Washington, D.C. (September 27, 2017) – A new report
by the Center for Immigration Studies examines the scale of chain migration
across different groups of immigrants and the impact on the size of the immigrant
population arising from a possible amnesty of the beneficiaries of Deferred
Action for Childhood arrivals (DACA). Chain migration – the sponsoring of
relatives – is a major source of U.S. immigration, allowing in parents,
spouses and their children, and adult sons and daughters.
Studies have found that recent new immigrants brought an average of 3.45
additional relatives to the United States, which is more than 30 percent
higher than the chain migration rate of the early 1980s. The top four sending
countries for immigrants overall had chain migration multipliers well above
the average. Each new immigrant from Mexico eventually sponsored 6.38
relatives; China, 6.24; India, 5.11; Philippines, 5.07.
Jessica Vaughan, the Center's director of policy studies, said
"Lawmakers must understand that without adjustments to chain migration
categories, an amnesty for DACA beneficiaries virtually guarantees perhaps
twice as many additional relatives will receive green cards within 20 years
in addition to the original amnesty beneficiaries. The largest number of
these would be the parents of the DACA recipients. Congress should mitigate
this impact by eliminating and/or scaling back the three main categories of
chain migration - parents, adult sons and daughters, and siblings of
naturalized immigrants, and by curbing new immigration, such as the visa
lottery."
View the entire report at: https://cis.org/Report/Immigration-Multipliers
Additional findings:
·
Over
the last 35 years, chain migration has exceeded new immigration. Out of 33
million immigrants admitted to the United States from 1981 to 2016, about
20 million were chain migration immigrants (61 percent).
·
Approximately
1,125,000 legal immigrants were approved for admission in 2016, which is
about 7 percent higher than 2015, and one of the highest numbers in the
last decade.
·
The
largest categories of chain migration are spouses and parents of
naturalized U.S. citizens, because admissions in these categories are
unlimited by law.
·
Chain
migration is contributing to the aging of the immigration stream. In the
early 1980s, only about 17 percent of family migrants were age 50 or over.
In recent years, about 21 percent of family migrants were age 50 or older —
a rate that is 24 percent higher. This trend has implications for the
fiscal consequences of immigration.
JAMES WALSH
THE OBAMA HISPANICAZATION of
AMERICA
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
JUDICIAL WATCH:
“The greatest criminal threat to the daily lives of
American citizens are the Mexican drug cartels.”
“Mexican drug cartels are the “other” terrorist threat
to America. Militant Islamists have the goal of destroying the United
States. Mexican drug cartels are now accomplishing that mission – from
within, every day, in virtually every community across this country.”
JUDICIALWATCH
Overall, in the 2017 Fiscal Year, officials revealed
that a record-breaking 455,000 pounds plus of drugs had already been seized.
In 2016, that number amounted to 443,000 pounds. The 2017 haul is worth an
estimated $6.1 billion – BREITBART – JEFF SESSION’S DRUG BUST ON SAN DIEGO
House Passes Bill to Expel Gang Members From US
Sharpens focus on deporting transnational gang members
such as MS-13
September 21, 2017 AT 10:17 AM
Last Updated:
September 22, 2017 1:14 pm
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A former fugitive MS-13 gang member, who was arrested
earlier this month in Virginia, made his initial appearance in federal
court for a gang-related murder in Newark, N.J., on Aug. 23. (ICE)
WASHINGTON—The House recently passed a bill that would
expedite the removal of alien gang members from within the United States.
Gang membership would become grounds for both deportation and for denying
entry at the border. Currently, most gang members are only deported after
committing an independent crime.
The Criminal Alien Gang Member Removal Act passed a House vote
on Sept. 14 with votes sitting mostly along party lines (233–175). A total
of 174 Democrats voted against the bill, while 11 voted for it.
The bill, HR 3697, amends the Immigration and Nationality Act
to define a criminal gang as a group of five or more people with a primary
purpose of committing crimes such as felony drug offenses, human
trafficking, violent crimes, and/or fraud and racketeering. A gang can be
designated as criminal by the secretary of homeland security, in
consultation with the attorney general.
Elaine Duke, acting secretary of the Department of Homeland
Security (DHS), said the legislation would “greatly help” the agency’s efforts
to “target and dismantle transnational gangs, like MS-13, who pose a direct
threat to public safety.”
The bill was introduced by Congresswoman Barbara Comstock
(R-Va.), who said that at least eight murders are tied to MS-13 in northern
Virginia since last November.
Comstock said the region’s gang task force estimates there are
3,000 to 4,000 MS-13 gang members in the area.
“At a town festival in Herndon earlier this year, the gang
task force estimated 200 to 300 suspected gang members were milling about
among families attending the community event,” she said in a statement.
MS-13, or Mara Salvatrucha, is a transnational criminal
organization whose members are often illegal aliens from Central America,
predominantly El Salvador. Their recruitment tactics involve targeting
young immigrants from El Salvador, Honduras, and Guatemala.
A new member of the gang must “put work” into the gang at the
instruction of older members, said Madeline Singas, Nassau County district
attorney. Both Nassau and Suffolk counties on Long Island, New York, have
been ravaged by MS-13 gang violence.
“And that work includes shootings and stabbings and rapes and
any other acts of violence and intimidation,” Singas said on June 15.
A new MS-13 member must
also agree to kill someone if ordered to do so, she said. “And the rules
are clear: They can never leave the gang. And if they do, those who try are
often marked or greenlighted for death.”
A
nationwide gang operation netted 1,378 arrests in May. ICE’s Homeland
Security Investigations targeted gang members and associates involved in
transnational criminal activity, including drug trafficking, weapons
smuggling, human smuggling and sex trafficking, murder, and racketeering.
(ICE)
Border Control
Acting Border Patrol Chief Carla Provost said Border Patrol
agents are currently required to collect and record biographic information
on any known gang members who admit to gang affiliation, but must still
grant them admission to the United States. The new bill would give agents
the authority to deny entry to gang members.
“One of the greatest challenges we continue to face along the
Southwest border, however, are TCOs such as the international criminal
organization MS-13,” Provost said at a June 21 Senate hearing. TCO stands
for “transnational criminal organization.”
“Among those encountered, unaccompanied alien children with
suspected TCO affiliation, such as MS-13, present unique challenges,” she
said.
Unaccompanied minors, even if they admit to being MS-13
members, are transferred to the Department of Health and Human Resources’
Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) within 72 hours of being apprehended
by Border Patrol. Once the minor is there, DHS gets no further information
on their whereabouts, including where in the United States they are
resettled.
Scott Lloyd, director of ORR, said the agency conducted a
review on June 9 of the unaccompanied minors in their secure facilities.
ORR found that of the 138 unaccompanied minors in those
facilities on June 9, one-quarter were voluntarily involved with gangs.
Four individuals reported that they had been forced into gang
participation.
Once with ORR, most minors are then resettled with their
parents or relatives, who are in the country illegally.
Very few gang members are picked up at the border; most are
identified in the prison system, said Matthew Albence, executive associate
director of ICE’s Enforcement and Removal Operations.
However, cities that have so-called sanctuary policies often
prohibit local law enforcement from communicating and cooperating with
immigration authorities, resulting in many alien gang members being
released back into communities without warning.
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“In many cases, we know who these individuals are. We have
biometric identifiers,” Albence said at a Senate hearing on June 21.
“They’ve been arrested by the Border Patrol, or arrested by ICE previously,
and removed, and re-entered the country unlawfully.”
The new bill won’t persuade sanctuary cities to comply with
federal immigration law, but it will assist ICE to expeditiously remove
alien gang members from the country.
A
nationwide gang operation netted 1,378 arrests in May. ICE’s Homeland
Security Investigations targeted gang members and associates involved in
transnational criminal activity, including drug trafficking, weapons
smuggling, human smuggling and sex trafficking, murder, and racketeering.
(ICE)
President Donald Trump has spotlighted criminal gang activity,
and MS-13 in particular.
“Big progress being made in ridding our country of MS-13 gang
members and gang members in general. MAKE AMERICA SAFE AGAIN!” he tweeted
on July 27.
Big progress being made in ridding our country of MS-13 gang members
and gang members in general. MAKE AMERICA SAFE AGAIN!
The White House released a statement of support for the bill
on Sept. 14.
