"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
Youth suicides and mental health disorders on the rise amid pandemic depression
19 November 2020
Just three days before his 13th birthday, Hayden Hunstable died by suicide in his bedroom in Aledo, Texas. He died in April, in the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic. Hayden’s father attributed his son’s death to the pandemic, which suddenly turned his life upside-down.
“This is a kid who loved life, was the life of the party,” his father, Brad Hunstable, said of his son Hayden. Hunstable explained at the time that his son seemed happy and showed no previous signs of depression, but he was deeply affected by being separated from his friends and his routine.
Since Hayden’s death, mental health issues, in the most severe cases leading to suicide, have risen dramatically among youth throughout the US.
Just last week, at a Corona-Norco school board meeting in southern California, newly appointed Superintendent Sam Buenrostro revealed the shocking news that five district students had killed themselves since the start of the crisis. He did not provide their names and ages.
New data from a nationwide survey of young Americans, ages 18-24, has shed further light on the scale of the unfolding mental health crisis. The survey, “The State of the Nation,” examined depressive symptoms among these young adults, including thoughts of suicide, generalized anxiety and disruption in sleep.
Overall, across four national waves (in late May, late June, late August and mid-October), researchers found alarming rates of depression, with nearly half of this young adult population—47.3 percent—showing at least moderate depressive symptoms in October, the highest level since June.
This figure is close to 10 times the pre-pandemic rate, which was already staggering.
The source of this crisis is no mystery. The youthful years are meant to be a time filled with hope, optimism and idealism. For those coming of age in 2020, this time presents itself instead as a nightmare.
Young people have suffered immensely from isolation, not being able to see their friends and socialize in the way that is so necessary for healthy human development. Those who are a bit older have watched the death toll from the virus climb each day, in disbelief, as it now surpasses a quarter of a million people.
They have heard the stories, or know first-hand, of the social misery taking place—people dying alone in hospital beds without a loved one allowed in the room to say goodbye. Millions have themselves waited with their parents in the food lines that stretch for miles. Others have lost their homes, ruthlessly evicted even as millions more are added to the list of unemployed each month.
They have been violently shaken into adulthood watching their parents suffer from the anxiety, grief and depression brought on by the economic catastrophe sweeping the country.
There are millions of working-class parents and young people struggling to survive who are looking for answers to this immense crisis. They want what is best for their children and are willing to sacrifice whatever is necessary to secure for them a safe environment and hopeful future.
In this context, the Democratic and Republican parties, aided by their mouthpieces in the bourgeois media, are attempting to exploit the severe mental health crisis among youth, and the anxiety felt by parents, to force the reopening of schools on the basis that the “cure cannot be worse than the disease.”
They claim that keeping children home will ultimately be worse for their health than sending them back to school where they may catch the virus and spread it others.
In fact, the Corona-Norco School Board, where these five student suicides occurred since the start of the pandemic, is using these tragedies to justify reopening the elementary schools in January. They make no attempt to explain how reopening the elementary schools will address the mental health crisis of those in the high schools. All five of this year’s suicides were high school students.
Consider for a moment the options provided to working class families in 2020 in the most “advanced” capitalist country in the world: keep your child at home to suffer emotionally and socially while you struggle to keep your job to put food on the table, or send your child back to school, risking their lives, the lives of your family and the community at large.
These two “options” amount to no choice at all.
What will be the impact on young students if they lose a teacher? Or if they discover they have been turned into a vector for the disease and infected their parents or grandparents? What will be the impact on students’ mental health to return to a school where they can see their friends but are not allowed to interact in the same ways as before?
The fact of the matter is that there exists in society vast resources, science and technology to meet the widespread emotional, social and educational needs of youth, while keeping them safe from the virus.
Under a socioeconomic system guided by science and reason, that is, under socialism, workers would be compensated for staying at home to care for their children. Online learning would be well funded and rationally organized to prevent burnout and to account for the emotional and social toll taken on children.
The immense productive forces of the Tech Giants would be mobilized to provide children the necessary technology, including high speed internet, needed to participate in online schooling.
More fundamentally, a socialist system would take into account not only the bare minimum needed for teachers to teach and students to learn but the needs of the whole person. Cultural events such as plays, operas and other arts performances would be organized and live streamed free of charge to the public. The most advanced technology would be utilized to help families connect with loved ones whom they could not see in person; and regular conferences would be streamed to the public relaying the most up-to-date and reliable scientific findings on the virus, and how to stay safe.
Nothing of the sort is being prepared. Rather, the ruling elites, represented by both the Democratic and Republican parties, are engaged in a ruthless drive to reopen schools.
The main initiative of the ruling class after the onset of the pandemic in late February and early March was to secure a multitrillion-dollar bailout to Wall Street and the giant corporations. After this legislation was passed, with unanimous support, workers and their families were left to deal with the immense social fallout on an individual basis.
As for the $1,200 so-called stimulus check, for most families this lasted about two weeks. The following months were filled with immense loss for workers: their loved ones, jobs, health insurance, homes, and for many, the ability to provide for their families and children.
This campaign is part of a broader strategy of the US ruling class to keep the economy open no matter what the cost.
Whether they admit it or not, capitalist governments around the world have adopted the policy of “herd immunity,” that is, allowing the virus to spread without restraint. Even conservative estimates say this policy will lead to more than 23 million deaths globally in the coming years. The ruling class is relentlessly pursuing this policy because it is the only way to ensure that profits continue to flow, unhindered.
The primary concern of the ruling class since the onset of the pandemic has not been the health and well-being of the population, but rather the health and well-being of the profits of Wall Street.
Marx wrote that the capitalist political economy regards the individual worker “like a horse” in that “he must receive enough to enable him to work. It does not consider him, during the time when he is not working, as a human being. It leaves this to criminal law, doctors, religion, statistical tables, politics, and the beadle.”
The capitalist system degrades and dehumanizes workers, no matter the personal suffering and loss. This degradation and dehumanization are all the more ruthless and blatant when the bourgeoisie confronts a crisis on the scale the world confronts today. And it is expressed in nearly every facet of life.
