By failures of border security, a lack of the enforcement of our immigration laws from within the interior of the United States and huge numbers of visas for high tech workers, the lives and livelihoods of Americans and their children, are being stolen by America’s corrupt political elite who are doing the bidding of those who provide them with huge “Campaign Contributions” (Orwellian euphemism for bribes) pursue legislation that is diametrically opposed to the best interests of America and Americans.
MICHAEL CUTLER
Analysis conducted last year reveal that 71 percent of tech workers in Silicon Valley are foreign-born, while the tech industry in the San Francisco, Oakland, and Hayward area is made up of 50 percent foreign-born tech workers.
Despite his Wall Street, big business, Big Tech, and billionaire donations, Biden has attempted to portray himself as a small-town fighter from Scranton, Pennsylvania
By failures of border security, a lack of the enforcement of our immigration laws from within the interior of the United States and huge numbers of visas for high tech workers, the lives and livelihoods of Americans and their children, are being stolen by America’s corrupt political elite who are doing the bidding of those who provide them with huge “Campaign Contributions” (Orwellian euphemism for bribes) pursue legislation that is diametrically opposed to the best interests of America and Americans.
MICHAEL CUTLER
Zuckerberg’s FWD.us Claims No Amnesty Ensures Midterm Defeat for Democrats
The Facebook-funded FWD.us investor advocacy group is touting the claim that Democrat turnout will drop in 2022 if the party cannot pass an amnesty through Congress.
But that claim is toothless, in large part because recent polls show that many Americans of Latino ancestry are increasingly voting for the GOP, precisely because GOP leaders oppose the amnesty-amplified wave of cheap labor into their communities.
The claim is being made by pro-migration groups, including the leaders of the National Day Laborer Organizing Network (NDLON) which denounced the Senate’s parliamentarian’s decision to exclude the parole amnesty for 6.5 million illegals from the draft Build Back Better spending plan.
NDLON declared Thursday night:
Democrats’ excuses for their failure, for their incompetence, and for their insincerity will be the ammunition used by xenophobes in the Republican Party to retake control of the federal government in upcoming elections. Inaction on immigration legalization risks further propelling Trumpism in every possible way … No more excuses. Where there is a will, there is a way.
The NDLON group represents illegal migrants, most of whom work for very low wages, and none of whom can vote in U.S. elections.
Rep. Lou Correa (D-Calif.) is making the same claim, according to Bloomberg, which reported that he “warned that Democrats would face wrath from voters in the 2022 elections if they don’t secure a citizenship path”
But the NDLON claim is being echoed by the politically powerful investor class, who use imported workers, consumers, and renters to spike the value of their Wall Street investments.
Todd Schulte is the president of the FWD.us advocacy group for investors, which gets about $30 million a year from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative to push for more migration. On Thursday night, he tweeted:
Schulte’s deputy also pushed a hard line:
Unsurprisingly, FWD.us has a hidden agenda in the amnesty debate.
The establishment media extensively cover the proposed parole amnesty for 6.5 million illegal migrants. But the media largely ignores two other proposed changes to immigration laws that would deliver huge benefits to West Coast investors who created the FWD.us advocacy group in 2013.
For example, the BBB legislation would allow the White House to provide green cards to millions of favored migrants, including perhaps three million “chain migrants” selected by recent immigrants. This open-doors policy would provide investors with millions of new profit-generating consumers, renters, and workers.
The BBB legislation would also allow President Joe Biden’s pro-migration deputies to sell green cards to at least one million migrants who have taken many of the Fortune 500 jobs sought by skilled U.S. college graduates. This change would allow Fortune 500 companies to hire many more foreign graduates with dangled offers of fast-track green cards. These workers are usually imported via the visa worker programs, such as the H-1B and Optional Practical Training program.
But those two benefits for the Fortune 500 investors may be dropped if the Democrat senators cannot also get their amnesty for illegal migrants.
On Friday, an advocacy group for corporate-funded immigration lawyers urged Congress to keep pushing the green card giveaway, even after the amnesty was nixed:
“The corporate guys are riding on perceived sympathy for the illegal alien population in order to get their immigration giveaways,” said Robert Law, the director of regulatory affairs and policy at the Center for Immigration Studies. He continued:
The Hispanic population knows immigration is a pocketbook issue for them as well, and mass illegal immigration — plus legal immigration — hurts the economic opportunities of Hispanic Americans or the black community, or any people who typically are competing at the lower end of the economic spectrum.