“President Trump has always made the safety of Americans his
highest priority, and encourages the Senate to take quick action and pass
this bill,” the White House press secretary stated.
If the bill is taken up by the Senate, and voting follows
similar party lines, it is likely to pass.
GRAPHIC: Mexican Governor Denies Cartel Violence Despite 32
Executions in Days
Breitbart Texas / Cartel Chronicles
MORELIA,
Michoacan — As rival cartels murdered and dismembered more than 32 victims
in a raging war for control, government officials in this state continue to
paint an alternate reality — one without cartel violence.
During a recent interview, Michoacan Governor Silvano Aureoles claimed
that 80 percent of the murders in this state are due to family disputes and
the other 20 percent can be attributed to gang activity, Michoacan’s Contramuro reported.
“According to the information that we have until now, that’s it, only
that percentage (20 percent) is linked to alleged links to organized crime
as is the case of recent discoveries in Mugica,” Aureoles was quoted by
Mexican media referring to the violence in the southwestern part of the
state.
The nee violence began over the weekend when members of the Nueva
Familia Michoacana murdered a regional cartel leader aligned with Cartel
Jalisco New Generation. The initial attack began led to more than 19
murders — most of the bodies having been cut into pieces that were
scattered through various areas.
Just days later, CJNG fired back and began to carry out their own
series of executions seeking payback for the Familia Michoacana’s attack.
In an effort to escalate the brutality, the CJNG delivered not only a
severed human head but skinned the victim’s face as well.
Intelligence sources in Michoacan point to the two cartels fighting
not only for control of drug territories but also for control of the port
city of Lazaro Cardenas, one of Mexico’s main shipping ports.
Editor’s Note: Breitbart Texas traveled to the Mexican States of
Tamaulipas, Coahuila, Nuevo León and other areas to recruit citizen
journalists willing to risk their lives and expose the cartels silencing
their communities. Breitbart Texas’
Cartel Chronicles are published in both
English and in their original Spanish. This article was written by Jose Luis Lara, a former leading member
who helped start the Self-Defense Movement in Michoacán.
Netflix’s ‘Narcos’ Producer Murdered
in Mexico
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Netflix "Narcos" Video Screenshot
Organized
crime members are believed to be responsible for the murder in Mexico of a
producer for the Netflix series, Narcos.The producer traveled to
Mexico to search for shooting locations for the upcoming season. The fourth
season of the show is reported to provide an inside look at the rise of
Mexican drug cartels.
Carlos Muñoz Portal traveled to that country to search for shooting
locations in the state of Mexico which is located near the border with
Hidalgo. Officials found his body was found inside his vehicle in the town
of San Bartolo Actopan, Infobae reported. The film
company issued a short statement acknowledging the filmmaker’s passing —
claiming that the case was still under investigation.
The Narcos series provides a dramatized version of the
historical events dealing with the drug cartels and criminal organizations
responsible for most of the violence in Central and South America,
and most recently in Mexico. The
first two seasons of the show looked at the rise and fall of Pablo Escobar,
the leader of the Cartel de Medellin. The third and most recent season
provided a look at the fall of Cartel de Cali and the corruption at the
highest levels of the Colombian government including that nation’s president;
the U.S. Department of State was allegedly aware of the complicity. The
fourth season is expected to provide an inside look at Mexican drug
cartels.
Ildefonso Ortiz is an award-winning journalist with Breitbart Texas.
He co-founded the Cartel Chronicles project with Brandon Darby and Stephen
K. Bannon. You can
follow him on Twitter and on Facebook.
Brandon Darby is managing director and editor-in-chief of Breitbart
Texas. He co-founded the Cartel Chronicles project with Ildefonso Ortiz and
Stephen K. Bannon. Follow him on Twitter and Facebook. He can be contacted at bdarby@breitbart.com.
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Posted: Sep 15, 2017 5:40 PM
BREAKING: Federal judge says U.S. attorney general cannot withhold
grant money from cities over so-called sanctuary cities status.
A federal judge has ruled
Attorney General Jeff Sessions cannot follow through with his threat to
withhold public safety grant money to Chicago and other so-called sanctuary
cities for refusing his order to impose tough immigration policies.
U.S. District Judge Harry
Leinenweber on Friday granted Chicago’s request for a temporary
“nationwide” injunction. That means the Justice Department can’t deny
requests for the grant money until Chicago’s lawsuit against the agency is
concluded. He wrote that Chicago has shown a “likelihood of success” in its
arguments that Sessions overstepped his authority with the requirements.
Sanctuary city ordinances, which
are reportedly meant to offer illegals protection from deportation if they
report crimes, became a focal point when Kate Steinle was killed by an illegal alien, who
had been deported multiple times, in San Francisco. More family members of
those who have had loved ones lost to illegal alien homicides also came
forward to denounce the policy. Even America’s sheriffs noted that illegals don’t report crimes.
Nightmare:
DACA Amnesty DREAM Act Will Cost $115 Billion Thanks to Obamacare
AFP PHOTO/FREDERIC J. BROWN
Taxpayers in the United States will face a steep bill
if the Trump administration signs legislation to extend legal status to
so-called “Dreamers,” the illegal aliens who arrived as children and are
now protected under the Obama-holdover unlawful executive order known as
DACA.
The cost of a legislation
to legalize childhood arrivals is likely to be far higher than earlier
attempts because of Obamacare’s health insurance subsidies. The Affordable
Care Act subsidizes the costs of health insurance for millions of Americans
and would likely foot the bill for many of those whose residency in the
U.S. would be legalized by the DREAM Act.
The numbers are striking.
The DREAM Act of 2017, the most likely vehicle for extending DACA protections and
making them permanent, would raise federal outlays by $115 billion dollars,
according to a Breitbart News analysis. Nearly all of that would be
paid for by additional deficit spending.
That may come as a
surprise to lawmakers. The last time the DREAM Act was seriously
considered, the Congressional Budget Office said that the bill would
reduce budget deficits by about $1.4 billion over the following decade. But
that bill prohibited those it legalized from receiving subsidies toward
health insurance until they became permanent legal residents after ten
years, while the current version of the bill does not.
The DREAM Act of 2017,
sponsored by Democrat Senator Dick Durbin and Republican Senator
Lindsay Graham, would extend legal residency and a path to citizenship for
at least 3.3 million people, according to the Migration
Policy Institute. These include 1.8 million illegal aliens who would be
immediately eligible, plus 1.5 billion who would become eligible in the
near future by doing things such as enrolling in school.
Unlike the Senate DREAM bill from 2010 and Obama’s DACA executive order, the current DREAM Act does not exclude those who benefit
from the new immigration status from receiving health insurance subsidies
under the Affordable Care Act. Absent a specific exclusion, by granting
so-called Dreamers status as “lawfully present” in the United States, the
new DREAM Act would make millions both subject to the individual
mandate to buy health insurance and potential beneficiaries of the
subsidies available to pay for insurance.
This is a very expensive
proposition. The individual mandate will be a powerful incentive for the
newly legalized immigrants to obtain health insurance, and many will do so
through the subsidized Obamacare marketplaces. The experience of California
suggests that something like 79 percent of those getting the new legal
status will turn to the subsidized individual market for insurance, with
only 21 percent receiving health insurance from an employer.
Obamacare includes a
health insurance premium tax credit available to households with income
from one to four times the official federal poverty level. This means that
the tax credit subsidies are available to individuals
earning between $12,060 and $48,240. A family of four is eligible
obtain tax credits if its income is below $98,000. It’s likely that this
means substantially all those legalized by the DREAM Act are eligible for
subsidies. According to U.S. Berkeley’s
Labor Center, 68 percent of DACA program enrollees in California were
low-income and eligible for California’s state-run medical insurance
subsidies.
The median annual income
of current DACA aliens is $32,000, according to an August 2017 survey by Tom Wong of UC San Diego
(undertaken for the liberal think tank Center for American Progress and
other immigration advocacy groups). The median age is estimated to be
around 25- years-old. Around a quarter of DACA aliens have a child
born in the U.S.
According to the Kaiser
Family Foundation, a single person living in San Jose, California with an
income of $32,000 would be eligible to receive a premium tax credit of
$1,048 in 2017. The numbers vary by geography because health insurance
costs vary widely by geography. A single person in Brooklyn with $32,000 of
income would be eligible for an annual tax credit of around $2,666. But San
Jose is likely more representative due to the high concentration of DACA
aliens in California. Using the San Jose figure, current DACA
aliens alone would likely be immediately eligible for around $838.4
million in Obamacare subsidies this year.
