"Chuck
Schumer and Nancy Pelosi, the twin nutters of Congress, were certain they could
beat Trump at his own game, but have made fools of themselves, as
usual. The stand-off is not over but with each passing day, the
Democrats reveal more of their anti-American, pro-illegal immigration agenda.
Conservatives have been sounding the alarm for years: Democrats do not
care about American citizens!" PATRICIA McCARTHY
Democrats turning California into a third-world hellhole: Going without electricity edition
Democrats are turning California into a third-world hellhole without electricity, water, and freedom.
Due to Democrats' love for trees, at least 800,000 Californians will be without power for several days. Instead of properly managing California forests to reduce the chances of big fires, Democrats are saying Californians have to go without lights, refrigerators, and air-conditioning. Democrats could also avoid this by not making the power company financially liable for all forest fire damages, but since PG&E is a company, not an illegal alien, the Democrats couldn't care less about doing what's best for California.
While they try to blame climate change and the infrastructure, the reality is that neither of those has caused any significant changes in the last ten years — but now, suddenly, due to Democrat policies, Californians have to start living in the 18th century.
The Democrats who run California also refuse to build more water storage capacity even though the state's population has dramatically increased, ensuring that water has to be rationed during droughts.
Democrats are turning California into a third-world country economically. The income inequality between the über-rich Silicon Valley workers and the rest of Californians is huge, just like in third-world countries, while the elites live in luxury and the rest live in squalor.
Democrats are doing a great job manufacturing poverty and homelessness even as they fail to instill hope in Californians.
California has four times more homeless per capita and three times more poor per capita than the rest of America. Half the homeless in America are in California, even though California has only 12% of the U.S. population. Also, blacks are six times more prevalent in the San Francisco homeless population than they are in California in general.
The homeless explosion has brought the return of third-world diseases like typhus to California — not to mention streets littered with human feces.
Democrats are trying to keep people from having cars, just like the people of the Third World. After all, a car gives people the freedom to move, and freedom is a bad thing in the minds of Democrats since it limits the power the government has over citizens.
Recently, Gavin Newsom, the Democrat governor, transferred millions of dollars that the voters had been ensured would go to improve the state's failing road infrastructure to a fund designed to convince Californians to give up their cars.
Democrats are also working to make cars unaffordable for any but the richest Californians.
Californians pay $1.53 more for a gallon for gasoline than the rest of America. That's $21 more for a tank of gasoline. Facebook employees won't notice it, but the poor in California who can't afford to live near their jobs are paying through the teeth.
Like all third-world tyrants, Democrats are doing everything they can to eliminate democracy in California.
The jungle primary, where the top two candidates in the primaries go against each other, has resulted in many races where two Democrats are running against each other, giving voters who don't agree with the Democrats' failed policies no one to vote for.
California is doing nothing to ensure that people who shouldn't vote don't vote. Instead, the people running the state are doing everything possible to let illegal aliens vote. When illegal aliens go pick up their driver's licenses, they're automatically enrolled to vote unless they say they're not citizens.
California is also trying to end democracy by keeping the Republican presidential candidate off the ballot. Democrats passed an unconstitutional law to keep any candidate who didn't release his tax returns off the ballot solely to keep Californians from voting for Trump.
Finally, the Democrats are going after freedom of the press. An undercover journalist revealed that Planned Parenthood was selling aborted baby parts. Instead of investigating that illegal practice, Democrat Kamala Harris decided to put the journalist on trial.
Democrats keep telling us California is the future if they get elected. That means that poverty, homelessness, the end of democracy, and a press that reports only what Democrats want heard are what Democrats are promising us.
If you're an immensely wealthy Google employee, California is Heaven. If you're not, it's becoming more and more like Hell.
You can read more of Tom's rants at his blog, Conversations about the obvious, and feel free to follow him on Twitter.
Donald Trump Rips San Francisco ‘Mess’ Under Nancy Pelosi
2:06
President Donald Trump began Saturday morning picking a fight with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, pointing to the “mess” that her district home city of San Francisco had become.
“All she works on is Impeachment,” Trump wrote on Twitter, noting that the city was in “horrible shape” thanks to the homeless population creating an unsanitary and environmentally hazardous climate in her city.
“We should all work together to clean up these hazardous waste and homeless sites before the whole city rots away,” he wrote.
Full statement:
I can’t believe that Nancy Pelosi’s District in San Francisco is in such horrible shape that the City itself is in violation of many sanitary & environmental orders, causing it to owe the Federal Government billions of dollars – and all she works on is Impeachment. We should all work together to clean up these hazardous waste and homeless sites before the whole city rots away. Very bad and dangerous conditions, also severely impacting the Pacific Ocean and water supply. Pelosi must work on this mess and turn her District around!
Trump first started attacking the conditions of Pelosi’s district in the summer. He noted that Democrat continued to support government benefits for illegal immigrants while leaving their citizens and cities in squalor.
“What they are doing to our beautiful California is a disgrace to our country,” Trump said at a political rally in Cincinnati in August. “It’s a shame. The world is looking at it. Look at Los Angeles with the tents and the horrible, horrible, disgusting conditions. Look at San Francisco.”
In September, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Andrew Wheeler sent a letter to California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) raising concerns about the toxic sewage from the homeless camps.
“California needs to fulfill its obligation to protect its water bodies and, more importantly, public health, and it should take this letter as notice that EPA is going to insist that it meets its environmental obligations,” Wheeler wrote.
Donald
Trump Questions Nancy Pelosi’s Corruption
AP
Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta
President
Donald Trump questioned House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s dubious participation in
stock market initial public offering shares, enriching her family.
Turns
out Biden's family not the only one to benefit from Ukrainian fossil fuels
High levels of immigration, illegal and legal, puts downward pressure on U.S. wages while redistributing about $500 billion in wealth away from America’s working and middle class and towards employers and new arrivals, research by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine has found.
the wage gains, all the employment gains for those blue-collar
workers who switched parties to vote for him,” Jenks said. “I
hope someone in the White House has his interest in mind
who is telling him this.”
Mark Zuckerberg’s Silicon
Valley investors are uniting with the Koch network’s consumer and industrial
investors to demand a huge DACA amnesty
Americans’ wages need to grow faster, says House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
Why Wages Are Finally Rising, 10 Years After
the Recession
AP Photo/Rodrigo
Abd
Illegal
immigration at the United States-Mexico border last month was nine times the
level of the same month two years ago and is projected to outpace every year
when former President Obama oversaw immigration.
Open borders
advocates are getting the open border they want
ONLY BARACK OBAMA
AND ERIC HOLDER HAVE SABOTAGED THE AMERICAN WORKER MORE THAN SWAMP KEEPER
TRUMP!
The White House’s draft immigration plan includes valuable border
security reforms, but it also shifts the migrant inflow from blue-collar jobs
towards white-collar college jobs, so sharpening workplace competition for a
wide range of American graduates.
FBI: Company Faked White-Collar Jobs for
1,900 Chinese Migrants
Why Wages Are Finally Rising, 10 Years After
the Recession
Goldman Sachs: Trump Raises Voters' Wages
with Tight Labor Market
The White House is dropping a longtime
initiative of President Trump’s that reduces overall legal immigration levels
to increase U.S. wages, a senior administration official tells the media.
Cheating Our Way to 4 Percent Growth
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/cheating-our-way-to-4-percent-growth/?utm_source=E-mail+Updates&utm_campaign=7c5d5b8f80-
Trump
Abandons ‘America First’ Reforms:
‘We Need’
More Immigration to Grow
Business
Profits
Ahead of the 2020 presidential election,
President Trump is abandoning his prior “America First” legal immigration
reforms to support increases of legal immigration levels in order to expand
profits for businesses and corporations.
Globalist Business Groups Dominate
Immigration Talks at White House
percent of the labor force, American workers have their weekly
wages reduced by perhaps more than 12.5 percent. In
California, where immigrants make up 34 percent of the labor
force, American workers’ weekly wages are reduced by
potentially 17 percent.
Mark Zuckerberg’s Silicon
Valley investors are uniting with the Koch network’s consumer and industrial
investors to demand a huge DACA amnesty
A handful of Republican and
Democrat lawmakers are continuing to tout a plan that gives amnesty to nearly a
million illegal aliens in exchange for some amount of funding for President
Trump’s proposed border wall along the U.S.-Mexico border.
“Sessions is the only one doing
something about illegal immigration!” Ann Coulter… AND THAT IS WHY TRUMP FIRED
HIM!
Big news out of the White House this week!
After a beehive of activity, Jared Kushner will finally be unveiling his
comprehensive immigration plan!
12M Americans Out of Workforce as
DHS Approves 30K More Foreign Workers
AP/Elise Amendola
Nearly 12 million Americans remain out of the United States labor force
as the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) approved 30,000 more foreign
workers businesses can bring to the country to take blue-collar U.S.
jobs.
Fixing
America’s Unemployment Crisis
Stimulus and Subsidies
Keeping Fake Illegal Alien Families Together
https://townhall.com/columnists/michellemalkin/2019/05/08/keeping-fake-illegal-alien-families-together-n2546006
Fixing
America’s Unemployment Crisis
Stimulus and Subsidies
Mark Zuckerberg’s Silicon
Valley investors are uniting with the Koch network’s consumer and industrial
investors to demand a huge DACA amnesty
*
A handful of Republican and
Democrat lawmakers are continuing to tout a plan that gives amnesty to nearly a
million illegal aliens in exchange for some amount of funding for President
Trump’s proposed border wall along the U.S.-Mexico border.
“Sessions is the
only one doing something about illegal immigration!” Ann Coulter… AND THAT IS
WHY TRUMP FIRED HIM!
Big news out of the White House this
week! After a beehive of activity, Jared Kushner will finally be unveiling his
comprehensive immigration plan!
Fixing
America’s Unemployment Crisis
Stimulus and Subsidies
"Chuck
Schumer and Nancy Pelosi, the twin nutters of Congress, were certain they could
beat Trump at his own game, but have made fools of themselves, as
usual. The stand-off is not over but with each passing day, the
Democrats reveal more of their anti-American, pro-illegal immigration agenda.
Conservatives have been sounding the alarm for years: Democrats do not
care about American citizens!" PATRICIA McCARTHY
In the next two decades, should the country’s
legal immigration policy go unchanged, the U.S. is set to import about
15 million new foreign-born voters. About eight million of these new
foreign-born voters will have arrived through the process known as “chain
migration,” whereby newly naturalized citizens are allowed to bring an
unlimited number of foreign relatives to the country. JOHN BINDER
This policy
of flooding the market
with cheap, foreign, white-collar graduates and
blue-collar labor also shifts
enormous wealth from young employees
towards older investors, even as it also widens wealth
gaps, reduces high-tech
investment, increases state and
local tax burdens, and hurts children’s schools and college educations.
It also pushes Americans
away from high-tech careers and sidelines millions of marginalized Americans,
including many who are now struggling with
fentanyl addictions. The labor policy also moves business investment and
wealth from the heartland to the coastal cities, explodes rents
and housing costs, shrivels real estate
values in the Midwest, and rewards investors for creating low-tech, labor-intensive workplaces.
JOHN BINDER
The Democrats' Alien Voting
Strategy
2020 Democrats All Have the
Same Immigration Position: Open Borders
2020 Democrats all have the same immigration
position: Open borders
The murder of legal immigrant and Newman
Police Corporal Ronil Singh on Christmas
night by an illegal alien in the sanctuary state of California shows
not only that the claims by Chuck Schumer and the “bride of Chucky”
Nancy Pelosi that
the Democrats support border
security is a deadly and bald-faced lie.
Potential
Speaker Candidate Marcia Fudge: Nancy Pelosi an ‘Elitist,’ ‘Very Wealthy
Person’
Pelosi’s Pacific Heights
needs refugees
Pelosi, through her holdings in local restaurants
and vineyards, is reputed to be one of the largest
employers of illegal labor in Northern California.
Consequently, the people she would compassionately house might be able to find
work in her network of businesses, especially her fabled
vineyard on the banks of the Napa River.
Pelosi - Illegals - Sunkist - Her investments!
CALIFORNIA and
the RISE OF THE LA RAZA MEXICAN FASCIST WELFARE STATE
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2018/08/they-invading-horde-waving-their.html
Class Conflict within the
Democratic Party
It
Pays to be Illegal in California
The Gospel According to Nancy: No
Borders, Kill Babies (UNLESS THEY'RE LA RAZA ANCHOR BABIES!)
The Schumer & Pelosi show
Sunday
bombshell: Pool for deportation is up to 1 million illegals who have already
had due process
By Matt Vespa
Providing
free, American taxpayer-funded healthcare to all illegal aliens is just the
latest effort to use mass immigration to turn the United States into the
sanctuary state of California, Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL) says.
Donald
Trump Questions Nancy Pelosi’s Corruption
15 Oct 2019392
1:23
President
Donald Trump questioned House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s dubious participation in
stock market initial public offering shares, enriching her family.
The
president shared a clip Monday highlighting a CBS 60 Minutes report
featuring author and Breitbart senior contributor Peter Schweizer’s investigation into
Pelosi and her husband participating in at least eight different stock IPOs
while in Congress.
"The House gone rogue! I want to remind you a little
bit about the ring leader in this whole rogue operation against the President
of the United States..." @MarkLevinShow
60 Minutes reporter Steve Kroft confronted Pelosi
on the topic in 2011, but
she denied any impropriety.
The
report noted that Pelosi and her husband participated in an initial public
offering of Visa in 2008, while credit card regulation was underway in the
House of Representatives. The Pelosis bought 5,000 shares at the initial
price of $44 and shares were trading at $64 just two days later, according to
the report.
“Congress
has never done more for consumers nor has the Congress passed more critical
reforms of the credit card industry than under the Speakership of Nancy
Pelosi,” Pelosi spokesman, Drew Hammill, said in a statement, according to CNN after the 60 Minutes report aired.
The clip was
featured on Mark Levin’s Fox News show Life,
Liberty and Levin on Sunday.
Turns
out Biden's family not the only one to benefit from Ukrainian fossil fuels
On Sept. 24, 2019, Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced the official impeachment
inquiry that would be led by the Intelligence Committee and Rep.
Adam Schiff (D-Calif.). At first, this was a curious decision to
objective persons, since the Judiciary Committee has the authority over this
type of procedure. At the time, Pelosi indicated a threat by
President Donald Trump to our national security during the July 25 conversation
between him and President Zelensky of Ukraine. She did this without
the benefit of the transcript, but she doubtless already knew much of the CIA
"whistleblower's" complaint. Further, the Ukrainian president
disputes her version.
But this is not the rationale for her haste to convene the
investigation. It appears that the D.C. swamp benefits another
powerful family. The Biden family has gotten special treatment
from Ukrainian oil interests, and the Pelosi family has a similar
advantage. Paul Pelosi, Jr. was a board member of Viscoil and an
executive at its related company NRGLab, which was involved in energy business
in Ukraine. Perhaps the use of the Intelligence Committee has given
the Democrats the opportunity to limit Republican questioning and maintain
secrecy over the responses from subpoenaed witnesses. This would
prevent any official record implicating Pelosi's son. This also
explains her reluctance to take a vote authorizing the investigation, since the
minority party would gain some rights.
This is interesting also since much of the Democratic Party
rejects carbon-based energy sources. Biden has made this a part of
his campaign. The Green New Deal proposals will eventually end
dependency on oil and gas as an energy source. But this does not
stop these politicos from benefiting financially from this sector of the
economy. This reminds one of the financial benefits that Al Gore's
father had from Occidental Petroleum, which was one of the great polluters
(remember Love Canal?). He chose to make money selling carbon
offsets to atone and make his own name.
The Ukrainian oil company Burisma used
many well connected members of the D.C. establishment connected to the Obama
administration. This interlocking swamp is a threat to the
USA. But the media have managed to convince a vast number of
Americans that Trump is the threat. When Trump railed against Pelosi
in Louisiana on Friday, he was accusing her of not just splitting the nation
politically, but also ignoring the financial benefits to powerful families at
the detriment of our national security. This also helps explain the
constant discussion in public about Biden's son Hunter, in addition to the
political advantage he might gain.
No wonder the establishment (including many Republicans) wants to
impeach Trump. Family security always "trumps" national
security in the D.C. swamp.
NANCY PELOSI GOT RICH OFF ELECTED OFFICE AND SERVICING THE
“CHEAP” LABOR LOBBIES - Jim Gilchrist asked the question about Nancy Pelosi’s
ethics that should be on the minds of every law-abiding American – including
those immigrants who are following the law to become citizens here the proper
way: “Do we really need a House Speaker whose every action is calculated to
enhance her own financial interests, instead of focusing on how porous borders
will affect the security of everyday American citizens?”
SPEAKER NANCY PELOSI HIRES ILLEGALS AT HER NAPA WINERY
CALL LA RAZA NANCY TODAY! PUT THE HEAT ON HER!
EMAIL: NANCY PELOSI
CALL NANCY PELOSI Washington , DC - (202) 225-4965 San Francisco
, CA - (415) 556-4862
EMAIL NANCY PELOSI sf.nancy@mail.house.gov
Gilchrist was reacting to my report several weeks ago in
FrontPage Magazine that Pelosi – who owns non-union vineyards in Napa Valley
where grape-picking depends chiefly on the availability of cheap foreign labor
– is doing everything she can to help open the floodgates to more illegal
immigration. And she wants the American taxpayers to pay their way. As even more
proof of this
than I previously reported, Pelosi
does not want employers like her to be required to pay the cost of illegal
aliens’ hospital care. She voted against a bill that would make
employers liable for the reimbursements if an undocumented employee seeks medical
attention. And she voted in favor of rewarding illegal aliens from Mexico with
Social Security benefits.
Pelosi's Stake in Illegal
Immigration
________________________________________
The Minuteman Project, founded by Jim Gilchrist (who is also the
co-author of the book Minutemen: The Battle to Secure America’s Borders), is
made up of citizen volunteers who watch our border with Mexico and report
illegal entry to the border patrol. For performing that thankless task in full
compliance with the law, Gilchrist and his colleagues have been falsely
maligned as fascists, racists, and even murderers. They have been driven off
the speaker’s platform at Columbia University and vilified by Leftist
politicians and their handmaidens in the liberal press.
So it was no surprise that the mainstream media chose to ignore
a recent press release, issued by his publisher, in which Gilchrist asked the
question about Nancy Pelosi’s ethics that should be on the minds of every
law-abiding American – including those immigrants who are following the law to
become citizens here the proper way: “Do we really need a House Speaker whose
every action is calculated to enhance her own financial interests, instead of
focusing on how porous borders will affect the security of everyday American
citizens?”
Gilchrist did not stop there. He demanded an investigation into
Pelosi’s “economic stake in just the kind of illegal alien exploitation that we
deplore in Minutemen.” But you would never know it from the liberal media, who
- while ignoring this demand - have had no compunctions in calling for Speaker
Hastert’s head in the wake of the Foley page controversy.
Gilchrist was reacting to my report several weeks ago in
FrontPage Magazine that Pelosi – who owns non-union vineyards in Napa Valley
where grape-picking depends chiefly on the availability of cheap foreign labor
– is doing everything she can to help open the floodgates to more illegal
immigration. And she wants the American taxpayers to pay their way. As even
more proof of this than I previously reported, Pelosi does not want employers
like her to be required to pay the cost of illegal aliens’ hospital care. She
voted against a bill that would make employers liable for the reimbursements if
an undocumented employee seeks medical attention. And she voted in favor of
rewarding illegal aliens from Mexico with Social Security benefits.
At the same time, Pelosi has led the Democratic opposition to
any effective border controls or documentation requirements. She opposed the
Secure Fence Act of 2006, signed into law by President Bush, and voted against
final passage of a border security and enforcement bill in 2005 which required
that all businesses must use an electronic system to check if all new hires
have the legal right to work in this country. She voted against a bill to bar
drivers' licenses for illegal aliens in 2005. This year she opposed legislation
requiring presentation of a legitimate government-issued photo ID to prove
eligibility to vote, claiming that “there is little evidence anywhere in the
country of a significant problem with non-citizen voters.” She is dead wrong.
For example, an accused terrorist by the name of Nuradin Abdi was just recently
reported to have illegally registered to vote at the Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles.
Nuradin Abdi was indicted earlier this year as part of a conspiracy to blow up
the Columbus Mall.
How many other terrorist suspects may have slipped through the
system because Leftists like Pelosi oppose any meaningful screens? Instead she continues
to advocate our recognition of the flimsy, non-validated ID card that the
Mexican consulates provide to illegal aliens before they cross over our border,
called the “matricula consular”, which gives them phony documentation to set up
bank accounts, apply for jobs, obtain social benefits, board airplanes,
identify themselves to police, enter buildings that require IDs, obtain
drivers’ licenses and then perhaps use those drivers’ licenses to try to
illegally register to vote in our elections.
Pelosi also believes in giving sanctuary to illegal aliens. She
opposed legislation to deny federal homeland security funding to state and
local governments who refuse to share information they learn about an
individual's immigration status with Federal immigration authorities. Pelosi’s
hometown of San Francisco is one of the sanctuary cities she voted to protect
for the benefit of illegal aliens. Pelosi even voted against strengthening our
immigration law with regard to the deportability of alien terrorists.
Jim Gilchrist cut to the chase with this devastating observation
that the mainstream media does not want you to read:
"As we’ve shown again and again in ‘Minutemen,’ the
Democrats aren’t just hypocrites, but are working actively to subvert our
legislative system to their own ends. Their only goal is votes, votes and more
votes, no matter where they come from, no matter if they’re cast legally, no
matter whether the person casting them is dead, alive, a citizen or an illegal
alien."