The Senate’s debate referee has not issued any judgments on the two green card proposals.
Zuckerberg’s FWD.us network of coastal investors stands to gain from more cheap labor, government-aided consumers, and urban renters. The network has funded many astroturf campaigns, urged Democrats to not talk about the economic impact of migration, and manipulated coverage by the TV networks and the print media.
FWD.us’also spotlights many family dramas amid the inflow of border migrants. This focus helps keep reporters from recognizing the huge pocketbook impact of the establishment’s economic policy of mass migration. The resulting family-drama coverage also keeps many young progressives from noticing that the extraction migration policy drives up their rents and cuts their salaries.
The breadth of investors who founded and funded FWD.us was hidden from casual visitors to the group’s website sometime in the last few months. But copies exist at other sites.
Biden’s Chief of Staff Worked on Behalf of Big Tech for Endless H-1B Visas
Democrat Joe Biden has chosen Ronald Klain to be his chief of staff should he enter the White House in January. Klain worked on behalf of Silicon Valley executives and their interests, which include providing tech corporations with an endless supply of H-1B foreign visa workers and more free trade.
Klain, who was made Biden’s incoming chief of staff this week, served on the executive council of TechNet — a firm that promotes the interests of Silicon Valley’s tech corporations in Washington, D.C. Klain served on the council alongside executives from the Oracle Corporation, Hewlett-Packard Enterprise, Google, Visa, Apple, and Microsoft.
TechNet, most recently, joined a lawsuit against President Trump’s reforms to the H-1B visa program that sought to prioritize unemployed Americans for jobs rather than allowing businesses to continue importing foreign workers.
TechNet is one of the groups that has filed an amicus brief to oppose the new regulations on H-1B visas. https://t.co/ofY4GJ2sVR
— U.S. Tech Workers (@USTechWorkers) November 12, 2020
Trump’s seeking to force businesses to hire Americans over importing foreign visa workers is an affront to Silicon Valley’s tech corporations, those represented by TechNet, who advocate for an endless flow of H-1B foreign visa workers.
There are about 650,000 H-1B visa workers in the U.S. at any given moment. Americans are often laid off and forced to train their foreign replacements, as highlighted by Breitbart News. More than 85,000 Americans annually potentially lose their jobs to foreign labor through the H-1B visa program.
Analysis conducted in 2018 discovered that 71 percent of tech workers in Silicon Valley, California, are foreign-born, while the tech industry in the San Francisco, Oakland, and Hayward area is made up of 50 percent foreign-born tech workers. Up to 99 percent of H-1B visa workers imported by the top eight outsourcing firms are from India.
TechNet’s listed immigration goals include allowing corporations to dictate the annual level of legal immigration to the United States and the elimination of per-country caps that would effectively let India and China monopolize the U.S. green card system.
The group’s goals on trade are in direct opposition to President Trump’s economic nationalist agenda that has imposed tariffs on foreign imports from China, Canada, Europe, and other parts of the globe.
TechNet’s trade goals include reducing “tariff and non-tariff barriers to information, communications, and advanced energy technology products, services, and investments” as well as “protections for the free flow of data across borders…”
While Biden has vowed to flood the U.S. labor market with more foreign workers to compete against Americans for jobs, he has shied away from questions on whether he will eliminate tariffs on foreign imports that were imposed by Trump. Such elimination of tariffs would be a boon to multinational corporations that offshore their production and jobs overseas only to import their products back into the U.S. market, often with no penalties for doing so.
John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Follow him on Twitter at @JxhnBinder.
Democrats Push Green Card Giveaway for Fortune 500 Execs, Foreign Workers
House Democrats are working with a handful of Republican legislators to pass a visa bill that would supercharge the citizenship incentives for Indians and Chinese to take Fortune 500 white-collar careers from indebted American graduates.
The visa giveaway in the EAGLE Act of 2022 threatens the careers of many American graduates — including many graduates who once voted Republican but recently provided critical swing vote support for the Democrats in the 2022 election.
