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THE ILLEGALS’ ILLEGAL VOTES… WHO DOES IT BETTER THAN THE DEMOCRAT PARTY’S
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Bloomberg Pledges to Investigate ICE and End
Trump Policies in Newly Unveiled Immigration Plan
By Jason Hopkins
Business and Politics Review
. . .
Mike
Bloomberg Offers ’60 Million’ Latinos: $15 Per Hour Plus Mass Migration
Michael Bloomberg is making a pitch for Latino votes with an
offer of $15 per hour wages — but also a flood of new Latino migrants eager to
compete for jobs, apartments, and K-12 desks in Latino communities.
“I believe we can once again be a country that welcomes
immigrants, values immigrants, respects immigrants, and empowers them to pursue
the American Dream,” Bloomberg said in a January 30 tweet.
The conflicting policy offer reflects shared goals of the
Democrat Party’s two main leadership factions: Bloomberg and other investors
who are eager for imported consumers and workers, and progressives who are
eager for imported pro-government voters.
In contrast, President Donald Trump
promised a low-immigration, “Hire American” policy on Inauguration Day, helping
salaries rise for millions of blue-collar Americans, including
Latinos. Unemployment rates for Latinos are now at a record low, and wages
are at a record high. Half of the 21.5 million working Latinos earn above $712 a week, according to the Bureau of Labor
Statistics. The median wage for Latinos is almost $18 per hour.
Bloomberg’s pitch offered a combination of government-engineered
higher wages, more social status, and more opportunities for voters’ children:
Today, I’m releasing my plan to bring security and a new path
forward to the 60 million Latinos who live in our country, Our path forward
starts by improving economic security. By expanding the earned income tax
credit, and by raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour.
…
And we’ll make sure Latino American families have health
insurance. No one should ever be denied access to care.
Just as pro-amnesty President George
W. Bush did in 2002, Bloomberg is also promising to spur homeownership
among Latinos:
We will also increase homeownership in the Latino community by
providing down-payment assistance and increasing access to capital.
But Bloomberg’s pitch to “60 million” Latinos — including at
least 11 million illegal immigrants — reflects his willingness to characterize
Latinos by their ethnic group instead of their American nationality:
We’ll enact comprehensive immigration reform. We will create a
path to legalization and citizenship for the 11 million people living in the
shadows … We will get it done.
A vast majority of American Latinos — and many Latino migrants —
oppose mass migration because it will make it difficult for them to earn good
wages, buy decent houses, and get a good education for their kids.
But on his website, Bloomberg’s
Latino policy offers :
Mike’s plan for Latinos in the U.S.
(El Paso Adelante ,
The Path Forward) invests in Latino communities to boost prosperity and
economic security. President Trump has vilified, dehumanized and hurt the
Latino community. As president Mike Bloomberg will reverse that damage by
addressing hate crimes and gun violence, closing the education, wealth, and
health gap between Latinos and whites, and creating pathways to citizenship for
millions of Latinos in the U.S.
…
Clear the naturalization backlog and create a path to
citizenship for the 11 million undocumented immigrants.
His plan will provide permanent protections for Dreamers and
Temporary Protected Status (TPS) holders, shielding them from deportation and
putting them on a pathway to citizenship. Additionally, the plan will expand
immigration legal services.
Bloomberg has long supported an economic policy of stimulating
Wall Street with a flood of imported consumers, renters, and workers. That
flood will expand sales, raise real-estate prices, and flatline wages.
Those changes would spike stock values and transfer more of the
nation’s new wealth and political power from family wage-earners to elderly
stockholders, such as Bloomberg, whose estimated wealth is $60 billion.
The combination of a $15 minimum wage and the inflow of many
healthy young migrants would also pressure U.S. employers to discard older,
higher-paid Americans. If Bloomberg’s investor-driven visions were enacted,
employers would race to sideline many employes who are older, or disabled, or
uneducated, or who earn higher wages.
