Some 22 states began terminating benefits for “Able-Bodied Adults
Without Dependents,” or ABAWDs, in the jargon of the US Department of
Agriculture, which administers the federally funded food stamp program,
or Supplementary Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), as it is formally
known.
BLOG: IN AMERICA, NO DAMNED LEGAL NEED APPLY!!!! These adults, aged 18 to 49 years and without children, are generally
the poorest section of the working class, earning only 17 percent of
the official poverty rate, an average of barely $150-170 per month in
income. But they are eligible for only 90 days of food stamp benefits
unless they have paid employment or job training for at least 80 hours
in a month. The 90-day clock began running January 1, so adults who no
longer qualify under this rule began being terminated in state after
state April 1.
The 22 states include Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas,
Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Kentucky, Maryland, Massachusetts,
Mississippi, Missouri, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Oregon,
Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Washington and West Virginia.
Another 22 states (see map) had already enforced work requirements to
cut food stamp benefits for ABAWDs in 2015 or earlier. Those states
account for 30 percent of the US population, while the states that are
imposing work requirements this year account for another 35 percent.
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The numbers in some of the larger states are staggering. Florida
alone will cut off benefits to an estimated 300,000 childless adults;
Tennessee 150,000 and North Carolina 110,000. New York state will cut
off more than 50,000, including 3,000 people in Manhattan, home to the
world’s biggest concentration of billionaires. Missouri cuts off 60,000;
Alabama 40,000 and Massachusetts 23,000.
The work requirements for food stamp recipients were waived for most
states during the deep recession that followed the 2008 financial crash.
States had to have an official unemployment rate above 10 percent, or
at least 20 percent above the national average, or demonstrate a weak
labor market under other criteria set down by the Department of Labor.
The number of childless adults eligible for food stamps jumped from
1.7 million in 2007 to 4.9 million in 2013, then began to decline to 4.7
million in 2014, largely because states like Kansas and Ohio began to
impose work requirements.
The harsh “work for food” requirements were first introduced for food
stamps under the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act of
1996. This is the notorious “welfare reform” bill sponsored by then-US
Rep. John Kasich, who is now Ohio’s governor and a Republican candidate
for president, and signed into law by President Bill Clinton, husband of
the current frontrunner for the Democratic presidential nomination.
It is particularly noticeable that none of the presidential
candidates of either capitalist party, including the self-proclaimed
“democratic socialist” Bernie Sanders, has made an issue of the food
stamp cutoff that is plunging hundreds of thousands overnight into
hunger and destitution.
Senator Sanders and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton are in
the midst of a campaign in the April 19 New York primary, but neither
has said a word on behalf of the more than 50,000 New Yorkers who began
losing their food stamp benefits Friday.
On Tuesday, Bill Clinton will campaign for his wife in Erie County,
which includes the city of Buffalo, devastated by the collapse of the
steel industry. Some 2,800 Erie County residents were cut off food
stamps April 1, but it is unlikely that the former president, who has
raked in more than $100 million in income since he left the White House,
will have anything to say about it.
Hillary Clinton gloried in the “welfare reform” legislation in her 2003 memoir
Living History
(for which she was paid $8 million). She wrote that Aid to Families
with Dependent Children, the program the bill abolished, “had helped to
create generations of welfare-dependent Americans … I strongly argued
that we had to change the system, although my endorsement of welfare
reform came at some personal cost.” The “cost,” of course, was to her
political credibility as a supposed advocate of the poor.
Clinton claimed that the legislation her husband signed “was a
critical first step to reforming our nation’s welfare system. I agreed
that he should sign it and worked hard to round up votes for its
passage—though he and the legislation were roundly criticized by some
liberals, advocacy groups for immigrants and most people who worked with
the welfare system.”
Sanders has criticized Hillary Clinton repeatedly for giving speeches
to Wall Street audiences in return for six-figure fees, as well as
raking in campaign contributions from the financial and fossil fuel
industries. But he has not sought to make a connection between Clinton’s
close ties to the super-rich and the record of the first Clinton
administration, particularly its attack on the poorest sections of the
working class.
Nor has Sanders, in general, made an issue of the cuts in vital
social programs, particularly those implemented with the collaboration
of the Obama administration, like the $8.7 billion cut in food stamp
benefits pushed through in 2014 as part of a bipartisan deal with
congressional Republicans, or this year’s drastic cutback in food stamp
eligibility for childless adults.
Food stamp recipients, and particularly childless adults on food
stamps, have become targets of abuse for big business politicians of
both parties. Several of the states now implementing work requirements
have gone well beyond the regulations set down by the federal Department
of Agriculture or the provisions of the welfare reform law.
State governments are permitted to seek exemptions from benefit
cutoffs for regions of the state with particularly high concentrations
of unemployment, even if the state as a whole no longer qualifies. In
New York state, for example, the boroughs of Brooklyn, Queens and the
Bronx have such exemptions, although Manhattan does not.
But many states, like Florida, have refused to seek such exemptions.
The Missouri legislature even passed a bill last year prohibiting the
state government from seeking a waiver, with legislators claiming it was
easy for the unemployed to find at least 20 hours work per week.
In Mississippi, with one of the highest unemployment rates and
highest poverty rates in the country, Republican Governor Phil Bryant
chose not to extend the waiver of the work requirement. “We want people
to go to work in Mississippi,” he said in a statement. “We want these
individuals to get a good job and live the American dream, not just be
dependent on the federal government.”
REPORT: At Least 17 Bodies Burned at Mexican Dump
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MEXICO CITY (AP) — Experts have found evidence of a large fire
in which at least 17 bodies were burned at a dump in southern Mexico, a
member of the investigating team said Friday, in the latest twist in the
case of 43 missing teachers’ college students.
Ricardo Damian Torres, speaking from the offices of Mexico’s attorney
general, said tests would be conducted in the coming weeks to determine
whether it would have been possible to burn all 43 at the dump in the
town of Cocula in Guerrero state, where the government has said the
students’ bodies ended up after disappearing in nearby Iguala on Sept.
26, 2014.
Relatives of the missing students have fiercely disputed the
government’s version of events and multiple previous investigations by
other teams of experts concluded they could not have all been burned at
the Cocula dump. The government’s perceived mishandling of the symbolic
human rights case has dogged the administration of President Enrique
Pena Nieto.
In Friday’s brief press conference, Torres did
not say when such a fire occurred or offer any explanation as to how the
team conducted its research and reached its conclusion.
In an interview with Milenio TV, Vidulfo Rosales, a lawyer
representing the families, said they had not reviewed the experts’
report and could not discuss it. However, he expressed concern about the
way the attorney general’s office was handling the investigation.
It was the latest in a series of investigations into what happened to
the students from the Rural Normal School at Ayotzinapa. They
disappeared after hijacking buses in Iguala. Evidence indicates they
were intercepted by local police and turned over to members of a local
drug cartel.
Four months after they disappeared, Mexico’s then-attorney general
Jesus Murillo Karam laid out the results of the government’s
investigation with such certainty that he called it the “historic
truth.” Citing confessions and forensic evidence, he said all 43
students were dead and had been incinerated at a garbage dump outside
Cocula.
Murrillo Karam said their incinerated remains were then thrown into a
nearby river. Genetic testing of remains the government said it
recovered from the river eventually confirmed the identities of two of
the missing students. In terms of motive, he said the Guerreros Unidos
drug cartel, which controlled the area, had believed some of the
students were from a rival gang.
The following month, the Argentine Forensic Anthropology team —
brought in at the families’ request and authorized by the attorney
general’s office — said evidence did not support the government’s
version that the students were burned at the site. Mexico’s national
human rights commission also raised a number of questions about the
government’s original investigation.
