Wednesday, April 29, 2020

JOBS FOR LEGALS?!? - NANCY PELOSI HOWLING LIKE A CARTEL SLUT GIVING BIRTH TO AN ANCHOR BABY (UNREGISTERED DEM VOTER)


DHS Chad Wolf: Agencies Reviewing Visa Program to Find Jobs for Americans

NEW YORK, NY - JANUARY 29: Immigrants wait for their citizenship interviews at the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), district office on January 29, 2013 in New York City. Some 118,000 immigrants applied for U.S. citizenship in the New York City dictrict in 2012. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)
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The Department of Homeland Security is reviewing the nation’s many visa worker programs to ensure Americans get American jobs during the economic recovery, the agency chief told Fox News’ Brian Kilmeade.
One option is a curb on Chinese students’ use of the huge Optional Practical Training program, acting secretary Chad Wolf told Kilmeade:
We’re certainly very concerned regarding a number of these visa programs that Chinese students can use to come into the country and study and stay, and eventually work, we see some of these programs have potentially been abused in the past. So this is work that’s been well underway at the department …  We’ll have a series of recommendations that will be teed up, and some of those could include students on what we call a couple of different OPT and CPT which is our Optical [sic] Practical Training [program].
“We’re taking a look at H-1B’s, the H-2Bs, the H-2As, all of the sort of the temporary worker visas — and there’s many more — to see what kind of changes that we should make,” he said.
Wolf’s statement shows the rapid pre-election progress being in Washington by a series of D.C.-based and grassroots reform groups who want to reduce the annual inflow of immigrants and visa workers.
On April 22, President Donald Trump announced that DHS would trim the inflow of immigrants for 60 days, and he directed his agency chiefs to come up with recommendations for curbs to visa programs in 20 days, for an announcement in 50 days.
This huge shift in national labor policy is very popular. A series of polls are showing Americans’ normal welcome for migrants is being put on hold pending the recovery of jobs for fathers, mothers, sons, daughters, and neighbors.
The groups and individuals – including Numbers USA, the Federation for American Immigration Reform, U.S. Tech Workers, and the Ameican Workers Coalition are pushing for reforms during the coronavirus crash when stock prices are already down, and millions of Americans need the jobs held by the visa workers.
For example, the grassroots American Workers Coalition tweeted a response to Wolf’s statement:
Good News  @DHS_Wolf #EndOPT in it’s entirety. Merely focusing on China students is a mistake. #AmericanGrads need training & jobs in STEM fields for the sake of America’s NS
In 2018, Chinese students got work permits for 25,000 technology OPT jobs — far less than the 70,000 work-permits for technology OPT jobs held by Indian graduates. 
The OPT jobs are particularly important because they are a government-subsidized and unregulated on-ramp to lucrative careers in Fortune 500 companies for many foreign graduates who have ethnic ties to foreign-born hiring managers. The program was not created by Congress, but by multiple White Houses.  
Wolf sketched the next 30-day stage in Trump’s incremental process. The next stage includes top officials from DHS, the Department of Labor, and the Department of State:
We need to make sure that Americans are employed and so we wanted to take a look at sort of a first step and this would be to curtail new immigrants coming in that would compete with Americans for these jobs. Then the second step would be ‘What other steps [do] we need to take from a temporary worker visa program perspective?’ So we’re doing all of the above … And over the next 30 days we’ll continue to take a look at additional measures.
Proposals to change the visa programs are likely very popular among 2020 voters — but they are facing massive resistance from the investors and Fortune 500 companies which convert college-graduates’ salary cuts into shareholders gains on Wall Street.
The business concerns were touted by an August 28 report in Bloomberg.com, titled “Over 200,000 H-1B Workers Could Lose Legal Status by June.” Bloomberg’s two foreign-born authors ignored American employees to showcase the concerns of Fortune 500 investors:
In a letter sent to the State and Homeland Security departments on April 17, TechNet, a lobbying group whose members include Apple, Amazon, Facebook, Google and Microsoft, joined a coalition of trade groups calling for relief for foreign-born workers. The letter requested a delay in work authorization expiration dates until at least Sept. 10. “Without action, these issues will lead to hundreds of thousands of unfilled jobs and have profound negative economic effects,” the letter read.
The tech industry is crucial to supporting offices working remotely, helping doctors provide telehealth services and keeping students learning at home, said Alex Burgos, senior vice president of federal policy and government relations at TechNet. “We’ve seen the administration extend tax filing deadlines,” he said, and similar flexibility in visa programs makes sense “because no one here is at fault in any way.”
The number of resident foreign workers is not disclosed by government agencies. No establishment media outlet has tried to calculate the resident population of foreign workers, including the numbers of those who hold work visas or work permits.
But calculations by Breitbart News show employers keep a resident population of roughly 1.5 million white collar workers in a very wide variety of U.S. jobs, including design, marketing, healthcare, recruiting, science, journalism, fashion, pharmacy, banking, regulatory compliance, teaching, management, hiring, and software jobs.
This 1.5 million population includes roughly one million Indian graduates and roughly 270,000 Chinese graduates. The population includes roughly 900,000 workers on H-1B visas,  roughly 200,000 people on OPT work permits, 100,000 on CPT permits, and at least 100,000 people at universities and research centers.
That 1.5 million estimate does not count white collar workers who illegally work for several months at a time while visiting with B-1 visas, and it likely understates the growing population of white collar illegal aliens.
Numerous Americans say the existence of this vast foreign worker population blocks many young Americans from getting starter jobs at Fortune 500 companies, reduces salaries for millions of U.S. graduates, and degrades Americans’ professional careers into a series of unstable monthly “gig” contracts.
The supply of subsidized foreign white collar labor also allows business school executives to degrade the workplace authority and free speech of innovative American professionals, to subordinate the development and reliability of technology to the priorities of foreign workers, and also to subordinate technological quality to the demands for quarterly profits by U.S. and Indian CEOs and investors.
Overall, investors are using the foreign workers to outsource much of the United States’ professional sector to Indian workers, just as investors used free trade deals to outsource much of the nation’s blue collar manufacturing sector to Chinese workers, say many of the American graduates who have seen the contract workers change their careers.
New York Times reporters say immigration boosts Americans' wages.
We're now waiting for NYT's reports on the Tooth Fairy, the Easter Bunny, Santa Claus, and the chupacabra.
Seriously, why do so few reporters recognize the role of supply & demand in wages?https://bit.ly/2x54j7M 

