VIVA LA RAZA
SUPREMACY, WIDER OPEN BORDERS, CHAIN MIGRATION, NO LEGAL NEED APPLY and
BILLIONS IN WELFARE TO KEEP THEM CRAWLING OVER OUR BORDERS???
DEMOCRAT PARTY CORRUPTION
"This is how they will destroy
America from within. The leftist
billionaires who orchestrate
these plans are wealthy. Those tasked
with representing us in Congress will
never be exposed to the cost
of the invasion of millions of
migrants. They have nothing but
contempt for those of us who must
endure the consequences of our
communities being intruded upon by gang members,
drug dealers
and human traffickers. These people have no intention
of
becoming Americans; like the Democrats who welcome them, they
have contempt
for us." PATRICIA McCARTHY
THE
INVASION SPONSORED BY THE DEMOCRAT PARTY
Congressional
Democrats are apparently fine with catch-and-release policies because they see
the likely electoral benefits. According to Customs and Border Protection
(CPB), of the 94,285 Central American family units apprehended last year, 99
percent of them remain in the country today. CPB also reports that 98 percent
of the 31,754 unaccompanied minors from the Northern Triangle of Central
America remain in the country. CAL THOMAS
The establishment’s economic policy of using legal and illegal migration to boost economic growth shifts enormous wealth from young employees towards older investors by flooding the market with cheap white collar and blue collar foreign labor.
Zuckerberg’s Team, Koch Allies, Unite to Lobby for DACA Amnesty
That annual flood of roughly one million legal immigrants — as well as visa workers and illegal immigrants — spikes profits and Wall Street values by shrinking salaries for 150 million blue-collar and white-collar employees and especially wages for the four million young Americans who join the labor force each year.
The cheap labor policy widens wealth gaps, reduces high tech investment, increases state and local tax burdens, hurts kids’ schools and college education, pushes Americans away from high tech careers, and sidelines millions of marginalized Americans, including many who are now struggling with fentanyl addictions.
Immigration also steers investment and wealth away from towns in Heartland states because coastal investors can more easily hire and supervise the large immigrant populations who prefer to live in coastal cities. In turn, that coastal investment flow drives up coastal real estate prices and pushes poor U.S. Americans, including Latinos and blacks, out of prosperous cities such as Berkeley and Oakland, California.
Billionaire Kochs Cheer Trump’s Endorsement of More Wage-Crushing Legal Immigration: ‘We Agree!’
4:20
4:20
The pro-mass immigration Koch brothers’ network of billionaire, donor class organizations is cheering President Trump’s recent doubling down on supporting increasing wage-crushing legal immigration levels.
As Breitbart News reported, Trump broke from his 2015, 2016, and 2017 “America First” commitment to reduce overall legal immigration levels to raise the wages of America’s working and middle class this week when he doubled down on a call for increasing legal immigration.
“We need people in our country because our unemployment numbers are so low and we have massive numbers of companies coming back into our country,” Trump reportedly told the media this week.
“I need people coming in because we need people to run the factories and plants and companies that are moving back in,” Trump said. “We need people.”
Now, the pro-mass immigration and economic libertarian Koch network is praising Trump’s statements endorsing more legal immigration beyond the already 1.2 million legal immigrants that are admitted to the country every year, depressing the wages and job prospects of American workers.
Daniel Garza of the Koch-backed Libre Initiative said the path forward for expanding legal immigration levels is first passing an amnesty for millions of illegal aliens:
In his address last night, the president again called on Congress to fund new barriers at the border. In doing so, he called for reforms that admit legal immigrants in ‘the largest numbers ever.’ We agree that expanded legal immigration is an important part of a solution to our nation’s immigration challenges. While some have advocated for policies that dramatically reduce legal immigration, we know that cuts to legal immigration create new incentives that drive more unlawful immigration. This is an important point that was also recently made by the president of the National Border Patrol Council. [Emphasis added]
But while we stand ready to work with anyone to reform our legal immigration system, and to ensure that market-driven policies effectively reduce the incentives that drive people to violate the law, the path forward today remains unchanged. The best way for the president and leaders in Congress to address two important priorities and avoid another shutdown is to pass legislation that pairs enhanced funding for border security and permanent protection for the Dreamers. We will continue to work with the White House and leaders in Congress to get this done. [Emphasis added]
The Kochs and their network of donors have opposed any reductions to legal immigration to raise American workers’ wages; reforms to save U.S. taxpayers billions by ending welfare-dependent legal immigration; and an end to the country’s birthright citizenship policy that rewards illegal aliens’ U.S.-born children with American citizenship.
The Washington, DC-imposed mass legal immigration policy is a boon to corporate executives, Wall Street, big business, and multinational conglomerates, as America’s working and middle class have their wealth redistributed to the country’s top earners through wage stagnation.
As Breitbart News reported, Trump broke from his 2015, 2016, and 2017 “America First” commitment to reduce overall legal immigration levels to raise the wages of America’s working and middle class this week when he doubled down on a call for increasing legal immigration.
“We need people in our country because our unemployment numbers are so low and we have massive numbers of companies coming back into our country,” Trump reportedly told the media this week.
“I need people coming in because we need people to run the factories and plants and companies that are moving back in,” Trump said. “We need people.”
Now, the pro-mass immigration and economic libertarian Koch network is praising Trump’s statements endorsing more legal immigration beyond the already 1.2 million legal immigrants that are admitted to the country every year, depressing the wages and job prospects of American workers.
