A Rasmussen poll shows that Democrats are moving towards pro-American migration policies as Joe Biden prepares to implement pro-migrant, pro-business labor policies. NEIL MUNRO
Charles Koch: ‘Horrified’ When Donations Didn’t Buy Politicians’ Votes
Billionaire Charles Koch told an interviewer that he was “horrified” when political donations failed to buy politicians’ votes on immigration and other issues.
“Some of the politicians that we had helped get elected, I would see them on TV, and they would be talking about policies that were antithetical [to our goals] — against immigration, against criminal justice reform, against a more peaceful foreign policy. I was horrified,” he told Axios for a November 24 interview.
Koch, whose personal wealth is roughly $50 billion, continued:
We had vetted them all and they all seem aligned with our major issues, and on empowering people. And then once they got elected, but — I didn’t expect them to fully agree with us on everything, but to be at least be champions on some of the major ones we were working on and that they said they were — and then do the opposite.
In the Axios interview, Koch buries his cheap labor, pro-migration goals under various euphemisms, including a “society of equal rights and mutual benefits, where people could realize their potential.” For example, he said:
We couldn’t get results and the whole purpose of getting into politics was to find people who would help move us toward a society of equal rights and mutual benefits, where people could realize their potential … politicians were doing the opposite of it.
Koch’s comments reflect an open secret in Washington, D.C. — that politicians deceive their donors as well as their voters, as they try to collect the donations, votes, and deals needed for them to survive and even to pass legislation.
This two-way deception means politicians zig-zag between donors, voters, and deals, often dodging any critical decisions until the last minute or until they can join with a herd of similar politicians. The herd tactic helps establishment politicians serve their donors under cover from establishment media outlets that are eager to promote supposed “moderates.”
For example, the establishment media referred to the “Gang of Eight” Senators who pushed the disastrous 2013 amnesty bill that has kept Senate Democrats in a minority for at least six years and helped Donald Trump win the presidency in 2016.
Politicians want campaign donations, but they also have a huge incentive to not vote for Koch’s very unpopular cheap labor goals. For example, a recent Rasmussen poll showed that just 19 percent of all voters support the establishment’s preference for importing foreign workers. Sixty-six percent prefer the populist demand for “businesses to raise the pay and try harder to recruit non-working Americans,” according to the Rasmussen data.
The number shifted in November because Democrat support for blue-collar Americans jumped after the apparent win of Joe Biden, despite the establishment’s continued insistence that America is really a homeland for foreigners, or a “Nation of Immigrants.”
A May 2020 question by Rasmussen asked respondents if they favored admitting more foreign workers for blue-collar jobs, just 54 percent of Democrats agreed that it is “better for businesses to raise the pay and try harder to recruit non-working Americans even if it causes prices to rise.” That score jumped 10 points, to 64 percent, in the post-election November 15-19 poll of 1,250 likely voters.
In 2020, after Donald Trump’s 2016 election, Koch reorganized his secretive network of business-minded, libertarian, and cheap labor investors. According to the Washington Post:
Now it’s a “philanthropic community.” Members of the Koch “community” have always referred to one another as “investors.” The idea was that they were investing money with a specific outcome in mind, and that the return on their investments — whether in politics or philanthropy — could be measured. Now, they will be referred to as “partners” because “investors” has too transactional of a ring. These “investors” have gathered twice a year — California in the winter, Colorado in the summer — for “seminars” to discuss strategy. Starting next month, “partners” will attend these gatherings, and they’ll be known as “summits.”
There has been a degree of turnover inside the network, though how much is unclear because the identities of donors and their levels of support are closely guarded. Some donors who are unhappy with the general shift have diverted their political spending to other groups or otherwise drifted from the network, but new supporters who like the less partisan endeavors have also gotten involved for the first time. Officials said more people are now members than ever before, meaning they’ll give at least $100,000 this year, and there was higher attendance at the January gathering than any previous meeting.
Overall, big business and progressives praise open-ended migration partly because migrants help transfer massive wealth from American wage-earners to stockholders. Migration moves money from employees to employers, from families to investors, from young to old, from children to their parents, from homebuyers to real estate investors, and from the central states to the coastal states.
