When Biden took office, one of his first acts was the elimination of our border security. Like a power-hungry dictator, Biden simply decided to ignore our immigration laws. His catastrophic border policy resulted in untold millions of unidentified foreign citizens from around the world pouring into our country. Its impact is now being felt in cities across the country. The worst is yet to come. PETER LEMISKA - AND WE'RE ALREADY THERE!!!
Friday, December 7, 2018
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The stakes are high. Once the treaty is ratified, it will be exponentially harder to roll back internet censorship. Unless you want the tech giants’ right to censor to persist for another 20 years (that’s how long NAFTA lasted), now is the time to make your voice heard.
But not everything is great for all
Californians, with Breitbart News reporting that Silicon Valley has the highest
income inequality in the nation and the U.S. News & World Report naming California as the worst state for “quality of life,” due
to the high cost of living.
President Trump hailed the trade agreement he signed with Mexico and Canada last week as “great for all our countries.” Perhaps he doesn’t know that the NAFTA-replacing trade agreement, USMCA, gives tech giants in Silicon Valley a special legal privilege to censor his own supporters — and anyone else they find “objectionable.”
Facebook, Twitter, Google, and YouTube all engaged in pre-election censorship against Republicans and Trump supporters. Yet they’ve managed to sneak a liability protection into President Trump’s trade bill that would make it even easier for them to censor their own users.
USMCA entrenches the tech giants’ legal protections under Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, which grant them legal immunity for user-generated content. This is an important part of the law that allows tech platforms to host a wide variety of speech with light-touch moderation.
But USMCA also entrenches tech companies’ right to censor without liability. Article 19.17 of the trade agreement gives tech companies immunity from any lawsuits arising from actions taken to “restrict material it considers to be harmful or objectionable.”
Section 230 has a similarly problematic provision, which needs to be amended by the next Congress if the censorship of the internet is to be stopped. But the new, even broader censorship provision, will make it nearly impossible for the tech giants’ privilege of legal immunity from any lawsuit that arises out of their censorship practices to be taken away.
Whereas Section 230 can be amended by the U.S. congress, USMCA is a trade agreement – once ratified by all three nations (the U.S., Canada, and Mexico), it will take further agreement from the three nations to amend it. And only one of those countries has a First Amendment. Canada, with its wide-ranging hate speech laws and far-left Prime Minister, would see little reason to make it harder for tech companies to censor “objectionable” content.
That said, USMCA isn’t ratified yet. It must first be approved by both Houses of Congress. Although President Trump has threatened a rapid cancellation of NAFTA to force Congress to approve its replacement, he faces legal obstacles to doing so.
And he might also be reluctant to do so when he learns that his own trade bill protects the very same tech censorship that he has publicly denounced.
In August, the President warned that “we will not tolerate political censorship, blacklisting, and rigged search results.”
Yet USMCA protects tech companies right to do exactly that — to bury any content they subjectively consider “objectionable” or “harmful.”
Despite attempts by Democrats and the corporate media to frame concerns about tech censorship as a “conspiracy theory,” internal research from Google leaked exclusively to Breitbart News earlier this year confirmed that tech platforms have indeed “shifted towards censorship.”
Although it’s too late for Trump to amend USMCA himself (he’s already signed it!), but so long as he delays cancelling NAFTA, he can give Congress time to make changes to the bill.
By January, Democrats will control the House of Representatives and the Senate will feature two new Republican senators, Marsha Blackburn and Josh Hawley, who are no friends of Silicon Valley tech giants. That will create a negotiating environment favorable to making broad changes to USMCA.
It’ll also provide a window for the grassroots to voice its concerns and pressure Congress to remove the pro-censorship provision from USMCA.
The stakes are high. Once the treaty is ratified, it will be exponentially harder to roll back internet censorship. Unless you want the tech giants’ right to censor to persist for another 20 years (that’s how long NAFTA lasted), now is the time to make your voice heard.
Silicon Valley investors, including Facebook owner Mark Zuckerberg, are
joining the Koch network’s push for a quick amnesty that would also keep the
issue of cheap-labor immigration out of the November election.
