Tuesday, April 3, 2018

TEACHERS' STRIKE SPREADS - TENS OF THOUSANDS ON STRIKE IN OKLAHOMA AND KENTUCKY - Is this the start of America's Revolution Against the Special Interests and Corrupt Democrat Party?

THE SECOND AMERICAN REVOLUTION IS AT HAND!

"Teachers, moreover, confront every day the 

consequences of the social crisis in America, 

from poverty and unemployment to drug 

addition and homelessness."

THEY DESTROYED THE AMERICAN MIDDLE CLASS, AMERICA’S BORDERS AND ENDLESSLY ASSAULTED THE AMERICAN WORKER IN THEIR EFFORTS TO FINISH OFF THE GOP… And they got filthy rich doing it!



“The Democrats had abandoned their working class base to chase what they pretended was a racial group when what they were actually chasing was the momentum of unlimited migration”.  DANIEL GREENFIELD / FRONT PAGE MAGAZINE 


Teachers’ rebellion spreads as tens of thousands strike in Oklahoma and Kentucky

3 April 2018
The teachers’ revolt in the United States entered a new stage on Monday as tens of thousands of teachers, students and working-class supporters took part in massive protests in Oklahoma and Kentucky. The growing wave of unrest among educators requires not only the attention and support of all workers, but their active participation.
The strike by 30,000 teachers in Oklahoma follows their rejection of a one-time pay increase of $6,000 and a miserly increase in school funding, financed largely through regressive taxes, passed by the state legislature on Thursday. The thousands of teachers protesting in Kentucky denounced the passage of a bill last week slashing pensions.
The walkout in Oklahoma, originally announced as a one-day strike, will continue today. School districts throughout the state have announced that they will remain closed, with many reporting that the closures will continue at least through Wednesday. While the unions are doing everything they can to get teachers back to work, there is a powerful sentiment for the extension and expansion of the strike.
The developments in Oklahoma and Kentucky are the latest expression of a resurgence of class struggle in the United States and around the world. They follow by less than a month the nine-day strike by teachers in West Virginia and the one-day strike by teachers in Jersey City, New Jersey. On March 28, thousands of teachers rallied in Phoenix, Arizona to demand a 20 percent pay increase and more funding for public schools.
The teachers’ strikes also follow the demonstrations of hundreds of thousands of student youth last weekend.
Beyond the borders of the United States, there have been strikes and protests in recent weeks by educators in Greece, Brazil, Argentina, Mexico, the UK, Canada, Kenya and many other countries. Train drivers in France began a series of walkouts against right-wing labor reforms yesterday, following strikes by metalworkers in Germany and Turkey and uprisings in Iran, Tunisia and Morocco earlier this year.
The growth of class conflict is blowing apart the entire framework of official bourgeois politics and its institutions. It shatters the pretenses of right-wing, middle-class identity politics and the claim, relentlessly promoted by the New York Times and other media outlets, that the essential divisions within the United States revolve around race and gender, not class.
The workers in Oklahoma, Kentucky, West Virginia and Arizona are all in so-called “red states,” that is, those sections of the country that former Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton recently castigated as “backward-looking” because they voted for Trump in the 2016 election. The middle-class organizations that orbit the Democratic Party have repeatedly declared that the workers in these states, the majority of whom are white, are reactionary and racist.
The demands advanced by teachers in these states are not defined or limited by geography, race or occupation. It is not surprising that teachers are at the forefront of the developing class battles, since education funding has been devastated by decades of budget cuts. Teachers, moreover, confront every day the consequences of the social crisis in America, from poverty and unemployment to drug addition and homelessness.
The assault on teachers and public education is one aspect of a social counterrevolution that has targeted every section of the working class. While a tiny layer of corporate oligarchs has amassed unimaginable levels of wealth, the majority of the population faces low wages, soaring health care costs and the destruction of the social infrastructure.
When teachers in Oklahoma speak of having to take on multiple jobs, being unable to pay off thousands of dollars in student loans, and seeing whatever meager pay increases they receive eaten up by rising health care co-pays and deductibles, they give voice to the universal experience of all workers.
