"Fox’s Tucker Carlson noted Thursday that Obrador has
previously proposed ranting AMNESTY TO MEXICAN DRUG CARTELS. “America is now
Mexico’s social safety net, and that’s a very good deal for the Mexican ruling
class,” Carlson added."
Migrants’ Remittances to Mexico, Central America Jump to $53 Billion in 2018
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/01/02/migrants-remittances-to-mexico-central-america-jump-to-53-billion-in-2018/
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Legal
and illegal migrants sent $53.4 billion in remittances back to Mexico and
Central America in 2018, or more than double the cost of building a border
barrier on the U.S.-Mexico border, according to a World Bank report.
Remittances to Mexico
reached $33.7 billion in 2018, up 21 percent from roughly $27.8 billion
in 2016, the bank reported.
Remittances from the
three Central Americans countries are being spiked by the growing inflow of
asylum-seeking migrants into blue-collar jobs throughout the U.S. economy, via
the border’s catch-and-release laws. The outflow to Central America rose to $19.7
billion in 2018, up from $15.8 billion in 2016, according to the bank.
The outflow to Central
America rose 25 percent in just two years.
GOP legislators have
urged Congress to pay for the $22 billion border wall by taxing migrants’
remittances.
The money sent back from the United States to Central
America includes many migrants’ payments to the cartels who traffic them
into the U.S. economy. The trafficking debts can start at $5,000 per head.
The remittances provide a huge stimulus to the countries
that export their populations to the U.S. labor market. But that stimulus
also imposes huge economic costs, including civic turmoil, poverty, high rates
of crime, and loss of foreign investment.
The Guardian reported from Guatemala:
In impoverished villages such as Yalambojoch, agriculture
is the only work available.
Such grinding poverty makes emigration an attractive
alternative, according to the town’s mayor, Lucas Pérez. “People leave our
village, find work in the US and send money to help their relatives,” said
Pérez, who estimated about 200 people from the tiny village live in the United
States.
The surrounding Huehuetenango province sends the largest
number of migrants from the country, according to Guatemala’s foreign ministry,
and evidence of the exodus is clear: Yalambojoch has no potable water or
electricity, but among the wooden shacks are modern two-story houses with tiled
roofs – built with remittance money from abroad.
Dale L.
Wilcox, the executive director at the Immigration Reform Law Institute, explained the damage caused by migration:
The Organization for
the Americas … cited El Salvador as the worst hit, noting that “one out of
every five Salvadorans currently lives outside of the country [which has]
provoked a parallel exhaustion of qualified human resources.” This, they say, had caused “a scenario in
which less than 11 percent of Salvadorans [have] tertiary education.” Draining
an already underdeveloped nation of its best and brightest reduces any prospect
of establishing a knowledge-based economy, and disincentivizes their political
elite from investing in sorely needed educational infrastructure.
This damage adds up to intellectual colonialism, in which
the superpower to the north plunders and loots the skilled labor from its
poorer neighbors and condemns them to a bleak future.
Wilcox also noted the impact on families:
Mexico-based journalist
Robert Jay Stout shows that a full 12 percent of Mexico’s adult population is now in the United States, according
to 2010 census numbers. Such mass outmigration, he found, has contributed
to 40 percent of Mexico’s rural towns and villages suffering a population loss
as high as 70 percent. Whole communities were uprooted.
The ongoing exodus has resulted in a dramatic increase in
the number of single-parent families, homeless, and runaway children — allowing
gang membership to proliferate, he says.
Nationwide, the U.S.
establishment’s economic policy of using legal migration to boost economic
growth shifts wealth from young people towards older people by flooding the market with cheap white-collar
and blue-collar foreign labor. That flood of outside labor spikes profits and Wall Street values by cutting salaries for manual and skilled labor
of blue-collar and white-collar employees.
The cheap labor policy widens wealth gaps, reduces high tech investment, increases state and local tax burdens, hurts kids’ schools and college education, pushes Americans away from high tech careers, and
sidelines at least five million marginalized Americans and their families,
including many who are now struggling with fentanyl addictions.
Immigration also steers
investment and wealth away from towns in Heartland states because
coastal investors can more easily hire and supervise the large immigrant populations who prefer to live in coastal cities. In turn, that
investment flow drives up coastal real estate prices, pricing poor
U.S. Latinos and blacks out of prosperous cities, such as Berkeley and Oakland.
