Many families in Third World Countries have large numbers of children. If, for argument sake 25 million illegal aliens were to participate in the Biden/Harris Amnesty and if the average alien has four children, we could witness an immediate influx of 100 million alien children enter the United States! MICHAEL CUTLER...
How Immigration Worsens Poverty-Related Problems in Minnesota
Immigrant households account for 35 percent of child poverty in the state
One of the main critiques of post-1965 immigration to the U.S. is that it has worsened the problems of poverty, school dropout, and welfare dependency. Importing immigrants who suffer from these problems adds to the social burden and makes helping impoverished Americans more difficult.
The burden added by immigration varies widely across the U.S., but there is perhaps no state where it is more noticeable than Minnesota. With a population that is about 8.6 percent foreign-born, Minnesota is not a high-immigration state relative to the U.S. as a whole. Nevertheless, the socioeconomic divide found there between immigrants and natives is so large that the state's poverty-related problems still have a pronounced immigration component.
Table 1 compares the rates of poverty-related problems among immigrants and natives in Minnesota. The gaps are large. For example, 20.9 percent of working-age immigrants in Minnesota do not have a high school diploma, compared to just 5 percent of working-age natives. Furthermore, 40.1 percent of immigrant-headed households use Medicaid, compared to 17.9 percent of native-headed households.
Table 1: Rates of Poverty-Related Problems | |||
| Rate Among Natives | Rate Among Immigrants | Rate Among Immigrants With More Than 10 Years in U.S. | |
| Adults Who Are in Poverty | 8.3% | 16.2% | 13.7% |
| Children* Who Are in Poverty | 9.4% | 25.9% | 21.2% |
| Working-Age Adults without a High School Diploma | 5.0% | 20.9% | 23.5% |
| Households Receving Cash Welfare | 5.6% | 11.2% | 11.7% |
| Households Receiving Food Stamps | 6.5% | 16.6% | 16.3% |
| Households Receiving Medicaid | 17.9% | 40.1% | 39.3% |
| Households that Are Overcrowded | 1.2% | 13.5% | 11.4% |
Source: 2018 American Community Survey. Household nativity and residency are determined by the household head. * Immigrant column includes all children in immigrant-headed households. | |||
The last column of Table 1 shows that immigrants in Minnesota continue to struggle even after 10 years of U.S. residency. For example, the rate of adult poverty among long-term immigrants is still 13.7 percent. Meanwhile, welfare rates are essentially unchanged for long-term immigrants, and the percentage without a high school diploma is actually higher.
Because the native-immigrant divides shown in Table 1 are so pronounced, immigrants must cause a disproportionate share of the poverty-related problems in Minnesota. Table 2 demonstrates just how large that disproportion is. Immigrant-headed households account for 16.4 percent of the state's children overall, but they account for 35.2 percent of children who live in poverty. Furthermore, only 11.5 percent of working-age adults in Minnesota are immigrants, but immigrants make up 35.5 percent of the state's working-age adults who do not have a high school diploma.
Table 2: Immigrant Contribution to | |||
| Category | Problem | Immigrant Share of Category with Problem | Immigrant Share of Category Overall |
| Adults | Poverty | 18.3% | 10.3% |
| Children* | Poverty | 35.2% | 16.4% |
| Working-Age Adults | No high school diploma | 35.5% | 11.5% |
| Households | Receiving cash welfare | 16.0% | 8.7% |
| Households | Receiving food stamps | 19.7% | 8.7% |
| Households | Receiving Medicaid | 17.6% | 8.7% |
| Households | Overcrowded conditions | 51.0% | 8.7% |
Source: 2018 American Community Survey. Household nativity and residency are determined by the household head. * Immigrant column includes all children in immigrant-headed households. | |||
Health authorities have identified overcrowding as a major contributor to the spread of communicable diseases, including Covid-19. About 51 percent of overcrowded households in Minnesota are headed by an immigrant, even though only 8.7 percent of the state's total households are headed by an immigrant. Put another way, the problem of household overcrowding in Minnesota would be cut by more than half in the absence of immigration.
As noted above, the disproportionate impact of immigration is especially large in Minnesota compared to other parts of the U.S. One reason is that the state's native-born residents are famously high-achievers, helping to motivate Pat Moynihan's quip that "states wishing to improve their schools should move closer to Canada." Another reason is that Minnesota has attracted several groups of predominantly low-skill immigrants, including Mexicans and refugees from the Horn of Africa. The resulting socioeconomic disparity is notable both for its sharpness and its persistence. It is a stark illustration of how low-skill immigration can create significant problems for developed societies.