The developing class struggle has brought workers into direct conflict with the anti-working class, corporatist organizations—the trade unions—that for decades have worked to suppress opposition to job and wage cuts and social inequality. As in West Virginia, the strikes in Oklahoma and Kentucky are being organized by rank-and-file workers in opposition to the unions and the wealthy, upper-middle-class executives who control them.
In the aftermath of the West Virginia strike, American Federation of Teachers (AFT) President Randi Weingarten (annual income $500,000) repeated the recent statement of union lawyers before the Supreme Court in the case of Janus vs. AFSCME that “union security is the tradeoff for no strikes.” The weakening of the unions, she warned the ruling class, would “lead to more activism and political action.” Here one has the reality—that the unions exist not to organize the struggle of workers but to suppress it—coming from the horse’s mouth.
The bourgeois media was filled Monday with worried commentary about the implications of workers breaking free of the stranglehold of the unions. The New York Times commented that the strikes were “organized by ordinary teachers on Facebook” and had caught the “labor unions flat-footed.” Bloomberg wrote that the strikes “are spreading fast across the country, with no clear endgame in sight,” and that the unions are in a “tough spot” because teachers “have proven they’re not only willing to go ‘wildcat,’ but that they may keep doing so even if the union cuts a deal.”
The concern of the ruling class is that the institutions on which they have relied for decades have lost all credibility. Their fears are compounded by the widespread use of the Internet and social media, which has enabled workers to organize and mobilize independently and in defiance of the union bureaucracy.
The struggles of workers are bringing them into direct conflict with the Democratic and Republican parties and the entire state apparatus. As the Trump administration wages an all-out assault on the working class, the Democrats, in alliance with the intelligence agencies, center their criticisms of Trump on demands that he carry out a more aggressive war policy in the Middle East and against Russia.
The claim that Russia is “sowing divisions” in the United States is being used to justify a regime of Internet censorship aimed at shutting down precisely those mechanisms the workers are employing to organize and coordinate opposition to big business and the government.
While the ruling class has been fighting out its internal conflict over foreign policy, an entirely different movement has been building up from below and has now erupted to the surface of American political life. The alarm of the ruling class over the consequences was registered Monday in the sell-off on Wall Street, propelled by fears of inflation—that is, rising wages.
The many different forms of social protest are acquiring an ever more distinct working-class identity and anticapitalist orientation. The objective logic of these struggles is in the direction of a general strike, unifying opposition to social inequality, cuts in wages, health care and pensions, police violence, and the myriad forms of social crisis in the United States and internationally.
To carry out this fight, workers require new organizations, independent of the pro-capitalist and corporatist syndicates that call themselves unions. It is necessary to form rank-and-file committees not only among teachers, but among all sections of the working class: autoworkers laboring under contracts rammed through by union officials on the company take; Amazon and other service workers working for poverty-level wages; telecommunications workers confronting rising health care costs; student youth facing a future of debt, unemployment and war. All workers have the same interests and the same class enemies.
The struggle cannot be limited to the United States. As the Socialist Equality Party anticipated, the development of the class struggle is emerging as an international movement, undermining the poisonous influence of nationalism and inspiring a deeply felt sense of international class solidarity. Workers all over the world are inspired by the events in Oklahoma and Kentucky, as they were by the strike in West Virginia.
The establishment of independent organizations of working-class struggle must be connected to the development of a socialist political leadership in the working class. The objective logic of the battles into which workers are entering must be made conscious. In opposition to the ruling class agenda of war, reaction and dictatorship, the working class must advance its own solution to the crisis confronting mankind: a massive redistribution of wealth, the expropriation of the major corporations and banks, and the socialist reorganization of economic life.
Joseph Kishore


