New Jersey’s Democratic-run legislature is allowing illegal migrants to take tens of thousands of licensed and professional jobs from Americans.
The state’s Democratic governor, Phil Murphy, is expected to sign a bill passed in July by the House and Senate that allows illegal aliens to get occupational and professional licenses, according to a July 30 report by NorthJersey.com:
“Governor Murphy believes that immigrants are a critical part of the fabric of life in New Jersey, and that they should not face unnecessary barriers as they seek to participate in our society and economy,” Alyana Alfaro, a Murphy spokeswoman, said prior to the Assembly vote.
The short bill removes the existing state rules against illegal migrants getting state occupational licenses for white-collar jobs such as architects and blue-collar jobs such as electricians. “Notwithstanding the provisions of any other law, rule, or regulation, lawful presence in the United States shall not be required to obtain a professional or occupational license, provided that the applicant meets all other requirements for licensure,” says Senate bill No. 2455.
The law will help NJ employers to get their illegal employees’ work certified by state and local officials. State officials rarely penalize or even look for employers who hire illegal migrants, partly because migration rules are set by the federal government.
The bill is touted as an aid for the resident population of migrants who are working legally under the 2012 “Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals” (DACA) amnesty.
But New Jersey also has a large number of illegal aliens, including Mexicans, Central Americans, and a growing number of Indians.
The law will also open new opportunities for unscrupulous employers to skirt federal laws while using illegal migrants as cheap labor. For example, foreign visitors are allowed to enter and depart the country under the B-1/B-2 visa. They are not allowed to work once they enter the country — but there are very few enforcement efforts to deter the widespread hiring of B-1/B-2 visitors in jobs needed by Americans.
The legislation spotlights the deepening alliance between business groups and progressives. In 2019, Murphy also signed a bill allowing illegal aliens to get drivers’ licenses, making it easier for employers to hire illegal migrants for various jobs. In 2013, Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ) was one of the eight senators who pushed the “Gang of Eight” amnesty and cheap-labor bill.
The licensing bill is pushed by Democrat Sen. Nellie Pou. She did not use her Twitter account to tout the bill’s passage.
A variety of donor-funded progressive groups back the legislation. The groups use the #OccupationalLicenses4All hashtag:
The tacit alliance has kept New Jersey’s wage growth among the lowest in the nation, despite the Democrats’ policy of raising the government-directed minimum wage.
The bills were pushed by Democrats but are also supported by some GOP members.
A growing number of other states — including California and New York — allow illegal aliens to compete against American licensed experts and professionals.
There was minimal media coverage of the giveaway bill in the state’s few newspapers . The little coverage focused on the interests of illegal immigrants, not on Americans and legal immigrants. For example, NorthJersey.com led its coverage with a sympathetic coverage of one illegal migrant from El Salvador:
Luis Chirino has spent long hours designing, drawing and building projects to earn a degree in architecture from the New Jersey Institute of Technology, sometimes spending all night in a studio on the Newark campus.
But Chirino, 22, who lives in Jersey City, also has wondered whether the long nights of studying will pay off and if he will be able to practice his chosen profession in New Jersey once he graduates. As an immigrant without legal status, he can’t obtain a professional license to work as an architect in New Jersey even if he graduates and passes the required exams.
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In New Jersey, dozens of professions and occupations require licenses, including accountants, architects, acupuncturists, audiologists, beauticians, court reporters, cosmetologists, doctors, dentists, engineers, home inspectors, morticians, nurses, occupational therapists, optometrists, pharmacists, plumbers, psychiatrists, real estate appraisers, social workers and veterinarians.
On April 2, Fox News reported comments from pro-American critics of cheap-labor migration:
“Allowing those in the country illegally to get occupational or professional licenses takes jobs away from American citizens and legal immigrants,” said FAIR State and Local Engagement Director Shari Randall.