Daniel Garza of the Koch-backed Libre Initiative said the path forward for expanding legal immigration levels is first passing an amnesty for millions of illegal aliens:
In his address last night, the president again called on Congress to fund new barriers at the border. In doing so, he called for reforms that admit legal immigrants in ‘the largest numbers ever.’ We agree that expanded legal immigration is an important part of a solution to our nation’s immigration challenges. While some have advocated for policies that dramatically reduce legal immigration, we know that cuts to legal immigration create new incentives that drive more unlawful immigration. This is an important point that was also recently made by the president of the National Border Patrol Council. [Emphasis added]But while we stand ready to work with anyone to reform our legal immigration system, and to ensure that market-driven policies effectively reduce the incentives that drive people to violate the law, the path forward today remains unchanged. The best way for the president and leaders in Congress to address two important priorities and avoid another shutdown is to pass legislation that pairs enhanced funding for border security and permanent protection for the Dreamers. We will continue to work with the White House and leaders in Congress to get this done. [Emphasis added]
The Kochs and their network of donors have opposed any reductions to legal immigration to raise American workers’ wages; reforms to save U.S. taxpayers billions by ending welfare-dependent legal immigration; and an end to the country’s birthright citizenship policy that rewards illegal aliens’ U.S.-born children with American citizenship.
The Washington, DC-imposed mass legal immigration policy is a boon to corporate executives, Wall Street, big business, and multinational conglomerates, as America’s working and middle class have their wealth redistributed to the country’s top earners through wage stagnation.
Trump Reverses Campaign Promise, Demands More Legal Immigration
Every one percent increase in the immigrant composition of an American workers’ occupation reduces their weekly wages by about 0.5 percent, researcher Steven Camarotta concludes. This means the average native-born American worker today has their wage reduced by perhaps 8.5 percent because of current legal immigration levels.
Likewise, every one percent increase in the immigrant composition of low-skilled U.S. occupations reduces wages by about 0.8 percent. Should 15 percent of low-skilled jobs be held by foreign-born workers, it would reduce the wages of native-born American workers by perhaps 12 percent.
Currently, the U.S. imports more than a million legal immigrants annually, with the vast majority deriving from chain migration, whereby newly naturalized citizens can bring an unlimited number of foreign relatives to the country. In 2017, the foreign-born population reached a record high of 44.5 million.
The U.S. is on track to import about 15 million new foreign-born voters in the next two decades should current legal immigration levels continue. Those 15 million new foreign-born voters include about eight million who will arrive in the country through chain migration. This booming legal immigrant population has not only rapidly shifted the demographics of the nation, but research indicates it will hand over all electoral dominance to Democrats in a matter of decades.
John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Follow him on Twitter at @JxhnBinder.
Every one percent increase in the immigrant composition of an American workers’ occupation reduces their weekly wages by about 0.5 percent, researcher Steven Camarotta concludes. This means the average native-born American worker today has their wage reduced by perhaps 8.5 percent because of current legal immigration levels.
Likewise, every one percent increase in the immigrant composition of low-skilled U.S. occupations reduces wages by about 0.8 percent. Should 15 percent of low-skilled jobs be held by foreign-born workers, it would reduce the wages of native-born American workers by perhaps 12 percent.
Currently, the U.S. imports more than a million legal immigrants annually, with the vast majority deriving from chain migration, whereby newly naturalized citizens can bring an unlimited number of foreign relatives to the country. In 2017, the foreign-born population reached a record high of 44.5 million.
The U.S. is on track to import about 15 million new foreign-born voters in the next two decades should current legal immigration levels continue. Those 15 million new foreign-born voters include about eight million who will arrive in the country through chain migration. This booming legal immigrant population has not only rapidly shifted the demographics of the nation, but research indicates it will hand over all electoral dominance to Democrats in a matter of decades.
John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Follow him on Twitter at @JxhnBinder.
Trump Indicates End of ‘Hire American’ Policy, May Invite More Foreign Workers
10:59
President Donald Trump suggested that he is ready to ditch his Inauguration Day promise of a “Hire American” economic policy — even though thousands of auto workers are being laid off, millions of Americans do not have jobs, and many millions of Americans cannot get better-paying jobs.
The huge policy shift in favor of employers and investors is emerging after Congress blocked his border wall and his border security reforms, and after the GOP-led Congress passed Trump’s tax cut.
“It is fair to say that the President is abandoning his Hire American policy,” said Mark Krikorian, director of the Center for Immigration Studies.
Trump’s statement also gives a green light to the panel of GOP and Democratic appropriators in Congress who are trying to overcome the partisan gridlock over the border wall and border security, Krikorian added. The legislators are expected to draft a compromise by February 15 that can expand several migration-related programs which allow employers to import cheap, temporary “visa workers” instead of hiring Americans at market rates, he said.
Trump “is not only making it easier for appropriators to approve this guest-worker increase, it seems to be that he’s telegraphing to them that’s what they should do,” Krikorian said.
One of the draft visa-worker expansions is dubbed “country caps.” It would remove diversity provisions in immigration law to allow employers to offer citizenship to roughly 100,000 Indian outsourcing workers each year if they agree to cheaply replace the American graduates who are now working in well-paid software, accounting, design, engineering, medicine, and education careers. The panel is expected to draft their plan by February 15.
The “country caps” bill may be approved this month without any hearings to gauge the impact on the American middle-class.
On Tuesday, Trump declared during his State of the Union speech that “I want people to come into our country, in the largest numbers ever, but they have to come in legally.”
On Wednesday, Trump reaffirmed the pro-migration statement when he was asked by a reporter “So, you’re changing your policy officially, then? You want more legal immigration?”
Trump answered “I need people coming in because we need people to run the factories and plants and companies that are moving back in. We need people.”
“Our unemployment numbers are so low,” Trump said.
On February 1, the Bureau of Labor Statistics showed the unemployment rate was at 4 percent. But it also showed that 12.5 million Americans are either unemployed or want to get jobs. In the 1960s, roughly 97 percent of men aged 25 to 54 worked — but that percentage dropped to 80 percent in 2009 and was still only at 86.2 percent in December 2018.
Trump’s pro-migration announcement prompted protests from a group of pro-Trump graduates who have organized to stop the outsourcing of middle-class jobs in the United States. Protect U.S. Workers wrote:
As a group of Americans workers who have been displaced from their jobs and campaigned for President Trump and his Hire American Buy American policy, we are very disappointed with the approach he is taking by rewarding the H-1B visa abuse. We will not support the President if he continues to side with the H-1B foreign workers and the big corporations.
