Billionaire Bloomberg Replaces Billionaire Steyer on Democrat Debate Stage
2:08
The battle of the Democrat money men running for president is playing out in high-roller Las Vegas as billionaire Mike Bloomberg replaces billionaire Tom Steyer on the debate stage Wednesday night.
Steyer did not meet the Democratic National Committee’s (DNC) threshold by the Tuesday midnight deadline.
And while voters can cast their ballot for Steyer in Nevada, Bloomberg’s name is not one of the candidates on it.
Steyer, who took part in the fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth debates is not happy about the development, Politico reports:
Steyer’s campaign has cried foul at his likely exclusion, arguing that his strength in Nevada and South Carolina is more than sufficient to warrant a spot on stage. Their evidence includes the release of an internal campaign survey on Tuesday showing Steyer at 18 percent in Nevada, trailing only Sanders (24 percent) and Biden (19 percent).
“It just seems pretty frankly disenfranchising to voters in Nevada and South Carolina that their voices aren’t being heard … given there’s been one poll in both states that’s qualifying,” Heather Hargreaves, Steyer’s campaign manager, told Politico. “There’s no opportunity to actually meet the criteria because there’s no polls.”
“Steyer’s team is confident, however, that he will make his return to the debate stage next week, for the South Carolina debate on Feb. 25, given the additional time to qualify and the possibility of winning at least one delegate in Saturday’s Nevada caucuses,” Politico reports, adding that the South Carolina debate has almost identical rules to the Nevada debate.
“I am confident we’ll get a delegate in Nevada, and we’ll be back on the stage in South Carolina,” Hargreaves said.
Aside from Bloomberg, the other Democrats who have qualified for Wednesday’s debate are Joe Biden, Pete Buttigieg, Amy Klobuchar, Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren.
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“The
remarkable thing is how weak wages are, how weak the economy is, given that as
a result of the tax bill we have a $1 trillion deficit.”
"This week the Washington Post reported
that the US retail giant Walmart is planning to cut jobs as part of a
restructuring to develop online sales to compete with Amazon. In the brutal
language of the corporate world, it said store managers should follow “standard
termination procedures” for any “active associate who has not been selected for
another position in the company.” This edict will potentially affect thousands
of workers, sometimes with decades of service."
Markets soar as companies announce mass layoffs
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February 2020
As stock markets around the planet, led by
Wall Street, climb to record highs, increasing
the wealth of the ultra-rich by billions of
dollars every day, growth in the world
economy is falling to its lowest levels since
the global financial crisis of 2008. Once again,
the working class is being made to pay, with
announcements of major job cuts.
Economic data from the major capitalist economies point to an
accelerating downturn. In the US, the world largest economy, growth is little more
than 2 percent. This is the lowest for any “recovery” in the post-war period,
despite President Donald Trump’s claims of the greatest boom in history.
China, the world’s second largest economy, experienced its
lowest growth rate for 30 years in 2019. Large areas of the economy are still
in lockdown due to the coronavirus outbreak, with estimates for first-quarter
growth being slashed, in some cases to zero.
Japan, the world’s third largest economy, has been delivered a
shock by the announcement that it contracted at an annual rate of 6.3 percent
in the fourth quarter of 2019. While this was mainly the result of an increase
in sales taxes, the hit was far larger than expected and the downturn is set to
continue, due to the effects of the coronavirus.
Growth in Germany, the world’s fourth largest economy, has
flat-lined, with predictions that it could enter a recession, dragging down the
rest of the Eurozone, which showed growth of just 0.1 percent in the fourth
quarter last year.
In South Korea, one of the world’s major manufacturing centres,
the government has called for “emergency” measures because of the downturn in
China and Japan. Australia, the world’s 12th largest economy, looks set to end
its 28-year run without a recession.
The class logic of the process underway
stands out in stark relief. As the wealth of the
financial elites is boosted by the rise of the
stock markets, fueled by the provision of
trillions of dollars from the world’s central
banks, and the promise of still more to come,
the working class is being made to bear the
burden.
Job cuts are sweeping through manufacturing industry,
particularly auto production. Every week brings new announcements. Last week,
French car producer Renault unveiled a $2.2 billion cost-cutting program to
include job cuts. Last month, Volkswagen pledged to slaughter “sacred cows” as
it announced 20,000 job cuts in Germany alone.