And in September 2015, a team of independent experts sent by the
Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, or IACHR, released a report
that dismantled the government’s investigation, but said they had no
evidence as to the students’ whereabouts. The report explained how state
and federal police, as well as the military, were monitoring the
students’ movements before they were attacked. But no one intervened
when Iguala and Cocula police attacked, killing six people.
Attorney General Arely Gomez responded by ordering a new forensic investigation of the dump.
The team that announced its findings on Friday was agreed to by the IACHR and the Mexican government.
But late Friday, the IACHR’s team of independent experts released a
statement saying that by holding the news conference the attorney
general’s office had broken their agreement to seek consensus on how
this latest investigation would be handled.
The statement said Torres had alluded to information included in the
provisional report that had not been analyzed by the IACHR experts and
was not even a consensus among the fire experts.
They wrote that they now considered the working agreement about the dump to be “broken.”
"There are the billions of taxpayer dollars used to subsidize illegal
immigrants' health care and education. There's the revenue we lose out
on when illegal immigrants don't pay income taxes. And there's a less
recognized pot of billions — the billions of dollars of earnings that
illegal immigrants wire out of the United States with no tax or penalty." more here: We need to crack down on illegal immigrants wiring money out of the U.S. : We need to crack down on illegal immigrants wiring money out of the U.S.Mexican congress lays legal foundation for martial law LA RAZA PREPARES FOR THE NARCO TAKE OVER
Mexican congress lays legal foundation for martial law
By
Neil Hardt
A commission of the Mexican Chamber of Deputies voted
overwhelmingly on March 29 to approve an amendment to the Mexican
Constitution granting the president dictatorial powers to establish a
state of emergency and suspend democratic rights.
Under the proposed amendment, which will now proceed to a vote in the full chamber, Article 29 of the constitution now reads:
“In
cases of invasion, serious disturbances to the public peace, or
anything else that places society in grave danger or conflict, the
president of the United States of Mexico, with the approval of the
congress or the permanent commission when congress has not been
assembled, can restrict or suspend, throughout the entire country or in
limited places, those rights and guarantees that are obstacles to
confronting, quickly and easily, the situation.”
Fearing the
emergence of social opposition in the working class, the Mexican ruling
class is establishing the legal framework for martial law and military
dictatorship. Mexico’s most basic democratic rights, including freedom
of association, freedom of the press, and the right to a trial and due
process, can now be subject to suspension at the request of the
president and the acquiescence of a pliant legislative branch.
The
law was passed with the support of all of the major Mexican political
parties represented on the chamber’s Government Commission, including
the PRI, PAN, PES, Greens, and PRD. The Citizens Movement refused to
oppose the amendment while MORENA, the party of former Mexico City Mayer
Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, alone voted no.
BLOG:
MEXICAN DRUG CARTELS HAUL BACK $40 - $60 BILLION FROM HEROIN SALES IN
AMERICA'S OPEN BORDERS. THAT'S ENOUGH TO BUY MEXICO TEN TIMES OVER!
PAN deputy Ulises
Ramirez Nunez said that the state of exception is necessary because
terrorists “have disrupted how we regulate our society.” Many of those
voting in favor of the change cited the events of September 11, as well
as the recent terror attacks in Paris and Belgium, to justify the
constitutional changes.
The claim that Mexico is under threat from
ISIS, Al Qaeda, or other Islamic terrorist groups is aimed at masking
the true content of the law: preparing for state repression of social
opposition. Aside from dangers of “terrorism,” “natural disasters,” and
“plagues,” the commission noted before Tuesday’s vote that the law “also
refers to internal revolts, incursions of internal armed groups, grave
threats to the peace or internal stability of the State, [and] economic
crises that due to their gravity can generate altercations in the public
order.”
The commission also noted that the law “is broad,
adaptable, and capable of being applied to diverse situations that put
society at risk.”
The true character of the amendment is further
indicated by the approval by the State of Mexico, the country’s most
populous state, which surrounds the Mexican capital, government of the
“Atenco Law.” Passed on March 17 it gives the state government the power
to invoke emergency rule. The law bears its name from mass
demonstrations that took place in the city of San Salvador Atenco in
2006, when the government, under then governor, now president Enrique
Peña Nieto, cracked down on those protesting the police’s forcible
removal of farmers selling flowers from a market square. Police killed
two people, arrested over 140, and sexually assaulted 26 women during
the attack on demonstrators.
The amendment’s passage was likely
secured after discussions with the US government, which has considered
the option of establishing a state of emergency in Mexico for years.
Cables published by Wikileaks exposed discussions between then-Mexican
Secretary of Defense Guillermo Galvan and the Obama administration in
October 2009 on precisely this question.
One such cable, No.
3101, was filed by US Embassy Charge d’Affairs John Feely, who today
retains the same position at the embassy.
“Defense Secretary
Galvan raised recently the possibility of invoking Article 29 of the
constitution to declare a state of exception in certain areas of the
country,” Feely notes. “If written correctly and approved by Congress,
it could give the military a temporary legal cover for its activities
and perhaps allow it to focus more on operations and less on its
critics.”
At the time, the US embassy was hesitant to support the
move, writing that “any benefits” produced by “an Article 29 state of
exception would be undermined by the high political costs of such an
approach. With questionable support in Congress and limited political
capital, he would put at risk popular and congressional support…” The
cable concludes by noting that “the possibility of the declaration of a
state of exception cannot be discounted at some future date.”
The
overwhelming support in the Mexican legislature for such an amendment
today speaks to growing conviction amongst the Mexican ruling class and
its US imperialist supervisors that the “pros” of establishing police
state methods of rule now decisively outweigh the “cons.”
The
intervening seven years have produced a groundswell of popular
opposition to the Mexican ruling class and the Mexican military. The
2014 kidnapping and disappearance of 43 Ayotzinapa student teachers at
the hands of police and gangsters in the state of Guerrero produced
widespread opposition as hundreds of thousands demonstrated calling for
President Pena Nieto to resign over the government’s complicity in the
attacks. The government’s grants of immunity to military forces involved
in periodic citizen massacres like the 2014 Tlatlaya massacre, in which
22 civilians were gunned down, have also generated public outcry.
Alongside
the ongoing political crisis, the continuing economic downturn has
created a social powder keg. Between 2007 and 2012, the number of
millionaires in Mexico increased by 32 percent, while the percentage of
those in poverty increased from roughly 45 percent to 55 percent within
the same period. In the midst of this widening social chasm, the Mexican
ruling class, working with US and European banks and corporations, is
preparing to escalate its attack on public education, to privatize the
state-owned Pemex oil company, and to gut the pensions and wages of
Mexican oil workers.
In preparation for the outbreak of social
opposition, the Obama administration has increased military and police
ties to Mexico, training and arming the federal army, which already
patrols the streets in Mexico’s cities. According to a January 2016
report from the US Congress, “military cooperation between the two
countries has been increasing, as have Department of Defense training
and equipment programs to support the Mexican military.” In 2015, the US
Northern Command “trained 4,598 military personnel, up from 3,413 in
FY2014. Training has included courses on information fusion,
surveillance, interdiction, cybersecurity, logistics, and professional
development.”
The preparations for martial law taking place
alongside increased collaboration between US imperialism and the Mexican
armed forces are signs of the weakness of a capitalist class that can
only respond to the desperate needs of workers and peasants with
violence and repression.
Celebrate National Border Control Day! By Mark Krikorian
The Corner at National Review Online, March 31, 2016
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/433512/cesar-chavez-national-border-control-day?target=author&tid=982
I’ve been trying for a couple of years now to get Cesar Chavez’ birthday
recognized as National Border Control Day. As I explained in these
pages, Chavez was a fierce opponent of illegal immigration and a
border-defending Minuteman avant la lettre .
