Between 2010 and 2015, the average annual cost to incarcerate criminal illegal and legal immigrants slightly decreased — as the criminal alien population slightly decreased as well — from $1.56 billion to about $1.42 billion. That cost is paid for by American taxpayers who are forced to offset the costs of mass immigration to the country.
Every year, the U.S. admits more than 1.5 million foreign nationals, with the overwhelming majority arriving through the process known as “chain migration,” whereby newly naturalized are able to bring an unlimited number of foreign relatives to the country. Between 2005 and 2017, chain migration, alone, brought nearly 10 million foreign nationals to the U.S.
Warren Undercuts Populist Agenda with Donor Class Immigration Plan
4:02
While Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) has vowed an economic nationalist-populist agenda, her plans to increase foreign competition against American workers match the solutions routinely offered by the nation’s donor-class and big business lobby.
With a rise in the polls, Warren is doubling down on her economic agenda, calling out multinational corporations for outsourcing and offshoring American jobs for decades.
“There are a lot of giant companies who like to call themselves ‘American,'” Warren said in a new video out on Twitter. “But face it, they have no loyalty or allegiance to America.”
“In a Warren administration, government policy will support American workers,” Warren said. “I call it economic patriotism … this is not a question of more government or less government. It’s about who government works for.”
Warren, however, has juxtapositioned her economic patriotist plan to crack down on outsourcing and offshoring of American jobs by corporations against an agenda to import additional foreign workers for those corporations.
In her immigration outline released last month, Warren promised to “expand legal immigration” beyond current historically high legal immigration levels, at which more than 1.2 million legal immigrants are admitted to the U.S. every year. Part of this plan includes increasing the process known as “chain migration,” whereby newly naturalized citizens are allowed to bring an unlimited number of foreign relatives to the country.
America should welcome more legal immigration — done in the right way and consistent with our principles … We should reflect our values, which means expanding family reunification and making it easier for relatives of citizens and green card holders to come to the United States,” Warren writes.
Warren writes that her expansion of legal immigration will “grow the economy,” the case often deployed by the donor class and big business lobby to demand more foreign workers.
U.S. Chamber of Commerce executives, for example, told the Washington Post this year that the country is “out of people” and thus more legal immigration is necessary to grow the economy and provide an endless flow of foreign workers to business.
Billionaire Michael Bloomberg’s organization New American Economy is wholey dedicated to lobbying for plans like Warren’s to be enacted in order to grow the U.S. economy and GDP. The organization is headed by Bloomberg and funded by a long list of billionaire donors, including the CEOs of Hewlett-Packard, Delta Airlines, Time Warner Inc., Goldman Sachs, Quest Diagnostics, and Citigroup.
Warren’s plan is also supported by the editorial board of billionaire Jeff Bezos’s Washington Post, where they argued that the U.S. needs a constant stream of low-skilled foreign workers to fill American jobs.
Meanwhile, America’s working and middle class have seen their wages crushed for decades just as a stream of illegal and legal foreign workers have grown their share of various U.S. occupations.
Extensive research by economists like George Borjas and analyst Steven Camarota reveals that the country’s current mass legal immigration system burdens U.S. taxpayers and America’s working and middle class while redistributing about $500 billion in wealth every year to major employers and newly arrived immigrants.
Camarota’s research has found that for every one-percent increase in the immigrant portion of American workers’ occupations, their weekly wages are cut by about 0.5 percent. This means the average native-born American worker today has his weekly wages reduced by perhaps 8.75 percent.
Trump’s “Buy American, Hire American” economic model, on the other hand, has lifted wages for America’s blue-collar and working-class by decreasing foreign competition in the labor market through stricter immigration enforcement. Trump’s agenda has also shifted power from corporations to U.S. workers where businesses now compete for workers rather than the decades-long practice of workers competing for jobs at businesses.
John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Follow him on Twitter at @JxhnBinder.
Elizabeth Warren, the worst of the bunch
"Hi, I’m Elizabeth Warren. Even though I’m as
white as library paste, I pretended to be
an American Indian to
get preferment. My research on medical bankruptcies was as fraudulent as the
way I gamed the racial spoils system. So you should totally trust me when I say
I’m “capitalist to my bones”!
The above quotation is from Armed &
Dangerous...how each of
the candidates would introduce themselves if they were honest. There
is an imaginary intro for each of them and they are all spot on, but because
Warren is allegedly "surging," and because she is the
panderer-in-chief, her gross dishonesty must be exposed.
There is quite the contest among the
declared candidates for the Democrat nomination, and for reasons unknown to
most of us, they are each clamoring to be the most wealth-redistributing
socialist, the most radical, the nearest to communist. They
each advocate for open borders to all who show up, no matter from what their
home country, no matter how likely they may be to be criminals. Not
one of them cares about the thousands of American citizens who are killed by
illegal immigrants. No,
they only care about the "poor children at the border" whose parents
have either sold or rented them to drug cartels or coyotes for a price. But
bleeding-heart Warren now wants to repeal the 1994 crime bill, pushed by Joe
Biden at the time, and that actually worked. For wholly
mysterious reasons, Warren, like the rest of the left, values
criminals, legal or illegal residents, over American citizens. This
is how they roll. They think this is a winning tactic, as if there
are more criminals than law-abiding citizens in America and that coddling them
is the answer.