Pelosi sees Jim Gilchrist’s Minutemen Project as a threat to her
pro-illegal alien agenda. More illegal aliens mean more votes for the Democrats
and more grape-pickers for Napa Valley vineyards like hers. So she even voted
against a measure that would have cut off the use of U.S. taxpayers’ funds to
tip off illegal aliens as to where the Minutemen citizen patrols may be
located! She obviously wants to see the Minutemen put out of business –
permanently. She can count on the liberal press to distort the work of the
Minutemen and to keep out of the public eye Gilchrist’s pointed questions about
her motivations for helping illegal aliens during the run-up to the mid-term
elections that may make her the next Speaker of the House.
Gilchrist, of course, is accustomed to being vilified and
prevented by the Left from getting his message out. In early October, he was
prevented from finishing his speech at the "Minutemen Forum"
sponsored by the Columbia College Republicans. Gilchrist had spoken for just a
few minutes and managed to utter the words “I love the First Amendment” when a
group of radical protestors took the stage and interrupted him, displaying a
big banner saying "There are no illegals." More protestors then
stormed the stage. Chaos erupted and the audience members who had come to hear
Gilchrist speak never got the chance, which was precisely the protestors’
objective. As reported online by the staff of Columbia’s undergraduate
newspaper, “a mosh pit of triumphal students and community members danced and
chanted outside, "Asian, Black, Brown and White, we smashed the Minutemen
tonight!" They also put out a statement declaring:
“The Minutemen are not a legitimate voice in the debate on
immigration. They are a racist, armed militia who have declared open hunting
season on immigrants, causing countless hate crimes and over 3000 deaths on the
border. Why should exploitative corporations have free passes between nations,
but individual people not? No human being is illegal.” (Emphasis added)
We have come to the point in this country where a bunch of
radical protestors get to decide who is and who is not a legitimate voice in
the debate on as critical a public policy issue as immigration. Such Leftists
think that migration in a borderless world is a basic human right. They want no
barriers, no guards, and no proof of lawful residency. They certainly do not
want the Minutemen watching the border and reporting illegal entry to the
authorities.
Leftist slogans like “no human being is illegal” are red
herrings. It is not the human being who is illegal; it is what the human being
does that may be illegal. One’s conduct is the test, not simply who one is.
Immigrants who follow our rules are welcome here. Those who do not abide by our
laws have no right to be here. A person who breaks into your house without your
permission does not deserve room, board and a job as a reward, even if the
intruder may be much poorer than you. He has broken the law and deserves to be
punished for what he has done. Our country’s boundaries and rules for entry and
residency similarly define who is permitted to be here and how we choose to
protect ourselves. We are a land of immigrants, but we are also a land of laws
with certain core values. Those seeking to enter our country and remain here
must learn to accommodate to our laws and values, not the other way around.
That is the way prior generations of immigrants did it, including those who
passed through Ellis Island. Why should the law be thrown aside now?
What we are witnessing is a frontal challenge to our nation’s
sovereignty. Mexico’s Foreign Secretary wants to drag us before the United
Nations for intending to build a fence on our side of the border with our money
to keep out aliens who seek to enter our country illegally. They will probably
get a sympathetic ear as some UN bureaucrats believe there should be no such
thing as “illegal” immigrants in the first place. For the first time in our
history, Americans are being asked to cede the right to decide how we define
ourselves as a nation and protect our own borders to a globalist governance
body. Will Pelosi lead her liberal loyalists as House Speaker to support the UN
against America’s right to control its own borders? Do we really want to risk
finding out?
It is high time, as Jim Gilchrist demanded in the press release
ignored by the mainstream media, that Pelosi come clean under oath as to her
personal stake in the illegal immigration issue before she can do even more
damage as House Speaker.
Pelosi - Illegals - Sunkist - Her investments!
Pelosi's corrupt insider
passing of bills that make her rich.
Check for yourself
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi's home House
District includes San Francisco.
Star-Kist Tuna's headquarters are in San
Francisco, Pelosi's home district.
Star-Kist is owned by Del Monte Foods and is a
major contributor to Pelosi.
Star-Kist is the major employer in American Samoa
employing 75% of the Samoan workforce.
Paul Pelosi, Nancy's husband, owns $17 million
dollars of Star-Kist stock.
In January, 2007 when the minimum wage was
increased from $5.15 to $7.25, Pelosi had American Samoa exempted from the
increase so Del Monte would not have to pay the higher wage. This would make
Del Monte products less expensive than their competition's.
Last week when the huge bailout bill was passed,
Pelosi added an earmark to the final bill adding $33 million dollars for an
"economic development credit in American Samoa".
Pelosi has called the Bush Administration
"corrupt".
Check some more for yourself
Conservative Activist Jumps Pelosi's Fence With
Illegal Aliens to Prove a Vital Point
Conservative activist Laura Loomer, who is known for going undercover
with James O'Keefe, took alleged illegal aliens from Mexico and Guatemala to
Speaker Nancy Pelosi's home in California. There, the group jumped the fence
and Loomer demanded the group be let into the home. The group set up a pop up
tent with the word "morality" on it and hung the pictures of those
who were killed by illegal aliens, The Daily Caller reported.
do you ever get
sick and tired of their lies?
Illegal Immigration at 9X the
Rate of 2017, Projected to Outpace Obama
U.S. workers
have finally been seeing some decent raises in recent months, after suffering
through nearly a decade of meager wage gains. Unfortunately for them,
this might be as good as it gets. MARK WHITEHOUSE
In a state like Florida, where
immigrants make up about 25.4
percent of the labor force, American
workers have their weekly
wages reduced by perhaps more than
12.5 percent. In
California, where immigrants make up 34
percent of the labor
force, American workers’ weekly wages
are reduced by
potentially 17 percent.
This
policy of inflating the labor supply boosts economic
growth for investors because
it ensures that employers do not have to compete for American workers by
offering higher wages and better working conditions.
This
policy of flooding the
market with cheap foreign white-collar graduates and
blue-collar labor shifts
enormous wealth from young employees
towards older investors even as it also widens wealth
gaps, reduces high-tech
investment, increases state
and local tax burdens, and hurts children’s schools and college educations.
It also pushes Americans
away from high-tech careers and sidelines millions of marginalized Americans,
including many who are now struggling with
fentanyl addictions. The labor policy also movesbusiness investment from the heartland to the
coasts, explodes rents, shrivels real
estate values in the Midwest and rewards investors for creating low tech, labor-intensive workplaces.
High levels of immigration, illegal and legal, puts downward pressure on U.S. wages while redistributing about $500 billion in wealth away from America’s working and middle class and towards employers and new arrivals, research by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine has found.
“Increasing
immigration is the one thing that can wipe out all
the wage gains, all the employment gains for those blue-collar
workers who switched parties to vote for him,” Jenks said. “I
hope someone in the White House has his interest in mind
who is telling him this.”
Spokespeople for the
Chamber of Commerce, LULAC, George W. Bush Center, and Koch Industries dominate
the immigration talks in White House currently.
Mark Zuckerberg’s Silicon
Valley investors are uniting with the Koch network’s consumer and industrial
investors to demand a huge DACA amnesty
Wage Raises: Donald Trump, Nancy Pelosi Tout Rival Plans
NEIL MUNRO
9 May 201964
6:27
Americans’ wages need to grow faster, says House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
Jobs
“are not producing the wages that people need to meet their needs,” Pelosi said
at a Washington Post event.
She continued:
And people still feel scarred by
what happened in 2008 when their home [mortages] were underwater, their
pensions were at risk, they were living off their savings, their children’s
education [was] in doubt. So there’s still that concern and 40 percent of the
American people — you’ve seen the figures over and over again – cannot
withstand a $500 unforeseen cost — whether it is a [broken] water heater, a
carburetor or whatever happens to be.
The Post published video
of the event; Pelosi’s comments on the subject start around the 40:00
mark.
The
call for higher wages reflects an effort by Pelosi to use kitchen table issues
to win swing voters back from President Donald Trump amid furious media
coverage about partisan fights in Washington, DC, over special investigations,
congressional subpoenas, and tax bills.
Pelosi’s
proposed fix, however, is more socialist-style rhetoric and regulation of the
economy:
We
think … we have to have equal pay for equal work … a $15 minimum wage — fight
for $15 — which we will be sending [to the Senate] soon. But you have to do
something big, like an infrastructure challenge … health care is a very big
piece of their financial security … increasing their paycheck is very
important.
But
Trump has plenty of ammunition for this political battle because his low
immigration, “Hire American” policy helped nudge up free market wages for
blue-collar Americans by roughly four percent in 2018.
This
small government labor policy has raised wages
for restaurant workers in Indiana, boosted farm companies’ investment in
labor-saving machinery, helped women switch to
higher-wage careers, forced up Americans’ productivity, and spiked pay
offers to new hires nationwide — and may help elect Trump in 2020.
Biz
lobbyists keep insisting 2 media that immigration doesn't hurt wages. But biz
CEOs say they're paying higher wages because of the labor shortage. The media
is finally waking up - & may even check migration's impact on their peers'
post-college salaries http://bit.ly/2I4lURc
Wages
are expected to keep rising in 2019 despite the huge influx of new workers who
are taking advantage of Congress’s loose border laws to migrate from Central
America.
Most
private-sector forecasters surveyed in
recent days by The Wall Street Journal—63.6%—expect wages will grow at a
somewhat faster rate over the next year, while a further 5.5% of economists
said wages will grow at a substantially faster rate.
“We
continue to hear from manufacturers about how difficult it is to attract talent
in the tight labor market, a challenge that we do not see changing in the near
future,” said Chad Moutray, chief economist at the National Association of
Manufacturers.
Just
under a quarter of economists, 23.6%, expect wages to grow at the same 3.2%
year-over-year pace seen in April. Just 7.3% expect the pace will slow over the
next year.
But
the recent wage gains have not made up for the massive losses since the 1970s
when the 1965 immigration law ended the era of tight labor markets and rising
wages by providing employers with a flood of foreign workers each year.
Trump
rarely talks about wages to reporters in Washington, DC. But at his May 8 rally
in Panama City Beach, Trump got an enthusiastic response when he touted the
gains:
After
many years of stagnation, wages are rising very fast.
Hasn’t happened in 20 years! And they’re rising fastest —
which makes me feel very good – for
blue-coller workers. Fastest proportionally. And driving
our whole agenda is a jobs boom that is historic. Hasn’t
happened like this in many, many years. if at all.
…
We’re
reducing burdens in our businesses but in return we expect
American companies to invest in America — which is
what we’re demanding — to raise wages in America, —
which is happening — and to hire American workers to do
the job. That’s what we want.
Goldman
Sachs says Trump's tight labor-market policy (AKA 'Hire American') gave 4%
raise to blue-collar/middle-class in 2018. But upper-income graduate salaries
lagged - maybe b/c of 1.5 million visa-worker graduates who work for
spaghettiOs & green cards http://bit.ly/2Fan4b0
Trump’s
deputies also say they plan to protect Americans’ wages as they move forward
with an immigration plan that would repair border security problems and shift
the focus of immigration from blue-collar labor jobs to white-collar,
college-credential jobs.
“We
have a lot of objectives … Number one, [Trump] wants to protect American
wages,” White House senior counselor Jared Kushner said April
23.
One
official said the plan “would cumulatively increase wages in the U.S.,”
Politico reported May 7.
Officials have not explained if “cumulatively increase” is the same as a
per-capita increase.
In
turn, Pelosi and Democrats are likely to portray the wage gains as minor
compared to gains made by investors. At the Washington Post event, she said:
Wages
are not rising in the way that they should by some of the indicators out there
and employment is low, but … jobs are not producing the wages that people need
to meet their needs … So while the president’s one percent is doing beautifully
… you can’t measure the economic well-being of our country as to how it
affects the one percent.
“We
are concerned about the kitchen table [issues] … They are ‘Trickle down,’ we
are ‘Bubble up'” Pelosi said.
When
businesses have to compete for workers, they raise wages and improve working
conditions. This is finally happening for American workers for the first time
in ages. Importing a flood of cheap foreign labor on more H-2B visas threatens
that growth. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/02/business/economy/wage-growth-economy.html …
Why Wages Are Finally Rising, 10 Years After
the Recession
Each
year, roughly four million young Americans join the workforce after
graduating from high school or university.
But
the federal government then imports about 1.1 million legal immigrants and
refreshes a resident population of roughly 1.5 million white-collar visa
workers — including roughly one million H-1B workers — and approximately
500,000 blue-collar visa workers.
The government also prints out more than one million work
permits for foreigners, tolerates about eight million illegal workers, and does
not punish companies for employing the hundreds of thousands of illegal
migrants who sneak across the border or overstay their legal visas.
This
policy of inflating the labor supply boosts economic
growth for investors because
it ensures that employers do not have to compete for American workers by
offering higher wages and better working conditions.
This
policy of flooding the
market with cheap foreign white-collar graduates and
blue-collar labor shifts
enormous wealth from young employees
towards older investors even as it also widens wealth
gaps, reduces high-tech
investment, increases state
and local tax burdens, and hurts children’s schools and college educations.
It also pushes Americans
away from high-tech careers and sidelines millions of marginalized Americans,
including many who are now struggling with
fentanyl addictions. The labor policy also movesbusiness investment from the heartland to the
coasts, explodes rents, shrivels real
estate values in the Midwest and rewards investors for creating low tech, labor-intensive workplaces.
JAMES
WALSH
THE
GLOBALIST DEMOCRAT PARTY’S HISPANICAZATION of AMERICA… first ease millions of
illegals over our borders and into our voting booths!
How the Democrat party surrendered
America to 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
"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!
The “zero tolerance”
program was dismantled by Attorney General Erc Holder once it had
successfully cut the transit of migrants by roughly 95 percent.
Initially, officials made 140,000 arrests per year in the mid-2000s, but the
northward flow dropped so much that officials only had to make 6,000 arrests in
2013, according to a 2014
letter by
two pro-migration Senators, Sen. Jeff Flake and John McCain.
“The cost of the Dream
Act is far bigger than the Democrats or their media allies admit. Instead of
covering 690,000 younger illegals now enrolled in former President Barack
Obama’s 2012 “DACA” amnesty, the Dream Act would legalize at least 3.3 million illegals, according to a pro-immigration group, the Migration Policy
Institute.”
Obama Quietly Erasing Borders (Article)
WIKILEAKS
EXPOSES THE OBAMA CONSPIRACY TO FLOOD AMERICAN WITH DEM VOTING ILLEGALS
“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
Obama Funds the Mexican
Fascist Party of LA RAZA “The Race”… now calling itself UNIDOSus.
"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!
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
GLOBALIST BARACK OBAMA
AND NANCY PELOSI’S CONSPIRACY TO SABOTAGE HOMELAND SECURITY AND KEEP AMERICA
FLOODED WITH DEM VOTING ILLEGALS
"Along with Obama,
Pelosi and Schumer are responsible for incalculable damage done to this country
over the eight years of that administration." PATRICIA McCARTHY
“One of the most
disgusting things to come out of the Obama administration was "Operation
Fast and Furious," where members of the Department of Alcohol, Tobacco,
Firearms and Explosives (ATF) allowed illegal gun sales to go through –
commonly referred to as "gun walking" – in order to track buyers and
sellers they believed were connected to the Mexican drug cartels. Nearly 2,000
firearms were sold and were eventually found throughout the United States and
Mexico. Two of them were used to k ill Border Patrol Agent Brian
Terry.” BETH BAUMANN
DURING OBAMA'S 8 YEAR BANKSTER REGIME, HE OPERATED LA RAZA
(NOW CALLING ITSELF UNIDOSus FROM THE WHITE HOUSE UNDER LA RAZA
V.P. CECILIA MUNOZ. HE FUNDED THE MEX FASCIST PARTY WITH U.S. TAX
DOLLARS.
BOTH OF OBAMA’S SECRETARY of (ILLEGAL) LABOR WERE LA RAZA
SUPREMACIST. THESE WERE HILDA SOLIS AND TOM PEREZ.
The “zero tolerance”
program was dismantled by Attorney General Erc Holder once it had
successfully cut the transit of migrants by roughly 95 percent.
Initially, officials made 140,000 arrests per year in the mid-2000s, but the
northward flow dropped so much that officials only had to make 6,000 arrests in
2013, according to a 2014
letter by two
pro-migration Senators, Sen. Jeff Flake and John McCain.
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 d ying. They are s hitting in
their pants with fear! I love it! We have got to eliminate the g ringo,
and what I mean by that is if the worst comes to the worst, we have got to
k ill him!"
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
Illegal Immigration at 9X the Rate of 2017, Projected to Outpace
Obama
JOHN BINDER
9 May 20191,454
2:33
Illegal
immigration at the United States-Mexico border last month was nine times the
level of the same month two years ago and is projected to outpace every year
when former President Obama oversaw immigration.
As Breitbart
News reported, there were nearly
100,000 apprehensions of migrants, border crossers, and asylum
applicants at the U.S.-Mexico border last month. This is nearly nine times the
level of illegal immigration compared to April 2017, when just a little more
than 11,000 border crossers were apprehended.
Likewise,
projections by Princeton Policy researcher Steven Kopits reveal that the U.S.
remains on track this year to outpace every year of illegal immigration
overseen by Obama.
At current
illegal immigration levels, about 863,000 border apprehensions are expected for
Fiscal Year 2019. This is a level of illegal immigration at the southern border
that has not been seen since the last years of former President George W. Bush.
The only
Fiscal Year that has reached a higher level of illegal immigration at the
southern border dating back to more than a decade ago was Fiscal Year 2006,
when more than one million apprehensions were made at the U.S.-Mexico border.
(Princeton
Policy Research)
Kopits
projects that this month’s rate of illegal immigration will be around the same
level as last month, with anywhere between 90,000 to 95,000 apprehensions.
Through
increased immigration enforcement, Trump has secured a four percent wage gain
over the last 12 months for America’s blue-collar and working class.
Experts like
Kris Kobach have warned that
if illegal immigration levels continue to soar over this year and throughout
2020, those wage hikes will be choked by a saturated labor market with more
cheap, foreign workers competing against Americans. Kobach has detailed
a plan exclusively at Breitbart News to stem the flow of mass
illegal immigration to the country.
Every year,
the U.S. admits more than 1.2 million legal immigrants to the country
regardless of the rate of illegal immigration arriving at the borders and
through visa overstays – that is, foreign nationals who have refused to leave
the country after their visas expire. At current rates of legal immigration, if
not reduced, about one-in-six
U.S. residents will be foreign-born, according to the Census Bureau.
John Binder is a
reporter for Breitbart News. Follow him on Twitter at @JxhnBinder.
Open borders
advocates are getting the open border they want
On
sheer volume, open-borders advocates are in the catbird seat, getting exactly
the open borders they have effectively been calling for.
The number of migrants apprehended at the Southern border
surpassed 100,000 for the second consecutive month, according to new figures released
by the Trump administration.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection apprehended 109,144 migrants in
April. That is more than 5,400 over the total in the month of March, and it is
the highest monthly total since 2007.
The chief of the Border Patrol, Carla Provost, told a Senate Judiciary panel that
"our apprehension numbers are off the charts."
"We cannot address this crisis by shifting more resources.
It's like holding a bucket under a faucet. It doesn't matter how many buckets
you give me if we can't turn off the flow," she said.
For
the rest of us, we are about to learn just what open borders looks like.
109,000 is quite a few people, not just in a big country such as the United
States, but in the countries these migrants are coming from - 1% of the
population of Guatemala, 1% of the population of Honduras, taken over the
course of the first seven months of the fiscal year.
Economist
Hernando de Soto told me several years ago that history shows there is no
stopping the movement of peoples, and while I felt disagreement with him then,
it's clear that in this mass migration incident, he was in a certain
way right. It's not that people are unstoppable like deer in nature,
however. It's that the incentivizing laws from the U.S. - from the failure of
the asylum system to keep junk claims out, to the huge banquet of 'free'
benefits on offer from states, which judges have ruled no popular vote can
stop, pretty well inevitably leads to the now-seen open border that
lawmen can no longer stop, all based on sheer volume. The law has
little ballast or enforcement in the face of a migrant flood,
with migrants now rolling in not just form Central America, but from all
over the world.
What
is it going to take to reestablish rule of law, to stop so
many service-desperate, uneducated, hard-to-assimilate, unskilled migrants
looking for a handout without following the law? It helps of course when
someone puts pressure on the governments that make life so miserable for
their citizens that they want to leave, as a Nigerian cardinal did
recently, blasting his country's
government for driving so many people out based on their rotten
governance. In this hemisphere, no such leadership is evident on the ground in
remittance-hungry countries such as Honduras, so the migrants are coming.
Sadly, Victor Davis Hanson has
offered the grim answer where the limit lies
from these current open-border dynamics, too, writing:
Under such conditions, the logical limits of immigration can be
calibrated not so much by whether countries south of the border reach parity
with American standards of living, freedom, security, and quality of life. But
rather the current issue is whether
regions of America, especially the American Southwest become roughly
indistinguishable from Latin America and Mexico, and therefore in
terms of economic opportunity, safety, and quality of life do not offer that
much of an improvement—or at least not such a radical margin of enhancement to justify
abandoning one’s homeland.
In such an equation, the more that illegal aliens arrive, swamp
social services and tax law enforcement, the more that they create ethnic
enclaves that resist rapid assimilation and the more that they sense that their
hosts see them most useful as an identity politics constituency, then the more
parts of the southwestern United States will seem more like Mexico, and perhaps
to the point of eventually diminishing illegal immigration.