The act is also being debated even though the much-criticized backlog of migrant graduates has fallen sharply since 2020. The backlog fell because President Joe Biden’s deputies converted green cards for chain-migration families into green cards for Fortune 500 workers.
“FAIR firmly opposes the EAGLE Act (H.R. 3648),” says a statement from Joe Chatham, the senior government relations manager at the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR). The statement says:
This bill undermines the fairness in our immigration system by creating a preference for workers from India and China at the expense of all other workers across the globe. It also eliminates diversity in the workers who come to the U.S. permanently. And, in the end, it would do nothing to reduce the line for employment-based green cards but would instead create more competition for American workers while lining the pockets of Big Tech.
The bill — which may be combined with another bill — is being backed by 83 sponsors in the House, led by Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-CA), who represents many business interests in Silicon Valley.
Eight Republicans have cosponsored the bill, including the manager of the Republicans’ surprisingly narrow 2022 win, Rep. Tom Emmer (R-MN). Last week, Emmer narrowly beat Rep. Jim Banks (R-IN) for the job of GOP whip.
Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA) is another supporter of the outsourcing bill. He is also co-chairman of the establishment-minded Problem Solvers Caucus and is also pushing a farmworker amnesty that helps agricultural investors.
Rep. Don Bacon (R-NE), the co-leader of the Main Street Caucus, is also a supporter of the giveaway to the Fortune 500 and foreign graduates.
The other supporters include Rep. Larry Bucshon (R-IN), Rep. John Curtis (R-UT), Rep. Bill Johnson (R-OH), Rep. Pete Stauber (R-MN), and Rep. William Timmons (R-SC).
The support from heartland Republicans is ironic because the bill reduces incentives for investors in major coastal cities to hire graduates in Ohio, Indiana, Minnesota, or Nebraska.
Instead, investors can use the fast-track provisions in the EAGLE act to import and hire more cheap and compliant Indian and Chinese graduates for jobs in the investors’ coastal states. Without the ability to fly in foreign workers, investors would be under more labor-market pressure to put their investments in the heartland states.
Investors and the Fortune 500
The bill is strongly backed by business donors who want to recruit many more cheap foreign workers, even as many American graduates are being laid off by technology companies, including Twitter and Facebook.
The bill is a priority for the Silicon Valley investors in FWD.us :
Per-country caps have created extensive backlogs that leave immigrants and their families waiting years to receive their green cards simply because of their country of origin. This restricts their ability to work, travel, and contribute, and creates significant challenges for their families. It also makes the U.S. less attractive to global talent, hindering our competitiveness. Congress should pass per-country cap reform, like the bipartisan EAGLE Act, to ensure fairness and begin reducing the green card backlogs.
The coastal investors have pushed many bills to increase their use of foreign workers. This year, Midwest Senators blocked another proposed pipeline of foreign graduates.
The investors and their advocates prefer to focus on the bill’s removal of pro-diversity “country caps” in the annual award of 140,000 green cards to foreign employees of U.S-based companies.
But the bill also creates a “green card lite” which would allow foreign workers to get permanent work permits just two years after their employer approves them for a green card.
Both provisions will accelerate the legalization bonus award to Indian and Chinese workers. In turn, that acceleration will help Fortune 500 executives fill many more white-collar jobs with foreign workers via the uncapped, open-ended, unlimited Optional Practical Training (OPT) program.
The OPT program is a boon to universities because it allows them to offer work permits to foreign graduates who enroll in their courses. In turn, the program also provides Fortune 500 companies with a huge army of several hundred thousand eager, desperate, low-tax, and partially free foreign graduates each year. A three-judge panel in Washington D.C. recently declared that the OPT program is legal, even though it was created by President George Bush’s deputies — not by Congress — after Microsoft failed to expand the H-1B program.
Country Caps
Supporters of the bill prefer to focus on the country caps, not on the incentives for more foreign graduates to seek jobs in the United States.
The country caps were established to ensure that employer-provided green cards were distributed to people in many countries. These caps limit each country’s receipt of green cards to 7 percent of all the cards.
But the Fortune 500 and its networks of investors have ruthlessly imported more than roughly one million million cheap and compliant graduates by dangling the deferred-bonus carrot of U.S. citizenship. These workers are allowed to work in the United States via the H-1B, L-1, and H4EAD programs, and most expect to be allowed to request green cards after several years on the job.
