When Biden took office, one of his first acts was the elimination of our border security. Like a power-hungry dictator, Biden simply decided to ignore our immigration laws. His catastrophic border policy resulted in untold millions of unidentified foreign citizens from around the world pouring into our country. Its impact is now being felt in cities across the country. The worst is yet to come. PETER LEMISKA - AND WE'RE ALREADY THERE!!!
Thursday, December 19, 2019
SERVANTS OF WALL STREET DEMS AND GOP PARTNER TO ASSAULT THE AMERICAN WORKER
Immigration’s bottom line has
shifted so sharply that in a high-immigration state like California,
native-born residents are paying up to ten times more in state and local taxes
than immigrants generate in economic benefits.
The annual expenditure of state and local tax dollars on
services for that population is $25.3 billion (DATED – NOW $35 BILLION AND ONLY
GOING UP). That total amounts to a yearly burden of about $2,370 for a
household headed by a U.S. citizen.
According to the Centers for Immigration Studies, April
'11, at least 70% of Mexican illegal alien families receive some type of
welfare in the US!!! cis.org
House Democrats and Republicans Collude on Dangerous Immigration Bill
Legislation ignores findings of the 9/11 Commission.
Michael Cutler
Virtually all news organizations, and not just within the dreaded mainstream media, frequently lament that the Republicans and Democrats will never work cooperatively, particularly where the supposedly contentious issue of immigration is concerned.
The ongoing efforts by the radical Left to impeach President Trump has sucked the air out of the (news)rooms so that while there is now a laser-like focus on those impeachment proceedings in the House of Representatives, not much else in Washington receives coverage.
While previous legislative efforts seeking to legalize a larger number of undocumented immigrants have failed, Wednesday's vote is significant both for what it tries to achieve and for the Republican support it received. The bill passed with a bipartisan vote of 260-165, though it faces an uncertain future in the Senate.
Just as magicians distract their audiences with smoke, mirrors, lighting and a scantily-clad attractive assistant or two prancing around the stage, America is being distracted by the impeachment circus that should probably be accompanied by circus calliope music to complete the effect!
An integral element of the disastrous 1986 amnesty program that was part of the Immigration Reform and Control Act enacted by the Reagan administration was the inclusion of amnesty for Seasonal Agricultural Workers (also referred to as Special Agricultural workers or “SAW” for short).
In order to qualify, illegal aliens simply had to claim that they had worked on a farm for a specified period of time.
Fraud permeated that program. As an INS (Immigration and Naturalization Service) special agent, I participated in investigations of farms that had provided, for a fee, bogus employment records that enabled many illegal aliens to game this element of the amnesty program.
One of the investigations in which I participated focused on a relatively small farm that had provided thousands of illegal aliens with false documentation. In fact, if all of those supposed farm workers had shown up at the time their paperwork claimed they were employed, they all could not have stood on the farm simultaneously. The farm would have been more crowded than a NYC subway car during the rush hour. There would have been no room to grow anything.
Among those aliens who were granted amnesty under the SAW amnesty program were illegal aliens who were criminals and even terrorists.
Consider this excerpt from the official report, 9/11 and Terrorist Travel - Staff Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States:
Once terrorists had entered the United States, their next challenge was to find a way to remain here. Their primary method was immigration fraud. For example, Yousef and Ajaj concocted bogus political asylum stories when they arrived in the United States.
Mahmoud Abouhalima, involved in both the World Trade Center and landmarks plots, received temporary residence under the Seasonal Agricultural Workers (SAW) program, after falsely claiming that he picked beans in Florida.”
Mohammed Salameh, who rented the truck used in the bombing, overstayed his tourist visa. He then applied for permanent residency under the agricultural workers program, but was rejected. Eyad Mahmoud Ismail, who drove the van containing the bomb, took English-language classes at Wichita State University in Kansas on a student visa; after he dropped out, he remained in the United States out of status.