Like Bush, Bloomberg’s policy is
focussed on the needs of investors and employers, not of American
workers. “This country needs more immigrants and we should be out looking
for immigrants,” Bloomberg told the San
Diego Union-Tribune on January 5:
For those who need an oboe player for a symphony, we want the
best one. We need a striker for a soccer team, we want to get the best one. We
want a farmworker, we want to get the best one. A computer programmer, we want
to get the best one. So we should be out looking for more immigrants.
“We need an awful lot more
immigrants rather than less,” Bloomberg told reporters in November after he filed the paperwork needed
to join the Democratic Party’s primary in Arizona:
We have to go out and actually try to recruit immigrants to come
here. We need immigrants to take all the different kinds of jobs that the
country needs – improve our culture, our cuisine, our religion, our dialogue,
and certainly improve our economy.
Bloomberg’s immigration plan says :
“The grandson of immigrants, Mike believes in the power of the
American Dream,” says Bloomberg immigration agenda. It continues:
Throughout his career, he has been a passionate advocate for
welcoming immigrants and fixing the broken immigration system. Immigrants make
our country stronger, and Mike is focused on reclaiming America’s role as the
beacon of freedom and opportunity for people from around the world.
Mike formed the pro-immigration organization New American
Economy, representing more than 500 mayors and CEOs from all 50 states who are
highlighting the contributions of immigrants.
Bloomberg’s New American Economy
group was formed in 2013 to push for passage of the “Gang of Eight” bill,
which would have boosted stockholders and also flatlined wages for at least ten
years, according to the Congressional Budget Office. The bill provided an
amnesty for all illegal aliens, doubled the annual inflow of legal immigrants
to two million — even as four million Americans turned 18 each year — and
allowed an unlimited inflow of foreign college graduates.
“The rate of return on capital would
be higher [than on labor] under the legislation than under current law
throughout the next two decades,” says the CBO report, titled “The Economic Impact of S. 744.”
“The legislation would particularly increase the number of
workers with lower or higher skills but would have less effect on the number of
workers with average skills. … The wages of lower- and higher-skilled workers
would tend to be pushed downward slightly (by less than ½ percent) relative to
the wages of workers with average skills,” said the CBO report.
Bloomberg’s NEA website tries to
build support for amnesty and more immigration by producing many studies. For
example, a January 2020 report boasted that “New Data Shows Immigrants Make Up More Than 60
Percent of Middlesex County’s STEM Workers and Nearly Half of Business Owners.”
Michael Bloomberg: Government Should
Import ‘an Awful Lot More’ Immigrants
Democratic 2020 candidate Michael Bloomberg says he will
recruit “an awful lot more” immigrants “to take all the different kinds of
jobs” in the U.S. economy.
The immigrants can “improve our culture, our cuisine, our
religion, our dialogue, and certainly improve our economy,” Bloomberg told
reporters without naming the American cultures, cuisines, religions, and
dialogues that would be improved.
Bloomberg’s comments reflect the views of wealthy investors who
gain stock market wealth when the government imports more workers,
welfare-aided consumers, and extra renters into communities created by
Americans and their children.
In his comments, Bloomberg echoed the 1960s claim that the
U.S is a diverse “nation of immigrants,” instead of a country build by
similar-minded settlers from Europe. “This country was built by immigrants,”
Bloomberg said, without noting the role played by Americans and their children.
Bloomberg, who owns roughly $55 billion in assets, has long
supported mass migration. In 2013, he joined with the owner of Fox News, Rupert
Murdoch, to create the Project for a New American Economy. The group of
investors and politicians pushed for passage of the
Gang of Eight amnesty in 2013.
In 2019, the group is pushing for the S.386 law
that would help investors by encouraging many more Indian
graduates to take white-collar jobs from American graduates.
Bloomberg’s group is also pushing for legislation
that would provide an endless supply of H-2A visa workers to investors in the
agriculture sector. The wage-capped workers would likely displace Americans, reduce
pressure on investors to buy high-tech farm machinery, and convert many
agriculture towns into “company towns” dominated by a single employer.
