UNITED NATIONS FUNDS THE INVASION OF AMERICA'S UNDEFENDED BORDERS - JOE BIDEN APPLAUDS!

 

Report from Mexico: UN Explains Handing Cash to U.S.-Bound Migrants

TAPACHULA, Mexico (January 20, 2022) — The United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR), which receives billions in U.S. taxpayer money, is providing cash assistance to U.S.-bound illegal migrants, according to new reporting from the Center for Immigration Studies. The United Nations is sharply escalating the amounts of cash and other direct financial assistance to immigrants all along the migrant trail from Panama to Texas, at an uncharted series of some 100 waystations, as part of a program called “cash-based interventions” (CBI). Speaking from Tapachula, Mexico, Todd Bensman, the Center’s Senior National Security Fellow, said, “Word of the UN handing out cash debit cards has spread and the office here in Tapachula, Mexico, near the Guatemala border, draws long lines of hopeful U.S.-bound migrants every day. This money allows migrants to continue their journey to the U.S. border rather than returning home and acts as a magnet encouraging other migrants to make the arduous journey.” Families can receive hundreds of dollars a month for “unrestricted ... unconditional” use in local country areas depending on where they are on the trail. The United Nations spent $60 million on the program in 2019, doubled the outlay in 2020, and plans to vastly increase its use in the Americas during 2022 and beyond. CBI is seen by many, including Texas Rep. Lance Gooden and 11 other House Republicans, as U.S.-taxpayer-funded material support for illegal immigration. They have introduced the "No Tax Dollars for the United Nations Immigration Invasion Act", H.R. 6155, which would prohibit the $3.8 billion in contributions currently proposed in the White House’s 2022 budget to UN-supported organizations. Bensman’s report includes a written interview with the UN agency’s public information officer Tapachula. Earlier coverage: United Nations Grantee Uses U.S. Tax Dollars To Fund Illegal Immigration. 800 Migrants Cross near West Texas Border Town in Two Days CBP RANDY CLARK 20 Jan 20229 EAGLE PASS, Texas — In two separate events in as many days, nearly 800 migrants managed to cross the Rio Grande and surrender to Border Patrol. One group of nearly 400 crossed on Wednesday and another similarly sized came early Thursday. According to a source within Customs and Border Protection, the groups were mostly Venezuelan family units and single adults. The source says daily apprehensions are on the rise as large groups in excess of 100 are crossing daily. Seven large groups were apprehended within the sector in last five days. The increase in migrant crossings in the Del Rio Sector, which includes Eagle Pass, has resulted in the sector becoming the busiest in the nation. Until January, the Border Patrol’s Rio Grande Valley Sector (RGV) in Texas held the top position in migrant apprehensions since 2013. In November 2021, the RGV apprehended an average of 1,590 migrants per day. That daily average dropped to around 700 so far in January. The increase in crossings is alarming to the Border Patrol in the region, according to the source. The Del Rio Sector operates with one third of the staffing in the Rio Grande Valley. The source says detention and processing capacities are also less abundant. The strain on personnel and resources needed to process the large groups of migrants has caused the agency in Del Rio to reduce routine patrols. The source says in most cases, migrants choosing to surrender are released into the United States to pursue asylum. 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. Follow him on Twitter @RandyClarkBBTX. Smugglers Pack Migrant Children, Adults in Locked Trailer near Border in Texas U.S. Border Patrol/Rio Grande Valley Sector BOB PRICE 20 Jan 20224 2:52 Rio Grande Valley Sector Border Patrol agents arrested three human smugglers and apprehended two groups of migrants locked inside commercial trailers. The arrests took place at the Falfurrias Border Patrol Checkpoint in Brooks County, Texas, approximately 80 miles north of the Texas-Mexico border. Falfurrias Station agents assigned to the checkpoint on U.S. Highway 281 made two arrests of human smugglers attempting to move migrants into the U.S. interior, according to information obtained from RGV Sector Border Patrol officials. Callous smugglers cram illegally present migrants into trailers with no means of escape. A #USBP K9 led Falfurrias Checkpoint agents to the discovery of 4 children & 2 adults hidden in a tractor trailer. Details: https://t.co/A1RqGKAPd4 pic.twitter.com/jRaMnLEvHi — Chief Patrol Agent Brian Hastings (@USBPChiefRGV) January 18, 2022 Agents working the Falfurrias Checkpoint observed a Freightliner tractor-trailer approaching