But the push by Zuckerberg’s FWD.us investor group quickly hit a
roadblock Thursday when Majority Leader Rep. Kevin McCarthy denounced the
“discharge petition” amnesty plan, which is fronted by California GOP Rep. Jeff
Denham.
“I don’t believe discharge petitions are
the way to legislate,” McCarthy said to The Hill. “I don’t believe members
in the [GOP] conference believe that, either.”
McCarthy’s opposition — and the growing
pressure for a quick exit by retiring House Speaker Paul Ryan — opens up
room for GOP legislators to make the November election all about rising
wages vs. cheap-labor immigration. Numerous polls show that more
than 70
percent of Americans want companies to hire
Americans before importing more cheap-labor immigrants, and numerous business
groups say they need more imported labor as wages begin to rise.
But a quick Zuckerberg amnesty would prevent
President Donald Trump or GOP leaders from running on an immigration reform
platform in November — and would also deflate economic pressure that is
delivering higher wages before the 2018 election. “It would
be the dumbest thing possible for Republicans to do coming election which they
already think they may lose — they would for sure lose with this,”
said Rosemary Jenks, the director of governmental affairs at NumbersUSA.
She continued:
I don’t think they will [shift to immigration,
but] … it would be a surefire way to keep the majority. People in Washington
talk about [election-winning] ’70 percent issues’ … [and] this is it, this is
the 70 percent issue.
Backed
by Zuckerberg’s FWD.us, Denham is collecting GOP signatures for a resolution
that would urge a so-called “Queen of the Hill” debate on the House floor.
In that very rare form of debate, legislators could
debate several alternative immigration bills, and the most popular
proposal would be sent to the Senate
Those
rules would almost guarantee a big win for Zuckerberg and his allies because
nearly all Democrats and many business-first Republicans — including many who
are retiring this year — will support a no-strings “Clean Dream Act” amnesty
for at least 1.8 million younger ‘DACA’ illegals.
Denham claims to have 50 GOP
legislators backing his resolution, but those GOP members have not signed
the needed “discharge petition” which allows 218 cooperating legislators to
force the debate despite opposition from the Speaker of the House. Many of Denham’s
supporters don’t recognize the impact of Denham’s plan, said Jenks, and “when they find out, they are not going to be happy and will
certainly not sign the discharge.”’
Denham’s
office did not respond to questions from Breitbart News.
McCarthy’s
quick opposition to Denham’s push is critical because he is the likely
replacement for exiting House Speaker Paul Ryan. Without McCarthy’s
support for the immigration push, few of the GOP legislators on Denham’s
resolution will sign the needed discharge petition — even though many will use
their support for the resolution to ingratiate themselves with their donors and
pro-amnesty voters.
Denham’s resolution is getting expensive
media support from the various donors who are working under cover of the Koch advocacy
network, which has at least 550 business donors. On April 17. Daniel
Garza, the president of the Koch-funded LIBRE Initiative, told Business
Insider:
The
American people deserve a government that is effective and efficient in solving
our nation’s problems.
Congress
and the White House have spent a lot of time talking about DACA, but today our
elected officials have yet to approve a permanent legislative
solution. The Dreamers are among our best and brightest. They are
students, workers, and men and women risking their lives in the Armed
Forces. Washington must come together and approve a bipartisan solution
that provides certainty for Dreamers and security improvements along our
border.
Zuckerberg’s FWD.us advocacy group is also
providing direct support for the Denham push, and it touted Wednesday’s
press conference where Denham was flanked by a few other cheap-labor
Republicans — Texas Rep. Will Hurd, Colorado Rep. Mike Coffman and
California Rep. David Valadao – as
well as the Democratic head of the Hispanic ethnic lobby, new Mexico
Democrat Rep. Michelle Lujan Grisham.
NOW and NEW: 50 Republicans join over
180 Republicans for the “Queen of the Hill” Rule to try to force a
debate/series of votes for Dreamers.
The group has endorsed multiple
bills and amnesties which
would raise the supply
of white-collar labor and also block Donald Trump’s
populist “Buy American, Hire American” policies, all of which will tend to raise
Americans’ blue-collar wages and white-collar salaries. In February, FWD.us
joined with many other business groups to help the Senate block Trump’s popular
immigration reforms.