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The international trade in Indian labor — and its planned impact on American graduates — is hidden from the public by the establishment media’s sympathy for migrants and immigration. For example, two reporters at the Los Angeles Times recently ignored the visa worker business in an article about Trump’s April 22 proclamation.
The media veil over the programs also hides much corruption as U.S. and Indian managers effectively trade residency and green cards for cheap labor and cash payments. With help from the media, DHS  exposed some of the corrupt deals, but the major problems are overwhelmingly among Indian managers and workers, in part, because the U.S.-India Outsourcing Economy is so important to the Fortune 500 companies.
A huge cause of corruption is the huge cultural and economic gap between the United States and India, but also because the executives can conduct business in the U.S. and regions of India. In contrast, the technological payoff from hiring Chinese to take science jobs from male and female American graduates may be large.
GOP Rep. Paul Gosar, (R-Ariz.), is pushing the issue in Congress.


Pelosi is a ghastly creature. She and her ilk – Feinstein, Boxer, Jerry Brown, Gavin Newsom – have effectively destroyed California and they did it on purposeThey strive to import as many illegal migrants as possible; they've created and fostered the homelessness and let it fester. California is now a socialist disaster and the further destruction of the economy is just what they've wanted. They see it as their chance to transform the state into Venezuela. PATRICIA McCARTHY

Democrats Promise Many Work Permits for DACA Medical Workers in Coronavirus Crash