MEXICO
DECLARES WAR ON THE UNITED STATES
THE
INVASION:
“The radicals seek nothing less than secession
from the United States whether to form their own sovereign state or to reunify
with Mexico. Those who desire reunification with Mexico are irredentists who
seek to reclaim Mexico's "lost" territories in the American
Southwest.” Maria Hsia Chang Professor of Political Science, University
of Nevada Reno
"Mexican
president candidate Andrés Manuel López Obrador called for mass immigration to
the United States, declaring it a "human right". We will defend all
the (Mexican) invaders in the American," Obrador said, adding that
immigrants "must leave their towns and find a life, job, welfare, and free
medical in the United States."
"Fox’s Tucker Carlson noted Thursday that Obrador has
previously proposed ranting AMNESTY TO MEXICAN DRUG CARTELS. “America is now
Mexico’s social safety net, and that’s a very good deal for the Mexican ruling
class,” Carlson added."
NEXT CARAVAN RISING
Organizing in Honduras - while Congress sleeps.
January 2, 2019
Another large caravan of would-be illegal aliens is forming down in Central America with the intention of moving north to demand jobs and government benefits, according to media reports.
The formation of this new army of migrants drives home the point that a border wall at the lengthy, porous U.S.-Mexico boundary is urgently needed. The failure to move forward with wall construction sends a message to the world that America is a weak country that lacks the moral fiber and political will to defend its national sovereignty. Not building the wall also provides would-be border jumpers extra incentives to enter the United States unlawfully.
The new caravan is estimated at 15,000 people and is reportedly planning to leave Honduras on Jan. 15.
“They say they are even bigger and stronger than the last caravan,” Irma Garrido, a member of Reactiva Tijuana Foundation has been quoted saying.
Thousands of Central American migrants from previous caravans in the fall are still present in various cities along the border. Many are waiting for U.S. authorities to process their requests for asylum. The migrants have worn out their welcome in Tijuana, Mexico, where overcrowded shelters are taxing local resources.
According to the Los Angeles Times:
Coordinators who helped direct the migrants on the 2,000-mile trek with bullhorns, arranging for buses and giving advice along the way, have mostly vanished. Many of the migrants say they feel abandoned and unsure where to turn next. Some are ready to return home.Garrido said this new, larger caravan will probably be joined by more people in El Salvador and in Guatemala, but she said they don’t plan on coming straight to the Tijuana-San Diego border, where resources are already stretched nearly to a breaking point.
Last week, the U.S. and Mexico agreed to formulate a strategy to reduce Central American migration. It includes a $25-billion expenditure by Mexico in its southern states over the coming five years. The U.S. has vowed to ante up $4.8 billion for aid programs in Mexico and $5.8 billion for programs benefiting the Northern Triangle of Central America, consisting of Honduras, El Salvador, and Guatemala.
And yet American lawmakers have still not approved the $5 billion needed to begin construction of a wall on the international border with Mexico. President Trump has said he is considering shutting down the nation’s southern border if wall funding is not approved.
News of the new caravan comes as the partial shutdown of the U.S. government, which at 12:01 a.m. on Dec. 22 ran out of appropriated funds for some of its agencies, continues.
Instead of working on border security, Congress wasted many valuable legislative days in recent weeks on leftist nonsense. Congress threw away days debating a pro-criminal so-called justice reform bill backed by George Soros and Van Jones. Few Republican lawmakers opposed the measure and their failure to show courage in the face of a media onslaught tarnished the GOP’s reputation as a law-and-order party.
Republicans in the House of Representatives did eventually do the right thing on border funding. That chamber voted 217 to 185 on Dec. 20 to approve a temporary spending bill after adding $5.7 billion in appropriations for the wall.
Well aware that a failure to follow through on his signature campaign promise to build a wall along the nation’s multi-state border with Mexico could very well doom his chances of winning a second term in the White House, President Trump is insisting that Congress approve at least initial funding for the $25 billion project.
So far Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) is siding with obstructionist Democrats and RINOs in the Senate by refusing to overhaul the Senate’s antiquated filibuster rule. Currently, 60 votes are needed in the Senate to pass the House-approved bill but senators have the power to reduce the threshold to a simple majority of the 100 members of the Senate. Instead of empowering Republicans to pass the bill, McConnell has opted to let minority Democrats continue to wield a veto over the bill and hold the wall project hostage to placate that party’s radical left-wing base.
Although Republicans will cede control of the House to Democrats on Jan. 3, the GOP’s strength will only grow in the Senate on that same date. Presently there are 51 Republicans and 49 Democrats in the Senate. As of Jan. 3, there will be 53 Republicans and 47 Democrats.
America-hating Democrats show no signs of giving up in the shutdown drama. Drew Hamill, deputy chief of staff to probable incoming Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), reinforced his party’s intransigence.
“Democrats are united against the president’s immoral, ineffective and expensive wall,” NBC News quoted Hamill saying.