Migration also allows investors and CEOs to skimp on labor-saving technology, sideline U.S. minorities, ignore disabled people, exploit stoop labor in the fields, shortchange labor in the cities, impose tight control and pay cuts on American professionals, corral technological innovation by minimizing the employment of American graduates, undermine Americans’ labor rights, and redirect progressive journalists to cheerlead for Wall Street’s priorities and claims.
Left-wing ProPublica outlet shows how foreign teenagers migrate to US factory jobs.
This violation of US child-labor laws is enabled by ACLU, AILA immigration lawyers, biz lobbies, journos & Democratic pols, who demands the release of 'kids in cages!'https://t.co/R815prNEDd— Neil Munro (@NeilMunroDC) November 20, 2020
U.S. Weekly
Jobless Claims Jump to 778,000
25 Nov 2020385
3:34
New weekly jobless claims jumped up to 778,000 in the week ended
November 21, the Department of Labor said Thursday.
Economists had expected jobless
claims to fall t0 730,000 from the 742,000 initially reported a week
ago. The previous week’s level was revised up by 6,000 to 748,000.
This is the second week of claims
following the U.S. presidential election and may be viewed as a proxy for
business reaction to the election. It is also the second consecutive week of
rising claims.
Jobless claims—which are a proxy for
layoffs—remain at extremely high levels. Prior to the pandemic, the highest
level of claims was 695,000 hit in October of 1982. In March of 2009, at the
depths of the financial crisis recession, jobless claims peaked at 665,000.
Even when the economy is creating a
lot of demand for workers, many businesses will shed employees as they adjust
to market conditions. But in a high-pressure labor market, those employees
quickly find jobs and many never show up on the employment rolls. What appears
to be happening now is that many workers who lose their jobs cannot quickly
find replacement work and are forced to apply for benefits.
Claims hit a record 6.87 million for
the week of March 27, more than ten times the previous record. Through spring
and early summer, each subsequent week had seen claims decline. But in late
July, the labor market appeared to stall and claims hovered around one million
throughout August, a level so high it was never recorded before the pandemic
struck. Claims moved down again in September and hade made slow, if steady,
progress until the election.
New restrictions on businesses aimed
at stemming the resurgence of coronavirus are likely contributing to the rise
in layoffs. Some states and cities have imposed new curfews and discouraged people
from leaving home for non-essential reasons.
Claims can be volatile so economists
like to look at the four-week average for a better view of the health of the
labor market. This jumped by 5,000 to 748,500 for the week ended November 21.
Continuing claims—those made after
the initial filing, representing ongoing unemployment—get reported with a
week’s lag. For the week ended November 7, these came in at 6,071,000, a
decrease of 299,000. Although continuing claims have continued to decline, the
pace of the decline slowed from the prior week’s 429,000 drop off. This
second-derivative measure indicates that the labor market is softening. The
four-week moving average for continuing claims fell to 6,615,000, a decrease of
438,000 from the previous week’s revised average. This too represents a slower
pace of improvement compared with the previous week.
The highest insured unemployment
rates in the week ending November 7 were in California (7.9), Hawaii (7.1),
Nevada (6.9), the Virgin Islands (6.9), Alaska (6.3), Massachusetts (6.1),
Illinois (5.9), Georgia (5.8), District of Columbia (5.6), and New Mexico (5.5)
"Mexican
president candidate Andrés Manuel López Obrador called for mass immigration to
the United States, declaring it a "human right". We will defend all
the (Mexican) invaders in the American," Obrador said, adding that
immigrants "must leave their towns and find a life, job, welfare, and free
medical in the United States."
Poll Shows Growing
Democratic Opposition to Cheap Labor Migration
24 Nov 20201,345
5:19
A
Rasmussen poll shows that Democrats are moving towards pro-American migration
policies as Joe Biden prepares to implement pro-migrant, pro-business labor
policies.
A May 2020 question asked respondents if they favored admitting
more foreign workers for blue collar jobs, just 54 percent of Democrats agreed
that it is “better for businesses to raise the pay and try harder to recruit
non-working Americans even if it causes prices to rise.”
