MEXICO’S
INVASION by invitation!
"The
amnesty activist also said that the “border has been a crooked proposition from
the beginning, and it will continue to be twisted to meet political ends,”
adding that many open-borders activists still insist that “people didn’t cross
the border, the border crossed them.”
“At
some point we will have to accept the fact that the border between Mexico and
the United States is nothing more than an invention. It was demarcated in 1848,
following a war that cost Mexico about half its territory (it’s no coincidence
that cities like Los Angeles, San Antonio and San Francisco have Spanish
names),” Ramos said. “Also, it’s been said a thousand times that many people
didn’t cross the border, the border crossed them. And the cultural and
commercial ties between the two sides remain in place to this day. Look at the
fellowship exhibited by cities like El Paso, Texas, and Ciudad Juárez, Mexico
even if barbed wire and concrete barriers have been erected in some places
along the divide.” LA RAZA SUPREMACIST JORGE RAMOS
*
1. What nation occupied the land for 300 years
on which Mexicans now live?
2. What nation purchased 525,000 sq. miles of that land from Mexico for $15 million dollars?
3. What nation has a tougher immigration policy than the one who bought the land?
4. What nation built a wall along its Southern border to keep out illegal aliens?
5. What nation has millions of Mexican and Central American immigrants who came here legally and who don't want any illegal immigrants invading their country, stealing their jobs and bringing gangs, crime, drugs, infectious disease and human trafficking along with them?
6. What nation has millions of legal Latino immigrants who are proud to be citizens of a host country that is a sovereign nation with defined borders and with more individual freedoms and economic opportunities than any place on earth?
7. What people would like to tell the race-baiting, Jose Ramos, "Vete a la mierda!"?
2. What nation purchased 525,000 sq. miles of that land from Mexico for $15 million dollars?
3. What nation has a tougher immigration policy than the one who bought the land?
4. What nation built a wall along its Southern border to keep out illegal aliens?
5. What nation has millions of Mexican and Central American immigrants who came here legally and who don't want any illegal immigrants invading their country, stealing their jobs and bringing gangs, crime, drugs, infectious disease and human trafficking along with them?
6. What nation has millions of legal Latino immigrants who are proud to be citizens of a host country that is a sovereign nation with defined borders and with more individual freedoms and economic opportunities than any place on earth?
7. What people would like to tell the race-baiting, Jose Ramos, "Vete a la mierda!"?
ANSWERS:
1. Spain
2. United States
3. Mexico
4. Mexico
5. United States
6. United States
7. Latino Americans and other Americans who are not liberal Democrats.
2. United States
3. Mexico
4. Mexico
5. United States
6. United States
7. Latino Americans and other Americans who are not liberal Democrats.
Nancy Pelosi: ‘We Have Never Not Said There Was a Crisis’ at U.S.-Mexico Border
2:16
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) falsely claimed Wednesday that Democrats have “never” denied that there is a “crisis” on the U.S.-Mexico border — a statement directly contradicted by the words of multiple party leaders just months ago.
“Well, let me just say this. We have never not said that there was a crisis — there is a humanitarian crisis at the border, and some of it provoked by the actions taken by the administration,” Pelosi stated during her weekly press conference in the Capitol Visitor Center on Wednesday.
“What is happening at the border is tragic and we hope to address some of that in the disaster supplemental,” the California Democrat added. “And we understand our responsibility to secure our border.”
Pelosi’s remarks bear a stark contrast to what the House Speaker and other Democrats have previously said about the situation at the border, referring to it as a “manufactured crisis” by President Donald Trump.
During a joint press conference in January, Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) accused the president of using the “backdrop of the Oval Office to manufacture a crisis, stoke fear, and divert attention.”
Further, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer said of the situation at the Southern border after a visit to El Paso, Texas: “The first, most dramatic thing we found was there is no crisis.”
President Trump signed a congressional bill to avert a second partial government shutdown and declared a national emergency to build a wall along the border after Democrats used to back the funding required for its construction. The president also declared a national emergency at the southern border and used his executive authority to go around Congress to obtain more money to build the security barrier. “The current situation at the southern border presents a border security and humanitarian crisis that threatens core national security interests and constitutes a national emergency,” he said at the time.
Meanwhile, the Department of Homeland Security said earlier this month that illegal border crossing surged to a decade-high in April with nearly 100,000 crossers arrested.
do you ever get
sick and tired of their lies?
Illegal Immigration at 9X the
Rate of 2017, Projected to Outpace Obama
U.S. workers
have finally been seeing some decent raises in recent months, after suffering
through nearly a decade of meager wage gains. Unfortunately for them,
this might be as good as it gets. MARK WHITEHOUSE
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.
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
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 from the heartland to the
coasts, explodes rents, shrivels real
estate values in the Midwest and rewards investors for creating low tech, labor-intensive workplaces.
High levels of immigration, illegal and legal, puts downward pressure on U.S. wages while redistributing about $500 billion in wealth away from America’s working and middle class and towards employers and new arrivals, research by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine has found.
“Increasing
immigration is the one thing that can wipe out all
the wage gains, all the employment gains for those blue-collar
workers who switched parties to vote for him,” Jenks said. “I
hope someone in the White House has his interest in mind
who is telling him this.”
Spokespeople for the
Chamber of Commerce, LULAC, George W. Bush Center, and Koch Industries dominate
the immigration talks in White House currently.
Mark Zuckerberg’s Silicon
Valley investors are uniting with the Koch network’s consumer and industrial
investors to demand a huge DACA amnesty
Wage Raises: Donald Trump, Nancy Pelosi Tout Rival Plans
NEIL MUNRO
9 May 201964
6:27
Americans’ wages need to grow faster, says House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
Jobs
“are not producing the wages that people need to meet their needs,” Pelosi said
at a Washington Post event.
She continued:
And people still feel scarred by
what happened in 2008 when their home [mortages] were underwater, their
pensions were at risk, they were living off their savings, their children’s
education [was] in doubt. So there’s still that concern and 40 percent of the
American people — you’ve seen the figures over and over again – cannot
withstand a $500 unforeseen cost — whether it is a [broken] water heater, a
carburetor or whatever happens to be.
The Post published video
of the event; Pelosi’s comments on the subject start around the 40:00
mark.
The
call for higher wages reflects an effort by Pelosi to use kitchen table issues
to win swing voters back from President Donald Trump amid furious media
coverage about partisan fights in Washington, DC, over special investigations,
congressional subpoenas, and tax bills.
Pelosi’s
proposed fix, however, is more socialist-style rhetoric and regulation of the
economy:
We
think … we have to have equal pay for equal work … a $15 minimum wage — fight
for $15 — which we will be sending [to the Senate] soon. But you have to do
something big, like an infrastructure challenge … health care is a very big
piece of their financial security … increasing their paycheck is very
important.
But
Trump has plenty of ammunition for this political battle because his low
immigration, “Hire American” policy helped nudge up free market wages for
blue-collar Americans by roughly four percent in 2018.
This
small government labor policy has raised wages
for restaurant workers in Indiana, boosted farm companies’ investment in
labor-saving machinery, helped women switch to
higher-wage careers, forced up Americans’ productivity, and spiked pay
offers to new hires nationwide — and may help elect Trump in 2020.
Biz
lobbyists keep insisting 2 media that immigration doesn't hurt wages. But biz
CEOs say they're paying higher wages because of the labor shortage. The media
is finally waking up - & may even check migration's impact on their peers'
post-college salaries http://bit.ly/2I4lURc
Wages
are expected to keep rising in 2019 despite the huge influx of new workers who
are taking advantage of Congress’s loose border laws to migrate from Central
America.
Most
private-sector forecasters surveyed in
recent days by The Wall Street Journal—63.6%—expect wages will grow at a
somewhat faster rate over the next year, while a further 5.5% of economists
said wages will grow at a substantially faster rate.
“We
continue to hear from manufacturers about how difficult it is to attract talent
in the tight labor market, a challenge that we do not see changing in the near
future,” said Chad Moutray, chief economist at the National Association of
Manufacturers.
Just
under a quarter of economists, 23.6%, expect wages to grow at the same 3.2%
year-over-year pace seen in April. Just 7.3% expect the pace will slow over the
next year.
But
the recent wage gains have not made up for the massive losses since the 1970s
when the 1965 immigration law ended the era of tight labor markets and rising
wages by providing employers with a flood of foreign workers each year.
Trump
rarely talks about wages to reporters in Washington, DC. But at his May 8 rally
in Panama City Beach, Trump got an enthusiastic response when he touted the
gains:
After
many years of stagnation, wages are rising very fast.
Hasn’t happened in 20 years! And they’re rising fastest —
which makes me feel very good – for
blue-coller workers. Fastest proportionally. And driving
our whole agenda is a jobs boom that is historic. Hasn’t
happened like this in many, many years. if at all.
…
We’re
reducing burdens in our businesses but in return we expect
American companies to invest in America — which is
what we’re demanding — to raise wages in America, —
which is happening — and to hire American workers to do
the job. That’s what we want.
Goldman
Sachs says Trump's tight labor-market policy (AKA 'Hire American') gave 4%
raise to blue-collar/middle-class in 2018. But upper-income graduate salaries
lagged - maybe b/c of 1.5 million visa-worker graduates who work for
spaghettiOs & green cards http://bit.ly/2Fan4b0
Trump’s
deputies also say they plan to protect Americans’ wages as they move forward
with an immigration plan that would repair border security problems and shift
the focus of immigration from blue-collar labor jobs to white-collar,
college-credential jobs.
“We
have a lot of objectives … Number one, [Trump] wants to protect American
wages,” White House senior counselor Jared Kushner said April
23.
One
official said the plan “would cumulatively increase wages in the U.S.,”
Politico reported May 7.
Officials have not explained if “cumulatively increase” is the same as a
per-capita increase.
In
turn, Pelosi and Democrats are likely to portray the wage gains as minor
compared to gains made by investors. At the Washington Post event, she said:
Wages
are not rising in the way that they should by some of the indicators out there
and employment is low, but … jobs are not producing the wages that people need
to meet their needs … So while the president’s one percent is doing beautifully
… you can’t measure the economic well-being of our country as to how it
affects the one percent.
“We
are concerned about the kitchen table [issues] … They are ‘Trickle down,’ we
are ‘Bubble up'” Pelosi said.
When
businesses have to compete for workers, they raise wages and improve working
conditions. This is finally happening for American workers for the first time
in ages. Importing a flood of cheap foreign labor on more H-2B visas threatens
that growth. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/02/business/economy/wage-growth-economy.html …
Why Wages Are Finally Rising, 10 Years After
the Recession
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.
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
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 from the heartland to the
coasts, explodes rents, shrivels real
estate values in the Midwest and rewards investors for creating low tech, labor-intensive workplaces.
JAMES
WALSH
THE
GLOBALIST DEMOCRAT PARTY’S HISPANICAZATION of AMERICA… first ease millions of
illegals over our borders and into our voting booths!
How the Democrat party surrendered
America to Mexico:
“The watchdogs at
Judicial Watch discovered documents that reveal how the Obama administration's
close coordination with the Mexican government entices Mexicans to hop over the
fence and on to the American dole.” Washington Times
"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!
The “zero tolerance”
program was dismantled by Attorney General Erc Holder once it had
successfully cut the transit of migrants by roughly 95 percent.
Initially, officials made 140,000 arrests per year in the mid-2000s, but the
northward flow dropped so much that officials only had to make 6,000 arrests in
2013, according to a 2014
letter by
two pro-migration Senators, Sen. Jeff Flake and John McCain.
