On Monday, California Governor Gavin Newsom announced the lifting of stay-at-home orders for the entire state. The stay-at-home orders had been dependent on ICU availability percentages across counties grouped in five broad regions, 1: Northern California (41.2 percent), 2: Greater Sacramento (11.9 percent), 3: Bay Area (23.4 percent), 4: San Joaquin Valley (1.3 percent) and 5: Southern California (0 percent). Up until this Monday, regions 3, 4 and 5 were under restrictive stay-at-home orders. Regions 1 and 2 were under a less restrictive tier system (purple: widespread, red: substantial, yellow: moderate).
The new order reimposes a tier-based system (purple, red, orange, and white) that enforces restrictions based on COVID-19 positivity and case rates in each county. Except for three small northern California counties in the red and yellow tiers, the entire state is now in the purple tier.
California Governor Gavin Newsom (AP Photo Rich Pedroncelli, File) The plan will allow the reopening of outside dining in restaurants, as well as gyms and outdoor sports by this Friday.
The situation in California remains dire with the seven-day average for COVID-19 deaths continuing to rise even as new infections have started to trend downward. On Tuesday, Worldometer recorded 22,058 new coronavirus infections in one day, reaching a total of 3,221,953 cases. There were 728 new deaths, 38,255 in total. Hospitals reported admitting 562 new patients, for a total of 19,293. The availability of intensive care units in Southern California and the Central Valley (the southern two thirds of the state) is still at 0 percent. In a four-color standard, most of the state is in the purple tier (widespread infections).
At 114 new cases per 10,000 inhabitants, California exceeds the US average (80 per 100,000) and is third to Arizona and South Carolina (138 and 115 respectively). California’s average death toll for last week, 534, is four times the 107 seven-day average reported on December 5.
Such a grim toll is a direct consequence of policies implemented at the state and local level by California’s Democratic Party, which dominates the Golden State’s politics. The state’s policies differed only cosmetically from those of former President Donald Trump and are perfectly in line with those of President Joe Biden. The results are quite clear as the richest state of the richest country in the world has emerged as a global epicenter.
Despite the abundance of wealth in the state, no serious social resources have been allocated for the protection of human life: on the contrary, while the health care system has collapsed in crisis and supplies like personal protective equipment and oxygen have been utterly inadequate, the state’s billionaires have in many cases doubled their obscene wealth since the beginning of the pandemic.
Newsom insisted in his announcement that the reopening was based on science. “We’re seeing a flattening of the curve,” declared Newsom at the Monday press conference, though he acknowledged that the state is “not out of the woods.”
According to the California Department of Public Health, the regional stay-at-home order ended because ICU projections through California have improved, even though regions 4 and 5, including the Los Angeles County megalopolis, have virtually no ICU beds available.
Los Angeles County’s restaurants may resume outdoor dining and hair salons may reopen under Newsom’s orders, among other loosened restrictions.
The lifting of the ban was decided by Newsom and a handful of advisers, and in consultation with the restaurant industry, on a “need to know basis.” Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti declared that he had only been informed “with everybody else” when the decision was made public on Monday.
Los Angeles County is planning to issue a new health order Friday, which will allow the county to reopen outdoor dining and rescind a 10 p.m. to 5 a.m. curfew, according to Los Angeles County Public Health Department director Barbara Ferrer.
Los Angeles had imposed an outdoor dining ban in November following an explosion of COVID-19 cases. For seven weeks, restaurants operated on take-out dining only. Retail stores and malls were able to stay open but had to operate at 20 percent capacity; that rule was not enforced.
Newsom declared on Monday that the Southern California region is projected to reach 33.3 percent ICU capacity by February 21. While he offered no evidence for his claim, there has been a decline in new cases, in large part because of the stay-at-home measures, closure of playgrounds, the curfews and the prohibitions of large gatherings. Case have fallen despite the fact that a number of law enforcement agencies in regions 4 and 5 refused to enforce such bans. Newsom, the target of a recall effort driven by fake grass-roots organizations with the support of QAnon, the Proud Boys, the Freedom Angels, The Three Percenters, The Church of Glad Tidings and other right-wing, evangelical and anti-vaccine groups, is also pushing forward with the reopening of public schools.