In November, the Protect U.S Workers group helped defeat GOP Rep. Kevin Yoder who lost his suburban seat after pushing the “country caps” outsourcing bill.
The group is aided by federal data showing the number of jobs given to H-1B visa workers in each congressional district. The data also shows the employers and the pay promised to the visa workers. But the data does not show the number and location of jobs given to L-1, OPT, CPT, H4EAD, TN or E-3 visa workers.
The ALIPAC grassroots group also opposes the more migrants policy.
Trump’s shift on Hire American is also being denounced by U.S. Tech Workers, a left-of-center group.
The various visa worker programs, such as the H-1B, OPT, and L-1, have allowed investors to import a population of roughly 1.5 million college-graduate temporary workers. Roughly two-thirds of these workers are Indian, many of whom are under contract to the Indian-owned outsourcing companies that work for a myriad U.S. companies. This resident army of contingent workers are used to displace Americans — even when American job seekers are qualified, and even when Americans are working in the jobs.
There is no legislative cap on the total number of outsourcing workers who can be imported to take middle-class jobs, nor any rules to prevent companies from paying visa workers much lower salaries than sought by American graduates.
There are no effective rules to prevent the visa workers from taking the starter jobs needed by new U.S. graduates and no effective rules to prevent the displacement of middle-aged Americans who are trying to raise children and pay their children’s’ college fees. There are no rules to prevent non-profit hospitals and universities from hiring an unlimited number of visa workers, and no rules to prevent companies from hiring visa workers to guard Americans’ financial and healthcare data. There are no rules to protect arts, media, and design graduates, and no rules to prevent displaced American technology graduates from taking jobs sought by American arts graduates.
The cheap visa workers are extremely valuable to investors because every $1 saved in salaries creates roughly $15 in extra stock market value.
Trump’s invite for more workers also contradicts is own boasts about rising wages for blue-collar Americans, said Krikorian.
In his State of the Union speech, Trump said: “wages are rising at the fastest pace in decades and growing for blue-collar workers, who I promised to fight for, faster than anyone else.”
But blue-collar wages are rising because Trump’s Hire American policy is forcing employers to recruit sidelined Americans and to compete for the limited pool of workers by offering higher wages, said Krikorian. In 2018, for example, wages rose nationwide by 3 percent as employers scrambled to hire disabled people, former convicts, and former drug addicts.
In fact, salaries for white-collar Americans are rising slower than blue-collar Americans, partly because of the many visa workers.
Trump likely does not see any connection between his Hire American policy, the rising wages gained by his blue-collar supporters, or even the impact of illegal immigration, Krikorian said.
“To give him his due, he probably thinks that this [policy change] is not a betrayal for all the Americans who are yet to be hired,” Krikorian said. He continued:
I don’t think he’s being forced to give up his Hire American policy — it seems he does not think it necessary because we have a low unemployment rate.He’s a billionaire businessman, all the [business advocate] people he talks to want more workers to choose from. They don’t want to have raise wages, to change the way work is done, to expand or change their recruitment methods, so that’s all he hears … I think, he, like a lot of businessmen, thinks the market has to be short-circuited through increased immigration because they’re not comfortable with having to hustle for workers.But when the economy slows down, workers have to hustle for jobs — and [business executives] are OK with that.
“Big business guys are looking at labor as a commodity, whereas ordinary schmoes are trying to get a higher wage,” said Krikorian. “The question is whose life should government policy make easier? And it seems to me that the working stiff is the one whose life we should make easier.”
Multiple polls indicate that most Americans want to show they like immigrants — and also that most Americans strongly oppose programs which allow employers to hire cheap foreigners in place of Americans. For example, an August 2017 poll by the Trump-affiliated group, American First Policies, showed only 31 percent of respondents agreed with the business-first view that “we need to increase the amount of foreign workers in the country in order to provide labor and reduce costs for American farms and businesses.” Forty-five percent disagreed and 23 percent declined to give their opinion
Trump’s apparent endorsement of more migration suggests that his deputies are also planning a major rewrite of immigration law to deliver more wage-reducing workers to business groups, Krikorian said. News reports say the pending policy may be announced after Congress passes the 2019 funding bill for the Department of Homeland Security.
However, Trump’s shift may have a quick impact on the appropriators who are negotiating the 2018 homeland defense budget, which is due by February 15.
On Wednesday, legislators told reporters that they are finding ways around the Democrats’ opposition to a border wall.
In July, Democratic and Republican appropriators quietly added the country caps legislation to the 2019 homeland security budget. Some of those appropriators are part of the DHS budget panel. The legislators also agreed to expand the H-2A program for agricultural employers and the H-2B program for golf clubs, landscapers, forestry firms and resort companies.
Trump’s deputies in Congress, including liaison chief Shahira Knight, did not object to the cheap-labor measure in June 2018, sources told Breitbart News.
In December 2018, the outgoing chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, Rep. Bob Goodlatte, urged Trump’s deputies to swap the “country caps” measure for reforms that would block the wave of asylum-seeking migrants. “It really comes down the President’s focus on money for the wall and I think the President should really be saying, ‘I want some money for the wall, but I also want some enforcement reforms related to asylum, I want some reforms related to catch-and-release policies,’” he said.
The Republicans on the DHS panel include Alabama Republican Sen. Richard Shelby, West Virginia Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, North Dakota Sen. John Hoeven, Missouri Sen. Roy Blunt, Texas Rep. Kay Granger, Tennesee Rep. Chuck Fleischmann, Georgia Rep. Tom Graves, and Mississippi Rep. Steven Palazzo.
The Democrats are Vermont Sen. Patrick Leahy, Illinois Sen. Richard Durbin, Montana Sen. Jon Tester, New York Rep. Nita Lowey, California Rep. Lucille Roybal-Allard, North Carolina Rep. David Price, California Rep. Barbara Lee, Texas Rep. Henry Cuellar, and California Rep. Pete Aguilar.