NC GOP @SenThomTillis wants to reward India's workers who take
US jobs from American graduates. He's backing @SenMikeLee 's @S386 bill which gives citizenship to Indians
for taking Americans' jobs. Big subsidy for US investors, big loss for NC
graduates. http:// bit.ly/2rp19J3
The U.S. already imports many immigrants — roughly one million
per year, even as four million Americans turn 18 and prepare to join the
workforce.
“We need an awful lot more immigrants rather than less,”
Bloomberg told reporters after he filed the paperwork needed to join the
Democratic Party’s primary in Arizona:
We have to go out and actually try to recruit immigrants to come
here. We need immigrants to take all the different kinds of jobs that the
country needs – improve our culture, our cuisine, our religion, our dialogue,
and certainly improve our economy.
Bloomberg — who has a personal wealth of roughly $55 billion —
then blasted President Donald Trump’s campaign to block the wave of Central
American migrants sparked by the establishment’s tacit support for mass
migration:
I think what Donald Trump has done, of ripping kids away from
their [migrant] parents, is a disgrace. I think of what we’re done, where we
don’t know who we’re taking in, and we don’t help people when we’re here, is a
disgrace. I think talking about deporting 11 million people is so outrageous to
try to explain to your kids what that was all about. Our immigration system is
broken and we’re not doing anything to fix it.
In 2013, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) predicted the planned “Gang
of Eight” amnesty would shift more of the nation’s new wealth from workers to
investors.
The flood of roughly 30 million immigrants in ten years would
cause Americans wages to shrink, the report said. “Because the bill would
increase the rate of growth of the labor force, average wages would be held
down in the first decade after enactment,” the CBO report said .
But all that cheap labor would boost the profits and the stock
market, the report said. “The rate of return on capital would be higher [than
on labor] under the legislation than under current law throughout the next two
decades,” says the report, titled “The Economic Impact of S. 744.”
In contrast, Trump’s opposition to Central American migrants and
to amnesty bills sought by the establishment has helped to nudge up wages for
blue-collar Americans, especially in the midwest battleground states, according
to a November 26 report posted by Bloomberg’s news
service:
Personal income growth has been surging in some political U.S.
battlegrounds, including a third of the counties in Pennsylvania — which Donald
Trump narrowly flipped in 2016 and may need to win re-election next year.
In the president’s first two years in office, a total of 325
counties representing nearly 6% of the U.S. population experienced their best
annualized income gains since at least 1992, according to data compiled by
Bloomberg News. And 127 of those are located in perennial swing states,
including Ohio and Iowa.
Good news: GOP Reps. voted against wage-cuts and job
outsourcing.
Bad news: GOP Reps only voted against the cuts b/c they were
wrapped in a farmworker amnesty which would cut GOP jobs in 2026.
Bloomberg Op-Ed: Immigrant Soldiers, Workers Needed for
Geopolitical Power
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U.S. geopolitical power needs a steady supply
of fresh immigrants to serve as soldiers and workers, according to a
pro-migration op-ed in Bloomberg news.
“A large working-age population serves as a source of military
manpower,” says the op-ed by Hal
Brands, the Henry Kissinger Distinguished Professor at Johns Hopkins
University’s School of Advanced International Studies. He continues:
… a relatively young, growing and well-educated population is a
wellspring of the economic productivity that underlies other forms of
international influence … countries with healthy demographic profiles can
create wealth more easily than their competitors [and] can also can direct a
larger share of that wealth to geopolitical projects as opposed to pensions and
health care.
Brands acknowledges — but denounces — the reality that
immigration is largely unpopular among the voters who suffer from the
resulting diversity, elite disengagement, job theft, and wage loss. That
turmoil helped outsider Donald Trump win the White House in 2016. Brands
dismisses the public’s measured response as “draconian … xenophobia …
race-based politics,” and says:
… if current trends are any indication, the U.S. could easily
squander its demographic advantages [over China and Russia] by enacting
draconian immigration restrictions or simply destroying its image as a country
that welcomes ambitious newcomers. Conversely, if the proportion of immigrants
continues to rise while the white population shrinks, xenophobia and race-based
politics could become more common and more toxic.