By the latest estimates, around 100,000 jobs will be eliminated
in the global auto industry in 2020. This is on top of more than 500,000 job
cuts in auto-related industries around the world last year. In India, there are
warnings that as many as 1 million of the country’s 5 million auto parts
industry jobs could be at risk.
This worldwide job massacre is being driven by two processes:
the fall in the market for cars, as a result of lower growth and falling
demand, due not least to the stagnation of wages around the world and sweeping
changes in technology. Companies are preparing for a future of electric cars
and self-driving vehicles by slashing costs in order to try to remain
competitive in the new conditions.
BLOG: IN THE NEW CAPITALISM PROFITS ARE MADE BY USING
"CHEAP" LABOR ILLEGALS. THE TRUE COST OF THEIR WELFARE AND CRIME WAVE
IS PASSED ALONG TO MIDDLE AMERICA IN THE FORM OF TAXES. CALIFORNIA HAS THE
LARGEST NUMBER OF ILLEGALS, AND HANDS OUT $40 BILLION PER YEAR IN SOCIAL
SERVICES.
Karl Marx laid out the essential logic of this process more than
170 years ago. The industrial war of the capitalists, he wrote, “has the
peculiarity that its battles are won less by recruiting than by discharging the
army of labour” as the generals “compete with one another as to who can
discharge most soldiers of labour.”
This process is not confined to auto production but is sweeping
through all sections of the economy.
This week the London-based Hong Kong Shanghai Banking
Corporation (HSBC) said it would reduce its workforce by 35,000 in the coming
period as part of what its chief executive Noel Quinn called one of the
“deepest restructurings” in the global bank’s 155-year history—which his
management team was “committed to executing at pace.”
The HSBC announcement followed last year’s decision by Germany’s
Deutsche Bank to slash 18,000 jobs as part of a restructuring process.
The retail industry is likewise being devastated. Tens of
thousands of so-called brick-and-mortar stores in the US and around the world
have been shut down, with more job cuts to come.
This week the Washington
Post reported that the US retail giant Walmart is planning to
cut jobs as part of a restructuring to develop online sales to compete with
Amazon. In the brutal language of the corporate world, it said store managers
should follow “standard termination procedures” for any “active associate who
has not been selected for another position in the company.” This edict will
potentially affect thousands of workers, sometimes with decades of service.
The contrast between the situation confronting the working class
and the accumulation of wealth on the heights of society is exemplified by the
dizzying enrichment of Elon Musk, the owner of the electric car company Tesla.
Due to a spectacular surge in Tesla’s share
price this month, Musk’s net worth rose by
$4.5 billion in just one day, making him the
fastest-rising global billionaire. Over just six
weeks his wealth has risen by $13.9 billion—
$316 million every day so far this year. There
are even predictions that Musk could overtake
Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos as the richest
man in the world.
The devastation of working-class jobs and conditions is not some
unfortunate or accidental outcome of the accumulation of wealth in the hands of
a rapacious financial oligarchy. There is a causal connection.
BLOG: IN THE NEW CAPITALISM PROFITS ARE MADE BY USING
"CHEAP" LABOR ILLEGALS. THE TRUE COST OF THEIR WELFARE AND CRIME WAVE
IS PASSED ALONG TO MIDDLE AMERICA IN THE FORM OF TAXES. CALIFORNIA HAS THE
LARGEST NUMBER OF ILLEGALS, AND HANDS OUT $40 BILLION PER YEAR IN SOCIAL
SERVICES.
The stock price of major corporations, from which the elites
derive their fortunes, depends on the extent to which the financial markets
judge they are successful in reducing costs by gutting their workforces and
intensifying the exploitation of the remaining workers. The stock market and
the entire financial system function as an institutionalised mechanism for
siphoning up wealth.
Vast new developments in technology, associated with the advance
of artificial intelligence and its use via the Internet, increase productivity
and have the capacity to lift the social and economic conditions of the mass of
the population. Instead, through the operations of the capitalist profit
system, they are being utilized to concentrate socially produced wealth in the
hands of a tiny minority.
