Thursday, December 12, 2019

THE TROIKA OF CORRUPTION - SENATOR DIANNE FEINSTEIN, REPRESENTATIVES ZOE LOFGREN AND NANCY PELOSI ALL GOT RICH OFF ELECTED OFFICE BY TURNING THE GOLDEN STATE INTO MEXIFORNIA

WE KNOW WHO THE WHORES OF CONGRESS WORK FOR!



"Inequality has reached unprecedented levels: the wealth of America’s three richest people now equals the net worth of the poorest half of the US population."


House Approves Farmworker Amnesty, Promotes Visa Workers over Americans

FILE- In this Sept. 18, 2018, file photo, farmworkers pick melons in the early morning hours in Huron, Calif. On Thursday, Dec. 6, the Labor Department issues revised data on productivity in the third quarter. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez, File)
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Nearly all House Democrats, plus a group of 34 Republicans, voted Wednesday to approve an amnesty for illegal farmworkers and to outsource more of the nation’s farm workforce to cheap H-2A visa workers.
The bill, H.R. 5038, would likely amnesty more than a million illegal aliens, and it also subsidizes farm companies that hire more H-2A visa workers instead of hiring Americans.
Those subsidies for hiring foreign H-2A workers include rules to cut the H-2A workers’ pay below the expected 2020 rates, plus massive housing subsidies for the migrant workers. The biggest subsidy, however, is that employers will be allowed to dangle the prize of Americans’ citizenship to H-2A migrants who agree to work at low wages for long hours in harsh conditions.
Americans comprise roughly three-quarters of the 2.1 million workers in farming, fishing, and forestry, according to a November 2018 report by the Pew Research Center. In contrast, the workforce includes 325,000 illegal workers, or one-in-six of the workforce, said Pew. The estimate of working illegal aliens is far below the Democrats’ estimate of two million illegal aliens who will benefit from an amnesty.
In 2019, farm companies hired roughly 250,000 H-2A workers but complained bitterly about their rising wages in the nation’s good economy. There is no cap on the number of H-2A migrant workers who can be imported into the United States.
The subsidies for hiring H-2As will also discourage farm companies from buying the American-made farm machinery that reduces the need for farmworkers. If American farmers then decline to develop and buy modern machinery, such as semi-automated fruit pickers, they will lag further behind their increasingly sophisticated foreign rivals.
Immigration reform groups, such as NumbersUSA and the Federation for American Immigration Reform, slammed the bill as unfair to Americans and agriculture employees. “Absolutely disgraceful anti-modernity corporatist giveaway,” said Andrew Good, an analyst at NumbersUSA.
Some Democrat-tied groups, such as the United Food and Commercial Workers union, also spoke up against the subsidies for hiring H-2As.
The opposition may have dramatically reduced the number of Republicans who voted for the bill. “The proposal also garnered the support of 34 Republicans, although proponents were hopeful up to 100 GOP lawmakers would vote for the bill,” TheHill.com reported. The final tally showed that 161 Republicans voted against the amnesty and outsourcing bill.
The GOP no-votes included three GOP cosponsors of the bill: Utah Rep. John Curtis, Ohio Rep. Bob Gibbs, and Utah Rep. Chris Stewart.
Three Democrats voted against the bill, while 226 Democrats voted for the bill. The three Democrat defectors were Virginia Rep. Bobby Scott, Utah Rep. Ben McAdams, and Maine Rep. Jared Golden. Michigan Rep. Rashida Tlaib did not vote.

We've got left & right opposition to the 'Farm Workforce Modernization Act,' which replaces 1M+ amnestied illegals (& Americans) w/ indentured H-2A visa workers.
Good for Democrats & investors, bad for American employees. So silence from the estb. media. http://bit.ly/34dyjJb 





This bipartisan rewrite of the agricultural labor market in favor of employers — regardless of the likely damage to Americans and their communities — got little coverage by establishment reporters. For example, the Washington Post, the New York Times, and the Associated Press ignored the huge debate — even though all three outlets published pro-migrant articles on a town meeting on December 9 about refugees in Bismarck, North Dakota.
The silence by the established media helped the amnesty and outsourcing bill, said William Gheen, founder of the Americans for Legal Immigration PAC. “I did not detect anything about this vote, other than Breitbart … Drudge readers were completely in the dark,” he said, adding that President Donald Trump might sign the deal because it benefits farm companies and investors.
No Republicans or Democrats spoke up for the free market or even for American workers during Wednesday’s one-hour debate on the Farm Workforce Modernization Act. Nor did any legislators speak up for the American communities, which have been ravaged by a combination of job losses and deadly opioid abuse since the 2008 economic crash and which may recover if farm wages continue to rise in Donald Trump’s “Hire American” economy.
Instead, legislators from both parties lauded the bill as a benefit for business — although 161 Republicans eventually voted against the bill because of the bill’s offers an amnesty to perhaps two million illegal workers and family members.
Legislators sought “to come up with a bill to deal with the labor situation that we have in this country, to provide a certain legal labor force,” said GOP Rep. Dan Newhouse, who owns orchards in Washington state, and who was the leading GOP sponsor of the legislation. “That’s what brought together a bipartisan group of members of Congress, representatives from agricultural groups around the country, as well as agricultural labor groups,” he said.
Newhouse praised the legislation for capping the wages of farmworkers and for allowing dairies to use H-2A workers:
It will cap the ever-skyrocketing wage growth [for H-2A workers] in this country to 3.25 percent a year. Some states next year are facing a 9.5 percent increase. On top of that, it will allow full-time employers, like dairies, to be able to take advantage and utilize the H-2A program.
“This is not an amnesty bill,” said California GOP Rep. Doug LaMalfa. “Yes, there is an opportunity for citizenship,” he said, adding, “we don’t want them coming across [the border] illegally. We want them to come across with a certificate that they’ve been vetted … We desperately need the labor.”
“I appreciate my colleagues’ desire to fix this problem and provide our farmers and ranchers with a long-term solution to the labor supply problems in this country,” said Colorado GOP Rep. Ken Buck.