On December 30, Newsom proposed $2 billion dollars of school funds be diverted to classroom alterations, testing and other measures to reopen schools, a measure cynically dubbed “Safe Schools For All.” State officials expect school districts to submit reopening plans by February 1.
He denies that any of this had anything to do with the recall campaign. As of this weekend, nearly half-a-million valid signatures had been turned in, out of the 1.5 million needed by the March 17 deadline, for the recall to take effect.
On Monday, Newsom also announced changes in California’s COVID-19 vaccination priorities, moving toward an age-based plan and away from prioritizing essential workers, further placing teachers, health, restaurant and other frontline workers in peril. As throughout the rest of the US, vaccine distribution in California has been halting and chaotic. Only 2.6 million doses have been administered out of a population of 39 million.
All of Newsom’s initiatives are in line with those now being pushed by President Biden, the Democratic Party and the financial oligarchy, imposing the same murderous logic of herd immunity in response to the COVID-19 pandemic associated with former President Trump and the global ruling elites. Without the intervention of the working class to keep schools closed, shut down non-essential production and guarantee full income, what can be expected in the coming weeks is another wave of deaths and illness. The beneficiary, once again, will be the financial oligarchy that demands uninterrupted production in order to guarantee ever rising profits.
CONSIDER ALL THE AMERICAN PEOPLE MUST CONTEND WITH AND STILL WE MUST FIGHTY THESE FILTHY POLITICIANS FOR OUR BORDERS, JOBS AND CULTURE!
THIS IS THE REALITY OF AMERICA. THIS IS WHAT THE GLOBALIST DEMOCRAT PARTY HAS DONE TO AMERICA!
Fleeing California
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Why Is Everyone Leaving California? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYSqdUGUg8A
What’s Happening to California’s Middle Class | Urban Policy Expert Joel Kotkin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xu69XOeoa0o
What’s Causing an Increase in Crime in California? | Steve Cooley
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How to Help the Homeless with Edward Ring | California Insider
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How California's Unfunded Pension Liabilities Could Lead to Bankruptcy | Sen. John Moorlach
Sanctuary California should be a cautionary tale, not a goal
From the moment Joe Biden assumed the presidency, immigration has been at the top of his agenda. One of his first acts was to sign a series of executive orders that reversed the Trump administration's policies on things like border wall funding, travel bans, and sanctuary laws.
While Trump's goal for immigration policy was clearly articulated in his "Make America Great Again" concept, we have heard little on where Biden intends to take us with his immigration plank. Judging from his actions so far, though, the destination is clear. He wants to make America into California, and that should deeply concern every U.S. citizen.
What anti-borders politicians have done to California over the last 30 years is a disgrace. The home of Hollywood and Silicon Valley, once a beacon of opportunity and prosperity, is today a sinking ship. Immigration policy is a significant factor in that decline.
Taking on a massive population of illegal aliens has come at a colossal cost to Californians, in terms of finances, safety, and job opportunities, to name a few. State residents foot the bill for more than $23 billion that is directly attributable to illegal immigration and its effects. That breaks down to almost $2,000 for every legally present household each year. This from a state that is already carrying more than $1.3 trillion in total state, county, and municipal debt. Who wouldn't want to pay a hefty tax each year to encourage more illegal aliens to move to your community?
The chief catalyst for California's illegal alien crisis has been its embrace of sanctuary laws. By preventing local law enforcement from cooperating with federal immigration authorities in the deportation of criminal aliens, there are virtually no consequences for violating our nation's immigration laws inside the state of California.
While the Orwellian-named California Values Act (S.B. 54 ) made sanctuary policy state law, it seems downright moderate compared to what some cities and counties have done. S.B. 54 at least allows cooperation with ICE in only the most extreme of circumstances.
The sanctuary law in Santa Clara, the largest county in northern California, takes an even more radical position, stating that the county "does not, under any circumstances, honor civil detainer requests from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) by holding inmates on ICE's behalf for additional time after they would otherwise be released from County custody."