for inspection on the afternoon of January 17. During the initial interview, a Border Patrol K-9 alerted to the possible presence of drug or human cargo in the trailer area. The agents referred the driver to a secondary inspection area where a search of the trailer led to the discovery of six Mexican nationals illegally present in the U.S., officials stated. The migrants included four children between the ages of eight and 15 years. The migrants, including the children, were locked inside the trailer between stacks of lumber and had no means of escape in the event of a crash or abandonment by the smugglers. Officials said the temperature inside the cargo area was in excess of 123 degrees. Agents arrested the driver and the migrants and took them inside the checkpoint for processing, officials stated. A few hours later, agents at the same checkpoint observed a Kenworth tractor approaching for inspection. The agents searched the trailer packed with produce and found five Central American migrants hiding inside. The migrants were locked inside, again with no means of escape. Agents arrested the U.S. citizen driver and a Legally Admitted Permanent Resident passenger of the truck. The migrants were also placed under arrest and processed. Bob Price serves as associate editor and senior news contributor for the Breitbart Texas-Border team. He is an original member of the Breitbart Texas team. Price is a regular panelist on Fox 26 Houston’s What’s Your Point? Sunday-morning talk show. Follow him on Twitter @BobPriceBBTX and Facebook. Del Rio Sector Becoming Busiest for Illegal Border Crossings, Says Chief 21 U.S. Border Patrol/Del Rio Sector BOB PRICE 20 Jan 202222 3:10 A massive migrant surge in the Del Rio Sector is threatening to make this the busiest of the nine southwest Border Patrol sectors, according to Chief Patrol Agent Jason D. Owens. With approximately 4,000 apprehended over the Martin Luther King holiday weekend and nearly 1,000 more on Tuesday, the Del Rio Sector is leading the Rio Grande Valley Sector for January apprehensions. A source operating under the umbrella of U.S. Customs and Border Protection revealed to Breitbart Texas that Del Rio Sector agents apprehended more than 16,000 migrants so far this month. This compares to the approximately 13,000 apprehended during the same period in the Rio Grande Valley sector. If this trend holds through the end of the month, Del Rio will overtake Rio Grande Valley as the busiest sector along the southwest border with Mexico. Chief Owens tweeted images of more large migrant groups who surrendered to Border Patrol agents immediately after crossing the border from Mexico into Texas. The chief reported five groups crossed the border overwhelming the limited resources available in the sector. One group alone consisted of more than 265 migrants. By the following morning, the agents apprehended more large migrant groups. One of these apprehended during the cover of darkness consisted of more than 400 in a single group. The Del Rio Sector appears to be overtaking the Rio Grande Valley Sector as the busiest in the nation. Breitbart Texas’s Randy Clark reported agents in this sector apprehended more than 4,000 migrants during the first six days of the new year. Another 4,000 were apprehended over the Martin Luther King holiday weekend. As of Wednesday morning, the number of apprehensions is estimated to exceed 16,000. Bob Price serves as associate editor and senior news contributor for the Breitbart Texas-Border team. He is an original member of the Breitbart Texas team. Price is a regular panelist on Fox 26 Houston’s What’s Your Point? Sunday-morning talk show. Follow him on Twitter @BobPriceBBTX and Facebook. Randy Clark contributed to this article. EXCLUSIVE: West Texas Border Sector Now Epicenter of Migrant Crisis 277 CBP RANDY CLARK 19 Jan 2022718 2:50 DEL RIO, Texas — A source within U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) explains the Del Rio Sector is holding the lead in migrant apprehensions throughout the southwest. In January thus far, there are nearly 16,000 apprehensions, averaging almost 1,000 daily. Established CBP statistics show lead changes are not common. The Rio Grande Valley Sector held the top position in migrant apprehensions since 2013. Large migrant groups crossing through the Del Rio Sector, particularly in Eagle Pass, are now the norm. Five such large groups were apprehended within the sector over the last four days. In one instance, according to the Border Patrol, one group near Eagle Pass numbered more than 265. The lead change may have more to do with a a reduction of migrant crossings in the Rio Grande Valley Sector, rather than an increase in in Del Rio. In November 2021, the RGV apprehended an average of 1,590 migrants per day. That daily average dropped to 700 in January. The source