After 15,000 march on capitol, Oklahoma 

teachers’ strike enters second day


By Jerry White
3 April 2018
Some 15,000 Oklahoma teachers, support staff, students and public employees marched and rallied at the state capitol in Oklahoma City on Monday, the first day of a statewide strike by as many as 40,000 teachers in the southwestern US state. The walkout—the first in Oklahoma since a four-day strike in 1990—is part of a growing rebellion of educators across the United States in the aftermath of the nine-day strike by West Virginia teachers.
The same day teachers were striking and protesting in Oklahoma, thousands of Kentucky teachers, including many who had taken part in wildcat sickouts, descended on the capitol in Frankfort to oppose the slashing of teacher pension benefits. Protests and demands for a statewide strike are also taking place in Arizona, where Republican Governor Douglas Ducey has rejected teacher demands for a 20 percent raise. On Monday, Ducey was booed loudly by the crowd after he was introduced at the opening day ceremony for the Cincinnati Reds baseball team.
As in other states, the Oklahoma strike is driven by rank-and-file teachers, not the unions, which have accepted more than a decade of bipartisan funding cuts that have deeply eroded teachers’ living standards and classroom conditions.
Although the Oklahoma Education Association (OEA) and the Oklahoma City American Federation of Teachers (AFT) had sought to block a strike, and then limit it to one day, the strike is continuing. As of this writing, at least two dozen school districts, including the four largest—Oklahoma City, Tulsa, Norman and Broken Arrow—have already announced they will be closed due to the teacher walkout at least through Tuesday, with many school boards deciding on a day-by-day basis whether or not to open schools.
Educators in Oklahoma are among the lowest-paid in the United States. Many work extra jobs to pay off student loans and other living expenses. Teacher aides, cafeteria workers, school bus drivers and other paraprofessionals are even more poorly paid.
Kelly, a special education aide at Deer Creek Middle School in Oklahoma City, told the World Socialist Web Site that she only makes $1,000 a month and can spend no more than $50 a week on food. Her co-worker, Kate, said, “I got more money tending hogs when I worked at a meatpacking plant than I do looking after children in the public schools.”
Teachers are not only fighting for completely justifiable pay raises, but to reverse more than a decade of relentless budget cutting by Democrats and Republicans that have undercut public education for the state’s 700,000 students. Oklahoma is currently 48th in per pupil spending, with 20 percent of the school districts cutting back to a four-day schedule. Teachers and students constantly complain of shortages of textbooks and other supplies, overcrowded classrooms and deteriorating buildings.
Like teachers around the country, Oklahoma educators spend a good portion of their meager paychecks helping students pay for lunches, field trips and supplies.
A decade of permanent austerity measures carried out by Republican Governor Mary Fallin and her Democratic predecessor, Brad Henry, coincided with huge tax cuts to the oil and gas industry, which dominate the state’s economy. Underscoring the real relationship of the state legislature to big business, the capitol building actually sits on top of the Oklahoma City Oil Field. Less than one hundred yards from the building are operating oilrigs with the names of Phillips 66 and other oil companies.
Thousands of teachers and their supporters formed a picket line around the capitol building, carrying homemade signs demanding that the state legislature fund public education. They denounced last week’s pay raise and funding bill, passed by the state legislature and signed by Fallin, which provides a one-time average wage increase of $6,000, funded primarily by regressive taxes on gasoline and diesel fuel, cigarettes and gaming.
The unions had joined the official chorus, calling it a “historic” pay raise and funding deal, only to quickly change their tune when it became clear teachers were not willing to accept this sham. “A day late and a dollar short,” one teacher’s sign read on Monday, with another reading, “It’s too little, too late.” Other signs included, “My class size 40-45” and “When we value our teachers, we value our children.”
