America Needs a Border Wall Like Houses Need Insulation
How Trump's wall will help keep heinous criminals out of America's cities.
By Michael Cutler
FrontPageMag.com
Remittances, massive as they are, do not account for all of the money that flows from the United States to Mexico and because they are legal and transparent are easy to quantify.
Money is often smuggled covertly out of the U.S. to other countries around the world. by illegal and hence opaque means. Sometimes the money is concealed in furniture, appliances or vehicles. Sometimes the money is converted to gold or other precious metals to make it more portable. However, no matter how money leaves the United States, a wall would create a barrier against illegal alien workers who send their ill-gotten wages back to Mexico.
That wall could help stem the flow of dangerous narcotics into America - an act that destroys the lives of children and fuels the violence that plays out in towns and cities across the country.
Indeed, a secure southern border could help to insulate America from terrorists operating in Latin America, an issue of grave concern that I wrote about in my recent article, Congresional Hearing: Iranian Sleeper Cells Threaten U.S.that included the testimony of one of the witnesses, Dr. Emanuele Ottolenghi of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies who said, in part:
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https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/271010/america-needs-border-wall-houses-need-insulation-michael-cutler
California Appoints Illegal Alien to State Office
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/03/15/california-appoints-illegal-alien-state-office/
California has its first “unprotected” illegal alien in state office, after Senate President pro Tem Kevin de León (D-Los Angeles) appointed Lizbeth Mateo to the California Student Opportunity and Access Program Project Grant Advisory Committee.
Mateo, an attorney, was born in Mexico and came to the U.S. illegally at the age of 14 with her parents, who are also illegal aliens, according to the
Sacramento Bee.
BLOG: WHEN MATEO SAYS "ILLEGAL ALIENS" ARE NOT ADEQUATELY REPRESENTED, SHE REFERS ONLY TO MEXICANS. HOWEVER LA RAZA NOW CONTROLS BOTH HOUSES OF THE STATE LEGISLATURE AND PASSES BILL AFTER BILL INTO LAW THAT BENEFITS THE MEX INVADERS.
She complained that illegal aliens are not adequately represented in state government, and described her appointment as a step towards correcting that alleged injustice.
“While undocumented students have become more visible in our state, they remain underrepresented in places where decisions that affect them are being made,” Mateo said, as quoted by Fox News.
De León, who is running for U.S. Senate against incumbent Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), described Mateo as: “a courageous, determined and intelligent young woman who at great personal risk has dedicated herself to fight for those seeking their rightful place in this country,” according to Fox News.
Mateo, however, seems somewhat confused about which country she prefers.
In a Facebook post in 2016, apparently celebrating her graduation from Santa Clara University School of Law, Mateo declared, in Spanish: “[E]verything is dedicated to Oaxaca, Mexico!! to that land that I miss so much.”
Lizbeth Mateo (Facebook)
While she is the first “unprotected” illegal alien to hold a state office, she is not the first elevated to public office in California. In 2015, the city council of Huntington Park, California, appointed two illegal aliens to city commissions, sparking a public backlash.
De León and other state officials are stoking an ongoing confrontation with the federal government over federal immigration laws.
Clarification: the State Senate indicated that Lizbeth Mateo was the first illegal alien appointed to state office, but in fact she is only the first without any legal protected status. “The Senate announced that the appointment was a first for the state, but that wasn’t true,” the Sacramento Bee noted. Gov. Jerry Brown appointed a DACA recipient to a state office in 2016. The article has been corrected to reflect that.
Mexican
Invasion
By
Tom Barrett
At
the current rate of invasion (mostly through Mexico, but also through Canada)
the United States will be completely over run with illegal aliens by the year
2025. I’m not talking about legal immigrants who follow US law to become
citizens. In less than 20 years, if we do not stop the invasion, ILLEGAL aliens
and their offspring will be the dominant population in the United States.
According to US Border Control (see LINK below). “They will have made such
inroads into the political and social systems that they will have more
influence than our Constitution over how the U.S. is governed. The ugly
consequence of an ignored U.S. Constitution is already taking place.” The
millions upon millions of illegal aliens streaming into the US are the
foundation for what could be another attempt at secession by several US states.
Many of them will use ill-conceived programs that reward illegal immigration to
become US citizens. Other illegals will simply go to the polls and vote without
taking the trouble to apply for citizenship. Together, these groups could form
a voting block that could tear our nation apart. Those of you who read the
email version of this column should go to www.ConservativeTruth.org to see the
map posted there. It shows the borders of a new nation proposed by influential
Mexican nationals and Hispanic US Citizens. (See LINK below: Professor Predicts
'Hispanic Homeland'.) It includes six northern states of Mexican, as well as
Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, California, and southern Colorado. The idea of a
Hispanic Homeland could be ignored as the pipedream of crackpots if a
substantial majority of Mexican citizens did not support it. A Zogby poll of
Mexicans done in June 2002 revealed that a substantial majority of Mexican
citizens believe that southwestern America properly belongs to Mexico. They
said that Mexicans do not need the permission of the U.S. to enter this
territory. 58 percent of Mexican citizens agreed with this statement: "The
territory of the United States' southwest rightfully belongs to Mexico."
Only 28 percent disagreed with the statement. Listen to what some Mexican
government officials and US leaders (including politicians and Professors at
taxpayer-funded Universities) have to say on this subject. Jose Angel
Gutierrez, professor, University of Texas, Arlington and founder of La Raza
Unida political party screams at rallies: "We have an aging white America.
