‘Unbridled Immigration, Legal and Illegal, Is Taking the Country Down’
GAVIN NEWSOM HEADS TO EL SALVADOR TO
AID THE SALADORIAN INVASION OF THE MEXICAN WELFARE STATE OF CALIFORNIA… It’s
your Democrat Politician at work… FOR ILLEGALS!
The Homeless, Illegals, and the Politics of Virtue Signaling
GAVIN NEWSOM HEADS TO EL SALVADOR TO
AID THE SALADORIAN INVASION OF THE MEXICAN WELFARE STATE OF CALIFORNIA… It’s
your Democrat Politician at work… FOR ILLEGALS!
Last year in fact, that game was going full speed. El
Salvador's remittances hit arecord $5.47 billion.
Literally one out of six Salvadorans
now lives in the U.S., and 680,000 of those make their home in
benefit-rich California. Salvadoran politicians actually campaign for
office in California, owing to the sizable number of Salvadoran voters, many of
whom are here illegally., signaling that there's a lot of work to be had for
the newest (and least likely to be legal) migrants in the states now, most of
which is coming from California.
Here come Big Daddy, the California governor, the
gringo who's already laid out a banquet of goodies for Salvadorans
in California, from free health care to free education, to sanctuary state
protections to enable illegals to work, coming there supposedly to find
out how he can offer ... even more goodies to Salvador's uneducated
lower middle classes. The idea of course is to get even more of them to
come over. Big Daddy comes down with the Santa sack full of goodies. MONICA
SHOWALTER
The Homeless, Illegals, and the Politics of Virtue Signaling
We have no idea how many of the homeless are illegal immigrants, but we do know that homeless shelters in big cities will not cooperate with blanket ICE searches for illegals.
Shelter workers are trained to request a warrant for a specific individual, and without that, they are told to keep ICE at bay.
The extent to which the ACLU and pro-illegal immigration organizations have gone to educate homeless shelters about how to deal with ICE indicates that the presence of illegals in these shelters is not insignificant.
Shelters are all-too-often in lesser supply than the demand for accommodations, especially during winter in brutal climes in places like Chicago.
Having walked the frigid streets of that city going from shelter to shelter in search of a homeless relative, I know something about the dynamics of how the homeless survive the unforgiving cold where a place in a shelter can mean the difference between freezing to death in the street or waking up alive.
Competition for safe harbor is fierce. And the homeless line up and prance in the cold to stay warm long before the shelters open.
American citizens -- even veterans, mothers, and children -- compete equally with illegals. This is the consequence of our so-called policy of “compassion” enunciated by open-border billionaires like Beto O’Rourke and liberal virtue signalers.
O’Rourke would like to send $5 billion to the failed states that have produced the immigration crisis. How many billions would solve our own humanitarian crisis of homelessness?
Illegal immigrants do not compete for resources or jobs with billionaires or smug middle-class professionals who drip with compassion and want to bring them into America in ever larger numbers.
But on the streets of our cities, illegals compete with the most vulnerable people in our society, just as decades ago when Cesar Chavez saw an unending supply of cheap illegal labor being a threat to the wellbeing of his union members.
A CEO that I know speaks insufferably of her support of “immigrants” and DACA, but she will never have to face competition from anyone crossing the border illegally. Her well-paid position in a Silicon Valley startup and her stock options are not at risk. But America’s homeless sleeping on the streets and in shelters, just a mile from her trendy townhouse in a gated San Francisco complex, will compete with these people for the basics of survival.
They are disproportionately black and LGBTQ, the latter having suffered abuse and neglect, especially sexual abuse.
Homeless youth, contrary to myth, do not choose to be on the streets, and they are ten times more likely to die than non-homeless people their own age.Homeless children experience developmental delay.
To date, their cause is not part of the 2020 Democrat political agenda. But an unceasing demand for more resources for the illegals charging the border is. No one discusses a limit on the resources to be allocated to illegals -- to feed, house, and clothe them.
Sen. Kamala Harris (D, Ca) can grandstand before the klieg lights by grilling those responsible for homeland security and immigration about conditions at the border, but she will not seize the bully pulpit for the thousands of homeless living under the Oakland maze not far from where she was born and a few miles down the street from where she went to law school.
The conditions of both our veterans and vulnerable youth living on the streets do not rise to be considered as even talking points in the current conversations about how the society is to be improved by a change of administration in 2020. The focus is almost entirely on our compassion for the illegals overwhelming the border, the vast number of whom are economic migrants, not refugees.
