Wednesday, August 7, 2019

KAMALA HARRIS VOWS 49 MORE MEXIFORNIAS AND PROMISES THE RICH THEY WILL NEVER HAVE TO HIRE LEGALS!

Texas-Based Gulf Cartel Member Caught in Playa Del Carmen

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Mexican authorities working with the FBI arrested a Texas-based member of the Gulf Cartel who was wanted on drug trafficking, murder, and kidnapping charges. The crime boss was captured in Playa Del Carmen.

Mexican federal agents working in connection with the FBI arrested Juan Alberto “A-1” Mendez in Playa Del Carmen and later extradited him to Texas. A judge in Houston formally notified Mendez of the charges against him while ordering his detention pending further hearings.
Federal agents described Mendez as an associate of the Gulf Cartel who operated in Texas and in Indiana. Mendez, from Mission, Texas, was named in a large-scale racketeering indictment targeting the Tri-City Bombers and was considered a high-risk fugitive when he fled to Mexico.
After his flight, the FBI offered a $25,000 reward suggesting Mendez could be hiding out in Playa Del Carmen, Monterrey, or the border city of Reynosa, Breitbart Texas reported at the time.
The indictment alleges that Mendez personally ordered the murder of a man in the Rio Grande Valley on September 24, 2013. The charges also allege that Mendez ordered the kidnapping and subsequent murder of another man on April 25, 2014.
Ildefonso Ortiz is an award-winning journalist with Breitbart Texas. He co-founded Breitbart Texas’ Cartel Chronicles project with Brandon Darby and senior Breitbart management. You can follow him on Twitter and on Facebook. He can be contacted at Iortiz@breitbart.com
Brandon Darby is the managing director and editor-in-chief of Breitbart Texas. He co-founded Breitbart Texas’ Cartel Chronicles project with Ildefonso Ortiz and senior Breitbart management. Follow him on Twitter and Facebook. He can be contacted at bdarby@breitbart.com.     


Kamala Harris Relies on Coastal Elite Donor Base to Fund 2020 Campaign

US Senator and Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris speaks to a porch full of supporters at a meet and greet at an historic home in Columbia, South Carolina on June 21, 2019. - Many of the Democratic candidates running for president are in Columbia to make appearances at the South …
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Despite her attacks on the top one percent, Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) has relied primarily on an elite group of coastal donors to fund her 2020 Democrat presidential campaign.

Harris, who has attempted to adopt the anti-elite rhetoric deployed by President Trump, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), is almost exclusively being funded by California residents and specifically those working for major law firms, multinational corporations, and Silicon Valley tech conglomerates.
Detailed donor-base maps created by the New York Times reveal that Sanders’ left-wing populist campaign, for example, has nearly three times as many individual donors as Harris’s. And when Sanders is excluded, Harris still only dominates with donor funding in California’s elite coastal zip codes, while Warren has the most across-the-country support from individual donors.

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Less than 40 percent of Harris’s funding has come from small-dollar donors giving $200 or less. The majority of her donations, more than 56 percent, have come from large-dollar donors giving $200 or more.
More than 30,000 of the roughly 99,000 donations listed to Harris’s campaign on the Federal Election Commission (FEC) database came from residents in either California, New York, Florida, Washington, D.C., or Virginia.
Harris’s top donors include lawyers from the Paul, Weiss, et al law firm, which has represented Citigroup, as well as American job outsourcers and offshorers such as the Walt Disney corporation; multinational communications services AT&T Inc., Alphabet Inc. which is the parent corporation of Google; as well as Apple Inc.
In May, billionaire Gordon Getty of the Getty Oil dynasty hosted a fundraiser for Harris at his mansion in San Fransisco, California with Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA). Campaign records find that the billionaire Getty family has contributed thousands to Harris.
Likewise, though Harris’s campaign has claimed that she does not accept funding from Big Pharma, a number of pharmaceutical executives have gifted the California Senator with campaign cash, The Intercept notes:
Donors include Therese Meaney, a vice president at Endo Pharmaceuticals, a company that manufacturers opioid painkillers, who has given $1,250 to the Harris campaign; Ted Love, the president and chief executive of Global Blood Therapeutics, a startup biopharmaceutical company, who gave $2,800; J. Dana Hughes, a vice president at Pfizer, gave $250; Damian Wilmot, an executive at Vertex Pharmaceuticals, gave $1,000; and Jeffrey Stein, the chief executive of Cidara Therapeutics, another drug startup, who gave $1,000.
Silicon Valley’s tech elites have been major contributors to Harris’s bid as she has campaigned against slapping tariffs on the foreign-made products of tech corporations.
Seven Facebook executives and employees have donated $1,000 or more to Harris’s campaign, while nearly 20 Google executives and employees have donated more than $1,000, four Twitter executives and employees have donated more than $1,000, and 71 Amazon executives and employees have donated anywhere from $5 to $2,000.
The Walt Disney Corporation’s Craig Hunegs, who heads Disney Television Studios, is one of Harris’s top donors, giving nearly $6,000 to her campaign. California real estate developer John Dinapoli, Coastal Healthcare Services President Quiana Mitchem, and New York Attorney Fraser Hunter Jr. have all donated more than $5,000 to Harris as well.
John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Follow him on Twitter at @JxhnBinder