“Already there are more than 1.3 million unemployed individuals in New Jersey who are suffering as a result of the Coronavirus pandemic and lockdowns. Providing occupational or professional licenses to those in the country illegally incentivizes more illegal immigration. With high unemployment, the legislative focus should have been targeted to unemployed citizens and legal immigrants in New Jersey who desperately need to go back to work, instead of encouraging more illegal immigration.”
“The Democrats had abandoned their
working-class base to chase what they pretended was a racial group when what
they were actually chasing was the momentum of unlimited migration”.
DANIEL GREENFIELD / FRONT PAGE
MAGAZINE
A DACA amnesty would put more citizen children of
illegal aliens — known as “anchor babies” — on federal welfare,
as Breitbart News reported , while American taxpayers would
be left potentially with a $26 billion bill.
Additionally, about one-in-five DACA illegal
aliens, after an amnesty, would end up on food stamps, while at
least one-in-seven would go on Medicaid. JOHN BINDER
THE NEW PRIVILEGED CLASS: Illegals!
This is why you work From Jan - May paying taxes to the government
....with the rest of the calendar year is money for you and your family.
Take, for example, an illegal alien with a wife and five children.
He takes a job for $5.00 or 6.00/hour. At that wage, with six dependents, he
pays no income tax, yet at the end of the year, if he files an Income Tax
Return, with his fake Social Security number, he gets an "earned income
credit" of up to $3,200..... free.
He qualifies for Section 8 housing and subsidized rent.
He qualifies for food stamps.
He qualifies for free (no deductible, no co-pay) health care.
His children get free breakfasts and lunches at school.
He requires bilingual teachers and books.
He qualifies for relief from high energy bills.
If they are or become, aged, blind or disabled, they qualify for
SSI.
Once qualified for SSI they can qualify for Medicare. All of this
is at (our) taxpayer's expense.
He doesn't worry about car insurance, life insurance, or
homeowners insurance.
Taxpayers provide Spanish language signs, bulletins and printed
material.
He and his family receive the equivalent of $20.00 to $30.00/hour
in benefits.
Working Americans are lucky to have $5.00 or $6.00/hour left after
Paying their bills and his.
The American taxpayers also pay for increased crime, graffiti and
trash clean-up.
Cheap labor? YEAH RIGHT! Wake up people!
JOE LEGAL v LA RAZA JOSE ILLEGAL
Here’s how it breaks
down; will make you want to be an illegal!
THE TAX-FREE MEXICAN
UNDERGROUND ECONOMY IN LOS ANGELES COUNTY IS ESTIMATED TO BE IN EXCESS OF $2
BILLION YEARLY!
Staggering expensive "cheap"
Mexican labor did not build this once great nation! Look what it has done to
Mexico. It's all about keeping wages depressed and passing along the true cost
of the invasion, their welfare, and crime tidal wave costs to the backs of the
American people!
AMERICA: YOU’RE BETTER
OFF BEING AN ILLEGAL!!!
This annual income for an impoverished American family is
$10,000 less than the more than $34,500 in federal funds which are spent on
each unaccompanied minor border crosser.
A study by Tom Wong
of the University of California at San Diego discovered that more than 25
percent of DACA-enrolled illegal aliens in the program have anchor babies. That
totals about 200,000 anchor babies who are the children of DACA-enrolled
illegal aliens. This does not include the anchor babies of DACA-qualified
illegal aliens. JOHN BINDER
“The
Democrats had abandoned their working-class base to chase what they pretended
was a racial group when what they were actually chasing was the momentum of
unlimited migration”. DANIEL GREENFIELD / FRONT PAGE MAGAZINE
As
Breitbart News has reported ,
U.S. households headed by foreign-born residents use nearly twice the welfare
of households headed by native-born Americans.
Simultaneously, illegal immigration next year is on track
to soar to the highest level in a decade, with a potential 600,000
border crossers expected.
“More than 750 million people want to migrate to another country
permanently, according to Gallup research published Monday, as 150 world
leaders sign up to the controversial UN global compact which critics say makes
migration a human right.” VIRGINIA HALE
For
example, a DACA amnesty would cost American taxpayers about $26 billion , more than the border
wall, and that does not include the money taxpayers would have to fork up to
subsidize the legal immigrant relatives of DACA illegal aliens.