There is no cure for this ever-worsening social disease through
patchwork reforms or band-aids. It must be tackled at its source and overcome
through the unified struggle of the international working class to establish a
higher and necessary socioeconomic system. That is international socialism, in
which the productive forces, created by the labour of the world’s producers,
are publicly owned and used for the benefit of all.
Washington
Post Op-ed: ‘Give the Elites a Bigger Say in Choosing the President’
19 Feb 2020627
3:26
The Washington
Post is taking criticism for an op-ed published Tuesday by
Marquette University political science professor Julia Azari, titled: “It’s
time to give the elites a bigger say in choosing the president.”
Citing
the “rocky start” to the Democratic Party’s presidential primary, Azari suggests that the process of choosing
the nominee be taken from the people and returned to the politicians:
The current process is clearly
flawed, but what would be better? … A better primary system would empower
elites to bargain and make decisions, instructed by voters.
One lesson from the 2020 and 2016
election cycles is that a lot of candidates, many of whom are highly qualified
and attract substantial followings, will inevitably enter the race. The system
as it works now — with a long informal primary, lots of attention to early
contests and sequential primary season that unfolds over several months — is
great at testing candidates to see whether they have the skills to run for
president. What it’s not great at is choosing among the many candidates who
clear that bar, or bringing their different ideological factions together, or
reconciling competing priorities. A process in which intermediate
representatives — elected delegates who understand the priorities of their constituents
— can bargain without being bound to specific candidates might actually produce
nominees that better reflect what voters want.
Azari suggests that the parties
should use what she calls “preference primaries,” which would “allow voters to
rank their choices among candidates, as well as to register opinions about
their issue priorities.”
After a perfunctory voting process,
wlites would be able to choose a nominee based on information about what the
voters want.
She acknowledges that the idea is “labor-intensive
and a little risky.”
The Post is owned by Jeff
Bezos, the founder of Amazon, who is the world’s richest man. The paper’s
slogan, adopted as an intended rebuke to President Donald Trump, is “Democracy
dies in darkness.”
That phrase was trending on Twitter
on Wednesday morning as readers reacted ironically to the op-ed.
The headline right
below “democracy dies in darkness” is some A+ work
>"Democracy
dies in darkness"
>"Do people actually want more Democracy in their lives"
>"Do people actually want more Democracy in their lives"
File this under:
“Democracy dies in Darkness” https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/02/18/fix-primaries-let-elites-decide/ …
Opinion | It’s time to give the elites a bigger say in
choosing the president
Azari’s article appears to
anticipate the possibility of a “brokered convention” among Democrats this
summer. Currently, no candidate is projected to win a majority of delegates
before they gather in Milwaukee, Wisconsin — near Professor Azari’s university
— at the Democratic National Convention.
Average projected
delegates through Super Tuesday:
Sanders 608 (41% of delegates thru March 3)
Bloomberg 273 (18%)
Biden 270 (18%)
Buttigieg 157 (10%)
Warren 127 (8%)
Klobuchar 55 (4%)https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2020-primary-forecast/ …
Sanders 608 (41% of delegates thru March 3)
Bloomberg 273 (18%)
Biden 270 (18%)
Buttigieg 157 (10%)
Warren 127 (8%)
Klobuchar 55 (4%)https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2020-primary-forecast/ …
Who Will Win The 2020 Democratic Primary?
If no candidate wins on the first
ballot, there will be a second — at which point committed delegates will be
free to choose other candidates, and the party elites, known as
“superdelegates,” will be able to vote.
Also on Tuesday, billionaire
oligarch Mike Bloomberg, who once changed the rules to run for a third term as
mayor of New York City, qualified for the Democrat debate in Nevada on
Wednesday evening.
Joel B.
Pollak is Senior Editor-at-Large at Breitbart News. He earned an A.B. in Social
Studies and Environmental Science and Public Policy from Harvard College, and a
J.D. from Harvard Law School. He is a winner of the 2018 Robert Novak
Journalism Alumni Fellowship. He is also the co-author of How
Trump Won: The Inside Story of a Revolution, which is available from
Regnery. Follow him on Twitter at @joelpollak.
