DIANNE FEINSTEIN IS ONE OF THE MOST CORRUPT AND SELF-SERVING POLITICIANS IN AMERICAN HISTORY.
SHE HAS AMASSED A VAST FORTUNE OFF DEALS SHE SUCKED WHILE IN CONGRESS AND SHE ANS BARBARA "BRIBES" BOXER VOTED ON.
FEINSTEIN IS THE GREATEST WAR PROFITEER IN U.S. HISTORY AND SERVANT OF BIG BANKSTERS and the LA RAZA FASCIST PARTY
California Democratic Party leadership snubs Feinstein in reelection bid
By Dan Conway
18 July 2018
The California Democratic Party leadership delivered a public snub to the reelection campaign of Senator Dianne Feinstein last weekend by endorsing her opponent, State Senator Kevin de Leon. The decision by the Democratic state central committee has no actual effect—Feinstein and de Leon, both Democrats, placed first and second in the June 5 “jungle primary” and therefore will be the sole candidates appearing on the November ballot.
Nor is the action likely to prove much of an obstacle to Feinstein’s reelection. The five-term US senator won by far the most votes on June 5, 44.2 percent to de Leon’s 11.5 percent, and in November is expected to win most votes cast by Republican voters as well, since there is no Republican candidate on the ballot and she is considered the more conservative of the two Democrats.
Feinstein was previously rebuffed by the state Democratic convention in February, where 54 percent of the delegates backed de Leon, just short of the 60 percent margin that would have brought him the official Democratic endorsement before the June 5 primary. The state central committee vote was far more lopsided, 217 out of 333 backing de Leon. Feinstein received only 7 percent of the executive committee vote.
The action appears to be an effort to distance the Democratic Party from the stench of Feinstein’s right-wing record, particularly questions of national security and democratic rights, and put on a “left” face in the run-up to the November 6 election.
In addition, in the cynical electoral calculations of the Democratic leadership, putting the party’s seal of approval on a prominent Hispanic candidate is seen as a means of boosting turnout among Hispanic voters, to the benefit of Democratic candidates in several close contests for the House of Representatives. The national leadership of the Democratic Party has targeted at least 7 Republican-held seats in California as part of the effort to gain 24 seats nationally and thus a majority in the House.
Democratic state vice-chair Daraka Lamimore-Hall spelled out these considerations, issuing a statement hailing the endorsement of de Leon. “Kevin de Leon represents the future of the Democratic Party—a solidly progressive legislator who can see things like Medicare for all and moving forward on climate justice are the things that really energize our base in the long run,” she said.
This is the first time in decades that the California Democratic Party has refused to endorse an incumbent in the general election. It is also the second time that Feinstein herself has been snubbed by the party apparatus. The first was in 1990 during her unsuccessful run for governor, when she was deemed unacceptable due to her open support for the death penalty.
Appearing on CNN on Sunday, de Leon celebrated his latest endorsement. “Earning the endorsement of so many leaders and activists of the California Democratic Party isn’t just an honor and a privilege,” he gushed. “Today’s vote is a clear-eyed rejection of politics as usual. Now is not a time for complacency or someone to plead patience and hope that perhaps with fingers crossed that Donald Trump could learn and become a good President in the future.”
De Leon is referring to openly conciliatory remarks made by Feinstein towards Trump. In an infamous question-and-answer held by the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco in April 2017, Feinstein encouraged the audience to have patience with Trump and have hope that he would “learn and change.”
Feinstein, as the ranking Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee, has also recently upset liberal Democrats with her promise to carefully vet rather than oppose or block the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh, Trump’s arch-reactionary pick for Supreme Court justice.
A fixture in the US Senate since 1992, prominent in California Democratic Party politics for five decades, and married to immensely wealthy real estate investor Richard Blum, Feinstein is still the heavy favorite in November. She has a campaign war chest of $7 million, compared to less than $1 million for de Leon. In a June U.S.C Dornsife/Los Angeles Times poll, Feinstein led de Leon by 36 percent to 18 percent among registered voters.
Perhaps Feinstein’s greatest advantage, however, is de Leon’s own identification with the big business politics of the Democratic Party. He is himself part of the political establishment, having risen to a leadership position in the State Senate before being term-limited out of office. His candidacy was widely described in the media as an effort to put himself in the line of succession to Feinstein when the 85-year-old senator eventually steps down, or to keep his name in front of voters for some other statewide office in the future.
The Socialist Equality Party candidate for US Senate, David Moore, told the World Socialist Web Site that there was no real difference between Feinstein and de Leon. “The action by the Democratic state committee is an attempt to pull the wool over the eyes of voters,” he said. “Feinstein’s record is so right-wing that the Democrats are worried it will hurt them in the fall campaign for the House of Representatives, but they are responsible for her 26-year tenure in the Senate, supporting imperialist wars and attacks on democratic rights.”
Moore received more than 24,000 votes in the June 5 primary, the most for any independent candidate on the ballot, and more than candidates nominated by the Peace and Freedom Party and Green Party. This vote was a significant indication of popular support for a socialist alternative to capitalist politics.
Unlike the New York Democratic primary campaign of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, de Leon did not have the backing of the Democratic Socialists of America or the Sanders wing of the Democrats in the June 5 primary. In fact, two pro-Sanders candidates were on the ballot against both him and Feinstein. After his runner-up finish, however, several trade unions that backed Sanders, such as the California Nurses Association, endorsed de Leon in the general election.
While de Leon certainly doesn’t have the ugly political track record of Feinstein, a long-time stalwart defender of US imperialism and its crimes, he is nonetheless a thoroughly conventional party figure whose career is bound up with years of austerity politics in Sacramento.
Serving as State Senate President pro tempore between 2014 and 2018, de Leon presided over the continued erosion of public education and the continued growth of private charter schools throughout the state. Local police in California, as throughout the US, regularly murder innocent civilians without consequence. The state has been ravaged by a series of fires, floods and other natural disasters that have devastated entire communities as a result of severe underfunding of disaster services and infrastructure.
Most recently, de Leon had nothing whatsoever to say about Governor Brown’s recent deployment of National Guard troops to the California/Mexico border to aid with Trump’s anti-immigrant crackdown.
With an extensive immigrant population and an increasingly restive working class, the state of California is a major center of popular opposition to Trump. Anti-Trump protests began with his 2016 election victory—he lost California by a huge margin, more than 4 million votes. The recent protests against the forcible separation of immigrant parents and their children have attracted thousands and in the major cities, tens of thousands.
The Democrats are not seeking to lead this opposition but rather to smother it, and so protect the capitalist system. This can be said equally of both the “traditional” and “left” wings of the Democratic Party. Exposing the class role of this party of big business is a crucial task for working people. Workers and youth must recognize that in both parties of big business, they are facing their greatest political enemies.
BLOG: COME TO MEXIFORNIA! HALF OF LOS ANGELES 15 MILLION ARE ILLEGALS!
This figure includes 2.4 million illegal aliens, although a recent study from Yale University suggests that the true number of aliens is at least double that. Modifying the initial figure implies that nearly one in three Californians is an immigrant. This is not to disparage California's immigrant population, but it is madness to deny that such a large influx of people has changed California's society and economy.
NANCY PELOSI and
the LA RAZA “The Race” Mexican Welfare State
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2018/06/nancy-pelosi-and-building-of-modern-la.html
“Do we really
need a House Speaker whose every action is calculated to enhance her own
financial interests, instead of focusing on how porous borders will affect the
security of everyday American citizens?”
One
in every eleven
persons born in Mexico has gone to the U.S. The National
Review reported that in
2014 $1.87 billion was spent on incarcerating illegal immigrant
criminals….Now add hundreds of billions for welfare and remittances! MICHAEL BARGO, Jr…… for the AMERICAN
THINKER.COM
California Dems Endorse Kevin De Léon for Senate on ‘Abolish ICE’ Platform
The California Democratic Party endorsed State Sen. Kevin de Léon (D-Los Angeles) over incumbent U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) on Saturday, as the two Democrats prepare to face off in the November general election.
“The California Democratic Party’s Executive Board voted Saturday night to endorse state Sen. Kevin de León for U.S. Senate over Sen. Dianne Feinstein. De León received 65 percent of the vote, compared to just 7 percent for Feinstein. An endorsement required 60 percent,” Bay Area public radio station KQED reported.
De Léon holds far-left views on immigration, gun control, and other issues. Last year, he admitted that half of his family was in the country illegally. Earlier this year, he appointedan illegal alien to a statewide office. He is also the author of SB 54, one of the three surviving “sanctuary state” laws that the Trump administration challenged earlier this year.
On Friday night, the eve of the endorsement vote, De Léon hosted an “ABOLISH ICE CREAM SOCIAL” for members of the California Democratic Party executive board.