Methodological Notes
The source for both tables is the 2018 American Community Survey.
Poverty refers to living below the official poverty line, which is a function of income and family structure.
An immigrant household is one in which the "head" (or reference person) is foreign-born. The head also determines the years of U.S. residency for the household-level analyses in the last column of Table 1. When measuring child poverty, "immigrant" children are all of the minors who live in an immigrant-headed household, regardless of whether the children are themselves foreign-born.
"Working age" refers to ages 18 to 64.
A household is overcrowded according to the Census Bureau if, roughly speaking, it has more people than rooms. See the CIS report on overcrowding for more details.
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
Tighten the Border and Send Medical Relief to Mexican Border Cities?
Federal response needed as Mexican crossers contribute to crisis at U.S. border hospitals
AUSTIN, Texas — Two irrefutable facts militate for an immediate re-do of President Donald Trump's original Coronavirus-containment closure order for the U.S.-Mexico border, to better manage growing American hospital bed shortages in border states by also saving a drowning neighbor and ally:
- Mexicans sick with the virus have overrun hospitals in their own cities along the border, such as in Ciudad Juarez, to the point that they are unable to care for the patients they have, let alone new ones, or those who have died.
- Left with no possibility of care in Mexican border states, Covid-sick patients with green cards, dual citizenship, or border-crossing passes are legally exploiting loopholes riddling President Trump's March 2020 emergency border closure to reach U.S. hospitals in El Paso and elsewhere.
A Federal Problem, Not for the States
As perhaps the nation's reddest hotspot, the city of El Paso represents an emblematic case in point as hospitalizations doubled since September to 59,940 patients as of November 10, averaging 1,800 new cases a day, twice the number in more populous Dallas County. El Paso's hospitals are so overwhelmed they are having to ship patients to hospitals in the interior of the United States to keep beds open while the city issues mandatory business closures that leave entirely unaddressed the fact that Mexico is at least one major source of patients.
As I reported two weeks preceding this state of affairs, on October 27, it was no coincidence that Juarez's hospitals had by then already collapsed under the strain of their own patients, leaving untended bodies on stretchers packed in hospital storage rooms, patients dying while waiting for care in parking lots, and long lines to buy oxygen. Covid-19 patients in northern Mexico often saw no choice but to go north. One measure of how bad the Juarez hospital crisis has become is that Mexico's 23rd Infantry Battalion of the 9th Cavalry Regiment was forced to set up emergency clinics across from El Paso in Chihuahua State. America's southern neighbor can't keep up with the bodies and burials.
No one seems to work very hard to maintain exact numbers of patients crossing from Mexico to the U.S. for care. But El Paso County officials and hospital administrators have known about the Mexico patient flow into local hospitals for months.
"People are coming to the ports of entry in very dire conditions," Vince Perez, El Paso County commissioner told local TV station KFOX-14 as long ago as May.
More recently, in November, El Paso city ambulance drivers, health administrators, city officials, and U.S. Customs and Border Protection all have admitted that ill Mexicans are crossing the international bridges from stricken Juarez, often calling El Paso Fire Department medics to pick them up and deliver them to El Paso's packed-to-capacity hospitals.
"There's some days where it's only three or four times and other days when it will be 13 or 14 responses. You'll be there for one patient and [CBP] customs will let you know, hey there's another one right behind them and another one ... sometimes there are four or five waiting in line," the city's local television station, KFOX-14 News quoted an anonymous fire department whistleblower on October 28. "Multiple times in this pandemic we will be in a complete system overload where there are no ambulances available" because they were picking up patients at El Paso's international bridges.
Deputy Fire Chief Jorge Rodriguez told the city council in early November that "Once they are on U.S. soil, we have a legal responsibility to provide services to anyone who is inside the city limits, and we continue to do that."
El Paso's hospitals, in turn, had become so full by mid-November that an airlift had to be ordered to transport Covid-19 patients to hospitals throughout the Texas interior. Texas A&M University's Transportation Institute believed this problem was so pronounced that it even proposed a plan for Mexican ambulances to cut to the front of long lines at ports of entry so Covid-19 patients could reach American hospitals faster.
Similar circumstances are reported in California's border-hugging Imperial Valley and in Arizona and New Mexico, where infected patients are fleeing overwhelmed Mexico-side hospitals to facilities on the U.S. side. One doctor in an Arizona hospital system, in an off-the-record interview, estimated to me that at least 75 percent of their Covid-19 patients had fled overwhelmed Mexican hospitals in neighboring Sonora State.
Clearly, Mexico is at least one significant source of Covid-19 hospitalizations in border cities, though almost certainly in addition to local spread.
