"This is country belongs to Mexico" is said by the Mexican Militant. This is a common teaching that the U.S. is really AZTLAN, belonging to Mexicans, which is taught to Mexican kids in Arizona and California through a LA Raza educational program funded by American Tax Payers via President Obama, when he gave LA RAZA $800,000.00 in March of 2009!
1. "The Race" thrives on ethnic supremacy -- and the elite sheeple's unwillingness to call it what it is. As historian Victor Davis Hanson observes: "[The] organization's very nomenclature 'The National Council of La Raza' is hate speech to the core. Despite all the contortions of the group, Raza (as its Latin cognate suggests) reflects the meaning of 'race' in Spanish, not 'the people' -- and that's precisely why we don't hear of something like 'The National Council of the People,' which would not confer the buzz notion of ethnic, racial and tribal chauvinism." MICHELE MALKIN
2:48
Can we have a quick reality check and acknowledge that what is happening to America is a million times worse than what’s happening in Europe and is of much greater consequence?
Conservatives regularly point to the mass migration afflicting Europe as if it’s the Ghost of Christmas Future for America. Since waves of Third World migrants began sweeping into the European Union, we’ve seen terrorism, knifings, rape gangs and riots popping up all over the birthplace of Western civilization. Sweden has gone from a country where rape was essentially nonexistent to the Rape Capital of the World.
It’s sweet of Americans to be so concerned about Europe, but maybe they should look at their own country. On account of a mass immigration policy imposed on us by our government, the United States has undergone a transformation unprecedented in all of world history.
From 1620 to 1970, the U.S. was demographically stable — not to be confused with “a nation of immigrants.” The country was about 85% to 90% white, almost entirely British, German, French and Dutch, and 10% to 15% African American. (The American Indian population, technically in their own nations, steadily plummeted — an example of how vast numbers of new people can displace the old, both accidentally and on purpose.)
In a generation, the white majority has nearly disappeared, while the black percentage has remained about the same, with more than 90% of African Americans still native-born. White Americans are one border surge away from becoming a minority in their own country.
It’s sweet of Americans to be so concerned about Europe, but maybe they should look at their own country. On account of a mass immigration policy imposed on us by our government, the United States has undergone a transformation unprecedented in all of world history.
From 1620 to 1970, the U.S. was demographically stable — not to be confused with “a nation of immigrants.” The country was about 85% to 90% white, almost entirely British, German, French and Dutch, and 10% to 15% African American. (The American Indian population, technically in their own nations, steadily plummeted — an example of how vast numbers of new people can displace the old, both accidentally and on purpose.)
In a generation, the white majority has nearly disappeared, while the black percentage has remained about the same, with more than 90% of African Americans still native-born. White Americans are one border surge away from becoming a minority in their own country.
In 2016, non-Hispanic whites were 61.3% of the population and 54% of all births. That was two years ago, before Trump came in and flung open the border to all of Latin America, especially children and pregnant ladies hoping to have an anchor baby.
Back in 1995, the Census Bureau estimated that whites would decline to about 64% of the population by 2020. Today, the Census Bureau projects the nation will be less than 60% white by then. We’re moving faster than even La Raza could have hoped!
This isn’t about race — though it might be of some concern to the rapidly diminishing white population that our cultural overlords are so tormented by “whiteness.”
E.g.:
“The Unbearable Whiteness of Congress” — The Daily Beast
“Whiteness is terrorism” — Trinity College professor Johnny Eric Williams on Twitter
“The Problem of Whiteness” — course at University of Wisconsin-Madison
“Abolish the White Race” — Harvard Magazine (“The goal of abolishing the white race is on its face so desirable that some may find it hard to believe that it could incur any opposition other than from committed white supremacists.”)
This stunning demographic replacement matters because American culture is the envy of the world. Not only was this wonderful culture created by white Western Europeans, but merely asking immigrants to assimilate to it is generally considered a hate crime.
If everyone assimilated to our culture, who cares what race they are? But given sufficient numbers, they don’t. They don’t need to, and we certainly aren’t asking them to. The reason we successfully assimilated not-so-different European cultures was that we controlled the numbers — essentially stopping immigration for 50 years while we forged an American character.
Let’s compare our demographic situation to the European countries we’re weeping over. France is still about 80% French (85% Western European), and England is about 80% English (85% Western European). Even Holland is still approximately 76% Dutch (80% Western European).
What we’re witnessing in Europe is that continent’s first brush with the joys of diversity.
American conservatives’ obsession with Europe’s snail-like introduction to diversity, while ignoring a demographic tsunami in their own country, is the mirror image of neoconservatives’ fixation on unrest in the Middle East, while ignoring the invasion on our border.
When did it become deplorable, Walmart-y behavior to care about your own country? Not to care more, but merely to care as much as you do about the rest of the world?
It seems as if progress is inevitable, that things always get better and never retrogress. But the Roman Empire had philosophers, literature, science, great buildings, statues and works of art. It had advanced communication, plumbing and transportation systems. It had a universal set of measures, laws and rules.
And then the Dark Ages came. In the blink of an eye, all that was lost. The people no longer had the technological know-how even to repair bridges and aqueducts built by the Romans. They had lost the ability to make cement. They lost many of the works of Aristotle. Roads and plumbing fell into disrepair. Statues crumbled. Nikki Haley would be happy!
Only centuries later did civilization begin to reassert itself, barely climbing back to the accomplishments of several centuries earlier.
Whatever the causes of the fall of the Roman Empire, one thing is for damn sure: There were not vast bands of powerful Romans prattling about “Roman privilege,” demanding that the Huns be given preference over Romans and writing articles with titles like “Abolish the Romans!”
That is the driving impulse of one of our two major political parties. The other party can’t bestir itself to care about anything other than tax cuts, abortion and moving our embassy to Jerusalem.
Back in 1995, the Census Bureau estimated that whites would decline to about 64% of the population by 2020. Today, the Census Bureau projects the nation will be less than 60% white by then. We’re moving faster than even La Raza could have hoped!
This isn’t about race — though it might be of some concern to the rapidly diminishing white population that our cultural overlords are so tormented by “whiteness.”
E.g.:
“The Unbearable Whiteness of Congress” — The Daily Beast
“Whiteness is terrorism” — Trinity College professor Johnny Eric Williams on Twitter
“The Problem of Whiteness” — course at University of Wisconsin-Madison
“Abolish the White Race” — Harvard Magazine (“The goal of abolishing the white race is on its face so desirable that some may find it hard to believe that it could incur any opposition other than from committed white supremacists.”)
This stunning demographic replacement matters because American culture is the envy of the world. Not only was this wonderful culture created by white Western Europeans, but merely asking immigrants to assimilate to it is generally considered a hate crime.
