THE TAXES TO COVER THE MASSIVE MEXICAN
WELFARE STATE IN AMERICA WILL FINISH OFF
MIDDLE AMERICA. THOSE FIGURES ARE
ABOUT $50 BILLION PER YEAR (STATE AND
COUNTY) IN CA, WHICH NOW HAS THE
HIGHEST STATE TAXES IN THE COUNTRY. CA
ALSO HAS THE LARGEST NUMBER OF
ILLEGALS AND LARGEST NUMBER OF
HOMELESS LEGALS. CAN YOU DO THE MATH
ON THAT???
The FWD.us investor group backs migration because it boosts their businesses with more wage-cutting workers, more consumers, and more renters. The founders include Bill Gates, Eric Schmidt, and Mark and Priscilla Zuckerberg. It was created in 2013 to help pass the 2013 “Gang of Eight” cheap labor and amnesty bill.
WashPost Op-Ed Says Migrants Should Replace Americans
Migrants should be imported to fill millions of empty jobs, even though about seven million working-age American men have dropped out of the workforce, says a right-of-center columnist at the Washington Post.
“We need immigrants to help fill these jobs,” Marc Thiessen wrote on December 4, after dismissing the millions of American men who have been sidelined during the last 20 years.
Thiessen’s discard Americans proposal is “morally abhorrent” but is also commonplace among the GOP establishment, responded Mark Krikorian, the director of the Center for Immigration Studies:
He is just one among many saying that ‘We need to just give up on a large share of our workforce, give them their welfare checks, give them their Oxycontin, and let’s bring in people who are better.”… It’s a logical consequence of the perspective that we’re just an economy rather than a country.
The establishment’s dismissal of ordinary Americans “is one of the reasons that [establishment advocates] are not running the Republican Party anymore,” Krikorian added.
Many business leaders — both Democrats and Republicans — say the government should prioritize investors and business above employees and citizens:
Thiessen is a former speechwriter for President George W. Bush who pushed for his open-border “Any Willing Worker” program. He wrote:
… despite the plethora of available jobs, my American Enterprise Institute colleague Nicholas Eberstadt points out more than 1 in 10 prime-age men are “labor-force dropouts — neither working nor looking for work.” While foreign-born workforce participation appears to be back to pre-pandemic levels, Eberstadt says, “Almost all of the residual manpower shortfall appears to be among native-born Americans.”
…
We need to expand the number of legal immigrants and reform our immigration system to make sure we are bringing the right people into the country with the skills our economy needs.
Thiessen added: “House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) says, ‘The best thing that we can do for our economy is comprehensive immigration reform’ …. Pelosi is right.”
However, Thiessen’s claim of 10 million “unfilled jobs” is questionable. Many companies post job ads with little interest in quick hiring, subcontracting companies post multiple ads for each job, and lawyers post fake job ads while trying to import foreign workers.
Eberstadt, a demographer, has a more nuanced view than Thiessen about the “flight from work” crisis among working-age men.
“The United States has a Depression-scale work problem,” Eberstadt wrote in a September 20 column for the Washington Post.
“Absent a dramatic reversal of the current flight from work, the U.S. labor shortage will probably have to be solved by some combination of immigration, automation, and recession,” he wrote.
Automation is an alternative to migration because it helps Americans do more work each day. For example, robot cow-milking machines allow family farms to operate without a large number of hired hands.
However, business groups prefer migrants to robots because the migrants can be dismissed in any economic downturn whereas the loans to buy robots must be paid regardless of economic conditions. So Trump’s decision to reduce immigration pressured many companies to invest in productivity and automation.
Trump’s cutback on migration also helped to nudge down the “flight from work” problem by pulling sidelined workers back into the labor force.
But that progress was quickly reversed by President Joe Biden’s policy of welcoming roughly four million additional legal and illegal migrants.
That mass inflow of migrants forces down Americans’ wages, raises their housing costs, and pushes many out of decent jobs.
The worst-hit Americans include the old and slow people, middle-aged technology experts, people with criminal records, people who cannot speak Spanish or who are too proud to work alongside illegal migrants, as well as people who are sick, or who have to take care of children or ailing relatives.
Eberstadt’s “flight from work” problem is driven by federal support for policies that help push young men out of the workforce, such as immigration, outsourcing, and the export of factories.
“This [mass dropout] is caused by policies and institutions, not by technology,” admitted Jason Furman, an economist who chaired President Barack Obama’s Council of Economic Advisors. “We shouldn’t accept it as inevitable,” he told a Brookings Institute expert, Dave Wessel, shortly before Donald Trump was elected President in 2016:
In the early 1950s, 98 percent of men in that age bracket had a job … [or] were actively looking for one. Today, that fraction has fallen down to 88 percent. … Understand it is quite large. The difference between a recession and a normal economic period is maybe two percentage points on the employment population ratio … so this is something that is more like 10 percent age points [five recessions] stretched over a long period of time.
