Already, current immigration levels put downward pressure on U.S. wages while redistributing about $500 billion in wealth away from America’s working and middle class and towards employers and new arrivals, research by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine has found.
Democrats, Big Tech Billionaires Unite to Keep DACA Illegal Aliens in U.S. Jobs
Democrats and billionaire executives for giant tech corporations are urging the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to keep illegal aliens, enrolled in former President Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, in American jobs.
In July, Judge Andrew Hanen ordered President Joe Biden’s administration to shut down the DACA program by blocking the federal government from allowing new applicants, illegal aliens who have not previously been enrolled, onto the program’s rolls.
Months later, in September, Biden’s DHS issued a draft regulation that would effectively preserve the DACA program that has allowed more than 800,000 illegal aliens to remain in the United States and hold American jobs since 2012.
In a letter to DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, Senate Democrats including Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Cory Booker (D-NJ), Alex Padilla (D-CA), and Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV), along with a number of House Democrats, urged the Biden administration to move forward with the regulation and expand the program to include more illegal aliens.
The Democrats write:
To preserve family unity, we urge you to update the DACA threshold criteria to include individuals who had lawful status on June 15, 2012. One of the threshold criteria in the proposed rule is that DACA applicants must have “had no lawful immigration status on June 15, 2012, as well as at the time of filing of the request for DACA.” We ask that DHS to update these criteria to allow individuals who had lawful status in the United States on June 15, 2012, but subsequently lost such status by the time of their request, to qualify for DACA. This update could be accomplished by changing the above criterium to read: “had no lawful status at the time of filing of the request for DACA.” [Emphasis added]
…
We also encourage you to consider adopting additional changes to DACA eligibility requirements that would enable more Documented Dreamers to utilize the protection this program offers if the unlawful status requirement were revoked. Specifically, we urge you to consider removing the threshold criteria that require requestors to have continuously resided in the United States from June 15, 2007 to the time of filing of the request. We also support adjusting the dates in the threshold criteria to provide relief for individuals who arrived in the United States after 2007. These adjustments would help a greater number of Documented Dreamers access relief and avoid accruing unlawful status. [Emphasis added]
Likewise, executives at Amazon, Google, Cisco, the Intel Corporation, IBM, and Meta Platforms have sent a letter to DHS asking that DACA work permits be preserved and that Congress grant amnesty to DACA illegal aliens.
“DACA recipients help us innovate on behalf of customers and are a critical part of our diverse workforce,” the executives wrote. “… DACA recipients enrich our companies and the economy in different ways.”
Already, current immigration levels put downward pressure on U.S. wages while redistributing about $500 billion in wealth away from America’s working and middle class and towards employers and new arrivals, research by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine has found.
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has repeatedly found that amnesty for illegal aliens would be a net fiscal drain for American taxpayers while driving down U.S. wages.
Every year, 1.2 million legal immigrants receive green cards to permanently resettle in the U.S. In addition, 1.4 million foreign nationals are given visas to take American jobs, while hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens enter the U.S. annually.
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Smart Shopping: Browser Extension Reveals Amazon-Owned Products for Sale on Platform
A new browser extension called Amazon Brand Detector reveals just how many products sold on Amazon are produced by brands that are owned by Amazon or are exclusive to the e-commerce Masters of the Universe.
The Verge reports that a browser extension called Amazon Brand Detector reveals how many products on Amazon’s vast e-commerce platform are exclusive to or owned by the tech giant itself. The aim is to give shoppers a better idea of who controls the products they consider buying while shopping online.
Jeff Bezos holds goggles to his face (Joe Raedle /Getty)
Amazon delivery truck crosses bridge
The extension uses a list of Amazon brands curated by the Markup as well as various filters and other techniques to detect products that are part of Amazon’s “Our Brands” program. The browser extension was developed by the Markup after its recent investigation into how Amazon ranks its in-house brands compared to third-party sellers.
The Markup states that the tool is designed to make searches on Amazon’s platform more transparent. According to tests by the Verge, the extension highlighted Amazon Basics and Essentials products immediately, but it also highlighted that certain products were also sold by Amazon despite being indistinguishable from third-party sellers not affiliated with Amazon.
Some of these results were marked by Amazon as “featured from our brands,” but many were not. That text is also extremely small and grey making it easy to miss. Amazon does not attempt to hide the brands that it owns or runs and has a page that lists its “private and select exclusive brands,” but when using the site’s search function, it is easy to miss many of the signs that a brand is owned by Amazon.
The Markup claims that the browser extension “does not collect any data,” and that it should be compatible with other Amazon-related browser extensions.
To install the browser extension, you must be using a Google Chrome or Firefox-based browser.
Chrome users can click this link to go to the Chome Web Store. Click the blue button positioned at the top right of the page titled “Add to Chrome” to add the browser extension to your web browser.
Firefox users can click this link to go to the Firefox Add-Ons store where they can click the large blue button that states “Add to Firefox.”
