Thursday, February 4, 2021

THE WALL STREET JOURNAL DEMANDS THAT THE BIDEN SWAMP CRACK DOWN ON CHICAGO TEACHERS - WHO ASSAULTS AMERICAN WORKERS MORE THAN NAFTA JOE BIDEN? THAT HAS BEEN HIS CAREER - KEEPING WAGES DEPRESSED FOR WALL STREET

FEW IN AMERICAN HISTORY HAVE ASSAULTED THE AMERICAN WORKER OVER THE LAST 50 YEARS THAN JOE 'BRIBES' BIDEN, ONE MORE SOCIOPATH LAWYER PEFORMING HIS 'POPULIST' DOG AND PONEY TRICKS TO DEFLECT FROM THE FACTS

Wall Street Journal demands Biden crack down on Chicago teachers

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In a statement by its editorial board Tuesday, the Wall Street Journal angrily criticized President Joe Biden for being too soft on Chicago teachers, who are defying Democratic Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s order to resume in-person classes even as the pandemic continues to spread in the city of nearly 3 million residents. The newspaper complains that any vacillation by the Democratic president will only encourage educators across the country to resist his administration’s plans to reopen schools by mid-April.

The angry broadside by the Journal, the mouthpiece of America’s financial oligarchy, exposes the feigned concern about the educational and emotional needs of children as the motivation for reopening schools as so much hot air. The newspaper is filled with anxiety because the reopening of schools is seen as critical to reopening the economy and putting parents back to work, where they can continue pumping out profits for Wall Street and the major corporations.

While the Journal complains about the perceived timidness of the new administration, Biden, a capitalist politician with decades of experience, shares the same basic aim. He spelled this out in a news conference last week, during which he said opening schools would have the “added advantage” of “putting millions of people back to work. All those mothers and fathers that are home, taking care of their children rather than go to work, even when they can work. So, this is about generating economic growth overall as well.”

The editorial board statement is headlined “Where’s Biden on Opening Schools?” and includes the underline “So far he’s buckling to the unions that won’t return to classrooms.” The newspaper, which was an early proponent of Trump’s “herd immunity” policy and opponent of any lockdowns, writes: “Perhaps you've heard, a few thousand times, that the Biden Administration will listen to the science. Well, the science says schools can safely reopen, but the White House is still listening, make that bowing, to the non-scientists who run the teachers unions.”

The assertion that “science says schools can safely open,” has been repeated ad nauseam by the New York TimesWashington Post and virtually every other corporate media outlet. On Wednesday, Biden’s new Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) director, Dr. Rochelle Walensky, told reporters, “There is increasing data to suggest that schools can safely reopen and that safe reopening does not suggest that teachers need to be vaccinated.”

Only last week, as the Journal editorial board complained, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki “wobbled” about the results of the widely publicized study by CDC researchers, which was based on small rural Wisconsin districts where all children wore three-layered cloth masks and were supervised by researchers. The findings, Psaki admitted, were “not reflective of every school district and community in the country.”

Scientific studies conducted in Canada, India and other countries prove schools are major vectors for the community transmission of the deadly disease and that the closing schools is one of the most effective means of mitigating the spread of the virus and saving lives. The push to schools in the country’s third-largest school district is all the more criminal given the emergence of new, more virulent and lethal variants of the virus.

The Journal editorial continues, “Mr. Biden has set a goal of reopening schools in his first 100 days, and the current union standoff in Chicago is his first big test.” “Elementary and middle school teachers there have refused to show up to classrooms as ordered,” the editorial board declares, and as result the “district has postponed reopening schools for two days.”

The editorial accuses Lightfoot of pandering to the teachers union, citing her comment, “We are practically begging [Chicago Teachers Union] to come to the table so we can get a deal done.” The paper replies: “No kidding. The district has surrendered to most union demands, which include allowing 5,000 or so employees to work from home because they have underlying health conditions. It has also spent $100 million on personal protective equipment, disinfectants, ventilation improvements, and portable air purifiers, and it will provide regular testing and contact tracing.

“Yet now the union wants the district to let other staff work remotely if they wish and vaccinate teachers before they return to classrooms. If Chicago agrees to that, other unions would howl.”

