Biden Statistically Unlikely to Survive Second Term, Analysis Finds
Oldest president in history might not even last the year
What happened: President Joe Biden, 80, finally made it official on Tuesday: He's running for reelection alongside Kamala Harris, one of the least compelling politicians in American history.
"We are in a battle for the soul of the nation," he said in a video announcement. "Let's finish the job. I know we can."
Why it matters: We probably can't "finish the job" that Biden has in mind. That's because the octogenarian president—the oldest man to ever hold the office—is statistically unlikely to survive another four-year term in the White House, according to a Washington Free Beacon analysis.
By the numbers: Science never lies, which is bad news for Sleepy Joe.
• Biden is 80.42 years old.
• If elected to a second term, Biden would be 82.17 years old by the time he is sworn in. He would be 86.17 years old by the time he leaves office.
• The Social Security Administration projects that individuals of Biden's age will live another 6.77 years on average.
• Being Hunter Biden's father is a stressful job. So is being president, even if you don't always know what's going on and often forget you're the president. Scientific studies have found that heavy stress reduces life expectancy by 2.8 years.
• Do the math: 82.17 + 6.77 - 2.8 = 86.14
• The science has spoken: 86.14 is less than 86.17
Addendum: Individuals with Alzheimer's and other forms of dementia have roughly one-half the life expectancy compared with individuals not suffering from the disease. Biden's former press secretary recently revealed that the president engages in "night wandering," a common symptom of dementia.
Taking this into account, Biden is projected to live another 0.59 years, or approximately 7 months. That's a nightmare scenario for the Democratic Party, because even Kamala Harris's (many) former staffers are terrified at the thought of her becoming president.
Bottom line: Biden is incredibly old and falls a lot. He might have Alzheimer's or another form of dementia. Harris is a terrible candidate (See: 2020 Democratic primary) but so are the people who might challenge her in the event of Biden's (statistically likely) demise. Pete Buttigieg? Gavin Newsom? J.B. Pritzker? Hillary Clinton? LOL.
Buckle up, folks.
‘What If?’: Republicans Release Dark AI-Generated Vision of Biden’s America Post-2024
Shortly after President Joe Biden announced his reelection bid on Tuesday, the GOP released an AI-generated video showing what the future might look like under a second Biden term.
The ad shows AI-generated images that depict China invading Taiwan, hundreds of banks collapsing, border migrant surges, and authorities closing San Francisco due to crime. Throughout the ad, text on the screen asks viewers to consider "what if" a series of frightful events might occur if Biden gets a second term.
"What if international tensions escalate?" the text reads. "What if crime worsens?"
"Who’s in charge here?" an AI voice asks. "It feels like the train is coming off the tracks."
Biden on Tuesday released a video message to announce his reelection campaign. In the ad, he framed his campaign as a fight for freedom and democracy, saying America "needs to get the job done." The video showed footage of the Capitol riots on Jan. 6, 2021, and demonstrations after the overturn of Roe v. Wade.
Biden faces the lowest support for reelection from within his own party of any president in recent history. Just 38 percent of Democrats said the party should nominate Biden for reelection, while 57 percent want to find someone else.
Both Donald Trump and Barack Obama garnered more than 70 percent of their own party’s support for a second term.
The 80-year-old president faces mounting issues in his quest for four more years. Federal investigations into his son Hunter, who an IRS whistleblower said is receiving "preferential treatment," have raised questions among voters about the family’s ethics.
Biden announced Monday that he selected Julie Chavez Rodriguez to run his campaign. Rodriguez's experience includes helping run Vice President Kamala Harris's failed 2020 presidential campaign.
Biden seeks reelection amid war, COVID and inflation
President Joe Biden’s announcement Tuesday that he will seek reelection in 2024, while predictable and widely expected, is nonetheless a significant event. It demonstrates the deepening political crisis of the capitalist two-party system and of American capitalism as a whole.