Exclusive–Steve Camarota: Every Illegal Alien Costs Americans
$70K Over Their Lifetime
JOHN BINDER
Every illegal alien, over the
course of their lifetime, costs American taxpayers about $70,000, Center for
Immigration Studies Director of Research Steve Camarota says.
During an interview with SiriusXM Patriot’s Breitbart
News Daily , Camarota said his research has revealed the
enormous financial burden that illegal immigration has on America’s working and
middle class taxpayers in terms of public services, depressed wages, and
welfare.
“In a person’s lifetime, I’ve estimated that an illegal border
crosser might cost taxpayers … maybe over $70,000 a year as a net cost,”
Camarota said. “And that excludes the cost of their U.S.-born children, which
gets pretty big when you add that in.”
LISTEN:
“Once [an illegal alien] has a child, they can receive cash
welfare on behalf of their U.S.-born children,” Camarota explained. “Once they
have a child, they can live in public housing. Once they have a child, they can
receive food stamps on behalf of that child. That’s how that works.”
Camarota said the education levels of illegal aliens, border
crossers, and legal immigrants are largely to blame for the high level of
welfare usage by the f0reign-born population in the U.S., noting that new
arrivals tend to compete for jobs against America’s poor and working class
communities.
In past waves of mass immigration, Camarota said, the U.S. did
not have an expansive welfare system. Today’s ever-growing welfare system,
coupled with mass illegal and legal immigration levels, is “extremely
problematic,” according to Camarota, for American taxpayers.
The RAISE Act — reintroduced in the
Senate by Senators Tom Cotton (R-AR), David Perdue (R-GA), and
Josh Hawley (R-MO) — would cut legal immigration levels in half and convert the
immigration system to favor well-educated foreign nationals, thus relieving
American workers and taxpayers of the nearly five-decade-long wave of booming
immigration. Currently, mass legal immigration redistributes the
wealth of working and middle class Americans to the country’s top
earners.
“Virtually none of that existed in 1900 during the last great
wave of immigration, when we also took in a number of poor people. We didn’t
have a well-developed welfare state,” Camarota continued:
We’re not going to stop [the welfare state] tomorrow. So in
that context, bringing in less educated people who are poor is extremely
problematic for public coffers, for taxpayers in a way that it wasn’t in 1900
because the roads weren’t even paved between the cities in 1900 . It’s just
a totally different world. And that’s the point of the RAISE Act is to
sort of bring in line immigration policy with the reality say of a large
government … and a welfare state . [Emphasis added]
The immigrants are not all coming to get welfare and they don’t
immediately sign up, but over time, an enormous fraction sign their
children up . It’s likely the case that of the U.S.-born children of
illegal immigrants, more than half are signed up for Medicaid — which
is our most expensive program. [Emphasis added]
As Breitbart News has reported , U.S. households
headed by foreign-born residents use nearly twice the welfare of households
headed by native-born Americans.
Every year the U.S. admits more than 1.5 million foreign
nationals, with the vast majority deriving from chain migration. In 2017, the
foreign-born population reached a record high of 44.5
million. By 2023, the Center for Immigration Studies estimates that the legal
and illegal immigrant population of the U.S. will make up nearly 15
percent of the entire U.S. population.
Breitbart News Daily airs on SiriusXM Patriot 125 weekdays
from 6:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m. Eastern.
John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Follow him on
Twitter at @JxhnBinder .
Another line they cut into: Illegals get free public housing as
impoverished Americans wait
Want some perspective on why so many blue sanctuary cities have so
many homeless encampments hovering around?
Try the reality that illegal immigrants are routinely given free
public housing by the U.S., based on the fact that they are uneducated,
unskilled, and largely unemployable. Those
are the criteria, and now importing poverty has never been easier. Shockingly,
this comes as millions of poor Americans are out in the cold awaiting that
housing that the original law was intended to help.
