Thursday, January 26, 2017

MARK KRIKORIAN - TRUMP TELLS BORDER AGENCIES "This is a law-enforcement agency." THE DAYS OF OBAMA'S SABOTAGE OF HOMELAND SECURITY ARE OVER!

By Mark Krikorian
January 25, 2017
 "This is a law-enforcement agency."

That's what President Trump told Department of Homeland Security staff Wednesday after he signed two executive orders on immigration enforcement.
The fact that he had to say that – and that the assembled ICE agents, Border Patrol officers, and others heartily applauded – tells you all you need to know about how badly Obama gutted immigration enforcement and torpedoed employee morale.
The two executive orders dealt with border and interior enforcement. They are substantive and far-reaching, a change from the pabulum and generalities we usually get from politicians. Some of the directives will have immediate impact, while others will require congressional action and will take time to bear fruit.
Border. The border enforcement order led off with the wall, naturally, calling for "the immediate construction of a physical wall." The definitions section allowed for some wiggle room, saying "‘Wall' shall mean a contiguous, physical wall or other similarly secure, contiguous, and impassable physical barrier."
Though the wall provisions get the press attention, more important might be the other parts of the border directive. For instance, it directs that border infiltrators be dealt with at the border, and not released into the country with a summons to appear in court, often years in the future. The order calls for the construction or contracting of more detention facilities, plus the assignment of asylum officers and immigration judges on site. This represents the termination of what the order itself calls "the practice commonly known as ‘catch and release.'" (Border Patrol union chief Brandon Judd testified last year that more than 80 percent of infiltrators apprehended by the Border Patrol are released into the U.S.)
It also calls for the "proper application" of the law governing the treatment of unaccompanied children who have been trafficked into the U.S. Obama's people used that law (the William Wilberforce Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2008) as a pretext to allow the de facto permanent settlement of thousands of Central American minors who were neither unaccompanied nor trafficked (and often not even minors). Rather than being kidnapped or tricked by what we used to call white slavers seeking fresh meat for the sex trade – the intended beneficiaries of the law – Obama extended its protections to young people coming voluntarily, accompanied by smugglers who'd been paid by their illegal-alien parents in the U.S. This has been one of the main reasons for the surge in border infiltrations in south Texas.
Interior. The order on interior enforcement is also going to have real impact. The part that got the most attention was the directive to cut off funding to sanctuary cities – jurisdictions that take it upon themselves to decide whether an illegal alien's crimes are serious enough to warrant deportation, rather than leaving that judgment up to the federal immigration authorities. (We have a map of them here.)
But there's a lot more there, including restoration of the 287g program, which deputizes local authorities to start the deportation paperwork; reinstituting the successful Secure Communities program to identify immigration violators when they're booked by local cops; and a cutoff of visas for countries that refuse to take back their own citizens when we try to deport them.
Another seemingly minor goal of the executive order will have important consequences: increasing transparency of information. There are to be regular reports on the immigration status of inmates in prisons and jails and weekly reporting of crimes committed by non-citizens, including those instances when sanctuary cities released someone DHS wanted to deport. These statistics will represent an ongoing source of political pressure on sanctuary cities and the anti-borders crowd more generally. The order also specifies that DHS is to stop the Obama-era practice of pretending that the federal Privacy Act applies to illegal aliens, which it specifically does not.
Finally, the interior enforcement executive order includes a matter that genuinely seems close to the president's heart – the families of people who were killed by illegal aliens. It establishes an Office for Victims of Crimes Committed by Removable Aliens, an important change in perspective for DHS. Up to now, DHS has been told its customers are the aliens themselves, which is why Obama created the position of ICE Public Advocate and USCIS Ombudsman, both of them serving as advocates for foreigners trying to get or stay in the U.S. The new victims' services office makes clear DHS's clientele is the American people, not foreigners.
The resonance of the families' plight was clear when Trump concluded his comments to DHS staff with an extended discussion of the victim families, some half-dozen of whom were present and whom he recognized individually, naming their lost relatives in turn. Referring to anti-borders folks who complain that immigration enforcement splits families, he said "they don't talk about American families forever separated from the ones they love." Regarding their role in shining a light on our shamefully lax immigration system, President Trump told them, "I want you to know that your children will not have lost their lives for no reason."
The big thing that was missing from the interior enforcement order was any reference to worksite enforcement or E-Verify. Maybe they will be the subject of future policy directives; the outlines of several more orders have already been leaked, including one addressing visa-tracking and the arrival of people from terror-ridden nations in the Middle East. Vox has drafts of several more that seem legit, including one ending DACA (though why they didn't just suspend processing on Day One, before the order's legal details were fully nailed down, I don't know).
Of course, all this relates only to enforcing the law. Any reduction in legal immigration – which is the most important objective from a jobs or welfare or even security perspective – has to come from Congress. The good news is that Sen. Tom Cotton is apparently working on a bill to do just that.
In any case, Trump campaigned as an immigration hawk and seems determined to actually govern that way. There will be plenty more tests of his commitment to following through – defiant sanctuary cities, greedy employers, leftist lawfare warriors, oleaginous lobbyists. But the new administration's immigration kick-off is a resounding success.
Trump to target flood of refugees, criminal illegals in executive orders: President Trump on Wednesday is expected to shift to illegal immigration issues and target law-breaking criminal illegals and the wave of largely Muslim refugees flooding into the country. Also in focus will be so-called sanctuary cities. Trump criticized federally-funded cities such as San Francisco that block federal officials from seizing illegals in their jails and he has promised to deport some two million aliens convicted of crimes. Incoming Attorney General Jeff Sessions has called for an end to sanctuary cities and federal funding to those that block federal agents. White House officials gave sketchy details of the president's plans to reporters and key congressional lawmakers, but some have emerged. Reuters had a story about the focus on the Middle East and Washington Post reporter Robert Costa tweeted on the border and sanctuary cities.