But that score jumped 10
points, to 64 percent, in the post-election November 15-19 poll of 1,250 likely voters.
Similarly, in the May poll, 33 percent of Democrats
said they preferred government to “bring in new foreign workers to help keep
business costs and prices down.” In November, the response dropped 1o points to
23 percent, and the share of Democrats favoring cheap labor migration dropped
from one-third to one-quarter.
A smaller shift was seen among self-described liberals. Their
preference for Americans rose from just from 58 percent before the election up
to 61 percent after the election. Their support for extra foreign workers slumped
from a pre-election share of 30 percent down to 24 percent after the election.
The November poll showed few significant shifts
among Republicans, “other” voters, or moderates.
The Democratic shift towards
pro-American migration policies is bad political news for Democratic leaders
who expect Democratic legislators to import more cheap labor for special
interests, such as New York City, and for establishment donors,
such as the investors at FWD.us, the Business Roundtable, or the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
Just 19 percent of all voters support the establishment’s
preference for importing foreign workers. Sixty-six percent prefer the populist
demand for “businesses to raise the pay and try harder to recruit non-working Americans,”
according to the Rasmussen data.
That is 3.5-to-1 opposition — and the GOP is hoping to win a
House majority in just 24 months.
Many other polls show deep and broad opposition to cheap
labor migration — and to the inflow of temporary contract workers — such as H-1B and OPT
workers — for the technology and management jobs sought by American graduates.
The Rasmussen “Immigration
Index” is a fever chart of the public’s
fluctuating priorities on immigration limits. For example, when President
Donald Trump enforced the law, the chart ran high with increased Democratic
opposition. But with Biden heading towards the White House — while threatening
to loosen border controls — Democrats are not voicing more support for the border
curbs that protect their jobs and wages from ruthless CEOs and desperate
migrants.
“With likely new President Joe Biden vowing to undo many of the
immigration restrictions imposed by President Trump, the Rasmussen Reports
Immigration Index … fell to 96.6 from 102.6 the week before, said a report by
Rasmussen Reports.
The Rasmussen index is a fever chart of the public’s
contradictory feelings towards immigration limits. For example, when President
Donald Trump enforced the law, the chart ran high with increased Democratic
opposition.
Rasmussen reported:
When businesses say they are
having trouble finding Americans to take jobs in construction, manufacturing,
hospitality and other service work, 66% of voters [up from 64 percent in May, 2020] say it is
better for the country if these businesses raise the pay and try harder to
recruit non-working Americans even if it causes prices to rise. Just 19%
disagree [vs. 23 percent in May] and say it’s
better for the country if the government brings in new foreign workers to help
keep business costs and prices down. This is a new high and ties the low for
this question. Sixteen percent (16%) are undecided.
In 2019, Trump’s lower migration policies helped to spike
Americans’ median household income by 7 percent.
In contrast, Biden and his team want to flood Americans’ labor
market with foreign workers and flood Americans’ housing market with foreign
renters.
Overall, open-ended migration
is praised by business and progressives partly because migrants help transfer massive
wealth from American wage-earners to stockholders.
Migration moves money from
employees to employers, from families to investors, from young to old, from children to their parents, from homebuyers to real estate investors, and from the central states to the coastal states.
Migration also allows investors and CEOs to skimp on labor-saving
technology, sideline U.S. minorities,
ignore disabled people, exploit stoop labor in the
fields, shortchange labor in the cities,
impose tight control and pay cuts on American
professionals, corral technological
innovation by minimizing the employment of American
graduates, undermine Americans’ labor rights, and redirect progressive journalists to cheerlead for Wall Street’s priorities and claims.
Hapless
Americans can't recover from China's coronavirus without the help of illegal
migrants and stoop-labor in the fields, says an op-ed touted by cheerleaders
for high-tech investors and billionaires.https://t.co/JLxITK73Ny
— Neil Munro
(@NeilMunroDC) November 16, 2020
OPEN BORDERS AND A NATION FLOODED WITH ‘CHEAP’ LABOR
Former Vice President Joe Biden will nominate Alejandro Mayorkas
to run the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), despite his role in creating
huge Latin American migration and his involvement in several visas-for-sale
scandals.
https://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2020/11/biden-keeps-promise-to-narcomex-picks.html
Joe Biden’s Amnesty is at hand. But will it resolve America’s staggering
jobless, homeless and housing crisis or merely put more money into Kleptocracy
he has long served?