PEW: MEXICO BREEDS AN ANCHOR BABIES FOR WELFARE OCCUPATION OF AMERICA more here:
In
late 2015, the Pew Research Center came out with a population
projection that "non-Hispanic whites are projected to become
less than half of the US population by 2055."
Similarly, during 2014, researchers working with U.S. Census Bure... ...........................
Will Mexico elect America's next President? Didn't LA RAZA FASCIST
PARTY, which is funded by Barack Obama and operates out of the Obama
white house under Cecilia Munoz, reelect Obama??? DON'T BELIEVE THE LIES! IT'S ALL LA RAZA PROPAGANDA TO EXPAND MEXICO'S OCCUPATION! MILLIONS
OF MEXICANS HAVE MILLIONS OF AMERICAN JOBS WITH STOLEN IDENTITIES. THEY
ALSO DRIVE ILLEGALLY, CONTRACT ILLEGALLY AND SEND BACK TENS OF BILLIONS
IN DRUG PROFITS TO NARCOMEX. THE DEMOCRAT PARTY HAS LONG BEEN SABOTAGING STATES' ATTEMPT TO CURB LA RAZA FASCIST FROM VOTING. MEXICO KNOWS THAT THE 40 MILLION LOOTING MEXICANS DON'T HAVE TO BE "PERMANENT RESIDENTS" TO GO VOTE FOR MORE! HILLARY CLINTON HAS ALREADY PROMISED THE MEX OCCUPIERS 49 MORE MEXIFORNIAS!
March 21, 2016
Mexican government urging US immigrants to become citizens and vote
Mexican
consulates in the U.S. are hosting citizenship clinics across the
country, hoping to convince permanent residents from Mexico to become
U.S. citizens so they can vote against Donald Trump. The pious declaration from the Mexican government that they are not "interfering" in the U.S. election fails the smell test. Bloomberg:
Joel
Diaz doesn’t want to wait to see how it all turns out. The
Mexican-American, who has been a permanent resident of the U.S. for six
years, arrived at the Mexican consulate in Chicago on Saturday with his
wife and four adult sons to register all of them as U.S. citizens in
order to vote against Trump.
"We’re
very worried," Diaz, 47, an evangelical pastor, said. "If he wins there
will be a lot of damage against a lot of people here, and to us as
Hispanics, as Mexicans."
Laura
Espinosa, deputy consul in Mexico’s consulate in Las Vegas, said the
main goal of the program is citizenship, and while that includes the
right to vote, the government doesn’t press people to do so. "Those who
use this to vote, that’s up to each individual," said Espinosa, who
confirmed that most consulates have begun citizenship campaigns. "We
don’t have any opinion on that, because that would be totally
interfering in internal affairs of the country."
The
government in Mexico City is holding off on engaging the Trump campaign
directly until he becomes the nominee, said Francisco Guzman, chief of
staff to Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto. Speaking with reporters
on March 1, Guzman said the government plans to communicate with the
campaigns of the nominees once they’re chosen and try to dispel what it
considers misinformation about Mexico and Mexicans.
The
public-relations offensive now under way includes using news outlets
and social media to highlight the strides Mexicans have made in
business, the arts and academia in the U.S., said Paulo Carreno, the
former spokesman of Citigroup Inc.’s Mexico unit who oversees the
country’s international branding strategy.
Promoting
Mexico in the U.S., from its scholars to artists, is meant "not to
influence an election, but a whole generation and those that follow,"
Carreno said in an e-mailed response to questions. "The strategy will be
an important anchor in our consular network in the country."
It
should be noted that the chances of the Mexican government succeeding
in getting enough of their people to become U.S. citizens so that they
can make a difference in the 2016 election are low. But over a period
of years, that could change – especially if the Republicans continue to
refuse to compete for the Hispanic vote. Immigration issues are not the
end-all and be-all for Hispanics in the U.S. They have the same
concerns as any American about the economy and the culture. Not
even trying to persuade Hispanics that the GOP's agenda would be better
for them than the Democrats will continue to make any national election
and uphill climb for the Republican candidate.
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PUSH 2 FOR ENGLISH?
Simply visit Mexifornia to see for yourself!
"Indeed,
Americans have been thanked and continue to be thanked by all sorts of
carriers of multiculturalism. The open southern border, an instrument of
forced multiculturalism, has brought us gangs, and criminals, and
drugs, and murderers, and cartels, all of which are simply part of the
cultures of the countries from which their carriers traveled to enrich
us with their superiority. The left so values these contributions,
including the senseless murders of Americans by repeat offenders who
prey on American citizens with the tacit permission of our government,
that they proudly tout their “sanctuary cities”, which aid and abet the
predators, while sacrificing the prey in the name of tolerance and smug
superiority." AMERICAN THINKER
March 26, 2016
The Fruits of Multiculturalism, Abroad and at Home
Once
upon a time there were people who naively fantasized about how all the
incompatible cultures of the world were going to magically blend,
weaving a beautiful tapestry of colors and variations. They called this
“Multiculturalism”. Increasingly, the tapestry is made up of glass
shards and human remains. At what point do we begin to tally the lives
ruined or taken by members of all the “guest” cultures from members of
all the host cultures? Cultures
are either consciously abandoned, or consciously enforced. The theory
of multiculturalism has always been a tonic for simpletons, since it
celebrates the perpetuation and imposition of an incompatible culture,
still being practiced by those who carry it, upon a host culture with
which it is mutually exclusive. Multiculturalism is entirely subversive.
It is intended to force one or more cultures upon the hosts who do not
want or need them. Since both cultures cannot successfully coexist
within the host, which has its own successful working culture, the
purpose of the exercise has always been fraudulent. The “melting pot”
concept worked not because of the concept of multiculturalism, but as
testament against it. Those who came here in our parents’ and
grandparents’ generation consciously chose to abandon the cultures they
left in favor of the American culture. They became Americans, embracing
one culture. If
one was being less generous than to call multiculturalism a tonic for
simpletons, it would be more accurate to say that modern leftist
multiculturalism is actually a weapon. Its purpose is not to enhance the
host, but to consume it. Europe
is being forced to account for its misguided multiculturalism on a
grand scale, as it is being invaded and conquered voluntarily by the
proponents and carriers of multiculturalism. Belgium, which prides
itself on its diversity and multiculturalism, has been duly thanked this
week by those it welcomed and upon whom it gifted its liberties and
freedoms. France has also recently been thanked. So too has been the UK,
Germany, Sweden, and all the rest, as their own cultures are being
swept aside to accommodate those who intend to assassinate the culture,
rather than assimilate. Increasingly,
among the practitioners of aggressive multiculturalism, their gratitude
is often measured in lives destroyed and the quantity of blood spilled
to overwhelm the host. It is measured in rapes, and violent crimes, and
pedophilia, and human trafficking, and all of the niceties of the guest
cultures that have been blindly welcomed or ignored by the host, whose
tolerance was only exceeded by its stupidity. Indeed,
Americans have been thanked and continue to be thanked by all sorts of
carriers of multiculturalism. The open southern border, an instrument of
forced multiculturalism, has brought us gangs, and criminals, and
drugs, and murderers, and cartels, all of which are simply part of the
cultures of the countries from which their carriers traveled to enrich
us with their superiority. The left so values these contributions,
including the senseless murders of Americans by repeat offenders who
prey on American citizens with the tacit permission of our government,
that they proudly tout their “sanctuary cities”, which aid and abet the
predators, while sacrificing the prey in the name of tolerance and smug
superiority. We
have been similarly thanked by radical Islamists, who have bombed us,
shot us, and terrorized us for not surrendering to their culture, with
all the superiority that comes with honor killings, female mutilation,
subjugation of women, beheadings, throwing gays from rooftops, genocide
and hatred of everyone and everything that is incompatible with their
culture. Our government so approves of this that it facilitates the
“migration”/importation of even more carriers of such culture in the
form of Syrian Muslim immigrants whom it cannot vet, many of whom travel
on forged visas created by ISIS to permit them to enter target
countries undeterred. Even
among Americans, who are free and have unlimited opportunities
available to them, we are beginning to understand the extent of the
anti-American subcultures that have arisen, and are working just as
diligently to defeat us. There is within our own borders a rising
culture of anti-Constitutional, anti-American aggression and fascism,
perpetrated upon Americans by other Americans who are so assured of
their own moral and intellectual superiority that they have no need of
laws that constrain their dominance over their fellow citizens. They are
smarter and better than the rest of us, because they say so. At
the same time, we have a cultural movement embodied by innumerable
young adults, trained to be perpetual crybabies and losers, convinced of
their entitlement to steal the property and money of others, whom they
mindlessly hate for successes that they cannot fathom, animated by
puppeteers who themselves are paragons of failure. They think nothing of
employing violence against those whom they have never met and do not
know, but hate entirely. Make
no mistake. The anti-American subculture growing in the United States
is surprisingly deeply rooted and has even more potential to destroy
this country than anything the left can import. They are carriers of
their pathology, and they use our politics and media to infect. Like the
other corrosive cultures, theirs celebrates lawlessness, injustice, and
violence because they advance the goals of fear and intimidation. The
extent of violence is the only remaining question mark, since most
anti-American culturalists have not yet engaged in open homicide of
their ideological enemies. The obvious exception is the Black Lives
Matter subculture, which long ago jumped over that line and was rewarded
by their allies with publicity and fake credibility. Will
relative restraint continue if a candidate is nominated for president
who recognizes the cancer that the anti-American culturalists represent
to our national survival? Don’t count on it. These are the ideological
children of Bill Ayers. We will transition from a war of words to the
inevitable war of violence, because they will start it to survive,
confident they won’t be blamed. Watch what happens this summer in
Cleveland, by which time it will have begun, and how it is covered.
