Bernie
Leads His Party to Open Borders
Some 100 members of an American Mormon community in
northern Mexico, nine of whom -- women, children, toddlers -- were massacred a
week ago on a lonely stretch of highway, just crossed over into Arizona.
Other family members who have lived there for decades
will follow.
The atrocity was the work of one of the cartels battling
for control of the drug traffic into the United States.
In Mexico's Sinaloa state in October, an arrest of Ovidio
Guzman Lopez, son of "El Chapo," who sits in a New York prison,
brought a military-style cartel attack on the state capital, Culiacan, followed
by a surrender to the cartel gunmen by national guard and army troops, and a
release of the captive.
"Is Mexico a failed state?" asks The Washington
Times. Its editorial describes "Another Blood-Soaked Year in Mexico"
where 17,000 people were murdered by July and the 2019 death toll is expected
to reach 32,000.
USA Today reports: "Through August of the current
fiscal year, the Border Patrol apprehended 457,871 migrants arriving as 'family
units' ... a 406% increase compared to the 90,554 family unit apprehensions
during the same period the previous year. Migrant families from Guatemala,
Honduras and El Salvador made up almost 92% of the total."
With cartel battles escalating into a war that Mexico
City has no stomach for fighting, and a record number of migrants from Central
America crossing Mexico to flood into the USA, what is the Democratic Party's
policy for halting the rising tide?
Democrats are moving toward an "open door"
policy on the U.S. border, an open borders embrace of any and all who wish to
come.
America, apparently, does not belong to those who live
here and love the country. America belongs to anyone who chooses to come.
America belongs to the world.
Consider Bernie Sanders' immigration proposal, outlined
the week of the massacre of Mormon women and children.
On Day One, President Sanders would declare a moratorium
on deportations and offer a "swift pathway to citizenship" for all
illegal migrants who have been here for five years.
Bernie would break up ICE. Border-jumping would cease to
be a crime and become a civil offense like jaywalking. The "Muslim
ban" would be abolished.
President Sanders would back sanctuary cities that refuse
to work with U.S. law enforcement. Asylum seekers would not have to wait in
Mexico as their claims were processed but would be welcomed into the USA.
Family separations would end. Trump's wall, which Bernie
calls "racist," would be history. The administration's treatment of
illegal immigration "as a criminal and national security matter is
inhuman, impractical and must end."
Migrants who enter illegally would qualify for federal
health care and the same social welfare benefits as U.S. citizens. Immigrant
officials say Sanders' proposals would create an irresistible magnet for
millions of migrants from all over the world to stampede into the USA.
The Nation magazine calls Sanders' plan "one of the
boldest immigration plans any major politician has put forward in years, and
comes amid a campaign season that has seen a major shift to the left among
Democratic candidates on immigration.
"With calls for a total moratorium on deportations,
abolishing ICE and providing a path to citizenship for undocumented migration,
the plan serves as a road map for what a fair and just immigration can
be."
From another standpoint, Sanders' proposal is a surrender
to the reality that a leftist regime lacks the conviction or will to stop an
endless stream of people from migrating here.
Americans troubled over what is happening on the
Syrian-Turkish border, or Ukrainian-Crimean border, might take a closer look at
what will happen at our own border, and to our own country, if Democrats win
the presidency and throw open the doors to unrestricted immigration.
The federal budget, already running trillion-dollar
deficits, and state budgets, too, will see huge increases in the cost of social
programs, without the commensurate income tax revenues to pay for them.
Even at present levels, illegal immigration is bringing
in millions of people without the work, education or language skills to compete
and assimilate rapidly in a first world, Western economy.
These migrants pay virtually no income taxes, yet, would
qualify for the same benefits as U.S. citizens. The inevitable result: another
run-up in an annual deficit already running $1 trillion in the red.
Politically, so massive a migration of peoples who, once
they become citizens, vote 70%-90% Democratic means an end of the GOP as a
truly national party.
If we open the borders, how do we stop the drugs from
coming in? How do we stop the cartels from following MS-13, which is already
here?
Socially, this country is as splintered as it has been
since the 1960s.
Will a barrage of migrants add to its diversity, or
deepen the ethnic, racial and cultural divides that are turning us into two,
three, many Americas?
Patrick J. Buchanan is the author of "Nixon's White House Wars:
The Battles That Made and Broke a President and Divided America Forever."
To find out more about Patrick Buchanan and read features by other Creators
writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators website at www.creators.com.