AOC’s Democratic Socialists of America Endorses Open Borders

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The annual meeting of the Democratic Socialists of America group has endorsed open borders.

The vote by the DSA — whose members include Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Rep. Rashida Tlaib — spotlights the left’s emotional shift from economic solidarity with blue-collar Americans towards a political alliance with migrant foreign graduates and laborers.
The DSA group describes itself as an “internationalist socialist organization,” and it influences staffers and activists in the Democrat Party. The Open Borders resolution says:
Be it resolved that DSA supports the demand for open borders … the uninhibited transnational free movement of people, the demilitarization of the US-Mexico border, the abolition of ICE and CPB without replacement, decriminalization of immigration, full amnesty for all asylum seekers and a pathway to citizenship for all on-citizen residents.
“This Resolution means that our national organization will set up infrastructure and resources for our local chapters to organize around open borders in their communities if they so choose,” DSA press secretary Lawrence Dreyfuss told Breitbart News. “This has been adopted as the overarching strategy of the DSA. It is up to our newly elected political leadership to address specific nuances as they arise.”
National Public Radio reported July 2018:
” … one of [the DSA’s] strengths is that it’s a big tent — at least on the left,” said Maurice Isserman, a professor of history at Hamilton College and a charter member of the DSA. “People come in describing themselves as libertarian socialists or social democrats or anarchists or whatever you know as long as they subscribe to the basic tenets of the organization they can maintain their own political identity within it.”
And because the country is so far from the DSA’s ultimate vision, the group has a pragmatic streak in how it approaches its radical ideas. For example, in explaining its electoral strategy, the group acknowledges that it’s part of a bigger “mobilization to defeat Republican rule at the state and national level,” and that “chapters may also choose to support progressive, anti-corporate candidates who do not openly identify themselves as socialists.”
But there is significant opposition within the Democrat Party to open borders, the DSA resolution admits: “The continual assault on immigrants rights … pervades even leftist spaces.”
The solution ignores the push by billionaire investors to boost cheap labor immigration, and it ignores migration’s impact on Americans’ wages and salaries. Instead, the DSA’s focus is on political power and cultural issues, including “anti-imperialism, migrant justice, labor rights, and ecosocialism.”

Amazon's Jeff Bezos & Facebook's Zuckerberg are trying to snatch a huge prize from Trump - and spike the US-India Outsourcing Economy - by quietly lobbying for a law which gives green cards to more Indians who take college-grade jobs from American grads. http://bit.ly/2LpqAmx 



Open borders are also needed to change Americans’ politics and culture, the group argues: “Borders and immigration enforcement are tools of white supremacy, capitalism, and imperialism.”
Open borders are also needed to help citizens and immigrants jointly organize against the capitalist system in the United States, the DSA argues: “borders serve to undermine the international working class, by pitting immigrants and citizens workers in American … against each other in a race to the bottom.”
This goal is exemplified by the emergence of Tlaib and Ocasio-Cortez, both of whom were children of immigrants into the United States.
The DSA’s solidarity with foreigners instead of Americans is spotlighted by a quote from one of the resolution’s sponsors. “It is unacceptable that a Fortune 500 corporation can ship a job across a border without consequences while a mother crossing a border to see her child is put into a concentration camp,” said a press statement from Brandon Rey Ramirez, the co-sponsor of the Open Borders resolution, according to a report from Proteanmag.
This alliance with migrants is very popular among Democratic activists. For example, two-in-four Democrats strongly oppose the federal enforcement of judges’ deportation orders, according to a July poll by Morning Consult.
President Donald Trump is citing the progressives’ shift towards foreigners in his 2020 stump speeches. For example, the New York Times spotlighted his comments at an August 1 rally in Cincinnati:
“Democrats have never been farther outside the mainstream,” he told an arena packed with supporters. “No matter what label they use,” he added, “a vote for any Democrat in 2020 is a vote for the rise of radical socialism and the destruction of our great, our beautiful, our wonderful American dream. We’re not going to let our country ever go down the route of socialism.”
“Democrats care more about illegal aliens than they care about their own constituents,” he said. “They put foreign citizens before American citizens. We’re not going to do that.”
Democrat legislatiors and 2020 candiddates insist their support for easy migration is not the same as open borders. “Open borders is just a right-wing talking point — it always has been,” 2020 candidate Julian Castro told ABC June 30.

