TO SAVE THE COUNTRY WE MUST IMPEACH BIDEN. THAT WILL TAKE A REPUBLICAN MAJORITY IN THE SENATE.
Ohio Poll: Republican J.D. Vance Slightly Leads Democrat Rep. Tim Ryan in Senate Race
Republican J.D. Vance slightly leads Rep. Tim Ryan (D-OH) in the race for Ohio’s open United States Senate seat.
The Marist Poll of 1,200 registered voters in Ohio conducted between September 12 and 15 showed Vance slightly in the lead, but within the 3.6 percent margin of error, less than two months before the election.
Forty-six percent of the respondents said they would support Vance to fill retiring Republican Sen. Rob Portman’s seat. In comparison, only 45 percent said they would support Ryan, the failed 2020 presidential candidate. Nine percent said they were undecided.
Additionally, the poll found that Vance also led with the voters who said they were definitely planning to vote with 48 percent compared to Ryan’s 47 percent — also a one-point lead for the Trump-endorsed Republican.
However, among independent voters, Ryan received slightly greater support, with 42 percent compared to Vance’s 40 percent.
Overall, 62 percent of the respondents who named a preferred candidate said they “strongly support their choice. 66 percent of Ryan’s supporters, compared with 58 percent of those behind Vance, say they are firmly committed to their candidate pick.”
Regarding name recognition and favorability, only 40 percent of respondents said they had a favorable opinion of Ryan, while 25 percent said they had an unfavorable opinion of him; 35 percent of the respondents said they either had never heard of him or were “unsure how to rate him.”
For Vance, 30 percent of respondents said they had a favorable opinion of him, while 36 percent had an unfavorable opinion of him. However, like the Democrat, 34 percent of the respondents said they had never heard of him or were “unsure how to rate” him.
“This open Senate seat is hotly contested and is top of the list for political pundits,” said Lee M. Miringoff, the director of the Marist College Institute for Public Opinion. “Expect both campaigns to paint their opponent in a negative way given that each candidate has low name recognition and is not well-defined to voters.”
The poll also found that 48 percent of the registered voters in the state were more likely to support the Republican running in their congressional district, compared to 42 percent who said they would support the Democrat candidate.
Jacob Bliss is a reporter for Breitbart News. Write to him at jbliss@breitbart.com or follow him on Twitter @JacobMBliss.
Top Democrat: GOP Denies Funding for Joe Biden’s Migrant Buses
GOP Senators are refusing to approve more funding for President Joe Biden’s quiet transportation of economic migrants from the border to Americans’ workplaces and communities, says a top Democratic Senator.
The complaint appears as Democrats and their media allies fiercely denounce the very public — but small-scale transport — of Biden’s migrants from the border to New York, Washington, DC, and Martha’s Vineyard.
If the political standoff continues, Biden’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) may run out of cash needed to keep moving roughly 130,000 migrants away from border towns each month.
The national election is seven weeks from today, on November 8.
The GOP inaction was revealed on September 20 by U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-CN), who chairs the homeland security panel of the U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee:
I hope my Republican colleagues will put politics aside to support funding in the upcoming CR for a program that provides humanitarian assistance for migrants and their families. The Emergency Food and Shelter Program is a vital tool that provides humanitarian aid to migrants and helps the Border Patrol reduce overcrowding at its facilities.
The statement is unusual because the members of the House and Senate appropriations committees tend to cooperate as they quietly divvy up federal funding for their mostly non-ideological purposes. The appropriators form their own social club on Capitol Hill and usually try to exclude deep ideological fights.
Much of the conflict is hidden because the professional staffers in both parties make many trades and compromises for the legislators to approve. For example, they might agree to fund a business giveaway at the request of several Republicans in exchange for the Republicans endorsing a progressive giveaway favored by several Democrats.
But that cooperation seems to have broken down amid Biden’s migration disaster and the impending November election.
Murphy’s comment suggests Republicans are refusing to further fund the Democrats’ northside migrant smuggling network. The network has already moved at least one million southern migrants from the U.S. border into U.S. homes and jobs this year.
