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THE GREAT HISPANDERER COMES TO MEXIFORNIA TO PREACH HIS AMNESTY IS THE SOLUTION TO KEEP WAGES DEPRESSED, MAKE MEXICO HAPPY, AND THE ALL ADVOCATES OF OPEN BORDERS, LIKE THE U.S. CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.
WHILE IN LOS ANGELES, YOU CAN BET THAT LA RAZA OBAMA HAD NOT A WORD TO SAY ON M.E.Ch.A PARTY MEMBER VILLARAIGOSA’S MEX GANGLAND, OR THAT HALF THE POPULATION OF LOS ANGELES ARE ILLEGALS IN OUR JOBS USING STOLEN SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBERS. NOTHING ON THE FACT THAT LOS ANGELES COUNTY TAKES OUT OF PROPERTY TAXES MORE THAN $600 MILLION TO HAND OVER TO ILLEGALS ON WELFARE.
OBAMA DID OUTLINE HIS PHONY AMNESTY PLOY OF THAT HE HAS NO INTENTIONS OF ENFORCING. THIS IS A MAN THAT LIED IN THE FACES TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE FROM THE SENATE FLOOR, THAT HIS OBAMAcare DID NOT INCLUDE ILLEGALS! HE AND LA RAZA PELOSI, WHO ALSO LIED ABOUT IT, MADE SURE IT DOES.
OBAMA CAN’T OPEN HIS BIG MOUTH WITHOUT LYING TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE ABOUT HIS TRUE OPEN BORDERS AGENDA. HIS DEPT. OF HOMELAND SECURITY IS NOW THE LA RAZA Dept. of HOMELAND SECURITY = PATHWAY TO CITIZENSHIP.
NEXT TO BANKSTERS, IT IS ONLY LA RAZA PARTY MEMBERS THAT APPEAR TO FIND A PLACE IN THE HISPANDERERS ADMINISTRATION.
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Responding to a question on immigration policy, Obama reiterated his commitment to negotiating “comprehensive immigration reform” with the Republicans, which would include requiring all undocumented immigrants to pay a fine, learn English and “go to the back of the line” in seeking legal residency in the US.
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Obama pushes budget-cutting plan in California tour
By Joseph Kishore
23 April 2011
President Barack Obama completed his West Coast trip Thursday with a series of fundraisers in the Los Angeles area that reportedly netted his reelection campaign at least $4 million. In public forums in Northern California and Reno, Nevada, Obama touted his proposals to cut trillions of dollars in government spending over the next decade.
Obama promoted right-wing policies already implemented, including his health care “reform” that slashes government and corporate costs, his “Race to the Top” education program that promotes charter schools and attacks public school teachers, and his bailout of the auto industry, the spearhead for a nationwide attack on workers’ wages.
The president sought to posture as a defender of Medicare against Republican proposals to dismantle the program. He did so despite the fact that his own proposal includes $1 trillion in further cuts to health care programs. He also touted his pledge to end tax cuts for the wealthy that he himself extended for two years in December.
Obama did not mention the $8 billion in budget cuts that have been implemented this year by California’s Democratic governor, Jerry Brown, who attended one of the fundraising events in Los Angeles. In Obama’s remarks on health care, he said nothing about Medicaid. Brown’s budget includes $1.7 billion in cuts to the program.
The entire tour served to underscore the fraud of the so-called economic “recovery” and highlights the contrast between the worsening conditions facing the majority of the population and the rebound in the fortunes of those who determine the policies of both the Democrats and Republicans. Polls released this week show overwhelming popular opposition to cuts in health care programs.
At one of the events in Los Angeles, Obama told his largely well-heeled audience that thanks to their support for his 2008 campaign, “the country avoided a Great Depression, made college more affordable and helped create jobs in clean energy and elsewhere.” No one pointed out to the president that official unemployment in California is over 12 percent (and real unemployment is much higher), or that college tuition has soared over 30 percent during the past year. Further hikes will follow as a result of cuts of $1.4 billion in higher education in the latest state budget.
At town hall meetings in the Bay Area town of Palo Alto and in Reno, Nevada there were several questions addressing the economic crisis. Nevada’s official unemployment rate is over 13 percent, and both states are centers of the ongoing housing crisis, which has thrown millions out of their homes. Obama’s answers only demonstrated the complete indifference of the administration to the social crisis facing tens of millions of Americans.
One questioner in Palo Alto, who said she was originally from Detroit, noted that Obama’s rhetoric had shifted from “job creation and economic recovery to that of spending cuts and the deficit.” In response, Obama boasted of the federal government’s extremely limited 2009 “stimulus plan,” including wholly inadequate aid to the states, which has now entirely dried up.