Swedish Medical Center health care workers look on as first responders gathered outside the hospital in support of them in their work against the coronavirus outbreak Thursday, April 16, 2020, in Seattle. First responders across King County planned to stand outside of 15 hospitals in a show of appreciation for …
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Democrats will demand work permits for hundreds of thousands of non-immigrant foreign workers in the next coronavirus rescue bill, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said on Tuesday.
“What corona has made clear is how vital our TPS recipients are, or DACA recipients are, to continuing health care in America,” Schumer said in a press briefing promoted by America’s Voice Education Fund and the FWD.us advocacy group for West Coast investors. The New York senator continued:
[If] you go to New York, any New York healthcare institution, and a high percentage of the people are immigrants, many of whom are TPS and DACA recipients. … It’s obviously an awful crisis, but I think it’s shown America how much we need these folks as they help us fight the crisis, and I think that should help us with new support as we push for this in [the draft] COVID Four [rescue bill].
Schumer’s comments conflated legal immigrants with temporary workers and illegal migrants. For example, “TPS” are foreign migrants — including many illegal aliens — who were given “Temporary Protected Status” because of crises in their homelands, sometimes decades ago.
“DACA” refers to President Barack Obama’s 2012 Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, which blocked deportations and also gave work permits to roughly 800,000 younger illegal aliens.
President Donald Trump has begun to shrink the huge TPS program and has ordered an end to the DACA program. Both programs are being shielded temporarily by lawsuits. Trump has repeatedly suggested he would back both programs if the Democrats would support his immigration reform plans.
“We’re joining forces to demand that the Trump administration extend the work authorization for the over 130,000 TPS holders and 200,000 back DACA recipients, many of whom are serving on the frontlines in the battle against COVID-19,” Schumer said.
Schumer’s promise will likely fail. New polls show that Americans want strong curbs on migration during the epidemic. Public hostility blocked Democrat efforts in April to extended work permits for hundreds of thousands of foreign workers in the United States — even though the public wants more doctors.

Trump gets 2:1 public support for his Americans-first shift on immigration.
Even 62% support from Dems who 'somewhat disapprove' of Trump.
Is strong evidence for a strategy of incrementalism vs. a big rush for a total victory.
But deadline is Nov 3https://bit.ly/3aDkl6B 




President Trump has also directed his deputies to develop rules by the end of May that would protect Americans’ jobs from companies’ hiring of visa workers during the crisis. However, he also directed his deputies to preserve the continued legal inflow of foreign doctors via the J-1 visa program and of foreign nurses via the green card process.
Also, the Supreme Court may shortly strike down the DACA program, likely forcing Democrats to trade concessions to keep the DACA migrants in the United States. That trade is supported by some immigration reforms, in part, because the DACA migrants have spent nearly all of their lives in the United States.
But Schumer declined to offer any trade to Americans in exchange for adding hundreds of thousands of illegal migrants into Americans’ job market, even though millions of Americans are losing their jobs during the crash.
Even before the crash, many Americans — including college graduates — have seen their salaries stall and their housing costs rise because the government inflates the labor supply each year by inviting more than one million legal immigrants and visa workers to compete for jobs and housing.
In contrast, business-funded advocacy groups say the federal government should welcome more foreign healthcare workers during and after the coronavirus crash.
The Democrats’ tally of migrant healthcare workers includes many migrants who are holding jobs — such as home healthcare aides — that would be filled by hiring unemployed Americans at decent wages.

Advocates & media claim 200K DACA migrants are 'crucial' in coronavirus fight.
Umm. Whatever their indiv merits, DACA are a tiny % of America's healthcare grads, of retired or sidelined HC profesnls, & of jobless Americans.
Americans get the job done. https://bit.ly/2JR25vG 