believes recent international law enforcement efforts may have contributed to a reduction in the Rio Grande Valley. In a recent report by Breitbart Texas, 359 migrants were arrested in Mexico. In another instance, 120 kidnapped migrants were rescued by law enforcement officials from a cartel safe-house in Ciudad Victoria. The source says although the efforts of foreign entities may be benefiting south Texas, the effects are not felt further west along the border. The migrant crossings in Del Rio have resulted in facility overcrowding and a reduction in routine patrols. The source says the Del Rio Sector is overwhelmed by the level of crossings and is averaging more than 800 apprehensions per day since the start of January. Since the fiscal year started in October 2021, the source says some 271,000 migrants have been apprehended along the southwest border — eclipsing the 30,000 apprehended during the same time frame last year. The relative reductions seen in the Rio Grande Valley are dependent on Mexico’s enforcement actions. The U.S. source says Mexico’s resources are stretched as thin and any curtailed efforts will immediately be felt in south Texas. 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. Follow him on Twitter @RandyClarkBBTX. BY THE TIME THEY ARE FINISHED, THE DEMOCRAT PARTY OF GAMER LAWYER POLITICIANS WILL HAVE CRIPPLED AMERICA AND PUT VAST RICHES IN THEIR POCKETS DOING IT! Why Does Immigration Reform Legislation Fail? Recommendations on how to restore political stability in immigration policy Follow Parsing Immigration Policy on Ricochet, Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music, Spotify, Stitcher, Google Podcasts   Washington, D.C. (January 6, 2022) – Since President Reagan signed into law the 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA), five presidents have supported legislation containing an amnesty for a large portion of the illegal immigrant population. All of these pieces of legislation traded amnesty for enforcement, except the most recent, the Biden-Menendez immigration bill (U.S. Citizenship Act of 2021). This bill would have legalized virtually all illegal immigrants in the United States, but actually weakened enforcement. Why have all these bills failed? Is there hope for a future immigration compromise? In this week’s episode of Parsing Immigration Policy, Jerry Kammer, a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter and a Senior Research Fellow for the Center for Immigration Studies, explains how a left-right coalition of immigrant-rights groups, ethnic activists, business interests, and civil libertarians thwarted the immigration reform law enacted by Congress in 1986. The amnesty of millions of illegal immigrants happened right away, but the promise to enforce immigration law, particularly worksite enforcement, was quickly abandoned. This led to the distrust that we have today, which causes many legislators and members of the public to support only immigration legislation devoted to enforcement of the laws. Kammer, author of Losing Control: How a Left-Right Coalition Blocked Immigration Reform and Provoked the Backlash That Elected Trump, walks the listener through the passage of IRCA; multiple administrations and their attempts to pass immigration legislation; the important institutions, especially liberal institutions, and politicians who have shifted their positions on enforcement; and why enforcement, particularly at the worksite, is so important to controlling illegal immigration and protecting the American worker. In his closing commentary, Mark Krikorian, the Center’s executive director and host of Parsing Immigration Policy, describes his approach to restoring political stability in immigration policy. The solution starts with a departure from the IRCA approach of granting an amnesty up front for a promise of future enforcement, and includes a rational limit on legal immigration. JOE BIDEN'S INVASION AND AMERICA'S VAST HOMELESS NUMBERS Tucker: Why is this happening? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ka7zKnzEfs WHEN JOE BIDEN IS NOT SUCKING OFF BRIBES, HE SPENDS HIS TIME SABOTAGING HOMELAND SECURITY TO FLOOD AMERICA WITH 'CHEAP' LABOR ILLEGALS. Biden’s border policy may be 2021’s biggest failure By Mark Krikorian Boston Herald Excerpt: We’ve learned a lot about Joe Biden’s views on immigration control in the first year of his administration. He doesn’t like it. Senate Democrats, Immigration Advocates, Scheme to Ignore Parliamentarian By Andrew R. Arthur Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) publicly stated on this week that he “cannot vote” for H.R. 5376, the “Build Back Better Act” (though not citing its immigration provisions), almost definitely dooming it. But the White House has since vowed to “work like hell” to get the measure passed. DHS Withdraws Trump’s