No one knows what the saturation point might be of illegal and
unassimilated immigration, but influxes are now approximating each month a
mid-sized American city.
So
the U.S. will have to become as corrupt, hellish and impoverished as
the places these foreigners leave behind to nullify the enticements of migrating
illegally.
Which
is a pretty sad picture. The only possibility of reversing it, though, is still
out there, given that nations such as Canada and Australia have mastered it:
they crafted far better immigration laws, which required fewer lawmen to stop
those who would break those laws. If the U.S. does this, the nation can renew
its commitment to rule of law and serious efforts can be made to halt illegal
entrants at the border.
No
chance for that with the Democrats, who see the migrants as politically useful
in a lot of ways, the needier and more easily manipulated, the better.
So
for now, the migrants are rolling in, and the Border Patrol, with no tools for
stopping anyone (just deporting one of them require the use of a detention bed they
don't have) is effectively just waving them though, if not serving as free
babysitters for people who should be paying for their own freight the way
normal people do.
It's
sad because the other thing Hernando de Soto said was critical for any prosperity
and stability in a country is the invisible architecture of rule of law.
Without it, the U.S. can just morph into Honduras North. It
appears the Democrats would have that because they are blocking any meaningful
efforts to control the border, the borders are wide open now and rule of law is
going fast.
ONLY BARACK OBAMA
AND ERIC HOLDER HAVE SABOTAGED THE AMERICAN WORKER MORE THAN SWAMP KEEPER
TRUMP!
Right now in L.A., for instance, immigration is now skewed
pretty heavily towards less-skilled workers. But the emphasis will shift and
there will be a lot more competition for 21-year-old [American] college
graduates trying to get a job. The competition also may be greater for [older]
mid-career graduates because young Americans are relatively cheap to employers.
A middle-aged white-collar American graduate is much more expensive to
employers than a desperate young graduate of a college in Bangalore, India.
AP/Jason DeCrow
NEIL MUNRO
8 May 2019541
8:27
The White House’s draft immigration plan includes valuable border
security reforms, but it also shifts the migrant inflow from blue-collar jobs
towards white-collar college jobs, so sharpening workplace competition for a
wide range of American graduates.
The bill would neither increase nor reduce total legal
immigration, now at roughly 1.1 million per year. But it would reallocate green
cards for family chain-migrants — such as immigrants’ parents, adult children,
and siblings – towards “merit-based” slots for migrants with the job skills
most sought by U.S. employers.
“What we’re doing in this plan is we’re working on keeping the
number the same,” a senior White House official said Tuesday. “We’re just
changing the composition.”
“We’ve been playing around with it to figure out how you build
something that really works for America,” the official said, according to
Politico. “The number one goal in that is to make sure that we’re not bringing
in low-skilled labor.”
The proposed deal is being cautiously supported by the
Federation of American Immigration Reform. Politico reported:
“The American people expect a plan that addresses chaos at the
border and moves the nation to an immigration model that emphasizes skills over
bloodlines,” said RJ Hauman, government relations director at FAIR, who has
been in touch with the White House. “Jared Kushner and his team understand this
and we’re encouraged by what we’ve heard this week.”
However, any shift from blue-collar migration to white-collar
migration will increase job competition for American graduates, said Mark
Krikorian, the director of the Center for Immigration Studies.
The plan, if it goes into effect, would lessen the pressure on
blue-collar workers, but it would almost certainly up the wage pressure on
middle-class white collars, because they’re talking about admitting hundreds of
thousands of higher skilled [graduates] every year … There will be lots and
lots more graduates from universities in India and China and Nigeria who are
going be directly competing with young people from the suburbs of Washington
D.C. … and Atlantia and Chicago and L.A.
In 2018, many GOP candidates lost when upper-income suburbanites
switched to Democrats.
The sketchy outlines of the bill suggest it will boost the
annual award of green cards directly to graduates from roughly 50,000 to at
least 250,000, on top of the family migrants who hold college degrees, he said.
Right now in L.A., for instance, immigration is now skewed
pretty heavily towards less-skilled workers. But the emphasis will shift and
there will be a lot more competition for 21-year-old [American] college
graduates trying to get a job. The competition also may be greater for [older]
mid-career graduates because young Americans are relatively cheap to employers.
A middle-aged white-collar American graduate is much more expensive to
employers than a desperate young graduate of a college in Bangalore, India.
Another concern is that unreleased details in the bill may
turbocharge the inflow of foreign graduates into U.S. jobs via the various temporary,
non-immigrant work-permit programs, he said, adding:
If the new system were to give [migrants some] points for having
already worked in the United States, that would create an enormous incentive to
come in here on some kind of temporary [work permit] and work here to get
[green card] points. It would perpetuate the indentured servitude element of
many of our guest-worker programs.
“That’s speculation,” he added.
FBI busts company which allegedly helped
get 'Optional Practical Training' work permits via fraud for roughly 1,900
Chinese grads, to steal jobs & salaries from American grads. More to come,
despite media silence on white-collar job theft #HR1044 http://bit.ly/2Zdr42t
FBI: Company Faked White-Collar Jobs for
1,900 Chinese Migrants
Nationwide,
at least 1.5 million non-immigrant foreign graduates are using temporary
permits to work in U.S. jobs.
That
population helps reduce wages for American graduates because it is twice the
yearly college output of American graduates with degrees in healthcare, business,
science, engineering, software, architecture, and design careers. In addition,
employers have won green cards for roughly 50,000 graduates each year for more
than 20 years.
This huge
population of salary-cutting foreign graduates is rarely noted by establishment
media. But it pushes American graduates towards the Democratic Party, says
a 2018
studyby pro-migration authors:
Our strongest and most significant finding is that an
increase in high-skilled immigrants as a share of the local population is
associated with a strong and significant decrease in the vote share for the
Republican Party. To the contrary, an increase in the low-skilled immigrant
share of the population is associated with a strong and significant increase in
Republican votes. These effects are common to presidential, House and Senate
elections.
The blue-collar political shift to the GOP caused by low-skill
immigration, however, is more than offset by the rising number of pro-Democratic
immigrant voters who have turned California blue and now threaten to end GOP
dominance in Texas.
White House officials say the draft plan will protect Americans’
wages. “The official said it would cumulatively increase wages in the U.S.,”
Politico reported.
“We have a lot of objectives … Number one, [Trump] wants to
protect American wages,” White House senior counselor Jared Kushner said April 23.
But almost any immigration program will increase the cumulative
total of wages by adding more workers — even if each employee also sees a wage
loss via job competition. That combination of immigration and job-competition
annually transfers roughly $500 billionfrom Americans’ salaries and
wages to investors, according to George Borjas, a Harvard economist.
When businesses have to compete for
workers, they raise wages and improve working conditions. This is finally
happening for American workers for the first time in ages. Importing a flood of
cheap foreign labor on more H-2B visas threatens that growth. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/02/business/economy/wage-growth-economy.html …
Why Wages Are Finally Rising, 10 Years After
the Recession
Importantly,
the plan does not provide the extra supply of workers, consumers, and renters
which is loudly sought by CEOs and investors who are eager to cut costs and
boost revenues. In his April comments about the plan, Kushner noted the many
non-migration ways in which Trump has aided business:
We freed up
companies to be able to invest capital, which is creating jobs — we’ve lowered
the corporate tax rate and we’ve given a tax cut to individuals, which means
there is more consumption. We’re working on trade deals … We’ve figured how to
make our country energy independent. We’ve increased the amount of energy we
are creating which geopolitically is very important. We’re investing in the
industries of the future — Artificial Intelligence, 5G, quantum computing– a
lot of things that allow us to be long-term competitive. And then also
appointing a lot of conservative judges has allowed us and a lot of businesses
to have certainty on what the law is, and so those things, if you couple them
with maybe infrastructure [spending] and then immigration reform, I think
that will keep out country competitive for the long run.
Krikorian is
skeptical about the political value of the plan:
It does not
make sense to me to be addressing this issue at all before the election. The
[political] energy is at the border, and as I understand it, the legislation
has lots of very strong and important border-control measures. That’s good, but
there’s no reason those kinds of measures should not be packed into one bill on
its own … I’m afraid they will make the same mistake in 2013 and 2007, and I
think there has to be a comprehensive approach to this issue. How is any of
this going to make it more likely that [2020] voters in Pennsylvania and
Michigan will show up and vote for Trump?
The plan “is
clearly undermining the President’s image among a lot of these Reagan Democrats
who voted for them as the champion of the American worker,” he said, adding
“How does any of this promote ‘Hire American’?”
Each year,
roughly four million young Americans join the workforce after graduating
from high school or university.
The
government also prints out more than one million work permits for foreigners,
tolerates about eight million illegal workers, and does not punish companies
for employing the hundreds of thousands of illegal migrants who sneak across
the border or overstay their legal visas.
This policy
of inflating the labor supply boosts economic
growth for investors because
it ensures that employers do not have to compete for American workers by
offering higher wages and better working conditions.
This policy
of flooding the
market with cheap foreign white-collar graduates and
blue-collar labor shifts
enormous wealth from young employees
towards older investors even as it also widens wealth
gaps, reduces high-tech
investment, increases state
and local tax burdens, and hurts children’s schools and college educations.
It also pushes Americans
away from high-tech careers and sidelines millions of marginalized Americans,
including many who are now struggling with
fentanyl addictions. The labor policy also movesbusiness investment from the heartland to the
coasts, explodes rents, shrivels real
estate values in the Midwest and rewards investors for creating low tech, labor-intensive workplaces.
Goldman Sachs says Trump's tight
labor-market policy (AKA 'Hire American') gave 4% raise to
blue-collar/middle-class in 2018. But upper-income graduate salaries lagged -
maybe b/c of 1.5 million visa-worker graduates who work for spaghettiOs &
green cards http://bit.ly/2Fan4b0
Goldman Sachs: Trump Raises Voters' Wages
with Tight Labor Market
Report:
White House Plan Drops Reduction of Legal Immigration
Chip Somodevilla/Getty
JOHN BINDER
7
May 20191,376
5:27
The White House is dropping a longtime
initiative of President Trump’s that reduces overall legal immigration levels
to increase U.S. wages, a senior administration official tells the media.
Throughout 2015, 2016, and 2017, Trump routinely touted his plans
to reduce the number of legal immigrants who arrive in the U.S. on a myriad of
visas. Since the 1990s, when it was expanded by President George H.W. Bush,
legal annual immigration levels have remained at historic highs with about 1.2
million nationals legally admitted every year.
For example, since 1980, the number of legal immigrants admitted
to the U.S. every year has not dipped below 525,000 admissions. Since 1999,
annual legal immigration levels have not dropped below 645,000 admissions and
since 2004, the average number of legal immigrants admitted every year has not
dipped below a million admissions.
Trump said of the current legal immigration system:
Among those hit the hardest in recent years have been
immigrants, and very importantly, minority workers competing for jobs against
brand new arrivals. And it has not been fair to our people, to our citizens, to
our workers. [Emphasis added]
An immigration plan by the White House, with only preliminary
details available, does not seek to reduce any forms of legal immigration to
the country, a senior administration official told the Washington Post and The Hill.
“A senior administration official told reporters after the
meeting that the president had approved the effort to overhaul America’s
immigration system and increase border security last week and that it should
now be considered ‘the President Trump plan,'” the Post reported. “… under
the plan, the same number of immigrants would be permitted to enter the
country, but the composition would change.”
Senator David Perdue (R-GA) — who attended a meeting with Trump
on Tuesday — confirmed to Breitbart News these details of the White House plan.
“While this is still in the preliminary stage, the president has
proposed maintaining the 1.1 million legal immigrants we bring in each year but
changing the mix to respond to the needs of our growing economy and workforce,”
Perdue told the media following the meeting.
Instead, the plan shifts the way in which the U.S. admits the
more than 1.2 million legal immigrants it accepts every year.
During an interview with Time Magazine last
month, senior adviser Jared Kushner said Trump’s focus for reforming the
national immigration system centers on protecting Americans’ wages.
“We have a lot of objectives … Number one, he wants to protect
American wages,” Kushner said.
High
levels of immigration, illegal and legal, puts downward pressure on U.S. wages
while redistributing about $500 billion in wealth away from America’s working and middle class and
towards employers and new arrivals, research by the National Academies of
Sciences, Engineering and Medicine has found.
Economist George Borjas has detailed how the country’s working
class, those without a high school diploma, have been primarily hurt by the
annual admission of more than a million mostly low-skilled foreign nationals.
“The typical high school dropout earns about $25,000 annually,”
Borjas wrote for Politico in October 2016. “According to census data,
immigrants admitted in the past two decades lacking a high school diploma have
increased the size of the low-skilled workforce by roughly 25 percent. As a
result, the earnings of this particularly vulnerable group dropped by between
$800 and $1,500 each year.”
Center for Immigration Studies Director of Research Steven
Camarota has discovered similar wage depression trends.
For every one-percent increase in the immigrant portion of
American workers’ occupations reduces their weekly wages by about 0.5 percent,
Camarota finds. This means the average native-born American worker today has
his weekly wages reduced by perhaps 8.5 percent because of current legal
immigration levels.
In a state like Florida, where immigrants make up about 25.4
percent of the labor force, American workers have their weekly wages reduced by
about 12.5 percent. In California, where immigrants make up 34 percent of the
labor force, American workers’ weekly wages are reduced by potentially 17
percent.
Likewise, every one-percent increase in the immigrant portion of
low-skilled U.S. occupations reduces wages by about 0.8 percent. Should 15
percent of low-skilled jobs be held by foreign-born workers, it would reduce
the wages of native-born American workers by perhaps 12 percent.
At current legal immigration rates, about one-in-six U.S.
residents will have been born outside of the country by 2060, the Census Bureau
has found. The foreign-born population in the U.S. is expected to reach 69
million in the next four decades.
Corporate
tax cuts haven’t resulted in the kind of investment that could drive a
breakthrough. President Trump hasn’t followed through on promises of
infrastructure spending — which, done right, could make the whole economy work
better. And his immigration policies have not been conducive to bringing in
highly skilled foreigners.
“Increasing immigration is the one thing that can wipe out all the
wage gains, all the employment gains for those blue-collar workers who switched
parties to vote for him,” Jenks said. “I hope someone in the White House
has his interest in mind who is telling him this.”
Cheating Our Way to 4 Percent Growth
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/cheating-our-way-to-4-percent-growth/?utm_source=E-mail+Updates&utm_campaign=7c5d5b8f80-
Adding
more people certainly adds to total GDP, but it’s something of a statistical
“cheat” because almost all of the gains go to the immigrants themselves. Since GDP is such a
common measure of the nation’s economic health, most Americans expect that a
higher GDP means the unemployment rate is going down and their incomes are
going up. For example, Fox News recently described a 1 percent gain in GDP as “about $500 per American.”
But expanding the population through immigration has little overall effect on
the incomes of the people already here. Total GDP will always increase with
population growth, but per capita GDP
is much more stubborn.
Although
the distinction between gains to GDP and gains to natives seems like a simple
one, the media are frequently confused by it. CNN once warned that the Cotton-Perdue RAISE Act — which would reduce
immigration over the long term by eliminating chain migration — would lead to
“4.6 million lost jobs by the year 2040.” The claim is tautological. It simply
restates the fact that a smaller population will have a smaller number of
workers than a larger population. It implies nothing about the effect of the
RAISE Act on Americans.
If
the president does attempt to sell immigration-inflated GDP numbers as proof of
prosperity, I suspect ordinary Americans will not buy it. The working-class
voters who elected him are bound to notice that their own financial situations
don’t match the rosy economic numbers. They may end up feeling even more left
behind than they do now.
Enjoy that
raise. This might be as good as it gets
By MARK WHITEHOUSE
U.S. workers
have finally been seeing some decent raises in recent months, after suffering
through nearly a decade of meager wage gains. Unfortunately for them,
this might be as good as it gets.
The
behavior of wages has long been a central mystery of the U.S. labor market.
Even as employers kept hiring and the unemployment rate fell to multidecade
lows, the demand for workers failed to translate into higher pay. For most of
the period starting in 2010 and ending in 2013, wage growth hovered below 2%.
Lately,
though, things have started to move. Year-over-year growth in average hourly
earnings reached 3.4% in February, roughly matching the pace that prevailed
ahead of the last recession, before retreating a bit to 3.2% in March.
In terms
of actual dollars, average weekly pay now ranges from a low of $357 for those
in leisure and hospitality and $500 for retail workers up to $1,553 for utility
employees, $1,366 for miners and loggers, and $1,013 for finance workers on the
high end.
Could
wages accelerate further? It wouldn’t be unreasonable to expect some payback
after all those years of relative stagnation. Yet considering one of the most
important contributors to wage growth — workers’ productivity — it doesn’t seem
likely to be all that big.
In the
longer run, two factors determine how much employers can and should pay. One is
inflation: Wages must keep pace with prices lest workers end up worse off. The
other is productivity: The more employees produce each hour, the more companies
can afford to pay them.
The sum
of the two — inflation plus productivity growth — sets a sort of limit on how
fast pay can increase without causing economic problems.
So what’s
the limit? As of December, the Federal Reserve’s preferred measure of
inflation, at 1.95%, was very close to the central bank’s target of 2%. It
could go a little higher, but a lot would be undesirable and attract a
justified response from the Fed.
Meanwhile,
productivity growth remained pretty slow, up just 1.77% from a year earlier.
Altogether, that adds up to about 3.7% — a low ceiling that wage growth was
already close to hitting.
In other
words, greater gains in workers’ living standards will require faster
productivity growth. To some extent, higher wages might provide a boost of
their own. Beyond that, though, it’s hard to see where the growth will come
from.
Corporate
tax cuts haven’t resulted in the kind of investment that could drive a
breakthrough. President Trump hasn’t followed through on promises of
infrastructure spending — which, done right, could make the whole economy work
better. And his immigration policies have not been conducive to bringing in
highly skilled foreigners.
That leaves workers to
hope for a miracle. It could happen, but don’t count on it.
Mark Whitehouse writes
a column for Bloomberg.
"In a state like Florida, where
immigrants make up about 25.4 percent of the labor force, American workers have
their weekly wages reduced by perhaps more than 12.5 percent. In California,
where immigrants make up 34 percent of the labor force, American workers’
weekly wages are reduced by potentially 17 percent." JOHN BINDER
"In the
last decade alone, the U.S. admitted ten
million legal immigrants, forcing American workers to compete against a growing
population of low-wage foreign workers. Meanwhile, if legal immigration
continues, there will be 69
million foreign-born residents living in the U.S. by 2060.
This would represent an unprecedented electoral gain for the Left,
as Democrats win about
90 percent of congressional districts where the foreign-born population
exceeds the national average."
Trump
Abandons ‘America First’ Reforms:
‘We Need’
More Immigration to Grow
Business
Profits
7:16
Ahead of the 2020 presidential election,
President Trump is abandoning his prior “America First” legal immigration
reforms to support increases of legal immigration levels in order to expand
profits for businesses and corporations.
For the fourth time in about a month, Trump
suggested increasing legal immigration levels. With Apple CEO Tim Cook sitting
next to him at the White House on Wednesday, Trump said he not only wanted more
legal immigration but that companies needed an expansion of new arrivals to
grow their business.
“We’re going to have a lot of people coming into the country. We
want a lot of people coming in. And we need it,” Trump said:
It’s not a question of do we want [more immigration], these
folks are going to have to sort of not expand too much. And if we tell them …
these are very ambitious people around this table. They don’t like the concept of
not expanding. We
want to have the companies grow and the only way they’re going to grow is if we
give them the workers and the only way we’re going to have the
workers is to do exactly what we’re doing. [Emphasis added]
The comments are a direct rebuttal of the
president’s commitments in 2015, 2016, and 2017, where he vowed to reduce overall legal immigration
levels to boost the wages of U.S. workers and reduce the displacement of
America’s working and middle class.
In 2017, for instance, Trump touted Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) and
Sen. David Perdue’s (R-GA) RAISE Act legislation, which would have cut legal
immigration down to about 500,000 arrivals a year rather than the current
admission of more than one million legal immigrants annually who compete against
working-class Americans for jobs.
Trump, at the time, said legal immigration levels needed to be
trimmed to “reduce poverty, increase wages, and save taxpayers billions and
billions of dollars,” arguing that the current importation of more than a million
legal immigrants every year “has placed substantial pressure on American
workers, taxpayers, and community resources.”
“Among those hit the hardest in recent years have been
immigrants, and very importantly, minority workers competing for jobs against
brand new arrivals,” Trump said in 2017 of current legal immigration levels.
“And it has not been fair to our people, to our citizens, to our workers.”
NumbersUSA’s Rosemary Jenks said Trump supporters must remind
the White House of the commitment that the president made on the campaign trail
when it comes to legal immigration reforms.
“We need to remember all of the promises that candidate Trump
made on immigration. Which included, most importantly, putting
Americans first,” Jenks told Breitbart News.
“I would certainly hope, that in order to keep his campaign
promises that before even talking about expanding legal immigration, he would
work with employers to recruit the 50 million working-age Americans who are
outside the labor market,” Jenks said. “Or work with these companies to hire
laid-off GM workers. They’re Americans, they should come first.”
Trump’s newfound support for increasing legal immigration levels
has become part of his stump speech on the issue, repeating the same sentiment most recently at the
Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC).
There, Trump said the country needs more foreign workers to help
corporations.