In some sense [this drop-off] is bigger than the difference between a recession and a boom, and the impact it has, the evidence is very clear that … when you’re talking about someone who is not married, who has less than a high-school degree, there’s a good chance that [unemployment] is not a choice, and it is associated with depression, with drug use, with suicide, with a range of bad outcomes for people.
The non-working men lead miserable lives, Eberstadt told CNN’s Michael Smerconish on September 24:
It’s a terribly dispiriting picture that they themselves paint through self-reported time-use data. Basically, they say that they don’t do civil society, that they don’t do worship much, or volunteering or charity, even though they’ve got a lot of time on their hands. They don’t do an awful lot of help around the house … They report that they watched screens about 2,000 hours a year, almost as if it were a full-time job, and they also report almost half of these men …. are taking pain medication every day.
In many cases, the oxycontin pain medication becomes drug addiction, fentanyl use, and death. That process has created a huge number of “Deaths of Despair” among sidelined men. More than 106,000 Americans died from drugs in 2021, and many others died from alcohol and suicide.
The policies that can pull sidelined Americans back to work “are hard, they’re expensive, they’re not going to be immediately successful,” he said.
But the government’s support for migration policies encourages businesses to stop trying to recruit and train the unwanted and sidelined Americans, Krikorian said:
Easy immigration enables that [replacement migration] perspective … If there weren’t large-scale immigration, it’s not like some of these elite commentators would like [working class] Americans … but they would have no alternative to policies that try to bring these lost young men back into the world of work.
“Government exists to promote the interests of its people,” Krikorian said, adding: “We have a responsibility to our own people that’s different from the responsibility for others.”
JOE BIDEN'S ORCHESTRATED BORDER TO OPEN BORDER INVASION OF 'CHEAP' LABOR TO KEEP WAGES FOR LEGALS DEPRESSED.
IS IT WORKING???
Republican Blake Masters in Debate: Democrat ‘Mark Kelly Left Our Southern Border Wide Open’
Republican Blake Masters tore into his opponent, Democrat Mark Kelly, in the Arizona debate, asserting, “Mark Kelly left our southern border wide open.”
Former President Donald Trump endorsed GOP candidate Blake Masters, who is running for U.S. Senate in Arizona.
Masters harshly criticized Democratic incumbent Mark Kelly’s record on the southern border during their debate.
“Senator Kelly voted for 87,000 more IRS agents” before “he rejected hiring 18,000 more border patrol agents,” Masters noted. “That shows you what his priorities are, Mark Kelly left our southern border wide open,” Masters asserted.
Masters recently launched an advertisement in which he criticized Kelly’s decision to vote for the new IRS agents but against new border patrol agents.
Mark Kelly has repeatedly voted against border security. In February 2021, Kelly voted against an amendment that would have kept the Biden administration from being able to cancel existing border wall contracts.
The Democrat senator from Arizona voted against a measure that would have prohibited the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) from hiring any new agents until the U.S. Border Patrol doubled its forces.
Kelly has also voted to end Title 42, which allows the government to suspend entry of immigrants into the United States for reasons of public safety.
In May of 2021, Kelly voted against border security, again voting against an amendment that would have prohibited the Biden administration from canceling border wall contracts for which funds had already been appropriated. Kelly similarly voted against border security in August.
Blake Masters has been endorsed by the National Border Patrol Council. Masters has remarked that “we’re not going to have a country” if we refuse to secure the border, and he supports finishing the border wall.
National Republican Senatorial Committee Chairman Rick Scott blasted Kelly’s horrible record on the border, remarking, “Mark Kelly has no plan to fix the border crisis he created. He’s been spewing empty rhetoric to Arizonans about securing the border but voting against border security when he’s in D.C. The bottom line is that Mark Kelly will never stand up to Biden’s amnesty and open borders agenda.”
Spencer Lindquist is a reporter for Breitbart News. Follow him on Twitter @SpencerLndqst and reach out at slindquist@breitbart.com
New York City Wants $1 Billion to Help Exploit Biden’s Migrants
New York City’s Mayor Eric Adams wants $1 billion from other Americans to subsidize the city’s economic strategy of importing penniless immigrants for use by New York’s business leaders.