Trump to target flood of refugees, criminal illegals in executive orders


President Trump on Wednesday is expected to shift to illegal immigration issues and target law-breaking criminal illegals and the wave of largely Muslim refugees flooding into the country.

Also in focus will be so-called "sanctuary cities." Trump criticized federally-funded cities such as San Francisco that block federal officials from seizing illegals in their jails and he has promised to deport some two million aliens convicted of crimes. Incoming Attorney General Jeff Sessions has called for an end to sanctuary cities and federal funding to those that block federal agents.
White House officials gave sketchy details of the president's plans to reporters and key congressional lawmakers, but some have emerged. Reuters had a story about the focus on the Middle East and Washington Post reporter Robert Costa tweeted on the border and sanctuary cities.
Other sources said that the president will focus on refugees from Muslim nations. Under former President Obama, some 18,000 Syrian refugees were let into the U.S., and their background checks by the United Nations has been questioned. Trump has pledged to put the brakes on the refugee influx from warring Muslim countries.
In a signal that Trump plans to make sanctuary cities and criminal illegals a key target, at least two "angel" families victimized by the aliens are planning to participate in the signing of anti-illegal immigration executive orders, sources told Secrets.

Among those traveling to Washington is Steve Ronnebeck, whose son Grant, 21, was killed while working at a convenience store in Mesa, Arizona. The killer was illegal Apolinar Altamirano, who had recently been let out of jail after a conviction for burglary and other crimes.
Another is Mary Ann Mendoza, who had written a letter to former President Obama who sought action and against illegal immigrants after her son was killed in a crash by a drunk illegal.

Jessica M. Vaughan, director of policy studies for the Center for Immigration Studies, said, "These actions are very good news, and will be welcomed with relief in communities all over the country. The Obama administration's tolerance of illegal immigration and unreasonable restrictions on enforcement had tragic results, and it's appropriate that one of President Trumps first acts is to undo some of these policies."

Her group has charted the damage criminal aliens and sanctuary cities have done to the country and said that Trump has the support of a majority of Americans.

"The interest groups that clamor for more immigration want all the public discussion to be about the illegal aliens who got work permits under DACA, but these actions targeting criminal aliens are more important for the well-being of our communities. This is one of the reasons people voted for Donald Trump – to return some sanity to our immigration system."
Paul Bedard, the Washington Examiner's "Washington Secrets" columnist, can be contacted at pbedard@washingtonexaminer.com


January 27, 2017

Why Mexico will pay for the wall

The debate around Donald Trump's wall has been shaped by liberal and media narratives that focus on illegal immigrants in the U.S.  The left has painted a picture of compassion for these immigrants, making them the entirety of the story.  Sanctuary cities have declared safe havens for illegal immigrants, without really distinguishing between the good and the bad among them.  They have also spun numbers about temporarily declining immigration rates to diminish the significance of the problem.  Liberals have labeled opponents of open borders hard-hearted racists.  Immigration has become one of those narrative stories, filled with human suffering, compassion, and demonized enemies, that liberals love to love.
What liberals have ignored is the severe consequences of slack U.S. borders for Mexico.  Mexican society and the Mexican economy have been severely distorted and held hostage for decades by criminal gangs that make their living smuggling drugs and migrants into the U.S.  Their access to and control over the U.S. border are precisely what has brought them power and wealth, while unleashing a long-term scourge on Mexican society.  These gangs murder, kidnap, 

