I think we all have a very clear picture that Donald Trump
will rank at the very top of this Nation’s most corrupt and incompetent presidents.
The man, nothing more than a huckster and conman should have been put in prison
years ago but America tends to abet and protect
its white-collar criminals.
This blog has long posted about JEFF SESSIONS contribution to
the American worker as Nancy Pelosi and Barack Obama flooded America with ‘cheap’
illegals south of the border.
Trump postures about his pretenda wall, but he’s no better.
He has worked through Jared Kushner to keep America flooded with ‘cheap’
foreigner workers to keep Wall Street happy and generous to Trump and his
parasitic family.
Trump’s
Self-Serving Immigration Ban
Trump closes the country to immigrants, except the ones he regularly hires and fires
By David Cay Johnston
Trump closes the country to immigrants, except the ones he regularly hires and fires
By David Cay Johnston
Salon.com,
April 26, 2020
. . .
The Sinister Logic of Trump’s Immigration
Freeze
The White House is closing pathways to citizenship while maintaining a flow of exploitable immigrant labor.
By Adam Serwer
The Atlantic, April 29, 2020
. . .
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/04/trump-order-immigration/610822/
Trump Closed Doors to Legal Immigration as a
Distraction From His failures During Coronavirus Pandemic
By Charles C. Foster
The Houston Chronicle, May 1, 2020
. . .
https://www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/outlook/article/Opinion-Trump-closed-doors-to-legal-immigration-15237717.php
SUPPORT JEFF SESSIONS and you’re spitting on the Orange
Baboon now in the white house.
Do it today!
Byron York's Daily Memo: Jeff Sessions and President Trump’s
‘personal feelings’
MAY 26, 2020
JEFF SESSIONS AND PRESIDENT TRUMP'S 'PERSONAL FEELINGS.' The
former Alabama senator and U.S. Attorney General is in a surreal place. He was
a huge help to President Trump's 2016 campaign -- the first, and for a long
time, the only senator to endorse him. Then he was Trump's attorney general.
And then, 21 days into his new job, everything went to hell.
Sessions famously recused himself from supervising the
Trump-Russia investigation, and Trump never, ever forgave him for it. Trump
blames Sessions for the special counsel that followed, even though it was the
result of Trump's firing of Comey, and not Sessions' recusal. Sessions remained
in the AG job until November 2018, but Trump clearly could not stand the sight
of him.
Fast forward to today. Deep-red Alabama has a Democratic
senator, Doug Jones -- that's another, equally odd story -- who is now up for
re-election. There was a primary to pick the Republican candidate who will
almost certainly defeat Jones in November. Sessions finished a close second to
former Auburn University football coach Tommy Tuberville, who won by a little
less than two percentage points. A runoff is scheduled for July 14.
Now Trump is bashing Sessions every chance he gets. A few
days ago, the president tweeted, "3 years ago, after Jeff Sessions recused
himself, the Fraudulent Mueller Scam began. Alabama, do not trust Jeff
Sessions. He let our country down. That's why I endorsed Coach Tommy
Tuberville."
That was finally it for Sessions, who responded with obvious
irritation. "Look, I know your anger," he tweeted to the president,
"but recusal was required by law. I did my duty & you're damn
fortunate I did. It protected the rule of law & resulted in your
exoneration. Your personal feelings don't dictate who Alabama picks as their
senator, the people of Alabama do." The political world's collective
response was: Whoa! Now this is getting interesting.
Then Trump upped the ante again. "Jeff, you had your
chance & you blew it," he tweeted. "Recused yourself ON DAY ONE
(you never told me of a problem), and ran for the hills. You had no courage,
& ruined many lives..."
"Mr. President, Alabama can and does trust me, as do
conservatives across the country," Sessions responded. "Perhaps
you've forgotten."
Who knows where it could go next? On Monday, I asked Sessions
if he is surprised by the degree to which Trump seems to hold the entire Russia
investigation against him. "Yes, I am surprised about that," he said.
"But his frustration is not all unjustified. It's becoming more and more
clear that there were problems with this investigation. There may have been
political bias. Barr is exactly right that we need to know whether commencing
an investigation of a campaign had sufficient predicate."
I mentioned to Sessions that Trump's last interventions in an
Alabama Senate race, when he first backed losing Republican primary candidate
Luther Strange and then losing Republican general election candidate Roy Moore,
resulted in the election of the current Democratic Sen. Doug Jones. "He
did make two recommendations, both of which the voters did not follow,"
Sessions said. "I would just say that indicates Alabamians do make their
own decisions."
"In this instance," Sessions continued, "the
president's personal frustrations -- he's asking the people of Alabama
basically to effectuate his personal feelings about this issue. I'm asking them
to send a senator who can best advance Alabama values, Trump values, Sessions
values, to make a decision based on what's best for Alabama."