Since Trump’s election, the FWD.us group
has used the relatively
few college-grad ‘DACA’ illegals to shift the political
focus from Trump’s very popular wages-for-Americans pitch. That diversionary
tactic has worked, partly because most establishment reporters prefer to focus
on the concerns of foreign migrants rather than the concerns of fellow
Americans.
However, Republicans are facing a
tough 2018 election and may decide to pick up the issue up the popular
issue of immigration and wages, especially if McCarthy replacesHouse
Speaker Paul Ryan before the
election.
Zuckerberg’s group has funded polls which
tout the supposed popularity of immigration. These “Nation
of Immigrants” polls pressure Americans to say they welcome
migrants.
Also, a series of 2018 polls and surveys
show that GOP voters believe the immigration issue is far
more important than celebrating tax cuts.
Four
million Americans turn 18 each year and begin looking for good jobs in the free
market. But the federal government inflates the supply of new labor by annually
accepting roughly 1.1 million new legal immigrants, by providing
work-permits to roughly 3 million resident foreigners, and by doing little to
block the employment of roughly 8 million illegal immigrants.
Internet billionaire Marc Benioff is urging the GOP Congress and President Donald Trump to fast-track 400,000 foreign visa-workers — plus 400,000 family members — to green cards, the U.S. job market, and the ballot box.
“This is good for our economy,” Benioff said in a Tuesday tweet that was applauded by Silicon Valley lobbyists. “We need to grow our workers to grow our economy.”
Benioff’s comment is a tautology: Expanding the population by importing more than 800,000 people would obviously grow the nation’s economy, retail sales, government taxes, company profits, and Wall Street stock options.
But Benioff’s cheap-labor importation plan would also shrink the income and careers sought by millions of American college graduates, many of whom will vote in 2020 for or against Trump.
I strongly support HR392 eliminating the per country visa cap. This bill must happen. The high skill visa provision has overwhelming bi-partisan support because this is good for our economy. We need to grow our workers to grow our economy. https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/392 …
The planned giveaway is in a pending House bill, dubbed H.R. 392. It is also hidden in the House version of the 2019 funding package for the Department of Homeland Security. If Trump accepts that funding package, he will help companies import more cheap visa-workers from India and China an inflict more economic and career damage to the nation’s professional-status workforce of at least 55 million American college-graduates.
The nation’s workforce now includes roughly 1.5 million foreign college-graduate contract-workers who are imported via the H-1B, L-1, OPT, O-1, J-1, and other visa programs. These outsourcing workers are not immigrants, but instead, they are contract workers hired for one to six years, at lower wages, to take jobs that would otherwise go to American graduates.
GOP Reps. are still pushing Rep. Yoder's middle-class outsourcing bill to put 600K Indian visa-workers & families on fast-track to US jobs/voting. It would help CEOs import more Indians for US college-grad jobs - w/o any benefit for US workers or even GOP. http://bit.ly/2QzuoDJ
This massive level of middle-class outsourcing has suppressed the wage growth needed by many American graduates to repay their college debts, get married, buy homes, and raise children. For example, the salaries for 21 million “professional and business services” employees rose by just roughly one percent after inflation from the second quarter of 2017 to the second quarter of 2018, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Their after-inflation pay was flat from 2o15 to 2016.
The Americans’ salary loss, however, would be a gain for the CEOs who see their profits rise and their stock options spike as middle-class salaries decline.
The MyVisaJobs.com site shows that Benioff’s company asked for 1,063 H-1B visa workers in 2018, up from 880 in 2017. The site also shows job titles and work locations.
Benioff also sought 1,071 green cards for his contract workers in from 2016 to 2018.
The company’s stock price has doubled since Trump’s election, but Benioff and most of his employees have strongly supported Democrats, including Hillary Clinton in the 2016 election. For example, only 5.2 percent of employee donations to candidates went to GOP candidates in 2018.
Now Benioff and his fellow executives as asking Trump to raise their stock portfolios by fast-tracking green cards to roughly 400,000 foreign contract-workers — plus 400,000 family members — who sidelined hundreds of thousands of American college graduates.