The staggering mental health crisis that workers and young people face today is a byproduct of an entire social system that is predicated on sacrificing lives for the sake of private profit and wealth.
The thousands of people who take their lives each year are the victims of a decayed social order defined by staggering levels of inequality, decades of the artificial suppression of the class struggle by the unions, 30 years of unending wars and police brutality and the degradation of social and cultural life.
Skyrocketing youth suicides speak volumes about the state of society. And no faction of the ruling class has anything close to an answer for such problems. The real answer, however, is emerging more openly and more forcefully every day.
While this generation is coming of age under incredibly difficult circumstances, they are also living in the midst of an immense resurgence of the class struggle all over the world.
They are seeing firsthand who is “essential” to society—that is, the doctors, nurses, teachers, social workers who have sacrificed so much for the betterment of society in these trying times. On the other hand, the parasites of society are also becoming clearer as giant corporations and the ultrarich continue to profit, to the tune of billions of dollars, off the social misery of the masses.
Leon Trotsky once noted that even under the most dire economic conditions, only a tiny percentage of the population would be driven to end their own lives. “But peoples never resort to suicide,” he pointed out. “When their burdens are intolerable they seek a way out through revolution.”
SHOULD JOBS GO TO ILLEGALS FIRST?
THAT IS THE GLOBALIST DEMOCRAT PARTY’S
DOCTRINE!
Unemployment skyrockets among youth
More
than 7.7 million workers younger than 30 are now unemployed in the US. Over 3
million dropped out of the labor force over the course of a single month, from
mid-April to mid-May. The number of young people now unemployed amounts to
nearly one in three young workers, the highest rate since the country started
tracking unemployment by age in 1948.
These
figures are paralleled in countries hit by the coronavirus pandemic all around
the world. In Australia, the youth unemployment rate has jumped to 13.8
percent. Youth unemployment rates in Australia were already more than double
the overall unemployment rate of the country and were almost three times higher
than for those 25 and older.
A
report from the Resolution Foundation think tank recently found that youth
unemployment in the UK could rise by 640,000 this year, bringing the total
above 1 million. In Spain, half of all those who have lost jobs since the start
of the outbreak have been adults under the age of 35. In Canada, the youth
unemployment rate jumped to 27.2 percent in April, from 16.8 percent in March.
Student unemployment was even higher.
Young
workers are vastly over-represented in the sectors hardest hit by the lockdown
and social distancing measures. These sectors include hospitality, food
services, retail, arts and recreation. Nearly 40 percent of the young workers who are
unemployed in the US worked in the devastated retail and food service sectors
alone. The Millennial generation, those aged between 26 and 40, make up a
majority of bartenders and half of restaurant workers.
According
to a new report by Data for Progress, over half of people under the age of 45
say that the $1,200 cash payment from the US federal government covered just a
week or two of expenses, compared with a third of older adults.
The
US Labor Department continues to report that the majority of laid-off workers
expect their joblessness to be temporary. However, there is growing concern
among economists that many jobs will never come back.
Nicholas
Bloom, an economist at Stanford University, recently told the New York
Times that the path to recovery “is going to take longer and look
grimmer than we thought.” Bloom is the co-author of an analysis of the
pandemic’s effects on the labor market titled “COVID-19 Is Also a Reallocation
Shock.” In it, he and his co-thinkers estimate that 42 percent of recent
layoffs will result in permanent job loss.
A
large body of research, along with the fresh experience of the 2008 recession,
shows that young people, especially those without a college degree, are
particularly vulnerable during economic downturns and recessions.
An analysis by the McKinsey Global
Institute estimates that up to 57 million US jobs are now vulnerable, including
a growing number of white-collar positions. Furthermore, the report finds that
86 percent of jobs made vulnerable by the pandemic pay less than $40,000 a
year. In other words, those workers who were already in precarious situations
are not only getting hit the hardest, many will be forced out of their industry
altogether.
For
those workers in the Millennial generation (now aged 26 to 40) and older, this
is the second major economic catastrophe in barely a decade. The researchers
note in their report that “the generation that first entered the job market in
the aftermath of the Great Recession is now going through its second
‘once-in-a-lifetime’ downturn.”
If
the 2008 financial crash is any indication, we can expect that the current
economic downturn will exact a devastating toll on all workers, the youth in
particular.
In
the aftermath of the 2008 financial crash, youth unemployment soared to more
than 60 percent in some European regions. In many countries, the youth
unemployment rate never fully recovered to pre-recession levels. In the US,
half of recent graduates were unable to find work during the recession years.
Millennials’ official unemployment rate ranged
as high as 20
or 30 percent.
The
recession was used as an opportunity to make more fundamental changes to the
economy that would leave young workers hounded by high rates of
underemployment, low wages and stagnant earnings trajectories for the following
decade.
Full-time
salaried positions were slashed with the introduction of “gig” economy work.
Nearly 95 percent of the jobs created during the Obama administration, from
2009 to 2017, were part-time, contract, on-call or temporary. This piecemeal
work, cynically sold to the younger generation as “flexible” work, often
excludes health care, retirement benefits, sick days and other benefits, and is
highly unreliable.
It
has already become commonplace for workers to hold down two or three part-time
jobs in order to make ends meet and provide for their families.
To
get a sense of the scale of the economic crisis pre-pandemic, one should
consider that in 2019 some 61 percent of US workers were reporting that they
did not have enough savings to cover a $1,000 emergency room visit or car
repair. One in five Millennials reported not being able to afford routine
health care expenses, and nearly half had nothing saved. This situation is
being dramatically worsened by the impact of the pandemic.
In
2018, taking note of the devastating toll the recession had taken on a whole
generation of young workers, the Wall Street Journal noted
that Millennials were at risk of becoming “America’s Lost Generation.” Similar
warnings have already begun to circulate in regard to the emerging generation,
known as Gen Z.
