Nearly 5 Million Illegal Immigrants Crossed Border During Biden Administration
Newt Gingrich: 'The level of dishonesty is astonishing'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2yn8p7UtvE
Analysis: Industries Importing Foreign H-2B Visa Workers Steal $1.8 Billion in Wages Since 2000
Biden’s Labor Chief Promotes Worker Replacement, Says Immigrants Are ‘Only Way’ to Fill Jobs
The Democrat party’s pick for Secretary of Labor says CEOs are being victimized by a shortage of immigrant workers.
Companies want to hire another 11 million people, Labor Secretary Marty Walsh told Fox News on September 2, adding:
If those 11 million jobs had to be filled tomorrow, we certainly don’t have enough people in the United States to fill those jobs … the issue of workers has to be addressed and the only way [emphasis added] you can do it is through immigration.
“When I talk to CEOs from companies all across America, they’re all in favor of immigration reform,” he said, “they’re all in favor of pathways — of visas — for people coming into the United States working and we’re going to have to have that real serious conversation because at some point it will begin to impact our economy.”
But Walsh “doesn’t seem to know what’s going on in the U.S. labor market in terms of real wages for the less-educated, or the labor force participation,” responded Steve Camarota, research director at the Center for Immigration Studies.
“There are two main things that you could do [to get Americans into those jobs] — make it more attractive to work and make it less attractive to sit on your ass,” he said:
Could you ever get teenagers to work like they did in the 70s? No, but could you get a million more teenagers to work? Yeah. Could you ever get men to have the labor force participation rate of 96 percent — say non-college men 25 to 54 — that we had in 1964? No, but could you get it up to 88 percent instead of 84 percent or 83 percent? Yes.
The government should try to fill jobs with some of the roughly 60 million adults not working by allowing wages to rise, he said.
The 60 million number includes 5.5 million people who said they want a job but are not part of the unemployment numbers because they have not looked for jobs in the last four weeks.
The government should also try to raise the productivity of American workers with better training and machinery, he added:
The most important way to make a country actually richer on a per capita basis — which is all that really matters — is productivity. If you want to grow the per capita GDP, productivity is really a key option, and there’s no evidence that immigration helps to do that.
Walsh “seems to be entirely captive to the perspective of Wall Street, which wants a bigger economy and ignores the fact that productivity growth is the real key to increasing wages and improving the standard of living,” he added.
Some GOP legislators are looking at ways to help non-working Americans rejoin the labor force. For example, Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI), told a town hall event:
There is a number of innovative ideas I would support. [Former Sen.] Phil Gramm came to the Senate where we were talking about our labor shortage and one of his suggestions was to coax seniors to re-enter the workforce — don’t charge them payroll tax. They’re not paying it anyway so they want to get back in and earn a few extra bucks.
But that pro-American, anti-poverty proposal was quickly stabbed by Todd Schulte, the president of a billionaire-funded pro-migration advocacy group:
[I] would suggest a better approach is a pathway to citizenship (work permits!) for undocumented immigrants, not terminating DACA/TPS/H-4 EADs, and modernizing and expanding vs trying to slash legal immigration avenues for those coming in the future.
Schulte heads FWD.us, which is a trade lobby created by wealthy West Coast investors, including Mark Zuckerberg, Eric Schmidt, Bill Gates, and various other investors-billionaires. The group was formed in 2013 to maximize the inflow of foreign workers, taxpayer-aided consumers, and high-occupancy renters into the U.S. economy. The investors have close ties to many Democrats, including Biden’s chief of staff, Ron Klain.
The mostly female staff of the group tries to hide the identity of the investors who founded and funded the group. But copies exist at other sites.
Many local business groups are also calling for sidelined Americans to be replaced with eager, compliant, hard-working migrants.
“On July 7, about 30 business and humanitarian leaders gathered in Nemo [South Dakota] to initiate plans for Freedom’s Haven for New American’s Workforce,” said a September 2 report in Watertown Public Opinion. The report by a local real estate appraiser Brad Johnson continued:
The group, led by Lake Area Technical College President Mike Cartney, recognizes that South Dakota’s economy depends on more immigrant and guest workers. [Sen. John] Thune, who participated in the July meeting, had just asked President Joe Biden to increase the number of [H-2B] work visas.