Few reporters track the spending — which may exceed $10 billion in 2021 — because the funding is hidden in many accounts, which are often labeled as disaster programs to help Americans.
Murphy wrote:
The Emergency Food and Shelter Program is a vital tool that provides humanitarian aid to migrants and helps the Border Patrol reduce overcrowding at its facilities. If Republicans were serious about more effectively managing the border, they would support increased funding for a program that the Border Patrol views as critical. Instead, they want chaos, so they cheer on the Governors of Texas and Florida as they use millions in taxpayer dollars to exploit desperate and vulnerable people with cruel political stunts.
On September 15, 10 Democratic senators asked the top four Democratic and GOP appropriators to keep the migrant pipeline working:
Funds appropriated through FY 22 [which ends October 1] are quickly being drawn down and in the absence of full-year funding, grantees of the program are currently grappling with how to continue to provide critical services to this vulnerable population. Communities and organizations are on the front-lines of assisting migrants coming to our border and resources are being stretched thin as they take on the role of performing a federal government function. This funding is vitally important as more cities in the United States receive refugees and asylum seekers.
The signatories to the letter include Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ), who is facing a tough challenge from GOP candidate, Blake Masters.
Murphy’s Republican counterpart in the appropriations process is Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV).
On September 20, Capito posted a video of a floor speech in which she denounced the Democrats’ excessive spending:
Another West Virginian wrote to me about the tough choices her family is having to make: “The economy has crumbled in a blink of an eye. My husband and I have full-time jobs and two children. I’m tearful because I sit here looking at upcoming bills and I’m having to decide to pay a bill or buy groceries.” A resident from Weston, West Virginia told me that his insurance premiums increased, and when he asked the company why that happened, they told him it was due to inflation.
Biden’s northside migrant-distribution network was built by Democrats to sneak the migrants into Americans’ society, and also to keep the unpopular migration policy out of the evening news shows.
Mayorkas’ northside smuggling network has successfully hidden the scale and impact of Biden’s migration from the public. For example, a Harvard Harris poll in June 2021 showed that 71 percent of respondents deeply underestimated the monthly flow of migrants into Americans’ jobs, apartments, schools, and culture.
The smuggling is managed by Biden’s pro-migration border chief, Alejandro Mayorkas, who runs the Department of Homeland Security. Much of Mayorkas’ smuggling — including the nighttime flights — has been funded by taxpayer money transferred from various federal programs to contractor-run buses and non-profit shelters. Catholic Charities is one of the leading groups, and it operates bus services from the border to New York.
GOP legislators are also helping to conceal the migration because they refuse to directly link Biden’s migration policy to the public’s top-ranked concerns about the economy, wages, and inflation.
Instead, under pressure from GOP donors, the GOP legislators treat Biden’s migration as a non-pocketbook issue of border chaos, migrant crime, and drug smuggling.
Illegal Immigration Reaches a Point of No Return
It’s going to take a lot more than two Republican governors to put this genie back in the bottle.
Only in the twisted minds of opportunistic political zombies is busing 50 “migrants” from Texas to ritzy Martha’s Vineyard “grotesque,” “inhumane,” “kidnapping,” and “literally human trafficking” as Hillary Clinton put it.
“I happen to believe, still, the majority of Americans are good-hearted and generous and when people end up on their doorstep in need, they’re going to respond,” Clinton smilingly told Joe Scarborough, calling Gov. DeSantis’ move “inhumane, terrible treatment” of human beings. “They’re [Americans] going to feed them and house them and the kids in the AP Spanish class will be let out of high school so they can go and translate,” she said.
Senator Elizabeth Warren tweeted: “Exploiting vulnerable people for political stunts is repulsive and cruel.”
After The View’s Sunny Hostin, a lawyer, said that seeking asylum is legal in the United States and that “It is your right to do it when you get here,” Whoopi Goldberg compared illegals breaching the Mexican border to people who “come through the border from Canada.”