If everyone assimilated to our culture, who cares what race they are? But given sufficient numbers, they don’t. They don’t need to, and we certainly aren’t asking them to. The reason we successfully assimilated not-so-different European cultures was that we controlled the numbers — essentially stopping immigration for 50 years while we forged an American character.
Let’s compare our demographic situation to the European countries we’re weeping over. France is still about 80% French (85% Western European), and England is about 80% English (85% Western European). Even Holland is still approximately 76% Dutch (80% Western European).
What we’re witnessing in Europe is that continent’s first brush with the joys of diversity.
American conservatives’ obsession with Europe’s snail-like introduction to diversity, while ignoring a demographic tsunami in their own country, is the mirror image of neoconservatives’ fixation on unrest in the Middle East, while ignoring the invasion on our border.
When did it become deplorable, Walmart-y behavior to care about your own country? Not to care more, but merely to care as much as you do about the rest of the world?
It seems as if progress is inevitable, that things always get better and never retrogress. But the Roman Empire had philosophers, literature, science, great buildings, statues and works of art. It had advanced communication, plumbing and transportation systems. It had a universal set of measures, laws and rules.
And then the Dark Ages came. In the blink of an eye, all that was lost. The people no longer had the technological know-how even to repair bridges and aqueducts built by the Romans. They had lost the ability to make cement. They lost many of the works of Aristotle. Roads and plumbing fell into disrepair. Statues crumbled. Nikki Haley would be happy!
Only centuries later did civilization begin to reassert itself, barely climbing back to the accomplishments of several centuries earlier.
Whatever the causes of the fall of the Roman Empire, one thing is for damn sure: There were not vast bands of powerful Romans prattling about “Roman privilege,” demanding that the Huns be given preference over Romans and writing articles with titles like “Abolish the Romans!”
That is the driving impulse of one of our two major political parties. The other party can’t bestir itself to care about anything other than tax cuts, abortion and moving our embassy to Jerusalem.
Mass Immigration Poses An Existential Crisis For The West
https://finance.townhall.com/columnists/petermorici/2019/04/29/mass-immigration-poses-an-existential-crisis-for-the-west-n2545545
Source: AP Photo/Daniel Ochoa de Olza
America needs
well-enforced borders but President Donald Trump’s national “emergency” is part
of a much larger crisis facing Western nations.
State entropy, widespread violence and
economic desperation, prevalent in many parts of Central and South America, the
Middle East and Africa, are driving millions north—mostly to America and the European
Union. The sheer potential numbers could pose overwhelming challenges of
assimilation and undermine the cultural underpinnings of our market economies
and democratic institutions.
The recent sharp increase in Border
Patrol apprehensions of illegal migrants and asylum seekers has exhausted U.S.
recourses to detain those awaiting adjudication. Within several weeks of
apprehension, they join 11 million immigrantswithout permanent legal status—driving
down wages for lower-paid Americans and overwhelming local cultures in some of
the nation’s poorest communities.
Sophisticated technologies—cameras,
drones and the like—are more cost efficient than a wall, but only a wall could
keep migrants from setting foot on American soil and being released into the
general population.
Most asylum claims are questionable.
Mexico offers migrants humanitarian visas and the opportunity to work, but
politically motivated judges have squashed administration attempts to limit
asylum claims.
Sadly, federal courts led by Supreme
Court Chief Justice Roberts have become quite comfortable arrogating power in
response to public sentiment—for example, striking down state statutes
prohibiting gay marriage—and acceding to political pressure from Democrats—the peculiar reasoning Roberts applied to declare
Affordable Care Act fines are taxes.
Presidential claims about “Obama
Judges” and “Trump Judges” have
some merit but in any case, Trump’s immigration point man, Stephen Miller, has
not done the homework to effectively argue that a national emergency exists.
Trump charges the illegal flood is full
of criminals, and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, always a comforting presence,
counters that Americans commit rape, robbery and homicide too. What matters is
whether poor immigrants commit crimes at an alarming higher rate that our
indigenous population.
Since 2015, Germany has admitted
over 1.4 million asylum seekers—about 2% of its population, and they
commit about 14% of the crimes. Surely, the FBI could help Miller to come up
with comparable U.S. statistics. Then we could get at the truth—or he has but
the administration is not willing to back off on its crime claims.
Polls show most Americans don’t support the
wall and believe legal immigration is good for the economy and our culture, and no
one has a finger on the pulse of voters like Pelosi, except perhaps Roberts.
The 1976 National Emergency Act empowers
a majority in the Congress to nullify presidential declarations. However, with
the GOP holding the Senate, lawsuits will decide whether the president can supplement the
$1.4 billion authorized by Congress to build 55 miles of border fence by
transferring Department of Defense funds to instead build 234 miles of fence.
The NEA does not define a national
emergency. Instead that is spread over at least 470 statutory provisions. One
states “the Secretary of Defense can ‘undertake military construction projects
… necessary to support such use of the armed forces.’”
As Justice Robert Jackson reminded
in Youngstown v. Sawyer (1952), which overturned President Harry
Truman’s nationalization of the steel industry to support the Korean War
effort, presidential discretion is at its peak when it acts with
the support of Congress and “at its lowest ebb” when it is “incompatible with
the expressed or implied will of Congress.”
When the Republicans controlled
Congress, Trump could not get his wall built, and he campaigned on the issue in
2018 and got shellacked. Now congressional House Democrats have decided there
is no pressing need for a wall.
The president recognizes he will get
pilloried in the lower courts but expects a fair hearing in the Supreme Court.
He should ponder Roberts’s ire regarding his charges about the politicization
of the courts—sometimes being right is not enough.
For Americans living in large prosperous
cities, the influx of well-educated legal immigrants, especially in STEM
disciplines, are welcome, but many illegal immigrants become burdens in the
labor markets and on public services in Trump country.
If Trump fails to get his wall, the
crisis at the border could easily become a mass migration that imposes
incalculable burdens on those Americans least able to bear them.
Gaffney: 'You Can't
Assimilate Vast Numbers of People Who Don’t Want to be Part' of U.S.A.
Frank Gaffney. (Photo by Win
McNamee/Getty Images)
During a discussion about the need for immigrants to assimilate
into American society and the spectre of sharia (Islamic law) in U.S.
communities, Center for Security Policy Chairman Frank Gaffney said it is
imperative to keep in mind "that you cannot assimilate vast numbers of
people who simply don’t want to be part of your society." Gaffney, a
former assistant secretary for Defense in the Reagan administration, added that
Judge Jeanine Pirro is being suppressed because she dared to ask a question about
the origins of the anti-Israel views expressed by Rep. Ilhan Omar
(D-Minn.).