Before sanctuary laws, it had long been a practice of local law enforcement to cooperate with detainer requests as a way to expedite criminal aliens toward deportation.
The results of this policy have been about as bad as you might expect. In Santa Clara County last November, police arrested Fernando De Jesus Lopez-Garcia after he allegedly stabbed five people inside the Grace Baptist Church, killing two and leaving three others seriously injured.
One witness called 911 to say a "man was going crazy, stabbing people and there was blood everywhere." He was arrested on two counts of murder, three counts of attempted murder, battery on a spouse, and violation of a protective order.
Lopez-Garcia is an illegal alien with an extensive criminal record who had successfully avoided ICE apprehension after each arrest because of local and state sanctuary laws barring cooperation with federal immigration authorities.
In 2019, police arrested Carlos Eduardo Arevalo Carranza, an illegal alien from El Salvador, for allegedly beating and stabbing Bambi Larson to death in her San Jose home. Reports later disclosed that police had previously arrested Carranza ten times for drugs, kidnapping, battery against a police officer, and burglary. ICE had requested an immigration hold on Carranza seven times, but the Santa Clara Sheriff's Office (SCSO) refused every request. Facing criticism for the sanctuary policy, the county supervisors met and inexplicably voted 5-0 to double down on the policy.
My organization, the Immigration Reform Law Institute (IRLI), recently concluded an investigation into these practices in Santa Clara and found some disturbing results.
We submitted a records request with the Santa Clara County Sheriff's Office to discover just how many ICE detainers it has received in recent time and how many of them applied to aliens with serious criminal backgrounds. That request revealed that ICE lodged a total of 1,757 detainers in just two years — 909 requests in 2019 and 848 in 2020. The law enforcement records technician with the sheriff's office confirmed with IRLI that every single one of these requests was ignored.
The Sheriff's Office refused to disclose to IRLI how many of the detainer requests applied to aliens who were convicted or charged with serious or violent felony offenses. When IRLI asked about the last year an ICE detainer request was honored by the county, a records technician there replied that he could not find records that showed the last time a detainer request was honored.
The results of these laws are clear. The county has become a haven for illegal aliens, particularly those with criminal records. The communities are demonstrably less safe, and the influx of new arrivals creates a heavy financial burden on legal state residents. Is it any wonder that taxpayers are fleeing the state in droves?
As the Biden administration goes full speed with its anti-borders agenda, however, there will be no place for concerned Americans to flee. California-style laws will soon become federal laws. We're about to conduct a national experiment in anti-borders cause and effect. Buckle up.
Dale L. Wilcox is executive director and general counsel at the Immigration Reform Law Institute , a public interest law firm working to defend the rights and interests of the American people from the negative effects of mass migration.
Biden’s Gifts for Illegal Aliens Welcome to the open-borders president.
Wed Jan 27, 2021
President Joe Biden is the illegal aliens’ best friend. He is asking Congress to provide a pathway to citizenship for the more than 11 million illegal aliens presently living in the United States. And to make the illegal aliens feel better about themselves, Biden is seeking a change in U.S. immigration laws to replace the phrase “illegal alien” with “noncitizen” to describe them.
Unless the Democrats eliminate the filibuster in the Senate, Biden is not likely to get his complete legislative package passed by Congress. “A mass amnesty with no safeguards and no strings attached is a nonstarter,” said Republican Senator Chuck Grassley.
However, Biden decided not to wait for Congress to act. He signed an executive order halting border wall construction. He also signed another executive order reversing the Trump administration’s “remain in Mexico” program for so-called asylum seekers waiting for U.S. hearings on their asylum pleas. “Remain in Mexico,” worked out with the cooperation of the Mexican government, was implemented as a practical solution to a vexing problem. It was designed as an alternative to either detaining the ostensible asylum-seekers in the United States until their amnesty applications could be heard by U.S. immigration judges or releasing them into communities across the country under the infamous “catch and release” policy of prior administrations. Biden’s executive order brings back the “catch and release” policy, endangering the safety of law-abiding Americans.