Of course, not all the
DACA aliens turned Dreamers would wind up on in the Obamacare marketplace.
Some would receive employer provided health insurance. According to a study
by the UC Berkeley Labor Center, 21 percent of those granted DACA status
obtained private health insurance, most likely through their employers.
Subtracting those would produce $663.3 million of Obamacare subsidies.
Because DACA aliens have
children and some are married, that figure does not fully account for the
cost of their DREAM Act Obamacare subsidies. Add in one child for every
four DACA enrolled aliens and the cost rises to $1.16 billion in tax
credits. Even if we add a spouse to each DACA parent earning the same
$32,000 of income (a very generous assumption), the immediate cost of
Obamacare subsidies to DACA aliens is still around $1.16 billion. If
you assume that all those spouses were already Obamacare eligible (that is,
are legal residents), the net increase is around $835.6 million. (Again,
that’s a very generous assumption; a disproportionate share of spouses of
DACA aliens are likely not legal residents who could sponsor their spouse’s
legal residency).
Over time DACA workers
will see their pay rise, more will get married, and they will have more
children. For purposes of forecasting the cost of amnesty, assume
a fairly representative DACA household would be in San Jose, have
$64,000 of income that rises a healthy three percent each year, and include
two adults and two children. Nearly 80 percent will seek health insurance
through the Obamacare marketplace, and Obamacare subsidies for these
households would be around $7,073 per household in the first year.
Each year, household
income will likely rise but not as quickly as the cost of health insurance
and therefore the cost of subsidies. According to the estimates of the
Congressional Budget Office, the cost of subsidies will rise an average of
around seven percent each year over the cost of the next ten years,
producing a cumulative rise of 84 percent. So after 10 years, the
representative household would earn $83,500 and be eligible to receive an
Obamacare subsidy of $8,230. Even if the cost of health insurance subsidies
remained level, after 10 years, this same family of four would receive
$4,477 of subsidies after ten years. To be conservative, let’s put the
average cost of annual subsidies at the average of the two figures: $6,354.
Multiplied across 800,000 DACA households less the 21 percent expected to
receive employer-based health care, the annual federal budgetary cost is
around $4 billion or $40 billion over 10 years.
The Dream Act of 2017,
however, extends legal residency to far more aliens than the current DACA
program. If we include 79 percent of the 1.8 million immediately
eligible, the cost would rise to $91.5 billion over a decade.
Including that share of the larger 3.3 million figure would push the 10
year cost of Obamacare subsidies to the DREAM households to around
$167 billion.
Of course, some of that
would be offset by taxes paid by the legalized workers. When the CBO looked at the 2010 Dream
Act, it estimated that 1.1 million authorized residents would increase
federal revenues $2.3 billion in the 2011 through 2020 period. Let’s
generously double that for the increased number of workers we’re estimating
and say they would add $5 billion. The CBO said refundable tax credits (not
including Obamacare) would increase by $961 million, which we can double to
$1.8 billion. Social Security and Medicare outlays would rise by a combined
total of around $100 million over the period, the CBO forecast. Summing it
all up, the new Dream Act would result in a net increase of federal revenue
of around $400 million over the decade.
This means we’re looking
at a budgetary cost of around $165 billion over 10 years, almost all of
which would be added to federal debt. Subtract roughly $50 billion for
non-immigrant spouses who would have been covered by Obamacare anyway. That
leaves us with $115 billion of federal debt over a decade from the DREAM
Act.
This analysis probably
underestimates the budgetary cost of combining the DREAM Act with
Obamacare. Under the likely scenario that DREAMer incomes are lower than
those of DACA aliens, for instance, the costs would go higher. If the
assumption of three percent income growth is overly generous, the costs
will go higher. If DREAMer households have more than two children on
average, the costs would go higher. If the cost of health insurance rises
more quickly than assumed, the costs will be higher. And, most importantly,
if far more aliens obtain legal status than the 3.1 million used in this
analysis, costs would go higher.
They might call it the
DREAM Act, but in terms of the federal budget, it is a nightmare.
“The greatest criminal threat to the daily lives of
American
citizens are the Mexican drug cartels.”
“Mexican drug cartels are the “other” terrorist threat to
America. Militant Islamists have the goal of destroying the United
States. Mexican drug cartels are now accomplishing that mission –
from within, every day, in virtually every community across this
country.” JUDICIALWATCH
AG Sessions Touts Record-Breaking Drug Seizure in San Diego
Alex
Wong/Getty Images
Attorney General Jeff Sessions traveled to San Diego,
California, Wednesday to tout the record-breaking amount of drugs seized in
Fiscal Year 2017.
During
the visit, Sessions watched as Coast Guard officials unloaded more than
50,000 pounds of cocaine and heroin seized from drug traffickers at sea.
The drugs are worth an estimated $680 million, according to FOX 5 San Diego.
Overall,
in the 2017 Fiscal Year, officials revealed that a record-breaking 455,000
pounds plus of drugs had already been seized. In 2016, that number amounted
to 443,000 pounds. The 2017 haul is worth an estimated $6.1 billion.
“By preventing overdoses
and stopping new addictions before they start, enforcing our drug laws
saves lives,” Sessions said in a statement. “I commend every service member
who has helped us in our mission to keep the American people safe, and I
thank them for this indispensable contribution to public safety.”
Officials with the Coast
Guard also revealed that more than 600 alleged drug traffickers have
already been arrested in 2017.
“These drugs represent
the scale of the threat transnational organized crime poses to our nation
and to all peaceful nations of the Western Hemisphere,” Coast Guard
Commandant Adm. Paul Zukunft said in a statement. “The Coast Guard and
Justice Department, along with interagency partners, are determined to
commit our efforts to detect, interdict, investigate and prosecute the
entirety of these criminal networks and end the drug fueled instability and
violence in the region.”
Sessions’ visit to San
Diego to raise awareness to the drug problem crippling the U.S. comes just
as New York City officials and federal agents seized a record-breaking 270
pounds of fentanyl–enough to kill 32 million people–Breitbart Texas reported.
The Department of
Homeland Security (DHS) estimated that in 2015, at
least 52,000 Americans died from drug-overdoses, an industry that Mexican
and Latin American drug cartels largely control in the U.S.
John Binder is a reporter
for Breitbart Texas. Follow him on Twitter at @JxhnBinder.
Report:
DACA Amnesty May Trigger Flood of 4-6M Foreign Nationals, Not 800K
Ethan
Miller/Getty Images
Should President Trump follow through on a deal where
nearly 800,000 illegal aliens are allowed to remain in the United States
and eventually obtain U.S. citizenship, research shows it would create a
flood of four to six million chain migrants coming to the United
States.
Trump, who adamantly
opposed the amnesty for illegal aliens protected by the Deferred Action for
Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, is now defending the recipients of the
program, as well as leveraging a deal where the foreign nationals could
seek a pathway to citizenship through legal status, as Breitbart News reported.
Today, Trump signaled to
his supporters that he opposed any sort of chain migration that would
follow a DACA amnesty deal, though the deals the White House and Congress
are reviewing would all cause such an immigration crisis:
CHAIN MIGRATION cannot be allowed to be part of any legislation on
Immigration!
Latest data from the
United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) shows
that 618,342 illegal aliens from Mexico currently have DACA status. If
they were amnestied into the U.S., it would give them the opportunity to
bring adult parents and relatives to the U.S.
“There will be chain
migration. There always has been in amnesties,” Center for Immigration
Studies Policy Director Jessica Vaughan told Breitbart News.
According to Princeton
University researchers Stacie Carr and Marta Tienda, for every
one new Mexican immigrant to the U.S., an additional 6.38 Mexican
nationals come to the U.S. through family-chain migration.
Based on the Princeton
research, the 618, 342 illegal aliens from Mexico who are coveredby DACA would be able to bring upwards of four million
additional relatives and family members to the U.S. in the years to come.
If the remaining
estimated 180,000 DACA recipients brought in three family members each
after being amnestied, it would result in additional 540,000 immigrants.
Should the remaining 180,000 DACA recipients bring four family members
each to the U.S., it would result in more than 700,000 new immigrants.