Speaking for the most right-wing sections of the ruling class, the Journal no doubt would prefer teaching these disobedient teachers a lesson by firing them like Ronald Reagan did to the striking air traffic controllers in 1981, stripping them of their teaching licenses or jailing them. Any further concessions by Lightfoot, the Journal warns, will only encourage teachers around the country to resist the reopening of schools.

The Journal goes on to complain, “Large school districts in California including Los Angeles, San Francisco and Fresno have surrendered and are resisting Gov. Gavin Newsom’s exhortations to reopen.” It approvingly quotes California’s Democratic governor, who told the Association of California School Administrators last week: “If we wait for the perfect, we might as well just pack it up. If everybody has to be vaccinated, we might as well just tell people the truth: There will be no in-person instruction in the state of California.”

The editorial concludes by asserting that Biden’s position is: “If Republicans want to reopen schools in their towns, fine. But we’re not going to ask unions in big urban school districts to do so.”

If Lightfoot—who has been in constant discussions with the Biden administration—has put off a direct conflict with Chicago teachers, it is only because the Democrats realize that taking retaliatory action could provoke a powerful response not only by teachers across the country, but broader sections of the working class opposed to the deadly back-to-school and back-to-work policies.

Biden, whose wife hosted the presidents of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) and the National Education Association (NEA) for a White House meeting on the very first day of the new administration, prefers to rely on the unions to suppress resistance and force through a return to classes without a social explosion.

The two-day “cooling off” period in Chicago has been used for intense discussions on what the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) needs to sell a back-to-work deal to its members, as well as the barrage of media and CDC pronouncements about a “safe return” to wear down the resistance of teachers and parents.

The CTU only called for a membership vote on collective action three weeks after, as anger and demands for strike action grew. The union has repeatedly offered to send teachers back if only Lightfoot issues worthless promises about vaccinating teachers, excuses those with health issues and establishes some type of infection threshold.

AFT President Randi Weingarten recently tweeted, “If NYC can figure out in-person learning, so can Chicago,” pointing to the treacherous deal signed by the union’s New York City affiliate with Democratic Mayor Bill de Blasio to reopen the nation’s largest school district, with catastrophic results.

Democratic state and local officials, working with the unions, have been just as adamant about reopening schools as their Republican counterparts. Having handed over trillions of dollars to Wall Street and major corporations in the bipartisan CARES Act, passed last year, both parties have pushed to reopen the schools to get the parents of schoolchildren back into factories and other workplaces to produce the profits to pay for the massive government bailout.

While offering the velvet glove of “working together” with the unions, the Democrats are reserving the iron fist of state repression against teachers if they refuse to risk their lives and those their students and communities. On Monday, the Democratic administration of Mayor Muriel Bowser filed an emergency motion against the Washington Teachers Union seeking a temporary restraining order to prevent teachers “from participating in a strike or other work stoppage” or even discussing a strike against school reopenings.

The Wall Street Journal, which carried several editorials and articles in the early months of the pandemic supporting the Swedish model of letting the deadly virus rip through the population without the slightest public health measures to stop it, speaks for those sections of the ruling class whose hatred towards the working class is not as veiled as those generally aligned with the Democrats. But the actions of Biden and Lightfoot demonstrate that they all agree that lives must be sacrificed for corporate profit.

For educators throughout the world, saving lives is a non-negotiable issue. That is why teachers in Chicago, New York City, Los Angeles and in many states and cities across the US and the world have formed rank-and-file safety committees, independent of the unions, to fight for schools to be kept closed until vaccines are widely available and the pandemic is contained. These committees are reaching out to workers in every industry to prepare a general strike to close schools and halt non-essential production and guarantee full income to workers and small businesses.

At the same time, vast resources must be reallocated from the government bailout of the rich and through the expropriation of the private fortunes of the pandemic profiteers to provide high-quality remote learning, assistance to parents and students, a massive expansion of the production and distribution of vaccines, and other measures needed to eradicate the pandemic and secure the livelihoods of workers.

Labor Board Dismisses Union Misconduct Complaints Following Biden Purge

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A federal labor arbiter abandoned two separate cases against a major labor union just weeks after President Biden ousted the agency's former leaders.

