructure.
While the ruling class makes trillions available for war, bank
bailouts, quantitative easing and tax cuts for the rich, it ignores basic
social needs with criminal indifference. Just yesterday, both the House and
Senate missed a deadline to fund the Children’s Health Insurance Program,
meaning that nine million poor children face having no health care in the
coming weeks and months.
A flurry of activity is accompanying the announcement of Trump’s
tax plan, which the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center estimates will reduce federal
revenue by $2.4 trillion in the next decade and another $3.2 trillion in the
following decade. Corporate tax cuts will produce added corporate revenue of $6.7
trillion by 2037.
On Sunday, Trump Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin made the rounds
of the morning talk shows declaring, with a straight face, that “the objective
of the president is that rich people don’t get tax cuts.”
Mnuchin, the administration and Wall Street play the population
for suckers.
The abolition of the estate tax alone will net $240 billion by
2027 to those worth over $5 million, just 0.02 percent of the population.
Beyond this massive sum, the elimination of any taxation on money passed
between generations of aristocrats establishes the oligarchic principle of
dynastic rule. Before long, the new nobility will take the logical next step in
demanding the repeal of another progressive era reform, the Sixteenth
Amendment, which granted congress the right to tax income.
In the 4th century BCE, Aristotle defined the term “oligarchy” to
mean a form of government where the non-rich are “absolutely excluded” from
social decision-making. Under capitalism, the ruling class has taken this
definition to a new level. In the US today, the government exists solely as a
vehicle for enriching the wealthy and carrying out its domestic and foreign
policy goals.
The government’s top personnel are themselves billionaires and
millionaires. The media, universities, technology companies and trade unions
function as subservient semi-official state institutions whose purpose is to
suppress social opposition and stifle free speech. The Democrats and
Republicans function like factions of the same party that agree on enforcing
the interests of the oligarchy.
In response to Trump’s tax plan, House Democratic leader Nancy
Pelosi told the New York
Times Saturday, “The president wants to work together. We have
a responsibility to find common ground.” Senate leader Charles Schumer told
Face the Nation yesterday, “We want to work with them if they will change… You
know, they have to consult us.” Last month, the Times called for
corporate tax cuts in an editorial titled, “Want to Make a Deal, Mr. Trump?”
As is the norm in American politics, the Republicans are setting
the reactionary framework within which the Democrats will likely propose only
minor changes before securing the bill’s passage. Despite issuing official
proclamations of opposition to Trump’s plan, the Democrats’ position is
dictated by the demands of not only their corporate sponsors who are salivating
over Trump’s proposal, but also a significant portion of their base in the
affluent 10 percent who stand to gain substantially under the plan.
The policies of the American financial oligarchy have already
produced unprecedented levels of social inequality, represented in data from a
recently released Federal Reserve report:
From 2004 to 2016, the income of the bottom 80 percent of the US
declined, with the exception of a bare $1,000 increase in the income of the
poorest fifth. Meanwhile, the median annual family income of the top 10 percent
increased by $25,100.
The growth in wealth inequality is even starker. Federal Reserve
data shows the bottom 90 percent saw their wealth decline drastically from 2004
to 2016. The sharper fall in median family net worth compared to median family
income indicates that the vast majority of the population is overwhelmed by the
rising cost of living and that even modest income gains are erased by the added
cost of health care, transportation, food, housing, education, etc.
The Trump administration’s tax proposal will greatly exacerbate
social inequality. According to the Tax Policy Center’s report, the top 1
percent will see their after-tax annual income rise by 8.5 percent, compared to
an after-tax increase of those in the bottom 95 percent of between 0.5 and 1.2
percent.
The tax cuts will increase the debt to over 50 percent of GDP by
2036 and will be used by both parties to demand massive cuts to social safety
net programs as well as to Social Security and Medicare, thereby erasing the
paltry tax cuts for hundreds of millions of Americans.
The massive growth in social inequality is the product of policies
implemented by both parties over the last fifty years. There is every
indication that another bipartisan arrangement is in the works, with Trump
appearing at rallies with three Democratic Senators calling for tax reform.
The American oligarchy operates with a
degree of domination over the government
and official institutions that rivals that of the
Bourbons and Romanovs. But the political
establishment is deeply concerned over the
growth of social opposition in the working
class, a concern which underlies their
campaign to censor and control the Internet.