President Trump took to Twitter in an attempt to shame Democrat lawmakers into approving wall funding.
Trump tweeted on the weekend that former President Obama’s home in the nation’s capital has a sturdy wall protecting it.
“President Obama and Mrs. Obama built/has a ten foot Wall around their D.C. mansion/compound,” Trump wrote. “I agree, totally necessary for their safety and security. The U.S. needs the same thing, slightly larger version!”
Conservatives continue to stand behind the president.
Trump should hold out “until hell freezes over,” Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) told Fox News.
“People are calling in saying ‘stand up, don’t give up. Get us the wall. We need it.”
“We already appropriated 75 percent of the government’s funding. So when people talk about the shutdown, it’s really only a part of the 25 percent [of the government that is closed].”
Congress’s toleration of the nation’s catch-and-release rules is responsible for the migration crisis, outgoing Chief of Staff John Kelly told the Los Angeles Times.
The Absurdity of an Open Border
John Kelly: Catch-and-Release Laws Ensure Migration Crisis
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Congress’s toleration of the nation’s catch-and-release rules is responsible for the migration crisis, outgoing Chief of Staff John Kelly told the Los Angeles Times.
He blamed immigrants and lawmakers, not the White House, for the tense situation at the border, where thousands of Central Americans are stranded in Mexico — and two Guatemalan children have died in Border Patrol custody in Texas and New Mexico this month.
“One of the reasons why it’s so difficult to keep people from coming — obviously it’d be preferable for them to stay in their own homeland but it’s difficult to do sometimes, where they live — is a crazy, oftentimes conflicting series of loopholes in the law in the United States that makes it extremely hard to turn people around and send them home,” Kelly said.
“If we don’t fix the laws, then they will keep coming,” he continued. “They have known, and they do know, that if they can get here, they can, generally speaking, stay.”
The L.A. Times report — like many other outlets — buried Kelly’s condemnation of the House and Senate leaders’ passive support for the many catch-and-release laws and rules which allow the cartels to profitably smuggle workers up to many eager employers in the United States.
The L.A. Times submerged Kelly’s judgment under 46 paragraphs and numerous slams on President Donald Trump, including the claim that Trump’s effort to enforce border law is a “harsh immigration” measure.
Kelly’s charge is being hidden even as Democrats and establishment media outlets praise him for using his power to muffle Trump’s pro-American policies, including his preference for a lower level of overseas military activity.
The newspaper also tried to smear Trump’s border defense push as a campaign scare while also admitting that migration is rising amid congressional passivity:
Asked if there is a security crisis at the Southern border, or whether Trump has drummed up fears of a migrant “invasion” for political reasons, Kelly did not answer directly, but said, “We do have an immigration problem.”
From the 1980s to the mid-2000s, apprehensions at the border — the most common measure of illegal immigration — routinely reached more than 1 millionmigrants a year.
Today, they are near historical lows. In the fiscal year that ended in September, border authorities apprehended 521,090 people.
Nationwide, the U.S. establishment’s economic policy of using legal migration to boost economic growth shifts wealth from young people towards older people by flooding the market with cheap white collar and blue collar foreign labor. That flood of outside labor spikes profits and Wall Street values by cutting salaries for manual and skilled labor of blue collar and white collar employees.
The cheap labor policy widens wealth gaps, reduces high tech investment, increases state and local tax burdens, hurts kids’ schools and college education, pushes Americans away from high tech careers, and sidelines at least five million marginalized Americans and their families, including many who are now struggling with fentanyl addictions.
Immigration also steers investment and wealth away from towns in heartland states because coastal investors can more easily hire and supervise the large immigrant populations who prefer to live in coastal cities. In turn, that investment flow drives up coastal real-estate prices, pricing poor U.S. Latinos and blacks out of prosperous cities, such as Berkeley and Oakland.
The Absurdity of an Open Border
Democrats heatedly deny being in favor of open borders, but their actions and even their own words say otherwise. Much the same could be said about many Republicans. Both parties want an unrestricted flood of immigrants to America, but for different reasons.
Democrats want a permanent underclass that reliably votes Democrat. Republicans want cheap labor to keep their Chamber of Commerce donors happy. Neither party acknowledges any negative consequences of the current open borders policy, allowing far more than voters and workers to enter our country.
Ignored are the contagious diseases, still uncommon in America, being brought across the borders. Or the criminals we read about daily in the news, raping and killing Americans. Not to mention potential terrorists.
Fantasies abound about Open borders. John Lennon singing, “Imagine there's no countries” sounded like nirvana to a generation.