The National Labor Relations Board's top prosecuting office dropped a pair of complaints filed against two chapters of the politically powerful hospitality workers union UNITE HERE in January. The agency, which enforces federal labor laws, had been in the midst of investigating whether local labor officials in Boston and Seattle allegedly abused their power to force members to support the union's political and organizing activities. An agency spokesman declined to comment on the decision.

The withdrawal of the complaints comes shortly after Biden fired a pair of Trump appointees from the independent agency in an "unprecedented" move. Minutes after he was inaugurated, Biden demanded General Counsel Peter Robb's resignation. Robb, who had 10 months left in his term, refused to resign. Biden fired him as well as his successor, former deputy general counsel Alice Stock, within his first two days in office. Biden selected Peter Sung Ohr, a career employee, to serve as acting general counsel and temporarily lead the agency's legal team. Ohr's office issued filings to drop the complaint against the union officials on Jan. 29.

The National Right to Work Foundation, which is representing the complainants, decried the "shameful" decision to withdraw. Spokesman Patrick Semmens said the Biden administration is rewarding his political allies, pointing to the nearly $1 million that UNITE HERE spent in 2020.

"The Biden NLRB’s abandonments of these two cases … combined with his unprecedented firing of Robb just over a week ago, is a shameful power grab," he told the Washington Free Beacon. "These actions make it clear that independent-minded workers and their rights are completely expendable in the Biden administration’s push to reward the D.C.-based union bosses who helped install Biden in the White House."

The local chapters of UNITE HERE, a service-industry labor union with approximately 300,000 members, did not respond to requests for comment. The complaints accused the union chapters of abusing their power to force union representation on hotel employees and accused the hotels of cooperating with the union.

The Hilton hotel chain involved in the Seattle complaint told the Free Beacon that it cannot comment on employee-related matters. The Boston hotel chain did not respond to a request for comment.

Other labor watchdogs ripped the National Labor Relations Board for turning a blind eye to alleged union abuse under President Biden, who has pledged to be "the most pro-union president" in history.

Maxford Nelsen, director of labor policy at the Washington State-based Freedom Foundation, said that the NLRB's decision to abandon the unfair labor practice complaint in Seattle would only empower unions and weaken the rights of non-unionized workers. "The NLRB under Biden may return to past double standards, allowing employers to assist unions in organizing but prohibiting employers from assisting employee efforts to rid themselves of an unwanted union," he said.

"Joe Biden has acted quickly to deliver on his promise to be the most pro-union president in history," Nelson added. "Unfortunately, doing what is best for unions is not the same thing as doing what is best for workers."

The White House did not respond to a request for comment.


Megadonors Pour Record Amount of Money Into ‘Get Out the Vote’ Effort for Dems

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A rapidly growing $800 million dark money network helped anonymous donors pour a record amount of money into voter registration groups focused on increasing Democratic Party turnout ahead of the 2020 election.

The Tides Foundation, an organization that allows left-wing donors to fund political activism anonymously, raised over $800 million across its nonprofit network in 2019, a dramatic rise over previous figures.

Much of that money went to "Get Out the Vote" (GOTV) campaigns in the 2020 election cycle, including the Voter Registration Project, Rock the Vote, and the Voter Participation Center, which exploit IRS nonprofit rules to register new voters in Democratic-leaning areas that helped deliver key battleground states to President Joe Biden. The IRS considers voter registration a "charitable" activity for 501(c)(3) and 501(c)(4) nonprofits, provided it isn’t explicitly partisan.

But when self-identified progressive organizations target Democratic-leaning constituencies in battleground states during election years the effect is anything but nonpartisan. Their tax-deductible funding comes from undisclosed sources on the left and is passed through Tides, which caters strictly to left-wing political groups, and voter registration groups on the left vastly outnumber similar groups on the right. The vast sums poured into these efforts also run counter to the narrative on the left that it abhors dark money in politics.

Anna Massoglia, an investigative researcher for the Center for Responsive Politics, told the Washington Free Beacon that the "key issue is the 501(c)(3) nonprofit’s intent." 

"It may raise questions if a 501(c)(3) nonprofit attempted to determine a potential voter's candidate preference or political party affiliation before encouraging them to vote," Massoglia said. But whether a nonprofit’s voter registration efforts were entirely nonpartisan is difficult to verify, unless it opts to publicly release that information.