Throughout the Tuesday press conference, Schumer, as well as Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) and Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ), repeatedly praised legal immigrants and illegal migrants, often while downplaying Americans’ role in combating China’s virus:
Anytime you go to a hospital [or] you go to a clinic and [you will see] such a high percentage of hard-working, dedicated, talented immigrants in our healthcare system, every day. These DACA — DACA and TPS — recipients put themselves in danger, they risked their family’s health to keep the rest of us safe. So now is the time, more than ever, that we need to stand with them and protect them during these awful times, whenever they need our support. Unfortunately, President Trump is doing what he always does — he uses immigrants as scapegoats. I find it despicable — the only word I can use.
That “President Trump is trying to turn the American people against these immigrants and newcomers to this nation is just unspeakable, said Durbin, adding:
It reflects a whole heart and a hateful mind — two things we definitely do not need in America. When we return next week, we’re going to have a chance to take the floor of the Senate for the first time in weeks … Many of us [Democrats] will be coming to the floor and asking our colleagues to join us to salute the healthcare heroes across America.
“These frontline workers, and certainly all of the incredible healthcare workers, and all the emergency technicians, ambulance corps worker, all of these people are doing incredible valiant work,” Menendez said, adding:
But these frontline workers — [both] Dreamers and TPS — are also risking their lives every day. And we have to respect their work by protecting them from deportation.
Like so many Americans, these dreamers and TPS holders are risking their lives every day in the fight against COVID-19. They’re caring for the sick. Working double shifts … and often doing so without the personal protective gear they need. Regardless of their place of birth, these individuals, undoubtedly represent the best of America.
Despite the Democrats’ promotion of the DACA and TPS migrants, the two groups comprise a minimal slice of the nation’s healthcare workforce.
“DACA recipients simply do not comprise a large share of workers, and that is certainly true in a huge sector of the economy like health care,” says an April 7 study by the Center for Immigration Studies. The  DACA healthcare workers “translates to just 0.2% of the nation’s 14.5 million health care workers,” Director of Research Steve Camarota wrote.
He continued:
Probably the two occupations that seem the most relevant to combating the Wuhan Virus are registered nurses and health technologists and technicians, which includes licensed practical nurses and jobs like pharmacy technicians. The ACS shows that there are 3.3 million registered nurses working in the country and 3 million technologists and technicians, making DACA recipients just 0.1% and 0.2% of these occupations respectively. Again, even assuming CAP’s estimates are correct, DACA recipients in the most relevant occupations are a miniscule share of workers.
Moreover, the DACA migrants are far outnumbered by non-working Amerian healthcare professionals — including legal immigrants — who can be recruited for an emergency, especially if employers offer them a bonus because of the health risk, he said:
The Census data also shows there were 41,000 unemployed registered nurses and 67,000 unemployment technicians in 2018. In addition, there were 860,000 nurses and technicians who are out of the labor force entirely, but who reported having worked in these fields in the prior five years. So there is a huge pool of people who can be drawn upon if a few thousand DACA nurses and technicians were deported.
Even without much training, many laid-off Americans and legal immigrants can be hired to perform the jobs held by most of the DACA immigrants, Camarota added:
Their estimates also show that nearly one third of the DACA workers they identify are home health and personal care aides and related occupations. The Bureau of Labor Statics reports that becoming a health care aid requires only a high school education and sometimes not even that. Moreover, at a time when unemployment is increasing massively among the less-educated, replacing a few thousand health care aids, whose primary responsibility is typically helping the elderly or disabled dress and bath, hardly seems difficult, if it came to that.
Many additional American healthcare workers are retired or switched careers and are available during a crisis, he added.

What wins in DC?
A. The big rush for total victory in Congress?
B. Incremental gains as allies & deputies shrug off shrieking opposition by keeping decent, ambivalent voters on their side?
Obama used
Trump used to win on blue-collar migration. https://bit.ly/3bBrVA7 




Follow Neil Munro on Twitter @NeilMunroDC, or email the author at NMunro@Breitbart.com.




Millions of US workers blocked from applying for jobless benefits


29 April 2020
While the US government has proceeded expeditiously to hand over trillions of dollars to the Wall Street banks and corporations, millions of workers who have lost their jobs during the COVID-19 pandemic have been blocked from applying for unemployment benefits.
A survey published Tuesday by the Economic Policy Institute (EPI) shows that the widely reported figure of 26.5 million workers who applied for jobless benefits over the past five weeks significantly underestimates the actual number of people who have lost their jobs since March 15.
The EPI survey reveals that for every 10 people who have successfully applied for unemployment benefits during the pandemic, three or four more tried to apply but could not get through to make a claim. An additional two people did not try to apply at all because the process was so onerous.
EPI summarizes the survey results in the following way: “When we extrapolate our survey findings to the full five weeks of UI [unemployment insurance] claims since March 15, we estimate that an additional 8.9–13.9 million people could have filed for benefits had the process been easier.”
The EPI further states: “These findings imply the official count of unemployment insurance claims likely drastically understates the extent of employment reductions and the need for economic relief during the coronavirus crisis.”
The inability of millions of workers across the country to even apply for unemployment benefits stands in stark contrast to the trillions of dollars that have been transferred from the US Treasury and the Federal Reserve to corporations, banks and the super-rich.
At present, the amount of “emergency assistance” provided to the corporations and banks by the US government—since President Trump signed the initial $2.2 trillion CARES Act on March 27—stands at between $4.2 and $6 trillion.
The denial of resources to unemployed workers while unlimited funds are made available to the ruling elite demonstrates that the officially stated purpose of the CARES Act—voted for unanimously by both Democrats and Republicans—as “fast and direct economic assistance for American workers, families and small businesses” is an utter fraud.
The unemployment benefits program included in the CARES Act has been, to a large extent, an elaborate exercise in deliberate mass deception. When Congress and the White House presented the additional 13 weeks of state-based unemployment insurance beyond the typical 26 weeks, plus an additional $600 weekly federal supplement through July 31, 2020, as a social safety net during the COVID-19 crisis, they knew very well that millions of unemployed workers would be unable to take advantage of it.
The Democrats and Republicans knew that many workers would not be able to get through to the antiquated systems in the state capitals across the country, which would be completely overwhelmed and unprepared for the number of people seeking to apply for benefits. They were counting on these systems being so backed up with delays and confusion that workers would give up and end up receiving little or nothing of the government money.
The banks, corporations and wealthiest 