On the deficit, Obama said, “If the markets start feeling that we’re not serious about the problem, and if you start seeing investors feel uncertain about the future, then they could pull back right at the time when the economy is taking off.” This was an allusion to the recent decision by Wall Street ratings agency Standard & Poor’s to downgrade the US debt outlook to negative, part of a coordinated effort by the financial aristocracy to push the discussion on budget cuts even further to the right.
By invoking “the markets” as the arbiter of social policy, Obama was tacitly acknowledging the complete subordination of his presidency, his party and the entire political system to the profit interests of the banks.
Obama also took the opportunity to praise his administration’s forced restructuring of the auto industry, saying that “folks in Detroit … know that our investments can make a difference because we essentially saved the US auto industry.” He continued: “We now have three auto companies here in America that are all turning a profit.”
This profit has been based on sharp attacks on auto workers’ benefits and a halving of the wages for new-hires. As a whole, the city of Detroit confronts real unemployment of 50 percent and a poverty rate well above 30 percent.
In response to another question noting that “mortgage financing for new homebuyers with low to moderate income is becoming very difficult,” Obama praised the impact of the administration’s mortgage “readjustment” programs. These programs, based on encouraging banks to voluntarily renegotiate loans, have done nothing to aid the vast majority of those facing foreclosure.
Responding to a question on immigration policy, Obama reiterated his commitment to negotiating “comprehensive immigration reform” with the Republicans, which would include requiring all undocumented immigrants to pay a fine, learn English and “go to the back of the line” in seeking legal residency in the US. In contrast to this punitive policy toward immigrant workers, Obama insisted that it should be made easier for “job creators” and “job generators” such as former Intel CEO Andy Grove, originally from Hungary, to enter the country.
In both Northern and Southern California, Obama was confronted by protesters. Several of those attending a fundraising event in San Francisco on Thursday morning broke into a song denouncing the treatment of Private Bradley Manning, who has been tortured and held by the military under solitary confinement for his alleged role in leaking documents to WikiLeaks. He faces charges that could bring the death penalty. Obama said nothing about the treatment of Manning in response to the protests.
In Southern California, hundreds of demonstrators gathered to protest the administration’s immigration and economic policy.
One of the central purposes of Obama’s trip was to raise campaign contributions from wealthy Californians. He is reportedly seeking to become the first presidential candidate to raise more than $1 billion in a single campaign cycle.
Obama held three fundraisers each in Northern and Southern California, including several dinners with an entry fee of $38,500. One, in San Francisco, was hosted by Salesforce.com Chief Executive Marc Benioff (net worth $2.1 billion).
In Los Angeles, a private dinner Thursday was held at the home of DreamWorks Animation CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg (net worth $1 billion). Another private dinner was hosted by John Emerson, CEO of investment firm Capital Group, and Ken Solomon, the CEO of the Tennis Channel. The two are co-chairs of the Democratic Party’s Southern California finance committee. Among those in attendance were real estate tycoon Eli Broad (net worth $5.8 billion) and Sony Entertainment Co-chair Amy Pascal. Also attending the LA events were several Hollywood actors and directors, including George Clooney and Steven Spielberg (net worth $3 billion).
Obama, himself a millionaire, spoke as one of the wealthy. At a town hall meeting in Palo Alto, hosted by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg (net worth $6.9 billion), Obama joked that people like himself and Zuckerberg should be willing to pay a bit more as part of a deal to sharply cut social spending.
In Los Angeles he declared, “We want a society where if we’re asking people to sacrifice, don’t just tell millionaires and billionaires you don’t have to do anything, just count your money.” In fact, this is precisely what Obama has done, overseeing a multitrillion-dollar bailout of the banks that has left the financial aristocracy more wealthy than ever.
“It’s not that I want to punish success,” Obama told the select crowd at one of his fundraisers, “I want everybody here to be rich.”
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Labor Secretary Pledges Help For Illegal Workers
Last Updated: Tue, 06/22/2010 - 11:00am
Two months after the Department of Labor launched a special program to assist and protect illegal immigrants in the U.S. the Obama cabinet official who heads the agency is personally encouraging undocumented workers to report employers that don’t pay them fairly.
In a Spanish-language public service announcement, Labor Secretary Hilda Solis assures that “every worker in America has a right to be paid fairly, whether documented or not.” Illegal aliens who are not getting fair wages are encouraged to call a new hotline set up by the agency on a new “Podemos Ayudar” (We Can Help) web page designed to administer worker protection laws and ensure that employees are properly paid “regardless of immigration status.”
In the short video, also posted in English, Solis tells illegal immigrants that it’s a “serious problem” when workers in this country are not paid fairly and that all workers have the right to receive their salary regardless of immigration status. She encourages those who are not to call the new hotline and assures it’s free and confidential. “Podemos ayudar,” (we can help), Solis guarantees at the end of the brief segment.