Either we win, or they do, but our cultures are mutually exclusive.
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BARACK OBAMA CONTINUES TO SABOTAGE HOMELAND SECURITY
40 Per Cent Of Illegal Migrant
And Foreign Criminal
Deportations Cancelled Due
To Lack Of Staff
Jeff J Mitchell/Getty
Four out of ten deportations of illegal immigrants and foreign criminals
from the UK were cancelled in 2014-15, largely because there were not
enough staff available to take them to the airport.
Almost 34,000 airline tickets had to be cancelled in one 18-month period, costing British taxpayers more than £1.4 million,
a report by the independent chief inspector of borders and immigration has revealed.
A separate report suggests officials have lost track of thousands of foreign students whose visas have expired, the BBC
reports .
The
first report explains that a “major constraint” on the deportation
process was a lack of security staff to accompany detainees out of the
country.
The
shocking failures occurred after the Home Office outsourced some of its
border and immigration functions to private contractors. The report
slammed the private firms as slow to resolve issues and reach agreement
on areas for improvement.
The
government, meanwhile, tried to absolve itself of responsibility by
claiming it had no control over the firms, which were being paid by the
taxpayer.
The report said: “The Home Office regarded some of the reasons for failed removals to be ‘out of [its] control’.
“While
this might be true in individual cases at the point of removal, it was
unclear what steps were being taken to identify lessons that might be
applied by the Home Office and others to reduce ‘out of control’
failures.”
However,
responding to the report, one of the private firms, Tascor, said it had
no contractual requirement to complete removals within a specified
timescale and also claimed not to be responsible because of legal
challenges.
“The
majority of the cancellations fall outside of Tascor’s control, largely
due to legal challenges or lack of emergency travel documents,” the
company said.
The
Home Office has now accepted the report’s recommendations, saying they
were looking for ways to reduce the cost of pre-departure accommodation
at a unit for families subject to enforced removal.
An official response seen by PA
said :
“Work is already under way to address the recommendations relating to
ticketing and escorting and, as the report acknowledges, these issues
are being factored into the re-procurement exercise for both contracts
which began in 2015.”
Diversity: Four Illegals Held in Brutal
Gang Rape in Massachusetts
Getty
Four Guatemala nationals who are in the U.S.
illegally are accused of
brutally gang-raping a
woman and beating her boyfriend in Massachusetts.
Federal Immigration officers are requesting so-called detainers on all four illegals.
According to Customs Enforcement spokesman Shawn Neudauer, at least two of the suspects had been deported previously.
Police
report that brothers Elmer Diaz, 19, Arial Diaz, 24, and Adan Diaz, 32
and accomplice Marlon Josue Jarquin-Felipe, 27, were arrested and
charged with the brutal attacks. They faces charges including rape,
assault with a dangerous weapon, assault and battery, kidnapping,
witness intimidation and other charges.
Ariel Diaz has a
record of violations such
as drunk driving, driving without a license, and driving without
insurance, disorderly conduct, and other charges. Additionally
Jarquin-Felipe had been deported back to Guatemala as late as April of
2014.
Since 2010, President Barack Obama has sharply
reduced immigration enforcement , and has allowed
more than 200,000 people from Central America to cross the border and to seek residency.
The
four were arrested after the attacks on a couple they were out for a
walk in their neighborhood. According to the police report, as the four
approached the couple, one of the illegals pulled out a condom and
motioned toward the woman.
She was then grabbed by the
hood of her jacket and slammed to the ground while two others started
beating the woman’s boyfriend. The woman was dragged into a nearby
apartment where several began to sexually molest her.
The
woman’s boyfriend followed them, forced his way into the apartment and
called 911. Police say he was then attacked again. At one point Ariel
Diaz came at the man with a chef’s kitchen knife. The victim was able to
wrest the knife away avoiding being stabbed in the process.
Eventually
the male victim was able to fight off the attackers and help free his
girlfriend. The two exited the apartment building and flagged down
police. Officers then arrested the four men finding some of the couples’
belongings in the apartment.
“I thought we were going
to die. I really did. And I didn’t care if I died as long as I could
save her and get her out of there, that’s all I cared about,” the male
victim told the
Boston Herald .
“I’ve lived here my whole
life and I never imagined anything like this could happen just walking
down the street,” he added. “The worst part was I felt like I couldn’t
do anything.”
The victim noted that his girlfriend is traumatized and has yet to come to terms with her assault.
All
four of the illegals have pleaded not guilty but are being held pending
a determination on how dangerous they are to the community before being
released.
ICE officials say that they have no record
of being alerted by local police after any of the suspects were arrested
for past offenses.
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Border Surge Solution: Send ‘Em to Camp David! By Michelle Malkin
Human Events Online, February 17, 2016
. . .
As
Brandon Judd of the National Border Patrol Council testified on Capitol
Hill recently: “The cartels understood that the unaccompanied minors
would force the Border Patrol to deploy Agents to these crossing areas
in order to take the minors into custody. I want to stress this point
because it has been completely overlooked by the press,” he told the
House Judiciary Committee. The unaccompanied minors could have walked
right up to the port of entry and requested asylum if they were truly
escaping political persecution or violence. “Why did the cartels drive
them to the middle of the desert and then have them cross over the Rio
Grande only to surrender to the first Border Patrol Agent they came
across?” Judd challenged.
“The reason is that it
completely tied up our manpower and allowed the cartels to smuggle
whatever they wanted across our border.”
This
is just another maddening example of
Obama’s warped priorities at work.
