In stark contrast to Chávez's vision, the Biden administration has signaled that it will suspend immigration law and is openly encouraging people to enter our country and labor markets. Tens of thousands of people from Mexico and Central America have been receptive to this call, with added encouragement from promises of free health care and social services. Already, just two months into the Biden presidency, Immigration and Customs Enforcement facilities are stretched beyond capacity.
Cesar Chávez would have hated the Biden administration
Biden has issued executive orders that ban enforcing immigration law while simultaneously inviting in a new wave of illegal aliens. These E.O.s also suspend deporting illegal aliens, even those awaiting trial for felonies and other serious crimes, and signal that all new arrivals will be eligible for social benefits such as health care. Cesar Chávez's struggle in the 1970s and '80s can help explain the impact this will have on labor markets in general and working-class Americans in particular. Chávez understood that illegal immigration diminishes workers' earning power.
Chávez, although erroneously described as a civil rights leader, was a labor leader who struggled tirelessly for his Campesinos in the United Farm Workers Union. His struggle was not for the civil rights of Mexicans, Mexican-Americans, Chicanos, non-white people, or any other contemporary identity group. His rallying cry was "la Causa" (the cause), not "la Raza" (the race), and that cause was securing higher wages and better working conditions for his union members.
Chávez's most formidable obstacle was the inexhaustible supply of cheap, illegal labor flooding over the border. He spoke out against it, calling the aliens "illegals" and "wetbacks."
Using language and voicing opinions that would send an MSNBC anchor into apoplectic shock, Chávez called for the strict enforcement of immigration law and end to porous borders. He never attended high school, but he understood basic economics.
Although Donald Trump attended an Ivy League college and never worked in the fields, he also understood economics. The Trump administration, by enforcing immigration laws, created growth in working-class wages unmatched in four decades. By diminishing the availability of illegal workers, Trump allowed the value of labor to grow at a rate not seen since the 1970s. If Chávez were alive today, it is a safe bet that Trump would be his favorite president.
Chávez's principles would not sit well with modern progressives. His beliefs and practices were based on the Catholic principle of subsidiarity — namely, that our local associations are more important than things like race, sex, or sexual orientation. Subsidiarity calls for individuals to be responsible to and for the people with whom they work and share a community. It also holds that political power should devolve to the lowest level possible, such as the neighborhood, village, or town.
In stark contrast to Chávez's vision, the Biden administration has signaled that it will suspend immigration law and is openly encouraging people to enter our country and labor markets. Tens of thousands of people from Mexico and Central America have been receptive to this call, with added encouragement from promises of free health care and social services. Already, just two months into the Biden presidency, Immigration and Customs Enforcement facilities are stretched beyond capacity.
President Biden, Vice President Harris, and the Democrats in Congress pose as virtuous, acting righteously and justifiably, but who pays the price for their virtue and justice? It is working-class Americans of all races, whose wages will again slide as the inevitable forces of supply and demand distort and diminish their value. The leadership class is the big winner in this disaster for two reasons. First, media paint them as good and compassionate, and second, they drive down the labor costs for their campaign contributors and benefactors. It is a win-win for those at the top.
Working-class Americans will lose any advantage they had under the Trump administration as hundreds of thousands of newly admitted workers join the labor force. The Biden administration is sandbagging the wage issue with a half-hearted attempt to increase the federal minimum wage to $15. Any gains in real wages workers realize from a minimum wage hike will be temporary as inflation erodes buying power, not to mention the hundreds of thousands fired from their jobs because their cost will exceed their value.
In the Oval Office, directly behind the Resolute desk, sits a bronze bust of Cesar Chávez that President Biden's staff placed there when he moved in. Leading up to Cesar Chávez Day, March 31, much will be written about Chávez and his bust, and he will be described as a civil rights leader whom our president reveres. Precious little could be farther from the truth. Chávez was a labor leader, not a civil rights leader, and our president reveres the myth of Chávez only insofar as it serves him politically.