The Labor Secretary’s new message is part of a campaign launched a few months ago to help illegal immigrant workers in the U.S., who she refers to as “vulnerable” and “underpaid.” At least 1,000 new field investigators have been deployed to reach out to Latino laborers in areas with large numbers of illegal alien employees and the agency will focus on enforcing labor and wage laws in industries that typically hire lots of illegal aliens without reporting anyone to federal immigration authorities.
For a government agency to protect law breakers in this fashion may seem unbelievable but not if you consider the source. A Former California congresswoman, Solis has close ties to the influential La Raza movement that advocates open borders and rights for illegal immigrants. She made the protection of undocumented workers a major priority upon being named Labor Secretary, assuring illegal aliens that “if you work in this country, you are protected by our laws.”
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“We could cut unemployment in half simply by reclaiming the jobs taken by illegal workers,” said Representative Lamar Smith of Texas, co-chairman of the Reclaim American Jobs Caucus. “President Obama is on the wrong side of the American people on immigration. The president should support policies that help citizens and legal immigrants find the jobs they need and deserve rather than fail to enforce immigration laws.”
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“Obama’s rejection of any serious jobs program is part of a conscious class war policy. Two years after the financial crisis and the multi-trillion dollar bailout of the banks, the administration is spearheading a campaign by corporations to sharply increase the exploitation of the working class, using the “new normal” of mass unemployment to force workers to accept lower wages, longer hours, and more brutal working conditions.” WSWS.ORG
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“The principal beneficiaries of our current immigration policy are affluent Americans who hire immigrants at substandard wages for low-end work. Harvard economist George Borjas estimates that American workers lose $190 billion annually in depressed wages caused by the constant flooding of the labor market at the low-wage end.” Christian Science Monitor
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Michelle Malkin
The U.S. Department of Illegal Alien Labor
President Obama's Labor Secretary Hilda Solis is supposed to represent American workers. What you need to know is that this longtime open–borders sympathizer has always had a rather radical definition of "American." At a Latino voter registration project conference in Los Angeles many years ago, Solis asserted to thunderous applause, "We are all Americans, whether you are legalized or not."
That's right. The woman in charge of enforcing our employment laws doesn't give a hoot about our immigration laws –– or about the fundamental distinction between those who followed the rules in pursuit of the American dream and those who didn't.
While in Congress, she opposed strengthening the border fence, supported expansion of illegal alien benefits (including driver's licenses and in–state tuition discounts), embraced sanctuary cities that refused to cooperate with federal homeland security officials to enforce immigration laws, and aggressively championed a mass amnesty. Solis was steeped in the pro–illegal alien worker organizing movement in Southern California and was buoyed by amnesty–supporting Big Labor groups led by the Service Employees International Union. She has now caused a Capitol Hill firestorm over her new taxpayer–funded advertising and outreach campaign to illegal aliens regarding fair wages:
"I'm here to tell you that your president, your secretary of labor and this department will not allow anyone to be denied his or her rightful pay –– especially when so many in our nation are working long, hard and often dangerous hours," Solis says in the video pitch. "We can help, and we will help. If you work in this country, you are protected by our laws. And you can count on the U.S. Department of Labor to see to it that those protections work for you."
To be sure, no one should be scammed out of "fair wages." Employers that hire and exploit illegal immigrant workers deserve full sanctions and punishment. But it's the timing, tone–deafness and underlying blanket amnesty agenda of Solis' illegal alien outreach that has so many American workers and their representatives on Capitol Hill rightly upset.
With double–digit unemployment and a growing nationwide revolt over Washington's border security failures, why has Solis chosen now to hire 250 new government field investigators to bolster her illegal alien workers' rights campaign? (Hint: Leftists unhappy with Obama's lack of progress on "comprehensive immigration reform" need appeasing. This is a quick bone to distract them.)
Unfortunately, the federal government is not alone in lavishing attention and resources on workers who shouldn't be here in the first place. As of 2008, California, Florida, Nevada, New York, Texas and Utah all expressly included illegal aliens in their state workers' compensation plans –– and more than a dozen other states implicitly cover them.
Solis' public service announcement comes on the heels of little–noticed but far more troubling comments encouraging illegal alien workers in the Gulf Coast. Earlier this month, in the aftermath of the BP oil spill, according to Spanish language publication El Diario La Prensa, Solis signaled that her department was going out of its way to shield illegal immigrant laborers involved in cleanup efforts. "My purpose is to assist the workers with respect to safety and protection," she said. "We're protecting all workers regardless of migration status because that's the federal law." She told reporters that her department was in talks with local Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials who had visited coastal worksites to try to verify that workers were legal.
No word yet on whether she gave ICE her "we are all Americans, whether you are legalized or not" lecture. But it's a safe bet.
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The Administration's Phantom Immigration Enforcement Policy
According to DHS’s own reports, very little of our nation’s borders (Southwestern or otherwise) are secure, and gaining control is not even a goal of the department.