While nearly all of the Democrat
candidates are monstrous hypocrites, especially on climate change, Warren
may well be the worst of the bunch. Her despicable record as a liar
to gain a position at Harvard is well-known; she claimed to be Native American
which, as we all know now, is preposterous on its face. She gave no
thought to taking a position which an actual minority applicant might have
won. In short, she is a woman of low character who is
willing to do or say anything she supposes might work in her favor to gain
power. She
was once an avowed capitalist who worked for
corporations to
avoid insurance claims -- but no more. Now
she is a fully formed anti-American who loathes the wealthy she promises to
punish in order to support the deluge of migrants from around the world she
assumes will reward her with their support.
She will of course grant them the right
to vote as will any one of the candidates if elected. If you
have entered the US illegally, then Warren and her fellow candidates
are there for you. Commit a crime? No problem. The
Democrats are there for you. Need free medical care? US citizens
will pay. The left values you over legal
citizens. Warren is the worst of the bunch. She is
the "dead phony
walking." She
is a liar and a cheat and, if the nominee, will remind everyone of their most
hated elementary school teacher. She does not talk, she
harangues.
Like Hillary Clinton, Warren is
contemptuous not only of Trump and his supporters but of pretty much all
Americans. By her standards, we are all stupid. She
overstates her significance; we are not as dumb as she thinks. She
is an armchair lefty whose cheap disdain for the rest of us is all there is to
her. The gamblers are betting on her to be the candidate
now that Biden's dementia is showing. What does that tell us about the
American left in 2019? "Evil appears as good in the minds of those whom God
leads to destruction." (Sophocles) If Warren
is the nominee, Trump will sail to victory with ease.
Elizabeth
Warren To Announce Presidential Campaign From City Ravaged by Opioids, Illegal
Immigration
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/timothymeads/2019/02/09/elizabeth-warren-to-announce-presidential-campaign-from-city-ravaged-by-opioid-epidemic-illegal-immigration-n2541101
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) is set to
announce her 2020 presidential campaign from the historically significant
Lawrence, MA. In the early portion of the 1900s, the bustling mill town was
known for the advancement of fair wages as well as being a welcoming hub for
legal immigrants. Yet in the 21st century, Lawrence is known for something more
nefarious; it is the "clearing house for illegal drugs" brought into
a region ravaged by the opioid epidemic with narcotics often trafficked by
illegal aliens.
The town located on the Merrimack
River is replete with political symbolism and activism. Historians, feminists,
and Big Labor activists recall the 1912 women-led strike against mill owner's
after the reduction of wages in response to a new law limiting weekly working
hours. These women staged walkouts and forced mill owners to pay fairly which
in turn bolstered union support. As David Rutz of The Washington Free
Beacon notes,
this was "[c]onsidered a landmark moment for unions, the strike received
national attention and eventually prompted federal investigations into brutal
working conditions and pay raises for workers around New England."
With the backdrop of these organized
labor victories and the city's high immigrant population, it makes for a
picturesque scene for the progressive Sen. Elizabeth Warren's presidential
launch. But, the current political and cultural reality of Lawrence seems far
better to help President Trump's stance on illegal immigration and serves as a
staunch rebuke of Sen. Warren's views on federal agencies such as Immigration
and Customs Enforcement.
In the past, Sen. Warren has said America needs "to rebuild our
immigration system from top to bottom starting by replacing ICE with something
that reflects our morality and that works." But, ICE actually works very
well in conjunction with other agencies who are trying to rid American streets
of dangerous substances that have led to the deaths of at least 1500
Massachusetts residents in 2018 and an estimated 50,000 overdoses nationwide in 2017.
ICE's success is evidenced by an October
2018 multiagency drug sweep through the city of Lawrence which resulted in the
arrest of 50 people, including 13 illegal immigrants, as well as the seizure of
20 pounds of fentanyl -- enough to kill half of the Bay State.
At the time, U.S. Attorney Andrew
Lelling told the Boston
Herald, “Lawrence
is a clearing house for illegal drugs pouring into New Hampshire and Maine via
93 and 495."
The Herald noted that the Department of
Justice led the bust officially known as the "Project Safe Neighborhoods
initiative." It "involved over 200 federal law enforcement agents and
targeted repeat criminals that had prior convictions for violence, drug
trafficking, firearm offenses or records of being in the country
illegaly."
Lelling reported Project Safe
Neighborhood proved the "larger point that the city of Lawrence is
significant to law enforcement.”