Democrat Sen. Schumer gives thumbs-up to detained illegals, urges all migrants be sent to Catholic Charities, then urges more border loopholes. Yet in NY, employers still are not raising wages to compete for US workers amid the flood of migrant labor. http://bit.ly/30NbwCE 




Immigration Numbers:
Each year, roughly four million young Americans join the workforce after graduating from high school or university. This total includes roughly 800,000 Americans who graduate with skilled degrees in business or health care, engineering or science, software or statistics.
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 approximately 1 million H-1B workers and spouses — plus roughly 500,000 blue-collar visa workers.
The government also prints out more than one million work permits for foreigners, tolerates about eight million illegal workers, and does not punish companies for employing the hundreds of thousands of illegal migrants who sneak across the border or overstay their legal visas each year.
This policy of inflating the labor supply boosts economic growth for investors because it transfers wages to investors and 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 also 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.
The cheap-labor economic strategy 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 moves business investment and wealth from the heartland to the coastal citiesexplodes rents and housing costsshrivels real estate values in the Midwest, and rewards investors for creating low-tech, labor-intensive workplaces.
“If there is a growing flood of foreign labor, the American middle class is no longer going to exist, and Republicans will not have a constituency,” said Hilarie Gamm, a co-cofounder of the American Workers Coalition.

Democrat Sen. Ron Wyden panders to progressives (and estb. media) by escorting pregnant Mexican woman & family past normal border lines. It seems we need a term to describe progressives displaying their preference for foreigners over Americans. http://bit.ly/2Os2b1K 



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Democrat 2020 Candidates Demand Google Hire Indian H-1B Outsourcing Workers

Democratic presidential candidate and U.S. Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) speaks during the 2020 Public Service Forum hosted by the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) at UNLV on August 3, 2019 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Nineteen of the 24 candidates running for the Democratic party's 2020 presidential …
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Three Democrat 2020 contenders are urging Google to fully hire its army of 120,000 outsourcing workers and temporary hires — plus thousands of Indian graduates who have used work visas to take jobs that would help young Americans jump-start their careers.

“Google has more temporary and contract workers than full-time employees, and that workers in those categories remain in them long-term, even if the work they are doing is permanent and equal to that of directly employed workers … we urge Google to end any abuse of these worker classifications and treat all Google workers equally,” says the anti-outsourcing letter, which was provided to the New York Times.
California Sen. Kamala Harris, Massachusetts Sen. Liz Warren, and Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders signed the letter. All three have pushed pro-migration views in the Democrats’ primary debates.
The Democrats’ call to end part-time jobs and the use of subcontracting and outsourcing is likely popular among voters.
But the letter stealthily endorses the industry’s discriminatory policies of subcontracting jobs to foreign graduates who are selected by foreign-run recruiting firms, and of hiring foreign graduates who will accept lower wages than American graduates because they hope to get green cards and citizenship.
Google employs roughly 121,000 outsourced workers, according to a March 2019 New York Times article. The NYT article did not say how many of those outsourced workers are imported from countries such as India and China or are selected by foreign-run outsourcing companies.
Government data shows the company sought to hire 11,000 new H-1B visa workers from 2016 to 2018, and also tried to get green cards for 3,300 imported workers, including 1,660 Chinese and 952 Indian workers, according to MyVisaJobs.com. The site’s government data also shows that Google asked for visas to import 7,475 H-1B workers in 2019, despite the huge number of Americans at other companies who would eagerly work for Google.
There is no shortage of Americans who want to work for Google. Indeed.com reported August 5 that 39,271 “software developers” nationwide are seeking new jobs.
The Democrats’ letter comes as technology companies lobby the Senate to pass legislation which would allow U.S. businesses — including Google — to offer four times as many green cards to Indians.
The pending S.386 legislation expands the existing rules which allow companies to provide the government-delivered bonus of green cards to roughly 23,000 Indians and family members each year who accept low wages to take jobs sought by U.S. graduates. The current rules have encouraged roughly 600,000 Indian college-graduate visa workers to become lower-wage contract workers in the United States.
The S.386 green-card expansion would dramatically raise the incentive for more Indian graduates to take jobs in the United States.
Current laws do not set a cap on the number of Indian who can take college jobs in the United States. For example, up to 100,000 recent Indian graduates are using the “Optional Practical Training” program to keep working in the United States. Another 300,000 Indian H-1B tech-workers are allowed to stay long past the customary six-year time limit on H-1B visas because their employer has nominated them for green cards.
The huge army of Indian temp workers suppresses salaries for a large number of American graduates in a wide variety of careers.
So far, the S.386 giveaway legislation has been stopped by disagreement from Senators who wish to aid companies with non-Indian workforces, and by other Senators’ reluctance to anger the swing-voting bloc of college-graduate suburban voters. The opposition has also been stiffened by a new wave of American white-collar activists who are trying to protect their careers from outsourcing policies.
A matching House bill, HR.1044,  passed easily in June after a stealth lobbying company by technology investors.

