Friday, February 5, 2021

JOBLESS AMERICA - SO WHY IS JOE BIDEN'S CRONY SWAMP PUSHING FOR MORE ILLEGALS USING ANY DEVICE THEY CAN???

Mo Brooks on Amnesty: ‘Power Grab’ Giving ‘Massive Election Advantage’ to Democrats

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President Joe Biden and Democrats seek amnesty for millions of illegal aliens to get electoral advantage, said Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL) on Wednesday’s edition of SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Daily with host Alex Marlow.

Brooks described Democrats’ amnesty pursuit as an effort to push the electorate to the left.

“Past history suggests that in this election, in November, you had anywhere from 900,000 to 1.7 million illegal aliens illegally voting in the American election,” he said. “There’s another study that suggests that this type of voter votes Democrat 80 percent, Republican 20 percent, giving Democrats to 60 percent advantage.”

“What you’re seeing with Biden administration is an effort to dilute the votes of current American citizens by bringing in people who are born in other countries, knowing full well that if they can supplant American voters with newly citizenised foreign-born voters, that will be a massive election advantage for Democratic candidates,” Brooks added.

“That’s what it’s really all about,” Brooks determined. “Bottom line, the fact that it may cost hundreds of billions of dollars in additional welfare benefits [is] immaterial to the Biden administration or to the socialists that he represents. The fact that, say, over the last couple of years, roughly 2,000 Americans are dead at the hands of illegal aliens — on American soil, no less — that also is not something that the socialists factor into their decision. It’s purely a power grab.”

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Brooks contrasted Democrats’ ostensibly public health-based advocacy for lockdowns and shutdowns to reduce COVID-19 transmission with their approach towards border security and immigration.

“Only in the socialist states like New York and Massachusetts and Illinois and California, do you have such a concern with COVID-19 that you are willing to shut down your economy to a much greater degree than in other parts of America,” Brooks remarked.

“If [Democrats] are going to perceive COVID-19 as that great of a risk that it outweighs the damage done to the economies of these various cities and states around the country, one would think that they would also have a concern about COVID-19 being transmitted into the United States from illegal aliens who illegally cross our borders and into the United States,” Brooks said.

“Unfortunately, the Democrats are anything if not hypocrites, and they won’t support [border security] because it decreases the power grab that is based on bringing in a lot of foreign individuals who, overall, are much more heavily reliant on welfare benefits than American citizens are,” Brooks concluded.

Foreigners from south of the U.S.-Mexico border are more likely to “vote for the socialist doctrines that … the Democratic Party now espouses” if given amnesty and citizenship, Brooks noted.

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Tom Cotton: DREAM Act Would Offer Amnesty to Illegal Aliens with Criminal Convictions

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Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) told Breitbart News on Thursday that Democrats’ DREAM Act legislation, if enacted into federal law, would permit the extension of amnesty to illegal aliens with criminal convictions.

“[The DREAM Act] would ignore criminal records,” Cotton explained in an interview on SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Daily with host Alex Marlow. “It would exclude multiple criminal convictions at the state and federal levels, [including] serious and violent felonies that have been pleaded down to lower offenses. It would give Alejandro Mayorka — who we’ve seen is surrounded by serious ethical questions — the ability to issue waivers, even for people like human traffickers.”

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Cotton reflected on his analysis of the DREAM Act, introduced on Thursday by Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) and Lindsey Graham (R-SC). He noted how the Democrat Party and broader left frame the DREAM Act and similar amnesty proposals as a humanitarian measure for children.

“The Dream Act [is] often portrayed by people like Barack Obama and Joe Biden and Dick Durbin as helping the Tiny Tim Cratchits of the world, the poor chimney sweep out there who’s seven years old and just trying to get a loaf of bread to survive on,” Cotton stated.

“Most of the people that the so-called Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program benefited when Obama instituted it were already in their 20s. Now many of these people are in their 20s or even their 30s,” Cotton said. “About seven out of eight, in fact, are in their 20s. So these people are in the situation where they arrived here as minors, and therefore are illegal immigrants, but we’re mostly talking about adults. We’re not talking about little children.”

“The DREAM Act goes far beyond that program,” Cotton said of former Barack Obama’s executive order. He continued:

It would have amnesty for more than two million such people, and then here’s the kicker. The main selling point that the Democrats and, unfortunately, some Republicans use for this proposal is that children shouldn’t pay for the sins of the parents. Okay, I understand that. Now, I would say maybe they shouldn’t benefit from the sins of the parents, either, but how about parents paying for the sins of the parents, right?

Cotton highlighted the DREAM Act’s facilitation of chain migration.

“The whole point is that the children were brought here, they had no choice, they were minors they know no other country, and the parents are the ones that made the choice,” Cotton remarked. “Dick Durbin’s DREAM Act would allow those children — who are now adults — once they get legal status, to then turn around and get amnesty and citizenship for their parents who violated our laws in the first place and created this situation.”