How does this play out? What if there weren’t a President Trump promising to build a wall? Instead, suppose we had a president named Jeb or Marco, happy to grant amnesty to the 10 to 20 million illegals already in the country, a number which would double as soon as amnesty was proposed.
John Lennon’s utopian fantasy would play out as, “And the world will be as one.” Yes, in a way it might. Here is how it could play out.
Gallup tells us that 147 million adults would move to the US if given the chance. That’s almost half the current US population. How many of these adults have children? If you assume one child per adult, you have just doubled this number. Don’t forget grandma and grandpa. Pretty soon we’ve more than doubled the US population.
More people with no increase in the necessary infrastructure to support such a population increase. As a country we can’t even maintain our infrastructure with our current population. Look at the subway stations or airports in New York City. Or the bridges over Western Pennsylvania rivers. Or the potholed streets of Chicago.
Who in Washington DC, among our elected leadership, sees a problem with unrestricted immigration? Only one man.
There is certainly no similar sentiment from the leadership across the aisle. According to Nancy Pelosi, “Our view of the law is that it — if somebody is here without sufficient documentation, that is not reason for deportation.”
She’s not alone. Hillary Clinton, fortunately not in power, instead only coughing in half-filled lecture halls, shares Pelosi’s views, “Of the people, the undocumented people living in our country, I do not want to see them deported.”
Chuck Schumer joined the chorus declaring that President Trump will not get the U.S.-Mexico border wall “in any form.”
Republicans are hardly any better. Despite control of both houses of Congress for the past two years, with a president firmly in favor of shutting the open border, Republicans could not find a way to fund a wall. Funding Planned Parenthood, despite campaign promises to the contrary, was easy for Paul Ryan to push through. And Republicans wonder why they did so poorly during the midterm elections?
The United States is the fourth largest country in the world by area. What if not just 147 million wanted to come to America, but the entire world’s population? That’s the logical conclusion of our current trajectory. And we have plenty of room in America.
“The current population of the planet could fit into the state of Texas, if Texas were settled as densely as New York City”, according to Robert Kunzig, an editor at National Geographic magazine. New York City isn’t a bad place to live, as many would attest. Neither is Texas. Who needs the rest of the world when they could all live in Texas?
Others have done similar calculations, predicated on United Nations calculations that the world’s population will reach 9.6 billion by the year 2050. This assumes the planet lasts that long, given the apocalyptic predictions of the planet burning up due to global warming.
If everyone lived as densely as they do in Manila, the world’s population could fit into the small African nation of Tunisia. What about Manhattan, home to many leftists wanting open borders?
If everyone lived as densely as they do in Manhattan, the world’s population could fit into the land of hobbits, New Zealand. There are other options if Manhattan or Manila are too crowded for the open borders advocates.
Live as densely as in Bangladesh and fit the world into Australia. For the benefit of those across the river from Manhattan, live as densely as in New Jersey, and the human race could fit into Russia. That would give Robert Mueller something productive to investigate.
If this is too grand an experiment, go smaller with this thoughtful analysis fromBuzzfeed. “America Has 14,000 Golf Courses And 6,000 Refugees Waiting At The Border.” Perfect, give every “refugee” in Tijuana two golf courses to live on. After all, only rich white Republicans play golf.
The point is that the world is a big place and there is lots of room. Everyone doesn’t have to be in the US, whether the entire world or the 147 million who Gallup says want to be here, or the thousands in the migrant caravans fortunately turned away from our border and sent back home.
When America can’t support her existing population, why add more to the mix? Too many Americans are homeless, going without adequate food and healthcare. Many attend crumbling schools, drive on third-world roadways, fly through decrepit airports, and look at a federal budget constantly running in the red.
The “law of holes” states that if you find yourself in a hole, stop digging. America is in a big hole in so many ways, yet the smart set in Washington, D.C. wants to keep digging deeper. An open border is just one more way of digging America into a deeper hole.
Congress has a “wall” of metal detectors, roadblocks, and armed security keeping members of Congress safe from invaders. Many of them individually have walls and fences around their homes. Yet the country and people they supposedly represent are not entitled to the same protection? Border security = national security.
Politicians who ignore the reality of, “If you bring there here, here becomes there” are unsuited for public office. Instead we have a most unlikely politician promising to stop digging an even deeper hole. Chosen overwhelmingly by the American people to, among other things, build a wall, the ruling class, along with the media, is doing everything in its power to bring him down, even if it means subverting the rule of law to do so.
If he survives the jihad against him and builds the wall, America will remain, for now. Otherwise the open borders crowd will push the country closer to the precipice of a Cloward-Piven collapse, which was perhaps the goal of some all along.
Brian C Joondeph, MD, MPS, a Denver based physician and writer. Follow him on Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter.
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