Oakland and Berkeley representative Barbara Lee (D) has been in Congress since 1988. She is an economic progressive, and she is strongly against deportation. But can you be against deportation while advocating for social services for your own poor who are living under highways?
Resources are finite. Solving the problems of one’s own poor -- who have grown in number since 1988 when almost no one lived under the maze -- should take precedence over the impossible task of rescuing the poor of Mexico and Central America, if not the world.
The truth is that the illegals are the latest trend in virtue signaling. My CEO acquaintance can sit with her friends in upscale San Francisco restaurants and talk about her compassion for the homeless and her political work for DACA while ignoring the plight of the people she practically steps over daily on Market Street.
Kamala Harris will demand more diapers and wipes for the children at the border while ignoring America’s own homeless under California’s freeways. Barbara Lee will tout her progressive credentials at the next election, but whatever her progressive ideology has done for Oakland and Berkeley’s impoverished, it seems neither to have touched the growing street population nor to have abated it.
Politics is not about finding solutions. It is about gesturing toward policies that will provide what the mass public thinks are solutions while mobilizing their votes.
If you want to see a meaningful change in both immigration and homeless policies, start inviting millions of middle-class professionals into America and give them quick licenses as doctors, lawyers, and accountants to compete with middle-class virtue signalers. Don’t invite poor people who will end up competing with America’s homeless for a warm grate on a pitiless Chicago winter night.
Abraham H. Miller is an emeritus professor of political science and a distinguished fellow with the Haym Salomon Center.
Paying
for illegals' 'free' health care by fining Californians who can't afford
Obamacare
The leftists
running California's one-party state have done it again. They've rolled
out a $312 billion budget that includes $98 million for free
health care for illegal immigrants under the age of 26. That's a dinner
triangle to all able-bodied foreign nationals working off the books that
the free ride is about to arrive.
According to
the Sacramento Bee:
The expansion
will take effect Jan. 1, 2020 and cost $98 million in the upcoming fiscal year.
It will make California the first state to allow undocumented adults to sign up
for state-funded health coverage.
The budget includes a fine on
people who don’t buy
health insurance known as an individual mandate. The fines were initially
implemented as part of the federal Affordable Care Act law known as Obamacare,
but Republicans acted in 2017 to roll them back. Newsom and legislative leaders
say re-imposing the penalty at the state level will shore up the state’s health
insurance marketplace and keep premiums from rising dramatically.
As if that $98
million is really going to cover it as migrants from Central America and beyond
surge into the U.S. in record numbers, and five million from Latin America alone planning to enter the U.S. with or
without papers.
California,
remember, was quite convinced $39 billion would cover the cost of its famed bullet train up and
down the state in 2008. The price tag now, with just a tiny portion of it out
in the Central Valley to be built? $98 billion.
Given the
incompetence of those numbers, you can bet the surplus that the money is
about to be taken from is ... not going to remain a surplus.
All this, while
the burned-out city of Paradise remains un-rebuilt due to all the state's environmental concerns.
Priorities, see...
But it's not just
that which makes the measure so objectionable.
The free health
care - and Medi-Cal is very, very, free, with no deductibles for anything - is
going to be paid for out of a new program of fines for California citizens who
don't qualify for free health care, yet can't afford Obamacare - quite possibly
due to the high cost they are paying for keeping a roof over their heads, for
one.
The Associated
Press reports that the few Republican legislators remaining have tried to
make exactly that point in their objections:
Republicans
on the legislative committee negotiating the budget voted against the proposal,
arguing it was not fair to give health benefits to people who are in the
country illegally while taxing people who are here legally for not purchasing
health insurance.
A subsidy program
is going into place, supposedly to "help" them, but you can bet it
won't cover the average Californian who can't afford Obamacare. As for the
illegals, well, when you work off the books, you can pretty well claim anything
as your income, so rest assured that all those who want the free health care,
no matter what they earn, are going to be able to get it.
So what we
are about to see now is the fining of Californians trapped in the high cost of
living brought on by leftist policies, in order to bankroll the state's
abundant illegal immigrant population, which now stands at a quarter of the
nation's count.
And the little
claim at the bottom of that last cited paragraph from the Sacramento Bee
suggests even more trouble on the horizon for Californians who can just barely
pay those gargantuan Obamacare premiums: "keep premiums from rising
dramatically."
What's the takeaway
on that? That bankrolling illegals is going to make premiums
rise on Californians who are stuck in the individual market, but rest assured,
the hikes won't be dramatic.