After making these dire predictions, Brands declines to offer
the public anything in exchange for the diversity, political divisions,
taxpayer costs, and wage losses caused by the government policy of “refreshing
the population”:
If the U.S. is to keep its demographic edge, it will have to
find ways of reconciling two competing imperatives: refreshing the population
through immigration while preserving social and political stability.
Brands dismisses the public’s expectation that their government
serves citizens and their children, and he instead echoes the 1960s demand that
Americans must give up their homeland to become a “nation of immigrants” to
help beat Russian communism.
In an October 2018 article for Time magazine, Democratic Rep. Joe
Kennedy explained the
government-boosting origin of the “Nation of Immigrants” claim:
Few felt it as deeply as President John F. Kennedy. In his 1964
book A Nation of Immigrants , recently re-released, my great-uncle outlines the compelling
case for immigration, in economic, moral, and global terms. “The abundant
resources of this land provided the foundation for a great nation,” he writes.
“But only people could make the opportunity a reality. Immigration
provided the human resources .”
Both Presidents George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush strongly
favored this cheap labor, high growth policy. In 1990, the first President Bush
signed a bill doubling legal immigration, and in 2006 and 2007, George W. Bush
pushed for a bill that would have further increased immigration.
In March 2019, the George W. Bush center released a video which
effectively wrote Americans out of their own nation, while urging more
immigration to spur national economic growth by reducing wages. “America’s story is
an immigrant story,” says the video. “Now as before, American is a nation of
immigrants,” says the video which refers to 280 million Americans as the
“population,” “labor force,” “workers,” and even “natives.”
George W. Bush's Bush Center posts
pro-migration, pro-business video which writes Americans out of American
history: 'America’s story is an immigrant story,' says the video, which even
describes some Americans as immigrants. http:// bit.ly/2TTxfsF
Brands’
pitch, however, ignores the recent report by President Donald Trump’s economic
advisors which said the nation can continue to grow without an extra supply of
foreign workers.
There are
“plenty of [American] workers on the sidelines able to come off” and fill jobs
in the growing economy, said Rich Burkhauser, a member of Trump’s Council
of Economic Advisors. Americans’ productivity is rising and more sidelined
Americans are returning to the workforce as wages rise, said the report , titled,
“Economic Report of the President.”
Investors
and CEOs are increasingly desperate for an infusion of more foreign workers to
lower the marketplace pressure for wage increases during 2019.
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
Each
year, roughly four million young Americans join the workforce after high
school or university. The federal government then imports roughly 1.1
million legal immigrants, refreshes a resident population of roughly 1.5
million white-collar guest workers and roughly 500,000 blue-collar visa workers,
and it also tolerates about eight million illegal workers.
In
2019, because of catch-and-release rules mandated by Congress and the
courts, the federal government also will likely release at least 350,000
Central American laborers into the U.S. job market, even as at least
500,000 more migrants sneak past U.S. border defenses or overstay their visas.
Overall,
in 2019, the U.S. government will allow at least two million new foreign
workers into the United States to compete for the starter jobs sought by the
latest wave of four million U.S. graduates. The new migrants also undermine the
24 million other Americans and the roughly three million legal immigrants who
have joined the workforce since 2014.
This
federal policy of using legal and illegal migration to boost economic
growth for investors shifts enormous
wealth from young employees towards older investors
by flooding the
market with cheap white-collar graduates and
blue-collar foreign labor.
This cheap
labor economic policy forces Americans to compete even for low wage jobs,
it widens wealth
gaps, reduces high
tech investment, increases state
and local tax burdens, hurts kids’
schools and college education, pushes Americans
away from high-tech careers, and sidelines millions of marginalized Americans,
including many who are now struggling with
fentanyl addictions.
Read
the op-ed here. The comments are sharply critical.
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Trump: Open Borders Threatens the
Wage Gains of America’s Lowest-Income Workers
President Donald
Trump touted the wage gains for Americans in the lowest income brackets, adding
that that the open borders policies of the Democratic Party threaten those
gains.
“Since
the election, real wages have gone up 3.2 percent for the median American
worker,” Trump said in a speech Tuesday to the Economic Club of New York. “But
for the bottom income group, real wages are soaring. A number that has never
happened before. Nine percent.”