The Voter Registration Project (VRP), which received $850,000 from Tides, targets African-American, Latino, Native American, low-income, and other likely left-leaning constituencies for mobilization. VRP also channels grants to state-based allies doing similar drives, including One Arizona, New Florida Majority, and New Georgia Project, founded by Stacey Abrams, a 2018 gubernatorial candidate and influential Democratic activist.

The Tides Foundation granted another $206,000 to Rock the Vote and its lobbying arm, Rock the Vote Action Fund, which turn out young and far-left voters. Despite claiming to be nonpartisan, Rock the Vote has accused Republicans of fueling "dangerous conspiracy theories and hate." The group also supports abolishing the Electoral College. Tides has channeled at least $2 million to Rock the Vote since 2006.

Tides also gave $180,000 to the Voter Participation Center (VPC), a GOTV group that targets "unmarried women, millennials, [and] minorities" and spent at least $582,000 on pro-Democratic independent expenditures in the 2020 election. VPC has received roughly $2.1 million from Tides since 2008.

Other Tides grants in 2019 went to ACRONYM, whose data app Shadow Inc. infamously bungled the Iowa Democratic caucuses in February 2020; Catalist, a leading data company formed by Clinton family operatives that’s been accused of illegally offering left-wing groups services below market rates; and the Black Voters Matter Fund, a far-left GOTV group aligned with the socialist-led movement Black Lives Matter. The Tides Center, a branch responsible for spawning new advocacy organizations, took control of a top Black Lives Matter group (the BLM Global Network Foundation) last July, putting the far-left movement squarely in the middle of Tides’ professional activist network.

Since 2007, the Tides network has spent over $4.3 billion this way, almost all of it to the benefit of left-wing political groups.

Few of Tides’ donors are known. Previously identified donors to the network include the Ford Foundation, George Soros’s Open Society Foundations, and the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, all major donors to left-leaning causes and politically active nonprofits. But because Tides isn’t required to publicly disclose its donors—only its own grant recipients—the ultimate source of these grants is virtually impossible to identify, making the pass-through network one of the largest "dark money" donors on the left and a valuable service to liberal donors looking to support political causes anonymously.

The flow of "dark" dollars from anonymous donors to activists using a pass-through is a hallmark of the professional left, which boasts hundreds of such groups that form an outer web surrounding the Democratic Party. This echo chamber pushes the party further to the left on issues ranging from abortion on demand to gun control and campaign finance. Just how much Tides raised in 2020—which won’t be released until early next year—is expected to be even higher.

Biden’s Order on Central America: Offers Aid, Takes People

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One of President Joe Biden’s three Executive Orders issued Tuesday offers aid to help modernize Central American countries — but also promises to extract many of their productive young people for other uses in the United States.

“We cannot solve the humanitarian crisis at our border without addressing the violence, instability, and lack of opportunity that compel so many people to flee their homes,” said Biden’s order, which continued:

We will work closely with civil society, international organizations, and the governments in the region to:  establish a comprehensive strategy for addressing the causes of migration in the region … [but] At the same time, the United States will enhance lawful pathways for [em]migration to this country.

The memo talks about dealing with “root causes,” responded Jessica Vaughan, policy director at the Center for Immigration Studies. But, she added,

He has the root cause wrong — he’s wrong in assuming the root cause for illegal migration is systemic oppression in Central America. The root cause of this migration is the U.S. government’s policy that encourages people to pay a criminal organization to bring them to the U.S. illegally, on the realistic belief they will be allowed to stay in the United States. That’s the root cause — our own policy.

Our policy entices this illegal migration, which is hollowing out communities in Central America. They are sending their energetic young people. We are breaking up families. We are extending the economic and social dysfunction there… [because we] give their governments an excuse to do nothing to resolve their own civic and economic problems.

The Democratic Party encourages this damaging migration, she continued, because the Democrats expect the migrants will reward them with votes once they can be converted into citizens. “The Democrats want to entice the migrants in the hope they will become voters for them in the future, for generations, because the [party members] reward their constituents.

“Their strategy is to take care of the groups that put them in power,” she said, comparing it to “Tammany Hall colonialism.”