The U.S. Senate race in California is an all-Democrat affair, thanks to the state’s “top two” or “jungle” primary system, which pits every candidate from every party against each other on a common ballot. The top two vote-winners advance to the general election, regardless of party.
Feinstein, who is seeking a fifth full term at the age of 85, won 44.2% of the vote in the June 5th primary. De Léon only won 12.1%, but advanced to the general election thanks to the fact that the Republican vote was split among several candidates.
De Léon enjoys the support of the party’s “progressive” wing, and the backing of left-wing mega-donors such as Tom Steyer. Feinstein enjoys the endorsements of her party’s national leadership, including House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA).
Feinstein has led widely in the polls, but knew she would face an uphill battle for her party’s endorsement in the general election after members endorsement to endorse her in the primary. She therefore urged the party’s executive board members to remain neutral in the race.
The Associated Press reported that six Democrats running for U.S. House of Representatives seats in key districts targeted by the party urged members of the party’s state board to heed Feinstein’s plea for neutrality.
“A divisive party endorsement for U.S. Senate would hurt all down-ballot candidates and our ability to turn out Democrats we desperately need to vote in November,” they reportedly wrote.
The party’s endorsement is not likely to boost De Léon’s poll numbers in the short term, but it will help him raise money and could embolden other “progressives” to support him against the wishes of the national party establishment.
Joel B. Pollak is Senior Editor-at-Large at Breitbart News. He is a winner of the 2018 Robert Novak Journalism Alumni Fellowship. He is also the co-author of How Trump Won: The Inside Story of a Revolution, which is available from Regnery. Follow him on Twitter at @joelpollak.
KEVIN DeLEON SAYS MEXICANS ARE ABOVE THE LAW IN THE LA
RAZA SUPREMACY STATE of MEXIFORNIA
ILLEGAL IN CA LAW SCHOOL, AND HER ILLEGAL FAMILY SHOVE THEIR
MEX FLAG and the LAWS OF THIS STATE and COUNTRY UP AMERICA’S NOSES!
How much welfare, “free” education, “free” healthcare and tax
free mex underground economy have these Mexicans sucked in and yet they wave
their mex flags in our faces.
In a Facebook post in 2016, apparently celebrating her graduation from Santa Clara
University School of Law, Mateo declared, in Spanish: “[E]verything is
dedicated to Oaxaca, Mexico!! to that land that I miss so much.”
CRIMINALS WIN BIG IN CALIFORNIA
SANCTUARY RULING
Bush
appointee upholds protections for false-documented illegals.
July 9, 2018
“California beats Trump in sanctuary state battle’s first
round,” read
the page-one Sacramento Bee headline last
Friday. As readers discovered, it was actually a split decision and Trump
scored a big hit.
U.S. District Court Judge John Mendez, an
appointee of George W. Bush, ruled that the state could not prevent private
employers from denying federal immigration authorities from worksites. Mendez
found that AB 450 “which imposes monetary penalties on an employer solely
because that employer voluntarily consents to federal immigration enforcement’s
entry into nonpublic areas of their place of business or access to their
employment records impermissibly discriminates against those who choose to deal
with the federal government.”
On the other hand, Mendez upheld the law’s
requirement that companies inform workers within 72 hours of any federal
request to examine employment records. So in the style of Oakland mayor Libby Schaaf, employers can still provide lookout
services for false-documented illegals.
Mendez denied the federal request against
SB 54, the state’s sanctuary law. As author Kevin de Leon told reporters,
“today, a federal judge made clear what I’ve known all along, that SB 54, the
California Values Act is constitutional and does not conflict with federal law.
California is under no obligation to assist Trump tear apart families. We
cannot stop his mean-spirited immigration policies, but we don’t have to help
him, and we won’t.”
As Mendez ruled, “refusing to help is not
the same as impeding.” The federal judge also upheld AB 103, allowing the state
attorney general to inspect detention facilities. Current attorney general
Xavier Becerra, once on Hillary Clinton’s short list as a running mate
and a key player in the Democrats’ IT scandal, proclaimed, “The Constitution gives the
people of California, not the Trump Administration, the power to decide how we
will provide for our public safety and general welfare.”
Californians had a right to wonder about
the “safety” part. In this 2-1 split decision the biggest winners are criminal
illegals.
Senate Bill 54, the Bee report noted, “has
eliminated much of the discretionary power that local law enforcement
previously had to privately share information with federal immigration agents
about people who have been arrested and put in county jails.” So despite the
protestations of hereditary, recurring governor Jerry Brown, California is
protecting criminal illegals. With that in mind, legitimate citizens might look
ahead to the November election.
Brown, a three-time presidential loser,
recently signed off on a budget that spends tens of millions of dollars to help
illegals fight efforts to deport them. This includes some $45 million in legal
services steered to state colleges, and $10 million to help younger illegals,
including “undocumented migrants.” This outlandish spending is hardly the
state’s only way to privilege false-document illegals.
A 2015 law, “streamlines” the process of voter
registration and kicks in when someone gets a driver’s license at the DMV. As
of March, 2018, more than one million illegals have received licenses.
Secretary of state Alex Padilla touts “firewall” protections against ineligible
voters. This is the same official who refused to cooperate with a federal
probe of voter fraud, so legal residents and taxpayers have good reason to
wonder what he is hiding.
Senate boss Kevin de Leon, author of SB
54, is on record that half his family would be eligible for deportation under
Trump’s executive order because they used false Social Security cards and other
bogus identification. In his own case, as Christopher Cadelago of the Sacramento Bee explains, “The name on his birth certificate isn’t
Kevin de León.”
On his birth certificate and voter rolls,
“the 50-year-old politician is Kevin Alexander Leon,” born on December 10, 1966
at California Hospital on South Hope Street in Los Angeles. The birth
certificate “describes his father, Andres Leon, as a 40-year-old cook whose
race was Chinese and whose birthplace was Guatemala. De León’s mother, Carmen
Osorio, was also born in Guatemala, the document states.” As a child, “de León
spent time on both sides of the border,” but he “identifies strongly with
Mexican culture.”
Around Sacramento many found the story
incredible but it now takes on new significance. Senate boss de Leon
spearheaded the smackdown of Sen. Janet Nguyen’s free-speech rights and ordered the Republican, a
refugee from Communist Vietnam, carted off the senate floor. The senate boss
also appointed a false-documented Mexican national to a state
position,
a violation of Proposition 209, a voter-approved law that forbids racial and ethnic
preferences in state employment, education and contracting.
The public never voted on de Leon’s
sanctuary bill, but the author is now on the November ballot contending with fellow Democrat
Dianne Feinstein for a seat in the U.S. Senate. Republicans are again shut out of the
senate race because in California primaries the top two vote-getters advance
regardless of party.
As a State Department investigation
confirms, false-documented illegals have been voting in local,
state and federal elections for decades. Legitimate citizens and legal immigrants
now have a stronger case for ID checks on voters and candidates alike. Under
the Mendez ruling many more illegals, including criminals, will be seeking
protected, privileged status in California.
Skyrocketing crime rate in
California called 'good progress' after jails emptied
Here's a thought experiment: what happens if you release
criminals, a lot of them, from jail?
If you asked a liberal in California, he would tell you these
criminals were unjustly jailed in the first place (think racism on the part of
liberal inner-city judges, juries, and prosecutors) and that these unjustly
imprisoned would return to become productive parts of society.
Imagine their surprise to learn, then, that after reducing or
eliminating sentences for certain property crimes, the rate of property
crimes has
only increased!
California voters' decision to reduce penalties for drug and
property crimes in 2014 contributed to a jump in car burglaries, shoplifting
and other theft, researchers reported.
Larcenies increased about 9% by 2016, or about 135 more thefts per
100,000 residents than if tougher penalties had remained, according to results
of a study by the nonpartisan Public Policy Institute of California released
Tuesday.
Thefts from motor vehicles accounted for about three-quarters of
the increase. San Francisco alone recorded more than 30,000 auto
burglaries last year, which authorities largely blamed on gangs.
Proposition 47 lowered criminal sentences for drug possession,
theft, shoplifting, identity theft, receiving stolen property, writing bad
checks and check forgery from felonies that can carry prison terms to
misdemeanors that often bring minimal jail sentences.
Do you think liberals have learned anything from
this? Think again:
California still has historically low crime rates despite recent
changes in the criminal justice system aimed at reducing mass incarceration and
increasing rehabilitation and treatment programs, said Lenore Anderson, the
executive director of Californians for Safety and Justice and a leader in the
drive to pass Proposition 47.
"This report shows we are making progress," she said in
a statement calling for less spending on prisons and more on programs to help
reduce the cycle of crime.
The ballot measure led to the lowest arrest rate in state history
in 2015 as experts said police frequently ignored crimes that brought minimal
punishment.