The UFW union is touting the stoop-labor of its resilient & largely illegal crews while Dems vote to amnesty them & deliver endless @H2A visa workers.
But cheap H-2As shrinks $ incentive to buy the labor-saving, $-creating harvesters used on foreign farms http://bit.ly/34QZWc8 





Democrats praised the bill, without acknowledging that more than half of the farmworkers in the United States are Americans, either native-born or immigrants.
The bill is “a historic victory for farmworkers and for growers,” said House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who seemed to assume that all farmworkers are illegal aliens. The farmworkers deserve “dignity and respect,” she said, without mentioning the American workers and families who will lose jobs, wages, dignity, and respect when they are sidelined by employers eager to hire cheap H-2A visa workers.
Democrats praised the illegal workers, without acknowledging that Americans provide more than half the agricultural workforce.
“This bill would recognize the important work that undocumented workers do in our agriculture industry,” said Texas Democrat, Rep. Joaquin Castro.  “It would recognize that their work deserves respect, that it is dignified, that it has a place in our country and that they have a place in our country. It would do so by allowing for a path to legal status for these workers. For two million folks, it would mean that they would no longer face the threat of deportation.”
“Many of these workers leave their families and journey to the United States in hopes of finding decent work at a respectable wage, yet far too often are subjugated to exploitive serfdom,” said Democratic Ohio Rep. Marcy Kaptur. “That is why I stand heartened that the Farm Workforce Modernization Act has been brought forth to this House floor.”
“I cannot forget going out and talking to farmworkers who are so afraid because of enforcement, [that] they are afraid to leave their homes to go to church on Sunday morning.” said Democrat Rep. Zoe Lofgren, a former immigration lawyer who now represents part of Silicon Valley.”That’s not the kind of situation we want to have in America.”

Immigration reformers are trying to slow push by Democrats & farm CEOs to amnesty 1M+ illegals & import cheap H-2A visa-workers.
Why would investors hire Americans or buy labor-saving machines if many H-2As will work cheap for the hope of citizenship? http://bit.ly/349L8UE 





In a November hearing, Lofgren described the corporatist bargain that created the amnesty and outsourcing bill:
The bill implements a wage freeze for the year 2020 [for 250,000 H-2A visa workers]. This is a very important matter for employers, [and] wages are expected to increase by another seven to eight percent next year. Under this bill, those wage increases won’t happen.
This bill adds wage caps to prevent wages [H-2A visa workers] going up by more than 3.25 percent in most of the country. Considering that the AEWR rates [Adverse Effect Wage Rate for H-2As] recently went up 23 percent in certain states, this is a big concession. Those kinds of wage increases would no longer happen under this bill.
These are significant wage reforms — a recent report by the CATO institute found that the bill, if enacted, would have saved farmers $324 million in labor expenses in 2019 alone.
Lofgren excused her compromise with agriculture employers:
I would prefer that these wage concessions were not in the bill. But this bill is a compromise to make sure that the farmworkers today that are looking over their shoulder in fear of deportation will no longer face that nightmare. And it is a compromise that allows additional people to come in to meet the growing [worker] needs of our agriculture sector.
In 2017, Lofgren recognized that migrants would accept low wages and poor conditions if they are offered a legal way to get themselves and their families into the United States.





THERE IS ONE COMMON DENOMINATOR AMONG 

ALL BILLIONAIRES. THEY DEMAND WIDER OPEN 

BORDERS, MORE ILLEGALS AND NO CAPS ON VISAS 

TO KEEP WAGES DEPRESSED AND THEIR PROFITS 

HIGHER!


"Nonetheless, open border advocates, such as Facebook 

Chairman Mark Zuckerberg, claim illegal aliens are a net 

benefit to California with little evidence to support such an 

assertion. As the Center for Immigration Studies has 

documented, the vast majority of illegals are poor, uneducated, 

and with few skills."

 

 

The Bay Area’s income gap just keeps growing despite economic boom

https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/12/09/the-bay-areas-income-gap-keeps-growing-despite-economic-boom/

 

 

Richest 5 percent has had higher income growth than anyone else since 2010

 

