With a super majority in both houses in Sacramento, Newsom
will be able to do anything he wants and the state's surviving Republicans
won't be able to prevent California from becoming the Venezuela of North
America - with open borders.
S.F IS HOME TO THE MOST
CORRUPT AMNESTY DEMS IN THE COUNTRY INCLUDING FEINSTEIN, PELOSI, NEWSOM AND
HITLERMALA HARRIS.
San Francisco: Now so bad,
it'll make you cry
Twentieth-century San Francisco, Herb Caen's beloved Baghdad by
the Bay, has ceased to exist. It has been replaced by a city where
the sidewalks around Market Street are, in places, caked in feces, urine, and
vomit. The stink as you emerge from the BART batters you like frozen
sleet, shocking and overwhelming. The
hordes of homeless, sprawled in doorways and sleeping on the sidewalks, are a
bitterly eclectic mixture of the mentally deranged; burnt out druggies;
dead-eyed hippies; con artists; pickpockets; and hundreds of simply lost,
forgotten souls.
I had occasion to visit downtown San Francisco this afternoon, the
first time in over seven years, though I reside only thirty miles away in the
East Bay suburbs. During my working life, I have commuted to San
Francisco as a bushy-tailed junior executive in the '70s, as a small
business-owner in the early '80s, and as a corporate executive in the
'90s. Thankfully, "Old" San Francisco really was a
wonderful place to work, eat, and play.
As I walked the three blocks back to the BART, I was panhandled
four times, plus two clumsy pickpocket attempts. I didn't see a
single cop in a car or on foot. What could they do?
What finally broke my heart were the kids and women, also lying in
the streets, drugged, shell-shocked, begging for food. I found an
ATM, took out some cash, and bought twenty five-dollar "Arch Cards"
from McDonald's and passed them out. The salty tears flowed gently
down my face and onto my lips. My soul, my humanity was abused,
sickened, and disgusted.
Today I observed a city that carefully and deliberately schemed to
become an open sewer. This is far beyond simple
incompetence. The magnitude and pervasiveness of this horror remains
indescribable. No rational, thinking person, or board, or mayor
could allow this societal abomination to continue unabated in a first-world
country.
Yet it does.
San Francisco willingly hosts a malignant cancer that has
metastasized and destroyed all aspects of a civilized, compassionate society.
While skyscrapers still fill the skyline, and tankers and giant
container ships still prowl the bay, the City-by-the-Bay soul has begun its
death rattle.
The Hollowing-Out of the California Dream
For minorities in the Golden State, opportunity and upward
mobility are hard to come by.
July 26, 2018
California
Economy, finance, and budgets
Its political leaders and
a credulous national media present California as the “woke” state, creating an
economically just, post-racial reality. Yet in terms of opportunity, California
is evolving into something more like apartheid South Africa or the pre-civil
rights South. California simply does not measure up in delivering educational
attainment, income growth, homeownership, and social mobility for traditionally
disadvantaged minorities. All this bodes ill for a state already three-fifths non-white
and trending further in that direction in the years ahead. In the past decade,
the state has added 1.8 million Latinos, who will account by 2060 for almost half the state’s
population. The black population has plateaued, while the number of white
Californians is down some 700,000 over the past decade.
Minorities and immigrants
have brought much entrepreneurial energy and a powerful work ethic to
California. Yet, to a remarkable extent, their efforts have reaped only meager
returns during California’s recent boom. California, suggests gubernatorial
candidate and environmental activist Michael Shellenberger, is not “the most
progressive state” but “the most racist” one. Chapman University reports that 28
percent of California’s blacks are impoverished, compared with 22 percent
nationally. Fully one-third of California
Latinos—now the state’s largest ethnic group—live in poverty, compared with 21
percent outside the state. Half of Latino households earn under
$50,000 annually, which, in a high-cost state, means that they barely make
enough to make ends meet. Over two-thirds of non-citizen Latinos, the group
most loudly defended by the state’s progressive leadership, live at or below
the poverty line, according to a recent United Way study.
This stagnation reflects
the reality of the most recent California “miracle.” Historically, economic
growth extended throughout the state, and produced many high-paying blue-collar
jobs. In contrast, the post-2010 boom has been inordinately dependent on the
high valuations of a handful of tech firms and coastal real estate speculation.
Relatively few blacks or Latinos participate at the upper reaches of the tech
economy—and a recent study suggests that their
percentages in that sector are declining—and generally lack the family
resources to compete in the real estate market. Instead, many are stuck with
rents they can’t afford.
Even as incomes soared in
the Silicon Valley and San Francisco after 2010, wages for African-Americans
and Latinos in the Bay Area declined. The shift of employment from industrial to software industries, as well
as the extraordinary presence—as much as 40 percent—of noncitizens in the tech
industry, has meant fewer opportunities for assemblers and other blue-collar
workers. Many nonwhite Americans labor in the service sector as security guards or janitors, making
about $25,000 annually, working for contractors who offer no job security and
only limited benefits. In high-priced Silicon Valley, these are essentially
poverty wages. Some workers live in their cars, converted garages, or even on
the streets, largely ignored by California’s famously enlightened oligarchs.
CityLab has described the
Bay Area as “a region of segregated innovation.” TheGiving Code, which reports on
charitable trends among the ultra-rich, found that between 2006 and 2013, 93
percent of all private foundation-giving in Silicon Valley went to causes
outside of Silicon Valley. Better to be a whale, or a distressed child in
Africa or Central America, than a worker living in his car outside Google
headquarters.