and extort innocent Mexican citizens.  They 

corrupt the Mexican police and military.  They 

transport illegal migrants to the U.S. – extorting, 

exploiting, raping, and murdering them along the 

way.  They transport drugs to the U.S., 

undermining our civil society and killing our 

citizens.  They instill fear and violence across 

Mexican society, preventing it from achieving the 

stable, middle-class society that NAFTA 

promised.  These truths are well documented in 

news reports, testimony from ranchers who own 

border land, and movies.
Where is liberals' compassion, in their self-absorption and attachment to their own narratives, for the honest citizens of Mexico who are victimized in their own country by the criminal gangs fostered and financed by open U.S. borders?
Liberals have a narrative about the tons of illegal drugs these gangs transport into the U.S., too.  It goes something like this: we did drugs when we were young (Choomer Obama), and it didn't harm us.  Look at us now: we're running things, and isn't the world a better place?  Those deplorables dying of heroin overdoses in flyover country?  The real problem is the War on Drugs.  If only we legalized and taxed drugs, unfortunates could get drugs easily and wouldn't have to go into debt and commit crimes to finance their habits.  With the taxes, we could finance more social programs.  The people who can't control themselves?  We can medicalize their addictions and give them unlimited health care.
Shutting down the U.S. border will reduce or eliminate the power and wealth of these criminal gangs and their stranglehold over Mexican society.  Once they no longer have access to the U.S. border, they will no longer have access to the source of their wealth and power.
Trump's wall will eliminate the reign of terror under which Mexico's honest citizens have lived for a long time.  The benefits that a wall will bring to Mexican civil society and to law and order should be reasons for liberals to support Trump's wall.  These benefits are also why Mexico, once it has overcome the perceived affront to its dignity, will gladly pay.
Shutting down the U.S. border will also 

dramatically reduce the flow of illegal drugs 

into the U.S., with all their negative economic 

and social consequences.
I'm waiting for a liberal to argue against these benefits, but I haven't found one yet.

CAUTION!


HERE IS THE MEXICO POURING OVER OUR OPEN AND UNDEFENDED BORDERS AND HAULING BACK BILLIONS FROM HEROIN SALES!

GRAPHIC IMAGES of America coming under Mex Occupation

The NARCOMEX drug cartels now operate in all major American cities and haul back to NARCOMEX between $40 top $60 BILLION from sales of HEROIN!




ILLEGALS & WELFARE
70% OF ILLEGALS GET WELFARE!
“According to the Centers for Immigration Studies, April '11, at least 70% of Mexican illegal alien families receive some type of welfare in the US!!! cis.org”
CIS

 REVOLUTION IN MEXICO: Will It Spread Over America’s Open Borders?
LOS ANGELES: Mexico’s Second Largest City, First Place for Billion Dollar Mexican Welfare, Number 1 for Mexican Murder and Western Gateway For the LA RAZA Mexican Drug Cartels
TEXAS GOV FIGHTS BACK LA RAZA MEX OCCUPATION!
WHY ARE ILLEGALS ABOVE THE LAW?

SANCTUARY CITIES and SANCTUARY STATE of CALIFORNIA: The LA RAZA welfare state on our backs!

"The American Southwest seems to be slowly 

returning to the jurisdiction of Mexico 

without firing a single shot."  --

EXCELSIOR --- national newspaper of 

Mexico



REMITTANCES ….. are only part of Mexico’s 

looting… and billions for anchor  baby breeders, 

billions for heroin sales and then do the numbers!




Mexicans abroad sent home nearly $2.4 billion in transfers in November, 24.7 percent higher than a year earlier, marking their fastest pace of expansion since March 2006, according to Mexican central bank data on Monday…

MEXICO'S EXPORTS TO AMERICA: HEROIN, POVERTY, CRIMINALS, ANCHOR BABY BREEDERS..... but what does Mexico do to their illegals? SHOCKING!

During my time in Mexico, I learned a couple of things about Mexico's immigration laws.   First, Mexico is dead serious about immigrations laws.  Our company hired an immigration lawyer to process all the paperwork.  He came aro...