The Democratic Party cannot provide an alternative to an 80-year-old man whose physical health and mental competence are clearly at issue, and who would be 86 years old before he leaves the White House at the end of a second term.
As for the Republicans, the fascist former president, Donald Trump, at 76 the second-oldest man ever to occupy the White House, is the clear favorite for the party’s presidential nomination. Should Trump fail to secure the nomination, another fascist, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, is waiting in the wings.
These are the choices that the capitalist two-party system offers working people, although, according to recent polls, Biden and Trump are the two least popular politicians among the presidential hopefuls. Only 5 percent of those polled looked with favor on a rematch of the 2020 election, in which Biden defeated Trump by 7 million votes, and by a margin of 306–232 in the Electoral College.
When the Stalinist bureaucracy had reached the end of its rope in the Soviet Union, in the early 1980s, it advanced a series of aging leaders, a gerontocracy that demonstrated visibly its ossification. After the death of Leonid Brezhnev, 75, Yuri Andropov, 68, succeeded him, followed by Konstantin Chernenko, 72. They now seem positively youthful compared to the current crop of leaders in Washington, with Biden, age 80, in the White House; the troika of Nancy Pelosi, Steny Hoyer and Jim Clyburn, all in their 80s, in control of the House of Representatives until last November; and Chuck Schumer, 72, and Mitch McConnell, 81, leading the Democrats and Republicans in the Senate.
As in the USSR, the aging and semi-senile leadership is a sign of unresolved contradictions which make it difficult for the ruling elite to make the transition from one generation to the next in its leading personnel. The nature of these contradictions is suggested by the three-minute video presentation in which Biden made the case for his own reelection. The video is remarkable, both for what it includes, but mainly for what it passes over in silence, particularly the war in Ukraine, the central focus of the Biden administration for the past two years.
Biden declares freedom and democracy to be the central issues in the 2024 elections, citing three major threats: the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol, the Supreme Court ruling overturning the Roe v. Wade decision on abortion rights and efforts by the Republican Party to restrict voting rights.
These are, of course, highly significant issues. But the Democratic Party has done nothing to defend any of these rights. The House committee hearings into January 6 and the ensuing Justice Department investigation have not resulted in the criminal prosecution of any of those responsible for organizing and instigating the violent attack on Congress, which was aimed at blocking certification of Trump’s election defeat and keeping him in the White House. Trump and his top collaborators in the White House, Pentagon and other federal agencies still walk free.
Similarly, the Democrats failed to take any action to safeguard abortion rights from the 6–3 ultra-right majority on the Supreme Court when they had a majority in both houses of Congress. They are using abortion now purely as a “get-out-the-vote” tactic to mobilize younger voters who otherwise have been alienated by the right-wing policies of the Biden administration. The attack on voting rights has likewise been reduced to a means of mobilizing black and Hispanic voters to go to the polls in 2024 and vote for Democrats, who would not pass a voting rights bill when they controlled Congress.
Even more significant are the issues suppressed in Biden’s announcement video.
There is no mention of the US-instigated proxy war in Ukraine, despite the incessant claims by the Biden administration that this is a war to defend democracy and human rights against Russian aggression. Even when declaring that his campaign theme is the defense of freedom, Biden does not dare to make the connection to the war in Ukraine, because he knows it is deeply unpopular. Nor could he refer to the danger of nuclear war arising from this conflict, because the policy of his administration is to recklessly escalate the war and support provocations against Russia that could trigger a nuclear response.
He was likewise silent on the COVID pandemic, which has claimed the lives of more than 1.1 million Americans, a large majority of them while Biden was in the White House. During the 2020 election campaign, Biden declared during one debate that 200,000 Americans had died of coronavirus during Trump’s time in office. “Anyone who’s responsible for that many deaths should not remain as president of the United States of America,” he said. More than three times that number have died of the preventable disease during Biden’s presidency, and the pandemic is ongoing.