Tammany Hall was the Democrats’ New York-based votes-for-jobs political-patronage operation that operated from 1786 to the 1960s. For example, in the mid-1800s, Tammany Hall recruited the new immigrant Irish by helping them get jobs and welfare in exchange for votes.

The current Central American migrants will also serve as workers and consumers for American CEOs and investors. That means they will often denying jobs, wages, and investments to Americans who are older, slower, alienated, disabled, do not speak Spanish or are burdened with other tasks, such as child-rearing.

Biden’s Executive Order offers little aid to encourage Central Americans to stay home and rebuild their economy and society, Vaughan said.

Biden’s order says:

(b)  The Root Causes Strategy shall identify and prioritize actions to address the underlying factors leading to migration in the region and ensure coherence of United States Government positions.  The Root Causes Strategy shall take into account, as appropriate, the views of bilateral, multilateral, and private sector partners, as well as civil society, and it shall include proposals to:
(i)  coordinate place-based efforts in El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras (the “Northern Triangle”) to address the root causes of migration, including by:
(A)  combating corruption, strengthening democratic governance, and advancing the rule of law;
(B)  promoting respect for human rights, labor rights, and a free press;
(C)  countering and preventing violence, extortion, and other crimes perpetrated by criminal gangs, trafficking networks, and other organized criminal organizations;
(D)  combating sexual, gender-based, and domestic violence; and
(E)  addressing economic insecurity and inequality;

The order is titled “Executive Order on Creating a Comprehensive Regional Framework to Address the Causes of Migration, to Manage Migration Throughout North and Central America, and to Provide Safe and Orderly Processing of Asylum Seekers at the United States Border.”

The order does not call for the spending outlined in Biden’s campaign platform, which promised economic development in Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, and Guatemala:

As president, Joe Biden will renew a robust commitment to U.S. leadership in the region and pursue a comprehensive strategy for Central America by: Developing a comprehensive four-year, $4 billion regional strategy to address factors driving migration from Central America; Mobilizing private investment in the region; Improving security and rule of law; Addressing endemic corruption; Prioritizing poverty reduction and economic development.

Biden’s pre-election promise of $4 billion over four years adds up to $30 per year for each of the 24 million people in the four countries.

That sum is trivial compared to the remittance sent home by the estimated 3.5 million Central Americans living in the United States. “Remittances sent to Guatemala represented 11 percent of GDP and 46 percent of household income in 2017 … [El Salvador] Remittances reached $5.47 billion in 2018, amounting to roughly 20 percent of the country’s GDP,” said a 2020 report by the Texas Public Policy Foundation.

“Simply pouring Americans’ tax dollars into these countries in the form of foreign aid will not do anything” unless the locals stay to revive their home countries, said Vaughan.  The program offers no help in building manufacturing centers, farming, or even cultural attractions, she said, adding “a lot of [any aid]  will line the pocket of corrupt politicians, and the U.S.-based NGOs that are involved in the foreign aid racket,” she said. ‘T hat’s about it.”

While offering minimal aid to the countries, Biden is helping the region’s productive workers and consumers enter the U.S. labor and consumer markets. His order says:

The Secretary of State and the Secretary of Homeland Security shall promptly review mechanisms for better identifying and processing individuals from the Northern Triangle who are eligible for refugee resettlement to the United States.  Consideration shall be given to increasing access and processing efficiency.  As part of this review, the Secretary of State and the Secretary of Homeland Security shall also identify and implement all legally available and appropriate forms of relief to complement the protection afforded through the United States Refugee Admissions Program.

The many people who are not selected for a life in America will remain stuck in perpetual humiliation as their luckier former neighbors display their new wealth via the ubiquitous videophones — unless they take the highway north.

With migrant-friendly offers at the Democrat-run border, that illegal migration route will remain a de facto obstacle-course migration system for blue-collar migrants — if they survive chaotic Hunger Games trail of loanscoyotescartelsrapedesertsweatherborder lawsbarriersrescuerstransportjudges, and cheap-labor employers.

The danger of this obstacle course was spotlighted on January 30 by the Los Angeles Times.