The Bay Area’s economy, one of the hottest in the country, has helped fuel higher wages, but those benefits haven’t been felt evenly: Low-income households, already hit hard by rising housing costs, have seen the smallest gains.
Incomes among the poorest fifth of households in the nine-county Bay Area and Santa Cruz rose 29 percent from 2010 to 2018 — to an average of $21,600 a year, according to data from the U.S. Census Bureau. In contrast, the wealthiest fifth of households got a 48 percent bump during that time, to an average of $375,200.
And the gap between rich and poor keeps growing. In 2010, the average household in the wealthiest 5 percent made 26 times as much as the average household in the bottom fifth of incomes. By 2018, those top earners were making, on average, 30 times more.
Why is the Bay Area’s wage gap so large? Mostly because the richest and poorest workers are employed in very different labor markets with different opportunities for growth, said Chris Benner, a sociology professor and director of the Santa Cruz Institute for Social Transformation at UC Santa Cruz.
High-wage earners in the technology industry work for companies with large profit margins in a global market. Those companies all are trying to hire from a pool of workers with relatively rare skills, so competition is high. Plus, those workers are more likely to get bonuses or earn dividends from investments in the stock market, all of which boost their household incomes.
“Technology companies can afford to pay more, and (even) when there’s low unemployment, they can pay more,” Benner said. “There’s a very different set of dynamics in the lower end of the market.”
There, workers in retail, education or service jobs are employed by companies with single-digit profit margins that can only raise wages so much.
At all levels, incomes in the Bay Area grew faster than California and national averages. But even within the Bay Area, growth was not distributed evenly.
In Alameda County, for example, the bottom fifth of earners — about 115,100 households — make, on average, $20,000 a year. That’s despite a 42 percent increase since 2010, the fastest growth among the poorest households in any Bay Area county.
Jonathan Fisher, a researcher at the Stanford Center on Poverty and Inequality, said that those rising wages are little help to households at the bottom, considering the Bay Area’s high housing costs.
“That’s still a minor silver lining to a really hard situation where it’s just hard to get by, even with that higher income,” Fisher said. “It’s not erasing the challenges.”

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The median rent in Alameda County, for example, is now about $2,970 a month, according to RentCafe. So if those poor households spent money on nothing but rent — no food, gas, car payments or utilities — they’d still be able only to afford housing for about seven months.
At the other end of the ladder, the richest fifth of households in San Francisco County saw their incomes go up 67 percent, the fastest growth among top earners in any Bay Area county. Those households now make about $453,900 a year.

Foreign Workers See Nearly 5X Job Growth of Americans

Foreign workers saw nearly five times as much job growth as native-born American workers did last month, Bureau of Labor Statistics data reveals.

In November 2018, foreign-born worker employment increased 5.1 percent compared to the same time last year. Meanwhile, native-born Americans saw an employment increase of only about 1.2 percent year-to-year, almost five times less job growth as their foreign worker competitors.
The foreign-born workforce — those who are employed and looking for work — also had significantly higher gains than native-born Americans. Last month, the number of foreign-born workers in the labor force increased almost five percent. At the same time, native-born Americans in the labor force increased only 0.66 percent.
The labor force participation rate among foreign-born workers increased 1.2 percent, while the labor force participation rate for native-born Americans increased only 0.2 percent from year-to-year.
Though foreign-born workers have had significant gains in the last three months of President Trump’s economy, native-born Americans’ unemployment dropped by an impressive 12.5 percent while their foreign competitors’ unemployment decreased by 5.9 percent.
The fast-growing employment of foreign-born workers over American citizens is exacerbated by the country’s wage-crushing national immigration policy whereby about 1.5 million legal and illegal immigrants are added to the U.S. population every year.
While legal immigrants continued being admitted to the U.S. to take blue-collar working-class jobs and many white-collar, high-paying jobs, there remain about six million Americans who are unemployed, 12 percent of whom are teenagers and nearly six percent of whom are black Americans.
There remain about 1.3 million workers who have been jobless for more than two years, 4.8 million workers who are working part time but who want full time jobs, and 1.7 million workers who want a job, including more than 450,000 workers who are discouraged by their job prospects.
John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Follow him on Twitter at @JxhnBinder.


Claims of a Labor Shortage Are Just Not True


America's September unemployment rate fell to 3.5 percent, the lowest level since 1969, according to the most recent Department of Labor report.
The tight labor market is forcing companies to hire disadvantaged Americans. For example, New Seasons Market, a West Coast grocery chain, is actively recruiting people with disabilities and prior criminal records. Similarly, Custom Equipment, a Wisconsin manufacturing firm, recently hired several prison inmates through a work-release program and intends to employ them full-time upon their release.
For the first time in decades, these disadvantaged Americans are finally winning significant pay increases. Over the past year, the lowest-paid 25 percent of workers enjoyed faster wage growth than their higher-paid peers.
Unfortunately, this positive trend could be short-lived. Corporate special interests are whining about a labor shortage -- and are spending millions to lobby for higher levels of immigration, which would supply companies with cheap, pliable workers.
Hardworking Americans need their leaders in Washington to see through this influence campaign and stand up for their interests. Scaling back immigration would further tighten the labor market, boosting wages and helping the most disadvantaged Americans find jobs.
The U.S. economy is the strongest it has been in years. Employers added 136,000 new jobs in September, marking 108 months of consecutive job growth.
But there's still more progress to be made. Approximately 6 million Americans are currently looking for jobs but remain unemployed. Another 4 million desire full-time positions but are underemployed as part-time workers. Millions more, feeling discouraged about their bleak prospects, have abandoned the job search altogether. Indeed, among 18 through 65-year-olds, 55 million people aren't working.
Many of these folks have limited or outdated skills. Others have criminal records or disabilities. So they might require a bit more training than traditional job applicants.
Rather than put in this extra effort, some big businesses want to eliminate their recruiting challenges by importing cheap foreign workers. These firms have instructed their lobbyists to push for more immigration, which would introduce more slack into the labor market.
The CEO of the Chamber of Commerce recently claimed that America needs a massive increase in immigration because we're "out of people." Chamber officials said their lobbying efforts would center on sizeable increases to rates of legal immigration.
The National Association of Manufacturers, meanwhile, recently released a proposal which would effectively double the number of H-1B tech worker visas, import more seasonal low-skilled laborers on H-2A and H-2B visas, and grant amnesty to illegal immigrants.
And the agriculture industry is lobbying for a path to legalization for illegal laborers and is seeking to expand "temporary" guest-worker programs to include stable, year-round positions on dairy farms and meatpacking plants -- jobs that Americans will happily fill for the right wage. The Association of Builders and Contractors, Koch Industries, and dozens more companies have called for similar measures.
There are already 45 million immigrants in the United States -- 28 million of which are employed -- and counting. More than 650,000 people crossed into the United States illegally in the past eight months alone, already exceeding last fiscal year's totals. And the U.S. government grants an additional 1 million lifetime work permits to immigrants every year.
Those figures will skyrocket even higher if business groups get their way. Such an expansion would hurt hardworking Americans.
The majority of foreigners who cross the border illegally or arrive on guest worker visas lack substantial education. Naturally, they seek out less-skilled jobs in construction, manufacturing, agriculture, and service -- and directly compete with the most economically vulnerable Americans. The labor surplus created by immigration depresses the wages of native-born high school dropouts up to $1,500 each year.
Several proposals under consideration in Washington could alleviate American workers' woes.
A recent bill from Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA) would mandate all businesses use a free, online system called E-Verify, which determines an individual's work eligibility in mere seconds.
The system would make it extremely difficult for employers to hire illegal immigrants, roughly 40 percent of whom have been paid subminimum wages at some point. Without a pool of easily abused illegal laborers, businesses would raise pay for Americans.
Several senators also recently introduced the Raise Act, a bill that would reduce future levels of legal immigration.
It's time for our leaders in Washington to scale back both legal and illegal immigration. By doing so, they can further tighten the labor market and force businesses to bring less-advantaged Americans back into the workforce.
OPEN BORDERS: IT’S ALL ABOUT KEEPING WAGES DEPRESSED!
"In the decade following the financial crisis of 2007-2008, the capitalist class has delivered powerful blows to the social position of the working class. As a result, the working class in the US, the world’s “richest country,” faces levels of economic hardship not seen since the 1930s."