The establishment’s economic policy of using legal and illegal migration to boost economic growth shifts enormous wealth from young employees towards older investors by flooding the market with cheap white collar and blue collar foreign labor.
That annual flood of roughly one million legal immigrants — as well as visa workers and illegal immigrants — spikes profits and Wall Street values by shrinking salaries for 150 million blue-collar and white-collar employees and especially wages for the four million young Americans who join the labor force each year.
The cheap labor policy widens wealth gaps, reduces high tech investment, increases state and local tax burdens, hurts kids’ schools and college education, pushes Americans away from high tech careers, and sidelines millions of marginalized Americans, including many who are now struggling with fentanyl addictions.
Immigration also steers investment and wealth away from towns in Heartland states because coastal investors can more easily hire and supervise the large immigrant populations who prefer to live in coastal cities. In turn, that coastal investment flow drives up coastal real estate prices and pushes poor U.S. Americans, including Latinos and blacks, out of prosperous cities such as Berkeley and Oakland, California.
Fact Check: Yes, Americans Burdened with Cost of Mass Illegal Immigration
2:03
During President Donald Trump’s State of the Union Address (SOTU), the president asserted that it is working- and middle-class Americans who are left paying the price for unchecked, mass illegal immigration to the United States.
“Meanwhile, working-class Americans are left to pay the price for mass illegal migration — reduced jobs, lower wages, overburdened schools and hospitals, increased crime, and a depleted social safety net,” Trump said.
It is true that working- and middle-class Americans are forced to subsidize mass illegal immigration to the country. Every year, illegal immigration of hundreds of thousands of illegal alien residents costs American taxpayers about $116 billion.
As Trump noted, America’s working and middle class also are burdened with stagnant and crushed wages as they are forced to compete against cheaper, illegal alien workers. In California, specifically, a flood of illegal immigration to the state depressed construction worker wages from $45 an hour in the 1980s to now $11 an hour.
In the last decade alone, the U.S. admitted ten million legal immigrants, forcing American workers to compete against a growing population of low-wage workers. Meanwhile, employers are able to reduce wages and drive up their profit margins thanks to the annual low-skilled immigration scheme.
The Washington, DC-imposed mass immigration policy is a boon to corporate executives, Wall Street, big business, and multinational conglomerates as every one percent increase in the immigrant composition of an occupation’s labor force reduces Americans’ hourly wages by 0.4 percent. Every one percent increase in the immigrant workforce reduces Americans’ overall wages by 0.8 percent.
John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Follow him on Twitter at @JxhnBinder.
5:36
Mark Zuckerberg’s Silicon Valley investors are uniting with the Koch network’s consumer and industrial investors to demand a huge DACA amnesty by February 15.
In a letter to the joint House and Senate committee, which is drafting a 2019 budget for the Department of Homeland Security, the Democrat-aligned Internet investors and the GOP-aligned retail, real estate, and industrial investors jointly declared:
We are joining together now to endorse this approach. The time is right to act. We urge lawmakers and the president to set aside partisan concerns and lead on this important goal immediately.
The two unified blocs of investors and lobbyists, however, face a huge political hurdle — politicians learned from the 2013 “Gang of Eight” amnesty that the vast majority of Americans want to welcome some inflow of legal immigrants, but really do not want to be crowded out of their careers and communities by a flood of cheap workers and welfare-funded consumers.
The DACA amnesty is sought by the investors because it would provide them with firm legal access to roughly three million DACA-eligible domestic consumers and workers. Also, the amnesty would sharply reduce the president’s bargaining power as he tries to get Democrats to reform the nation’s border laws and to reduce the annual inflow of legal immigrants. Also, by pushing for the amnesty, the business groups are distracting media outlets from the economic impact of their economic policies.
The federal subsidy would aid investors, spur sales, spike housing rents, and suppress wage growth for millions of blue-collar Americans.
In contrast, President Donald Trump’s “Hire American” policy has boosted wages by an average of three percent in 2018, with greater gains going to some categories of blue-collar Americans. Productivity is also rising as companies buy American-made labor-saving technology. The “Hire American” policy has worked by trimming the inflow of refugees and by denying investors’ pleas for amnesties and more visa workers, and it is raising public hopes for more wage growth before the 2020 election.
White-collar Americans have not done as well in Trump’s economy partly because business and Congress oppose any cutbacks in the population of white-collar outsourcing workers, such as H-1B workers. The resident population of 1.5 million college graduate visa workers aids investors by suppressing salaries for Americans who graduate from college with degrees in science, healthcare, business, engineering, design, and software.
Zuckerberg’s FWD.us group, for example, has strongly opposed reforms to the H-1B visa program. It also supports the “country caps” bill that would offer the government-granted prize of citizenship to more Indian and Chinese visa workers who agree to take Americans’ white-collar jobs.
Zuckerberg’s lobbying group was founded by a group of Internet investors, including Microsoft’s Bill Gates. Most of the founders are relatively unknown investors, such as John Doerr, a partner at the investment firm of Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, but they have great influence over Democratic legislators.
The Koch network keeps its membership list secret, but it reportedly includes investors in consumer companies, real estate, and manufacturing. The group has a huge influence over GOP legislators.
The joint lobbying push also includes a series of advocacy groups that seem independent of business donations. But many of these groups, including the Libre Initiative and the National Immigration Forum, receive funding from businesses which are eager for more consumers and cheaper workers.
The Republicans on the committee include Alabama Republican Sen. Richard Shelby, West Virginia Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, North Dakota Sen. John Hoeven, Missouri Sen. Roy Blunt, Texas Rep. Kay Granger, Tennesee Rep. Chuck Fleischmann, Georgia Rep. Tom Graves, and Mississippi Rep. Steven Palazzo.