By Ira Mehlman
Published on 12/07/2009
Townhall.com
The setting was not quite the flight deck of the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln with a “Mission Accomplished” banner as the backdrop, but it was the next best thing. Speaking at the Center for American Progress (CAP) on Nov. 13, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano declared victory over illegal immigration and announced that the Obama administration is ready to move forward with a mass amnesty for the millions of illegal aliens already living in the United States.
Arguing the Obama administration’s case for amnesty, Napolitano laid out what she described as the “three-legged stool” for immigration reform. As the administration views it, immigration reform must include “a commitment to serious and effective enforcement, improved legal flows for families and workers, and a firm but fair way to deal with those who are already here.”
Acknowledging that a lack of confidence in the government’s ability and commitment to effectively enforce the immigration laws it passes proved to be the Waterloo of previous efforts to gain amnesty for illegal aliens, Napolitano was quick to reassure the American public that those concerns could be put to rest.
“For starters, the security of the Southwest border has been transformed from where it was in 2007,” stated the secretary. Not only is the border locked up tight, she continued, but the situation is well in-hand in the interior of the country as well. “We’ve also shown that the government is serious and strategic in its approach to enforcement by making changes in how we enforce the law in the interior of the country and at worksites…Furthermore, we’ve transformed worksite enforcement to truly address the demand side of illegal immigration.”
If Rep. Joe Wilson had been in attendance to hear Secretary Napolitano’s CAP speech he might well have had a few choice comments to offer. But since he wasn’t, we will have to rely on the Department of Homeland Security’s own data to assess the veracity of Napolitano’s claims.
According to DHS’s own reports, very little of our nation’s borders (Southwestern or otherwise) are secure, and gaining control is not even a goal of the department. DHS claims to have “effective control” over just 894 miles of border. That’s 894 out of 8,607 miles they are charged with protecting. As for the other 7,713 miles? DHS’s stated border security goal for FY 2010 is the same 894 miles.
The administration’s strategic approach to interior and worksite enforcement is just as chimerical as its strategy at the border, unless one considers shuffling paper to be a strategy. DHS data, released November 18, show that administrative arrests of immigration law violators fell by 68 percent between 2008 and 2009. The department also carried out 60 percent fewer arrests for criminal violations of immigration laws, 58 percent fewer criminal indictments, and won 63 percent fewer convictions.
While the official unemployment rate has climbed from 7.6 percent when President Obama took office in January to 10 percent today, the administration’s worksite enforcement strategy has amounted to a bureaucratic game of musical chairs. The administration has all but ended worksite enforcement actions and replaced them with paperwork audits. When the audits determine that illegal aliens are on the payroll, employers are given the opportunity to fire them with little or no adverse consequence to the company, while no action is taken to remove the illegal workers from the country. The illegal workers simply acquire a new set of fraudulent documents and move on to the next employer seeking workers willing to accept substandard wages.
In Janet Napolitano’s alternative reality a mere 10 percent of our borders under “effective control” and sharp declines in arrests and prosecutions of immigration lawbreakers may be construed as confidence builders, but it is hard to imagine that the American public is going to see it that way. If anything, the administration’s record has left the public less confident that promises of future immigration enforcement would be worth the government paper they’re printed on.
As Americans scrutinize the administration’s plans to overhaul immigration policy, they are likely to find little in the “three-legged stool” being offered that they like or trust. The first leg – enforcement – the administration has all but sawed off. The second – increased admissions of extended family members and workers – makes little sense with some 25 million Americans either unemployed or relegated to part-time work. And the third – amnesty for millions of illegal aliens – is anathema to their sense of justice and fair play.
As Americans well know, declaring “Mission Accomplished” and actually accomplishing a mission are two completely different things. When it comes to enforcing immigration laws, the only message the public is receiving from this administration is “Mission Aborted.”
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latimes.com
Opinion
California must stem the flow of illegal immigrants
The state should go after employers who hire them, curb taxpayer-funded benefits, deploy the National Guard to help the feds at the border and penalize 'sanctuary' cities.
Illegal immigration is another matter entirely. With the state budget in tatters, millions of residents out of work and a state prison system strained by massive overcrowding, California simply cannot continue to ignore the strain that illegal immigration puts on our budget and economy. Illegal aliens cost taxpayers in our state billions of dollars each year. As economist Philip J. Romero concluded in a 2007 study, "illegal immigrants impose a 'tax' on legal California residents in the tens of billions of dollars."
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But President Obama lit the fuse in February when he signed the massive expansion of the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP). That law loosened eligibility requirements for legal immigrants and their children by watering down document and evidentiary standards – making it easy for individuals to use fake Social Security cards to apply for benefits with little to no chance of getting caught. In addition, Obama’s S-CHIP expansion revoked Medicaid application time limits that were part of the 1996 welfare reform law. Immigration activists see the provisions as first steps toward universal coverage for illegals.
