WHO'S GETTING THE JOBS??? - UNDER TRUMP, ILLEGALS!!!

What’s Happening at the Center In his latest analysis, Steven Camarota finds that the labor force participation rate (those working or looking for work) has not returned to pre-2007 recession levels. There has been a long-term downward trend in the labor force participation rate of working-age natives without a bachelor's degree. Only 70.7 percent of these natives were in the labor force in the fourth quarter of 2018. In that same quarter, there were a total 47.5 million working-age immigrants and natives not in the labor force across all education levels, up from 42.1 million in 2007 and 36.6 million in 2000. These numbers challenge the wisdom of a continuing a policy of record levels of legal immigration. The Employment Situation of Immigrants and Natives in the Fourth Quarter of 2018

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Visit Website MILLIONAIRE PHONY SOCIALISM BERNIE’S LA RAZA  SOCIALISM to keep the “cheap” labor flowing into our jobs https://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2019/04/phony-populist-bernie-sanders-vows-to.html  Bernie supports immigration reform that will address the legal status of the 11 million undocumented people  (EXCEPT THERE ARE 40 MILLION ILLEGALS HERE ALREADY) in our country, protect American jobs by way of visa reform, secure the border, and protect undocumented workers from labor exploitation. The website states that Sanders supports a pathway to citizenship for all people who are in the United States illegally, the Dream Act, “Visa reform” and border security “without building a fence.” * Sanders also voted for the “Gang of Eight” immigration bill in 2013 that would have given amnesty to all of the people in the United States illegally. * According to the Federation for American Immigration Reform’s 2017 report, illegal immigrants, and their children, cost American taxpayers a net $116 billion annually -- roughly $7,000 per alien annually. While high, this number is not an outlier: a recent study by the Heritage Foundation found that low-skilled immigrants (including those here illegally) cost Americans trillions over the course of their lifetimes, and a study from the National Economics Editorial found that illegal immigration costs America over $140 billion annually. As it stands, illegal immigrants are a massive burden on American taxpayers. CLINTON – OBAMA – TRUMPERNOMICS: STEAL FROM THE AMERICAN MIDDLE-CLASS and HAND IT TO THE SUPER RICH ON A SILVER PLATTER! http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2018/05/clinton-obama-trumpernomics-rich-get.html "The Wealth-X report shows that the world’s billionaire population has grown by 15 percent, to 2,754 people, since 2016, and that the wealth of these billionaires “surged by 24 percent to a record level of $9.2 trillion,” equivalent to 12 percent of the gross domestic product of the entire planet." “Our entire crony capitalist system, Democrat and Republican alike, has become a kleptocracy approaching par with third-world hell-holes.  This is the way a great country is raided by its elite.” ---- Karen McQuillan  THEAMERICAN THINKER.com WAR ON THE AMERICA WORKER: FEINSTEIN, PELOSI, OBAMA, and the CLINTON CRIME DUAL “Senator Dianne Feinstein warned, at the time, they had to solve this crisis now—of immigrants coming in illegally and getting these jobs.” http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2018/05/senator-dianne-feinstein-looking-to-buy.html “The Democrats had abandoned their working-class base to  chase what they pretended was a racial group when what they  were actually chasing was the momentum of unlimited  migration”.  DANIEL GREENFIELD / FRONT PAGE  MAGAZINE  EL TRUMPO SAYS HELL NO! TO PAYING LIVING WAGES TO LEGALS AT SWAMP PALACE MAR-A-LAGO! http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2018/07/the-trump-assault-on-american-workers.html No one should take Trump’s performances on border security, jobs for legals or his pretend wall seriously. No more seriously than the rest of his twitter drivel.   TRUMP WAS NEVER GOING TO BUILD THE WALL….after all he hires ILLEGALS to tend to SWAMP PALACE at Mar-a-lago! CUT LA RAZA’S WELFARE AND FIND THE FUNDS TO BUILD THE WALL AGAINST THE LA RAZA HEROIN CARTELS! http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2018/03/monica-showalter-cut-billions-in.html 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.   AP: Unions Worry 2020 Democrats Ignoring ‘Kitchen-Table Economics’ for Divisive Far-Left Issues https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/04/15/ap-unions-worry-2020-democrats-ignoring-kitchen-table-economics-for-divisive-far-left-issues/ Drew Angerer/Getty Images BREITBART NEWS  15 Apr 20191,513 6:12 LAS VEGAS (AP) — Ardently liberal, pro-labor and anti-corporate cash, the field of Democrats running for president may look like a union activist’s dream. But some key labor leaders are starting to worry about the topics dominating the 2020 conversation. The candidates are spending too much time talking about esoteric issues like the Senate filibuster and the composition of the Supreme Court and not enough time speaking the language of workers, several union officials said. Those ideas may excite progressive activists, they said, but they risk alienating working-class voters. “They’ve got to pay attention to kitchen-table economics,” said Ted Pappageorge, president of the Las Vegas Culinary Union that represents 