Merit-Based H-1B Rule By Robert Law As a result of withdrawing the H-1B Selection Final Rule, USCIS will continue to run a lottery, which means that the lowest-skilled foreign workers will continue to capture the lion’s share of H-1Bs every year. 2200 Migrants Cross into One Texas Border Sector over New Year’s Weekend U.S. Border Patrol/Del Rio Sector BOB PRICE 4 Jan 20220 2:51 Del Rio Sector Border Patrol agents kicked off the new year with the apprehension of 2,200 migrants. The apprehension included a little girl who made what officials called “the treacherous journey” by herself. Del Rio Sector Chief Patrol Agent Jason Owens tweeted images revealing the apprehension of 2,200 migrants over the New Year’s Day weekend. “2022 is off & running,” Chief Owens tweeted. Agents also stopped seven human smuggling attempts and rescued 12 migrants over the weekend. Also over the weekend, agents found a young girl who made the “treacherous journey” from her home country to Texas by herself, Owens tweeted. “When do you think she last felt this safe?” the chief asked. “This little one endured a treacherous journey, alone & afraid. Ask HER what she thinks of the people in green.” During the first two months of Fiscal Year 2022, which began on October 1, 2021, Del Rio Sector Border Patrol agents apprehended nearly 58,000 migrants. This represents an increase of nearly 239 percent over the same period one year earlier. Border Patrol agents apprehended more than 1.9 million migrants who illegally crossed the southwest border with Mexico between ports of entry during 2021, Breitbart Texas reported. Another estimated half-million migrants managed to avoid apprehension and sneak into the U.S. An All-Time High 4.5 Million People Quit Their Jobs in November as Cheap Labor Bubble Burst Continues Maja Hitij/Getty JOHN CARNEY 4 Jan 20220 4:55 It’s not only difficult for employers to fill open positions in the U.S. economy. It’s increasingly challenging to hold on to workers already on the payroll, especially in traditionally lower-wage jobs. A record number of people quit their jobs in November, the latest Labor Department survey of hires, openings, and quits showed Tuesday. The number of quits rose to 4.53 million in November, according to the Labor Department’s Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey. That was a nine percent increase from the prior month and the highest on record. The previous high had been set in September at 4.36 million. Quits have been at historically elevated levels since passing 3.5 million in March of 2021. On average since the turn of the century, there were 2.7 million quits per month. Three percent of the total workforce quit in November, matching the record high hit in September. One of the factors driving the high level of quits is the confidence workers have that they can find another job that will pay better or offer better working conditions. The total number job openings in November was 10.56 million. That’s lower than the 11 million consensus forecast and down from 11.09 million in October. But it is extremely high historically speaking and well above the 6.88 million people out of work and looking for employment in November. The prepandemic twenty-first century average number of openings is 4.5 million, so the economy has twice as many available jobs as normal. While the development of a high level of quits has been labeled the Great Resignation, there is some evidence that a good part of what is driving this is the popping of the cheap labor bubble.  The high-powered economy and reduced level of immigration created in the Trump era is now forcing companies and entire sectors of the economy to unwind business models built around the idea that the supply of labor was nearly unlimited, eliminating the need for employers to raise wages or improve conditions to expand payrolls. Now employers are forced to compete for workers. This can be seen in the elevated rate of hires in the month. The JOLTS report showed that there were 6.7 million hires in the month, which suggests that many of the quitters were not people leaving the workforce but people leaving to work in better jobs. A gauge of employment from the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta shows that people who have switched jobs have seen median wage growth of 4.3 percent while those who have stayed at the same employer have seen wages grow by 3.1 percent. So quitters are prospering. Leisure and hospitality, one of the sectors most dependent on cheap labor, have seen wage gains of 3.8 percent over the 12-months through November, above the 3.7 percent overall. Trade and transportation workers have seen wages rise 3.9 percent. The quits level for leisure and hospitality topped one million in November for the first time ever. The rate was 6.4 percent, a full percentage point higher