“We need an immigration policy that’s going to be great for our
corporations and our great companies … we need workers to come in but
they’ve got to come in legally and they’ve got to come in through merit,” Trump
said.
Trump’s shift in legal immigration views has coincided with
the White House giving accessto a myriad of globalist business
groups, including the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the George W. Bush Center, and a
number of libertarian organizations funded by the pro-mass immigration
billionaire Koch brothers.
Spokespeople for the
Chamber of Commerce, LULAC, George W. Bush Center, and Koch Industries dominate
the immigration talks in White House currently. https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/02/26/globalist-business-immigration-talks-white-house/ …
Globalist Business Groups Dominate
Immigration Talks at White House
Increasing legal immigration beyond their already historically
high levels would crush the wage and job gains that Trump’s
“Hire American” economy has made possible thus far. Nationwide, wages
rose 3.0 percent in 2018. For Americans who switched jobs, wages rose by 4.6
percent and by 5.2 percent in Minnesota where few migrant workers choose to
live.
Though unemployment has remained low, there continues to be at
least 13 million working-age Americans who are either
unemployed, not in the labor force but want a job, or who are working part-time
jobs but want a good-paying full-time job.
“Increasing immigration is the one thing that can wipe out all
the wage gains, all the employment gains for those blue-collar workers who
switched parties to vote for him,” Jenks said. “I hope someone in the White
House has his interest in mind who is telling him this.”
Out of those 13 million Americans who are available for U.S.
jobs, about 6.5 million are unemployed. Of those unemployed, close to 13
percent are American teenagers who are ready for entry-level U.S. jobs — the exact
jobs that low-skilled foreign workers generally tend to take.
About 1.6 million Americans are not in the labor force at all,
but they want a job, including about 426,000 discouraged American workers who
are demoralized by their job prospects. Also, there are 5.1 million Americans
who are working part-time jobs but who want full-time jobs. More than 1.4
million of these U.S. part-time workers said they had looked for full-time jobs
but could not find any.
Mass immigration, whether legal or illegal, puts downward
pressure on Americans’ wages, researchers have repeatedly noted.
Every one percent increase in the immigrant composition of an
American workers’ occupation reduces their weekly wages by about 0.5 percent,
researcher Steven Camarotta has found. This means the average native-born
American worker today has their weekly wages reduced by perhaps 8.5 percent
because of current legal immigration levels.
In a
state like Florida, where immigrants make up about 25.4
percent of the labor force, American workers have their weekly
wages reduced by perhaps more than 12.5 percent. In
California, where immigrants make up 34 percent of the labor
force, American workers’ weekly wages are reduced by
potentially 17 percent.
Likewise, every one percent increase in the immigrant
composition of low-skilled U.S. occupations reduces wages by about 0.8 percent.
Should 15 percent of low-skilled jobs be held by foreign-born workers, it would
reduce the wages of native-born American workers by perhaps 12 percent.
The mass importation of legal immigrants — mostly due to
President George H.W. Bush’s Immigration Act of 1990, which expanded legal immigration levels — diminishes job
opportunities for the roughly four million young American graduates who enter
the workforce every year wanting good-paying jobs.
In the last decade alone, the U.S. admitted ten million legal immigrants, forcing American workers to
compete against a growing population of low-wage foreign workers. Meanwhile, if
legal immigration continues, there will be 69 million foreign-born residents living in the
U.S. by 2060. This would represent an unprecedented electoral gain for the
Left, as Democrats win about 90 percent of congressional districts where the
foreign-born population exceeds the national average.
2:42
President Donald Trump’s Department
of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen is extending a temporary
amnesty status for more than 300,000 foreign nationals, a notice from the
agency states.
In an announcement on Thursday,
Nielsen said DHS
would not only continue to complywith a preliminary injunction from last year — in
which a federal judge in California blocked Trump’s rescinding of Temporary
Protected Status (TPS) — but that the agency would be extending TPS for
hundreds of thousands of nationals of Sudan, Haiti, Nicaragua, and El Salvador
through January 2020.
Sudanese
nationals have had their TPS extended since 1997, while Nicaraguans have
enjoyed TPS since 1998. Likewise, El Salvador’s nationals have had TPS since
about 2001, and Haitians have had their TPS renewed since about 2010.
Trump
sought to end TPS for the more than 300,000 foreign resident population in the
U.S., prompting a lawsuit from the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). Now,
though, Nielsen’s decision to extend TPS will allow the foreign nationals to
stay in the country until at least January 2020, a reversal of the
administration’s initial plan.
About
200,000 of the nationals protected by TPS in the latest DHS decision are from
El Salvador, while another 50,000 are from Haiti. The remaining more than
50,000 nationals are from Sudan and Nicaragua.
TPS has
become a quasi-amnesty for otherwise illegal aliens created under the
Immigration and Nationality Act of 1990 (INA) that prevents the deportation of
foreign nationals from countries that have suffered through famine, war, or
natural disasters. Since the Clinton administration, TPS has been transformed
into a de facto amnesty program as the Bush, Obama, and
now Trump administration has continuously renewed the program for a variety of
countries.
Pro-American
immigration reformers like former Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach
have argued that
the TPS program has been abused by the open borders lobby and DHS officials.
At the
beginning of 2020, DHS will announce whether the agency will once again renew
TPS for the more than 300,000 foreign nationals or terminate their status.
John
Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Follow him on Twitter at @JxhnBinder.
TRUMP’S CRAP ON BORDERS AND HIS PRETEND WALL IS ONLY ONE MORE
TRUMP HOAX!
Only
a complete fool would believe that Trump is any more for American Legal workers
than the Democrat Party for Billionaires and Banksters!
“Trump
Administration Betrays Low-Skilled American Workers.”
The
latest ad from the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) asks Trump
to reject the mass illegal and legal immigration policies supported by Wall
Street, corporate executives, and most specifically, the GOP mega-donor Koch
brothers.
Efforts by the big business lobby, Chamber of Commerce, Koch
brothers, and George W. Bush Center include increasing employment-based legal
immigration that would likely crush the historic wage gains that
Trump has delivered for America’s blue collar and working class citizens.
Mark Zuckerberg’s Silicon
Valley investors are uniting with the Koch network’s consumer and industrial
investors to demand a huge DACA amnesty
A handful of Republican and
Democrat lawmakers are continuing to tout a plan that gives amnesty to nearly a
million illegal aliens in exchange for some amount of funding for President
Trump’s proposed border wall along the U.S.-Mexico border.
"The
amnesty activist also said that the “border has been a crooked proposition from
the beginning, and it will continue to be twisted to meet political ends,”
adding that many open-borders activists still insist that “people didn’t cross
the border, the border crossed them.”
*
“At some
point we will have to accept the fact that the border between Mexico and the
United States is nothing more than an invention. It was demarcated in 1848,
following a war that cost Mexico about half its territory (it’s no coincidence
that cities like Los Angeles, San Antonio and San Francisco have Spanish
names),” Ramos said. “Also, it’s been said a thousand times that many people
didn’t cross the border, the border crossed them. And the cultural and
commercial ties between the two sides remain in place to this day. Look at the
fellowship exhibited by cities like El Paso, Texas, and Ciudad Juárez, Mexico
even if barbed wire and concrete barriers have been erected in some places
along the divide.” LA RAZA SUPREMACIST JORGE RAMOS
ANN COULTER: WILL THE
GLOBALIST DEMOCRAT PARTY FOR BANKSTERS AND BILLIONAIRES DESTROY AMERICA?
I would also go to all of the working class that are in America,
construction workers in particular. Their salaries have not just
stagnated, they have gone down in the last 20 years. These are the least among us. We are the only ones not speaking
out of self-interest. …
Most of the people who are advocating for open borders … they have a vested in interest in having either the cheap labor or the
Democratic voters. Their neighborhoods aren’t the ones being
overwhelmed. They get the cheap maids, the cheap nannies,
and then they strut around like they’re Martin Luther King.
No, you are talking in your
self-interest, Chamber of Commerce, and Koch brothers, and Nancy Pelosi, and
Chuck Schumer. It’s Donald Trump and our side who are actually
caring about our fellow Americans — the kids who are getting addicted to black
tar heroin. …
The heroin problem in this country is 100 percent a problem of not
having a wall on the border. And 70,000 Americans are dying every year. That’s
more that died in the entire Vietnam War. That is a national emergency.
ANN COULTER
“Sessions is the only one doing
something about illegal immigration!” Ann Coulter… AND THAT IS WHY TRUMP FIRED
HIM!
THE
MOVE TO MAKE AG JEFF SESSIONS PRESIDENT is denounced by the Narco state of
Mexico which relies on the wholesale looting of America.
ANN COULTER EXPOSES TRUMP’S “WALL” HOAX
In fact, Trump is steadily moving in the precise opposite
direction of what he promised.
Illegal immigration is on track to hit the highest levels in
more than a decade, and Trump has willfully decided to keep amnesty advocates
Jared, Ivanka, Mick Mulvaney, Marc Short, and Mercedes Schlapp in the White
House. For all his talk about immigration, did he ever consider hiring people
who share his MAGA vision?
Massive Backlash Against Trump's
Democrats Kushner & Morgan on Immigration Issues
For National Release | May 9, 2019
Americans for Legal Immigration PAC is releasing the results of an online poll sampling the national organization's more than 50,000 email subscribers and numerous social media followers regarding President Trump's decision to put Obama's border chief Mark Morgan in charge of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
Ninety percent (90%) of email respondents disapprove of Trump's decision to put Obama' appointee Mark Morgan in charge of immigration enforcement as did seventy-eight percent (78%) on Facebook and seventy-nine percent (79%) on Twitter.
The survey asked, "How do you feel about President Trump hiring Obama's Amnesty supporting Border Chief Mark Morgan to run America's Immigration & Customs Enforcement? (ICE)"
Some Trump supporters said they liked Mark Morgan because they heard him on Fox News supporting a border wall and speaking in favor of "Trump's immigration plans." Others said they supported Morgan because they trust Trump.
ALIPAC plans to add the hiring of Mark Morgan to run ICE as #11 on the organization's tracking list of Trump's reversals, betrayals, and broken promises on immigration issues. (View Tracking List HERE.)
"Each week President Trump offends and betrays his base supporters in a new way," said William Gheen, President of ALIPAC. "While many of his supporters continue to rationalize and suck it up, many of us are refusing to join the President in his efforts to hire Democrats and Republicans who support Amnesty for illegal aliens and increased legal immigration levels. Former Trump supporters are starting to call him the "Con Don," "talker Trump," and "Do Nothing Don" because looking at what Trump says each week, there is usually little or no actual actions taken."
ALIPAC's legendary activists, who have played a decisive role in defeating legislative Amnesty in DC 10 times since 2004, are currently calling the White House to oppose Trump's hiring of Morgan and Kushner on immigration issues. ALIPAC activists are also contacting GOP Senators to lobby them to not work on any immigration deals with Trump's lifelong Democrat son-in-law Jared Kushner, who supports Amnesty for illegals.
While ALIPAC's online poll only constitutes a section of Trump's base, the results indicate there is wide dissatisfaction with Trump on immigration issues among his base supporters who are aware of his actual positions and actions vs. Trump's campaign rhetoric tough talk.
President Donald J. Trump supports Amnesty, legal immigration increases, DACA Amnesty, and dangerous Catch and Release policies that dump illegal immigrants into sanctuary cities where they go on to kill thousands of Americans like Kate Steinle each year on his watch.
ALIPAC believes that Trump has made a massive mistake deploying Jared Kushner to get his immigration plans through that is costing him supporters and will cost him even more support if any Kushner immigration bill actually becomes law.
For more information about how many former and current Trump supporters feel about Trump's reversals and flip flops on immigration, or to schedule interviews, please visit www.ALIPAC.us
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ACTIVISM STEPS
1. Keep calling and writing the White House with your opposition to Trump's broken campaign promises, to his hiring of Obama's immigration chiefs like Mark Morgan, and to lifelong Democrat Jared Kushner using messages and numbers we have for you here--
https://www.alipac.us/f8/online-survey-how-do-you-feel-about-trump-hiring-372110/
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Let's fight hard to stop this treachery, Americans!
William Gheen and The ALIPAC Team
www.ALIPAC.us
Americans for Legal Immigration PAC is releasing the results of an online poll sampling the national organization's more than 50,000 email subscribers and numerous social media followers regarding President Trump's decision to put Obama's border chief Mark Morgan in charge of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
Ninety percent (90%) of email respondents disapprove of Trump's decision to put Obama' appointee Mark Morgan in charge of immigration enforcement as did seventy-eight percent (78%) on Facebook and seventy-nine percent (79%) on Twitter.
The survey asked, "How do you feel about President Trump hiring Obama's Amnesty supporting Border Chief Mark Morgan to run America's Immigration & Customs Enforcement? (ICE)"
Some Trump supporters said they liked Mark Morgan because they heard him on Fox News supporting a border wall and speaking in favor of "Trump's immigration plans." Others said they supported Morgan because they trust Trump.
ALIPAC plans to add the hiring of Mark Morgan to run ICE as #11 on the organization's tracking list of Trump's reversals, betrayals, and broken promises on immigration issues. (View Tracking List HERE.)
"Each week President Trump offends and betrays his base supporters in a new way," said William Gheen, President of ALIPAC. "While many of his supporters continue to rationalize and suck it up, many of us are refusing to join the President in his efforts to hire Democrats and Republicans who support Amnesty for illegal aliens and increased legal immigration levels. Former Trump supporters are starting to call him the "Con Don," "talker Trump," and "Do Nothing Don" because looking at what Trump says each week, there is usually little or no actual actions taken."
ALIPAC's legendary activists, who have played a decisive role in defeating legislative Amnesty in DC 10 times since 2004, are currently calling the White House to oppose Trump's hiring of Morgan and Kushner on immigration issues. ALIPAC activists are also contacting GOP Senators to lobby them to not work on any immigration deals with Trump's lifelong Democrat son-in-law Jared Kushner, who supports Amnesty for illegals.
While ALIPAC's online poll only constitutes a section of Trump's base, the results indicate there is wide dissatisfaction with Trump on immigration issues among his base supporters who are aware of his actual positions and actions vs. Trump's campaign rhetoric tough talk.
President Donald J. Trump supports Amnesty, legal immigration increases, DACA Amnesty, and dangerous Catch and Release policies that dump illegal immigrants into sanctuary cities where they go on to kill thousands of Americans like Kate Steinle each year on his watch.
ALIPAC believes that Trump has made a massive mistake deploying Jared Kushner to get his immigration plans through that is costing him supporters and will cost him even more support if any Kushner immigration bill actually becomes law.
For more information about how many former and current Trump supporters feel about Trump's reversals and flip flops on immigration, or to schedule interviews, please visit www.ALIPAC.us
###
Share and discuss at (ALIPAC HERE) .. (FACEBOOK HERE) .. (TWITTER HERE) .. (GAB HERE)
ACTIVISM STEPS
1. Keep calling and writing the White House with your opposition to Trump's broken campaign promises, to his hiring of Obama's immigration chiefs like Mark Morgan, and to lifelong Democrat Jared Kushner using messages and numbers we have for you here--
https://www.alipac.us/f8/online-survey-how-do-you-feel-about-trump-hiring-372110/
2. Keep calling the 6 targeted GOP Senators with our message using messages and numbers here--
https://www.alipac.us/f8/call-six-gop-senators-meeting-kushner-plan-amnesty-bill-372154/
3. Call all GOP Senators to tell them, "No deals with Democrats and Kushner on immigration issues and Amnesty," using the big list for all Republican Senators at--
https://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm
Let's fight hard to stop this treachery, Americans!
William Gheen and The ALIPAC Team
www.ALIPAC.us
ANN COULTER: THE WAY WE WERE
ANN COULTER
8
May 2019188
4:48
Big news out of the White House this week!
After a beehive of activity, Jared Kushner will finally be unveiling his
comprehensive immigration plan!
Reportedly, the proposed bill keeps the number of new immigrants
per year at 1 million but stresses merit-based admissions over familial ties.
Little else is known about the bill beyond bland generalities — “humanitarian
needs,” “border security,” “protecting American wages” and “moving in the right
direction.”
In anticipation of the big reveal, let’s look back at why we
voted for Trump in the first place by revisiting his miracle campaign, as
described in my book, In Trump
We Trust: E Pluribus Awesome!. (Note that NONE of the reasons we
voted for him was that we thought he was an amazing businessman, soon to be
proved by his tax returns.)
** ** **
The media were dying to call Trump’s immigration policies
“racist,” and he tricked them into trying — with the GOP helping.
Unfortunately for the media and the Republican Brain Trust,
Trump’s policies were popular with all kinds of voters. It wasn’t just “angry
white men” who were losing jobs to wage-depressing, admittedly hardworking,
Mexicans. So were black people. So were Hispanics — at least a third of who
oppose amnesty.
It’s one thing to push an unpopular idea. The GOP does that all
the time: the Trans-Pacific Partnership, privatizing Social Security — how
about the Iraq War?
Trump’s genius was that he was pushing policies that were
popular. The fact that the media said they weren’t just made him look brave. He
used the media’s lies against them.
Political analysts kept droning on and on about Trump’s
mysterious appeal, but in all their prolix analyses, I can’t find a single one
saying, Boy, were we wrong about immigration!
Trump proved it’s not a suicidal act to notice that high levels
of immigration do not benefit most Americans. Republicans refuse to understand
that not all rising tides lift all boats. There are ways the rich can do well
while most of the country does worse. …
Some Republicans surely knew in their hearts that dumping
millions of low-wage workers on America was hurting the people who lived here,
but they were too scared of not getting the fat checks to say so.
Trump was in the weird position of not needing big donors. He’s
beholden to no one except the millions of ordinary Americans showing up at his
speeches, following him on Twitter, and giving him more primary votes than any
Republican in history. …
All of official Washington — the consultants, polling firms,
think tanks, political committees — have been acting like they’re the smart
half of the team, but Trump has proved they’re a bunch of impotent
nose-pickers. He slaughtered his well-funded rivals with no polls, with no
consultants, and with more than $75 billion in TV ads being run against
him.
The donor class must have watched in amazement as Trump rose
like a rocket by doing everything the political experts said was crazy.
Donors figured the consultants must know what they’re doing
because they’re expensive. Now they’re saying, Holy @#$%! I guess this
immigration issue was bigger than we were told by Karl Rove and Mike Murphy! Credulous
billionaires are finally realizing they’ve been ripped off by the consultants.
At least they won’t have to keep giving millions of dollars to super
PACs.
Maybe there are some geniuses working for the Republican
National Committee, but you sure wouldn’t know it from their record. The GOP
had been playing a ball-control game. They were able to eke out a few
victories, in spite of their Republicanness, but it was becoming increasingly
clear that the policies the base supported, they were actually against, and
everything the base opposed, they were for.
While the voters wanted more health care and less invading of
other countries, GOP elites were determined to give them less health care
coverage and more invading of other countries.
Elected Republicans run for office on defending the middle
class, then get to Washington and concentrate on gifts to big business. They’d
say, Of course, we’re with you on immigration, but unless you write us
a check there’s nothing we can do.
Then they get elected and say, Oh yeah … about
immigration, we’ll be screwing you over on that — but we are going to pass a
job-killing trade deal! And don’t worry — Wall Street will be getting a blank
check. I think a little gratitude is in order.
That’s not what we asked for!
** ** **
We had no choice but to vote for Trump. Hillary was promising to
take us straight to hell. I’ve got it all mapped out, the coordinates
are in the GPS, I’ll have us in hell within 24 hours! Trump was
promising to take us in the exact opposite direction.
We elected him. But that didn’t happen. It turns out that
instead of taking us away from hell, he’s zigzagging all over creation,
sometimes getting stuck in a parking lot, sometimes heading straight for hell,
then suddenly taking a left at the last minute, so that it’s never clear where
we’re headed.
But on the eve of the big immigration plan unveiling, let’s
remind him what we voted for. (By “him,” obviously I mean Jared.)
12M Americans Out of Workforce as
DHS Approves 30K More Foreign Workers
JOHN BINDER
7
May 2019390
3:09
Nearly 12 million Americans remain out of the United States labor force
as the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) approved 30,000 more foreign
workers businesses can bring to the country to take blue-collar U.S.
jobs.
As Breitbart
News reported, Acting DHS Secretary Kevin McAleenan said this week that he
would approve an additional 30,000 H-2B foreign visa workers to be brought
to the U.S. by businesses to take blue-collar, non-agricultural jobs. This
comes as former DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen approved an
additional 30,000 H-2B foreign workers in March.
Every year, U.S. companies are
allowed to import 66,000 low-skilled H-2B foreign workers to take blue-collar,
non-agricultural jobs. For some time, the H-2B visa program has been used by businesses to bring in cheaper foreign workers and has
contributed to blue-collar Americans having their wages undercut.
Meanwhile, the latest Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) data
notes that there are nearly 12 million Americans who are either unemployed,
underemployed, or out of the workforce but wanting a job.
About 5.8 million Americans remain unemployed. Those most likely
to compete against cheaper foreign workers in blue-collar and entry-level
industries — U.S. teenagers and black Americans — continue to have
significantly higher unemployment rates than other demographic groups.
For example, of the 5.8 million Americans unemployed, about
754,000 are teenagers with an unemployment rate of 13 percent. Likewise, there
are 388,600 black Americans who are unemployed, for an unemployment rate of 6.7
percent which is more than double the white American unemployment rate and more
than triple the Asian American unemployment rate.