The Flourishing Life of a Privileged Undocumented Immigrant
Hating America
while it hands you the American Dream.
https://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2020/11/joe-bidens-amnesty-profile-of-daca.html
Very recently, Villavicencio
was a DACA recipient and received a green card. She admits she owns and lives
in a huge apartment.
But as far as she is concerned,
America is not a nice place. It is a “fucking racist country.”
BIDEN
PARTNERS WITH MEXICO TO ORCHESTRATE ANOTHER MASSIVE MEX INVASION OF DEM VOTING
ILLEGALS.
https://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2020/11/the-biden-amnesty-and-mexicos-planned.html
"Mexican president candidate Andrés Manuel López Obrador called
for mass immigration to the United States, declaring it a "human
right". We will defend all the (Mexican) invaders in the American,"
Obrador said, adding that immigrants "must leave their towns and find a
life, job, welfare, and free medical in the United States."
"Fox’s
Tucker Carlson noted Thursday that Obrador has previously proposed granting
AMNESTY TO MEXICAN DRUG CARTELS. “America is now Mexico’s social safety net,
and that’s a very good deal for the Mexican ruling class,” Carlson added."
"Many Americans forget is that our country is located against a
socialist failed state that is promising to descend even further into chaos –
not California, the other one. And the Mexicans, having reached the bottom of
the hole they have dug for themselves, just chose to keep digging by electing a
new leftist presidente who wants to surrender to the cartels and who thinks
that Mexicans have some sort of “human right” to sneak into the U.S. and
demographically reconquer it." KURT SCHLICHTER
THE BIDEN AMNESTY
…or will it be continued non-enforcement? No matter, Wall Street will
write it!
https://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2020/11/bidens-plan-to-fix-americas-jobless.html
THE BIDEN AMNESTY - Migration
also allows investors and CEOs to skimp on labor-saving technology, sideline U.S. minorities, ignore disabled people, exploit stoop labor in the fields, shortchange
labor in the cities, impose tight control and pay cuts on American professionals, corral technological innovation by minimizing the employment of American graduates, undermine labor rights, and even redirect progressive
journalists to cheerlead for Wall Street’s
priorities. NEIL MUNRO
JOE BIDEN’S GLOBALIST AGENDA: BANKSTERS, BAILOUTS and a BORDERLESS
AMERICA
https://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2020/11/joe-biden-frames-his-globalist.html
That baleful presence of George Soros, all over the Biden
'transition' team
Big Tech and Wall Street, for sure,
are getting their influence and power. But where the mask is really
off, revealing at last who he's really fronting for is leftist billionaire
George Soros. MONICA SHOWALTER
Mexican
Ambassador: Let’s Restart Mass Migration into U.S.
19 Nov 20203,882
7:51
The United States should reopen itself
to migration, amnesties, refugee inflows, asylum seekers, and more temporary
contract workers, Mexico’s ambassador to the United States said Tuesday.
The U.S. immigration system
“has to be based on facts and realities,” Ambassador Martha Bárcena Coqui
told a forum arranged by the National Immigration Forum (NIF). She continued: ‘The facts and realities is
the need to protect the most vulnerable, the need to keep open the generosity
towards refugees, the need to recognize the complementarity of labor markets
and demographic profiles, the need for temporary workers in the United States.”
The United States should not view migration as a security
threat, she said, adding, “If you conceptualize migration as a national
security issue, if you [push for] securitization of migration, and what is even
worse, if you criminalize migration, then your approach always be policing,
contentious [and] reduction of migration. So what we need is really to
conceptualize migration … as an economic and social and political
phenomena.”
“With all due respect to Madam Ambassador, she should mind her
own country’s business, not ours,” responded Mark Krikorian, the director of
the Center for Immigration Studies.
“The Mexican ambassador is going to tell us what is in the best
interest of Mexico,” responded Rosemary Jenks, policy director at NumbersUSA.
