Blackburn: ‘The Left Is Concerned about COVID in the Classroom’ But Not at the Border
On Saturday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “America’s News HQ,” Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) criticized the White House for breaking with the CDC on returning students to in-person learning and said that “it seems that the left is concerned about COVID in the classroom. They are not concerned about COVID at the border crossings.”
Blackburn said, [relevant remarks begin around 1:00] “The White House has one opinion. CDC had already said that children could go back to school, taking the proper mitigation strategies, getting those in place, and that is your PPE, making certain you’re using masks, you have dividers, and every — the teachers are on the list for getting vaccinations. Here’s the deal, it seems that the left is concerned about COVID in the classroom. They are not concerned about COVID at the border crossings.”
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Joe Biden Orders Aid, Benefits for Migrants
President Joe Biden will sign three migration-related Executive Orders on Tuesday, including one directing deputies to consider offering legal entry to illegal immigrants who used their children to cross the border during President Donald Trump’s tenure, say press reports.
The Washington Post reported statements made by officials to selected reporters Monday evening:
Government officials said they had not settled on a single legal status that would be given to returning parents, adding that families could receive different visas or legal protections depending on their cases.
The briefing was used to frame media coverage of the three orders that Biden will sign Tuesday. The New York Times outlined:
Officials said that could include providing visas or other legal means of entry to parents who have been deported back to their home countries. Or it could involve sending children who are living in the United States back to those countries to be with their parents. They said each case would be looked at separately.
“The official said each family would be evaluated on an ‘individual basis,’ taking into account the ‘preference of the family … and the well-being of children,'” according to NBC.
The giveaway is aimed at the roughly 5,500 families who were temporarily divided when the children who were brought over the border were held in shelters. At the same time, the adults were separated and prosecuted for violating the nation’s border laws.
Democrats used the “separated kids” theme to rally liberal opposition to President Donald Trump’s efforts to block southern migration, which included almost one million people in 2019. That migrant wave included many people who brought their children to help them open catch and release loopholes in border rules.
Biden’s offer of benefits for “separated families” is being played up by sympathetic reporters at many outlets and helps to minimize discussion about the broader impact of the pending Executive Orders.
The White House officials downplayed the immediate consequences of the three Executive Orders. The New York Times said:
Senior administration officials said Monday night that most of Mr. Biden’s directives on Tuesday would not make immediate changes. Rather, they are intended to give officials at the Department of Homeland Security, the Justice Department and the State Department time to evaluate how best to undo the policies.
National Public Radio reported:
The executive actions make clear that rolling back former President Donald Trump’s hardline immigration measures won’t happen overnight. In fact, more actions are almost certain to follow, officials told reporters on a preview call about the measures.
“It takes time to review everything, so we are starting with these right now, but that doesn’t mean it’s the end of it,” one of the officials said.
But the orders could have a dramatic impact over the next few years.
For example, one order directs the Department of Homeland Security to remove barriers to migration, such as Trump’s “Public Charge” test. The test bars green cards to poor migrants who would need government support to prosper in the United States.
Another order directs officials to create a new pipeline of migrants from Central America to Americans’ workplaces and communities.
Also, the offer of benefits to people who brought their children to get through loopholes creates another incentive for millions of poor people to bring their children as they head north to get jobs — or even legal status — under Biden’s looser policies.
Those policies would further encourage low-skill migration that would spike workplace competition for blue-collar Americans and boosting government aid for poor migrants. That migration would benefit investors, who gain from cheap workers, reduced need for automation, and greater government spending.
The media reports downplayed Biden’s encouragement of migration with the claimed goal of raising economic incentives for migrants to stay in their home countries.
Unlike Trump and his pro-American policies, Biden and his deputies are determined to share Americans’ resources with foreign migrants on the claims of “fairness” and “humanity.”
“President Biden’s approach is to deal with immigration comprehensively, fairly, and humanely,” CNN reported.
For years, a wide variety of pollsters have shown deep and broad opposition to labor migration — or the hiring of temporary contract workers into the jobs sought by young U.S. graduates. The multiracial, cross-sex, non-racist, class-based, priority-driven, and solidarity-themed opposition to labor migration coexists with generally favorable personal feelings toward legal immigrants and toward immigration in theory.
The deep public opposition is built on the widespread recognition that 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.
NYTimes revives old claim: Americans should get the blame for illegal migration b/c they won't OK endless migration into their national labor market.
This claim is elite BS – and is proven wrong by 1990 immig law. But Biden, GW Bush & WSJ also push it.https://t.co/YCo40wcUHX— Neil Munro (@NeilMunroDC) January 31, 2021
House Democrats Seek to Include Amnesty for Illegal Aliens in Coronavirus Relief Package
About 100 House Democrats are urging House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) to include an amnesty for certain subgroups of illegal aliens in a relief package for Americans impacted by the Chinese coronavirus crisis.
The group of House Democrats, led by the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, want to include an amnesty for at least five million illegal aliens who consider themselves “essential workers” and who are recipients of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) and the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) programs. The letter states:
As you continue to work on assembling a COVID-19 reconciliation package and begin work on an economic recovery and jobs package, we urge you to include a pathway to citizenship for essential immigrant workers, Dreamers, and TPS holders, as well as their families, in order to ensure a robust recovery that is inclusive and equitable for all Americans regardless of their immigration status.
Read the full letter here:
Letter to Speaker Pelosi an… by John Binder
The amnesty would pack the United States labor market with millions of newly legalized illegal aliens who would be allowed to legally compete for jobs against 18 million unemployed Americans and another 6.2 million Americans who are underemployed.
Eventually, those legalized by the amnesty would be put on a path to obtaining American citizenship. The House Democrats claim the amnesty would boost U.S. wages, though a tightened labor market with reduced foreign competition against Americans has proven to spike salaries.