Based on the previous admonishment from
the Massachusetts senator, it seems to be a safe bet Warren will not praise law
enforcement for their heroic work led in part by stopping illegal immigrants in
Lawrence and elsewhere from dealing opioids which in turn kill citizens.
Nonetheless, Lelling's October press
conference can tell the American people what they really need to hear about
former mill towns that the left will not tell you -- "What the people
living there need is help and support. What they don’t need is drug dealers
selling kilos of fentanyl and felons brandishing guns," Lelling told the
media at the time.
VIVA LA RAZA SUPREMACY?
THEN VOTE DEMOCRAT! ILLEGALS ARE!
ZOGY POLL ON MEX RACISM AND VIOLENCE….. Half the
murders in CA
are by Mex gangs, and 93% of murders in La
Raza-Occupied Los Angeles are by
Mexicans.
ZOGBY
“In Mexico, a recent Zogby poll declared that the
vast majority of Mexican citizens hate Americans. [22.2] Mexico is a
country saturated with racism, yet in denial, having never endured
the social development of a Civil Rights movement like in the US--Blacks
are harshly treated while foreign Whites are often seen as the enemy.
[22.3] In fact, racism as workplace discrimination can be seen across the US
anywhere the illegal alien Latino works--the vast majority of the
workforce is usually strictly Latino, excluding Blacks, Whites, Asians,
and others.”
Previous generations of immigrants did not believe
they were racially superior to Americans. That is the view of La Raza Cosmica, by Jose Vasconcelos, Mexico’s former education
minister and a presidential candidate. According to this book, republished in
1979 by the Department of Chicano Studies at Cal State LA, students of
Scandinavian, Dutch and English background are dullards, blacks are ugly and
inferior, and those “Mongols” with the slanted eyes lack enterprise. The
superior new “cosmic” race of Spaniards and Indians is replacing them, and all
Yankee “Anglos.” LLOYD BILLINGSLEY/ FRONTPAGE mag
Mecha's (M.E.Ch.A.) own slogan reads, "For
the race everything. For those outside the race, nothing."
LA RAZA: The Mexican Fascist Party of LA RAZA “THE
RACE” and the Reconquista and surrender of America to NARCOMEX
VIVA LA RAZA SUPREMACY?
The comparison to the Nazi Party is well
deserved. La Raza openly supports pushing all but Latino Americans out of a
portion of the United States (ethnic cleansing), they call for 'Reconquista' or
the re-conquest of the American Southwest by Mexico (the re-occupation of the
Sudetanland), and the establishment of 'Atzlan' which is the utopian all-Latino
version of the American Southwestern states (Adolf Hitler planned to called his
utopia Germania).
"Despite the
fact that the majority of documented hispanics oppose illegal immigration, as
do the majority of Americans, Aztlan and La Raza race hate
groups have become the self-appointed voice for a separatist movement that
threatens a violent overthrow of the Constitutional system and a barbaric
program of ethnic cleansing. This is held up by the media as 'diversity' and to
vociferously oppose it is scorned as racism."
Jose
Pescador Osuna, Mexican Consul General We are practicing "La
Reconquista" in California."
"We’ve got an even more ominous enemy within our borders that promotes “Reconquista of Aztlan” or the reconquest of California, Arizona, New
Mexico and Texas into the country of Mexico."
"Remember
187 -- the Proposition to deny taxpayer funds for services to non-citizens ---
was the last gasp of white America in California." --- Art Torres,
Chairman of the California Democratic Party… NOW THE PARTY for LA RAZA SUPREMACY…
do a search for Barack Obama and LA RAZA.
"The American Southwest seems to be slowly
returning to the jurisdiction of Mexico without firing a single
shot." --- Excelsior, the national newspaper of Mexico
“The
watchdogs at Judicial Watch discovered documents that reveal how the Obama
administration's close coordination with the Mexican government entices
Mexicans to hop over the fence and on to the American dole.” Washington Times
“Make no
mistake about it: the Latino community holds this election in your hands. Some
of the closest contests this November will be in states like Florida, Colorado,
Nevada and New Mexico -- states with large Latino populations.” PRESIDENTIAL
CANDIDATE BARACK OBAMA
“I know how
powerful this community is. Just think how powerful you could be on November
4th if you translate your numbers into votes.” PRESIDENTIAL
CANDIDATE BARACK OBAMA
THE U.S. TAX DOLLAR SUPPORTED MEXICAN FASCIST PARTY
of LA RAZA “The Race” IS NOW CALLING ITSELF UNIDOSus.
La Raza Founder – Kill the Gringos (José Angel
Gutiérrez)
Obama Funds the Mexican Fascist Party of LA RAZA “The
Race”
FIFTEEN THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT LA RAZA “THE
RACE”
by Michelle Malkin
Only in America could critics of a group called
"The Race" be labeled racists. Such is the triumph of left-wing
identity chauvinists, whose aggressive activists and supine abettors have
succeeded in redefining all opposition as "hate."
