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America Doesn’t Need ‘Immigration Reform’ — It Needs To Enforce The Laws We Already Have

By Todd Bensman

Excerpt: The puppet strings for the important control of illegal immigration all lead into the White House and, to a limited extent, Congress. Short of any appreciable congressional action, the White House becomes the default location where a mass migration is started and stopped.

Hiring Illegals Is a Crime
DOJ is guilty of a pattern and practice of failing to seek criminal penalties for employers who knowingly employ illegal aliens

By George Fishman, 

Excerpt: I recommend that Congress seriously consider two statutory changes to fulfill the failed promise of employer sanctions to turn off the jobs magnet for illegal immigration. The first would be to provide temporary legal status (and potentially lawful permanent residence) to illegal aliens who can provide critical information that can lead to the successful prosecution of their employers for employer sanctions violations. The second would be to provide the victims of employers who knowingly employ illegal aliens (such as American workers who are fired or not hired as a result of such unlawful employment) a private right of action to sue the employers for damages.

   

Can California State Universities Legally Hire Illegal Aliens?

Washington, D.C. (November 28, 2022) – A new Center for Immigration Studies report analyzes a recent memo arguing that the federal law which prohibits the hiring of illegal aliens does not apply to state governments. The memo, by a group of self-identified “immigration and constitutional law scholars”, claims that the state of California could and should give California state universities the go-ahead to hire and employ their illegal alien students, based on “the urgent need to expand employment opportunities for undocumented students”. The Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 (IRCA) prohibits the knowing hiring of illegal aliens. The memo contends that since IRCA does not spell out that it applies specifically to the states, Congress cannot intrude on the states’ historic “police power” to regulate employment within their boundaries. George Fishman, a senior legal fellow at the Center and author of the report, argues that the scholars’ memo is most likely wrong. He said, “If California moves forward with this proposal, I would predict that IRCA will be found to encompass state entities within its employer sanctions regime. But hopefully, good sense will prevail, and the proposal to allow California public universities to hire illegal aliens will never advance beyond advocacy pieces. Authorizing the state to employ aliens not authorized to work under federal law trivializes immigration laws and encourages future illegal immigration.”   Most recently, for instance, Biden’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) launched a mobile app where foreign nationals living in Mexico can schedule appointments to get released into the U.S. interior at the southern border. Illegal Immigration Costs Average Taxpayer $957 Annually, New Study Finds CRAIG BANNISTER | MARCH 10, 2023 | 5:37PM EST Text Audio 00:0000:00 Font Size (Screenshot) Illegal immigration costs each American taxpayer $1,156 per year ($957 after factoring in taxes paid by illegal aliens), a new analysis by the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) finds. The annual gross cost (state and federal) of illegal immigration is now $183 billion, up more than thirty-five percent since 2017, according to the FAIR report released this week: “In total, the gross cost of illegal immigration now total $183 billion, up more than 35.7 percent since 2017. The cost incurred per illegal alien (including their U.S.-born children) has increased as well, now totaling $8,776 annually.” Even after the tax contributions of illegal aliens is deducted, the average American taxpayer is on the hook for nearly a thousand dollars, the study shows: “When the taxes paid by illegal aliens are factored in, the net cost of illegal immigration to U.S. taxpayers is now $150.7 billion. This means that each American taxpayer shells out a net average of $956 (or $1,156 before the taxes paid by illegal aliens are factored in) due to illegal immigration.” … “Taxes paid by illegal immigrants only covered around 17.2 percent of the costs they created for American citizens.” The report provides the following breakdown of annual federal, state and local government expenditures: Total Federal Expenditures $66,449,136,000 Total State and Local Expenditures $115,608,729,000 Total National Expenditures $182,057,865,000 Total Net Tax Contributions $31,391,635,00 Total Fiscal Cost of Illegal Immigration on U.S. Taxpayers: $150,666,230,000   “Most of the additional costs have been added in the past two years, as the Biden administration’s de facto open borders policies have triggered a historic surge of new illegal migrants pouring across our borders,” the study concludes. But, it’s not just the Biden Administration that’s to blame, since new state and local policies have also encouraged the influx of illegal aliens, FARI President Dan Stein said in a press release introducing the study: “Not only is the Biden administration refusing to rein-in illegal immigration or remove the people who are breaking our laws, they are promulgating policies that actually encourage more of it while offering new protections and benefits to those who settle here illegally. “Likewise, a growing number of states and localities create their own costly magnets for illegal aliens by declaring themselves sanctuaries and offering new benefits and services.” FAIR’s analysis breaks down the cost of illegal immigration by type of government expenditure: medical, education, law enforcement and welfare. See full report. PROFILE OF A SOCIOPATH GAMER LAWYER: JOE BIDEN is known as a serial liar, a "public servant" who has somehow managed to accrue tremendous wealth, a race-baiting opportunist, a Catholic-in-name-only, and a bought-and-paid-for politician in bed with criminal cartels and foreign foes.  In another era, Joe Biden would have been run out of his country much the same way Benedict Arnold was two and a half centuries ago; in an era when integrity, honor, fortitude, fidelity, and grit have been jettisoned for immorality, unscrupulousness, weakness, betrayal, and craven pliability, however, he is elevated to king sleazeball in a city drowning in sleaze. JB SHURK

 Biden is Su-ing America

Inside the incompetent, anti-worker and unaccountable world of Labor Secretary pick Julie Su.