“The cost of the Dream
Act is far bigger than the Democrats or their media allies admit. Instead of
covering 690,000 younger illegals now enrolled in former President Barack
Obama’s 2012 “DACA” amnesty, the Dream Act would legalize at least 3.3 million illegals, according to a pro-immigration group, the Migration Policy
Institute.”
Obama Quietly Erasing Borders (Article)
WIKILEAKS
EXPOSES THE OBAMA CONSPIRACY TO FLOOD AMERICAN WITH DEM VOTING ILLEGALS
“The watchdogs at Judicial
Watch discovered documents that reveal how the Obama administration's close
coordination with the Mexican government entices Mexicans to hop over the fence
and on to the American dole.” Washington Times
Obama Funds the Mexican
Fascist Party of LA RAZA “The Race”… now calling itself UNIDOSus.
"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!
Previous generations of
immigrants did not believe they were racially superior to Americans. That is
the view of La Raza Cosmica, by Jose Vasconcelos, Mexico’s former
education minister and a presidential candidate. According to this book,
republished in 1979 by the Department of Chicano Studies at Cal State LA,
students of Scandinavian, Dutch and English background are dullards, blacks are
ugly and inferior, and those “Mongols” with the slanted eyes lack enterprise.
The superior new “cosmic” race of Spaniards and Indians is replacing them, and
all Yankee “Anglos.” LLOYD BILLINGSLEY/ FRONTPAGE mag
GLOBALIST BARACK OBAMA
AND NANCY PELOSI’S CONSPIRACY TO SABOTAGE HOMELAND SECURITY AND KEEP AMERICA
FLOODED WITH DEM VOTING ILLEGALS
"Along with Obama,
Pelosi and Schumer are responsible for incalculable damage done to this country
over the eight years of that administration." PATRICIA McCARTHY
“One of the most
disgusting things to come out of the Obama administration was "Operation
Fast and Furious," where members of the Department of Alcohol, Tobacco,
Firearms and Explosives (ATF) allowed illegal gun sales to go through –
commonly referred to as "gun walking" – in order to track buyers and
sellers they believed were connected to the Mexican drug cartels. Nearly 2,000
firearms were sold and were eventually found throughout the United States and
Mexico. Two of them were used to k ill Border Patrol Agent Brian
Terry.” BETH BAUMANN
DURING OBAMA'S 8 YEAR BANKSTER REGIME, HE OPERATED LA RAZA
(NOW CALLING ITSELF UNIDOSus FROM THE WHITE HOUSE UNDER LA RAZA
V.P. CECILIA MUNOZ. HE FUNDED THE MEX FASCIST PARTY WITH U.S. TAX
DOLLARS.
BOTH OF OBAMA’S SECRETARY of (ILLEGAL) LABOR WERE LA RAZA
SUPREMACIST. THESE WERE HILDA SOLIS AND TOM PEREZ.
The “zero tolerance”
program was dismantled by Attorney General Erc Holder once it had
successfully cut the transit of migrants by roughly 95 percent.
Initially, officials made 140,000 arrests per year in the mid-2000s, but the
northward flow dropped so much that officials only had to make 6,000 arrests in
2013, according to a 2014
letter by two
pro-migration Senators, Sen. Jeff Flake and John McCain.
Jose Angel Gutierrez, professor, University of Texas, Arlington
and founder of La Raza Unida political party screams at rallies: "We
have an aging white America. They are d ying. They are s hitting in
their pants with fear! I love it! We have got to eliminate the g ringo,
and what I mean by that is if the worst comes to the worst, we have got to
k ill him!"
Previous generations of
immigrants did not believe they were racially superior to Americans. That is
the view of La Raza Cosmica, by Jose Vasconcelos, Mexico’s former
education minister and a presidential candidate. According to this book,
republished in 1979 by the Department of Chicano Studies at Cal State LA,
students of Scandinavian, Dutch and English background are dullards, blacks are
ugly and inferior, and those “Mongols” with the slanted eyes lack enterprise.
The superior new “cosmic” race of Spaniards and Indians is replacing them, and
all Yankee “Anglos.” LLOYD BILLINGSLEY/ FRONTPAGE mag
Illegal Immigration at 9X the Rate of 2017, Projected to Outpace
Obama
JOHN BINDER
9 May 20191,454
2:33
Illegal
immigration at the United States-Mexico border last month was nine times the
level of the same month two years ago and is projected to outpace every year
when former President Obama oversaw immigration.
As Breitbart
News reported, there were nearly
100,000 apprehensions of migrants, border crossers, and asylum
applicants at the U.S.-Mexico border last month. This is nearly nine times the
level of illegal immigration compared to April 2017, when just a little more
than 11,000 border crossers were apprehended.
Likewise,
projections by Princeton Policy researcher Steven Kopits reveal that the U.S.
remains on track this year to outpace every year of illegal immigration
overseen by Obama.
At current
illegal immigration levels, about 863,000 border apprehensions are expected for
Fiscal Year 2019. This is a level of illegal immigration at the southern border
that has not been seen since the last years of former President George W. Bush.
The only
Fiscal Year that has reached a higher level of illegal immigration at the
southern border dating back to more than a decade ago was Fiscal Year 2006,
when more than one million apprehensions were made at the U.S.-Mexico border.
(Princeton
Policy Research)
Kopits
projects that this month’s rate of illegal immigration will be around the same
level as last month, with anywhere between 90,000 to 95,000 apprehensions.
Through
increased immigration enforcement, Trump has secured a four percent wage gain
over the last 12 months for America’s blue-collar and working class.
Experts like
Kris Kobach have warned that
if illegal immigration levels continue to soar over this year and throughout
2020, those wage hikes will be choked by a saturated labor market with more
cheap, foreign workers competing against Americans. Kobach has detailed
a plan exclusively at Breitbart News to stem the flow of mass
illegal immigration to the country.
Every year,
the U.S. admits more than 1.2 million legal immigrants to the country
regardless of the rate of illegal immigration arriving at the borders and
through visa overstays – that is, foreign nationals who have refused to leave
the country after their visas expire. At current rates of legal immigration, if
not reduced, about one-in-six
U.S. residents will be foreign-born, according to the Census Bureau.
Open borders
advocates are getting the open border they want
On
sheer volume, open-borders advocates are in the catbird seat, getting exactly
the open borders they have effectively been calling for.
The number of migrants apprehended at the Southern border
surpassed 100,000 for the second consecutive month, according to new figures released
by the Trump administration.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection apprehended 109,144 migrants in
April. That is more than 5,400 over the total in the month of March, and it is
the highest monthly total since 2007.
The chief of the Border Patrol, Carla Provost, told a Senate Judiciary panel that
"our apprehension numbers are off the charts."
"We cannot address this crisis by shifting more resources.
It's like holding a bucket under a faucet. It doesn't matter how many buckets
you give me if we can't turn off the flow," she said.
For
the rest of us, we are about to learn just what open borders looks like.
109,000 is quite a few people, not just in a big country such as the United
States, but in the countries these migrants are coming from - 1% of the
population of Guatemala, 1% of the population of Honduras, taken over the
course of the first seven months of the fiscal year.
Economist
Hernando de Soto told me several years ago that history shows there is no
stopping the movement of peoples, and while I felt disagreement with him then,
it's clear that in this mass migration incident, he was in a certain
way right. It's not that people are unstoppable like deer in nature,
however. It's that the incentivizing laws from the U.S. - from the failure of
the asylum system to keep junk claims out, to the huge banquet of 'free'
benefits on offer from states, which judges have ruled no popular vote can
stop, pretty well inevitably leads to the now-seen open border that
lawmen can no longer stop, all based on sheer volume. The law has
little ballast or enforcement in the face of a migrant flood,
with migrants now rolling in not just form Central America, but from all
over the world.
What
is it going to take to reestablish rule of law, to stop so
many service-desperate, uneducated, hard-to-assimilate, unskilled migrants
looking for a handout without following the law? It helps of course when
someone puts pressure on the governments that make life so miserable for
their citizens that they want to leave, as a Nigerian cardinal did
recently, blasting his country's
government for driving so many people out based on their rotten
governance. In this hemisphere, no such leadership is evident on the ground in
remittance-hungry countries such as Honduras, so the migrants are coming.
Sadly, Victor Davis Hanson has
offered the grim answer where the limit lies
from these current open-border dynamics, too, writing:
Under such conditions, the logical limits of immigration can be
calibrated not so much by whether countries south of the border reach parity
with American standards of living, freedom, security, and quality of life. But
rather the current issue is whether
regions of America, especially the American Southwest become roughly
indistinguishable from Latin America and Mexico, and therefore in
terms of economic opportunity, safety, and quality of life do not offer that
much of an improvement—or at least not such a radical margin of enhancement to justify
abandoning one’s homeland.
In such an equation, the more that illegal aliens arrive, swamp
social services and tax law enforcement, the more that they create ethnic
enclaves that resist rapid assimilation and the more that they sense that their
hosts see them most useful as an identity politics constituency, then the more
parts of the southwestern United States will seem more like Mexico, and perhaps
to the point of eventually diminishing illegal immigration.
No one knows what the saturation point might be of illegal and
unassimilated immigration, but influxes are now approximating each month a
mid-sized American city.
So
the U.S. will have to become as corrupt, hellish and impoverished as
the places these foreigners leave behind to nullify the enticements of migrating
illegally.
Which
is a pretty sad picture. The only possibility of reversing it, though, is still
out there, given that nations such as Canada and Australia have mastered it:
they crafted far better immigration laws, which required fewer lawmen to stop
those who would break those laws. If the U.S. does this, the nation can renew
its commitment to rule of law and serious efforts can be made to halt illegal
entrants at the border.
No
chance for that with the Democrats, who see the migrants as politically useful
in a lot of ways, the needier and more easily manipulated, the better.
So
for now, the migrants are rolling in, and the Border Patrol, with no tools for
stopping anyone (just deporting one of them require the use of a detention bed they
don't have) is effectively just waving them though, if not serving as free
babysitters for people who should be paying for their own freight the way
normal people do.
It's
sad because the other thing Hernando de Soto said was critical for any prosperity
and stability in a country is the invisible architecture of rule of law.
Without it, the U.S. can just morph into Honduras North. It
appears the Democrats would have that because they are blocking any meaningful
efforts to control the border, the borders are wide open now and rule of law is
going fast.
ONLY BARACK OBAMA
AND ERIC HOLDER HAVE SABOTAGED THE AMERICAN WORKER MORE THAN SWAMP KEEPER
TRUMP!
Right now in L.A., for instance, immigration is now skewed
pretty heavily towards less-skilled workers. But the emphasis will shift and
there will be a lot more competition for 21-year-old [American] college
graduates trying to get a job. The competition also may be greater for [older]
mid-career graduates because young Americans are relatively cheap to employers.
A middle-aged white-collar American graduate is much more expensive to
employers than a desperate young graduate of a college in Bangalore, India.
AP/Jason DeCrow
NEIL MUNRO
8 May 2019541
8:27
The White House’s draft immigration plan includes valuable border
security reforms, but it also shifts the migrant inflow from blue-collar jobs
towards white-collar college jobs, so sharpening workplace competition for a
wide range of American graduates.
The bill would neither increase nor reduce total legal
immigration, now at roughly 1.1 million per year. But it would reallocate green
cards for family chain-migrants — such as immigrants’ parents, adult children,
and siblings – towards “merit-based” slots for migrants with the job skills
most sought by U.S. employers.
“What we’re doing in this plan is we’re working on keeping the
number the same,” a senior White House official said Tuesday. “We’re just
changing the composition.”