The strong turnout of students was indicative of the popular support for striking educators, despite efforts by the media to slander teachers as “selfish” and indifferent to the plight of their students. One student carried a sign saying, “You can’t support students without supporting teachers.” A separate tent was set up for students to voice opposition to the budget cuts and support for their striking teachers.
While a few teachers and students spoke from the official platform, it was dominated by highly paid union executives with a long record of betraying teachers. This included the National Education Association President Lily Garcia (salary $348,732) and American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten ($492,563), along with Dale Lee, the president of the West Virginia Education Association (WVEA) and Alicia Priest, president of the Oklahoma Education Association (OEA).
Well aware that they could not simply shut down the strike, the union officials postured as champions of the struggle, which they had desperately sought to prevent from the start. They repeated the claim that the legislature had passed a “historic” pay raise and funding bill and only needed to be convinced to “do their job” to fully fund education.
Determined to prevent the Oklahoma strike from becoming the catalyst for a broader, national strike by teachers, the unions are seeking to wear down strikers by engaging them in fruitless lobbying directed at corporate-bribed politicians, while working with state Democrats to offer some kind of meaningless gesture to help wrap up the strike. The union functionaries promoted the lie that electing Democrats in the fall would reverse decades of budget-cutting, even though Democrats at every level of the government, including President Obama, have spearheaded the assault on teachers and public education.
OEA President Alicia Priest said, “We said we would walk, and here we are; and today is not the final day. If our legislature does not give us the deal we need for our kids, we’ll be back at 9 o’clock in the morning.” She praised last week’s revenue proposal, saying it represented the “largest investment in public education in state history,” but complained that the state Senate had removed the hotel-motel tax, leaving a $50 million funding hole.
“They must close the gap,” she said, advocating the restoration of yet another regressive tax. Priest went on to acknowledge that this “historic” proposal would do nothing to address the 11 years of continuous funding cuts and would amount to no more than the cost of a textbook for each student.
She concluded by saying that teachers were “better organized because of your activism,” failing to note that teachers’ activism had erupted in opposition to the unions. “We must keep that movement going," she declared. "When we get the funding that we need in the next few days, let’s shift our energy to the elections this summer and fall. We must walk, knock on doors, we must call, we must postcard, and some of you may want to run yourself. We have to keep engaged every day. This is our movement. Make sure you go inside to talk to your legislators.”
The comments of pre-K teacher Whitney Sanders sounded like a refutation of the unions. She read a poem recounting the daily indignities teachers confront when school authorities and, by extension, union officials tell them to accept “one more” budget cut, student in an already overcrowded classroom, assignment, new curriculum to study and standardized test to administer. “The votes are in and it’s an education funding cut for another year and another broken promise. But they promise it’s only ‘one more cut’ and the budgets will balance, the revenue will spike and the greedy politicians will be voted out with new ones voted in. In a year, things will be different, they say, so we grin and bear it.”
Sanders concluded, “We’ve reached a point where our classrooms are busting at the seams and our funding is nonexistent. We’ve taken the last we can endure, and now we’re walking out and standing up to say, ‘No More.’”