They say a conservative is a liberal who has been
mugged. If that's true, then it must also be true in California that
a liberal is a liberal who has had his car or home broken
into. Indeed, people in San Francisco have had their cars broken
into so frequently that they think this is the "new normal," and
people talk laughingly to each other about how often their cars have been
broken into, as if it's a subject of conversation as common as the doings of
the local sports team.
Reality will never intrude on a liberal's ideology. An
illegal alien could shoot a woman dead on Fisherman's Wharf, and liberals would
still never see a problem with sanctuary cities. Homeless people can
roam the streets like swarms of giant rats, leaving fetid excrement and bloody
hypodermic needles in their wake, and people would accept it, because it is
part of their ideology.
That's how they can call this abomination "progress."
Prevail Against the Little Picture of Hell?
https://townhall.com/columnists/arthurschaper/2018/06/05/draft-n2487359
Arthur Schaper
The state of California has descended into a modern-day version of Dante’s Inferno, where treachery of all kinds occupies the bottom circle. Public sector unions are running (or rather ruining) the state into bankruptcy, betraying the public trust while charging the taxpayers for the perverse privilege. Republicans collude with the supermajority of Democrats to raise taxes, fees, and unrelenting regulatory burdens.
The public schools indoctrinate their
young charges to hate this country and the rule of law. Illegal aliens continue
overwhelming the state, draining California’s already depleted public services
while endangering our lives, the rule of law, and public safety for all
citizens. The federal government has filed lawsuits against Sanctuary
California, and ICE is rounding up illegals in their homes and in workplaces.
However, demonic pro-illegal forces still parade in the streets and cross our
borders, defying American sovereignty. Larger cities have more homeless than homes
for citizens.
The natural disasters are hitting crisis
level, too. The Bible depicts torturous flames with respite in hell without
respite, (Luke 16: 24). So too parched conditions have engulfed California.
Wildfires have become a year-round terror, yet the state’s leadership refuses
to prepare emergency water storage. This past week, two hundred firefighters
had to quell another massive conflagration in south Orange County, and summer
hasn’t even begun yet. To make matters legislation to make the current drastic
water rationing permanent!
Even wealthy coastal elites have found
that the cost of living in California is slowly exceeding its value. Money
can’t create water, and financial gain provided nothing for West Los Angeles
socialites when a few homeless transients set a blaze along the 405 Freeway
overpass along the Santa Monica mountains.
All of this is a testimony to the damage
wrought by progressive policies which have transformed California into a
picture of hell. That’s precisely what Evangelical preacher Franklin Graham
called California … or at least that’s what he called the sanctuary cities.
During an interview on the Todd Starnes Show, Graham
commented:
"People are leaving the state. The
tax base is eroding. They are turning their once beautiful cities into
sanctuary cities, which are just a little picture of Hell," Graham said.
"Just go to San Francisco and go to this once-beautiful city and see what
has happened to it."
But why did the son of the renowned
Reverend Billy Graham take time to comment on the harrowing horrors of
California? For his latest Gospel Crusade, he visited ten cities in the
once-Golden State. Starting on May 20 in Escondido (one of several cities to
challenge SB 54, aka the Sanctuary State law over the past three month), Graham
is bringing the message of the Good News to the dispirited wasteland along the
Left Coast.
Returning to Pastor Graham’s signature statement
from the Starnes interview, finally a pastor of stature and renown is
condemning sanctuary city policies, and a welcome response from the
all-too-quiet church leadership in California and across the country. Pastors
should be the first to denounce this misnamed, misleading agenda. The concept
of sanctuary comes from the Bible, better known as “cities of refuge” (cf.
Numbers 35:11-28), locations reserved for those who had accidentally killed
someone. To avoid retribution, they would flee to those cities.
In California, sanctuary policies bar
local and state law enforcement from cooperating with federal immigration
officials to arrest and deport illegal aliens. These cities are not
safeguarding otherwise innocent people, but are protecting criminals who have
broken into the United States and reside illegally to this day. Pundits left
and right contend that these policies actually protect otherwise law-abiding
residents to seek help and report crimes. Nothing could be further from the
truth.
However, is it fair to tie the long list
of hellish outcomes from these left-wing enclaves to their refusal to enforce
federal immigration laws?
Yes.
What has happened to sanctuary city San
Francisco, for example? The progressivism that made God nothing and man’s “ideas”
everything created the s***-hole dystopia that resides there today. It’s an
overpriced progressive utopia, to put it charitably. For the vast-majority of
residents, even for those who can afford it, a salary of $100,000 a year barely
pays the rent. Roommates doubling up is the norm, especially among the Big Tech
interns who take the bus to Silicon Valley to work all day on the latest app
for the Google, Facebook, EBay overlords.
For the price they pay to live in the
city, San Franciscans aren’t getting their money’s worth. Intravenous drug
needles litter the streets everywhere. Homelessness is more common than
homeownership. “S***hole” better describes the streets of the city, where the
feces piles have so overwhelmed the streets, that visitors receive maps on how
best to navigate away from the crap and corruption. Street fights among
transients and the mentally ill have exploded, rampant moral decline has
overshadowed the once great city. Tourists find enough to see, then flee.
Freedom of speech and freedom of religion
have lost their place, even though Graham’s latest crusades have succeeded in
otherwise unfriendly territory, like Berkeley. Last year, the Patriot Prayer
movement, headed by Joey Gibson, attempted to throw two rallies for freedom of
speech and thought. The elected officials of San Francisco (including Nancy
Pelosi) and the now-deceased mayor Ed Lee, smeared the peaceful program as a
“White supremacy rally.” Gibson is half Japanese, by the way.
Where Gibson had tried and failed,
Graham’s message of hope accomplished peaceful gatherings with a call to action
to California’s Christians. And I say it’s about time. There have been flickers
of hope in spite of the deranged left-wing agenda ravaging my home state.
Californians in general, and Christians in particular, need to step up. They
are called to be light in a dark, hellish world, but nothing good will happen
if they don’t vote for their values, then educate the public how to fight
against the devilish lawlessness foisted upon us by our political leaders and
the cultural elites running—or rather ruining—the state.
The one topic Democrats
don't dare bring up in today's SoCal primary
The airwaves in Southern
California are flooded with Democratic candidate ads, with most openly touting
extremely loony far-left positions – promises of free health care for all, free
college for all, beefed up public funding for Planned Parenthood, full gun
control, pretty much the full Bernie Sanders plate of pie-in-the-sky
goodies. Democrats, whether in the House, Senate, governor, or
assembly races, are all openly offering all the free stuff on the far left's
wish list, not holding back at all. Fiscal discipline isn't in
fashion with this bunch. If I had to speculate, I'd say it's because
at the time these platforms were formulated, Democrats were convinced that a blue
wave was upon them. In a crowded field, and at primary time, where
only the most committed voters show up, extremism seems to be the way to stand
out and get ahead of the pack.
There's one topic among
these offerings that isn't being touched – not even in one campaign ad:
Illegal immigration.
As the sign says:
"Caution."
We all know that Democrats
favor open borders, given the potential for muscling mendicant votes in the
state's poorest cities from their well oiled political machines.
Democrats favor DACA, DAPA for the
parents, amnesty, state benefits for illegals –
from driver's licenses to free health care – an
end to deportations, and no border wall, let
alone National Guardsmen at the
borders. You can find vague admissions of
these stances on candidates' websites, buried
deep.
Democrats favor DACA, DAPA for the
parents, amnesty, state benefits for illegals –
from driver's licenses to free health care – an
end to deportations, and no border wall, let
alone National Guardsmen at the
borders. You can find vague admissions of
these stances on candidates' websites, buried
deep.
But somehow, this topic
isn't one they want to bring up in the heat of the primaries, at least not in
ads, where they have an overcrowded slate of candidates on the June ballot, and
face the real prospect of seeing no Democrats making it to the slate in
November.
Illegal immigration seems to
be the electric third rail.
That says a lot about the
sentiment of the voters in illegal alien-filled California, which houses one
quarter of the nation's illegals. Nobody's brought up the Democratic
plan for free health care for illegals, now wending its way through the
California statehouse. Nobody's asked Gavin Newsom, the frontrunner
for the Democratic nomination for governor, what he thinks of the state's
inundation of illegals, and he's certainly said nothing to the broad public
about it in his ads. The costs of illegal
immigration are being carefully
hidden by Democrats.
Meanwhile, city after city
and county after county in Southern California has joined the lawsuit against
the state for its "sanctuary state" laws, which require them to house
and feed illegals instead of turn them over to the feds for breaking the
law. It's probably significant that increasingly blue San
Diego and Orange Counties, the two areas Democrats have placed all
their hopes and cash on for winning the House back, have joined this movement.