But if
the remaining roughly 180,000 DACA recipients were to bring the same number
of family members as Mexican DACA recipients are expected to bring to the
U.S., it would result in nearly 1.2 million more legal family-based
immigrants coming to the country.
On top of the legal chain
migration that could occur following a DACA amnesty by Trump, there is also
the potential for a massive border surge, like the one that occurred
following former President Obama’s creation of the DACA program.
As the Migration Policy Institute has chronicled, previous border surges from amnesty
programs have brought hundreds of thousands across the U.S.-Mexico border:
While the flow of
Unaccompanied Alien Children (UACs) has been climbing steadily since 2012,
a dramatic surge has taken place in the last six months, with the Rio
Grande Valley in South Texas as the principal place of entry. The Border
Patrol there has converted entire stations to house unaccompanied minors
and families.
According to the Border
Patrol, apprehensions of unaccompanied children increased from 16,067 in
fiscal year (FY) 2011 to 24,481 in FY 2012 and 38,833 in FY 2013. During
the first eight months of FY 2014, 47,017 such children were apprehended by
the Border Patrol. If the influx continues apace—and it shows no signs of
slowing—the administration predicts that by the end of the fiscal year on
September 30, totals could reach 90,000.
Ninety-eight percent of
unaccompanied minors currently arriving at the border are from Honduras (28
percent), Mexico (25 percent), Guatemala (24 percent), and El Salvador (21
percent). This breakdown represents a significant shift: prior to 2012,
more than 75 percent of UACs were from Mexico.
“There’s
one thing for sure: it’s not going to be 800,000 illegal aliens amnestied,”
Vaughan said, alluding to the fact that an amnesty would surge both legal
and illegal immigration.
John Binder is a
reporter for Breitbart News. Follow him on Twitter at @JxhnBinder.
9 Lies About DACA Trump Is Buying Into
Jacquelyn
Martin/AP
Since President Trump’s reversal on an
Obama-created temporary amnesty program and his reported permanent
amnesty deal-making with Democrats on the issue, the administration is now
touting the success of those illegal aliens.
Via Twitter, Trump
praised the almost 800,000 illegal alien recipients of the Deferred Action
for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, saying they are “good, educated and
accomplished young people,” but failing to mention some of the key points
on the issue that he often brought to light during the 2016 presidential
election.
Now, Trump seems to be
buying into a handful of untruths about DACA, amnesty for illegal aliens
and his working-class, middle-class voter base.
1. All DACA recipients are
innocent young people
There have
been 2,139 DACA recipients, deemed “DREAMers” by the open borders
lobby, who have had their temporary protected status revoked due
to crimes, including: “A felony criminal conviction; a significant
misdemeanor conviction; multiple misdemeanor convictions; gang affiliation;
or arrest of any crime in which there is deemed to be a public safety
concern,” according to the United States Citizenship and Immigration
Services (USCIS) agency, as Breitbart News reported.
The majority of crimes by
DACA recipients include: “Alien smuggling, assaultive offenses, domestic
violence, drug offenses, DUI, larceny and thefts, criminal trespass and
burglary, sexual offenses with minors, other sex offenses and weapons
offenses,” USCIS has stated.
2. Signing the DREAM
Act will make Trump more popular and expand his coalition
A possible untruth being
told to Trump by his pro-DACA advisers is that Hispanic illegal aliens
protected by DACA will eventually become supporters of the President’s if
they are given amnesty. But, as Pew Research has shown, Hispanics vote overwhelmingly with
Democrats.
More than 30 percent of
Hispanics “identify” with the Democratic Party and another 23 percent said
they “lean towards” the Democrats. Meanwhile, a tiny four percent said they
identify with Republicans, and only 15 percent said they lean towards the
GOP.
3. The Trump base will
forget about an amnesty
There seems to be a
misconception that the Trump base of supporters will simply move on from an
amnesty for DACA recipients. This seems incredibly unlikely, as Pew Researchshows 79 percent of Trump supporters have said the issue is
“very important” to them.
Bloomberg reporter Sahil
Kapur pointed out after Trump’s initial caving on DACA that there was an
immediate flaw in the President’s strategy, as immigration remains a key
tenant to supporters of the “America First” agenda.
Additionally, the least
likely of the Trump base to forget about an amnesty deal would be the
“Angel Moms'”and “Angel Dads” who have had their children killed by illegal
aliens and DACA recipients.
Maureen Laquerre, whose
brother was murderd by an illegal alien, told Breitbart News:
If Trump’s trying to make
a deal he needs to sit down and talk to us about it because he more than
once looked us in the eye and told us that our family members didn’t die in
vain. The DACA children aren’t children anymore and they’ve had enough time
to work on getting citizenship if that’s what they really wanted. I’m not
into let’s make a deal, this isn’t a game show here.
4. Legalizing DACA is not
amnesty
In statements today,
Trump suggested that allowing DACA recipients to remain in the U.S. was not
amnesty, as Breitbart News reported.
“We’re looking at
allowing people to stay here,” Trump said. “We’re not looking at
citizenship, we’re not looking at amnesty.”
5. DACA recipients are not
taking U.S. jobs away from Americans
As a study by the
pro-immigration group FWD.us revealed, an amnesty to DACA
recipients would mean the hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants
currently holding jobs in the U.S. would be able to remain at those jobs,
rather than those opportunities potentially opening up for American
workers.
An ultimate end to the
DACA program has the potential to open nearly 720,000 U.S. jobs for
Americans, with the potential of more jobs in the future.
6. DACA recipients are
highly-educated
Though DACA has been
touted by Trump as being a program for highly-educated illegal
aliens, research by the Migration
Policy Institute shows this is not the case and that a minority of DACA
recipients have college degrees:
For example, one-third of
the people in the study sample who are older than age 25 hold four-year
college bachelors’ degrees or better. In contrast, an August
2013 report by
the pro-amnesty Migration Policy Institute showed that only 7.5 percent of
the 800,000 DACA-qualified illegals who were 18 or older had four-year
college degrees or better. An August 2017 study by the MPI showed only 5 percent of 832,000 DACA illegals who were older than 18 had
four-year college qualifications.
7. DACA
recipients are not looking to take advantage of the immigration
system
Though Trump now appears
supportive of DACA, he has yet to address the concerns regarding thousands
of DACA recipients who have schemed and used an advanced parole program
loophole, allowing them to obtain Green Cards and U.S. citizenship.
·
45,447 DACA recipients have been approved for advance parole
·
59,778 DACA recipients have applied for Lawful Permanent
Resident, known as a “Green Card”
·
39,514 DACA recipients have been approved for a Green Card
·
Of the DACA recipients with Green Cards, 2,181 have applied
for U.S. citizenship
·
Of the DACA recipients with Green Cards, 1,056 have become
U.S. citizens
8. Amnesty for DACA
recipients will have no impact on illegal and legal immigration
Pro-American immigration
reformers have told Breitbart News that an amnesty could lead to massive
surges of illegal immigration at the U.S.-Mexico border, as well as surges
in legal immigration, as DACA recipients become eligible to bring their
foreign relatives to the U.S.
For example, when former
President Obama enacted DACA, U.S. Border Patrol saw an unprecedented surge
of illegal alien children and families, as the Migration Policy
Institute documented in 2014:
The phenomenon of
unaccompanied children arriving at the U.S.-Mexico border, typically after
an arduous and often dangerous journey through Central America and Mexico,
has reached a crisis proportion, with a 90 percent spike in arrivals from
last year and predictions of future increases ahead. While the immediate
humanitarian situation has galvanized the attention of the Obama
administration, policymakers, and the country at large, it is painfully
clear that there are no simple solutions, whether in the short or medium
term, to address the complex set of push and pull factors driving the rise
in arrivals of unaccompanied alien children (UACs).
9. Amnesty will lead to
pro-American immigration reforms
There is the possibility
that the Trump administration believes that leading with an amnesty for
illegal aliens could eventually lead to successful, pro-American
immigration reforms that the President promised to enact.
But, as Rep. Steve King
(R-IA) pointed out in a single tweet, history shows amnesty is not a winner
in the long run for immigration policy in the national interest.
Reagan led with Amnesty, 1986. Bush43 led with Amnesty '06, Obama led
with Amnesty '13. All failed so...Trump leads with DACA Amnesty 2017.
In fact, the very
opposite is likely to happen if Trump signs an amnesty bill for illegal
aliens. The open borders lobby and corporate interests are likely to push a
full-fledged amnesty for all 12 to 30 million illegal aliens in the U.S.
should Trump sign a DACA amnesty.
