Tuesday, April 27, 2021

NAFTA JOE BIDEN - WE NEED TO GET OUR INVADERS OVER THE BORDERS, SCATTERED AROUND THE COUNTRY AND SIGNED UP FOR ANCHOR BABY WELFARE AND VOTER REGISTRATION

 

Koch Network Begs Joe Biden to Import More Foreign Workers to Take U.S. Jobs

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The Koch brothers’ network of donor class organizations is begging President Joe Biden to import more foreign workers whom United States businesses can hire instead of jobless Americans.

Last week, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas announced that businesses would be allowed to hire an additional 22,000 foreign H-2B visa workers to take non-agricultural U.S. jobs, 6,000 of which will go to nationals in Honduras, El Salvador, and Guatemala.

In a letter to Biden, the Koch network’s Americans for Prosperity and the Libre Initiative urge the White House to bring in tens of thousands more foreign workers to take U.S. jobs.

The letter states:

On behalf of Americans for Prosperity, The LIBRE Initiative, and our millions of activists across the country, we urge you to release all of the 64,000 additional H-2B visas, which allow employers facing hiring difficulties to recruit temporary non-agricultural workers, under the authority delegated to you by Congress for FY 2021.

After months of a steady recovery, U.S. employers added over 900,000 jobs in March alone, the fastest rate of monthly growth since last August. But even with this good news, thousands of businesses are at risk of being left behind as they struggle to find enough workers, and current plans to release just 22,000 of the additional visas are inadequate for meeting America’s labor needs. In the first half of this fiscal year, employers had submitted 96,000 H-2B applications — exceeding the number of visas available by over 250 percent. Reports also show that during the 9 month long ban on temporary work visas, 93 percent of openings for H-2B positions went unfilled by American workers for fiscal year 2020—the highest on record despite being in the peak of the recession. Some of the businesses most heavily affected include those located in small towns and rural areas, where hiring options are already extremely limited. [Emphasis added]

Americans for Prosperity and The LIBRE Initiative urge you to take swift action and release all the supplemental H-2B visas available for FY 2021. We stand ready to work with you and Congress to develop durable legal immigration channels to better reflect our nation’s economic and national security needs. [Emphasis added]

Despite the claims of labor shortages, about 16.6 million Americans remain jobless today. Of the roughly 9.7 million Americans classified as unemployed, 13 percent are teenagers looking for entry-level jobs, 9.6 percent are black Americans, 7.9 percent are Hispanic, six percent are Asian Americans, and 5.4 percent are white Americans.

Roughly 6.9 million Americans are out of the labor force entirely, but all want full-time employment. Another 5.8 million Americans are underemployed, working part-time jobs but wanting full-time employment.

In the fields in which working class Americans are forced to compete with foreign H-2B visa workers, unemployment rates remain high:

  • Construction unemployment rate: 8.6 percent
  • Hospitality industry unemployment rate: 19.9 percent
  • Restaurant industry unemployment rate: 11.8 percent
  • Food processing unemployment rate: 7.9 percent

Fox News’s Adam Shaw reported last week that Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) and Dick Durbin (D-IL) criticized the Biden administration for allowing businesses to bring in thousands more foriegn H-2B visa workers when unemployment rates remain high.

“Given that U.S. unemployment remains elevated in many H-2B-reliant industries, this is no time to release additional H-2B visas,” Grassley and Durbin’s joint statement reads. “We hope that the Biden administration will work with Congress to reform this program to ensure it better serves Americans and guest workers.”

Every year, businesses are allowed to import 66,000 foreign H-2B visa workers to take blue-collar, non-agricultural jobs in the U.S. The Trump administration routinely brought in additional foreign H-2B visa workers for whom business could hire.

The H-2B visa program has been widely used by businesses to drag down the wages of American workers in landscaping, conservation work, the meatpacking industry, the construction industry, and fishing jobs, a 2019 study from the Center for Immigration Studies finds.

When comparing the wages of H-2B foreign workers to the national wage average for each blue-collar industry, about 21 out of 25 of the industries offered lower wages to foreign workers than Americans.

In the construction industry, wage suppression is significant, with H-2B foreign workers being offered more than 20 percent less than their American counterparts. In the fishing industry, foreign workers were offered more than 30 percent less for their jobs than Americans in the field. In the meatpacking industry, foreign workers get 23 percent less pay than Americans.

Annually, the U.S. admits about 1.2 million legal immigrants on green cards to permanently resettle in the country. In addition, another 1.4 million foreign workers are admitted every year to take American jobs.