"Inequality has reached unprecedented levels: the wealth of America’s three richest people now equals the net worth of the poorest half of the US population."

 

PELOSI, FEINSTEIN, KAMALA HARRIS AND GAVIN NEWOMS’S MEXIFORNIA

 

Report: California’s Middle-Class Wages Rise by 1 Percent in 40 Years

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Middle-class wages in progressive California have risen by 1 percent in the last 40 years, says a study by the establishment California Budget and Policy Center.

“Earnings for California’s workers at the low end and middle of the wage scale have generally declined or stagnated for decades,” says the report, titled “California’s Workers Are Increasingly Locked Out of the State’s Prosperity.” The report continued:
In 2018, the median hourly earnings for workers ages 25 to 64 was $21.79, just 1% higher than in 1979, after adjusting for inflation ($21.50, in 2018 dollars) (Figure 1). Inflation-adjusted hourly earnings for low-wage workers, those at the 10th percentile, increased only slightly more, by 4%, from $10.71 in 1979 to $11.12 in 2018.
The report admits that the state’s progressive economy is delivering more to investors and less to wage-earners. “Since 2001, the share of state private-sector [annual new income] that has gone to worker compensation has fallen by 5.6 percentage points — from 52.9% to 47.3%.”
In 2016, California’s Gross Domestic Product was $2.6 trillion, so the 5.6 percent drop shifted $146 billion away from wages. That is roughly $3,625 per person in 2016.
The report notes that wages finally exceeded 1979 levels around 2017, and it splits the credit between the Democrats’ minimum-wage boosts and President Donald Trump’s go-go economy.
The 40 years of flat wages are partly hidden by a wave of new products and services. They include almost-free entertainment and information on the Internet, cheap imported coffee in supermarkets, and reliable, low-pollution autos in garages.
But the impact of California’s flat wages is made worse by California’s rising housing costs, the report says, even though it also ignores the rent-spiking impact of the establishment’s pro-immigration policies:
 In just the last decade alone, the increase in the typical household’s rent far outpaced the rise in the typical full-time worker’s annual earnings, suggesting that working families and individuals are finding it increasingly difficult to make ends meet. In fact, the basic cost of living in many parts of the state is more than many single individuals or families can expect to earn, even if all adults are working full-time.

IMMIGRATION ANARCHISTS' LIES DEBUNKED

It's as easy as child's play.



So much of what has come to pass for “common knowledge” is actually an example of how the principle of “The Big Lie” can alter the public’s understanding of critical issues. Immigration has proven to be particularly vulnerable to this tactic. 