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THE GREAT HISPANDERER COMES TO MEXIFORNIA TO PREACH HIS AMNESTY IS THE SOLUTION TO KEEP WAGES DEPRESSED, MAKE MEXICO HAPPY, AND THE ALL ADVOCATES OF OPEN BORDERS, LIKE THE U.S. CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.
WHILE IN LOS ANGELES, YOU CAN BET THAT LA RAZA OBAMA HAD NOT A WORD TO SAY ON M.E.Ch.A PARTY MEMBER VILLARAIGOSA’S MEX GANGLAND, OR THAT HALF THE POPULATION OF LOS ANGELES ARE ILLEGALS IN OUR JOBS USING STOLEN SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBERS. NOTHING ON THE FACT THAT LOS ANGELES COUNTY TAKES OUT OF PROPERTY TAXES MORE THAN $600 MILLION TO HAND OVER TO ILLEGALS ON WELFARE.
OBAMA DID OUTLINE HIS PHONY AMNESTY PLOY OF THAT HE HAS NO INTENTIONS OF ENFORCING. THIS IS A MAN THAT LIED IN THE FACES TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE FROM THE SENATE FLOOR, THAT HIS OBAMAcare DID NOT INCLUDE ILLEGALS! HE AND LA RAZA PELOSI, WHO ALSO LIED ABOUT IT, MADE SURE IT DOES.
OBAMA CAN’T OPEN HIS BIG MOUTH WITHOUT LYING TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE ABOUT HIS TRUE OPEN BORDERS AGENDA. HIS DEPT. OF HOMELAND SECURITY IS NOW THE LA RAZA Dept. of HOMELAND SECURITY = PATHWAY TO CITIZENSHIP.
NEXT TO BANKSTERS, IT IS ONLY LA RAZA PARTY MEMBERS THAT APPEAR TO FIND A PLACE IN THE HISPANDERERS ADMINISTRATION.
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Responding to a question on immigration policy, Obama reiterated his commitment to negotiating “comprehensive immigration reform” with the Republicans, which would include requiring all undocumented immigrants to pay a fine, learn English and “go to the back of the line” in seeking legal residency in the US.
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Obama pushes budget-cutting plan in California tour
By Joseph Kishore
23 April 2011
President Barack Obama completed his West Coast trip Thursday with a series of fundraisers in the Los Angeles area that reportedly netted his reelection campaign at least $4 million. In public forums in Northern California and Reno, Nevada, Obama touted his proposals to cut trillions of dollars in government spending over the next decade.
Obama promoted right-wing policies already implemented, including his health care “reform” that slashes government and corporate costs, his “Race to the Top” education program that promotes charter schools and attacks public school teachers, and his bailout of the auto industry, the spearhead for a nationwide attack on workers’ wages.
The president sought to posture as a defender of Medicare against Republican proposals to dismantle the program. He did so despite the fact that his own proposal includes $1 trillion in further cuts to health care programs. He also touted his pledge to end tax cuts for the wealthy that he himself extended for two years in December.
Obama did not mention the $8 billion in budget cuts that have been implemented this year by California’s Democratic governor, Jerry Brown, who attended one of the fundraising events in Los Angeles. In Obama’s remarks on health care, he said nothing about Medicaid. Brown’s budget includes $1.7 billion in cuts to the program.
The entire tour served to underscore the fraud of the so-called economic “recovery” and highlights the contrast between the worsening conditions facing the majority of the population and the rebound in the fortunes of those who determine the policies of both the Democrats and Republicans. Polls released this week show overwhelming popular opposition to cuts in health care programs.
At one of the events in Los Angeles, Obama told his largely well-heeled audience that thanks to their support for his 2008 campaign, “the country avoided a Great Depression, made college more affordable and helped create jobs in clean energy and elsewhere.” No one pointed out to the president that official unemployment in California is over 12 percent (and real unemployment is much higher), or that college tuition has soared over 30 percent during the past year. Further hikes will follow as a result of cuts of $1.4 billion in higher education in the latest state budget.
At town hall meetings in the Bay Area town of Palo Alto and in Reno, Nevada there were several questions addressing the economic crisis. Nevada’s official unemployment rate is over 13 percent, and both states are centers of the ongoing housing crisis, which has thrown millions out of their homes. Obama’s answers only demonstrated the complete indifference of the administration to the social crisis facing tens of millions of Americans.
One questioner in Palo Alto, who said she was originally from Detroit, noted that Obama’s rhetoric had shifted from “job creation and economic recovery to that of spending cuts and the deficit.” In response, Obama boasted of the federal government’s extremely limited 2009 “stimulus plan,” including wholly inadequate aid to the states, which has now entirely dried up.