Bloomberg
Pledges to Investigate ICE and End Trump Policies in Newly Unveiled Immigration
Plan
By Jason Hopkins
Business and Politics Review
THERE IS A REASON WHY ALL
BILLIONAIRES ARE DEMOCRATS AND WANT WIDER OPEN BORDERS AMNESTY AND NO E-VERIY!
The state of California is home to more
illegal aliens than any other state in the country. Approximately one in five
illegal aliens lives in California, Pew reported.
Approximately a quarter of California’s 4
million illegal immigrants reside in Los Angeles County. The county allows
illegal immigrant parents with children born in the United States to seek
welfare and food stamp benefits.
Tom
Steyer: Americans Must Provide Cheap Housing to Illegal Immigrants
Tom Steyer, the billionaire investor
and Democrat 2020 candidate, wants Americans to provide cheap housing to
illegal immigrants.
“A Steyer Administration will …
ensure that all undocumented communities have access to affordable and safe
housing,” Steyer said in his immigration proposal.
Steyer’s offer of housing is
combined with promises to provide illegals with free healthcare, plus workplace
training and cultural celebrations:
A Steyer administration … [will]
provide a safe platform for immigrants to share their culture and celebrate
their heritage, foster opportunities for public service that support new
Americans, and coordinate with Federal agencies and the private sector in order
to build workforce training and fellowship opportunities for immigrants with
professional qualifications from their home nation to help them leverage their
specialized skills in the American marketplace.
Steyer made his promise of cheap
housing to illegals even though housing costs for many Americans forces them to
rent or buy cheaper housing far from work and friends, and are being forced to
give up hopes for larger families.
But those housing costs are high
partly because the federal government welcomes one million new legal immigrants
into the nation’s cities, neighborhoods, and schools. That is a huge inflow —
four million young Americans turn 18 each year.
But Steyer is a billionaire
investor, so illegal migrants will not be moving into his very expensive and
well policed neighborhood. The New Yorker magazine described his
house in 2013:
President [barack Obama] flew to San
Francisco on April 3rd for a series of fund-raisers. He stopped in first at a
cocktail reception hosted by Tom Steyer, a fifty-six-year-old billionaire,
former hedge-fund manager, and major donor to the Democratic Party. Steyer
lives in the city’s Sea Cliff neighborhood, in a house overlooking the Golden
Gate Bridge.
Any inflow of migrants will be a
boon to Steyer’s fellow investors who gain from the extra workers, consumers,
and renters. For example, one gauge of real estate investments shows a 50 percent
gain since 2015, even as Americans’
wages and salaries rose by only about 15 percent.
Meanwhile, Steyer’s home state is
experiencing record housing prices and record homelessness as today’s illegals
enjoy the state government’s offer of sanctuary, jobs, and welfare. The federal
housing agency reported January 7 the
state has about 108,000 homeless:
This year’s report shows that there
was a small increase in the one-night estimates of people experiencing
homelessness across the nation between 2018 and 2019 (three percent), which
reflects a 16 percent increase in California, and offsets a marked decrease
across many other states.
…
In terms of absolute numbers,
California has more than half of all unsheltered homeless people in the country
(53 percent or 108,432), with nearly nine times as many unsheltered homeless as
the state with the next highest number, Florida (six percent or 12,476),
despite California’s population being only twice that of Florida.
In September Breitbart News reported the Census
Bureau showed how the state’s housing costs are pushing Americans into poverty:
The September 10 study shows 18.2
percent of California’s population is poor, far above the 13 percent poverty
rate in Arkansas, 16 percent in Mississippi, and the 14.6 percent in West
Virginia.
…
By 2017, for example, the government’s
pro-migration policies had added 11 million people to the state’s native
population of 29 million people. The huge inflow means that one-in-four
residents are immigrants.
Numerous studies have shown many
millions of foreigners want to migrate into Americans’ society. For example,
another five million Central American residents want to migrate into the
United States, according to a Gallup survey published
right after the 2018 midterm elections.
Gallup also noted “three percent of
the world’s adults — or nearly 160 million people — say they would like to move
to the U.S.”