“But that doesn’t mean we have to do it — we have to do what’s in the best
interest of the United States. of American, of Americans and legal immigrants,”
she told Breitbart News, adding:
You know we have the pandemic still raging, we have economic
lockdowns still going on, we have unemployment way too high. We have
underemployment way too high. We have American citizens hurting. We absolutely
do not need to reopen mass immigration — and certainly don’t need to give
amnesty and taxpayer benefits to people who came here illegally. If Mexico
thinks its plan is to just open up its own southern borders in the hopes that
America will open our southern borders, that’s just going to reignite the
caravans. I hope that the Biden administration is planning for that because
that’s not going to go well, and 2022 is not going to go well for Democrats.
More migrants are coming, the ambassador said, even though the
coronavirus crash has blocked the northward flow for the moment:
The root causes of these migrations have [not] disappeared. On
the contrary, we are seeing pent up, building pressure. People cannot move now
because of the restrictions on movement because of the pandemic. But the root
causes are still there, [for example], the drought in Central America … a
hurricane in Nicaragua and Honduras that have totally flooded Honduras.
The United States should amnesty many illegal migrants from all
over the world, she said, and also import more migrants by accepting asylum
applications at U.S. embassies, so the world’s migrants will not have to travel
through Mexico. “What we would like to see, of course, is that the U.S.
embassies in Central America could process even more of these requests for
asylum, instead of having people crossing through Mexico and asking for asylum
at the border.”
The ambassador was invited to
speak by the NIF, which is a business-funded activist group that promotes cheap labor migration into jobs needed by
lower-skilled Americans and by legal immigrants, and also into jobs that can be automated.
Roughly three million migrants have flooded over the southern
border since the rules were loosened by Congress in 2008 and by President
Barack Obama’s deputies in 2011. Trump stopped the flow in 2020, but few of the
migrants — or of roughly 300,000 younger “Unaccompanied Alien Children” — have
been sent home because they are being protected by pro-migrant immigration
lawyers, by pro-diversity progressives, and cheap labor employers in sanctuary
cities.
The
Mexican government must help poor migrants travel to the U.S. border, says
Mexican immigrant and Univision anchor Jorge Ramos. https://t.co/kHHU9ckxPG
— Breitbart News
(@BreitbartNews) October 8, 2019
The large U.S. population of illegal immigrants helps to push
down wages for Americans, push disadvantaged workers out of the labor force,
reduce corporate investment in technology and training, and spike corporate
sales and profits. The large population also shifts the U.S. politics from a
focus on Americans’ jobs and wages, and then towards a politics focused on
business demands and the 1950’s claim by elites that the United States is a
diverse “nation of immigrants,” not a cooperative nation for all Americans.
The flood of cheap labor that is being promoted by the
ambassador would be a disaster for Americans, Jenks said. “They would
absolutely destroy the employment opportunities for lower-skilled Americans,
particularly for minorities and legal immigrants. It would reduce wages among
the people who can least afford reduced wages and put downward pressure on
everyone else’s wages. The people who would benefit from it, of course, would
be the elites who can hire nannies, maids, and housekeepers, and who go stay at
resorts and so on, while the rest of us suffer.”
The ambassador’s statement, Krikorian told Breitbart News,
“suggests that the [President Donald] Trump really was getting Mexico to change
its behavior [after 2018] and that once Trump is gone, the Mexican approach
these issues will revert to form, and they will again usher large numbers of
third-country illegal aliens into our country.”
But if Mexico is concerned about the migrants coming up from the
South, it can take its own defense measures, said Krikorian.
“As far as refugees and asylees go, Mexico is a signatory to the
U.N. Convention on these issues. Mexico is about half the population, maybe a
little less, of the United States. It doesn’t take a nearly proportionate number
of asylum seekers or refugees [as the United States. So, “Physician, heal
thyself,” would be my first response.”
Also, Krikorian added, the ambassador may be overstating the
view of the Mexican government. “Whatever the ambassador said, it is an open
question whether Mexico will truly open the floodgates again. The country has
its own interest in limiting this transit migration because Mexican citizens
are getting sick of the migrations. And many of these people end up staying
anyway, applying for asylum in Mexico, or just hanging around illegally, and
that undermines the job prospects of Mexicans in the same way that it can
undermine Americans’ job prospects.”