“This needs to go to all 50 states”

Oklahoma teachers call for broadening of strike

By our reporters
3 April 2018
Reporters spoke to striking teachers, teachers’ assistants and other public employees who attended yesterday’s demonstration of more than 15,000 people in Oklahoma City to demand wage raises and increases to school funding.
The strike was driven by rank-and-file teachers, largely through social media. While the two unions covering Oklahoma teachers, the Oklahoma Education Association (OEA) and the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), were forced to officially support the rally, many workers expressed deep skepticism in the unions. In contrast, there was widespread support for expanding the strike and linking up with teachers across the country, including in Kentucky and Arizona.
Bonnie has been teaching early childhood education for more than 30 years. Like many other teachers, she followed the West Virginia teachers’ strike on Facebook when the teachers rebelled against the unions’ efforts to shut down the strike.
“In West Virginia they stayed out when the union said to go back,” she noted. The West Virginia teachers were “the catalyst of what we’re doing here, and we’re the catalyst for what is happening in Arizona and Kentucky. And we’re going to see this across the nation. Finally, education is going to be brought to the forefront of this country. It is not just a state thing. We need to rise up as a nation of teachers.”
As in West Virginia, Bonnie noted, “our legislators think that we’re going away. I think the union does too! The OEA and the AFT are not encouraging us to stay out.”
A WSWS reporter noted that the OEA had initially labeled as “historic” last week’s agreement, which provides an insulting $6,000 pay increase—approximately half what teachers demanded—and wholly inadequate school funding increases. Bonnie replied: “It shouldn’t be ‘historic!’” She added that “the AFT said to go out on Monday and say ‘Thank you!’ There is revenue in this state that they can use to fund education.”
Val is a physical education teacher in Oklahoma City. “They spend $205 million for a basketball player, and I can’t get a budget to buy a basketball,” she said. “Something’s not right in our society.”
Val explained that the strike in West Virginia had “kickstarted this.” Now Kentucky teachers are on strike “because the legislature put in a sewerage bill to lower their retirement benefits. A sewer bill! Is that all we’re worth?”
“They’re doing this so that public schools fail so private schools can come make a profit and destroy public education,” she added. “That’s where it’s headed if we don’t stand up,” Val explained. “It needs to go to all 50 states.”
Noting that the union had worked to sell out the strike by West Virginia teachers, Val said, “I don’t believe in what the union did. My father was a union man but that was back when the unions worked for the people. I believe in unions because I think we need something to fight for us. But the unions need to remember they fight for us and not for the legislature.”
Tracy is a longtime teacher and veteran of the last teachers’ strike in Oklahoma in 1990. “It’s about time that teachers in Oklahoma and the rest of the country are standing up,” she said. “For too long we’ve been sheep and didn’t want to upset the apple cart. We didn’t want to walk out of the classrooms and hurt the kids. But [the legislature] has been cutting year after year—and they’re hurting the kids. At this point you just can’t cut me anymore.”
The result of these cuts, Tracy explained, was that she now purchases basic necessities for her children, including their field trips and “more lunches for the kids than my own. I have taken clothes and shoes out of my closet, day after day, year after year.”
Tracy rejected the perspective advocated by the unions, that teachers must seek to convince the bought-and-paid for Democratic and Republican legislators that they should fund public education. “It’s not that the legislators don’t know what we go through,” she said. “A lot of them went to public schools and know what we do. It’s just that they don’t care. They don’t have to struggle to keep their lights on. They don’t have paychecks cleaned out by medical costs.”
She explained how teachers had used social media to organize the strike outside and independently of the unions. “This movement was started by rank-and-file teachers in the trenches, not by the union officials. We use social media because the media only tells us what they want us to know.
“Teachers are an educated community and we want substance. The money is there and we know it. But for the politicians it is all a shell game, a bait-and-switch operation. I’m tired of my kids not getting what they deserve and need.”
Kirsten is a second-year teacher. She came to the rally with her mother, Terry, who taught for 35 years before retiring, but recently returned to work as an assistant teacher because, as she said, “you can’t live on a teacher’s retirement.”
Kirsten said the pay raise offer for teachers would not resolve the ongoing issue of school underfunding. “What has been done so far is not a solution. The support staff need funding. The children need funding. Thank you for the pay raise? No.”
The government did not want to fund education “because of oil, and because they’re building more jails,” she said. “If they were investing in education they wouldn’t have to build more jails. It would solve a lot of the issues. But that’s just the first step. We need to start allocating money where it belongs. In education, also in food banks.”
She explained that many of her children have their only meal of the day while at school. “I don’t know where some of them will be eating when they’re not at school and it scares me,” she said. “I’m not just a teacher for them, I’m mom, I’m dad, I’m nurse. I wear so many hats and I’m not expendable.”
Laura, Kelly and Kate work at Dear Creek Middle School, located in Edmond, a suburb of Oklahoma City.
Kelly carried a sign saying, “No worries, I like living in poverty.” She said that in order to survive on her $250 weekly wage as a teacher’s assistant, “you have to be very organized with your money. I eat on $50 a week. I live in low-income housing. I’m supporting myself and make $1,000 a month, and that includes my coaching stipend.”
Kate is a teacher’s assistant. She noted that during the teachers’ strike in West Virginia, the union had told teachers to “go back to school!” She commented, “The union leaders aren’t in there teaching the classes. They’re not there for the kids. They’re there for themselves, to draw a paycheck for themselves, and not for the teachers or the kids.”
“I’m not with a union,” she said. “I’m out here for myself and our teachers. We deserve something. It’s not for the rich. My parents were teachers and I know how the struggle is. Both of them had to have a job to get us through college, and they had summer jobs to get us there.”
Terri is a public employee and came to the rally to support her three sisters, all of whom are public school teachers. She was opposed to the fact that the inadequate pay raise rejected by teachers is itself to be funded through regressive taxes that will hit the working class. This reactionary measure was proposed and supported by the OEA.
“Everything that I understand about the taxes that they intend to use to fund the raises, they’re not going to offend anybody but the working class. They’re putting more on cigarettes. They’re putting more on gas. They’re not taxing more on gas by the barrel, where the companies would pay for it! They’re taxing us more at the pump, when we fill up our cars."
A reporter noted that union officials were advocating that teachers go and speak to legislators. “The unfortunate part is that these people [the legislators] have no intention of helping. They will make you believe they finally understand, that they are going to help you. But they’ll keep doing the same thing. We sometimes think the politicians are here to help us, but they’re really here for their own selfish ambitions.”