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Critics of Thune and anyone who suggests more immigrants be welcomed and allowed to work, allege that these workers take jobs the U.S. citizens would fill. Obviously, that is not the case in South Dakota. One employer said Wednesday that a $21 an hour part-time job to wash cars in Brookings, a college town, had no applicants.
However, many companies are trying to sell automated car cleaners that allow a few employees to earn good wages while washing many more autos:
Many companies are being pressured by labor shortages to invest in high-tech, high-wage gear, including dairies in South Dakota:
Similarly, a new meatpacking plant in South Dakota will rely heavily on automation, DRGNews reported July 19:
The Western Legacy Development Corporation facility will utilize robotics and artificial intelligence along other tech applications thereby creating a completely automated packing line, which will make the facility safer, more efficient, more humane, and will provide consistent cuts of meat that would not ordinarily be achieved by a human with known margins for error
Many pro-migration advocates and journalists admit that labor migration is the “Third Rail” of U.S. politics. For example, Johnson wrote:
That will take congressional action to modify, and Thune, Sen. Mike Rounds, R-S.D., and Rep. Dusty Johnson, R-S.D., plan to meet with business leaders sometime in September to map out a strategy. Part of that strategy will be insulating the three men from the inevitable attacks coming from those who … demonize anyone who supports making immigration easier.
The government’s policy of pumping foreign labor into the U.S. economy has distorted the incentives for the nation’s CEOs, investors, and political leaders Camarota said.
Immigration “allows them to both be empathetic and indifferent at the same time,” he said.
Immigration “lets us ignore the problem of all these men sitting on the sidelines, not even looking for work,” he said, adding:
They do want to care … but they’re just exasperated to some extent with the nonworking black — and white and actually U.S.-born Hispanic population — because the truth is raising the labor force participation rate of less-educated men is very challenging. It’s not clear exactly how to do it, whereas just bringing the foreigners — and having a lot of sympathy for them — is easy …. The immigrants seem to be more more virtuous because they work. Everything is perfect — they’re nice and quiet and so forth.
Training less-educated Americans, especially at small companies, ” is thankless, with lots of frustration and lots of failures. Given how kids are raised today, it’s more and more failure all the time,” he said, adding
There are all kinds of [social tools] that have atrophied as a consequence of immigration. There used to be seasonal employers at the beach or in the mountains, or at [summer] camps, who had all kinds of contacts in the cities and suburbs with ministers and other community leaders to help them funnel young people to those seasonal jobs. That’s all gone– [employers] just use the H-2B [and] H-2A workers and illegal immigrants. [Employers] don’t need to worry about keeping their contacts.
For politicians and government officials, the easy option is to “pay them their disability and give them Medicaid,” Camarota said.
But Democrats also want immigration to deliver them additional immigrant voters on election days. In a May statement, Walsh downplayed the value of non-citizen teporary visa workers, saying, “We need to figure out some immigration laws and get some reform. Not H-2B visas, H-2A visas, not those visas — that’s not immigration.”
Extraction Migration
It is easier for government officials to grow the economy by immigration than by growing exports, productivity, or the birth rate.
So Washington, DC, deliberately extracts millions of migrants from poor countries and uses them as extra workers, consumers, and renters. This extraction migration policy both grows and skews the national economy.
It prevents tight labor markets and so it shifts vast wealth from ordinary people to investors, billionaires, and Wall Street. It makes it difficult for ordinary Americans to advance in their careers, get married, raise families, or buy homes.
Extraction migration slows innovation and shrinks Americans’ productivity, partly because it allows employers to boost stock prices by using stoop labor and disposable workers instead of the American professionals and productivity-boosting technology that would allow Americans and their communities to earn more money.
This migration policy also reduces exports by minimizing shareholder pressure on U.S. companies to build up beneficial and 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, 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. Progressives 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, media businesses, and major GOP donors hide the skew towards investors by ignoring the pocketbook impact and by touting 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 jobs needed by young U.S. graduates.
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.
Job growth slows in August and unemployment rises as US Fed plans further interest rate increases
The official US jobless rate ticked up to 3.7 percent in August as job growth slowed significantly. The economy added 315,000 jobs last month, down from 526,000 in July. Wage growth, meanwhile, slowed despite surging inflation.
