THE DEMOCRAT PARTY IS FOR BILLIONAIRES AND OPEN BORDERS
The FAIR report highlighted employers’ preference for hiring foreign-born workers, who demand lower wages, over American citizens.
“This report highlights the fact that the adverse effects of unchecked mass immigration, combined with an immigration selection process that does not choose people based on individual merit, job skills and education, are now being felt in all parts of the country. Americans, in every part of the nation, are being affected by antiquated and unenforced immigration policies, which is why it is at the top of the list of voter concerns heading into the 2020 elections,” Stein concluded in the release.
No Blue State Bailouts: Hold Democrats Accountable for Democrats’ Policies
As red states like Georgia and Texas methodically are ending their lockdowns and opening their economies without the spikes in hospitalizations and deaths that were promised by the progressive doomsday prophets, blue state governors continue applying economic pain to their constituents without any convincing reason to do so.
If “flattening the curve” was indeed the objective in states like California, the objective was inarguably met long ago. We could debate whether or not the lockdown was the reason for that outcome, but what is not up for legitimate debate is the fact that hospitals in California being overwhelmed never even came close to becoming a reality.
How distant from reality is that possibility right now? So distant, in fact, that Sleep Train Arena, former home to the Sacramento Kings, was set up to handle the coming and unmanageable influx of Covid-19 patients, but as of May 6, just six Covid-19 patients were residing there.
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At that precise moment, across Sacramento County, just 27 hospital beds were being used to treat Covid-19 patients.
Why were there 6 patients in beds at Sleep Train Arena, rather than in the ample open beds in the California capital’s hospitals? Well, perhaps that’s explained by the fact that the state government is paying the Sacramento Kings organization $500,000 a month for using the empty arena as an emergency medical facility, plus, of course, the required labor, food, and supply contracts.
The truth, as Placer County Board of Supervisors representative Kirk Uhler reminds Gavin Newsom in an email, is that the Newsom’s “state of emergency declaration must be rescinded, because the conditions required for a state of emergency no longer exist” in the area around Sacramento, particularly.
State law allows statewide emergency declarations by the Governor only if “local authority is inadequate to cope with the emergency.” “Eight people in our hospitals,” Uhler says. “668 bed capacity. I think we’re able to cope with the emergency now, Governor.”
Uhler’s video is in response to a threatening letter he received from the Director of the Governor’s Office of Emergency Services, which states:
I caution you, Kirk, that improvident rhetoric in your missive may jeopardize your county’s access to disaster relief and other funding meant to mitigate the effects of emergencies.
Uhler correctly observes that this is precisely the political strong-arming that should give Attorney General William Barr reason to investigate, because, as these are federal emergency dollars that he is threatening to withhold from American citizens, based upon a County supervisor’s “rhetoric,” this is clearly a violation of the First Amendment.
He also observes the irony in the Governor threatening to withhold disaster funds from his county, while he “just went hat-in-hand to the federal government saying that he and a few other states want one trillion dollars in bailout money.”
Newsom tweets:
NEW: Without federal support, states will be forced to make impossible decisions.
Today – CA, OR, WA, NV, CO, and our legislative leaders have joined together to ask the federal government for $1 trillion to protect our schools, public health, and public safety services.
To be clear, even before this coronavirus
promises were a life-threatening problem. Like a
junkie needing a fix, California needs money to
maintain its spending habit, and it’s willing to do
anything to get it. Anyone who can count knows
that California is eventually going to need a
bailout to keep spending in the manner its
leadership has legislated in recent decades, with or
without its recent loss of revenue. But to get
Congress to provide particularly crippled states,
like California, with a trillion-dollar fiscal lifeboat,
the economic pain must be tremendous and
obvious to everyone.
This is why Newsom is doing everything possible to extend the economic pain in California, and using his goons to strong-arm local authorities that defy his supreme executive power by threatening to withhold federal relief funds that are, apparently, much more efficiently used on paying $500K a month to make sure six recovering Covid patients have an entire sports arena to house their beds.