For generations,
California’s racial minorities, like their Caucasian counterparts, embraced the
notion of an American Dream that included owning a house. Unlike kids
from wealthy families—primarily white—who can
afford elite educations and can sometimes purchase houses with parental
help, Latinos and blacks, usually without much in the way of family resources,
are increasingly priced out of the market. In California, Hispanics and
blacks face housing prices that are approximately twice the national average,
relative to income. Unsurprisingly, African-American and Hispanic homeownership
rates have dropped considerably more than those of Asians and whites—four times
the rate in the rest of the country. California’s white homeownership rate
remains above 62 percent, but just 42 percent of all Latino households, and
only 33 percent of all black households, own their own homes.
In contrast,
African-Americans do far better, in terms of income and homeownership, in
places like Dallas-Fort Worth or greater Houston than in socially enlightened
locales such as Los Angeles or San Francisco. Houston and Dallas boast black homeownership
rates of 40 to 50 percent; in deep blue but much costlier Los Angeles and New
York, the rate is about 10 percentage points lower.
Rather than achieving
upward class mobility, many minorities in California have fallen down the class
ladder. This can be seen in California’s overcrowding rate, the nation’s
second-worst. Of the 331 zip codes making up the top 1 percent of overcrowded
zip codes in the U.S., 134 are found in Southern California, primarily in
greater Los Angeles and San Diego, mostly concentrated around heavily Latino
areas such as Pico-Union, East Los Angeles, and Santa Ana, in Orange County.
The lack of affordable
housing and the disappearance of upward mobility could create a toxic racial
environment for California. By the 2030s, large swaths of the state,
particularly along the coast, could evolve into a geriatric belt, with an
affluent, older boomer population served by a largely minority service-worker
class. As white and Asian boomers age, California increasingly will have
to depend on children from
mainly poorer families with fewer educational resources, living in crowded and
even unsanitary conditions, often far from their place of employment, to
work for low wages.
Historically, education
has been the lever that gives minorities and the poor access to opportunity.
But in California, a state that often identifies itself as “smart,” the
educational system is deeply flawed, especially for minority populations. Once
a model of educational success, California now ranks 36th in the country in
educational performance, according to a 2018 Education Weekreport. The state does
have a strong sector of “gold and silver” public schools, mostly located in
wealthy suburban locations such as Orange County, the interior East Bay, and
across the San Francisco Peninsula. But the performance of schools in heavily
minority, working-class areas is scandalously poor. The state’s powerful
teachers’ union and the Democratic legislature have added $31.2 billion since
2013 in new school funding, but California’s poor students ranked 49th on
National Assessment of Education Progress tests. In Silicon Valley, half of local
public school students, and barely one in five blacks or Latinos, are proficient in basic
math.
Clearly, California’s
progressive ideology and spending priorities are not serving minority students
well. High-poverty schools are so poorly run that disruptions from students and
administrative interruptions, according to a UCLA study, account for 30 minutes
a day of class time. Teachers in these schools often promote “progressive
values,” spending much of their time, according to one writer, “discussing community
problems and societal inequities.” Other priorities include transgender and
other gender-relatededucation, from which parents,
in some school districts, cannot opt out. This ideological instruction is doing
little for minority youngsters. San Francisco, which the nonprofit journalism
site Calmatters refers to as “a
progressive enclave and beacon for technological innovation,” also had “the
lowest black student achievement of any county in California,” as well as the
highest gap between black and white scores.
Ultimately, any reversal
of this pattern must come from minorities demanding a restoration of
opportunity. Some now see the linkage between state policy and impoverishment,
which has led some 200 civil rights leaders to sue the state Air Resources Board, the group that enforces
the Greenhouse Gas edicts of the state bureaucracy. But perhaps the ultimate
wakeup call will come from a slowing economy. After an extraordinary period of
growth post-recession, California’s economy is clearly weakening, as companies
and people move elsewhere. Texas and other states are now experiencing faster GDP growth than the
Golden State. Perhaps more telling, the latest BEA numbers suggest that
California—which created barely 800 jobs last month—is now experiencing far lower income growth than the national
average, and scarcely half that of Texas, Colorado, Michigan, Arizona,
Missouri, or Florida. Out-migration of skilled and younger
workers, reacting to long commutes and high prices, seems to be accelerating, both in Southern California
and the Bay Area.
One has to wonder what
will happen when the California economy, burdened by regulations, high costs,
and taxes, slows even more. Generous welfare benefits, made possible by taxing
the rich, could be threatened; conversely, the Left might get traction by pushing
to raise taxes even higher. The pain will be relatively minor in Palo Alto,
Malibu, or Marin County, the habitations of the ruling gentry rich—but for
those Californians who have already been left behind, and for a diminishing
middle class, it might be just beginning.
CALIFORNIA DMV GIVES ILLEGAL VOTERS A
SURGE
“New” and “underrepresented” voters could spell victory for leftist
Democrats in November.
September
12, 2018
Last week California’s Department of Motor Vehicles sent 23,000 “erroneous”
voter registrations to the
office of Secretary of State Alex Padilla, who maintains the list of registered
voters. The DMV blamed it technical errors and said none of the erroneous
registrations involved undocumented immigrants. Padilla was “extremely
disappointed and deeply frustrated” and the DMV assured him it wouldn’t happen
again.
Legitimate voters have good reason to believe Padilla was not
disappointed but delighted. The odds are strong that illegals make up most if
not all of the newly registered voters. The registrations of illegals will be
happening again, in greater numbers, as the November election approaches.