When asked about assimilation during a March 20 interview
on Breitbart News Daily,
Gaffney said to host Alex Marlow, This topic "reminds me of the old story
that conservatives are liberals who’ve been mugged by reality, and the thing
you're describing, Alex, is being mugged by the reality that you cannot
assimilate vast numbers of people who simply don’t want to be part of your
society."
"They want to transform it into something very different
and ultimately, at some point, you either resist or you submit," he said.
"Submission is going to be pretty ugly, and it’s happening in parts of
Europe already, and there’s more in the offing, I’m afraid. [Garbled] This
rising tide of sharia supremacism, it’s chilling.”
He continued, "The trouble is, it’s not simply a problem in
its own right, it’s a foretaste of what the Ilhan Omars and the Keith Ellisons
and the André Carsons, Rashida Tlaibs, and so on, would have in mind for
America, too, if they had their way. This is the really vexing problem of our
time.”
“Again, not all Muslims want to live under sharia," said
Gaffney. "They don’t want to impose it on the rest of us. But
enough of them do and the authorities of the [Islamic] faith certainly
do."
As for Judge Jeanine Pirro, whose program on the Fox News
Channel has been suspended for a second week,
Gaffney said, "Jeanine Pirro, who is a friend of mine and much-admired former
public servant and now, extraordinary resource, on her program, Justice
w/Judge Jeanine, was suspended last week and may be again this
week, and maybe – who knows – indefinitely."
Jeanine Pirro. (Photo
by Stephen Chernin/Getty Images)
“The faux-Fox [News Channel] is suppressing Jeanine Pirro explicitly – as you know, Alex – because she
dared, even in a question, to connect the dots between what Ilhan Omar is doing
with anti-Semitism, on the one hand, and the traditions, teachings, and practices
of sharia, as we’ve come to know it," said Gaffney.
On her March 9 program, Jeanine Pirro said, “This is not
who your party is" in reference to the Democrat Party. “Your party is not
anti-Israel, [Omar] is. Think about this. She’s not getting this anti-Israel
sentiment doctrine from the Democrat Party. So if it’s not rooted in the party,
where is she getting it from? Think about it. Omar wears a hijab, which
according to the Quran 33:59, tells women to cover so they won’t get
molested."
Rep. Ilhan Omar
(D-Minn.) (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
“Is her adherence to this Islamic doctrine indicative of her adherence to sharia law, which in
itself is antithetical to the United States Constitution?” said Pirro.
Comments and tweets made by Rep. Omar have been condemned by
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) as "anti-Semitic" and
"deeply offensive."
MULTI-CULTURALISM
and the creation of a one-party globalist country to serve the rich in
America’s open borders.
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2017/12/em-cadwaladr-impending-death-of.html
“Open border advocates, such as Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg, claim illegal aliens are a net benefit to California with little evidence to support such an assertion. As the CIS 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 illegals were contributing to the economy in any meaningful way, CA, with its 2.6 million illegals, would be booming.” STEVE BALDWIN – AMERICAN SPECTATOR
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR
What will America stand for in 2050?
The US should think long and hard about the high number of
Latino immigrants.
By Lawrence Harrison
It's not just a short-run issue of immigrants competing with
citizens for jobs as unemployment approaches 10 percent or the number of
uninsured straining the quality of healthcare. Heavy immigration from Latin
America threatens our cohesiveness as a nation.
MEXICO WILL DOUBLE U.S. POPULATION
By Tom Barrett
At the current rate of invasion (mostly through
Mexico, but also through Canada) the United States will be completely over run
with illegal aliens by the year 2025. I’m not talking about legal immigrants
who follow US law to become citizens. In less than 20 years, if we do not stop
the invasion, ILLEGAL aliens and their offspring will be the dominant population
in the United States.
FINISHING AMERICA OFF: THE FOREIGN INVASION FOR “CHEAP”
LABOR
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2018/09/the-fall-of-america-by-invitation-tens.html
Open the floodgates of our welfare state to the uneducated,
impoverished, and unskilled masses of the world and in a generation or three
America, as we know it, will be gone. JOHN BINDER
But many less-skilled migrants play their largest role by
simply shifting small slices of wealth from person to person, for example, by
competing up rents in their neighborhood or by competing down wages in their
workplace. The crudest examples can be seen in agriculture.
Overall,
the Washington-imposed economic policy of economic growth via immigration
shifts wealth from young people towards older people by flooding the market with cheap white-collar and blue-collar foreign labor.
"Critics argue that giving
amnesty to 12 to 30 million illegal aliens in the U.S. would have an immediate
negative impact on America’s working and middle class — specifically black
Americans and the white working class — who would be in direct competition for
blue-collar jobs with the largely low-skilled illegal alien population."
JOHN BINDER
The U.S.-born baby is, of course, a U.S. citizen, whose
illegal alien parents are eligible to receive, on the baby’s behalf, food
stamps, nutrition from the Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) program, and
numerous tax benefits, including the EITC.
Most importantly, the newborn is deportation insurance
for its parents. Illegal aliens facing deportation can argue that to deport one
or more parents would create an “extreme hardship” for the new baby. If an
immigration officer agrees, we’ve added a new adult to the nation’s population.
At age 21 the former birthright citizen baby can formally apply for green cards
for parents and siblings, and they, in turn, can start their own immigration
chains.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jun/29/us-second-biggest-spanish-speaking-country
· US has 41 million native speakers plus 11 million who
are bilingual
· New Mexico, California, Texas and Arizona have highest
concentrations
DYING AMERICA: Poverty, Open Borders, Widespread Homelessness, Housing Crisis, Opioids, Corrupt Politicians and Then Suicide!
"In a state like Florida, where immigrants make
up about 25.4 percent of the labor force, American workers have their weekly
wages reduced by perhaps more than 12.5 percent. In California, where
immigrants make up 34 percent of the labor force, American workers’ weekly
wages are reduced by potentially 17 percent." JOHN BINDER
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*
"In the last decade alone, the U.S. admitted ten million legal immigrants,
forcing American workers to compete against a growing population of low-wage
foreign workers. Meanwhile, if legal immigration continues, there will be 69 million foreign-born residents
living in the U.S. by 2060. This would represent an unprecedented electoral
gain for the Left, as Democrats win about 90 percent of
congressional districts where the foreign-born population exceeds the national
average."
Atlantic Op-Ed: The Migration Wave
Has Barely Begun
3:27
Americans need to reform their immigration laws before
hundreds of millions of foreigners decide to take up residence in the United
States, says David Frum, an author at the pro-globalist Atlantic magazine.
“If Americans want to shape their
own national destiny, rather than have it shaped by others, they have decisions
to make now,” says Frum, a Canadian-born Never
Trump advocate who is also a consistent voice for the immigration reforms which
would help young Americans rejuvenate American society.