About 2.7 million of the unemployed population either lost their
job or completed a temporary job, while 1.2 million, or 21 percent of the total
unemployed, said they have been unemployed for at least 27 weeks.
Similarly, 4.7 million Americans are underemployed, that is U.S.
part-time workers who want full-time jobs but are unable to find them. Another
1.4 million Americans are marginally attached to the labor force. These are
U.S. workers who are ready and willing to work if they could fine a full-time
job.
Of those 1.4 million Americans who are marginally attached to
the labor force, 454,000 say they are “discouraged” by their job prospects and
do not believe there is work for them in the current labor market.
While millions remain on the sidelines of the workforce, the
U.S. Chamber of Commerce has
suggested that the U.S. is “out of people” in their efforts to lobby
Washington, D.C. lawmakers to support an expansion of the country’s legal
immigration system.
For weeks, landscaping companies and lawn care businesses
complained to DHS officials that there are not enough workers to fill blue
collar and entry-level jobs, Breitbart News has been told. Experts,
though, have
warned that wage hikes that have
benefited blue-collar and working-class Americans will not continue
should more foreign workers saturate the labor market, decreasing the price of
labor while subjecting Americans to increased competition for jobs.
John
Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Follow him on Twitter at @JxhnBinder.
Amid “full employment,”
no recovery in US wages
The US jobs report for November, released Friday, provides
further evidence that the much vaunted economic “recovery” in the United States
has overwhelmingly benefited Wall Street, whose stock bonanza is based above
all on stagnant wages and the destruction of working-class living standards.
The Labor Department reported that nonfarm payrolls increased by
228,000 and the jobless rate remained unchanged at 4.1 percent, the lowest
level since January 2000 at the height of the “dot.com” bubble. Manufacturing
payrolls rose by 31,000; construction in the aftermath of the hurricanes in
Texas and Florida added 24,000 jobs. There was also a boost in the low-wage
retail (18,700) and leisure and hospitality (14,000) sectors.
Despite what economists, the media and politicians are calling “full
employment,” average hourly earnings rose only 0.2 percent, or five cents, to
$26.55 an hour, from a downwardly revised 0.1 percent drop in wages in October.
Year-to-year wage increases in November were only 64 cents, or 2.5 percent. If
wages rise by another nickel in December, yearly salaries will be up a mere 2.4
percent in 2017, barely above the official projected inflation rate of 2.0
percent.
“President Trump’s bold economic vision continues to pay off,”
White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders boasted on Friday. “The
economy’s vital signs are stronger than they have been in years,” the New York Times declared.
“Companies are posting jobs faster than they can find workers to fill them.
Incomes are rising. The stock market sets records seemingly every month.”
Economic analysts have pointed to anemic wage growth,
euphemistically called weak “inflationary pressure,” as a major factor in the
determination of the Federal Reserve to continue pumping up the stock market
with cheap credit. Although most economists expect a modest interest rate hike
at the Fed’s meeting Wednesday, Jerome Powell, President Donald Trump’s nominee
to head the Federal Reserve, made clear last month at his Senate confirmation
hearing that he would keep rates at historically low levels. At the
same time, he assured the senators that there was little danger of a wages push
because of continuing “slackness” in the labor market, i.e., an ample supply of
workers desperate for full-time employment.
Other analysts agree. “Wage growth has been muted thus far,”
especially given the “very healthy pace of job creation,” said Michelle Meyer,
head of US economics at Bank of America. “It’s been the story throughout the
course of this year.”
Describing November’s wage increase as “tepid,” Carl Riccadonna
and Yelena Shulyatyeva of Bloomberg Economics wrote: “Even though job gains are
well in excess of the natural growth rate for the labor market, labor scarcity
is not yet driving wage pressures higher. The moral of the story from this jobs
report is that full employment is indeed much lower in the current cycle
relative to history.”
US employers are exploiting a reserve of unemployed and
underemployed workers to keep wages low. At the same time, corporations are
filling positions with young workers who are paid far lower wages and benefits
than the older workers they are replacing.
According to the government, 6.6 million workers in the US remain
unemployed, including 1.6 million, or nearly one out of four jobless people,
who have been unemployed for 27 weeks or more. Another 4.8 million were forced
to work part-time last month although they want full-time work, and 1.8 million
were “marginally attached” to the labor force. The latter want to work but did
not search for employment in the four weeks preceding the survey and were
therefore not counted as “unemployed.”
The labor force participation rate, or share of working-age people
in the labor force, remained at 62.7 percent in November. However, just 79
percent of the prime-age work force, aged 25 to 54, is actually working—below
the rate before the 2008 financial crash.
The situation facing the young generation is particularly dire.
According to the Class of 2017 report by the Economic
Policy Institute, the unemployment rate for young high school graduates is 16.9
percent (compared with 15.9 percent in 2007 and 12.1 percent in 2000). For
young college graduates, the unemployment rate is currently 5.6 percent
(compared with 5.5 percent in 2007 and 4.3 percent in 2000), and 7.1 percent
for young male college graduates.
The figures are even higher for “underemployment,” which includes
young graduates who are involuntary part-timers or are only marginally attached
to the labor force. For young high school graduates, the underemployment rate
is 30.9 percent (compared with 26.8 percent in 2007 and 20.8 percent in 2000).
For young college graduates, the underemployment rate is 11.9 percent (compared
with 9.6 percent in 2007 and 7.1 percent in 2000).
The share of young graduates who are “idled” by the
economy—neither enrolled in further schooling nor employed—remains higher in
the wake of the Great Recession than in 2007 and 2000, the report noted. This
includes 15.1 percent of young high school graduates and 9.9 percent of young
college graduates, many of whom are burdened with unsustainable debts.
The stagnation of wages is a long-term tendency. Since the early
1970s, hourly inflation-adjusted wages have grown by only 0.2 percent annually,
and labor’s share of national income has fallen from nearly 65 percent in the
mid-1970s to below 57 percent in 2017.
The deterioration in the social position of the working class and
accompanying explosion of social inequality are not simply the result of
objective economic laws. They are the intended outcome of the policies of the
American ruling class, implemented by successive Democratic and Republican
administrations alike. The transfer of production to lower-wage countries,
deindustrialization and mass layoffs in the 1980s and 1990s were used as a
hammer to beat back the resistance of workers to a historic lowering of their
living standards.
This process was aided and abetted by the trade unions, whose
pro-capitalist and nationalist orientation left workers without any progressive
response to globalization. Far from opposing wage and benefit cuts, the United
Auto Workers and other unions suppressed working-class opposition and
collaborated with the corporations to slash labor costs in the name of boosting
competitiveness and “protecting American jobs.”
This assault was escalated in the aftermath of the global
financial crisis of 2008. In the course of the eight years of the Obama
administration, the unions limited strikes to the lowest levels since the Labor
Department began recording work stoppages in 1947. They collaborated with the
Democratic president to crush a potential wages push in 2015-16 as workers in
auto, steel, oil, telecom, airlines, rail, health care, retail and other industries,
as well as teachers and other public employees, were coming up for new labor
agreements.
While workers were determined to recoup lost income after
corporate profits had fully recovered from the crash, the unions signed deals
that limited pay hikes to the rate of inflation or barely above it while
shifting health care and pension costs onto the backs of workers. This was key to Obama’s “in-sourcing” strategy for
attracting investment on the basis of low wages, as well as his “quantitative
easing” interest rate policy, which fueled the massive rise in the stock market
that continues to this day. Virtually all of the net increase in new jobs
created under Obama’s “gig economy” were part-time, contingent or
temporary OR ILLEGALS!
Trump claims his $1.5 trillion tax cut—including the slashing of
the corporate tax rate from 35 percent to 20 percent—will create more jobs and
increase wages. As in the Obama years, however, this massive windfall for big
business and the rich will not be used to expand production, let alone increase
the wages and living standards of workers. It will go for stock buybacks and
dividend increases, which benefit the richest investors.
Wages are so low now that 7.6 million Americans are forced to work
multiple jobs, a number not seen in 20 years. In a recent article titled
“China-Like Wages Now Part of US Employment Boom,” Forbes noted that a
forklift operator hired at $12.75 an hour at Amazon’s Fall River, Massachusetts
fulfillment center makes $382 for a 30-hour week, “not much more than the
average guy in Beijing,” where the median weekly wage is $329.53. At 40 hours a
week, a higher paid, full-time Amazon worker in Fall River earns $28,800 a year
before taxes, roughly what Amazon’s billionaire CEO Jeff Bezos pockets every
minute.
Fixing
America’s Unemployment Crisis
Trump was
elected in part on the promise of creating jobs, but how about those who
stopped looking for work?
What
has been called a “quiet catastrophe” has been unfolding in America: the collapse of work for millions of America’s
men,
and, more recently, for America’s women as well.
Nicholas
Eberstadt, the Henry Wendt Chair in political economy at the American
Enterprise Institute, estimates there are 10 million men who are jobless and no
longer looking for work. According to calculations using 2014 data, an
estimated 3.6 million women are in the same situation.
President-elect
Donald Trump has announced a raft of policies meant to spur economic growth and
create jobs, but thought needs to be given to what specific measures might help
this urgent situation.
How
to address this crisis depends on what one understands the problem to be. A
graph showing the prime-age employment rate for men provides a kind of
Rorschach test for possible responses.
Jared
Bernstein, senior fellow at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, former
economic adviser to Vice President Joe Biden, and author of, most recently,
“The Reconnection Agenda: Reuniting Growth and Prosperity,” focuses on the
cyclical upturns in the jagged line, on those periods of prosperity when
workers regain jobs that had been lost.
Eberstadt
focuses on the straight trend line, which has been going inexorably and
disastrously downward for decades.
Bernstein
and Eberstadt represent two typical and contrasting approaches to the
unemployment problem.
*
If you look at the employment rate for
prime-age workers, they have actually clawed back two-thirds of their
losses since the great recession.
— JARED BERNSTEIN
Bernstein
published the graph in a chapter he contributed to Eberstadt’s book “Men
Without Work,” in which he critiques Eberstadt’s diagnosis of the employment
crisis.
For
Bernstein, the key is a missing demand for labor.
“If
you look at the employment rate for prime-age workers, they have actually
clawed back two-thirds of their losses since the Great Recession,” Bernstein
said in an interview. “That doesn’t sound to me like a group that has given up.
It sounds to me like a group that is not facing ample opportunity.”
For
Eberstadt, the problem is a detachment from work.
Using
various government databases, Eberstadt gives a composite portrait of those men
who are out of the workforce and not looking for work.
They
don’t read newspapers, seem to have few familial responsibilities, and tend not
to be involved in a church or their communities. They spend most of their time
entertaining themselves with TV or hand-held devices; 31 percent admitted to
survey takers that they used illegal drugs.
Bernstein
counters this portrait by noting that the causal connection may go from a lack
of employment opportunities to suffering from depression, which then leads to
these men planting themselves on the couch.
As
to the individual motives of the non-working, Bernstein said, “We just don’t
know.” His advice to Trump is to aggressively pursue full employment, which involves
the federal government using a number of different tools.
An
officer waits to escort Harvey Lesser, an unemployed software developer, from
his apartment after serving him with a court order for eviction in Boulder,
Colo., on Dec. 11, 2009.
Stimulus and Subsidies
Bernstein
believes the key to the downward trend his graph shows is the disappearance of
manufacturing jobs. He favors trade policies that will reduce America’s chronic
trade imbalances, which will create more demand for domestic manufacturing.
Bernstein
also favors an infrastructure program, with the caveat that “you have to do it
right,” he said.
He
would like to see the federal government get involved in communities that
“don’t have enough businesses, child care slots, supermarkets, and stores—these
are a classic market failure.”
The
federal government could subsidize private employers in these neighborhoods,
giving them an incentive to move their businesses there.
Bernstein
also favors special efforts to help those with a criminal record, and Eberstadt
agrees finding ways to help this population is key to addressing the problem of
non-working adults. He estimates that, by the end of 2016, there will be 20
million with a felony conviction in their past.
Keeping Fake Illegal Alien Families Together
https://townhall.com/columnists/michellemalkin/2019/05/08/keeping-fake-illegal-alien-families-together-n2546006
Who remembers the
hysterical sound and fury of open borders leftists last summer over President
Donald Trump's detention and enforcement policies at our besieged southern
border?
Remember the
#FamiliesBelongTogether, #WhereAreTheChildren, #AbolishICE and #MeltICE
hashtags?
Remember the "Trump
Child Abuse," "Free the Children," "Save the Children"
and "AMERICANS DON'T USE CHILDREN AS PAWNS," posters wielded at
protests across the country?
Remember
the 24-hour hunger strikes and Instagram-friendly border photo-ops by actresses
and supermodels of the anti-Trump resistance who care, care, care, so much more
than you about the suffering of migrant children?
Remember
Time magazine's fake news "Crying Girl," promoted in June 2018 as a
global symbol of Trump's heartless "zero tolerance" stance?
Two-year-old Yanela Sanchez was never separated from her mother. In fact, she
had been dragged across the border unbeknownst to and against the wishes of her
father back in Honduras. He obliterated the "all migrants are simply
escaping persecution and violence" narrative by revealing that he had a
"good job" and the family's life was "fine." He "never
got the chance to say goodbye" to his daughter before his wife paid a
coyote $6,000 to bring them to the U.S.
Yanela's
mother, who now bides her time awaiting an immigration court hearing in migrant
housing in Washington, D.C. (most likely subsidized by you and me), abandoned
her husband and three other children for a chance to win in the asylum fraud
lottery. She made the decision to tear her own family apart, not Trump.
Here's my
question: Where are all the caring resisters and champions of children now that
deplorable human renting/recycling scams involving exploited illegal immigrant
kids are coming to full light? These horror stories are the unconscionably
perverse and utterly predictable consequence of incentivizing families -- real
and fake -- to abuse our suicidal generosity.
The
Arizona Daily Star reported this week that a Guatemalan man, Maynor Velasquez
Molina, allegedly paid a family the equivalent of $130 to 'rent' their
8-year-old son to help him get into the U.S. as a "family." He and
the boy were caught in February. Across Central America, the kiddie
catch-and-release regime endorsed by open borders ideologues is advertised as
the hottest ticket to gain entry. Aliens caught illegally crossing the Rio
Grande Valley have told Border Patrol agents they surrendered with children
because they expected permisos (free passes) to be granted.
"Borderwide,"
the Daily Star revealed, "federal officials said they had seen about 3,100
fraudulent family claims since April 2018, alongside about 260,000 migrant
family members."
In
another outrageous case disclosed this month, Border Patrol agents discovered a
"recycled" illegal alien child who had been used by at least three
"families" of unrelated adults attempting to get into the U.S. from
Mexico. The practice is orchestrated by transnational criminal organizations to
increase smuggling profits. One Guatemalan woman in South Carolina recycled
children 13 times for payments of $1,500 each.
Border-trespassers
and smugglers in turn pay drug cartels a tax -- derecho de piso -- to gain
passage through sections of the border controlled by the criminal rackets. The
RAND Corporation estimated revenue from derecho de piso at anywhere between $30
million to $180 million in 2017.
Federal
Judge Andrew Hanen of the Southern District of Texas blew the lid off the Obama
administration's deplorable role as child smuggling facilitators in a scathing
2013 ruling on the case of U.S. vs. Mirtha Veronica Nava-Martinez.
Nava-Martinez, a resident alien, was an admitted human trafficker caught at the
border trying to smuggle an El Salvadoran minor into the U.S. using the birth
certificate that belonged to one of her daughters. The transaction had been arranged
by the minor's illegal immigrant mother living in Virginia. She paid $6,000 up
front on an $8,000 fee. After Nava-Martinez and the child were caught, the
Department of Homeland Security did not arrest the mother. Instead, DHS
"delivered the child to her" in Virginia.
Hanen
noted that the Nava-Martinez case was the fourth that had come before his court
in which illegal immigrant parents had paid smugglers to bring minor children
across the border and the U.S. government had abetted the operations. He called
the feds' actions "dangerous" and "unconscionable" for
inducing parents to jeopardize their own children's safety by turning the over
to strangers engaged in criminal activity with drug cartels and risking their
lives in the desert. Indeed, Judge Hanen warned that "the government is
not only allowing them to fund the illegal and evil activities of these
cartels, but is also inspiring them to do so."
Trump's
efforts to close the myriad loopholes that aid and abet this transnational
illegal immigrant kiddie smuggling racket have been condemned as heartless. But
what's truly inhumane are the virtue signalers who use and abuse children as
pawns in their ruthless, lucrative, sovereignty-sabotaging pursuit of open
borders.
12M Americans Out of Workforce as DHS Approves 30K More Foreign
Workers
Fixing
America’s Unemployment Crisis
Trump was elected in
part on the promise of creating jobs, but how about those who stopped looking
for work?
What
has been called a “quiet catastrophe” has been unfolding in America: the collapse of work for millions of America’s
men,
and, more recently, for America’s women as well.
Nicholas
Eberstadt, the Henry Wendt Chair in political economy at the American
Enterprise Institute, estimates there are 10 million men who are jobless and no
longer looking for work. According to calculations using 2014 data, an
estimated 3.6 million women are in the same situation.
President-elect
Donald Trump has announced a raft of policies meant to spur economic growth and
create jobs, but thought needs to be given to what specific measures might help
this urgent situation.
How
to address this crisis depends on what one understands the problem to be. A
graph showing the prime-age employment rate for men provides a kind of
Rorschach test for possible responses.
Jared
Bernstein, senior fellow at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, former
economic adviser to Vice President Joe Biden, and author of, most recently,
“The Reconnection Agenda: Reuniting Growth and Prosperity,” focuses on the
cyclical upturns in the jagged line, on those periods of prosperity when
workers regain jobs that had been lost.
Eberstadt
focuses on the straight trend line, which has been going inexorably and
disastrously downward for decades.
Bernstein
and Eberstadt represent two typical and contrasting approaches to the
unemployment problem.
*
If you look at the employment rate for
prime-age workers, they have actually clawed back two-thirds of their
losses since the great recession.
— JARED BERNSTEIN
Bernstein
published the graph in a chapter he contributed to Eberstadt’s book “Men
Without Work,” in which he critiques Eberstadt’s diagnosis of the employment
crisis.
For
Bernstein, the key is a missing demand for labor.
“If
you look at the employment rate for prime-age workers, they have actually
clawed back two-thirds of their losses since the Great Recession,” Bernstein
said in an interview. “That doesn’t sound to me like a group that has given up.
It sounds to me like a group that is not facing ample opportunity.”
For
Eberstadt, the problem is a detachment from work.
Using
various government databases, Eberstadt gives a composite portrait of those men
who are out of the workforce and not looking for work.
They
don’t read newspapers, seem to have few familial responsibilities, and tend not
to be involved in a church or their communities. They spend most of their time
entertaining themselves with TV or hand-held devices; 31 percent admitted to
survey takers that they used illegal drugs.
Bernstein
counters this portrait by noting that the causal connection may go from a lack
of employment opportunities to suffering from depression, which then leads to
these men planting themselves on the couch.
As
to the individual motives of the non-working, Bernstein said, “We just don’t
know.” His advice to Trump is to aggressively pursue full employment, which
involves the federal government using a number of different tools.
An
officer waits to escort Harvey Lesser, an unemployed software developer, from
his apartment after serving him with a court order for eviction in Boulder,
Colo., on Dec. 11, 2009.
Stimulus and Subsidies
Bernstein
believes the key to the downward trend his graph shows is the disappearance of
manufacturing jobs. He favors trade policies that will reduce America’s chronic
trade imbalances, which will create more demand for domestic manufacturing.
Bernstein
also favors an infrastructure program, with the caveat that “you have to do it
right,” he said.
He
would like to see the federal government get involved in communities that
“don’t have enough businesses, child care slots, supermarkets, and stores—these
are a classic market failure.”
The
federal government could subsidize private employers in these neighborhoods,
giving them an incentive to move their businesses there.
Bernstein
also favors special efforts to help those with a criminal record, and Eberstadt
agrees finding ways to help this population is key to addressing the problem of
non-working adults. He estimates that, by the end of 2016, there will be 20
million with a felony conviction in their past.
Trump’s
DHS Extends ‘Temporary’ Amnesty for 300K Foreign Nationals
2:42
President
Donald Trump’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen
is extending a temporary amnesty status for more than 300,000 foreign
nationals, a notice from the agency states.
In an announcement on Thursday, Nielsen said DHS
would not only continue to complywith a preliminary injunction from last year — in
which a federal judge in California blocked Trump’s rescinding of Temporary
Protected Status (TPS) — but that the agency would be extending TPS for
hundreds of thousands of nationals of Sudan, Haiti, Nicaragua, and El Salvador
through January 2020.
Sudanese
nationals have had their TPS extended since 1997, while Nicaraguans have
enjoyed TPS since 1998. Likewise, El Salvador’s nationals have had TPS since
about 2001, and Haitians have had their TPS renewed since about 2010.
Trump
sought to end TPS for the more than 300,000 foreign resident population in the
U.S., prompting a lawsuit from the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). Now,
though, Nielsen’s decision to extend TPS will allow the foreign nationals to
stay in the country until at least January 2020, a reversal of the
administration’s initial plan.
About
200,000 of the nationals protected by TPS in the latest DHS decision are from
El Salvador, while another 50,000 are from Haiti. The remaining more than
50,000 nationals are from Sudan and Nicaragua.
TPS has
become a quasi-amnesty for otherwise illegal aliens created under the
Immigration and Nationality Act of 1990 (INA) that prevents the deportation of
foreign nationals from countries that have suffered through famine, war, or
natural disasters. Since the Clinton administration, TPS has been transformed
into a de facto amnesty program as the Bush, Obama, and
now Trump administration has continuously renewed the program for a variety of
countries.