It all suggests that this
topic is dry tinder among voters, the internal polls look bad for Democrats on
their free everything for illegals, and the Democratic Party line is far more
unpopular than anyone on the left is willing to admit.
President Trump should have
a field day enacting his orderly immigration agenda, even in California, when
crunch time comes at the November midterms.
It Pays to be Illegal in California
It
certainly is a good time to be an illegal alien in California. Democratic State
Sen. Ricardo Lara last week pitched a bill to permit illegal immigrants to
serve on all state and local boards and commissions. This week, lawmakers
unveiled a $1 billion health care plan that would include spending
$250 million to extend health care coverage to all illegal alien adults.
“Currently,
undocumented adults are explicitly and unjustly locked out of healthcare due to
their immigration status. In a matter of weeks, California legislators will
have a decisive opportunity to reverse that cruel and counterproductive fact,”
Assemblyman Joaquin Arambula said in Monday’s Sacramento Bee.
His legislation, Assembly Bill 2965, would give as many as 114,000
uninsured illegal aliens access to Medi-Cal programs. A companion bill has been
sponsored by State Sen. Richard Lara.
But that
could just be a drop in the bucket. The Democrats’ plan covers more than
100,000 illegal aliens with annual incomes bless than $25,000, however an
estimated 1.3 million might be eligible based on their earnings.
In
addition, it is estimated that 20 percent of those living in California
illegally are uninsured – the $250 million covers just 11 percent.
So, will
politicians soon be asking California taxpayers once again to dip into their
pockets to pay for the remaining 9 percent?
Before
they ask for more, Democrats have to win the approval of Gov. Jerry Brown, who
cautioned against spending away the state’s surplus when he introduced his $190 billion budget
proposal in January.
Given
Brown’s openness to expanding Medi-Cal expansions in recent years, not to
mention his proclivity for blindly supporting any measure benefitting
lawbreaking immigrants, the latest fiscal irresponsibility may win approval.
And if he
takes a pass, the two Democrats most likely to succeed Brown – Lt. Gov. Gavin
Newsom and former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa – favor excessive social spending and are actively courting
illegal immigrant support.
Maybe if California and New York Cared as Much about the Middle Class as
They Do About Illegal Alien…
TWEET
Economists Arthur Laffer (the guy with the famous curve) and Stephen Moore, a leading libertarian voice for mass
immigration, predict that some 800,000 people will pack up and leave California and New York over the next three years. The
reason they cite for the exodus in their Wall Street Journal op-ed is that the new federal tax law, which eliminates
deductions for state income taxes, will be the straw that breaks the camel’s
back.
Implicit in their assignment of blame to the federal tax
overhaul is that the people who will be leaving are the ones who pay taxes –
the sort of folks that state and local governments rely to provide a revenue
stream. As such, one would think that these would be the people whose concerns
would get a lot of interest in Sacramento and Albany. But clearly that is not
the case.
For the privilege of living in places like the Bay Area, Los
Angeles, or New York City, you must bear some of the most ridiculous housing
costs in the nation, along with crushing state and local taxes. In California, be prepared to turn over as much as 13.3
percent of your income to the state. High-earning New Yorkers fork over a more
modest 8.82 percent, but if you live in the five boroughs you can tack on an
additional 3.87 percent in city income taxes. California and New York also have some of the highest sales tax rates in the country at 8.54 percent and 8.49 percent
respectively (and higher in many cities). And now, as Laffer and Moore point
out, you can’t even deduct those costs on your federal taxes.
One might also think that for all these state and local taxes,
residents could expect the most modern infrastructure, efficient public
transportation, world class public schools, affordable housing, and other
amenities. Ha. No, in Sacramento and Albany they prioritize an ever-growing
list of public benefits and services to immigration law violators; subsidies
and grants to go to college, and legal aid for illegal aliens in deportation
proceedings. In New York, Gov. Andrew Cuomo is even threatening to sue the federal government (with taxpayer money, of course) for even trying to
enforce immigration laws.
Some $23 billion of California taxpayers’ money and $7.5
billion of New York taxpayers’ money is expended on illegal aliens and their dependent
children. For the benefit of the trolls at the Southern Poverty Law Center, the problems of California and New York cannot entirely be
blamed on illegal aliens. Many, many factors have led to the middle class
flight from these states. But one has to wonder why states wouldn’t want to do
as much to woo their tax base into staying as they are doing to attract,
protect, and reward illegal aliens.
Cutting back on benefits and protections for illegal aliens
would not solve all of these states’ problems, but it certainly wouldn’t hurt.
In the meantime, every U-Haul packing up a middle or upper-middle class family
headed out of California and New York represents a loss of vital revenue
necessary to address myriad needs of both citizens and legal immigrants.
California Goes Rogue
By Mark Krikorian
https://www.nationalreview.com/magazine/2018/05/14/california-sanctuary-state-defies-federal-law/
How the (ONCE) Golden State defies immigration
law
‘I will hang the first man I can lay my hand on
engaged in such treasonable conduct, upon the first tree I can reach.” That was
President Andrew Jackson’s response to South Carolina’s intention to prevent
enforcement of a federal law within the state. Despite his admiration for
Jackson, President Trump hasn’t yet threatened to start hanging California
politicians. But that state’s “sanctuary” policies protecting illegal
immigrants and obstructing enforcement of federal immigration law echo the
long-ago fight over nullification and states’ rights.
Adios, Sanctuary La Raza Welfare State of California
A fifth-generation Californian
laments his state’s ongoing economic collapse.
By Steve Baldwin
American Spectator
What’s clear is that the producers are leaving
the state and the takers are coming in. Many of the takers are illegal aliens,
now estimated to number over 2.6 million. The
Federation for American Immigration Reform estimates that California spends $22
billion on government services for illegal aliens, including welfare,
education, Medicaid, and criminal justice system costs.
BLOG:
MANY DISPUTE CALIFORNIA’S EXPENDITURES FOR THE LA RAZA WELFARE STATE IN
MEXIFORNIA JUST AS THEY DISPUTE THE NUMBER OF ILLEGALS. APPROXIMATELY HALF THE
POPULATION OF CA IS NOW MEXICAN AND BREEDING ANCHOR BABIES FOR WELFARE LIKE
BUNNIES. THE $22 BILLION IS STATE EXPENDITURE ONLY. COUNTIES PAY OUT MORE WITH
LOS ANGELES COUNTY LEADING AT OVER A BILLION DOLLARS PAID OUT YEARLY TO
MEXICO’S ANCHOR BABY BREEDERS. NOW MULTIPLY THAT BY THE NUMBER OF COUNTIES IN
CA AND YOU START TO GET AN IDEA OF THE STAGGERING WELFARE STATE MEXICO AND THE
DEMOCRAT PARTY HAVE ERECTED SANS ANY LEGALS VOTES. ADD TO THIS THE FREE ENTERPRISE
HOSPITAL AND CLINIC COST FOR LA RAZA’S “FREE” MEDICAL WHICH IS ESTIMATED TO BE
ABOUT $1.5 BILLION PER YEAR.
Liberals
claim they more than make that up with taxes paid, but that’s simply not true.
It’s not even close. FAIR estimates illegal aliens in California contribute
only $1.21 billion in tax revenue, which means they cost California $20.6
billion, or at least $1,800 per household.
Nonetheless, open border advocates, such as Facebook Chairman Mark Zuckerberg,
claim illegal aliens are a net benefit to California with little evidence to
support such an assertion. As the Center for Immigration Studies has
documented, the vast majority of illegals are poor, uneducated, and with few
skills. How does accepting millions of illegal aliens and then granting them
access to dozens of welfare programs benefit California’s economy? If illegal
aliens were contributing to the economy in any meaningful way, California, with
its 2.6 million illegal aliens, would be booming.
Furthermore, the complexion of illegal aliens
has changed with far more on welfare and committing crimes than those who
entered the country in the 1980s. Heather Mac Donald of
the Manhattan Institute has testified before a Congressional committee that in
2004, 95% of all outstanding warrants for murder in Los Angeles were for
illegal aliens; in 2000, 23% of all Los Angeles County jail inmates were
illegal aliens and that in 1995, 60% of Los Angeles’s largest street gang, the
18th Street gang, were illegal aliens. Granted, those
statistics are old, but if you talk to any California law enforcement officer,
they will tell you it’s much worse today. The problem is that the Brown
administration will not release any statewide data on illegal alien crimes.
That would be insensitive. And now that California has declared itself a
“sanctuary state,” there is little doubt this sends a message south of the
border that will further escalate illegal immigration into the state.
"If the racist "Sensenbrenner
Legislation" passes the US Senate, there is no doubt that a massive civil
disobedience movement will emerge. Eventually labor union power can merge with
the immigrant civil rights and "Immigrant
Sanctuary" movements to enable us to either form a new political
party or to do heavy duty reforming of the existing Democratic Party. The next
and final steps would follow and that is to elect our own governors of all the
states within Aztlan."