Both Barack Obama and John
McCain will speak this week in San Diego at the annual conference of
the National Council of La Raza, the Latino organization whose name is Spanish
for, yes, "The Race." Can you imagine Obama and McCain paying
homage to a group of white people who called themselves that? No matter. The
presidential candidates and the media have legitimized "The Race" as
a mainstream ethnic lobbying group and marginalized its critics as intolerant
bigots. The unvarnished truth is that the group is a radical ethnic nationalist
outfit that abuses your tax dollars and milks PC politics to undermine our
sovereignty.
Here are 15 things you should know about "The
Race":
15. "The Race" supports driver's licenses
for illegal aliens.
14."The Race" demands in-state tuition
discounts for illegal alien students that are not available to law-abiding U.S.
citizens and law-abiding legal immigrants.
13. "The Race" vehemently opposes
cooperative immigration enforcement efforts between local, state and federal
authorities.
12. "The Race" opposes a secure fence on
the southern border.
11. "The Race" joined the American-Arab
Anti-Discrimination Committee in a failed lawsuit attempt to prevent the feds
from entering immigration information into a key national crime database -- and
to prevent local police officers from accessing the data.
10. "The Race" opposed the state of
Oklahoma's tough immigration-enforcement-first laws, which cut off welfare to
illegal aliens, put teeth in employer sanctions and strengthened local-federal
cooperation and information sharing.
9. "The Race" joined other open-borders,
anti-assimilationists and sued to prevent Proposition 227, California's
bilingual education reform ballot initiative, from becoming law.
8. "The Race" bitterly protested
common-sense voter ID provisions as an "absolute disgrace."
7. "The Race" has consistently opposed
post-9/11 national security measures at every turn.
6. Former "Race" president Raul Yzaguirre,
Hillary Clinton's Hispanic outreach adviser, said this: "U.S. English is
to Hispanics as the Ku Klux Klan is to blacks." He was referring to U.S.
English, the nation's oldest, largest citizens' action group dedicated to
preserving the unifying role of the English language in the United States.
"The Race" also pioneered Orwellian open-borders Newspeak and advised
the Mexican government on how to lobby for illegal alien amnesty while avoiding
the terms "illegal" and "amnesty."
5. "The Race" gives mainstream cover to a
poisonous subset of ideological satellites, led by Movimiento Estudiantil
Chicano de Aztlan, or Chicano Student Movement of Aztlan (MEChA). The late GOP
Rep. Charlie Norwood rightly characterized the organization as "a radical
racist group … one of the most anti-American groups in the country, which has permeated
U.S. campuses since the 1960s, and continues its push to carve a racist nation
out of the American West."
4. "The Race" is currently leading a smear
campaign against staunch immigration enforcement leaders and has called for TV
and cable news networks to keep immigration enforcement proponents off the
airwaves -- in addition to pushing for Fairness Doctrine policies to shut up
their foes. The New York Times reported that current "Race" president
Janet Murguia believes "hate speech" should "not be tolerated,
even if such censorship were a violation of First Amendment rights."
3. "The Race" sponsors militant ethnic
nationalist charter schools subsidized by your public tax dollars (at least $8
million in federal education grants). The schools include Aztlan Academy in
Tucson, Ariz., the Mexicayotl Academy in Nogales, Ariz., Academia Cesar Chavez
Charter School in St. Paul, Minn., and La Academia Semillas del Pueblo in Los
Angeles, whose principal inveighed: "We don't want to drink from a White water
fountain, we have our own wells and our natural reservoirs and our way of
collecting rain in our aqueducts. We don't need a White water fountain …
ultimately the White way, the American way, the neo liberal, capitalist way of
life will eventually lead to our own destruction."
2. "The Race" has perfected the art of the
PC shakedown at taxpayer expense, pushing relentlessly to lower home loan
standards for Hispanic borrowers, reaping millions in federal "mortgage
counseling" grants, seeking special multimillion-dollar earmarks and
partnering with banks that do business with illegal aliens.
1. "The Race" thrives on ethnic supremacy
-- and the elite sheeple's unwillingness to call it what it is. As historian
Victor Davis Hanson observes: "[The] organization's very nomenclature 'The
National Council of La Raza' is hate speech to the core. Despite all the
contortions of the group, Raza (as its Latin cognate suggests) reflects the
meaning of 'race' in Spanish, not 'the people' -- and that's precisely why we
don't hear of something like 'The National Council of the People,' which would
not confer the buzz notion of ethnic, racial and tribal chauvinism."
The fringe is the center. The center is the fringe.
Viva La Raza.
*
ALIEN NATION: Secrets of the Invasion
Why America's government invites rampant illegal
immigration
It's widely regarded as America's biggest problem:
Between 12 and 20 million aliens (MOST SOURCES SUGGEST THERE ARE MUCH MORE
LIKELY NEARLY 40 MILLION ILLEGALS HERE NOW) – including large numbers of
criminals, gang members and even terrorists – have entered this nation
illegally, with countless more streaming across our scandalously unguarded
borders daily.
