Thursday, September 3, 2020

DEMOCRATS FOR LA RAZA ILLEGALS - LA RAZA SUPREMACY DEMOCRAT NEW JERSEY GOV CHRIS MURPHY SAYS FLOODING STATE WITH ILLEGALS WILL HELP KEEP WAGES DEPRESSED - True cost of welfare and crime to be passed along to middle America

Back in February, I reported to you on the myth of the American worker shortage by spotlighting more than 50 stories of tens of thousands of recent U.S. worker layoffs in tech and other high-skilled industries. MICHELLE MALKIN 

AS THE U.S. CHAMBER OF COMMERCE HANDS OUT BRIBES TO DEMS FOR OPEN BORDERS: Remember these laid-off workers when Beltway crapweasels come back from their Labor Day holiday to lobby for more imported foreign farmworkers, work permits for illegal immigrant DREAMers, H-1B tech visas, more foreign doctors and other medical professionals, Silicon Valley tax breaks, and Fortune 500 bailouts. MICHELLE MALKIN 

New Jersey Governor Okays Work Licenses for Illegal Migrants

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New Jersey’s Democrat governor signed a bill on September 1 that allows illegal migrants to take well-paying licensed jobs from Americans and legal immigrants, even amid the dramatic recession that has pushed many Americans out of jobs.

NJ.com reported the recession win for illegal migrants and employers on September 1:

Previously, [people] were required to have a “lawful presence in the United States” to qualify for a license. This law (S2455) removes that barrier.
[Gov. Chris] Murphy’s office said the law — which takes effect immediately — will benefit about 500,000 undocumented residents in New Jersey.

The office also said the state will be the first on the East Coast to enact such a law. California, Nevada, and New Mexico are among the other states with similar statutes.

The law allows illegals — including DACA recipients — to get licenses for many blue-collar and white-collar jobs.

The license will allow illegals to work as electricians, plumbers, HVAC workers, lab technicians, nurses, doctors, architects, and many other careers.

The law passed with support from employers, many of whom are eager to cut their costs by staffing their companies with the state’s large population of illegals, which include many Latinos and a growing number of Indians.

In July, the state’s unemployment rate hit almost 14 percent. “More than 1.5 million New Jersey workers have applied for unemployment benefits since the pandemic began,” the New Jersey Herald reported August 26.

“New Jersey is stronger when everyone is given the opportunity to contribute and everyone is given a chance to live their American Dream,” Murphy said in a signing statement. He also declared the long-standing legal and cultural distinctions between Americans and illegal migrants are shameful “discrimination”:

This law sends a simple, powerful message that immigration status can no longer be used as an excuse to discriminate among equally educated, trained, and qualified individuals. As we look toward our shared economic future, we must ensure that no one is left behind and everyone who puts forward the effort can succeed.

His political allies cheered the win for illegal workers, even as New Jersey’s many American employees try to recover from the coronavirus crash.

“This legislation is a win-win for New Jersey workers and for employers looking to hire workers with specific training and skills,” said Labor Commissioner Robert Asaro-Angelo. “I’m proud to see our state leading the nation in prioritizing the economic stability of all families.”

The law can 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 licensed jobs needed by skilled Americans.

Business groups are pushing similar pro-illegal laws in many states where millions of Americans have earned licenses for skilled work. Many states also provide driver’s licenses to illegals, ao helping them work illegally in a wider variety of jobs.

Democrats, plus some Republicans, backed the pro-illegal legislation. Northjersey.com reported August 1:

Assemblyman Harold Wirths (R-Sussex) voted no on the measure.

“We have rules and laws in this country and, if you come into the country illegally and you are in violation of the law, I don’t think we should be granting you licenses,” he said, noting it was a way of circumventing federal laws.

The bill, though, is not opposed by all Republicans in the state. Four Republican Senators voted in favor of the bill. They included Senators Chris Brown (R-Atlantic), Declan O’Scanlon (R-Monmouth), Kip Bateman (R-Somerset) and Gerry Cardinale (R-Bergen).

There was minimal media coverage of the giveaway bill in the state’s few newspapers. The little media coverage focused on the interests of illegal immigrants, not on Americans and legal immigrants.

Michelle Malkin: Plight of Laid-Off American Workers Nothing to Celebrate

 By Michelle Malkin | September 2, 2020

 American workers across the wage scale are hurting. Small-business owners across the country are fighting for their survival. Young people face more uncertainty than ever about their futures and ability to put food on the table.