Indeed, California goes out of its way to
attract illegal aliens. The state has even created government programs that
cater exclusively to illegal aliens. For example, the State Department of Motor
Vehicles has offices that only process driver licenses for illegal aliens. With
over a million illegal aliens now driving in California, the state felt
compelled to help them avoid the long lines the rest of us must endure at the
DMV. And just recently, the state-funded University
of California system announced it will spend $27 million on financial aid for
illegal aliens. They’ve even taken out radio spots on stations
all along the border, just to make sure other potential illegal border crossers
hear about this program. I can’t afford college
education for all my four sons, but my taxes will pay for illegals to get a
college education.
If Immigration Creates
Wealth, Why Is California America's Poverty Capital?
California
used to be home to America's largest and most affluent middle
class. Today, it is America's poverty
capital. What went wrong? In a word:
immigration. According to the U.S. Census Bureau'...: The Golden State is peddling fool's gold lately.
California used to be
home to America's largest and most affluent middle class. Today, it
is America's poverty capital. What went wrong? In a
word: immigration.
According to the U.S. Census
Bureau's Official
Poverty Measure, California's poverty rate hovers around 15
percent. But this figure is misleading: the Census Bureau measures
poverty relative to a uniform national standard, which doesn't account for
differences in living costs between states – the cost of taxes, housing, and
health care are higher in California than in Oklahoma, for example. Accounting
for these differences reveals that California's
real poverty rate is 20.6 percent – the highest in America, and
nearly twice the national average of 12.7 percent.
Likewise, income
inequality in California is the second-highest in America, behind
only New York. In fact, if California were an independent country,
it would be the 17th most unequal country on Earth, nestled comfortably between
Honduras and Guatemala. Mexico is slightly more
egalitarian. California is far more unequal than the "social
democracies" it emulates: Canada is the 111th most unequal nation,
while Norway is far down the list at number 153 (out of 176
countries). In terms of income inequality, California has more in
common with banana republics than other "social democracies."
More Government, More Poverty
High taxes, excessive regulations,
and a lavish welfare state – these are the standard explanations for
California's poverty epidemic. They have some merit. For
example, California has both the highest personal income tax rate and the
highest sales tax in America, according to Politifact.
Not only are California's taxes high,
but successive "progressive" governments have swamped the state in a
sea of red tape. Onerous regulations cripple small businesses and
retard economic growth. Kerry Jackson, a fellow with the Pacific
Research Institute, gives a few specific examples of how excessive government
regulation hurts California's poor. He writes in a recent op-ed for
the Los
Angeles Times:
Extensive environmental regulations
aimed at reducing carbon dioxide emissions make energy more expensive, also
hurting the poor. By some estimates, California energy costs are as
much as 50% higher than the national average. Jonathan A. Lesser of
Continental Economics ... found that "in 2012, nearly 1 million California
households faced ... energy expenditures exceeding 10% of household
income."
Some government regulation is
necessary and desirable, but most of California's is not. There is
virtue in governing with a "light touch."
Finally, California's welfare state
is, perhaps paradoxically, a source of poverty in the
state. The Orange
Country Register reports that California's social safety net is
comparable in scale to those found in Europe:
In California a mother
with two children under the age of 5 who participates in these major welfare
programs – Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, Supplemental Nutrition
Assistance Program (food stamps), housing assistance, home energy assistance,
Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children – would
receive a benefits package worth $30,828 per year.
... [Similar] benefits
in Europe ranged from $38,588 per year in Denmark to just $1,112 in
Romania. The California benefits package is higher than in
well-known welfare states as France ($17,324), Germany ($23,257) and even
Sweden ($22,111).
Although welfare states ideally help the poor, reality
is messy. There are three main problems with the welfare
state. First, it incentivizes poverty by rewardingthe poor with government
handouts that are often far more valuable than a job. This can be
ameliorated to some degree by imposing work requirements on welfare recipients,
but in practice, such requirements are rarely imposed. Second,
welfare states are expensive. This means
higher taxes and therefore slower economic growth and fewer job opportunities
for everyone – including the poor.
Finally, welfare states are magnets
for the poor. Whether through domestic migration or foreign
immigration, poor people flock to places with generous welfare
states. This is logical from the immigrant's perspective, but it
makes little sense from the taxpayer's. This fact is why socialism
and open borders arefundamentally
incompatible.
Why Big Government?
Since 1960, California's population
exploded from 15.9 to 39 million people. The growth
was almost entirely due to immigration – many people came from other states,
but the majority came from abroad. The Public Policy
Institute of California estimates that 10 million immigrants
currently reside in California. This works out to 26 percent of the
state's population.
BLOG: COME TO
MEXIFORNIA! HALF OF LOS ANGELES 15 MILLION ARE ILLEGALS!
This figure includes
2.4 million illegal aliens, although a recent
study from Yale University suggests that the true number of aliens
is at least double that. Modifying the initial figure implies that nearly one in three Californians is an immigrant. This
is not to disparage California's immigrant population, but it is madness to
deny that such a large influx of people has changed California's society and
economy.
July 15, 2018
By Mark Krikorian
https://www.nationalreview.com/magazine/2018/05/14/california-sanctuary-state-defies-federal-law/
How the (ONCE) Golden State defies immigration
law
‘I will hang the first man I can lay my hand on engaged in such treasonable conduct, upon the first tree I can reach.” That was President Andrew Jackson’s response to South Carolina’s intention to prevent enforcement of a federal law within the state. Despite his admiration for Jackson, President Trump hasn’t yet threatened to start hanging California politicians. But that state’s “sanctuary” policies protecting illegal immigrants and obstructing enforcement of federal immigration law echo the long-ago fight over nullification and states’ rights.
‘I will hang the first man I can lay my hand on engaged in such treasonable conduct, upon the first tree I can reach.” That was President Andrew Jackson’s response to South Carolina’s intention to prevent enforcement of a federal law within the state. Despite his admiration for Jackson, President Trump hasn’t yet threatened to start hanging California politicians. But that state’s “sanctuary” policies protecting illegal immigrants and obstructing enforcement of federal immigration law echo the long-ago fight over nullification and states’ rights.
Adios, Sanctuary La Raza Welfare State of California
A fifth-generation Californian laments his state’s ongoing economic collapse.
By Steve BaldwinA fifth-generation Californian laments his state’s ongoing economic collapse.
American Spectator
What’s clear is that the producers are leaving the state and the takers are coming in. Many of the takers are illegal aliens, now estimated to number over 2.6 million. The Federation for American Immigration Reform estimates that California spends $22 billion on government services for illegal aliens, including welfare, education, Medicaid, and criminal justice system costs.
BLOG:
MANY DISPUTE CALIFORNIA’S EXPENDITURES FOR THE LA RAZA WELFARE STATE IN
MEXIFORNIA JUST AS THEY DISPUTE THE NUMBER OF ILLEGALS. APPROXIMATELY HALF THE
POPULATION OF CA IS NOW MEXICAN AND BREEDING ANCHOR BABIES FOR WELFARE LIKE
BUNNIES. THE $22 BILLION IS STATE EXPENDITURE ONLY. COUNTIES PAY OUT MORE WITH
LOS ANGELES COUNTY LEADING AT OVER A BILLION DOLLARS PAID OUT YEARLY TO
MEXICO’S ANCHOR BABY BREEDERS. NOW MULTIPLY THAT BY THE NUMBER OF COUNTIES IN
CA AND YOU START TO GET AN IDEA OF THE STAGGERING WELFARE STATE MEXICO AND THE
DEMOCRAT PARTY HAVE ERECTED SANS ANY LEGALS VOTES. ADD TO THIS THE FREE ENTERPRISE
HOSPITAL AND CLINIC COST FOR LA RAZA’S “FREE” MEDICAL WHICH IS ESTIMATED TO BE
ABOUT $1.5 BILLION PER YEAR.
Liberals
claim they more than make that up with taxes paid, but that’s simply not true.
It’s not even close. FAIR estimates illegal aliens in California contribute
only $1.21 billion in tax revenue, which means they cost California $20.6
billion, or at least $1,800 per household.
Nonetheless, open border advocates, such as Facebook Chairman Mark Zuckerberg, claim illegal aliens are a net benefit to California with little evidence to support such an assertion. As the Center for Immigration Studies has documented, the vast majority of illegals are poor, uneducated, and with few skills. How does accepting millions of illegal aliens and then granting them access to dozens of welfare programs benefit California’s economy? If illegal aliens were contributing to the economy in any meaningful way, California, with its 2.6 million illegal aliens, would be booming.