The numbers indicate that the recent sharp interest rate increases by the US Federal Reserve are having their intended effect. The central bank is expected to raise its benchmark interest rate by another 0.50 to 0.75 percentage points when it meets later this month.
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell has pledged to use sharp rises in interest rates to collapse economic growth in order to drive up the unemployment rate. This is being done in the name of fighting inflation, which rose at an 8.5 percent annual rate in August. The Fed policy is based on the lie that “excessive” wage increases due to a tight labor market are driving price increases.
In fact, price increases have far outstripped wage growth, resulting in a 3 percent decline in real wages over the past year, according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics. Hourly earnings rose just 0.3 percent in August over July, sharply lower than the 0.5 percent figure in July. A significant role in this wage suppression is being played by the unions, which have blocked strikes and imposed a series of sub-inflation wage increases on sections of workers ranging from teachers to health care and manufacturing workers.
Under conditions where workers are already suffering unprecedented declines in their living standards due to inflation, a rise in unemployment will create massive hardship. Despite recent declines, gasoline prices are up 44 percent for the year. Bread is up 13.7 percent, butter and margarine 26 percent, natural gas 30 percent and heating oil a staggering 75 percent.
Inflation is largely due to the disastrous response of the ruling class to the pandemic, which has resulted in the disruption of global supply chains. At the same time ruling classes all over the world have pumped trillions of dollars into the financial markets, vastly enriching the world’s billionaires. On top of this, the US and NATO countries have expanded military spending, including subsidizing the proxy war against Russia in Ukraine.
Of course, the Fed chair did not say anything about surging profits and rampant price-gouging by energy companies and other monopolies. While inflation has devastated the living standards of workers, it has provided an opportunity for the further enrichment of the financial elite.
The relatively low unemployment rate and the so-called labor shortage are themselves largely a product of the pandemic, which has caused the exit of older, more vulnerable workers from the workforce and the death or disablement of millions more.
The rise in the August jobless rate was in part due to an increase in the number of workers reentering the labor force. The labor force participation rate, that is, the share of adults working or looking for work rose to 62.4 percent in August from 62.1 percent in July. There was, in particular, an increase in the participation rate among women ages 25 to 54. However, the labor force participation rate for black workers actually fell in August, to 61.8 percent, down from 62 percent in July. The unemployment rate for black workers rose by 0.4 percent, from 6.0 percent to 6.4 percent.
The largest job gains in August were again in the leisure and hospitality sectors, typically the lowest paying, which added 30,000 jobs. Manufacturing added just 22,000 jobs. Health care added 44,000. Construction added 16,000, despite a slowing housing market due to higher mortgage costs.
The rise in interest rates is expected to have its most severe initial impact in the construction industry and durable goods manufacturing, including auto production. Ford recently announced the layoff of 8,000 salaried workers.
In fact, 50 percent of employers plan layoffs in the next six to 12 months, according to a recent survey by PwC. This week, retailer Bed Bath & Beyond announced it is slashing 20 percent of its workforce and closing 150 stores. HBO Max, Peloton, Shopify, Re/Max, Walmart and Wayfair have all recently announced job cuts.
In the perverse world of capitalist economics, the rise in the unemployment rate and slowdown in wage increases are seen as positive developments. The New York Times, the standard bearer for so-called American liberalism, wrote Thursday, “Slowing job and wage growth, alongside rising labor force participation in August, is good news for President Biden and his hopes for a smooth transition to a more stable economic expansion.”
As far as the Federal Reserve is concerned, the August wage and jobs numbers are still too high. Fed Chair Jerome Powell in a speech August 26 at Jackson Hole, Wyoming, warned that the labor market will likely feel “pain” as a result of the continuing interest rate increases.
On Wednesday, Loretta Mester, head of the Cleveland Fed and a voting member of the Fed policy setting committee, said the central bank would likely raise interest rates above 4 percent by 2023 and hold them at that level. At the beginning of 2022 the key Fed rate was near zero.
Diane Swonk, chief economist at KPMG, quoted by CNN, spelled out the Fed policy bluntly: “It’s one thing to say that unemployment is unsustainably low, and it’s another thing to say we’re going to raise unemployment. They mean the same thing. ... Pain in the labor market is raising unemployment.”