The extension should then automatically highlight all products in Amazon searches that are owned or exclusively distributed by Amazon.
Read more at the Verge here.
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Make Amazon Pay was formed in 2020 and has since helped to organize a number of strikes and protests against company policies. The campaign states on its website: “During the COVID-19 pandemic, Amazon became a trillion dollar corporation, with Bezos becoming the first person in history to amass $200 billion in personal wealth. Meanwhile, Amazon warehouse workers risked their lives as essential workers, and only briefly received an increase in pay.”
A video on the Make Amazon Pay website further states: “Amazon’s wealth has increased so much during the pandemic that its owners could pay all 1.3 million of its employees a $690,000 COVID bonus and still be as rich as they were in 2020.”
Read more at Business Insider here.
NLRB Rules Amazon Workers in Alabama Will Revote on Unionization
The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has approved a new union election at one of Amazon’s Alabama warehouses this week. The warehouse workers voted against unionization in April, but following complaints to the federal agency, a revote has been ordered.
CNBC reports that the NLRB has authorized a new union election at an Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama, known as BHM1. In April, workers at the warehouse voted against joining the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU).
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy (Isaac Brekken/AP)
Jeff Bezos holds goggles to his face (Joe Raedle /Getty)
The union has since argued that Amazon illegally interfered in the election, resulting in a legal battle in which the NLRB ruled in the union’s favor. NLRB spokesperson Kayla Blado confirmed to CNBC that the agency has ordered a new election.
At the initial unionization vote of BHM1 in April, employees rejected forming a union with less than 30 percent of votes favoring joining the RWDSU. The RWDSU challenged the results, claiming that Amazon illegally interfered in the election and began a protracted legal battle with months of hearings examining the company’s actions in the time leading up to the vote.
People hold placards during a protest in support of Amazon workers in Union Square, New York on February 20, 2021. (Photo by KENA BETANCUR/AFP via Getty Images)
A major issue that RWDSU had was that Amazon installed a mailbox on-site at the facility which the union argued created a false appearance that Amazon was conducting the election and intimidated workers into voting against the union.
In August, an NLRB hearing officer suggested that the results be set aside and another vote should take place, Amazon said it would appeal the decision at the time. Region 10 Director Lisa Henderson issue the decision and directions for a second election at BHM1 this week.
Henderson wrote in her decision: “I agree with the hearing officer’s recommendations. Accordingly, I affirm the hearing officer’s rulings, I adopt her recommendation to sustain certain objections, and I order a second election.”
An Amazon spokesperson told CNCB that the company disagrees with the NLRB’s decision and that Amazon doesn’t think unions are the answer for its employees.
“Our employees have always had the choice of whether or not to join a union, and they overwhelmingly chose not to join the RWDSU earlier this year,” the Amazon spokesperson said. “It’s disappointing that the NLRB has now decided that those votes shouldn’t count.”
Union President Stuart Appelbaum said in a statement: “Today’s decision confirms what we were saying all along – that Amazon’s intimidation and interference prevented workers from having a fair say in whether they wanted a union in their workplace – and as the Regional Director has indicated, that is both unacceptable and illegal. Amazon workers deserve to have a voice at work, which can only come from a union.”
Read more at CNBC here.
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DO A SEARCH FOR OBAMA AND HIS SAUDIS PARTNERS. BARACK LOVES THE SMELL OF DIRTY MONEY. HE WAS WITNESS TO THE SAUDIS BUILDING THE BUSH-SAUDIS PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AFTER BUSH PROTECTED THE SAUDIS AFTER THEY INVADED US 9/11. THEN THE SAUDIS PUMPED BIG MONEY INTO THE CLINTON LIBRARY AND THE CLINTON FOUNDATION FAMILY SLUSH FUND.... WITH THESE PIG LAWYERS, JUST FOLLOW THE MONEY!
CODA
OBOMB'S SO CALLED PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY WILL NOT HOUSE HIS PRESIDENTIAL PAPERS. WE HAVE WATCHED FROM THE BEGINNING OBAMA COVER HIS TRAIL AND CONCEAL HIS TRUE IDENTITY: THE MAN WHO WOULD BE DICTATOR.
Bezos ‘Greases’ Way Into Dem Establishment With $100 Million Obama Donation
Obama-Biden alum Jay Carney arranged the massive gift
Faced with scorn from lawmakers on both sides of the aisle, Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos appears ready to "grease" his way into the Democratic establishment with a $100 million donation to the Obama Foundation, according to Puck News.
The donation was arranged by Amazon executive and former Obama press secretary Jay Carney. The no-strings-attached gift comes as Bezos faces growing opposition from the left. The gift is the largest ever made to the foundation, which has chosen to forgo the traditional presidential library in favor of building a privately managed presidential center.
Bezos's donation comes at a difficult political moment for Amazon. Lawmakers from both parties fault the company for its poor treatment of workers and abuse of its market power. The company has also come under fire for banning conservative voices. This year, Amazon banned a book that criticizes transgender ideology and blocked an ad for a book that criticizes the Black Lives Matter movement.