Committee members are also being pushed to endorse the “country caps” legislation pushed by Rep. Kevin Yoder in 2018. Yoder lost his election in November, partly because American graduates publicly slammed his bill. The legislation would provide the federal reward of fast-track citizenship to hundreds of thousands of Indian and Chinese graduates who agree to take jobs from new American graduates and middle-aged American graduates.
The Democrats are Vermont Sen. Patrick Leahy, Illinois Sen. Richard Durbin, Montana Sen. Jon Tester, New York Rep. Nita Lowey, California Rep. Lucille Roybal-Allard, North Carolina Rep. David Price, California Rep. Barbara Lee, Texas Rep. Henry Cuellar, and California Rep. Pete Aguilar.
The establishment’s economic policy of using legal and illegal migration to boost economic growth shifts enormous wealth from young employees towards older investors by flooding the market with cheap white-collar and blue-collar foreign labor.
That annual flood of roughly one million legal immigrants — as well as visa workers and illegal immigrants — spikes profits and Wall Street values by shrinking salaries for 150 million blue-collar and white-collar employees and especially wages for the four million young Americans who join the labor force each year.
The cheap labor policy widens wealth gaps, reduces high tech investment, increases state and local tax burdens, hurts kids’ schools and college education, pushes Americans away from high tech careers, and sidelines millions of marginalized Americans, including many who are now struggling with fentanyl addictions.
Immigration also steers investment and wealth away from towns in Heartland states because coastal investors can more easily hire and supervise the large immigrant populations who prefer to live in coastal cities. In turn, that coastal investment flow drives up coastal real estate prices and pushes poor U.S. Americans, including Latinos and blacks, out of prosperous cities such as Berkeley and Oakland, California.
Billionaire Kochs Unite Plutocrats for Amnesty, Vow Not to Back
Trump in 2020
29 Jan 20193,795
3:46
The pro-mass immigration Koch brothers’ network of billionaire, donor
class organizations is uniting plutocrats, corporations, and the open borders
lobby to push an amnesty this year, all while vowing not to back President
Trump in his 2020 re-election bid.
This
week, the Koch network — which includes Americans for Prosperity, the
Libre Initiative, and Freedom Partners — hosted more than 630 millionaire and
billionaire donors who give hundreds of thousands to the network of
organizations every year.
The
Koch network at the elite winter gathering in California reiterated that they
would provide no financial backing for Trump in the 2020 presidential election.
The
Kochs and their libertarian donors have launched campaigns over the last two yearsopposing the president’s
pro-American immigration reform agenda that seeks to reduce all immigration to
the U.S. as well as his economic nationalist platform that includes using
tariffs to protect American jobs and U.S. industry.
Additionally, Koch spokespeople at the donors’ conference
said the network has its sights set on pushing amnesty for millions of illegal
aliens this year.
This
effort will be a unity pact between Silicon Valley tech executives — who profit
from a never-ending flow of cheaper, foreign labor and more consumers to buy
products — as well as the open borders, billionaire George Soros-funded ACLU
and multinational corporations, according to National Review:
Brian Hooks, chairman of the Koch Seminar Network, told
assembled attendees of the Koch network’s winter meeting on Monday that the network’s effort to unite a broad coalition to push Congress
and the White House had already begun. [Emphasis added]
“We
just got the longest government shutdown in the history of our country, and
this issue was at the core,” Hooks said. “When you read the headlines saying
this is impossible, it’s understandable. But we see an opportunity to
bring the same approach that this network brought to criminal-justice reform,
to unite a broad-based policy coalition with groups from the ACLU to people in
Silicon Valley, to Fortune 500 companies, to members of the
religious community, and a whole lot of people in between. This isn’t wishful thinking; this is already underway.”
[Emphasis added]
The
Koch network’s economic libertarian, anti-populist agenda of free trade, mass
legal immigration, and entitlement reform has little-to-no support among
the American electorate. The economic libertarian agenda, once fronted by former
House Speaker Paul Ryan, failed to sway voters in the
2018 midterm elections.
Still one of the most telling charts of
voter-profiles from recent election. The results: There is no support for
economic libertarianism across U.S. Source: http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2017/06/new-study-shows-what-really-happened-in-the-2016-election.html …
Koch
donor Art Pope, who heads Variety Wholesalers, said that while he
wants merit-based legal immigration, he supports expanding legal immigration
levels beyond the more than 1.5 million that are admitted to the U.S. every
year already.
The Kochs and their network have opposed any reductions to legal immigration
to raise American workers’ wages; reforms to save U.S. taxpayers billions
by ending welfare-dependent legal immigration; and an end to the country’s birthright
citizenship policy that rewards illegal aliens’ U.S.-born children with
American citizenship.
Every
year the U.S. admits more than 1.5 million immigrants, with the vast
majority deriving from family-based chain migration, whereby newly naturalized
citizens can bring an unlimited number of foreign relatives to the U.S. In
2016, the legal and illegal immigrant population reached a record high of 44.5 million. By 2023,
the Center for Immigration Studies estimates that the legal and illegal
immigrant population of the U.S. will make up nearly 15 percent of the
entire U.S. population.
Grassroots
Immigration Group: Amnesty Is Worse than No Wall
22 Jan 2019409
5:54
President Donald Trump should not offer a combined “DACA-Dreamer”
amnesty to win “one-tenth of a border fence,” says William Gheen, founder of
the grassroots Americans for Legal Immigration PAC group.
“Every single amnesty bill we’ve seen for 15 years has been
filled with all sorts of restrictions and enforcement promises designed to
garner votes in Congress and give lawmakers things to cover their asses with
angry constituents,” Gheen told Breitbart News. He continued:
Each time we have found language in the bill that allows all
enforcement to be skipped or ignored or they will just pass it and ignore the
enforcement restrictions like the ’86 Amnesty. It is completely offensive and
wrong that the U.S. Senate is even considering anything like Dreamer or DACA
Amnesty considering the way the nation voted in 2016 to try to go in a
different direction.