than the October rate and the highest of all sectors of the economy. The sub-category of accommodations and food services saw the level rise to 6.9 percent, also a record. The Atlanta Fed’s wage tracker also breaks out workers by level of education. Here too the evidence suggests that a good part of what we’re seeing in the current labor market is the fallout from the unwind of cheap labor business models. This year, for the first time ever, wage gains for those with a high school education or less have outpaced those with more education. As of November, the 12-month gain for high school or less-educated workers was 4 percent. Those with Associates Degrees had seen 3.2 percent wage gains. And those with Bachelor’s Degrees had seen wages rise by 3.4 percent. Last month, Neil Munro reported that the Biden administration is trying to reinflate the cheap labor bubble by importing more workers. Nationwide, politicians are facing pressure from companies who want the federal government to re-inflate the cheap-labor bubble that it started in 1990. In Washington, that business pressure has added three cheap-labor giveaways buried deep in the pending Build Back Better bill. Biden’s deputies are trying to re-inflate the cheap-labor bubble. So far, they have imported roughly 1.5 million migrants — both legal immigrants and illegal migrants — during 2021. Openings fell in manufacturing for both durable goods makers and nondurables, while hires were steady in durables and down only slightly in nondurables. It is too early to tell whether this combination points to coming relief from some supply chain problems or suggests a slowing in growth due to those problems. Joe Biden’s Deputies Boast of Accelerating Migration Numbers PEDRO PARDO/AFP/Getty Images, File NEIL MUNRO 3 Jan 20220 6:30 President Joe Biden’s progressive deputies are boasting about their efforts to fast-track foreigners into Americans’ jobs, society, and voting booths. “I’m immensely proud of the USCIS workforce … [for] enacting numerous operational and policy changes in response to executive orders from the Biden-Harris Administration,” said a statement from Ur Jaddou, the director of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services agency within Alejandro Mayorkas’ Department of Homeland Security. The USCIS agency processes foreigners’ requests for work permits, green cards, and citizenship. The agency helps people overseas for U.S. jobs, it helps migrants who illegally sneak over the border, and it helps migrants who are released into the United States by Mayorkas’ customs and border officials. From October 2020 to the end of September 2021, according to Jaddou, the agency provided citizenship t0 855,000 migrants and rewarded 172,000 people with green cards for taking jobs needed by Americans. The immigration system is an “engine of American strength,” Jaddou claimed, promising “In the upcoming year, we will continue to serve the [foreign] public with compassion and reflect America’s promise as a nation of welcome and possibilities for all.” The phrase, “a nation of welcome,” is increasingly being used by progressives instead of the unpopular “nation of immigrants” demand first pushed in the Cold War. The rush by Biden’s deputies to pull more migrants into U.S. society comes after President Donald Trump decided in 2020 to largely end the federal government’s economic policy of extracting migrants from foreign countries. Under Trump, the annual inflow of visa workers, job-seeking “students,” temporary workers, and legal immigrants dropped by 1 million, from 1.6 million in 2017 to under 600,000 in 2021, according to a December 21 report by the U.S. Census Bureau. The Trump reform burst the cheap labor bubble that allowed investors to grow rich by creating many low-wage companies and jobs during the three decades after Congress spiked migration in 1990. Numerous groups — including JP Morgan and Goldman Sachs — have credited Trump’s reduced labor supply for boosting Americans’ wages and forcing greater investment in labor-saving technology. The reduction has also helped to reduce some ethnic conflicts in the United States. For example, an increasing number of Latinos are shifting their political focus from divisive ethnic politics toward shared national concerns, such as wage growth and family budgets. Biden’s deputies, however, are now working overtime to reinflate the cheap labor bubble. They are bringing bring in more migrants to serve as workers, consumers, renters — and eventually, as Democratic voters. In 2021, for example, the administration allowed roughly 1.5 million migrants to enter the United States as asylum seekers, refugees, border jumpers, Afghan parolees, legal immigrants, family reunification beneficiaries, or visa workers. The year-end report by the USCIS boasted: By the end of FY 2021 [On