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Poll: Bernie Sanders Holds 19-Point Lead in Nevada
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Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) is leading in Nevada with 19 percentage points over his closest rival, a Data For Progress poll released Monday revealed.
The survey, taken February 12-15, 2020 among 766 likely Nevada caucus-goers, showed Sanders with an overwhelmingly strong showing in the Silver State, with 35 percent support. His closest rival, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), comes 19 points behind with 16 percent support. Pete Buttigieg (D) and Joe Biden (D) follow closely behind with 15 percent and 14 percent, respectively. Tom Steyer (D) also garnered double-digit support, with 10 percent choosing the billionaire.
Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) saw nine percent support, and Rep. Tulsi Gabbard saw two percent. Michael Bloomberg (D) is not on the Nevada caucus ballot.
The margin of error is +/- 3.4 percent:
#Nevada Democratic Primary Polling:
Sanders: 35%
Warren: 16%
Buttigieg: 15%
Biden: 14%
Steyer: 10%
Klobuchar: 9%
Gabbard: 2%
Data For Progress / February 15, 2020 / n=766
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The survey found Nevada Democrats “strongly support” Sanders’ key policy proposals, with 69 percent supporting Medicare for All and 93 percent supporting a Green New Deal.
It also found Sanders performs the best among Hispanic voters, which is largely driving his strong numbers.
According to the survey:
Sanders performs extremely well with Hispanic likely caucusgoers, registering 66 percent support, with no other candidate cracking double digits.…Bernie’s base of support is found both among voters under 45 and Hispanic voters. Among voters under 45, he holds a 50 point lead over Warren who sits in second place with 14 percent. Meanwhile, 66 percent of Hispanic likely caucusgoers back Sanders, with the rest of the field accounting for the remaining 34 percentage points.
Sanders’ popularity among Latino voters could grow further following a recent endorsement from the influential grassroots group Mijente, which describes itself as a “political home for multi-racial Latinx and Chicanx people”:
Trump’s re-election is a direct threat to our communities. Sen. @BernieSanders has a long history of progressive stances + consistently remains on side of working people. That's why we're proud to endorse Sanders for president.politi.co/2P16yP5 #VamosConBernie #FueraTrump
We need a president who will fight like hell for change that is long overdue & who will not quickly return to pre-Trump, quasi-progressive policies. With over 70% of the vote, a majority of Mijente members agree that Sanders is the best path to mobilize Latinxs & beat Trump.
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The group plans to mobilize voters for Sanders ahead of the Nevada caucuses and continue its efforts in other key states such as California, Texas, and Arizona.
Six candidates are slated to appear on the Democrat debate stage in Las Vegas on Wednesday evening — Sanders, Warren, Klobuchar, Biden, Buttigieg, and for the first time, Bloomberg.
Bernie
Sanders: ‘Of Course’ Cheap Illegal Workers Drive Down U.S. Wages
No Labor Shortage: 11M
Americans Out of Work but Want Full-Time Jobs
Bernie:
On Day One, Executive Order to Reverse Trump’s Border Actions
Sen. Bernie
Sanders (I-VT) said at the Democrat debate in Miami on Thursday that on his
first day in office if he is elected president, he would issue an executive
order to reverse everything President Donald Trump has done to secure the
border and end the flood of illegal immigration that the government has said
could amount to more than one million migrants
entering the United States in 2019.
Bernie Sanders Delights Democrats With
Plan For Free Healthcare For Illegals
https://townhall.com/columnists/marinamedvin/2019/04/15/bernie-sanders-delights-democrats-with-plan-for-free-healthcare-for-illegals-n2544768
Trickle-Down Bureaucracy Is Destroying Vermont
Bernie
Sanders: ‘Of Course’ Cheap Illegal Workers Drive Down U.S. Wages
Andrew Harnik/AP Photo
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) admits cheaper illegal alien workers
drive down wages for America’s working and middle class but continues to
support amnesty for illegal aliens, decriminalization of the United
States-Mexico border, and throwing out President Trump’s “Buy American, Hire
American” executive order.
Sanders navigated through the issue
during an interview with the New
York Times, attempting to explain his previous statements where he
has admitted that opening the U.S. border is detrimental to the
nation-state and has slammed the concept
of hemispheric open borders.
During the exchange, Sanders says “of course” cheaper illegal
alien workers hired by businesses at “$5 an hour” will “lower wages” for
America’s working class, who are often looking for entry-level jobs.