“We’ve been playing around with it to figure out how you build
something that really works for America,” the official said, according to
Politico. “The number one goal in that is to make sure that we’re not bringing
in low-skilled labor.”
The proposed deal is being cautiously supported by the
Federation of American Immigration Reform. Politico reported:
“The American people expect a plan that addresses chaos at the
border and moves the nation to an immigration model that emphasizes skills over
bloodlines,” said RJ Hauman, government relations director at FAIR, who has
been in touch with the White House. “Jared Kushner and his team understand this
and we’re encouraged by what we’ve heard this week.”
However, any shift from blue-collar migration to white-collar
migration will increase job competition for American graduates, said Mark
Krikorian, the director of the Center for Immigration Studies.
The plan, if it goes into effect, would lessen the pressure on
blue-collar workers, but it would almost certainly up the wage pressure on
middle-class white collars, because they’re talking about admitting hundreds of
thousands of higher skilled [graduates] every year … There will be lots and
lots more graduates from universities in India and China and Nigeria who are
going be directly competing with young people from the suburbs of Washington
D.C. … and Atlantia and Chicago and L.A.
In 2018, many GOP candidates lost when upper-income suburbanites
switched to Democrats.
The sketchy outlines of the bill suggest it will boost the
annual award of green cards directly to graduates from roughly 50,000 to at
least 250,000, on top of the family migrants who hold college degrees, he said.
Right now in L.A., for instance, immigration is now skewed
pretty heavily towards less-skilled workers. But the emphasis will shift and
there will be a lot more competition for 21-year-old [American] college
graduates trying to get a job. The competition also may be greater for [older]
mid-career graduates because young Americans are relatively cheap to employers.
A middle-aged white-collar American graduate is much more expensive to
employers than a desperate young graduate of a college in Bangalore, India.
Another concern is that unreleased details in the bill may
turbocharge the inflow of foreign graduates into U.S. jobs via the various temporary,
non-immigrant work-permit programs, he said, adding:
If the new system were to give [migrants some] points for having
already worked in the United States, that would create an enormous incentive to
come in here on some kind of temporary [work permit] and work here to get
[green card] points. It would perpetuate the indentured servitude element of
many of our guest-worker programs.
“That’s speculation,” he added.
FBI busts company which allegedly helped
get 'Optional Practical Training' work permits via fraud for roughly 1,900
Chinese grads, to steal jobs & salaries from American grads. More to come,
despite media silence on white-collar job theft #HR1044 http://bit.ly/2Zdr42t
FBI: Company Faked White-Collar Jobs for
1,900 Chinese Migrants
Nationwide,
at least 1.5 million non-immigrant foreign graduates are using temporary
permits to work in U.S. jobs.
That
population helps reduce wages for American graduates because it is twice the
yearly college output of American graduates with degrees in healthcare, business,
science, engineering, software, architecture, and design careers. In addition,
employers have won green cards for roughly 50,000 graduates each year for more
than 20 years.
This huge
population of salary-cutting foreign graduates is rarely noted by establishment
media. But it pushes American graduates towards the Democratic Party, says
a 2018
studyby pro-migration authors:
Our strongest and most significant finding is that an
increase in high-skilled immigrants as a share of the local population is
associated with a strong and significant decrease in the vote share for the
Republican Party. To the contrary, an increase in the low-skilled immigrant
share of the population is associated with a strong and significant increase in
Republican votes. These effects are common to presidential, House and Senate
elections.
The blue-collar political shift to the GOP caused by low-skill
immigration, however, is more than offset by the rising number of pro-Democratic
immigrant voters who have turned California blue and now threaten to end GOP
dominance in Texas.
White House officials say the draft plan will protect Americans’
wages. “The official said it would cumulatively increase wages in the U.S.,”
Politico reported.
“We have a lot of objectives … Number one, [Trump] wants to
protect American wages,” White House senior counselor Jared Kushner said April 23.
But almost any immigration program will increase the cumulative
total of wages by adding more workers — even if each employee also sees a wage
loss via job competition. That combination of immigration and job-competition
annually transfers roughly $500 billionfrom Americans’ salaries and
wages to investors, according to George Borjas, a Harvard economist.
When businesses have to compete for
workers, they raise wages and improve working conditions. This is finally
happening for American workers for the first time in ages. Importing a flood of
cheap foreign labor on more H-2B visas threatens that growth. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/02/business/economy/wage-growth-economy.html …
Why Wages Are Finally Rising, 10 Years After
the Recession
Importantly,
the plan does not provide the extra supply of workers, consumers, and renters
which is loudly sought by CEOs and investors who are eager to cut costs and
boost revenues. In his April comments about the plan, Kushner noted the many
non-migration ways in which Trump has aided business:
We freed up
companies to be able to invest capital, which is creating jobs — we’ve lowered
the corporate tax rate and we’ve given a tax cut to individuals, which means
there is more consumption. We’re working on trade deals … We’ve figured how to
make our country energy independent. We’ve increased the amount of energy we
are creating which geopolitically is very important. We’re investing in the
industries of the future — Artificial Intelligence, 5G, quantum computing– a
lot of things that allow us to be long-term competitive. And then also
appointing a lot of conservative judges has allowed us and a lot of businesses
to have certainty on what the law is, and so those things, if you couple them
with maybe infrastructure [spending] and then immigration reform, I think
that will keep out country competitive for the long run.
Krikorian is
skeptical about the political value of the plan:
It does not
make sense to me to be addressing this issue at all before the election. The
[political] energy is at the border, and as I understand it, the legislation
has lots of very strong and important border-control measures. That’s good, but
there’s no reason those kinds of measures should not be packed into one bill on
its own … I’m afraid they will make the same mistake in 2013 and 2007, and I
think there has to be a comprehensive approach to this issue. How is any of
this going to make it more likely that [2020] voters in Pennsylvania and
Michigan will show up and vote for Trump?
The plan “is
clearly undermining the President’s image among a lot of these Reagan Democrats
who voted for them as the champion of the American worker,” he said, adding
“How does any of this promote ‘Hire American’?”
Each year,
roughly four million young Americans join the workforce after graduating
from high school or university.
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.
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
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 from the heartland to the
coasts, explodes rents, shrivels real
estate values in the Midwest and rewards investors for creating low tech, labor-intensive workplaces.
Goldman Sachs says Trump's tight
labor-market policy (AKA 'Hire American') gave 4% raise to
blue-collar/middle-class in 2018. But upper-income graduate salaries lagged -
maybe b/c of 1.5 million visa-worker graduates who work for spaghettiOs &
green cards http://bit.ly/2Fan4b0
Goldman Sachs: Trump Raises Voters' Wages
with Tight Labor Market
Report:
White House Plan Drops Reduction of Legal Immigration
Chip Somodevilla/Getty
JOHN BINDER
7
May 20191,376
5:27
The White House is dropping a longtime
initiative of President Trump’s that reduces overall legal immigration levels
to increase U.S. wages, a senior administration official tells the media.
Throughout 2015, 2016, and 2017, Trump routinely touted his plans
to reduce the number of legal immigrants who arrive in the U.S. on a myriad of
visas. Since the 1990s, when it was expanded by President George H.W. Bush,
legal annual immigration levels have remained at historic highs with about 1.2
million nationals legally admitted every year.
For example, since 1980, the number of legal immigrants admitted
to the U.S. every year has not dipped below 525,000 admissions. Since 1999,
annual legal immigration levels have not dropped below 645,000 admissions and
since 2004, the average number of legal immigrants admitted every year has not
dipped below a million admissions.
Trump said of the current legal immigration system:
Among those hit the hardest in recent years have been
immigrants, and very importantly, minority workers competing for jobs against
brand new arrivals. And it has not been fair to our people, to our citizens, to
our workers. [Emphasis added]
An immigration plan by the White House, with only preliminary
details available, does not seek to reduce any forms of legal immigration to
the country, a senior administration official told the Washington Post and The Hill.
“A senior administration official told reporters after the
meeting that the president had approved the effort to overhaul America’s
immigration system and increase border security last week and that it should
now be considered ‘the President Trump plan,'” the Post reported. “… under
the plan, the same number of immigrants would be permitted to enter the
country, but the composition would change.”
Senator David Perdue (R-GA) — who attended a meeting with Trump
on Tuesday — confirmed to Breitbart News these details of the White House plan.
“While this is still in the preliminary stage, the president has
proposed maintaining the 1.1 million legal immigrants we bring in each year but
changing the mix to respond to the needs of our growing economy and workforce,”
Perdue told the media following the meeting.
Instead, the plan shifts the way in which the U.S. admits the
more than 1.2 million legal immigrants it accepts every year.
During an interview with Time Magazine last
month, senior adviser Jared Kushner said Trump’s focus for reforming the
national immigration system centers on protecting Americans’ wages.
“We have a lot of objectives … Number one, he wants to protect
American wages,” Kushner said.
High
levels of immigration, illegal and legal, puts downward pressure on U.S. wages
while redistributing about $500 billion in wealth away from America’s working and middle class and
towards employers and new arrivals, research by the National Academies of
Sciences, Engineering and Medicine has found.
Economist George Borjas has detailed how the country’s working
class, those without a high school diploma, have been primarily hurt by the
annual admission of more than a million mostly low-skilled foreign nationals.
“The typical high school dropout earns about $25,000 annually,”
Borjas wrote for Politico in October 2016. “According to census data,
immigrants admitted in the past two decades lacking a high school diploma have
increased the size of the low-skilled workforce by roughly 25 percent. As a
result, the earnings of this particularly vulnerable group dropped by between
$800 and $1,500 each year.”
Center for Immigration Studies Director of Research Steven
Camarota has discovered similar wage depression trends.
For every one-percent increase in the immigrant portion of
American workers’ occupations reduces their weekly wages by about 0.5 percent,
Camarota finds. This means the average native-born American worker today has
his weekly wages reduced by perhaps 8.5 percent because of current legal
immigration levels.
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
about 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.
Likewise, every one-percent increase in the immigrant portion of
low-skilled U.S. occupations reduces wages by about 0.8 percent. Should 15
percent of low-skilled jobs be held by foreign-born workers, it would reduce
the wages of native-born American workers by perhaps 12 percent.
At current legal immigration rates, about one-in-six U.S.
residents will have been born outside of the country by 2060, the Census Bureau
has found. The foreign-born population in the U.S. is expected to reach 69
million in the next four decades.
Corporate
tax cuts haven’t resulted in the kind of investment that could drive a
breakthrough. President Trump hasn’t followed through on promises of
infrastructure spending — which, done right, could make the whole economy work
better. And his immigration policies have not been conducive to bringing in
highly skilled foreigners.
“Increasing immigration is the one thing that can wipe out all the
wage gains, all the employment gains for those blue-collar workers who switched
parties to vote for him,” Jenks said. “I hope someone in the White House
has his interest in mind who is telling him this.”
Cheating Our Way to 4 Percent Growth
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/cheating-our-way-to-4-percent-growth/?utm_source=E-mail+Updates&utm_campaign=7c5d5b8f80-
Adding
more people certainly adds to total GDP, but it’s something of a statistical
“cheat” because almost all of the gains go to the immigrants themselves. Since GDP is such a
common measure of the nation’s economic health, most Americans expect that a
higher GDP means the unemployment rate is going down and their incomes are
going up. For example, Fox News recently described a 1 percent gain in GDP as “about $500 per American.”
But expanding the population through immigration has little overall effect on
the incomes of the people already here. Total GDP will always increase with
population growth, but per capita GDP
is much more stubborn.