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

Exclusive — Ken Cuccinelli: H.R. 1 and Border Crisis Are How Democrats Plan to Steal Elections

WASHINGTON, DC - MARCH 11: Ken Cuccinelli, acting deputy Secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, testifies during a House Committee on Homeland Security hearing concerning the government response to the coronavirus, in the Cannon House Office Building on Capitol Hill March 11, 2020 in Washington, DC. Since December 2019, …
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Former Acting Deputy Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security Ken Cuccinelli told Breitbart News on Tuesday that Democrats intend to change America’s electorate through a combination of migration and their H.R. 1 election reform legislation.

Cuccinelli said Democrats are not using appropriated funds for the State Department’s foreign communications to dissuade aspiring migrants from Mexico and South American countries from attempting to enter the United States. He described the flow of migrants across the southern border as part of a broader design to create new Democrat voters.

“The way you know [Democrats] are not serious about [stopping illegal immigration] is you go to the home countries where the State Department has a budget to advertise and talk to the people in those countries,” he stated on SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Daily with host Alex Marlow, author of Breaking the News: Exposing the Establishment Media’s Hidden Deals and Secret Corruption. “They are not using it. [The Trump administration] got on the radio and we bought billboards and we did all this kind of stuff to tell people what was going to happen if they came up — in other words that they would come back home.”

He continued, “[The Biden administration] is not using that money for those purposes. That tells you that they’re not serious about it. They’re not saying it where it counts. They’re saying it for the consumption of the American people. … By their actions, they are lying. They don’t want to slow this down. You and I see a crisis they see a voter registration line. It’s intentional.”

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Cuccinelli noted that H.R. 1, dubbed the For the People Act, would automatically register adult non-citizens from state databases — including but not limited to state motor vehicle and public health departments — as voters if enacted as law.

“One of the aspects of [H.R. 1] is that it requires — it mandates — that states put every adult — ‘individual’ is the word used in the bill, not ‘citizen’ — that’s in their state databases … into their voter registration database, in other words, to register them to vote automatically,” he remarked.

He continued, “Non-citizens who are here legally and illegal aliens alike come into contact with all of our state and local government agencies. That happens quite regularly, all the time, and so all of those people will be swept onto the voter rolls under H.R. 1. The other side would say, ‘Well, no. He’s lying. We don’t make it legal for non-citizens to vote.’ Technically, that’s true, but they eliminate the penalty for it. You heard that right, no penalty for committing an alleged crime, and they sweep them all under the voter rolls. That tells you that’s the point.”

Cuccinelli elaborated on Democrats’ plan to automatically register non-citizens on voting rolls with H.R. 1. In a column published at RealClearPolitics, he wrote:

There are several dangerous provisions of H.R. 1 – and its Senate counterpart, S. 1 – that will force states to register many of the illegal aliens now crossing our border to vote. Under H.R. 1, the federal government would require every state to automatically register to vote every adult that comes into contact with a state agency.  That requirement would hold whether it’s the DMV giving out driver’s licenses or I.D.s, the public health department delivering vaccines, or the local government delivering a zoning permit or welfare benefits.

Sweeping in everyone that comes in contact with a state agency, while also threatening a huge federal criminal penalty for state and local government officials if they dare to clarify someone’s status as part of the registration process, will guarantee that millions of non-citizens, including illegal aliens, are placed on our voter rolls.  

Cuccinelli determined, “[Democrats] believe these are future votes, including before they are citizens, mind you. They will vote illegally, and that is the expectation under the radical left’s H.R. 1 bill, and they’ll vote Democrat. That’s their presumption.”

He concluded, “That’s the only conclusion you can draw from something like H.R. 1. There’s no other conclusion if you think everything was put there thoughtfully and purposefully, except to conclude that they are trying intentionally to throw the door open to massive cheating.”

The House passed H.R. 1 in March.

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WHY IS WALL STREET UP BLACK LIVES MURDER AND LOOT HOAX?

 

Exclusive — Victor Davis Hanson: Fight Leftist Cancel Culture by Counter-Boycotting Woke Corporations

A general view of a new Coca-Cola aluminum bottle during Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Fall 2009 at Bryant Park on February 16, 2009 in New York City. (Photo by Amy Sussman/Getty Images for The Coca Cola Company)
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Tens of millions of Americans coordinating a counter-boycott of corporations pushing left-wing politics “would have a profound effect,” historian Victor Davis Hanson stated on SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Sunday with host Joel Pollak.

“Traditionally, you can only express your political opposition in two ways, and that is voting and participating in the process, or then politicizing your economic, social, and cultural life,” Hanson said. “In a practical sense, it would mean that, collectively, people would say, ‘I’m not going to but a Coke, anymore. I’m just sick of it,’ or, ‘If I have a choice between getting on American and Delta, I’m going to get on American. I’m not going to fly Delta. I will not watch the NBA or Major League Baseball.'”