Frum writes:
With immigration pressures bound to
increase, it becomes more imperative than ever to restore the high value of
national citizenship, not to denigrate or disparage others but because for many
of your fellow citizens—perhaps less affluent, educated, and successful than
you—the claim “I am a U.S. citizen” is the only claim they have to any resources
or protection. Without immigration restrictions, there are no national borders.
Without national borders, there are no nation-states. Without nation-states,
there are no electorates. Without electorates, there is no democracy. If
liberals insist that only fascists will enforce borders, then voters will hire
fascists to do the job liberals refuse to do.
…
Americans are entitled to consider
carefully whom they will number among themselves. They would be
irresponsible not to consider this carefully—because all of
these expensive commitments must be built on a deep agreement that all who live
inside the borders of the United States count as “ourselves.” The years of slow
immigration, 1915 to 1975, were also years in which the United States became a
more cohesive nation: the years of the civil-rights revolution, the building of
a mass middle class, the construction of a national social-insurance system,
the projection of U.S. power in two world wars. As immigration has accelerated,
the country seems to have splintered apart.
Many Americans feel that the
country is falling short of its promises of equal opportunity and equal
respect. Levels of immigration that are too high only enhance the difficulty of
living up to those promises. Reducing immigration, and selecting immigrants
more carefully, will enable the country to more quickly and successfully absorb
the people who come here, and to ensure equality of opportunity to both the
newly arrived and the long-settled—to restore to Americans the feeling of
belonging to one united nation, responsible for the care and flourishing of all
its people.
Frum’s article was written before
homeland security chief Kirstjen Nielsen said March 6 that 900,000 migrants may
cross the southern border this year. That is one migrant for every four
Americans who will be born in 2019.
However, Frum’s task of persuasion
is difficult because there are enormous social and professional pressure on his
college-educated readers to go along with the cheap-labor immigration policies
which are moving income and wealth from young employees up to
older CEOs and investors
In Frum’s urban, college graduate,
Internet surveillance environment, young people get exiled from their jobs when
they notice that their wages are being shrunk, their
rents are being inflated, and their politics are being poisoned by
Wall Street’s use of immigration to stimulate corporate and stock growth.
Amid the threat of economic and
social ostracism, few young graduates have the nerve and economic security to
apply the law of supply and demand to
the labor market, or to object as their jobs and hoped-for careers are
quietly allocated to people who will rationally work for Spaghetti-Os and citizenship.
Immigration to
America Is Not What It Used to Be
By Edward Ring
Speaking at a naturalization
ceremony in Texas on March 18, former President George W. Bush said immigration
to America “is a blessing and a strength.” He also said that “borders need to
be respected,” and praised the work of border patrol agents, but that’s not
what the media seized upon.
The Washington
Post inserted
“blessing and strength” into the lead of its story, headlined “George W. Bush:
‘May we never forget that immigration is a blessing and a strength’,” also
working into the first sentence the following dig at Donald Trump: “a message
that sharply contrasts with President Trump’s rhetoric on the issue.”
CNN
Politics covered
the speech, making sure to note “the rhetoric and policy positions from Bush
came in contrast to much of the modern Republican Party and President Donald
Trump.” The BBC
said,
“Mr Bush’s comments were seen as an implicit rebuke to President Donald Trump’s
administration.”
And on and on. CBS News: “Bush urges politicians
to ‘dial down rhetoric’ on immigration.” The Boston
Globe:
“described immigration as ‘a blessing and a strength,’ a message that sharply
contrasts with President Trump’s rhetoric on the issue.” People: “it was a soft rebuke
of the prevailing anti-immigrant position of some members of the Republican
Party, including President Donald Trump.”
Get it? George W. Bush
has won his grim battle with history. Various photos showed him inviting dozens
of new citizens up to the podium, including Muslims in headscarves, Hispanics,
and Africans. Apparently including anyone of European descent would have been
bad optics.
And never mind that if
Bush II hadn’t bombed, invaded and occupied Iraq, the Middle East might be
relatively stable today. Iraq, for all its problems, would nonetheless provide
a strategic counterweight to Iran. We would have saved trillions of dollars and
spared millions of lives, and additional millions of refugees would have stayed
home.
What’s Really Happening
The problem with all this media-spun anti-Trump “wisdom” from Bush is simple: President Trump is right, and the spin is wrong.
The problem with all this media-spun anti-Trump “wisdom” from Bush is simple: President Trump is right, and the spin is wrong.
It is true that America
was enriched in the past by waves of new immigrants. It is true that in the
past, these waves of new immigrants benefited the economy. And it is true that
even now, if immigration were brought under control, reduced somewhat, and
reformed so that only highly skilled immigrants with a commitment to learning
English were vetted and admitted, it would again be beneficial to our economy and
enrich our culture. But that’s not what’s happening.
According to CarryingCapacity.org, the United States “now
accepts over one million legal immigrants each year, which is more than all of
the other industrialized nations in the world, combined.” Additionally,
according to ImmigrationCounters.com, nearly 28 million
illegal immigrants currently live in the United States.
Attempting to quantify
the costs and benefits of immigration into the United States is not easy.
According to a study conducted by the Federation
for American Immigration Reform, the cost to America taxpayers to provide
illegal immigrants government funded education, health care, justice and law
enforcement, public assistance, and general government services is estimated at
$135 billion per year. According to the Center for Immigration
Studies,
“63% of non-citizen households access welfare programs compared to 35% of
native households.”
Statistics abound—and for
every study suggesting that America’s immigration is creating a burden on the
economy, there is another that concludes the opposite, that immigrants continue
to provide a net economic benefit to the economy. So rather than provide yet
another regurgitation of battling statistics, it is important to note some
crucial qualitative differences between immigration trends in America today,
compared with past centuries in America.
Why Immigration to
America Today Is Different
- Immigrants
today are not coming from nations of equal or greater economic
achievement. In the past, immigrants from Europe, for the most part, were
emigrating from nations that were as advanced as the United States was, if
not more so. Today the overwhelming majority of immigrants are coming from
developing nations.
- Immigrants
in the past came primarily from European nations which had cultural
values—educational, religious, and political—that were, if not nearly
identical to American cultural values, at shared a similar trajectory
towards achieving those values. Immigrants today come from nations that,
relatively speaking, have far fewer cultural similarities to America than
past waves of immigrants.
- Immigrants
today, for the most part, are coming from nations that are rapidly
increasing in population and, in aggregate, dwarf the United States in
population. Related to this is the fact that in the past, the people
already in America were themselves rapidly increasing in population, but
this is no longer the case, except among populations of recently arrived
immigrants.