“Yeah, if you’re being paid $5 — if you’re being paid $5 an
hour, now of course it’s going to lower wages,” Sanders said. “Why would I hire
at a higher wage?”
Later in the interview, though, Sanders backs away from
immigration’s wage-suppression impact on Americans and focuses on a $15 minimum
wage — suggesting that illegal aliens be legalized and paid the same wage as
Americans.
“All I am saying is that if for whatever reason, I’m paying you
$5 an hour, okay,” Sanders said. “You don’t think that’s going to lower the
wages that she gets?”
Legal immigration levels, where 1.2
million mostly low-skilled legal immigrants and hundreds of thousands of
foreign visa workers are admitted to the country annually, have driven the
number of foreign born workers in the U.S. to its highest level since 1996. This is in
addition to the hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens who enter the country
every year.
Most immigrants to the U.S.
immediately begin competing for blue-collar and white-collar jobs against millions of Americans who
want full-time employment.
No Labor Shortage: 11M Americans Out of Work, But All Want Full-Time Jobs https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/01/10/no-labor-shortage-11m-americans-out-of-work-but-all-want-full-time-jobs/ …
No Labor Shortage: 11M
Americans Out of Work but Want Full-Time Jobs
Extensive research by economists
like George Borjas and analyst Steven Camarota reveals that the country’s current
mass legal immigration system burdens U.S. taxpayers and America’s working and
middle class while redistributing about $500 billion in wealth
every year to major employers and newly arrived immigrants. Similarly, research
has revealed how Americans’ wages are crushed by the
country’s high immigration levels.
For every one percent increase in the immigrant portion of
American workers’ occupations, their weekly wages are cut by about 0.5 percent,
Camarota finds. This means the average native-born American worker today has
his weekly wages reduced by perhaps 8.75 percent since 17.5 percent of the
workforce is foreign born.
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.
Bernie:
On Day One, Executive Order to Reverse Trump’s Border Actions
PENNY STARR
Sen. Bernie
Sanders (I-VT) said at the Democrat debate in Miami on Thursday that on his
first day in office if he is elected president, he would issue an executive
order to reverse everything President Donald Trump has done to secure the
border and end the flood of illegal immigration that the government has said
could amount to more than one million migrants
entering the United States in 2019.
“On Day One, we take out our
executive order pen and rescind every damn issue that Trump has done,” Sanders
said.
“What we have got to do on Day One
is invite the presidents and the leadership of Central and Mexico together,”
Sanders said. “This is a hemispheric problem.”
Under President Donald Trump, the
U.S. State Department and Mexico have been working with Central American
countries to provide support, including financial aid, to address problems that
are blamed for people fleeing Honduras, El Salvador, and Guatemala.
Trump has also been able to gain
cooperation with Mexico to step up efforts to police its
southern border to stop the flow of hundreds of thousands of migrants who have
been flooding across the U.S. border with Mexico.
Bernie Sanders Delights Democrats With
Plan For Free Healthcare For Illegals
https://townhall.com/columnists/marinamedvin/2019/04/15/bernie-sanders-delights-democrats-with-plan-for-free-healthcare-for-illegals-n2544768
Bernie
Sanders, that socialist curmudgeon we love to hate, has
come up with a new way to smother American prosperity: FREE healthcare
for illegal aliens.
As has
become expected in these neo-socialist times, Democrats were delighted by the
proposition of robbing hardworking Americans for the benefit of those who
break federal laws.
But when
Bastard Bernie says FREE, what does that mean? Redistribution of wealth via
taxation, of course. Take monies from the rightful owner by force and
intimidation and give it to the wrongful owner. What does Bastard Bernie get
out of it? Power and control over the unethical transaction. That power, the
ability to say who keeps what is the ultimate control; for no one can control
their own destiny, only Bastard Bernie and the other glorified thieves in power
control each American's destiny when they take your money. The more that he
takes from you, the more power he has over you, and the less you control your
own life. This is precisely why taxation amounts to economic slavery.
Bernie
Sanders understands better than anyone, that the one who controls the money is
the one who controls freedom and destiny. If Bastard Bernie doesn't take your
earnings from you, then you maintain power and control over your life and your
destiny. If, on the other hand, he takes what you earned, then you and your
labor belong to the state. When Bastard Bernie hands your cash to illegals, he
simultaneously hands them control over your life. This is exactly what Bastard
Bernie wants: to dilute your control over your own destiny. Bernie now also
wants to give illegal immigrants power over you.