Furthermore, the complexion of illegal aliens has changed with far more on welfare and committing crimes than those who entered the country in the 1980s. Heather Mac Donald of the Manhattan Institute has testified before a Congressional committee that in 2004, 95% of all outstanding warrants for murder in Los Angeles were for illegal aliens; in 2000, 23% of all Los Angeles County jail inmates were illegal aliens and that in 1995, 60% of Los Angeles’s largest street gang, the 18th Street gang, were illegal aliens. Granted, those statistics are old, but if you talk to any California law enforcement officer, they will tell you it’s much worse today. The problem is that the Brown administration will not release any statewide data on illegal alien crimes. That would be insensitive. And now that California has declared itself a “sanctuary state,” there is little doubt this sends a message south of the border that will further escalate illegal immigration into the state.
Nonetheless, open border advocates, such as Facebook Chairman Mark Zuckerberg, claim illegal aliens are a net benefit to California with little evidence to support such an assertion. As the Center for Immigration Studies has documented, the vast majority of illegals are poor, uneducated, and with few skills. How does accepting millions of illegal aliens and then granting them access to dozens of welfare programs benefit California’s economy? If illegal aliens were contributing to the economy in any meaningful way, California, with its 2.6 million illegal aliens, would be booming.
Furthermore, the complexion of illegal aliens has changed with far more on welfare and committing crimes than those who entered the country in the 1980s. Heather Mac Donald of the Manhattan Institute has testified before a Congressional committee that in 2004, 95% of all outstanding warrants for murder in Los Angeles were for illegal aliens; in 2000, 23% of all Los Angeles County jail inmates were illegal aliens and that in 1995, 60% of Los Angeles’s largest street gang, the 18th Street gang, were illegal aliens. Granted, those statistics are old, but if you talk to any California law enforcement officer, they will tell you it’s much worse today. The problem is that the Brown administration will not release any statewide data on illegal alien crimes. That would be insensitive. And now that California has declared itself a “sanctuary state,” there is little doubt this sends a message south of the border that will further escalate illegal immigration into the state.
"If the racist "Sensenbrenner
Legislation" passes the US Senate, there is no doubt that a massive civil
disobedience movement will emerge. Eventually labor union power can merge with
the immigrant civil rights and "Immigrant
Sanctuary" movements to enable us to either form a new political
party or to do heavy duty reforming of the existing Democratic Party. The next
and final steps would follow and that is to elect our own governors of all the
states within Aztlan."
Indeed, California goes out of its way to attract illegal aliens. The state has even created government programs that cater exclusively to illegal aliens. For example, the State Department of Motor Vehicles has offices that only process driver licenses for illegal aliens. With over a million illegal aliens now driving in California, the state felt compelled to help them avoid the long lines the rest of us must endure at the DMV. And just recently, the state-funded University of California system announced it will spend $27 million on financial aid for illegal aliens. They’ve even taken out radio spots on stations all along the border, just to make sure other potential illegal border crossers hear about this program. I can’t afford college education for all my four sons, but my taxes will pay for illegals to get a college education.
Indeed, California goes out of its way to attract illegal aliens. The state has even created government programs that cater exclusively to illegal aliens. For example, the State Department of Motor Vehicles has offices that only process driver licenses for illegal aliens. With over a million illegal aliens now driving in California, the state felt compelled to help them avoid the long lines the rest of us must endure at the DMV. And just recently, the state-funded University of California system announced it will spend $27 million on financial aid for illegal aliens. They’ve even taken out radio spots on stations all along the border, just to make sure other potential illegal border crossers hear about this program. I can’t afford college education for all my four sons, but my taxes will pay for illegals to get a college education.
If Immigration Creates
Wealth, Why Is California America's Poverty Capital?
California
used to be home to America's largest and most affluent middle
class. Today, it is America's poverty
capital. What went wrong? In a word:
immigration. According to the U.S. Census Bureau'...: The Golden State is peddling fool's gold lately.
California used to be
home to America's largest and most affluent middle class. Today, it
is America's poverty capital. What went wrong? In a
word: immigration.
According to the U.S. Census
Bureau's Official
Poverty Measure, California's poverty rate hovers around 15
percent. But this figure is misleading: the Census Bureau measures
poverty relative to a uniform national standard, which doesn't account for
differences in living costs between states – the cost of taxes, housing, and
health care are higher in California than in Oklahoma, for example. Accounting
for these differences reveals that California's
real poverty rate is 20.6 percent – the highest in America, and
nearly twice the national average of 12.7 percent.
Likewise, income
inequality in California is the second-highest in America, behind
only New York. In fact, if California were an independent country,
it would be the 17th most unequal country on Earth, nestled comfortably between
Honduras and Guatemala. Mexico is slightly more
egalitarian. California is far more unequal than the "social
democracies" it emulates: Canada is the 111th most unequal nation,
while Norway is far down the list at number 153 (out of 176
countries). In terms of income inequality, California has more in
common with banana republics than other "social democracies."
More Government, More Poverty
More Government, More Poverty
High taxes, excessive regulations,
and a lavish welfare state – these are the standard explanations for
California's poverty epidemic. They have some merit. For
example, California has both the highest personal income tax rate and the
highest sales tax in America, according to Politifact.
Not only are California's taxes high,
but successive "progressive" governments have swamped the state in a
sea of red tape. Onerous regulations cripple small businesses and
retard economic growth. Kerry Jackson, a fellow with the Pacific
Research Institute, gives a few specific examples of how excessive government
regulation hurts California's poor. He writes in a recent op-ed for
the Los
Angeles Times:
Extensive environmental regulations
aimed at reducing carbon dioxide emissions make energy more expensive, also
hurting the poor. By some estimates, California energy costs are as
much as 50% higher than the national average. Jonathan A. Lesser of
Continental Economics ... found that "in 2012, nearly 1 million California
households faced ... energy expenditures exceeding 10% of household
income."
Some government regulation is
necessary and desirable, but most of California's is not. There is
virtue in governing with a "light touch."
Finally, California's welfare state
is, perhaps paradoxically, a source of poverty in the
state. The Orange
Country Register reports that California's social safety net is
comparable in scale to those found in Europe:
In California a mother
with two children under the age of 5 who participates in these major welfare
programs – Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, Supplemental Nutrition
Assistance Program (food stamps), housing assistance, home energy assistance,
Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children – would
receive a benefits package worth $30,828 per year.
... [Similar] benefits
in Europe ranged from $38,588 per year in Denmark to just $1,112 in
Romania. The California benefits package is higher than in
well-known welfare states as France ($17,324), Germany ($23,257) and even
Sweden ($22,111).
Although welfare states ideally help the poor, reality
is messy. There are three main problems with the welfare
state. First, it incentivizes poverty by rewardingthe poor with government
handouts that are often far more valuable than a job. This can be
ameliorated to some degree by imposing work requirements on welfare recipients,
but in practice, such requirements are rarely imposed. Second,
welfare states are expensive. This means
higher taxes and therefore slower economic growth and fewer job opportunities
for everyone – including the poor.
Finally, welfare states are magnets
for the poor. Whether through domestic migration or foreign
immigration, poor people flock to places with generous welfare
states. This is logical from the immigrant's perspective, but it
makes little sense from the taxpayer's. This fact is why socialism
and open borders arefundamentally
incompatible.
Why Big Government?
Since 1960, California's population
exploded from 15.9 to 39 million people. The growth
was almost entirely due to immigration – many people came from other states,
but the majority came from abroad. The Public Policy
Institute of California estimates that 10 million immigrants
currently reside in California. This works out to 26 percent of the
state's population.
BLOG: COME TO
MEXIFORNIA! HALF OF LOS ANGELES 15 MILLION ARE ILLEGALS!
This figure includes
2.4 million illegal aliens, although a recent
study from Yale University suggests that the true number of aliens
is at least double that. Modifying the initial figure implies that nearly one in three Californians is an immigrant. This
is not to disparage California's immigrant population, but it is madness to
deny that such a large influx of people has changed California's society and
economy.
Press decries welfare fraudsters with green cards getting deported
In today's migrant news, we learn that green card holders who have gotten caught stealing from the public benefits system are getting deported.
The Miami Herald reports that like it's a bad thing. Columnist Daniel Shoer Rothwrites:
A green card is no longer an immigrant’s insurance policy against deportation in the Donald Trump era.
Documented immigrants can now be deported from the United States if they break the rules of federal and state programs that offer public benefits to immigrants.
New guidelines implemented last week by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services say that immigrants who abuse “any program related to the reception of public benefits” will be summoned to appear before an immigration court.
Immigrants will be subjected to removal procedures if there’s evidence of “fraud or willful misrepresentation” in connection “with any official matter or application before another governmental agency,” said the guidelines, published late last month.