Thus, the tent cities, and by coincidence, the worst of these
emerging shantytowns are in blue sanctuary cities loaded with illegal
immigrants - Orange County, San Francisco, San Diego, Seattle, New York...Is
there a connection? At a minimum, it's worth looking at.
The Trump administration's Department of Housing and Urban
Development is finally trying to put a stop to it as 1.5 million illegals
prepare to enter the U.S. this year, and one can only wonder why they didn't do
it yesterday.
The plan would scrap Clinton-era regulations that allowed illegal
immigrants to sign up for assistance without having to disclose their status.
Under the new Trump rules, not only would the leaseholder using public housing
have to be an eligible U.S. person, but the government would verify all
applicants through the Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE)
database, a federal system that’s used to weed illegal immigrants out of other
welfare programs.
Those already getting HUD assistance would have to go through a new verification,
though it would be over a period of time and wouldn’t all come at once.
“We’ve got our own people to house and need to take care of our
citizens,” an administration official told The Washington Times. “Because of
past loopholes in HUD guidance, illegal aliens were able to live in free public
housing desperately needed by so many of our own citizens. As illegal aliens
attempt to swarm our borders, we’re sending the message that you can’t live off
of American welfare on the taxpayers’ dime.”
The Times notes that the rules are confusingly contradictary, and
some illegal immigrant families are getting full rides based on just one member
being born in the U.S. The pregnant caravaner who calculatingly slipped
across the U.S. in San Diego late last year, only to have her baby the next
day, now, along with her entire family, gets that free ride on
government housing. Plus lots of cheesy news coverage about how heartwarming it all is. That's a lot cheaper than
any housing she's going to find back in Tegucigalpa.
Migrants would be almost fools not to take the offering.
The problem of course is that Americans who paid into these
programs, and the subset who find themselves in dire circumstances, are in fact
being shut out.
The fill-the-pews Catholic archbishops may love to tout the
virtues of illegal immigrants and wave signs about getting 'justice"
for them, but the hard fact here is that these foreign nationals are
stealing from others as they take this housing benefit under legal
technicalities. That's not a good thing under anyone's theological law.
But hypocrisy is comfortable ground for the entire open borders lobby as
they shamelessly celebrate lawbreaking at the border, leaving the
impoverished of the U.S. out cold.
The Trump administration is trying to have this outrage fixed
by summer. But don't imagine it won't be without the open-borders lawsuits, the
media sob stories, the leftist judges, and the scolding clerics.
Los Angeles County Pays Over a Billion in
Welfare to Illegal Aliens Over Two Years
In 2015 and 2016, Los Angeles County paid
nearly $1.3 billion in welfare funds to illegal aliens and their families. That
figure amounts to 25 percent of the total spent on the county’s entire needy
population, according to Fox News .
The state of California is home to more illegal aliens than any other
state in the country. Approximately one in five illegal aliens lives in
California, Pew reported.
Approximately a quarter of California’s 4 million illegal immigrants
reside in Los Angeles County. The county allows illegal immigrant parents with
children born in the United States to seek welfare and food stamp benefits.
The welfare benefits data acquired by Fox News comes from the Los
Angeles County Department of Public Social Services and shows welfare and food
stamp costs for the county’s entire population were $3.1 billion in 2015, $2.9
billion in 2016.
The data also shows that during the first five months of 2017, more than
60,000 families received a total of $181 million.
Over 58,000 families received a total of $602 million in benefits in
2015 and more than 64,000 families received a total of $675 million in 2016.
Robert Rector, a Heritage Foundation senior
fellow who studies poverty and illegal immigration , told Fox the costs represent “the tip of
the iceberg.”
“They get $3 in benefits for every $1 they spend,” Rector said. It can
cost the government a total of $24,000 per year per family to pay for things
like education, police, fire, medical, and subsidized housing.
In February of 2019, the Los Angeles city council signed a resolution
making it a sanctuary city. The resolution did not provide any new legal
protections to their immigrants, but instead solidified existing policies.