BLOG: THE LA RAZA FASCIST PARTY, NOW CALLING ITSELF UNIDOus, HAS LONG OPERATED ON THE SAME PRINICIPLES AS THE THIRD REICH. UNFORTUNATELY THEY ALSO OPERATE ON U.S. TAX DOLLAR SUBSIDIES AND GENEROUS CONTRIBUTIONS FROM MOST OF THE FORTUNE 500.
Under that principle, officials intentionally concoct falsehoods and repeat them at every possible opportunity to convince the masses that the lies are the truth.  This principle was adopted by Nazi Germany in order to con the German populace into accepting the unfathomable depravity of the Third Reich. 
Because humans think with words, control of language ultimately results in control of thought.  This was the underlying principle of my recent article, Language Wars, The Road to Tyranny is Paved With Language Censorship. 
Today the attention span of most Americans can be measured in minutes, if not seconds, further exacerbating the susceptibility of folks to fall victim to language manipulation tactics. The tactics employed by the open-borders/immigration anarchists to further their cause are so easy to disprove that even a child could see through their warped logic. 
First off, consider the game of “Musical Chairs,” which most children are familiar with.  In this game, as music plays,' kids circle a line of chairs that alternate in the way that the chairs are facing.  When the music stops each child scrambles to sit in one of the chairs.  What makes the game challenging is that there is one fewer chair than the number of kids playing.  Consequently, one child is unable to find a chair and is removed from the game along with one chair.  Once again there is one chair fewer than the number of participating children.  The music starts again and the kids circle the remaining chairs until the music stops.  Each time one chair and one child are removed until the contest comes down to two kids and one chair.  Whichever kid manages to sit is declared the winner of the game. 
If you wonder what this has to do with immigration, imagine that during the game one of the adults supervising the game opens a door and allows many more children to flood into the room, however, the number of chairs is not increased.  This way the odds of the children already playing the game will succeed in grabbing a seat has just been decreased due to the number of new players introduced into the game. 
It should be expected that the children will scream that what has just happened is unfair and of course they would be right. 
Now let’s imagine that we are not talking about a childhood game and that the chairs are available jobs and the children are adult workers who are desperate to find a job.  The “doors” that have been flung open are America’s borders and those entering the room (labor pool) are many foreign workers, deleteriously impacting jobs and wages across a wide spectrum of industries and skill levels. 
Incredibly, many Americans cannot figure out the parallel between these two situations.  The Democrats who refused to stand for the State of the Union Address when President Trump noted how unemployment levels for American blacks and Latinos were at the lowest point in years were clearly unhappy. Could it be that they have been depending on making Americans more dependent on the “crumbs" that they offer? I use the term “crumbs” because this was the very word used by Nancy Pelosi to describe the thousand-dollar bonuses a number of companies provided to their employees because of the Trump tax cuts. 
Next let’s think back to the days of “Hide and Seek” where one child covers his/her eyes and counts to ten and then attempts to find another child who went hiding when the first child closed his eyes. 
Today that game is being played by illegal aliens with great success because the number of ICE agents, and the number of INS agents that preceded the creation of ICE, has always been insignificant when compared with the huge number of illegal aliens who have entered the United States without inspection or violating the terms of their lawful admissions. 
Sanctuary city policies make it ever more difficult for the overwhelmed ICE agents to track down and apprehend illegal aliens, even when those aliens are engaged in criminal or terror-related activities. 
Of course, the mayors of sanctuary cities and governors of sanctuary states hypocritically draw parallels between their actions and the actions of leaders of the Civil Rights movement who put their lives on the line to right the wrongs of slavery, racism, segregation and discrimination.   
Although this parallel is an enormous falsehood, it has been repeated in the news media and by a long list of immigration anarchists and consequently many have fallen for this outrageous analogy. Illegal aliens are certainly protected by due process when they are charged with a crime.  But due process is not the same as Civil Rights. The entire point to Civil Rights laws is to guarantee all Americans, particularly American blacks, equal opportunities to be successful in America and be full participants in American society. Elements of this include access to quality in education, job opportunities and housing. 
Illegal aliens are not supposed to work, and knowingly providing shelter for illegal aliens can be construed as harboring and shielding, elements of a felony under federal law, Title 8 U.S. Code § 1324
Where aliens and jobs are concerned, even many categories of nonimmigrant aliens (temporary visitors) including aliens who lawfully enter under the Visa Waiver Program or with tourist visas may not work in the United States and immediately become subject to removal (deportation) if they seek gainful employment.  
Prior to WWII the Labor Department was in charge of immigration.  The greatest concern, back then, was to shield American workers from foreign competition.  This is how the middle class was nurtured and grew to become the envy of the world and came to be known as the “American Dream.” 
Incredibly when President Trump, in his State of the Union Address proclaimed, “American are dreamers too” the members of the Democratic Party reacted with sheer hostility, not only towards the President, but hostility and contempt for Americans. 
Awhile back I wrote an article about the veiled attack on the middle class.  In that article I reported on how on April 30, 2009, Alan Greenspan, former chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank, testified at a hearing advocating the passage of Comprehensive Immigration Reform legislation, conducted by Chuck Schumer, then Chairman of the Senate Immigration Subcommittee.
 Greenspan was “all in” on legalizing illegal aliens, creating a guest worker program for aliens and for hugely increasing the number of H-1B visas as Bill Gates, whom he quoted, recommended. 
As for the impact on American workers and American cities where illegal alien workers were concerned, Greenspan said: 
Some evidence suggests that unskilled illegal immigrants (almost all from Latin America) marginally suppress wage levels of native-born Americans without a high school diploma, and impose significant costs on some state and local governments.

That “marginal suppression of wages” for America’s working poor is likely a significant cause of unemployment of Americans and a record levels of homelessness of Americans. 
Greenspan’s advocacy for greatly increasing the number of H-1B foreign worker included this justification: 
The second bonus would address the increasing concentration of income in this country. Greatly expanding our quotas for the highly skilled would lower wage premiums of skilled over lesser skilled. Skill shortages in America exist because we are shielding our skilled labor force from world competition. Quotas have been substituted for the wage pricing mechanism. In the process, we have created a privileged elite whose incomes are being supported at noncompetitively high levels by immigration quotas on skilled professionals. Eliminating such restrictions would reduce at least some of our income inequality. 
Greenspan actually had the unmitigated chutzpah to refer to high-tech American workers as the “privileged elite” who are being shielded from foreign competition.  As an economist Greenspan understand “supply and demand” and seeks to greatly increase the supply of compliant and exploitable foreign workers in the labor pool to drive down everyone’s wages. 
The Democrats frequently equate providing a minimum wage of $10.10 per hour or $15.00 per hour with “wage equality.”  This is clearly not about wage equality but about establishing a “standard wage” which would eradicate the middle class.  