STUDENTS FIGHT BACK THE GREEDY SPECIAL INTERESTS!

"Included are calls for adequate housing for students below the age of 21, an immediate end to unsubstantiated tuition hikes, increased resources to fight food insecurity and gentrification in the neighborhoods surrounding the campus and the immediate disarming of Howard University police officers."


OBAMA’S CRONY BANKSTERISM destroyed a 11 TRILLION DOLLARS in home equity… and they’re still plundering us!



Barack Obama created more debt for the middle class than any president in US



history, and also had the only huge QE programs: $4.2 Trillion.


OXFAM reported that during Obama’s terms, 95% of the wealth created went to
the top 1% of the world’s wealthy. 

Howard University students occupy campus building in Washington, D.C.

By Nick Barrickman
2 April 2018
The student occupation of Howard University’s Mordecai Wyatt Administration Building entered its fifth day today. Students affiliated with the protest group HUResist have been occupying the administration building since it was revealed that campus employees had inappropriately received college grants and tuition waivers over a nine year period from 2007 to 2016, which in some cases exceeded the cost of tuition at the historically black university.
“We’ve taken over every floor… We’ll be here as long as it takes to get our demands met,” Howard student Juan Demëtrixx announced at a press conference held by the campus activist group on Friday. Local press outlets estimated that as many as 400 students occupied the building’s central lobby on Friday evening.
Students have released a list of demands which must be met before they will end the occupation. Included are calls for adequate housing for students below the age of 21, an immediate end to unsubstantiated tuition hikes, increased resources to fight food insecurity and gentrification in the neighborhoods surrounding the campus and the immediate disarming of Howard University police officers.
Students also call for the resignation of Howard president Wayne A.J. Frederick and the executive committee of the school’s Board of Trustees, which they accuse of “expediting the deterioration of our beloved university.”
Reflecting the political confusion sown for years in academia, student demands also call for measures to “actively fight rape culture on campus” and are couched in the terms of middle class identity and racial politics.
According to the students, Howard University administrators have sold off a number of student dorm buildings to private real estate developers in the past several years, leaving students at a disadvantage in finding affordable housing in rapidly gentrifying neighborhoods in Northeast Washington, D.C.
The students claim they were not informed of a March 30 deposit deadline until a day before down payments were due, leaving many unable to fulfill the requirement for students under age 21 of obtaining on-site housing.
In addition, their document notes that executive administrators of the university have seen substantial bonuses even as the price of tuition has nearly doubled. The students call for a publicly accessible database showing the salaries of the school’s lead administrators, many of whom occupy influential positions in big business and finance in addition to their posts at the university.
Howard University administrators have shown no inclination of giving in to the students’ demands. In a statement from the Howard Board of Trustees chairman Stacey J. Mobley, a retired general counsel for the DuPont chemical company, the university responded to the list of demands by declaring them to be “inaccurate,” noting a number of extenuating circumstances such as winter damages limiting the number of available rooms on campus.
A meeting between students and two board members on Friday ended without resolution, as students claimed that the representatives had failed to even acquaint themselves with their full list of demands. Similarly, a Saturday meeting with nine members of the board did not include university president Frederick, an executive committee member.
Founded in 1867 in the aftermath of the American Civil War, Howard University is one of the United States’ oldest and most prestigious historically black private universities. The university has produced a significant number of noted intellectuals, jurists, politicians and entertainers.
The Howard student occupation comes amid a rising wave of militancy among students and workers. Less than a week prior to the campus occupation, nearly one million students and young people converged on Washington, D.C.’s streets and across the US to protest the unending wave of mass shootings in schools.
The occupation also occurs alongside a growing radicalization of teachers in defense of public education, including planned walkouts and sickouts in Kentucky and Arizona, as well as strikes in New Jersey and West Virginia a month ago. Today, thousands of teachers in the state of Oklahoma a striking for increased wages and better education funding with a mass rally at the state capitol in Oklahoma City.

