America Faces No Greater Threat Than Joe Biden and the Democrat Party. Their Assault to Our Borders Is As Great As Their Assault to Free Speech and Free Elections
Saturday, February 10, 2024
AMERICA'S SYSTEMATIC MASS DESTRUCTION - IT STARTED WHEN THE BORDER WAS SURRENDERED - The New Leftist Argument: Illegal Aliens Are Actually Here Legally
WE CAN'T SAVE AMERICA UNTIL WE RID IT OF BIDEN AND BAN THE DEMOCRAT PARTY OF BRIBES SUCKERS FOR OPEN BORDERS!
But it’s worse than that. The “Democrat” party is doing everything it can to encourage the illegal invasion with incentives paid for by our tax dollars. Democrats are providing free health care, prepaid credit cards, and presumably free college to the invader Democrats.
The Biden border catastrophe has created a gaping nationwide leadership vacuum. For three years, President Biden has refused to enforce immigration and border law. The so-called “border bill” is a bait-and-switch ruse that will aggravate the problem rather than solve it. Biden attacks Texas for attempting to defend the border gap, while thousands of illegal migrants continue to stream into our country daily. In federal court, the Biden administration contests the immunity of Donald Trump for acts in the Oval Office, but insists that border and status violators have practical immunity from Texas judicial process.
Will it ever end? Millions of law-abiding Americans are ready for reassurance now that a new president will do what must be done to reverse the intentionally manufactured Biden crisis at the border. Donald Trump is the only American who can credibly provide it.
A galvanizing moment in the 2016 presidential campaign was candidate Trump’s release of eleven names from whom he would select nominees for the U.S. Supreme Court. Telegraphing his intentions eight months before the November election inspired American confidence in the quality of his likely picks, and confidence in him.
Now, ten months before national elections, President Trump could reassure and energize concerned Americans watching the destruction of their border in real time. How? By announcing decisive steps he would take on his first day in office, pursuant to existing executive authority, to turn the illegal migration tide. Here are announcements now I would respectfully encourage for Inauguration Day 2025 measures:
1. Border wall construction, deportations, and the Remain in Mexico program shall be resumed.
2. Biden administration “prosecutorial discretion” schemes that have erased the border and gutted deportation proceedings shall be revoked.
4. U.S. Attorneys shall move for dismissal of federal lawsuits against Texas or other states attempting to defend their territory against illegal migration.
5. Leveraging existing statutory authorities, thirty days after Inauguration Day, the DoD, DHS, and OMB transition teams shall deliver to the president a strategy to free our border and treasury from human traffickers and their U.S. enablers.
6. The U.S. shall reiterate its right to preemptive self-defense against governments and organizations encouraging, enabling, or ignoring U.S. border violations.
7. Existing federal judicial settlements and consent decrees undermining border security and presidential authorities shall be deemed repudiated.
8. No federal district court order pretending to regulate immigration shall be enforced beyond the issuing court’s geographic boundary.
9. Notwithstanding a claim of fear, passage through a U.S. port of entry shall be denied to a non-citizen lacking a valid U.S. visa. No visa, no entry.
10. No person who is unlawfully present in the United States shall be eligible for any category of work authorization, adjustment of status, or inclusion in the eVerify database.
Our nation needs a strong message on immigration, and we need it now. Donald Trump is the person to deliver it.
The author, a Texas lawyer, is a Navy veteran of submarines and Iraq. He served in the Pentagon as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Counternarcotics from 2006-2009 and has lived and worked in Mexico.
Ever notice how the left changes the narrative by demanding a shift in language? Abortion becomes pro-choice, but the outcome is unchanged. Vagrants became the homeless, only to become the unhoused, again with the same outcome and common thread of addiction and mental illness. I realize this happens all the time, but recently in my home city in Colorado, we just witnessed a linguistic innovation that leaves me in awe. One of our local leftist activists managed to transform the term illegal alien (i.e., a person in the US illegally), bypassing “migrant” and “undocumented immigrant” to—get this—“person here legally”! Wow, I wish our side could find that brand of Kool-Aid in the store.