The newspaper reported the death of several teenagers who entered the Hunger Games obstacle course, including 15-year-old Robelson Isidro, from Guatemala. Under a 2008 law protected by progressives and immigration lawyers, if they reached the border, the teenagers would be defined as ‘Unaccompanied Alien Children” and be allowed to join the growing population of child laborers in U.S. jobs. B

But 19 people, including 13 migrant teens, were reportedly killed by gunmen, and the bodies were left in a burned-out pickup truck:

The community has a long history of sending migrants to the United States, and he had uncles who lived there. They had indoor kitchens. They didn’t have to cook outside under a tarp.

“He was ashamed,” his mother said in a phone interview. She said he told her: “I’m going to fight to make my dreams come true. I have to get my siblings ahead in life. I’m going to get them out of poverty.”

His uncles [in the United States had] wired him money to make the journey north.

“The Biden administration is ignoring, or exacerbating, the ‘pull factors’ over which it has full control,” said Dan Stein, president of the Federation for American Reform (FAIR).

Mr. Biden is saying that he has no intention of ever securing America’s borders or preventing mass incursions of migrants, and that American taxpayers will continue to subsidize failing foreign economies and substandard living conditions through magnetic U.S. immigration policies.”

For the moment, Biden’s deputies are pleading with foreigners to not yet reach for the golden, life-changing opportunities being offered by Biden. “This is not the time,” said Jen Psaki, Bide’s spokeswoman, adding:

We want to put in place an immigration process here that is humane, that is moral, that considers applications for refugees, applications for people to come into this country at the border in a way that treats people as human beings. That’s going to take some time. It’s not going to happen overnight.

 

Joe Biden Seeks to Surge Foreign-Born Voting Population Ahead of Elections

NEW YORK, NY - JULY 02: People are sworn in as new American citizens during a ceremony at the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services’ New York Field Office on July 2, 2020 in New York City. The ceremonies were brief and observed precautions, like wearing a mask and adhering to …
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President Joe Biden is looking to surge the number of legal immigrants who become naturalized American citizens, and thus are eligible to vote, ahead of the 2022 midterms and 2024 presidential election.

In an executive order on Tuesday, Biden ordered multiple federal agencies to work to boost the rates of legal immigrants becoming naturalized citizens.

The order seeks to “eliminate barriers in and otherwise improve the existing naturalization process … [and] substantially reduce current naturalization processing times … [and] make the naturalization process more accessible to all eligible individuals, including through a potential reduction of the naturalization fee and restoration of the fee waiver process.”

The order creates the “Interagency Working Group on Promoting Naturalization” that includes the Department of Homeland Security, the Labor Department, the Department of Health and Human Services, the Department of House and Urban Development, the Department of Education, the Social Security Administration, and other federal agencies to “develop a national strategy to promote naturalization.”

Within 90 days of the order, the group must submit a report to Biden that outlines a strategy to “promote naturalization” that could include a “public awareness campaign,” the order states.

Also included in the order is a mandate that federal agencies review the Department of Justice’s denaturalization and passport revoking policies “to ensure that these authorities are not used excessively or inappropriately.”

In February 2020, the Justice Department created a denaturalization division to focus on revoking naturalized citizenship to fraudsters, sex offenders, war criminals, and terrorists. The Biden order could dismantle some of these federal enforcement measures.

Already, the U.S. naturalizes hundreds of thousands of legal immigrants every year. In 2019, for instance, more than 843,500 legal immigrants became naturalized citizens — an 11 percent increase from the year before when nearly 762,000 legal immigrants became naturalized citizens.

Legal immigrants from Mexico dominate the naturalization process, as well as nationals from India, the Phillippines, China, and Cuba. California, with nearly 150,000 newly naturalized citizens in 2019, has the highest rate of any state in the country. Texas, with 97,675 naturalizations in 2019, follows along with Florida with more than 96,000 naturalizations in 2019.

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Data over the last few election cycles have repeatedly shown the impact that a growing foreign-born voting population has in terms of electing Democrats over Republicans. In 2020, about one-in-ten U.S. voters were born outside the country, the highest rate since 1970.

Analysis conducted by the Center for Immigration Studies reveals the extent to which state electorates have been altered by mass immigration since the year 2000. The Pew Research Center has noted, as well as a number of establishment media outlets, that these trends are aiding Democrats in their electoral prospects.

In Georgia, for example, there has been a 337 percent increase in the number of foreign-born voters and their voting-age children. In North Carolina, the population has increased 335 percent and in Texas, 156 percent. In Arizona, too, the population has increased 111 percent.