“I love Canadians, don’t get me wrong, OK,” Goldberg said. “My point is because it’s been made into a brown people issue, it’s a problem.”
In the minds of these liberals and Democrats, the border issue has already reached a point of no return.
In the face of epidemic fentanyl deaths, vaccine injuries reaching into the tens of thousands, inflation skyrocketing, violent crime off the charts, mobs threatening Supreme Court judges, and as more than two million illegals, and counting, stream across the border – liberals and leftists screamed the loudest, last week, about 50 migrants desecrating Martha’s Vineyard.
Democrats haven’t always been so reckless. Not too long ago, illegal immigration was a no-brainer.
“Illegal immigration is wrong – plain and simple,” Chuck Schumer said in 2009.
Hillary Clinton belched in 2003, “I am adamantly against illegal immigration.”
And, in 1995, Bill Clinton promised as president, “… to speed the deportation of illegal aliens who are arrested for crimes, to better identify illegal aliens in the workplace… We are a nation of immigrants. But we are also a nation of laws.”
Speedy deportations were part of the recommendations that the U.S. Commission on Immigration Reform, chaired by Congresswoman Barbara Jordan (D-Texas), gave President Clinton that same year.
“The issue of immigration is not a partisan issue,” Jordan said at the United We Stand America National Convention in 1995. “Immigration is not a right, … It is a privilege granted by the people of the United States to those we choose to admit.”
After massive research and investigations, Jordan’s team found it vital to the national interest not only to restrict illegal, but legal immigration.
“We must control illegal immigration before it erodes legal immigration,” she said. “… The commission defines credibility in immigration policy by a simple yardstick: Those who should get in, get in. Those who should be kept out, are kept out. And those who should not be here, are required to leave. … For our immigration policy to make sense, it is necessary to make distinctions between those who obey the law and those who violate it. Unlawful immigration is not acceptable.”
Today, illegal immigration has not only become accepted, but institutionalized. Seeing a rich, liberal enclave like Martha’s Vineyard summon the National Guard and kick out 50 “migrants” in a little more than a day, was a marvel to behold. And rare. Good for them. But the poor and middle-class who live in woke Democrat cities aren’t so fortunate. They either have to suffer or move.
My oldest daughter, who lived in Los Angeles for years, saw a point of no return for that city in 2019.
In utter frustration, she texted me videos of illegals camped outside her apartment. It was shocking. Clusters of illegals lined the streets camped on blankets that formed the property lines for slipshod sidewalk “storefronts.”
Shopping carts were wrapped in aluminum foil to grill and sell food. One man heaped stacks of crawdads inside a baby carriage without ice or refrigeration. Another one sold piles of chili peppers sprawled on the bare sidewalk under a rickety table.
Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti ordered police to do nothing.
“They are above the law,” my daughter wrote. “How can you sell so much food on the street without a permit? Without the grading system? I didn’t know you could have a business and not pay taxes. … This! Is! Their! Country!!! The situation in LA is unbearable.”
Those who choose to live in the city scream into political oblivion against illegal immigration. Their voices are heard loud and clear, then ignored.
One black man wearing a MAGA cap told county leaders back in 2017 in a meeting to consider SB-54, California’s sanctuary state bill, that things have become so unbearable that he’s ready to take the law into his own hands.
SB-54, which eventually passed and went into effect in 2018, forbade local and state law enforcement to cooperate with federal immigration authorities.
“Make California Great Again!” the man yelled at the meeting. “We gonna handle this! If you guys don’t, I will! And if Mr. Trump would have lost, I would have organized some brothers, and we [would] put all your asses under … citizen’s arrest (pointing to a group of pro-illegal immigrant protesters).”
Unlike Martha’s Vineyard, no one with power to effect change, at the time, spoke for frustrated Americans, except Donald Trump.
But even as the country’s chief law enforcer, Trump was viciously opposed by Democrat and leftist politicians who exerted their full powers into doing nothing. They didn’t want to stop illegals, they wanted to stop Trump.