The issue polarizes the nation, robs citizens of
jobs, bleeds taxpayers, threatens America's national security and dangerously
balkanizes the country into unassimilated ethnic groups with little loyalty or
love for America's founding values. Indeed, the de facto invasion is rapidly
transforming America into a totally different country than the one past generations
have known and loved.
And yet – most Americans have almost no idea what is
really going on, or why it is happening.
While news reports depict demonstrations and debates,
and while politicians promise "comprehensive border security
programs," no real answers ever seem to emerge.
But there are answers. Truthful answers. Shocking
answers.
In its groundbreaking May edition, WND's acclaimed
monthly Whistleblower magazine reveals the astounding hidden agendas, plans and
people behind America's immigration nightmare.
Titled "ALIEN NATION," the issue is
subtitled "SECRETS OF THE INVASION: Why government invites rampant illegal
immigration." Indeed, it reveals pivotal secrets very few Americans know.
For example:
Did you know that the powerfully influential Council
on Foreign Relations – often described as a “shadow government" – issued a
comprehensive report last year laying out a five-year plan for the
"establishment by 2010 of a North American economic and security
community" with a common "outer security perimeter"?
Roughly translated: In the next few years, according
to the 59-page report titled "Building a North American Community,"
the U.S. must be integrated with the socialism, corruption, poverty and
population of Mexico and Canada. "Common perimeter" means wide-open
U.S. borders between the U.S., Mexico and Canada. As Phyllis Schlafly reveals
in this issue of Whistleblower: "This CFR document asserts that President
Bush, Mexican President Vicente Fox and Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin
'committed their governments' to this goal when they met at Bush's ranch and at
Waco, Texas, on March 23, 2005. The three adopted the 'Security and Prosperity
Partnership of North America' and assigned 'working groups' to fill in the
details. It was at this same meeting, grandly called the North American Summit,
that President Bush pinned the epithet 'vigilantes' on the volunteers guarding
our border in Arizona."
The CFR report – important excerpts of which are
published in Whistleblower – also suggests North American elitists begin
getting together regularly, and presumably secretly, "to buttress North
American relationships, along the lines of the Bilderberg or Wehrkunde
conferences, organized to support transatlantic relations." The Bilderberg
and Wehrkunde conferences are highly secret conclaves of the powerful. For
decades, there have been suspicions that such meetings were used for plotting
the course of world events and especially the centralization of global
decision-making.
Did you know that radical immigrant groups –
including the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC), the Mexican
American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF), the Movimiento
Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlan (MEChA) and the National Council of La Raza (La
Raza) – not only share a revolutionary agenda of conquering America's
southwest, but they also share common funding sources, notably the Ford and
Rockefeller foundations?
''California is going to be a Hispanic state,"
said Mario Obeldo, former head of MALDEF. "Anyone who does not like it
should leave." And MEChA's goal is even more radical: an independent
''Aztlan,'' the collective name this organization gives to the seven states of
the U.S. Southwest – Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas
and Utah. So why would the Rockefeller and Ford foundations support such
groups? Joseph Farah tells the story in this issue of Whistleblower.
Why have America's politicians – of both major
parties – allowed the illegal alien invasion of this nation to continue for the
last 30 years unabated? With al-Qaida and allied terrorists promising to
annihilate major U.S. cities with nuclear weapons, with some big-city hospital
emergency rooms near closure due to the crush of so many illegals, with the
rapid spread throughout the U.S. of MS-13, the super-violent illegal alien gang
– with all this and more, why do U.S. officials choose to ignore the laws of
the land and the will of the people to pursue, instead, policies of open
borders and lax immigration enforcement?
The answers to all this and much more are in
Whistleblower's "ALIEN NATION" issue.
Is there hope? Or is America lost to a demographic
invasion destined to annihilate its traditional Judeo-Christian culture, and to
the ever-growing likelihood that nuclear-armed jihadists will cross our porous
borders and wreak unthinkable destruction here?
There most definitely is hope, according to this
issue of Whistleblower. Although most politicians of both major political
parties have long since abdicated their responsibility for securing America's
borders and dealing effectively with the millions already here illegally, there
are a few exceptions – most notably Colorado Rep. Tom Tancredo.
May's Whistleblower includes an exclusive sneak
preview of Tancredo's forthcoming blockbuster book, "In Mortal Danger: The
Battle for America’s Border and Security." In an extended excerpt,
Whistleblower presents Tencredo's expert and inspired analysis of exactly how
to solve the nation's most vexing problem.
*
THE AZTLAN INVASION & THE LA RAZA FASCIST PARTY
FOR MEXICAN SUPREMACY
“The radicals seek nothing less than secession from
the United States whether to form their own sovereign state or to reunify with
Mexico. Those who desire reunification with Mexico are irredentists who seek to
reclaim Mexico's "lost" territories in the American Southwest.”