individuals, on the other hand, were to get 

vast sums of money without delay.
In an example of the ease with which government money is flowing into the accounts of the largest corporations in America, the Washington Post reported on Monday that nearly half of the “payroll support fund” allocated to the airline and cargo industries had been disbursed. The Post report said: “As of this week, $12.4 billion of the $29 billion in grants has been paid out to 93 carriers to keep front-line workers on the job, Treasury officials said. In all, airlines and air cargo carriers are eligible for more than $50 billion in grants and loans.”
Additionally, the Federal Reserve will shortly begin buying $500 billion in bonds issued by large US corporations. Although this cash is being provided officially as a “financial lifeline” that is to be paid back, there are no provisions in the Fed’s credit program requiring companies to maintain jobs or restrict the funds from being used for executive compensation, stock buybacks or shareholder dividends.
The EPI survey, starting with 24.4 million people who applied for unemployment benefits between March 15 and April 18, shows that the actual number of unemployed workers in the US is somewhere between 33.3 and 38.3 million people. This means that between one-quarter and one-third of the workers who have lost their jobs during the pandemic (8.9 to 13.9 million workers) have been blocked from applying for benefits.
EPI explained the methodology behind its study: “To gauge how well the UI [unemployment insurance] system is handling the new caseloads, we used Google Surveys to ask 25,000 people, ‘Did you apply for unemployment benefits in the last 4 weeks?’”
EPI asked those who responded to this question which one of six different scenarios corresponded to their experience, such as, “I applied successfully,” “I tried but could not get through,” “I did not apply because it was too difficult.”
When added to the number of people who were officially without a job prior to the pandemic—7.1 million workers—the EPI survey results would put the jobless rate in the US at somewhere between 24 and 27 percent, eclipsing the highest rates of unemployment during the Great Depression of the 1930s.
In addition to jobless workers who have been prevented from applying for government assistance, a number of surveys have shown that substantial numbers of those who have successfully applied have not received any benefits.
A study by the Washington Post published on April 23 says that there is a backlog of three million unpaid jobless claims across the US, although “the true backlog is probably far greater.” A Pew Research Study showed that only 29 percent of the 7.37 million who filed for jobless assistance in March, or 2.1 million people, actually received the benefits.
Many states across the country are continuing to report “glitches” and “backlogs” in processing unemployment applications that have been successfully submitted. Among the states reporting delays in processing applications are:
• California: A report on Monday in the Los Angeles Times said that for Californians applying for unemployment assistance, “the last month has been a perfect storm of failures for a state government with a long history of technology problems.” Of the 3.2 million new unemployment claims filed in the last month, 76 percent of those applying have received benefits. This means that 768,000 applicants have not yet received an unemployment check.
• Florida: The state of Florida has published an online dashboard showing a total of 1.9 million applications for “reemployment insurance” since March 15. Because of confusion created by the state instructing applicants who had applied before April 5 to apply a second time, there are multiple applications in this total. Florida then reports 824,412 “Confirmed Unique Claims Submitted,” and of these, just 392,051 (47.6 percent) that have been paid any benefits.
• Oregon: A large percentage of the 300,000 unemployed in Oregon who have filed for government assistance have not received a check and cannot find out the status of their claim. The state’s antiquated systems have been overwhelmed by the volume of applications, and, according to a report in the Oregonian, thousands of workers have been given faulty information about their applications. “The department’s phone lines are overwhelmed, preventing callers from getting through,” the newspaper reports.
Amidst the dysfunction, chaos, incompetence and bureaucratic mismanagement of state unemployment programs in the US, there is a definite policy at work. The ruling class and both of its parties are intentionally withholding financial assistance from broad sections of the working class who are being devastated by the economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic, while offering up unlimited funds in the trillions of dollars to the corporate-financial oligarchy.
There is a deliberate policy of using mass unemployment and the prospect of destitution, homelessness and hunger to blackmail a section of workers into going back to work under unsafe conditions. This policy is, moreover, aimed at the imposition among all workers of a permanent restructuring of economic and class relations, such that full-time jobs, wages, health care, pensions and social services such as education are gutted.
It is becoming increasingly clear that the financial collapse of 2008 was a foretaste of the social and political assault on the working class that is now unfolding. At the same time, millions of workers all over the world are seeing the true reality of capitalism—the subordination of everything, including human life itself, to the ruthless drive of the parasitic elite to increase its wealth. The conditions are being created for revolutionary upheavals. The conclusion that must be drawn is the necessity for a unified international struggle of the working class to put an end to the capitalist system and establish socialism.