The Senate’s S.386 outsourcing bill has 34 sponsors, including 2020 contender California Sen. Kamala Harris.
The new anti-outsourcing letter was drafted by Ohio Sen. Sherrod Brown and was signed by Harris, Warren, and Sanders, plus Massachusetts Sen. Ed Markey, Connecticut Sen. Richard Blumenthal, and Illinois Sen. Richard Durbin.
President Donald Trump has done little to close of programs which bring foreign college graduates into U.S. jobs — the H-1B, Optional Practical Training, and L-1 programs, despite his “Buy American, Hre American” Inauguration day promise. But Trump’s deputies have made many small changes to the implementation of the program which have pressured companies — especially Indian-run outsourcing companies – to import fewer visa-workers and to pay them slightly higher wages.
The Democrats’ letter ignored the existence of Google’s Indian-born labor force. But the foreign issue is critical because many U.S. companies now have Indian-born hiring managers who are strong advocates for the U.S.-Indian Outsourcing Economy.
This outsourcing economy sends up to $78 billion of work from the United States to India each year. It has absorbed large slices of the U.S. software business as well as large segments of the technology infrastructure in the banking, health insurance, telecommunications, and retail sectors. For example, lower-wage Indian software workers helped write software for Boeing’s 737 Max aircraft and President Barack Obama’s Obamacare website. They have moved software jobs for Disney’s office in Florida to India, and they run large offices in many companies, such as Anthem, Deloitte, and AT&T. Many the outsourced jobs in 2017 are displayed here at SAITJ.org.
For example, Google’s CEO, Sundar Pichai, is a former H-1B worker from India. Microsoft’s CEO, Satya Nadella, was also born in India.
For many companies, criticism and lawsuits over their use of temporary domestic and foreign labor are just a routine cost of business. In 2000, for example, Microsoft settled a 1992 lawsuit by 8,000 “perma-temp” employees for only $97 million. In 2015, it faced a spate of negative publicity which prompted it to offer two weeks of paid annual leave to its force of outsourced labor. But in 2019, Microsofts’ executives also cheered the lobbying campaign to pass the S.386 bill which would help companies outsource more white-collar jobs to Indian graduates.
Brown’s letter to Google was inspired by a March article in the New York Times, which showed that Google kept an army of 121,000 temporary workers to aid its payroll of 102,000 employees. According to the New York Times:
While many of the temps and contractors sit in the same offices as Google employees and often do similar work, they usually make less money, have significantly worse benefit plans and do not enjoy the same rights.
Most of Google’s contingent workers are technically employees of staffing agencies, although the company acts like the employer in most cases — deciding when they work and what they do and assessing the quality of their work, according to current and former temps and contractors.
Temps and contractors account for 40 percent to 50 percent of workers at most technology firms, according to estimates by OnContracting, a site that helps people find tech contracting positions.
A top Google official shrugged off the letter with a cursory denial, according to the New York Times:
Eileen Naughton, Google’s vice president of people operations, said in a letter replying to the senators that the company strongly disagreed “with any suggestion that Google misuses independent contractors or temporary workers.” She said the company’s practices “accord with the highest industry standards.”