The deferred bonus prize of citizenship is a huge incentive for foreign workers to work in the U.S., regardless of the waiting period.
The taxpayer-provided bonus is worth at least $1 million per work because it allows the foreign workers — plus some family members — and all of their children and grandchildren — to exit Asia and become Americans.
The value of that bonus is so large that it is greater than compensation paid to American workers — and it also costs the companies very little above the cost of applying for green cards.
The resulting crush of migrants has backlogged the green card process.
In March 2022, for example, 900,000 foreign workers and their families were waiting for green cards — even as U.S. employers ignored the growing army of underemployed Americans trained to do the jobs filled by foreign workers.
In turn, the backlog leaves roughly 400,000 Indian and Chinese graduates to work many years in white-collar jobs — often for subcontracting firms in the hourly jobs once were awarded to full-time, middle-class American employees. This huge pyramid of Fortune 500 subcontractors and sub-subcontractors ruthlessly exploit the green card workforce in so-called “body shops,” or “software sweatshops,” often via hidden kickbacks to foreign-born hiring managers.
This huge block of legalized labor is boosted by the contractors’ use of OPT graduates, foreign workers admitted as B-1/B-2 tourists and foreign graduates who overstayed their visas. These pyramid workers are forced to compete with each other for promotions into the H-1B or L-1 programs that are the gateways to citizenship.
The ruthless nature of the labor pyramids and the minimal federal oversight encourage widespread law-breaking, including discrimination and the imposition of Indian caste discrimination in U.S. workplaces.
For example, a contract worker named Aabha told Breitbart News that many Indian visa workers are taking several contract jobs and then inviting friends from India to do the extra work illegally:
[Indians are] taking four [contract] jobs each because everybody can take four jobs and outsource them to [Indian] people … They are calling people from India [to work in the U.S.] for six months because in those six months, they can make enough money. Then this person goes back, and then somebody else comes on a visitor’s [B1/B2 tourist] visa. He stays for six months, he does the job [illegally], and he goes back. … Because, of course, we are getting paid like $7,000 per month [for each contract], there is no harm in giving $2,000 to the [visiting] person who is actually doing the job, right?
These outsourcing and workplace conflicts have crippled many major companies, such as Intel, Boeing, and Theranos.
Opponents note that the bill will not reduce the backlog because it does not prevent the companies from hiring far more foreign workers than the annual supply of green cards.
“Even if the per-country caps are repealed for employment-based green cards, it will not reduce the backlog,” noted FAIR, adding:
Applications will continue to increase and the queue will grow. The only difference will be the distribution of the green cards. Under the EAGLE Act, the overwhelming majority of the recipients will be from India and China, and the rest of the world will be moved behind that backlog, which was caused by their monopolization of the H-1B program … In short, the EAGLE Act will wreck the employment-based immigration system for applicants from the rest of the world for the sole purpose of shifting more green cards to India and China.
…
Special interests will soon come back to Congress with demands to increase the H-1B cap or increase the cap on employment-based green cards—or both. This would further accelerate the displacement of American tech workers, and undermine benefits of a tightening labor market for American workers. It could squeeze many Americans out of that market almost entirely.
Indians and Chinese
The direct beneficiaries of the EAGLE Act would be the 700,000 Indian migrants and their family members who are working while waiting many years for green cards. Roughly 100,000 Chinese white-collar workers also must wait while they work.
In addition, another 80,000 migrants from Central America are working in lower-wage jobs while they wait for the green-card payoff. For example, Abbyland Foods, Gerber Poultry, Peco Foods, and Select Dedicated Solutions reward migrant workers with government-provided green cards. This legal labor pipeline allows many CEOs to shave Americans’ wages, minimize investment in labor-saving technology, and divert consumer spending from heartland cities into Wall Street stock values.
India has the largest share of the workforce because India’s government works with American investors to maximize outsourcing to India. Many Chinese graduates are hired because China’s large population includes many very clever people
Business advocates dismiss the risks of U.S. reliance on foreign workers. Those risks include the loss of intellectual property, privacy, and security during a crisis, as well as the loss of displaced U.S. talent.
Advocates say the bill will free Indian and Chinese workers from the 7 percent country cap rule.