Wage
gains for those near the bottom of America’s economic ladder have been
particularly strong this year. The lowest-paid Americans saw weekly earnings
rise by more than 5 percent in the second quarter from a year earlier,
according to a quarterly survey of households produced by the Labor
Department. Workers with less than a high-school diploma saw their wages
grow nearly 6 percent.
“That may
mean you make a couple of bucks less in your companies,” Trump said. “And you
know what? That’s okay. This is a great thing for our country. When you talk
about equality. This is a great thing for our country.”
The
so-called “poverty gap”–which measures the heightened poverty rate among blacks
and Hispanics compared to poverty overall– shrank to its lowest level on record
last year. The racial gap in unemployment has also contracted as unemployment rates hit
record lows this year. Black unemployment hit its lowest level on record in
November.
Trump
gave credit to the tight labor market for the improvement in wages and
employment. But opening the countries borders to new workers from abroad would
threaten those gains, he added.
“Our
tight labor market is helping them the most,” Trump said. “Yet the Democrats in
Washington want to erase these gains through an extreme policy of open borders,
flooding the labor market and driving down incomes for the poorest Americans.
And driving crime through the roof.”
Economic
studies have shown that when the supply of workers goes up, the price that
companies have to pay to hire workers goes down.
“Wage
trends over the past half-century suggest that a 10 percent increase in the
number of workers with a particular set of skills probably lowers the wage of
that group by at least 3 percent,” Harvard economist George Borjas has
written . “But
because a disproportionate percentage of immigrants have few skills, it is
low-skilled American workers, including many blacks and Hispanics, who have
suffered most from this wage dip.”
Record 44.5 Million
Immigrants in 2017
Non-Mexico Latin American,
Asian, and African populations grew most
Steven A. Camarota is the director of
research and Karen Zeigler is a demographer at the Center.
On September 13, the Census Bureau
released some data from the 2017 American Community Survey (ACS) that shows
significant growth in the immigrant (legal and illegal) population living in
the United States. The number of immigrants (legal and illegal) from Latin
American countries other than Mexico, Asia, and Sub-Saharan Africa grew
significantly, while the number from Mexico, Europe, and Canada stayed about
the same or even declined since 2010. The Census Bureau refers to immigrants as
the "foreign-born", which includes all those who were not U.S.
citizens at birth. The Department of Homeland Security has previously estimated
that 1.9 million immigrants are missed by the ACS, so the total number of
immigrants in 2017 was likely 46.4 million.1
Among the findings in the new data:
·
The
nation's immigrant population (legal and illegal) hit a record 44.5 million in
July 2017, an increase of nearly 800,000 since 2016, 4.6 million since 2010,
and 13.4 million since 2000.
·
It
is worth noting that the Census Bureau's Current Population Survey (CPS),
released the same week but collected in March 2018, shows 45.4 million
immigrants, an increase of 1.6 million over the prior year. While the CPS is
smaller than the ACS, the newer survey may indicate the pace of growth has
accelerated.
·
As
a share of the U.S. population, the ACS (used in the remainder of this report)
shows that immigrants (legal and illegal) comprised 13.7 percent or nearly one
out of seven U.S. residents in 2017, the highest percentage in 107 years. As
recently as 1980, just one out of 16 residents was foreign-born.
·
Between
2010 and 2017, 9.5 million new immigrants settled in the United States. New
arrivals are offset by roughly 320,000 immigrants who return home each year and
natural mortality of about 290,000 annually among the existing immigrant
population.2 As a result, growth in the immigrant
population was 4.6 million from 2010 to 2017.3
·
In
addition to immigrants, there were 17.1 million U.S.-born minor children with
an immigrant parent in 2017, for a total of 61.6 million immigrants and their
children in the country — accounting for one in five U.S. residents.4
·
Of
immigrants who have come since 2010, 13 percent or 1.2 million came from Mexico
— by far the top sending country. However, because of return migration and
natural mortality among the existing population, the overall Mexican-born
population actually declined by 441,190.5
·
The
sending regions with the largest numerical increases from 2016 to 2017 in the
number of immigrants living in the United States were South America (up
233,696); East Asia (up 226,728); South Asia (up 216,495); Sub-Saharan Africa
(up 149,846); the Caribbean (up 121,120); and Central America (up 71,720).6
·
Looking
longer term, the regions with the largest numerical increases since 2010 were
East Asia, (up 1,118,937); South Asia (up 1,106,373); the Caribbean (up
676,023); Sub-Saharan Africa (up 606,835); South America (up 483,356); Central
America (up 474,504); and the Middle East (up 472,554).