They are dying. They are ******** in their pants with fear! I love it! We have
got to eliminate the gringo, and what I mean by that is if the worst comes to
the worst, we have got to kill him!" (See LINK below.) Richard Alatorre,
Los Angeles City Council "They’re afraid we’re going to take over the
governmental institutions and other institutions. They’re right. We will take
them over. Mario Obledo, California State Secretary of Health, Education and
Welfare under Jerry Brown, who was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by
Bill Clinton, says, “California is going to be a Hispanic state. Anyone who
doesn’t like it should leave." Proposition 187 was the California
initiative supported by a majority of Californians that denied taxpayer funds
for services to non-citizens. Speaking at a Latino gathering in response to
Proposition 187’s passage in 1995, Art Torres, the Chairman of the California
Democratic Party, said: "Power is not given to you. You have to take it.
Remember, 187 is the last gasp of white America in California." The
national newspaper of Mexico, Excelsior: "The American Southwest seems to
be slowly returning to the jurisdiction of Mexico without firing a single
shot." Gloria Molina, Los Angeles County Supervisor: "We are
politicizing every single one of these new citizens that are becoming citizens
of this country...I gotta tell you that a lot of people are saying, "I’m
going to go out there and vote because I want to pay them back." Jose
Pescador Osuna, Mexican Consul General: “We are practicing ‘La Reconquista’ in
California." "Reconquista" means the reconquest of the US
southwest by Mexico. (See LINK below.). These people are serious! They think
they are going to take US territory. The Mexican President declared it here in
our country, and Bill Clinton signed a Presidential Executive Order that paves
the way for at least part of Mexico’s dream. Mexican President Ernesto Zedillo
said in Chicago on July 23, 1997, "I have proudly affirmed that the
Mexican nation extends beyond the territory enclosed by its borders and that
Mexican migrants are an important – a very important – part of this. For this
reason, my government proposed a constitutional amendment to allow any Mexican
with the right and the desire to acquire another nationality to do so without
being forced to first give up his or her Mexican nationality."
Translation: It is next to impossible to receive Mexican citizenship unless you
can prove you are of Mexican descent. But Mexico knows that the US has soft
immigration laws and will grant citizenship to almost anyone. (After all, we
grant citizenship every day to immigrants from countries who have sworn to
destroy us.) So Mexico wants to take advantage of this ridiculous situation by
encouraging their citizens to apply for US citizenship while keeping Mexican
citizenship. That way the Mexican government can influence the political
process here in the US. Executive Order 13122, signed on May 25, 1999, by the
most treasonous president this nation has ever been cursed with, Bill Clinton,
established an Interagency Task Force on the Economic Development of the
Southwest Border. Part of the Order reads, "The Southwest Border or Southwest
Border region is defined as including the areas up to 150 miles north of the
United States-Mexican border in the States of Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, and
California." According to experts on international law, this sets the
stage for a 150-mile-wide “Border Zone” that will neither belong to Mexico or
the US. This could then become the first area of a Hispanic Nation that would
eventually encompass the areas shown in the map of the proposed Republica del
Norte (The Northern Republic). Our government, pushed by liberal Democrats, has
been systematically laying the groundwork for such a breakaway republic. Did
you know that immigrants from Mexico and other non European countries can come
to this country and get preferences in jobs, education, and government contracts?
It’s called affirmative action or racial privilege. Some time ago a vote was
taken in the U.S. Congress to end this practice. It was defeated. Every single
Democratic senator except Ernest Hollings voted to maintain special privileges
for Hispanic, Asian and African immigrants. They were joined by thirteen
Republicans. Bill Clinton and Al Gore have repeatedly stated that they believe
that massive immigration from countries like Mexico is good. They have also
backed special privileges for these immigrants. Mexico, a nation that has
benefited enormously from American generosity is now working to destabilize our
country. Is “destabilize” too strong a word? I don’t think so. Whether or not
Mexican leaders think they can actually create enough hatred against “gringos”
to accomplish the creation of a new republic made up of mainly US territory,
they know that pushing that agenda will cause huge political problems here and
allow Mexico to accomplish many of their goals. Is the government of Mexico
behind this? You have seen quotes from a Mexican President and a Mexican Consul
General in support of it. They have everything to gain and little to lose by
pushing it. The Mexican government is also pushing illegal immigration, which
destabilizes our economy. The US Border Control website (see LINK below) shows
an illustration from a Mexican government publication showing their citizens
how to best illegally enter the US. Why? It takes the strain of taking care of
unemployed Mexicans off the Mexican treasury and puts it on the US treasury.
And when the illegals get on welfare, they send some of their money home, which
helps the Mexican economy. All this talk by Mexican and US officials about the
US illegally occupying Mexican territory does nothing but breed racial hatred.