On the deficit, Obama said, “If the markets start feeling that we’re not serious about the problem, and if you start seeing investors feel uncertain about the future, then they could pull back right at the time when the economy is taking off.” This was an allusion to the recent decision by Wall Street ratings agency Standard & Poor’s to downgrade the US debt outlook to negative, part of a coordinated effort by the financial aristocracy to push the discussion on budget cuts even further to the right.
By invoking “the markets” as the arbiter of social policy, Obama was tacitly acknowledging the complete subordination of his presidency, his party and the entire political system to the profit interests of the banks.
Obama also took the opportunity to praise his administration’s forced restructuring of the auto industry, saying that “folks in Detroit … know that our investments can make a difference because we essentially saved the US auto industry.” He continued: “We now have three auto companies here in America that are all turning a profit.”
This profit has been based on sharp attacks on auto workers’ benefits and a halving of the wages for new-hires. As a whole, the city of Detroit confronts real unemployment of 50 percent and a poverty rate well above 30 percent.
In response to another question noting that “mortgage financing for new homebuyers with low to moderate income is becoming very difficult,” Obama praised the impact of the administration’s mortgage “readjustment” programs. These programs, based on encouraging banks to voluntarily renegotiate loans, have done nothing to aid the vast majority of those facing foreclosure.
Responding to a question on immigration policy, Obama reiterated his commitment to negotiating “comprehensive immigration reform” with the Republicans, which would include requiring all undocumented immigrants to pay a fine, learn English and “go to the back of the line” in seeking legal residency in the US. In contrast to this punitive policy toward immigrant workers, Obama insisted that it should be made easier for “job creators” and “job generators” such as former Intel CEO Andy Grove, originally from Hungary, to enter the country.
In both Northern and Southern California, Obama was confronted by protesters. Several of those attending a fundraising event in San Francisco on Thursday morning broke into a song denouncing the treatment of Private Bradley Manning, who has been tortured and held by the military under solitary confinement for his alleged role in leaking documents to WikiLeaks. He faces charges that could bring the death penalty. Obama said nothing about the treatment of Manning in response to the protests.
In Southern California, hundreds of demonstrators gathered to protest the administration’s immigration and economic policy.
One of the central purposes of Obama’s trip was to raise campaign contributions from wealthy Californians. He is reportedly seeking to become the first presidential candidate to raise more than $1 billion in a single campaign cycle.
Obama held three fundraisers each in Northern and Southern California, including several dinners with an entry fee of $38,500. One, in San Francisco, was hosted by Salesforce.com Chief Executive Marc Benioff (net worth $2.1 billion).
In Los Angeles, a private dinner Thursday was held at the home of DreamWorks Animation CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg (net worth $1 billion). Another private dinner was hosted by John Emerson, CEO of investment firm Capital Group, and Ken Solomon, the CEO of the Tennis Channel. The two are co-chairs of the Democratic Party’s Southern California finance committee. Among those in attendance were real estate tycoon Eli Broad (net worth $5.8 billion) and Sony Entertainment Co-chair Amy Pascal. Also attending the LA events were several Hollywood actors and directors, including George Clooney and Steven Spielberg (net worth $3 billion).
Obama, himself a millionaire, spoke as one of the wealthy. At a town hall meeting in Palo Alto, hosted by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg (net worth $6.9 billion), Obama joked that people like himself and Zuckerberg should be willing to pay a bit more as part of a deal to sharply cut social spending.
In Los Angeles he declared, “We want a society where if we’re asking people to sacrifice, don’t just tell millionaires and billionaires you don’t have to do anything, just count your money.” In fact, this is precisely what Obama has done, overseeing a multitrillion-dollar bailout of the banks that has left the financial aristocracy more wealthy than ever.
“It’s not that I want to punish success,” Obama told the select crowd at one of his fundraisers, “I want everybody here to be rich.”
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Labor Secretary Pledges Help For Illegal Workers
Last Updated: Tue, 06/22/2010 - 11:00am
Two months after the Department of Labor launched a special program to assist and protect illegal immigrants in the U.S. the Obama cabinet official who heads the agency is personally encouraging undocumented workers to report employers that don’t pay them fairly.
In a Spanish-language public service announcement, Labor Secretary Hilda Solis assures that “every worker in America has a right to be paid fairly, whether documented or not.” Illegal aliens who are not getting fair wages are encouraged to call a new hotline set up by the agency on a new “Podemos Ayudar” (We Can Help) web page designed to administer worker protection laws and ensure that employees are properly paid “regardless of immigration status.”
In the short video, also posted in English, Solis tells illegal immigrants that it’s a “serious problem” when workers in this country are not paid fairly and that all workers have the right to receive their salary regardless of immigration status. She encourages those who are not to call the new hotline and assures it’s free and confidential. “Podemos ayudar,” (we can help), Solis guarantees at the end of the brief segment.