Open-borders President Joe Biden is creating through such executive orders and his pro-amnesty legislative agenda a super-strong magnet to pull many more illegal migrants into the United States.
Biden also signed an executive order that violates his presidential obligation under the Constitution to “take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed.” This order put in place a policy to unilaterally suspend removals of most illegal aliens for 100 days. It was a show of defiance against enforcing the immigration laws as written.
An advisory memorandum was issued by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on January 20th to guide the immigration agencies in carrying out Biden’s deportation suspension executive order. Couched dishonestly in the language of reprioritizing immigration law enforcement actions, the memorandum said that the immediate 100-day “pause on removals” would help "ensure we have a fair and effective immigration enforcement system focused on protecting national security, border security, and public safety."
Biden’s 100-day “pause on removals” does precisely the opposite. Even illegal aliens who were convicted of serious felonies and were already ordered to be removed from this country following a full and fair hearing would stand to benefit from the removal suspension.
Fortunately, a federal judge in Texas said not so fast, in response to a complaint filed by the state of Texas. U.S. District Judge Drew Tipton had the good sense and fidelity to the law to issue a temporary restraining order on Tuesday, blocking for now the implementation of Biden’s removal suspension edict nationwide for 14 days. Judge Tipton said that the Biden administration had failed “to provide any concrete, reasonable justification for a 100-day pause on deportations.” That’s an understatement.
The Biden DHS memorandum was so far out in left field that it refused to use the words “illegal alien,” which appear more than 30 times in U.S. immigration laws that the DHS is supposed to enforce. As far as the Biden administration is concerned, “illegal alien” is already expunged from the statute books even without any congressional action. Instead, the Biden DHS memorandum used the term “noncitizens.”
The DHS memorandum’s instructions on pausing compulsory removals of illegal aliens (apologies to the enforcers of political correctness for using the legally correct phrase ) did contain a few narrow exceptions. The pause did not apply to suspected terrorists, spies or others deemed by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to pose a danger to the national security of the United States. Also, individuals illegally in the country who were “not physically present in the United States before November 1, 2020” would be out of luck under the DHS memorandum’s implementation guidelines. And there could be some scattered cases where an individualized determination is made that removal is absolutely required by law. But public safety is given short shrift.
Biden’s executive order suspending removals, along with the implementing DHS memorandum, contained no pause exception addressing generally the class of illegal aliens still in the United States who have been convicted of violent aggravated felonies such as murder or rape. Even many of those dangerous criminals already subject to removal orders issued prior to Biden’s executive deportation suspension would have been entitled to protection from immediate removal.
Judge Tipton has come to the rescue at least for now, temporarily stopping Biden’s deportation suspension from taking immediate effect. Judge Tipton needs to go further and stick a fork in Biden’s reckless deportation suspension executive order for good, which the Supreme Court will hopefully uphold.
MEXICO'S BIGGEST EXPORTS TO AMERIA: POVERTY, CRIMINALS, HEROIN AND UNREGISTERED DEMOCRAT VOTERS!
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has been ordered to stop all construction of its United States-Mexico border wall by Wednesday, January 27, as part of an executive order signed by President Joe Biden.
According to Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-TX), DHS building contractors have been told that they must stop border wall construction by January 27. The halt to construction comes after Biden signed an executive order calling the wall “a waste of money” despite its massive help in cutting illegal immigration to the U.S.
The Trump administration had constructed more than 450 miles of border wall between 2017 and 2020 and had plans to construct another 300 miles along the nearly 2,000-mile-long border.
A number of former Trump officials and immigration experts told the Washington Times that Biden’s order stopping border wall construction is likely illegal.
“The president just can’t unilaterally say, ‘Congress, what you appropriated funding for, no, I’m not going to do that,'” Morgan told the Times . “He was basically telling CBP to break the law to stop construction.”
“They will not find a Border Patrol agent that’s on the front lines today that will tell them the wall doesn’t work,” Morgan continued.