This
diabolical plan for the diminution of Americans isn't restricted to Bastard
Bernie; he is joined by the other democrat neo-socialists like Elizabeth
Warren, Cory Booker, and Kirstin Gillibrand. They call their politics by
various names in an attempt to convolute and conceal the simplistic socialism
that drives their agenda. Don't get lost in the words they use; just look at
what they are plotting. They advocate for increased taxation, redistribution,
and government control over your life. Bernie Sander's bill "Medicare for
All" was co-sponsored by these con-artists, and their control effort would
cost you an estimated $32 trillion. Nice people.
More
harrowingly, the neo-democrats prioritize the interests of illegal immigrants
over the basic needs of the Americans who they are sworn to represent. But why
are illegal immigrants of particular interest all of a sudden?
On the
one hand, because democrats prey on weakness or the appearance of weakness, and
illegal immigrants are the perceptively weak concern du jour that
strikes the Democrats' fancy. That's it; there's not much more or less to it.
On the whole, Democrats are not deeply concerned with the plight of an illegal
immigrant; they are just using these people to advance their political agenda
amongst their bleeding-heart base. Remember how the Democrats were vividly
trying to save the whales in the '90s? Whatever happened to the whales? Who's
saving them nowadays? Maybe they went the way of the ozone hole that was all the craze in the
'80s. Do you ever wonder what the illegal immigrants were doing in the '80s and
'90s when the ozone and the whales were the weaklings du jour?
Donald
Trump is the reason why illegals became the attraction of the day, as they are
the group he is attempting to regulate, rendering them weaklings du
jour for Democrats. Had Trump decided to build a barrier to keep dangerous
sharks away from U.S. beaches, then "Save The Sharks!" would have
been the prime democratic platform. Anything anti-trump is magically and
automatically converted into pro-democrats. This how the gays and Islamists
came to political joinder in the same party; they call
this "intersectionality."
On the
other hand, because Democrats are clawing at well walls, trying to find a way
out of the deep loss to Donald Trump. They need more bodies, more votes. It's a
bid to stay in power. Aside from attempting to entice illegals with free
healthcare, they are also attempting to give illegals the right to vote,
followed by attempting to change the American voting system to be a rule
by majority, which they would easily get if illegals can vote for the hand
that feeds them. It's all about power, about control. It's about eroding
America and capitalism.
Think
about the Democrats' plan from the perspective of a would-be illegal border
crosser. The proposition that those who break U.S. laws will be rewarded with
admiration and riches in the form of Spoils of Taxation, is a rather attractive
bargain. Why not break the border law? You will receive free lawyers, free food, free shelter, free
healthcare, free legal advice from a local Sanctuary Sheriff,
and unfettered admiration by the neo-socialist clique growing in the United
States. Seems too good to pass up, no?
Neo-socialism
is a lucrative invitation for the illegal bypass of American laws.
In Vermont, "that giant sucking sound" is not jobs moving to Mexico — it
is jobs being concocted in Montpelier. Of course, Governor Scott
shields illegal immigrants working in Vermont,
and Vermont provides driver's licenses to
them. The capital city also grants
non-citizen residents the right to vote. It is no surprise that
Vermont is #1 in the country for illegal northern border crossings.
Trickle-Down Bureaucracy Is Destroying Vermont
"Trickle-down
economics" describes tax cuts for corporations, wealthy investors, and
entrepreneurs intended to assist lower-income citizens by stimulating
investment and economic growth. Also called "supply-side
economics," the doctrine was championed by Nobel laureate Milton Friedman
but denigrated by many — including economist John Kenneth Galbraith, who
characterized it as "feeding the sparrows by giving oats to the horses."
Consider that in Vermont,
the government has grown to be a mammoth corporation (the state's largest
employer by far) and sucks up working Vermonters' wealth in a trickle-up bureaucratic
behemoth. So much money is spent on reports, studies, and employment
for state workers that Vermont's property tax rates are some of the highest in the nation. To the
extent that any of the money does come back down, it is indeed a mere trickle.
Vermont demonstrates the
government bloat that plagues many states, and the effects are becoming
apparent. Vermont now has fewer than 700 conventional dairy farms —
but the Vermont Department of Agriculture and the UVM Extension Service
steadily increase employees, and salaries. This is quite typical of
the virus-like quality of the Vermont bureaucracy — it grows, and citizens lose
wealth or leave.