Instead of
building effective walls and enforcing our
borders to
prevent the coming illegal
immigration waves manufactured by criminal
racketeers, this administration rushes to build
welcome center magnets
that shelter the next
generation of Democrat voters.
http://humanevents.com/2016/02/17/border-surge-solution-send-em-to-camp-david/
U.S. Failed Three Times to Deport Illegal Alien Who Murdered Woman Judicial Watch Corruption Chronicles,
February 18, 2016
. . .
Here’s
what we already know from local media reports in Norwich, the city of
about 40,000 residents where the murder occurred; the DHS agency
responsible for deporting illegal immigrants, Immigration and Customs
Enforcement (ICE), failed to remove Jacques at least three times dating
back to 2002. As if this weren’t atrocious enough, Jacques spent 17
years in prison for attempted murder before authorities released
him—instead of deporting him—in January of 2015, the Norwich Bulletin
reports. Six months later the 41-year-old illegal alien convict stabbed
25-year-old Casey Chadwick to death. Police said Chadwick died of sharp
forced injuries to the head and neck. Jacques is being held on a $1
million bond.
Unfortunately, this is not an isolated
case. In the last few years illegal immigrants with lengthy criminal
histories have been allowed to remain in the U.S. despite being repeat
offenders. Judicial Watch has investigated several of the cases and
obtained public records from the government. For instance, back in 2008
JW launched a California public records request with the San Francisco
Sheriff’s Department to obtain he arrest and booking information on
Edwin Ramos, an illegal alien from El Salvador who murdered three
innocent American citizens. Ramos was a member of a renowned violent
street gang and had been convicted of two felonies as a juvenile (a
gang-related assault on a bus passenger and the attempted robbery of a
pregnant woman) yet he was allowed to remain in the country.
. . .
http://www.judicialwatch.org/blog/2016/02/u-s-failed-3-times-to-deport-illegal-alien-who-murdered-woman/
Dozens of Homicides Committed by Criminal Aliens After Being Released by ICE
By Mark Krikorian
The Corner at National Review Online, March 14, 2016
The
federal government shares responsibility when any illegal alien commits
murder — it failed to keep him out in the first place. And when a
sanctuary city releases a deportable criminal, Washington shares the
blame for any subsequent crimes because it’s not cracking down on such
rogue jurisdictions nullifying federal law.
But
federal responsibility is greatest when ICE actually has the criminal
aliens in its custody, and then releases them to go and kill some more.
Needless to say, the Obama administration doesn’t advertise when that
happens.
But
the Senate Judiciary Committee demanded the information from ICE, which
my colleague Jessica Vaughan has summarized. The most outrageous find:
Since 2010, 124 criminal aliens who were in ICEs custody and then
released went on to be charged with 135 new homicides.
The
Judiciary Committee also asked about criminal aliens released by ICE
more than once. Since 2013, there have been 156 such criminal aliens,
who racked up between them a total of 243 additional convictions after
being let go.
None
of these statistics include criminal aliens released by sanctuary
cities or those whom ICE simply refused to pick up from local jails in
the first place. These are only those who were in ICE’s hands, and then
let go.
Many
of these non-citizen criminals were released with ICE’s affirmative
consent. A significant number were ordered released by the Justice
Department, pursuant to a Supreme Court decision, because their home
countries wouldn’t take them back. But even here, the administration is
culpable. The Secretary of State is required by law to suspend the
issuance of visas in any country that won’t take back its own citizens.
The Obama administration has never — not once — complied with this legal
requirement.
Here’s the list of countries ICE has identified as refusing to take back their deportable citizens:
Afghanistan and Iraq ?
We let our colonies refuse to accept their deportable citizens, so they
can stay here and commit more crimes? Who, then, is the colonizer and
who the colonized? And how about Cuba? The administration has made clear
that the issue of deportees wasn’t — and still isn’t — even on the
table in discussion of normalizing relations. And the idea that
pipsqueak countries like Gambia or Cape Verde can freely defy us
suggests that “superpower” doesn’t mean what people think.
Politicians
have no business even suggesting things like amnesty or increased
immigration and guestworkers until outrages like this are banished.
THE MEXICAN CRIME TIDAL WAVE IN LA RAZA-OCCUPIED MEXIFORNIA
Half of all murders are now committed by MEX gangs!
CA has the largest and most expensive prison system in the nation. Half the inmates are MEX.
Of the top 200 most wanted criminals in La Raza-occupied Los Angeles, 186 are MEX.
There have been more than 2,000 Californians murdered by Mexicans who fled back over the border to avoid prosecution.
WHERE'S THE OUTRAGE?
"View the report and graphics showing crimes by state: http://cis.org/vaughan/Map-124-criminal-aliens-released-obama-policies-charged-homicide-2010 “The
Obama administration appears to be indifferent to the harm its policies
are inflicting in American communities,” says CIS Director of Policy
Studies Jessica Vaughan, who reviewed the ICE documents provided to the
Senate committee."
WASHINGTON, DC (March 14, 2016) —
New information released to the Senate Judiciary Committee quantifies
the public safety impact of the Obama administration's lenient approach
to immigration enforcement, in which thousands of criminal aliens are
allowed to remain at large each year instead of detained and processed
for prompt deportation. Criminal aliens released by ICE between 2010 and 2015 have been charged with 124 new homicides and thousands of other crimes that harm citizens and degrade thequality of life in American communities.
The
Center for Immigration Studies reports that only a tiny percentage of
the released criminals have been removed. Only 3 percent of the criminal
aliens released in 2014 have been removed, with most receiving the most
generous forms of due process available, and are allowed to remain at
large, without supervision, while they await drawn-out immigration
hearings.
View the report and graphics showing crimes by state: http://cis.org/vaughan/Map-124-criminal-aliens-released-obama-policies-charged-homicide-2010 “The
Obama administration appears to be indifferent to the harm its policies
are inflicting in American communities,” says CIS Director of Policy
Studies Jessica Vaughan, who reviewed the ICE documents provided to the
Senate committee. “Many of these releases could be prevented.
Instead, the administration allows funded detention space to go unused,
declines to use efficient forms of due process for criminals, and shifts
millions of dollars that Congress provided for enforcement to other
purposes. In addition, they have failed to take action against
recalcitrant countries that won’t accept the return of their deported
citizens.”
Inexplicably,
ICE is choosing to release some criminal aliens multiple times. Two of
them had homicide-related convictions even before they were released.
These aliens had 464 criminal convictions prior to release by ICE,
ranging from drug crimes to DUI and other driving offenses to larceny
and theft.
This tally does not include aliens who were released by
sanctuary jurisdictions ,
nor those aliens that were released by local law enforcement agencies
after ICE declined to take them into custody due to Obama
administration
prioritization policies . This list includes only those aliens that ICE arrested and then released.
ICE
reported that there are 156 criminal aliens who were released at least
twice by ICE since 2013. Between them, these criminals had 1,776
convictions before their first release in 2013, with burglary, larceny, and drug possession listed most frequently.
Without
the congressional inquiry into criminal alien crime, the public would
not have this Immigration status information from ICE, which should be
reported on a routine basis by all law enforcement agencies. Legislation
has been introduced by
Rep. Mo Brooks (R-Ala.) that would remedy this problem.
MURDERING MEXICANS: WHEN THEY'RE NOT LOOTING ANCHOR BABY WELFARE, VOTING DEM FOR MORE, THEY'RE MURDERING LEGALS!
CALIFORNIA UNDER LA RAZA-OCCUPATION:
1. CA has the largest and most expensive prison system in the nation. HALF THE INMATES ARE ILLEGALS FROM NARCOMEX.
2. Los Angeles is a Mex-occupied city. 90% of all murders are committed by Mexicans.
3. Of the top 200 most wanted criminals by L.A. police, 186 are Mexicans.
4. According to CA AG KAMALA HARRIS, herself a La Raza Dem, nearly half of all murders in CA are now by Mex gangs.
Man accused of killing five people in Kansas and Missouri was in U.S. illegally
A
Mexican man accused of killing five people in the Midwest this week was
a convicted felon living in the U.S. illegally, and he had not been
deported despite being arrested at least twice in recent years, federal
officials said.