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Winning: Companies Hire Americans Instead of Foreign Visa Workers


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President Donald Trump’s populist “Hire American” policy is forcing employers to hire more Americans at higher wages, theWall Street Journal admits.
The pressure is highlighted by seasonal employers in Massachusetts who were forced to hire Americans when Trump’s populist coalition stymied their lobbying efforts to expand the use of H-2B foreign contract workers. According to the Journal, which has long urged the large-scale use of foreign workers:
“I have more Americans working than I’ve ever had,” says Josh Aronie, executive chef at the Home Port Restaurant in the Vineyard fishing village of Menemsha. He also reports his restaurant has been short of staff and many of the workers he does have don’t know the basics of cooking or even how to read the orders…
Nationwide data on the leisure and hospitality sector also shows a tightening labor market. In June, average hourly earnings in the sector increased 4% from a year earlier, according to government data analyzed by Moody’s Analytics …
At the Home Port Restaurant in Menemsha, Mr. Aronie recalls meeting with his small staff in a panic this June just a few days before the scheduled opening. He had applied for 18 H-2B visa workers and received none. Because of the staffing crunch, the restaurant initially was open just five nights a week, and didn’t open for lunch until late July. Mr. Aronie jokes about the qualification he requires for hiring: “Are you breathing? Excellent.” He has paid a premium to hire three people via a Boston-based temp agency.
Many seasonal employers prefer to hire H-2B workers instead of Americans because those visa workers must stay with the company for the entire season and must work at government-set hourly rates. Those lower rates for seasonal workers also allow employers to pay lower rates to full-time, year-round American staff. 
Employers also prefer foreign workers because the current pool of unemployed Americans includes many immature and untrained youths, unmotivated adults on government aid programs, plus marginalized Americans, such as inner-city youths and unemployed drug users who are the customers of the Mexican drug cartels. 
Amid pressure from donors, GOP leaders tried this year to expand the H-2B program from roughly 115,000 H-2B workers up to roughly 200,000 resident H-2B workers. But the lobbyists and GOP leaders — including House Speaker Paul Ryan — were largely blockedby John Kelly when he was serving as the secretary of the Department of Homeland Security. Kelly allowed only an extra 15,000 H-2B workers, and promised to oppose any increase in 2018. 
The public’s opposition to greater use of H-2B has also forced employers in other states to recruit and pay Americans. The Journal reported:
In Alaska, Silver Bay Seafoods, a big user of the program, received 31 H-2B visas this year for workers to help process salmon, down from more than 900 in 2016. The company responded by spending more than $1 million to recruit workers in 32 states, plus U.S. territories such as Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
“It’s very difficult to find people to do this work,” says Joe Misenti, general counsel for Silver Bay. The company succeeded in hiring about 1,600 workers, replacing all of the foreign workers with Americans, counting those from the U.S. territories.
Read it all here.
The same trend is visible in the agriculture sector, where the loss of cheap illegal aliens is forcing employers to raise wages and also to hire Americans to build and operate labor-saving farm machinery.
The result of the H-2B fight boosts the growing evidence that young Americans will gain if the federal government reduces the annual inflow of foreign temporary workers.
In 2016, for example, federal data shows that former President Barack Obama gave federal “Employment Authorization Document” work permits to at least 2.3 million migrants for U.S. jobs, and approved visas for roughly 500,000 outsourcing workers, such as the H-1B white-collar workers, H-2B blue-collar workers and H-2A agriculture workers. Those temporary workers were in addition to the routine inflow of 1 million legal immigrants and roughly 400,000 illegal immigrants.
The combined inflow delivered almost 4 million legal foreign workers to Americans’ economy in 2016, just as 4 million young Americans turned 18 and began looking for decently paid jobs.
Many polls show that Americans are very generous, they do welcome individual immigrants, and they do want to like the idea of immigration. But the polls also show that most Americans are increasingly worried that large-scale legal immigration will change their country and disadvantage themselves and their children.
The current annual flood of foreign labor spikes profits and Wall Street values by cutting salaries for manual and skilled labor offered by blue-collar and white-collar employees. It also drives up real estate priceswidens wealth-gaps, reduces high-tech investment, increases state and local tax burdens, hurts kids’ schools and college education, and sidelines at least 5 million marginalized Americans and their families.


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