Although
the distinction between gains to GDP and gains to natives seems like a simple
one, the media are frequently confused by it. CNN once warned that the Cotton-Perdue RAISE Act — which would reduce
immigration over the long term by eliminating chain migration — would lead to
“4.6 million lost jobs by the year 2040.” The claim is tautological. It simply
restates the fact that a smaller population will have a smaller number of
workers than a larger population. It implies nothing about the effect of the
RAISE Act on Americans.
If
the president does attempt to sell immigration-inflated GDP numbers as proof of
prosperity, I suspect ordinary Americans will not buy it. The working-class
voters who elected him are bound to notice that their own financial situations
don’t match the rosy economic numbers. They may end up feeling even more left
behind than they do now.
Enjoy that
raise. This might be as good as it gets
By MARK WHITEHOUSE
U.S. workers
have finally been seeing some decent raises in recent months, after suffering
through nearly a decade of meager wage gains. Unfortunately for them,
this might be as good as it gets.
The
behavior of wages has long been a central mystery of the U.S. labor market.
Even as employers kept hiring and the unemployment rate fell to multidecade
lows, the demand for workers failed to translate into higher pay. For most of
the period starting in 2010 and ending in 2013, wage growth hovered below 2%.
Lately,
though, things have started to move. Year-over-year growth in average hourly
earnings reached 3.4% in February, roughly matching the pace that prevailed
ahead of the last recession, before retreating a bit to 3.2% in March.
In terms
of actual dollars, average weekly pay now ranges from a low of $357 for those
in leisure and hospitality and $500 for retail workers up to $1,553 for utility
employees, $1,366 for miners and loggers, and $1,013 for finance workers on the
high end.
Could
wages accelerate further? It wouldn’t be unreasonable to expect some payback
after all those years of relative stagnation. Yet considering one of the most
important contributors to wage growth — workers’ productivity — it doesn’t seem
likely to be all that big.
In the
longer run, two factors determine how much employers can and should pay. One is
inflation: Wages must keep pace with prices lest workers end up worse off. The
other is productivity: The more employees produce each hour, the more companies
can afford to pay them.
The sum
of the two — inflation plus productivity growth — sets a sort of limit on how
fast pay can increase without causing economic problems.
So what’s
the limit? As of December, the Federal Reserve’s preferred measure of
inflation, at 1.95%, was very close to the central bank’s target of 2%. It
could go a little higher, but a lot would be undesirable and attract a
justified response from the Fed.
Meanwhile,
productivity growth remained pretty slow, up just 1.77% from a year earlier.
Altogether, that adds up to about 3.7% — a low ceiling that wage growth was
already close to hitting.
In other
words, greater gains in workers’ living standards will require faster
productivity growth. To some extent, higher wages might provide a boost of
their own. Beyond that, though, it’s hard to see where the growth will come
from.
Corporate
tax cuts haven’t resulted in the kind of investment that could drive a
breakthrough. President Trump hasn’t followed through on promises of
infrastructure spending — which, done right, could make the whole economy work
better. And his immigration policies have not been conducive to bringing in
highly skilled foreigners.
That leaves workers to
hope for a miracle. It could happen, but don’t count on it.
Mark Whitehouse writes
a column for Bloomberg.
"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
"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."
Trump
Abandons ‘America First’ Reforms:
‘We Need’
More Immigration to Grow
Business
Profits
7:16
Ahead of the 2020 presidential election,
President Trump is abandoning his prior “America First” legal immigration
reforms to support increases of legal immigration levels in order to expand
profits for businesses and corporations.
For the fourth time in about a month, Trump
suggested increasing legal immigration levels. With Apple CEO Tim Cook sitting
next to him at the White House on Wednesday, Trump said he not only wanted more
legal immigration but that companies needed an expansion of new arrivals to
grow their business.
“We’re going to have a lot of people coming into the country. We
want a lot of people coming in. And we need it,” Trump said:
It’s not a question of do we want [more immigration], these
folks are going to have to sort of not expand too much. And if we tell them …
these are very ambitious people around this table. They don’t like the concept of
not expanding. We
want to have the companies grow and the only way they’re going to grow is if we
give them the workers and the only way we’re going to have the
workers is to do exactly what we’re doing. [Emphasis added]
The comments are a direct rebuttal of the
president’s commitments in 2015, 2016, and 2017, where he vowed to reduce overall legal immigration
levels to boost the wages of U.S. workers and reduce the displacement of
America’s working and middle class.
In 2017, for instance, Trump touted Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) and
Sen. David Perdue’s (R-GA) RAISE Act legislation, which would have cut legal
immigration down to about 500,000 arrivals a year rather than the current
admission of more than one million legal immigrants annually who compete against
working-class Americans for jobs.
Trump, at the time, said legal immigration levels needed to be
trimmed to “reduce poverty, increase wages, and save taxpayers billions and
billions of dollars,” arguing that the current importation of more than a million
legal immigrants every year “has placed substantial pressure on American
workers, taxpayers, and community resources.”
“Among those hit the hardest in recent years have been
immigrants, and very importantly, minority workers competing for jobs against
brand new arrivals,” Trump said in 2017 of current legal immigration levels.
“And it has not been fair to our people, to our citizens, to our workers.”
NumbersUSA’s Rosemary Jenks said Trump supporters must remind
the White House of the commitment that the president made on the campaign trail
when it comes to legal immigration reforms.
“We need to remember all of the promises that candidate Trump
made on immigration. Which included, most importantly, putting
Americans first,” Jenks told Breitbart News.
“I would certainly hope, that in order to keep his campaign
promises that before even talking about expanding legal immigration, he would
work with employers to recruit the 50 million working-age Americans who are
outside the labor market,” Jenks said. “Or work with these companies to hire
laid-off GM workers. They’re Americans, they should come first.”
Trump’s newfound support for increasing legal immigration levels
has become part of his stump speech on the issue, repeating the same sentiment most recently at the
Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC).
There, Trump said the country needs more foreign workers to help
corporations.
“We need an immigration policy that’s going to be great for our
corporations and our great companies … we need workers to come in but
they’ve got to come in legally and they’ve got to come in through merit,” Trump
said.
Trump’s shift in legal immigration views has coincided with
the White House giving accessto a myriad of globalist business
groups, including the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the George W. Bush Center, and a
number of libertarian organizations funded by the pro-mass immigration
billionaire Koch brothers.
Spokespeople for the
Chamber of Commerce, LULAC, George W. Bush Center, and Koch Industries dominate
the immigration talks in White House currently. https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/02/26/globalist-business-immigration-talks-white-house/ …
Globalist Business Groups Dominate
Immigration Talks at White House
Increasing legal immigration beyond their already historically
high levels would crush the wage and job gains that Trump’s
“Hire American” economy has made possible thus far. Nationwide, wages
rose 3.0 percent in 2018. For Americans who switched jobs, wages rose by 4.6
percent and by 5.2 percent in Minnesota where few migrant workers choose to
live.
Though unemployment has remained low, there continues to be at
least 13 million working-age Americans who are either
unemployed, not in the labor force but want a job, or who are working part-time
jobs but want a good-paying full-time job.
“Increasing immigration is the one thing that can wipe out all
the wage gains, all the employment gains for those blue-collar workers who
switched parties to vote for him,” Jenks said. “I hope someone in the White
House has his interest in mind who is telling him this.”
Out of those 13 million Americans who are available for U.S.
jobs, about 6.5 million are unemployed. Of those unemployed, close to 13
percent are American teenagers who are ready for entry-level U.S. jobs — the exact
jobs that low-skilled foreign workers generally tend to take.
About 1.6 million Americans are not in the labor force at all,
but they want a job, including about 426,000 discouraged American workers who
are demoralized by their job prospects. Also, there are 5.1 million Americans
who are working part-time jobs but who want full-time jobs. More than 1.4
million of these U.S. part-time workers said they had looked for full-time jobs
but could not find any.
Mass immigration, whether legal or illegal, puts downward
pressure on Americans’ wages, researchers have repeatedly noted.
Every one percent increase in the immigrant composition of an
American workers’ occupation reduces their weekly wages by about 0.5 percent,
researcher Steven Camarotta has found. This means the average native-born
American worker today has their weekly wages reduced by perhaps 8.5 percent
because of current legal immigration levels.
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.
Likewise, every one percent increase in the immigrant
composition of low-skilled U.S. occupations reduces wages by about 0.8 percent.
Should 15 percent of low-skilled jobs be held by foreign-born workers, it would
reduce the wages of native-born American workers by perhaps 12 percent.
The mass importation of legal immigrants — mostly due to
President George H.W. Bush’s Immigration Act of 1990, which expanded legal immigration levels — diminishes job
opportunities for the roughly four million young American graduates who enter
the workforce every year wanting good-paying jobs.
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.
2:42
President Donald Trump’s Department
of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen is extending a temporary
amnesty status for more than 300,000 foreign nationals, a notice from the
agency states.
In an announcement on Thursday,
Nielsen said DHS
would not only continue to complywith a preliminary injunction from last year — in
which a federal judge in California blocked Trump’s rescinding of Temporary
Protected Status (TPS) — but that the agency would be extending TPS for
hundreds of thousands of nationals of Sudan, Haiti, Nicaragua, and El Salvador
through January 2020.
Sudanese
nationals have had their TPS extended since 1997, while Nicaraguans have
enjoyed TPS since 1998. Likewise, El Salvador’s nationals have had TPS since
about 2001, and Haitians have had their TPS renewed since about 2010.
Trump
sought to end TPS for the more than 300,000 foreign resident population in the
U.S., prompting a lawsuit from the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). Now,
though, Nielsen’s decision to extend TPS will allow the foreign nationals to
stay in the country until at least January 2020, a reversal of the
administration’s initial plan.
About
200,000 of the nationals protected by TPS in the latest DHS decision are from
El Salvador, while another 50,000 are from Haiti. The remaining more than
50,000 nationals are from Sudan and Nicaragua.
TPS has
become a quasi-amnesty for otherwise illegal aliens created under the
Immigration and Nationality Act of 1990 (INA) that prevents the deportation of
foreign nationals from countries that have suffered through famine, war, or
natural disasters. Since the Clinton administration, TPS has been transformed
into a de facto amnesty program as the Bush, Obama, and
now Trump administration has continuously renewed the program for a variety of
countries.
Pro-American
immigration reformers like former Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach
have argued that
the TPS program has been abused by the open borders lobby and DHS officials.
At the
beginning of 2020, DHS will announce whether the agency will once again renew
TPS for the more than 300,000 foreign nationals or terminate their status.
TRUMP’S CRAP ON BORDERS AND HIS PRETEND WALL IS ONLY ONE MORE
TRUMP HOAX!
Only
a complete fool would believe that Trump is any more for American Legal workers
than the Democrat Party for Billionaires and Banksters!
“Trump
Administration Betrays Low-Skilled American Workers.”
The
latest ad from the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) asks Trump
to reject the mass illegal and legal immigration policies supported by Wall
Street, corporate executives, and most specifically, the GOP mega-donor Koch
brothers.
Efforts by the big business lobby, Chamber of Commerce, Koch
brothers, and George W. Bush Center include increasing employment-based legal
immigration that would likely crush the historic wage gains that
Trump has delivered for America’s blue collar and working class citizens.
Mark Zuckerberg’s Silicon
Valley investors are uniting with the Koch network’s consumer and industrial
investors to demand a huge DACA amnesty
A handful of Republican and
Democrat lawmakers are continuing to tout a plan that gives amnesty to nearly a
million illegal aliens in exchange for some amount of funding for President
Trump’s proposed border wall along the U.S.-Mexico border.