As we head into Labor Day weekend, I would like to offer a friendly reminder from the "America First" right to the Beltway Republican message machine and the Trump campaign's social media mavens: Now is not the time to be cheerleading for pandemic profiteers, tech billionaires, and "woke capital" globalists who are addicted to cheap foreign labor and abhor American sovereignty. According to one analysis by Oxfam, 17 out of the top 25 most profitable U.S. corporations — including Microsoft, Johnson & Johnson, Facebook, Pfizer and Visa — are projected to rake in $85 billion more in 2020 than in previous years as upward of 40 million Americans are out of work.

SwampCons keep touting the "booming stock market" and "record" S&P 500 highs. President Donald Trump himself bragged last week, "NASDAQ has broken the record, I think 16 times already, during a pandemic." He also warned Republican National Convention viewers that Joe Biden is bad for our "retirement" nest eggs and "401(k)s." True enough. But what about the tens of millions who've lost their jobs and those who haven't even had the chance to start putting away any savings?

Moreover, why should any "Make America Great Again" populists wave pom-poms for Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, Google/Alphabet, and Facebook? The founders, top executives, and elitist employees of these Silicon Valley firms — the top five companies in the NASDAQ index — hate America, sabotage U.S. workers through advocating for mass migration, Black Lives Matter and Antifa anarchy, and they openly disparage and discriminate against Trump-supporting customers.

In ordinary times, I used to be one of those reliable voices touting the "free market," "invisible hand," and miracles of American capitalism over "socialism." But our current condition is not one of "limited government conservatism" vs. "big government socialism." As I've illustrated all summer long, we live in a bloody state of anarchotyranny. The lawless reign while big business collectively allies itself with the mob to reap profits at the expense of the law-abiding.

Back in February, I reported to you on the myth of the American worker shortage by spotlighting more than 50 stories of tens of thousands of recent U.S. worker layoffs in tech and other high-skilled industries. Among the U.S. corporations and institutions responsible for laying off, replacing, offshoring, and outsourcing tens of thousands of American jobs:

Wayfair, TripAdvisor, LogMeIn, Inc., Zume Pizza, VMWare, Shutterfly, Intel, Comcast, Xilinx, 23andMe, NortonLifeLock, AT&T, Macy's, Walgreens, Uber, Lyft, UCSF Medical Center, Baptist Health, Sysco, WeWork, American Family Insurance, Tennessee Valley Authority, Amway, UPS subsidiary Coyote Logistics, Comcast, Lime, Bird, Unicorn, Getaround, Cerner, Oracle, Samsung US, Edmunds.com, Textron Aviation, Morgan Stanley, Spirit AeroSystems, Mozilla, UiPath, Plexus, Cisco, Ancestry.com, Clover Health, State Street Corporation, Anthem, Transamerica, Verizon, MassMutual, Disney, Carnival, Abbott Labs, EmblemHealth, Harley Davidson, Cargill, Eversource Energy, Best Buy, Southern California Edison, and Qualcomm.

Six months later, record layoffs are piling up.

—Last week in California, VMWare, downtown San Jose's Hilton Hotel, Veritas, Blackhawk Country Club, Gap, Chartwells, and Silver Creek Sportsplex in San Jose all announced hundreds more Bay Area layoffs.

—Among the companies confirming new COVID-related permanent layoffs reported by The Wall Street Journal: GM Resorts International, Stanley Black & Decker Inc., and Coca-Cola.

—American Airlines Group Inc. and United Airlines Holdings Inc. are threatening to ax more than 53,000 workers unless they get new federal bailouts. Frontier Airlines signaled nearly 400 layoffs in Colorado.

—Even as it crowed about record quarterly sales, Salesforce handed out pink-slip notices to 1,000 of its employees.

—Despite promising not to cut workers in the midst of the COVID chaos, Morgan Stanley, Bank of America Corp. and Wells Fargo are now all considering doing just that.

—In Florida, more than 1,900 hotel employees are facing layoffs or temporary layoffs at Loews Hotels and Co and Marriott.

—Telecom giant Cisco plans to lay off an unspecified number of workers amid business troubles.

—Manufacturing giant 3M slashed 1,500 jobs at the beginning of the month.

—Walmart laid off hundreds of employees in its logistics, real estate, and retail location planning departments over the past two months.

—Hundreds of health care workers have been laid off in Cook County, Illinois, Cape Cod, the University of Texas Medical Branch Health system, Lynwood Hospital in Los Angeles, and Minnesota's state hospital system.

Remember these laid-off workers when Beltway crapweasels come back from their Labor Day holiday to lobby for more imported foreign farmworkers, work permits for illegal immigrant DREAMers, H-1B tech visas, more foreign doctors and other medical professionals, Silicon Valley tax breaks, and Fortune 500 bailouts.

I repeat: There is no American worker shortage — only a shortage of politicians who truly put American workers first.