There is no longer a health emergency that warrants the crippling social and economic measures Newsom has instituted, but the crippling social and economic measures must be extended anyway to maintain perception that the current circumstances amount to a healthcare emergency, which warrants the federal dollars that he seeks to spend.
The Senate Republicans and President Trump should refuse to give in to his spending habit. The Senate should segregate the spending on a state bailout from all other stimulus spending and debate it separately. And if a trillion-dollar bailout somehow passes the Senate, President Trump should refuse to sign it. After all, what would either have to gain by courting these perennial blue states?
Hopefully, the result of this would be that the voters in these blue states hold their leaders accountable for the financial mess they’re in, and maybe then their leaders will have a reason to clean up their fiscal houses, rather than punishing their own citizens with unnecessary and crippling “emergency declarations” in order to get more federal money. But I’m not holding my breath.
Pelosi is a ghastly creature. She and her ilk –
Feinstein, Boxer, Jerry Brown, Gavin Newsom – have effectively destroyed
California and they did it on purpose. They 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. PATRICIA McCARTHY
drives down wages and inhibits job opportunities
for legal residents, while bringing more low-
skilled, low-wage workers to these states. In turn,
this increases costs to state and local governments,
and discourages investment by businesses seeking
a skilled labor force and lower overhead.” PAUL
BEDARD
Mexican COVID-19
Cases
Illegal immigrants cost taxpayers $6.5K a
year each: Report
VIDEO:
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/washington-secrets/report-illegal-immigrants-cost-taxpayers-6-500-a-year-each?utm_source=Washington%20Secrets_02/06/2020&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=WEX_Washington%20Secrets&rid=117930
Report: Taxpayers
Forking Over Up to $6,500 per Illegal Alien
THEY ASSAULT OUR
BORDERS, JOBS, WELFARE LINES AND INSTITUTIONS.
Pelosi is a ghastly creature. She and her ilk –
Feinstein, Boxer, Jerry Brown, Gavin Newsom – have effectively destroyed
California and they did it on purpose. They 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. PATRICIA McCARTHY
He added, “Illegal
immigration, in particular,
drives down wages and inhibits job opportunities
for legal residents, while bringing more low-
skilled, low-wage workers to these states. In turn,
this increases costs to state and local governments,
and discourages investment by businesses seeking
a skilled labor force and lower overhead.” PAUL
BEDARD
Change of Heart? Open Borders
California Seeks Assistance from Trump
Admin Due to Growing Number of
Mexican COVID-19
Cases
Officials in California are looking
for medical and border security assistance from the Trump administration as the
number of COVID-19 cases in northern Mexico surges, with many nationals
crossing into the U.S. hoping to receive medical attention.
As of May
2, Mexico had confirmed more than 22,000 COVID-19 cases in its country,
which has made two high-level California officials request help from the Trump
administration.
San Diego
County’s Third District Supervisor, Kristin Gaspar – a vociferous opponent of
California’s dangerous sanctuary laws – sent a letter to Vice President Mike Pence
asking for “assistance with a growing concern south of our border” as
“hospitals in Chula Vista, California [are]now seeing a sudden influx of
critically ill patients from Mexico.”
President
and CEO Chris D. Van Gorder of Scripps Health, a nonprofit healthcare system
based in San Diego, California, also sent a letter to Trump administration
officials stating that “the threat south of the border” is impacting medical
supplies and attention in the region. The letter was sent to Secretary of
Health and Humans Services (HHS) Alex Azar and Acting Secretary of Homeland
Security (DHS) Chad Wolf.
The call for additional assistance in
response to COVID-19 positive Mexican nationals in California is ironic as
officials in the state have incentivized illegal immigration for decades.
The
state’s sanctuary policies, which shield illegal aliens from
deportation, and its desire to treat illegal aliens the same as U.S. citizens
and lawful immigrants, has made it a desirable location for illegal aliens. In
fact, California has the largest illegal alien population of any state, costing
California taxpayers more than $23 billion annually.