This gaping hole in the immigration system became well-known around the world during the Reagan administration, that any alien who could enter the U.S. by any means, could easily secure bogus documentation to qualify for lawful status as supposed “agricultural workers.”
I will never forget a particularly personally infuriating situation. A television studio had sent a limo to drive me to the studio for an on-air interview. My driver was pleasant and proficient. We chatted during the drive and I could not help but notice his Middle Eastern accent. He told me he had come to the U.S. from his native Lebanon during the administration of, as he put it, “idiot Reagan.” (He did not know I was a retired INS agent.) I asked him why he had so low an opinion of President Reagan and he told me that he came to the U.S. illegally and once here claimed to have worked on a farm and was quickly granted amnesty. He subsequently petitioned for his entire family. Furthermore, he told me that his neighbors from his village in Lebanon had all availed themselves of that opportunity provided by that amnesty even though he had never set foot on a farm.
How dumb, he asked, was our former president and our immigration officials?
How dumb, indeed! What a dangerous message to send to people around the world including the citizens of countries that are associated with terrorism!
If the goal in seeking amnesty is to provide farms with adequate numbers of workers, members of Congress should be happy to hire many more ICE agents to make certain that farm workers actually show up on farms to do the work.
In the late 1970’s we found that many supposed farm workers from the Caribbean had obtained visas to work in the citrus groves of Florida and the apple orchards of New York. They either quit after a couple of short weeks or never showed up at all. They had gone on to sell another agricultural product, however: marijuana and then cocaine. They formed violent gangs that were notorious for their murderous rampages.
Meanwhile, the farmers who had applied for their visas did not get the workers they needed and we wound up with violent criminals we certainly don’t need.
More ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) agents could imbue this system with badly need integrity -- but there is never any effort to hire more desperately-needed ICE agents.
This is not, however, the first time this year that the Democrats and Republicans joined forces to pass dangerous immigration bills that would undermine national security, public safety and/or the jobs and wages of Americans. On July 22nd, FrontPage Magazine published my article, "Democrats and Republicans Passed An Immigration Bill" that focused on the passage of a previous bill that betrays hardworking, highly-educated, experienced and talented American workers, that went largely unreported.
My article noted, however:
Yet this bill went largely ignored by the mainstream media that even on July 10, 2019 when that legislative disaster was passed by the House of Representatives by a vote of 365-65, 57 Republicans voting against the bill.
Furthermore, the bill was voted on without a single hearing and without any amendments being added.
However, the Western Free Press certainly took note of this legislative betrayal in an article entitled, GOP Legislators Back Bill to Replace American Workers. The subtitle completed the infuriating picture, H.R. 1044 would flood the country with Indian tech workers and Chinese investors.
(CNN)The Democratic-controlled House of Representatives passed a bill Tuesday that would provide a pathway to citizenship for more than one million undocumented immigrants, a move that comes amid a fierce debate over illegal immigration.
It passed 237-187. The chamber erupted in cheers of, "Sí se puede," translated to, "Yes, we can.”
So here we have three concrete examples of Republicans and Democrats, colluding to pass laws that would create massive amnesty programs for illegal aliens and/or permit many more high-tech workers to enter the United States to the detriment of American workers’ jobs and wages.
None of these bills call for the hiring of a single additional ICE agent to conduct investigations into the aliens’ backgrounds or their applications for immigration benefits and/or visas.
Insanity has been defined as doing the same things the same way and expecting a different outcome. The question is, who is crazier, our elected “representatives” or We the People for reelecting them -- repeatedly?
GOP/Democrats Slip Amnesty for 1K Liberian Nationals into Defense Budget
Chris Hondros/Getty Images
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Senate Republicans and Democrats approved a defense budget for Fiscal Year 2020 after slipping into it an amnesty for nearly 1,000 Liberian nationals who will now be eligible for American citizenship.
This week, the Senate passed the 2020 National Defense Authorization Act that includes a provision that gives amnesty to about 840 Liberian nationals and their children who would otherwise have self-deported from the United States in March.