Pelosi is a ghastly creature. She and her ilk – Feinstein, Boxer, Jerry Brown, Gavin Newsom – have effectively destroyed California and they did it on purposeThey strive to import as many illegal migrants as possible; they've created and fostered the homelessness and let it fester. California is now a socialist disaster and the further destruction of the economy is just what they've wanted. They see it as their chance to transform the state into Venezuela. PATRICIA McCARTHY



GLOBALIST BARACK OBAMA AND NANCY PELOSI’S CONSPIRACY TO SABOTAGE HOMELAND SECURITY AND KEEP AMERICA FLOODED WITH DEM VOTING ILLEGALS






"Along with Obama, Pelosi and Schumer are responsible for incalculable damage done to this country over the eight years of that administration." PATRICIA McCARTHY (BIDEN IS NOT NOTED AS HE SPENT 8 YEARS DURING THE OBOMB FOR BANKSTERS REGIME SUCKING OFF BRIBES AND NO ONE REALLY SAW HIM)



San Francisco is a disaster about which Nancy Pelosi she cares nothing.  It is a city ravaged by drug abuse, homelessness, rampant crime and all the other scourges of leftism.  She lives extravagantly in her gated mansion.  She lives a life of wealth and privilege in city suffering a civilizational collapse created and orchestrated by 
her own party.  She revels in it.  She has become a near-billionairess by way of politics of the most corrupt variety.  She is indeed a cancer on the body politic. PATRICIA McCARTHY

 


Nancy Pelosi, a ghastly creature, quite beyond the pale

On Monday, Speaker Pelosi finally got around to endorsing Joe Biden for president.
Today, I am proud to endorse Joe Biden for president of the United States because he will be an extraordinary president. He knows how to get the job done. When our nation faced the Great Recession, it was Joe Biden who led the implementation and the accountability of the Recovery Act, helping create and save millions of jobs. Now more than ever, we need a forward-looking, battle-tested leaders who will fight for the people, a president with the values, experience and the strategic-thinking to bring our nation together and build a better, fairer world for our children. For these and other reasons, I am proud to endorse Joe Biden for president, a leader who is the personification of hope and courage, values, authenticity and integrity.