Bezos has tasked Carney, who served as then-vice president Joe Biden's communications director, to ingratiate Amazon with Democratic lawmakers. Under Carney's leadership, Amazon's lobbying team has grown from about two dozen to 250 members. Reuters reported Friday that Carney has successfully lobbied to kill privacy protections for consumers in 25 states.
Amazon is not the only Bezos project to pique the ire of leading Democrats. NASA administrator and former Democratic senator Bill Nelson blamed Bezos's Blue Origin for causing a delay in a U.S. return to the moon. The space exploration company sued NASA after it lost a major contract to Elon Musk's SpaceX.
Obama's presidential center is the first presidential library or museum to be run by a partisan nonprofit, rather than by the National Archives and Records Administration. Bezos's ex-wife Mackenzie Scott and Bill and Melinda Gates have already made substantial donations to the center, which presidential scholars worry will become a partisan slush fund.
Activists on Chicago's South Side said the center will force out longtime neighborhood residents. The center received a tax-free, 99-year lease on almost 20 acres of public parkland from the city of Chicago, for $10 in total. The center will be allowed to charge fees and keep the profits.
Bezos has ramped up his philanthropy over the past four years, pledging millions of dollars to liberal causes and figures. Earlier this year, he pledged $1 billion to conservation efforts and gave $100 million to CNN contributor Van Jones.
A video on the Make Amazon Pay website further states: “Amazon’s wealth has increased so much during the pandemic that its owners could pay all 1.3 million of its employees a $690,000 COVID bonus and still be as rich as they were in 2020.”
BIDEN CRONY BEZOS IS THE RICHEST MAN IN THE WORLD AND YET PAID NO, OR LITTLE INCOME TAX. THE SYSTEM IS RIGGED TO PROTECT THE DEMOCRAT PARTY'S BASE OF TECH BILLIONAIRES FOR OPEN BORDERS!
JOE BIDEN HAS HANDED OVER TO AMAZON BEZOS BILLIONS OF DOLLARS OF GOV CONTRACTS.
Inside Jeff Bezos' $78 MillIon Dollar Hawaii Estate
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kELjWUwqllc
Inside Jeff Bezos Mansions
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVURsBK1-zY
Jeff Bezos' $400 Million Flying Fox Yacht
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRYEcushHjc
Inside Jeff Bezos' $21,000,000 Car Collection
CON MAN JOE FROM SCRANTON
During the 2020 Democratic primaries, every candidate pledged
to repeal the Trump tax cut for the rich. Biden has repeatedly
called his domestic agenda a “blue collar” program. While
declaring ad nauseam that “I am a capitalist,” who has nothing
against people becoming billionaires, he has called on Wall
Street to “pay their fair share.”
How Wealth Inequality Spiraled Out of Control | Robert Reich
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOI8RuhW7q0
Eco-Warriors Blockade Amazon Warehouses in Britain on Black Friday
Climate crazies Extinction Rebellion blockaded a number of Amazon warehouses in the UK on Black Friday, the company’s busiest day of the year.
Thirteen Amazon warehouses in the UK were targetted by Extinction Rebellion, in an attempt to disrupt the retail giant’s busiest day of the year and protest against the supposedly environmentally damaging practices of Amazon.
The group began its blockade of Amazon’s largest warehouse in the UK in Dunfermline, Scotland, at 4 am on Friday, according to a report from The Telegraph.
Protesters prevented lorries from leaving the site, as well as some from entering through the use of placards, and by using so-called “lock-ons” — devices that are designed to prevent protesters from being removed.
Extinction Rebellion claimed that every Amazon distribution centre in the UK would be targeted by the organisation, with similar protests also occurring in the US, Germany, and the Netherlands.
Over 31 XR activists were arrested at Amazon warehouses across the country on Black Friday, the BBC reported.
A spokeswoman for the far-left climate alarmist group at the Dunfermline blockade stated that they were being watched by police, who reportedly had a single van on-site. She also stated that the group had brought “good vibes and music”.
“The action is intended to draw attention to Amazon’s exploitative and environmentally destructive business practices, disregard for workers’ rights in the name of company profits, as well as the wastefulness of Black Friday,” another spokesman for the group stated.
The tactics employed by left-wing climate protesters have come under increased scrutiny after an XR splinter group, Insulate Britain, used similar methods to cause chaos in September and October.
Activists frequently glued themselves to the tarmac in order to maximize disruption during attempts to shut down major roads and motorways, such as the M25.
The protests reportedly resulted in serious injuries by delaying people who required urgent medical attention from reaching medical centres.
Nine of the group’s eco-warriors were subsequently jailed for violating a court injunction that prohibited the blockading of roads.
On social media, Extinction Rebellion claimed that they are “trying to wake people up to reality” with the blockades and that in order for governments to act on climate change, “mass disruption” and “civil resistance” are required.
“There’s no guarantee it will bring the change we need, but after COP26, it should be obvious that nothing else will,” one post stated.