However,
as the Journal itself nervously pointed out at the time, the
Millennial generation in the US was also the first generation to favor
socialism over capitalism. The dire conditions facing young people, which are
more and more understood to be the consequence of decaying social order, have
created the objective basis for a vast radicalization of young people and
workers across the globe. The two years prior to the onset of the pandemic were
marked by the reemergence of the class struggle internationally, in which young
workers played leading roles.
Generation
Z is now coming of age under conditions that far outstrip those which the
Millennials confronted in the aftermath of 2008. The events of the day will not
pass by this new generation, or the older generations, for that matter, without
leaving a profound and revolutionary political impact.
The
younger generation is coming of age in a world of immense contradictions, with
enormous developments in technology and science occurring simultaneously with
the deaths of hundreds of thousands of workers internationally as a result of
the criminal response of the ruling class to the pandemic. Trillions of dollars
are being poured into the coffers of the global corporate elites while young
people’s schools are defunded and their jobs destroyed.
Instability
and uncertainty are among the defining features of everyday life. Under such
conditions, there is no doubt that the popularity of socialism among young
people will continue to grow at a rapid pace. Far from becoming the “Lost
Generation” as predicted by the Wall Street Journal, the emerging
generation of young workers carries within it an enormous revolutionary force.
HOW MANY MORE ILLEGALS BEFORE THE GLOBALIST DEMOCRAT PARTY HAS
DESTROYED MIDDLE AMERICA ALL TOGETHER???
Study finds 90
percent of Americans would make 67 percent more without last four decades of increasing
income inequality
HAVE YOU EVER WITNESSED A BANKSTER-OWNED
DEMOCRAT POL DOING SOMETHING FOR MIDDLE AMERICA???
Joe
Biden Promises Welcome for Venezuelan, Cuban Migrants
ROBERTO SCHMIDT/AFP via Getty Images
Democratic candidate Joe Biden is offering a green light to
migrants who want to flee from Cuba and Venezuela.
“The Venezuelan people need our support to recover their
democracy and rebuild their country,” Biden told a political event in Florida
on October 7. “That’s why I would immediately grant Temporary Protected
Status (TPS) to Venezuelans” in the United States, he said.
The TPS status allows foreigners to live and work in the United
States, and to get welfare and access to K-12 schools. Since 2017, President
Donald Trump has blocked TPS for Venezuelans, amid campaigns by Florida business groups and
D.C.-based progressives. Trump has also worked to shrink TPS populations
created by prior presidents.
Biden continued:
There are almost 10,000 Cubans languishing in tent camps along
the Mexican border because of the administration’s anti-immigration agenda.
That’s the administration actively separating Cuban families by not processing
visas [and] through restrictions on family visits and remittances. I think we
have to reverse that.
If implemented, Biden’s welcome policy “will set off a new
exodus from those countries as people try to take advantage of the opportunity
to stay in the United States,” said Jessica Vaughan, policy director at the
Center for Immigration Studies.
Biden’s plan would hurt Americans, she said. “What scholars
found specifically when they looked at the [1980] impact of Cubans in South
Florida is that the wages of American workers who were competing for unskilled
or less skilled jobs went down significantly … The usual suspects will benefit
— the employers who will have a labor surplus and will get away with paying low wages, [and]
the slumlords who can fill
up their substandard affordable housing.”
The impact of low wages and surplus labor on Floridians was
sketched in a June 2020 article in the Washington Post:
KISSIMMEE, FLA. — The pandemic had forced them from their home.
Then they had run out of money for a motel. That left the car, which is where
Sergine Lucien, Dave Marecheau and their two children were one recent night,
parked in a lot that was tucked behind a row of empty storefronts.
Even when the economy was booming, Dave and Sergine had lived in
a state of near homelessness, shuttling between seedy motels that had become a
shelter of last resort for thousands in the Orlando area. Last year, after six
years of the motel life, they had saved enough to finally make it out. They
bought an RV and rented a spot in a quiet and clean mobile home community.
Sergine promised the kids they would never go back.
Now all that was gone. In theory, they qualified for a $3,400
federal stimulus check, but they had no bank account or address to collect it.
In theory, Dave was entitled to unemployment, but as of May only about 43
percent of the state’s 1.1 million claims had been paid.
“I would immediately grant temporary
protected status to Venezuelans as President." 🇻
— @JoeBiden🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/4vGTctYTLX
— Fernand R. Amandi (@AmandiOnAir) October 7, 2020
“We have to be extremely prudent in offering any kind of
temporary humanitarian protection,” Vaughan told Breitbart News.
Politicians ignore the emotional incentive for migrants to get
into the United States, Vaughan said. “For the privileged, it might be a
dollars-and-cents calculation. But for others, it’s more than that — it’s an
opportunity to live freely with the opportunity to have a decent quality of
life [and] to put their children on a trajectory towards prosperity.”
TPS migrants are rewarded for being in the United States, she
said. “They are allowed to immediately access welfare programs, as happened
with the Cubans [in 1980 and 1994] and Haitians [in 2010] — unlike other asylum
seekers or green card admission – at an enormous cost.”
Even apparently small changes in border rules can precipitate
floods of migrants, she said. The Central American migration began as “a
trickle at first [in 2010], and quickly turned into a flood because the
smuggler started to take advantage and fed this idea of coming here with kids,
or sending your kids.”
The Central American migration was largely stopped in 2020 — but
only because President Donald Trump and his deputies fought numerous
high-profile battles with the agencies, various pro-migration groups, the
establishment media, and many judges to impose a set of migration curbs.
Trump’s 2020 plan offers broadly popular restrictions
on immigration and visa workers.
But Biden’s 2020 plan promises to let
companies import more visa
workers, to let mayors import temporary
workers, to accelerate the inflow of
chain-migration migrants, to suspend immigration enforcement against illegal
aliens, and to dramatically increase the inflow of poor refugees.
“The number of [foreign] people who could potentially benefit
[from Biden’s welcome] is limited only by the tolerance of our government,”
Vaughan said. But Biden had his progressive supporters “live insulated
from the effects of it, whether it is their schools, their job markets, or
their neighborhoods … they live in a bubble.”