"The
amnesty activist also said that the “border has been a crooked proposition from
the beginning, and it will continue to be twisted to meet political ends,”
adding that many open-borders activists still insist that “people didn’t cross
the border, the border crossed them.”
*
“At some
point we will have to accept the fact that the border between Mexico and the
United States is nothing more than an invention. It was demarcated in 1848,
following a war that cost Mexico about half its territory (it’s no coincidence
that cities like Los Angeles, San Antonio and San Francisco have Spanish
names),” Ramos said. “Also, it’s been said a thousand times that many people
didn’t cross the border, the border crossed them. And the cultural and
commercial ties between the two sides remain in place to this day. Look at the
fellowship exhibited by cities like El Paso, Texas, and Ciudad Juárez, Mexico
even if barbed wire and concrete barriers have been erected in some places
along the divide.” LA RAZA SUPREMACIST JORGE RAMOS
ANN COULTER: WILL THE
GLOBALIST DEMOCRAT PARTY FOR BANKSTERS AND BILLIONAIRES DESTROY AMERICA?
I would also go to all of the working class that are in America,
construction workers in particular. Their salaries have not just
stagnated, they have gone down in the last 20 years. These are the least among us. We are the only ones not speaking
out of self-interest. …
Most of the people who are advocating for open borders … they have a vested in interest in having either the cheap labor or the
Democratic voters. Their neighborhoods aren’t the ones being
overwhelmed. They get the cheap maids, the cheap nannies,
and then they strut around like they’re Martin Luther King.
No, you are talking in your
self-interest, Chamber of Commerce, and Koch brothers, and Nancy Pelosi, and
Chuck Schumer. It’s Donald Trump and our side who are actually
caring about our fellow Americans — the kids who are getting addicted to black
tar heroin. …
The heroin problem in this country is 100 percent a problem of not
having a wall on the border. And 70,000 Americans are dying every year. That’s
more that died in the entire Vietnam War. That is a national emergency.
ANN COULTER
“Sessions is the only one doing
something about illegal immigration!” Ann Coulter… AND THAT IS WHY TRUMP FIRED
HIM!
THE
MOVE TO MAKE AG JEFF SESSIONS PRESIDENT is denounced by the Narco state of
Mexico which relies on the wholesale looting of America.
ANN COULTER EXPOSES TRUMP’S “WALL” HOAX
In fact, Trump is steadily moving in the precise opposite
direction of what he promised.
Illegal immigration is on track to hit the highest levels in
more than a decade, and Trump has willfully decided to keep amnesty advocates
Jared, Ivanka, Mick Mulvaney, Marc Short, and Mercedes Schlapp in the White
House. For all his talk about immigration, did he ever consider hiring people
who share his MAGA vision?
Massive Backlash Against Trump's
Democrats Kushner & Morgan on Immigration Issues
For National Release | May 9, 2019
Americans for Legal Immigration PAC is releasing the results of an online poll sampling the national organization's more than 50,000 email subscribers and numerous social media followers regarding President Trump's decision to put Obama's border chief Mark Morgan in charge of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
Ninety percent (90%) of email respondents disapprove of Trump's decision to put Obama' appointee Mark Morgan in charge of immigration enforcement as did seventy-eight percent (78%) on Facebook and seventy-nine percent (79%) on Twitter.
The survey asked, "How do you feel about President Trump hiring Obama's Amnesty supporting Border Chief Mark Morgan to run America's Immigration & Customs Enforcement? (ICE)"
Some Trump supporters said they liked Mark Morgan because they heard him on Fox News supporting a border wall and speaking in favor of "Trump's immigration plans." Others said they supported Morgan because they trust Trump.
ALIPAC plans to add the hiring of Mark Morgan to run ICE as #11 on the organization's tracking list of Trump's reversals, betrayals, and broken promises on immigration issues. (View Tracking List HERE.)
"Each week President Trump offends and betrays his base supporters in a new way," said William Gheen, President of ALIPAC. "While many of his supporters continue to rationalize and suck it up, many of us are refusing to join the President in his efforts to hire Democrats and Republicans who support Amnesty for illegal aliens and increased legal immigration levels. Former Trump supporters are starting to call him the "Con Don," "talker Trump," and "Do Nothing Don" because looking at what Trump says each week, there is usually little or no actual actions taken."
ALIPAC's legendary activists, who have played a decisive role in defeating legislative Amnesty in DC 10 times since 2004, are currently calling the White House to oppose Trump's hiring of Morgan and Kushner on immigration issues. ALIPAC activists are also contacting GOP Senators to lobby them to not work on any immigration deals with Trump's lifelong Democrat son-in-law Jared Kushner, who supports Amnesty for illegals.
While ALIPAC's online poll only constitutes a section of Trump's base, the results indicate there is wide dissatisfaction with Trump on immigration issues among his base supporters who are aware of his actual positions and actions vs. Trump's campaign rhetoric tough talk.
President Donald J. Trump supports Amnesty, legal immigration increases, DACA Amnesty, and dangerous Catch and Release policies that dump illegal immigrants into sanctuary cities where they go on to kill thousands of Americans like Kate Steinle each year on his watch.
ALIPAC believes that Trump has made a massive mistake deploying Jared Kushner to get his immigration plans through that is costing him supporters and will cost him even more support if any Kushner immigration bill actually becomes law.
For more information about how many former and current Trump supporters feel about Trump's reversals and flip flops on immigration, or to schedule interviews, please visit www.ALIPAC.us
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Share and discuss at (ALIPAC HERE) .. (FACEBOOK HERE) .. (TWITTER HERE) .. (GAB HERE)
ACTIVISM STEPS
1. Keep calling and writing the White House with your opposition to Trump's broken campaign promises, to his hiring of Obama's immigration chiefs like Mark Morgan, and to lifelong Democrat Jared Kushner using messages and numbers we have for you here--
https://www.alipac.us/f8/online-survey-how-do-you-feel-about-trump-hiring-372110/
2. Keep calling the 6 targeted GOP Senators with our message using messages and numbers here--
https://www.alipac.us/f8/call-six-gop-senators-meeting-kushner-plan-amnesty-bill-372154/
3. Call all GOP Senators to tell them, "No deals with Democrats and Kushner on immigration issues and Amnesty," using the big list for all Republican Senators at--
https://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm
Let's fight hard to stop this treachery, Americans!
William Gheen and The ALIPAC Team
www.ALIPAC.us
Americans for Legal Immigration PAC is releasing the results of an online poll sampling the national organization's more than 50,000 email subscribers and numerous social media followers regarding President Trump's decision to put Obama's border chief Mark Morgan in charge of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
Ninety percent (90%) of email respondents disapprove of Trump's decision to put Obama' appointee Mark Morgan in charge of immigration enforcement as did seventy-eight percent (78%) on Facebook and seventy-nine percent (79%) on Twitter.
The survey asked, "How do you feel about President Trump hiring Obama's Amnesty supporting Border Chief Mark Morgan to run America's Immigration & Customs Enforcement? (ICE)"
Some Trump supporters said they liked Mark Morgan because they heard him on Fox News supporting a border wall and speaking in favor of "Trump's immigration plans." Others said they supported Morgan because they trust Trump.
ALIPAC plans to add the hiring of Mark Morgan to run ICE as #11 on the organization's tracking list of Trump's reversals, betrayals, and broken promises on immigration issues. (View Tracking List HERE.)
"Each week President Trump offends and betrays his base supporters in a new way," said William Gheen, President of ALIPAC. "While many of his supporters continue to rationalize and suck it up, many of us are refusing to join the President in his efforts to hire Democrats and Republicans who support Amnesty for illegal aliens and increased legal immigration levels. Former Trump supporters are starting to call him the "Con Don," "talker Trump," and "Do Nothing Don" because looking at what Trump says each week, there is usually little or no actual actions taken."
ALIPAC's legendary activists, who have played a decisive role in defeating legislative Amnesty in DC 10 times since 2004, are currently calling the White House to oppose Trump's hiring of Morgan and Kushner on immigration issues. ALIPAC activists are also contacting GOP Senators to lobby them to not work on any immigration deals with Trump's lifelong Democrat son-in-law Jared Kushner, who supports Amnesty for illegals.
While ALIPAC's online poll only constitutes a section of Trump's base, the results indicate there is wide dissatisfaction with Trump on immigration issues among his base supporters who are aware of his actual positions and actions vs. Trump's campaign rhetoric tough talk.
President Donald J. Trump supports Amnesty, legal immigration increases, DACA Amnesty, and dangerous Catch and Release policies that dump illegal immigrants into sanctuary cities where they go on to kill thousands of Americans like Kate Steinle each year on his watch.
ALIPAC believes that Trump has made a massive mistake deploying Jared Kushner to get his immigration plans through that is costing him supporters and will cost him even more support if any Kushner immigration bill actually becomes law.
For more information about how many former and current Trump supporters feel about Trump's reversals and flip flops on immigration, or to schedule interviews, please visit www.ALIPAC.us
###
Share and discuss at (ALIPAC HERE) .. (FACEBOOK HERE) .. (TWITTER HERE) .. (GAB HERE)
ACTIVISM STEPS
1. Keep calling and writing the White House with your opposition to Trump's broken campaign promises, to his hiring of Obama's immigration chiefs like Mark Morgan, and to lifelong Democrat Jared Kushner using messages and numbers we have for you here--
https://www.alipac.us/f8/online-survey-how-do-you-feel-about-trump-hiring-372110/
2. Keep calling the 6 targeted GOP Senators with our message using messages and numbers here--
https://www.alipac.us/f8/call-six-gop-senators-meeting-kushner-plan-amnesty-bill-372154/
3. Call all GOP Senators to tell them, "No deals with Democrats and Kushner on immigration issues and Amnesty," using the big list for all Republican Senators at--
https://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm
Let's fight hard to stop this treachery, Americans!
William Gheen and The ALIPAC Team
www.ALIPAC.us
ANN COULTER: THE WAY WE WERE
ANN COULTER
8
May 2019188
4:48
Big news out of the White House this week!
After a beehive of activity, Jared Kushner will finally be unveiling his
comprehensive immigration plan!
Reportedly, the proposed bill keeps the number of new immigrants
per year at 1 million but stresses merit-based admissions over familial ties.
Little else is known about the bill beyond bland generalities — “humanitarian
needs,” “border security,” “protecting American wages” and “moving in the right
direction.”
In anticipation of the big reveal, let’s look back at why we
voted for Trump in the first place by revisiting his miracle campaign, as
described in my book, In Trump
We Trust: E Pluribus Awesome!. (Note that NONE of the reasons we
voted for him was that we thought he was an amazing businessman, soon to be
proved by his tax returns.)
** ** **
The media were dying to call Trump’s immigration policies
“racist,” and he tricked them into trying — with the GOP helping.
Unfortunately for the media and the Republican Brain Trust,
Trump’s policies were popular with all kinds of voters. It wasn’t just “angry
white men” who were losing jobs to wage-depressing, admittedly hardworking,
Mexicans. So were black people. So were Hispanics — at least a third of who
oppose amnesty.
It’s one thing to push an unpopular idea. The GOP does that all
the time: the Trans-Pacific Partnership, privatizing Social Security — how
about the Iraq War?
Trump’s genius was that he was pushing policies that were
popular. The fact that the media said they weren’t just made him look brave. He
used the media’s lies against them.
Political analysts kept droning on and on about Trump’s
mysterious appeal, but in all their prolix analyses, I can’t find a single one
saying, Boy, were we wrong about immigration!