A significant increase in naturalization rates ahead of the 2022 midterms and the 2024 presidential election could deliver big gains for Democrats as margins in a number of swing states have been small over the last two presidential elections. In Pennsylvania, for example, Biden won the state by less than 81,000 votes.

The Washington PostNew York Times, the AtlanticAxios, the Los Angeles Times, and the Wall Street Journal have all admitted that rapid demographic changes because of immigration are tilting the nation toward a permanent Democrat dominance.

“The single biggest threat to Republicans’ long-term viability is demographics,” Axios acknowledged last year. “The numbers simply do not lie … there’s not a single demographic megatrend that favors Republicans.”

Current legal immigration levels are expected to bring in 15 million new foreign-born voters by 2041. About eight million of those voters will have arrived entirely due to the process known as “chain migration” whereby newly naturalized citizens can bring an unlimited number of foreign relatives to the U.S.

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

Joe Biden Signs Order Revamping Welfare-Dependent Immigration

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President Joe Biden signed an executive order that seeks to revamp welfare-dependent legal immigration to the United States by eliminating certain regulations and demanding a review of current enforcement practices.

On Tuesday, Biden signed an order that revokes a crackdown on welfare-dependent legal immigration that sought to protect American taxpayers from being forced to foot the bill for federal benefits provided to foreign nationals seeking green cards.

In May 2019, President Trump signed an order to enforce Clinton-era laws from 1996 that delegated all financial responsibility to a family member or business sponsor of a foreign national seeking a green card when they had previously used welfare programs. The order cut loose taxpayers from having to pay the cost.

In addition, the order ensured that the income of a sponsor was taken into consideration when a foreign national seeking a green card was applying for various welfare benefits.

Now, Biden has revoked those rules in an effort to revamp welfare-dependent legal immigration that leaves taxpayers on the hook for covering the costs. Those costs, federal officials have previously said, amounts to billions over the years.

Biden’s order also requests multiple federal agencies to “review all agency actions related to implementation” of what is known as the “Public Charge” rule.

The rule, implemented by Trump last year, made it less likely that foreign nationals would secure green cards to permanently stay in the U.S. if they had previously taken welfare — including any cash benefits for income maintenance, Supplemental Security Income, Temporary Assistance to Needy Families, and food stamps. The order requires:

This review should consider and evaluate the current effects of these agency actions and the implications of their continued implementation … identify appropriate agency actions, if any, to address concerns about the current public charge policies’ effect on the integrity of the Nation’s immigration system and public health.

Biden’s order asks federal agencies to “recommend steps that relevant agencies should take to clearly communicate current public charge policies and proposed changes, if any, to reduce fear and confusion among impacted communities.”

Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) President Dan Stein said Biden is effectively tearing down a “cornerstone of U.S. immigration policy since 1882.” Stein said:

As part of his ‘America Last’ immigration agenda, President Biden is gearing up to reverse existing policies that protect American taxpayers — and doing so at a time when a raging pandemic is forcing many Americans to rely on social safety nets that can barely keep up with the demands being placed on them.

When Trump first issued the Public Charge rule in 2019, polls found that the policy was overwhelmingly popular with Americans. About 6-in-10 Americans said they supported ending welfare-dependent legal immigration, including 56 percent of Hispanics and 71 percent of black Americans.

For years, the big business lobby and corporate interests had denounced the Public Charge rule because they said they needed welfare-dependent legal immigrants to grow the economy, create more consumers, and secure a low-wage U.S. workforce.

Biden’s seeking to revoke the Public Charge rule would amount to a billion-dollar tax hike for taxpayers

In 2017, the National Academies of Science noted that state and local taxpayers are billed about $1,600 each year per immigrant to pay for their welfare and revealed that immigrant households consume 33 percent more cash welfare than American citizen households.

A similar Center for Immigration Studies study found that about 63 percent of noncitizen households use at least one form of public welfare, while only about 35 percent of native-born American households are on welfare. This means that noncitizen households use nearly twice as much welfare as native-born American households.


Joe Biden Orders Aid, Benefits for Migrants

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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 multiracialcross-sexnon-racistclass-basedpriority-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.

 

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