Pablo Antonio Serrano-Vitorino, 40, of
Kansas City, Kan., was captured in rural eastern Missouri early
Wednesday morning after going missing from Kansas on Monday and then
sparking a 17-hour manhunt in Missouri on Tuesday once his truck was
spotted along an interstate.
Officials, who had
previously warned Serrano-Vitorino might be armed with an AK-47, said he
was found with a rifle, but wouldn't say what kind.
Serrano-Vitorino
faces five counts of murder and other charges on suspicion of killing
four men on Monday night in Kansas City, Kan., and then going on the run
and killing another man almost 200 miles to the east in New Florence,
Mo. Officials have not given a motive.
The
case could have political implications, given Serrano-Vitorino's
immigration status and his criminal history, which includes a felony
conviction in Los Angeles County from 2003. Serrano-Vitorino was
deported to Mexico in 2004 but illegally returned to the U.S. sometime
later, officials said.Missouri's primary presidential election is next
week, and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump and other
immigration critics have cited the
death of Kathryn Steinle --
who was shot in San Francisco in July by a felon from Mexico living in
the U.S. illegally -- to call for harsher measures to control illegal
immigration.
Three Illegal Alien Convicted Rapists Arrested Sneaking Back into Texas
AP File Photo
MCALLEN, Texas — Over
a period of three days, three illegal aliens from El Salvador with
criminal records as rapists are facing immigration charges after getting
arrested near the Rio Grande Valley of the Texas border with Mexico.
The
most recent arrest took place on Wednesday in the border city of
Hidalgo when U.S. Border Patrol agents found 28-year-old Manuel
Alexander Chicas Contreras. Details of how the arrest took place are not
listed in the criminal complaint obtained by Breitbart Texas. Once in
custody however, the agents requested a records check on Chicas and
learned that he had previously been deported.
Chicas
was deported on December 5, 2014 after he was released from prison for
having “sexual intercourse with a child over the age of 15”. For that
crime, Chicas was sentenced to 12 months in prison and had six months
from his sentence suspended prior to his deportation. On Thursday,
Chicas went before U.S. Magistrate Judge Peter Ormsby who formally
charged him with one count of illegal re-entry and ordered he be held
without bond.
In
the second case, U.S. Border Patrol agents arrested 42-year-old
Salvador Antonio Coreas Rodriguez on Tuesday near the border city of
Hidalgo, court records from his arrest revealed. Rodriguez told agents
had crossed the Rio Grande into Texas on Sunday. When authorities ran a
records check on him they learned that Coreas-Rodriguez was convicted in
on May 2011 on the charges related to having the rape of a victim under
the age of 15. After serving part of his sentence he was deported to El
Salvador on September 2013. On Thursday, Coreas- Rodriguez went before
U.S. Magistrate Judge Peter Ormsby who formally charged him with one
count of illegal re-entry and ordered he be held without bond.
The
third case involved 34-year-old Denis Antonio Polanco who went before
U.S. Magistrate Judge Peter Ormsby, also on Tuesday. The judge formally
charged him with one count of illegal re-entry and ordered he be held
without bond. Polanco’s arrest took place on Sunday near the border city
of Roma when Border Patrol agents found him. During a records check,
agents learned that he had been deported in June 1999 following his 1998
conviction of rape, court records obtained by Breitbart Texas
revealed.
Sheriff Joe: 39 Percent of Illegals Turned Over to ICE Return Back to Maricopa Co Jails
15 Mar 2016
Tuesday on Fox Business
Network’s “Mornings With Maria,” Maricopa County, AZ Sheriff Joe Arapaio
discussed the problems with illegal immigrants committing crimes in his
community and why he thinks Republican presidential front-runner Donald
Trump is the best one to deal with this problem.
Arpaio
also told host Maria Bartiromo of a statistic showing that over
one-third of all the illegal immigrants he has incarcerated and turned
over to Immigrations and Customs Enforcement wind up back in his jails.
Partial transcript as follows:
BARTIROMO:
You are on the front lines, obviously, and your teams are on the front
lines and you’re seeing what’s going and coming through the border.
What’s your take on this most recent report? These people were in jail
and they were released from jail and then they were convicted of murder. ARPAIO:
Well, you know, that’s been out for a while, but I have more shocking
statistics that nobody will talk about except Neil Cavuto. He did bring
it out. BARTIROMO: Tell us about it. ARPAIO:
They are my statistics. I’ll tell you what it is, I also run the jails.
We average about 9,000 people in the jails every day and every month
they take statistics of those in our jails charged with all different
crimes, here in this country illegally, 8,600 have been turned over to
ICE for deportation and over 3000 keep coming back to the same jails
that I run. Now, think of that. They keep coming back. One guy came back
20 times. So, what’s going on? Are they going to the border and keep
hopping the fence or keep coming across or are they let out on the
streets of Maricopa County? I think- BARTIROMO: What do you think is happening? How is it possible that they were– that they’re coming back to your jails? ARPAIO:
Good question. I’ve written to the Homeland Security secretary, to
other officials. I get bureaucrat particular responses. I never get an
answer, but I got the facts. You’re talking about a hundred, that’s bad.
But what about just in my jails, 39 percent keep coming back to the
same jail and they are charged with many different crimes. So it’s very
disgusting. Something has to be done about this illegal immigration
problem. BARTIROMO:
What’s the answer though, sheriff? I mean, obviously, Donald Trump is
talking about this wall that he’s going to build. Is that going to be
enough? Is that going to be the solution or is there something else? I
mean, this is clearly the dividing issue right now within this country. ARPAIO:
It’s very simple, you deport them. You get them out of our country. Why
are they roaming the streets and keep coming back? They should be back
in the country that they came from illegally. So, that’s very simple.
You deport them and then you try to do something at the border. BARTIROMO:
Yeah, but Dagen, is it that simple though, just to deport 11 million
people? I mean, this is the whole argument that we’re having right now.
How can you deport all the illegals in this country right now? ARPAIO:
Well, I tell you what, we did pretty good just my office, I think, they
accused me of 100,000 people leaving because of our crackdown during
the past years. But it’s very simple. You deport them and when you come
across those here committing other crimes, you lock them up and send
them back where they came from. And that can be done. So why should we
surrender the greatest country in the world, we can’t take care of this
problem? So I support Trump and by the way, if you look at all the
politicians here is what they say, ‘We must secure the border.’ Then
they say ‘first,’ and then we’ll look at the internal problem. No, what
about talking about those here illegally already? Why say secure the
border first, you know the border will never be completely secure. I’ve
been on both sides of that border as a top official. So, you can’t
surrender. I like what Trump says. I had
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT)
’
wife in my tent city last night and she learned something about, she
didn’t like the tents. Her husband is here today in Phoenix, I’m sure
he’ll bad-mouth me, but that’s OK.
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March 22, 2016
DHS says administration has 'no intention' of deporting most illegals
They're not even trying to hide their lack of enforcement of immigration law. The
president of the National Border Control Council testified before
Congress that a top Homeland Security official told agents that the
Obama administration has "no intention of deporting" most illegal
aliens. This
"catch and release" policy amounts to a de facto amnesty for the tens
of thousands of illegals who jump the border every year. DHS
claims that the policy is in place because immigration courts are
clogged up. So instead of expanding the number of judges and courts,
they simply give up and allow the illegals to disappear into the
underground. Washington Times:
Mr. Judd provided
his testimony in written answers released Monday by the House Judiciary
Committee, saying that even in some criminal cases, agents are ordered
to let illegal immigrants go without ever issuing them a Notice to
Appear, or NTA, which is what puts them into deportation proceedings.