60,000 hotel and casino workers. “We don’t quite see that.” Terry McGowan, president of the International Union of Operating Engineers Local 139, in Wisconsin, said many of the issues driving the 2020 primary so far are distractions. “The people that are into politics, the people who like sideshows, they’re into that,” he said, citing the debates over reparations for slavery and immigration as examples. “The masses just want to feed their families.” The unease may be an early warning sign for Democrats, who watched as many white, working-class voters, including many union members in key Rust Belt states, chose Trump three years ago. Democrats are hoping to win back some of those voters next year, a challenge that is made harder, some argue, by labor’s struggle to build its membership and influence its rank and file. Democrats’ early messages may not help, some said. “You see where some of the party’s being driven. It’s no secret,” said Rusty McAllister, executive secretary of the Nevada AFL-CIO. McAllister pointed to “Medicare for all” — the health care proposal of choice for several candidates — as an example of Democrats’ not seizing on labor’s top priorities. Many unions already organized and fought for private health insurance for their members. “That’s not something that I think that labor is as much focused on as some of the progressives are.” Such concerns — which stretched from the progressive-minded organizing halls of Nevada to the Rust Belt precincts — were typically focuse on the conversation, not the candidates. The early 2020 primary has included detours into debates over the Senate filibuster, the composition of the Supreme Court and breaking up technology companies. Ken Broadbent, business manager of the Pittsburgh-based Steamfitters Local 449, worried that Democrats are too focused on environmental plans like the Green New Deal, a blueprint for shifting the U.S. economy away from fossil fuels, and will neglect the importance of swing-state Pennsylvania’s rich natural gas deposits in creating jobs. “Jobs is where we’ve got to keep things focused,” Broadbent said. To be sure, many unionists are excited about the presidential field. Contenders include liberal stalwarts like Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, whose campaign became the first in U.S. history with a unionized work force, and Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, who joined striking Stop & Shop workers on a picket line in New Hampshire on Friday. California Sen. Kamala Harris hired a top Service Employees International Union executive for her campaign and made her first proposal one to raise teacher’s pay. Former Vice President Joe Biden made clear that he plans to appeal to union workers, if he gets in the race. “You are coming back,” he told the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers last week. “We need you back.” Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, said the competition in the crowded field has amplified workers voices and issues. She noted that prominent presidential candidates quickly supported Los Angeles public school teachers when they struck in January. Warren, Sanders, Harris and New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker have all proposed various taxes on higher-earning families, a departure from most past Democratic hopefuls who have treaded carefully on the issue. “It feels different than at other times,” Weingarten said. “There is far more attention and focus on working people’s economic needs.” Major endorsements are likely several months away, especially because the labor movement is treading carefully after complaints that its leadership was too quick to back Hillary Clinton in the 2016 primary over Sanders. For labor, much is at stake. Despite Republican gains, particularly with trade union members, labor remains an essential part of the Democrats’ coalition. Unions spent $169 million in 2018 on federal elections, largely on Democrats’ behalf, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. Democrats won union workers by a strong 59%-39% margin in 2018, according to AP VoteCast, a national survey of the electorate. But other big donors and — small, online ones, too — increasingly compete with labor’s organizing muscle as key to Democratic victories. Activists on a broad array of issues, from gay rights to criminal justice, compete with unions for candidates’ attention. And the labor movement itself is split on its priorities, with some pushing for a focus on trade while other who represent more diverse workforces want to zoom in on immigration. All this comes as Republicans have pushed several state laws weakening organized labor. And, last year, the Supreme Court ruled that government workers can’t be forced to contribute to the unions that represent them in collective bargaining, dealing a blow to public service union’s pocketbooks. As candidates court unions for endorsements, labor leaders say they are listening for a comeback plan. Any proposal aimed at workers “must include ensuring the opportunity to join a union, no matter where you work, since that’s the best way to raise wages, improve working conditions, create family-sustaining jobs and begin to fix our rigged economy and democracy,” said SEIU president Mary Kay Henry. At a National Association of Building Trades Unions in Washington on Wednesday, several Democratic contenders talked about outlawing so-called “right to work” laws that prevent unions