Biden said nothing about inflation or the economic crisis of world capitalism more generally, although that is surely a central issue in the minds of working people. His administration and the Federal Reserve are pursuing a policy of using higher interest rates and higher unemployment to suppress the mounting struggles of the working class driven by inflation. This was signaled most directly by Biden’s pushing legislation through Congress last December to ban a strike by 115,000 rail workers and impose a concessions contract on them.
The next two years will be ones of deepening crisis and social and political explosions, which will break up the seeming political paralysis in US ruling circles and shake the existing political order to its foundation. The two-party system, already deeply discredited, can provide no way forward for tens of millions of working people.
Senator Bernie Sanders, Biden’s major opponent for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2020, announced his endorsement within minutes of the release of the campaign video, saying, “I’m in to do what I can to make sure that the president is reelected.” All other leading Democrats are following suit, confirming that there will be no challenge to Biden from within his own party.
As for the right-wing opposition, the Republican Party has moved decisively in the direction of fascism, with the majority of its congressional delegation having voted to overturn the decision made by voters in the 2020 elections in favor of keeping Trump in the White House as an unelected president and would-be dictator.
The struggle against war, the pandemic and economic crisis, and the defense of democratic rights, cannot be left to any section of the capitalist class and the politicians who serve and represent the financial oligarchy. The working class must advance its own independent political alternative.
This requires a resolute break with the old trade union organizations and their discredited political strategy of subordinating the working class to the Democratic Party. Workers must form their own organizations for waging the class struggle—rank-and-file committees in every workplace—and advance a new political strategy—the independent political mobilization of the working class on the basis of a socialist program, uniting American workers with their class brothers and sisters in every country.
ORCHESTRATING A MASSIVE INVASION TO KEEP WAGES DEPRESSED IS EXPENSIVE.
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Human tidal wave is waiting for border to open May 11 — Biden has no plan to stop it
By Todd Bensman
New York Post, April 18, 2023
Excerpt: Flores’ rules are already so well known throughout the world — and so wildly cherished — America should expect literally millions of new immigrants who enter as families to start pouring into its cities after May 11, right alongside the enhanced crush of solo-traveling minors and single adults who will learn from their lawyer advocates what to say.
President Joe Biden is spending billions of dollars to import more illegal migrants, but the House GOP is not using the nation’s debt-limit crisis to cut the pro-migration spending. NEIL MUNRO
Susan Rice To Leave Biden Admin Amid Migrant Child Labor Scandal
Under Holder’s watch at the DOJ Civil Rights Division, more than half of all the lawyers hired were chosen from four radical, anti-American organizations: the ACLU, National Council of La Raza, NAACP, Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund, and the Lawyer’s Committee for Civil Rights, John Fund and Hans von Spakovsky outlined in their 2014 book, “Obama’s Enforcer: Eric Holder’s Justice Department.”
Many families in Third World Countries have large numbers of children. If, for argument sake 25 million illegal aliens were to participate in the Biden/Harris Amnesty and if the average alien has four children, we could witness an immediate influx of 100 million alien children enter the United States! MICHAEL CUTLER.
Democrats are also trying to split the GOP by spotlighting the planned E-Verify curbs on the hiring of illegals by farm companies. Those curbs are being denounced by Rep. Dan Newhouse (R-WA), who owns several orchards in Washington state, according to the New York Times:
It’s necessary to “have a legal pathway for people to come in and be able to work,” said Representative Dan Newhouse, Republican of Washington State, himself a farmer, in an interview. He noted that Congress would have to authorize new immigrant visas alongside mandating E-Verify to avoid a devastating blow to the agricultural sector.
GOP Spending Cuts Protect Biden’s Migration Slush Fund
President Joe Biden is spending billions of dollars to import more illegal migrants, but the House GOP is not using the nation’s debt-limit crisis to cut the pro-migration spending.