The day after the 23,000 registrations made news, it emerged that
from late April to early August, the DMV registered 182,000 “new voters,” with the largest number, 112,000, choosing “no party.”
Neither the DMV nor Padilla would explain the numbers but the trend is evident
and all by design.
Under a 2015 voter registration law, the DMV automatically
registered to vote those who obtain or renew a California driver’s license.
As Padilla told the Los
Angeles Times, “We’ve
built the protocols and the firewalls to not register people that aren’t
eligible. We’re going to keep those firewalls in place.” The Democrats’
Secretary of State did not explain how the firewalls worked and if any
ineligibles had managed to vote.
After the 2016 election in which Donald Trump defeated Hillary
Clinton, Padilla refused to release any voter information to a federal probe
that he claimed “has already inaccurately passed judgment that millions of
Californians voted illegally.” California’s participation, Padilla said in a statement, “would
only serve to legitimize the false and already debunked claims of massive voter
fraud made by the president.”
Governor Jerry Brown, who three times ran for president, calls
Californians “the citizens of the fifth largest economy in the world,” and the sanctuary state law protects even violent criminal
illegals. The ruling Democrats protect illegals while promising them “free”
health care and other benefits. In return, the illegals vote for Democrats.
“Palestinian-Mexican American” candidate Ammar Campa-Najjar, is
the grandson of Black September terrorist Muhammad Yusuf al-Najjar, who
masterminded the murder and mutilation of 11 Israelis at the Munich Olympics in
1972. The Democrat, 29, is depending on “underrepresented voters,” to unseat Rep. Duncan Hunter in San Diego.
Legitimate voters have good reason to consider “underrepresented”
as code for “ineligible” or “illegal.” For their part, legal citizens and
immigrants might wonder how the Munichian candidate’s father managed to enter the United States and what the family was
doing in Gaza for several years. Ammar isn’t telling and establishment
journalists look the other way.
Senate boss Kevin de León, whose name on his birth certificate voter rolls is Kevin
Alexander Leon, claims
his father is a Chinese cook born in Guatemala. The author of the state’s
sanctuary law spent time on both sides of the border and “identifies strongly
with Mexican culture.” The story defies belief but as with Najjar the
establishment media mounted no investigation.
Back in 1996 in Orange County, 442 illegals voted for Loretta Sanchez, the Democrat who narrowly defeated Republican Robert Dornan.
He was the target of Hermandad Mexicana Nacional founder
Bert Corona, a violent Stalinist who opposed Dornan’s strong anti-Communist
stance.
Despite Democrat denials, voter fraud was going strong in
California long before the DMV registered more than one million
false-documented illegals. It’s a safe bet that most if not all those
ineligibles will be showing up at the polls in November.
The Once 'Golden State' Is Badly Tarnished
With crime soaring, rampant homelessness,
sanctuary state status attracting the highest illegal immigrant population in
the country and its “worst
state in the U.S. to do business” ranking for
more than a decade, California and its expansive, debt-ridden, progressive
government is devolving into a third-world country. In cities such as San
Francisco, public defecation is legal,
drug use is flagrant, and tent cities are designated biohazards. In once
pristine San
Diego, contractors have been
spraying down homeless encampments with household bleach to stave off a
hepatitis A epidemic. The so-called “Golden State,” which now has the
highest poverty
rate in the nation, is
tarnished beyond recognition with such serious problems that the sublime
climate and striking coastline may no longer be enough to sustain its
reputation and cachet. With laws that benefit criminals and illegals, big
government that endeavors to control every aspect of residents’ lives from
plastic bags to straws; sanctioned street, tent, and vehicle dwelling; and an
unaffordable overhyped bullet train boondoggle that will cost taxpayers
almost $100
billion, California is headed for
economic disaster.
Rising Crime
In the past few years, California has
instituted criminal justice reform legislation and initiatives, ostensibly to
reduce budget expenditures and prison overcrowding, which has led invariably to
the release of more criminals into the state’s population.
- Proposition
47, a referendum passed in 2014,
reclassified certain drug possession felonies to misdemeanors and required
misdemeanor sentencing for theft when the amount involved is $950 or less.
Drug possession for personal use is now considered a misdemeanor.
- Proposition
57, a statewide ballot proposition
passed in 2016, changed parole policies for those convicted of nonviolent
felonies. But the proposition failed to define “nonviolent crimes”. The
result was that those committing “nonviolent” crimes such as rape of an
unconscious or intoxicated person, assault of a police office, domestic
violence, hostage taking, drive-by shootings, and human trafficking of a
child became eligible for early parole based on a paper review in lieu of
a parole hearing.
- Assembly
Bill 1448 and Assembly
Bill 1308 allow for the early release of
prisoners who are 60 years or older who have served at least 25 years of
their sentence and prisoners who committed crimes at least 25 years or
younger who have served at least 15 years, respectively. Both were signed
into law by Governor Jerry Brown in 2017.
- In
June this year, Gov. Brown signed into law AB
1810, that gives defendants a chance to
have their charges dismissed and evidence of their arrest erased from the
record if they can convince a judge that they suffer from a treatable
mental disorder. Such defendants could be offered a pretrial diversion of
two years to undergo mental health treatment.
As may have been expected with lenient
policies, violent crime and property crime rates in the state increased and
will mostly likely soar in the aftermath of some of the newly implemented
measures. An FBI study of crime rates from 2014 to 2015 found that 48 California
cities saw overall increases with 24 experiencing increases in the double digits
for property crime, an increase directly attributable to Prop. 47, according to
Marc Debbaudt, past president of the Association of Los Angeles Deputy District
Attorneys.