In stark contrast to Chávez's vision, the Biden administration has signaled that it will suspend immigration law and is openly encouraging people to enter our country and labor markets. Tens of thousands of people from Mexico and Central America have been receptive to this call, with added encouragement from promises of free health care and social services. Already, just two months into the Biden presidency, Immigration and Customs Enforcement facilities are stretched beyond capacity.
THERE IS A REASON WHY JOE BIDEN HANDED MEXICO $4 BILLION DOLLAR... IT WAS TO KEEP THE INVADERS COMING AS IF MEXICO HAD ANY OTHER INTENTIONS!
Cotton: Biden Border Policy ‘Amoral and It Should Stop Right Now’
Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR) on Monday blasted President Joe Biden over the “crisis” he has created at the United States’ southern border with his open border policy.
Cotton labeled the situation at the border as the “Biden border crisis.” He described the Biden immigration agenda as “amoral” and called for it to be stopped immediately because it endangers lives.
“The way it translates is come to America, we’ll let you in, we’ll put you on a bus wherever you want to go, and we’ll pay for everything,” Cotton argued on FNC’s “Fox & Friends.” “This … is the Biden border crisis. But you know, if you’re Joe Biden and the Democrats, they don’t believe in borders. They don’t, therefore, think it is a crisis. They think that this is a feature, not a bug of their policy. I mean, they’ve literally turned detention centers that are designed to turn people away at our borders into reception centers. That’s what they’re going to call them. Again, what signal does that send? We’ve seen the signal that sends. we’ve seen migrants wearing shirts that say, ‘Biden, let us in.’ All this is going to do is build more and more pressure at the border as more and more people make the very dangerous journey across Mexico to get into our country.”
He continued, “And how is this the moral and virtuous thing to do either? I mean, the Biden administration is essentially saying if you’re willing to make that long, dangerous journey, if you’re willing to put your life at risk or your kids’ life at risk, we’ll put you in. But what about all the other people around the world who would like to come here, like to partake in the American economy and American way of life? They get no chance to. It’s totally amoral, and it should stop right now.”
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In stark contrast to Chávez's vision, the Biden administration has signaled that it will suspend immigration law and is openly encouraging people to enter our country and labor markets. Tens of thousands of people from Mexico and Central America have been receptive to this call, with added encouragement from promises of free health care and social services. Already, just two months into the Biden presidency, Immigration and Customs Enforcement facilities are stretched beyond capacity.
Biden’s latest executive order is his most frightening yet
The Democrats who now control Washington, D.C., are determined to change America’s election laws to ensure that they never lose another election. The first salvo in this battle was the House’s vote passing H.R. 1, which opens federal elections to all types of fraud and manipulation. On Sunday, Joe Biden added his bit to the effort by signing yet another Executive Order, this one ostensibly to enhance “voting rights” on the anniversary of the Selma protests in 1965. However, the Order is drafted to allow the federal government to control political speech.
As with most of Biden’s initiatives, it frames the power grab in terms of race (emphasis mine):
The right to vote is the foundation of American democracy. Free and fair elections that reflect the will of the American people must be protected and defended. But many Americans, especially people of color, confront significant obstacles to exercising that fundamental right. These obstacles include difficulties with voter registration, lack of election information, and barriers to access at polling places. For generations, Black voters and other voters of color have faced discriminatory policies and other obstacles that disproportionally affect their communities.
Once again, the leftist premise for increasing opportunities for election fraud is the theory that Blacks lack the mental capacity to navigate the American system without the Democrat party at their side, supporting them. It’s an amazingly offensive position but, sadly, Democrats have conditioned Blacks for decades to believe in their own helplessness.
Having established the premise – Blacks are helpless – the edict sets out the solutions: Making it easy to register to vote, vote by mail, and cast ballots; making on-line access to information easier; distributing voter registration and vote-by-mail forms; and helping people fill out the forms. The more worrisome one requires “soliciting and facilitating approved, nonpartisan third-party organizations and State officials to provide voter registration services on agency premises.”