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The statement was made after Trump announced his support for a
deal in which he would get $5.7 billion for border wall funding in exchange for
endorsing three-year work permit amnesties for one million people in the
DACA and Temporary Protected Status programs. The exchange is supported by
business groups who are clamoring for more imported workers to help suppress
wage raises before the 2020 election.
Gheen said
Trump’s deputies are planning to offer more giveaways to Democrats and
business-first Republicans in exchange for a “DACA-Dreamer amnesty.”
Trump
“is only hearing from CEOs,” said Rosemary Jenks, policy director at
the Numbers USA group, which favors reduced migration. Trump should not give up
on his wage-raising “Hire American” policy, especially for white-collar professionals
threated by the H-1B program, she said, adding:
The people he campaigned with,
the [H-1B-] displaced workers, are just distraught. If he helps wages and
job opportunities grow for Americans, he will turn out voters in 2020. If he
helps put in place more policies that harm American workers and wages, he will
not turn out voters.
In a press statement, ALIPAC said:
ALIPAC calls on Amnesty Trump to end his “Trump Wall Pretense”
now that it is clear he’s using the issue to promote border destroying Amnesty
for illegal immigrants.
…
While originally supportive of a massive new wall on the
southern border, ALIPAC is dropping support for Trump’s wall efforts because he
is only building fencing and he is only seeking a small fraction of funding
needed for border structures in exchange for Amnesty for illegal immigrants
which will render any borders and defenses moot.
From this
point forward, ALIPAC will refer to the President as Amnesty Trumpand to his deceptive bait and
switch promises of a border wall as “Trump’s Wall Pretense” now that
President Trump is using the wall issue to advance DACA and Immigration Reform
Amnesty for illegals.
…
ALIPAC also feels that Trump’s chances of reelection in 2020 are
now very low because Trump will never be able to rally and mobilize millions of
American voters, like those at ALIPAC, who responded to his campaign promises
about border security and illegal immigration.
Gheen’s ALIPAC does not have an office in Washington D.C., but
it played major roles in defeating the 2006 and 2007 would-be amnesties, and
the 2010 push to amnesty the large population of “Dreamer” young illegals. In
2014, the group also helped to kill off the 2013 “Gang of Eight” cheap
labor amnesty by helping ensure the primary defeat of GOP Majority Leader Eric
Cantor.
We need Trump supporters to understand that
DACA & "immigration reform" are both Amnesty for illegal aliens.
ALIPAC drops support for @realDonaldTrump Trump's Wall Pretense as an Amnesty Vehicle #StopDACA
https://www.alipac.us/f8/alipac-drops-support-trumps-wall-amnesty-vehicle-369285/ …
https://www.alipac.us/f8/alipac-drops-support-trumps-wall-amnesty-vehicle-369285/ …
Other
pro-American advocates are growing concerned about the pro-amnesty push among
officials in Trump’s White House. Breitbart News reported:
Co-host of the “Red
Pilled America” podcast Patrick Courrielche told Breitbart News that while
amnesty would be a boon to DACA illegal aliens, it would hurt the very
Americans who supported Trump.
“Trump promised us no
amnesty,” Courrielche said. “Passing DACA amnesty knowing the devastating results
of Reagan’s amnesty on American workers and families would be an unforgivable
betrayal. I’d prefer no wall deal if it includes legalizing DACA.”
A DACA
amnesty would put more U.S.-born children of illegal aliens — commonly known as
“anchor babies” — on federal welfare, as Breitbart News reported,
while American taxpayers would be left with a $26 billion bill.
Mickey Kaus is also urging Trump to preserve his
wage-raising “Hire American” policy by trading non-immigration policies to win
the wall:
Another potential avenue for
shutdown-ending compromise: How about 'We stop screwing around with Obamacare'
for Wall (instead of trading the wall for an amnesty that will encourage a
surge across the border before the wall is built)?
Surely Obamacare is something Dems care about
Surely Obamacare is something Dems care about
Another thing Trump could maybe offer the
Dems in exchange for the wall: Legislation ending debt-ceiling shutdowns.
Would be an organically relevant way to end this one.
He doesn't have to offer DACA. There are other things Dems want.
Would be an organically relevant way to end this one.
He doesn't have to offer DACA. There are other things Dems want.
Ann Coulter is the strongest advocate for a wall, and she argues
that Trump should anti – offer to swap support some Democratic priorities, such
as “a higher federal minimum wage, an infrastructure bill, a solar panel bill.”
There are a million things to trade for a
wall: A higher federal minimum wage, an infrastructure bill, a solar panel
bill. Trade a wall for AMNESTY, and there's no purpose to having a wall.
Gheen’s opposition to the pending amnesty-for-wall trade was
ridiculed by Todd Schulte, the D.C. director of a pro-migration advocacy
group funded by Silicon Valley investors:
Ooohhhh—super nutso @ALIPAC
ditching the wall as a priority because deporting Dreamers is more important to
them.
Schulte’s investors want more H-1B visa
workers to cut their payroll costs, and they want more immigrant
customers for their new companies. The group’s investors include Mark
Zuckerberg, the multi-billionaire founder of Facebook.
The
establishment’s economic policy of using legal and illegal migration to boost
economic growth shifts enormous wealth from young people towards older people
by flooding the market with cheap white-collar
and blue-collar foreign labor.
That annual
flood of roughly one million legal immigrants — as well as visa workers and
illegal immigrants — spikes profits and Wall Street values by shrinking salaries for 150 million blue-collar
and white-collar employees and especially wages for the four million
young Americans who join the labor force each year.
The cheap
labor policy widens wealth gaps, reduces high tech investment, increases state and local tax burdens, hurts kids’ schools and college education, pushes Americans away from high tech careers, and
sidelines millions of marginalized Americans, including
many who are now struggling with fentanyl
addictions.
Immigration
also steers investment and wealth away from towns in Heartland states because coastal investors can more easily
hire and supervise the large immigrant populations who prefer to live in coastal cities. In turn,
that coastal investment flow drives up coastal real estate prices and pushes
poor U.S. Americans, including Latinos and blacks, out of prosperous cities such as Berkeley and Oakland.