There are other signs of an impending recession. The yield on longer-term 10-year US Treasury notes is higher than that for two-year notes, what is called an inversion. Normally, the interest on long-term notes is higher than for short-term notes. Typically, an inversion signals the expectation that economic growth will slow or turn negative.
Nearly 5 Million Illegal Immigrants Crossed Border During Biden Administration
Newt Gingrich: 'The level of dishonesty is astonishing'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2yn8p7UtvE
Analysis: Industries Importing Foreign H-2B Visa Workers Steal $1.8 Billion in Wages Since 2000
Employers in industries that hired most foreign H-2B visa workers for nonagricultural jobs over the last two decades have stolen about $1.8 billion in wages, a new analysis reveals.
Every year, businesses in the landscaping, conservation, meatpacking, construction, and fishing industries are allowed to import tens of thousands of foreign H-2B visa workers to take blue-collar American jobs. In recent years, the federal government has routinely increased the number of foreign H-2B visa workers allowed to enter the United States labor market.
As a result, these blue-collar industries have seen stagnant and depressed wages.
Now, a new analysis by the Economic Policy Institute (EPI) reveals that the top H-2B visa industries have stolen about $1.8 billion in wages from employees from 2000 to 2021:
Data from United States Citizenship and Immigration Services shows that there were nearly 117,000 H-2B workers in 2021, and the program is projected to grow to more than 150,000 workers in 2022, a new high. [Emphasis added]
Why does that matter? Because as this growth occurs, migrant workers with H-2B visas are being employed in industries in which there is extensive wage theft and lawbreaking by employers. [Emphasis added]
Data from the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division (WHD) show that, in the seven major industries in which nearly all H-2B workers are employed, nearly $1.8 billion in wages was stolen from workers (which includes both U.S. and migrant workers) between 2000 and 2021. [Emphasis added]
In landscaping services, H-2B visa employers stole more than $60 million in wages from employees over the last two decades. In the construction industry, where Americans have been replaced by imported H-2B foreign visa workers, nearly $850 million in wages have been stolen by employers since 2000.
Chart via Economic Policy Institute
In meatpacking, which has become an increasingly volatile industry preferring to hire lower-wage foreign visa workers over Americans, employees have stolen more than $654 million in wages from 2000 to 2021.
Despite overwhelming evidence of fraud and abuse, President Joe Biden’s administration has repeatedly increased the number of foreign H-2B visa workers that can be imported by U.S. employers.
In July, Biden bragged about importing a “record” number of foreign visa workers to compete against working and middle class Americans for jobs.
“Last year, my administration set a record — we issued more than 300,000 H-2 visas for Mexican workers,” Biden said. “We also reached a five-year high in the visas we issued to Central Americans, and we’re on pace to double this.”
Republicans, beholden to business interests in Washington, D.C., have advocated and voted to increase the number of foreign H-2B visa workers brought to the U.S.
Last month, Senate Minority Whip John Thune (R-SD) urged Biden to import more foreign H-2B visa workers to take American jobs, saying, “We need lots of them in South Dakota and we can never get enough from the administration.”
Annually, the U.S. rewards 1.2 million legal immigrants with green cards while 1.5 million foreign nationals are given temporary work visas. Millions more, every few years, arrive in the U.S. as illegal aliens in the hopes to avoid deportation and take jobs.
John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Email him at jbinder@breitbart.com. Follow him on Twitter here.
Boots on the Ground...Sept. 1st...Prepare for the long haul do not waste time or money.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8-OVOLnILc
20 Things The Middle Class Can't Afford Anymore
NO DEGREE OF BIDEN'S SABOTAGE OF HOMELAND SECURITY WILL INDUCE THE GOP TO BRING IMPEACHMENT. AFTER ALL, JOE BIDEN IS A CLOSET REPBULICAN.
The president of FAIR Dan Stein discussed the report, stating that “Roughly the equivalent of the entire population of Ireland has illegally entered the United States in the 18 months President Biden has been in office, with many being released into American communities.”
He continued, saying “In that time, the Biden administration has blamed an unprecedented surge of illegal immigration on all sorts of external factors, except their own sabotage of our nation’s immigration laws.”
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