MULTICULTURALISM, IMMIGRATION AND AZTLAN
By Maria Hsia Chang Professor of Political Science,
University of Nevada Reno
One of the standard arguments invoked by those in
favor of massive immigration into the United States is that our country is
founded on immigrants who have always been successfully assimilated into
America's mainstream culture and society. As one commentator put it,
"Assimilation evokes the misty past of Ellis Island, through which millions
entered, eventually seeing their descendants become as American as George
Washington."1 Nothing more vividly testifies against that romantic faith
in America's ability to continuously assimilate new members than the events of
October 16, 1994 in Los Angeles. On that day, 70,000 people marched beneath
"a sea of Mexican flags" protesting Proposition 187, a referendum
measure that would deny many state benefits to illegal immigrants and their
children. Two weeks later, more protestors marched down the street, this time
carrying an American flag upside down. Both protests point to a disturbing and
rising phenomenon of Chicano separatism in the United States — the product of a
complex of forces, among which are multiculturalism and a generous immigration
policy combined with a lax border control. The Problem Chicanos refer to
"people of Mexican descent in the United States" or "Mexican
Americans in general." Today, there are reasons to believe that Chicanos
as a group are unlike previous immigrants in that they are more likely to
remain unassimilated and unintegrated, whether by choice or circumstance —
resulting in the formation of a separate quasi-nation within the United States.
More than that, there are Chicano political activists who intend to marry
cultural separateness with territorial and political self-determination. The
more moderate among them aspire to the cultural and political autonomy of
"home rule". The radicals seek nothing less than secession from the
United States whether to form their own sovereign state or to reunify with
Mexico. Those who desire reunification with Mexico are irredentists who seek to
reclaim Mexico's "lost" territories in the American Southwest.
Whatever their goals, what animates all of them is
the dream of Aztlan. According to legend, Aztlan was the ancestral homeland of
the Aztecs which they left in journeying southward to found Tenochtitlan, the
center of their new civilization, which is today's Mexico City. Today, the
"Nation of Aztlan" refers to the American southwestern states of
California, Arizona, Texas, New Mexico, portions of Nevada, Utah, Colorado,
which Chicano nationalists claim were stolen by the United States and must be
reconquered (Reconquista) and reclaimed for Mexico. The myth of Aztlan was
revived by Chicano political activists in the 1960s as a central symbol of
Chicano nationalist ideology. In 1969, at the Chicano National Liberation Youth
Conference in Denver, Rodolfo "Corky" Gonzales put forth a political
document entitled El Plan de Aztlan (Spiritual Plan of Aztlan). The Plan is a
clarion call to Mexican-Americans to form a separate Chicano nation: In the
spirit of a new people that is conscious not only of its proud historial
heritage, but also of the brutal "gringo" invasion of our territories,
we, the Chicano inhabitants and civilizers of the nothern land of Aztlan from
whence came our forefathers ...declare that the call of our blood is...our
inevitable destiny.... Aztlan belongs to those who plant the seeds, water the
fields, and gather the crops, and not to the foreign Europeans. We do not
recognize capricious frontiers on the bronze continent.... Brotherhood unites
us, and love for our brothers makes us a people whose time has come .... With
our heart in our hands and our hands in the soil, we declare the independence
of our mestizo nation. We are a bronze people with a bronze culture. Before the
world, before all of North America, before all our brothers in the bronze
continent, we are a nation, we are a union of free pueblos, we are Aztlan.
How Chicanos are Unlike Previous Immigrants Brent A.
Nelson, writing in 1994, observed that in the 1980s America's Southwest had
begun to be transformed into "a de facto nation" with its own
culture, history, myth, geography, religion, education, and language. Whatever
evidence there is indicates that Chicanos, as a group, are unlike previous
waves of immigrants into the United States. In the first place, many Chicanos
do not consider themselves immigrants at all because their people "have
been here for 450 years" before the English, French, or Dutch. Before
California and the Southwest were seized by the United States, they were the
lands of Spain and Mexico. As late as 1780 the Spanish crown laid claim to
territories from Florida to California, and on the far side of the Mississippi
up to the Great Lakes and the Rockies. Mexico held title to much of Spanish
possessions in the United States until the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ended
the Mexican-American war in 1848. As a consequence, Mexicans "never
accepted the borders drawn up by the 1848 treaty."
That history has created among Chicanos a feeling of
resentment for being "a conquered people," made part of the United
States against their will and by the force of arms. Their resentment is amply
expressed by Voz Fronteriza, a Chicano student publication,
which referred to Border Patrol officers killed in
the line of duty as "pigs (migra)" trying to defend "the false
frontier."
Chicanos are also distinct from other immigrant
groups because of the geographic proximity of their native country. Their
physical proximity to Mexico gives Chicanos "the option of life in both
Americas, in two places and in two cultures, something earlier immigrants never
had." Geographic proximity and ease of transportation are augmented by the
media. Radio and television keep the spoken language alive and current so that
Spanish, unlike the native languages of previous immigrants into the United
States, "shows no sign of fading."