The sad thing is that none of this is about race. It is about the things that
all wars and conflicts are about: Greed, power and money. I don’t like to talk
about a problem without offering a solution. The US politicians and professors
who advocate taking US territory are guilty of sedition. Remove them from their
offices and (hopefully) put them in a federal penitentiary where they can
consider the error of their ways. The Mexican politicians who do the same are
guilty of inciting sedition. This is very close to an act of war. Immediately
cut of all economic aid to Mexico until its government publicly disavows this
lunatic plan. Finally, we must realize that we can’t stop this by marching US
troops into Mexico. We should use troops to guard our borders, because the US
Border Patrol cannot cover the huge US-Mexico border without help. And we need
to use pass laws that will stop the government from rewarding illegal
immigrants at the expense of those who follow the law. We have a huge
immigration problem in this country. This ridiculous Hispanic Homeland idea is
just a symptom of the problem. INTERNET RESEARCH: Professor Predicts 'Hispanic
Homeland' 1. http://www.aztlan.net/homeland.htm
Professor Predicts 'Hispanic Homeland'
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A University of New Mexico Chicano Studies professor
predicts a new, sovereign Hispanic nation within the century, taking in the
Southwest and several northern states of Mexico. Charles Truxillo suggests the
“Republica del Norte,” the Republic of the North, is “an inevitability.” He
envisions it encompassing all of California, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas and
southern Colorado, plus the northern tier of Mexican states: Baja California,
Sonora, Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo León and Tamaulipas. Along both sides of the
U.S.-Mexico border “there is a growing fusion, a reviving of connections,”
Truxillo said. “Southwest Chicanos and Norteño Mexicanos are becoming one
people again.” Truxillo, 47, has said the new country should be brought into
being “by any means necessary,” but recently said it was unlikely to be formed
by civil war. Instead, its creation will be accomplished
Will
Californians Prevail Against the Little
Picture of Hell?
The state of California has descended into
a modern-day version of Dante’s Inferno, where treachery of all kinds occupies
the bottom circle. Public sector unions are running (or rather ruining) the
state into bankruptcy, betraying the public trust while charging the taxpayers
for the perverse privilege. Republicans collude with the supermajority of
Democrats to raise taxes, fees, and unrelenting regulatory burdens.
The
public schools indoctrinate their young charges to hate this country and the
rule of law. Illegal aliens continue overwhelming the state, draining California’s already depleted public services
while endangering our lives, the rule of law, and public safety for all
citizens.
Maybe if California and New York Cared as Much about the Middle Class as
They Do About Illegal Alien…
TWEET
Economists Arthur Laffer (the guy with the famous curve) and Stephen Moore, a leading libertarian voice for mass
immigration, predict that some 800,000 people will pack up and leave California and New York over the next three years. The
reason they cite for the exodus in their Wall Street Journal op-ed is that the new federal tax law, which eliminates
deductions for state income taxes, will be the straw that breaks the camel’s back.
Implicit in their assignment of blame to the federal tax
overhaul is that the people who will be leaving are the ones who pay taxes –
the sort of folks that state and local governments rely to provide a revenue
stream. As such, one would think that these would be the people whose concerns
would get a lot of interest in Sacramento and Albany. But clearly that is not
the case.
For the privilege of living in places like the Bay Area, Los
Angeles, or New York City, you must bear some of the most ridiculous housing
costs in the nation, along with crushing state and local taxes. In California, be prepared to turn over as much as 13.3
percent of your income to the state. High-earning New Yorkers fork over a more
modest 8.82 percent, but if you live in the five boroughs you can tack on an
additional 3.87 percent in city income taxes. California and New York also have some of the highest sales tax rates in the country at 8.54 percent and 8.49 percent
respectively (and higher in many cities). And now, as Laffer and Moore point
out, you can’t even deduct those costs on your federal taxes.
One might also think that for all these state and local taxes,
residents could expect the most modern infrastructure, efficient public
transportation, world class public schools, affordable housing, and other
amenities. Ha. No, in Sacramento and Albany they prioritize an ever-growing
list of public benefits and services to immigration law violators; subsidies
and grants to go to college, and legal aid for illegal aliens in deportation
proceedings. In New York, Gov. Andrew Cuomo is even threatening to sue the federal government (with taxpayer money, of course) for even trying to
enforce immigration laws.
Cutting back on benefits and protections for illegal aliens
would not solve all of these states’ problems, but it certainly wouldn’t hurt.
In the meantime, every U-Haul packing up a middle or upper-middle class family
headed out of California and New York represents a loss of vital revenue
necessary to address myriad needs of both citizens and legal immigrants.
The one topic Democrats
don't dare bring up in today's SoCal primary
The airwaves in Southern
California are flooded with Democratic candidate ads, with most openly touting
extremely loony far-left positions – promises of free health care for all, free
college for all, beefed up public funding for Planned Parenthood, full gun
control, pretty much the full Bernie Sanders plate of pie-in-the-sky
goodies. Democrats, whether in the House, Senate, governor, or
assembly races, are all openly offering all the free stuff on the far left's
wish list, not holding back at all. Fiscal discipline isn't in
fashion with this bunch. If I had to speculate, I'd say it's because
at the time these platforms were formulated, Democrats were convinced that a
blue wave was upon them. In a crowded field, and at primary time,
where only the most committed voters show up, extremism seems to be the way to
stand out and get ahead of the pack.
There's one topic among
these offerings that isn't being touched – not even in one campaign ad:
Illegal immigration.
As the sign says:
"Caution."
We all know that Democrats
favor open borders, given the potential for muscling mendicant votes in the
state's poorest cities from their well oiled political machines. Democrats
favor DACA, DAPA for the parents, amnesty, state benefits for illegals – from
driver's licenses to free health care – an end to deportations, and no border
wall, let alone National Guardsmen at the borders. You can find
vague admissions of these stances on candidates' websites, buried deep.
But somehow, this topic
isn't one they want to bring up in the heat of the primaries, at least not in
ads, where they have an overcrowded slate of candidates on the June ballot, and
face the real prospect of seeing no Democrats making it to the slate in
November.