“We need help — and we need to now,” Democratic Mayor Eric Adams said in a Friday press conference, adding:
Today we’re issuing a clear message — [the] time for aid to New York is now. We need help from the federal government. We ned help from the state of New York. Our city is doing our part and now others must step up and join us …. We need those to come through.
Adams also demanded preferential treatment from legislators nationwide:
We need legislation that will allow these asylum seekers to legally work now, not the six months … We need a coordinated effort to move asylum-seekers to other cities in this country to ensure everyone is doing their part and Congress must pass emergency financial relief for our city and others. Finally, we need a bipartisan effort to deliver long awaited immigration reform.
“We expect to spend at least $1 billion by the end of the fiscal year on this crisis, all because we have a functional and compassionate system,” he said.
The demand was $500 million two weeks ago, as officials counted the cost of housing migrants who are being drawn to the free overnight shelters attracted to the jobs and schooling in the so-called “sanctuary city.”
City leaders want more migrants because they help to cut wages, inflate real-estate rents and values and boost profit for local business leaders.
The policy also generates many customers for the city’s welfare, aid, housing, education, and medical agencies. For example, Adams admitted in his speech that the city is providing overnight shelters to 61,000 homeless people each night, and is adding 5,500 migrant children to the overcrowded and failing schools needed by non-wealthy Americans in the city.
The cheap-labor migrants also provide more profits for investors in the city businesses. Without the extra labor, the investors otherwise would be forced to hire unemployed Americans in upstate New York cities, or other states such as New Jersey, Maine, New Hampshire, and West Virginia.
Overall, the Biden migrants being welcomed by Adams allow the city’s Democratic leaders to preserve their high/low economy, where a small number of wealthy landlords and investors keep political power amid a fractured city of divided, diverse, distracted, and poor voters.
Between the 1940s and about 1980, the city’s wage gap was much smaller, in part, because nearly all migrants to the city were outspoken, equality-minded Americans from nearby U.S. states, such as Pennsylvania and New Jersey.
City leaders hide their post-1990s exploitation of migrants behind the 1950s “Nation of Immigrants” narrative. That elite-imposed narrative repurposes the Statue of Liberty from a celebration of Americans’ constitution into a “Golden Door” invite for foreign economic migrants.
In his speech, Adams repeatedly declared his support for the Democrats’ policy of extracting migrants from poor countries, even as he tried to blame Republican governors for the resulting economic damage to American pocketbooks:
Our right-to-shelter laws, our social services, and our values are being exploited by others for political gain. New Yorkers are angry. I am angry too. We have not asked for this. There was never any agreement to take on the job of supporting thousands of asylum seekers. This responsibility was simply handed to us without warning as buses began showing up. There’s no playbook for this. No precedent.
But despite all this, our city’s response has been nothing short of heroic. From setting up welcome centers, organizing housing, health care, and transportation, New York city agencies and their community partners have done great work in the face of overwhelming need. New Yorkers as always, have responded to this crisis by pulling together as one.
Yet Adams simultaneously denied that the Democrats’ sanctuary city policies have any role in the migrants’ arrival.
“This crisis is not of our own making, but one that will affect everyone in this city now, and in the months ahead,” he insisted, before ending his speech with a contradictory flourish:
Generations from now, there will be many Americans who will trace their stories back to this moment in time. Grandchildren who will recall the day their grandparent arrived here in New York City and found compassion — not cruelty. A place to lay their head, a warm meal, a chance at a better future. Thank you New York, for doing the right thing.
Breitbart News has extensively covered the damage caused to citizens by the establishment’s policy of Extraction Migration.
New York to send migrants to tent city on island
New York's Democrat mayor, Eric Adams, recently revealed that he is directing that tent towns to house migrants be built on Randall's Island, a relatively secluded island off the Bronx. The tents would provide shelter for roughly 500 border-crossers and illegal aliens.
On the one hand, the above narrative is appalling insofar as it reflects the values of the New York City establishment. My heart goes out to ordinary people who, for economic or family reasons are trapped in that city. On the other hand, I can’t think of any people more deserving of this pro-criminal viewpoint than the progressives who have visited so many horrors on America, from Biden on down to the crazy, dangerous people flourishing on America’s streets.
WE CAN'T SAVE THIS COUNTRY BY ONLY ELECTING SERVANTS OF BANKSTERS AND WALL STREET FOR 'CHEAP' LABOR!
Your choice: The Republican...or Chuck Schumer
Do you like to think that you vote for the man, not the party? Then I should inform you that in the Senate race, if you vote for the Democrat, you are voting for Senator Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), regardless.
There is a nice little ProPublica website that compares the voting records of senators. I used the 2021–22 session to make some comparisons. (I pulled the data on Oct. 6. There may be more votes in this session after that date.)