Trump proved it’s not a suicidal act to notice that high levels
of immigration do not benefit most Americans. Republicans refuse to understand
that not all rising tides lift all boats. There are ways the rich can do well
while most of the country does worse. …
Some Republicans surely knew in their hearts that dumping
millions of low-wage workers on America was hurting the people who lived here,
but they were too scared of not getting the fat checks to say so.
Trump was in the weird position of not needing big donors. He’s
beholden to no one except the millions of ordinary Americans showing up at his
speeches, following him on Twitter, and giving him more primary votes than any
Republican in history. …
All of official Washington — the consultants, polling firms,
think tanks, political committees — have been acting like they’re the smart
half of the team, but Trump has proved they’re a bunch of impotent
nose-pickers. He slaughtered his well-funded rivals with no polls, with no
consultants, and with more than $75 billion in TV ads being run against
him.
The donor class must have watched in amazement as Trump rose
like a rocket by doing everything the political experts said was crazy.
Donors figured the consultants must know what they’re doing
because they’re expensive. Now they’re saying, Holy @#$%! I guess this
immigration issue was bigger than we were told by Karl Rove and Mike Murphy! Credulous
billionaires are finally realizing they’ve been ripped off by the consultants.
At least they won’t have to keep giving millions of dollars to super
PACs.
Maybe there are some geniuses working for the Republican
National Committee, but you sure wouldn’t know it from their record. The GOP
had been playing a ball-control game. They were able to eke out a few
victories, in spite of their Republicanness, but it was becoming increasingly
clear that the policies the base supported, they were actually against, and
everything the base opposed, they were for.
While the voters wanted more health care and less invading of
other countries, GOP elites were determined to give them less health care
coverage and more invading of other countries.
Elected Republicans run for office on defending the middle
class, then get to Washington and concentrate on gifts to big business. They’d
say, Of course, we’re with you on immigration, but unless you write us
a check there’s nothing we can do.
Then they get elected and say, Oh yeah … about
immigration, we’ll be screwing you over on that — but we are going to pass a
job-killing trade deal! And don’t worry — Wall Street will be getting a blank
check. I think a little gratitude is in order.
That’s not what we asked for!
** ** **
We had no choice but to vote for Trump. Hillary was promising to
take us straight to hell. I’ve got it all mapped out, the coordinates
are in the GPS, I’ll have us in hell within 24 hours! Trump was
promising to take us in the exact opposite direction.
We elected him. But that didn’t happen. It turns out that
instead of taking us away from hell, he’s zigzagging all over creation,
sometimes getting stuck in a parking lot, sometimes heading straight for hell,
then suddenly taking a left at the last minute, so that it’s never clear where
we’re headed.
But on the eve of the big immigration plan unveiling, let’s
remind him what we voted for. (By “him,” obviously I mean Jared.)
12M Americans Out of Workforce as
DHS Approves 30K More Foreign Workers
JOHN BINDER
7
May 2019390
3:09
Nearly 12 million Americans remain out of the United States labor force
as the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) approved 30,000 more foreign
workers businesses can bring to the country to take blue-collar U.S.
jobs.
As Breitbart
News reported, Acting DHS Secretary Kevin McAleenan said this week that he
would approve an additional 30,000 H-2B foreign visa workers to be brought
to the U.S. by businesses to take blue-collar, non-agricultural jobs. This
comes as former DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen approved an
additional 30,000 H-2B foreign workers in March.
Every year, U.S. companies are
allowed to import 66,000 low-skilled H-2B foreign workers to take blue-collar,
non-agricultural jobs. For some time, the H-2B visa program has been used by businesses to bring in cheaper foreign workers and has
contributed to blue-collar Americans having their wages undercut.
Meanwhile, the latest Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) data
notes that there are nearly 12 million Americans who are either unemployed,
underemployed, or out of the workforce but wanting a job.
About 5.8 million Americans remain unemployed. Those most likely
to compete against cheaper foreign workers in blue-collar and entry-level
industries — U.S. teenagers and black Americans — continue to have
significantly higher unemployment rates than other demographic groups.
For example, of the 5.8 million Americans unemployed, about
754,000 are teenagers with an unemployment rate of 13 percent. Likewise, there
are 388,600 black Americans who are unemployed, for an unemployment rate of 6.7
percent which is more than double the white American unemployment rate and more
than triple the Asian American unemployment rate.
About 2.7 million of the unemployed population either lost their
job or completed a temporary job, while 1.2 million, or 21 percent of the total
unemployed, said they have been unemployed for at least 27 weeks.
Similarly, 4.7 million Americans are underemployed, that is U.S.
part-time workers who want full-time jobs but are unable to find them. Another
1.4 million Americans are marginally attached to the labor force. These are
U.S. workers who are ready and willing to work if they could fine a full-time
job.
Of those 1.4 million Americans who are marginally attached to
the labor force, 454,000 say they are “discouraged” by their job prospects and
do not believe there is work for them in the current labor market.
While millions remain on the sidelines of the workforce, the
U.S. Chamber of Commerce has
suggested that the U.S. is “out of people” in their efforts to lobby
Washington, D.C. lawmakers to support an expansion of the country’s legal
immigration system.
For weeks, landscaping companies and lawn care businesses
complained to DHS officials that there are not enough workers to fill blue
collar and entry-level jobs, Breitbart News has been told. Experts,
though, have
warned that wage hikes that have
benefited blue-collar and working-class Americans will not continue
should more foreign workers saturate the labor market, decreasing the price of
labor while subjecting Americans to increased competition for jobs.
Amid “full employment,”
no recovery in US wages
The US jobs report for November, released Friday, provides
further evidence that the much vaunted economic “recovery” in the United States
has overwhelmingly benefited Wall Street, whose stock bonanza is based above
all on stagnant wages and the destruction of working-class living standards.
The Labor Department reported that nonfarm payrolls increased by
228,000 and the jobless rate remained unchanged at 4.1 percent, the lowest
level since January 2000 at the height of the “dot.com” bubble. Manufacturing
payrolls rose by 31,000; construction in the aftermath of the hurricanes in
Texas and Florida added 24,000 jobs. There was also a boost in the low-wage
retail (18,700) and leisure and hospitality (14,000) sectors.
Despite what economists, the media and politicians are calling “full
employment,” average hourly earnings rose only 0.2 percent, or five cents, to
$26.55 an hour, from a downwardly revised 0.1 percent drop in wages in October.
Year-to-year wage increases in November were only 64 cents, or 2.5 percent. If
wages rise by another nickel in December, yearly salaries will be up a mere 2.4
percent in 2017, barely above the official projected inflation rate of 2.0
percent.
“President Trump’s bold economic vision continues to pay off,”
White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders boasted on Friday. “The
economy’s vital signs are stronger than they have been in years,” the New York Times declared.
“Companies are posting jobs faster than they can find workers to fill them.
Incomes are rising. The stock market sets records seemingly every month.”
Economic analysts have pointed to anemic wage growth,
euphemistically called weak “inflationary pressure,” as a major factor in the
determination of the Federal Reserve to continue pumping up the stock market
with cheap credit. Although most economists expect a modest interest rate hike
at the Fed’s meeting Wednesday, Jerome Powell, President Donald Trump’s nominee
to head the Federal Reserve, made clear last month at his Senate confirmation
hearing that he would keep rates at historically low levels. At the
same time, he assured the senators that there was little danger of a wages push
because of continuing “slackness” in the labor market, i.e., an ample supply of
workers desperate for full-time employment.
Other analysts agree. “Wage growth has been muted thus far,”
especially given the “very healthy pace of job creation,” said Michelle Meyer,
head of US economics at Bank of America. “It’s been the story throughout the
course of this year.”
Describing November’s wage increase as “tepid,” Carl Riccadonna
and Yelena Shulyatyeva of Bloomberg Economics wrote: “Even though job gains are
well in excess of the natural growth rate for the labor market, labor scarcity
is not yet driving wage pressures higher. The moral of the story from this jobs
report is that full employment is indeed much lower in the current cycle
relative to history.”
US employers are exploiting a reserve of unemployed and
underemployed workers to keep wages low. At the same time, corporations are
filling positions with young workers who are paid far lower wages and benefits
than the older workers they are replacing.
According to the government, 6.6 million workers in the US remain
unemployed, including 1.6 million, or nearly one out of four jobless people,
who have been unemployed for 27 weeks or more. Another 4.8 million were forced
to work part-time last month although they want full-time work, and 1.8 million
were “marginally attached” to the labor force. The latter want to work but did
not search for employment in the four weeks preceding the survey and were
therefore not counted as “unemployed.”
The labor force participation rate, or share of working-age people
in the labor force, remained at 62.7 percent in November. However, just 79
percent of the prime-age work force, aged 25 to 54, is actually working—below
the rate before the 2008 financial crash.
The situation facing the young generation is particularly dire.
According to the Class of 2017 report by the Economic
Policy Institute, the unemployment rate for young high school graduates is 16.9
percent (compared with 15.9 percent in 2007 and 12.1 percent in 2000). For
young college graduates, the unemployment rate is currently 5.6 percent
(compared with 5.5 percent in 2007 and 4.3 percent in 2000), and 7.1 percent
for young male college graduates.
The figures are even higher for “underemployment,” which includes
young graduates who are involuntary part-timers or are only marginally attached
to the labor force. For young high school graduates, the underemployment rate
is 30.9 percent (compared with 26.8 percent in 2007 and 20.8 percent in 2000).
For young college graduates, the underemployment rate is 11.9 percent (compared
with 9.6 percent in 2007 and 7.1 percent in 2000).
The share of young graduates who are “idled” by the
economy—neither enrolled in further schooling nor employed—remains higher in
the wake of the Great Recession than in 2007 and 2000, the report noted. This
includes 15.1 percent of young high school graduates and 9.9 percent of young
college graduates, many of whom are burdened with unsustainable debts.
The stagnation of wages is a long-term tendency. Since the early
1970s, hourly inflation-adjusted wages have grown by only 0.2 percent annually,
and labor’s share of national income has fallen from nearly 65 percent in the
mid-1970s to below 57 percent in 2017.
The deterioration in the social position of the working class and
accompanying explosion of social inequality are not simply the result of
objective economic laws. They are the intended outcome of the policies of the
American ruling class, implemented by successive Democratic and Republican
administrations alike. The transfer of production to lower-wage countries,
deindustrialization and mass layoffs in the 1980s and 1990s were used as a
hammer to beat back the resistance of workers to a historic lowering of their
living standards.
This process was aided and abetted by the trade unions, whose
pro-capitalist and nationalist orientation left workers without any progressive
response to globalization. Far from opposing wage and benefit cuts, the United
Auto Workers and other unions suppressed working-class opposition and
collaborated with the corporations to slash labor costs in the name of boosting
competitiveness and “protecting American jobs.”
This assault was escalated in the aftermath of the global
financial crisis of 2008. In the course of the eight years of the Obama
administration, the unions limited strikes to the lowest levels since the Labor
Department began recording work stoppages in 1947. They collaborated with the
Democratic president to crush a potential wages push in 2015-16 as workers in
auto, steel, oil, telecom, airlines, rail, health care, retail and other industries,
as well as teachers and other public employees, were coming up for new labor
agreements.
While workers were determined to recoup lost income after
corporate profits had fully recovered from the crash, the unions signed deals
that limited pay hikes to the rate of inflation or barely above it while
shifting health care and pension costs onto the backs of workers. This was key to Obama’s “in-sourcing” strategy for
attracting investment on the basis of low wages, as well as his “quantitative
easing” interest rate policy, which fueled the massive rise in the stock market
that continues to this day. Virtually all of the net increase in new jobs
created under Obama’s “gig economy” were part-time, contingent or
temporary OR ILLEGALS!