“The United States is a sovereign nation that should and can
have complete control over its borders,” said Jenks. “Regardless of what our
neighbors may think, our government owes it to the American people to have an
immigration system that benefits America. Period. Full stop.”
It was a
very good dialogue on the current situation and a way forward. Thanks to @mcbelz @DMiliband and you @anoorani for the invitation. #LTW2020 https://t.co/rm6jNBryZj
— Martha Bárcena
(@Martha_Barcena) November 18, 2020
Overall, open-ended migration
is praised by business and progressives partly because migrants help transfer massive
wealth from American wage-earners to stockholders.
Migration moves money from
employees to employers, from families to investors, from young to old, from children to their parents, from homebuyers to real estate investors, and from the central states to the coastal states.
Migration also allows investors and CEOs to skimp on labor-saving
technology, sideline U.S. minorities,
ignore disabled people, exploit stoop labor in the
fields, shortchange labor in the cities,
impose tight control and pay cuts on American
professionals, corral technological
innovation by minimizing the employment of American
graduates, undermine labor rights, and redirect progressive journalists to cheerlead for Wall Street’s priorities and claims.
A
Mexican governor doubled down on his push for immigrants from his state to vote
for Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden only hours after his federal
government scolded him for interfering in another country’s election. https://t.co/pVFgbyZNot
BIDEN
PARTNERS WITH MEXICO TO ORCHESTRATE ANOTHER MASSIVE MEX INVASION OF DEM VOTING
ILLEGALS.
https://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2020/11/the-biden-amnesty-and-mexicos-planned.html
"Mexican president candidate Andrés Manuel López Obrador called
for mass immigration to the United States, declaring it a "human
right". We will defend all the (Mexican) invaders in the American,"
Obrador said, adding that immigrants "must leave their towns and find a
life, job, welfare, and free medical in the United States."
"Fox’s Tucker Carlson noted Thursday that Obrador has previously
proposed granting AMNESTY TO MEXICAN DRUG CARTELS. “America is now Mexico’s
social safety net, and that’s a very good deal for the Mexican ruling class,”
Carlson added."
"Many Americans forget is that our country is located against a
socialist failed state that is promising to descend even further into chaos –
not California, the other one. And the Mexicans, having reached the bottom of
the hole they have dug for themselves, just chose to keep digging by electing a
new leftist presidente who wants to surrender to the cartels and who thinks
that Mexicans have some sort of “human right” to sneak into the U.S. and
demographically reconquer it." KURT SCHLICHTER
It begins: The Biden
border surge, and too bad about the COVID lockdowns
Migrants, and
more important, the people who traffic and profit from migrants, are
like the stock market: They're forward-looking. They make decisions now based
on what they see coming down the pike.
So surprise,
surprise, the media's crowning of Joe Biden president, along
with many world leaders congratulating him and conducting their
affairs of state with him, even as legal challenges are going on, has sent
a message to Central America's gangs and Mexico's cartels, who control migrant
smuggling routes to the U.S. It's time to profit. It's time to go. A
new border surge has begun, in anticipation of a Biden open-borders
presidency, which comes just as Democrat-run states and Biden himself are
prescribing new COVID lockdowns.
According to
the Washington
Times's Stephen Dinan:
Border Patrol agents are already seeing a Biden surge in illegal immigration at the
southwest border, officials said Thursday, with the numbers surging 21% over
the last month alone.
Acting Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Mark
Morgan said
worsening economic conditions south of the border are largely responsible for
the uptick, but he also blamed “perceived and or anticipated shifts in
policies” here in the U.S.
He said it’s particularly dangerous at a time when the coronavirus
pandemic is taking a toll on CBP personnel. At least 1,300 CBP staffers are
currently quarantined, 700 are currently COVID-positive and 15 have died of the
virus.
“I’ve attended way too many funerals,” Mr. Morgan said.
Border Patrol agents and CBP officers snared about 69,000
unauthorized border crossers in October, up from about 58,000 in September.