John Binder is a
reporter for Breitbart News. Follow him on Twitter at @JxhnBinder.
Rising: 30,567
Aliens Apprehended or Deemed Inadmissible on SW Border Last Month
(Chart: U.S. Customs and
Border Patrol)
(CNSNews.com) - Since April, the number of illegal
aliens trying to get into the United States along the Southwest border has
been steadily rising, reaching a total of 30,567 in August, a 22.5 percent increase
from July and almost twice the 15,771 recorded in April, U.S. Customs and Border Protection said.
Of those 30,567 detained in August, 22,293 individuals were apprehended
between ports of entry. That's up from 18,190 in July; 16,087 in June;
14,520 in May; and 11,125 in April.
Another 8,283 individuals were deemed inadmissible at ports of entry in
August, including illegal aliens who turned themselves in to Border Patrol
agents. By comparison, the number of inadmissibles was 6,835 in July; 5,570
in June; 5,425 in May; and 4,646 in April.
With one month to go in Fiscal Year 2017 (Oct. 1, 2016-Sept. 30 2017), a
total of 281,390 individuals have been apprehended between ports of entry
on the Southwest Border, and 102,692 have been deemed inadmissible at ports
of entry, for a grand total of 384,082 individuals either detained or
turned away.
That's still well below the 559,695
apprehensions/inadmissibles identified on the Southwest border in Fiscal
2016; the 445,819 recorded in FY 2015; and the 569,972 in FY 2014.
As the CBP chart shows, the total number of illegal aliens either detained
or deemed inadmissible reached 66,712 in the month of October 2016, the
first month of Fiscal 2017. The number further declined in November, the
month Donald Trump was elected president, and it continued dropping through
April, before rising again in May-August.
The majority of illegal aliens apprehended between
ports of entry are coming from Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras.
President Trump campaigned on a promise to build a "big,
beautiful" wall on the Southwest Border, and he also promised to send
illegal aliens out of the country.
At a rally in Kentucky in March, President Trump bragged, "Since the
day of my election, we've already cut illegal immigration at the southern
border by 61 percent. Think of that, 61 percent! And we haven't
started."
But it appears that times have changed.
President Trump on Thursday said he is working
with congressional Democrats on a "plan" to keep hundreds of
thousands of dreamers in this country. Trump insisted there's no deal yet,
and in exchange for an agreement on dreamers, he wants "very, very
powerful border security."
But that apparently does not mean a new, high,
prefab concrete wall, as Trump described it on the campaign trail.
Trump tweeted on Thursday: "The WALL, which is already under
construction in the form of new renovation of old and existing fences and
walls, will continue to be built."
Speaking later Thursday morning in Florida, Trump
repeated that "What we want, we have to have a wall. If the wall is
going to be obstructed when we need the funds at a little bit later date,
when we are determining how much we need, then we're not doing anything."
Sanctuary
City Murder: Teen Illegal Immigrant Kills with Cop’s Stolen Gun, Police Say
An illegal immigrant being
monitored by immigration officials is now accused of murder in the sanctuary
city of San Francisco, California.
Erick Garcia-Pineda, 18, wore an ankle monitor placed by
immigration officials when he allegedly murdered 23-year-old Abel Ezquivel,
according to NBC Bay Area.
Four days before the murder, Pineda allegedly stole a San
Francisco Police officer’s service pistol from a police vehicle. Days
later, the illegal immigrant allegedly used the gun to murder Ezquivel.
Following the murder, Pineda was later arrested
and detained for unrelated battery charges. Police say they noticed the
illegal immigrant’s monitoring bracelet and used it to link Pineda to
several other crimes, including five robberies and two other shooting
incidents.
Pineda, according to NBC, was attempting to obtain asylum in
the U.S., claiming he was under threat of the MS-13 gang.
It remains unclear why Pineda was wearing an ankle monitor
by immigration officials, but was not previously arrested for his illegal
status.
John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart Texas. Follow him
on Twitter at @JxhnBinder.
Report:
DACA Amnesty May Trigger Flood of 4-6M Foreign Nationals, Not 800K
Ethan Miller/Getty Images
Should President Trump follow
through on a deal where nearly 800,000 illegal aliens are allowed to remain
in the United States and eventually obtain U.S. citizenship, research shows
it would create a flood of four to six million chain migrants
coming to the United States.
Trump, who adamantly opposed the amnesty for illegal aliens
protected by the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, is
now defending the recipients of the program, as well as leveraging a deal
where the foreign nationals could seek a pathway to citizenship through
legal status, as Breitbart News reported.
Today, Trump signaled to his supporters that he opposed any
sort of chain migration that would follow a DACA amnesty deal, though the
deals the White House and Congress are reviewing would all cause such an
immigration crisis:
CHAIN MIGRATION cannot be allowed to be part of any legislation on
Immigration!
Latest data from the United States Citizenship and
Immigration Services (USCIS) shows that 618,342 illegal aliens from
Mexico currently have DACA status. If they were amnestied into the U.S., it
would give them the opportunity to bring adult parents and relatives to the
U.S.
“There will be chain migration. There always has been in
amnesties,” Center for Immigration Studies Policy Director Jessica Vaughan
told Breitbart News.
According to Princeton University researchers Stacie
Carr and Marta Tienda, for every one new Mexican immigrant to the
U.S., an additional 6.38 Mexican nationals come to the U.S. through
family-chain migration.
Based on the Princeton research, the 618, 342 illegal aliens
from Mexico who are coveredby DACA would be able to
bring upwards of four million additional relatives and family members
to the U.S. in the years to come.
If the remaining estimated 180,000 DACA recipients brought
in three family members each after being amnestied, it would result in
additional 540,000 immigrants. Should the remaining 180,000 DACA recipients
bring four family members each to the U.S., it would result in more
than 700,000 new immigrants.
But if the remaining roughly 180,000 DACA recipients were to
bring the same number of family members as Mexican DACA recipients are
expected to bring to the U.S., it would result in nearly 1.2 million more
legal family-based immigrants coming to the country.
On top of the legal chain migration that could occur
following a DACA amnesty by Trump, there is also the potential for a
massive border surge, like the one that occurred following former President
Obama’s creation of the DACA program.
As the Migration Policy Institute has
chronicled, previous border surges from amnesty programs have brought
hundreds of thousands across the U.S.-Mexico border:
While the flow of Unaccompanied Alien Children (UACs) has
been climbing steadily since 2012, a dramatic surge has taken place in the
last six months, with the Rio Grande Valley in South Texas as the principal
place of entry. The Border Patrol there has converted entire stations to
house unaccompanied minors and families.
According to the Border Patrol, apprehensions of
unaccompanied children increased from 16,067 in fiscal year (FY) 2011 to
24,481 in FY 2012 and 38,833 in FY 2013. During the first eight months of
FY 2014, 47,017 such children were apprehended by the Border Patrol. If the
influx continues apace—and it shows no signs of slowing—the administration
predicts that by the end of the fiscal year on September 30, totals could
reach 90,000.
Ninety-eight percent of unaccompanied minors currently
arriving at the border are from Honduras (28 percent), Mexico (25 percent),
Guatemala (24 percent), and El Salvador (21 percent). This breakdown
represents a significant shift: prior to 2012, more than 75 percent of UACs
were from Mexico.
“There’s one thing for sure: it’s not going to be 800,000
illegal aliens amnestied,” Vaughan said, alluding to the fact that an
amnesty would surge both legal and illegal immigration.
John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Follow him
on Twitter at @JxhnBinder.'
Immigration
Hawks Licking Their Wounds After Trump's About-Face
"At
this point, who DOESN'T want Trump impeached?" -- Ann Coulter tweet,
7:05 a.m., September 14, 2017.
"If
reports true 100%. I blame R's. They caused this. They wanted him to fail
and now pushed him into arms of political suicide -- IF TRUE." -- Sean
Hannity tweet, 12:11 a.m., September 14, 2017.
"Flounder,
you can't spend your whole life worrying about your mistakes! You (fouled)
up... you trusted us! Hey, make the best of it!" -- Eric
"Otter" Stratton, "Animal House," 1978.
Before I
continue, let me answer Ann Coulter's question: Me. I don't want Trump
impeached, at least not until he does something clearly impeachable.