First, I need to get something out of my system. I strongly object to the word “immigrant” as applied to aliens who are here illegally. An immigrant is a person who files the requisite applications, receives the requisite approvals after being properly vetted, and then waits his turn to be admitted based on US priorities. It may take time, even several years, but those who are here legally waited their turn and so must (should) everyone. An illegal alien is not a migrant or an immigrant, period.
But, back to my story: In a thread on the NextDoor platform about providing clothing to those people whom Gov. Abbott bussed to ice-station Denver, a reader questioned the legality of these migrants’ presence in our states. The immediate response from this luminary was, “Actually, they are legal!” How did she achieve this mental triple-axel? Simple. If the Border Patrol stands by while a multitude walks in or hands out appearance tickets for court dates in the next decade—voila!—they are here legally!
No vetting of any kind, no criminal background check, no attention paid to US labor/skillset needs, nothing. Just overwhelmed Border Patrol Agents performing a perfunctory processing of people we know nothing about. Yet, according to our leftist brethren, they are here legally. Amazing!
I will note that this activist made no public mention of the mother and son killed the month before in our city. Jose Menjiaur-Alas (who uses the alias Jose Menjivar), a habitual criminal, got drunk and drove a truck 100 mph into a 30-mph zone near a high school and killed the pair. Menjiaur-Alas is an illegal alien who has been deported four times! I have no doubt that this activist would consider Menjiaur-Alas to have been in the US legally; after all, the Border Patrol stood by as he walked in.
We can only suppose that the mob of illegal aliens that beat two NYPD officers, only to flip us the bird when DA Alvan Bragg released them, was, similarly, here “legally.” Nearly two-thirds of all federal arrests involve non-citizens, but I suppose that, according to the left, they are here legally, too.
As an example of an actual, real immigrant who did it the right way, I would like to introduce Paris Svoronos. Svoronos is Greek by birth but grew up in Egypt, where his father worked as an engineer. He earned a B.S. in chemistry and physics at American University-Cairo in 1973 and went to Georgetown University on an F1 student visa for a Ph.D. (with the allowable $39 in his pocket). By 1979, with Ph.D. in hand, Svoronos was appointed assistant professor of chemistry at Trinity College, which sponsored his application for permanent residence (i.e., a green card). He was on his way toward citizenship but for a few glitches along the way.
As luck would have it, the immigration lawyer hired had a personality conflict with the reviewing Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) official, and Svoronos was ordered to leave the US within three weeks. After an appeal and additional costs, his green card application was back on track, and after another five years, he would be permitted to apply for US citizenship. He married, moved to New York City to teach at Queensborough Community College (Q-CC), and fathered a beautiful daughter (now a neurocritical care physician at Mt. Sinai Hospital).
Another glitch came when he applied for citizenship: His case took two years to pass through the bureaucracy, at which point his daughter was joined by a brother (now on the faculty of Harvard). This time, the INS rejected the application because of the discrepancy in the number of offspring; “Sir, I had one child when I applied, but it’s been two years, and now I have two.” Back to square one.
But undeterred, Svoronos wrote his appeal directly to President Reagan and was given an appointment with INS after only three weeks! At this meeting, he was put to the test. Who is the lieutenant governor of New York: Stan Lundine. Who are the justices of the Supreme Court: He named all nine. Who was the president (other than George Washington) who had appointed the most Supreme Court justices: FDR.
Svoronos aced it, and on June 6, 1987, he became a US citizen! He likes to point out that he was born Greek by accident, was raised in Egypt by accident, but became an American by choice!
So, what did Svoronos do with his citizenship, won after so many years? He chose to spend 40 years at Q-CC serving (legal) immigrant students starting at rock bottom poverty. Many awards followed, including being the first CC Carnegie Foundation/CASE chemistry professor of the year (2003), the Stanley Israel Award for Advancing Diversity in the Chemical Sciences (2018), being named a fellow of the American Chemical Society (2018), and being the only CC prof to be the Norris Foundation professor of the year (2021).
