SET ASIDE THEIR LIES, OPEN BORDERS IS ALL ABOUT KEEPING WAGES DEPRESSED AND BUILDING THE N.A.F.T.A. DEMS' SERF CLASS OF 'CHEAP' LABOR MIDDLE AMERICA ENDS UP PAYING THROUGH THE NOSE FOR!
ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION: From day one, the borders were flung
open by the Democrat Party to drug traffickers, murderers, and
myriad other miscreants in the hope they would be new Democrat
votes. As a result, crime is rampant, blue cities under Democrat rule
are suffering and homelessness is on the rise, all the while Biden
spokespeople are claiming the "border is closed." Squealing like
stuck pigs, places like New York City which have reluctantly become
Open borders are supposed to be good for the economy by providing cheap labor to perform the jobs that Americans will not do. That argument should insult both immigrants and Americans — but the Dems think it makes sense.
Joe Biden’s Migrant Flood Sparks Citizen Protests in Chicago
Citizens in Chicago are angrily protesting President Joe Biden’s flood of foreign migrants into their neighborhoods and workplaces.
“It is a slap in the face that we as citizens of the United States of America do not have the resources and support but you’re going to bring people who are not citizens here in our community in our buildings that we pay taxes for that you took away from us,” resident Natasha Dunn told TV cameras. “That is completely unacceptable … The black people in Chicago are bleeding on the streets,” she added.
One protester at a raucous May 4 meeting carried a sign saying “Build the Wall 2024.”
A top Democratic city leader at the May 4 meeting denounced the policy, reported BlockClubChicago.org:
Minutes later, the crowd shouted down city officials’ attempt at a presentation about the plans …
The migrants “come from a place where they didn’t have nothing, so I know what that is,” [resident Etta] McChristian said. “But at the end of the day, if Chicago can’t take care of its own, why should they take care of others? If the resources are given to others, why can’t the resources be given to us?”
The city’s likely next mayor is a Democrat and he also revealed his support for illegal migrants over Americans. “We have the responsibility to make sure that families who are seeking love and support here in the city of Chicago and throughout the state of Illinois, that they are not just welcomed but they are serviced [with government aid],” said Brandon Johnson.
Johnson downplayed the civic conflict caused by the government-imposed diversity, saying: “I want to make sure that black families who have been left out, and that the brown families who want in, are not seen as a divided space.”
City officials said they will spend $35 million on roughly 1,300 family groups and house another 1,000 migrants.
On Friday, Biden’s pro-migration border chief, Alejandro Mayorkas, announced extra taxpayer funding for his semi-hidden catch-and-release network of Democratic-run groups and governments:
Today, the Emergency Food and Shelter Program’s National Board announced the allocation of $332.5 million to assist [35] communities receiving noncitizens released from custody as they await the outcome of their immigration proceedings … [By October], the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) will award approximately $360 million in additional funds through the new Shelter and Services Grant Program.
However, that spending is just a small share of the taxpayers’ cash Mayorkas is delivering to help transport millions of economic migrants from South America, through Central America and Mexico, over the border, and up to Americans’ cities and towns.
WATCH: Lightfoot to Gov. Abbott — Stop Sending Migrants to Chicago, “We Are Completely Tapped Out”
The Latino population is being favored by Chicago’s politicians because it is growing faster than the local black population. It also delivers an extra supply of compliant workers, law-abiding consumers, and grateful renters to local business leaders.
But the inflow is very unpopular, in part, because the new arrivals tend to look down on blacks. A January 31-Feb. 3 poll showed that 56 percent of locals oppose the bussing of migrants into Chicago. A majority of blacks and whites oppose the bussing — and just 51 percent of local Hispanics support the continued inflow.
The establishment website, BlockClubChicago.org, showed its support for the destructive migration policy.
For example, the site tried to shame black residents — including Val Free, a leader in the local Neighborhood Network Alliance.– by claiming the residents relied on data provided by what it described as a “hate” group. But the “hate” charge by a liberal group is often used to muzzle pro-American groups, regardless of the accuracy and fairness of their research.
A chartered bus carrying migrants arrive at Chicago’s Union Station on Oct. 14, 2022. (E. Jason Wambsgans/Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service via Getty)
The BlockClubChicago.org site also suggested that illegal migrants are not actually illegals because they are entitled to ask for asylum. But the often-fraudulent asylum requests do not change the migrants’ underlying illegal status — they merely work like a request for bail today and a pardon next year.