AMERICA’S ROAD TO REVOLUTION:
THE BANKSTER REGIME WILL BE TOPPLED AND MEXICO PUSHED OUT OF AMERICA’S OPEN BORDERS!


 "The report was drafted in conjunction with a survey conducted among nearly 1,000 banking and business executives, government officials and academics, which found that 93 percent of them feared a worsening of confrontations between the major powers in 2018. Fully 79 percent foresaw a heightened threat of a major “state-on-state” military conflict."

AMERICAN POVERTY and the LA RAZA MEXICAN 

WELFARE STATE on AMERICA’S BACKS.


"Congress must prioritize four repairs for the immigration system before contemplating any DACA-style amnesty negotiation, said Brat: 1. Ending chain migration and the visa lottery; 2. Mandating employer use of E-Verify; 3. Construction of a southern border wall; and 4. Interior enforcement of immigration law." REP. DAVE BRAT


THE ROAD TO REVOLUTION II WILL IS PAVED BY THE LOOTING BILLIONAIRE CLASS AND WILL TRAMPLE THE POLS THAT GROVEL AT THEIR FEET FOR BRIBES!

"Today, each of the top 5 billionaires owns as much as 750 million people, more than the total population of Latin America and double the population of the US."

PHONY “POPULIST” BERNIE SANDERS

For all of his talk about leading “political revolution” against

the “billionaire class,” Sanders backed Clinton, a shill of Wall Street and

the Pentagon, who has nothing but contempt for the tens of millions

of workers devastated by the 2008 financial crash and Obama’s pro-

corporate policies.





Democratic Activist: Keep Border Open Until Trump OKs Amnesty



Democrats should hold the border open for Central American migrants until President Donald Trump agrees to a national amnesty for illegals, says Sen. Chuck Schumer’s former top immigration aide.

The open borders plan came from Leon Fresco, an immigration activist now working in D.C. for foreign clients, including tens of thousands of Indian tech-workers. In 2013, Fresco was Schumer’s Democrats’ chief immigration lawyer as they wrote up the disastrous “Gang of Eight” amnesty bill which prompted the public to elect pro-American Donald Trump in 2016. Fresco Tweeted April 1:
Any admin changes for border surge will be blocked by Courts, and Congress will not enact a 1-sided solution on enforcement … Congress will not pass enforcement-only bill. Such efforts will be tried and will fail. At that point, CIR-type [Comprehensive Immigration Reform] bill possible.
Fresco made his claim after Trump used Twitter to slam the Mexican government for refusing to stop a march of 1,000-plus central America migrants towards Texas, and to slam the Democratic Party for refusing to close the legal loopholes — including “catch and release” — which allowed at least 400,000 Central Americans migrants into the United States during former President Barack Obama’s eight years in office.
Until Sunday, Trump had offered to approve an amnesty for at least 1.8 million illegals in exchange for closing those loopholes, ending the visa lottery, winding down chain migration and building the border wall. Schumer’s Democratic Senators — and at least ten business-first Republicans — rejected that compromise in a February 15 Senate vote.
Trump Tweeted Sunday:
Border Patrol Agents are not allowed to properly do their job at the Border because of ridiculous liberal (Democrat) laws like Catch & Release. Getting more dangerous. “Caravans” coming. Republicans must go to Nuclear Option to pass tough laws NOW. NO MORE DACA DEAL!
Fresco responded via Twitter by saying the courts will use the existing laws to keep the border topen for the migrants, and Democrats will block any upgraded border laws until Trump agrees to “Comprehensive Immigration Reform,” which is a Democratic euphemism for a massive amnesty.
“What POTUS will find after today’s tweets is that any admin changes for border surge will be blocked by Courts, and Congress will not enact a 1-sided solution on enforcement. Even though POTUS currently says “no deal,” the chances for [an amnesty] deal now higher.
If border surge happens this spring, POTUS has limited options. Courts blocked everything Obama did to stop 2014 surge. POTUS needs Congress [to get around courts]. But Congress will not pass enforcement-only bill. Such efforts will be tried and will fail. At that point, CIR-type [Comprehensive Immigration Reform] bill possible.
and by CIR-type bill, I am just saying that DACA alone for what is needed on the border will likely not be supported by Dems. That type of trade will only work in something larger (and that something larger would, of course, need to include backlog relief). All will depend on..
…Whether POTUS wants to pass laws to provide more authority to address illegal immigration or whether he thinks he can survive a border surge by simply blaming Dems. We will all find out together.
Fresco’s threat comes as a group of more than 1,000 Central Americans, mostly young men, is collectively marching through Mexico to ask for asylum at the Texas border. They are expected to arrive late March, unless the Mexican government sees an incentive to stop them.