Biden’s allies “disregard the effects of their actions on
regular Americans, which means it’s selfish elitism.” Like the characters in
the 1925 novel, The Great
Gatsby, she said, “they use working people for their own sexual and
emotional gratification and cast them aside, caring nothing for the effects on
people’s lives.”
Opposition to refugees is bigotry, sneers
WashPo columnist.
If @crampell stepped outside the country club,
she'd see cheap labor hurts Americans' income, society, productivity &
competitiveness.
But snobs praise diversity to reject solidarity w/ citizens.https://t.co/WdcYgwNU0R
— Neil Munro (@NeilMunroDC) October 7, 2
Study finds 90 percent of Americans would make 67 percent more
without last four decades of increasing income inequality
25 September
2020
A new study from the RAND Corporation, “Trends in Income From
1975 to 2018,” written by Carter Price and Kathryn Edwards, provides new
documentation of the profound restructuring of class relations in America over
the last 40 years.
The study, which looks at changes in
pre-tax family income from 1947 to 2018, divided into quintiles of the American
population, concludes that the bottom 90 percent of the population would, on
average, make 67 percent more in income—every year (!)—had shifts in income
inequality not occurred the last four decades.
In other words, any family that made less than $184,292 (the
90th percentile income bracket) in 2018 would be, on average, making 67 percent
more. This amounts to a total sum of $2.5 trillion of collective lost income
for the bottom 90 percent, just in 2018.
Furthermore, the study concludes, that had more equitable growth
continued after 1975 (a date they use as a shifting point), the bottom 90
percent of American households would have earned a total of $47 trillion more
in income.
Given that there were about 115 million households in the bottom
90 percent of the US in 2018 population (out of a total of 127.59 million in
2018), that would mean that each of these households would, on average, be
$408,696 richer today with this lost income.
To reach these conclusions, the authors break down historical
real, pre-tax, income into different quintiles of the population (bottom fifth,
second fifth, third fifth, fourth fifth, highest fifth). Looking at the period
between 1947 and 2018, they divide the years based on business cycles (booms
and busts of the economy).
Growth in Annualized Real Family Pre-tax, Pre-Transfer Income by
Quantile from RAND, “Trends in Income From 1975 to 2018,” by C. Price and K.
Edwards.
Their data quantitatively expresses the restructuring of class
relations that began at the end of the post-WWII boom. Facing intensified
economic crisis, automation, and global competition, the US ruling class
undertook an aggressive campaign of deindustrialization, slashing wages and
clawing back benefits won in the previous period by explosive struggles of the
working class, while simultaneously funneling money to financial markets,
expanding the wealth and income of both the upper and upper-middle class.
As the data shows, while the bottom 40 percent of American
households made significant percentile increases to their income, relative to
the top 5 percent, for the 20 years between 1947 and 1968, in the 40 years from
1980 to the present, this trend was reversed. In 1980-2000, the bottom 40
percent of the population experienced a net income gain significantly below
that of the top 5 percent. It must be noted that because these are percentile
increases, the absolute differences between the gains of the rich versus the
poor is far larger.
Furthermore, not included in this data is wealth. In the last 40
years, and especially the last 10 to 20 years, the stock market has become the
principal means through which the top 10 percent of the population has piled up
historic levels of wealth.
Significantly, the data from 2001 to 2018 shows a sharp slowdown
in income gains for all sections of American society as per capita GDP growth slowed
and US capitalism experienced a historic decline. However, while the income of the top 5
percent of the population may have only grown by about 2 percent between 2008
and 2018, the wealth of
the top percentiles of the population exploded. For example, according to data
from the Federal Reserve of St. Louis, the wealth of the top 1 percent of the
population increased from almost $20 trillion in the first quarter of 2008,
just before the worst of the financial crisis, to almost $33 trillion at the
beginning of 2018.
By using the data, the authors come up with a set of
counterfactual incomes based on what would be the different income brackets in
2018 without a shift in income distribution. The top 1 percent, instead of
making on average $1,384,000 would make $630,000. The 25th percentile, instead
of making $33,000 would make $61,000.
Data source: RAND; Graphics by Marry Traverse for Civic
Ventures; as published in TIME Magazine
The authors of the study also make several other important
observations by breaking down their data on the basis of location, education,
and race.
Kamala Paints Picture
of a ‘Harris Administration … with Joe Biden’ for Latino Voters
Joe
Biden/Instagram
Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) may only be the vice presidential
nominee on the Democrat ticket, but she is already promising that a “Harris
administration with Joe Biden” will be a boon to voters.
The California lawmaker, whom the former vice president said he
chose as his running mate last month because of her readiness “to lead on day one,” told a
group of Latino small business owners from Arizona on Saturday that it was
vital they made the right choice this November.
“As part of our Build Back Better agenda, we will need to make sure
you have a president in the White House who actually sees you, who understands
your needs, who understands the dignity of your work, and who has your back,”
Harris said in a
five-minute virtual address to the group, according to the Arizona Republic.
“A Harris administration together with Joe Biden as the
president of the United States, the Biden-Haris administration will provide
access to 100 billion dollars in low-interest loans and investments for
minority-business owners,” she added:
Harris’ remarks come as some Democrat strategists continue to
express concerns over Biden’s fitness and stamina for the presidency. Since
jumping into the 2020 race, the former vice president has flummoxed many with
his frequent gaffes and misstatements on the campaign trail.
The issue came to a head last week when a one-time White House
stenographer, who worked exclusively with Biden during the Obama
administration, told the
Washington Free Beacon that the former vice president had deteriorated since
leaving office.
“It is a complete difference from what he was in 2017,” the
stenographer said. “He’s lost a step and he doesn’t seem to have the same
mental acuity as he did four years ago.”
“He doesn’t have the energy, he doesn’t have the pace of his
speaking,” they added. “He’s a different guy.