A result of all that is the failure by Chicanos to be
fully assimilated into the larger American society and culture. As Earl
Shorris, author of Latinos: A Biography of the People, observed: "Latinos
have been more resistant to the melting pot than any other group. Their entry
en masse into the United States will test the limits of the American
experiment...." The continuous influx of Mexican immigrants into the
United States serve to continuously renew Chicano culture so that their sense
of separateness will probably continue "far into the future...." There
are other reasons for the failure of Chicano assimilation. Historically, a
powerful force for assimilation was upward social mobility: Immigrants into the
United States became assimilated as they rose in educational achievement and
income. But today's post-industrial American economy, with its narrower paths
to upward mobility, is making it more difficult for certain groups to improve
their socioeconomic circumstances. Unionized factory jobs, which once provided
a step up for the second generation of past waves of immigrants, have been
disappearing for decades. Instead of the diamond-shaped economy of industrial
America, the modern American economy is shaped like an hourglass. There is a
good number of jobs for unskilled people at the bottom, a fair number of jobs
for the highly educated at the top, but comparatively few jobs for those in the
middle without a college education or special skills. To illustrate, a RAND
Corporation study forecasts that 85 percent of California's new jobs will
require post-secondary education. For a variety of reasons, the nationwide
high-school dropout rate for Hispanics (the majority of whom are Chicano) is 30
percent — three times the rate for whites and twice the rate for blacks.
Paradoxically, the dropout rate for Hispanics born in the United States is even
higher than for young immigrants. Among Chicanos, high-school dropout rates
actually rise between the second and third generations. Their low educational
achievement accounts for why Chicanos as a group are poor despite being
hardworking. In 1996, for the first time, Hispanic poverty rate began to exceed
that of American blacks. In 1995, household income rose for every ethnic group
except Hispanics, for whom it dropped 5 percent. Latinos now make up a quarter
of the nation's poor people, and are more than three times as likely to be
impoverished than whites. This decline in income has taken place despite high
rates of labor-force participation by Latino men, and despite an emerging
Latino middle class. In California, where Latinos now approach one-third of the
population, their education levels are far lower than those of other
immigrants, and they earn about half of what native-born Californians earn.
This means that, for the first time in the history of American immigration,
hard work is not leading to economic advancement because immigrants in service
jobs face unrelenting labor-market pressure from more recently arrived
immigrants who are eager to work for less. The narrowing of the pathways of
upward mobility has implications for the children of recent Mexican immigrants.
Their ascent into the middle-class mainstream will likely be blocked and they
will join children of earlier black and Puerto Rican migrants as part of an
expanded multiethnic underclass. Whereas first generation immigrants compare
their circumstances to the Mexico that they left — and thereby feel
immeasurably better off — their children and grandchildren will compare
themelves to other U.S. groups. Given their lower educational achievement and
income, that comparison will only lead to feelings of relative deprivation and
resentment. They are unlikely to be content as maids, gardeners, or fruit
pickers. Many young Latinos in the second and third generations see themselves
as locked in irremediable conflict with white society, and are quick to deride
successful Chicano students as "wannabes." For them, to study hard is
to "act white" and exhibit group disloyalty. That attitude is part of
the Chicano culture of resistance — a culture that actively resists
assimilation into mainstream America. That culture is created, reinforced, and
maintained by radical Chicano intellectuals, politicians, and the many Chicano
Studies programs in U.S. colleges and universities. As examples, according to
its editor, Elizabeth Martinez, the purpose of Five Hundred Years of Chicano
History, a book used in over 300 schools throughout the West, is to
"celebrate our resistance to being colonized and absorbed by racist empire
builders." The book calls the INS and the Border Patrol "the Gestapo
for Mexicans."
For Rodolfo Acuna, author of Occupied America: The
Chicano's Struggle Toward Liberation, probably the most widely assigned text in
U.S. Chicano Studies programs, the Anglo-American invasion of Mexico was
"as vicious as that of Hitler's invasion of Poland and other Central
European nations...." The book also includes a map showing "the
Mexican republic" in 1822 reaching up into Kansas and Oklahoma, and
including within it Utah, Nevada, and everything west and south of there
"This is country belongs to Mexico" is said
by the Mexican Militant. This is a common teaching that the U.S. is really
AZTLAN, belonging to Mexicans, which is taught to Mexican kids in Arizona and
California through a LA Raza educational program funded by American Tax Payers
via President Obama, when he gave LA RAZA $800,000.00 in March of 2009!
‘Diversity,’
Illegal Immigration and Destroying America
By Frank Gaffney, Jr.
Center
for Security Policy, February 20, 2018
Now
that official Washington’s political oxygen is being consumed by the latest
school shooting, it’s easy to forget abiding disagreements about immigration
policy. Yet, until supplanted by the current children’s crusade for gun
control, it was the so-called “DACA kids” who had to be accommodated with a
massive amnesty.