Vermont has nearly twice as many full-time state
employees per 10,000 residents as New Hampshire, yet Vermonters are struggling
much more than their thriving neighbors. There is no growth, and the
governor has infamously offered $10,000 bribes to out-of-state
earners to reside in Vermont. Perhaps the gargantuan proportions of
Vermont's state government explain why Vermont's median income is $57,808 and New
Hampshire's is $71,305.
The math is
revealing. In a very thick and expensive "workforce report," it is revealed
(Table 13) that "Comparing Fiscal Year 2013 to Fiscal Year 2017, both the
number of classified employees and FTEs grew, with the number of employees
increasing 4.9% (362) and FTE's increasing 5.0% (365.9)." Table
14 reflects that the agriculture department grew by 28% in those years; the Department
of Health Access by more than 110%.
Granted, Vermont's VAAFM
has taken on water quality and other issues. Yet still, as it
increased employees, it steadily increased their wages — by 15.1% over the
covered period (Table 40). Vermont's farmers are not so
fortunate — "Net farm income ... decreased from 2014 through 2016 due to drops in
commodity prices." And Vermonters on the whole saw only a 14.26%
increase in median income over the same period, from $55,418 in 2013 to
$57,513 in 2017. Yet fully 7.7% of Vermont employees report that
they "disagree" with the statement that "The work I perform is
meaningful and rewarding" (Table 61).
Meanwhile, Vermont
has failed to properly fund its teacher and
employee pensions and health care policies, to the tune of $4.5 billion. Admittedly,
this number is based on unrealistic earnings projections of the funds it has
set aside, so the actual number is certainly much larger — but the state has
avoided calculating the actual figure.
Vermont's government has
become an unwieldy, corrupt bureaucracy that funnels money from taxpayers'
pockets through the Legislature (always eager to create new programs and jobs,
regardless of taxpayers' plights). The camel's back is being broken
straw by straw, and it is inevitable that this unsustainable, predatory abuse
will implode. As the pension problem is ignored, how long until
Vermont's credit rating is again downgraded, increasing borrowing
costs in a disastrous cycle?
This is what trickles
down in Vermont — government domination. Lifting that domination
would be a new sort of trickle-down economics: not of raising all boats by
rewarding wealthy individuals and companies, but improving all lives by
unleashing the economic potential being stifled by government
excess. History shows that government always grows bigger and
bigger, until it becomes not servant, but master, and then it must be torn down
and revamped.
Vermont is at that
point. Where once it was profitable to own land for investment, most
land ownership is now a liability in Vermont — no amount of capital
appreciation will offset the intervening property taxes, and the taxes
generally exceed the productive value of the land for farming or
logging. The only growth industry in Vermont is...government
employment.
This tumor must be
surgically amputated. If Vermonters are to survive a forecasted
national economic downturn, they must not be economically
downtrodden in the good times by those sworn to serve
them. Nationally, these are good times — just not for
Vermont. Forbes rates Vermont 49th
in growth prospects, 47th in business costs, 44th in economic climate, and 46th
in regulatory environment. The Vermont bureaucracy dwarfs other
businesses and does not wish to permit competition for its steady
growth. It is in the business of enacting
regulations.
And that business is in
growth mode — 2020 promises new taxes at 29% on marijuana, a carbon tax
(which hurts poor Vermonters most), a family leave mandate
for employers, and a minimum wage (which Milton Friedman warns causes
inflation). And reams of regulations for farmers, loggers,
car-drivers... If legislating were productive, Vermont would be in
boom times.
In Vermont, "that giant sucking sound" is not jobs moving to Mexico — it
is jobs being concocted in Montpelier. Of course, Governor Scott
shields illegal immigrants working in Vermont,
and Vermont provides driver's licenses to
them. The capital city also grants
non-citizen residents the right to vote. It is no surprise that
Vermont is #1 in the country for illegal northern border crossings.
Many fear-mongers predict
global implosion in twelve years, from global warming. If Vermont
does not change course, it will implode financially before
then. Inflation and fiscal profligacy can destroy people's lives
very quickly: the Vermont Legislature is warming to the task.
Many native Vermonters
(especially those who work) are fleeing the state with the worst
business climate and one of the highest welfare benefits for those who don't
work, more concerned for "unauthorized entrants" than it is for
citizens. Most Vermonters are starting to comprehend that when it
comes to their state government, most of what it is enacting
lately "is not meaningful or rewarding." It behaves more
like a monopolist predator than a servant institution.
That is something
Vermonters can no longer afford. They are fed up with being
sparrows, eating the pickings left for them after the legislative horses have
eaten all their oats. It's time to clean out the
barn.
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