·
The
decline in Mexican immigrants masks, to some extent, the enormous growth of
Latin American immigrants. If seen as one region, the number from Latin America
(excluding Mexico) grew 426,536 in just the last year and 1.6 million since
2010 — significantly more than from any other part of the world.
·
The
sending countries with the largest numerical increases in
immigrants in the United States between 2010 and 2017 were India (up 830,215);
China (up 677,312); the Dominican Republic (up 283,381); the Philippines (up
230,492); Cuba (up 207,124); El Salvador (up 187,783); Venezuela (up 167,105);
Colombia (up 146,477); Honduras (up 132,781); Guatemala (up 128,018); Nigeria
(up 125,670); Brazil (up 111,471); Vietnam (up 102,026); Bangladesh (up
95,005); Haiti (up 92,603); and Pakistan (up 92,395).
·
The
sending countries with the largest percentage increases in
immigrants since 2010 were Nepal (up 120 percent); Burma (up 95 percent);
Venezuela (up 91 percent); Afghanistan (up 84 percent); Saudi Arabia (up 83
percent); Syria (up 75 percent); Bangladesh (up 62 percent); Nigeria (up 57
percent); Kenya (up 56 percent); India (up 47 percent); Iraq (up 45 percent);
Ethiopia (up 44 percent); Egypt (up 34 percent); Brazil (up 33 percent); the
Dominican Republic (up 32 percent); Ghana (up 32 percent); China (up 31
percent); Pakistan (up 31 percent); and Somalia (up 29 percent).
·
The
states with the largest numerical increases since 2010 were
Florida (up 721,298); Texas (up 712,109); California (up 502,985); New York (up
242,769); New Jersey (up 210,481); Washington (up 173,891); Massachusetts (up
172,908); Pennsylvania (up 154,701); Virginia (up 151,251); Maryland (up
124,241); Georgia (123,009); Michigan (up 116,059); North Carolina (up
110,279); and Minnesota (up 107,760).
·
The
states with the largest percentage increases since 2010 were
North Dakota (up 87 percent); Delaware (up 37 percent); West Virginia (up 33
percent); South Dakota (up 32 percent); Wyoming (up 30 percent); Minnesota (up
28 percent); Nebraska (up 28 percent); Pennsylvania (up 21 percent); Utah (up
21 percent); and Tennessee, Kentucky, Michigan, Florida, Washington, and Iowa
(all up 20 percent).
Data Source. On September 13, 2018, the
Census Bureau released some of the data from the 2017 American Community Survey
(ACS). The survey reflects the U.S. population as of July 1, 2017. The ACS is
by far the largest survey taken by the federal government each year and
includes over two million households.7 The Census Bureau has posted some of
the results from the ACS to its American FactFinder website.8 It has not released the public-use
version of the ACS for researchers to download and analyze. However, a good
deal of information can be found at FactFinder. Unless otherwise indicated, the
information in this analysis comes directly from FactFinder.
The immigrant population, referred to
as the "foreign-born" by the Census Bureau, is comprised of those
individuals who were not U.S. citizens at birth. It includes naturalized
citizens, legal permanent residents (green card holders), temporary workers,
and foreign students. It does not include those born to immigrants in the
United States, including to illegal immigrant parents, or those born in
outlying U.S. territories, such as Puerto Rico. Prior research by the
Department of Homeland Security and others indicates that some 90 percent of
illegal immigrants respond to the ACS. Thus all the figures reported above are
for both legal and illegal immigrants.
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