Trump claims his $1.5 trillion tax cut—including the slashing of
the corporate tax rate from 35 percent to 20 percent—will create more jobs and
increase wages. As in the Obama years, however, this massive windfall for big
business and the rich will not be used to expand production, let alone increase
the wages and living standards of workers. It will go for stock buybacks and
dividend increases, which benefit the richest investors.
Wages are so low now that 7.6 million Americans are forced to work
multiple jobs, a number not seen in 20 years. In a recent article titled
“China-Like Wages Now Part of US Employment Boom,” Forbes noted that a
forklift operator hired at $12.75 an hour at Amazon’s Fall River, Massachusetts
fulfillment center makes $382 for a 30-hour week, “not much more than the
average guy in Beijing,” where the median weekly wage is $329.53. At 40 hours a
week, a higher paid, full-time Amazon worker in Fall River earns $28,800 a year
before taxes, roughly what Amazon’s billionaire CEO Jeff Bezos pockets every
minute.
Fixing
America’s Unemployment Crisis
Trump was
elected in part on the promise of creating jobs, but how about those who
stopped looking for work?
What
has been called a “quiet catastrophe” has been unfolding in America: the collapse of work for millions of America’s
men,
and, more recently, for America’s women as well.
Nicholas
Eberstadt, the Henry Wendt Chair in political economy at the American
Enterprise Institute, estimates there are 10 million men who are jobless and no
longer looking for work. According to calculations using 2014 data, an
estimated 3.6 million women are in the same situation.
President-elect
Donald Trump has announced a raft of policies meant to spur economic growth and
create jobs, but thought needs to be given to what specific measures might help
this urgent situation.
How
to address this crisis depends on what one understands the problem to be. A
graph showing the prime-age employment rate for men provides a kind of
Rorschach test for possible responses.
Jared
Bernstein, senior fellow at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, former
economic adviser to Vice President Joe Biden, and author of, most recently,
“The Reconnection Agenda: Reuniting Growth and Prosperity,” focuses on the
cyclical upturns in the jagged line, on those periods of prosperity when
workers regain jobs that had been lost.
Eberstadt
focuses on the straight trend line, which has been going inexorably and
disastrously downward for decades.
Bernstein
and Eberstadt represent two typical and contrasting approaches to the
unemployment problem.
*
If you look at the employment rate for
prime-age workers, they have actually clawed back two-thirds of their
losses since the great recession.
— JARED BERNSTEIN
Bernstein
published the graph in a chapter he contributed to Eberstadt’s book “Men
Without Work,” in which he critiques Eberstadt’s diagnosis of the employment
crisis.
For
Bernstein, the key is a missing demand for labor.
“If
you look at the employment rate for prime-age workers, they have actually
clawed back two-thirds of their losses since the Great Recession,” Bernstein
said in an interview. “That doesn’t sound to me like a group that has given up.
It sounds to me like a group that is not facing ample opportunity.”
For
Eberstadt, the problem is a detachment from work.
Using
various government databases, Eberstadt gives a composite portrait of those men
who are out of the workforce and not looking for work.
They
don’t read newspapers, seem to have few familial responsibilities, and tend not
to be involved in a church or their communities. They spend most of their time
entertaining themselves with TV or hand-held devices; 31 percent admitted to
survey takers that they used illegal drugs.
Bernstein
counters this portrait by noting that the causal connection may go from a lack
of employment opportunities to suffering from depression, which then leads to
these men planting themselves on the couch.
As
to the individual motives of the non-working, Bernstein said, “We just don’t
know.” His advice to Trump is to aggressively pursue full employment, which involves
the federal government using a number of different tools.
An
officer waits to escort Harvey Lesser, an unemployed software developer, from
his apartment after serving him with a court order for eviction in Boulder,
Colo., on Dec. 11, 2009.
Stimulus and Subsidies
Bernstein
believes the key to the downward trend his graph shows is the disappearance of
manufacturing jobs. He favors trade policies that will reduce America’s chronic
trade imbalances, which will create more demand for domestic manufacturing.
Bernstein
also favors an infrastructure program, with the caveat that “you have to do it
right,” he said.
He
would like to see the federal government get involved in communities that
“don’t have enough businesses, child care slots, supermarkets, and stores—these
are a classic market failure.”
The
federal government could subsidize private employers in these neighborhoods,
giving them an incentive to move their businesses there.
Bernstein
also favors special efforts to help those with a criminal record, and Eberstadt
agrees finding ways to help this population is key to addressing the problem of
non-working adults. He estimates that, by the end of 2016, there will be 20
million with a felony conviction in their past.
Keeping Fake Illegal Alien Families Together
https://townhall.com/columnists/michellemalkin/2019/05/08/keeping-fake-illegal-alien-families-together-n2546006
Who remembers the
hysterical sound and fury of open borders leftists last summer over President
Donald Trump's detention and enforcement policies at our besieged southern
border?
Remember the
#FamiliesBelongTogether, #WhereAreTheChildren, #AbolishICE and #MeltICE
hashtags?
Remember the "Trump
Child Abuse," "Free the Children," "Save the Children"
and "AMERICANS DON'T USE CHILDREN AS PAWNS," posters wielded at
protests across the country?
Remember
the 24-hour hunger strikes and Instagram-friendly border photo-ops by actresses
and supermodels of the anti-Trump resistance who care, care, care, so much more
than you about the suffering of migrant children?
Remember
Time magazine's fake news "Crying Girl," promoted in June 2018 as a
global symbol of Trump's heartless "zero tolerance" stance?
Two-year-old Yanela Sanchez was never separated from her mother. In fact, she
had been dragged across the border unbeknownst to and against the wishes of her
father back in Honduras. He obliterated the "all migrants are simply
escaping persecution and violence" narrative by revealing that he had a
"good job" and the family's life was "fine." He "never
got the chance to say goodbye" to his daughter before his wife paid a
coyote $6,000 to bring them to the U.S.
Yanela's
mother, who now bides her time awaiting an immigration court hearing in migrant
housing in Washington, D.C. (most likely subsidized by you and me), abandoned
her husband and three other children for a chance to win in the asylum fraud
lottery. She made the decision to tear her own family apart, not Trump.
Here's my
question: Where are all the caring resisters and champions of children now that
deplorable human renting/recycling scams involving exploited illegal immigrant
kids are coming to full light? These horror stories are the unconscionably
perverse and utterly predictable consequence of incentivizing families -- real
and fake -- to abuse our suicidal generosity.
The
Arizona Daily Star reported this week that a Guatemalan man, Maynor Velasquez
Molina, allegedly paid a family the equivalent of $130 to 'rent' their
8-year-old son to help him get into the U.S. as a "family." He and
the boy were caught in February. Across Central America, the kiddie
catch-and-release regime endorsed by open borders ideologues is advertised as
the hottest ticket to gain entry. Aliens caught illegally crossing the Rio
Grande Valley have told Border Patrol agents they surrendered with children
because they expected permisos (free passes) to be granted.
"Borderwide,"
the Daily Star revealed, "federal officials said they had seen about 3,100
fraudulent family claims since April 2018, alongside about 260,000 migrant
family members."
In
another outrageous case disclosed this month, Border Patrol agents discovered a
"recycled" illegal alien child who had been used by at least three
"families" of unrelated adults attempting to get into the U.S. from
Mexico. The practice is orchestrated by transnational criminal organizations to
increase smuggling profits. One Guatemalan woman in South Carolina recycled
children 13 times for payments of $1,500 each.
Border-trespassers
and smugglers in turn pay drug cartels a tax -- derecho de piso -- to gain
passage through sections of the border controlled by the criminal rackets. The
RAND Corporation estimated revenue from derecho de piso at anywhere between $30
million to $180 million in 2017.
Federal
Judge Andrew Hanen of the Southern District of Texas blew the lid off the Obama
administration's deplorable role as child smuggling facilitators in a scathing
2013 ruling on the case of U.S. vs. Mirtha Veronica Nava-Martinez.
Nava-Martinez, a resident alien, was an admitted human trafficker caught at the
border trying to smuggle an El Salvadoran minor into the U.S. using the birth
certificate that belonged to one of her daughters. The transaction had been arranged
by the minor's illegal immigrant mother living in Virginia. She paid $6,000 up
front on an $8,000 fee. After Nava-Martinez and the child were caught, the
Department of Homeland Security did not arrest the mother. Instead, DHS
"delivered the child to her" in Virginia.
Hanen
noted that the Nava-Martinez case was the fourth that had come before his court
in which illegal immigrant parents had paid smugglers to bring minor children
across the border and the U.S. government had abetted the operations. He called
the feds' actions "dangerous" and "unconscionable" for
inducing parents to jeopardize their own children's safety by turning the over
to strangers engaged in criminal activity with drug cartels and risking their
lives in the desert. Indeed, Judge Hanen warned that "the government is
not only allowing them to fund the illegal and evil activities of these
cartels, but is also inspiring them to do so."
Trump's
efforts to close the myriad loopholes that aid and abet this transnational
illegal immigrant kiddie smuggling racket have been condemned as heartless. But
what's truly inhumane are the virtue signalers who use and abuse children as
pawns in their ruthless, lucrative, sovereignty-sabotaging pursuit of open
borders.
12M Americans Out of Workforce as DHS Approves 30K More Foreign
Workers
Fixing
America’s Unemployment Crisis
Trump was elected in
part on the promise of creating jobs, but how about those who stopped looking
for work?
What
has been called a “quiet catastrophe” has been unfolding in America: the collapse of work for millions of America’s
men,
and, more recently, for America’s women as well.
Nicholas
Eberstadt, the Henry Wendt Chair in political economy at the American
Enterprise Institute, estimates there are 10 million men who are jobless and no
longer looking for work. According to calculations using 2014 data, an
estimated 3.6 million women are in the same situation.
President-elect
Donald Trump has announced a raft of policies meant to spur economic growth and
create jobs, but thought needs to be given to what specific measures might help
this urgent situation.
How
to address this crisis depends on what one understands the problem to be. A
graph showing the prime-age employment rate for men provides a kind of
Rorschach test for possible responses.
Jared
Bernstein, senior fellow at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, former
economic adviser to Vice President Joe Biden, and author of, most recently,
“The Reconnection Agenda: Reuniting Growth and Prosperity,” focuses on the
cyclical upturns in the jagged line, on those periods of prosperity when
workers regain jobs that had been lost.
Eberstadt
focuses on the straight trend line, which has been going inexorably and
disastrously downward for decades.
Bernstein
and Eberstadt represent two typical and contrasting approaches to the
unemployment problem.
*
If you look at the employment rate for
prime-age workers, they have actually clawed back two-thirds of their
losses since the great recession.
— JARED BERNSTEIN
Bernstein
published the graph in a chapter he contributed to Eberstadt’s book “Men
Without Work,” in which he critiques Eberstadt’s diagnosis of the employment
crisis.
For
Bernstein, the key is a missing demand for labor.
“If
you look at the employment rate for prime-age workers, they have actually
clawed back two-thirds of their losses since the Great Recession,” Bernstein
said in an interview. “That doesn’t sound to me like a group that has given up.
It sounds to me like a group that is not facing ample opportunity.”
For
Eberstadt, the problem is a detachment from work.
Using
various government databases, Eberstadt gives a composite portrait of those men
who are out of the workforce and not looking for work.