Mr. Judd said they took their case directly to Deputy Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, who told them not to bother.
“Deputy
Secretary Mayorkas told us that the Border Patrol needs to focus its
resources towards the worst of the worst. He said that by prioritizing
those we choose to deport, we will help alleviate the burden on an
already overburdened court system,” Mr. Judd recalled.
“He
further stated, ‘Why would we NTA those we have no intention of
deporting?’ He also stated, ‘We should not place someone in deportation
proceedings, when the courts already have a 3-6 year backlog,’” Mr. Judd recounted.
“Since the day of this meeting, we have seen no improvements in our
enforcement efforts and the morale of the Border Patrol agents is one
of, if not the lowest in the entire federal government.”
Immigration
agents have complained for several years that Mr. Obama has tied their
hands, forcing them to release illegal immigrants who should have been
easy deportation cases.
Customs and Border Protection, the agency that oversees the Border Patrol, declined to comment on Mr. Judd ’s testimony.
But CBP Commissioner R. Gil Kerlikowske, testifying to Congress earlier this month, brushed aside Mr. Judd ’s comments, saying he didn’t believe agents were releasing people without putting them through the full process.
Mr. Kerlikowske said Mr. Judd was
“probably not the most knowledgeable organization about what’s actually
going on” in the field with Border Patrol agents, and he said agents
that object to Mr. Obama’s policies should quit.
The
backog of immigration court cases is meaningless. Seventy-five percent
of illegals fail to show up for their hearings anyway. And DHS has no
way to keep track of those they release under this policy. President
Obama's policies have made it only more difficult to fix this broken
system. Adding to the problem by increasing the number of illegals is
irresponsible governance – which just about sums up the president's
terms in office.
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In
late 2015, the Pew Research Center came out with a population
projection that "non-Hispanic whites are projected to become
less than half of the US population by 2055."
Similarly, during 2014, researchers working with U.S. Census Bure...
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Will Mexico elect America's next President? Didn't LA RAZA FASCIST
PARTY, which is funded by Barack Obama and operates out of the Obama
white house under Cecilia Munoz, reelect Obama??? DON'T BELIEVE THE LIES! IT'S ALL LA RAZA PROPAGANDA TO EXPAND MEXICO'S OCCUPATION! MILLIONS
OF MEXICANS HAVE MILLIONS OF AMERICAN JOBS WITH STOLEN IDENTITIES. THEY
ALSO DRIVE ILLEGALLY, CONTRACT ILLEGALLY AND SEND BACK TENS OF BILLIONS
IN DRUG PROFITS TO NARCOMEX. THE DEMOCRAT PARTY HAS LONG BEEN SABOTAGING STATES' ATTEMPT TO CURB LA RAZA FASCIST FROM VOTING. MEXICO KNOWS THAT THE 40 MILLION LOOTING MEXICANS DON'T HAVE TO BE "PERMANENT RESIDENTS" TO GO VOTE FOR MORE! HILLARY CLINTON HAS ALREADY PROMISED THE MEX OCCUPIERS 49 MORE MEXIFORNIAS!
March 21, 2016
Mexican government urging US immigrants to become citizens and vote
Mexican
consulates in the U.S. are hosting citizenship clinics across the
country, hoping to convince permanent residents from Mexico to become
U.S. citizens so they can vote against Donald Trump. The pious declaration from the Mexican government that they are not "interfering" in the U.S. election fails the smell test. Bloomberg:
Joel
Diaz doesn’t want to wait to see how it all turns out. The
Mexican-American, who has been a permanent resident of the U.S. for six
years, arrived at the Mexican consulate in Chicago on Saturday with his
wife and four adult sons to register all of them as U.S. citizens in
order to vote against Trump.
"We’re
very worried," Diaz, 47, an evangelical pastor, said. "If he wins there
will be a lot of damage against a lot of people here, and to us as
Hispanics, as Mexicans."
Laura
Espinosa, deputy consul in Mexico’s consulate in Las Vegas, said the
main goal of the program is citizenship, and while that includes the
right to vote, the government doesn’t press people to do so. "Those who
use this to vote, that’s up to each individual," said Espinosa, who
confirmed that most consulates have begun citizenship campaigns. "We
don’t have any opinion on that, because that would be totally
interfering in internal affairs of the country."
The
government in Mexico City is holding off on engaging the Trump campaign
directly until he becomes the nominee, said Francisco Guzman, chief of
staff to Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto. Speaking with reporters
on March 1, Guzman said the government plans to communicate with the
campaigns of the nominees once they’re chosen and try to dispel what it
considers misinformation about Mexico and Mexicans.
The
public-relations offensive now under way includes using news outlets
and social media to highlight the strides Mexicans have made in
business, the arts and academia in the U.S., said Paulo Carreno, the
former spokesman of Citigroup Inc.’s Mexico unit who oversees the
country’s international branding strategy.
Promoting
Mexico in the U.S., from its scholars to artists, is meant "not to
influence an election, but a whole generation and those that follow,"
Carreno said in an e-mailed response to questions. "The strategy will be
an important anchor in our consular network in the country."
It
should be noted that the chances of the Mexican government succeeding
in getting enough of their people to become U.S. citizens so that they
can make a difference in the 2016 election are low. But over a period
of years, that could change – especially if the Republicans continue to
refuse to compete for the Hispanic vote. Immigration issues are not the
end-all and be-all for Hispanics in the U.S. They have the same
concerns as any American about the economy and the culture. Not
even trying to persuade Hispanics that the GOP's agenda would be better
for them than the Democrats will continue to make any national election
and uphill climb for the Republican candidate.
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WASHINGTON, DC (March 16, 2016) — One of the most
critical issues in the immigration policy debate is the question of
immigration’s impact on the employment opportunities of native-born
workers after immigrants enter the labor market. With 61 million
immigrants and their young children living in the United States,
accounting for nearly one in five U.S. residents, the federal
immigration program has serious implications for the American worker.
Today the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration and the National
Interest examined the impact of immigration on U.S. workers.
Dr. Steven Camarota, the Director of Research at the Center for
Immigration Studies, testified that “immigration does not confer
significant economic benefits on the native-born. Instead, immigration
tends to redistribute income from some American workers, often from the
poorest and least educated, to business owners and other American
workers.”
The U.S. welcomes over one million legal immigrants per year, which does
make the U.S. economy (GDP) significantly larger. But a larger GDP does
not necessarily result in a wealthier society. In fact, almost all of
this increase in GDP goes to the immigrants themselves as payment for
their labor.
Read Dr. Camarota’s statement here:
http://cis.org/Testimony/Camarota-The-Impact-of-Large-Scal-%20Immigration-on-American-Workers
When the employment analysis is expanded beyond the officially
unemployed, the situation for Americans looks grim. The number and share
of native-born Americans ages 16 to 65 who are not in the labor market
(not working or looking for work) is at or near a record level, with no
meaningful improvement in the last two years. Job growth has not come
close to matching new immigration and population increase; 17. 5 million
more working-age people were not working in 2015 than in 2000.
Dr. Camarota concluded, “Any suggestion that the nation needs
immigration because there is a shortage of labor is not supported by the
available data.”
Nearly one-third of US food stamp recipients rely on food pantries
Nearly one-third of US food stamp recipients rely on food pantries
By
Kate Randall
Nearly one-third of US households on the Supplemental Nutrition
Assistance Program (SNAP) rely on food pantries to supplement their food
budget, according to data highlighted this week by the US Department of
Agriculture (USDA), which administers SNAP.
The USDA reports that
in 2014, 23 million American households received SNAP benefits,
formerly known as food stamps. Of those households receiving SNAP
benefits, 32 percent report they had visited a food pantry in the
previous 30 days.