- Immigrants
today arrive via 10-hour hops on an airliner. In the past, waves of
immigrants spent 10 months traversing land and sea in a journey of
staggering expense and significant dangers. While this isn’t universally
true, particularly for the overland migrants that cross America’s southern
border, the general point stands: coming to America today does not require
the commitment it required in the past.
- Similarly,
in the past, immigrants pretty much renounced their countries of origin.
They made a one-way trip and they adopted the language and values of
America. Today, retaining cultural unity with one’s country of origin is a
few clicks on the internet, a cheap telephone call, an affordable airfare.
Technology has greatly eroded the forces that used to impel immigrants to
become Americans.
- Immigrants
in the past arrived in an America that had a voracious need for unskilled
workers. Today the American economy is relentlessly automating jobs that used
to require unskilled labor, and the American population already has a
surplus of unskilled workers.
- Immigrants
today are arriving in a welfare state, where they are assured of food,
shelter, and medical care that are, in general, orders of magnitude better
than anything available to them in their native countries. This creates a
completely different incentive to today’s immigrants. In past centuries,
immigrants came to America to find freedom and to work. Today they are
offered a smorgasbord of taxpayer-funded social services.
- Immigrant
students today—especially in the coastal urban centers where most of them
settle—enter a public education system that teaches them with a
reverse-racist, anti-capitalist bias. They are taught in our public
schools not to assimilate, but to “celebrate diversity”; not to earn
opportunities through hard work, but through fighting discrimination. They
are taught, often in their native language, that they have arrived in a
nation dominated by racist and sexist white males, who exploit the world
to amass evil profits.
Recipes for Disaster
These final three points are the most troublesome. If immigration reform advocates made those a priority and addressed them decisively with new policies, the other concerns might be manageable. But we must address the problems caused by immigrants with low job-skills, who encounter the welfare state, and are subjected to anti-Western cultural messaging.
These final three points are the most troublesome. If immigration reform advocates made those a priority and addressed them decisively with new policies, the other concerns might be manageable. But we must address the problems caused by immigrants with low job-skills, who encounter the welfare state, and are subjected to anti-Western cultural messaging.
To suggest Americans
should resist competing with highly skilled immigrants, for example, is not
only xenophobic, but it smacks of an entitlement mentality. Allowing immigrants
into the United States who are qualified to join our ranks of scientists,
engineers, researchers and doctors will only help our economy and overall
standard of living. Allowing unskilled immigrants into this country, however,
when we already have tens of millions of unskilled workers who are either in
our prisons or unemployed and collecting welfare—who themselves could perform
this work—is much more likely to constitute a drain on our economy.
Similarly, it is a recipe
for disaster to allow immigrants into an America where the curricula in K-12
schools and universities—beholden to powerful left-wing teachers and faculty
unions—indoctrinates immigrants to resent the alleged evils of capitalism and
the incorrigible racist, sexist core of our American culture. This is
particularly true when accompanying this siren song of corruption is easy
access to social services of all kinds, including welfare. If new immigrants
are taught the cards are stacked against them, and at the same time they are
offered a free ride that provides a standard of living many times greater than
what they knew in the countries they came from, why work?
Clearly an increasing
population, all else held equal, does cause overall economic expansion. It
isn’t clear at all, however, that this is the optimal way to create economic
expansion. First of all, global human population is destined to level off by
2050 anyway, so rather than expanding the population through immigration,
economic policy needs to search for the answer as to how to continue to
experience economic growth despite a stable, aging population. In Japan, they
have already made this policy decision—with zero net immigration and the oldest
population on earth, Japan leads the world in the development of androids that
will, presumably, become caregivers to the elderly. Economic growth oriented
towards improving the quality of life for the elderly is one example of a
sustainable growth sector—economic growth dependent on an immigrant-fueled
population expansion is not sustainable.
There is another factor,
of course, that makes immigration today far more problematic than it was in
previous generations. Now more than ever, mass immigration of unskilled economic
migrants and political refugees has become a strategy to move America sharply
to the Left by dramatically transforming the electorate.
What the establishment
uniparty is doing in America today is a deliberate devaluation of American
votes, and a deliberate thwarting of the political rule of Americans who
have lived and worked in America for generations. Trump’s bellicosity may scare
the soccer moms, but they along with everyone else who loves America ought to
reflect on his actions instead of his tone. He is the only major politician in
modern times who has tried to do anything to stop this. George W. Bush, God
bless him, should stop letting the media use his words as weapons in their war
against Trump.
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California, where he served as their first president. He is a prolific writer
on the topics of political reform and sustainable economic development. Ring, a
fifth-generation Californian, has an undergraduate degree in political science
from UC Davis, and an MBA in finance from the University of Southern
California.
THE AZTLAN INVASION & THE LA RAZA
FASCIST PARTY FOR MEXICAN SUPREMACY
“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.”
MULTICULTURALISM,
IMMIGRATION AND AZTLAN
By
Maria Hsia Chang Professor of Political Science, University of Nevada Reno
One
of the standard arguments invoked by those in favor of massive immigration into
the United States is that our country is founded on immigrants who have always
been successfully assimilated into America's mainstream culture and society. As
one commentator put it, "Assimilation evokes the misty past of Ellis
Island, through which millions entered, eventually seeing their descendants
become as American as George Washington."1 Nothing more vividly testifies
against that romantic faith in America's ability to continuously assimilate new
members than the events of October 16, 1994 in Los Angeles. On that day, 70,000
people marched beneath "a sea of Mexican flags" protesting
Proposition 187, a referendum measure that would deny many state benefits to
illegal immigrants and their children. Two weeks later, more protestors marched
down the street, this time carrying an American flag upside down. Both protests
point to a disturbing and rising phenomenon of Chicano separatism in the United
States — the product of a complex of forces, among which are multiculturalism
and a generous immigration policy combined with a lax border control. The
Problem Chicanos refer to "people of Mexican descent in the United
States" or "Mexican Americans in general." Today, there are
reasons to believe that Chicanos as a group are unlike previous immigrants in
that they are more likely to remain unassimilated and unintegrated, whether by
choice or circumstance — resulting in the formation of a separate quasi-nation
within the United States. More than that, there are Chicano political activists
who intend to marry cultural separateness with territorial and political
self-determination. The more moderate among them aspire to the cultural and
political autonomy of "home rule". 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.