Biden needs the GOP to OK a $1.5 trillion expansion of the nation’s $31.4 trillion debt limit to allow more government borrowing. But to get that OK, the GOP is demanding $130 billion in spending cuts in 2024– but not any cuts to Biden’s migration programs.
The absence of cuts to pro-migration spending will allow Biden’s pro-migration chief, Alejandro Mayorkas, to spend more than a billion dollars this year to catch and release millions of illegals for use by Fortune 500 companies and investors.
The GOP’s failure to seek cuts means that immigration reformers can only hope for spending cuts in the end-of-year 2024 appropriations bills.
Biden’s deputies ” have been using money that has been appropriated for [migration] enforcement for [the opposite task of] processing [migrants into the United States], and that needs to stop,” said Ira Mehlman, communications director at the Federation for American Immigration Reform.
WATCH: Thousands of Migrants Processed in One U.S. Border Town in a Single Night
“When they write the appropriations bills [at year-end], they need to make very, very clear in there that you can’t use this money for processing [migrants] … [They] need to be enforcing the law with it,” he told Breitbart News.
The GOP’s plan to trim 2024 federal spending by $130 billion would reduce spending on a medley of programs. It faces a vote on Wednesday.
The targeted programs include food stamps, student-loan giveaways, energy programs, enforcement by the Internal Revenue Services, and welfare programs, according to a review by Phillip Swagel, director of the Congressional Budget Office. But there is no mention of the border, migration, immigration, enforcement, asylum, or parole in the CBO report or the underlying bill,
So far, Biden has rejected the GOP’s proposed spending cuts.
The lack of spending cuts is the result of a powerplay by pro-business, establishment Republicans.
GOP leaders are not free to pick to programs for cuts. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) has only a handful of votes to spare in the House, so his plan needs to be supported by nearly all GOP members.
On April 25, Politico reported:
The Californian Republican spent the day holding back-to-back meetings with leadership allies and key holdouts to shore up support before a tentative vote Wednesday. By Tuesday evening, though, the GOP’s whip count remained short of the votes needed for passage, with a cohort of Midwestern Republicans demanding changes to a major tax rollback in the bill.
Business-backed, pro-migration GOP members are using their voting power to prevent any migration cuts.
For example, business-backed Rep. Tony Gonzales (R-TX), has promised to vote against the debt limit bill if the GOP tries to shut down Biden’s inflow of asylum migrants. “Bring unchristian anti-immigrant bills to the floor and I am a NO on the debt ceiling,” Gonzales declared via Twitter.
Gonzales’ mandated donor reports show that one of his biggest donors is the $9 trillion Blackrock investment fund.
His views match his donors’ economic interests.
He says he wants to stop illegal migration — and also that he wants companies to be able to legally import as many cheap and compliant foreign workers for Americans’ jobs as they wish. The inflow “needs to be where anybody who wants to come and work can do so,” Gonzales told Semafor.com for an April 9 post.
“It is time for the Republicans to deliver on promises that have been made” to voters, Mehlman responded, adding:
I don’t want to single out individual members, but there has been a history where the Republicans have made promises on this issue and then not delivered. Here we are yet again, faced with another opportunity and we’ll we’ll see how they do.
The Biden migration has already added at least four million people to the nation’s population.
That flood was urged and welcomed by business groups because it cuts Americans’ blue-collar wages and white-collar salaries. It also reduces marketplace pressure to invest in productivity-boosting technology, heartland states, and overseas markets. and it reduces economic pressure on the federal government to deal with the drug and “Deaths of Despair” crises. Because of that policy, some Americans have been killed, and many more have lost jobs and wages.
Also, many additional foreigners have been killed, or have been trafficked into indentured service throughout the United States, because of the administration’s refusal to enforce migration laws.
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THEY HAVE NO FUKING IDEA HOW MANY ILLEGALS HAVE JUMPED THE BORDER! CURRENTLY THEY ESTIMATE THERE ARE 50 MILLION ILLEGALS IN AMERICA'S OPEN BORDERS.