Just as we seem determined to ignore factors in mass murders like the pop culture’s role in inculcating a lust for violence – the more, the better, what passes for debate about illegal aliens is increasingly unmoored from any discussion of their impact on American society.
It’s time to reprise a 2003 warning by Democratic former Colorado governor Dick Lamm about a “secret plan” that is destroying our country through the combined effects of unchecked immigration, the “diversity” agenda and abandoning our national principle of “out of many, one.” This lunacy must end.
Just as we seem determined to ignore factors in mass murders like the pop culture’s role in inculcating a lust for violence – the more, the better, what passes for debate about illegal aliens is increasingly unmoored from any discussion of their impact on American society.
It’s time to reprise a 2003 warning by Democratic former Colorado governor Dick Lamm about a “secret plan” that is destroying our country through the combined effects of unchecked immigration, the “diversity” agenda and abandoning our national principle of “out of many, one.” This lunacy must end.
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https://www.centerforsecuritypolicy.org/2018/02/20/diversity-illegal-immigration-and-destroying-america/
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HISPANDERERS DESTROYING OUR COUNTRY
YOU WONDERED WHY OBAMA AND LA RAZA PELOSI FOUGHT TOOTH AND NAIL OBSTRUCTING SAFE VOTING BY REQUIRING ILLEGALS TO HAVE VALID (NON-FRAUDULENT) ID's????
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Democratic support for illegal-immigrant drivers’ licenses runs counter to public opinion.
July 18, 2019
New York
Politics and law
Last month, New York became the 13th state to grant drivers’ licenses to illegal immigrants, securing a victory that liberals and open-borders advocates have fought for since Eliot Spitzer was governor. But Democrats should worry about how the debate unfolded in New York: a majority of state voters opposed the bill, including about 40 percent of surveyed Democrats, mainly because the law will confer real benefits on illegal residents, thus rewarding violators of the law. The question of voter fraud—dismissed as a canard by most on the left—raised alarms when Democrats tried to pass a bill that would have automatically registered all drivers to vote (though it required non-citizens affirmatively to opt out of voter registration). After Republican legislators called attention to the potential consequences, the bill was scuttled. As it is, a state driver’s license is all that is required for voter registration in New York, so the potential for abuse is there.
In the suburbs, stiff opposition pushed Long Island’s Democratic state senators to vote unanimously against the bill. But the legislation overcame these headwinds, a testament to the ascendant Left’s newfound power statewide, particularly in New York City. Last year, Gotham voters unseated six members of the senate’s moderate Independent Democratic Conference, replacing them with more progressive challengers. The stridency of the party’s energized urban base was, on this issue, enough to overcome the opposition of the diffuse majority.
Advocates highlighted the modest supposed benefits that licensing illegal-alien drivers would deliver to the state budget and carriers of car insurance, but most voters remained unconvinced—presumably because their concern was less about money and more about the principles at stake. This negative reaction diverged from polls suggesting that Americans nationally have taken a more positive view of immigration since Donald Trump’s inauguration. The dissonance between country-wide polling and the conservative sentiment of deep-blue New York suggests that the national numbers on immigration may reflect the president’s unpopularity in particular rather than any fondness for illegal aliens—and that, when Trump is removed from the equation, the political middle on immigration remains significantly to the right of today’s Democratic Party.
This electoral dynamic is even more pronounced at the national level, where most leading Democrats have followed their activist base to extreme positions. Presidential candidates Bernie Sanders,
Kirsten Gillibrand, and Elizabeth Warren all endorse the
idea of abolishing ICE, while another competitor for the
Democratic nomination, former HUD Secretary Julian
Castro, has argued for mass amnesty. Castro and
Warren also favor decriminalization of illegal entry into
the United States. This radical trend is a recent phenomenon. Just a decade ago, the two major contenders for the Democratic nomination—Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton—tacked to the center on immigration. In The Audacity of Hope, Obama complained about the people he saw waving Mexican flags at immigration rallies, as well as his struggles communicating with non-English-speaking car mechanics. Clinton, for her part, quickly distanced herself from an earlier version of the drivers’ license law when Spitzer advanced it as an executive order.
Unlike New York Democrats, who voted on an unpopular bill, national Democrats believe their leftward shift on immigration mirrors a movement in public opinion. They believe that Trump’s immigration rhetoric fueled Americans’ sympathy on the issue. But their reasoning is flawed. They cite public opinion polls suggesting that Americans shift their attitudes leftward when conservatives hold power, and reverse their position when liberals are in control. Though polling has captured real dissatisfaction with the president’s approach to immigration, it has little to say about what policies voters would support.
The battle over New York’s drivers’ license bill suggests that most voters have not followed elite Democrats to the far left on immigration. Whether this chasm harms the eventual Democratic nominee in 2020 remains to be seen—but that nominee should keep in mind that taking an extreme position on the issue is not a strategy for broad popularity.
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