Whatever
their goals, what animates all of them is the dream of Aztlan. According to
legend, Aztlan was the ancestral homeland of the Aztecs which they left in
journeying southward to found Tenochtitlan, the center of their new
civilization, which is today's Mexico City. Today, the "Nation of
Aztlan" refers to the American southwestern states of California, Arizona,
Texas, New Mexico, portions of Nevada, Utah, Colorado, which Chicano
nationalists claim were stolen by the United States and must be reconquered (Reconquista)
and reclaimed for Mexico. The myth of Aztlan was revived by Chicano political
activists in the 1960s as a central symbol of Chicano nationalist ideology. In
1969, at the Chicano National Liberation Youth Conference in Denver, Rodolfo
"Corky" Gonzales put forth a political document entitled El Plan de
Aztlan (Spiritual Plan of Aztlan). The Plan is a clarion call to
Mexican-Americans to form a separate Chicano nation: In the spirit of a new
people that is conscious not only of its proud historial heritage, but also of
the brutal "gringo" invasion of our territories, we, the Chicano
inhabitants and civilizers of the nothern land of Aztlan from whence came our
forefathers ...declare that the call of our blood is...our inevitable
destiny.... Aztlan belongs to those who plant the seeds, water the fields, and
gather the crops, and not to the foreign Europeans. We do not recognize
capricious frontiers on the bronze continent.... Brotherhood unites us, and
love for our brothers makes us a people whose time has come .... With our heart
in our hands and our hands in the soil, we declare the independence of our
mestizo nation. We are a bronze people with a bronze culture. Before the world,
before all of North America, before all our brothers in the bronze continent, we
are a nation, we are a union of free pueblos, we are Aztlan.
How
Chicanos are Unlike Previous Immigrants Brent A. Nelson, writing in 1994,
observed that in the 1980s America's Southwest had begun to be transformed into
"a de facto nation" with its own culture, history, myth, geography,
religion, education, and language. Whatever evidence there is indicates that
Chicanos, as a group, are unlike previous waves of immigrants into the United
States. In the first place, many Chicanos do not consider themselves immigrants
at all because their people "have been here for 450 years" before the
English, French, or Dutch. Before California and the Southwest were seized by
the United States, they were the lands of Spain and Mexico. As late as 1780 the
Spanish crown laid claim to territories from Florida to California, and on the
far side of the Mississippi up to the Great Lakes and the Rockies. Mexico held
title to much of Spanish possessions in the United States until the Treaty of
Guadalupe Hidalgo ended the Mexican-American war in 1848. As a consequence,
Mexicans "never accepted the borders drawn up by the 1848 treaty."
That
history has created among Chicanos a feeling of resentment for being "a
conquered people," made part of the United States against their will and by
the force of arms. Their resentment is amply expressed by Voz Fronteriza, a
Chicano student publication,
which
referred to Border Patrol officers killed in the line of duty as "pigs
(migra)" trying to defend "the false frontier."
Chicanos
are also distinct from other immigrant groups because of the geographic
proximity of their native country. Their physical proximity to Mexico gives
Chicanos "the option of life in both Americas, in two places and in two
cultures, something earlier immigrants never had." Geographic proximity
and ease of transportation are augmented by the media. Radio and television
keep the spoken language alive and current so that Spanish, unlike the native
languages of previous immigrants into the United States, "shows no sign of
fading."
A
result of all that is the failure by Chicanos to be fully assimilated into the
larger American society and culture. As Earl Shorris, author of Latinos: A
Biography of the People, observed: "Latinos have been more resistant to
the melting pot than any other group. Their entry en masse into the United
States will test the limits of the American experiment...." The continuous
influx of Mexican immigrants into the United States serve to continuously renew
Chicano culture so that their sense of separateness will probably continue
"far into the future...." There are other reasons for the failure of
Chicano assimilation. Historically, a powerful force for assimilation was
upward social mobility: Immigrants into the United States became assimilated as
they rose in educational achievement and income. But today's post-industrial
American economy, with its narrower paths to upward mobility, is making it more
difficult for certain groups to improve their socioeconomic circumstances.
Unionized factory jobs, which once provided a step up for the second generation
of past waves of immigrants, have been disappearing for decades. Instead of the
diamond-shaped economy of industrial America, the modern American economy is
shaped like an hourglass. There is a good number of jobs for unskilled people
at the bottom, a fair number of jobs for the highly educated at the top, but
comparatively few jobs for those in the middle without a college education or
special skills. To illustrate, a RAND Corporation study forecasts that 85 percent
of California's new jobs will require post-secondary education. For a variety
of reasons, the nationwide high-school dropout rate for Hispanics (the majority
of whom are Chicano) is 30 percent — three times the rate for whites and twice
the rate for blacks. Paradoxically, the dropout rate for Hispanics born in the
United States is even higher than for young immigrants. Among Chicanos,
high-school dropout rates actually rise between the second and third
generations. Their low educational achievement accounts for why Chicanos as a
group are poor despite being hardworking. In 1996, for the first time, Hispanic
poverty rate began to exceed that of American blacks. In 1995, household income
rose for every ethnic group except Hispanics, for whom it dropped 5 percent.
Latinos now make up a quarter of the nation's poor people, and are more than
three times as likely to be impoverished than whites. This decline in income
has taken place despite high rates of labor-force participation by Latino men,
and despite an emerging Latino middle class. In California, where Latinos now
approach one-third of the population, their education levels are far lower than
those of other immigrants, and they earn about half of what native-born
Californians earn. This means that, for the first time in the history of
American immigration, hard work is not leading to economic advancement because
immigrants in service jobs face unrelenting labor-market pressure from more
recently arrived immigrants who are eager to work for less. The narrowing of
the pathways of upward mobility has implications for the children of recent
Mexican immigrants. Their ascent into the middle-class mainstream will likely
be blocked and they will join children of earlier black and Puerto Rican
migrants as part of an expanded multiethnic underclass. Whereas first
generation immigrants compare their circumstances to the Mexico that they left
— and thereby feel immeasurably better off — their children and grandchildren
will compare themelves to other U.S. groups. Given their lower educational
achievement and income, that comparison will only lead to feelings of relative
deprivation and resentment. They are unlikely to be content as maids,
gardeners, or fruit pickers. Many young Latinos in the second and third generations
see themselves as locked in irremediable conflict with white society, and are
quick to deride successful Chicano students as "wannabes." For them,
to study hard is to "act white" and exhibit group disloyalty. That
attitude is part of the Chicano culture of resistance — a culture that actively
resists assimilation into mainstream America. That culture is created,
reinforced, and maintained by radical Chicano intellectuals, politicians, and
the many Chicano Studies programs in U.S. colleges and universities. As
examples, according to its editor, Elizabeth Martinez, the purpose of Five
Hundred Years of Chicano History, a book used in over 300 schools throughout
the West, is to "celebrate our resistance to being colonized and absorbed
by racist empire builders." The book calls the INS and the Border Patrol
"the Gestapo for Mexicans."