Also, federal law requires that asylum-seeking migrants be detained until their asylum claim is judged.
However, Biden’s deputies have chosen to release the migrants so that the migrants can get the jobs they need to pay off their smuggling debts to the cartels, get settled in U.S. communities, and then bring in more relatives. For example, Biden’s Cuban-born border chief Alejandro Mayorkas recently announced he would allow migrants from Central America to bring 100,000 family members to U.S. cities, including Chicago.
Local citizens scoff at the establishment site’s drive-by claim of racism:
“This is not about racism for us,” [Val] Free said. “This is more about access to resources and stabilizing our neighborhood. … We shouldn’t have to fight with people who don’t live here over resources that we’re not getting.”
Multiple polls show that working-class African-Americans oppose migration. In 2018, Breitbart News reported an article by academic Tatishe Nteta in the American Politics Research journal:
Working-class African Americans are significantly more supportive of policies that seek to: decrease the number of immigrants coming to the United States, increase the federal role in verifying the employment status of immigrants, and attempts to amend the Constitution’s citizenship provisions.
Nationally, blacks split 45 percent to 45 percent on whether legal immigration should be decreased or increased, said a FoxNews poll of 1,003 registered voters in January 2023. Nationwide, the split was 49 percent for a decrease and 43 percent for an increase.
For at least 30 years, migration has moved wealth from ordinary employees to business leaders, CEOs, landlords, and investors.
The inflow of people drives down Americans’ blue-collar wages and white-collar salaries. In 2017, for example, a Chicago bakery was forced to hire up to 800 Americans at higher wages when the federal government forced it to fire hundreds of illegal immigrants.
In fact, the government’s pro-migration policies have helped slash black Americans’ wages and wealth since the 1980s. A 2017 report in the Chicago Tribune showed the average income of black Americans in Chicago is roughly half the income of Asians and whites in the city — and well below the income for Latinos. The new migrants are also pushing blacks back to southern states where they lived until Congress blocked most migration from 1925 to 1965.
The government-funded inflow is also pushing rents up for ordinary Americans. In January, Forbes.com reported “The Average Rent In Chicago Reaches Its Highest Point Ever,” saying:
The average rent in Chicago is more expensive than all 10 of these major cities of the Midwest, with Minneapolis the closest at an average rent of $1,649. Indeed, the growth rate in the average rent in Chicago is among the most robust in the Midwest region: From November 2021 to November 2022, Chicago’s average rent rose by 8.6%, from $1,773 to $1,925.
Moreover, enthusiasts for more migration say migrants into U.S. cities can replace the Americans — and their children — who do not want to pay higher rent in cities. Author Leah Boustan wrote in June 2022:
Many of the children of U.S.-born parents grow up in areas where their families settled long before, so economic mobility for them is often coupled with the costs of leaving home … In other words, U.S.-born families are more rooted in place, while immigrant families are more footloose—and this willingness to move toward opportunity seems to make all the difference.
The federal government is providing incentives for blacks to leave high-value real estate in Chicago for lesser cities such as Ferguson, Mo.
There is no evidence that the staff and board of BlockClubChicago.org oppose cheap-labor migration into Americans’ workplaces and neighborhoods.
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.
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 — and 43 percent of blacks.
Beleaguered Democrat Exposes the Open Borders Scam
When is a sanctuary city not a sanctuary? When it's declared by a poser more interested in appearing charitable than actually being charitable.
The Democrat party is infested with such shameless actors. They sanctimoniously claim moral superiority over the MAGA masses, while they go about destroying all that is good about America — using illegal immigration as a tool.
It turns out that Lori Lightfoot, the Chicago mayor, is one such poser — just like the "humanitarians" on Martha's Vineyard. Her city of Chicago is officially designated as a sanctuary city — prohibiting local law enforcement from working with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials to deport illegal aliens. But it turns out that Chicago isn't as welcoming as the "sanctuary" declaration would imply.
Mayor Lightfoot has exposed her insincerity through a running verbal battle with Texas governor Greg Abbott. It seems Governor Abbott has been offering illegal aliens in Texas free bus tickets to sanctuary cities. Why wouldn't people in a place where they aren't appreciated want a ticket to a place where they would be welcomed? Thousands have accepted the offer. It's reported that Abbott has bussed over 12,000 illegal aliens to Chicago in the past year.