The Labor Secretary’s new message is part of a campaign launched a few months ago to help illegal immigrant workers in the U.S., who she refers to as “vulnerable” and “underpaid.” At least 1,000 new field investigators have been deployed to reach out to Latino laborers in areas with large numbers of illegal alien employees and the agency will focus on enforcing labor and wage laws in industries that typically hire lots of illegal aliens without reporting anyone to federal immigration authorities.
For a government agency to protect law breakers in this fashion may seem unbelievable but not if you consider the source. A Former California congresswoman, Solis has close ties to the influential La Raza movement that advocates open borders and rights for illegal immigrants. She made the protection of undocumented workers a major priority upon being named Labor Secretary, assuring illegal aliens that “if you work in this country, you are protected by our laws.”
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“We could cut unemployment in half simply by reclaiming the jobs taken by illegal workers,” said Representative Lamar Smith of Texas, co-chairman of the Reclaim American Jobs Caucus. “President Obama is on the wrong side of the American people on immigration. The president should support policies that help citizens and legal immigrants find the jobs they need and deserve rather than fail to enforce immigration laws.”
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“Obama’s rejection of any serious jobs program is part of a conscious class war policy. Two years after the financial crisis and the multi-trillion dollar bailout of the banks, the administration is spearheading a campaign by corporations to sharply increase the exploitation of the working class, using the “new normal” of mass unemployment to force workers to accept lower wages, longer hours, and more brutal working conditions.” WSWS.ORG
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“The principal beneficiaries of our current immigration policy are affluent Americans who hire immigrants at substandard wages for low-end work. Harvard economist George Borjas estimates that American workers lose $190 billion annually in depressed wages caused by the constant flooding of the labor market at the low-wage end.” Christian Science Monitor
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Michelle Malkin
The U.S. Department of Illegal Alien Labor
President Obama's Labor Secretary Hilda Solis is supposed to represent American workers. What you need to know is that this longtime open–borders sympathizer has always had a rather radical definition of "American." At a Latino voter registration project conference in Los Angeles many years ago, Solis asserted to thunderous applause, "We are all Americans, whether you are legalized or not."
That's right. The woman in charge of enforcing our employment laws doesn't give a hoot about our immigration laws –– or about the fundamental distinction between those who followed the rules in pursuit of the American dream and those who didn't.
While in Congress, she opposed strengthening the border fence, supported expansion of illegal alien benefits (including driver's licenses and in–state tuition discounts), embraced sanctuary cities that refused to cooperate with federal homeland security officials to enforce immigration laws, and aggressively championed a mass amnesty. Solis was steeped in the pro–illegal alien worker organizing movement in Southern California and was buoyed by amnesty–supporting Big Labor groups led by the Service Employees International Union. She has now caused a Capitol Hill firestorm over her new taxpayer–funded advertising and outreach campaign to illegal aliens regarding fair wages:
"I'm here to tell you that your president, your secretary of labor and this department will not allow anyone to be denied his or her rightful pay –– especially when so many in our nation are working long, hard and often dangerous hours," Solis says in the video pitch. "We can help, and we will help. If you work in this country, you are protected by our laws. And you can count on the U.S. Department of Labor to see to it that those protections work for you."
To be sure, no one should be scammed out of "fair wages." Employers that hire and exploit illegal immigrant workers deserve full sanctions and punishment. But it's the timing, tone–deafness and underlying blanket amnesty agenda of Solis' illegal alien outreach that has so many American workers and their representatives on Capitol Hill rightly upset.
With double–digit unemployment and a growing nationwide revolt over Washington's border security failures, why has Solis chosen now to hire 250 new government field investigators to bolster her illegal alien workers' rights campaign? (Hint: Leftists unhappy with Obama's lack of progress on "comprehensive immigration reform" need appeasing. This is a quick bone to distract them.)
Unfortunately, the federal government is not alone in lavishing attention and resources on workers who shouldn't be here in the first place. As of 2008, California, Florida, Nevada, New York, Texas and Utah all expressly included illegal aliens in their state workers' compensation plans –– and more than a dozen other states implicitly cover them.
Solis' public service announcement comes on the heels of little–noticed but far more troubling comments encouraging illegal alien workers in the Gulf Coast. Earlier this month, in the aftermath of the BP oil spill, according to Spanish language publication El Diario La Prensa, Solis signaled that her department was going out of its way to shield illegal immigrant laborers involved in cleanup efforts. "My purpose is to assist the workers with respect to safety and protection," she said. "We're protecting all workers regardless of migration status because that's the federal law." She told reporters that her department was in talks with local Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials who had visited coastal worksites to try to verify that workers were legal.
No word yet on whether she gave ICE her "we are all Americans, whether you are legalized or not" lecture. But it's a safe bet.
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The Administration's Phantom Immigration Enforcement Policy
According to DHS’s own reports, very little of our nation’s borders (Southwestern or otherwise) are secure, and gaining control is not even a goal of the department.