Mexico deports a lot more than you may think



During my time in Mexico, I learned a couple of things about Mexico's immigration laws.  
First, Mexico is dead serious about immigrations laws.  Our company hired an immigration lawyer to process all the paperwork.  He came around once a year for us to sign our renewals, tax statements, and whatever else the Foreign Ministry required of us working and living there. 
One time I said, laughing: "Why are you guys so picky with us?  All we do is pay taxes and spend our dollars."   
My Mexican attorney friend broke out laughing and said, "Mensaje amigo, mensaje." 
In other words, "message," or that we don't want the word to get out that this is an easy country for people to come into.  He was of course referring to people who may use Mexico to go to the U.S.
Second, Mexico deports a lot.  In fact, it's something that most in the political class admit up front to remind the voters that they are looking out for them.  Putting Mexico first is something every Mexican president repeats proudly.
Yes, Mexico deports, and quite a bit, as we saw this week in this article by Adriana Peralta, an advocate for El Salvador refugees who get caught up in Mexico:
The history of immigration in Mexico can be defined by its constant request to the United States for more ease of access, and by Mexico’s own deportation of other immigrants who enter the country through its southern border.
In 2016 there were 174,526 foreigners returned to their countries of origin, according to Mexico’s Ministry of Interior. 
Of those, 142,509 people were from the Northern Triangle of Central America (El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras).
In that same year, the United States expelled 240,255 people -- 76,472 of which were from the Northern Triangle, and 149,821 more that were from Mexico.
The writer is someone who looks out for El Salvador immigrants, who often get caught up in Mexico without much of a chance for due process.
To be honest, I understand Mexico's position.  They have a border with the U.S. and would be flooded with people using its territory to go to the U.S., including Cubans who now being sent back to the island, too.
At the same time, it shows the hypocrisy of Mexico's political class when they talk about illegal immigration in the U.S.  
They hope we don't see them talking out of both sides of their mouths, as they saying goes.  In my case, and for most of us who understand Mexico, we see the hypocrisy and wish it would stop.
P.S. You can listen to my show (Canto Talk) and follow me on Twitter.

CAUTION!

GRAPHIC IMAGES of America coming under Mex Occupation

The NARCOMEX drug cartels now operate in all major American cities and haul back to NARCOMEX between $40 top $60 BILLION from sales of HEROIN!


 "The American Southwest seems to be slowly returning to the jurisdiction of Mexico without firing a single shot."  --- EXCELSIOR --- national newspaper of Mexico

REMITTANCES ….. are only part of Mexico’s looting… and billions for anchor  baby breeders, billions for heroin sales and then do the numbers!



Mexicans abroad sent home nearly $2.4 billion in transfers in November, 24.7 percent higher than a year earlier, marking their fastest pace of expansion since March 2006, according to Mexican central bank data on Monday…

70% OF ILLEGALS GET WELFARE!
“According to the Centers for Immigration Studies, April '11, at least 70% of Mexican illegal alien families receive some type of welfare in the US!!! cis.org”
CIS
THE STAGGERING  COST OF AMNESTY: non-enforcement is another form of AMNESTY!
Legals to pay trillions for open borders and Mexico’s looting
Between one-quarter and one-third of the 1.5 million new arrivals in 2014 were illegal aliens, meaning that a conservative estimate is that 1,000 illegal aliens a day are moving to the United States.


THE FACE OF MEXICAN FASCISM:
ANTONIO “Taco Runt” VILLARAIGOSA
 DECLARES MEXIFORNIA’S SURRENDER TO LA RAZA SUPREMACY
“Taco Runt” is a member of the Mexican Fascist Movement of M.E.Ch.A. and a racist (yes, Mexicans think of themselves as a unique “race”) LA RAZA supremacist.

He is proud of the fact that he FAILED California’s State Bar test more than any other illiterate Mexican on earth and that qualifies him to operate California’s Mexican Welfare State for LA RAZA.

January 27, 2017

Why Mexico will pay for the wall

The debate around Donald Trump's wall has been shaped by liberal and media narratives that focus on illegal immigrants in the U.S.  The left has painted a picture of compassion for these immigrants, making them the entirety of the story.  Sanctuary cities have declared safe havens for illegal immigrants, without really distinguishing between the good and the bad among them.  They have also spun numbers about temporarily declining immigration rates to diminish the significance of the problem.  Liberals have labeled opponents of open borders hard-hearted racists.  Immigration has become one of those narrative stories, filled with human suffering, compassion, and demonized enemies, that liberals love to love.
What liberals have ignored is the severe consequences of slack U.S. borders for Mexico.  Mexican society and the Mexican economy have been severely distorted and held hostage for decades by criminal gangs that make their living smuggling drugs and migrants into the U.S.  Their access to and control over the U.S. border are precisely what has brought them power and wealth, while unleashing a long-term scourge on Mexican society.  These gangs murder, kidnap, 