Trump administration totals indicate that where border wall was constructed, illegal immigration dropped nearly 90 percent . The stopping of construction to the border wall comes as a migrant caravan heads to the U.S.-Mexico border in the hopes of taking advantage of Biden’s lax immigration enforcement rules.
John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Email him at jbinder@breitbart.com.
The Biden administration is eliminating an office that was recently created to protect many millions of American graduates — including Biden’s young voters — from government-fueled corporate discrimination in hiring, pay, and workplace rights.
The worker-rights office was announced January 13 by President Donald Trump’s deputies and canceled January 26 by Biden’s deputies.
The short-lived office was intended to document and expose the corporate discrimination against Americans that is fueled by the huge Occupational Practical Training (OPT) program.
In 2019, the OPT program provided work permits to 400,000 foreign graduates so they can take the jobs and opportunities needed by graduates — including Biden’s voters — under rules that make foreign workers much cheaper to hire and easier to manage than American graduates are. OPT workers are foreign, temporary, contract workers — not immigrants.
The Biden cancellation is bad news for the many college students and graduates who pulled the lever for Biden in November 2020, said Kevin Lynn, founder of U.S. Tech Workers, which fights the replacement of American graduates. “Biden was selected by the corporatocracy [which sees] no role for American graduates,” he said. American graduates “are not needed” by employers who can import many compliant, cheap, and disposable foreign workers, he said.
Correspondingly, the cancellation was celebrated by the immigration lawyers who help Fortune 500 CEOs import foreigners to take the jobs needed by young Americans, including many debt-burdened black and Latino graduates.
On the same day, the administration canceled another graduate protection plan leftover from the Trump administration.
The plan — which was blocked by corporate insiders in Trump’s White House — was to halt the award of work permits to the spouses of the almost one million H-1B foreign contract workers who have jobs in the United States. This H4EAD program was created by President Barack Obama — not by Congress — and it added another 250,000 foreign contract workers who compete for jobs against American graduates.
The cancellation was celebrated by Aaron Reichlin-Melnick. He is a Twitter spokesman for the investor-backed American Immigration Council, which is a spinoff of the American Immigration Lawyers Association:
Biden’s officials have also canceled a recent move by the Department of Labor to limit the outsourcing of U.S. jobs via the huge H-1B program. They are also expected to undermine other Trump regulations that help protect American graduates from the H-1B program.
The administration’s actions match the demands of its corporate donors and cheerleaders, such as the major universities that help deliver the OPT work permit to fee-paying foreign graduates.
Biden’s team is also backed by many corporate employers of OPT and H-1B workers , including Google, Facebook, Salesforce, Apple, Amazon, Deloitte, Microsoft, and their trade groups. For example, Mark Zuckerberg’s FWD.us advocacy group praised the preservation of the H4EAD program, which has helped keep married H-1B contract workers from leaving the United States:
We commend the Biden-Harris Administration for taking immediate action to turn the page from the Trump-Pence Administration’s disastrous immigration policies, and to do right by more than 100,000 hardworking immigrants who are contributing to the United States every single day in the midst of a deadly pandemic.
The FWD.us group also praised the Biden team for dropping a draft “unlawful presence” rule that would require the foreign student to go home after they get credentials from U.S. colleges. Without the rule, many foreign graduates overstay their visas and work as white-collar illegal aliens in the jobs needed by American graduates.
The Trump administration announced the OPT office on January 13.
The agency “is currently unable to evaluate the impact OPT has had on U.S. workers and foreign students who have obtained work authorization through the programs,” said the January 13 message from the Student and Exchange Visitor Program within the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency.
“To remedy this, SEVP is announcing the development of a new unit — the OPT Employment Compliance Unit — that will be dedicated full-time to compliance matters involving wage, hours, and compensation … the first report will be published on ICE.gov by July 31, 2021,” said the statement. It continued:
For example, if the unit were to detect evidence that an employer is using OPT in a discriminatory manner (e.g., as a means to hire only foreign nationals, or only individuals of certain nationalities to the exclusion of others), or in a manner that negatively impacts wages, this unit may notify DOL and the U.S. Department of Justice of such evidence, where HSI is unable to address such matters, so that the evidence can be investigated further.