Analysis: Biden Projected to Bring over 2 Million Illegal Aliens to U.S. this Year
Likely more than two million border crossers and illegal aliens are expected to be encountered at the United States-Mexico border by the end of September, a new analysis projects.
In President Joe Biden’s first year in office, Steven Kopits with Princeton Policy Advisors accurately projected that about two million border crossers and illegal aliens would be encountered along the southern border.
Likewise, in 2022, Kopits correctly projected that more than 2.3 million border crossers and illegal aliens would be encountered at the border, for a total of about 4.2 million border encounters in Biden’s first two years, with millions of those being released into the U.S. interior.
For fiscal year 2023, which ends in September, Kopits estimates that more than two million border crossers and illegal aliens will have been encountered at the border — slightly down from his prior projection showing 2.7 million may be encountered.
“… [O]ur forecast for Fiscal Year 2023 apprehensions still constitutes the second worst year on record, better only than last year,” Kopits writes, calling the projected mass migration “still dreadful.”
That projection, Kopits suggests, is likely to rise as the Biden administration tests a host of Catch and Release programs like the Customs and Border Protection One (CBP One) mobile app which allows foreign nationals to schedule appointments at the border for release into the U.S. interior.
Biden is set to have about 30,000 foreign nationals released into the U.S. interior every month via the migrant mobile app, and already more than 30,000 have been released since the app’s start date in mid-January.
Foreign nationals using the migrant mobile app have a 99 percent success rate of getting released into the U.S. interior after scheduling their appointments at the border, data shows.
John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Email him at jbinder@breitbart.com. Follow him on Twitter here.
Republicans’ Immigration Reform Bill Faces Establishment Minefield
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s GOP has moved the party’s promised immigration reform bill through the judiciary committee, but it now faces a minefield on the House floor placed by Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) and a bloc of pro-migration, business-backed, establishment Republican legislators.
Massie announced his obstacle to the 137-page bill — a section that requires employers to use the federal E-Verify database to verify that job-seeking are not illegal migrants:
Massie’s objection to the E-Verify program is an ideological stance, where he is “seeking some kind of Utopia rather than trying to get the best arrangement you can [realistically] get in the actually existing world,” said Mark Krikorian, the director of the Center for Immigration Studies. “It is Debate Club libertarianism,” not practical policies in search of plausible gains, he said.
But Massie’s objection is just one of many GOP-laid landmines that the Republican leaders must clear before they can pass the bill from the House.
“It’s not a perfect bill,” said Robert Law, the director of the Center for Homeland Security at the America First Policy Institute:
It’s a messaging bill for the next election cycle, which shows the American people that Republicans have solutions to solve the border crisis …. the American people will have a clear understanding when it comes time to casting their ballots.
The bill’s actual measures and details are a compromise of the parties’ rival wings, he said:
There has been clear concessions made to donor-class Republicans, but all told, the legislative package is a really serious border security proposal that calls the Biden administration’s bluff that they need new laws in order to solve the humanitarian crisis at the border … This is a serious solution compared to what the Democrats did in the previous Congress, which was just to offer a mass amnesty bill. That was such an absurd initiative that it didn’t even receive a vote.
Getting the legislation passed through the entire House is a strategic battle for the future of the GOP.
RELATED: Thousands of Migrants Processed in 1 U.S. Border Town in 1 Night:
Brownsville PD via StoryfulA huge bloc of GOP voters turned out on election day on November 22 to get effective immigration reform — and if Rep. Kevin McCarthy’s GOP fails, those voters may stay home in 2024.
The judiciary committee’s bill passed the committee on April 19. But GOP leaders are negotiating with various legislators to ensure majority passage in May.
The judiciary bill must also be merged with a pending bill being drafted by the House Committee on Homeland Security, chaired by Rep. Mark Green (R-TN).
If the joint bill passes the House, it likely will be model legislation for the 2024 GOP presidential candidate.