Impeaching him for policies you don't like or even for political
malpractice would simply be a time-wasting tantrum. And I say that as a
consistent critic of Donald Trump, going back to his flirtation with
running on the Reform Party ticket in 2000.
That
said, Coulter's reaction is understandable and even a little praiseworthy.
After all, she wrote a book -- a whole book! -- in 2016 called "In
Trump We Trust: E Pluribus Awesome!" But unlike a lot of her
compatriots in the Trump Army, Coulter was driven by a policy position, not
an infatuation. Or perhaps she was infatuated, but her commitment to the
policy was greater than her commitment to the man.
The
policy in question: immigration. To wit, Coulter thinks we've had enough of
it. That goes for the children brought here by illegal immigrants, commonly
referred to as "Dreamers." President Obama created a program,
Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, that unconstitutionally
(according to most conservatives, including the attorney general) granted a
kind of de facto amnesty to the Dreamers, giving them work permits and
legal residence.
On
Wednesday night, Trump had dinner with the Democratic leaders in the House
and Senate, Rep. Nancy Pelosi and Sen. Chuck Schumer. These
two famously partisan Democrats came out of the dinner announcing that they
had struck a deal with the president to make DACA permanent without
providing any funding for Trump's cherished border wall.
Trump,
witnessing the blowback, which included the new nickname "Amnesty
Don" in a headline at Breitbart News (which until recently had been
the Pravda of MAGAland), insisted in a tweet that no deal had yet been
made. But then he went on to sing the praises of DACA in a series of
tweets, making it clear to all that he wants the Dreamers to be legalized
and the DACA program made permanent.
In other
words, he threw his biggest supporters under the Trump train.
Now I
should say, I think Trump is right on the policy. It would be stupid and
cruel to deport a bunch of people who came here as little kids and have
since assimilated into the only country they've ever known. A large
majority of Americans, including a majority of Trump voters, agree with
Trump (and Schumer and Pelosi) on the policy. A poll this week found that
only 12 percent of registered voters want these people deported. Coulter
and former Trump adviser (and current Breitbart publisher) Steve Bannon
speak for that 12 percent.
The
majority of immigration hawks, however, considered DACA to be the
president's most valuable negotiating chip. He could have gotten funding
for the wall -- or perhaps E-Verify, or portions of Sen. Tom Cotton's
immigration reform legislation, the RAISE Act -- passed in exchange for
making DACA permanent. Instead, the author of "The Art of the
Deal" essentially tossed his best chip into the pot as if it were the
ante.
This
poses a crisis for two different kinds of Trump true believers. The
"nationalists" honestly believed he was one of them. Meanwhile,
the super-fans honestly believed Trump was the greatest negotiator and
strategist the world had ever seen. Both of these notions were delusions.
Oh, I'm sure Trump believes much of his America First talk, but that's
talk. What really matters to him is praise. It was only a matter of time
before the moth flew to glow of public opinion.
The sad
thing is that both delusions were obvious from the moment he descended his
golden escalator at Trump Tower. It will be interesting to see how the true
believers follow Otter's advice and make the best of their foul-up.
FOR 8 YEARS BARACK OBAMA DID NADA FOR BLACK AMERICAN
EVEN AS HE FUNDED AND OPERATED OUT OF THE WHITE HOUSE THE MEX FASCIST PARTY
of LA RAZA.
"Still, black America remains steadfastly loyal to a
party that supports the endless importation of workers who compete directly
for jobs with them and their families. Writes Kaus, "The median hourly
wage (of DACA recipients) is only $15.34, meaning that many are competing
with hard-pressed, lower-skilled Americans."
A 'Read-My-Lips' Moment for Trump?
President Donald J. Trump
participates a Hurricane Irma briefing call with FEMA Administrator William
"Brock" Long, Monday, Sept. 11, 2017, joined by White House Chief
of Staff Gen. John Kelly, left; Homeland Security and Counter Terrorism
Adviser Thomas Bossert, right, and Deputy Homeland Security Adviser John J.
Daly, seated, in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, D.C. (
Official White House Photo by Shealah Craighead)
"Having cut a deal with Democrats for help
with the debt ceiling, will Trump seek a deal with Democrats on amnesty for
the 'Dreamers' in return for funding for border security?"
The answer to that question, raised in my column a
week ago, is in. Last night, President Donald Trump cut a deal with
"Chuck and Nancy" for amnesty for 800,000 recipients of the
Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program who came here illegally as
youngsters, in return for Democratic votes for more money for border
security.
According to preening
Minority Leader Pelosi, the agreement contains not a dime for Trump's Wall,
and the "Dreamers" are to be put on a long glide "path to
U.S. citizenship."
Trump denies this is amnesty,
and says the Wall comes later.
Fallout? Among the most
enthusiastic of
Trump backers, disbelief, disillusionment
and wonderment at where we go from here.
Trump's debt-ceiling deal cut the legs out from under the
GOP budget hawks. But amnesty would pull the rug out from under all the
folks at those rallies who cheered Trump's promise to preserve the country
they grew up in from this endless Third World invasion.
For make no mistake. If amnesty is granted for the
800,000, that will be but the first wave. "There are reasons
no country has a rule that if you sneak in as a minor you're a
citizen," writes Mickey Kaus, author of "The End of
Equality," in The Washington Post.
"We'd be inviting the world. ... (An amnesty)
would have a knock-on effect. Under 'chain migration' rules established in
1965 ... new citizens can bring in their siblings and adult children, who
can bring in their siblings and in-laws until whole villages have moved to
the United States.
"(T)oday's 690,000 dreamers would quickly
become millions of newcomers who may well be low-skilled and who would
almost certainly include the parents who brought them — the ones who in
theory are at fault."
Trump is risking a breach in the dam. If the
populists who provided him with decisive margins in Ohio, Wisconsin,
Michigan and Pennsylvania feel betrayed, it's hard to blame them.
Why did Trump do it? Clearly, he relished the
cheers he got for the debt ceiling deal and wanted another such victory.
And with the rampant accusations of a lack of "compassion" for
his cancellation of the temporary Obama administration amnesty, he decided
he had had enough heat.
It is not easy to stand up for long to the gale
force winds of hostile commentary that blow constantly through this city.
Trump's capitulation, if that is what turns out to
be, calls to mind George H. W. Bush's decision in 1990 to raise the Reagan
tax rates in a deal engineered for him by a White House-Hill coalition,
that made a mockery of his "Read my lips! No new taxes!" pledge
of 1988.
For agreeing to feed the beast of Big Government,
rather than cut its rations as Reagan sought to do, Bush was called a
statesman.
By the fall of '92, the cheering had stopped.
Can Trump not
know that those congratulating him for his newfound flexibility will be
rejoicing, should Bob Mueller indict his family and his friends, and
recommend his impeachment down the road?
What makes pre-emptive amnesty particularly
disheartening is that the Trump policy of securing the border and returning
illegal immigrants to their home countries appears, from a Census Bureau
report this week, to be precisely the prescription America needs.
In 2016, paychecks for U.S. households reached an
average of $59,039, up 3.2 percent from 2015, a year when they had surged.
U.S. median household income is now at its highest
ever.
Yet there are inequalities. Where the median
family income of Asian-Americans is above $81,400, and more than $65,000
for white Americans, the median family income of Hispanic families is
$47,675, and that of African-American households far less, $39,490.
Consider. Though black Americans are predominantly
native-born, while high percentages of Hispanics and Asians are immigrants,
from the Census numbers, Hispanics earn more and Asians enjoy twice the
median family income of blacks, which is below where it was in 2000.
Still, black America remains steadfastly loyal to
a party that supports the endless importation of workers who compete
directly for jobs with them and their families. Writes Kaus, "The
median hourly wage (of DACA recipients) is only $15.34, meaning that many
are competing with hard-pressed, lower-skilled Americans."
Looking closer at the Census Bureau figures,
Trumpian economic nationalism would appear to have its greatest appeal to
the American working class, a huge slice of which is native-born, black and
Hispanic.
The elements of that policy?
Secure the border. Halt the invasion of low-wage
workers, here legally and illegally, from the Third World. Tighten the
labor market to force employers to raise wages in our full-employment
economy. Provide tax incentives to companies who site factories in the USA.
Impose border taxes on the products of companies who move plants abroad.
Put America and American workers first.