and extort innocent Mexican citizens.  They 

corrupt the Mexican police and military.  They 

transport illegal migrants to the U.S. – extorting, 

exploiting, raping, and murdering them along the 

way.  They transport drugs to the U.S., 

undermining our civil society and killing our 

citizens.  They instill fear and violence across 

Mexican society, preventing it from achieving the 

stable, middle-class society that NAFTA 

promised.  These truths are well documented in 

news reports, testimony from ranchers who own 

border land, and movies.
Where is liberals' compassion, in their self-absorption and attachment to their own narratives, for the honest citizens of Mexico who are victimized in their own country by the criminal gangs fostered and financed by open U.S. borders?
Liberals have a narrative about the tons of illegal drugs these gangs transport into the U.S., too.  It goes something like this: we did drugs when we were young (Choomer Obama), and it didn't harm us.  Look at us now: we're running things, and isn't the world a better place?  Those deplorables dying of heroin overdoses in flyover country?  The real problem is the War on Drugs.  If only we legalized and taxed drugs, unfortunates could get drugs easily and wouldn't have to go into debt and commit crimes to finance their habits.  With the taxes, we could finance more social programs.  The people who can't control themselves?  We can medicalize their addictions and give them unlimited health care.
Shutting down the U.S. border will reduce or eliminate the power and wealth of these criminal gangs and their stranglehold over Mexican society.  Once they no longer have access to the U.S. border, they will no longer have access to the source of their wealth and power.
Trump's wall will eliminate the reign of terror under which Mexico's honest citizens have lived for a long time.  The benefits that a wall will bring to Mexican civil society and to law and order should be reasons for liberals to support Trump's wall.  These benefits are also why Mexico, once it has overcome the perceived affront to its dignity, will gladly pay.
Shutting down the U.S. border will also 

dramatically reduce the flow of illegal drugs 

into the U.S., with all their negative economic 

and social consequences.
I'm waiting for a liberal to argue against these benefits, but I haven't found one yet.

CAUTION!


HERE IS THE MEXICO POURING OVER OUR OPEN AND UNDEFENDED BORDERS AND HAULING BACK BILLIONS FROM HEROIN SALES!

GRAPHIC IMAGES of America coming under Mex Occupation

The NARCOMEX drug cartels now operate in all major American cities and haul back to NARCOMEX between $40 top $60 BILLION from sales of HEROIN!




ILLEGALS & WELFARE
70% OF ILLEGALS GET WELFARE!
“According to the Centers for Immigration Studies, April '11, at least 70% of Mexican illegal alien families receive some type of welfare in the US!!! cis.org”
CIS

 REVOLUTION IN MEXICO: Will It Spread Over America’s Open Borders?
LOS ANGELES: Mexico’s Second Largest City, First Place for Billion Dollar Mexican Welfare, Number 1 for Mexican Murder and Western Gateway For the LA RAZA Mexican Drug Cartels
TEXAS GOV FIGHTS BACK LA RAZA MEX OCCUPATION!
WHY ARE ILLEGALS ABOVE THE LAW?

SANCTUARY CITIES and SANCTUARY STATE of CALIFORNIA: The LA RAZA welfare state on our backs!

"The American Southwest seems to be slowly 

returning to the jurisdiction of Mexico 

without firing a single shot."  --

EXCELSIOR --- national newspaper of 

Mexico



REMITTANCES ….. are only part of Mexico’s 

looting… and billions for anchor  baby breeders, 

billions for heroin sales and then do the numbers!




Mexicans abroad sent home nearly $2.4 billion in transfers in November, 24.7 percent higher than a year earlier, marking their fastest pace of expansion since March 2006, according to Mexican central bank data on Monday…

THE DEMOCRAT PARTY'S ASSAULT ON THE AMERICAN WORKER: DEM ISIAH "IKE" LEGGETT SAYS PAYING A LIVING WAGE IS SIMPLY COMMIE!

 AMERICA UNRAVELS:

 The Road to Revolution or Civil War II Will Pass Down Wall Street


“Behind this year’s surge is a toxic mix of cuts to social services, unemployment, hopelessness…”