Lightfoot is begging him to stop the practice — claiming that what he's doing is inhumane. She hasn't explained how transporting people from a place where they could be arrested to a place where they will be safe (from ICE, anyway) is inhumane. She insists that Chicago doesn't have the resources to deal with an influx of migrants equivalent to what El Paso must absorb every 12 days. It's all very entertaining — and revealing.
I've never understood the whole "sanctuary city" thing. If they can't handle the influx of aliens, why are they inviting them in? The definition of a sanctuary is a place of refuge and protection. It's not much of a protective offer when those seeking the protection are told to stay out.
But Lori and her fellow radicals keep telling us that unlimited immigration is a good thing.
Open borders are supposed to be good for the economy by providing cheap labor to perform the jobs that Americans will not do. That argument should insult both immigrants and Americans — but the Dems think it makes sense.
Accepting the "immigrants" into our communities is also supposed to be good for our humanity. By showing sympathy to the world's downtrodden, we can achieve salvations through charitable deeds and caring for the less fortunate.
But now Lightfoot is pleading for Governor Abbott to stop sending them. Has she had too much of a good thing? Is there a limit to the prosperity and salvation that Chicagoans can tolerate? Or was that narrative always a lie — which Abbott has exposed for the cost of a few bus tickets?
Have Mayor Lightfoot's complaints accidently exposed the Democrat party scam — that it was never about prosperity or charity? Has she revealed that the open borders argument is actually something much less noble? Has the "no human being is illegal" rallying cry really been about the importation of voters and chaos, rather than charity?
If Hispanics are reliable Democrat voters, then the Dems just need to import a bunch of Hispanics and relax the rules so they can vote. There's no need to sell a radical agenda. Just welcome them in, give them a bunch of free stuff, and tell them how to vote. It's an easy path to electoral dominance — just like Ruy Teixeira promised — though the Dems haven't been paying attention to Ruy recently. Now he's telling them that they could have had electoral dominance if they hadn't gone bat-guano crazy. The Dems are selectively ignoring that last part of his advice.
Unlimited immigration could also be about the chaos. If the radicals want to replace our constitutional republic with something a bit less personal freedom–oriented, a little chaos works for them. Is it possible that the people who wish to gift us a socialist paradise see some value in social conflict? Is there some amount of chaos that would convince Americans that our founding principles don't work? That it's time for a change — that the radicals will gladly help us figure out? In their minds, are the crime, drug abuse, and social burden from open borders not a tragedy at all — but rather simply a transition cost?
Was their plan all along to
- declare sanctuaries — inviting in crime and dependents,
- overburden social safety nets — to the point of failure, and
- promote diversity and hyphenated citizenship — until our national identity is destroyed?
Once we're ashamed to be Americans, our cities become unlivable, and our country is in financial ruin, will the people who broke everything offer a ready-made plan to fix it?
Occam's Razor would suggest that people like Lori Lightfoot are just fools — the simplest explanation for something usually being the correct explanation. But if the actions of the left were just idiocy, there would be more randomness to our collapse. However, their actions have resulted in an unrelenting march toward tyranny and have been coordinated at a national level. What we are experiencing seems less like stupidity and more like a well orchestrated evil plan — with emphasis on the "evil."
Americans are facing an approaching crisis. Has the "sanctuary city" movement actually been part of a bigger overarching plan — to facilitate social collapse? Could they be that evil?
Does Occam's Razor apply to us? Are we approaching crisis not because we agree with the radicals, but because we were blind to the advance of tyranny, and too lazy to stop it once we saw it?
John Green is a political refugee from Minnesota, now residing in Idaho. He has written for American Thinker and American Free News Network. He can be reached at greenjeg@gmail.com.
Image: Lori Lightfoot. Credit: MacLean Center via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 3.0 (cropped).
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EXCLUSIVE: Video Shows Migrants Released by Biden Admin Camping on El Paso Streets
EL PASO, Texas — Migrants recently released by the Biden administration erected makeshift structures for several blocks and alleyways around the Sacred Heart Church in downtown El Paso. The migrants sought shade as afternoon temperatures neared 100 degrees Fahrenheit on Wednesday. Breitbart Texas observed the migrants, unable to bathe for several days, searching for relief from the heat on the city’s sidewalks and business entryways.
The migrants, many from Venezuela, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, and Haiti, lay on the sidewalks of the city for three blocks surrounding the church. The migrants who spoke to Breitbart Texas said they had been living on the streets for anywhere between one and nine days after their release from Border Patrol custody.