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U.S. Economy Added 49,000 Jobs in January

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The U.S. economy added 49,000 jobs in December and the unemployment rate dipped to 6.3 percent, according to data released Friday.

Economists surveyed by Econoday had forecast an addition of 50,000 jobs and a slight rise in the unemployment rate to 6.8 percent.

The estimate for December was revised down significantly, from a loss of 140,000 to a loss of 227,000. This is the third straight month of sluggishness in the labor market.

Job gains in professional and business services and in both public and private education were offset by losses in leisure and hospitality, in retail trade, in health care, and in transportation and warehousing.

Private sector employment grew by just 6,000. Manufacturing employment shrank by 10,000, much worse than the predicted gain of 30,000. Retail trade employment shrank by 37,800 after expanding by 134,900 in December.

The economy added around 12 million jobs in the second half of 2020, a record-breaking pace after the unprecedented collapse in employment as lockdowns took hold in March and April. The increase in the ranks of employed workers shows that companies ramped up hiring as the economy reopened and consumers came back to stores, restaurants, and other businesses that had been shuttered this spring. Despite the gains, total employment in December was lower than its February level, highlighting just how deep the pandemic cut into what had been the strongest jobs markets in decades.

Hiring slowed in November and layoffs picked back up as infections, hospitalizations, and deaths surged. December saw the first negative print for payrolls since the spring. Many state and local governments around the country announced new restrictions on business, travel, dining, and other activities that have once again suppressed demand and discouraged growth in employment. Some businesses that held on through the first wave of shutdowns have not been able to stay in business in the second wave and much of the government aid made available earlier last year was no longer offered in December.

And even throughout the reopening layoffs have been extremely elevated, indicating that the pandemic’s effects are still ravaging the economy. A separate report on Thursday showed that 779,000 Americans applied for unemployment benefits in the prior week.

Joe Biden’s ‘Catch and Release’ Policy Opens the Southern Border

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President Joe Biden’s deputies are trying not to detain the rapidly rising inflow of economic migrants who are coming across Americans’ Southern border in search of blue-collar jobs, homes, and the Democrats’ dangled prize of American citizenship.

“We will continue to use all current authorities to avoid keeping individuals in a congregate setting [detention] for any length of time,” [emphasis added] said a statement provided February 4 to Breitbart News by the Customs and Border Protection agency of the Department of Homeland Security.

“Catch and release, and what you’re seeing right right now with no deportation or detention, that is the definition of open borders,” said Todd Bensman, a Texas-based expert on migration with the Center for Immigration Studies. He added:

They’re doing catch and release, which is the most powerful incentive for mass migration that exists in the world … [because it ensures migrants] can live and work indefinitely inside the United States without authorization. There’ll be no kicking out of anybody, ever, under this administration. They’ve made that clear. They won’t be doing any  deportations.

On January 20, Biden promised an amnesty — and therefore, the hugely valuable prize of American citizenship — to all migrants who could persuade government officials that they were living in the United States before January 1 — even though millions of Americans — including millions of his supporters — are struggling to get jobs, earn more wages, and pay their rents.

In addition, Mexico’s government is no longer accepting all migrants who were rejected by President Donald Trump’s policies. This break forces Biden’s deputies to either detain, deport, or release the growing population of border migrants.

The February 4 statement from CBP suggests the policy of minimizing detention is due to the concern that some of the migrants are infected with China’s coronavirus:

CBP has seen a steady increase in border encounters since April 2020, which, aggravated by COVID-19 restrictions and social distancing guidelines, has caused some facilities to reach maximum safe holding capacity. Per longstanding practice, when long-term holding solutions aren’t possible, some migrants will be processed for removal, provided a Notice to Appear, and released into the U.S. to await a future immigration hearing. As the Administration reviews the current immigration process, balancing it against the ongoing pandemic, we will continue to use all current authorities to avoid keeping individuals in a congregate setting for any length of time.

The statement does not say the border agencies are trying to expand detention capacity to cope with the rising inflow.

The statement does not say that agents are using technology to record the identity of the migrants who are being let into the United States. The absence of biometric identification data will help the new migrants claim they are eligible for Biden’s amnesty if it becomes law.

The CBP did not say when the new migrants are expected to get court dates. But, “the average wait for a hearing date is now 1,642 days or 54 months,” according to TRAC Reports Inc.

The CBP statement also does not suggest that border officials are still trying to exclude single migrants. However, a February 3 report by the Wahington Post report suggested that border agencies were returning single adult migrants back to Mexico while they release spouses, teenagers, and children into the United States

Overall, Biden’s administration is putting the welfare of migrants ahead of Americans’ right to a national labor market, fair wages, and decent housing, based on the claim that the United States is a “nation of immigrants” rather than a nation of native-born Americans.