In early 2018, President Trump ended Deferred Enforced Departure (DED) for Liberia, which acted as a de facto amnesty for Liberians to stay in the U.S. since 1991. Liberians were first given the temporary amnesty in the early 1990s due to a civil war in their nation.
After decades of renewing the temporary amnesty by Presidents Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama — despite the nation’s civil war long having ended — Trump reviewed their DED status and determined that Liberia is safe for nationals in the U.S. to return to.
The amnesty for Liberian nationals slipped into the defense budget had been pushed for months by Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) and a handful of Minnesota lawmakers. Effectively, all Liberian nationals who were allowed to stay in the U.S. over the last few decades will now be allowed to adjust their immigration status, making them permanent residences who can eventually apply to become American citizens.
Liberian nationals will only be disqualified from the amnesty if they have been convicted of aggravated felonies such as murder, rape, child sex abuse, sex trafficking, and kidnapping.
Also included in the defense budget is billions of American taxpayer money that will continue funding border security measures in foreign countries like Jordan, Egypt, Lebanon, and Tunisia. Meanwhile, less than $1.4 billion is explicitly authorized for the construction of a border wall at the U.S.-Mexico border.
John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Follow him on Twitter at @JxhnBinder.
ig Ag Amnesty Argument Shows GOP Progress—And Mounting Democratic Craziness. Could Be Good For Trump 2020.
The so-called Farm Workforce Modernization Act, which passed the Democrat-controlled House last week, reveals the current state of Amnesty politics. Deceptively promoted as a way to help the agricultural industry, the bill’s real purpose is to legalize millions of illegal-alien farm laborers i.e. it’s an Amnesty. It shows that Democrats will support any loosening of immigration laws, even if it turns illegal aliens into indentured servants. But only 34 out of 197 Republicans backed it, which (while disgraceful) shows the GOP no longer dares support an outright Amnesty. This polarization decreases the chances of Big Agriculture’s Amnesty—and serves to protect American workers.
But only 32 Republicans joined the pair on the final vote. Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (although from ag-friendly Bakersfield CA), Minority Whip Steve Scalise, and House Republican Conference Chair Liz Cheney voted against the bill, signaling the GOP leadership’s opposition. And another significant Trump impeachment defender, Georgia Rep. Doug Collins, criticized the bill as “a path to citizenship for an unknown number of illegal immigrants who do some work in agriculture, along with their families.” [Collins statement on H.R. 5038, December 11, 2019]
The Heritage Foundation also attacked the bill because it “threatens the legal immigration system’s legitimacy and incentivizes aliens and farmers to ignore the legal immigration system in the future if it best serves their needs” [Congress Should Reject Amnesty for Illegal Agricultural Workers, by Daren Bakst, December 10, 2019].
That wall of opposition suggests the bill will die upon arrival in the Senate. President Trump and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell are not keen on going against their party’s majority. And if Fox News’s primetime lineup is hostile, Trump just might denounce it outright. Tucker Carlson segments regularly inspire presidential tweets. Negative Carlson coverage could do the same for Big Ag’s Amnesty.
Given the recent past, this GOP opposition is a very positive development. In 2013, nearly one-third of Republican senators voted for the Gang of Eight Amnesty. But last week, only 17 percent of Republicans voted for a much-more limited Amnesty that benefitted corporate interests. It’s not hard to imagine that a majority of pre-Trump Republicans would have voted for the indentured-servant plan. But Trump’s victory in 2016, after hotly opposing Amnesty and illegal immigration, has changed the party. Very few Republicans openly champion “comprehensive immigration reform” anymore, and the White House has expressed zero interest in the idea. The only Amnesty that Republicans discuss now is a permanent legalization for illegal aliens who came to the U.S. as minors. That’s not ideal, but it’s better than an Amnesty for all.
In contrast, Democrats are now even more extreme on immigration than they were pre-Trump.
Despite progressive concerns that the Gang of Eight’s guest-worker provisions would shaft American workers, every Democrat voted for it [Gang of 8 defends guest worker plan, by Seung Min Kim, Politico, May 13, 2013]. A few Leftists senators, such as Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, had voted against the 2007 Amnesty because it hurt American workers.