The "reforming" of our immigration laws for Greenspan and his globalist cohorts is an effort to actually re-form our immigration system to speed the destruction of the middle class. 
Since that hearing Greenspan has persisted in his calls for re-forming the immigration system. 
Hypocrisy is usually a clear indicator of a con job.  Schumer has called for creating a federal law with a maximum penalty of 5 years in prison for those who trespass on critical infrastructure or national landmarks.  Yet Schumer demands that aliens who trespass on America be granted United States citizenship.


 A child could see through their lies.      
           
HOME TO DIANNE FEINSTEIN, NANCY PELOSI, KAMALA HARRIS AND GAVIN NEWSOM
Adios, Sanctuary La Raza Welfare State of California        
A fifth-generation Californian laments his state’s ongoing economic collapse.
By Steve Baldwin
American Spectator
What’s clear is that the producers are leaving the state and the takers are coming in. Many of the takers are illegal aliens, now estimated to number over 2.6 million (BLOG: THE NUMBER IS CLOSER TO 15 MILLION ILLEAGLS). The Federation for American Immigration Reform estimates that California spends $22 billion (DATED: NOW ABOUT $35 BILLION YEARLY AND THAT IS ON THE STATE LEVEL ONLY. COUNTIES PAY OUT MORE) on government services for illegal aliens, including welfare, education, Medicaid, and criminal justice system costs. 
Liberals claim they more than make that up with taxes paid, but that’s simply not true. It’s not even close. FAIR estimates illegal aliens in California contribute only $1.21 billion in tax revenue, which means they cost California $20.6 billion, or at least $1,800 per household.
Nonetheless, open border advocates, such as Facebook Chairman Mark Zuckerberg, claim illegal aliens are a net benefit to California with little evidence to support such an assertion. As the Center for Immigration Studies has documented, the vast majority of illegals are poor, uneducated, and with few skills. How does accepting millions of illegal aliens and then granting them access to dozens of welfare programs benefit California’s economy? If illegal aliens were contributing to the economy in any meaningful way, California, with its 2.6 million illegal aliens, would be booming.
Furthermore, the complexion of illegal aliens has changed with far more on welfare and committing crimes than those who entered the country in the 1980s. 
Heather Mac Donald of the Manhattan Institute has testified before a Congressional committee that in 2004, 95% of all outstanding warrants for murder in Los Angeles were for illegal aliens; in 2000, 23% of all Los Angeles County jail inmates were illegal aliens and that in 1995, 60% of Los Angeles’s largest street gang, the 18th Street gang, were illegal aliens. Granted, those statistics are old, but if you talk to any California law enforcement officer, they will tell you it’s much worse today. The problem is that the Brown administration will not release any statewide data on illegal alien crimes. That would be insensitive. And now that California has declared itself a “sanctuary state,” there is little doubt this sends a message south of the border that will further escalate illegal immigration into the state.
"If the racist "Sensenbrenner Legislation" passes the US Senate, there is no doubt that a massive civil disobedience movement will emerge. Eventually labor union power can merge with the immigrant civil rights and "Immigrant Sanctuary" movements to enable us to either form a new political party or to do heavy duty reforming of the existing Democratic Party. The next and final steps would follow and that is to elect our own governors of all the states within Aztlan." 
Indeed, California goes out of its way to attract illegal aliens. The state has even created government programs that cater exclusively to illegal aliens. For example, the State Department of Motor Vehicles has offices that only process driver licenses for illegal aliens. With over a million illegal aliens now driving in California, the state felt compelled to help them avoid the long lines the rest of us must endure at the DMV. 
And just recently, the state-funded University of California system announced it will spend $27 million on financial aid for illegal aliens. They’ve even taken out radio spots on stations all along the border, just to make sure other potential illegal border crossers hear about this program. I can’t afford college education for all my four sons, but my taxes will pay for illegals to get a college education.

Josh Hawley: GOP Must Defend Middle Class Americans Against ‘Concentrated Corporate Power,’ Tech Billionaires

JOHN BINDER

The Republican Party must defend America’s working and middle class against “concentrated corporate power” and the monopolization of entire sectors of the United States’ economy, Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) says.