Maryland Democrat vetoes $15 county-wide minimum wage bill

By Nick Barrickman 
26 January 2017
On Monday, Montgomery County Executive Isiah “Ike” Leggett announced his plans to veto legislation recently passed by the county’s legislative chamber, which would raise the minimum wage to $15 by 2020. Bill 12-16 passed the Legislative Council of the county located in the Maryland suburbs of Washington, DC in a 5-4 vote last week, despite opposition from local businesses.
If enacted, 12-16 would have required businesses employing more than 26 workers to gradually raise the county’s current minimum wage of $10.75 to $15 by 2020, with businesses employing less than 25 people having an additional two years to raise the hourly pay.
Leggett, a Democrat, cited fears that the bill would place Montgomery County at a “competitive disadvantage … compared to our neighboring jurisdictions” while calling for further study on the impact that raising the minimum wage would have on “private employers’ bottom line as well as the impact on county government.” In addition, Leggett demanded that the minimum wage bill should contain complete exemptions for minors and small businesses, while allowing larger companies until 2022 to implement the changes.
Marc Elrich (D-At Large), who sponsored the bill, defended the legislation by noting that previous studies into the expected impact that a wage raise would have in the county had been inconclusive. “You can’t do an examination of what’s going to happen in the private sector. … You can study what has happened, but you can’t tell what will happen going forward,” he stated. The bill was also supported by the MD/DC Fight for $15 Coalition, which included the Service Employees International Union and the Metro Washington Central Labor Council.
Council members who had opposed the bill based their “no” votes on claims that the legislation would drive away business. “The last time we took this up, we at least had Prince George’s County with us,” stated Nancy Floreen (also a Democrat), adding that enacting such legislation at the state level would be preferable.
Of cities within the region, currently only the District of Columbia has passed a $15 minimum wage bill. It provides for a rise from the present hourly rate of $10.50 to $15 by 2020. In Maryland, the statewide minimum wage is currently $8.75 an hour while in Virginia it is still $7.25, the federal minimum.
Montgomery County is the most populous jurisdiction in the state of Maryland, with a population of over 1,030,000 people. In 2011, Forbes rated the county as the tenth wealthiest county in the United States, while US Census data has recorded the county’s yearly median household income at over $97,000. Among the major firms based in the county are military contractor Lockheed Martin, Marriot International and Ritz-Carlton. The county is also home to the National Institute of Health (NIH) and the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research.
The $15 minimum wage campaign that is being driven by the trade unions and so called progressive Democrats throughout the US is a sham. Democrats are seeking to don a veneer of concern for the plight of working people who are increasingly being driven into destitution with the spread of jobs paying poverty wages. The small proposed rise in the minimum wage, filled with exemptions and loopholes, will offer little improvement in the lives of workers given the high cost of living in heavily-populated metropolitan regions. As a statement released by the MD/DC Fight for $15 Coalition in response to the veto declared, “businesses will almost assuredly continue to thrive” in Montgomery County had the law passed.
The bill itself would not have brought working families’ household income anywhere near the estimated $79,000 yearly household requirement to maintain “modest” living standards in the county. According to the county’s Department of Health and Human Services, 7 percent of the population lives below the federal poverty line, with another 18.3 percent living within 200 percent of the poverty line.
Of households living in poverty, 57 percent are headed by a single mother. According to the Brookings Institution, between 2007 and 2010 the number of county residents living below the federal poverty line grew by two-thirds. Before the year 2000, no neighborhoods in Montgomery County contained poverty rates higher than 18 percent. As of 2014, 12 neighborhoods had such poverty rates, according to US Census data.

OBAMA-CLINTONOMICS:
Build the La Raza Democrat Party base with open borders, no ID to vote Democrat, no E-VERIFY and NO DAMNED LEGAL NEED TO APPLY.
"Republicans should call for lower immigration to stop the Democrat voter recruitment.  But more importantly, all Americans should call for lower immigration in order to offer a better opportunity of finding jobs for those millions of their fellow Americans of all political persuasions who would like to work."
MILLIONS OF AMERICAN JOBS HANDED OVER TO ILLEGALS ALONG WITH BILLIONS IN WELFARE.... AND THE PARTY HAS JUST BEGUN!


THE DEMOCRAT PARTY PLATFORM:

NO DAMNED LEGAL NEED APPLY!

VIVA LA RAZA FASCISM? THEN VOTE DEM!

"Republicans should call for lower immigration to stop the Democrat voter recruitment.  But more importantly, all Americans should call for lower immigration in order to offer a better opportunity of finding jobs for those millions of their fellow Americans of all political persuasions who would like to work."

http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2016/07/hillary-clinton-and-mexicos-vision-of.html


Judge orders Michigan to stop collections relating to alleged unemployment insurance fraud