Households receiving other government food
assistance also visited food pantries in significant numbers.
Twenty-three percent of households using the Women, Infants and Children
(WIC) program visited a pantry, as did 23 percent of households where
children are receiving free or reduced-price school lunches.
The
average SNAP benefit per person is about $125 per person a month,
according to the Kaiser Family Foundation. The USDA data shows that
these paltry benefits are not enough to sustain many household food
budgets, leading families to seek assistance from food pantries.
Despite
these statistics, more than one million people across the US could lose
their SNAP benefits in 2016 due to the return in many areas of a
three-month limit on benefits for unemployed adults ages 18-49 who are
not disabled or raising minor children. The cutoffs began March 1 in 21
states, prompting food pantries and soup kitchens to gear up for an
influx of people seeking support.
Following the financial crisis
in 2008, virtually all US states qualified for a waiver from the
three-month limit for those classified as “Able-Bodied Adults Without
Dependents” (ABAWDs), imposed in 1996 under the welfare reform bill
signed into law by President Clinton. The harsh “work for food”
requirements are now being restored in the face of US Bureau of Labor
Statistics (BLS) data that shows that more than a quarter of the 7.9
million US unemployed have been jobless for more than six months.
According
to the USDA, about 4.7 million SNAP recipients are deemed ABAWDs, and
only one in four of these has any income from a job. USDA data shows
these individuals have gross income averages of 17 percent of the
official poverty line, or only about $2,000 per year for a household of
one in 2015. If these individuals fail to demonstrate that they work,
volunteer, or attend job-training courses at least 80 hours a month,
they will be cut off SNAP.
The assault on SNAP benefits is a
bipartisan attack on the health and wellbeing of workers at a time when
the government’s own figures show hunger growing across America. In
2014, President Obama signed a bill that included $8.6 billion in cuts
to SNAP. The temporary 14 percent increase in benefits passed by
Congress in 2009 ended completely in November 2013.
Under these
crisis conditions, Obama’s fiscal year 2016 budget proposal included
only $83.692 billion for SNAP, which presently serves an average
caseload of 45.7 million Americans, almost 15 percent of the population.
This compares to the more than $600 billion a year officially expended
on the military. If all military-related expenses are added—including
from the CIA, Homeland Security, Energy, State departments, the Veterans
Administration and debt payments for previous wars—the real figure is
closer to $1.3 trillion a year.
A USDA study showed that 14
percent of households (17.4 million households) were food insecure in
2014, meaning they did not have consistent, dependable access to enough
food for an active, healthy life. In 2014, 5.6 percent of US households
(6.9 million households) had very low food security, meaning that the
food intake of some household members was reduced, and normal eating
patterns disrupted, due to limited resources at times during the year.
A
2013 study of 3,300 SNAP households by the USDA’s Food and Nutrition
Service found that “SNAP households experience … financial strain that
is eased but not alleviated by participation in the SNAP program.” The
study found that about 45 percent of SNAP clients limited food
consumption, usually by skipping meals, to make it through the month.
NPR
reports on other research that shows that hospital admissions for
hypoglycemia—low blood sugar, which can be treated with a healthful
diet—spike by 27 percent for low-income households during the last week
of the month, when many government benefits run out. High-income
households showed no similar trend.
A new review of 25 studies
published between 2003 and 2014 that looked at the food spending and
quality of diets of SNAP recipients showed that they ate on average
about the same number of calories as those not receiving benefits, but
consumed fewer fruits and vegetables and whole grains and more added
sugars.
Tatiana Andreyeva, the study’s lead author and researcher
at the Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity at the University of
Connecticut, said average food stamp recipients scored even worse than
the average American on the Healthy Eating Index, a measure of how well
diets meet the federal dietary guidelines.
While the average
American received a failing grade, scoring just 58 out of 100 on the
index, the average SNAP recipient scored just 47 out of 100 in one
study, and 51 out of 100 in another. The study also found that both
adults and children on SNAP were less likely to eat three meals a day
than higher-income people not receiving benefits.
Immigration cuts salaries of Americans $2,470 a year :
"There are the billions of taxpayer dollars used to subsidize illegal
immigrants' health care and education. There's the revenue we lose out
on when illegal immigrants don't pay income taxes. And there's a less
recognized pot of billions — the billions of dollars of earnings that
illegal immigrants wire out of the United States with no tax or penalty." BLOG:
THE MEX LA RAZA - DEM PARTY AMNESTY: KEEPING WAGES DEPRESSED AND
PASSING ALONG THEIR WELFARE AND CRIME TIDAL WAVE COST TO WHAT IS LEFT OF
THE AMERICAN MIDDLE CLASS. BLOG: THERE IS A REASON WHY MOST OF THE FORTUNE 500 ARE GENEROUS DONORS TO THE MEXICAN FASCIST PARTY of LA RAZA. GOOGLE IT! The nation's unending appetite for new and low-wage immigrant
workers, now about about 1 million a year, is slashing the incomes of
native-born Americans by $2,470 while boosting corporate profits,
according to a new report on the cost of legal and illegal immigration.
"The U.S. is literally importing poverty," said the
new report from the group
Negative Population Growth Inc.
Critics of immigration and the administration's expansion of the
green card worker program have long charged that native American
workers have had to accept lower wages just to compete with cheap
imported labor and the new report from
Ed Rubenstein, president of ESR Research, bolsters those charges.
He found that while in past decades adding immigrant workers
helped to increase wages and GDP, the flood that followed the 1986
immigration reform reversed that trend. The reason, he said, is that too
much of the workforce is now immigrant labor, rising from 10 percent in
1996 to nearly 17 percent today.
TIME TO END MEXICO'S LOOTING?
"As alarming as those numbers are, it's gotten a whole lot worse.
It's the reason why in both 2013 and 2015 I introduced legislation, the
"Remittance Status Verification Act," to fix this. I call this the
"Wire Act" for short."
"My bill would require a fee on remittances for customers who
wire money to another country but cannot prove that they are in the
United States legally. The fee would be used to enhance border security.
Basically, we would be able to dramatically improve border security
while making illegal immigrants pay for it." " We also have evidence that many of those illegals who are remitting
money are more likely to be illegal immigrant households receiving
Social Security, health care benefits, unemployment insurance and/or
stimulus money. Is it really fair for those individuals to live off our
tax dollars but send untaxed, under-the-table money abroad?" ON TOP OF THESE FIGURES ADD THE TENS OF BILLIONS HANDED TO INVADING MEXICANS IN THE FORM OF WELFARE. ON THE STATE LEVEL ALONE, MEXIFORNIA HANDS LA RAZA $30 BILLION IN SOCIAL SERVICES. THE COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES CHIPS IN ANOTHER BILLION FOR THE LA RAZA ANCHOR BABY BREEDING FOR GRINGO WELFARE PROGRAM. NOW..... HOW MUCH DOES THE MEX DRUG CARTELS HAUL BACK? SOME ESTIMATES PUT THE NUMBER AT $40 - $60 BILLION! BLOG: IT IS ESTIMATED THAT THE COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES HAS A MEXICAN TAX-FREE UNDERGROUND ECONOMY CALCULATED TO BE IN EXCESS OF $2 BILLION PER YEAR! There are the billions of taxpayer dollars used to subsidize illegal
immigrants' health care and education. There's the revenue we lose out
on when illegal immigrants don't pay income taxes. And there's a less
recognized pot of billions — the billions of dollars of earnings that
illegal immigrants wire out of the United States with no tax or penalty. more here: We need to crack down on illegal immigrants wiring money out of the U.S. : We need to crack down on illegal immigrants wiring money out of the U.S.
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