from automatically deducting dues from members, said the group’s president, Sean McGarvey. But, he added, he heard “very little about the actual structural changes to the National Labor Relations Act, or things they could put in place to give people a real free choice to join a union.” Watch– Bernie Blasts Outsourcing of U.S. Jobs, Says to Trump: Tell GM ‘No More Federal Contracts’ https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/04/14/watch-bernie-blasts-outsourcing-of-u-s-jobs-says-to-trump-tell-gm-no-more-federal-contracts/ JOHN BINDER 14 Apr 2019299 4:20 Democratic socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) — one of the leading Democrat candidates for president in 2020 — blasted the outsourcing of American jobs by multinational corporations and challenged President Donald Trump to take action against General Motors (GM). During a town hall with American workers and union leaders in Lordstown, Ohio, Sanders slammed GM for most recently closing their Lordstown assembly plant and immediately laying off about 1,600 American workers. This layoff in Lordstown is in addition to the roughly 4,700 American workers who have been laid off by GM in Ohio since 2017, as well as about 900 workers who have been laid off in supporting industries thus far. In his address, Sanders called out GM for outsourcing and offshoring thousands of American jobs while increasing production in Mexico and China. “If entities like General Motors think that they can throw workers out on the street while they’re making billions in profit and then move to Mexico and pay people their starvation wages, and then line up to get federal government contracts, well they got another guess coming,” Sanders said to a roaring round of applause. “That ain’t going to happen.” Sanders challenged Trump to strip GM of their ability to bid for federal contracts because of their outsourcing business practices that are set to lay off an additional 8,000 American workers in supporting industries in the Lordstown area, alone: We have to decide whether in our democracy we are going to allow a handful of billionaires … dictate trade policy in America so that profitable corporations will destroy the lives of American workers when they go abroad and pay people a buck or $2 an hour to do the work that can be done in America. [Emphasis added] Today I say to Donald Trump, you know you’re a really tough guy and you’re prepared to shut down the federal government … well let’s see how tough you are. Tell General Motors today “No more federal contracts.” [Emphasis added] Last month, Trump demanded GM CEO Mary Barra to reopen the Lordstown plant and halt her plans to shut down three other plants in the U.S., including Detroit-Hamtramck and Warren Transmission in Michigan and Baltimore Operations in Maryland. In response, the United Auto Workers (UAW) union has stood firmly with Trump against GM’s decision. “Because the economy is so good, General Motors must get their Lordstown, Ohio, plant open, maybe in a different form or with a new owner, FAST!” Trump wrote on Twitter. In response, UAW officials wrote: “Thank you, Mr. President, for fighting alongside the UAW against @GM. We will leave no stone unturned to keep the plants open!” John Binder @JxhnBinder Husband and father of four chronicles his last shift at the Lordstown, Ohio GM plant: "It’s hard to even fathom that I’m not going to be coming back tomorrow." The forgotten man. https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/03/08/watch-gm-worker-details-last-day-before-ohio-plant-closure-its-hard-to-even-fathom/ … 944 6:24 PM - Mar 8, 2019 Twitter Ads info and privacy Watch-GM Worker Details Last Day Before Closure: 'Hard to Even Fathom' American GM worker Aaron Applegate detailed his last day at the multinational corporation's Lordstown Ohio Assembly plant. breitbart.com 557 people are talking about this As Breitbart News reported, GM closed the Lordstown plant after a series of concessions by the United Auto Workers (UAW). The agreement between GM executives and American union workers equated to about $120 million a year in concessions, but despite the efforts by the union to keep the plant open, Barra announced last year that the corporation would idle the plant. While GM lays off thousands of American workers this year, its production in Mexico and China is ramping up. Specifically, GM is looking to manufacture an electric Cadillac in China and continue manufacturing its Envision compact vehicle in China. The made-in-Mexico Chevrolet Blazer will soon arrive in U.S. markets. Last year, GM became the largest automaker in Mexico as it has cut jobs in America and increased production in Mexico. Offshoring production to Mexico has proven cheaper for GM executives because American workers earn about $30 an hour while Mexican workers earn about $3 an hour, a 90 percent cut to wages that widens the corporation’s profit margins. Meanwhile, Barra continues to earn a salary of about $22 million. American manufacturing is vital to the U.S. economy as every one manufacturing job supports an additional 7.4 American jobs in other industries. Decades of free trade, with deals like the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), have eliminated nearly five million manufacturing jobs from the American economy and resulted in the closure of about 50,000 manufacturing plants. John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Follow him on Twitter at @JxhnBinder.