But through its tax plan, the Trump
administration is fanning a growing social
anger that will take the form of explosive
social struggles in the period to come.
degree of domination over the government
and official institutions that rivals that of the
Bourbons and Romanovs. But the political
establishment is deeply concerned over the
growth of social opposition in the working
class, a concern which underlies their
campaign to censor and control the Internet.
But through its tax plan, the Trump
administration is fanning a growing social
anger that will take the form of explosive
social struggles in the period to come.
Eric London
Trump’s Amnesty Talk Coincides with Illegal Border Crossings Surge
Illegal border crossings spiked at the same time President Donald Trump’s administration spoke with congressional Democrats about potentially giving amnesty to hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens.
President Trump met with House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) weeks ago. The meeting gave the appearance of the president seeming to cave on his major campaign promise to oppose amnesty for illegal aliens, Breitbart News reported.
The negotiations were centered on the nearly 800,000 illegal aliens shielded by the Obama-created Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. Though no deal has been made between the White House and Congress – two amnesty bills have been filed in the House and Senate. The talk of amnesty in Washington, D.C. has already led to surges of illegal crossings at the U.S./Mexico border.
As Breitbart Texas reported, illegal border crossings peaked at 22,293 in the month of August. This represents an almost 25 percent increase over the month before, reaching almost August 2012 illegal immigration levels.
At the same time, the number of Unaccompanied Alien Children (UAC) and Family Unit Aliens (FMUA) apprehended while illegally cross into the U.S. through Mexico increased as well. In the month of August, nearly 3,000 UACs were apprehended at the southern border, an increase of 20 percent from July. Another 4,645 FMUAs were arrested at the border, an increase of 37 percent from the month before.
In a report by McClatchy DC, a U.S. official said the illegal immigration levels – which were at a historic low in April of this year – have taken a “surprising” turn.
“They’ve definitely began creeping back up,” the official said. “They’re still low compared to recent years, but when you look at the calendar they’re trending in a surprising direction. They’re trending up.”
Additionally, because the federal government under Trump continues to relocate UACs and FMUAs across the U.S. if they can persuade officials about their fears in their native countries, the U.S. official said illegal aliens may believe that an immigration crackdown under the administration is just talk, rather than action.
“People may be figuring that out,” the official told McClatchy DC. “They may have assumed that it was going to be worse than it is.”
With mere talks of amnesty coinciding with a spike of illegal immigration at the southern border, a deal which gives amnesty to potentially millions of illegal aliens could result in an even greater border surge.
As the Migration Policy Institute has chronicled, previous border surges from amnesty programs have brought hundreds of thousands across the U.S.-Mexico border:
While the flow of Unaccompanied Alien Children (UACs) has been climbing steadily since 2012, a dramatic surge has taken place in the last six months, with the Rio Grande Valley in South Texas as the principal place of entry. The Border Patrol there has converted entire stations to house unaccompanied minors and families.According to the Border Patrol, apprehensions of unaccompanied children increased from 16,067 in fiscal year (FY) 2011 to 24,481 in FY 2012 and 38,833 in FY 2013. During the first eight months of FY 2014, 47,017 such children were apprehended by the Border Patrol. If the influx continues apace—and it shows no signs of slowing—the administration predicts that by the end of the fiscal year on September 30, totals could reach 90,000.Ninety-eight percent of unaccompanied minors currently arriving at the border are from Honduras (28 percent), Mexico (25 percent), Guatemala (24 percent), and El Salvador (21 percent). This breakdown represents a significant shift: prior to 2012, more than 75 percent of UACs were from Mexico.
John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart Texas. Follow him on Twitter at @JxhnBinder.
Chuck Schumer: During Our Negotiations Trump Said ‘OK, We Won’t Do the Wall’
This week on the “Pod Save America” podcast, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) detailed the debt ceiling and Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) policy negotiations he had with House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and President Donald Trump earlier in the month.
Schumer said, “On DREAMers, he said, you know, that he understood that they didn’t come in through any fault of their own, that they’re good Americans, good kids. And then he said he wants the wall in return. And we said ‘No. No wall, Mr. President.’ And he tried that for about 15 minutes, but he’s not going to push me around verbally or any other way.”
He added, “And he finally said, “OK, we won’t do the wall. We’ll do some other kind of border security.”