Michelle Malkin is a conservative blogger at michellemalkin.com, syndicated columnist, author, and founder of hotair.com. Michelle Malkin's email address is MichelleMalkinInvestigates@protonmail.com.

 

Chamber of Commerce Backs Freshmen House Dems Over Trade and Immigration

AP

2 Sep 202011

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Chamber of Commerce has decided to endorse 23 freshmen House Democrats in this fall’s elections, a bipartisan move by an organization that has long leaned strongly toward Republicans.

The country’s largest business group is also endorsing 29 freshmen House Republicans, said a person familiar with the organization’s decision who described the actions. Even so, the decision has prompted internal divisions, with some state chamber officials criticizing the national group’s decision to back freshmen Democrats in their areas.

The House freshmen the chamber is endorsing 

include several who face tough reelections, such as 

Reps. Abby Finkenauer and Cindy Axne of Iowa, Andy 

Kim of New Jersey, Xochitl Torres Small of New 

Mexico, Anthony Brindisi of New York, Kendra Horn 

of Oklahoma, Joe Cunningham of South Carolina and 

Elaine Luria and Abigail Spanberger of Virginia.

The chamber has a long track record of using most of its political might to back Republican candidates, especially with money. But the organization has had to recalibrate its tactics as the once-reliably pro-business GOP has taken a more populist, conservative hue on issues like immigration and trade, reflecting the views of President Donald Trump and hard-right tea party adherents whose numbers in Congress have grown.

In earlier indications of the chamber’s more bipartisan approach, it has boosted some campaign contributions to Democrats and changed how it assigns publicly released scores about whether lawmakers help business, now factoring in whether they try reaching across party lines.

The moves come as Democrats seem all but certain to continue running the House after November’s elections. Any support for Democrats helps the chamber maintain lines of communication with them, especially as growing numbers of progressive Democrats in Congress makes it harder for business groups to find allies in the party.

Democrats in tough reelection fights can cite the chamber’s backing “as a sort of Good Housekeeping seal of approval,” said Liam Donovan, a lobbyist and former GOP political operative.

The chamber is also endorsing freshmen 

Democratic Reps. Greg Stanton of Arizona; 

Josh Harder, TJ Cox and Harley Rouda of 

California; Sharice Davids of Kansas; David 

Trone of Maryland; Haley Stevens of Michigan;

Angie Craig and Dean Phillips of Minnesota; 

Susie Lee of Nevada; Antonio Delgado of New 

York; Colin Allred and Lizzie Fletcher of Texas 

and Ben McAdams of Utah.

The person describing the chamber’s endorsements would only do so on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the moves publicly. The decision by the chamber, which issued no statement about the matter, was first reported by The Hill newspaper.

Earlier this year, the chamber said it spent six figures on digital ads opposing Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., in a primary that the progressive lawmaker won easily.

Otherwise, all of the chamber’s $2 million so far in the 2020 campaign on outside spending — money spent without coordinating with candidates — went to helping Republicans, according to the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics. So did all of the $40 million in outside spending by the chamber during the 2018 and 2016 campaigns.

Yet the chamber’s much smaller, direct contributions to candidates have been more evenhanded, if politically pragmatic.

The $210,000 the chamber’s political action committee has donated directly to 2020 candidates’ campaigns has been split about evenly between Democrats and Republicans, the center’s data shows. In 2018, about 2-in-3 dollars it gave to House candidates went to Republicans.

The chamber has also contributed $168,000 this year to GOP candidates for the Senate and nothing to Democrats. Since it is unclear if Republicans will continue running the Senate, the chamber’s contributions to Senate GOP candidates have more political weight than spending on the House, where control isn’t in serious doubt.

Some state chambers complained to U.S. chamber officials about the expected endorsements, arguing that the Democratic lawmakers did not have sufficiently pro-business records.

Chad Warmington, president of the Oklahoma state chamber, opposed the expected endorsement of Horn, who was narrowly elected in 2018 to a district centered on Oklahoma City. Warmington said he believes Horn hasn’t been supportive enough of the state’s oil and gas industry.

“A U.S. chamber endorsement can be persuasive in convincing voters that she’s pro-business,” Warmington said in an interview last week. “And I don’t believe there is enough evidence to say she is. I was saying to them, ‘Stay out’” and don’t endorse anyone.

Alan Cobb, president of the Kansas Chamber of Commerce, said he objected to the U.S. organization’s expected endorsement of Davids, from the Kansas City area. Cobb said he prefers Davids’ GOP opponent, Amanda Adkins, a businesswoman and former member of the state chamber’s board.

Warmington and Cobb both said they’d not been consulted by the national chamber about the endorsements.

 

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