On February 4, Biden also announced his plan to surge 125,000 refugees per year into American towns, workplaces, and schools. He has also directed his agencies not to deport economic migrants from the interior of the United States for 100 days.

DHS chief Alejandro Mayorkas told CNN on February 4:

“We have asylum laws that provide humanitarian relief. Those who qualify under those laws are entitled to the relief that we extend. Those who do not will not be able to remain in our country. And we can effectively implement both responsibilities in both opportunities to be both a nation of laws and a nation of immigrants. That’s our core and fundamental obligation.”

The number of migrants is rising rapidly as Biden invites more migrants and his progressive deputies quickly dismantle the protective border rules adopted by President Donald Trump. In a February 3 report for CIS, Bennsman reported:

One Border Patrol agent in the area told CIS that the migrants are now too numerous for local systems to process, just like the catch-and-release circumstances that powered the 2019 crisis.

“We are releasing hundreds from many different countries of origin because we simply don’t have enough room to hold them all,” the Border Patrol agent told the Center for Immigration Studies. “They are being released under what is called an O.R. which means ‘Own Recognizance’ – basically, a promise to arrive for their immigration hearing at some future date. We can’t hold them because they are crossing all day long in groups of 20 to 40, men, women, children.”

Said one federal official in the area: “They’re filling bus after bus after bus.” No U.S. media has yet covered this incentivizing shift in practice as the number of migrants trying their luck at winning catch-and-release spikes ever upward. But Mexican media in the State of Coahuila across from Del Rio and Eagle Pass have reported that increasing numbers of migrants are heading toward the American border and that human smuggling activity is much higher than in previous years.

The inflow of blue-collar migrants from the south “doesn’t affect doctors and lawyers or journalists so much” said Bensman, who is the author of a new book about the cross-border migration of jihad supporters. The book is titled America’s Covert Border War: The Untold Story of the Nation’s Battle to Prevent Jihadist Infiltration. He continued:

Most of the people in higher-income brackets don’t even have their kids in public schools …  If you’ve ever been visited a school district that is filled with non-English speaking ESL kids, where they went from a few to 200 or 400 overnight, you’d see that people who have their kids in those school districts don’t like it a bit [because] it degrades the quality of the education that they expected.

The foreign migration into Americans’ jobs is expected to grow rapidly as coyotes recruit and escort more fee-paying migrants through U.S. border laws into Bidens’ welcome. The Washington Post reported February 3:

A Central American official who closely monitors migration dynamics said smuggling guides have intensified their marketing efforts in Guatemala’s destitute rural highlands in recent weeks, recruiting customers by telling them the Biden administration is taking a softer enforcement approach.

“They’re saying Biden has given the green light,” said the official, who was not authorized to speak to reporters.

Roughly half of the 3.5 million migrants who arrived between 2014 and 2020 are still in the United States, according to a December report by the Department of Homeland Security.

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 multiracialcross-sexnon-racistclass-basedpriority-driven, and solidarity-themed opposition to labor migration coexists with generally favorable personal feelings toward legal immigrants and 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.

“I’ll probably in my lifetime never comprehend why Democrats want unrestricted, unmitigated, wide open, millions of strangers over the border,” said Bensman. “That is a very weird cult religion to just have a population transfer from poor countries to our country.”

Biden Vows Flood of 110,000 Extra Refugees Next Year

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President Joe Biden announced Thursday that he plans to raise the annual refugee admissions ceiling to 125,000 in the 12-month period beginning October 1, up from the 15,000 cap proposed by the previous administration.

The president accused his predecessor of damaging the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program by lowering the number of refugees allowed to enter the United States, adding that restoring the program will take time.

“It’s going to take time to rebuild what has been so badly damaged, but that’s precisely what we’re going to do,” he declared during a speech Thursday at the U.S. State Department, adding:

Today, I’m approving an executive order to begin the hard work of restoring our refugee admissions program to help meet the unprecedented global need. … This executive order will position us to be able to raise the refugee admissions back up to 125,000 persons for the first full fiscal year [2022] of the Biden-Harris administration.

Fiscal Year (FY) 2022 will run from October 1, 2021 to September 30, 2022.

Biden indicated that his administration will push to raise the refugee admissions cap this year above 15,000.

He directed the U.S. State Department, which handles the refugee program, to work with Congress on “making a down payment” on raising the admissions cap “as soon as possible.”

That means the Biden administration could welcome more refugees amid the pandemic ravaging American communities and damaging the country’s economy, potentially flooding the already struggling labor market with more low skilled workers.

While campaigning and soon after he was elected, Biden pledged to raise the refugee cap to 125,000 shortly after taking office.