But only three Democrats voted against the latest Amnesty forcing American workers to compete against indentured servants. Three out of the four “Squad” members voted for it, while one—Michigan Rep. Rashida Tlaib—voted present. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and her fellow progressives claim to represent workers’ interests, yet they sided with big corporations against American workers.
Somali Congresswoman Ilhan Omar supported this bill because it legalized illegal aliens, whom she equates with American workers i.e. America has no legitimate existence as a nation. “The Farm Workforce Modernization Act is a major step forward for our immigration system and our workers,” she said. “This bill provides a pathway for qualified undocumented farmworkers and their families to legalize their status, a major victory.”
In other words, the Democratic Party’s commitment to identity politics and the demographic and political transformation of America by importing millions of new voters outweighs any concern for actual workers. Democrats don’t care that the Big Ag Amnesty hurts the job prospects of America’s working class, including immigrants, or the Historic American Nation, because they believe the newcomers will more be reliable Democrats than the natives.
This new dogma contrasts with the past views of the Squad’s hero, Bernie Sanders. For many years, Sanders opposed Amnesty on pro-worker grounds. “I don't know why we need millions of people to be coming into this country as guest workers who will work for lower wages than American workers and drive wages down even lower than they are now,” he told Lou Dobbs in 2007 [What Bernie Sanders told Lou Dobbs in 2007 about why he opposed the Kennedy-McCain immigration bill, by Matthew Yglesias, Vox.com, February 12, 2016].
Sanders did vote for the Gang of Eight Amnesty in 2013, but two years later he was still insisting Open Borders were a Koch Brothers plan to undermine American workers.
Sadly, Sanders now sounds like the Squad on immigration and supports more immigration and open borders. He will likely support the Big Ag Amnesty too, even though he made an effective argument against such ideas in 2007.
This extremism dooms any chance of bipartisan support for a “comprehensive” Amnesty. Democrats no longer even pretend to care about border security. Many Democratic leaders want to abolish Immigration and Customs Enforcement, tear down what little we have of a border wall, and turn America into one big Sanctuary Society. They will concede nothing to Republicans on immigration, as we’ve seen time and again during the Trump era.
But Republicans know their base is implacably hostile to Amnesty. Many Republican lawmakers would love to reward their donors and corporate pals with cheap labor, but they know their voters will make them pay. The party realizes Trump won on opposition to illegal immigration and have adjusted accordingly, even if they still don’t get the message on legal immigration. No Republican can offer what Democrats want and survive politically. The GOP base wants a wall and aggressive immigration enforcement—two things Democrats will never support.
The GOP’s slow move toward immigration patriotism aligns them with average Americans. A 2018 Harvard-Harris poll found that 81 percent support reducing immigration. The vast majority of Americans want increased border security, including 56 percent of Hillary Clinton voters. Democrats on the opposite end of both issues give Republicans a powerful weapon for 2020.[Fox News Poll, June 16, 2019]
So, if Trump and the Republicans are smart, they’ll hang the Big Ag Amnesty around Democrats’ necks. A pro-worker party can’t defend bringing back indentured servitude. And Trump’s opposition would tell Big Ag’s Republican lackeys to forget their corporate donors and remember Middle America. Supporting this bill hurts the party—especially when the Amnesty’s backers argue that Americans are lazy, as Congressman Doug LaMalfa, a farmer from California farm district, did, below:
America Last Republican Congressman Doug LaMalfa (California) supporting Amnesty Bill HR 5038 and insulting the American people saying that they would rather play Xbox than go outside and work.
Trump must ensure that his Congressional party gets that memo and kills this bill in the Senate. The chances for that look good—which means a political advantage going into next year’s election is there for Trump’s taking.
When the Swamp compromises on immigration, the beneficiaries are Big Business and minority interest groups. The Farm Modernization Workforce Act is just more crooked “bipartisanship.”
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