In October 2017, former California governor
Jerry Brown signed SB 54 into
law. This bill made California, in Brown’s own words, a “sanctuary
state.” The Justice Department filed a lawsuit against the State of California
over the law. A federal judge dismissed that suit in July. SB 54 took
effect on Jan. 1, 2018.
According
to Center for Immigration Studies , “The new law does many things: It forbids all localities from
cooperating with ICE detainer notices, it bars any law enforcement officer from
participating in the popular 287(g)
program , and it
prevents state and local police from inquiring about individuals’ immigration
status.”
Some counties in California have protested its implementation and joined
the Trump administration’s lawsuit against the state.
California’s campaign to provide public services to illegal immigrants
did not end with the exit of Jerry Brown. His successor, Gavin Newsom, is
just as focused as Brown in funding programs for illegal residents at the
expense of California taxpayers.
California’s budget earmarks millions of dollars annually to the One
California program, which provides free legal assistance to all aliens,
including those facing deportation, and makes California’s public universities
easier for illegal-alien students to attend.
According to the Fiscal Burden of Illegal
Immigration on United States Taxpayers 2017 report , for the estimated 12.5 million illegal immigrants living in the
country, the resulting cost is a $116 billion burden on the national
economy and taxpayers each year, after deducting the $19 billion in taxes paid
by some of those illegal immigrants.
BLOG: MOST FIGURES PUT THE NUMBER OF
ILLEGALS IN THE U.S. AT ABOUT 40 MILLION. WHEN THESE PEOPLE ARE HANDED AMNESTY,
THEY ARE LEGALLY ENTITLED TO BRING UP THE REST OF THEIR FAMILY EFFECTIVELY
LEAVING MEXICO DESERTED.
New data from the U.S. Census Bureau shows that more than 22 million
non-citizens now live in the United States.
“The Democrats had abandoned their
working-class base to chase what they pretended was a racial group when what
they were actually chasing was the momentum of unlimited migration”.
DANIEL GREENFIELD / FRONTPAGE
MAGAZINE
Congress of millionaires robs the unemployed
The refusal of the US
Congress to take action as supplemental federal unemployment benefits expired July
31 for as many as 30 million American workers demonstrates the social interests
that drive the corporate-controlled political system in the United States. A
Congress whose average member is a millionaire has not the slightest concern
for the mass suffering the cutoff of benefits will inflict on the working
class.
Tens of
millions of workers and their families have already begun to experience the
impact of this act of class savagery. Their weekly incomes will be cut by 60 to
90 percent, depending on the level of state unemployment benefits they may
continue to receive. Nearly 20 million households will be unable to afford
their monthly rent, under conditions where a limited moratorium on evictions
was allowed to expire on the same day, Friday, July 31. Millions more will be
unable to buy sufficient food, let alone afford health insurance and medical
care under conditions of a nationwide COVID-19 pandemic.
The cutoff
of supplemental benefits is not the byproduct of “gridlock” in Washington or
the unintended consequence of election-year conflicts between Democrats and the
Trump administration, as the corporate media presents it. This is a deliberate
policy.
For all
their mutual mudslinging and displays of partisan ferocity, the Democratic and
Republican parties and the Trump administration serve the same class interests
and are pursuing the same goal.
BLOG EDITOR: THEIR ‘GOAL’
IS OPEN BORDERS AND NO LEGAL NEED APPLY!!!
They aim to use the
threat of poverty, hunger and homelessness to force millions of workers to
return to work producing profits for the capitalist class, regardless of the
spreading danger from the coronavirus pandemic.
Appearing on
Sunday television interview programs, after a three-hour negotiating session on
Saturday, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (net worth $120 million), speaking for the
Democrats, and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin (net worth $300 million),
speaking for the Trump administration, agreed that the $600-a-week supplemental
benefit would not be renewed in its previous form.
On the ABC
program “This Week,” Mnuchin flatly attacked the supplemental benefit,
repeatedly describing jobless workers who received the $600-a-week payment as
“overpaid” and complaining that the payments had led to widespread refusal by
workers to go back to their jobs when recalled after the end of state lockdowns
imposed because of COVID-19.