Svornos’s most treasured accolades, though, are the countless cards/letters from his students who have gone on to become MDs, DDSs, DVMs, and PhDs. I have seen this collection, and I envy the joy his students attribute directly and solely to him, and not to the unexceptional Ed.D. administrators and DEI officers. His service was a way to say thank you to the country he loves, which has given him the opportunity to change lives.
Retired now, walking with a cane after three knee replacements (one was botched), he remains for me a friend and the greatest example of what an immigrant can bring to the US. Having to work for his citizenship made him appreciate its meaning, an attitude as far as you can get from the entitled illegal aliens whom intellectual lightweight activists summarily declare “legal.”
Dr. Bruno, a scientist retired after more than 40 years in research, amuses himself writing books and editing scientific journals, along with wood and metalworking.
DO YOU EVER STOP AND WONDER HOW THE N.A.F.T.A. DEMOCRAT PARTY HAS SO SUCCESSFULLY DESTROYED AMERICA'S MIDDLE CLASS WHILE THEY BUILT THE BIGGEST MEXICAN WELFARE STATE IN THE WORLD???
Imagine for a moment what the past few years would have been like if the nation’s socialist “Democratic” party and its media propaganda arm had absolutely no limitations on their power. What would it be like if we just had one-party rule and the GOP was only an afterthought?
The problem is that you won’t have to imagine anything if President Trump and the pro-freedom right don’t prevail in November, and even then, it might just be a short respite from the Democrat party’s deliberate destruction of the country as founded.
As much as most people would like to deny this reality, we are rapidly reaching a point where things could be very bad.
So we have a situation where a state governor defies the federal government in its efforts to bring in millions of potential illegal Democrat voters, and he’s backed up by several other states...resulting in a civil war. That was the plot of a movie — a dark comedy — from 1997 entitled The Second Civil War, and it should seem eerily similar to current events. Sometimes you feel like the female news anchor in the movie, who berated her male counterpart in reporting other events after the shooting broke out in that “there is no other news” (language warning). If the situation deteriorates even more, it won’t matter what else is happening, because we will inevitably have just two very bad choices.
But first let’s consider two stark realities of what the authoritarian left has done to the country.
Do we still have a country when it effectively has no borders?
But it’s worse than that. The “Democrat” party is doing everything it can to encourage the illegal invasion with incentives paid for by our tax dollars. Democrats are providing free health care, prepaid credit cards, and presumably free college to the invader Democrats.
Do we still have a country when it’s being divided by the fascist far left?
This is a far more subtle but just as dangerous aspect of what the far left is doing these days. Everywhere you look, they are working to divide the country, from assaulting every amendment of the Bill of Rights to using lawfare in elections instead of trying to win in the marketplace of ideas — not to mention a two-tiered justice system that persecutes political opponents and rewards criminals.
They are dividing the people to make us easier to control, but it’s essentially ripping the country apart, toward an unintended consequence on their part.
Therefore, the case can be made that it’s the nation’s socialist Democrat party and its media propaganda arm that have brought us to this point, no matter how much they lie and point fingers.
So what are the long-term implications of what they have done, and what are our choices in the matter?
Going forward, even if we somehow prevent 100 percent of future illegal immigration, it only buys us time — and not much. Democrats know this, of course. It’s the reason they continue to accept short-term backlash from our open border in exchange for a long-term payoff. By pointing out that illegal aliens cannot vote, the left claims that this whole thing is a “racist conspiracy theory.”
This disingenuous tactic ignores three things: 1) Democrats have routinely tried to pass some type of amnesty that would eventually allow illegal aliens to vote, 2) Children of illegal aliens born in the U.S. can legally vote when they turn 18, and 3) In 2020, Joe Biden carried Georgia, Wisconsin, and Arizona by a total of about 45,000 votes, meaning a presidential election could be decided by only 0.15 percent of the illegal alien population voting in the right states.