Color me unduly cynical, but I have a feeling all the “approved, nonpartisan third-party organizations” are going to look remarkably like Acorn or the Southern Poverty Law Center. I heartily encourage conservatives to create “nonpartisan third-party organizations” and to get in line for approval. I suspect, though, that the process will be as hard for them as it was for Tea Party groups in 2012 to get the IRS to approve of them as non-profits.
The scariest thing about the Executive Order, though, is its emphasis on “information.” Through the document, the Order empowers the federal government to control information:
“Agencies shall consider ways to expand citizens’ opportunities to register to vote and to obtain information about, and participate in, the electoral process.”
The agency is to consider “ways to provide relevant information in the course of activities or services that directly engage with the public – including through…social media platforms….”
For Native Americans, the order establishes a “Steering Group to facilitate the sharing of information and best practices, as appropriate and consistent with applicable law….”
That may sound innocuous but it ceases to do so if you double back to the policy statement in Section 2 (emphasis added):
It is the responsibility of the Federal Government to expand access to, and education about, voter registration and election information, and to combat misinformation, in order to enable all eligible Americans to participate in our democracy.
And there’s the magic phrase that says what all this emphasis on information is really about: The federal government will use its reach and power “to combat misinformation.”
And what is “misinformation” in the Democrats' new political lexicon? It’s anything with which the Democrats disagree. The federal government, through Biden, has just announced that it will put its thumb on the scale in all future elections, combatting “misinformation” by presenting its version of “information.”
What Biden is proposing is unconstitutional, as is the case with many of his Executive Orders. They are often straightforward announcements that he will no longer abide by American law, especially regarding our Southern border. Biden and his handlers are confident that the Supreme Court is so cowed by the court-packing threat that it will do nothing to slow the Democrats as they slowly, but surely, run the Constitution through a shredder.
IMAGE: Biden announces a new Executive Order. Twitter screengrab.
In stark contrast to Chávez's vision, the Biden administration has signaled that it will suspend immigration law and is openly encouraging people to enter our country and labor markets. Tens of thousands of people from Mexico and Central America have been receptive to this call, with added encouragement from promises of free health care and social services. Already, just two months into the Biden presidency, Immigration and Customs Enforcement facilities are stretched beyond capacity.
Exclusive: Biden Admin Restricts Senior DHS Officials from Sharing Border Crisis Info with Reporters
A senior-level law enforcement source in the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) told Breitbart Texas they received verbal orders from within the agency limiting their ability to speak freely about the growing crisis along the border.
The official with knowledge of the restrictions spoke under the condition of anonymity because they are not authorized to speak on the matter. “The situation with media relations now is night and day compared to the last administration, The official said. “We have been advised not to speak on immigration issues at the border and to rely on DHS’s Office of Public Affairs and the Whitehouse Press Office to handle messaging.”
The verbal order applies to senior law enforcement leaders within DHS and has no formal expiration date. It comes as the administration is struggling to manage the growing crisis caused by changes in border security and immigration policies leading to a spike in illegal crossings at the border.
As local communities along the border continue to grapple with the release of migrants into their communities, the administration is facing criticism even amongst their own ranks, Breitbart reported.
U.S. Representative Henry Cuellar (D-TX) said in a recent interview on the Fox News Channel, “I can tell you this, those numbers of people that are being released, they’re purposely withholding that information.”
“I now know that they’re bringing people from McAllen over to Laredo, processing them in Laredo, and they’re going to release them in my community,” the Laredo congressman said. “I’ve seen this before, don’t let the local communities know what you’re doing, where they’re starting to bring people in from the valley, process them in Laredo, release them at a bus station. And, again, I’ve seen this before in the past.”
The verbal order delivered through DHS channels is designed to prevent senior leaders from shedding light on the immigration situation that currently plagues the administration. On Saturday, DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and Biden’s director of the Domestic Policy Council, Susan Rice, visited several Texas cities to see the situation along the border first hand.
Members of the press were not allowed to be present during the delegation’s visit to Border Patrol stations and a Health and a Human Services unaccompanied children’s detention facility.
According to the source familiar with the media restrictions, the DHS Secretary’s delegation prohibited media presence simply to prevent the imagery of overcrowded facilities from circulating.
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.
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