March 13, 2023 by Lloyd Billingsley 5 Comments

Joe Biden hails Julie Su as a “tested and experienced leader” and has tapped her for Labor Secretary, subject to confirmation by the Senate. The hearing gives senators a chance to expose Su’s leadership of California’s Labor and Workforce Development Agency (LWDA) which oversees the Employment Development Department (EDD) responsible for unemployment claims.

On Su’s Watch the EDD sent more than $31 billion in fraudulent unemployment claims to people in California, out of state, and even out of the country. In 2020 alone, Su confirmed, fraudsters stole at least $11.4 billion in California unemployment benefits. As it happens, fraud was not a new problem at the EDD.

As California’s state auditor reported, “EDD had no comprehensive plan for how it would respond if California experienced a recession and UI claims increased accordingly.” Su had failed to modernize outdated EDD technology, and in the early days of the pandemic relaxed eligibility requirements for EDD claims. Criminals took full advantage.

The state approved more than $140 million for at least 20,000 prisoners. Convicts who made fraudulent claims included convicted murderers Scott Peterson and Cary Stayner. Death row inmates accounted for at least 158 claims landing more than $420,000 in benefits.

Inmates used their real names, fake names and fake Social Security numbers. One convict filed a claim under the name “poopy britches,” but Fontrell Antonio Baines of Memphis, Tennessee, took it to another level. The rapper obtained debit cards pre-loaded with unemployment benefits administered by the California Employment Development Department, issued in the names of third parties and victims of identity theft.

Baines, also known as “Nuke Bizzle,” posted a video titled “EDD,” bragging about “my swagger for EDD,” as a second rapper says “You gotta sell cocaine. I just file a claim.” And as Nuke Bizzle explains,  “I done got rich off EDD. . .I just might swipe me a lump sum. I’m in Dior havin’ money fun. . . Ten cards, I’m swiping 10K a day. Counting up bills like a CPA.”

Prosecutors accused Roseville, California, woman Andrea Gervais of filing 100 fake unemployment claims, including one in the name of California Sen. Dianne Feinstein. While this massive fraud carried on unchecked, legitimate claimants waited months to collect the benefits they deserved.

“There is no sugar coating the reality,” Julie Su told reporters. “California did not have sufficient security measures in place to prevent this level of fraud.” Su did not explain what security measures she failed to put in place and to what extent Julie Su was responsible for the fraud. Su also failed to take effective action to recover the stolen funds and saddled her successors with the task. Incompetence and unaccountability aside, Su boasts other experience Joe Biden might find useful.

Julie Su also served as California Labor Commissioner and supported Assembly Bill 5, a frontal assault on workers’ independence. The measure primarily targeted independent truckers and rideshare drivers but there was more to it. AB5 limited freelance writers, photographers and videographers to 35 submissions per publication, per year. Independent musicians also took a hit.

Trumpeter Joe Mazzaferro protested that AB5 had already reduced his band’s pay. “I feel like it’s our right to work as we choose,” the bandleader told the Sacramento Bee. Julie Su didn’t think so, and Gov. Gavin Newsom budgeted $20 million for AB5 enforcement.

In the throes of the pandemic, 153 California economists and political scientists signed an open letter, urging immediate suspension of AB5. “By prohibiting the use of independent contractor drivers, health care professionals, and workers in other critical areas,” the experts explained, “AB5 is doing substantial and avoidable harm to the very people who now have the fewest resources and the worst alternatives available to them.”

Gov. Newsom, who had already taken on emergency powers, said there was no chance he would suspend the measure, even on a temporary basis. Californians could be forgiven for calling it the most anti-worker law ever passed in the state or nation. For his part, Joe Biden was “glad the California legislature passed AB5.” That invites a look at another Biden pick for a key federal position.

Joe Biden’s nominee for Comptroller of the Currency in the U.S. Treasury Department was Saule Omarova. A native of the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic, Omarova attended Moscow State University on a Lenin Scholarship. In the best Leninist-Stalinist style, Omarova wanted to end independent banks as a class, and put the Federal Reserve in charge of every American’s money.

Such centralization would essentially replicate banking in the Soviet Union, a regime Omarova still praises. Based on her record, Sen. Tim Scott could think of nobody “more poorly suited to be the Comptroller of the Currency” than the Lenin scholar Biden wanted.

Biden now wants Julie Su, who enabled more than $30 billion in unemployment fraud and ducked all responsibility. The failed bureaucrat is apparently unaware that people have a basic right to earn a living as independent writers, editors, truckers and countless other jobs.

According to Joe Biden, “Julie is the American Dream.” To find out what others are thinking, the senators should bring in workers who suffered substantial harm under AB5. Let fraudsters explain how easy it was to score big bucks on Su’s watch. Bring in Nuke Bizzle, or just play his EDD video.  

For her current position as deputy labor secretary, Julie Su squeaked by 50-47. This time, as Trump likes to say, we’ll have to see what happens. At this writing, no date has been set for the confirmation hearing.

Photo: AP/Rich Pedroncelli 

Lloyd Billingsley

Lloyd Billingsley is the author of Yes I Con: United Fakes of America, Barack ‘Em Up: A Literary Investigation, Hollywood Party, and numerous other works.

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