Notice the obligatory attack on President Trump in the lead. Then note the use of the word "rules," to describe full blown welfare fraud by migrants who came here for the free stuff. Such fraud can run into millions of dollars, and is more accurately described as breaking the law, not breaking "the rules." It's far more comparable to bank robbery than running in the hallway. We are talking about people who siphon off Medicaid benefits they aren't entitled to in hundreds of thousands of dollars or more, and who falsify the numbers of kids they have to get bigger welfare checks from the government.
And oh, there's quite a smorgasbord of bennies the green card holders can help themselves to, and then rip off:
The main public benefits that immigrants with legal residence permits, known as Green Cards, can receive are: Medicaid for people with low income or disabilities; Temporary Assistance for Needy Families; Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program; Supplemental Security Income; and the Children’s Health Insurance Program.
Throwing such people out who commit fraud a good thing, because taxpayers don't like welfare cheats, and they especially don't like subsidizing them. What's more they don't like it from foreigners who are using their green cards as their gateway in to do it. Nobody from the taxpayer side of things was interviewed for any countering viewpoint in this Miami Herald piece, all we saw was outrage. And the report highlights that a lot of this is going on, and people are tired of it. Does 'that's how you got Trump"' ever occur to this writer, and all the others who will be hand-wringing about this issue, looking for the most sympathetic miscreant among this bunch to pro-offer a sob story on?
Or that a green card is a right, not a privilege?
The left has always insisted that the migrants they champion are only here to work and wouldn't dream of going on public assistance. Turns out there are a lot of them who are drawn here like moths to flame for the benefits, and as if that isn't bad enough, there are a lot who use their green cards to dip in for a little extra.
And well, the press is complaining about even those people, who in other contexts, they would describe as 'miniscule.'
Why shouldn't welfare fraudsters be thrown out,
actually? If getting a green card entitles one to
public benefits and the first thing such people do,
right out the gate after getting one, is cheating the
system, why should they be here? They are't 'one
of us' because normal Americans don't cheat. The
entire immigration system has always been
premised on not admitting people who are likely
to become 'public charges.' With gargantuan
numbers of them doing just that, it would seem
reasonable to get rid of the ones who aren't content
with even the freely doled-out benefits as it is. The
others shouldn't be taking benefits, either. Send
the bill for those to the consular official who let
them in.
Moral turpitude is not something that seems to bother the press at all.
With reports like these, it ain't over 'til the alien wins, as a Border Patrol guy once said. Never mind the taxpayers.
In today's migrant news, we learn that green card holders who have gotten caught stealing from the public benefits system are getting deported.
The Miami Herald reports that like it's a bad thing. Columnist Daniel Shoer Rothwrites:
A green card is no longer an immigrant’s insurance policy against deportation in the Donald Trump era.Documented immigrants can now be deported from the United States if they break the rules of federal and state programs that offer public benefits to immigrants.New guidelines implemented last week by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services say that immigrants who abuse “any program related to the reception of public benefits” will be summoned to appear before an immigration court.Immigrants will be subjected to removal procedures if there’s evidence of “fraud or willful misrepresentation” in connection “with any official matter or application before another governmental agency,” said the guidelines, published late last month.
Notice the obligatory attack on President Trump in the lead. Then note the use of the word "rules," to describe full blown welfare fraud by migrants who came here for the free stuff. Such fraud can run into millions of dollars, and is more accurately described as breaking the law, not breaking "the rules." It's far more comparable to bank robbery than running in the hallway. We are talking about people who siphon off Medicaid benefits they aren't entitled to in hundreds of thousands of dollars or more, and who falsify the numbers of kids they have to get bigger welfare checks from the government.
And oh, there's quite a smorgasbord of bennies the green card holders can help themselves to, and then rip off:
The main public benefits that immigrants with legal residence permits, known as Green Cards, can receive are: Medicaid for people with low income or disabilities; Temporary Assistance for Needy Families; Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program; Supplemental Security Income; and the Children’s Health Insurance Program.
Throwing such people out who commit fraud a good thing, because taxpayers don't like welfare cheats, and they especially don't like subsidizing them. What's more they don't like it from foreigners who are using their green cards as their gateway in to do it. Nobody from the taxpayer side of things was interviewed for any countering viewpoint in this Miami Herald piece, all we saw was outrage. And the report highlights that a lot of this is going on, and people are tired of it. Does 'that's how you got Trump"' ever occur to this writer, and all the others who will be hand-wringing about this issue, looking for the most sympathetic miscreant among this bunch to pro-offer a sob story on?
Or that a green card is a right, not a privilege?
The left has always insisted that the migrants they champion are only here to work and wouldn't dream of going on public assistance. Turns out there are a lot of them who are drawn here like moths to flame for the benefits, and as if that isn't bad enough, there are a lot who use their green cards to dip in for a little extra.
And well, the press is complaining about even those people, who in other contexts, they would describe as 'miniscule.'
Why shouldn't welfare fraudsters be thrown out,
actually? If getting a green card entitles one to
public benefits and the first thing such people do,
right out the gate after getting one, is cheating the
system, why should they be here? They are't 'one
of us' because normal Americans don't cheat. The
entire immigration system has always been
premised on not admitting people who are likely
to become 'public charges.' With gargantuan
numbers of them doing just that, it would seem
reasonable to get rid of the ones who aren't content
with even the freely doled-out benefits as it is. The
others shouldn't be taking benefits, either. Send
the bill for those to the consular official who let
them in.
actually? If getting a green card entitles one to
public benefits and the first thing such people do,
right out the gate after getting one, is cheating the
system, why should they be here? They are't 'one
of us' because normal Americans don't cheat. The
entire immigration system has always been
premised on not admitting people who are likely
to become 'public charges.' With gargantuan
numbers of them doing just that, it would seem
reasonable to get rid of the ones who aren't content
with even the freely doled-out benefits as it is. The
others shouldn't be taking benefits, either. Send
the bill for those to the consular official who let
them in.
Moral turpitude is not something that seems to bother the press at all.
With reports like these, it ain't over 'til the alien wins, as a Border Patrol guy once said. Never mind the taxpayers.
Twice-Deported Illegal Alien Sentenced to Prison for Stealing $350K in Gov’t Benefits
(CNSNews.com) -- Mexican national and two-time deportee Andres Avelino Anduaga was sentenced on July 13 to 37 months in federal prison for stealing over $350,000 in government benefits – federal, state, and local -- while impersonating an American citizen for over 30 years, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of California.
In addition to his 37-month sentence, Aduaga was ordered to repay $360,908.85 in restitution to the Social Security Administration, the California Department of Health Care Services and the County of San Diego.
“In 1980, Anduaga used a birth certificate belonging to a United States citizen to obtain a California Driver’s License and a Social Security card,” said the U.S. Attorney’s Office in a statement. “Already a convicted felon, Anduaga used his new identity to commit a variety of crimes over the next 22 years.”
As he admitted in his plea agreement, Anduaga used a stolen identity to apply for disability benefits from the Social Security Administration in 1989. The U.S. Attorney’s Office reported that “Anduaga received almost $250,000 in Social Security benefits that he was not entitled to receive through 2016.”
As a result of the Social Security benefits, Anduaga was also able to get MediCal health benefits that further cost the taxpayers of California more than $100,000. “Even after his Social Security was terminated in 2016, Anduaga signed up for CalFresh/Supplemental Nutrition (SNAP) benefits and continued to receive those benefits right up until his arrest in November 2017,” reported the Attorney’s Office.
In addition to his “Theft of Public Property,” U.S. District Judge John Houston also sentenced Anduaga for living in the United States illegally.
“Anduaga admitted that, despite twice being deported as ‘Jose Reyes’ in 1994 and 2000, he was able to return and travel freely between the United States and Mexico using a U.S. passport that he obtained using the same stolen identity he used to defraud public assistance programs,” reads the statement.
“The theft of Social Security benefits is a direct attack on the most vulnerable and needy members of our community,” said U.S. Attorney Adam L. Braverman. “Every dollar stolen through this kind of fraud reduces the funds available to our retirees and other worthy beneficiaries.”
“It is this kind of malicious theft of identity and people’s hard-earned benefits which highlights the need for vigilance and thoroughness in all encounters which Border Patrol Agents undertake to thwart this kind of illegal activity,” said Chief Patrol Agent Rodney Scott. “This successful collaboration between the Social Security Administration, the U.S. Border Patrol and the Department of Justice highlights the need for, and importance of, cooperation among law enforcement partners.”
(CNSNews.com) -- Mexican national and two-time deportee Andres Avelino Anduaga was sentenced on July 13 to 37 months in federal prison for stealing over $350,000 in government benefits – federal, state, and local -- while impersonating an American citizen for over 30 years, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of California.
In addition to his 37-month sentence, Aduaga was ordered to repay $360,908.85 in restitution to the Social Security Administration, the California Department of Health Care Services and the County of San Diego.