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The loss of employment many U.S. workers have faced since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic as employers lay off significant portions of their workforce (while still, in some cases, seeking to hire more foreign workers), makes this work particularly timely.
On January 26, Biden’s deputies announced they would cancel the transparency program:
After conducting an additional review of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s optional practical training (OPT) compliance effort, the program determined that it is already performing much of the work outlined in the Broadcast Message. As such, the creation of the new unit is not necessary at this time.
Before Trump’s arrival, the federal government released minimal information about the huge OPT program. In 2018, Trump’s deputies released some limited information, allowing Breitbart News and the FBI to expose widespread fraud.
But the federal government provides little information about the jobs and wages lost to the OPT program. The federal website provides some basic data about annual numbers, the major OPT employers, that the universities which profit from the OPT program. But the agency provides little data about the operation of the program, the wages paid to OPT, workers, the many small companies that use OPTs to fill Fortune 500 outsourcing contracts, or about reported hiring discrimination against Americans.
However, many foreign and American workers tell Breitbart News that the OPT program — and its sister program, the Curricular Practical Training (CPT) program — provides the workforce for the lowest level of the Fortune 500’s labor pyramid.
The OPT and CPT workers — plus many white-collar illegal aliens and overstays — work long hours at meager pay because they hope to get promoted into full-time jobs and then into the H-1B program. They want to get into the H-1B program because it allows them to eventually get green cards.
The one million-plus foreign workers in this Green Card Workforce displace many American graduates from vital gateway jobs in science, software, accountancy, or health care. The flood of labor in this hidden pyramid also cuts salaries for college graduates — and boosts stock prices for investors and older Americans — including the parents and teachers of the American graduates.
For example, a group of economists estimated in January that Trump’s recent curbs on corporate use of H-1B contract workers nicked the stock market value of Fortune 500 companies “by about 0.45% — representing a total loss of around $100 billion.”
Other evidence suggests that the Fortune 500’s reliance on many foreign contract workers is sidelining qualified Americans, damaging corporate innovation, helping China, and also diverting investment , jobs, and wealth from central states to the coastal states.
But this hidden labor market is rarely covered in corporate media, such a Jeff Bezos’ Washington Post, New York Times
However, Lynn and his member of American professionals are trying to raise awareness of how the OPT program pushes young Americans out of good careers.
“The OPT work permit masquerades workers as ‘students,’ so employers are under no obligation to pay them fair market wages,” Lynn noted, adding:
The Biden Administration is under the false delusion that these international students are the best and brightest in the world, so deserve to stay here permanently. Research by the [left-wing] Economic Policy Institute shows that the majority of these students are not the best and brightest, and are entering low-ranked US universities with low entrance requirements [to get work permit]. Universities profit because international students pay full freight tuition, while American students are graduating with immense student loan debt and having to now compete with OPT work-permit holders.
The ICE data shows that the OPT program delivers many foreign workers into Fortune 500 jobs , where managers have a lot of freedom to hire within their own ethnic networks. For example, since 2003, Amazon has hired 12,173 people via the program, while Deloitte has hired 5,799 foreign graduates, and Apple has hired 2,667 people.
For years, a wide variety of pollsters have shown deep and broad opposition to labor migration — or the inflow of temporary contract workers into jobs sought by young U.S. graduates.
The multiracial , cross-sex , nonracist , class-based , and solidarity-themed opposition to labor migration coexists with generally favorable personal feelings toward legal immigrants and toward immigration in theory — despite the media magnification of many skewed polls and articles that still push the 1950’s “Nation of Immigrants” claim.
Migration allows investors and CEOs to skimp on labor-saving technology, sideline U.S. minorities, ignore disabled people , exploit stoop labor in the fields, shortchange labor in the cities, and impose tight control pay cuts on American professionals.
Migration also helps corral technological innovation by minimizing the employment of American graduates, undermine Americans’ labor rights , and redirect progressive journalists to cheerlead for Wall Street’s priorities and claims .