In an interview on The Realignment podcast, Hawley said that “long gone are the days where” American workers can depend on big business to look out for their needs and the needs of their communities.
Instead, Hawley explained that increasing “concentrated corporate power” of whole sectors of the American economy — specifically among Silicon Valley’s giant tech conglomerates — is at the expense of working and middle class Americans.
“One of the things Republicans need to recover today is a defense of an open, free-market, of a fair healthy competing market and the length between that and Democratic citizenship,” Hawley said, and continued:
At the end of the day, we are trying to support and sustain here a great democracy. We’re not trying to make a select group of people rich. They’ve already done that. The tech billionaires are already billionaires, they don’t need any more help from government. I’m not interested in trying to help them further. I’m interested in trying to help sustain the great middle of this country that makes our democracy run and that’s the most important challenge of this day.
“You have these businesses who for years now have said ‘Well, we’re based in the United States, but we’re not actually an American company, we’re a global company,'” Hawley said. “And you know, what has driven profits for some of our biggest multinational corporations? It’s been … moving jobs overseas where it’s cheaper … moving your profits out of this country so you don’t have to pay any taxes.”
“I think that we have here at the same time that our economy has become more concentrated, we have bigger and bigger corporations that control more and more of our key sectors, those same corporations see themselves as less and less American and frankly they are less committed to American workers and American communities,” Hawley continued. “That’s turned out to be a problem which is one of the reasons we need to restore good, healthy, robust competition in this country that’s going to push up wages, that’s going to bring jobs back to the middle parts of this country, and most importantly, to the middle and working class of this country.”
While multinational corporations monopolize industries, Hawley said the GOP must defend working and middle class Americans and that big business interests should not come before the needs of American communities:
A free market is one where you can enter it, where there are new ideas, and also by the way, where people can start a small family business, you shouldn’t have to be gigantic in order to succeed in this country. Most people don’t want to start a tech company. [Americans] maybe want to work in their family’s business, which may be some corner shop in a small town … they want to be able to make a living and then give that to their kids or give their kids an option to do that. [Emphasis added]
The problem with corporate concentration is that it tends to kill all of that. The worst thing about corporate concentration is that it inevitably believes to a partnership with big government. Big business and big government always get together, always. And that is exactly what has happened now with the tech sector, for instance, and arguably many other sectors where you have this alliance between big government and big business … whatever you call it, it’s a problem and it’s something we need to address. [Emphasis added]
Hawley blasted the free trade-at-all-costs doctrine that has dominated the Republican and Democrat Party establishments for decades, crediting the globalist economic model with hollowing “out entire industries, entire supply chains” and sending them to China, among other countries.
“The thing is in this country is that not only do we not make very much stuff anymore, we don’t even make the machines that make the stuff,” Hawley said. “The entire supply chain up and down has gone overseas, and a lot of it to China, and this is a result of policies over some decades now.”
As Breitbart News reported, Hawley detailed in the interview how Republicans like former President George H.W. Bush’s ‘New World Order’ agenda and Democrats have helped to create a corporatist economy that disproportionately benefits the nation’s richest executives and donor class.
The billionaire class, the top 0.01 percent of earners, has enjoyed more than 15 times as much wage growth as the bottom 90 percent since 1979. That economy has been reinforced with federal rules that largely benefits the wealthiest of wealthiest earners. A study released last month revealed that the richest Americans are, in fact, paying a lower tax rate than all other Americans.
John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Follow him on Twitter at @JxhnBinder

House Approves Farmworker Amnesty, Promotes Visa Workers over Americans

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Nearly all House Democrats, plus a group of 34 Republicans, voted Wednesday to approve an amnesty for illegal farmworkers and to outsource more of the nation’s farm workforce to cheap H-2A visa workers.
The bill, H.R. 5038, would likely amnesty more than a million illegal aliens, and it also subsidizes farm companies that hire more H-2A visa workers instead of hiring Americans.
Those subsidies for hiring foreign H-2A workers include rules to cut the H-2A workers’ pay below the expected 2020 rates, plus massive housing subsidies for the migrant workers. The biggest subsidy, however, is that employers will be allowed to dangle the prize of Americans’ citizenship to H-2A migrants who agree to work at low wages for long hours in harsh conditions.
Americans comprise roughly three-quarters of the 2.1 million workers in farming, fishing, and forestry, according to a November 2018 report by the Pew Research Center. In contrast, the workforce includes 325,000 illegal workers, or one-in-six of the workforce, said Pew. The estimate of working illegal aliens is far below the Democrats’ estimate of two million illegal aliens who will benefit from an amnesty.
In 2019, farm companies hired roughly 250,000 H-2A workers but complained bitterly about their rising wages in the nation’s good economy. There is no cap on the number of H-2A migrant workers who can be imported into the United States.
The subsidies for hiring H-2As will also discourage farm companies from buying the American-made farm machinery that reduces the need for farmworkers. If American farmers then decline to develop and buy modern machinery, such as semi-automated fruit pickers, they will lag further behind their increasingly sophisticated foreign rivals.
Immigration reform groups, such as NumbersUSA and the Federation for American Immigration Reform, slammed the bill as unfair to Americans and agriculture employees. “Absolutely disgraceful anti-modernity corporatist giveaway,” said Andrew Good, an analyst at NumbersUSA.
Some Democrat-tied groups, such as the United Food and Commercial Workers union, also spoke up against the subsidies for hiring H-2As.
The opposition may have dramatically reduced the number of Republicans who voted for the bill. “The proposal also garnered the support of 34 Republicans, although proponents were hopeful up to 100 GOP lawmakers would vote for the bill,” TheHill.com reported. The final tally showed that 161 Republicans voted against the amnesty and outsourcing bill.
The GOP no-votes included three GOP cosponsors of the bill: Utah Rep. John Curtis, Ohio Rep. Bob Gibbs, and Utah Rep. Chris Stewart.
Three Democrats voted against the bill, while 226 Democrats voted for the bill. The three Democrat defectors were Virginia Rep. Bobby Scott, Utah Rep. Ben McAdams, and Maine Rep. Jared Golden. Michigan Rep. Rashida Tlaib did not vote.