When his
interviewer expressed skepticism that an “extra $600” was a disincentive to
finding a job, Mnuchin replied, “There’s no question in certain cases where
we’re paying people more to work—stay home than to work. That’s created issues
in the entire economy.”
The former Hollywood financier, whose personal
wealth would cover the cost of supplemental benefits for 10,000 workers for
an entire year , was giving voice to the claims of Senate Republicans and
numerous corporate employers. They have argued that the $600-a-week federal
benefit made it difficult to induce workers to return to work at low-paying
fast food, retail and sweatshop positions.
Speaking on
the same program, Pelosi tried to make a display of sympathy for the
unemployed, criticizing the Republicans for subjecting jobless workers to a
greater degree of scrutiny than businessmen who collected tens of millions of
dollars in federal payments under the misnamed Paycheck Protection Program.
But she
embraced the suggestion of the second-ranking Democrat in the House, Majority
Leader Steny Hoyer, who said last week that the supplemental benefit was
negotiable, and that the Republican demand to reduce the weekly amount was “not
a deal-breaker.”
Pelosi
suggested a sliding scale of payments, as proposed by Senate Minority Leader
Charles Schumer (Democrat from New York), in which “the amount of money that’s
given as an enhancement for unemployment insurance should relate to the rate of
unemployment. So, as that goes down, then you can consider something less than
the $600…”
Senate
Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (net worth $22.5 million) has set August 7 as
the effective deadline for the ongoing negotiations, the day the Senate will
begin its August recess. The House and Senate could well begin their monthlong
break—a period of lavishly-paid vacations far beyond the reach of most American
workers—having either drastically cut benefits for the unemployed or failed to
restore them at all.
On the same
day that federal supplemental benefits expired, the House of Representatives
passed, on a near-party-line vote, a $1.3 trillion bill to fund the Department
of Defense, as well as the departments of Labor, Health and Human Services,
Education, Justice, Transportation, Energy and several other agencies.
The military
component of that bill, close to $750 billion, would by itself have paid for
more than 40 weeks of supplemental unemployment benefits. It includes such
items as $70 billion—four weeks of supplemental benefits—for Overseas
Contingency Operations, the slush fund the Pentagon uses to cover expenses for
wars in Iraq, Syria and Afghanistan, as well as drone missile strikes across a
much wider area.
The most
recent bill for a single weapons system, the F-35 fighter jet, at $34 billion,
would pay for two weeks of supplemental benefits. A single Gerald R. Ford-class
aircraft carrier (there are five on order, and 10 planned in total) comes to
$18 billion for research, development and construction—one week’s worth of
supplemental unemployment benefits to keep 30 million American families alive.
There are
other comparisons that can be made. General Motors CEO Mary Barra made $21
million last year, or $420,000 per week, enough to fund the unemployment
benefits of 700 jobless workers.
The
increase since March in the personal fortune of a single individual, Amazon CEO
Jeff Bezos, comes to $74 billion, enough to cover supplemental benefits for
four weeks. Tesla CEO Elon Musk has gained more than $50 billion during the
same period. He could pay the benefit bill for an additional three weeks.
American billionaires as whole have gained $565 billion over the past four
months, enough to finance supplemental benefits until March 2021.
And that
leaves out the rest of the Wall Street investor class, those of less than
billionaire rank, for whom the four months since the passage of the CARES Act
in late March have been the most lucrative period in the history of world
capitalism.
Senator
McConnell claimed that 15 to 20 members of his Republican caucus opposed any
extension of supplemental benefits at all, and several of these diehards have
been quoted bemoaning the colossal federal borrowing that has been carried out
since the coronavirus pandemic forced the temporary lockdown of the US economy.
The
figures cited above, however, demonstrate the lying character of the claims
that “there is no money” to provide necessary support to allow workers and
their families to survive without being forced back into workplaces that would
quickly become focal points of a deadly infectious disease.
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