Joe Biden Promises to
Let Mayors Import Foreign Workers
https://www.breitbart.com/economy/2020/09/10/joe-biden-promises-to-let-mayors-import-foreign-workers/
10 Sep 2020280
10:20
If Joe Biden is elected president, mayors and county executives
will get a pipeline of foreign workers for local CEOs who say they cannot
recruit Americans for the jobs, says Joe Biden’s 2020 campaign platform.
“It is the Democratic version of [President] George W. Bush’s
[2004] ‘Willing worker, willing employer’ proposal,” said Mark Krikorian, director of the Center for
Immigration Studies. The Bush proposal, he said, would have allowed:
Any employer to import any number of workers from anywhere in
the world to do any job at any wage above minimum wage. What Biden wants to do
… is to give city and county governments the ability to import people and then
give them to the employers.
In exchange, Krikorian said, “the [employers] would express
their gratitude with donations and consulting contracts for the [politicians’]
cocaine-addicted sons.”
Biden’s local migration plan is described in his immigration platform titled,
“The Biden Plan for Securing Our Values as a Nation of Immigrants”:
As president, Biden will support a program to allow any county
or municipal executive of a large or midsize county or city to petition for
additional immigrant visas to support the region’s economic development
strategy, provided employers in those regions certify there are available jobs,
and that there are no workers to fill them. Holders of these visas would be
required to work and reside in the city or county that petitioned for them.
The imported workers would not be legal immigrants, according to
the plan. They would be visa workers who likely could eventually apply for
green cards, presumably if they have earned the approval or CEOs or mayors.
Even without approval from Congress, the plan is doable because
it builds on the existing pipelines of foreign workers.
For example, both presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama
cited section 1324a of the 1965
immigration law to create and expand the Practical Training pipeline, which
provided work permits to roughly 500,000 foreign graduates of U.S. colleges in
2019. In contrast, President Donald Trump has trimmed the program.
Obama used the same 1324a claim to bypass Congress, as he
provided work permits to at least 800,000 younger illegal immigrants under the
so-called Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.
For more than a decade, lower courts have ping-ponged two
lawsuits by the Immigration Reform Law Institute challenging the 1324a claim.
The Supreme Court declined to address the legality of the 1324a claim when it
rejected President Donald Trump’s effort to cancel the program.
Also, Congress has declined to block the work permit programs,
and in 2019, apparently affirmed a “Parole in Place” presidential authority that could be cited in presidential
amnesties.
Moreover, there is no annual limit on the number of foreign
temporary workers who can be nominated for green cards. This means that Fortune
500 CEOs can import short-term workers and then extend their stay by nominating
them for green cards. Many CEOs prefer indentured workers because they are unable
to leave their employers until they get their green cards, perhaps after a
decade of compliant work.
The Biden program is pitched as a stimulus for interior states
who have been left behind as Congress’s immigration programs deliver millions
of new workers and trillions of dollars in new wealth to coastal investors,
states, regions, and counties.
Biden’s plan says the new pipeline would:
…allow cities and counties to petition for higher levels of
immigrants to support their growth. The disparity in economic growth between
U.S. cities, and between rural communities and urban areas, is one of the great
imbalances of today’s economy. Some cities and many rural communities struggle
with shrinking populations, an erosion of economic opportunity, and local businesses
that face unique challenges. Others simply struggle to attract a productive
workforce and innovative entrepreneurs.
The language in Biden’s plan echoes the pitch by the
investor-created Economic Innovation
Group, which is lobbying legislators to
back a new immigration program dubbed the “Heartland Visa.” The group’s pitch
says that “A place-based visa program would allow mutually-advantageous matches
to be made between skilled immigrants and places wishing to attract more human
capital.”
The group sold its idea to the New York Times, Pete Buttigieg, and others. Buttigieg’s 2020 vision, titled,
“Investing in an American asset: Unleashing the Potential of Rural America,”
said:
Pete will create a new, place-based Community Renewal visa to
provide opportunities for people who want to move to America and help build our
economy where they are needed most and where they will do well. These visas
will be targeted toward counties that have lost prime-working-age population
over the last 10 years, and smaller cities that are struggling to keep pace
economically with larger cities.
The EIG is run by wealthy investors who would gain from any increased inflow of cheap workers,
consumers, renters, and home-buyers — especially if the immigrants needed
federal aid. The group is particularly interested in raising real estate
prices, saying, “The
relationship between population growth and housing demand is clear. More people
means more demand for housing, and fewer people means less demand.”
The EIG group did not respond to emails from Breitbart News.
Immigration shifts wealth from wages to
stocks, from young to old, from central states to the coasts, from the many to
the few.
Yes, migrants get huge relative gains in pay & civic life by moving into
US.
But investors skim the $$ from the diversity#H1Bhttps://t.co/PVA75K3v9T
— Neil Munro (@NeilMunroDC) August 21, 2020
The EIG plan would flood local labor markets and make it
difficult for American workers — especially marginalized workers — to argue for good jobs and decent wages.
Biden’s plan is a “terrible idea for a whole bunch of reasons,”
said Krikorian.
The program would create a local laborforce of indentured
migrant workers, who would be stuck in the district until they eventually get
green cards, said Krikorian. “The indentured side of it is appalling …
Are they going to send ‘immigrant chasers’ after them as they move to the next
town?”
The plan would encourage corrupt deals with employers, he said.
“When politicians have authority over importing visas, businesses have a
real interest in currying favor with those guys — the certainty of
corruption will be the subject of news stories as long as this kind of
thing lasts,” he said.
The plan is bad for local government because the easy
alternative of cheap foreign workers will make it difficult for local
officials, citizens, and executives to make difficult resource decisions about
education and infrastructure spending, said Krikorian:
Businesses and local governments would no longer have an
incentive to make the hard choices about investing in community college,
training programs … they won’t have to. They’ll just call up their Congressman,
and order up a bunch of foreign workers.
EIG’s “place-based visa plan” won’t help the places that hope
for foreign redemption, said John Miano, a lawyer with the Immigraiton Reform
Law Institute. “It will never work — people will just move to where they want
to go,” which is usually close to similar people, usually in coastal states, he
said. But that movement would be no problem for the EIG investors who have ties
to many companies around the nation, he said.