By Debra Watson and Zac Corrigan
13 January 2017
A federal judge Wednesday ordered Michigan’s Unemployment Insurance Agency (UIA) to stop collecting money from claimants accused of fraud. The order was the result of a lawsuit filed in federal court. The ruling covers the period October 1, 2013 to August 7, 2015.
Tens of thousands of laid off Michigan workers lost millions of dollars of income resulting from a ruthless and vindictive campaign by state officials in UIA over a two-year period. According to a new report, from October 2013 until October 2015 state officials used aggressive collection policies to deny or take back legally mandated benefits paid out to 50,000 unemployed workers.
On top of being forced to return much-needed income, unemployed claimants were accused of civil fraud and assessed penalties as high as 400 percent. Often without notice, their tax refunds were seized or, in cases where recipients had found work after a layoff, their wages garnished.
The two-year dunning nightmare began when a newly installed computer system at UIA named MiDAS flagged, in error, a total of more than fifty thousand individual unemployment claims as fraudulent.
The computer was used to go back as far as 2007, thus capturing funds from claims granted during the worst years of the recession. The number of claims was high at that time, a period when official unemployment in Michigan was in the double digits.
Late last year a belated investigation, conducted by UIA officials themselves, reviewed 22,427 benefit denials that were the basis for fines and benefit recaptures. These encompassed cases in which claims were automatically rejected and prosecuted solely as a result of being flagged by the computer program. The agency found false accusations had been made at a whopping rate of 93 percent.
“I’ve been trying to get my back benefits and they’ve had me on hold for two months,” Rick, a hi lo driver falsely accused of unemployment fraud, told WSWS reporters outside a state unemployment office in downtown Detroit. “I’ve been out of work since July, but I had to wait for my severance package to run out to get unemployment.
“I went to phone court and they said ‘you did this in 2009’ and so on. ‘How many hours did you work?’ ‘Did you do this?’ Who can remember all the way back to 2009? They told me I owed them $2,000 and that’s what’s been holding me up. But I won the hearing. I’ll see what I get when I go in there.”
The review of the rejected claims by the UIA late last year partly resulted from several court cases filed by falsely accused claimants. Despite these suits, including one filed in spring 2015 by the Sugar Law Center and the United Auto Workers in US District Court in Detroit, little money has been paid back to wrongly targeted claimants.
Statements by UIA officials in December 2016 indicate the agency has returned only about $5.4 million to just 2,571 claimants falsely accused of fraud. The agency claimed that they have been unable to contact some others who were to be reimbursed.
At the same time, the Michigan House Fiscal Agency revealed that the UI Contingent Fund, where money collected from UI penalties is deposited, ballooned from $3.1 million in 2011 to about $155 million last October. A spokesman from Michigan Governor Rick Snyder’s office told the Detroit Free Press this week that an additional $5 million was added to the fund in the last two months of 2016 bringing the balance to $160 million. This despite claims by UIA officials that the agency has reformed.
A recent report by the state auditor found that, while mercilessly pursuing unemployed workers, the UIA had done little to collect delinquent UIA taxes from employers who were required to pay into the system.
A separate class action suit filed against the state in September 2015 by Royal Oak attorney Jennifer Lord is still held up in Michigan Claims Court and the Michigan Appeals Court. Those cases relate to workers who received benefits after September 9, 2012. Lawyers in her office are dealing with statute of limitations provisions that could prevent some of those affected from joining the suit. This applies to those who received benefits in the earlier years of the computer-assisted look back who later had their benefits denied during the 2013-2015 rampage by state officials.
How many unemployed workers continue to be victims of the bogus fraud allegations is unclear. A second phase of review is finding the same 93 percent error rate among about 31,000 additional cases denied during the same 2013-2015 period. These were denials not subject to last fall’s initial internal UIA review because, though flagged by the computer, they had some further input from agency employees.
The UIA has promised reform, claiming benefit reviews will improve with now-mandated human input, though state agencies are woefully understaffed. Layoffs, pay cuts, and heavy turnover in state offices coupled with punitive pension reform have gutted staff, particularly in social service positions.
A seasonal landscaper from Detroit told WSWS reporters he’s been waiting since December to receive unemployment benefits. Every year he is laid off for the winter and depends on unemployment benefits to get by.
“I was laid off in December. I’ve been working all year. I already have a call back date for Spring.
“The day I got laid off, they [the unemployment office] told me ‘we’re too busy, come into the unemployment office.’ I’ve done that three times. It’s worked every year, except for this one.”
“We’re broke, we got nothing. I’m pretty much homeless now. If I don’t get my unemployment benefits today, I’m going to lose $1,400 of back pay—and I’ll lose everything.”
UIA lost a large percentage of its staff during the same time frame that the new computer system was installed, resulting in a collapse of service for clients, called “customers” by the agency. Even as unemployed workers began to realize their current sources of income were being dunned, the agency admits it was ignoring claimants' requests for assistance. There are estimates that during some months in 2014, UIA was taking only ten percent of claimant calls for help.
Michigan has been hit by one scandal after another in recent years. The ongoing crisis over contaminated water in Flint has led to charges being filed against high-level officials. The bankruptcy in Detroit and the looting of city worker pensions has been followed by an international scandal resulting from mass water shutoffs.
Both Democratic and Republican state administrations have been involved in an assault on benefits vital for the more oppressed layers of the working class. It was under former Democratic Governor Jennifer Granholm that the state started diverting money earmarked for welfare for poor children to replace funds moved out of state education budgets. This became legal under provisions of Democratic US President Bill Clinton’s 1996 welfare reform, and similar related practices are now being utilized in states across the US.
Snyder responded this week to the scandal surrounding the UIA error rate by “reassigning” the head of the UIA to another job in the agency. There is every indication that business demands to cut social service costs fed the attack on the unemployed. Even as the scope of the UIA scandal was uncovered, Snyder diverted funds from the Unemployment Contingent Fund, putting $10 million into the state General Fund to balance budget deficiencies. A similar diversion of monies from the fund was made in 2015.
This would not be the first example of the Snyder administration conspiring with business to cut costs. His “Nerd Fund,” an earlier scandal involving dark money from state businesses paid directly to a slush fund used by the administration, has been re-opened and operates under a new name. Under the rubric “Relentless Positive Action,” the fund accepts private, in some cases entirely opaque donations, from business and has funded right-wing initiatives such as the privatization reforms in education championed by Trump’s pick for education secretary, Betsy DeVos.