But Trump took the drastic step of threatening tariffs, forcing Mexico to agree, among other things, to send 6,000 of its National Guard troops to the Guatemalan border to curb the flow of illegal entry. He also asked Mexico to disrupt migrant bus routes and designate itself a third safe country so asylum-seekers’ journey could end there.
It worked – until Joe Biden and Democrats, out of political hatred, dismantled it all, with nothing to replace it.
With the deliberate blurring of the lines between legal and illegal immigration, the erosion of bipartisan political will to enforce the law, and millions of illegals fanned out into communities, likely, in every state, it’s going to take a lot more than two Republican governors “pulling political stunts” to put this genie back in the bottle.
Along with defunding the police and so many crazy things, without drastic, unapologetic pushback before the midterm elections and beyond, it’s hard not to agree with Thomas Sowell, who told Mark Levin in 2020 that America could reach a point of no return.
“I hope, of course, that will never happen,” Sowell said, “but there is a such a thing as a point of no return. … The Roman Empire overcame many problems in its long history, but eventually it reached a point where it simply could no longer continue on. And much of that was from within, not just the barbarians attacking from outside.”
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Joe Biden Welcomes 3 Migrants for Every 4 U.S. Births
President Joe Biden’s border policy has invited 1.15 million migrants across the border since October 2021, despite the continued anti-epidemic Title 42 border barrier, according to data released by the Department of Homeland Security.
The 1.15 million economic migrants were allowed to cross the border under a series of legal excuses. They have been accompanied by roughly 500,000 additional job-seeking migrants who sneaked or rushed past Biden’s small force of distracted border guards.
The 1.15 million migrants were more than half of the two million migrants who arrived at the border. Few of them were flown home — so many of the rejected migrants were later able to sneak across the border.
Another 150,000 migrants are expected to be welcomed this month.
At the same time, Biden’s deputies have admitted another one million legal immigrants, visa workers, and job-seekers pretending to be short-term tourists. These migrants carry green cards, or H-1B, L-1, J-1, TN, F-1, or B-1/B-2 visas.
So Biden’s massive flood is adding roughly three migrants for every four Americans who will be born this year.
His flood delivers three foreign migrants for every four Americans who turn 18 this year.
In contrast, President Donald Trump allowed only 253,000 migrants across the border in 2020. He also slashed the inflow of legal immigrants and visa workers.
That low-migration policy gave more than 100 million working Americans the tight labor market that they needed to win extra wages, more technology investment, and better workplace treatment in 2020 and 2021.
Predictably, Biden’s migration is pressuring down Americans’ wages. It is also boosting rents and housing prices, and pushing up inflation for a wide variety of goods, such as used autos and food.
The mass migration is also distorting normal politics. For example, Democrats claim racism is motivating Americans’ attempts to protect their economic and citizen rights amid the flood of foreign economic migrants.
Similarly, GOP legislators ignore migration’s economic hit on Americans and try to focus voters on other issues, such as migrant crime, chaos, and drug smuggling.
The mass inflow is supported by the economic beneficiaries — the nation’s political and business elites.
It is also backed by many of its college-graduate supporters in the media and the professional sector. The college-grade supporters, however, pay heavily for their support of migration. Many earn lower salaries amid the huge inflow of white-collar migrants, and many choose to buy houses or rent apartments in low-diversity districts where they expect schools and crimes will be better than in districts damaged by the inflow of migrants.
The least productive groups of American citizens also lose out to eager, hard-working, and grateful economic migrants in the nation’s economy.
For example, the left-wing D.C. Fiscal Policy Institute reported on September 15 how lesser-educated Americans are struggling in the D.C. economy:
Affording the basics, such as rent, food, and utilities is a daily challenge for many DC residents. This is disproportionately true for Black residents, one in five of whom live in poverty. Income support programs help people make ends meet and boost long-term education and health outcomes for children.