Illegal immigration seems to
be the electric third rail.
That says a lot about the
sentiment of the voters in illegal alien-filled California, which houses one
quarter of the nation's illegals. Nobody's brought up the Democratic
plan for free health care for illegals, now wending its way through the
California statehouse. Nobody's asked Gavin Newsom, the frontrunner
for the Democratic nomination for governor, what he thinks of the state's
inundation of illegals, and he's certainly said nothing to the broad public
about it in his ads. The costs of illegal
immigration are being carefully
hidden by Democrats.
Meanwhile, city after city
and county after county in Southern California has joined the lawsuit against
the state for its "sanctuary state" laws, which require them to house
and feed illegals instead of turn them over to the feds for breaking the
law. It's probably significant that increasingly blue San
Diego and Orange Counties, the two areas Democrats have placed all
their hopes and cash on for winning the House back, have joined this movement.
It all suggests that this
topic is dry tinder among voters, the internal polls look bad for Democrats on
their free everything for illegals, and the Democratic Party line is far more
unpopular than anyone on the left is willing to admit.
President Trump should have
a field day enacting his orderly immigration agenda, even in California, when
crunch time comes at the November midterms.
It Pays to be Illegal in California
It
certainly is a good time to be an illegal alien in California. Democratic State
Sen. Ricardo Lara last week pitched a bill to permit illegal immigrants to
serve on all state and local boards and commissions. This week, lawmakers
unveiled a $1 billion health care plan that would include spending
$250 million to extend health care coverage to all illegal alien adults.
“Currently,
undocumented adults are explicitly and unjustly locked out of healthcare due to
their immigration status. In a matter of weeks, California legislators will
have a decisive opportunity to reverse that cruel and counterproductive fact,”
Assemblyman Joaquin Arambula said in Monday’s Sacramento Bee.
His
legislation, Assembly Bill 2965, would give as many as 114,000
uninsured illegal aliens access to Medi-Cal programs. A companion bill has been
sponsored by State Sen. Richard Lara.
But that
could just be a drop in the bucket. The Democrats’ plan covers more than
100,000 illegal aliens with annual incomes bless than $25,000, however an
estimated 1.3 million might be eligible based on their earnings.
In addition,
it is estimated that 20 percent of those living in California illegally are
uninsured – the $250 million covers just 11 percent.
So, will
politicians soon be asking California taxpayers once again to dip into their
pockets to pay for the remaining 9 percent?
Before
they ask for more, Democrats have to win the approval of Gov. Jerry Brown, who
cautioned against spending away the state’s surplus when he introduced his $190 billion budget
proposal in January.
Given
Brown’s openness to expanding Medi-Cal expansions in recent years, not to
mention his proclivity for blindly supporting any measure benefitting
lawbreaking immigrants, the latest fiscal irresponsibility may win approval.
And if he
takes a pass, the two Democrats most likely to succeed Brown – Lt. Gov. Gavin
Newsom and former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa – favor excessive social spending and are actively courting
illegal immigrant support.
PROTECTING OUR BORDERS!
Our government is too busy easing illegals over the borders!
THE NEW PRIVILEGED CLASS: Illegals!
This is why you work From Jan - May paying taxes to the government
....with the rest of the calendar year is money for you and your family.
Take, for example, an illegal alien with a wife and five children.
He takes a job for
$5.00 or 6.00/hour. At that wage, with six dependents, he pays no
income tax, yet at the end of the year, if he files an Income Tax Return, with
his fake Social Security number, he gets an "earned income credit" of
up to $3,200..... free.
He qualifies for Section 8 housing and subsidized rent.
He qualifies for food stamps.
He qualifies for free (no deductible, no co-pay) health
care.
His children get free breakfasts and lunches at school.
He requires bilingual teachers and books.
He qualifies for relief from high energy bills.
If they are or become, aged, blind or disabled, they qualify for
SSI.
Once qualified for SSI they can qualify for Medicare. All of this
is at (our) taxpayer's expense.
He doesn't worry about car insurance, life insurance, or
homeowners insurance.
Taxpayers provide Spanish language signs, bulletins and printed
material.
He and his family receive the equivalent of $20.00 to $30.00/hour
in benefits.
Working Americans are lucky to have $5.00 or $6.00/hour left after
Paying their bills and his.
The American taxpayers also pay for increased crime, graffiti and
trash clean-up.
Cheap labor? YEAH RIGHT! Wake up people!
If Immigration Creates
Wealth, Why Is California America's Poverty Capital?
California used to be
home to America's largest and most affluent middle class. Today, it
is America's poverty capital. What went wrong? In a
word: immigration.
According to the U.S. Census
Bureau's Official
Poverty Measure, California's poverty rate hovers around 15
percent. But this figure is misleading: the Census Bureau measures
poverty relative to a uniform national standard, which doesn't account for
differences in living costs between states – the cost of taxes, housing, and
health care are higher in California than in Oklahoma, for
example. Accounting for these differences reveals that California's
real poverty rate is 20.6 percent – the highest in America, and
nearly twice the national average of 12.7 percent.
Adios, Sanctuary La Raza Welfare State of California
A fifth-generation Californian
laments his state’s ongoing economic collapse.
By Steve Baldwin
American Spectator, October 19, 2017
What’s clear is that the producers are leaving
the state and the takers are coming in. Many of the takers are illegal aliens,
now estimated to number over 2.6 million. The
Federation for American Immigration Reform estimates that California spends $22
billion on government services for illegal aliens, including welfare, education,
Medicaid, and criminal justice system costs.