How many times does a top Republican Senate candidate refer
to the Republican president's "personal feelings"? Sessions finds himself
in an unprecedented situation only partially of his own making. But he is
convinced he was correct in recusing himself from the Russia investigation,
even if it means losing. "My conscience is clear," Sessions said.
"Doing the right thing is more important to me than even my own political
career."
U.S. Weekly
Jobless Claims Fall to 2.4 Million
248
2:14
New
claims for unemployment benefits fell to 2.438 million last week, data from the
Department of Labor showed Thursday.
That
brings new unemployment claims, a proxy for layoffs, since the coronavirus
pandemic began to claim jobs nine weeks ago to around 38.6 million.
Economists
had been expecting around 2.4 million for weekly claims. The prior week was
initially reported at just below 3 million and was revised down to 2.69 down.
The
largest increases in initial claims for the week ending May 9 were in Florida’s
48,222 and Georgia’s 14,420. The largest decrease in claims was in California,
where claims dropped by 103,590. This was followed by Texas’ 102,382,
Oklahoma’s 54,806, North Carolina’s 28,602, and Missouri’s 21,382.
Claims
hit a record 6.87 million for the week of March 28. Each subsequent week has
seen claims decline.
Continuing
claims, those made after an initial application, rose for the week ended May 9
to just over 25 million, a new record high. Those are reported with a one-week
lag. The week prior was 22.548. The jump is an indication that most of those
who lost jobs in recent weeks have remained out of work.
The
federal government has been shipping in an extra $600 a week to state
unemployment benefits, making the program much more generous. Many workers can
now earn more on unemployment than they did when they had a job. These
super-sized benefits, however, are set to run out in July.
The
government said the U.S. unemployment rate soared to 14.7 percent in April, the
highest since the Great Depression.
The
new claims numbers may be undercounting the toll the coronavirus and lockdowns
have exacted on the U.S. labor market. Many states have ha problems processing
the large amount of claims.
TRUMP’S CRAP ON BORDERS
AND HIS
PRETEND WALL IS ONLY
ONE MORE
TRUMP HOAX!
Only a complete fool
would believe that Trump is any more for American Legal workers than the
Democrat Party for Billionaires and Banksters!
“Trump Administration
Betrays Low-Skilled American Workers.”
The latest ad from the
Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) asks Trump to reject the mass
illegal and legal immigration policies supported by Wall Street, corporate
executives, and most specifically, the GOP mega-donor Koch brothers.
Efforts by the big business lobby,
Chamber of Commerce, Koch brothers, and George W. Bush Center include
increasing employment-based legal immigration that would likely crush the historic wage gains that Trump has delivered for
America’s blue collar and working class citizens.
Mark Zuckerberg’s
Silicon Valley investors are uniting with the Koch network’s consumer and
industrial investors to demand a huge DACA amnesty
A handful of
Republican and Democrat lawmakers are continuing to tout a plan that gives
amnesty to nearly a million illegal aliens in exchange for some amount of
funding for President Trump’s proposed border wall along the U.S.-Mexico
border.
MULTI-CULTURALISM and the creation of a
one-party globalist country to serve the rich in America’s open borders.
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2017/12/em-cadwaladr-impending-death-of.html
“Open border advocates, such as Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg, claim
illegal aliens are a net benefit to California with little evidence to support
such an assertion. As the CIS has documented, the vast majority of illegals are
poor, uneducated, and with few skills. How does accepting millions of illegal
aliens and then granting them access to dozens of welfare programs benefit
California’s economy? If illegals were contributing to the economy in any
meaningful way, CA, with its 2.6 million illegals, would be booming.” STEVE
BALDWIN – AMERICAN SPECTATOR
Josh Hawley: GOP Must Defend Middle Class Americans Against
‘Concentrated Corporate Power,’ Tech Billionaires
JOHN BINDER
The Republican Party
must defend America’s working and middle class against “concentrated corporate
power” and the monopolization of entire sectors of the United States’ economy,
Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) says.
DHS
Set to Welcome Many Indian H-1B Visa Workers Back to U.S.
7 May 202019
9:19
The Department of Homeland Security
revealed Wednesday it will allow many Indian H-1B visa workers to return from
vacations in their homeland to regain the Fortune 500 U.S. jobs now needed by
U.S. graduates.
The agency’s
welcome for the H-1B outsourcing workers comes as 25 million Americans seek
jobs amid the wreckage caused by China’s coronavirus epidemic, and after
President Donald Trump barred the entry of legal immigrants for 60 days.
The Indian
government is arranging the flights at the request of Indians who wish to
return to jobs in the United States and Indians in the United States who want
to return home. The Indians were stuck at home when India’s government blocked
flights to prevent the spread of China’s coronavirus.