Tech Billionaires urge fast-track green
cards for 400,000 contract visa-workers - and many more later. Just guessing
here, but maybe most Americans prefer fewer visa workers for biz & higher
salaries for their families? http://bit.ly/2UpS5NT
Billionaires Demand Fast-Track Green Cards for 400,000
Visa Workers
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GOP/Dems Consider DACA Amnesty-for-Wall Deal Backed by Billionaire
Donors
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4:10
A handful of Republican and Democrat lawmakers are continuing to tout a
plan that gives amnesty to nearly a million illegal aliens in exchange for some
amount of funding for President Trump’s proposed border wall along the
U.S.-Mexico border.
Rep. Mark
Meadows (R-NC), as well as Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), and Democrats such
as Rep. Jackie Speier (D-CA) and Debbie Dingell (D-MI) have signaled that
they are at least open to granting amnesty to at least 800,000 illegal aliens
who are enrolled in the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program
if it meant receiving a fifth of wall funding.
In an
interview with Yahoo News, Meadows said he has had multiple
conversations with Graham about a DACA amnesty-for-wall funding deal:
“Compromise and finding common ground are not void from the
conversations that he and I have had, as well as some of the conversations
I’ve had with some of my Democratic colleagues,” Meadows said. [Emphasis added]
Though the
Freedom Caucus has previously opposed extending protections from deportation
for the children of undocumented immigrants, Meadows suggested he would be open
to a deal to preserve such concessions in exchange for wall funding.
[Emphasis added]
Graham has
touted an amnesty for DACA illegal aliens for months as part of a deal on
funding at least a portion of Trump’s proposed wall.
Coincidentally,
the DACA amnesty deal is supported by the billionaire donor class that delivers
campaign funds every election cycle to Republicans and Democrats who support
the country’s mass illegal and legal immigration policy of importing about 1.5
million mostly low-skilled foreign workers every year to compete against
America’s working and middle class.
As Breitbart
News most recently reported, the billionaire Koch
brothers and their network of organizations have made passing an amnesty for
DACA illegal aliens their goal for the new year.
Similarly,
billionaire Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s cheap labor lobbying group FWD.us is
asking Republicans, Democrats, and the Trump administration to reach a deal
whereby DACA illegal aliens are allowed to permanently remain in the U.S.
The
organization, founded and funded by Silicon Valley’s tech plutocrats, has
been demanding an amnesty for DACA illegal aliens since
at least 2017.
So here is what @FWDus would like to see happen with the incoming Congress, this harmful shutdown
and urgently needed immigration policy changes...
Billionaires Demand Fast-Track Green Cards for 400,000 Visa
Workers
7 Dec 2018384
6:49
Internet
billionaire Marc Benioff is urging the GOP Congress and President Donald
Trump to fast-track 400,000 foreign visa-workers — plus 400,000 family
members — to green cards, the U.S. job market, and the
ballot box.
“This
is good for our economy,” Benioff said in a Tuesday tweet that was
applauded by Silicon Valley lobbyists. “We need to grow our workers to grow our
economy.”
Benioff’s
comment is a tautology: Expanding the population by importing more than 800,000
people would obviously grow the nation’s economy, retail sales, government
taxes, company profits, and Wall Street stock options.
But
Benioff’s cheap-labor importation plan would also shrink the income and careers
sought by millions of American college graduates, many of whom will vote in
2020 for or against Trump.
I strongly support HR392 eliminating the per country visa
cap. This bill must happen. The high skill visa provision has overwhelming
bi-partisan support because this is good for our economy. We need to grow our
workers to grow our economy. https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/392 …
The planned giveaway is in a
pending House bill, dubbed H.R. 392. It is also hidden in the House version of
the 2019 funding package for the Department of Homeland Security. If Trump
accepts that funding package, he will help companies import more cheap
visa-workers from India and China an inflict more economic and career
damage to the nation’s professional-status workforce of at least 55
million American college-graduates.
The nation’s workforce now
includes roughly 1.5 million foreign college-graduate contract-workers who are
imported via the H-1B, L-1, OPT, O-1, J-1, and other visa programs. These
outsourcing workers are not immigrants, but instead, they are contract workers
hired for one to six years, at lower wages, to take jobs that would otherwise
go to American graduates.
GOP Reps. are still pushing Rep. Yoder's middle-class
outsourcing bill to put 600K Indian visa-workers & families on fast-track
to US jobs/voting. It would help CEOs import more Indians for US college-grad
jobs - w/o any benefit for US workers or even GOP. http://bit.ly/2QzuoDJ
DHS Opposes GOP's Stealth Bill to Outsource College Graduate Jobs
This
massive level of middle-class outsourcing has suppressed the wage growth needed
by many American graduates to repay their college debts, get married, buy
homes, and raise children. For example, the salaries for 21 million
“professional and business services” employees rose by just roughly one
percent after inflation from the second quarter of 2017 to the second quarter
of 2018, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Their
after-inflation pay was flat from 2o15 to 2016.
The
Americans’ salary loss, however, would be a gain for the CEOs who see
their profits rise and their stock options spike as middle-class salaries
decline.
The
MyVisaJobs.com site shows that Benioff’s company
asked for 1,063 H-1B visa workers in 2018, up from 880 in 2017. The site also
shows job titles and work locations.
The
company’s stock price has doubled since Trump’s election,
but Benioff and most of his employees have strongly supported Democrats,
including Hillary Clinton in the
2016 election. For example, only 5.2 percent of employee donations to
candidates went to GOP candidates in 2018.
Now Benioff
and his fellow executives as asking Trump to raise their stock portfolios by
fast-tracking green cards to roughly 400,000 foreign contract-workers — plus
400,000 family members — who sidelined hundreds of thousands of American
college graduates.