Benioff’s support for the visa workers was echoed by Todd Schulte, who is the director of a pro-migration lobbying group. The Democratic-aligned group, FWD.us, was formed and funded by Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, Microsoft’s Bill Gates and numerous other CEOs and investors who prefer to import visa-workers instead of hiring Americans.
This from @Benioff is really important. A really important fix to our immigration system that would help so many people stuck in the green card backlog because of discriminatory country caps.
Without irony, Schulte’s website declares that “We believe that when every person has the opportunity to achieve their full potential, our families, communities, and economy thrive.”
Amazon is also urging Trump to approve the green-card giveaway. Amazon’s founder, Jeff Bezos, also runs the Washington Post and supported Clinton.
Amazon applauds @KevinYoder on the passage of his amendment to the @DHSgov appropriations bill, H.R. 392, that would remove the per-country limit on green cards. This is an important step towards green card reform, and Amazonians thank you for your leadership on this issue.
In 2018, Amazon asked the government for almost 6,000 H-1B visa workers and almost 5,000 green cards. Facebook asked for almost 2,400 H-1B workers and 1,400 green cards. Those outsourcing requests add up to 15,000 white-collar jobs sought by U.S. graduates.
Business lobbyists are trying to minimize publicity about their demand for a green-card giveaway and they are pressing GOP leaders behind closed doors to keep the giveaway in the 2019 DHS budget.
But opposition is rising as Americans graduates have begun organizing to block the giveaway. For example, Protect US Workers helped defeat Rep. Kevin Yoder who used his authority as an appropriations chairman to insert the giveaway into the DHS budget.
Yep, I helped fund these billboards and voted straight RED in FL. Yoder's love for foreign guestworker/Replacemnts sent him packing. No American should ever have to train their Foreign Replacements@NeilMunroDC@bseeker@Dawnnewyorkerpic.twitter.com/WOnwxr3seY
The American graduates are also using federal data to show U.S. legislators how many Americans’ middle-class jobs are being outsourced in their districts to the foreign workers.
I clean homes for a living. These kind of policies undercuts my job because of cheap labor. The dems try to make excuses for their policies against American workers. They don’t care about Americans, they just care about non citizens. They need to be voted out on 2020.
Yep, been there, trained my foreign Replacements in '02. Awful experience. Went public with it, told Congress. The worst part was the disregard we got from our 2 Dem senators
The managing director of Thiel Capital, Eric Weinstein, tweeted to Benioff to highlight his report which shows that the federal officials created the H-1B visa program to lower salaries paid to American technology experts:
You know why we developed the H-1B visa Marc? It was to weaken American workers’ bargaining positions so much that they would be *forced* to mitigate their wage demands at your bargaining table. It’s a wage tampering program.
The mass outsourcing also adding pressure to the lives of many American technology workers, many of whom have already lost jobs to cheaper contract-workers. An informal survey of tech workers shows that almost four-in-ten say they are depressed.
One of the leading advocates for the green-card giveaway is Leon Fresco, an immigration lawyer who helped Democratic Sen. Chuck Schumer pass the disastrous 2013 “Gang of Eight” amnesty through the Senate. The bill was so unpopular that the GOP gained nine Senate seats in 2014, preventing Schumer from becoming Senate Majority Leader.
On December 6, Fresco suggested there is only a small chance that the giveaway will get into the final DHS bill:
Thank you @Benioff for your leadership on ensuring fairness by the removal of national origin discrimination on Employment Based Green Cards #HR392#S281
In the United States, the establishment’s economic policy of using migration to boost economic growth shifts wealth from young people towards older people by flooding the market with cheap white collar and blue collar foreign labor. That flood of outside labor spikes profits and Wall Street values by cutting salaries for manual and skilled labor that blue collar and white collar employees offer.
The policy 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 five million marginalized Americans and their families, including many who are now struggling with fentanyl addictions.
Immigration also pulls investment and wealth away from heartland states because coastal investors can more easily hire and supervise the large immigrant populations who prefer to live in the coastal states.
Enjoyed helping send @RepKevinYoder packing.
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