Late
Wednesday, DHS told Breitbart News: “For non-immigrant H1-B workers who possess
valid travel documents and who overcome all grounds of inadmissibility,
including travel restrictions implemented to prevent the spread of COVID-19,
[Customs and Border Protection] will continue to process for admission into the
United States.”
DHS refused
to say if CBP will ask the Indians if their U.S. or Indian employers have
already laid them off, or have violated the terms of their work visa. U.S. graduates expect many
U.S. employers have laid off some Indian visa workers — alongside Americans —
amid the crash.
Federal law
requires the Indians to go home if their hours or pay are cut. Yet many
Indian visa-workers are using online communities to find new U.S. jobs ahead of
American graduates.
An Indian
newspaper, the DeccanHerald.com, reported “hundreds” of
“Non-Resident Indians” are trying to return to the United States:
Srikanth came
to Bengaluru on March 15 with his children for a family emergency, leaving his
wife alone in Boston, where the techie couple has been living for several years
now. “I must return immediately or I may end up losing my job,” he said.
…
“My job and
livelihood everything is at stake. I am on a valid H1B visa and my employer is
pressuring me to return back as early as possible,” Shankar (name changed), one
of the many stranded NRIs, said.
Polls show
the public is overwhelmingly against the welcome for foreign workers — many of
whom were given their jobs by other Indians
working at U.S. companies, usually without regard to job searches by each
year’s cohort of 800,000 white, Hispanic, Asian, and African-American skilled
college graduates.
A
recent Washington Post poll showed 65 percent of all
adults said they supported “temporarily blocking nearly all immigration into
the United States during the coronavirus outbreak?” The shutdown is backed by
69 percent of Hispanics, 60 percent of people with college degrees, 68 percent
of people with income below $50,000, and 62 percent of people with income above
$100.000. That Americans-before-migrants poll echoed prior polls by Ipsos and Rasmussen,
as well as polls from 2017.
On April 22,
President Donald Trump recognized the public demand for curbs and imposed a
60-day shutdown on legal immigration into the United States.
The temporary
exclusion applies to legal immigrants, but it exempts several favored classes.
The exempted people include people who buy green cards via the EB-5 loan
program, as well as “any alien whose entry would be in the national interest,
as determined by the Secretary of State, [or] the Secretary of Homeland
Security.”
Amid fierce
pressure from the GOP’s corporate wing, Trump also decided to leave
intact the nation’s many visa worker programs, which allow companies to keep
roughly 1 million lower-wage Indian
contract workers in U.S. jobs.
The pressure
also came from U.S. investors who are working with India’s government to expand
the U.S.-India Outsourcing
Economy to
build on China’s role as a source of cheap blue-collar labor.
The Indian
workers allow investors and executives to expand stock values by shrinking
payrolls for U.S. graduates. Most of the H-1B contract-workers are paid
less than American graduates, according to a May report by the Economic Policy
Institute.
The acting
secretary of the DHS, Chad Wolf, is a former lobbyist for the
India-based outsourcing industry.
George W. Bush is backing estb.'s soft-focus PR #AllofUS campaign for unity, b/ his economic director spilled the beans:
"We don’t want [Trump’s] temporary [immigration]
policy to become permanent."
Bush Center Slams Trump: We Want More Migration
The one
million Indians include some 600,000 Indians in H-1B white-collar jobs,
including banking, design, software, dentistry, management, and recruiting.
Overall, the
visa jobs allow companies to keep roughly 1.5 million foreigners in white
collar jobs and at least 400,000 people in seasonal blue-collar, clerical,
hospitality, and farm jobs.
Many
companies are still filing for extra visa workers, despite the millions of
unemployed American white-collar workers. For example, since Trump declared a
national emergency on March 13, Tim Cook’s Apple Inc. has asked DHS to extend
the visas of 130 foreign workers. The job titles include “HR
business partner,” market research analyst, software development engineer,
radio frequency test engineer, data scientist, producer manager, engineering
project manager, professional services consultant, as well as producer and
creative writer.
U.S.
journalists rarely report on the economic impact of the visa workers on white
collar American graduates.
However,
Trump also told his deputies on April 22 they need to relook at the many visa
programs which destroy the jobs and salaries required by millions of college
graduates in all 50 states around the country. Trump’s proclamation said:
Within 30
days of the effective date of this proclamation, the Secretary of Labor and the
Secretary of Homeland Security, in consultation with the Secretary of State,
shall review nonimmigrant programs and shall recommend to me other measures
appropriate to stimulate the United States economy and ensure the
prioritization, hiring, and employment of United States workers.
This 30-day
process will pressure officials to examine the impact of the H-1B, B-1, L-1,
OPT and CPT programs on American voters.
“We need to
end the H1B program,” said Kevin Lynn, founder of U.S. Tech Workers. “We need
to end, it– not reform it — but end it … If the coronavirus crisis has taught
us anything, it has taught us that we cannot count on foreign countries.”