“In 1980, Anduaga used a birth certificate belonging to a United States citizen to obtain a California Driver’s License and a Social Security card,” said the U.S. Attorney’s Office in a statement. “Already a convicted felon, Anduaga used his new identity to commit a variety of crimes over the next 22 years.”
As he admitted in his plea agreement, Anduaga used a stolen identity to apply for disability benefits from the Social Security Administration in 1989. The U.S. Attorney’s Office reported that “Anduaga received almost $250,000 in Social Security benefits that he was not entitled to receive through 2016.”
As a result of the Social Security benefits, Anduaga was also able to get MediCal health benefits that further cost the taxpayers of California more than $100,000. “Even after his Social Security was terminated in 2016, Anduaga signed up for CalFresh/Supplemental Nutrition (SNAP) benefits and continued to receive those benefits right up until his arrest in November 2017,” reported the Attorney’s Office.
In addition to his “Theft of Public Property,” U.S. District Judge John Houston also sentenced Anduaga for living in the United States illegally.
“Anduaga admitted that, despite twice being deported as ‘Jose Reyes’ in 1994 and 2000, he was able to return and travel freely between the United States and Mexico using a U.S. passport that he obtained using the same stolen identity he used to defraud public assistance programs,” reads the statement.
“The theft of Social Security benefits is a direct attack on the most vulnerable and needy members of our community,” said U.S. Attorney Adam L. Braverman. “Every dollar stolen through this kind of fraud reduces the funds available to our retirees and other worthy beneficiaries.”
“It is this kind of malicious theft of identity and people’s hard-earned benefits which highlights the need for vigilance and thoroughness in all encounters which Border Patrol Agents undertake to thwart this kind of illegal activity,” said Chief Patrol Agent Rodney Scott. “This successful collaboration between the Social Security Administration, the U.S. Border Patrol and the Department of Justice highlights the need for, and importance of, cooperation among law enforcement partners.”
I.R.S. ILLEGALS STOLEN 1.3 MILLION IDENTITIES!
THEY STEAL SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBERS TO STEAL JOBS, DRIVE ILLEGALLY, CONTRACT IN THE TRADES ILLEGALLY, AND VOTE FOR MORE ILLEGALLY and do it by invitation of the Democrat Party!
Mexicans cheat, distribute drugs, lie, forge documents, STEAL and kill as if it’s a normal way of life. For them, it is. Mexico’s civilization stands diametrically opposed to America’s culture. FROSTY WOOLDRIDGE
Tijuana Resident Impersonated U.S. Citizen to Steal $361,000 in Government Benefits
A Mexican citizen living in Tijuana with 40 aliases was sent to U.S. prison after admitting he assumed an American identity to collect almost $361,000 in government benefits fraudulently.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of California announced that Andres Avelino Anduaga, a Mexican citizen living in Tijuana, had admitted to obtaining a valid birth certificate of a United States citizen fraudulently in 1980, and then obtaining a valid California Driver’s License and a Social Security card.
Anduaga used the stolen identity of Abraham Riojos, a U.S. citizen from a rural Florida town, to apply for and collect Social Security disability benefits beginning in 1989. Over the next 27 years, Anduaga collected $244,441 in monthly Social Security benefits, and another $100,000 in Medi-Cal health benefits from the State of California.
Anduaga also admitted that he was a convicted U.S. felon under the name “Jose Reyes” who had been deported from the U.S. at least twice, including 1994 and 2000.
Despite his fingerprints and photo being on a criminal file with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Anduaga was able to use his stolen identity’s birth certificate to obtain a valid U.S. passport that allowed him to cross the Mexican-American border freely.
The investigation that eventually entrapped Anduaga began in 2014, when the Social Security office in Chula Vista alerted its Office of the Inspector General that private mailboxes near the border might have been be connected to residency fraud, according to the San Diego Union-Tribune.
During a standard Social Security benefits review in 2015, a man claiming to be Riojos was using residency address of a mailbox rental facility on San Ysidro Boulevard. When required to appear for an office interview, the individual presented a California ID card identifying himself as Riojos and claiming to rent a room from a Chula Vista man.
An investigator with the California Department of Health Care Services called the man during the Riojos interview, andthe man confirmed the roommate situation. But when investigators visited the home in January 2016, the man admitted that Riojos had never lived there and was living in Mexico.
The Union-Tribune reported that a follow up investigation found that another person had tried to sign up for Social Security disability benefits in Oceanside, California, using a fake birth certificate with the same date and birthplace as the one for the Riojos name.
Further research found the initial man claiming to be Riojos had a criminal record under 21 aliases and six dates of birth stretching back to 1974, including gun violations, forgery, drug possession and multiple DUIs.
When the Social Security disability payments Anduaga was collecting were terminated in 2016, he signed up as Riojos and began receiving CalFresh Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits from San Diego County. Until being arrested in November 2017, Anduaga pocketed another $12,000 in CalFresh payments, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.
Anduaga faced up to 12 years in federal prison, full restitution for public assistance programs and a fine of up to $971,817.70. But based on his plea bargain, Anduaga was sentenced by U.S. District Judge John A. Houston on July 13 to only 37 months in federal penitentiary — one for every year he cheated the U.S. — and ordered to repay $360,908.85 in restitution to the Social Security Administration, the California Department of Health Care Services, and the County of San Diego.
JUDICIAL WATCH:
ILLEGALS VOTING IN MASSIVE NUMBERS IN MEX-OCCUPIED CA
‘Eleven of California’s 58 counties have registration rates exceeding 100% of the age-eligible citizenry.’
‘California has the highest rate of inactive registrations of any state in the country. Los Angeles County has the highest number of inactive registrations of any single county in the country’
''California is going to be a Hispanic state," said Mario Obeldo, former head of MALDEF. "Anyone who does not like it should leave."
The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of California announced that Andres Avelino Anduaga, a Mexican citizen living in Tijuana, had admitted to obtaining a valid birth certificate of a United States citizen fraudulently in 1980, and then obtaining a valid California Driver’s License and a Social Security card.
Anduaga used the stolen identity of Abraham Riojos, a U.S. citizen from a rural Florida town, to apply for and collect Social Security disability benefits beginning in 1989. Over the next 27 years, Anduaga collected $244,441 in monthly Social Security benefits, and another $100,000 in Medi-Cal health benefits from the State of California.
Anduaga also admitted that he was a convicted U.S. felon under the name “Jose Reyes” who had been deported from the U.S. at least twice, including 1994 and 2000.
Despite his fingerprints and photo being on a criminal file with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Anduaga was able to use his stolen identity’s birth certificate to obtain a valid U.S. passport that allowed him to cross the Mexican-American border freely.
The investigation that eventually entrapped Anduaga began in 2014, when the Social Security office in Chula Vista alerted its Office of the Inspector General that private mailboxes near the border might have been be connected to residency fraud, according to the San Diego Union-Tribune.
During a standard Social Security benefits review in 2015, a man claiming to be Riojos was using residency address of a mailbox rental facility on San Ysidro Boulevard. When required to appear for an office interview, the individual presented a California ID card identifying himself as Riojos and claiming to rent a room from a Chula Vista man.
An investigator with the California Department of Health Care Services called the man during the Riojos interview, andthe man confirmed the roommate situation. But when investigators visited the home in January 2016, the man admitted that Riojos had never lived there and was living in Mexico.
The Union-Tribune reported that a follow up investigation found that another person had tried to sign up for Social Security disability benefits in Oceanside, California, using a fake birth certificate with the same date and birthplace as the one for the Riojos name.
Further research found the initial man claiming to be Riojos had a criminal record under 21 aliases and six dates of birth stretching back to 1974, including gun violations, forgery, drug possession and multiple DUIs.
When the Social Security disability payments Anduaga was collecting were terminated in 2016, he signed up as Riojos and began receiving CalFresh Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits from San Diego County. Until being arrested in November 2017, Anduaga pocketed another $12,000 in CalFresh payments, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.
Anduaga faced up to 12 years in federal prison, full restitution for public assistance programs and a fine of up to $971,817.70. But based on his plea bargain, Anduaga was sentenced by U.S. District Judge John A. Houston on July 13 to only 37 months in federal penitentiary — one for every year he cheated the U.S. — and ordered to repay $360,908.85 in restitution to the Social Security Administration, the California Department of Health Care Services, and the County of San Diego.
JUDICIAL WATCH:
ILLEGALS VOTING IN MASSIVE NUMBERS IN MEX-OCCUPIED CA
‘Eleven of California’s 58 counties have registration rates exceeding 100% of the age-eligible citizenry.’
‘California has the highest rate of inactive registrations of any state in the country. Los Angeles County has the highest number of inactive registrations of any single county in the country’
''California is going to be a Hispanic state," said Mario Obeldo, former head of MALDEF. "Anyone who does not like it should leave."
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