October 1], USCIS approved over 172,000 employment-based adjustment of status applications, an increase of 50% above the typical baseline … […] USCIS welcomed 855,000 new U.S. citizens, including derivative citizensUSCIS collected biometrics for more than 52,000 individuals and adjudicated more than 28,000 applications for employment authorization … […] USCIS completed approximately 39,000 affirmative asylum cases, 44,000 credible fear determinations, and more than 4,400 reasonable fear determinations … […] USCIS began accepting applications and renewals for TPS under new and/or extended designations for South Sudan, Burma, Somalia, Syria, Venezuela, Yemen and Haiti … […] [It is] clarifying that it will consider E and L dependent spouses to be employment authorized incident to status and that H-4, E, and L dependent spouses may qualify for the automatic extension of their employment authorization, and providing deferred action and work authorization for petitioners living in the U.S. with pending, bona fide U nonimmigrant status petitions … The agency also boasted about new regulations to convert migrants into citizens: USCIS has taken a number of steps to reduce barriers to naturalization and promote citizenship, including phasing out the 2020 version of the Naturalization Civics Test and reverting back to the 2008 Test on March 1 … […] On Aug. 20, 2021, a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking was published that would amend regulations so that individuals … could have their claims for asylum, withholding of removal, or protection under the Convention Against Torture initially adjudicated by a USCIS asylum officer through a nonadversarial proceeding, rather than in immigration court by an immigration judge. Many polls show that Americans want to like immigrants and immigration. But the bipartisan federal government has exploited that openness since 1990 to extract tens of millions of migrants from poor countries to serve U.S. businesses as workers, consumers, and renters. That economic strategy is harmful to ordinary Americans: It cuts career opportunities and their wages while it also raises their rents. The strategy also curbs Americans’ productivity, shrinks their political clout, widens regional wealth gaps, radicalizes their democratic, compromise-promoting civic culture, and allows elites to ignore despairing Americans at the bottom of society. A wide variety of little-publicized polls does show deep and broad opposition to labor migration and the inflow of temporary contract workers into jobs sought by young U.S. graduates. This opposition is growing, multiracial, cross-sex, non-racist, class-based, bipartisan, rational, persistent, and recognizes the solidarity Americans owe to each other.  Republicans, Democrats Ask DHS Mayorkas to Import More Cheap Labor Tim Mossholder via Unsplash NEIL MUNRO 31 Dec 20210 8:33 GOP and Democrat politicians are asking the federal government to help reinflate the government-created cheap labor bubble that burst in 2020, just as employers have begun offering higher wages to recruit Americans. “Due to ongoing workforce shortages our country continues to face, American farmers continue to utilize the H-2A guest worker visa program,” 35 legislators said in a December 21 letter sent to the Department of State and the Department of Homeland Security, which is headed by the pro-migration zealot, Alejandro Mayorkas. But federal travels curbs against the new omicron epidemic  has stranded 7,000 South African seasonal workers, the legislators said, adding: Without an exemption to the recently imposed travel restrictions, South African H-2A worker absences will limit the ability of American farms to continue production of food, fuel, and fiber for our nation during this critical time. That letter was signed by at least 12 Republicans, including Rep. Elise Stefanik (D-NY), who runs the House Republican Conference leadership office. On the same day, 21 Democrats asked Mayorkas to accelerate the award of work permits to the imported wives of Indian contract workers. Their Indian husbands are using H-1B and L-1 visas to take white-collar jobs needed by U.S. graduates. “Processing delays have left [the spouses’] families without a second income, forcing them to dip into their savings, sell their homes, and take other drastic measures,” said the letter, led by Rep. Deborah Ross (D-NC), and also signed by Kathy Porter (D-CA). President Joe Biden’s administration is granting some of those requests. For example, December Mayorkas approved the inflow of an extra 20,000 H-2B visa workers to fill a wide variety of seasonal jobs — such as hotel maids, kitchen staff, and landscaping crews. In 2021, employers could not get visa workers from Trump, and so they filled many of those seasonal jobs with wage offers to untrained Americans recruited