Beautiful: Immigration agents abandoned their posts as 1,500 people on Refugee Caravan, mainly from Honduras, crossed into Mexico from Guatemala yesterday with goal to reach US (video via @pueblosf)

Fresco’s threats rest on the courts’ continued backing for the claim that current laws require the border patrol to allow almost anyone into the country to apply for legal asylum if they claim to have a “credible fear” of persecution or torture.
Obama’s interpretation of the law laid out a welcome mat for migrants, especially because his policy also allowed migrants into freely enter the United States — and get work permits — once the number of admittees exceeds the total number of detention-beds funded by Congress. In fact, Obama let so many migrants into the United States that he backlogged the asylum courts, so giving the migrants several years to find valid legal arguments to stay in the United States.
Similarly, the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2008 was interpreted by Obama’s deputies to require that people who claim to be children should also be allowed into the United States. That loophole was used by many young Central American men — and by many MS-13 gang members to get into the United States.
The Democrats’ opposition to a border-loophole reform was underlined on January 16 by Democratic Sen. Dick Durbin, who suggested to DHS chief Kirstjen Nielsen that Trump’s legal reforms could kill many innocent young women:
One of the things on your must-have list, which you passed out on Tuesday and brought to us again today in a different form, relates to asylum protection. and you use the example of a child at the border of being coached, to use the words “credible fear” and that triggers a certain reaction. But I would like to call your attention to something that I hope can add another perspective. It’s an article entitled “When Deportation Is a Death Sentence,” written by Sara Stillman, published in the New Yorker. I want you to read it. I hope you’ll read it. It talks about what happens when the agents who are involved in this don’t ask the right question, don’t hear the answer, and send many women back to their death.
Fresco’s hard-nosed tactics spotlight the Democrats’ determination to advance their political goals via immigration, despite the huge impact on blue-collar Americans.
For example, on February 15, Democrats back a proposal by main GOP Sen. Susan Collins that would have established a double-amnesty — a “prioritization amnesty” for roughly 8 million illegals working for Americans companies, and a formal amnesty for at least 1.8 million younger illegals — in exchange for creating a fund of $25 billion for wall construction. However, that fund was surrounded by bureaucratic and legal barriers, and would not have fixed any of the legal loopholes used by migrants to walk through the wall.
Four million Americans turn 18 each year and begin looking for good jobs in the free market.
But the federal government inflates the supply of new labor by annually accepting roughly 1.1 million new legal immigrants, by providing work-permits to roughly 3 million resident foreigners, and by doing little to block the employment of roughly 8 million illegal immigrants.
The Washington-imposed economic policy of economic growth via mass-immigration floods the market with foreign laborspikes profits and Wall Street values by cutting salaries for manual and skilled labor offered by blue-collar and white-collar employees. It also drives up real estate priceswidens wealth-gaps, reduces high-tech investment, increases state and local tax burdens, hurts kids’ schools and college education, pushes Americans away from high-tech careers, and sidelines at least 5 million marginalized Americans and their families, including many who are now struggling with opioid addictions.

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