Pro-American
immigration reformers like former Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach
have argued that
the TPS program has been abused by the open borders lobby and DHS officials.
At the
beginning of 2020, DHS will announce whether the agency will once again renew
TPS for the more than 300,000 foreign nationals or terminate their status.
*
Only
a complete fool would believe that Trump is any more for American Legal workers
than the Democrat Party for Billionaires and Banksters!
*
“Trump
Administration Betrays Low-Skilled American Workers.”
*
The
latest ad from the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) asks Trump
to reject the mass illegal and legal immigration policies supported by Wall
Street, corporate executives, and most specifically, the GOP mega-donor Koch
brothers.
Efforts by the big business lobby, Chamber of Commerce, Koch
brothers, and George W. Bush Center include increasing employment-based legal
immigration that would likely crush the historic wage gains that Trump has delivered for
America’s blue collar and working class citizens.
*
Mark Zuckerberg’s Silicon
Valley investors are uniting with the Koch network’s consumer and industrial
investors to demand a huge DACA amnesty
*
A handful of Republican and
Democrat lawmakers are continuing to tout a plan that gives amnesty to nearly a
million illegal aliens in exchange for some amount of funding for President
Trump’s proposed border wall along the U.S.-Mexico border.
"The
amnesty activist also said that the “border has been a crooked proposition from
the beginning, and it will continue to be twisted to meet political ends,”
adding that many open-borders activists still insist that “people didn’t cross
the border, the border crossed them.”
*
“At some
point we will have to accept the fact that the border between Mexico and the
United States is nothing more than an invention. It was demarcated in 1848,
following a war that cost Mexico about half its territory (it’s no coincidence
that cities like Los Angeles, San Antonio and San Francisco have Spanish
names),” Ramos said. “Also, it’s been said a thousand times that many people
didn’t cross the border, the border crossed them. And the cultural and
commercial ties between the two sides remain in place to this day. Look at the
fellowship exhibited by cities like El Paso, Texas, and Ciudad Juárez, Mexico
even if barbed wire and concrete barriers have been erected in some places
along the divide.” LA RAZA SUPREMACIST JORGE RAMOS
*
I would also go to all of the
working class that are in America, construction workers in particular. Their salaries have not just stagnated, they
have gone down in the last 20 years. These are the least among us.
We are the only ones not speaking out of self-interest. …
Most of the people who are
advocating for open borders …
they have a vested in interest in having either the cheap labor or the
Democratic voters. Their neighborhoods aren’t the ones being
overwhelmed. They get the cheap maids, the cheap nannies,
and then they strut around like they’re Martin Luther King.
No, you are talking in your self-interest, Chamber of Commerce, and
Koch brothers, and Nancy Pelosi, and Chuck Schumer. It’s Donald
Trump and our side who are actually caring about our fellow Americans — the
kids who are getting addicted to black tar heroin. …
The heroin problem in this
country is 100 percent a problem of not having a wall on the border. And 70,000
Americans are dying every year. That’s
more that died in the entire Vietnam War. That is a national emergency.
ANN COULTER
“Sessions is the
only one doing something about illegal immigration!” Ann Coulter… AND THAT IS
WHY TRUMP FIRED HIM!
THE
MOVE TO MAKE AG JEFF SESSIONS PRESIDENT is denounced by the Narco state of
Mexico which relies on the wholesale looting of America.
In fact,
Trump is steadily moving in the precise opposite direction of what he promised.
Illegal
immigration is on track to hit the highest levels in more than a decade, and
Trump has willfully decided to keep amnesty advocates Jared, Ivanka, Mick
Mulvaney, Marc Short, and Mercedes Schlapp in the White House. For all his talk
about immigration, did he ever consider hiring people who share his MAGA
vision?
For National Release | May 9, 2019
Americans for Legal Immigration PAC is releasing the results of an online poll sampling the national organization's more than 50,000 email subscribers and numerous social media followers regarding President Trump's decision to put Obama's border chief Mark Morgan in charge of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
Americans for Legal Immigration PAC is releasing the results of an online poll sampling the national organization's more than 50,000 email subscribers and numerous social media followers regarding President Trump's decision to put Obama's border chief Mark Morgan in charge of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
ANN COULTER: THE WAY WE WERE
ANN COULTER
8 May
2019188
4:48
Big news out of the White House this
week! After a beehive of activity, Jared Kushner will finally be unveiling his
comprehensive immigration plan!
Reportedly, the proposed bill keeps the number of new immigrants
per year at 1 million but stresses merit-based admissions over familial ties.
Little else is known about the bill beyond bland generalities — “humanitarian
needs,” “border security,” “protecting American wages” and “moving in the right
direction.”
In anticipation of the big reveal, let’s look back at why we
voted for Trump in the first place by revisiting his miracle campaign, as
described in my book, In Trump
We Trust: E Pluribus Awesome!. (Note that NONE of the reasons we
voted for him was that we thought he was an amazing businessman, soon to be
proved by his tax returns.)
** ** **
The media were dying to call Trump’s immigration policies “racist,”
and he tricked them into trying — with the GOP helping.
Unfortunately for the media and the Republican Brain Trust,
Trump’s policies were popular with all kinds of voters. It wasn’t just “angry
white men” who were losing jobs to wage-depressing, admittedly hardworking,
Mexicans. So were black people. So were Hispanics — at least a third of who
oppose amnesty.
It’s one thing to push an unpopular idea. The GOP does that all
the time: the Trans-Pacific Partnership, privatizing Social Security — how about
the Iraq War?
Trump’s genius was that he was pushing policies that were
popular. The fact that the media said they weren’t just made him look brave. He
used the media’s lies against them.
Political analysts kept droning on and on about Trump’s
mysterious appeal, but in all their prolix analyses, I can’t find a single one
saying, Boy, were we wrong about immigration!
Trump proved it’s not a suicidal act to notice that high levels
of immigration do not benefit most Americans. Republicans refuse to understand
that not all rising tides lift all boats. There are ways the rich can do well
while most of the country does worse. …
Some Republicans surely knew in their hearts that dumping
millions of low-wage workers on America was hurting the people who lived here,
but they were too scared of not getting the fat checks to say so.
Trump was in the weird position of not needing big donors. He’s
beholden to no one except the millions of ordinary Americans showing up at his
speeches, following him on Twitter, and giving him more primary votes than any
Republican in history. …
All of official Washington — the consultants, polling firms,
think tanks, political committees — have been acting like they’re the smart
half of the team, but Trump has proved they’re a bunch of impotent
nose-pickers. He slaughtered his well-funded rivals with no polls, with no
consultants, and with more than $75 billion in TV ads being run against
him.
The donor class must have watched in amazement as Trump rose
like a rocket by doing everything the political experts said was crazy.
Donors figured the consultants must know what they’re doing
because they’re expensive. Now they’re saying, Holy @#$%! I guess this
immigration issue was bigger than we were told by Karl Rove and Mike Murphy! Credulous
billionaires are finally realizing they’ve been ripped off by the consultants.
At least they won’t have to keep giving millions of dollars to super
PACs.
Maybe there are some geniuses working for the Republican
National Committee, but you sure wouldn’t know it from their record. The GOP
had been playing a ball-control game. They were able to eke out a few
victories, in spite of their Republicanness, but it was becoming increasingly
clear that the policies the base supported, they were actually against, and
everything the base opposed, they were for.
While the voters wanted more health care and less invading of
other countries, GOP elites were determined to give them less health care
coverage and more invading of other countries.
Elected Republicans run for office on defending the middle
class, then get to Washington and concentrate on gifts to big business. They’d
say, Of course, we’re with you on immigration, but unless you write us
a check there’s nothing we can do.
Then they get elected and say, Oh yeah … about
immigration, we’ll be screwing you over on that — but we are going to pass a
job-killing trade deal! And don’t worry — Wall Street will be getting a blank
check. I think a little gratitude is in order.
That’s not what we asked for!
** ** **
We had no choice but to vote for Trump. Hillary was promising to
take us straight to hell. I’ve got it all mapped out, the coordinates
are in the GPS, I’ll have us in hell within 24 hours! Trump was
promising to take us in the exact opposite direction.
We elected him. But that didn’t happen. It turns out that instead
of taking us away from hell, he’s zigzagging all over creation, sometimes
getting stuck in a parking lot, sometimes heading straight for hell, then
suddenly taking a left at the last minute, so that it’s never clear where we’re
headed.
But on the eve of the big immigration plan unveiling, let’s
remind him what we voted for. (By “him,” obviously I mean Jared.)
Fixing
America’s Unemployment Crisis
Trump was
elected in part on the promise of creating jobs, but how about those who
stopped looking for work?
What
has been called a “quiet catastrophe” has been unfolding in America: the collapse of work for millions of America’s
men,
and, more recently, for America’s women as well.
Nicholas
Eberstadt, the Henry Wendt Chair in political economy at the American
Enterprise Institute, estimates there are 10 million men who are jobless and no
longer looking for work. According to calculations using 2014 data, an
estimated 3.6 million women are in the same situation.
President-elect
Donald Trump has announced a raft of policies meant to spur economic growth and
create jobs, but thought needs to be given to what specific measures might help
this urgent situation.
How
to address this crisis depends on what one understands the problem to be. A
graph showing the prime-age employment rate for men provides a kind of
Rorschach test for possible responses.
Jared
Bernstein, senior fellow at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, former
economic adviser to Vice President Joe Biden, and author of, most recently,
“The Reconnection Agenda: Reuniting Growth and Prosperity,” focuses on the
cyclical upturns in the jagged line, on those periods of prosperity when
workers regain jobs that had been lost.
Eberstadt
focuses on the straight trend line, which has been going inexorably and
disastrously downward for decades.
Bernstein
and Eberstadt represent two typical and contrasting approaches to the
unemployment problem.
*
If you look at the employment rate for
prime-age workers, they have actually clawed back two-thirds of their
losses since the great recession.
— JARED BERNSTEIN
Bernstein
published the graph in a chapter he contributed to Eberstadt’s book “Men
Without Work,” in which he critiques Eberstadt’s diagnosis of the employment
crisis.
For
Bernstein, the key is a missing demand for labor.
“If
you look at the employment rate for prime-age workers, they have actually
clawed back two-thirds of their losses since the Great Recession,” Bernstein
said in an interview. “That doesn’t sound to me like a group that has given up.
It sounds to me like a group that is not facing ample opportunity.”
For
Eberstadt, the problem is a detachment from work.
Using
various government databases, Eberstadt gives a composite portrait of those men
who are out of the workforce and not looking for work.
They
don’t read newspapers, seem to have few familial responsibilities, and tend not
to be involved in a church or their communities. They spend most of their time
entertaining themselves with TV or hand-held devices; 31 percent admitted to survey
takers that they used illegal drugs.
Bernstein
counters this portrait by noting that the causal connection may go from a lack
of employment opportunities to suffering from depression, which then leads to
these men planting themselves on the couch.
As
to the individual motives of the non-working, Bernstein said, “We just don’t
know.” His advice to Trump is to aggressively pursue full employment, which
involves the federal government using a number of different tools.
An
officer waits to escort Harvey Lesser, an unemployed software developer, from
his apartment after serving him with a court order for eviction in Boulder,
Colo., on Dec. 11, 2009.
Stimulus and Subsidies
Bernstein
believes the key to the downward trend his graph shows is the disappearance of
manufacturing jobs. He favors trade policies that will reduce America’s chronic
trade imbalances, which will create more demand for domestic manufacturing.
Bernstein
also favors an infrastructure program, with the caveat that “you have to do it
right,” he said.
He
would like to see the federal government get involved in communities that
“don’t have enough businesses, child care slots, supermarkets, and stores—these
are a classic market failure.”
The
federal government could subsidize private employers in these neighborhoods,
giving them an incentive to move their businesses there.
Bernstein
also favors special efforts to help those with a criminal record, and Eberstadt
agrees finding ways to help this population is key to addressing the problem of
non-working adults. He estimates that, by the end of 2016, there will be 20
million with a felony conviction in their past.
"Chuck
Schumer and Nancy Pelosi, the twin nutters of Congress, were certain they could
beat Trump at his own game, but have made fools of themselves, as
usual. The stand-off is not over but with each passing day, the
Democrats reveal more of their anti-American, pro-illegal immigration agenda.
Conservatives have been sounding the alarm for years: Democrats do not
care about American citizens!" PATRICIA McCARTHY
In the next two decades, should the country’s
legal immigration policy go unchanged, the U.S. is set to import about
15 million new foreign-born voters. About eight million of these new
foreign-born voters will have arrived through the process known as “chain
migration,” whereby newly naturalized citizens are allowed to bring an
unlimited number of foreign relatives to the country. JOHN BINDER
This policy
of flooding the market
with cheap, foreign, white-collar graduates and
blue-collar labor also shifts
enormous wealth from young employees
towards older investors, even as it also widens wealth
gaps, reduces high-tech
investment, increases state and
local tax burdens, and hurts children’s schools and college educations.
It also pushes Americans
away from high-tech careers and sidelines millions of marginalized Americans,
including many who are now struggling with
fentanyl addictions. The labor policy also moves business investment and
wealth from the heartland to the coastal cities, explodes rents
and housing costs, shrivels real estate
values in the Midwest, and rewards investors for creating low-tech, labor-intensive workplaces.
JOHN BINDER
“Liberal governing has
transformed beautiful California into the poverty
capital of America with the worst quality of life. Crazy
taxes,
crazy high cost of living, and crazy overreaching
regulations have crushed the middle class, forcing the middle class to
exit the Sunshine State. All that is left in California are illegals
feeding at the breast of the state, rapidly growing massive
homeless tent cities, and the mega-rich.” LLOYD MARCUS
The Democrats' Alien Voting
Strategy
By Cliff Spectre
American Thinker
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/05/the_democratsalien_voting_strategy.html
2020 Democrats All Have the
Same Immigration Position: Open Borders
By
Eddie Scarry
Washington Examiner, May 23, 2019
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/2020-democrats-all-have-the-same-immigration-position-open-borders
2020 Democrats all have the same immigration
position: Open borders
Other than offering
some vague nods to “border security,” Democrats never put forth any policy that
would prevent the hundreds of thousands of unknown people streaming into the
U.S. Yet if you point out that the party doesn't care about securing the
border, a confounded news anchor will insist, “Silly fool! Why, everyone
supports border security!”
It’s a cover-up for
what Democrats truly believe in: An open border that discriminates against no
one from anywhere.
Look at any one of the
Democrats running for the party’s presidential nomination, and you will not
find a single policy proposal that would stop a single illegal entrant. Or even
just the top five of them in the RealClearPolitics national average.
Former Vice President
Joe Biden’s plan on his website: “We have got to
address the root causes of migration that push people to leave behind their
homes and everything they know to undertake a dangerous journey for the chance
at a better life." It says nothing about halting the obscene numbers of
migrants showing up at the border with bogus claims for asylum or the illegal
border crossers with histories of child sex abuse
and violent gang affiliations caught daily. Ah, but it does check the
empty “secure our border and enforce our laws” banality.
Vermont Sen. Bernie
Sanders calls for expanding protections for illegal immigrants already in the
U.S., “developing a humane policy for those seeking asylum," and virtually
eliminating the deportation and detention of illegal aliens altogether.
Sanders’ website doesn’t even bother nodding to the “border security” cliché.
Massachusetts Sen.
Elizabeth Warren doesn’t mention immigration at all on her website. But in
interviews, she says the same nothing that every Democrat says. “We need an
immigration system that is effective, that focuses on where problems are,” she
said Wednesday on CNN, though Democrats
never seem to find “where the problems are” when talking about the topic. They
deny that even one illegal immigrant might be a rapist or drug dealer, even
though there are scores of them. They deny that there’s a “crisis” at the
border, where five children have died in recent weeks. They deny that illegal
immigrants soak up welfare benefits (even though they do). So where exactly are
the “problems”? Warren said in the interview that “we need immigration laws
that focus on people who pose a real threat,” but how exactly do Democrats
define “real threat”? They apparently see no threat, otherwise they wouldn’t
oppose the construction of a border wall with the fury of a volcano god.
California Sen. Kamala
Harris has compared Immigration and Customs Enforcement to the Ku Klux Klan,
called on Senate Democrats to resist funding any measure or resource on the
border that functions to apprehend and detain illegal border crossers, and made
protections for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals recipients among her top
issues. I think we know where
she stands on “border security.”
South Bend, Ind., Mayor
Pete Buttigieg finally got some policy positions on his website and he proposes
“immigration laws to reflect today’s humanitarian and economic needs” as well
as “reasonable security measures at the border.” Well, I feel better now, how
about you? Last month, Buttigieg said he would be happy to
welcome an infinite number of immigrants, legal or not, to his
city, where he thought they would contribute to the snowplowing and need for
more firefighters. Aw, shucks! Is that what the tiny Guatemalan woman who
arrived at the Texas border with seven children wanted to do all along? Why
didn’t they say so? Hand them each a helmet and hose!
The 2020 Democrats,
with the media’s help, will either avoid the immigration issue as long as
possible, or keep repeating “border security, border security, border security”
in hopes that no one notices what they’re really after: Open borders and
unabated immigration.
The murder of legal immigrant and Newman
Police Corporal Ronil Singh on Christmas
night by an illegal alien in the sanctuary state of California shows
not only that the claims by Chuck Schumer and the “bride of Chucky”
Nancy Pelosi that
the Democrats support border
security is a deadly and bald-faced lie.
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.
Potential
Speaker Candidate Marcia Fudge: Nancy Pelosi an ‘Elitist,’ ‘Very Wealthy
Person’
Pelosi’s Pacific Heights
needs refugees
Pacific
Heights is one of San Francisco’s most expensive neighborhoods. It boasts
dramatic views of the Golden Gate Bridge, the Marin Headlands, and the blue
waters of San Francisco Bay.
Oracle
founder Larry Ellison is one of its more prominent and distinguished residents,
as is House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
For
all its attractiveness as a neighborhood with its boutique shops and upscale
restaurants, Pacific Heights lacks two vital ingredients to make it a truly
great American neighborhood -- economic and cultural diversity.
That’s
why President Donald Trump’s plan to resettle “refugees” in sanctuary cities
should be embraced by Pacific Heights’ residents.
By
inviting the refugees now stranded at the border, Pacific Heights would not
only strengthen the sinew of its community but also contribute to alleviating
the humanitarian crisis at the border.
Our
strength is our diversity, and Pacific Heights lacks that strength. It is
culturally homogenous in a city that is diverse.
In
San Francisco, earning $117,000 a year or less makes you a
low-income earner. Placing refugees in Pacific Heights
where housing and other costs are truly astronomical would require the
compassion and economic assistance of its residents. The former they have long
signaled, and the latter they are more than able to do.
Nancy
Pelosi lives in
a walled mansion on a large expanse of land with
majestic views. Her mansion could easily house thirty or forty refugee
families, and she is hardly there. The expansive grounds could house dozens of
refugee families in tents.
Imagine
refugee children who survived the arduous and life-threatening journey from
Central America playing on Pelosi’s lawn while breathing the clean and
invigorating air from off the San Francisco coastline. Imagine alleviating
the humanitarian crisis by creating additional tent cities in Pacific Heights’
splendid parks.
Pelosi
also owns a second mansion in the Wine Country north of San Francisco. This too
is walled and could hold dozens of refugee families.
Neither
Pelosi herself nor the community of Pacific Heights can solve the refugee
problem, but they could set a standard that other wealthy and pro-sanctuary
communities could easily emulate.
Just
a few miles away from Pacific Heights, my liberal acquaintances “Ann” and
“Christopher” live in a complex that is more difficult to enter than the
Central Intelligence Agency. They both support the sanctuary status of San
Francisco and think the border wall, but not their complex’s barrier, is
immoral. Ann is a big DACA supporter although she has been seen adroitly
ignoring and bypassing the homeless that proliferate in her neighborhood and
sleep on her streets. Her compassion obviously has its limits.
Their
complex boasts extensive patios between the stacks of apartments. These could
host a dozen or more tents and port-a-potties that could alleviate the cagelike
situations at the border that they lament as deplorable. Although these
facilities would constitute an eyesore and block the light and view Ann and
Christopher currently enjoy, creating a tent community for refugees would
demonstrate the concern and compassion that people like Ann and Christopher
love to remind the rest of us that they possess.
Real
compassion in Western Civilization derives from the Biblical sense of the term
and means to share in the suffering and emotions of others. When Jesus saw his
friends weeping at the grave of Lazarus, He wept with them and acted.
Compassion means to suffer with and to be motivated to take immediate action to
alleviate the suffering of others.
So,
let the virtue-signaling liberals in sanctuary cities who incessantly lecture
us on their commitment to taking in everyone, liberals who find the rest of us
insensitive and heartless, let them manifest in deed the compassion they so
relentlessly embrace in word. Let them fulfill the Biblical imperative to
suffer with and take immediate action.
And
they will be rewarded for this in knowing that their upscale white communities
can find new strength in the economic and cultural diversity that the refugees
will provide. I am looking forward to the sprouting of tent cities in Pacific
Heights and elsewhere in the upscale parts of San Francisco. Diversity is truly
a community’s strength.
Abraham H. Miller is an emeritus
professor of political science, University of Cincinnati and a distinguished
fellow with the Hyam Salomon Center
Pelosi - Illegals - Sunkist - Her investments!
Pelosi's corrupt insider
passing of bills that make her rich.