OPEN BORDERS:
IT'S ALL ABOUT KEEPING WAGES DEPRESSED AND PASSING ALONG
THE ILLEGALS' WELFARE AND CRIME COSTS TO THE AMERICAN
MIDDLE CLASS!
“That Washington-imposed policy of mass-immigration floods the market with foreign labor, spikes profits and Wall Street values by cutting salaries for manual and skilled labor offered by blue-collar and white-collar employees. It also drives up real estate prices, widens wealth-gaps, reduces high-tech investment, increases state and local tax burdens, hurts kids’ schools and college education, pushes Americans away from high-tech careers, and sidelines at least 5 million marginalized Americans and their families, including many who are now struggling with opioid addictions.” ---- NEIL MUNRO
Two Previously Deported MS-13 Gang Members, Child Rapist Arrested at Border
Border Patrol agents arrested two previously-deported MS-13 gang members and a convicted child rapist after they illegally snuck across the Arizona border. The arrests occurred in three separate smuggling attempts.
Federal authorities arrested 31-year old Eugenio Franco shortly after he had illegally crossed into the country just west of Nogales, Arizona, information provided to Breitbart Texas by the U.S. Border Patrol revealed. While processing the foreign national, authorities determined Franco to be an illegal alien from Mexico with a long criminal history in the U.S. He is also a known member of the MS-13 criminal gang.
While carrying out regular patrols in the desert area near Arivaca, Arizona, federal authorities also arrested 41-year-old Julio Santos, an illegal alien from El Salvador. During processing, authorities discovered the man had a long criminal history in the U.S. He is also a known MS-13 gang member.
Shortly after the arrest of the two MS-13 gang members, authorities arrested another Mexican national, 42-year-old Fernando Lopez De La Cruz, near Tucson. While processing De La Cruz, authorities learned the man had been deported and is a convicted sex offender. A Washington state court convicted De La Cruz and sentenced him to 71 months in prison on the charges of rape and attempted rape of a child.
The discovery of the two MS-13 gang members and the convicted sexual predator was made possible after border patrol agents processed the illegal aliens at the station by taking their photograph and fingerprinting them in order to find out if they are known to law enforcement.
Law enforcement officials nationwide are targeting MS-13 members, many of which are illegal aliens with violent criminal records. In October 2012, the U.S. Department of Treasury labeled the group a “transnational criminal organization,” the first such designation for a street gang. During a 10-year period between 2005 and 2014, officials arrested 4,000 members of MS-13 — 92 percent of those were in the United States illegally — according to information provided by the Center for Immigration Studies.
Recently, the state of New York announced the deployment of a new Gang Violence Prevention Unit specifically tasked with combating the MS-13 crisis in Suffolk County, Breitbart Texas reported. The unit consists of ten state police troopers, who are being deployed to the top ten high-risk Suffolk County schools that currently serve as ground zero for gang activity and recruitment.
Most gang experts believe that the presence of illegal alien gangs in U.S. communities is due to decades of failure on the part of our federal government to secure our southern border and policies that allow such criminals to find sanctuary on U.S. soil.
Robert Arce is a retired Phoenix Police detective with extensive experience working Mexican organized crime and street gangs. Arce has worked in the Balkans, Iraq, Haiti, and recently completed a three-year assignment in Monterrey, Mexico, working out of the Consulate for the United States Department of State, International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Program, where he was the Regional Program Manager for Northeast Mexico (Coahuila, Tamaulipas, Nuevo Leon, Durango, San Luis Potosi, Zacatecas.)
Last Weekend
Last weekend, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers seized 158 pounds of alleged crystal methamphetamine during two separate routine vehicle searches at the Juarez-Lincoln International Bridge.
Border Patrol Officers
Seized More Than $3.2
Million in Crystal Meth
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On Saturday, September 23, CBP officers became suspicious of a 2009 GMC Sierra driven by a 29-year-old American citizen. After issuing a second examination of the car, a CBP canine unit alerted authorities to the presence of drugs inside the vehicle. A thorough search of the car found 32 packages of alleged crystal meth, totaling 122 pounds.
Then on Monday, September 25, CBP officers again suspected a driver of smuggling drugs into the United States. Here, the canine unit discovered 36 pounds of alleged meth. This alleged drug smuggler was a 40-year-old Mexican citizen.