By allowing politicians to deliver short-term workers to
cooperative CEOs, the Biden plan would dramatically increase government power
over the CEOs, Krikorian said. But that is not a problem for business advocates
of immigration, he said:
Their goal is maximizing immigration regardless of how it
happens. Yes, they would prefer it happened in a libertarian-ish fashion the
way George W Bush offered, where the government was not involved, but they’ll
settle for Biden’s version. It increases the number of people moving here
because that is the goal.
The better alternative to more visa-worker migration would be to
reduce the distorting impact of the federal government’s cheap-labor
immigration policy, say reformers.
For example, CEOs will move their coastal jobs to cheaper
U.S. locations if they have to pay fair-market pay rates, Miano said. “If you
cut off H-1B visas, there will be a rush of coastal jobs to Kansas, Montana,
and those kinds of places,” he said.
Trump’s 2020 platform promises to end cheap labor replacement of American employees.
“The solution has always been to tighten up the labor
market,” said Kevin Lynn, founder of U.S. Tech Workers. “We’ve seen it in the
[Trump-enforced] exit of J-1s [visa
workers] — when all of a sudden, job opportunities are created for college
students.”
“It is a virtuous circle when you tighten the labor market,” he
said.
The inflow of immigrants and visa workers has changed the
nation’s workplaces, economy, and labor force.
For example, the H-1B visa pipeline delivers roughly 100,000
foreign graduates to CEOs each year. Most of those H-1B workers are hoping to
get green cards from their CEOs, so they are willing to work long hours,
without complaint, for lower salaries, for many years, in the so-called Green
Card Economy.
The H-1B program is just one of several programs that provide
CEOs with a workforce of at least 1 million indentured foreign
graduates who have few legal rights to demand higher wages, to complain to a
federal agency, or to testify in court.
This huge population of foreign graduates reduces nationwide
pressure for pay raises, reduces gateway jobs for young American graduates,
reduce the workplace status of American professionals, reduces turnover and
innovation in the tech sector, and reduces the creation of new companies that
threaten the tech CEOs’ control over their technology.
Biden’s 2020 plan includes several other
proposals to expand the inflow fo workers and consumers into the United States.
He promises to let companies import more visa workers, to accelerate the inflow of chain-migration migrants, to suspend immigration enforcement against illegals, and to
dramatically increase the inflow of poor refugees.
Donald Trump's labor & immigration
promises for a 2nd term are vague but useful.
They are also better for ordinary Americans than Joe Biden's business-backed,
open-ended inflow of wage-cutting & rent-raising blue-collar workers &
college-graduates. https://t.co/OmE4tRPf4T
— Neil Munro (@NeilMunroDC) August 26, 2020
Joe
Biden’s Immigration Plan to Accelerate Chain Migration Inflow
Democrat Joe
Biden’s immigration plan contains hard-to-see policy changes that would
dramatically accelerate the inflow of roughly four million chain migrants.
Biden’s
promise is included in his 6,600
immigration platform, titled, “The Biden Plan for Securing Our
Values as a Nation of Immigrants.” The document says:
As
president, Biden will support family-based immigration by preserving family
unification as a foundation of our immigration system; by allowing any approved
applicant to receive a temporary non-immigrant visa until the permanent visa is
processed;
“This is the
equivalent to issuing temporary driver’s licenses to anyone who sends in an
application,” said Jessica Vaughan, policy director for the Center for
Immigration Studies. “They can have the temporary license until they come back
for the road test,’ she said.
If Biden’
plan is adopted, “the sky would be the limit … and besides blowing up the
numerical limits on annual immigration [it] would be an enormous boost to the
fake-document and fake-marriage industry,” she said, adding:
We don’t (or
at least we try not to) let people come live here before they have completed
the entire [immigration] application and vetting process … Under the
Biden-Harris system, people would simply create fake relationships to get the
[initial immigration] petition approved, and then get their temporary visa to come
here and just [quit] the application, knowing there is very little interior
enforcement to make them go home later, when or if the fraud is discovered.
Each year,
roughly four million Americans turn 18 and begin using their skills and
diligence to earn wages and salaries.
But the
federal government slashes their ability to earn wages and buy homes by
delivering roughly one million legal immigrants — including about 600,000
workers — to employers around the United States.
The federal
government also allows companies to import and keep roughly 1.3 million foreign
contract workers in myriad white collar jobs. Those jobs, including many well
paying Silicon Valley jobs, are needed by U.S. graduates to advance in their
careers.
Congress and
the White House also allows companies to keep roughly 600,000 foreign workers
in blue collar seasonal jobs. This inflow allows companies to avoid building a
recruitment business to help young people find a variety of decent jobs around
the United States.
Congress
also does little to deport illegals — or even to deter companies from employing
roughly eight million illegal migrant workers.
These
federal economic policies help companies and investors by inflating the labor
supply, so raising the price of housing, and spiking government spending.
Yet at
least 150 million more foreigners want
to migrate into the United States.
The federal
government does not set any limits on the annual inflow of legal immigrants’
minor children and elderly parents.
But there
are limits — and so, waiting lines — for other categories of immigrants, such
as adult children, married children, and siblings.
Overall, roughly 3.6 million would-be migrants are
waiting in multiple lines, according to a November 2019 report by the
Department of State.
For example,
more than two million additional people are waiting in the “Fourth Preference”
— or F4 line — for the adult siblings of U.S. citizens, but only 65,000 are
given green cards each year.
Similarly,
the federal government awards 23,400 green cars for the married sons and
daughters of green card and citizen immigrants. This “Third Preference,” or
“F3,” waiting list includes 647,236 foreign sons and daughters — many of
whom will also try to bring in their children and relatives once they are
admitted into the United States.
Also, the
government provides green cards to 23,400 adult children of new legal green
card immigrants, who are not yet citizens. But federal data in November 2019
showed that this F2B waiting list of 282,551 adult sons and daughters of
green-card holders.