California's poverty rate is worse than
Alabama & Mississippi, says Census Bureau. The major cause of this huge
change is immigration policy which spikes housing costs & shrinks wages --
and delivers huge gains for investors in real-estate & corp. shares. http://bit.ly/2mgvBlW
California Has Highest Poverty Rate, with Housing Costs
Steyer’s promise to welcome illegals
is echoed by the other investor billionaire in the Democrats’ primary, Mike
Bloomberg, the former mayor of New York. In January, he promised to make
illegals comfortable with Americans’ money, telling the San Diego Union-Tribune:
Well, it’s a no brainer. You give
[a] pathway to citizenship to 11 million people. We’re not going to deport them
anyways, it’s outrageous. If you look in New York City, we make sure that
people felt comfortable, regardless of their immigration status, to come and
get city services. I was always determined that they would not be afraid to
come. Somebody could need like life-threatening things and does not get medical
care. This is not a game. You’ve got to make sure that they’re okay.
Housing costs in Bloomberg’s New
York are very high because it has huge
populations of illegal and legal
immigrants. The result is that it has a homeless population of roughly 92,000,
and also the nation’s highest
rate of homelessness, at 46
homeless for every 10,000 people.
High housing costs also make it
difficult for Americans to move into towns and cities that have better-paying
jobs, according to a 2017 study about the
rising wealth gap in the United States. Americans “are frozen where
they live,” said Tom Donohue, the CEO of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, at a
January 9 meeting.
But nearly all of the Democrats in
the 2020 election have called for more migrants — without showing any concern
for the impact on Americans’ housing costs.
“We could afford to take in a
heartbeat another two million people,” Joe Biden told Democrats at an August
event in Des Moines, Iowa. “The idea that a country of 330 million people
is cannot absorb people who are in desperate need … is absolutely
bizarre … I would also move to increase the total number of
immigrants able to come to the United States.”
Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s
immigration plan, for example, is titled “A
Fair and Welcoming Immigration System.” It says:
We need expanded legal immigration
that will grow our economy, reunite families, and meet our labor market demands
… s president, I will immediately issue guidance to end criminal
prosecutions for simple administrative immigration violations … As
President, I’ll issue guidance ensuring that detention is only used where it is
actually necessary because an individual poses a flight or safety risk
… I’ll welcome 125,000 refugees in my first year, and ramping up to at
least 175,000 refugees per year by the end of my first term.
The impact of federal immigration
policy on Americans’ housing costs is taboo among establishment reporters. But
those costs were touted by a group of investors lobbying Congress to raise
housing prices by importing more immigrants. A booklet by the Economic
Innovation Group says:
The relationship between population
growth and housing demand is clear. More people means more demand for housing,
and fewer people means less demand … As a result, a shrinking population will
lead to falling prices and a deteriorating, vacancy-plagued housing stock that
may take generations to clear
…
The potential for skilled immigrants
to boost local housing markets is clear. Notably, economist Albert Saiz (2007)
found a 1% increase in population from immigration causes housing rents and
house prices in U.S. cities to rise commensurately, by 1%
On January 9, Donohue noted New
Yorkers blocked the plan by Amazon and the city government to build a new
corporate headquarters in the city. The residents protested the development plan
partly because it would have driven up rents and housing costs, said Donohue.
“It is a very potent issue,” he observed.
A lobbying group for investors admits mass
migration helps investors in major coastal cities but 'fails' Americans in
heartland & rural towns. So it urges less immigration? No - it urges more
migration to spike family housing prices outside major cities! http://bit.ly/2VCZYUt
NYT Boosts Investors' Campaign for More
Immigrant Workers, Consumers
Another line they cut into: Illegals get free public housing as
impoverished Americans wait
Want
some perspective on why so many blue sanctuary cities have so many homeless
encampments hovering around?
Try the
reality that illegal immigrants are routinely given free public housing by the
U.S., based on the fact that they are uneducated, unskilled, and largely
unemployable. Those
are the criteria, and now importing poverty has never been easier.
Shockingly, this comes as millions of poor Americans are out in the cold
awaiting that housing that the original law was intended to help.
Thus, the
tent cities, and by coincidence, the worst of these emerging shantytowns are in
blue sanctuary cities loaded with illegal immigrants - Orange County, San
Francisco, San Diego, Seattle, New York...Is there a connection? At a minimum,
it's worth looking at.
The Trump
administration's Department of Housing and Urban Development is finally trying
to put a stop to it as 1.5 million illegals prepare to enter the U.S. this
year, and one can only wonder why they didn't do it yesterday.