Homelessness
As of 2017, California had a homeless population of over 134,000, or one
quarter of the nation’s homeless. UCLA researcherWilliam
Yu notedthat 26% of California’s
homeless are severely mentally ill, 18% are chronic drug abusers, 9% are
veterans and 24% are victims of domestic abuse. Orange County Supervisor, Tod
Spitzer attributes much of the problem
to legislation signed by Governor Jerry Brown over the past few years that
markedly decreased the penalties for drug use, possession, and petty crimes,
thereby reducing arrests and eliminating mandatory treatment for drug abuse and
mental health treatment.
Where other states have successfully
instituted welfare-to-work programs, California’s liberal government has resisted
pro-work reforms and retained
a system of cash disbursements with no strings attached. This has led to a
state bureaucracy that continues to grow and expand its budget, staffing, and
client base. Inordinately high housing prices, somewhat driven by restrictive
land use and environmental regulations, have exacerbated the problem.
Civil rights organizations such as the
ACLU have made the homelessness issue a difficult one to tackle. In 2003, the
ACLU filed
a lawsuit, Jones v. City of
Los Angeles, on behalf of homeless people who were ticketed and arrested
for sleeping on public sidewalks at night. In 2006, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court
of Appeals ruled on the lawsuit by striking down the Los Angeles ordinance that
made it a crime for homeless people to sleep on the streets when no shelter is available.
Not only is it permissible to pitch a tent in many areas in the state but
also vehicle
dwelling is allowed in Los
Angeles residential areas from 6:00 a.m. to 9 p.m. and in business and
industrial areas from 9:00 p.m. to 6:00 a.m.
Illegal Immigration
California, a sanctuary
state, is home to at least 4
million illegal immigrants and their children. National
Economics Editorial, a website that covers
economic issues, has estimated that those in the state illegally contribute
$3.5 billion in taxes while costing California approximately $30.3 billion
annually, or 17.7% of the state budget. According to the Migration
Policy Institute (MPI), more than
half are unskilled, uneducated, and lack English proficiency.
Services
to illegals include welfare, food
stamps, meal programs, free immunizations, low-cost housing and in-state
tuition rates. In addition, children of illegals make up 18% of the public-school
population, straining the already burdened school system by increasing
student-to-teacher ratios and by impeding the learning process with
supplemental, English-language instruction.
Unchecked illegal immigration comes with a
marked increase
in crime rates. Those who have broken the
law to come to the United States are overrepresented in murder charges, drug
trafficking, and gang violence. Increased policing, court, and incarceration
costs put additional strain on the justice syste. In 2014, the U.S.
Department of Justice and U.S. Sentencing Commission reported that illegal immigrants committed over 13% of all U.S.
crime, and a particularly high level of violent and drug-related crimes,
according to criminologist and law enforcement expert Ron Martinelli. A substantial
illegal immigrant population coupled with a policy signed by Governor Jerry
Brown in 2014 that protects criminal illegal immigrants by reducing their
sentences to fall below federal standards for deportation further aggravates
the problem. This, at a time when59%
of Californians want to
increase deportations of illegals.
No
Justice for Taxpaying Americans
By Howie Carr
The Boston Herald, August 08, 2018
But the real double standard kicks in when the
undocumented Democrat gets to the courtroom. A taxpaying American can only
dream of the kid-gloves treatment these Third World fiends get.
Here’s a 2016 headline: “If Springfield market
owner illegally cashing food stamps had been U.S. citizen punishment would have
been greater, judge says.”
This one involved a 56-year-old Dominican bodega
owner who was running an EBT-card scam for illegal immigrants in Springfield —
stop me if you’ve heard this one before. He stole $38,000 and didn’t do a day
in jail. As Judge Tina Page said, “Had he been a citizen of the U.S. he would
in all likelihood be serving a substantial sentence.”
But if he’d been imprisoned he’d have been
deported, and God knows we don’t want to deport Dominican welfare fraudsters —
or Dominican heroin dealers.
Freeing Dominican heroin dealers (and future cop
killers) is the specialty of Superior Court Judge Timothy Feeley, who cut loose
a Dominican heroin dealer with no prison time, as the prosecutor put it, “to
help him avoid deportation.”
Are you starting to notice a pattern here?
Sometimes law-abiding taxpayers get murdered because of this double standard of
justice for welfare-collecting noncitizens.
http://www.bostonherald.com/news/columnists/howie_carr/2018/08/carr_no_justice_for_taxpaying_americans
Get rid of 40 million looting Mexicans and we resolve our
housing and jobs crisis and end the $150 billion Mex welfare state in our open
borders!
Our government is too busy easing illegals over the borders!
THE NEW PRIVILEGED CLASS: Illegals!
This is why you work From Jan - May paying taxes to the government
....with the rest of the calendar year is money for you and your family.
Take, for example, an illegal alien with a wife and five children.
He takes a job for
$5.00 or 6.00/hour. At that wage, with six dependents, he pays no
income tax, yet at the end of the year, if he files an Income Tax Return, with
his fake Social Security number, he gets an "earned income credit" of
up to $3,200..... free.
He qualifies for Section 8 housing and subsidized rent.
He qualifies for food stamps.
He qualifies for free (no deductible, no co-pay) health
care.
His children get free breakfasts and lunches at school.