Will any amnesty of undocumented workers do that?
Patrick J. Buchanan is the author of a new book,
"Nixon's White House Wars: The Battles That Made and Broke a President
and Divided America Forever."
OBAMA’S
CRONY BANKSTERISM destroyed a TRILLION DOLLARS in home equity… and they’re
still plundering us!
Barack Obama created more debt for the middle
class than any president in US
history, and also had the only huge QE programs:
$4.2 Trillion.
OXFAM reported
that during Obama’s
terms, 95%
of the wealth created went
to the
top 1% of the world’s wealthy.
SOARING
POVERTY AND DRUG ADDICTION UNDER OBAMA
"These figures
present a scathing indictment of the social order that prevails in America,
the world’s wealthiest country, whose government proclaims itself to be the
globe’s leading democracy. They are just one manifestation of the human
toll taken by the vast and all-pervasive inequality and mass poverty.
AMERICA
UNRAVELS:
Millions of children go
hungry as the super- rich gorge themselves and ILLEGALS SUCK IN BILLIONS IN
WELFARE!
*
"The top 10 percent of
Americans now own roughly three-quarters of all household wealth."
"While telling workers
there is “not enough money” for wage increases, or to fund social programs,
both parties hailed the recent construction of the U.S.S. Gerald Ford, a
massive aircraft carrier that cost $13 billion to build, stuffing the
pockets of numerous contractors and war profiteers."
US Census report shows increasing social
inequality
By
Eric London
15 September 2017
US Census data from 2016 released on Tuesday shows
increasing social inequality amid a small gain in household income that is
offset by a massive growth of personal debt and rising living costs.
The data tracks the ongoing redistribution of
wealth from the working class to the wealthy as a result of the pro-Wall
Street policies of both the Republican and Democratic parties. It
substantiates the oligarchic character of the United States.
Social
inequality
The Gini index, used to measure social inequality,
with higher figures indicating a wider economic divide, rose slightly from
2015 (.479) to 2016 (.481). The 2016 figure, according to rankings in
the CIA World Factbook, makes the US slightly more equal
than Madagascar and less equal than Mexico.
In terms of aggregate income share, the shift from
2015 to 2016 is as follows:
The growth in inequality is even starker when
traced from 2007, the year before the Wall Street crisis.
The data reflects income and not wealth, thereby
providing an incomplete and conservative indication of the scale of
inequality. Even within the highest quintile, the income share increased
only for the top 10 percent, and, in particular, the top 5 percent.
Household
income
The corporate media has portrayed the report as a
sign of positive income growth, since it shows a slight rise in median
income of 3.2 percent from 2015 to 2016.
But according to the Census data, the earnings of
“full-time, year-round workers” remained stagnant. For men in this
category, a total of 63.9 million people, earnings declined by 0.4 percent,
from $51,859 in 2015 to $51,640 in 2016. For women in this category, 47.2
million people, there was a minor increase, 0.7 percent, from $41,257 in
2015 to $41,554 in 2016. In other words, families with 2 adults working
full-time saw a paltry $78 increase in their yearly earnings from 2015 to
2016.
Claims of rising incomes mask the growth of
inequality. The Census data shows that the household income of the 90th
percentile (the 100th being the highest) was 12.53 times higher than the
household income of the 10th percentile in 2016, up from 12.23 times higher
in 2015 and 11.18 times higher in 2007. The degree to which income is
concentrated in the richest 10 percent of the population is exemplified by
the fact that the 5th percentile boasted a household income 3.82 times
higher than the 50th percentile in 2016, up from 3.79 times in 2015 and
3.52 in 2007.
As Bloomberg News reported
Wednesday, “Since 2007, average inflation-adjusted income has climbed more than
10 percent for households in the highest fifth of the earnings
distribution, and it’s fallen 3.2 percent for the bottom quintile. Incomes
of the top 5 percent jumped 12.8 percent over the period.”
For the working class, any income increase was
transferred to the corporate elite in the form of rising debt payments and
increasing living expenses, especially for health care.
According to figures from eHealth, a large private
health exchange, average deductibles for families rose 5 percent from 2016
to 2017 (a year after the period covered by the Census report) and average
individual premiums rose 22 percent over the same period.
The rising cost of student debt alone largely
erases income increases seen by some young people. According to the Census,
those aged 15 to 24 saw an income increase of 13.9 percent, from $36,564 in
2015 to $41,655 in 2016, while incomes for young people aged 25 to 34 rose
4.9 percent, from $58,091 to $60,932, nearly double the percentage increase
for older age groups.
However, in 2016, student debt rose to an average
of $30,000 per young person, up 4 percent from 2015, eliminating over 80
percent of the income rise for 25-34 year olds. For 15 to 24 year olds, the
$4,000 increase in median income would hardly cover one sixth of the average
debt payment, let alone make up for the fact that young people face a
future in which they are unlikely to receive a pension, Social Security or
Medicare.
Rising debt levels are not a phenomenon limited to
young people. A Bloomberg report from
August 10 notes that credit card defaults increased from the beginning of
2015—when roughly 2.5 percent of debt holders defaulted—to the end of 2016,
when the total hit 3 percent. This figure subsequently climbed in 2017 to
reach 3.49 percent.
Bloomberg notes:
“After deleveraging in the aftermath of the last US recession, Americans
have once again taken on record debt loads that risk holding back the
world’s largest economy... Household debt outstanding--everything from
mortgages to credit cards to car loans--reached $12.7 trillion in the first
quarter [2017], surpassing the previous peak in 2008 before the effect of
the housing market collapse took its toll, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
data show.”
“For most Americans,” the report continues, “whose
median household income, adjusted for inflation, is lower than it was at
its peak in 1999, borrowing has been the answer to maintaining their
standard of living. The increase in debt helps explain why the economy’s
main source of fuel is providing less of a boost than in the past. Personal
spending growth has averaged 2.4 percent since the recession ended in 2009,
less than the 3 percent of the previous expansion and 4.3 percent from
1982-90.”
The Bloomberg report explains
that income from wages minus household debt trended downward in 2015,
meaning that debt is rising faster than wages, causing a loss of roughly
$500 billion across the US economy in the space of just one year.
Poverty
rate
Though the Census report shows that the poverty
rate declined from 13.5 percent of households in 2015 to 12.7 percent in
2016, this figure is substantially higher than the 11.3 percent level that
prevailed in 2000. In reality, individuals and families must make 2.5 to 3
times the official poverty rate of $12,000 for an individual, $15,500 for a
married couple and $25,000 for a family of four just to make ends meet.
What the data really shows is that the poorest
half of the country--over 150 million people--is in a desperate financial
position, with the next poorest 40 percent facing constant financial strain
and a declining share of the national income. In regard to poverty, the
Census Bureau maintains figures that go up only to 200 percent of the
official poverty level. The latest report shows that 95 million people—29.8
percent of the population—fall into this category. The share of those under
the age of 18 in this category is much higher--39.1 percent.
This is the context for the drive by the Trump
administration and both big business parties to slash corporate taxes,
impose a health care “reform” that will increase costs for millions of
people, and accelerate the transfer of wealth from the working class to the
financial aristocracy.
Census
Bureau: Mens’ Wages Remain Below 1973 Levels
AP Photo/David Goldman
Americans’ median pay
packets have been flat since 1973, even though the vastly expanded
federal government has justified its own salaries and its many massive
spending and policy programs as a sure-fire way to boost education,
productivity, and wages.
The colossal 44-year failure of the federal
government to help grow American men’s wages — or even to reduce poverty
rates — is laid bare in the latest report from the Census Bureau, “Income and Poverty in the
United States: 2016.”
The dense report includes myriad detailed tables
of data around one shocking chart, which reveals no growth in men’s wages
for the past 44 years, or since President Richard Nixon was beginning his
second term in office.
Median earning of full-time,
year-round workers, 15 years and older, 1960 to 2016.
The sudden flatline followed a 31 percent rise in
all men’s median wages from 1960 to 1972.
During the 44-year period since 1973, income among
women grew by roughly 30 percent as more skilled and trained women entered
the market, gained experience, and were promoted to better-paying jobs.
Those opportunities and contributions are good news — but they do not
change the reality that men’s income has been flat for 44 years.
In fact, the report notes that “the real median
earnings of full-time, year-round working men were 1.1 percent lower in
2016 than in 2007.”