But the complex law includes many loopholes, nationals from those two countries soften often get green cards far above the so-called “country cap” of 7 percent. In 2022, for example, Indians likely received more than 120,000 cards or almost 100 percent of the usual annual number.
The 2022 rush of extra green cards allowed three or four years’ worth of Indian workers to get green cards and ended the Indian backlog for two of the three categories of employer green cards.
Those newly legalized Indian graduates are now free to compete against American workers and also to import more Indians for subcontracting contracts.
That inflow is good for employers but bad for Americans’ salaries. “Most college graduates have actually seen their real incomes stagnate or even decline” since 2000, New York Times columnist Paul Krugman wrote on April 29.
“For decades, lawmakers here in Washington have ignored the practice of replacing Americans with ‘temporary’ foreign workers,” said FAIR, which added:
The current employment green card system needs to be replaced by one that is merit-based, offering a reasonable number of green cards to highly qualified applicants. Instead of doing so, the EAGLE Act maintains the current dysfunctional system, doing nothing for American workers while further strengthening foreign workers’ place in the American labor force – it must be rejected.
For Republicans, “there’s clearly an electoral potential in blocking this bill,” said Mark Krikorian, the director of the Center for Immigration Studies:
Republicans should be blocking this bill because it hurts American workers … [and because liberal graduates] are being played for fools by big business. This would be funny if the consequences weren’t so harmful because progressivism now has now become a tool of capital.
Extraction Migration
Government officials try to grow the economy by raising exports, productivity, and the birth rate. But officials want rapid results, so they also try to expand the economy by extracting millions of migrants from poor countries to serve as extra workers, consumers, and renters.
This policy floods the labor market and so it shifts vast wealth from ordinary people to older investors, coastal billionaires, and Wall Street. It makes it difficult for ordinary Americans to advance in their careers, get married, raise families, buy homes, or gain wealth.
Extraction Migration slows innovation and shrinks Americans’ productivity. This happens because migration allows employers to boost stock prices by using stoop labor and disposable workers instead of the skilled American professionals and productivity-boosting technology that earlier allowed Americans and their communities to earn more money.
This migration policy also reduces exports because it minimizes shareholder pressure on C-suite executives to take a career risk by trying to grow exports to 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 and it alienates young people. It radicalizes Americans’ democratic civic culture because it gives a moral excuse for wealthy elites and progressives to ignore despairing Americans at the bottom of society, such as drug addicts.
This diversify-and-rule investor strategy is enthusiastically pushed by progressives. They 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,” Silicon Valley 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 explanations and theatrical border security programs. Progressives claim the U.S. is a “Nation of Immigrants,” that economic migrants are political victims, that migration helps migrants more than Americans, 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 to the inflow of temporary contract workers into the jobs needed by the families of blue-collar and white-collar Americans.
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.
THIS POS ZUCKERBERG CLEANSES ALL POSTS ON THE
BIDEN CRIME FAMILY, BUT MAKES SURE THE CARTELS
GET THEIR MESSAGE THROUGH. ZUCKERUNT IS A MAJOR
DONOR TO THE MEXICAN FASCIST PARTY OF LA RAZA!
By failures of border security, a lack of the enforcement of our immigration laws from within the interior of the United States and huge numbers of visas for high tech workers, the lives and livelihoods of Americans and their children, are being stolen by America’s corrupt political elite who are doing the bidding of those who provide them with huge “Campaign Contributions” (Orwellian euphemism for bribes) pursue legislation that is diametrically opposed to the best interests of America and Americans. MICHAEL CUTLER
Migration moves money from employees to employers, from families to investors, from young to old, from children to their parents, from homebuyers to real estate investors, and from the central states to the coastal states.
Migration also allows investors and CEOs to skimp on labor-saving technology, sideline U.S. minorities, ignore disabled people, exploit stoop labor in the fields, short-change labor in the cities, impose tight control and pay cuts on American professionals, corral technological innovation by minimizing the employment of American grads, undermine labor rights, and even get many progressive journalists to cheerlead for Wall Street’s priorities. NEIL MUNRO
JUDICIAL WATCH:
“The greatest criminal threat to the daily lives of American citizens are the Mexican drug cartels.”