He requires bilingual teachers and books.
He qualifies for relief from high energy bills.
If they are or become, aged, blind or disabled, they qualify for
SSI.
Once qualified for SSI they can qualify for Medicare. All of this
is at (our) taxpayer's expense.
He doesn't worry about car insurance, life insurance, or homeowners
insurance.
Taxpayers provide Spanish language signs, bulletins and printed
material.
He and his family receive the equivalent of $20.00 to $30.00/hour
in benefits.
Working Americans are lucky to have $5.00 or $6.00/hour left after
Paying their bills and his.
The American taxpayers also pay for increased crime, graffiti and
trash clean-up.
Cheap labor? YEAH RIGHT! Wake up people!
U.S. Election Meddling: Nationwide Voter Fraud, Importation of 15M
Foreign-Born Voters
Shelby Lum,
Richmond Times-Dispatch via The Associated Press
19 Jul 2018Washington, D.C.
As
the establishment media, GOP, and Democrats fret over the influence foreign
countries have on U.S. elections, the leading threats to the American
electorate remain nationwide voter fraud and mass immigration.
Though President Trump’s administration sought to thoroughly investigate
voter fraud through the
Presidential Commission on Election Integrity, the board
was handed off to the
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in order to bypass obstruction from
national Democrats who refused to turn over voter data.
Voter Fraud
The number of convictions against voter fraud continues to rise, with now
nearly 940 criminal convictions on the books across the U.S., according to the
latest data from the
Heritage Foundation.
Likewise, the
number of cases of voter fraud has risen. Heritage’s Voter Fraud Database now
features 1,071 cases of voter fraud that spans across 47 states.
In the most recent study by the
Government Accountability Institute (GAI) on voter fraud, the think tank
found 8,471 high likely cases of double voting. About 7,271 of those
cases were inter-state double voting, while the remaining 1,200 cases were
of intra-state double voting.
“The
probability of correctly matching two records with the same name, birthdate,
and social security number is close to 100 percent,” the GAI report noted.
Kansas Secretary of State and gubernatorial candidate
Kris Kobach is fighting in his state to enforce voting laws that would mandate
voters prove their U.S. citizenship. This effort has currently been
halted by the left-wing ACLU organization and a circuit judge who recently
claimed that it was unconstitutional for a state to demand voters provide
their U.S. citizenship records. Years ago, proof of citizenship voting laws
were upheld as fully constitutional.
“Compare
[Russia meddling in the 2016 presidential campaigns] to the kind of foreign
influence in the actual election numbers in foreign nationals voting,” Kobach
told Breitbart News. “That’s real and much more consequential and it’s
happening all over the country.”
Kobach said
his expert witness in the suit with the ACLU over the proof of citizenship law
revealed that as many as 33,000 foreign nationals are on the voter rolls in
Kansas. For states like California, with the largest foreign-born population in
the country, the number of foreign nationals on the voter rolls is likely in
the hundreds of thousands or even the millions, Kobach says.
Mass Immigration
Similarly, mass legal and illegal immigration to the U.S. continues to be
the largest driver of population increases and demographic shifts in the
country. Every year, more than 1.5 million immigrants are admitted to the
country. The U.S. has imported more than ten million immigrants in the
last decade.
The vast
majority of foreign nationals arrive through the process known as “chain
migration,” where newly naturalized citizens can bring an unlimited number of
foreign relatives to the U.S. Every two new immigrants to the country bring an
additional seven foreign relatives with them.
As Breitbart News has extensively reported, the U.S. is
on track to import about 15 million foreign-born voters by the year 2038. That
is nearly quadruple the size of the annual number of U.S. births; about
four million American babies are born every year.
Through chain
migration alone, the U.S. will import about eight million foreign-born voters
in the next two decades.
The country’s
continued mass immigration policies are likely to hand over electoral dominance
to Democrats in statewide and national elections, Breitbart News has noted.
Analysis
conducted by Axios’s Chris Canipe and Andrew Witherspoon shows the
overwhelming trend of foreign-born populations voting Democrats into office
over Republicans.
The victory of
socialist Democrat Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in New York’s 14th District is the
latest case where a booming foreign-born voting population pushed the far-left
activist over the edge to beat out establishment, high ranking Democrat Rep.
Joe Crowley.
Ocasio-Cortez’s district is close to 50 percent foreign-born, a drastic
shift of an area that was once populated primarily by native-born Americans.
Ocasio-Cortez ran her congressional campaign on abolishing all
immigration enforcement across the U.S.
In California,
Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) is facing a challenge from State Senator
Kevin de León (D-Los Angeles), and the California Democratic Party has
endorsed León. The far-left challenger was the key proponent of California’s
sanctuary state law that protects criminal illegal aliens from being deported.
University of Maryland, College Park researcher James Gimpel
has found in
recent years that more immigrants to the U.S. inevitably means more Democrat
voters and thus, increasing electoral victories for the Democratic Party.
In 2014,
Gimpel’s research concluded with three major findings:
·
Immigrants, particularly Hispanics and Asians, have policy preferences
when it comes to the size and scope of government that are more closely aligned
with progressives than with conservatives. As a result, survey data show a
two-to-one party identification with Democrats over Republicans.
·
By increasing income inequality and adding to the low-income population
(e.g. immigrants and their minor children account for one-fourth of those in
poverty and one-third of the uninsured) immigration likely makes all voters
more supportive of redistributive policies championed by Democrats to support
disadvantaged populations.