Check for yourself
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi's home House
District includes San Francisco.
Star-Kist Tuna's headquarters are in San
Francisco, Pelosi's home district.
Star-Kist is owned by Del Monte Foods and is a
major contributor to Pelosi.
Star-Kist is the major employer in American Samoa
employing 75% of the Samoan workforce.
Paul Pelosi, Nancy's husband, owns $17 million
dollars of Star-Kist stock.
In January, 2007 when the minimum wage was
increased from $5.15 to $7.25, Pelosi had American Samoa exempted from the
increase so Del Monte would not have to pay the higher wage. This would make
Del Monte products less expensive than their competition's.
Last week when the huge bailout bill was passed,
Pelosi added an earmark to the final bill adding $33 million dollars for an
"economic development credit in American Samoa".
Pelosi has called the Bush Administration
"corrupt".
Check some more for yourself
Conservative Activist Jumps Pelosi's Fence With
Illegal Aliens to Prove a Vital Point
Conservative activist Laura Loomer, who is known for going undercover
with James O'Keefe, took alleged illegal aliens from Mexico and Guatemala to
Speaker Nancy Pelosi's home in California. There, the group jumped the fence
and Loomer demanded the group be let into the home. The group set up a pop up
tent with the word "morality" on it and hung the pictures of those
who were killed by illegal aliens, The Daily Caller reported.
Illegals and the American Dream
When talking about
immigration, Democrats like to conflate illegal and legal immigration, dropping
the word “illegal” and spouting meaningless babble about no human being
illegal. They like to preach that illegal immigrants commit crimes at a
lower rate than American citizens, a factoid that has been exposed as a
lie.
The murder of legal immigrant and Newman Police Corporal Ronil Singh on
Christmas night by an illegal alien in the sanctuary state of California shows
not only that the claims by Chuck Schumer and the “bride of Chucky” Nancy
Pelosi that the Democrats support border security is a deadly and bald-faced
lie. It
highlights the difference between legal and illegal immigrants, between those
who love America and want to be Americans and those who murder them.
Pelosi and Schumer like
to talk about the “Dreamers.” Well, Ronil
Singh had dreams, too:
Ronil Singh came to the
U.S. from his native Fiji to fulfill a lifelong dream of becoming an officer,
joining a small-town police force in California and working to improve his
English. The day after Christmas, he stopped another immigrant, this one in the
country illegally, who shot and killed the corporal, authorities said Thursday…
"This suspect is in
our country illegally. He doesn't belong here. He is a criminal,"
Stanislaus County Sheriff Adam Christianson, whose agency is leading the
investigation, told reporters.
Newman Police Chief Randy
Richardson fought back tears as he described Singh, a 33-year-old with a
newborn son, as an "American patriot."
"He came to America
with one purpose, and that was to serve this country," Richardson said…
"He was living the
American dream," said Stanislaus County Sheriff's Deputy Royjinder Singh,
who is not related to the slain officer but knew him. "He loved camping,
loved hunting, loved fishing, loved his family."
And now he is dead. The
blood of Kate Steinle, Mollie Tibbetts, and
now Ronil Singh and others is on the hands of open border advocates and the
sanctuary city loons who provide no sanctuary for the American citizen victims
of illegal alien criminals.
Even if it were true that
illegal aliens commit crimes, including murder, at rates lower than American
citizens, that would be irrelevant. The murder rate for illegal aliens should
be zero because none of them should be here and the indisputable fact is that
Jamiel Shaw Jr., Kate Steinle, and Mollie Tibbetts would be alive today if the
illegal aliens who slew them were still staring at the other side of a border
wall liberals refuse to build.
Pelosi has said that a
border wall would be “immoral, ineffective, and expensive” when it has been
documented when it has been demonstrated that
none of that is true. The fact is that walls are so effective they have been built in scores of
countries around the world and in the U.S. places like San Diego and Yuma have
demonstrated their effectiveness as Pelosi and Schumer worry more about Syria’s
borders than our own:
According to Quebec
University expert Elisabeth Vallet. there are65 completed or under construction
border walls in the world today.
One-third of the world’s
nations have border walls or barriers with their neighbors.
Pelosi believes this is
immoral.
Tell that to Israel,
Hungary, Mexico, Saudi Arabia, India, Pakistan, Spain, Greece, Cyprus, Ireland,
etc.
And Nancy Pelosi has a
wall around the backyard at her home in San Francisco.
What is immoral is a policy endorsed by Pelosi and Schumer of
sanctuary cities and even states that allows such criminal aliens in our
country to murder Americans and a Democratic caucus that would abolish I.C.E.
and those who risk their lives daily to provide some semblance of border
security.
What is immoral is politicians such as Oakland Mayor Libby
Schaaf not only refusing to cooperate with I.C.E. butgiving illegal aliens a heads-up when
I.C.E. raids are imminent.
In the wake of the Singh
murder, Schaaf still insists that warning illegal aliens about I.C.E. raids was
and is the right thing to do, the lives of American citizens she is sworn to
protect be damned:
Oakland Mayor Libby
Schaaf -- who once warned Northern California residents about an impending ICE
raid -- said she has “no regrets” for her actions and said the federal
immigration agency “has gone astray.”
“I have no regrets, none.
The more time goes by, the more certain I feel that I did the right thing in
standing up for our community and pointing out our values are not aligned with
our laws,” Schaff toldBuzzFeed in an interview. “That’s hopefully the
message that is sent out.”
The message Schaaf,
Pelosi, and Schumer are sending out is one of callous disregard for the lives
of American citizens. Democrats are endangering their lives and the lives of
migrant children by enticing caravans to drag young
children a thousand miles with lies about easy entry and waiting jobs:
The father of an
8-year-old Guatemalan boy who died in U.S. custody took his son to the border
after hearing rumors that parents and their children would be allowed to
migrate to the United States and escape the poverty in their homeland, the
boy's stepsister told the Associated Press.
Felipe Gomez Alonzo died
Monday at a New Mexico hospital after suffering coughing, vomiting and fever,
authorities said. It was the second such death this month. Another Guatemalan
child, 7-year-old Jakelin Caal, died in U.S. custody on Dec. 8.
The fact is that if we
had a wall, or whatever the hair-splitters want to call it, both these children
would be alive today. And it is American kids are dying too, killed and
murdered by illegal aliens who have no right to be here. Just ask the parents
of Justin Lee, 14, who was killed in a hit-and-run
accident by an illegal alien:
An illegal immigrant has
pleaded guilty to a hit and run that killed a Wixom teen in June.
Miguel Ibarra-Cerda, 22,
entered his plea Thursday, the day his trial was set to begin before Judge
Cheryl Matthews in Oakland County Circuit Court.
Ibarra-Cerda is charged
with failing to stop at the scene of an accident when at fault, resulting in
death, and reckless driving causing death for the collision which killed Justin
Lee, 14. Ibarra-Cerda faces up to 15 years in prison and a $10,000 fine for the
first charge and 15 years in prison and a $2,500-$10,000 fine on the second
charge. Matthews will sentence him Dec. 20.
Or ask the parents of
12-year-old Clinton Howell, shot and killed shortly before
Christmas by an illegal alien from Jamaica:
Police in Connecticut
have arrested an 18-year-old undocumented immigrant from Jamaica on murder
charges related to the shooting death of an innocent 12-year-old boy a week
before Christmas.
Bridgeport Police Chief
Armando Perez on Monday announced the charges against Tajay Chambers stemming
from the December 18 death of Clinton Howell outside his family's home on
Willow Street.
Chambers has been charged
with murder; murder with special circumstances; use of a firearm during the
commission of a felony; illegal possession of a firearm without a permit; risk
of injury to a child; reckless endangerment, and larceny….
CTpost.com reported, citing
police sources, that earlier that evening, Chambers and his alleged
co-conspirators were driving in a stolen car when they got into an argument
with some people walking along Willow Street, among them Howell’s relative.
There have been many
suggestions as to how to pay for the wall, such as Sen. Ted Cruz’s idea to apply drug
asset forfeitures to wall construction or to tax the billions of dollars aliens
return to their home countries.. Pelosi certainly found no problem locating
$3 billion for the ineffective and absurd “Cash for Clunkers” program under
Obama, didn’t she?
The wall would in fact
pay for itself, if only in the reduced cost of crimes that would be eliminated,
saving both dollars from overburdened social services and the cost of illegal
alien crimes, particularly the cost in human lives such as that of Ronil Singh,
who is survived by his wife and young son.
His death, the death of a
legal immigrant pursuing the American dream, and countless other American
citizens, including children, is on the hands of Nancy Pelosi and Chuck
Schumer. Perhaps Pelosi can attend Singh’s funeral and explain how his death
and the deaths of others in the absence of a wall is all President Trump’s
fault and that not building the wall is the moral thing to do.
Daniel
John Sobieski is a freelance writer whose pieces have appeared inInvestor’s Business Daily, Human
Events, Reason Magazine and the ChicagoSun-Times among
other publications.
CALIFORNIA and
the RISE OF THE LA RAZA MEXICAN FASCIST WELFARE STATE
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2018/08/they-invading-horde-waving-their.html
"The costs of illegal immigration are being carefully hidden by
Democrats."
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.
"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."
"America’s elites,
now overwhelmingly represented by the Democratic Party, have a single overriding
interest: their self-indulgent lifestyle."
Class Conflict within the
Democratic Party
Over
many decades, the American Left, the Democratic Party and their mutual
propaganda arm, the self-styled “mainstream media,” have successfully portrayed
conservatives and the Republican Party as a coalition of the wealthy and
intolerant. Further, the Democrats and the left have claimed that they
are the true champions of the working or middle class as they unceasingly fight
to defeat and marginalize this evil menace.
The
reality, however, is that this cabal has virtually no interest in defending or
aiding the working class as they are, in fact, the party of a bifurcated
constituency: the wealthy and those dependent on the largess of the government.
Of
the fifty wealthiest congressional districts throughout the country, the
Democrats now represent
forty-one. Of the remaining nine
represented by Republicans, three are in Texas, the only red state on the list
of fifty districts. Not coincidentally the residents of these same fifty
districts are supposedly among the most well-educated and sophisticated.
This transformative process is not a recent phenomenon as the trend began
in the 1980’s and accelerated rapidly in the early 2000’s.
America’s
elites, now overwhelmingly represented by the Democratic Party, have a single
overriding interest: their self-indulgent lifestyle. This is
manifested in their mistaken belief that conservatives (i.e. the “right”) are
hell bent on enforcing their version of morality on the nation, thus
potentially calling into question the lifestyles of the rich and
solipsistic.
The
veracity of this claim is immaterial as it would require an element of
deliberation not emotion -- a trait in extremely short supply among the
nation’s privileged class, nearly all of whom have difficulty in generating an original
thought due to the ill-education rampant in America’s universities. Thus,
the mindless accusations of racism, misogyny and Fascism directed at the
conservative rubes in middle America are acceptable, and in far too many
instances believed, particularly as many had the temerity to vote for Donald
Trump – who, although wealthy and Ivy League educated, is considered the
ultimate unsophisticated rube.
As
conservatives are the dominant force in the Republican Party and this nation
cannot function politically with more than two major political parties, the
alternative is the Democratic Party. An entity dominated by the American
Left, an assemblage whose core philosophy is antithetical to the interests of
the wealthy and privileged. Yet, determined to protect their lifestyles
and vilify conservatives, they willingly ally with the left and overwhelmingly
support virtually any Democratic candidate. In the recent 2018 mid-terms,
Democratic House candidates outspent their Republican opponents by a two to one
margin thanks primarily to this wealthy but myopic assemblage.
Their
colleagues in the Democratic Party, and the preponderance of the membership,
are those dependent on the largess of the federal and state governments.
On the other hand, the growing segment of the citizenry who are working and
self-sufficient are increasingly joining those who believe in limited
government in migrating to the Republican Party-- a process that is
accelerating with the policies and tactics of Donald Trump in combating the
entrenched left and their determination to culturally and economically
transform the nation. The Republican Party will inevitably become the
party of the working or middle class. As such, they could potentially
dominate the political agenda for the foreseeable future.
The
left and the Democratic Party, in order to offset this possibility, must
aggressively seek to increase the number of dependents by promoting the
legalization and ultimate citizenship for untold millions of illegal immigrants
and promising all Americans cradle to grave economic security. In order
to enact this strategy to defeat the Republicans, the left must have the active
participation and financial support of the nation’s wealthy-- which they
have.
The Democratic Party has evolved into essentially an
incompatible two-tier class-driven entity encompassing the nation’s wealthiest
and the nation’s poorest. Nonetheless, it is at
present a convenient home for the elites to hold off the imaginary horde of
conservatives outside their gilded doors.
However,
the voting numbers within the party are overwhelmingly with those who generally
support the leftist philosophies of redistribution (e.g. socialized medicine
and guaranteed incomes) and curtailing of freedom (e.g. speech, assembly and
religion). While it may not manifest itself to the affluent who have cast
their lot with the Democrats, the redistribution of wealth must, by necessity,
come from the wealthy, as that is where the bulk of the nation’s wealth
resides. It is also this same small-in-numbers group that benefits
the most from freedom of speech and assembly.
Once
fully embroiled in this marriage of convenience, a divorce will be impossible
as the co-inhabitant of the Democratic Party, the dependent class, must
continue grow in order to electorally defeat the Republicans and protect the
left’s agenda. Further, the oversold expectations promulgated by the left
will never be satisfied regardless of how many promises are made or token
redistributive programs are enacted by the current ruling class. Only a
complete transformation of this nation into a failed socialist state will
satiate the left, their acolytes and their attendant army of dependency.
A goal more in reach than ever thanks to the inability of the nation’s elites
to give a damn about the future of the country.
There
is not a more short-sighted and self-absorbed group of citizens in this nation
than the white, wealthy well-educated urban and suburban voters. They are willing to rend the fabric of this nation in order
to protect their privilege and lifestyle. While the vast majority of
Americans will ultimately pay the price, the current ruling class and their
progeny will have far more to lose.
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.
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.
COST to AMERICANS of the LA RAZA MEXICAN OCCUPATION in CALIFORNIA ALONE: $2,370 per legal.
All that “cheap” labor is staggeringly expensive!
"Most Californians, who have
seen their taxes increase while public services deteriorate, already know the
impact that mass illegal immigration is having on their communities, but even
they may be shocked when they learn just how much of a drain illegal
immigration has become." FAIR President Dan Stein.
Californians bear
an enormous fiscal burden as a result of an illegal alien population estimated
at almost 3 million residents. The annual expenditure of state and local tax
dollars on services for that population is $25.3 billion. That total amounts to
a yearly burden of about $2,370 for a household headed by a U.S. citizen.
The Gospel According to Nancy: No
Borders, Kill Babies (UNLESS THEY'RE LA RAZA ANCHOR BABIES!)
Tucker
Carlson pointed out a few days
ago how the already insufferable leader of the
Congressional Democrats has recently been "ordained….an archbishop in the
church of progressive sanctimony." For a while now, Nancy
Pelosi's been the country's expert on morality (e.g., border wall: immoral;
abortion on demand: moral). She's now taken to telling the country
how much she prays, and she's urging others to do it, too – at least that old
sinner, Donald Trump. After last Thursday's televised squabble in
the Oval Office, Pelosi shared with reporters how she told Trump she was praying for
him and urged the president (whom she also called
a "skunk"
while ridiculing his manhood) to accept the Democrats' budget proposal with no
funding for a border wall. "In fact," she said with
stomach-turning piety, "I asked him to pray over it."
When
a smug person ends an argument by telling you to "pray over it,"
she's really saying, "Ask God. He knows I'm
right!"
Summarizing
her and Chuck Schumer's meeting with Trump, she told the media, "I myself
thought we should open the meeting with a prayer, which I did. I
told him about King Solomon, when he was to become king of the Jews, he prayed
to God, he said: 'I need you to give me great understanding and wisdom,
Lord.'"
King
Solomon is Pelosi's favorite Bible character, especially because he proposed
solving a problem by cutting a baby in half.
Now
Sister Nancy's praying for
Trump to keep the government open so federal
employees can finish their Christmas shopping.
It's
an axiom that if a conservative says his faith informs his political decisions,
he'll be condemned for establishing a state religion, while liberals get to
veer back and forth over the church-state centerline as freely as those
motorists who love to text while driving. Right now the liberal
media are applauding the way Pelosi "schooled President
Donald Trump about the Bible," but it's not clear why. It's not
as if they're suddenly in favor of anyone being schooled in the Bible,
especially anyone in a public
classroom.
Pelosi
never bats an eye without a political motive. This Saint Nancy act
might be her attempt to occupy the spiritual high ground that, obviously,
Donald Trump has shown no interest in occupying himself. Pelosi
wouldn't dare try this with a president like George W. Bush, who, while he
didn't boast about his piety on TV, was recognized as genuine in his Christian
faith – prompting the left's usual reaction: Ross
Douthat wrote in 2006 that "the fear of theocracy
has become a defining panic of the Bush era."
Theology
was less of an issue for liberals during the Obama years; he was their messiah,
and they just worshiped him. Meantime, Obama conspicuously dissed
orthodox Christians with everything from calculated snubs and criticism to
gratuitously tormenting the Little
Sisters of the Poor, all the while devotedly celebrating
the unblemished virtues of
Islam. In 2015, Hillary bluntly
stated that "[d]eep-seated ... religious beliefs
... have to be changed" to accommodate the unlimited abortion
license. Then, last year, Democratic National Committee chairman Tom
Perez said it is "not
negotiable" that "[e]very Democrat" support
abortion. Pelosi tried to mitigate Perez's remarks by saying "of course"
there's room for pro-lifers in the Democratic Party, but try to find one who's
not actually voting Perez-style.
This
year, Pelosi watched the Democrats lurch wildly to the extreme
left. For decades before that, they were trusted allies in the
left's war on conventional morality and religion (except Islam!) for being
repressive, patriarchal, and counterrevolutionary. It may be that,
alarmed that the Democrat brand has become too materialistic, amoral, and
atheist, she thinks she can give it religion. Maybe she can draw an
unfavorable comparison between the reprobate and undisciplined Donald Trump and
herself: the "ardent, practicing Catholic," who exhorts the President
to beg for "the great understanding and wisdom" that she (and Chuck
Schumer?) have already been granted by God. Haven't Republicans
marched under the banner of morality and Christian values long
enough? Now that they've elected the unholy Trump, why can't the
Democrats seize that banner for themselves?
For
one thing, because no evangelical or conservative Catholic would ever buy
it. Sure, the Democratic Party is crowded with Catholics, but the
serious ones left years ago. The leading unserious Catholic is
Pelosi herself, who professes her devotion to the faith but does it while
living in open, willful defiance of the Church's crystal-clear teaching against
abortion: "It is the
teaching of the Catholic Church from the very beginning
that the killing of an unborn child is always intrinsically evil and can never
be justified."
When
her duplicity threatened to become an issue in 2004, Pelosi pretended that,
moved by her "ardent" devotion to the Church, she had been studying
the Church's teaching on the beginning of life "a long time," and she
stated falsely to Tom Brokaw on Meet the Press that the Church
has never
defined it. Asked when human life begins, she
replied, "We don't know," and that "[t]he point is, that it
shouldn't have an impact on the woman's right to choose" – the
"it" being when a human life begins, which shouldn't have an
impact on the decision to get an abortion. Easy mistake to
make when your catechism is Roe v. Wade.
Later,
when a reporter mentioned the Gosnell infanticides and challenged her own
support for partial-birth abortion, an agitated Pelosi snarled back that
"[a]s a practicing and respectful Catholic, this is sacred
ground to me when we talk about this[.] ... This
shouldn't have anything to do with politics." But as a
politician, she never stops talking about it, and the sacred ground she was
talking about wasn't human life, but the exercise of a mother's "free
will" to terminate her child. In response, New York's Cardinal
Egan said, "Anyone who dares to
defend that [the unborn] may be legitimately killed
because another human being 'chooses' to do so or for any other equally
ridiculous reason should not be providing leadership in a civilized democracy
worthy of the name." Her own bishop reluctantly corrected her
misstatements in a public
letter, necessitated by "the widespread consternation
among Catholics" of her deliberate distortions of Catholic
doctrine. Pope Benedict counseled her, in person, on
the Church's express teaching, "which enjoins all Catholics, and
especially legislators," to protect "human life at all stages of its
development." Pelosi, " the respectful Catholic" who
presumed to tell Trump to pray for wisdom, emerged from thatmeeting no
wiser for it, obtusely extolling the "Church's leadership in fighting
poverty, hunger and global warming."
Jesus
warned against hypocrites who make a public display of praying "that they
may be seen by men." The way Pelosi pretends to exemplify
"prayerful" politics, and the way she told Trump "in
private" that she's praying for him – and immediately announced it in a
televised press conference – is pure Pelosi: cynical, addlebrained,
phony. If it might hurt Trump, she'll pontificate how every MS-13
killer retains a "spark of divinity,"
then goes right back to her life's work snuffing out that spark from 60 million
innocents and counting. The Bible never says it's intrinsically evil
to build a wall or protect a border, but it's still got that commandment
against murder.
Let
the Democrats canonize this Pharisee if they need a patron
saint. Her feast day can fall on January 22.
T.R. Clancy looks at the world from Dearborn,
Michigan. You can email him at trclancy@yahoo.com.