Donald Trump's labor & immigration promises for a 2nd
term are vague but useful.
They are also better for ordinary Americans than Joe Biden's business-backed,
open-ended inflow of wage-cutting & rent-raising blue-collar workers &
college-graduates. https://t.co/OmE4tRPf4T
— Neil Munro
(@NeilMunroDC) August 26, 2020
THE NEXT MEXICAN INVASION IS AT HAND:
"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."
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2018/07/mexican-president-andres-manuel-lopez.html
"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
Billions of dollars are sucked out of America from Mexico’s looting!
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2017/08/narcomex-biggest-exports-to-us-are.html
1) Mexico ended legal immigration 100 years ago, except for Spanish blood.
2) Mexico is the 17th richest nation but pays the 220th lowest minimum wage to force their subjects to invade the USA. The expands territory for Mexicans, spreads the Spanish language, and culture and genotypes, while earning 17% of Mexico's gross GDP as Foreign Remittance Income.
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.
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Mexican Ambassador: Let’s Restart Mass Migration into U.S.
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
HOW MANY HUNDREDS OF BILLIONS WILL WE LET MEXICO SUCK OUT OF OUR OPEN BORDER?
https://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2018/11/trump-seeks-deal-with-narcomex-as.html
There are many reasons why, for the first time, the government of Mexico would agree to work cooperatively with the United States over an extremely serious immigration-related issue. It is likely, of course that President Trump was not just posturing when he said he would cut off aid to Mexico and other countries who permit the United States to be invaded by illegal aliens.
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Under Guzman’s leadership, the Sinaloa Cartel became the largest drug trafficking organization in the world with influence in every major U.S. city.
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The allegations against Pena Nieto are not new. In 2016, Breitbart News reported on an investigation by Mexican journalists which revealed how Juarez Cartel operators funneled money into the 2012 presidential campaign. The investigation was carried out by Mexican award-winning Journalist Carmen Aristegui and her team….The subsequent scandal became known as “Monexgate” for the cash cards that were given out during Peña Nieto’s campaign. The allegations against Pena Nieto went largely unreported by U.S. news outlets.
THE INVASION!
MEXICO UNDER, OVER AND OCCUPYING AMERICA AT STAGGERING COSTS
https://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2019/04/mexico-in-meltdown-narco-state-pouring.html
"While other witnesses at Mr. Guzmán’s trial in Federal District Court in Brooklyn have testified about huge payoffs from traffickers to the Mexican police and public officials, the testimony about Mr. Peña Nieto was the most egregious allegation yet. If true, it suggests that corruption by drug cartels had reached into the highest level of Mexico’s political establishment."
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The former president of Mexico, Enrique Peña Nieto, took a $100 million bribe from JoaquÃn
MEXICO’S INVASION, OCCUPATION and LOOTING OF AMERICA by INVITATION OF THE GLOBALIST LA RAZA SUPREMACY DEMOCRAT PARTY for WIDER OPEN BORDERS TO KEEP WAGES DEPRESSED
https://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2019/01/mexicos-invasion-of-america.html
"Fox’s Tucker Carlson noted Thursday that Obrador has previously proposed ranting 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."
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"The man likely to be the next president of Mexico just called for mass migration to the US" RICK MORAN
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“And soon, very soon — after the victory of our movement — we will defend all the migrants in the American continent and all the migrants in the world,” Obrador said, adding that immigrants “must leave their towns and find a life in the United States.” RICK MORAN
Guzmán Loera, the infamous crime lord known as El Chapo, according to a witness at Mr. Guzman’s trial. ALAN FEUER
“Mexican drug cartels are the “other” terrorist threat to America. Militant Islamists have the goal of destroying the United States. Mexican drug cartels are now accomplishing that mission – from within, every day, in virtually every community across this country.” JUDICIAL WATCH
"In 2016, according to my analysis of the data, more Americans were reported killed by homicide in Mexico than the combined total of Americans killed by homicide in every other country abroad." MONICA SHOWALTER
HOW MANY HUNDREDS OF BILLIONS WILL WE LET MEXICO SUCK OUT OF OUR OPEN BORDER?
https://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2018/11/trump-seeks-deal-with-narcomex-as.html
There are many reasons why, for the first time, the government of Mexico would agree to work cooperatively with the United States over an extremely serious immigration-related issue. It is likely, of course that President Trump was not just posturing when he said he would cut off aid to Mexico and other countries who permit the United States to be invaded by illegal aliens.
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Under Guzman’s leadership, the Sinaloa Cartel became the largest drug trafficking organization in the world with influence in every major U.S. city.
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The allegations against Pena Nieto are not new. In 2016, Breitbart News reported on an investigation by Mexican journalists which revealed how Juarez Cartel operators funneled money into the 2012 presidential campaign. The investigation was carried out by Mexican award-winning Journalist Carmen Aristegui and her team….The subsequent scandal became known as “Monexgate” for the cash cards that were given out during Peña Nieto’s campaign. The allegations against Pena Nieto went largely unreported by U.S. news outlets.
THE INVASION!
MEXICO UNDER, OVER AND OCCUPYING AMERICA AT STAGGERING COSTS
https://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2019/04/mexico-in-meltdown-narco-state-pouring.html
"While other witnesses at Mr. Guzmán’s trial in Federal District Court in Brooklyn have testified about huge payoffs from traffickers to the Mexican police and public officials, the testimony about Mr. Peña Nieto was the most egregious allegation yet. If true, it suggests that corruption by drug cartels had reached into the highest level of Mexico’s political establishment."
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The former president of Mexico, Enrique Peña Nieto, took a $100 million bribe from JoaquÃn
MEXICO’S INVASION, OCCUPATION and LOOTING OF AMERICA by INVITATION OF THE GLOBALIST LA RAZA SUPREMACY DEMOCRAT PARTY for WIDER OPEN BORDERS TO KEEP WAGES DEPRESSED
https://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2019/01/mexicos-invasion-of-america.html
"Fox’s Tucker Carlson noted Thursday that Obrador has previously proposed ranting 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."