·
There is evidence that immigration may cause more Republican-oriented
voters to move away from areas of high immigrant settlement leaving behind a
more lopsided Democrat majority.
Years ago,
only a handful of elected Democrats would mention how the demographic shift
spurred by mass immigration was a benefit to Democrats electorally. Today, it
is a widely used talking point of elected Democrats.
Take San
Antonio, Texas Mayor Julian Castro, for example. Months ago, Castro admitted
that immigration could potentially turn the state of Texas, Florida, and
Arizona into Democrat strongholds, like California.
“The Democrats
have now become very open about what they are doing and they state it very
clearly,” Kobach said of the Democrats’ use of immigration for shifting the
electorate.
“Now, multiple
Democrats are saying their plan is to import new voters to change elections,”
Kobach said.
In an analysis from Georgetown University, the
University of California, and Banque de France, researchers discovered
that immigration to the country continuously increases Democrats’ chances of
winning elections:
On average across election types,
immigration to the U.S. has a significant and negative impact on the Republican
vote share, consistent with the typical view of political analysts in the U.S.
[Emphasis added]
This average effect – which is driven by elections in the House – works
through two main channels. The impact of immigration on
Republican votes in the House is negative when the share of naturalized
migrants in the voting population increases. Yet, it can be
positive when the share of non-citizen migrants out of the population goes up
and the size of migration makes it a salient policy issue in voters’ minds.
[Emphasis added]
These results are consistent with
naturalized migrants being less likely to vote for the Republican Party than
native voters and with native voters’ political preferences moving towards the
Republican Party because of high immigration of non-citizens. This second
effect, however, is significant only for very high levels of immigrant
presence. [Emphasis added]
In 2016, the legal and illegal immigrant population reached a record high
of 44 million. By 2023, the Center for Immigration Studies estimates that the legal and illegal immigrant
population of the U.S. will make up nearly 15 percent of the entire U.S.
population.
Mexico has the
largest group of legal and illegal foreign nationals in the U.S., with 1.1
million immigrants from the country arriving in the U.S. between 2010 and 2016.
Mexican nationals make up roughly one in eight new arrivals to the U.S. On
average, every one Mexican immigrant brings six foreign relatives with them to
the country through chain migration.
John Binder is a
reporter for Breitbart News. Follow him on Twitter at @JxhnBinder
CRIMINALS WIN BIG IN CALIFORNIA
SANCTUARY RULING
Bush appointee
upholds protections for false-documented illegals.
July
9, 2018
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.”
California Gets ‘F’ Grade from ‘Truth in Accounting’
19 Jun 2018
Newport Beach, CA18
The non-partisan “Truth in Accounting” project,
which analyzes government financial reports, has awarded California an “F”
grade for claiming surpluses instead of a $269.9 billion deficit.
The Chicago-based organization
has been providing in-depth accounting reviews of the audited financial
statements for America’s fifty states, as well as most major counties and major
cities, in the United States since 2002.
The group’s mission is to educate
and empower citizens with understandable, reliable, and transparent government
financial information.
California received the lowest score
of “F” on Truth in Accounting’s grading scale because despite Gov.
Jerry Brown touting several years of surpluses, California actually faces a
$269.9 billion shortfall in terms of its overall obligations, which equates to
$22,000 burden for each of the 12.3 million taxpayers in the state.
California’s financial burden is
primarily associated with the rapidly deteriorating condition of the state’s
current $461.3 billion in promised public employee retirement benefits –which
are $102.5 billion under-funded by the pension plan — and $107 billion for
unfunded retiree health care benefits.
The State of California faced a near
financial death experience in Great Recession, when the average taxpayer burden
jumped from $15,000 to $23,500. Newly elected Gov. Brown, facing a $25 billion
deficit in 2011, passed an array of income and sales tax hikes, including a 29
percent increase for Californians with taxable income over $1 million.
Gov. Brown has touted the
“California Comeback.” But the data demonstrate that despite the gusher of tax
revenue the flooded into Sacramento from the economic recovery and the
substantially higher tax rates Gov. Brown passed, the state’s taxpayer burden
only fell modestly to $20,900 by 2015. The taxpayer burden rose to $21,600 in
2016 and hit $22,000 in 2017, the second-highest in the history of the state.
Truth in Accounting Founder Sheila
Weinberg warns that
California is a giant “Sinkhole Sate.” Ms. Weinberg is especially critical of
Gov. Brown claiming an $8.8 billion surplus this year, while avoiding the
fact that California has only $100.1 billion in available assets to pay $369.9
billion worth of bills.
Weinberg emphasized to Breitbart
News that California’s rising “taxpayer burden” is only for net state
liabilities. Her organization intends to begin publishing consolidated reports
this summer for all the states that will also capture the liabilities of
counties and cities. Ms. Weinberg expects that the combined taxpayer burden for
California to be a much higher number.
June 16, 2018
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."
The one topic Democrats
don't dare bring up
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.
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.
Zuckerberg’s
Investor Group Pushes for Pre-Election Amnesty
Getty/Saul Loeb
Silicon Valley investors, including Facebook owner Mark Zuckerberg, are
joining the Koch network’s push for a quick amnesty that would also keep the
issue of cheap-labor immigration out of the November election.
But the push by Zuckerberg’s FWD.us investor group quickly hit a
roadblock Thursday when Majority Leader Rep. Kevin McCarthy denounced the
“discharge petition” amnesty plan, which is fronted by California GOP Rep. Jeff
Denham.