We've got left & right opposition to the 'Farm Workforce Modernization Act,' which replaces 1M+ amnestied illegals (& Americans) w/ indentured H-2A visa workers.
Good for Democrats & investors, bad for American employees. So silence from the estb. media. http://bit.ly/34dyjJb 

Pro-Employee Groups Slam Democrats' Amnesty with Agriculture Industry


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This bipartisan rewrite of the agricultural labor market in favor of employers — regardless of the likely damage to Americans and their communities — got little coverage by establishment reporters. For example, the Washington Post, the New York Times, and the Associated Press ignored the huge debate — even though all three outlets published pro-migrant articles on a town meeting on December 9 about refugees in Bismarck, North Dakota.
The silence by the established media helped the amnesty and outsourcing bill, said William Gheen, founder of the Americans for Legal Immigration PAC. “I did not detect anything about this vote, other than Breitbart … Drudge readers were completely in the dark,” he said, adding that President Donald Trump might sign the deal because it benefits farm companies and investors.
No Republicans or Democrats spoke up for the free market or even for American workers during Wednesday’s one-hour debate on the Farm Workforce Modernization Act. Nor did any legislators speak up for the American communities, which have been ravaged by a combination of job losses and deadly opioid abuse since the 2008 economic crash and which may recover if farm wages continue to rise in Donald Trump’s “Hire American” economy.
Instead, legislators from both parties lauded the bill as a benefit for business — although 161 Republicans eventually voted against the bill because of the bill’s offers an amnesty to perhaps two million illegal workers and family members.
Legislators sought “to come up with a bill to deal with the labor situation that we have in this country, to provide a certain legal labor force,” said GOP Rep. Dan Newhouse, who owns orchards in Washington state, and who was the leading GOP sponsor of the legislation. “That’s what brought together a bipartisan group of members of Congress, representatives from agricultural groups around the country, as well as agricultural labor groups,” he said.
Newhouse praised the legislation for capping the wages of farmworkers and for allowing dairies to use H-2A workers:
It will cap the ever-skyrocketing wage growth [for H-2A workers] in this country to 3.25 percent a year. Some states next year are facing a 9.5 percent increase. On top of that, it will allow full-time employers, like dairies, to be able to take advantage and utilize the H-2A program.
“This is not an amnesty bill,” said California GOP Rep. Doug LaMalfa. “Yes, there is an opportunity for citizenship,” he said, adding, “we don’t want them coming across [the border] illegally. We want them to come across with a certificate that they’ve been vetted … We desperately need the labor.”
“I appreciate my colleagues’ desire to fix this problem and provide our farmers and ranchers with a long-term solution to the labor supply problems in this country,” said Colorado GOP Rep. Ken Buck.


The UFW union is touting the stoop-labor of its resilient & largely illegal crews while Dems vote to amnesty them & deliver endless @H2A visa workers.
But cheap H-2As shrinks $ incentive to buy the labor-saving, $-creating harvesters used on foreign farms http://bit.ly/34QZWc8 

Watch: Amnesty Bill Blocks Labor-Saving Farm Machines



Democrats praised the bill, without acknowledging that more than half of the farmworkers in the United States are Americans, either native-born or immigrants.
The bill is “a historic victory for farmworkers and for growers,” said House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who seemed to assume that all farmworkers are illegal aliens. The farmworkers deserve “dignity and respect,” she said, without mentioning the American workers and families who will lose jobs, wages, dignity, and respect when they are sidelined by employers eager to hire cheap H-2A visa workers.
Democrats praised the illegal workers, without acknowledging that Americans provide more than half the agricultural workforce.
“This bill would recognize the important work that undocumented workers do in our agriculture industry,” said Texas Democrat, Rep. Joaquin Castro.  “It would recognize that their work deserves respect, that it is dignified, that it has a place in our country and that they have a place in our country. It would do so by allowing for a path to legal status for these workers. For two million folks, it would mean that they would no longer face the threat of deportation.”
“Many of these workers leave their families and journey to the United States in hopes of finding decent work at a respectable wage, yet far too often are subjugated to exploitive serfdom,” said Democratic Ohio Rep. Marcy Kaptur. “That is why I stand heartened that the Farm Workforce Modernization Act has been brought forth to this House floor.”
“I cannot forget going out and talking to farmworkers who are so afraid because of enforcement, [that] they are afraid to leave their homes to go to church on Sunday morning.” said Democrat Rep. Zoe Lofgren, a former immigration lawyer who now represents part of Silicon Valley.”That’s not the kind of situation we want to have in America.”


Immigration reformers are trying to slow push by Democrats & farm CEOs to amnesty 1M+ illegals & import cheap H-2A visa-workers.
Why would investors hire Americans or buy labor-saving machines if many H-2As will work cheap for the hope of citizenship? http://bit.ly/349L8UE 

Reform Groups Rally Opposition to Farmworker Amnesty Vote on Wednesday



In a November hearing, Lofgren described the corporatist bargain that created the amnesty and outsourcing bill:
The bill implements a wage freeze for the year 2020 [for 250,000 H-2A visa workers]. This is a very important matter for employers, [and] wages are expected to increase by another seven to eight percent next year. Under this bill, those wage increases won’t happen.
This bill adds wage caps to prevent wages [H-2A visa workers] going up by more than 3.25 percent in most of the country. Considering that the AEWR rates [Adverse Effect Wage Rate for H-2As] recently went up 23 percent in certain states, this is a big concession. Those kinds of wage increases would no longer happen under this bill.
These are significant wage reforms — a recent report by the CATO institute found that the bill, if enacted, would have saved farmers $324 million in labor expenses in 2019 alone.
Lofgren excused her compromise with agriculture employers:
I would prefer that these wage concessions were not in the bill. But this bill is a compromise to make sure that the farmworkers today that are looking over their shoulder in fear of deportation will no longer face that nightmare. And it is a compromise that allows additional people to come in to meet the growing [worker] needs of our agriculture sector.
In 2017, Lofgren recognized that migrants would accept low wages and poor conditions if they are offered a legal way to get themselves and their families into the United States.


.@ZoeLofgren on illegal immigration, wage depression, and the avarice of the agribusiness industry https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4687743/user-clip-lofgren-illegal-immigration 






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