This first figure shows how many senators voted with Schumer, Democrat majority leader, by the percent of agreement. For example, that large blue spike on the right means that 33 Democrat senators (of 49) voted with Schumer 98% of the time. Think of it as a political spectrum.
Here are a few observations from these data.
- There is an obvious and large difference between parties. The average Democrat agreed with Schumer over 97% of the time, while the average Republican agreed with him only 27% of the time.
- Democrats vote together: 46 of the other 49 Democrats voted with Schumer 96% to 98% of the time. All of them voted with him at least 91% of the time.
- Republicans do not vote together. Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine), for example, voted with Schumer 70% of the time, while Senators Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) voted with him only 11% of the time. Republican votes are spread out much farther than Democrat votes.
- The "independents" are not really independent. Sen. Angus King (I-Maine) voted with Schumer 97% of the time, about like any Democrat. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) voted with Schumer 93% of the time, even more often than Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) did.
- The "moderate" Democrats are not very moderate. Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.) and Sen. Manchin voted with Sen. Schumer 95% and 91% of the time, respectively.
- The moderate Republicans are actually moderate. Those three blue votes in the middle of the spectrum belong to senators Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), and Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), who voted with Schumer 70%, 63%, and 55% of the time, respectively.
- If you like bipartisanship and "working together," you are already getting a decent amount of it. The average Republican voted with Schumer about 27% of the time. Even the most "conservative" senators voted with him 11% of the time. The Venn diagrams overlap.
The second figure shows how many senators voted with Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky., and Republican minority leader) by the percent of agreement. For example, that large blue spike on the left means that 20 Democratic senators voted with McConnell 33% of the time. Again, the Democrat votes were fairly tightly clustered compared to the Republicans'.
You might be surprised that Democrats voted with McConnell about one third of the time. That is because McConnell voted with Schumer 34% of the time. Those Democrats were not really voting with McConnell; they were voting with their own majority leader, Schumer, on the same votes where McConnell voted with him.
Republicans do not have quite the same party discipline as the Democrats do. While Democrats agreed with their leader over 97% of the time on average, Republicans agreed with theirs less than 82% of the time. The Democrat "renegade," Sen. Manchin, still voted with his leader 91% of the time. The Republican "renegade," Sen. Collins, voted with her leader only 63% of the time. In fact, Collins voted with Schumer more often than she voted with her own party leader, McConnell: 70% to 63%.
Voters should know that when they vote for a Democrat, they are getting a clone of Chuck Schumer when it comes to voting. Maybe you find Senator Mark Kelly attractive because he was in the military and was an astronaut. He voted with his party leader 96% of the time, even more often than Bernie Sanders and Kyrsten Sinema did. His 96% matches that of the very liberal Edward Markey (D-Mass.). Arizonans should know that a vote for Mark Kelly is equivalent to a vote for a Massachusetts liberal.
If you like Chuck Schumer's agenda, go ahead and vote Democrat. But don't think you are going to be sending some kind of independent thinker to the Senate by voting Democrat. Whenever they get to the Senate, they will do Schumer's bidding.
New York to send migrants to tent city on island
New York's Democrat mayor, Eric Adams, recently revealed that he is directing that tent towns to house migrants be built on Randall's Island, a relatively secluded island off the Bronx. The tents would provide shelter for roughly 500 border-crossers and illegal aliens.
As it stands now, the vast majority of the approximately 16,000 border-crossers and illegal aliens who have been bussed to New York, a sanctuary city, remain in the city's overcrowded homeless shelter system. As a result, Adams originally stated that he would begin housing migrants in tent towns in a parking lot in the Bronx. Since then, he has changed his mind and will ship them to the island. (Randall's Island isn't exactly Martha's Vineyard, but then Adams is no DeSantis.)
Not to be outdone, New York's Democrat governor, Kathy Hochul, is calling on roughly 100 National Guard reservists to help build the new tent cities where arrivals and excess migrants will be housed.
It's hard to fathom why New York has so much difficulty dealing with just 16,000 migrants — approximately 0.3% of those who have crossed our southern border since Biden took office — when its politicians have previously made it clear that the open border is no big deal and is, in fact, a good thing.
"Progressive" politicians are claiming migrants should stay in Florida so they can help "pick the crops," bussing them to military installations, and confining them to an island and hoping they can't swim.
Democrats who run self-proclaimed "sanctuaries" for illegal aliens consistently show themselves to be the worst kind of frauds. Instead of being allowed to live in mansions and gated communities, they should have to join the "migrants" in tent cities on parking lots in the Bronx and on Randall's Island.
Image: Krystalb97 via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped).
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