Sound like a
recipe for flight from the state? You would be insane if you didn't think
so, and the state already is bleeding people. Fifty-three percent of the
state's citizens, according to one poll, want to leave, and more than one report shows that the
state lost more people than it gained, even with the border surge bringing new
supplicants in. Voters know their votes don't count in a state where ballot-harvesting by illegal
immigrants is routinely done now, so any discontent is virtually
impossible to telegraph at the ballot box, and the leftist mafia
running the state insists that this is what Californians want. Color me
skeptical on all fronts.
The one thing
worth watching for in this is not the cost overruns, though that should be an
interesting topic. It's whether Californians will finally switch their voting
patterns in sufficient numbers to finally get this crew out. The odds are
against them with ballot-harvesting, yet still, still, one expects something to
eventually blow. Maybe this will be what does it.
EYE ON THE NEWS
June 14, 2019
An Addiction Crisis Disguised as a Housing Crisis
Opioids are fueling homelessness on the West Coast.June 14, 2019
The Social Order
California
By latest count, some 109,089 men and women are sleeping on the streets of major cities in California, Oregon, and Washington. The homelessness crisis in these cities has generated headlines and speculation about “root causes.” Progressive political activists allege that tech companies have inflated housing costs and forced middle-class people onto the streets. Declaring that “no two people living on Skid Row . . . ended up there for the same reasons,” Los Angeles mayor Eric Garcetti, for his part, blames a housing shortage, stagnant wages, cuts to mental health services, domestic and sexual abuse, shortcomings in criminal justice, and a lack of resources for veterans. These factors may all have played a role, but the most pervasive cause of West Coast homelessness is clear: heroin, fentanyl, and synthetic opioids.
Homelessness is an addiction crisis disguised as a housing crisis. In Seattle, prosecutors and law enforcement recently estimated that the majority of the region’s homeless population is hooked on opioids, including heroin and fentanyl. If this figure holds constant throughout the West Coast, then at least11,000 homeless opioid addicts live in Washington, 7,000 live in Oregon, and 65,000 live in California (concentrated mostly in San Francisco and Los Angeles). For the unsheltered population inhabiting tents, cars, and RVs, the opioid-addiction percentages are even higher—the City of Seattle’s homeless-outreach team estimates that 80 percent of the unsheltered population has a substance-abuse disorder. Officers must clean up used needles in almost all the homeless encampments.
For drug cartels and low-level street dealers, the
business of supplying homeless addicts with
heroin, fentanyl, and other synthetic opioids is
extremely lucrative. According to the Office of National Drug Control Policy, the average heavy-opioid user consumes $1,834 in drugs per month. Holding rates constant, we can project that the total business of supplying heroin and other opioids to the West Coast’s homeless population is more than $1.8 billion per year. In effect, Mexican cartels, Chinese fentanyl suppliers, and local criminal networks profit off the misery of the homeless and offload the consequences onto local governments struggling to get people off the streets.
West Coast cities are seeing a crime spike associated with homeless opioid addicts. In Seattle, police busted two sophisticated criminal rings engaged in “predatory drug dealing” in homeless encampments (they were found in possession of $20,000 in cash, heroin, firearms, knives, machetes, and a sword). Police believe that “apartments were serving as a base of operations that supplied drugs to the streets, and facilitated the collection and resale of stolen property.” In other words, drug dealers were exploiting homeless addicts and using the city’s maze of illegal encampments as distribution centers. In my own Fremont neighborhood, where property crime has surged 57 percent over the past two years, local business owners have formed a group to monitor a network of RVs that circulate around the area to deal heroin, fentanyl, and methamphetamines. Dealers have become brazen—one recently hung up a spray-painted sign on the side of his RV with the message: “Buy Drugs Here!”
What are local governments doing to address this problem? To a large extent, they have adopted a strategy of deflection, obfuscation, and denial. In her #SeattleForAll public relations campaign, Mayor Jenny Durkan insists that only one in three homeless people struggle with substance abuse, understating the figures of her own police department as well as the city attorney, who has claimed that the real numbers, just for opioid addiction, rise to 80 percent of the unsheltered.
The consequences of such denial have proved disastrous: no city on the West Coast has a solution for homeless opioid addicts. Los Angeles, which spent $619 million on homelessness last year, has adopted a strategy of palliative care—keeping addicts alive through distribution of the overdose drug naloxone—but fails to provide access to on-demand detox, rehabilitation, and recovery programs that might help people overcome their addictions. The city has been cursed, in this sense, with temperate weather, compounded by permissive policies toward public camping and drug consumption that have attracted20,687 homeless individuals from outside Los Angeles County.