That means the two-bill package will be either written into regulations by a GOP-run White House in 2025, be implemented by appropriators by a GOP Congress in 2026, or even partway passed into law by the Senate.
Any of those gains would be a victory for voters after four years of Biden’s effort to flood the nation’s labor and housing markets with roughly one migrant for every American birth.
The combined bill, if not gutted, will send “a very robust, strong, pro-enforcement, pro-American worker, pro-American society piece of legislation,” said Law.
Rival Factions
Business groups are using their clout in the GOP caucus to remove some of the most important curbs in the bills.
They have a lot of clout because the GOP has a tiny majority of fewer than 10 members. If even just five Republicans vote with unified Democrats, they can stop a bill — although at the cost of alienating the voters that GOP legislators need to keep their majority.
That legislative sabotage is possible because many GOP members prioritize the interests of employers and donors — often above the interest of ordinary Americans outside their district.
For example, Rep. Tony Gonzales from Texas says he wants any immigration bill to let employers import endless low-wage migrants for the jobs that would otherwise go to ordinary, better-paid Americans.
That goal is being delivered by Biden, who is using the parole and asylum loopholes — plus the legal immigration and visa-worker programs — to import roughly one migrant for every American birth in 2022.
On April 19, the New York Times provided Gonzales with its loudspeaker:
The border bill “has a long way to go before it hits prime time,” Representative Tony Gonzales, Republican of Texas, told reporters this week, warning that it would be foolhardy for G.O.P. leaders to press ahead with immigration legislation that stood no chance of passing Congress, given the party’s slim majority in the House.
“In this Congress, five votes is 100,” he said.
Gonzales is backed by other business-backed Republican legislators, including Rep. Maria Salazar (R-FL) and Rep. Juan Ciscomani (R-AZ),
In contrast, the bill is being pushed by mainstream Republicans, including Rep. Tom McClintock (R-CA), Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX), and Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH), the chairman of the House judiciary committee.
The reform bill is backed also by pro-reform groups, including the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR).
“The much-needed Border Security and Enforcement Act clearly defines the Executive Branch’s responsibilities when it comes to preventing people from entering the country illegally, detaining and removing those who do, and ending the rampant abuse of our asylum system,” said FAIR president Dan Stein, adding:
The bill [also] aims to rein in the Biden administration’s abuse of parole authority, under which it is allowing tens of thousands of illegal migrants to enter the United States every month on the flimsy pretense that they will be removed at some point in the future,
We urge Speaker McCarthy to bring this critical legislation to the floor for final passage by the full House of Representatives as soon as possible.
These pro-reform groups strongly support the E-Verify measure that is opposed by Massie:
Democrats are eager to stop the flagship measure — and they are trying to widen GOP splits over the details of the bill.
For example, Democrats are playing up objections by Gonzales from Texas, who has complained about new curbs on the asylum floods caused by Biden’s border chief, Alejandro Mayorkas.
Democrats are also trying to split the GOP by spotlighting the planned E-Verify curbs on the hiring of illegals by farm companies. Those curbs are being denounced by Rep. Dan Newhouse (R-WA), who owns several orchards in Washington state, according to the New York Times:
It’s necessary to “have a legal pathway for people to come in and be able to work,” said Representative Dan Newhouse, Republican of Washington State, himself a farmer, in an interview. He noted that Congress would have to authorize new immigrant visas alongside mandating E-Verify to avoid a devastating blow to the agricultural sector.
Current law allows Newhouse and other farmers to import an unlimited number of H-2A visa workers at wages set by the federal government. Many foreign workers are treated very badly in the poorly managed program. But U.S. farmers also say the H-2A wages are too high — and are pushing for legislation that would recruit and pay foreign workers with slices of Americans’ citizenship instead of farmers’ revenues.
As expected, Rep. Adam Schiff (R-CA), slammed the E-Verify plans in the hope that it would bolster opposition by GOP members such as Newhouse and Rep. Mike Simpson:
Amid the pressure, many GOP members are now zigzagging between business donors and the GOP’s voters while the GOP leaders try to rally them for a near-unanimous vote.