He added, “Collectively, if four or five million do it, it won’t matter. If 30 or 40 million [did it], and that’s already happened to the NBA — its audience pretty much shot in America, it’s depending on a Chinese audience, now, and the same thing [is] happening with Major League Baseball — that is very effective.”

Application of “cancel culture” political strategy tends to go against conservatives’ inclinations, Hanson said.

“The right says, ‘We’re always live-and-let-live people. We’re moderates. We worry about our community or family or job. We don’t cancel people. We don’t boycott. We don’t do the things of the left.’ But if they started to, and they said, ‘We’re going to be organized, and let’s just target — not all of these corporations– let’s just target Disney or Coke,’ that would have the profound effect,” he remarked.

 

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Hanson addressed Democrat and left-wing characterizations of America as pathologized by “white supremacy.” Terms such as “white privilege” and “whiteness” lack clear definitions, he added.

“We’re playing this great game where the media has so conditioned us that every single potential racialized crime — a mass shooting, a riot, a police shooting — immediately people are glued. … Some people are saying, ‘I hope that the shooter is white, and I hope the victim is black, and we can manufacture an entire crisis,’ and other people say, ‘Oh my God, let’s just hope that the victim is white and the shooter is non-white,’ and that’s because of this media reaction,” he said.

“They just throw these terms out — white supremacy, white privilege, whiteness — and they never define them — nobody ever calls them out — because they’re meaningless,” he concluded.

Hanson, a professor of military history and classics, hosts an eponymous podcast.

Breitbart News Sunday broadcasts live on SiriusXM Patriot 125 from 7:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. Eastern.

Silicon Valley Titans Have Donated $7.5M to Black Lives Matter Co-Founder

Woman of the Year 2016 and Black Lives Matter cofounder Patrisse Khan-Cullors poses during Glamour Celebrates 2017 Women Of The Year Live Summit at Brooklyn Museum on November 13, 2017 in New York City. (Photo by Ilya S. Savenok/Getty Images for Glamour)
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Twitter, Facebook, and Netflix moguls have reportedly donated more than $7.5 million to non-profits controlled by Marxist Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Khan-Cullors, who has helped them lobby to control the internet via “net neutrality,” while the tech giants censor her online critics.

Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, and the wife of Netflix’s billionaire CEO Reed Hastings, Patricia Ann Quillin, all donated generously to a PAC and charities controlled by Khan-Cullors, according to a report by the New York Post.

Moskovitz and his wife Cari Tuna contributed more than 5.5 million to Khan-Cullors’ groups through their Open Philanthropy and Good Ventures non-profits between 2017 and 2020.

While Moscovitz left Facebook in 2008, he still has a two percent stake in the company, which accounts for nearly $20 billion of his net worth, according to a report by Forbes.

Dorsey donated $1.5 million in 2020 through his #startsmall philanthropy initiative to Black Lives Matter and M4BL, a coalition of anti-capitalist activist groups founded by Khan-Cullors.

The report added that some of the Twitter CEO’s donations were made in connection with the Clara Lionel Foundation, a charity founded by singer Rihanna.

That same year, Quillin donated $250,000 to Reform LA Jails, a California state PAC chaired by Khan-Cullors.

One year earlier, Reform LA Jails had given out more than a quarter of its budget — $346,558 — to companies controlled by Khan-Cullors and her wife, Janaya Khan, as well as to writer Asha Bandele and rapper Damon Turner, her son’s father, the New York Post reports.

The largest payment, $173,558, went to Bandele, who co-wrote Khan-Cullors’ 2018 memoir, When They Call You a Terrorist, which also features a foreword by radical Marxist Angela Davis.

The PAC also paid $63,500 to Turner through Trap Heals LLC, an LA-based entertainment and clothing company he controls. The report added that most of the money went to “campaign consultants,” with $11,000 going to “information technology costs (Internet, e-mail).”

In 2019 the PAC chaired by Khan-Cullors had also paid Janaya and Patrisse Consulting — a company controlled by Khan-Cullors and Janaya Khan — $110,000 as “campaign consultants,” according to filings. It also paid Dignity and Power Now — a non-profit started by Khan-Cullors — $10,000 for “polling and survey research.”

The report added that while PACs are not allowed to be used for personal expenses, there are no rules prohibiting officers of a California PAC from paying themselves or family members for consulting services.

In addition to donations, the tech giants have also censored stories about Khan-Cullors and Black Lives Matter.

Earlier this month, Twitter reportedly censored sports journalist Jason Whitlock over his criticism of Khan-Cullors’ purchase of a $1.4 million home in Los Angeles.

A Twitter spokesperson told the New York Post that Whitlock’s tweet “violated the Twitter Rules on private information, and the account owner was required to delete the violative Tweet.”