There are many explanations for the flat income,
such as the massive growth in the labor supply when 30 million additional
American women and roughly 30 million immigrants joined in the marketplace
competition for good jobs. For example, a pro-immigration panel at the
prestigious National Academies of Science estimated in 2016 that the
huge government-imposed inflow of immigrants since 1965 has imposed a
hidden 5 percent “immigration tax” on Americans’ pay packets.
Technology has made many individuals workers more
productive but also sidelined many others, such as newspaper printers
and steelworkers. Peaceful international trade has allowed men to sell more
products overseas but also allowed employers to hire foreign workers
instead of Americans. Whatever the combinations of reasons, the mid-point
for men’s income has been flat for 43 years, according to the Census
Bureau.
The flat-earnings chart needs some explanation:
It shows only inflation-adjusted, pre-tax pay
packets, so it excludes the impact of inflation, taxes and government
benefits, such as food-stamps and tax-breaks for children, or of
Obamacare’s subsidies and spending obligations.
It shows median income, which is the midpoint of
the income scale. Half the people earn above the line, half the people earn
below the line. Average income would be higher, but less revealing, because
a higher share of income is going to the highest earners, compared to back
in the 1970s.
The chart shows the income of year-round,
full-time workers, excluding part-workers or seasonal workers, or those who
work on-and-off under contracts. The chart does not make distinctions by
race.
The chart shows individuals’ income, not
the income of households, which has fluctuated as the average number
of children or adults has declined.
The chart only shows income, but not the quality
of goods in the stores, such as Starbucks coffee, cheap products imported
from China, high-tech music players, improved autos or better health-care.
That rise in product quality from competing companies — not claimed policy
improvements from federal agencies — has provided the vast majority of
material gains for Americans amid flat incomes.
The details are provided on Table A-4, on page 49
of this PDF.
The median earnings for all men employed
year-round was $51,640 in 2016, which is still far below the $54,030 earned
by full-time men in 1973. It is also below the $51,938 earned in the 2000
Internet boom, or the $52,222 earned in the 2007 property bubble when
large-scale legal and illegal immigration provided employers with millions
of alternative imported workers.
The post-1973 reality of flat income is a huge
contrast to the rapid growth from 1960 up to the 1973 oil shock and the
reopened inflow of immigrant labor after 1965. During the twelves
years 1960 to 1972, the median average wages for all males — including
minorities, seasonal workers, and contract workers — rose from by 31
percent, from $31,926 to $41,013.
When the income of all men is gauged, the Bureau
concluded that all men’s median income in 1973 was $41,935. It dropped
after 1973 and rose back up to $43,360 in 1999 as companies competed for
the few unemployed workers during the first Internet boom. Income crashed
in 2008 to a depression-low of $39,636 in 2012 once the federal
government’s real-estate bubble burst. Since then, income has slowly
climbed back to $42,220 in 2016 amid the continuous public protest against
the federal government’s cheap-labor economic strategy, which is
exemplified by the bipartisan 2013 “Gang of Eight” amnesty legislation.
Other data in the report shows that the nation’s
poverty rates have barely budged since the 1960s, although many people in
the United States are wealthier than many people n Europe. For
example, the percentage of American said to be in poverty was 11.1 percent
in 1973 and 12.7 percent in 2016.
That national poverty rate climbed, in part,
because of the population of Latinos spiked from 10.8 million in 1973 to
57.6 million in 2016. Poverty among Latinos was 19 percent in 2016,
little changed from 1973.
The report also noted that:
The official poverty rate decreased by 0.8
percentage points between 2015 and 2016. At 12.7 percent, the 2016 poverty
rate is not statistically different from 2007 (12.5 percent), the year
before the most recent recession.
In real terms, median earnings of full-time,
year-round working women in 2016 were 2.3 percent higher than their 2007
median, the year before the most recent recession. The real median earnings
of full-time, year-round working men were 1.1 percent lower in 2016 than in
2007.
In 2017, the number and percentage of shared
households remained higher than in 2007, the year before the most recent
recession. In 2007, 17.0 percent of all households were shared
households, totaling 19.7 million households. In 2017, 19.4 percent of all
households were shared households, totaling 24.6 million households.Read it all here.
THE HOUSTON FLOOD - CRONY
CAPITALIST LICK THEIR LIPS OVER REBUILDING.... FIRST, LIKE KATRINA, CUT
WAGES AND INVITE HORDES MORE ILLEGALS IN TO WORK CHEAP!
"Like Katrina, Hurricane Harvey has lifted
the lid on the ugly reality of American society, exposing
colossal levels of social inequality, pervasive poverty and ruling
class criminality."
"The reason why these warnings
have been ignored is not hard to fathom. They have been
resolutely opposed by corporate interests, including the
real estate industry, Wall Street and Big Oil. Their ability,
operating through bribed politicians of both parties, to veto and
block elementary measures to protect the American
people, exemplifies the complete subordination of all social
needs under capitalism to the selfish drive of a corporate-financial
oligarchy to accumulate ever greater levels of personal wealth and
profit."
THEY INVADE OVER AND UNDER OUR
BORDERS… and do so by invitation of the Democrat Party.
Lawmen are worried that the cartel tunnel builders
on the Mexican border are now using their engineered concoctions to smuggle
illegals, not merely drugs.
That's what the Daily
Caller has found, describing the
new anxiety as one was discovered over the weekend, catching about 30
illegals coming in from Mexico and China. MONICA SHOWALTER – AMERICAN
THINKER.com
SOARING
POVERTY AND DRUG ADDICTION UNDER OBAMA
"These figures present a
scathing indictment of the social order that prevails in America, the
world’s wealthiest country, whose government proclaims itself to be the
globe’s leading democracy. They are just one manifestation of the human
toll taken by the vast and all-pervasive inequality and mass poverty.
OBAMA-CLINTONOMICS
to serve the filthy rich
The same period has seen a massive growth of
social inequality, with income and wealth concentrated at the very top of
American society to an extent not seen since the 1920s.
“This study follows reports released over the past
several months documenting rising mortality rates among US workers due to
drug addiction and suicide, high rates of infant mortality, an overall
leveling off of life expectancy, and a growing gap between the life
expectancy of the bottom rung of income earners compared to those at the
top.”
SOARING POVERTY AND DRUG ADDICTION UNDER OBAMA
"These figures present a scathing indictment
of the social order that prevails in America, the world’s wealthiest
country, whose government proclaims itself to be the globe’s leading
democracy. They are just one manifestation of the human toll taken by the
vast and all-pervasive inequality and mass poverty.
SOARING POVERTY AND DRUG ADDICTION UNDER OBAMA
"These figures present a scathing indictment
of the social order that prevails in America, the world’s wealthiest
country, whose government proclaims itself to be the globe’s leading
democracy. They are just one manifestation of the human toll taken by the
vast and all-pervasive inequality and mass poverty.
Chicago Mayor: City Is Now A 'Trump-Free Zone'
After DACA Decision
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Posted: Sep 07, 2017 5:45 PM
Chicago Mayor Rahm
Emanuel had a clear message to send to the city’s illegal aliens: the
Windy City is your home, and that they have nothing to fear. Concerning
schools and other aspects of the city infrastructure, Emanuel declared
them “Trump-free zones” (via The Hill):
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Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel
(D) said Tuesday that the Windy City will continue to welcome
"Dreamers" despite President Trump’s decision to rescind the
Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.
“To all the Dreamers that are
here in this room, and in the city of Chicago, you are welcomed in the city
of Chicago. This is your home and you have nothing to worry about,” Emanuel
said in a prepared statement.
The comments come just hours
after Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced that the DACA program, which
deferred deportation for undocumented immigrants who were brought to the
United States as minors and allows them to apply for work permits, would be
phased out.
“Chicago, our schools, our
neighborhoods, our city, as it relates to what President Trump said, will
be a Trump-free zone. You have nothing to worry about,” Emanuel continued.
This announcement comes after
the Trump White House decided to gradually phase out the Deferred Action
for Childhood Arrivals program. The Obama-era program has been
constitutionally questionable since then-President Obama announced it as a
stopgap measure. Now, around 800,000 illegal aliens benefit from the
program that shields them from deportation if they met certain
requirements. DACA recipients are illegal aliens that were minors when they
entered the country illegally. The decision to nix the program and place it
in Congress’ hands, which should have happened in the first place, has the
Left going insane.
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