The plan would scrap Clinton-era
regulations that allowed illegal
immigrants to sign up for
assistance
without having to disclose their
status.
Under the new Trump rules, not only
would the leaseholder using public housing have to be an eligible U.S. person,
but the government would verify all applicants through the Systematic Alien
Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) database, a federal system that’s used to
weed illegal immigrants out of other welfare programs.
Those already getting HUD assistance would
have to go through a new verification, though it would be over a period of time
and wouldn’t all come at once.
“We’ve got our own people to house and need to take care of our
citizens,” an administration official told The Washington Times. “Because of
past loopholes in HUD guidance, illegal
aliens were able to live in free public housing desperately needed by so many
of our own citizens. As illegal aliens attempt to swarm our borders, we’re
sending the message that you can’t live off of American welfare on the
taxpayers’ dime.”
The Times
notes that the rules are confusingly contradictary, and some illegal immigrant
families are getting full rides based on just one member being born in the
U.S. The pregnant caravaner who calculatingly slipped across the U.S.
in San Diego late last year, only to have her baby the next day, now, along
with her entire family, gets that free ride on government housing. Plus lots of cheesy news coverage about how
heartwarming it all is. That's a lot cheaper than any housing she's going to
find back in Tegucigalpa.
Migrants
would be almost fools not to take the offering.
The
problem of course is that Americans who paid into these programs, and the
subset who find themselves in dire circumstances, are in fact being shut out.
The
fill-the-pews Catholic archbishops may love to tout the virtues of illegal
immigrants and wave signs about getting 'justice" for them, but the
hard fact here is that these foreign nationals are stealing from
others as they take this housing benefit under legal technicalities. That's not
a good thing under anyone's theological law. But hypocrisy is comfortable
ground for the entire open borders lobby as they shamelessly
celebrate lawbreaking at the border, leaving the impoverished of the U.S.
out cold.
The Trump
administration is trying to have this outrage fixed by summer. But don't
imagine it won't be without the open-borders lawsuits, the media sob stories,
the leftist judges, and the scolding clerics.
Los Angeles County Pays Over a Billion in
Welfare to Illegal Aliens Over Two Years
In 2015 and 2016, Los Angeles County paid nearly $1.3
billion in welfare funds to illegal aliens and their families. That figure
amounts to 25 percent of the total spent on the county’s entire needy
population, according to Fox
News.
The state of California is home to more illegal aliens
than any other state in the country. Approximately one in five illegal aliens
lives in California, Pew reported.
Approximately a quarter of California’s 4 million illegal
immigrants reside in Los Angeles County. The county allows illegal immigrant
parents with children born in the United States to seek welfare and food stamp
benefits.
The welfare benefits data acquired by Fox News comes from
the Los Angeles County Department of Public Social Services and shows welfare
and food stamp costs for the county’s entire population were $3.1 billion in
2015, $2.9 billion in 2016.
The data also shows that during the first five months of
2017, more than 60,000 families received a total of $181 million.
Over 58,000 families received a total of $602 million in
benefits in 2015 and more than 64,000 families received a total of $675 million
in 2016.
Robert Rector, a Heritage Foundation senior fellow who
studies poverty and illegal
immigration, told Fox the costs represent “the tip of
the iceberg.”
“They get $3 in benefits for every $1 they spend,” Rector
said. It can cost the government a total of $24,000 per year per family to pay
for things like education, police, fire, medical, and subsidized housing.
In February of 2019, the Los Angeles city council signed
a resolution making it a sanctuary city. The resolution did not provide any new
legal protections to their immigrants, but instead solidified existing
policies.
In October 2017, former California governor Jerry Brown
signed SB
54 into law. This bill made California, in
Brown’s own words, a “sanctuary state.” The Justice Department filed a
lawsuit against the State of California over the law. A federal
judge dismissed that suit in July. SB 54 took effect on Jan. 1, 2018.
According
to Center for Immigration Studies, “The new law does many things:
It forbids all localities from cooperating with ICE detainer notices, it bars
any law enforcement officer from participating in the popular 287(g) program,
and it prevents state and local police from inquiring about individuals’
immigration status.”
Some counties in California have protested its
implementation and joined the Trump administration’s lawsuit against the
state.