BLOG:
MANY DISPUTE CALIFORNIA’S EXPENDITURES FOR THE LA RAZA WELFARE STATE IN
MEXIFORNIA JUST AS THEY DISPUTE THE NUMBER OF ILLEGALS. APPROXIMATELY HALF THE
POPULATION OF CA IS NOW MEXICAN AND BREEDING ANCHOR BABIES FOR WELFARE LIKE
BUNNIES. THE $22 BILLION IS STATE EXPENDITURE ONLY. COUNTIES PAY OUT MORE WITH
LOS ANGELES COUNTY LEADING AT OVER A BILLION DOLLARS PAID OUT YEARLY TO
MEXICO’S ANCHOR BABY BREEDERS. NOW MULTIPLY THAT BY THE NUMBER OF COUNTIES IN
CA AND YOU START TO GET AN IDEA OF THE STAGGERING WELFARE STATE MEXICO AND THE
DEMOCRAT PARTY HAVE ERECTED SANS ANY LEGALS VOTES. ADD TO THIS THE FREE
ENTERPRISE HOSPITAL AND CLINIC COST FOR LA RAZA’S “FREE” MEDICAL WHICH IS
ESTIMATED TO BE ABOUT $1.5 BILLION PER YEAR.
Liberals
claim they more than make that up with taxes paid, but that’s simply not true.
It’s not even close. FAIR estimates illegal aliens in California contribute
only $1.21 billion in tax revenue, which means they cost California $20.6
billion, or at least $1,800 per household.
Nonetheless, open border advocates, such as Facebook Chairman Mark Zuckerberg,
claim illegal aliens are a net benefit to California with little evidence to
support such an assertion. As the Center for Immigration Studies has
documented, the vast majority of illegals are poor, uneducated, and with few
skills. How does accepting millions of illegal aliens and then granting them
access to dozens of welfare programs benefit California’s economy? If illegal
aliens were contributing to the economy in any meaningful way, California, with
its 2.6 million illegal aliens, would be booming.
Furthermore, the complexion of illegal aliens
has changed with far more on welfare and committing crimes than those who
entered the country in the 1980s. Heather Mac Donald of
the Manhattan Institute has testified before a Congressional committee that in
2004, 95% of all outstanding warrants for murder in Los Angeles were for
illegal aliens; in 2000, 23% of all Los Angeles County jail inmates were
illegal aliens and that in 1995, 60% of Los Angeles’s largest street gang, the
18th Street gang, were illegal aliens. Granted, those
statistics are old, but if you talk to any California law enforcement officer,
they will tell you it’s much worse today. The problem is that the Brown
administration will not release any statewide data on illegal alien crimes.
That would be insensitive. And now that California has declared itself a
“sanctuary state,” there is little doubt this sends a message south of the
border that will further escalate illegal immigration into the state.
"If the racist "Sensenbrenner
Legislation" passes the US Senate, there is no doubt that a massive civil
disobedience movement will emerge. Eventually labor union power can merge with
the immigrant civil rights and "Immigrant
Sanctuary" movements to enable us to either form a new political
party or to do heavy duty reforming of the existing Democratic Party. The next
and final steps would follow and that is to elect our own governors of all the
states within Aztlan."
Indeed, California goes out of its way to
attract illegal aliens. The state has even created government programs that
cater exclusively to illegal aliens. For example, the State Department of Motor
Vehicles has offices that only process driver licenses for illegal aliens. With
over a million illegal aliens now driving in California, the state felt
compelled to help them avoid the long lines the rest of us must endure at the
DMV. And just recently, the state-funded University
of California system announced it will spend $27 million on financial aid for
illegal aliens. They’ve even taken out radio spots on stations
all along the border, just to make sure other potential illegal border crossers
hear about this program. I can’t afford college
education for all my four sons, but my taxes will pay for illegals to get a
college education.
U.S. Election Meddling: Nationwide Voter Fraud, Importation of 15M
Foreign-Born Voters
Shelby Lum, Richmond Times-Dispatch via The Associated Press
Washington, D.C.
As
the establishment media, GOP, and Democrats fret over the influence foreign
countries have on U.S. elections, the leading threats to the American
electorate remain nationwide voter fraud and mass immigration.
Though President Trump’s administration sought to thoroughly investigate
voter fraud through the Presidential Commission on Election Integrity,
the board was handed off to the
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in order to bypass obstruction from
national Democrats who refused to turn over voter data.
Voter
Fraud
The number of convictions against voter fraud continues to rise, with now
nearly 940 criminal convictions on the books across the U.S., according to the
latest data from the
Heritage Foundation.
Likewise, the
number of cases of voter fraud has risen. Heritage’s Voter Fraud Database now
features 1,071 cases of voter fraud that spans across 47 states.
In the most recent study by the
Government Accountability Institute (GAI) on voter fraud, the think tank
found 8,471 high likely cases of double voting. About 7,271 of those
cases were inter-state double voting, while the remaining 1,200 cases were
of intra-state double voting.
“The
probability of correctly matching two records with the same name, birthdate,
and social security number is close to 100 percent,” the GAI report noted.
Kansas Secretary of State and gubernatorial candidate
Kris Kobach is fighting in his state to enforce voting laws that would mandate
voters prove their U.S. citizenship. This effort has currently been
halted by the left-wing ACLU organization and a circuit judge who recently
claimed that it was unconstitutional for a state to demand voters provide
their U.S. citizenship records. Years ago, proof of citizenship voting laws
were upheld as fully constitutional.