“I don’t believe discharge petitions are
the way to legislate,” McCarthy said to The Hill. “I don’t believe members
in the [GOP] conference believe that, either.”
McCarthy’s opposition — and the growing
pressure for a quick exit by retiring House Speaker Paul Ryan — opens up
room for GOP legislators to make the November election all about rising
wages vs. cheap-labor immigration. Numerous polls show that more
than 70 percent of
Americans want companies to hire Americans before importing more
cheap-labor immigrants, and numerous business groups say they need more
imported labor as wages begin to rise.
But a quick Zuckerberg amnesty would prevent
President Donald Trump or GOP leaders from running on an immigration reform
platform in November — and would also deflate economic pressure that is
delivering higher wages before the 2018 election. “It would
be the dumbest thing possible for Republicans to do coming election which they
already think they may lose — they would for sure lose with this,”
said Rosemary Jenks, the director of governmental affairs at NumbersUSA.
She continued:
I don’t think they will [shift to immigration,
but] … it would be a surefire way to keep the majority. People in Washington
talk about [election-winning] ’70 percent issues’ … [and] this is it, this is
the 70 percent issue.
Backed
by Zuckerberg’s FWD.us, Denham is collecting GOP signatures for a resolution
that would urge a so-called “Queen of the Hill” debate on the House floor.
In that very rare form of debate, legislators could
debate several alternative immigration bills, and the most popular
proposal would be sent to the Senate
Those
rules would almost guarantee a big win for Zuckerberg and his allies because
nearly all Democrats and many business-first Republicans — including many who
are retiring this year — will support a no-strings “Clean Dream Act” amnesty
for at least 1.8 million younger ‘DACA’ illegals.
Denham claims to have 50 GOP
legislators backing his resolution, but those GOP members have not signed
the needed “discharge petition” which allows 218 cooperating legislators to
force the debate despite opposition from the Speaker of the House. Many of Denham’s
supporters don’t recognize the impact of Denham’s plan, said Jenks, and “when they find out, they are not going to be happy and will
certainly not sign the discharge.”’
Denham’s
office did not respond to questions from Breitbart News.
McCarthy’s
quick opposition to Denham’s push is critical because he is the likely
replacement for exiting House Speaker Paul Ryan. Without McCarthy’s
support for the immigration push, few of the GOP legislators on Denham’s
resolution will sign the needed discharge petition — even though many will use
their support for the resolution to ingratiate themselves with their donors and
pro-amnesty voters.
Denham’s resolution is getting expensive
media support from the various donors who are working under cover of the Koch advocacy network,
which has at least 550 business donors.
On April 17. Daniel Garza, the president of the Koch-funded LIBRE
Initiative, told Business
Insider:
The
American people deserve a government that is effective and efficient in solving
our nation’s problems.
Congress
and the White House have spent a lot of time talking about DACA, but today our
elected officials have yet to approve a permanent legislative
solution. The Dreamers are among our best and brightest. They are
students, workers, and men and women risking their lives in the Armed
Forces. Washington must come together and approve a bipartisan solution
that provides certainty for Dreamers and security improvements along our
border.
Zuckerberg’s FWD.us advocacy group is also
providing direct support for the Denham push, and it touted Wednesday’s
press conference where Denham was flanked by a few other cheap-labor
Republicans — Texas Rep. Will Hurd, Colorado Rep. Mike Coffman and
California Rep. David Valadao – as
well as the Democratic head of the Hispanic ethnic lobby, new Mexico
Democrat Rep. Michelle Lujan Grisham.
The group has endorsed multiple bills and amnesties which
would raise the supply of white-collar labor and
also block Donald Trump’s populist “Buy American, Hire American” policies, all
of which will tend to raise Americans’ blue-collar wages and white-collar salaries.
In February, FWD.us joined with many other business groups to help the Senate
block Trump’s popular immigration reforms.
Since Trump’s election, the FWD.us group
has used the relatively few college-grad ‘DACA’
illegals to shift the political focus from Trump’s very popular
wages-for-Americans pitch. That diversionary tactic has worked, partly because
most establishment reporters prefer to focus on the concerns of foreign
migrants rather than the concerns of fellow Americans.
However, Republicans are facing a
tough 2018 election and may decide to pick up the issue up the
popular issue of immigration and wages, especially if McCarthy replacesHouse Speaker
Paul Ryan before the
election.
Zuckerberg’s group has funded polls which tout
the supposed popularity of immigration. These “Nation of Immigrants”
polls pressure Americans to say they welcome migrants.
Also, a series of 2018 polls and surveys
show that GOP voters believe the immigration issue is far more important than
celebrating tax cuts.
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.
California’s Rich May Leave to Avoid $12 Billion in SALT Tax Hit
President Donald Trump’s new tax cut, which
limiting state and local tax deductions, will cost rich Californians $12
billion more in federal taxes, with $9 billion coming from those making $1
million or more.
Recently, the California Department
of Finance reported good news for Sacramento politicians: thanks largely to
having the top state income tax bracket in the nation at 13.3 percent,
California collected about $3.3 billion more in state taxes than forecast in
the first three months of 2018, with 67 percent coming from higher than
expected personal income taxes.
But the California Franchise Tax
Board also warned that
the Trump tax cut, which
limits state and local tax (SALT) deductions to a maximum of $10,000, will cost
same high income earners $12 billion a year more in federal tax.
The bigger tax bite could also be
strong motivation for California’s highest income earners to vote with their
feet and leave California to save big bucks in a low tax state.