But while border state governors and local officials are responding with lockdowns to bring the local spread under control as a means to protect hospital systems, nothing is being down about the Mexico source because that is entirely a federal matter.
How could this be happening if President Trump closed the border to contain spread of the disease?
"Thousands of People" Exploit Loopholes in President Trump's Border Closure
By all accounts, the president's border closure only prohibits inbound pedestrian crossings by those traveling "for tourism purposes, such as sightseeing, recreation, gambling or attending cultural events". Everyone else, including "individuals traveling for medical purposes" (e.g., to receive medical treatment in the United States), is pretty much free to cross at will with any one of a panoply of visas.
Although an emergency border closure could have done so, the March 20 closure orders did not prevent U.S. expatriates, green card holders, Mexican dual citizens, and anyone claiming to be an "essential worker" from returning and heading to the hospitals. Gustavo Sanchez, president of the El Paso regional union representing U.S. Customs officers, was quoted on November 2 saying that thousands of people with regular border-crossing cards (issued by U.S. consulates and valid for 10 years) come and go as they please, with or without Covid-19, making the essential-travel order difficult for the agency to enforce.
"We got thousands of people crossing. The hospitals in Juarez are full to capacity. Any little thing that's even non-life threatening, they're bringing them over here because they're saturated. Their hospitals are saturated," Sanchez said.
An American Medical Aid Operation with Tight Border Closure Is Essential
An easy argument can be made that the United States holds a national interest in preserving its hospital space and treatment resources for American citizens inside its own borders who suffered months of lockdowns and restrictions for the sole purpose of preserving that resource for U.S. citizens — and to not see it substantially repurposed for those sickened in other countries, without even an official acknowledgement that it is happening.
The U.S. government must close most of the loopholes in its original emergency order, blocking for a time even American expatriates in Mexico, who of their own accord chose to live abroad and shoulder the risks that decision entails during the pandemic. The U.S. president has the authority to do so. However, the American government must balance any tightening of the border with a responsibility not to condemn its own citizens, or even Mexicans living just across the border, to a collapsing Mexican hospital system, with no recourse to life-saving care.
The dual solution is obvious: The United States should immediately help Mexican border cities expand their healthcare capacity and, perhaps employing the military, provision it with necessary equipment and personnel to ensure that our neighbor to the south can cope with the pandemic crisis on its side of the border. Only then could the United States suture shut the border closure loopholes that now enable thousands to push American border-state hospitals toward their own crises.
Assisting Mexico with its Covid-19 crisis, with emergency airlifts and overland convoys, is in the American national interest in that it protects and preserves U.S. systems while easing the humanitarian crisis of a close partner.
Yet, in the bizarre absence of official acknowledgement that Mexico is a significant source of Covid-19 patients, the U.S. government is instead sending aid to U.S.-side hospitals that does nothing to address the problem at its Mexican source or preserve U.S. beds and financial resources to care for U.S. citizens. The U.S. Department of Defense, for instance, recently deployed 60 medical personnel to El Paso's overflowing hospitals while all the border loopholes requiring their assistance in the first place remain wide open.
The United States has sent hundreds of millions of dollars and equipment to China, Iran, Southeast Asia, and elsewhere — spare masks, gloves, and ventilators — but has fallen short of doing what is necessary to expand the capacity and capability of hospitals right across the border in Mexico.
The time has come to reassess all of the policy scripts that were initially written for a medical problem that has gone drastically misdiagnosed and, as a result, is now endemic.
"This is how they will destroy America from within. The leftist billionaires who orchestrate these plans are wealthy. Those tasked with representing us in Congress will never be exposed to the cost of the invasion of millions of migrants. They have nothing but contempt for those of us who must endure the consequences of our communities being intruded upon by gang members, drug dealers and human traffickers. These people have no intention of becoming Americans; like the Democrats who welcome them, they have contempt for us." PATRICIA McCARTHY
Heather Mac Donald of the Manhattan Institute has testified before a Congressional committee that in 2004, 95% of all outstanding warrants for murder in Los Angeles were for illegal aliens; in 2000, 23% of all Los Angeles County jail inmates were illegal aliens and that in 1995, 60% of Los Angeles’s largest street gang, the 18th Street gang, were illegal aliens.
Mexican Ambassador: Let’s Restart Mass Migration into U.S.
19 Nov 2020937
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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.
BLOG EDITOR: IS IT TIME FOR MEXICO TO DO MORE FOR THEIR PEOPLE THAN EXPORT THEM TO LOOT AMERICA AND THEN VOTE DEM FOR MORE?
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
— Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) November 2, 2020
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