For
Rodolfo Acuna, author of Occupied America: The Chicano's Struggle Toward
Liberation, probably the most widely assigned text in U.S. Chicano Studies
programs, the Anglo-American invasion of Mexico was "as vicious as that of
Hitler's invasion of Poland and other Central European nations...." The
book also includes a map showing "the Mexican republic" in 1822
reaching up into Kansas and Oklahoma, and including within it Utah, Nevada, and
everything west and south of there
"This
is country belongs to Mexico" is said by
the Mexican Militant. This is a common
teaching that the U.S. is really AZTLAN,
belonging to Mexicans, which is taught to
Mexican kids in Arizona and California
through a LA Raza educational program
funded by American Tax Payers via President
Obama, when he gave LA RAZA $800,000.00
in March of 2009!
La Raza Founder – Ki ll the Gringos (José Angel
Gutiérrez)
FIFTEEN THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT LA RAZA
“THE RACE”
by Michelle Malkin
the Mexican Militant. This is a common
teaching that the U.S. is really AZTLAN,
belonging to Mexicans, which is taught to
Mexican kids in Arizona and California
through a LA Raza educational program
funded by American Tax Payers via President
Obama, when he gave LA RAZA $800,000.00
in March of 2009!
THE
U.S. TAX DOLLAR SUPPORTED MEXICAN FASCIST PARTY of LA RAZA “The Race” IS NOW
CALLING ITSELF UNIDOSus.
La Raza Founder – Ki ll the Gringos (José Angel
Gutiérrez)
Obama Funds the Mexican Fascist Party of LA RAZA
“The Race”
by Michelle Malkin
Only in America could critics of a group called
"The Race" be labeled racists. Such is the triumph of left-wing
identity chauvinists, whose aggressive activists and supine abettors have
succeeded in redefining all opposition as "hate."
Both Barack Obama and John McCain will speak this week in San Diego at the annual
conference of the National Council of La Raza, the Latino organization whose
name is Spanish for, yes, "The Race." Can you imagine Obama and McCain paying homage to a
group of white people who called themselves that? No matter. The presidential
candidates and the media have legitimized "The Race" as a mainstream
ethnic lobbying group and marginalized its critics as intolerant bigots. The
unvarnished truth is that the group is a radical ethnic nationalist outfit that
abuses your tax dollars and milks PC politics to undermine our sovereignty.
Here
are 15 things you should know about "The Race":
15. "The Race" supports driver's licenses
for illegal aliens.
14."The Race" demands in-state tuition
discounts for illegal alien students that are not available to law-abiding U.S.
citizens and law-abiding legal immigrants.
13. "The Race" vehemently opposes
cooperative immigration enforcement efforts between local, state and federal
authorities.
12. "The Race" opposes a secure fence on
the southern border.
11. "The Race" joined the American-Arab
Anti-Discrimination Committee in a failed lawsuit attempt to prevent the feds
from entering immigration information into a key national crime database -- and
to prevent local police officers from accessing the data.
10. "The Race" opposed the state of
Oklahoma's tough immigration-enforcement-first laws, which cut off welfare to
illegal aliens, put teeth in employer sanctions and strengthened local-federal
cooperation and information sharing.
9. "The Race" joined other open-borders,
anti-assimilationists and sued to prevent Proposition 227, California's
bilingual education reform ballot initiative, from becoming law.
8. "The Race" bitterly protested
common-sense voter ID provisions as an "absolute disgrace."
7. "The Race" has consistently opposed
post-9/11 national security measures at every turn.
6. Former "Race" president Raul
Yzaguirre, Hillary Clinton's Hispanic outreach adviser, said this: "U.S.
English is to Hispanics as the Ku Klux Klan is to blacks." He was
referring to U.S. English, the nation's oldest, largest citizens' action group
dedicated to preserving the unifying role of the English language in the United
States. "The Race" also pioneered Orwellian open-borders Newspeak and
advised the Mexican government on how to lobby for illegal alien amnesty while
avoiding the terms "illegal" and "amnesty."
5. "The Race" gives mainstream cover to a
poisonous subset of ideological satellites, led by Movimiento Estudiantil
Chicano de Aztlan, or Chicano Student Movement of Aztlan (MEChA). The late GOP
Rep. Charlie Norwood rightly characterized the organization as "a radical
racist group … one of the most anti-American groups in the country, which has
permeated U.S. campuses since the 1960s, and continues its push to carve a
racist nation out of the American West."
4. "The Race" is currently leading a
smear campaign against staunch immigration enforcement leaders and has called
for TV and cable news networks to keep immigration enforcement proponents off
the airwaves -- in addition to pushing for Fairness Doctrine policies to shut
up their foes. The New York Times reported that current "Race"
president Janet Murguia believes "hate speech" should "not be
tolerated, even if such censorship were a violation of First Amendment
rights."
3. "The Race" sponsors militant ethnic
nationalist charter schools subsidized by your public tax dollars (at least $8
million in federal education grants). The schools include Aztlan Academy in
Tucson, Ariz., the Mexicayotl Academy in Nogales, Ariz., Academia Cesar Chavez
Charter School in St. Paul, Minn., and La Academia Semillas del Pueblo in Los
Angeles, whose principal inveighed: "We don't want to drink from a White
water fountain, we have our own wells and our natural reservoirs and our way of
collecting rain in our aqueducts. We don't need a White water fountain … ultimately
the White way, the American way, the neo liberal, capitalist way of life will
eventually lead to our own destruction."
2. "The Race" has perfected the art of
the PC shakedown at taxpayer expense, pushing relentlessly to lower home loan
standards for Hispanic borrowers, reaping millions in federal "mortgage
counseling" grants, seeking special multimillion-dollar earmarks and
partnering with banks that do business with illegal aliens.
1. "The Race" thrives on ethnic supremacy
-- and the elite sheeple's unwillingness to call it what it is. As historian
Victor Davis Hanson observes: "[The] organization's very nomenclature 'The
National Council of La Raza' is hate speech to the core. Despite all the
contortions of the group, Raza (as its Latin cognate suggests) reflects the
meaning of 'race' in Spanish, not 'the people' -- and that's precisely why we
don't hear of something like 'The National Council of the People,' which would
not confer the buzz notion of ethnic, racial and tribal chauvinism."
The
fringe is the center. The center is the fringe. Viva La Raza.
Beto O’Rourke: Allow CEOs to Import Endless Foreign Workers
7:03
Democrat presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke says employers should be able to hire foreign workers instead of Americans whenever there are “labor demands.”
The labor policy announced by the Texas Democrat would allow U.S. employers to replace millions of Americans with cheap foreigners whenever Americans ask for more pay, better working conditions, or family leave.