YouTube screen grab.
Has anyone ever heard a bigger load of sheer nonsense?
Any remotely sentient person knows by now that Joe Biden is an intellectual lightweight, a plagiarist, corrupt to his core (he has seen to it that every member of his family has become fabulously wealthy thanks to his nefarious shenanigans), and that he is suffering from rapidly advancing dementia.  His wife Jill seems to want to be first lady so badly she is willing to sacrifice her husband's well-being to her own hunger for power.  Maybe she thinks she can be Edith Wilson, Woodrow Wilson's second wife, who ostensibly ran the country after Wilson's massive stroke in 1919.  He had suffered three previous strokes: 1896, 1906, and 1913.  Wilson was an avowed racist and the first "progressive" president to attempt the transformation of America.  He was a nasty piece of work.  Obama was his direct descendent politically. 
Joe Biden suffered two aneurysms for which he underwent brain surgery.  He survived those operations and remained a senator without distinction.  As Robert Gates wrote in his book, Joe Biden has been wrong on every foreign policy issue for forty years.  He has always been a mediocre senator and everyone — the media and the DNC — knows it.
Pelosi now seems to be almost as senile as Joe.  She stumbles and mumbles when speaking, forgets names, and is often as completely nonsensical as Biden.  She is so out of touch with the American people that she can show off her fancy refrigerator and $13-a-pint ice cream as a prescription for enduring the stay-at-home edicts.  And now she is endorsing a man the whole world knows is mentally deficient.  The woman is a menace to society.  And like the rest of the left, she assumes the American people, at least her Democrats, are mind-numbed idiots, that despite Biden's obvious mental problems, he can be elected president. 
Then came COVID-19.  The left could not believe its good fortune.  All previous attempts to destroy Donald Trump had failed because they were all fabricated hoaxes; Russia collusion, the thoroughly discredited Mueller report, Ukraine quid-pro-quo, impeachment.  Pelosi was happily onboard with Adam Schiff's phony impeachment scam; Schiff is the biggest fool in the House, and thankfully, his unscrupulousness is gradually coming to light.
Pelosi dragged the impeachment process out as long as possible.  "Procrastination is also a subtle act of corruption — it corrupts valuable time" (Amit Abraham).  She was playing power politics and paying absolutely no attention to COVID-19.  As late as the end of February, she was encouraging San Franciscans to party in the streets for the Chinese New Year.  She opposed Trump's travel ban.  Now she blames him for the virus itself.  The woman is a harpy.  Nothing proves her lack of concern for the country more than her predictable and prescribed endorsement of Biden.  The left and its governors intend to drag out the destruction of the American economy for as long as possible in the mistaken belief that it will ensure the defeat of President Trump.
Biden's mental decline is so apparent that it is likely that the DNC will be forced to somehow select another candidate before November.  It had better not be Saint Andrew of Albany.  He has managed his state's virus crisis horribly.  He is an arrogant, incompetent jerk.  Ordering COVID-19 patients into nursing homes and not to the hospital ship or the field hospitals that Trump has speedily provided cost thousands of lives.
Pelosi is the presumptive leader of her party but has been part and parcel of the Russia hoax, the Kavanaugh spectacle, impeachment and her party's failure to grasp the seriousness of this virus when Trump did, when only one person in the US had died from it. The Democrat party as a whole has devolved into a Tammany Hall machine. Nancy Pelosi has long been their Boss Tweed
Pelosi is a ghastly creature. She and her ilk – Feinstein, Boxer, Jerry Brown, Gavin Newsom – have effectively destroyed California and they did it on purposeThey strive to import as many illegal migrants as possible; they've created and fostered the homelessness and let it fester. California is now a socialist disaster and the further destruction of the economy is just what they've wanted. They see it as their chance to transform the state into Venezuela.
Nothing proves their contempt for hardworking Americans more than their embrace of this lockdown. Pelosi pretends to revere democracy, but she means to foment and protect the plutocracy she believes she has successfully brought into being.
The greatest evil which fortune can inflict on men is to endow them with small talents and great ambition." (Vauvenargues)
Pelosi, Schiff, Schumer, et.al. are all small talents with great ambition who have inflicted evil upon our nation.


Fact Check: NYT Claims Only ‘Tens of Thousands’ of Visa Workers in U.S.

immigration
AFP/Sandy Huffaker
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CLAIM: Federal visa worker programs bring “tens of thousands” of foreign workers into the United States.
VERDICT: False. Federal agencies bring at least one million non-immigrant foreign workers into the United States each year.
The error was included in a New York Times article on April 24 about President Donald Trump’s unprecedented April 22 shift in immigration policy.
The article began accurately, saying, “President Trump’s decision to suspend family-based immigration because of the coronavirus is the beginning of a broader strategy to reduce the flow of foreigners into the United States, Stephen Miller, the architect of President Trump’s immigration agenda, told a group of conservative allies on Thursday.”
But the two authors — Michael Shear and Maggie Haberman — quickly showed their ignorance of the workforce issue, even though the federal policy of inflating the labor supply has crippled at least two presidencies and even allowed a New York real-estate developer to take the White House in 2016.
The two authors wrote:
The executive order Mr. Trump signed this week bars people from receiving green cards for 60 days, a move that immigration advocates condemned. But it does nothing to limit visa programs that bring tens of thousands of workers to the United States, infuriating groups that call for deep reductions in the number of foreign citizens entering the country. [Emphasis added.]
In reality, the federal government imports more than one million foreign workers each year — not just “tens of thousands.”
Steve Camarota, the research director at the non-partisan Center for Immigration Studies, wrote April 24:
In addition [to legal immigration] about 70,000 temporary work visas are issued each month and something like 150,000 foreign students, asylum seekers, DACA recipients, unapproved green card applicants, and others are also given work permits on a monthly basis. There is certainly ample evidence that immigration reduces employment and wages for some American workers.
Camarota relies on data from the federal government, and he shows more than two million foreign people get permission to work in the United States each year, via a complex variety of routes.
These workers are not illegal migrants nor legal immigrants, although many hope to become legal immigrants. Many are contract workers with few legal rights, who rationally accept their lower status because they hope to win green cards for themselves and their children.
The federal government produces reports on the inflow of foreign workers but refuses to provide any data about the resident number of foreign workers. In 2017, the Department of Homeland Security released information showing the intended worksites for H-1B workers. Since then, it has hidden the location data.