Based on the
number of COVID cases the Border Patrol is suffering, the unvetted
migrants are bringing it in.
Which pretty
well negates the Biden/Democrat effort to enforce more lockdowns -- the
closed schools, the targeted bars, gyms and restaurants, the limited travel,
the cancelled Thanksgiving, and more.
So long as there
is no lockdown at the border, and COVID is rolling in from unvetted
migrants with enough money to pay smuggling syndicates, any efforts to contain
COVID from the stateside is nonsense. Too bad about all the
boarded-up businesses.
It highlights
the fundamental contradition of Biden's love for lockdowns, and
support for open borders. You can have one or the other, but you can't
have both. Biden's policy of open borders stands in stark contradiction to his
vow to contain COVID. Which one do you think he's more serious about?
Issues &
Insights had an excellent item the other day on just
what he says he intends:
Instead of expelling illegals to protect U.S. neighbors and
families, the Biden-Sanders priority is to make sure that “health coverage is
available to everyone for testing, treatment, medical services, rehabilitation,
and that vaccines are available free of charge, regardless of immigration or
economic status.”
Beyond this, Biden has promised to dismantle Trump policies that
had been working to restrain the flow of illegals – sorry, “undocumented
people” – across the border.
Wall construction will stop. Biden promises to implement a 100-day
freeze on deportations “while his administration issues guidance narrowing who
can be arrested by immigration agents,” according to one news account.
He plans to reinstate catch-and-release, which created a massive
loophole for illegals who are set free into the country while their asylum
claim is adjudicated, never to return for their final hearing.
Up until now,
President Trump has used Title 42 of the U.S. Code to expel illegal border
crossers because of COVID.
That's one of
the very regulations that a President Biden can end instantly with the
stroke of a pen, according to this Time
magazine analysis:
Biden could also end Trump’s “expulsions” that have taken place since March
2020 as COVID-19 has spread across the U.S. and most of the world.
DHS’s expulsion rule allows U.S. Customs and Border Protection
(CBP) to immediately remove anyone who crosses the border without authorization
to their last country of transit without traditional processing or a chance to
have their claims heard in court because of the risks posed by COVID-19. Since
the rule was adopted in March, U.S. Border Patrol has conducted more than
197,000 expulsions, according to CBP data.
And yes, these
places the illegal migrants are coming from are seeing big surges in COVID
as well as the terrible economic effects of local lost tourism, lost trade,
lockdowns, and shutdowns, as noted in this Focus Economics report here. The migrants looking for economic opportunity
in the U.S. will find the same lockdowns here, but with generous welfare
and free medical care.
For Americans,
there will just be more imported COVID.
Which, to get
cynical, might just be what Democrats want -- a permanent COVID that keeps
the country locked down and themselves powerful, and millions and millions of
COVID-filled migrants coming in to ensure that the lockdowns extend, ensuring
that COVID is never contained.
You can bet Joe
Biden won't be addressing this fundamental contradiction of policy. He's not
serious about ending COVID. And in any case, he never answers questions. Not
beyond what kind of ice cream he ordered. As long as migrants are surging the
border, there will always be more waves of imported COVID.
oe Biden’s Allies Warn of Blue-Collar Migrant Invasion
Former Vice President Joe Biden’s pro-migration policies are inviting another blue-collar migration flood across the southern border, say his Democrat allies.
Biden has promised to reverse many of President Donald Trump’s pro-American policies, but “if Biden hits reverse too hard, it could cost him politically,” read a November 24 column by Noah Smith, a pro-migration columnist for Bloomberg:
In economic terms, a few hundred thousand Central American migrants will do little to hurt the U.S., but their presence will rile up law-and-order voters who bristle at the notion of people crossing the border illegally or skipping out on asylum hearings. That could hurt Biden with constituencies like Hispanic voters who live in the Texas border counties that swung hard to Trump in 2020.
“There are very real risks that sudden changes in policy could generate a surge of unauthorized migration: Recent experience has taught us that changing U.S. policies sends powerful signals to would-be migrants — and to their smugglers,” says a November 17 article by Andrew Selee, the president of the pro-migration Migration Policy Institute.