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2016/12/the-american-border-with-narcomex.html
“Mexican drug cartels are the “other” terrorist threat to America. Militant Islamists have the goal of destroying the United States. Mexican drug cartels are now accomplishing that mission – from within, every day, in virtually every community across this country.” JUDICIAL WATCH
By failures of border security, a lack of the enforcement of our immigration laws from within the interior of the United States and huge numbers of visas for high tech workers, the lives and livelihoods of Americans and their children, are being stolen by America’s corrupt political elite who are doing the bidding of those who provide them with huge “Campaign Contributions” (Orwellian euphemism for bribes) pursue legislation that is diametrically opposed to the best interests of America and Americans.
MICHAEL CUTLER
- Conspiracy or defrauding the United States
- Wire fraud
- Conspiracy to commit wire fraud
- Violation of the Foreign Agents Registration Act
- Violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act
- Violations of the Victims of Trafficking and Violence Protection Act of 2000
- Tax evasion
- Money laundering
GOP Rep. Comer: ‘Joe Biden Was Actively Involved in Hunter’s Shady Business
GOP Senators Press Social Media Giants To ‘Take Immediate Steps To Stop Facilitating Illegal Immigration’
Cartels use Facebook, Snapchat, TikTok, other sites to drive human smuggling schemes
Collin Anderson • November 18, 2022 12:00 pmThe world's largest social media companies are facing pressure from Republican lawmakers to "take immediate steps to stop facilitating illegal immigration" as cartels use their platforms to recruit drivers for human smuggling schemes.
In a Thursday letter to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Republican senators Marsha Blackburn (Tenn.), Thom Tillis (N.C.), and Steve Daines (Mont.) accused the company of failing to curtail the solicitation of those smuggling schemes on its platforms, which include Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. Cartel smugglers often use those sites, the Wall Street Journal reported last month, to anonymously post advertisements promising thousands of dollars to Americans in border states if they complete a short driving job, which really consists of picking up illegal migrants who have just crossed into the United States. For Blackburn, Tillis, and Daines, Meta should be able to shut down those posts, which they say have "led to a devastating amount of drug and human trafficking and other forms of violent crime."
"Although your company has developed—and long enjoyed the benefits of—incredibly complex algorithms and other technology to keep users addicted, you claim to be unable to curb these illegal immigration schemes," the letter, which the Washington Free Beacon obtained exclusively, states. "You have the ability to address this problem, and it is critical that you take immediate steps to stop facilitating illegal immigration on your platform."
Meta responded to the Journal‘s report by saying it "prohibits the facilitation of human smuggling and invests in technology and works with law enforcement to address the issue." In late January, however, the company privately announced it would allow users to solicit human smugglers on its platforms, the Free Beacon reported. In an internal memo detailing the decision, Meta stressed the need to allow people to use Facebook and its other platforms to "seek safety or exercise their human rights," a move it acknowledged comes with "tradeoffs" such as scrutiny from "law enforcement and government bodies."
Meta is not the only social media giant that has a cartel problem. TikTok—whose CEO received a similar letter from Blackburn, Tillis, and Daines—has been flooded with cartel recruitment posts, which promise fast cash and lavish parties for those who drive for the criminal organizations. "Cartels are trying to get workers. … [They] show lots of money, they show lots of drinking, partying, and everything else," Commander Jorge Esparza of the Brooks County Sheriff Department told the Free Beacon in May. "It's like a joke on law enforcement," Sgt. Aaron Moreno of the Hidalgo County Sheriff's Department added. "I've seen TikTok videos where there's coyotes in a vehicle and they have a long rifle."
Beyond Meta and TikTok, Blackburn, Tillis, and Daines also sent letters to executives at Snapchat and Twitter. The letters include a deadline of December 16 for the companies to answer an array of questions, including the volume of smuggling posts on their platforms, whether they use "algorithms and artificial intelligence" to identify and remove those posts, and how they "coordinate with law enforcement to help them identify people involved in smuggling groups." None of the companies returned requests for comment.
Illegal immigration has exploded under President Joe Biden. Customs and Border Protection encountered more than two million migrants at the southern border in the last fiscal year alone, the first time that figure has been reached in American history. Still, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre assured reporters in September that the Biden administration has "taken unprecedented action over the past year and a half to secure our border."
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