Meanwhile, Facebook blocked its users from linking to a New York Post story about Khan-Cullors’ recent $3.2 million in real estate purchases. While the story was based on public records, Facebook said it violated the platform’s “privacy and personal information policy.”

You can follow Alana Mastrangelo on Facebook and Twitter at @ARmastrangelo, on Parler @alana, and on Instagram.

ADOPT AN ORPHAN TODAY! - Anonymous Donor Uses $1K in Dogecoin to Pay Adoption Fees at Animal Shelter

 

Anonymous Donor Uses $1K in Dogecoin to Pay Adoption Fees at Animal Shelter

Puppies adopted from the Halifax Humane Society in Daytona Beach, FL using earnings from Dogecoin cryptocurrency. Screenshot via Facebook.
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An anonymous donor has generously paid adoption fees for 21 pups living at a shelter in Daytona Beach, Florida.

According to People, “The donor, dubbed Doge Community, won big using cryptocurrency Dogecoin and put $1000 of those funds toward the adoption fees of dogs that were currently ready to be adopted from Halifax Humane Society,” the shelter’s Community Outreach Director Barry Kukes told the outlet.

In a Facebook post on Sunday, the organization shared photos of some of the dogs and thanked Doge Community for the gift:

The nonprofit’s website said it serves more than 30,000 animals annually and exists to protect them from cruel, neglectful, and exploitative treatment.

“It is the belief of the Society that all living creatures possess an intrinsic value, which is manifested in its creation. Further, the Society believes that mankind must become a responsible steward of animals which he has domesticated and brought under his control,” the site read.

According to WTSP, Dogecoin is a cryptocurrency based on an internet meme with the face of the Shiba Inu breed.

“Created as a joke in 2013, the cryptocurrency had never hit $0.01 until Jan. 2 of this year. Since then, it has skyrocketed and the price has soared more than 400% in the past week alone,” the article said.

Kukes said the donor “did not adopt a dog, but is a dog lover and wanted to do something nice with her financial windfall from her Dogecoin investment.”

“Many adopters that day were unaware that the adoption had already been paid but decided to pay it forward and gave the adoption fee as a donation as well,” he noted. “There are good people in Daytona Beach, FL and we are very grateful for the donation from Doge Community.”

Facebook users also praised the person, calling their gift amazing.

“Whoever did this is an angel, thank you so much,” one person commented.

“What a lovely thing to do. God bless them,” another user wrote.

WHY RED CHINA LOVES THE BIDEN BOYS, LAWYERS JOE AND HUNTER THE BRIBES SUCKER - Beijing’s Trade with U.S. Up 133.4% in First Quarter

 

Beijing’s Trade with U.S. Up 133.4% in First Quarter

A cargo ship loaded with containers makes its way at a port in Qingdao in China's eastern Shandong province on January 14, 2020. - China's trade surplus with the United States narrowed last year as the world's two biggest economies exchanged punitive tariffs in a bruising trade war, official data …
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The customs agency for Beijing released data on Monday that showed trade with the United States increasing by 133.4 percent in the first quarter of 2021 to reach $12.5 billion.

Total trade for the city with all partners was up by 8.8 percent from the pandemic year of 2020, and 1.9 percent higher than pre-pandemic totals in 2019.

China’s state-run Global Times cited the figures as evidence “Beijing’s international trade has become stable” after the pandemic. 

Growth was especially strong in medical goods, agricultural products, imports of iron ore for China’s heavy industry, and even exported cell phones – a business widely expected to suffer overall due to U.S. bans on China’s telecom giant Huawei over security concerns. According to the Global Times, Beijing’s cell phone exports were up 92 percent over 2020.

Medical exports were 15.2 times higher than the previous year, driven by high worldwide demand for medical goods to combat the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic.

China’s trade growth began accelerating in the fall of 2020, including higher exports to the United States. China reported it had largely returned to pre-pandemic growth levels by the end of the second quarter of 2020, although retail sales were still seen as weak.

The Wall Street Journal (WSJobserved on Sunday that China is increasingly aggressive about using its trade growth as a political weapon, arguing that as the first to recover from the pandemic, it has become an indispensable trade partner for every major economy. 

This aggressiveness has produced a “backlash” from Chinese trade partners such as Australia, which killed two of China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) projects even as economists warned the Australians could not afford to lose the investments they represented. Australian Foreign Minister Marise Paine invoked the authority given to her by Parliament to cancel the two BRI deals because they were “inconsistent with Australia’s foreign policy or adverse to our foreign relations.”

Reuters on Tuesday cited a U.N. analysis that said China’s share of global exports increased almost 15 percent over the past year, but may have peaked now that China’s domestic demands are growing, the cost of labor is rising, and other exporters are emerging from the pandemic.