“I don’t think they’re going to be able to stop that,” said Jessica Vaughan, at the Center for Immigration Studies, which favors curbs on migration.
For example, she said, Biden has selected Alejandro Mayorkas to run the immigration system, despite Mayorkas’ role under President Barack Obama in welcoming migrants and triggering Obama’s huge Latin American migration that Trump finally stopped in early 2020.
Mayorkas will have a hard time deterring migration because millions of migrants — and their coyotes — know he wants to let them into jobs in the United States, Vaughan told Breitbart News on November 23. For example, Mayorkas pressured immigration officials to ignore fraud and to rubber-stamp migrants’ applications, she said, adding, “He said that [immigration] officers who refused applicants have black spots on their hearts and that they’re doing something wrong, and should be approving all these applications.”
The migration pressure will grow once coronavirus vaccinations allow Mexico and other regional countries to permit movement, warned Joseph Chamie, a population expert and a former director of the United Nations Population Division. He wrote on November 19 in TheHill.com:
Whether you’re for it, against it or indifferent about it, the migration surge is coming. Millions of men, women and children in developing countries are desperately seeking to emigrate to escape poverty, hunger, unemployment, violence, crime, human rights abuse, and environmental crises.
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With the incoming government’s proposed changes to immigration policies, especially with respect to asylum seekers, undocumented migrants, migrating families and unaccompanied minors, a big migration inflow along the U.S southern border should not come as a surprise.
The coming surge of migrants can be expected to overwhelm immigration systems, including border control, security vetting, the courts, legal representation, medical clearance, shelter and quarantine facilities and operating costs. Particularly challenging for the authorities is deciding on how best to deal with migrating family units, unaccompanied minors and asylum seekers.
Biden will try to chart a course between his many pro-migration allies — including the many millions of foreigners who want to get into the United States — and millions of worried swing-voters, according to Smith.
Smith — who accepts the claim that Biden sincerely tried to exclude migrants when he was serving as vice-president — wrote November 24 that Biden:
will probably try to accept asylum seekers from Central America at a slow and ordered pace. Detention will probably persist, in a much more humane form. And Biden may even negotiate new, though less rigid, agreements to keep some asylum seekers at home as the administration tries to improve living conditions in those countries.
But the Democrats are eager to welcome more migrants, said Vaughan, and they know how to hide that unpopular welcome under loud promises to fix a “broken immigration system”:
Many people like to complain about an immigration system that is supposedly “broken,” but it’s not broken at all when someone like Mayorkas is at the helm and can [annually] wave in more than a million legal immigrants, nearly a million guest workers, and crank out a million work permits. That’s not broken — that’s working pretty well if what you want is unlimited immigration.
Under Obama and Biden, administration officials carefully opened many small and hard-to-see loopholes in the border — and disarmed border agencies with many other regulations. That covert policy gradually and deliberately let millions of blue-collar Latin Americans into the United States, so boosting business allies.
But the inevitable pressure from millions of would-be migrants flooded their stealthy pro-migration policies, causing a popular pushback in 2014 that set the stage for Trump’s surprise jump into presidential politics.
Like other white-collar pro-migration activists, Selee’s favored solution to the migration problem is to make it legal, regardless of the predictable impact on blue-collar Americans.
He would expand the legal inflow of foreign workers, asylum seekers, and refugees that will cut blue-collar wages and raise blue-collar housing prices, saying:
First and foremost, this new [migration] architecture needs to include some sort of labor pathway for Central Americans to do seasonal work in the United States.
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identifying those in danger in their home countries either for protection in-country or for resettlement as refugees in the United States and other countries, efforts that are done on a small scale already but could be vastly expanded with the right attention and resources.
“[A] Biden administration can transition towards a new migration management architecture that creates opportunities for seasonal work and humanitarian protection, while investing in a better future for the region as a whole,” Selee concluded.
Rasmussen shows that some post-Trump Biden voters are feeling freer to protect blue-collar Americans from cheap-labor migration.
That's decent, but it may not matter if legislators think those Biden voters can be pushed to back pro-amnesty Dems in 2022. https://t.co/VSPGVnkDim— Neil Munro (@NeilMunroDC) November 25, 2020
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