It appears he will not be able to keep that promise. Still, some pro-immigration groups, such as the New York Immigration Coalition (NYIC), welcomed the move “as a first step in undoing Trump’s legacy.”

President Biden indicated that restoring the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program after the previous administration gutted it will take time.

“It’s going to take time to rebuild what has been so badly damaged, but that’s precisely what we’re going to do,” he declared.

Former President Donald Trump proposed resettling up to 15,000 refugees, the lowest level in decades, in fiscal year 2021, a report to Congress posted on the State Department website noted, adding:

This proposed refugee admissions ceiling reflects the continuing backlog of over 1.1 million asylum-seekers who are awaiting adjudication of their claims inside the United States, and it accounts for the arrival of refugees whose resettlement in the United States was delayed due to the COVID-19 [coronavirus disease] pandemic.

Biden also announced that he was issuing a presidential memo to agencies to “reinvigorate our leadership on the LGBTQI issues and do it internationally.”

He said his administration would ensure America’s diplomacy and taxpayer-funded foreign assistance works to promote the rights of the LGBTQI community across the world, including protecting those who seek refuge and asylum in the U.S.

EXCLUSIVE PHOTOS: Large Migrant Group in Mexico Boards Train for U.S.

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A large group of migrants, most likely seeking asylum in the United States, were spotted heading north via a rail route known as La Bestia. The train departed Tierra Blanca, Guanajuato, and will likely arrive at the U.S.-Mexico Border within days, according to Breitbart Texas sources.

Mexican immigration officials and municipal police in Tierra Blanca watched as hundreds boarded and departed. Their exact destination is unknown, but history suggests the Rio Grande Valley is most likely.

Tierra Blanca is one of many stopping points along the route known as La Bestia. Migrants are usually fed by sympathetic residents at waypoints. Some are charged a tax or “piso” by local cartels before they can continue their journey.

The interest in forming large caravans has increased during the most recent American presidential election cycle. Recent presidential actions are creating excitement for Central Americans, despite appeals from the Biden Administration to not take trips north at this time.

Randy Clark is a 32-year veteran of the United States Border Patrol.  Prior to his retirement, he served as the Division Chief for Law Enforcement Operations, directing operations for nine Border Patrol Stations within the Del Rio, Texas Sector.

Taxpayer-Funded Refugee Contractors Cheer Joe Biden Surging Refugee Resettlement by 960 %

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Taxpayer-funded contractors, responsible for resettling refugees across the United States, are celebrating President Joe Biden’s executive order that will increase refugee resettlement by nearly 960 percent this year.

On Thursday, Biden signed an order that will set the maximum number of refugees resettled in the U.S. at 125,000 for Fiscal Year 2021. The refugee cap is simply a numerical limit and not a goal for federal officials to reach.

In Fiscal Year 2020, the Trump administration admitted less than 12,000 refugees as the program was largely halted to slow the spread of the Chinese coronavirus and only emergency cases were processed. Biden’s increase means that the U.S. will likely see a nearly 960 percent increase in refugee resettlement this year, despite the ongoing crisis.

Nine refugee contractors — who have a vested interest in ensuring as many refugees are resettled across the U.S. as possible because their annual federally-funded budgets are contingent on the number of refugees they resettle — are celebrating Biden’s order.

The contractors include:

Church World Service (CWS), Ethiopian Community Development Council (ECDC), Episcopal Migration Ministries (EMM), Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society (HIAS), International Rescue Committee (IRC), U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants (USCRI), Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Services (LIRS), U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), and World Relief Corporation (WR).

“There is more to be done to fully restore welcome, but for now, we’re celebrating!” wrote CWS officials while HIAS and USCRI officials thanked Biden.

Officials with LIRS called Biden’s order a “bold recognition of the scope and scale of the worst global displacement crisis in history.” ECDC officials were more direct, writing “Thank you President Biden.”

“We look forward to working with your Administration in restoring programs that benefit all Americans as well as immigrants and refugees,” ECDC officials wrote.

Also cheering the impending spike in refugee resettlement is the United Nations’ (UN) Refugee Agency, which advocates for mass migration across the globe.

“It also shows that strength is rooted in compassion,” UN officials wrote in a statement. “It signals that the United States will do its part, as it has historically done, to help the world’s most vulnerable people, including by welcoming them in the United States.”

Over the last 20 years, nearly one million refugees have been resettled in the country. This is a number more than double that of residents living in Miami, Florida, and would be the equivalent of annually adding the population of Pensacola, Florida, to the country.

Refugee resettlement costs American taxpayers nearly $9 billion every five years, according to research, and each refugee costs taxpayers about $133,000 over the course of their lifetime. Within five years, an estimated 16 percent of all refugees admitted will need housing assistance paid for by taxpayers.

John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Email him at jbinder@breitbart.com.

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