Both drivers were arrested and the case was handed to Immigration Customs Enforcement. The drugs and vehicles were detained by authorities as well.
In total, the confiscated drugs are worth $3,247,816.
“These significant narcotic seizures are examples of the remarkable border security work our CBP officers undertake on a daily basis,” said Port Director Gregory Alvarez, Laredo Port of Entry. “Our officers remain vigilant and continue to be successful in keeping these narcotics off our streets and away from our youth.”
Earlier this month, CBP authorities confiscated nearly $4 million worth of alleged crystal methamphetamine hidden within a commercial trailer.
CBP authorities are in charge of protecting the nation primarily from terror threats crossing the border, but their rigorous inspection process often yields millions worth of illegal drugs as well.
On Wednesday alone, El Paso port authorities seized 450 pounds of marijuana in five different searches.
“The smuggling threat is consistent. Vigilant CBP officers are stepping up every day to stop drug loads,” said one CPB director. “The work we perform plays an important role in keeping our nation safe from all threats.”
Meth, in particular, is becoming increasingly popular on oil rigs in Texas. Texas has experienced a burst in expansion in the shale industry. Many workers take meth in order to stay on the job longer. The drug has the ability to "wire" people's brains so they can supposedly stay awake for 24 hours and work at a faster rate.
One oil rig worker told Reuters, “(On meth) I’d work 24 hours…I was just plagued with fatigue and needed something to improve my work ethic.”
According to the Albuquerque Journal, about 90 percent of meth consumed in the United States is manufactured in Mexico. This meth is often smuggled into the States in by various Mexican drug cartels. These cartels contribute to violence and murder in America due to the lucrative but dangerous black-market for drugs.
U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions noted earlier this year,
“Drug cartels bring death and destruction across our Southern border and sell drugs that take lives all across America. The work our ICE officers do every day to keep these criminals out of our country and secure our border is heroic and makes all of us safer."
But, as stated last year in a report by the New York Times, drug cartels have paid hundreds of Homeland Security officials nearly $15 million to “look the other way” to similar drug smuggling attempts over the last decade.
President Donald J. Trump has vowed to stop drugs coming in via the southern border. In August, he declareda national emergency to address the opioid epidemic plaguing various communities around the U.S. In 2016, there were roughly 50,000 deaths caused by drug overdoses.
CATASTROPHIC CRIME SURGE IN MEX-
OCCUPIED CALIFORNIA
Half the murders in Mexifornia are now by
Mex gangs!
Mex gangs!
Border Wall Prototype Construction Begins
The construction of President Donald Trump’s promised prototype border wall began on Tuesday. Six companies that won the competitive bidding process will begin testing various types of walls.
The companies will begin building eight test sections of wall on Tuesday, Fox News Insider reported.
“Today is the day the dirt actually moves,” Fox’s Adam Housley reported from the area. He said it will take about a week or two before anything significant is constructed.
Just a few weeks ago, the finalists were announced by U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Breitbart News’ Michelle Moons reported in August.
The companies selected to build the eight prototypes were:
- Caddell Construction Co. (DE), LLC of Montgomery, AL
- Fisher Sand & Gravel Co., DBA Fisher Industries of Tempe, AZ
- Texas Sterling Construction Co. of Houston, TX
- W.G. Yates & Sons Construction Company of Philadelphia, MS
“The concrete border wall prototypes will allow CBP to evaluate the potential for new wall and barrier designs that could complement the wall and barrier designs we have used along the border over the last several years,” CBP officials stated. “As the border security environment continues to evolve, CBP will continually refresh its own inventory of tools to meet that evolution.”
In June, one contractor produced a video showing a prototype of the wall, Breitbart Texas reported.
The prototypes will be built in the San Diego Sector in southern California.
In anticipation of the construction start, San Diego police officers and sheriff’s deputies placed “No Parking” signs along the roads and streets near the border, the Los Angeles Times reported. The ban went into effect on Tuesday and extends until November 10 in the county and November 1 in the city.
Officials are working on establishing a “free-speech zone,” where protesters will be allowed to express their opinions.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection and San Diego Sheriff’s Department vehicles could be seen driving in the area on Monday in advance of the construction startup.
Bob Price serves as associate editor and senior political news contributor for Breitbart Texas. He is a founding member of the Breitbart Texas team. Follow him on Twitter @BobPriceBBTX, GAB, and Facebook.
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