The zigzagging allows the members to display support for both sides, so minimizing their political risks. But McCarthy wants to pass the bill, so every member will need to align themselves with voters or the donors, sooner or later.
Yet the GOP members can cover their track by declaring public support for a reform bill while quietly objecting to a minor element.
Business groups can block or neutralize useful legislation if they can use their economic clout to create a yes-but-not-this-bill caucus of 10 to 15 legislators.
Speaking of donor clout, Gonzales’ mandated reports show that the $9 trillion Blackrock investment fund has been his biggest donor.
But many GOP members face tough pressure from local employers who provide the medium-size donations that fill out most campaign accounts. For example, Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) told the Washington Post that she wants more imported seasonal workers to aid employers:
I’ve got to tell you in my district, H-2B visas are huge in the tourism industry. And when we have these arbitrary [annual H-2B] caps that are set, we have many businesses — small businesses especially — that can’t hire enough employees for the tourist season. These [foreign] people come here and they work after six to nine months they go back home. And that’s an idea that most Americans can support but again, by only focusing on border security, we’re we’re ignoring other issues that are out there.
Similarly, GOP representatives who rely on the agriculture industry are zigzagging as they try to force down wages paid to H-2A visa workers amid growing international competition. That group is led by Rep. Dan Newhouse (R-WA), who owns orchards in Washington State.
The farmers growing preference for H-2A workers robs their local American communities of wages, consumer spending, and wealth.
Left-wing legislators and progressive journalists praise the business groups who are demanding more wage-cutting migration.
For example, Greg Sargent, a Washington Post advocate for greater corporate use of cheap foreign labor who describes himself as a progressive, wrote on April 18:
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) and GOP leaders had planned to pass their border bill in January, but that idea got shelved when objections from moderate Republicans caught them off guard. The sticking point is that the GOP bill would functionally end asylum seeking entirely.
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Meanwhile, the pro-immigration [West Coast investor] group FWD.us has released a blueprint combining these ideas into a broader agenda. The principle here is that opening up more legal pathways is the way to reduce pressure on the border while also honoring pro-immigrant values and international commitments.
FWD.us has been one of the main drivers of Biden’s immigration policy.
In an April 23 article, the New York Times touted advocacy by FWD.us under the headline, “Biden Opens a New Back Door on Immigration.”
The newspaper cited an April 20 report by the FWD.us group, saying:
Thousands of carpenters, medical workers, and manufacturers, among many other skilled individuals, have been admitted into the U.S. through immigration parole in recent months … New FWD.us estimates show that people recently granted parole—largely from Afghanistan, Ukraine, and Latin American countries—have had a profoundly positive impact on our economy, particularly at a time when worker shortages have contributed to soaring inflation.
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Although the direct link between the filling of job vacancies by paroled adults and more tempered inflation rates cannot be made, it is likely that newly arrived individuals helped to ease inflation through workforce expansion in these industries challenged by labor shortages.
Like Sargent and many other progressives, the New York Times article whitewashed the pocketbook damage being inflicted on ordinary Americans by Biden’s migration, which is said “could become the largest expansion of legal immigration in decades.”
GOP Negotiations
Amid the splits, the bill is a challenge for the various groups of Republicans, said Ira Mehlman, the spokesman for the Federation for AMerican Immigration Reform (FAIR).
‘They have a moral obligation to the American people … [and they] should have some sense of obligation to the voters who have made it clear that that they want some serious reforms and changes.”
The bill is also a challenge to the GOP leaders who must keep their fractious party together, Mehlman said. “They’re there to hold the caucus in line, and that’s what McCarthy needs to be doing.”
McCarthy’s office is trying to bridge the gap between the party’s voters and donors.