The Schumer & Pelosi show
Chuck
Schumer and Nancy Pelosi, the twin nutters of Congress, were certain they could
beat Trump at his own game, but have made fools of themselves, as
usual. The stand-off is not over but with each passing day, the
Democrats reveal more of their anti-American, pro-illegal immigration
agenda. Conservatives have been sounding the alarm for
years: Democrats do not care about American citizens!
We
are an annoying inconvenience, especially those of us who do not buy what they
are selling. We vote against them, which makes them
angry. They lash out at us, call us names, impugn our intelligence
with fervor. All of the late-night comics, the Bill Mahers of the
comedy branch of the entertainment industry, are especially
venal. Jimmy Kimmel has decried those who have contributed to
the GoFundMe
page to fund the border wall as meth addicts. It was begun by
a Vet, Brad
Kolfage, who lost three limbs and it's raised nearly
$15m.
It
appears that Democratic members of Congress are as snowflakey as millennials on
our university campuses. They assume that anyone who opposes their
ridiculous socialist, genderless, climate-alarmist, virtue-signaling
directives is a Neanderthal, unfit to have an opinion. It is then
thoroughly acceptable to malign such people, those of us who oppose every
aspect of their anti-America-as-founded agenda, in any and
every disgusting manner they can devise.
The
left is all about identity politics. They assign all of us to a
group -- racial, class, and/or all of their fabricated gender categories. The
right is all about individuals, their character, their talent, their
contributions to society. We do not care about skin color, economic
class or sexual orientation. We do care about good vs.
evil, right vs. wrong. This makes us quite villainous in the
eyes of the left for whom everything is relative. For example, we do not think
poverty causes crime, unlearned values of Western Civilization
do. Try to steal an election? It is moral if it takes out an
opponent. We are, it appears, the left vs. the right, very different
on a neurological level.
Schumer and Pelosi have armed guards whenever they are amongst the
public. But they are both fervent in their quest to deny us the
right to bear arms and to prevent a wall on the southern border to protect us
from the flood of lethal drugs that flow into the US. They are
impervious to the crimes of the barbaric gangs like MS13, no matter how many
innocent Americans they kill. They do not give a thought to the many
illegals from terrorist nations that also seek to enter the country on a daily
basis. Schumer, Pelosi and their willing subjects in Congress ignore
completely the horrific hazards that cross the border every
day. They want cheap labor, no matter how many Americans are left
jobless, and they want, more than anything, a dependent underclass whom they
mean to give the right to vote. They already vote anyway, thanks to
the Left's rejection of Common-sense voter ID.
If
there were a television program based on Schumer and Pelosi, it would have to be
a comedy; the two of them are so inept, so childish. They would be Dumb and Dumber redux. Each
of them seems to believe they run the country and can dictate to the president
how he will govern. They demand that Trump abandon the wall. They
have no intention of compromising; they only want to deny Trump and his
supporters what they want -- border security that works. So enraged,
so benighted, by Trump's presidency, they would rather see us overrun by
migrants from third-world nations, like those who have destroyed the UK,
Germany, Sweden, and the rest of Europe, than protect America as a sovereign
nation.
The
"government shutdown" is just a ploy, many times overused by now,
relatively meaningless to the lives of most Americans. The Schumer & Pelosi
show will do everything they can to hype it as a disaster, but we all know it
is nothing of the kind. Trump must hold out for funding of the
wall.
While
there have been some bad actors in our government in the past, Schumer and
Pelosi are the worst of the worst. They are equally arrogant, each
thoroughly ignorant of reality beyond the bubble of wealth and privilege they
inhabit. They both believe themselves to be smarter than the rest of
us, when in fact they are both really dim bulbs, long past their sell-by
date. Yes, Pelosi is good at raising money; how and why is a
mystery. That each of them is repeatedly re-elected does not
say much for their constituents' familiarity with the Constitution, the law,
American history or the facts in their own communities.
San
Francisco, Pelosi's district is now a hell-hole but for her walled
compound. New York too, like California, is a
state that residents are fleeing as fast as they can. Both
states have been destroyed by moonbatty leftists; high taxes, dumbing down of
education for political purposes, and the sacrifice of common sense to global
warming alarmists. Schumer and Pelosi have for years been on board
with every silly attempt to restructure, to transform, American
society. They both jumped on the Obama bandwagon the moment he was
elected. Along with Obama, they are responsible for incalculable
damage done to this country over the eight years of that
administration. While their constant appearances on television are
so often humorous (Pelosi's silly, practiced hand gestures and
Schumer's relentless badgering of Trump), they are not one bit
funny. They are just loathsome.
Pelosi's Stake in Illegal Immigration
The Minuteman Project,
founded by Jim Gilchrist (who is also the co-author of the book Minutemen: The
Battle to Secure America’s Borders), is made up of citizen volunteers who watch
our border with Mexico and report illegal entry to the border patrol. For
performing that thankless task in full compliance with the law, Gilchrist and
his colleagues have been falsely maligned as fascists, racists, and even murderers.
They have been driven off the speaker’s platform at Columbia University and
vilified by Leftist politicians and their handmaidens in the liberal press.
So it was no surprise
that the mainstream media chose to ignore a recent press release, issued by his
publisher, in which Gilchrist asked the question about Nancy Pelosi’s ethics
that should be on the minds of every law-abiding American – including those
immigrants who are following the law to become citizens here the proper way:
“Do we really need a House Speaker whose every action is calculated to enhance
her own financial interests, instead of focusing on how porous borders will
affect the security of everyday American citizens?”
Gilchrist did not stop
there. He demanded an investigation into Pelosi’s “economic stake in just the
kind of illegal alien exploitation that we deplore in Minutemen.” But you would
never know it from the liberal media, who - while ignoring this demand - have
had no compunctions in calling for Speaker Hastert’s head in the wake of the
Foley page controversy.
Gilchrist was reacting to
my report several weeks ago in FrontPage Magazine that Pelosi – who owns
non-union vineyards in Napa Valley where grape-picking depends chiefly on the
availability of cheap foreign labor – is doing everything she can to help open
the floodgates to more illegal immigration. And she wants the American
taxpayers to pay their way. As even more proof of this than I previously
reported, Pelosi does not want employers like her to be required to pay the cost
of illegal aliens’ hospital care. She voted against a bill that would make
employers liable for the reimbursements if an undocumented employee seeks
medical attention. And she voted in favor of
rewarding illegal aliens from Mexico with Social Security benefits.
At the same time, Pelosi
has led the Democratic opposition to any effective border controls or
documentation requirements. She opposed the Secure Fence Act of 2006, signed
into law by President Bush, and voted against final passage of a border security
and enforcement bill in 2005 which required that all businesses must use an
electronic system to check if all new hires have the legal right to work in
this country. She voted against a bill to bar drivers' licenses for illegal
aliens in 2005. This year she opposed legislation requiring presentation of a
legitimate government-issued photo ID to prove eligibility to vote, claiming
that “there is little evidence anywhere in the country of a significant problem
with non-citizen voters.” She is dead wrong. For example, an accused terrorist
by the name of Nuradin Abdi was just recently reported to have illegally
registered to vote at the Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles. Nuradin Abdi was
indicted earlier this year as part of a conspiracy to blow up the Columbus
Mall.
How many other terrorist
suspects may have slipped through the system because Leftists like Pelosi
oppose any meaningful screens? Instead she continues to advocate our
recognition of the flimsy, non-validated ID card that the Mexican consulates provide
to illegal aliens before they cross over our border, called the “matricula
consular”, which gives them phony documentation to set up bank accounts, apply
for jobs, obtain social benefits, board airplanes, identify themselves to
police, enter buildings that require IDs, obtain drivers’ licenses and then
perhaps use those drivers’ licenses to try to illegally register to vote in our
elections.
Pelosi also believes in
giving sanctuary to illegal aliens. She opposed legislation to deny federal
homeland security funding to state and local governments who refuse to share
information they learn about an individual's immigration status with Federal
immigration authorities. Pelosi’s hometown of San Francisco is one of the
sanctuary cities she voted to protect for the benefit of illegal aliens. Pelosi
even voted against strengthening our immigration law with regard to the
deportability of alien terrorists.
Jim Gilchrist cut to the
chase with this devastating observation that the mainstream media does not want
you to read:
"As we’ve shown
again and again in ‘Minutemen,’ the Democrats aren’t just hypocrites, but are
working actively to subvert our legislative system to their own ends. Their
only goal is votes, votes and more votes, no matter where they come from, no
matter if they’re cast legally, no matter whether the person casting them is
dead, alive, a citizen or an illegal alien."
Pelosi sees Jim
Gilchrist’s Minutemen Project as a threat to her pro-illegal alien agenda. More
illegal aliens mean more votes for the Democrats and more grape-pickers for
Napa Valley vineyards like hers. So she even voted against a measure that would
have cut off the use of U.S. taxpayers’ funds to tip off illegal aliens as to
where the Minutemen citizen patrols may be located! She obviously wants to see
the Minutemen put out of business – permanently. She can count on the liberal
press to distort the work of the Minutemen and to keep out of the public eye
Gilchrist’s pointed questions about her motivations for helping illegal aliens
during the run-up to the mid-term elections that may make her the next Speaker
of the House.
Gilchrist, of course, is
accustomed to being vilified and prevented by the Left from getting his message
out. In early October, he was prevented from finishing his speech at the
"Minutemen Forum" sponsored by the Columbia College Republicans.
Gilchrist had spoken for just a few minutes and managed to utter the words “I
love the First Amendment” when a group of radical protestors took the stage and
interrupted him, displaying a big banner saying "There are no
illegals." More protestors then stormed the stage. Chaos erupted and the
audience members who had come to hear Gilchrist speak never got the chance,
which was precisely the protestors’ objective. As reported online by the staff
of Columbia’s undergraduate newspaper, “a mosh pit of triumphal students and
community members danced and chanted outside, "Asian, Black, Brown and
White, we smashed the Minutemen tonight!" They also put out a statement
declaring:
“The Minutemen are not a
legitimate voice in the debate on immigration. They are a racist, armed militia
who have declared open hunting season on immigrants, causing countless hate
crimes and over 3000 deaths on the border. Why should exploitative corporations
have free passes between nations, but individual people not? No human being is
illegal.” (Emphasis added)
We have come to the point
in this country where a bunch of radical protestors get to decide who is and
who is not a legitimate voice in the debate on as critical a public policy
issue as immigration. Such Leftists think that migration in a borderless world
is a basic human right. They want no barriers, no guards, and no proof of
lawful residency. They certainly do not want the Minutemen watching the border and
reporting illegal entry to the authorities.
Leftist slogans like “no
human being is illegal” are red herrings. It is not the human being who is
illegal; it is what the human being does that may be illegal. One’s conduct is
the test, not simply who one is. Immigrants who follow our rules are welcome
here. Those who do not abide by our laws have no right to be here. A person who
breaks into your house without your permission does not deserve room, board and
a job as a reward, even if the intruder may be much poorer than you. He has
broken the law and deserves to be punished for what he has done. Our country’s
boundaries and rules for entry and residency similarly define who is permitted
to be here and how we choose to protect ourselves. We are a land of immigrants,
but we are also a land of laws with certain core values. Those seeking to enter
our country and remain here must learn to accommodate to our laws and values,
not the other way around. That is the way prior generations of immigrants did
it, including those who passed through Ellis Island. Why should the law be
thrown aside now?
What we are witnessing is
a frontal challenge to our nation’s sovereignty. Mexico’s Foreign Secretary
wants to drag us before the United Nations for intending to build a fence on
our side of the border with our money to keep out aliens who seek to enter our
country illegally. They will probably get a sympathetic ear as some UN
bureaucrats believe there should be no such thing as “illegal” immigrants in
the first place. For the first time in our history, Americans are being asked
to cede the right to decide how we define ourselves as a nation and protect our
own borders to a globalist governance body. Will Pelosi lead her liberal
loyalists as House Speaker to support the UN against America’s right to control
its own borders? Do we really want to risk finding out?
It is high time, as Jim
Gilchrist demanded in the press release ignored by the mainstream media, that
Pelosi come clean under oath as to her personal stake in the illegal
immigration issue before she can do even more damage as House Speaker.
Sunday
bombshell: Pool for deportation is up to 1 million illegals who have already
had due process
"They're ready to just perform their
mission, which is to go and find and detain and then deport the approximately
one million people who have final removal orders," Acting USCIS Director
Ken Cuccinelli said on "Face
the Nation"
on Sunday, referring to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) branch charged with removal operations.
Cuccinelli, an immigration hardliner who
took the helm of the agency last month, said it is within ICE's discretion to
determine who among those with final orders of deportation will be targeted in
operations, suggesting the full pool of approximately one million immigrants
might not face deportation after all.
"They've been all the way through
the due process and have final removal orders. Who among those will be targeted
for this particular effort ... is really just information kept within ICE at
this point," he added. "The pool of those with final removal orders
is enormous."
The
number one million has tremendous resonance: it is what first comes to mind as
a really big number. It signals "mass deportations" — a bugaboo
for Democrats and advocates of illegal immigration.
Having
Cuccinelli lay out this number serves two functions.
1.
It is a signal to Trump's base that he will deliver on their concerns about
illegal immigration. Many are disappointed that the border wall has not
been completed or even adequately funded. Trump needs them to turn out in
2020. He cannot afford to discourage them.
2.
It is also bait to lure the Democrats into hysteria over "dividing
families" and all the other heartstring-tugging memes they can devise.
Trump wants this reaction because the Democrats, by advocating for people
who have received due process and have flouted court orders, are defending
outright lawlessness. Let them go out on that limb, and Trump will gladly
saw it off during a presidential debate.
Note
that Cuccinelli is a former NeverTrump who has agreed to serve in the Trump
administration. If he handles this well, there may be greater things
ahead for him, as he is a very smart and capable guy. I don't know him
well, but I have spoken to him and regard him as rock-solid, despite his early
reservations about and serious opposition to
Trump's nomination.
Speaking with the White House in the background makes it
unmistakable that he is on board and speaking for the president.
Ilhan
Omar: We Should Debate Whether to Eliminate All Border and Immigration
Enforcement Agencies
By Matt Vespa
Townhall.com, July 5, 2019
JOSH EDELSON/AFP/Getty Images
JOHN BINDER
5 Jul 201971
3:34
Providing
free, American taxpayer-funded healthcare to all illegal aliens is just the
latest effort to use mass immigration to turn the United States into the
sanctuary state of California, Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL) says.
As Breitbart News reported, the majority of 2020 Democrat
presidential candidates have endorsed a plan to force taxpayers to pay for free
healthcare for all 11 to 22 million illegal aliens living across the country.
The plan would cost taxpayers at least $660 billion a decade.
Brooks told SiriusXM Patriot’s Breitbart News Tonight that Democrats’
“primary motivation” behind offering healthcare to illegal aliens is not
compassion, but rather an effort to transform the U.S. into the state of
California through mass illegal and legal immigration.
LISTEN:
Brooks said:
The motivation for all for this is even worse. They don’t have
compassion for these illegal aliens. That’s not their primary motivation. Their
primary motivation is the desire to acquire raw political power. That’s what
it’s all about. [Emphasis added]
If you limit votes to American citizens, Democrats do not fair
to well with us. So what they’re trying to do is import people who do not
understand the foundational principles that have combined to make America a
great nation and who … are much more likely to vote Democrat once
Democrats give them voting rights. [Emphasis added]
Brooks detailed how California, the state where former President
Ronald Reagan was governor, has been forever changed due to the country’s mass
illegal and legal immigration policy that imports about 1.5 million foreign
nationals a year.
“Let’s learn from history. California used to be a purple state.
Remember, Ronald Reagan came from there … the Democrats have flooded California
with noncitizens,” Brooks said. “And why do noncitizens vote Democrat so often?
Well, let’s look at illegal aliens. The data shows that 70 percent of
households that have an illegal alien in them are on welfare. The data shows
that 60 percent of households that have a lawful immigrant in them are on
welfare. So, you’ve got three different themes that the Democrat Party now
relies on: One is racism, two is sexism, and three is socialism.”
“In California, what used to be a purple state, now out of 53 congressional
seats, only seven are Republican … 46 are Democrat and seven are Republican,”
Brooks said. “So they have seen how that strategy of importation of foreign
voters has worked in California. They’re trying to do it in Texas, Nevada, New
Mexico, Arizona, in every state where they can possibly do it. They want to
flood the voting booths with people who are dependent on welfare and who do not
understand the principles that have made us a great nation. That’s how they
change the voter pool and they’re doing it successfully.”
Health insurance expert Linda Blumberg told the New York Times that any of
the Democrats’ plans that offer free health care to illegal aliens is could
likely to drive a mass migration of foreigners with “serious health problems to
enter the country or remain longer than their visas allow in order to get
government-funded care.”
Likely U.S. voters, by a majority, said they oppose being forced
to pay for the healthcare of millions of illegal aliens living in the country,
as Breitbart News reported. The latest Rasmussen Reports
poll found that 55 percent of voters said they opposed such a plan, including
8-in-10 Republican voters, about 6-in-10 swing voters, and 62 percent of
middle-class voters.
In the next two decades, should the country’s legal immigration
policy go unchanged, the U.S. is set to import about 15 million new
foreign-born voters. About eight million of these new foreign-born voters will
have arrived through the process known as “chain migration,” whereby newly
naturalized citizens are allowed to bring an unlimited number of foreign
relatives to the country.
John Binder is a
reporter for Breitbart News. Follow him on Twitter at @JxhnBinder.
The “Supermarket Sweep”
Addiction and decriminalization fuel a West Coast shoplifting boom. October 21, 2019
Cities
California
The Social Order
When I was a kid, a television show called Supermarket Sweep featured teams of middle Americans bolting through grocery store aisles and filling their carts with food, household products, and pet supplies. The show’s premise was that, for two minutes, the rule of law—in this case, the law against shoplifting—would be suspended. The team with the largest haul could take home their bounty of groceries, win prizes, and compete for the championship.
Today, in some West Coast cities, the Supermarket Sweep isn’t a game show—it’s a dark reality, fueled by addiction, crime, and bad public policy. From Seattle to Los Angeles, a “shoplifting boom” is hitting major retailers, which deal with thousands of thefts, drug overdoses, and assaults each year. Since 2010, thefts increased by 22 percent in Portland, 50 percent in San Francisco, and 61 percent in Los Angeles. In total, California, Oregon, and Washington reported 864,326 thefts to the FBI last year. The real figure is likely much higher, as many retailers have stopped reporting most shoplifting incidents to police.
Drug addiction is driving this shoplifting boom. In recent years, West Coast cities have witnessed an explosion in addiction rates for heroin, fentanyl, and meth; property crime helps feed the habit. According to federal data, adults with substance-abuse disorders make up just 2.6 percent of the total population but 72 percent of all jail inmates sentenced for property crimes. Addicts are 29 times more likely to commit property crimes than the average American. Furthermore, as the Bureau of Justice Statistics found, “[39 percent of jail inmates] held for property offenses said they committed the crime for money for drugs”—the most common single motivation for crime throughout the justice system.
Unfortunately, as West Coast cities grapple with an addiction epidemic, the shoplifting boom has only accelerated because of decriminalization. California's Proposition 47, approved by nearly 60 percent of voters statewide in 2014, reclassified many drug and property felonies as misdemeanors, effectively decriminalizing thefts of $1,000 or less. Many criminals now believe, justifiably, that they can steal with impunity. For example, in San Francisco, police reported 33,000 car break-ins last year; the city now leads the nation in overall property crime. In Portland, a repeat offender nicknamed the “Hamburglar” stole $2,690 worth of meat in one year. He bluntly told police officers: “I know the law. I know the rules. I know what I can and can’t do . . . I’m never going to get over $1,000 at any store.” The Portland Police Department, which doesn’t assign officers to retail theft cases, admits that official statistics vastly underreport actual crime.
Some retailers have adopted a policy of private decriminalization, in many cases prohibiting their security guards from physically apprehending shoplifters. Liability losses, they believe, outweigh property losses. When I asked the manager of Seattle’s 96,000-square-foot Target if employees followed a “no touch, no chase” policy, he responded: “Officially, I can’t tell you our policy, but if you watch our front door for an hour, you’ll see pretty clearly what’s happening.” According to reports, the store likely has ten to 40 “security incidents” a day, including a dramatic incident last year when a drug-frenzied man went on a 15-minute rampage, destroying displays and merchandise, only to walk out the door with duffel bags full of goods. Police never arrived.
The shoplifting crisis isn’t limited to the West Coast. Retailers across the nation report $16.7 billion in losses to shoplifting. In many cases, they simply pass along the cost to consumers, with one study suggesting that this “shoplifting tax” costs the average family $400 a year. In Seattle, the shoplifting boom has forced some retailers to close stores in the downtown commercial district, citing massive losses and the threat of violence against employees. Another store, Outdoor Emporium, called 911 more than 200 times last year, but the city prosecuted only one of the incidents. Other retailers have stopped reporting shoplifting altogether—in a recent survey, downtown Seattle businesses reported “less than 5 percent of the daily crime they experience.”
Business groups have started to fight back. In Seattle, an association of downtown retailers have pushed the city to tackle “prolific offenders” who repeatedly rob, steal, and assault innocent people in downtown. Citizens, too, are rebelling against higher prices at the register. In the city’s south end, a disabled veteran made headlines for confronting a habitual shoplifter in a Safeway aisle by blocking the man’s exit with his motorized cart. Such displays of popular frustration should inspire reform, but the shoplifting boom remains a challenge for policymakers. How will progressive cities balance a desire to reduce incarceration rates with a commitment to protect businesses? For now, city leaders refuse to consider how mass decriminalization fuels a breakdown in public order.
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