January 27, 2017

Why Mexico will pay for the wall

The debate around Donald Trump's wall has been shaped by liberal and media narratives that focus on illegal immigrants in the U.S.  The left has painted a picture of compassion for these immigrants, making them the entirety of the story.  Sanctuary cities have declared safe havens for illegal immigrants, without really distinguishing between the good and the bad among them.  They have also spun numbers about temporarily declining immigration rates to diminish the significance of the problem.  Liberals have labeled opponents of open borders hard-hearted racists.  Immigration has become one of those narrative stories, filled with human suffering, compassion, and demonized enemies, that liberals love to love.
What liberals have ignored is the severe consequences of slack U.S. borders for Mexico.  Mexican society and the Mexican economy have been severely distorted and held hostage for decades by criminal gangs that make their living smuggling drugs and migrants into the U.S.  Their access to and control over the U.S. border are precisely what has brought them power and wealth, while unleashing a long-term scourge on Mexican society.  These gangs murder, kidnap, 

and extort innocent Mexican citizens.  They 

corrupt the Mexican police and military.  They 

transport illegal migrants to the U.S. – extorting, 

exploiting, raping, and murdering them along the 

way.  They transport drugs to the U.S., 

undermining our civil society and killing our 

citizens.  They instill fear and violence across 

Mexican society, preventing it from achieving the 

stable, middle-class society that NAFTA 

promised.  These truths are well documented in 

news reports, testimony from ranchers who own 

border land, and movies.
Where is liberals' compassion, in their self-absorption and attachment to their own narratives, for the honest citizens of Mexico who are victimized in their own country by the criminal gangs fostered and financed by open U.S. borders?
Liberals have a narrative about the tons of illegal drugs these gangs transport into the U.S., too.  It goes something like this: we did drugs when we were young (Choomer Obama), and it didn't harm us.  Look at us now: we're running things, and isn't the world a better place?  Those deplorables dying of heroin overdoses in flyover country?  The real problem is the War on Drugs.  If only we legalized and taxed drugs, unfortunates could get drugs easily and wouldn't have to go into debt and commit crimes to finance their habits.  With the taxes, we could finance more social programs.  The people who can't control themselves?  We can medicalize their addictions and give them unlimited health care.
Shutting down the U.S. border will reduce or eliminate the power and wealth of these criminal gangs and their stranglehold over Mexican society.  Once they no longer have access to the U.S. border, they will no longer have access to the source of their wealth and power.
Trump's wall will eliminate the reign of terror under which Mexico's honest citizens have lived for a long time.  The benefits that a wall will bring to Mexican civil society and to law and order should be reasons for liberals to support Trump's wall.  These benefits are also why Mexico, once it has overcome the perceived affront to its dignity, will gladly pay.
Shutting down the U.S. border will also 

dramatically reduce the flow of illegal drugs 

into the U.S., with all their negative economic 

and social consequences.
I'm waiting for a liberal to argue against these benefits, but I haven't found one yet.


CAUTION!


HERE IS THE MEXICO POURING OVER OUR OPEN AND UNDEFENDED BORDERS AND HAULING BACK BILLIONS FROM HEROIN SALES!

GRAPHIC IMAGES of America coming under Mex Occupation

The NARCOMEX drug cartels now operate in all major American cities and haul back to NARCOMEX between $40 top $60 BILLION from sales of HEROIN!




ILLEGALS & WELFARE
70% OF ILLEGALS GET WELFARE!
“According to the Centers for Immigration Studies, April '11, at least 70% of Mexican illegal alien families receive some type of welfare in the US!!! cis.org”
CIS

 REVOLUTION IN MEXICO: Will It Spread Over America’s Open Borders?
LOS ANGELES: Mexico’s Second Largest City, First Place for Billion Dollar Mexican Welfare, Number 1 for Mexican Murder and Western Gateway For the LA RAZA Mexican Drug Cartels
TEXAS GOV FIGHTS BACK LA RAZA MEX OCCUPATION!
WHY ARE ILLEGALS ABOVE THE LAW?

SANCTUARY CITIES and SANCTUARY STATE of CALIFORNIA: The LA RAZA welfare state on our backs!

"The American Southwest seems to be slowly 

returning to the jurisdiction of Mexico 

without firing a single shot."  --

EXCELSIOR --- national newspaper of 

Mexico



REMITTANCES ….. are only part of Mexico’s 

looting… and billions for anchor  baby breeders, 

billions for heroin sales and then do the numbers!




Mexicans abroad sent home nearly $2.4 billion in transfers in November, 24.7 percent higher than a year earlier, marking their fastest pace of expansion since March 2006, according to Mexican central bank data on Monday…