from urban districts. There is no shortage of labor in a nation of 190 million working-age people and roughly 150 million jobs. Instead, there is a massive gap between what Americans want to be paid and what employers and investors expect to pay them. In California, employers are reluctantly closing the gap by offering higher wages. The Wall Street Journal reported December 22: Logistics businesses in [California’s] Inland Empire are battling to bring on and keep workers amid the tightest U.S. labor market in years, offering signing bonuses, starting salaries of $20 an hour or more and perks such as flexible schedules. “The market has gotten that tight,” said Bill Fraine, chief commercial officer for GXO Logistics Inc., which has tripled its workforce in the region during the past two years to about 3,900 employees, and still has 600 vacancies. “You’re creating much more competition, which means much more pricing power for the employees to get into the job.” […] The push to hire has led businesses such as Ingram Micro Inc., a third-party logistics company that serves many big-box retailers, to grant pension and other benefits to full-time employees on the first day of work. Bill Ross, executive vice president of global operations, said companies can no longer compete simply on wages. “People have a lot of choices,” he said. In Georgia, warehouse and retail companies are hiring Americans from the low-wage jobs that were created in the 30-year cheap labor bubble. “It was nothing personal,” hotel maid Monique Rolle told the Washington Post. “Target was paying more, so I dropped [working at] the hotel.” The cheap labor bubble burst in 2020 when President Donald Trump and the coronavirus shut down the post-1990 government-delivered supply of migrant foreign labor. Hasit Patel is an Indian legal immigrant who operates the franchise budget hotel in Georgia, where Rolle worked for roughly $8.50 an hour before she took her $15-an-hour job at Target. Patel’s business plan assumed the federal government would continue to extract cheap labor from poor countries, according to what he told the Washington Post: [His] struggle to find [replacement] labor felt like a blow to his whole notion of what made America great. An immigrant from India, he believed that the health of the U.S. economy was protected by a constant refreshing of the workforce, an injection of striving immigrants willing to take on some of the unpleasant jobs that many Americans are loath to do — like cleaning [his] hotel rooms. “I can’t compete with the warehouses for wages,” Patel said as he asked the federal government to import cheap labor. “The government should let us get people from India, even just for six months.” Overall, the federal government imported five million fewer foreigners from 2010 to 2020 — including three million fewer from 2017 to 2020 — compared to prior decades, according to recent reports. The Democrats’ pending Build Back Better bill would import millions of extra foreign workers, consumers, and renters into the U.S. economy over the next several years. The letters from the House legislators are asking Biden’s deputies to reinflate the bubble by pumping more H4EAD and L-2 white-collar workers and more H-2A farmworkers into the U.S. economy. Mayorkas is trying to reinflate the labor bubble — despite President Joe Biden’s calls for a wage-raising “tight labor” economy. In 2021, Mayorkas helped import an additional 1 million migrants across the southern border, including at least 700,000 job-seekers. Mayorkas also helped bring in hundreds of thousands of legal immigrants, admitted roughly 50,000 Afghan migrants, minimized curbs on the growing number of foreign visitors who get U.S. jobs instead of going home. The H-2A letter was signed by Rep. Fred Upton (R-Mich), Troy Balderson (R-OH), Glenn Thompson (R-PA), Dusty Johnson (R-SD), Bill Huizenga (R-MI), Dan Newhouse (R-WA),  Troy Balderson (R-OH), Peter Meijer (R-MI), Ron Estes (R-KS), Reps. Frank Lucas (R-OK), Kelly Armstrong (R-ND), Tom Cole (R-OK), Elise Stefanik (R-NY),  and Tom Emmer (R-MN). In November, Emmer told Breitbart News that immigration is a pocketbook issue for voters. “Well, the immigration issue is a pocketbook issue … You’re talking about immigration being a kitchen table issue and how it impacts [voters]. The bottom line is that polling showed us this is still a very potent issue for Americans. This is something that, while some people would want to write it off, this is something that Americans care about, and this administration has completely punted on the immigration issue and talk about incompetence. But fewer than half of likely voters trust House GOP on immigration issues. Many polls show that Americans want to like immigrants and immigration. But the bipartisan federal government has exploited that openness since 1990 to