“Compare
[Russia meddling in the 2016 presidential campaigns] to the kind of foreign
influence in the actual election numbers in foreign nationals voting,” Kobach
told Breitbart News. “That’s real and much more consequential and it’s
happening all over the country.”
Kobach said
his expert witness in the suit with the ACLU over the proof of citizenship law
revealed that as many as 33,000 foreign nationals are on the voter rolls in
Kansas. For states like California, with the largest foreign-born population in
the country, the number of foreign nationals on the voter rolls is likely in
the hundreds of thousands or even the millions, Kobach says.
Mass
Immigration
Similarly, mass legal and illegal immigration to the U.S. continues to be
the largest driver of population increases and demographic shifts in the
country. Every year, more than 1.5 million immigrants are admitted to the
country. The U.S. has imported more than ten million immigrants in the
last decade.
The vast
majority of foreign nationals arrive through the process
known as “chain
migration,” where newly naturalized citizens can
bring an unlimited number of
foreign relatives to the U.S. Every
two new immigrants to the country bring an
additional seven
foreign relatives with them.
As Breitbart News has extensively reported, the U.S. is
on track to import about 15 million foreign-born voters by the year 2038. That
is nearly quadruple the size of the annual number of U.S. births; about
four million American babies are born every year.
Through chain
migration alone, the U.S. will import about eight million foreign-born voters
in the next two decades.
The country’s
continued mass immigration policies are likely to hand over electoral dominance
to Democrats in statewide and national elections, Breitbart News has noted.
Analysis
conducted by Axios’s Chris Canipe and Andrew Witherspoon shows the
overwhelming trend of foreign-born populations voting Democrats into office
over Republicans.
The victory of
socialist Democrat Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in New York’s 14th District is the
latest case where a booming foreign-born voting population pushed the far-left
activist over the edge to beat out establishment, high ranking Democrat Rep.
Joe Crowley.
Ocasio-Cortez’s district is close to 50 percent foreign-born, a drastic
shift of an area that was once populated primarily by native-born Americans.
Ocasio-Cortez ran her congressional campaign on abolishing all
immigration enforcement across the U.S.
In California,
Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) is facing a challenge from State Senator
Kevin de León (D-Los Angeles), and the California Democratic Party has
endorsed León. The far-left challenger was the key proponent of
California’s sanctuary state law that protects criminal illegal aliens from
being deported.
University of Maryland, College Park researcher James Gimpel
has found in
recent years that more immigrants to the U.S. inevitably means more Democrat
voters and thus, increasing electoral victories for the Democratic Party.
In 2014,
Gimpel’s research concluded with three major findings:
·
Immigrants, particularly Hispanics and Asians, have policy preferences
when it comes to the size and scope of government that are more closely aligned
with progressives than with conservatives. As a result, survey data show a
two-to-one party identification with Democrats over Republicans.
·
By increasing income inequality and adding to the low-income population
(e.g. immigrants and their minor children account for one-fourth of those in
poverty and one-third of the uninsured) immigration likely makes all voters
more supportive of redistributive policies championed by Democrats to support
disadvantaged populations.
·
There is evidence that immigration may cause more Republican-oriented
voters to move away from areas of high immigrant settlement leaving behind a
more lopsided Democrat majority.
Years ago,
only a handful of elected Democrats would mention how the demographic shift
spurred by mass immigration was a benefit to Democrats electorally. Today, it
is a widely used talking point of elected Democrats.
Take San
Antonio, Texas Mayor Julian Castro, for example. Months ago, Castro admitted
that immigration could potentially turn the state of Texas, Florida, and
Arizona into Democrat strongholds, like California.
“The Democrats
have now become very open about what they are doing and they state it very
clearly,” Kobach said of the Democrats’ use of immigration for shifting the
electorate.
“Now, multiple
Democrats are saying their plan is to import new voters to change elections,”
Kobach said.
In an analysis from Georgetown University, the
University of California, and Banque de France, researchers discovered
that immigration to the country continuously increases Democrats’ chances of
winning elections:
On
average across election types, immigration to the U.S. has a significant and
negative impact on the Republican vote share, consistent
with the typical view of political analysts in the U.S. [Emphasis added]
This average effect – which is driven by elections in the House – works
through two main channels. The
impact of immigration on Republican votes in the House is negative when the
share of naturalized migrants in the voting population increases.
Yet, it can be positive when the share of non-citizen migrants out of the
population goes up and the size of migration makes it a salient policy issue in
voters’ minds. [Emphasis added]
These
results are consistent with naturalized migrants being less likely to vote for
the Republican Party than native voters and with native voters’ political
preferences moving towards the Republican Party because of high immigration of
non-citizens. This second effect, however, is significant only for very high levels
of immigrant presence. [Emphasis added]
In 2016, the legal and illegal immigrant population reached a record high
of 44 million. By 2023, the Center for Immigration Studies estimates that the legal and illegal immigrant
population of the U.S. will make up nearly 15 percent of the entire U.S.
population.
Mexico has the
largest group of legal and illegal foreign nationals in the U.S., with 1.1
million immigrants from the country arriving in the U.S. between 2010 and 2016.
Mexican nationals make up roughly one in eight new arrivals to the U.S. On
average, every one Mexican immigrant brings six foreign relatives with them to
the country through chain migration.