The author makes the point that the last item in that list of three is a mathematical certainty, so even if the “Democrats” don’t pass amnesty or have the illegal invaders vote, they just need to wait to gain perpetual power and one-party rule.
Just imagine the authoritarian leftists unencumbered by the need to win elections. We’ve often stated that socialism is defined as “buying votes with other people’s money, taken at gunpoint,” and they are already putting the first part into practice.
What’s to stop them from doing more of that?
The people getting the freebies will greatly outnumber those who have to foot the bill — in the middle class. What’s to stop them from wanting to bring in more illegal “Democrats”? The blunt truth is that they are doing this only to ensure perpetual power for themselves — until they run out of other people’s money. Then the fun really begins.
So the only choice will have to be, as Sky News host James Morrow has proposed, “DEI: Deport Every Illegal.”
Barring that, we’ve passed all the easy exits, and we’re down to what happens every time collectivism is tried — communism, fascism, Leninism, Maoism, socialism, statism, or whatever you want to call your particular form of societal poison.
That would be the unimaginably horrible option, and by now you should be able to guess what it is.
D Parker is an engineer, inventor, wordsmith, and student of history, the director of communications for a civil rights organization, and a long-time contributor to conservative websites. Find him on Substack.
President Joe Biden’s flood of migrants will force down Americans’ wages over the next 10 years, says a report by the Congress’ non-partisan team of economic experts.
The Congressional Budget Office “estimates that [Biden’s] increase in population will put downward pressure on average real wages [emphasis added],” said the report, which was released on February 7. “Average real wages are expected to be slightly lower by 2034 [emphasis added] than they would be otherwise,” the report said.
The CBO report optimistically projects Biden’s migrant surge will be over by 2028. But it also predicts there will be no long-term recovery in Americans’ wages as investors and government use the migrant labor to absorb a greater share of new wealth produced each year:
From 2028 to 2034, labor income is projected to remain stable as a percentage of [Gross Domestic Product] GDP, averaging 57.1 percent. That projection is below labor income’s average percentage of GDP from 1947 to 2000, 60.4 percent [emphasis added], because some factors that have depressed labor income relative to GDP since 2000 are expected to persist in the coming decade.
The inflow of migrants will be a subsidy for the consumer economy and real estate companies, according to the report:
The increases to CBO’s population projections have raised projected consumer spending over the 2027–2033 period by roughly 2 percent, or 1.4 percent of GDP—and raised projected residential investment (such as spending on housing construction and home improvements) over that period by roughly 10 percent, or 0.4 percent of GDP—compared with the agency’s previous projections.
Many small-government libertarians praise migration, but the CBO noted that the inflow of poor migrants will also help grow government at a much faster rate:
In CBO’s projections, real government purchases grow at an average annual rate of 0.6 percent from 2025 to 2034. Federal purchases increase by an average of 0.4 percent a year during that period. Purchases by state and local governments increase much faster in that period, by an average of 0.7 percent a year, mainly because of federal assistance such as education grants.
Government debt will rise by $19 trillion, up to $54 trillion, by 2034, the report noted.
The arrival of millions of lower-wage laborers will be accompanied by a slowdown in productivity-boosting, wealth-generating business investment.
Four years after the coronavirus shock, that investment grew 4.1 percent in 2023, but CBO forecasts it to drop to just 2.7 percent per year during the 2029-34 period, the report notes. The reduced business investment will help slow the growth in wealth-generating productivity of U.S. workers.
Labor productivity grew 2.3 percent a year from 1950 to 1973 — so creating a vast middle class.
File/A young American family in the 1960s look over the gleaming choices on offer in a car showroom. (H. Armstrong Roberts/ClassicStock/Getty)
But productivity growth crashed down to 1.3 percent per year during the 2008-2023 period, partly because the federal government used a 1990 immigration-expansion law to create an economic bubble of cheap labor.