extract tens of millions of migrants from poor countries to serve U.S. businesses as workers, consumers, and renters. That economic strategy damages ordinary Americans’ career opportunities, cuts their wages, and also raises their rents. The strategy also curbs Americans’ productivity, shrinks their political clout, widens regional wealth gaps, radicalizes their democratic, compromise-promoting civic culture, and allows elites to ignore despairing Americans at the bottom of society. A wide variety of little-publicized polls does show deep and broad opposition to labor migration and the inflow of temporary contract workers into jobs sought by young U.S. graduates. This opposition is multiracial, cross-sex, non-racist, class-based,  bipartisan, rational, persistent, and recognizes the solidarity Americans owe to each other.   Josh Hawley: Joe Biden’s ‘Dangerous’ Vetting Policy for Immigrants Flouts 9/11 Commission’s Recommendations DOJ JOHN BINDER 5 Jan 20220 3:56 President Joe Biden’s administration is openly disregarding recommendations made by the 9/11 Commission that tout the importance of properly vetting all immigrants to the United States, in person, before granting their entry with a visa, Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) says. Last month, Biden’s State Department and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced that foreign nationals applying for H-1B, L-1, and O-1 visas will not be required to sit through an in-person interview at an overseas U.S. consulate to secure their visa. The decision to further ease vetting requirements for foreign nationals arriving in the U.S. comes as foreign nationals seeking temporary H-2B work visas and F-1 student visas have been exempt from having to undergo in-person interviews with U.S. consulate officials. Likewise, the Biden administration has brought more than 75,000 Afghans to the U.S. for resettlement since mid-August. DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas has admitted in congressional testimony that “not all” Afghans are being vetted in person. In a letter to Mayorkas and Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Hawley requests that the administration “immediately rescind these misguided policies and ensure that everyone who enters this country has been adequately vetted.” “These policies are dangerous and transparent attempts to normalize the Biden Administration’s historic failures during the evacuation from Afghanistan. They should be rescinded immediately,” Hawley writes, noting that the 9/11 Commission urged in-person vetting as a vital tool to stopping would-be terrorists from entering the U.S. “Our nation’s immigration policies have generally required that immigrants undergo an in-person interview so that government officials can review immigrants’ documents and evaluate the truthfulness of their claims,” Hawley writes: Indeed, the 9/11 Commission’s report emphasized that several would-be terrorists were thwarted by the in-person interview process. For example, “One potential hijacker was turned back by an immigration inspector as he tried to enter the United States. The inspector relied on intuitive experience to ask questions more than he relied on any objective factor that could be detected by ‘scores’ or a machine. Good people who have worked in such jobs for a long time understand this phenomenon well.” Examples like this illustrate the critical role that in-person interviews play in our immigration programs. [Emphasis added] … The first and highest priority of our immigration system is homeland security. It is paramount that we ensure that everyone who enters our country does not pose a threat to public safety. But it appears that the Biden Administration is now doubling down on its failed attempt to adequately vet those evacuated from Afghanistan. These new policies are a transparent ploy to normalize that failed vetting process. [Emphasis added] While Hawley warns of the policy’s potential for danger, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce has praised the lax vetting procedures as necessary for businesses to readily import foreign workers for blue-collar and white-collar American jobs. “The critical factor going forward will be the extent to which consulates exercise these newly-granted authorities,” the Chamber’s Jon Baselice told the Wall Street Journal. “The more the State Department uses them, the more beneficial they will be to American companies.” Every year, about 1.2 million foreign nationals are rewarded with green cards to permanently reside in the U.S. In addition, about 1.5 million foreign nationals are given temporary work visas to take jobs in the American economy that would otherwise go to Americans. John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Email him at jbinder@breitbart.com. Follow him on Twitter here.