But “the
administration is taking its cues from Silicon Valley,” such as Tim Cook, he
added.
Indian visa
workers have used Twitter to lobby for the return flights by saying they need
to return to U.S. jobs and to extend their work permits.
The order states only those with at least 1
year of valid visa will be allowed. How about those whose visa is about to
expire and need to apply for extensions? This will be leave a lot still
stranded @HardeepSPuri @MoCA_GoI @airindiain
#RemoveVisaClause My visa is expiring in June. But my employer already ready with documents
for extension. Before that I should be in Finland for them to apply the
extension. Please remove Visa validity clause.@HardeepSPuri @PMOIndia @MEAIndia
@MoCA_GoI @HardeepSPuri Could you pls clarify, that we will be allowed to travel with a valid visa
(H1, L1 etc) issued for a period of 3 years but some expiring in less than 6
months from now? Renewal process can only start once we are in US. #DontFlyEmpty #HelpNRIsReturnToUSA
@AmitShah @MOS_MEA @DrSJaishankar @HMOIndia @NikunjGargN @CNNnews18 @MoCA_GoI @HardeepSPuri @TOIIndiaNews @ndtv
I'm on H4 visa expiring in July. My spouse's visa has gone 4 renewal. Mine can
b renewed only from US#PleaseClarify if I can travel #DontFlyEmpty #HelpNRIsReturnToUSA
@IndianEmbassyUS Can u please help me board onto India to USA evacuation
flight.@PIBHomeAffairs is only considering people with more than 1yr visa. I
got my H1 for 6 months only and I came on vacation, now my H1 is left with 40
days. Can you please
Can you please tell them that we have to be in USA to get
it extended. I have job and My employer is ready with extendes client letter
for VISA extension. Please help telling them its normal in Us to have a month
or shorter visa and can travel to USA.
Please dont destroy our career. Let us go.#DoNotFlyEmpty#HelpNRIsReturnToUSA#OutboundFlightsFromIndiaNOW @HardeepSPuri @PMOIndia
All those #StrandedInIndia let us tell @PMOIndia @narendramodi @CovidIndiaSeva why they should allow #OutboundFlightsFromIndiaNOW One reason per tweet
Here is mine: #IWantToGoHomeBecause my young family in US is unable to manage on their own #HelpNRIsReturnToUSA
I want to go home because I miss my family
a lot and I am at the verge of loosing my job for which I
worked hard for 6 years..all my efforts will go waste. please I request the
govt the to help us
@PMOIndia@AmitShah@HardeepSPuri
@nitin_gadkari Sir please add voice to our case & #DontFlyEmpty planes to get back Indians stranded abroad. Let visa holders stranded in
India go on those planes. We have been away from our families, out jobs for far
too long. #HelpNRIsReturnToUSA #OutboundFlightsFromIndiaNOW https://twitter.com/Akhil_Latta/status/1257297110539485185 …
Immigrants —
like the birth of Americans’ children — help grow the economy. They expand the
labor force, boost retail sales, spike real estate values, fuel the stock
market, and expand the number of companies. A growing economy can be good for
all — but it is especially good for wealthy people who can invest in company
stocks.
Yet every
annual wave of immigrants also causes much economic harm to the roughly 220
million Americans (and recent legal immigrants) who work for a living, or who
are educating themselves to take jobs in a few years.
Every new
wave of legal immigrants and illegal migrants competes for existing jobs and
force down Americans’ wages. The arrivals also expand poverty, reduce pressure on
investors to buy productivity-boosting
machines,
drive up the price of good housing, and add congestion to K-12 schools and
universities.
Immigrants,
and especially visa workers, also push Americans out of careers and technological research, and they distort Americans’
politics by expanding cultural diversity and
identity politics.
Over
the last 30 years, since George Bush’s father
signed a 1990 bill roughly doubling immigration, the government’s massive
inflow of immigrants has kept Americans wages almost flat (until 2018) and so has
turbocharged the U.S. stock market.
The
establishment’s immigration policy has worked with free trade to shift much
wealth from middle-class employees and the heartland states towards the stock
market and the major coastal cities.
Trump was
elected in 2016 to help reverse the establishment’s economic policy.
Since
2017, he has mostly stopped illegal migration, and he pushed wages up for
blue-collars in 2018 and 2019. He has also trimmed legal immigration, and his
April 22 policy sets the stage for incremental, significant reductions in the
visa worker programs, such as the little-known B-1 and OPT visa programs.
Another lawsuit alleges systematic, massive &
damaging discrimination vs. American graduates by a Fortune 500 contractor.
DoJ & EEOC are passive, and the estb. media is mute,
b/c the discrimination occurs via H-1B visa-worker 'immigration' program.#H1Bhttps://bit.ly/35lRe6K
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