Business groups are happy to back minor or incomplete measures, such as adding a few thousand border agents, or finishing most of the border wall, or strengthening penalties on coyotes. Such modest gains would be trumpeted in donor-funded campaign ads by the legislators who gutted the most effective measures, such as curbs on asylum claims, or a ban on Biden’s parole pathways.
On April 17, the pro-establishment outlet, Politico, describes the talks while mischaracterizing business-backed legislators as “moderates” and “the center of the party”:
Uneasy center: The latest version, which GOP lawmakers released Monday, is running into opposition from the center of the party. Those swing-district Republicans have worried that the bill’s language on asylum, in particular, is too strong — anxious it could alienate voters back home.
Inside the meeting: That language is similar to a bill backed by Rep. Chip Roy, who made the push for his priority in a closed-door meeting in McCarthy’s office on Monday.
Many of the moderates have channeled their frustrations through Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart, a veteran lawmaker who has decades of experience in immigration policy. Diaz-Balart, too, attended the McCarthy office meeting.:
Amid the business pressures on the pending legislation, said Law, “At the end of the day, as of right now, this legislative package is the best-looking border security package … [from] the House that I can think of.”
Extraction Migration
The federal government has long operated an unpopular economic policy of Extraction Migration. This colonialism-like policy extracts vast amounts of human resources from needy countries, reduces beneficial trade, and uses the imported workers, renters, and consumers to grow Wall Street and the economy.
The migrant inflow has successfully forced down Americans’ wages and also boosted rents and housing prices. The inflow has also pushed many native-born Americans out of careers in a wide variety of business sectors and contributed to the rising death rate of poor Americans.
The lethal policy also sucks jobs and wealth from heartland states by subsidizing coastal investors with a flood of low-wage workers, high-occupancy renters, and government-aided consumers.
The population inflow also reduces the political clout of native-born Americans, because the population replacement allows elites to divorce themselves from the needs and interests of ordinary Americans.
In many speeches, Mayorkas says he is building a mass migration system to deliver workers to wealthy employers and investors and “equity” to poor foreigners. The nation’s border laws are subordinate to an elite opinion about “the values of our country,” Mayorkas claims.
Migration — and especially, labor migration — is unpopular among swing voters. A 54 percent majority of Americans say Biden is allowing a southern border invasion, according to an August 2022 poll commissioned by the left-of-center National Public Radio (NPR). The 54 percent “Invasion” majority included 76 percent of Republicans, 46 percent of independents, and even 40 percent of Democrats.
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New York Times: Biden Admin Ignored Warnings About Migrant Child Labor, Punished Whistleblowers
Susan Rice To Leave Biden Admin Amid Migrant Child Labor Scandal
Susan Rice will step down as President Joe Biden’s domestic policy adviser next month, departing after reporting revealed she oversaw the release of thousands of unaccompanied children migrants into the country, many of whom ended up exploited and working dangerous jobs.
Rice, who served in the Clinton and Obama administrations, will leave her role on May 26, Biden announced Monday in a statement praising her "steady" and "capable" leadership. Rice has overseen Biden’s domestic policy for the past two years, including policies concerning migrant children that have been called into question.
The New York Times reported last week that documents show Rice was aware the administration was quickly releasing unaccompanied migrant children into the country by the thousands. Many of those children ended up working grueling jobs, often for long hours and in dangerous conditions where they worked with chemicals and industrial equipment
The Times report revealed Rice and her policy team failed to act, even as administration staffers called for stricter vetting of the sponsors migrant children were placed with to prevent human trafficking.
"It was maddening," Vivian Graubard, a White House adviser who worked with Rice on migrant child issues, said of the administration's refusal to place more scrutiny on migrant children's sponsors. Five Health and Human Services staffers said they were pushed out of their roles after raising concerns about child labor issues.
Biden's statement announcing Rice's departure defended her on the issue, claiming her work helped the administration "rebuil[d] the broken system of care for unaccompanied children, putting their safety and well-being first and foremost."