John Binder is a
reporter for Breitbart News. Follow him on Twitter at @JxhnBinder.
If Immigration Creates
Wealth, Why Is California
America's Poverty Capital?
California used to be
home to America's largest and most affluent middle class. Today, it
is America's poverty capital. What went wrong? In a
word: immigration.
According to the U.S. Census
Bureau's Official
Poverty Measure, California's poverty rate hovers around 15
percent. But this figure is misleading: the Census Bureau measures
poverty relative to a uniform national standard, which doesn't account for
differences in living costs between states – the cost of taxes, housing, and
health care are higher in California than in Oklahoma, for
example. Accounting for these differences reveals that California's
real poverty rate is 20.6 percent – the highest in America, and
nearly twice the national average of 12.7 percent.
Likewise, income
inequality in California is the second-highest in America, behind
only New York. In fact, if California were an independent country,
it would be the 17th most unequal country on Earth, nestled comfortably between
Honduras and Guatemala. Mexico is slightly more
egalitarian. California is far more unequal than the "social
democracies" it emulates: Canada is the 111th most unequal nation,
while Norway is far down the list at number 153 (out of 176 countries). In
terms of income inequality, California has more in common with banana republics
than other "social democracies."
More Government, More Poverty
High taxes, excessive regulations,
and a lavish welfare state – these are the standard explanations for California's
poverty epidemic. They have some merit. For example,
California has both the highest personal income tax rate and the highest sales
tax in America, according to Politifact.
Not only are California's taxes high,
but successive "progressive" governments have swamped the state in a
sea of red tape. Onerous regulations cripple small businesses and
retard economic growth. Kerry Jackson, a fellow with the Pacific
Research Institute, gives a few specific examples of how excessive government
regulation hurts California's poor. He writes in a recent op-ed for
the Los
Angeles Times:
Extensive environmental regulations
aimed at reducing carbon dioxide emissions make energy more expensive, also
hurting the poor. By some estimates, California energy costs are as
much as 50% higher than the national average. Jonathan A. Lesser of
Continental Economics ... found that "in 2012, nearly 1 million California
households faced ... energy expenditures exceeding 10% of household
income."
Some government regulation is necessary
and desirable, but most of California's is not. There is virtue in
governing with a "light touch."
Finally, California's welfare state
is, perhaps paradoxically, a source of poverty in the
state. The Orange
Country Register reports that California's social safety net is
comparable in scale to those found in Europe:
In California a mother
with two children under the age of 5 who participates in these major welfare
programs – Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, Supplemental Nutrition
Assistance Program (food stamps), housing assistance, home energy assistance,
Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children – would
receive a benefits package worth $30,828 per year.
... [Similar] benefits
in Europe ranged from $38,588 per year in Denmark to just $1,112 in
Romania. The California benefits package is higher than in
well-known welfare states as France ($17,324), Germany ($23,257) and even
Sweden ($22,111).
Although welfare states ideally help the poor, reality
is messy. There are three main problems with the welfare
state. First, it incentivizes poverty by rewardingthe poor with government
handouts that are often far more valuable than a job. This can be
ameliorated to some degree by imposing work requirements on welfare recipients,
but in practice, such requirements are rarely imposed. Second,
welfare states are expensive. This means
higher taxes and therefore slower economic growth and fewer job opportunities
for everyone – including the poor.
Finally, welfare states are magnets
for the poor. Whether through domestic migration or foreign
immigration, poor people flock to places with generous welfare states. This
is logical from the immigrant's perspective, but it makes little sense from the
taxpayer's. This fact is why socialism and open borders arefundamentally
incompatible.
Why Big Government?
Since 1960, California's population
exploded from 15.9 to 39 million people. The growth
was almost entirely due to immigration – many people came from other states,
but the majority came from abroad. The Public Policy
Institute of California estimates that 10 million immigrants
currently reside in California. This works out to 26 percent of the
state's population.
BLOG: COME TO
MEXIFORNIA! HALF OF LOS ANGELES 15 MILLION ARE ILLEGALS!
This figure includes
2.4 million illegal aliens, although a recent
study from Yale University suggests that the true number of aliens
is at least double that. Modifying the initial figure implies that nearly one in three Californians is an immigrant. This
is not to disparage California's immigrant population, but it is madness to
deny that such a large influx of people has changed California's society and
economy.
Importantly, immigrants vote
Democrat by a ratio higher than 2:1, according to a report from the Center
for Immigration Studies. In California, immigration has
increased the pool of likely Democrat voters by nearly 5 million people,
compared to just 2.4 million additional likely Republican
voters. Not only does this almost guarantee Democratic victories,
but it also shifts California's political midpoint to the left. This
means that to remain competitive in elections, the Republicans must abandon or soften many conservative
positions so as to cater to the center.
California became a
Democratic stronghold not because Californians became socialists, but because
millions of socialists moved there. Immigration turned California
blue, and immigration is ultimately to blame for California's high poverty
level.
Losing America
Not too long ago we as a people could generally agree upon a
certain set of core values. Today a smaller majority of the American people
still believe in the US Constitution and many people are starting to lose focus
on the things that really matter the most.
When did certain members of our society all of sudden become
selective regarding the laws they wished to be enforced ?
When exactly did some US citizens lose their basic instinct for
survival ?