The 1990 law was signed by President George H. Bush, and the resulting labor bubble was further inflated by President George. W. Bush’s welcome for illegal migrants. Those migrants and their banks jointly helped to inflate the housing bubble that burst in 2007.
Biden’s migration and labor bubble will slow productivity gains to 1.2 percent from 2024 to 2028, the report noted.
The report explained how migration skews the economy:
Increased net immigration is projected to affect average real wages through several channels. First, additional foreign nationals are expected to work in sectors of the economy that pay relatively low wages, thus putting downward pressure on average wages. Second, the projected increase in workers reduces the amount of capital (factories and machinery) per worker, which also puts downward pressure on average real wages … By 2034, CBO estimates, the three effects combined will cause average real wages to be slightly lower than they would have been otherwise.
Still, the extra population of roughly 5.2 million working migrants by 2033 will expand the overall U.S. economy even as it also shrinks per-capita income, the report notes:
greater immigration is projected to boost the growth rate of the nation’s real gross domestic product (GDP) by an average of 0.2 percentage points a year from 2024 to 2034, leaving real GDP [Gross Domestic Product] roughly 2 percent larger in 2034 than it would be otherwise. Real GDP per person, however, would be 0.8 percent smaller in 2034 [emphasis addded] because of the increase in immigration than it would be otherwise, in CBO’s assessment.
A larger economy grows the nation’s pool of profits, which is good for people who own stocks and shares.
For example, a billion dollars in additional profits boosts the value of the stock market by roughly $20 billion. The multiplier effect gives companies an enormous incentive to hold down wages. For example, Wall Street stock analysts can use networked computers to easily track the wages of Americans — such as waitresses employed in Colorado diners — and to directly pressure company managers.
Yet Democrats touted the report for its Econ. 101 statement that migration expands the economy.
Migrants Line Up to Cross Into Texas via Biden Admin’s CBPOne App
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“It is actually completely nonsensical that we do not talk about the enormous blessing, economic blessing that immigrants and immigration represent to the United States of America,” Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), told MSNBC on February 7.
The Wall Street Journal‘s columnists also rhapsodize about endless imported cheap labor. Holman W. Jenkins Jr., a member of the newspaper’s editorial board wrote on February 6:
My pitch for rational policy begins with a refundable border deposit. Able-bodied migrants without criminal records or suspect associations would be allowed in after putting down, say, $5,000. Profits would leach out of the people-smuggling racket. The money could be used to fund border enforcement and services for the new arrivals and credited against future income-tax liability, an incentive for upward mobility and complying with U.S. law.
Establishment media reports showcased by Google.com also focused on migrants’ growth of the economy.
“Immigration to Boost US GDP by $7 Trillion Over Decade, CBO Says,” declared the headline at Bloomberg.com.
Business Insider’s headline was “The US economy will grow by an extra $7 trillion over the next decade due to immigration, the CBO says.”
Advocates for more migration scoff at critics of migration by accusing them of claiming there is a limited number of jobs. But those advocates usually ignore the reality that wages, productivity, and investment are reduced by the government’s delivery of migrant labor.
For example, Paul Krugman is a pro-migration New York Times op-ed writer and economist. He wrote on February 6: “Even though immigrants as a group are responsible for all recent employment growth, they haven’t been taking jobs from the native-born, who are more likely to be employed in their prime working years than they were before the pandemic.”
Extraction Migration
Since at least 1990, the federal government has relied on Extraction Migration to grow the economy after it encouraged investors to move the high-wage manufacturing sector to lower-wage countries.
Texas DPS Catches Teens Smuggling Five Illegal Immigrants, Stuffed in Pick-Up Truck
Texas Department of Public Safety
The policy also sucks jobs and wealth from heartland states by subsidizing coastal investors and government agencies with a flood of low-wage workers, high-occupancy renters, and government-aided consumers.
The colonialism-like policy has also killed many thousands of migrants, including many on the taxpayer-funded jungle trail through the Darien Gap in Panama.
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