New York Times reporters say immigration boosts Americans' wages.
We're now waiting for NYT's reports on the Tooth Fairy, the Easter Bunny, Santa Claus, and the chupacabra.
Seriously, why do so few reporters recognize the role of supply & demand in wages?https://bit.ly/2x54j7M 





No establishment media outlet has tried to calculate the resident population of foreign workers, including the numbers of those who hold work visas or work permits.
Calculations by Breitbart News show that employers keep a resident population of roughly 1.5 million white-collar workers in U.S. jobs. That number does not count white-collar workers who illegally work for several months at a time while visiting with B-1 visas, and it likely understates the growing population of white-collar illegal aliens.
This 1.5 million population includes roughly 900,000 workers on H-1B visas, one million Indians, 270,000 Chinese, and at least 100,000 contract workers at universities and research centers.
Numerous Americans say the existence of this vast foreign worker population blocks many young Americans from getting starter jobs at Fortune 500 companies, reduces salaries for millions of U.S. graduates, and degrades Americans’ professional careers into a series of unstable monthly “gig” contracts.
The supply of subsidized foreign white-collar labor also allows business school executives to degrade the workplace authority and free speech of innovative American professionals, to subordinate the development and reliability of technology to the priorities of foreign workers, and also to subordinate technological quality to the demands for quarterly profits by U.S. and Indian CEOs and investors.
Overall, investors are using the foreign workers to outsource much of the United States’ professional sector to Indian workers, just as investors used free-trade deals to outsource much of the nation’s blue-collar manufacturing sector to Chinese workers, say many of the American graduates who have seen the contract workers change their careers.

You'd think white-collar journos would see how their peers (& kids) are being replaced by a cohesive population of contract workers.
1 million Indian contract-workers get $$-jobs in tech, health, despite laws/EEOC barring natl. discrimination. http://bit.ly/2Sy3uw6 





The resident blue-collar population of visa workers reaches at least 400,000 during the summer months, just counting the H-2A, H-2B, and J-1 program for summer workers. The federal government’s supply of cheap and compliant workers has discouraged investment in harvesting and meatpacking technology.
Each year, the federal government inflates the new labor supply by roughly 20 percent with legal immigration and visa workers, not counting illegal immigration.
This cheap-labor economic policy boosts stock prices on Wall Street and also drives up real estate values on the coasts by shifting investment, wealth, and population from the middle of the country.
The cheap-labor economic strategy is very unpopular among voters, despite commonplace media support for the welcoming “nation of immigrants” claim:

Trump gets 2:1 public support for his Americans-first shift on immigration.
Even 62% support from Dems who 'somewhat disapprove' of Trump.
Is strong evidence for a strategy of incrementalism vs. a big rush for a total victory.
But deadline is Nov 3https://bit.ly/3aDkl6B 





The NYT’s ignorance is commonplace in the established media. Many outlets produce sympathetic coverage of the visa workers or migrants, but very few outlets describe the huge economic and political impact of government-provided cheap labor — even after Donald Trump’s shocking win in November 2016.
Follow Neil Munro on Twitter @NeilMunroDC, or email the author at NMunro@Breitbart.com.
“Our entire crony capitalist system, Democrat and Republican alike, has become a kleptocracy approaching par with third-world hell-holes. This is the way a great country is raided by its elite." Karen McQuillan 

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