They
don’t read newspapers, seem to have few familial responsibilities, and tend not
to be involved in a church or their communities. They spend most of their time
entertaining themselves with TV or hand-held devices; 31 percent admitted to
survey takers that they used illegal drugs.
Bernstein
counters this portrait by noting that the causal connection may go from a lack
of employment opportunities to suffering from depression, which then leads to
these men planting themselves on the couch.
As
to the individual motives of the non-working, Bernstein said, “We just don’t
know.” His advice to Trump is to aggressively pursue full employment, which
involves the federal government using a number of different tools.
An
officer waits to escort Harvey Lesser, an unemployed software developer, from
his apartment after serving him with a court order for eviction in Boulder,
Colo., on Dec. 11, 2009.
Stimulus and Subsidies
Bernstein
believes the key to the downward trend his graph shows is the disappearance of
manufacturing jobs. He favors trade policies that will reduce America’s chronic
trade imbalances, which will create more demand for domestic manufacturing.
Bernstein
also favors an infrastructure program, with the caveat that “you have to do it
right,” he said.
He
would like to see the federal government get involved in communities that
“don’t have enough businesses, child care slots, supermarkets, and stores—these
are a classic market failure.”
The
federal government could subsidize private employers in these neighborhoods,
giving them an incentive to move their businesses there.
Bernstein
also favors special efforts to help those with a criminal record, and Eberstadt
agrees finding ways to help this population is key to addressing the problem of
non-working adults. He estimates that, by the end of 2016, there will be 20
million with a felony conviction in their past.
Trump’s
DHS Extends ‘Temporary’ Amnesty for 300K Foreign Nationals
2:42
President
Donald Trump’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen
is extending a temporary amnesty status for more than 300,000 foreign
nationals, a notice from the agency states.
In an announcement on Thursday, Nielsen said DHS
would not only continue to complywith a preliminary injunction from last year — in
which a federal judge in California blocked Trump’s rescinding of Temporary
Protected Status (TPS) — but that the agency would be extending TPS for
hundreds of thousands of nationals of Sudan, Haiti, Nicaragua, and El Salvador
through January 2020.
Sudanese
nationals have had their TPS extended since 1997, while Nicaraguans have
enjoyed TPS since 1998. Likewise, El Salvador’s nationals have had TPS since
about 2001, and Haitians have had their TPS renewed since about 2010.
Trump
sought to end TPS for the more than 300,000 foreign resident population in the
U.S., prompting a lawsuit from the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). Now,
though, Nielsen’s decision to extend TPS will allow the foreign nationals to
stay in the country until at least January 2020, a reversal of the
administration’s initial plan.
About
200,000 of the nationals protected by TPS in the latest DHS decision are from
El Salvador, while another 50,000 are from Haiti. The remaining more than
50,000 nationals are from Sudan and Nicaragua.
TPS has
become a quasi-amnesty for otherwise illegal aliens created under the
Immigration and Nationality Act of 1990 (INA) that prevents the deportation of
foreign nationals from countries that have suffered through famine, war, or
natural disasters. Since the Clinton administration, TPS has been transformed
into a de facto amnesty program as the Bush, Obama, and
now Trump administration has continuously renewed the program for a variety of
countries.
Pro-American
immigration reformers like former Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach
have argued that
the TPS program has been abused by the open borders lobby and DHS officials.
At the
beginning of 2020, DHS will announce whether the agency will once again renew
TPS for the more than 300,000 foreign nationals or terminate their status.
*
Only
a complete fool would believe that Trump is any more for American Legal workers
than the Democrat Party for Billionaires and Banksters!
*
“Trump
Administration Betrays Low-Skilled American Workers.”
*
The
latest ad from the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) asks Trump
to reject the mass illegal and legal immigration policies supported by Wall
Street, corporate executives, and most specifically, the GOP mega-donor Koch
brothers.
Efforts by the big business lobby, Chamber of Commerce, Koch
brothers, and George W. Bush Center include increasing employment-based legal
immigration that would likely crush the historic wage gains that Trump has delivered for
America’s blue collar and working class citizens.
*
Mark Zuckerberg’s Silicon
Valley investors are uniting with the Koch network’s consumer and industrial
investors to demand a huge DACA amnesty
*
A handful of Republican and
Democrat lawmakers are continuing to tout a plan that gives amnesty to nearly a
million illegal aliens in exchange for some amount of funding for President
Trump’s proposed border wall along the U.S.-Mexico border.
"The
amnesty activist also said that the “border has been a crooked proposition from
the beginning, and it will continue to be twisted to meet political ends,”
adding that many open-borders activists still insist that “people didn’t cross
the border, the border crossed them.”
*
“At some
point we will have to accept the fact that the border between Mexico and the
United States is nothing more than an invention. It was demarcated in 1848,
following a war that cost Mexico about half its territory (it’s no coincidence
that cities like Los Angeles, San Antonio and San Francisco have Spanish
names),” Ramos said. “Also, it’s been said a thousand times that many people
didn’t cross the border, the border crossed them. And the cultural and
commercial ties between the two sides remain in place to this day. Look at the
fellowship exhibited by cities like El Paso, Texas, and Ciudad Juárez, Mexico
even if barbed wire and concrete barriers have been erected in some places
along the divide.” LA RAZA SUPREMACIST JORGE RAMOS
*
I would also go to all of the
working class that are in America, construction workers in particular. Their salaries have not just stagnated, they
have gone down in the last 20 years. These are the least among us.
We are the only ones not speaking out of self-interest. …
Most of the people who are
advocating for open borders …
they have a vested in interest in having either the cheap labor or the
Democratic voters. Their neighborhoods aren’t the ones being
overwhelmed. They get the cheap maids, the cheap nannies,
and then they strut around like they’re Martin Luther King.
No, you are talking in your self-interest, Chamber of Commerce, and
Koch brothers, and Nancy Pelosi, and Chuck Schumer. It’s Donald
Trump and our side who are actually caring about our fellow Americans — the
kids who are getting addicted to black tar heroin. …
The heroin problem in this
country is 100 percent a problem of not having a wall on the border. And 70,000
Americans are dying every year. That’s
more that died in the entire Vietnam War. That is a national emergency.
ANN COULTER
“Sessions is the
only one doing something about illegal immigration!” Ann Coulter… AND THAT IS
WHY TRUMP FIRED HIM!
THE
MOVE TO MAKE AG JEFF SESSIONS PRESIDENT is denounced by the Narco state of
Mexico which relies on the wholesale looting of America.
In fact,
Trump is steadily moving in the precise opposite direction of what he promised.
Illegal
immigration is on track to hit the highest levels in more than a decade, and
Trump has willfully decided to keep amnesty advocates Jared, Ivanka, Mick
Mulvaney, Marc Short, and Mercedes Schlapp in the White House. For all his talk
about immigration, did he ever consider hiring people who share his MAGA
vision?
For National Release | May 9, 2019
Americans for Legal Immigration PAC is releasing the results of an online poll sampling the national organization's more than 50,000 email subscribers and numerous social media followers regarding President Trump's decision to put Obama's border chief Mark Morgan in charge of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
Americans for Legal Immigration PAC is releasing the results of an online poll sampling the national organization's more than 50,000 email subscribers and numerous social media followers regarding President Trump's decision to put Obama's border chief Mark Morgan in charge of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
ANN COULTER: THE WAY WE WERE
ANN COULTER
8 May
2019188
4:48
Big news out of the White House this
week! After a beehive of activity, Jared Kushner will finally be unveiling his
comprehensive immigration plan!
Reportedly, the proposed bill keeps the number of new immigrants
per year at 1 million but stresses merit-based admissions over familial ties.
Little else is known about the bill beyond bland generalities — “humanitarian
needs,” “border security,” “protecting American wages” and “moving in the right
direction.”
In anticipation of the big reveal, let’s look back at why we
voted for Trump in the first place by revisiting his miracle campaign, as
described in my book, In Trump
We Trust: E Pluribus Awesome!. (Note that NONE of the reasons we
voted for him was that we thought he was an amazing businessman, soon to be
proved by his tax returns.)
** ** **
The media were dying to call Trump’s immigration policies “racist,”
and he tricked them into trying — with the GOP helping.
Unfortunately for the media and the Republican Brain Trust,
Trump’s policies were popular with all kinds of voters. It wasn’t just “angry
white men” who were losing jobs to wage-depressing, admittedly hardworking,
Mexicans. So were black people. So were Hispanics — at least a third of who
oppose amnesty.
It’s one thing to push an unpopular idea. The GOP does that all
the time: the Trans-Pacific Partnership, privatizing Social Security — how about
the Iraq War?
Trump’s genius was that he was pushing policies that were
popular. The fact that the media said they weren’t just made him look brave. He
used the media’s lies against them.
Political analysts kept droning on and on about Trump’s
mysterious appeal, but in all their prolix analyses, I can’t find a single one
saying, Boy, were we wrong about immigration!
Trump proved it’s not a suicidal act to notice that high levels
of immigration do not benefit most Americans. Republicans refuse to understand
that not all rising tides lift all boats. There are ways the rich can do well
while most of the country does worse. …
Some Republicans surely knew in their hearts that dumping
millions of low-wage workers on America was hurting the people who lived here,
but they were too scared of not getting the fat checks to say so.
Trump was in the weird position of not needing big donors. He’s
beholden to no one except the millions of ordinary Americans showing up at his
speeches, following him on Twitter, and giving him more primary votes than any
Republican in history. …
All of official Washington — the consultants, polling firms,
think tanks, political committees — have been acting like they’re the smart
half of the team, but Trump has proved they’re a bunch of impotent
nose-pickers. He slaughtered his well-funded rivals with no polls, with no
consultants, and with more than $75 billion in TV ads being run against
him.
The donor class must have watched in amazement as Trump rose
like a rocket by doing everything the political experts said was crazy.
Donors figured the consultants must know what they’re doing
because they’re expensive. Now they’re saying, Holy @#$%! I guess this
immigration issue was bigger than we were told by Karl Rove and Mike Murphy! Credulous
billionaires are finally realizing they’ve been ripped off by the consultants.
At least they won’t have to keep giving millions of dollars to super
PACs.
Maybe there are some geniuses working for the Republican
National Committee, but you sure wouldn’t know it from their record. The GOP
had been playing a ball-control game. They were able to eke out a few
victories, in spite of their Republicanness, but it was becoming increasingly
clear that the policies the base supported, they were actually against, and
everything the base opposed, they were for.
While the voters wanted more health care and less invading of
other countries, GOP elites were determined to give them less health care
coverage and more invading of other countries.
Elected Republicans run for office on defending the middle
class, then get to Washington and concentrate on gifts to big business. They’d
say, Of course, we’re with you on immigration, but unless you write us
a check there’s nothing we can do.
Then they get elected and say, Oh yeah … about
immigration, we’ll be screwing you over on that — but we are going to pass a
job-killing trade deal! And don’t worry — Wall Street will be getting a blank
check. I think a little gratitude is in order.
That’s not what we asked for!
** ** **
We had no choice but to vote for Trump. Hillary was promising to
take us straight to hell. I’ve got it all mapped out, the coordinates
are in the GPS, I’ll have us in hell within 24 hours! Trump was
promising to take us in the exact opposite direction.
We elected him. But that didn’t happen. It turns out that instead
of taking us away from hell, he’s zigzagging all over creation, sometimes
getting stuck in a parking lot, sometimes heading straight for hell, then
suddenly taking a left at the last minute, so that it’s never clear where we’re
headed.
But on the eve of the big immigration plan unveiling, let’s
remind him what we voted for. (By “him,” obviously I mean Jared.)
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