Sadly, we now have a substantial
force within the Democratic Party who currently advocate and even believe in
wide open borders and illegal immigration. When did the acceptance of such a
lawlessness become a norm ? When did the people who actually make it a point to
stand up for the rule of law and who believe in securing our borders suddenly
become the enemy ? Can a sovereign nation without a secure border, without a
common language, and soon without a common culture survive?
The Democratic Party's leadership not too long ago believed
illegal immigration was wrong (video). Why have their minds now suddenly shifted ? Has importing a new
Democrat voter base into this nation become just too appealing an idea for them
not to take advantage of? A voter base which would be beholden to big
government from cradle to grave. A voting bloc of people that would cast their
votes depending upon what government could provide them.
Most rational citizens understand that unfettered and unchecked
illegal immigration is a recipe for disaster. Yet huge factions of the new
radical leftist Democrats currently believe illegal immigration is some kind of
noble cause involving social justice. Many within the current party leadership
have become all too willing to completely toss away the former US immigration
melting pot model and happily replace it with a new "salad bowl"
model.
Reality and history have proven to all of us that a nation simply we
cannot safely absorb relentless waves of unassimilated immigration and expect
to survive. Illegal immigrants bring with them so many different
languages and cultures, and many of rgen have no desire to assimilate or learn
the English language. Diversity is not always necessarily a strength. Change is
not always a positive thing. Illegal immigrants who refuse to assimilate and
learn our language are placing a heavy burden upon us.
Illegal aliens who are willing to work for extremely low wages are
helping to eliminate the US blue collar middle class. These illegal aliens
currently flooding the US labor force are driving down the wages of American
workers. I am sick of hearing the line, "Americans are not willing to do
those jobs." In reality Americans would be willing to do those jobs, but
obviously not for slave wages.
Illegal immigration is placing an enormous financial burden upon
our health care system. It has become common place for illegal aliens to use
the emergency rooms of US hospitals as their personal doctors. This inevitably
drives up the cost of healthcare for all of us.
A decade-and-a-half ago, a former liberal Democrat named Dick Lamm
gave a prophetic five minute speech on how a nation like America could easily
self-destruct. The former governor of Colorado was issuing a warning to all of
us in the United States who were willing to listen. Lamm unveiled a
chilling point by point hypothetical plan on how to destroy America through the
immigration process. Every citizen within this country should consider
listening to this five minute audio clip and hear the chilling prophetic words of Lamm ring out
so loud and true today.
A nation that makes allowances for illegal immigration, especially
without any significant time for assimilation, eventually becomes a nation
under invasion, something which then eventually results in colonization.
The rule of law becomes a moot point when corrupt agenda-driven
politicians within the government get to pick and choose the laws they wish to
be enforced. When this type of selective law enforcement is facilitated, our
country becomes nothing more than a banana republic.
The many remaining law-abiding citizens, along with Republican
politicians, need to start adamantly calling out the Democrats for their
irrational supportive stance regarding illegal immigration. We all need to
confront the radical Democrats head on. They are the party whose senior members
have the audacity to lecture and virtue signal conservatives on how evil and
uncaring we have all become. Constantly painting those of us on the right as
the bad guys. Simply because we conservatives dare to hold our American
sovereignty sacred and know our borders need to become more safe and secure.
All the rational people within this country are demanding the immigration
process be a legal and closely monitored one.
Immigration could be a winning issue for Republicans in November.
But they need to hammer this issue home with courage and fortitude, not backing
down for fear of being called a racist or xenophobe. If the Republicans expect
to win in November, they need to highlight all the negatives of uninterrupted
waves of illegal immigration. A non-stop flow of illegal immigration being
shoved down our throats by the Democrats and their puppet media.
We conservatives all need to stand as one with President Trump and
affirm his policies regarding immigration. Trump's immigration plan adheres to
basic common sense. Trump is putting individual American citizen's lives above
political correctness, and this is making us all safer.
Illegal immigration has become the catalyst for big changes in
this country. Changes within a nation which inevitably become irreversible if
we fail to act. Change for the sake of change is a most dangerous thing.
An America that ignores the problems that come attached to open
borders and illegal immigration is doomed for destruction. A citizenry which no
longer believes in the rule of law and which pays lip service to our US
Constitution is no longer free. A people who are no longer willing to hold
their leaders accountable in regard to enforcing the rule of law, eventually become
enslaved within a tyranny.
Kevin De Léon is the LA RAZA
“The Race” FASCIST SUPREMACIST for U.S. Senate.
De Léon holds far-left views on
immigration, gun control, and other issues. Last year, he admitted that half of his
family was in the country illegally. Earlier this year, he appointed an
illegal alien to a statewide office. He is also the author of SB 54, one of the
three surviving “sanctuary state” laws that the Trump administration challenged
earlier this year.
"The man who, as Wikipedia explains, is
“known professionally as Kevin de León” testified that “half of my family”
would be eligible for deportation under Trump’s executive order because they
used false identification, drivers licenses, Social Security and green cards.
And that explains why the man who styles himself Kevin de León authored
California’s sanctuary state law." LLOYD BILLINGSLEY – FRONTPAGEMAG
In a variation on Jose Vasconselos’ La Raza Cosmica, the California senate
boss believes that illegals are “more American” and just better people than
those Anglo Yankees who are destined to fade away along with blacks and those
underachieving “Mongols.” So no surprise that the senate boss appointed
a false-documented illegal to a state position, a violation of state
law that bans ethnic preferences in state employment. So the termed-out senate
boss does not exactly support the rule of law, state or federal.