The replace-Americans policy was buried in O’Rourke’s repetition of the progressive claim that the United States is a nation of immigrants and his call for two amnesties. “Let us rewrite our immigration laws in our own image,” O’Rourke declared in a May 21 CNN town hall in Des Moines, Iowa. Ge continued:
Let us reflect our values, our reality, the best interests and traditions of this country that is compromised of immigrants, and asylum seekers and refugees. Free every one of the more than one million dreamers [illegal migrants] from any fear of deportation by making them U.S. citizens here in their homeland and then give others who are laboring in the shadows right now, working some of the toughest jobs that we can imagine. Let’s bring them out of the shadows, allow them to contribute to their full potential, put them on a path to citizenship, and ensure that our visa quotas match the labor demands we have here, our desire to have families be able to reunite, and have everyone contribute to the share greatness and success of this country.
The progressive audience applauded O’Rourke’s plan to allow coast-to-coast outsourcing of their jobs and their children’s’ jobs.
Watch from 2:22:
Let’s not only honor our asylum laws and never again take another child from another parent at their most desperate and vulnerable moment, but let's guarantee that all separated families are reunited. Then we will rewrite our immigration laws in our own image. #CNNTownHall pic.twitter.com/sKoQ0nrEgL
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Beto’s replace-American, hire-foreigner policy matches the recommendations of the staff working for former President George W. Bush, also from Texas.
Employers should be allowed to freely hire foreign graduates for middle-class jobs, according to the Bush Center’s November 2018 recommendations. “Congress and the Administration should eliminate, or at least increase, the visa cap” for foreign college graduates, because “Industries like agriculture, construction, landscaping, and hospitality rely on low-skilled foreign workers to fill vacant jobs … A higher cap [on the inflow of workers] tied to labor market demand would better serve the needs of American businesses.”
If Americans’ wages and salaries begin to rise, the imported labor will be rushed in to end the labor shortage, the Bush recommendations suggest. Imported labor would spread through the economy where rising “wage levels signal where the most pressing labor needs exist,” the recommendations say.
The center’s open border for business plan echoes the repeated efforts by President George W. Bush to enact a pro-investor “any willing worker” law which would allow employers to hire anyone from around the world whenever Americans declined to take jobs offering low wages. Bush’s “any willing worker” plan was blocked in 2001, so he backed amnesties in Congress in 2006 and 2007 which created the open-ended “Probationary Z Visa.”
The Z visa plan offered work permits to all migrants who reached the United States within one year — and gave border officials just 24 hours to prove the migrants’ documents were fakes. The ambitious proposal quickly failed.
Dem. Sen. & Pres. hopeful Amy Klobuchar mimics Jeb Bush on immigration, says migrants spur economy. Well, yeah, extra labor does help investors & CEOs & real-estate owners. But it hurts people who pay rent w/ lower salaries. Did Jeb win any state in 2016? bit.ly/2Sbw9DX
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In 1990, Bush’s father, President George H.W. Bush, signed an immigration deal that roughly tripled the legal immigration rate, shifted wealth from wage earners to investors, and spiked stock market values.
O’Rourke’s American-replacement speech echoed the progressives claim that the United State is a “Nation of Immigrants,” not a nation of Americans and their children. In an October 2018 article for Time magazine, Democratic Rep. Joe Kennedy explained the government-boosting Cold War origin of the “Nation of Immigrants” claim:
Few felt it as deeply as President John F. Kennedy. In his 1964 book A Nation of Immigrants, recently re-released, my great-uncle outlines the compelling case for immigration, in economic, moral, and global terms. “The abundant resources of this land provided the foundation for a great nation,” he writes. “But only people could make the opportunity a reality. Immigration provided the human resources.”
The book was published one year before Congress junked the low-immigration rules which the public had won in the 1920s. In place of those 1920 rules, which helped to boost wages and salaries until the early 1970s, Congress in 1965 opened up the immigration gates, so flooding the labor market with roughly 45 million legal and illegal migrants.
Since 2016, Donald Trump’s low-immigration “Hire American” policy has helped to push voters’ wages up by three percent nationwide during 2018. Wages rose by 4.6 percent for people who switched jobs, and by 5.2 percent in Minnesota where migrants have increased the labor force by only ten percent. Wages barely climbed during 2018 in states that have a large percentage of imported labor.
Nancy Pelosi is promising to raise wages via gov't socialism, but Trump's "Hire American" immigration/labor-supply policy is nudging wages up by 3-4 percent a year. Yes, politicians competing over rival wage-raising policies would be a great thing. bit.ly/2Vgymzk
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Trump’s wage gain for American families is dismissed by many upper-income progressives who are welcoming the flood of Central American illegal migrants into the blue-collar economy.
The wage gain is being dismissed because many progressives now argue that racism is the root cause of the United State’s economic and racial disparities, and is the primary motivator in the nation’s immigration policies. This moral fervor began around 2012, and is dubbed “The Great Awokening.” Politically, the claim allows wealthy progressives and post-graduate professionals to elevate their perceived social status by smearing many Americans as deplorable racists. In part, Trump was elected in 2016 by the popular rejection of the snobbery.
Ironically, salary gains for white-collar professionals have lagged behind blue-collar gains in Trump’s economy. One cause of this disparity is that a wide variety of employers employ a population of at least 1.5 million white-collar, non-immigrant visa-workers, hired via the H-1B, OPT, L-1, and other visa programs.
Background numbers to know:
Each year, roughly four million young Americans join the workforce after graduating from high school or university.
But the federal government then imports about 1.1 million legal immigrants and refreshes a resident population of roughly 1.5 million white-collar visa workers — including roughly one million H-1B workers — and approximately 500,000 blue-collar visa workers.
The government also prints out more than one million work permits for foreigners, tolerates about eight million illegal workers, and does not punish companies for employing the hundreds of thousands of illegal migrants who sneak across the border or overstay their legal visas each year.
This policy of inflating the labor supply boosts economic growth for investors because it ensures that employers do not have to compete for American workers by offering higher wages and better working conditions.
This policy of flooding the market with cheap foreign white-collar graduates and blue-collar labor shifts also enormous wealth from young employees towards older investors even as it also widens wealth gaps, reduces high-tech investment, increases state and local tax burdens, and hurts children’s schools and college educations. It also pushes Americans away from high-tech careers and sidelines millions of marginalized Americans, including many who are now struggling with fentanyl addictions. The labor policy also movesbusiness investment and wealth from the heartland to the coastal cities, explodes rents and housing costs, shrivels real estate values in the Midwest and rewards investors for creating low tech, labor-intensive workplaces.
George W. Bush's Bush Center posts pro-migration, pro-business video which writes Americans out of American history: 'America’s story is an immigrant story,' says the video, which even describes some Americans as immigrants. bit.ly/2TTxfsF
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