Maine is second to California with a
top income tax rate of 10.15 percent, followed by Oregon’s 9.9 percent. But
Nevada, Washington, Texas and Florida have no state income tax.
Only about 61,000 households, or 0.4
percent, of the 16 million households in California reported an income of more
than $1 million in 2014. But the CalMatters blog commented
that of the 40 million residents in California, the top 150,000 that are in
the top 1 percent of income earners pay about half of all state income
taxes.
California taxpayers may already be
voting with their feet, according to an analysis by
CNBC. The business news team found that from 2016 to 2017, California saw a net
138,000 people leave the state, while Texas grew by 79,000 people, Arizona
added 63,000 residents, and Nevada saw a 38,000 gain.
The Republican Governors’
Association was quick to observe: “California
Democrats imposing massive tax hikes on middle-class families, driving up their
state’s cost of living, residents are packing their bags and leaving for states
run by GOP governors like Arizona, Nevada, and Texas with lower tax burdens and
friendlier business climates.”
Adios, Sanctuary La Raza Welfare State of California
A fifth-generation Californian
laments his state’s ongoing economic collapse.
By Steve Baldwin
American Spectator, October 19, 2017
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'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.
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.
Importantly, immigrants vote
Democrat by a ratio higher than 2:1, according to a report from the Center
for Immigration Studies. In California, immigration has
increased the pool of likely Democrat voters by nearly 5 million people,
compared to just 2.4 million additional likely Republican
voters. Not only does this almost guarantee Democratic victories,
but it also shifts California's political midpoint to the left. This
means that to remain competitive in elections, the Republicans must abandon or soften many
conservative positions so as to cater to the center.
California became a
Democratic stronghold not because Californians became socialists, but because
millions of socialists moved there. Immigration turned California
blue, and immigration is ultimately to blame for California's high poverty
level.
REALITIES OF A STATE IN
MELTDOWN:
THE INVISIBLE CALIFORNIA
De facto apartheid world in the Golden State.
In 1973, as I was going through customs in
New York, the customs agent rifling my bag looked at my passport and said, with
a Bronx sneer, “Bruce Thornton, huh. Must be one of them Hollywood names.”
Hearing that astonishing statement, I
realized for the first time that California is as much an idea as a place.
There were few regions in America more distant from Hollywood than the rural,
mostly poor, multiethnic San Joaquin Valley where my family lived and ranched.
Yet to this New Yorker, the Valley was invisible.
BLOG: FEINSTEIN & BOXER THREE TIMES
ATTEMPTED TO INSERT IN VARIOUS BILLS AN AMNESTY FOR FARM WORKERS TO REPAY THEIR
BIG AG BIG DONORS.
ONE-THIRD OF ALL FARM WORKERS END UP ON
WELFARE AS SOON AS THE ANCHOR BABIES START COMING
Coastal Californians are sometimes just as
blind to the world on the other side of the Coast Range, even though its farms,
orchards, vineyards, dairies, and ranches comprise more than half the
state’s $46
billion agriculture industry, which grows over 400 commodities, including over a third of the
country’s vegetables and two-thirds of its fruits and nuts.
Granted, Silicon Valley is an economic
colossus compared to the ag industry, but agriculture’s importance can’t be
measured just in dollars and cents. Tech, movies, and every other industry
tends to forget that their lives and businesses, indeed civilization itself,
all rest on the shoulders of those who produce the food. You can live without
your iPhone or your Mac or the latest Marvel Studios blockbuster. But you can’t live without the food grown by the one out of a
100 people who work to feed the other 99.
A Politically Invisible Valley
Living in the most conservative counties
in the
deepest-blue state, Valley residents
constantly see
their concerns, beliefs, and needs
seldom taken
into account at the state or federal
level.
Registered Democrats in California
outnumber registered Republicans by over 19%, and the State Legislature seats about twice as many Democrats as
Republicans (California’s one of only eight states nationwide with a trifecta of a Democratic and two Democratic
controlled legislative bodies).
California’s Congressional delegation is
even more unbalanced: in the House of Representatives, currently there are
fourteen Republicans compared to thirty-nine House Democrats (at least half of
those GOP districts are in danger of turning blue this fall); half the Republicans represent Central Valley districts, none
bordering the Pacific Ocean. The last elected Republican US Senator left office
in 1991. The last Republican governor was the politically light-pink action-movie
star Arnold Schwarzenegger, whose second term ended in 2011.
This progressive dominance of the state
has led to policies and priorities that has damaged its agricultural economy
and seriously degraded the quality of life in the Valley.
Despite a long drought that has diminished
the run-off of snow from the Sierra Nevada, projects for dams and reservoirs
are on hold, seriously impacting the ag industry that relies on the snowmelt
for most of its water. Worse yet, since 2008, a period including the height of
the drought, 1.4 trillion gallons of water have been dumped into the Pacific
Ocean to protect the endangered Delta Smelt, a two-inch bait-fish. Thousands of agricultural jobs have been
lost and farmland left uncultivated, all to satisfy the sensibilities of
affluent urban environmentalists. And even after a few years of abundant rain,
Valley farmers this year are receiving just 20% of their South-of-the-Delta water allocation.
Or take California’s high-speed rail project, currently moribund
and $10 billion over budget just for construction of the easiest section, through the flat
center of the Valley. Meanwhile, State Highway 99, which bisects the Valley
from north to south for 500 miles, is pot-holed, inefficient, and crammed with
18-wheel semis. It is the bloodiest highway in the country, in dire need of
widening and repair. Yet to
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