“A pathway to citizenship for undocumented essential workers would raise the wage floor and in turn benefit all workers, beyond direct beneficiaries,” the House Democrats write.
The proposal comes as President Joe Biden’s administration has put forth an amnesty plan that would allow nearly the entire illegal alien population — between 11 and 22 million foreign nationals — to eventually obtain American citizenship.
Thus far, 28 of the most vulnerable House Democrats have stayed silent on whether they would support such a proposal at a time of mass unemployment.
Every year more than 1.2 million legal immigrants are awarded green cards, another 1.4 million foreign nationals are given visas, and hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens are added to the U.S. population. Wall Street, the big business lobby, and Big Tech have lobbied for years for an amnesty and an increase in legal immigration levels to boost their profit margins by cutting labor costs through U.S. job outsourcing.
John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Email him at jbinder@breitbart.com.
Armed Human Smuggler, 20 Migrants Arrested in West Texas near Border
Big Bend Sector Border Patrol agents arrested an armed human smuggler and a group of migrants at an interior immigration checkpoint near Alpine, Texas. The smuggler locked a group of migrants in the cargo area of a utility trailer.
Agents assigned to an interior immigration checkpoint near Alpine observed a pickup truck pulling a utility trailer approaching for inspection. During the initial contact, agents identified some of the passengers as migrants who were illegally present in the United States, according to information obtained from Big Bend Sector Border Patrol officials.
The agents referred the driver to a secondary inspection area and conducted a physical search of the trailer. When they unlocked the trailer, the agents found 20 more migrants. The smuggler reportedly locked the migrants inside with no food or water and little air ventilation.
A photograph of the scene shows none of the migrants wore any kind of PPE to prevent the spread of COVID-19.
While searching the vehicle, the agents found a pistol, a revolver, and two knives.
The agents arrested the human smuggler and the migrants. Officials report the smuggler will face federal prosecution from the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
“Beginning on January 24, there has been a notable increase in illegal immigrants found in sealed cargo trailers, moving trailers, and even livestock trailers,” Big Bend Sector officials said in a written statement. “These trailers were not equipped with proper ventilation, food, water, or protection from the elements.”
Agents arrested more than 80 migrants in separate events on January 24, 29, and 30, officials stated.
“Smugglers were apprehended with active warrants, weapons in the vehicles, and previous criminal histories,” the statement continued. “Prosecution is on-going for multiple individuals under the appropriate statutes along with [the] seizure of their vehicles, weapons, and trailers.”
The agents identified the migrants as having come to the U.S. from El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala, and Mexico. All will be expelled to Mexico under Title 42 Coronavirus protection protocols put in place by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Bob Price serves as associate editor and senior news contributor for the Breitbart Texas-Border team. He is an original member of the Breitbart Texas team. Price is a regular panelist on Fox 26 Houston’s Sunday-morning talk show, What’s Your Point? Follow him on Twitter @BobPriceBBTX, Parler @BobPrice, and Facebook.
No Labor Shortage: Over 17M Americans Remain Jobless But Want Full-Time Jobs
Millions of Americans remain jobless, but all want full-time jobs, even as President Joe Biden’s administration seeks to flood to United States labor market with foreign competition via more legal immigration and an amnesty for millions of illegal aliens.
The latest Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) data reveals that 17.1 million Americans are jobless — 10.1 million underemployed and another seven million who are out of the labor force entirely — but all want full-time jobs with competitive wages and good benefits.
Of those 10.1 million unemployed Americans, 1.5 million are teenagers, 930,00 are black Americans, 870,000 are Hispanics, 666,600 are Asian Americans, and 576,000 are white Americans. About 3.5 million of those unemployed are permanent job losers.
Another group of Americans, six million, remain underemployed mostly due to the Chinese coronavirus crisis that has spurred states to issue selective economic lockdowns that have shuttered small and medium-sized businesses while multinational corporations have thrived.
“These individuals, who would have preferred full-time employment, were working part-time because their hours had been reduced or they were unable to find full-time jobs,” the monthly BLS report notes.
President Biden on new jobs numbers: “At that rate it’s gonna take 10 years before we get to full employment. That's not hyperbole. That's a fact." pic.twitter.com/nlFGZ1JOEs
— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) February 5, 2021
The hardships of the crisis, though not evenly spread, have been devastating for millions. In January, for instance, nearly 15 million Americans said they were unable to work because their employer closed or lost business as a result of the crisis.
Even as there remains a mass unemployment problem, the Biden administration — with support from the big business lobby — is seeking to pack the U.S. labor market with millions of foreign workers whom Americans will be forced to compete against.
Devastating jobs report today— especially weak job growth in the private sector. Yet there’s a strong push to increase & expand immigration. https://t.co/VAHK7X6aXw
— U.S. Tech Workers (@USTechWorkers) February 5, 2021
Biden has proposed an amnesty bill that would legalize most of the 11 to 22 million illegal aliens living in the U.S. The majority of those newly legalized illegal aliens would be allowed to immediately begin competing for jobs against Americans. Sens. Dick Durbin (D-IL) and Lindsey Graham (R-SC) have proposed a similar amnesty that would legalize millions of illegal aliens who are enrolled and eligible for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.
The Biden amnesty plan would also increase legal immigration levels beyond the 1.2 million green cards that are awarded and the 1.4 million visas given out to foreign nationals annually.
Likewise, Biden has eliminated the Remain in Mexico policy, restarted Catch and Release, and sought to halt deportations of illegal aliens. The policies, combined, ensure that federal immigration officials are forced to release border crossers into the U.S. and that already-present illegal aliens are prevented from being arrested, detained, and deported.
John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Email him at jbinder@breitbart.com.
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