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"The man likely to be the next president of Mexico just called for mass migration to the US" RICK MORAN
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“And soon, very soon — after the victory of our movement — we will defend all the migrants in the American continent and all the migrants in the world,” Obrador said, adding that immigrants “must leave their towns and find a life in the United States.” RICK MORAN
Guzmán Loera, the infamous crime lord known as El Chapo, according to a witness at Mr. Guzman’s trial. ALAN FEUER
“Mexican drug cartels are the “other” terrorist threat to America. Militant Islamists have the goal of destroying the United States. Mexican drug cartels are now accomplishing that mission – from within, every day, in virtually every community across this country.” JUDICIAL WATCH
"In 2016, according to my analysis of the data, more Americans were reported killed by homicide in Mexico than the combined total of Americans killed by homicide in every other country abroad." MONICA SHOWALTER
Mexico cynically wades into El Paso shooting debacle, brimming with hypocrisy
As if the El Paso mass murder couldn't be a more noxious showcase for political bad behavior, in wades the Mexican government, launching lawsuits against the U.S. for supposedly failing to protect its citizens, which is something they've never bothered about before. According to NBC News:
Mexico on Sunday threatened to take legal action against the United States for failing to protect its citizens after this weekend's mass shooting in the border city of El Paso.
Of the 20 people gunned down at a Walmart at the Cielo Vista Mall, at least seven were Mexican citizens, and Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard promised Mexico City will act.
In a statement, the Foreign Ministry called the attack in El Paso a "terrorist act against innocent Mexicans."
Apparently, they've seen how their individual illegals can exploit loopholes in U.S. law to their advantage, and now that bastion of peace and tranquility to our south would like a serving of the same. Instead of warning Mexican potential illegals to stay out of the U.S. the way a normal country would do, they want to muscle the U.S. legal system to their benefit, creating a sort of right to protection in the U.S. which is something Mexicans certainly don't have back home.
And more to the point, the Mexican state would like to blame the U.S. for the action of the lone freak who shot up the Wal-Mart in El Paso, same as the average Democratic politician. The fact that the freak is going to the executioner's table is irrelevant, because what they're really after is putting the U.S. and President Trump in particular on trial.
According to a summary of their doings from Axios:
Mexico threatened legal action Sunday against the U.S. for failing to protect its citizens after a shooting in the border city of El Paso, Texas, killed 20 people, including 6 Mexican nationals, the New York Times reports.
Details: Mexico's Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard said the Mexican government was looking into extraditing the suspect to Mexico on a terrorism charge over Saturday's shooting, per CNN. Mexico also plans legal action against the seller who provided the weapon used in the attack, according to the NYT.
What they're saying: Ebrard said in a Twitter video, translated by NBC News, that President Andrés Manuel López Obrador wants to "ensure that Mexico’s indignation translates" into "expeditious and forceful" legal action for the country to take a role and demand that conditions are established that protect Mexicans in the U.S.
The big picture: Many Mexicans are aware of an anti-immigrant screed apparently posted online by the suspect just before the shooting and they see the attack as an expression of tensions between the U.S. and Mexico over immigration, guns and violence, often fueled by President Trump's policies and rhetoric, the Times notes.
On those grounds, any American who's attacked, assaulted, drinks poisoned liquor, or is killed in Mexico, should have grounds to do the same. Failure to protect, don't you know. Such irony. Turns out more Americans (75 of them) have been killed in Mexico than all the remaining countries of the worldcombined. Here's what Forbes reported last year:
In 2016, according to my analysis of the data, more Americans were reported killed by homicide in Mexico than the combined total of Americans killed by homicide in every other country abroad.
More than 31 million Americans visited Mexico in 2016, the National Travel & Tourism Office says, and State Department data shows there were reports of 75 American homicide victims there. In comparison, 49 million Americans traveled to all other foreign countries, and 69 were reported killed by homicide.
That's quite some hypocrisy they've got, given the number of American dead bodies they've got on their record. Think they'll go along with reciprocity? Not the Mexican government we know. The double standard stands.
But that's hardly their only hypocrisy. Here's another logic joke from them:
They encourage their nationals to emigrate illegally (remember the Mexican government comic books? Apparently, they're still distributing them) to get rid of potential discontents, and now they complain when the place, loaded as it is with unvetted migrants they don't want around, is somehow not safe? Any city loaded with illegals is a den of crime -- just look at the crime in Chicago, Baltimore or any sanctuary city. Apparently, those killings are O.K. by the Mexicans so long as they are done by other Mexicans or maybe Central Americans. But this Dallas-area white interloper doing the killing is something different, something sue-worthy? They've tolerated crime for years on both sides of the border, not doing a thing so long as the distilled remittances keep coming. Now at this late date, with this lone freak, they are suddenly upset.
Now for a third hypocrisy: They say they want to extradite the maggot? What the heck would that be for? Like El Chapo Guzman, he'd be in a fine position to continue his Internet postings in a Mexican prison because all kinds of contraband is tolerated in Mexican prisons, particularly cell phones, and anything can be bribed for. For that matter, he'd be in a great position to escape, much as Guzman did from Mexican prisons, more than once. The creep, under Mexican law, would also be spared the death penalty, something he's not going to be spared if he stays in Texas. It looks like this extradition move is some sort of revolting bid to save him and allow him to flourish. You can bet he'd be a happy camper if somehow he got extradited to Mexico. Sorry amigos: The maggot is going to pay.
What we are seeing here is plain old garden variety Mexican meddling in our internal affairs, this time rooted in some icky festering wounded national pride, some bid from Mexico to assert itself over U.S. laws in the wake of Trump's muscle on Mexico over the illegal migrant surge, using the U.S. courts with their continuous anti-Trump rulings to make itself the sovereign here. Mexico has already sent their illegals and now they want to take over gubernatorially through the courts, which puts this act on a continuum.
This garbage should be smacked down for the hypocrisy it is and as fast as possible. We don't need their government ruling over here and we sure as heck shouldn't be paying them.
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