No matter how much local governments pour into affordable-housing projects, homeless opioid addicts—nearly all unemployed—will never be able to afford the rent in expensive West Coast cities. The first step in solving these intractable issues is to address the real problem: addiction is the common denominator for most of the homeless and must be confronted honestly if we have any hope of solving it.
Jobs in May, Much Worse Than Expected...do we really need these invading hordes?
2:05
The U.S. economy created only 75,000 jobs in May and the unemployment rate was unchanged at 3.6 percent, the Labor Department said Friday.
Economists had expected the pace of job creation to moderate to 180,000 after April’s extremely hot initial report of 263,000. The unemployment rate was expected to rise to 3.7 percent.
The estimate for jobs created in March was revised down to 153,000 from the previously reported 189,000. April was revised down to 224,000.
After revisions, the economy has added 151,000 over the past three months. For the entire year, payroll gains have averaged 164,000, a much slower rate than 2018’s 223,000.
Wages gains slightly lagged forecasts. Average hourly earnings were up 3.1 percent compared with a year ago, just below the 3.2 percent expected, and 0.2 percent compared with April. The average work week held steady at 34.4 hours.
Unemployment is at the lowest rate since December 1969. The rate for African Americans declined sharply to 6.2 percent from 6.7 percent.
The lower than expected figure for job creation, however, is likely to intensify expectations that the Federal Reserve will cut its interest rate target sooner rather than later.
Professional and business services was the strongest category for the month, adding 33,000 positions. Health care grew by 16,000. Construction added 4,000. Manufacturing and mining added 3,000.
Retail shrank by 15,000. There was no noticeable bump from Census jobs, which many economists had expected to show up in May’s numbers.
America
Created Just 20,000 Jobs in February...and those all went to foreign
born!
Exclusive–Mo Brooks: ‘Masters of the Universe’ Want More
Immigration to ‘Decrease Incomes of Americans’
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Consequently,
the pumping of ultra-cheap money into the financial system,
fueling speculation and parasitism, together with ever-widening
social inequality, is not a temporary measure but must be made permanent.
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The
declining living standards of the working class are feeding directly into
the retail apocalypse and mass layoffs of retail workers will
only exacerbate the issue.
Workers’
wages have seen little to no growth in the last four decades, and any
economic growth experienced since 2008 has gone to
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“US household net worth sees biggest fall since crisis”
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“Trump Touts Legal Immigration System for
‘Our Corporations’ at Expense of
American Workers “– JOHN BINDER
Trump’s shift from a
wage-boosting legal immigration system to one that benefits corporations and
their shareholders coincides with recent big business lobby influence over his
White House, at the behest of advisers Jared Kushner and Brooke Rollins.
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“Trump Abandons ‘America First’ Reforms: ‘We
Need’ More Immigration to Grow Business Profits” JOHN BINDER
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Additionally, Koch spokespeople at the donors’ conference said the
network has its sights set on pushing amnesty for millions of illegal aliens
this year.
BLOG: THE MEXICAN TAX-FREE ECONOMY IN LOS ANGELES COUNTY IS ESTIMATED TO BE IN EXCESS OF $2 BILLION YEARLY. THIS SAME COUNTY HANDS ILLEGAL ANCHOR BABY BREEDERS MORE THAN $1 BILLION IN WELFARE!
Eligibility would be determined by the same rules of Medicaid, based on annual income. As many young illegals are working off the books, for cash, they will have no official reported income regardless of how much they actually earn, insuring their eligibility for Medi-Cal.
California Says: ‘Go West, Young Illegals, Go West’
Doctors and hospitals are in the gunsights of many Democrats who want Medicare-for-all as a draconian price control scheme by government over all medical care in the US. Hospitals are told they charge too much and doctors are vilified for earning too much.
What a relief that a sugar daddy has appeared, a rich boyfriend, a benefactor with a fat wallet, ready to bestow his financial largess on financially strapped healthcare providers.
This sugar daddy is named Gavin, tall and handsome with good hair. I speak of California Governor Gavin Newsom, who finalized a deal with the California legislature, “to provide full health benefits to low-income illegal immigrants under the age of 26.”
California is the first state to provide such benefits to illegal or undocumented immigrants, depending on which term you prefer. Specifically, this group of adults, age 19 to 25 will have access to the state’s Medi-Cal program, California’s version of Medicaid.