Its policies that reward and protect
illegal aliens are likely contributing to the increase in Mexican nationals
arriving amidst the coronavirus outbreak.
Just recently, state and city
officials in California approved granting tens of millions of dollars to
illegal aliens facing economic hardship resulting from the COVID-19
outbreak.
Gov.
Gavin Newsom approved sending $75 million from the
state’s budget to provide direct assistance to some 150,000 illegal aliens. An
additional $50 million will come from private philanthropic sponsors. This
means $125 million will be granted to illegal aliens in the state. Each
qualifying illegal alien will receive at least $500, with households eligible
to receive $1,000.
At a
local level, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti approved pre-paid debit cards to
residents hurt financially by the COVID-19 outbreak regardless of their
immigration status. The “Angeleno Cards” will range from $700 to $1,500
depending on the income and size of the household.
With state and local officials now
asking for help to stem the flow of migrants from Mexico, California may
finally be on its way in understanding that uncontrolled, mass migration
(especially during a global pandemic), is simply not sustainable. Funding and
resources are finite (especially in times of crises) and must be prioritized
for citizens and law-abiding immigrants.
Illegal immigrants cost taxpayers $6.5K a
year each: Report
VIDEO:
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/washington-secrets/report-illegal-immigrants-cost-taxpayers-6-500-a-year-each?utm_source=Washington%20Secrets_02/06/2020&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=WEX_Washington%20Secrets&rid=117930
Illegal immigrants in
growing numbers are flooding into so-called sanctuary cities and states where
they are consuming up to $6,500 in taxpayer-funded services, according to a new
review of costs in 10 small states.
The surge is having an
outsized effect on smaller states and is cutting funds for services to
veterans, children, and disabled Americans, according to the report provided
exclusively to Secrets from the Federation
for American Immigration Reform.
The report said illegal
immigration costs the 10 states $454 million. “To put that figure into context,
that $454 million expenditure is more than 200 times what the state of Montana
budgets for its entire Veterans Affairs program, and it is 2.5 times the total
sum that West Virginia invests in its state university,” said the report.
And, it added, illegal
immigrants cost between $4,000 and $6,500 annually above any tax benefit they
provide.
“In many ways, the
influx of immigrants into less populous areas of the country has an even
greater impact on long-time residents than it does in larger and more urban
areas,” said Dan Stein, president of FAIR. “These areas have neither the tax
base, nor the economic and social infrastructure to accommodate the needs of
the growing numbers of immigrants taking up residence.”
The 10 states analyzed
in the study, Small
Migrant Populations, Huge Impacts, were New
Hampshire, Mississippi, Alaska, Maine, North Dakota, West Virginia, South
Dakota, Vermont, Montana, and Wyoming.
“Many local officials
tout immigration, including illegal immigration, as a remedy to economic
stagnation. However, as this report reveals, the reality is precisely the
opposite,” said Stein.
He added, “Illegal
immigration, in particular, drives down wages and inhibits job opportunities
for legal residents, while bringing more low-skilled, low-wage workers to these
states. In turn, this increases costs to state and local governments, and
discourages investment by businesses seeking a skilled labor force and lower
overhead.”
The report comes on the
heels of a key U.S. Supreme Court decision to let the Trump administration
block entry to immigrants who are likely to burden taxpayers.
FAIR’s report also
showed that sanctuary cities are a growing attraction for illegal immigrants,
especially in smaller states where the costs of living can be lower.
The key findings from
the report to Secrets:
- In each
of these states, each illegal immigrant resident carried a net tax deficit
of between $4,000 and $6,500 annually.
- Some
415,000 foreign-born reside in these 10 states, of whom about 88,000 (or
21%) are illegal immigrants. Additionally, there are about 35,000
U.S.-born children of illegal immigrants in these states.
- Collectively,
these illegal immigrants and their U.S.-born children cost taxpayers in
the 10 states about $454 million each year for the provision of essential
services such as education and healthcare.