One of the migrants who was delivered to D.C. by Biden’s semi-open borders policy, Lever Alejos, spoke to Miriam Jordan, a reporter at the New York Times:
Solidly middle class in Venezuela, he was struggling to keep his machine-repair shop afloat amid the country’s economic collapse. In Venezuela these days, many people make just a few dollars a day.
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Within days [of arriving in D.C.], Mr. Alejos found work in construction. By the second week, he was sending money home to support his 7-year-old son, Christopher, and saving to buy a cellphone. By late fall, he plans to move out of the shelter to his own place.
“There is so much opportunity here,” he told Jordan. “You just have to take advantage of it.”
Nearly all non-profit advocates for migration ignore the economic skew created by migration, just as they ignore the massive death toll of Biden’s migration.
But that see-no-problem policy is risky, partly because it may lead to a massive political correction in November that would damage many of the Democrats’ other priorities and ideological claims.
The polls show that Biden’s migration is a very high priority for Americans, even though pollsters pretend that immigration is unconnected to the economy or inflation.
For example, the GOP has 46 percent support — a 17-point advantage — on immigration, and 56 percent support — a 36-point advantage — on border issues, according to an NBC September poll of 1,000 registered voters.
The GOP also has 47 percent support for the economy, giving it a 19-point advantage over the Democrats.
The poll also showed that “jobs and the economy,” “cost of living,” and “immigration and the situation at the border” were deemed the most important issues by 44 percent of the respondents.
Extraction Migration
Government officials want to grow the economy, and immigration is an easier tool than gradually raising exports, productivity, or the birth rate.
So the federal governments extract millions of migrants from poor countries and use them as extra workers, consumers, and renters.
This Extraction Migration policy grows the national economy but also skews it towards employers and investors. For example, migration tends to ensure employers do not run short of labor. The lack of “tight labor markets” ensures that the migration shifts vast wealth from employees to investors, billionaires, and Wall Street. In turn, that makes it difficult for ordinary Americans to advance in their careers, get married, raise families, or buy homes.
Extraction migration also slows innovation and shrinks Americans’ productivity. This happens because it encourages employers to boost stock prices by relying on disposable workers instead of uncapturable American professionals and technology.
This migration policy also reduces exports by minimizing economic pressure on U.S. companies to build up complementary trade with people in poor countries.
Migration undermines employees’ workplace rights, and it widens the regional economic gaps between the Democrats’ cheap-labor coastal states and the Republicans’ heartland and southern states.
An economy fueled by extraction migration also drains Americans’ political clout over elites. It alienates young people and radicalizes Americans’ democratic civic culture because it gives an excuse for wealthy elites and progressives to ignore despairing Americans at the bottom of society, such as drug addicts.
This economic strategy is enthusiastically pushed by progressives who wish to transform the U.S. from a society governed by European-origin civic culture into an economic empire of jealous identity groups overseen by progressive hall monitors. “We’re trying to become the first multiracial, multi-ethnic superpower in the world,” Rep. Rohit Khanna (D-CA) told the New York Times in March 2022. “It will be an extraordinary achievement. … We will ultimately triumph,” he boasted.
But the progressives’ colonialism-like economic strategy kills many migrants. It exploits the poverty of migrants and splits foreign families as it extracts human resources from poor home countries to serve wealthy U.S. investors.
Progressives hide this extraction migration economic policy behind a wide variety of noble-sounding narratives and theatrical border security programs. For example, they claim the U.S. is a “Nation of Immigrants,” that migration helps migrants, and that the state must renew itself by replacing populations.
Similarly, establishment Republicans, corporate media, and major GOP donors hide the skew caused by migration. They suppress any recognition of the pocketbook impact and instead tout border chaos, welfare spending, migrant crime, and drug smuggling.
Many polls show the public wants to welcome some immigration. But the polls also show deep and broad public opposition to labor migration and the inflow of temporary contract workers into the good jobs U.S. graduates need to raise families.
This “Third Rail” opposition is growing, anti-establishment, multiracial, cross-sex, non-racist, class-based, bipartisan, rational, persistent, and recognizes the solidarity that American citizens owe to one another.
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