Migrants recently released by the Biden administration camp out on the streets of El Paso. (Randy Clark/Breitbart Texas)
The video above shows the crudely fashioned shade structures consisting of American Red Cross blankets, bed sheets, and cardboard in front of the church and for several blocks in the vicinity. Breitbart Texas counted more than one thousand migrants camped out in the area. Many more roamed farther from the area visiting downtown restaurants and businesses.
Randy Clark/Breitbart Texas
The scene is reminiscent of the September 2021 Haitian migrant crisis in Del Rio when nearly 20,000 mostly Haitian migrants crossed the Rio Grande and erected crudely built shelters on the banks of the river. One Dominican Republic migrant in downtown El Paso told Breitbart Texas he and most of the others camped out on the street have no money to pay for housing or travel away from the city. Jose Enrique, who is nearly 30 years old, says he will stay on the city’s streets until there is some way to get out of the border city.
As reported by Breitbart Texas, Border Patrol agents assigned to the El Paso Sector apprehended more than 41,000 migrants in April — making the sector the busiest crossing point along the southwest border. The April apprehension figure is up from the 39,512 taken into custody in March.
Randy Clark/Breitbart Texas
The city has experienced a surge in migrant crossings in recent weeks as the May 11 deadline for the expiration of the Title 42 Emergency COVID-19 expulsion authority approaches. In a recent joint press conference with Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas issued a statement concerning conditions at the border. Mayorkas told reporters “The smuggler’s propaganda is false. Let me be clear: Our border is not open and will not be open after May 11th.”
The video contradicts the Secretary’s border assessment and shows the scale of the routine DHS practice of “catch and release” for a significant number of migrants along the southwest border.
As the deadline for the sunset of the emergency COVID-19 expulsion order approaches, a similar situation is playing out in multiple border cities such as Brownsville, Texas, where released migrants are also seeking food and shelter in the downtown area.
In El Paso, a Migrant Situational Awareness Dashboard operated by the City reports Border Patrol officials released nearly 3,100 migrants during the past two weeks.
Randy Clark is a 32-year veteran of the United States Border Patrol. Prior to his retirement, he served as the Division Chief for Law Enforcement Operations, directing operations for nine Border Patrol Stations within the Del Rio, Texas, Sector. Follow him on Twitter @RandyClarkBBTX.
Actor Scott Baio Leaving California After 45 Years: ‘It’s Not a Safe Place Anymore’
Scott Baio has had enough of California. The actor is so sick of its left-wing politics, and the crime, the homelessness, the lawlessness, and the grim future it holds, after 45 years he is taking his family with him and leaving.
The 62-year-old and long time resident of Los Angeles announced his intentions Wednesday on social media.
He tweeted: “After 45 years, I’m making my way to finally ‘exit stage right’ from California.”
His declaration included a quote from a report on KTLA5 that read, “The most recent survey conducted by the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority found approximately 69,000 people experiencing homelessness in L.A. County and 41,000 in the city in 2022.”
He further tweeted that homelessness “brings down property value. Also no consequences for crime that is rampant, making things higher in price and it’s just not a safe place anymore. [ImFree].”
Homelessness and crime rates have motivated other celebrities to leave the Golden State over the past few years.
Stars like Katy Perry, Matthew McConaughey, and podcaster Joe Rogan previously said L.A. was no longer the place they wanted to bring up a family.
This is not the first time Baio, son of Italian migrants who was born and raised in New York City, has called attention to the state of the nation in general and California in particular.
He was seen at the #WalkAway ‘Rescue America’ rally in 2020 calling for change.
Scott Baio is seen attending the #WalkAway ‘Rescue America’ rally in Beverly Garden Park on August 08, 2020 in Los Angeles, California. (fupp/Bauer-Griffin/GC Images)
On that occasion he joined hundreds of Americans who marched from West Hollywood to Beverly Hills to show their love for the country, as Breitbart News reported.
The Walk Away Campaign organized the event to “show the radical left that they do not own America’s streets and that our country is filled with kind, loving, big-hearted Americans of every race, religion, background, and creed,” its website read.
Baio was happy to take to social media to show his support and his political backing for Donald Trump.
The Happy Days star also addressed the crowd and said he loved America and wanted to save it because “I love that we’re a God-fearing nation. I love that we’re a law-abiding nation. I love our traditional values.”
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