- Local
schools struggle to provide educators and cover the costs of instruction
for 50,000 K-12 students classified as Limited English Proficient.
- A
growing number of sanctuary jurisdictions (29 and counting, including the
entire state of Vermont), and lower living costs are a magnet for illegal
immigrants.
- The
growing immigrant population competes with legal residents for jobs in
economically depressed areas.
“This report highlights
the fact that the adverse effects of unchecked mass immigration, combined with an
immigration selection process that does not choose people based on individual
merit, job skills and education, are now being felt in all parts of the
country. Americans, in every part of the nation, are being affected by
antiquated and unenforced immigration policies, which is why it is at the top
of the list of voter concerns heading into the 2020 elections,” said Stein.
Report: Taxpayers
Forking Over Up to $6,500 per Illegal Alien
By Rob
Shimshock | February 6, 2020 | 12:24pm EST
(CNSNews.com) -- Much of the
media attention garnered by the border crisis typically revolves around states
that border Mexico like Arizona and Texas. Yet a February report reveals the
devastating economic consequences of illegal aliens on taxpayers as far north
as Montana.
Illegal aliens cost taxpayers in the ten states with the fewest
immigrants around $454 million per year, which works out to a net tax deficit
of $4,000 to $6,500 per illegal, according to a report by the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR).
“In many ways, the influx of immigrants into less populous areas
of the country has an even greater impact on long-time residents than it does
in larger and more urban areas,” FAIR President Dan Stein said in the report's
news release. “These areas have neither the tax base, nor the economic and
social infrastructure to accommodate the needs of the growing numbers of
immigrants taking up residence.”
FAIR examined migration to Alaska, Maine, Mississippi, Montana,
New Hampshire, North Dakota, South Dakota, Vermont, West Virginia, and Wyoming
in its study and found that 88,000 out of the 415,000 foreign-born residents in
these states are illegal aliens, or 21 percent. Around 35,000 others are
citizen children of illegal aliens.
“Many local officials tout immigration, including illegal
immigration, as a remedy to economic stagnation. However, as this report
reveals, the reality is precisely the opposite,” Stein continued. “Illegal
immigration, in particular, drives down wages and inhibits job opportunities
for legal residents, while bringing more low-skilled, low-wage workers to these
states. In turn, this increases costs to state and local governments, and
discourages investment by businesses seeking a skilled labor force and lower
overhead.”
FAIR notes that 29 sanctuary jurisdictions exist in these 10
states, including the whole state of Vermont.
The report also examined the financial implications of
immigrants more generally, noting that more than 50,000 K-12 students in the
ten states examined are categorized as having limited English proficiency
(LEP). FAIR estimated that taxpayers spend $96 million on the education of
these students.
Nationwide, the immigration nonprofit calculated that taxpayers
spent $59.8 billion educating LEP students in 2016, up from $51.2 billion in
2010.
Matt O’Brien, director of research at FAIR, expanded on the
impact of immigration on Lewiston, Maine, a city the nonprofit honed in on in
its analysis, while speaking with CNSNews.com.
Lewiston, which has a population under 40,000, has taken in more
than 7,500 migrants during the past decade-and-a-half. Between 2004 and 2017,
the percentage of LEP students in the town went from five to 30 percent.
“You’re putting all of the kids that have to go through that
school system at a deficit that they have to recover from after they get out of
the public school system," O’Brien told CNSNews.com. “Now they have to
compete with the massive amount of immigrants...as they’re trying to get entry-level
jobs.”
The FAIR report highlighted employers’ preference for hiring
foreign-born workers, who demand lower wages, over American citizens.
“This report highlights the fact that the adverse effects of
unchecked mass immigration, combined with an immigration selection process that
does not choose people based on individual merit, job skills and education, are
now being felt in all parts of the country. Americans, in every part of the
nation, are being affected by antiquated and unenforced immigration policies,
which is why it is at the top of the list of voter concerns heading into the
2020 elections,” Stein concluded in the release.
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