California’s campaign to provide public services to
illegal immigrants did not end with the exit of Jerry Brown. His
successor, Gavin Newsom, is just as focused as Brown in funding programs
for illegal residents at the expense of California taxpayers.
California’s budget earmarks millions of dollars annually
to the One California program, which provides free legal assistance to all
aliens, including those facing deportation, and makes California’s public
universities easier for illegal-alien students to attend.
According to the Fiscal Burden of Illegal Immigration on
United States Taxpayers 2017
report, for the estimated 12.5 million illegal immigrants
living in the country, the resulting cost is a $116 billion burden on
the national economy and taxpayers each year, after deducting the $19 billion
in taxes paid by some of those illegal immigrants.
BLOG: MOST FIGURES PUT THE NUMBER OF ILLEGALS IN THE U.S.
AT ABOUT 40 MILLION. WHEN THESE PEOPLE ARE HANDED AMNESTY, THEY ARE LEGALLY
ENTITLED TO BRING UP THE REST OF THEIR FAMILY EFFECTIVELY LEAVING MEXICO
DESERTED.
New data from the U.S. Census Bureau shows that more than
22 million non-citizens now live in the United States.
Exclusive–Mo Brooks: ‘Masters of the Universe’ Want More
Immigration to ‘Decrease Incomes of Americans’
Bob Gathany / AL.com via AP
3:19
Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL) says the “Masters of
the Universe” want more legal immigration to the United States to further
diminish the incomes of American working and middle-class families.
In an exclusive interview with SiriusXM Patriot’s Breitbart News Tonight, Brooks said
recent demands to increase the number of foreign workers coming to the U.S. to
compete against American citizens for jobs is merely an effort by corporations
to deplete the earnings of Americans.
Brooks said:
I’m not a part of the Masters of the Universe crowd who thinks we
ought to be bringing in all this foreign labor and the reason for it is pure economics. This is the chance for Americans and lawful immigrants who are already here who are working
in the blue-collar trades, who are working in the places where
wages are not as high they ought to be, this is their chance to prosper. [Emphasis added]
And to the extent you import a lot of foreign labor, then you are
artificially increasing the labor supply which in turn means that you’re
artificially suppressing the wages of American families who are often hard-pressed to make ends meet So I
respectfully disagree that we need more foreign labor, to the contrary, I would like to see us reduce the foreign labor that comes into
America so that American families who are struggling to make ends meet, particularly those of us who are earning the least
amounts, would be better to take care of
their own families and less likely to be dependent on the welfare. [Emphasis added]
Brooks said Democrats support for mass legal immigration is
centered on the premise that increasing the number of foreign workers in the
U.S. will decrease Americans’ wages, thus forcing many into poverty and
becoming welfare recipients. This, Brooks said, is how Democrats create a
permanent dependent class of Democrat voters.
“Don’t get me wrong, [Democrats] want to decrease the incomes of
Americans so that they’re dependent on welfare,” Brooks said.
That makes them in turn likely Democrat voters and the best way to
do that is to have a huge surge in the labor supply, particularly illegal
aliens, that will depress their wages therefore creating more Democrats who are dependent on welfare at the same time as they
bring in illegal aliens who also under Democrat doctrine will be allowed to
vote and those types of voters, they’re also dependent on welfare. [Emphasis
added]
“About 70 percent of illegal alien households are on welfare …
plus this is a bloc of voters that seems unusually susceptible to the racial
divisions that the Democrats advance,” Brooks said. “You have to look at the
big picture in all of this, and to me, we should not be importing as much
foreign labor as we are. We should be helping the least among us earn more and
importing foreign labor that suppresses wages is not the way to do that.”
Currently, the U.S. admits more than 1.2 legal immigrants
annually, with the vast majority deriving from chain migration, whereby newly
naturalized citizens can bring an unlimited number of foreign relatives to the
country. In 2017, the foreign-born population reached a record high of 44.5 million.
The U.S. is on track to import about 15 million new foreign-born voters in the next
two decades should current legal immigration levels continue. Those 15
million new foreign-born voters include about eight million who will arrive in
the country through chain migration, where newly naturalized citizens can bring
an unlimited number of foreign relatives to the country.
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