By Ira Mehlman
Published on 12/07/2009
Townhall.com
The setting was not quite the flight deck of the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln with a “Mission Accomplished” banner as the backdrop, but it was the next best thing. Speaking at the Center for American Progress (CAP) on Nov. 13, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano declared victory over illegal immigration and announced that the Obama administration is ready to move forward with a mass amnesty for the millions of illegal aliens already living in the United States.
Arguing the Obama administration’s case for amnesty, Napolitano laid out what she described as the “three-legged stool” for immigration reform. As the administration views it, immigration reform must include “a commitment to serious and effective enforcement, improved legal flows for families and workers, and a firm but fair way to deal with those who are already here.”
Acknowledging that a lack of confidence in the government’s ability and commitment to effectively enforce the immigration laws it passes proved to be the Waterloo of previous efforts to gain amnesty for illegal aliens, Napolitano was quick to reassure the American public that those concerns could be put to rest.
“For starters, the security of the Southwest border has been transformed from where it was in 2007,” stated the secretary. Not only is the border locked up tight, she continued, but the situation is well in-hand in the interior of the country as well. “We’ve also shown that the government is serious and strategic in its approach to enforcement by making changes in how we enforce the law in the interior of the country and at worksites…Furthermore, we’ve transformed worksite enforcement to truly address the demand side of illegal immigration.”
If Rep. Joe Wilson had been in attendance to hear Secretary Napolitano’s CAP speech he might well have had a few choice comments to offer. But since he wasn’t, we will have to rely on the Department of Homeland Security’s own data to assess the veracity of Napolitano’s claims.
According to DHS’s own reports, very little of our nation’s borders (Southwestern or otherwise) are secure, and gaining control is not even a goal of the department. DHS claims to have “effective control” over just 894 miles of border. That’s 894 out of 8,607 miles they are charged with protecting. As for the other 7,713 miles? DHS’s stated border security goal for FY 2010 is the same 894 miles.
The administration’s strategic approach to interior and worksite enforcement is just as chimerical as its strategy at the border, unless one considers shuffling paper to be a strategy. DHS data, released November 18, show that administrative arrests of immigration law violators fell by 68 percent between 2008 and 2009. The department also carried out 60 percent fewer arrests for criminal violations of immigration laws, 58 percent fewer criminal indictments, and won 63 percent fewer convictions.
While the official unemployment rate has climbed from 7.6 percent when President Obama took office in January to 10 percent today, the administration’s worksite enforcement strategy has amounted to a bureaucratic game of musical chairs. The administration has all but ended worksite enforcement actions and replaced them with paperwork audits. When the audits determine that illegal aliens are on the payroll, employers are given the opportunity to fire them with little or no adverse consequence to the company, while no action is taken to remove the illegal workers from the country. The illegal workers simply acquire a new set of fraudulent documents and move on to the next employer seeking workers willing to accept substandard wages.
In Janet Napolitano’s alternative reality a mere 10 percent of our borders under “effective control” and sharp declines in arrests and prosecutions of immigration lawbreakers may be construed as confidence builders, but it is hard to imagine that the American public is going to see it that way. If anything, the administration’s record has left the public less confident that promises of future immigration enforcement would be worth the government paper they’re printed on.
As Americans scrutinize the administration’s plans to overhaul immigration policy, they are likely to find little in the “three-legged stool” being offered that they like or trust. The first leg – enforcement – the administration has all but sawed off. The second – increased admissions of extended family members and workers – makes little sense with some 25 million Americans either unemployed or relegated to part-time work. And the third – amnesty for millions of illegal aliens – is anathema to their sense of justice and fair play.
As Americans well know, declaring “Mission Accomplished” and actually accomplishing a mission are two completely different things. When it comes to enforcing immigration laws, the only message the public is receiving from this administration is “Mission Aborted.”
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Opinion
California must stem the flow of illegal immigrants
The state should go after employers who hire them, curb taxpayer-funded benefits, deploy the National Guard to help the feds at the border and penalize 'sanctuary' cities.
Illegal immigration is another matter entirely. With the state budget in tatters, millions of residents out of work and a state prison system strained by massive overcrowding, California simply cannot continue to ignore the strain that illegal immigration puts on our budget and economy. Illegal aliens cost taxpayers in our state billions of dollars each year. As economist Philip J. Romero concluded in a 2007 study, "illegal immigrants impose a 'tax' on legal California residents in the tens of billions of dollars."
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But President Obama lit the fuse in February when he signed the massive expansion of the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP). That law loosened eligibility requirements for legal immigrants and their children by watering down document and evidentiary standards – making it easy for individuals to use fake Social Security cards to apply for benefits with little to no chance of getting caught. In addition, Obama’s S-CHIP expansion revoked Medicaid application time limits that were part of the 1996 welfare reform law. Immigration activists see the provisions as first steps toward universal coverage for illegals.
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