California anticipates providing coverage to 100,000 people. I’m not sure how they arrived at this number since I’ve always heard that illegal immigrants “live in the shadows,” meaning we really don’t know how many there are. And when word gets out to the rest of the country, expect that 100,000 number to grow exponentially just as it would if California announced it was giving away cars to this same group of people.
BLOG: THE MEXICAN TAX-FREE ECONOMY IN LOS ANGELES COUNTY IS ESTIMATED TO BE IN EXCESS OF $2 BILLION YEARLY. THIS SAME COUNTY HANDS ILLEGAL ANCHOR BABY BREEDERS MORE THAN $1 BILLION IN WELFARE!
Eligibility would be determined by the same rules of Medicaid, based on annual income. As many young illegals are working off the books, for cash, they will have no official reported income regardless of how much they actually earn, insuring their eligibility for Medi-Cal.
This scheme is to be funded by taxing those who do not have health insurance. Who might that be? Not the young illegals who how have free insurance. How about the small businessman who earns too much to qualify for Medicaid but can’t afford an Obamacare policy with massive premiums, copayments, and deductibles? Or the struggling wannabe actors and actresses in the same financial boat as the small businessman? Or the 60-year-old retiree, not yet eligible for Medicare but unable to afford private insurance given the higher premiums at her age?
How nice of California taxpayers, those American born or here legally, having their earnings confiscated to pay the medical bills of those not here legally. Who pays the medical bills of those Americans who can’t afford their medical care?
Interestingly undocumented elderly are not covered under this new plan. Sugar Daddy Newsom opposed this, preferring the young over the elderly, likely due to the much higher medical costs for those over age 65 compared to those under age 25.
This may have to do with voting preferences. It is unknown how many illegals vote, but younger voters tend to vote Democrat compared to older voters who lean Republican. Is this healthcare scheme a form of voter outreach?
Why are doctors and hospitals across America so grateful for their new sugar daddy?
Americans subsidize health care for illegal immigrants to the tune of $18.5 billion a year according to Forbes. Imagine being able to now offload some of this care to California?
Hospitals are required by law to render emergency care to everyone, regardless of a person’s ability to pay. A pregnant woman illegally enters the US, and when she goes into labor, the hospital is required to deliver the baby, caring for both baby and mother, at an average cost of $32,000.
What if the baby is born premature and needs a few weeks in the neonatal intensive care unit, or is born with a heart or bowel defect, requiring additional surgery? The costs quickly escalate into 6-figure sums.
Labor and delivery is certainly common in the 19-25 age group. So are injuries that may require non-emergency treatment, such as a retinal detachment or a ligament tear in the knee. For the doctor, these patients are considered self-pay. Despite promises to pay all of their medical bills, some patients, once reasonably stable after surgery are gone with the wind, with no way to contact them, and no payment made for rendered services.
What if doctors and hospitals, when discussing costs of medical treatment, can now give the patient a map? A few hundred years ago, newspaper editor and author Horace Greeley advised the 19 to 25-year-olds of the day to “Go west young man”. The same phrase may become popular again, particularly in states adjacent to or close to California.
When faced with patients with non-emergent medical problems, direct these patients to the nearest east-west interstate, I-40, I-70, or I-80, and drive toward the setting sun until seeing the “Welcome to California” sign. Go west and allow generous California taxpayers to pick up the tab.
Hospitals won’t be stuck with bad debt and physicians won’t be stiffed after offering their time and expertise without compensation.
Nobel prize-winning economist Milton Friedman said this about an open-border immigration policy. "It's just obvious you can't have free immigration and a welfare state." Which is exactly what California offers, providing free healthcare to living in the state against the law.
While at the same time, California has an out of control homelessness problem, many of those homeless being American veterans. They are living legally in their own country yet living on the streets, in squalor, with rats and other vermin bringing back historic diseases like typhus and typhoid fever. Where is their sugar daddy governor? Busy pandering to those here illegally.
Down on their luck Americans are told to pound sand while illegals are lavished with drivers licenses, welfare benefits, and now healthcare. California cannot care for its own residents, but is opening its doors to the world, promising goodies that will do nothing but attract more of the world, regardless of laws.
When does it end? I’ve suggested that the Trump administration send refugees and illegals to sanctuary cities, so those cities have the opportunity to live with the consequences of their virtue signaling. Now doctors and hospitals can do the same. If California wants to be an open borders welfare state, it’s the least the rest of the country can do to help out by sending young undocumented immigrants to the land of milk and honey.
Instead of “the doctor will see you now”, expect to hear, “go west young man.”
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