Benioff’s
support for the visa workers was echoed by Todd Schulte, who is the
director of a pro-migration lobbying group. The Democratic-aligned group, FWD.us,
was formed and funded by Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, Microsoft’s Bill Gates
and numerous other CEOs
and investors who prefer to import visa-workers instead of hiring
Americans.
This from @Benioff is really important. A really important fix to our immigration system that
would help so many people stuck in the green card backlog because of
discriminatory country caps.
Without
irony, Schulte’s website declares that “We believe that when every
person has the opportunity to achieve their full potential, our families,
communities, and economy thrive.”
Amazon
is also urging Trump to approve the green-card giveaway. Amazon’s founder, Jeff
Bezos, also runs the Washington Post and
supported Clinton.
Amazon applauds @KevinYoder on the passage of his amendment to the @DHSgov appropriations bill, H.R. 392, that would remove the per-country limit on
green cards. This is an important step towards green card reform, and
Amazonians thank you for your leadership on this issue.
In
2018, Amazon asked the government for almost
6,000 H-1B visa workers and almost 5,000 green cards. Facebook
asked for almost 2,400 H-1B workers and 1,400 green cards. Those outsourcing
requests add up to 15,000 white-collar jobs sought by U.S. graduates.
Business
lobbyists are trying to minimize publicity about their demand for a green-card
giveaway and they are pressing GOP leaders behind closed doors to keep the
giveaway in the 2019 DHS budget.
But
opposition is rising as Americans graduates have begun organizing to block the
giveaway. For example, Protect
US Workers helped defeat Rep. Kevin Yoder who used his authority as an
appropriations chairman to insert the giveaway into the DHS budget.
Yep, I helped fund these billboards and voted straight
RED in FL. Yoder's love for foreign guestworker/Replacemnts sent him packing.
No American should ever have to train their Foreign Replacements@NeilMunroDC @bseeker @Dawnnewyorker pic.twitter.com/WOnwxr3seY
The American graduates are also
using federal data to show U.S. legislators how many Americans’ middle-class
jobs are being outsourced in their districts to the
foreign workers.
I clean homes for a living. These kind of
policies undercuts my job because of cheap labor. The dems try to make excuses
for their policies against American workers. They don’t care about Americans,
they just care about non citizens. They need to be voted out on 2020.
Yep, been there, trained my foreign Replacements in '02.
Awful experience. Went public with it, told Congress. The worst part was the
disregard we got from our 2 Dem senators
My house testimony:http://commdocs.house.gov/committees/intlrel/hfa91679.000/hfa91679_0.HTM#104 …https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJlesZ9popA …
The managing director of Thiel
Capital, Eric Weinstein, tweeted to Benioff to highlight his report which shows
that the federal officials created the H-1B visa program to lower salaries paid
to American technology experts:
You know why we developed the H-1B visa Marc? It was to
weaken American workers’ bargaining positions so much that they would be
*forced* to mitigate their wage demands at your bargaining table. It’s a wage
tampering program.
You might find this helpful: https://www.ineteconomics.org/uploads/papers/Weinstein-GUI_NSF_SG_Complete_INET.pdf …
The
mass outsourcing also adding pressure to the lives of many American
technology workers, many of whom have already lost jobs to cheaper
contract-workers. An informal survey of tech workers shows that almost four-in-ten
say they are depressed.
One
of the leading advocates for the green-card giveaway is Leon Fresco, an
immigration lawyer who helped Democratic Sen. Chuck Schumer pass the disastrous
2013 “Gang of Eight” amnesty through the Senate. The bill was so unpopular that
the GOP gained nine Senate seats in 2014, preventing Schumer from becoming
Senate Majority Leader.
On
December 6, Fresco suggested there is only a small chance that the giveaway
will get into the final DHS bill:
Many Indian
contract workers are lobbying to help pass the green-card bill:
Thank you @Benioff for your leadership on ensuring fairness by the removal of national origin
discrimination on Employment Based Green Cards #HR392 #S281
In
the United States, the establishment’s economic policy of using migration to
boost economic growth shifts wealth from young people towards older people
by flooding the market
with cheap white collar and blue collar foreign labor. That flood of outside
labor spikes profits and Wall Street
values by cutting salaries for
manual and skilled labor that blue collar and white collar employees offer.
The
policy also drives up real estate
prices, widens wealth gaps, reduces high-tech
investment, increases state and local tax
burdens, hurts kids’ schools and college education, pushes Americans away from
high-tech careers, and sidelines at least five million marginalized Americans
and their families, including many who are now struggling with
fentanyl addictions.
Immigration
also pulls investment and wealth away from heartland
states because coastal investors can more easily hire and supervise the
large immigrant populations who prefer to live in the coastal states.
The stakes are high. Once the
treaty is ratified, it will be exponentially harder to roll back internet
censorship. Unless you want the tech giants’ right to censor to persist for
another 20 years (that’s how long NAFTA lasted), now is the time to make your
voice heard.
The Washington-imposed economic policy of economic growth via
mass-immigration shifts wealth from young people towards older people, it
floods the market with 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 prices, widens
wealth-gaps, reduces high-tech
investment, increases state
and local tax burdens, hurts kids’
schools and college
education, pushes Americans away
from high-tech careers, and sidelines at
least 5 million marginalized Americans and
their families, including many who are now struggling with opioid
addictions.
But not everything is great for all Californians, with Breitbart
News reporting that Silicon Valley has the highest income inequality in the nation and the U.S. News & World Report naming California as the worst state for “quality of
life,” due to the high cost of living.
“The cost of the Dream Act is far bigger than the Democrats or their
media allies admit. Instead of covering 690,000 younger illegals now enrolled
in former President Barack Obama’s 2012 “DACA” amnesty, the Dream Act would
legalize at least 3.3 million illegals, according to a pro-immigration group, the Migration Policy Institute.”
In the July/August version of the Atlantic,
columnist Peter Beinart wrote an article titled, “How the Democrats Lost Their
Way on Immigration.”
“The next Democratic presidential candidate should say again and
again that because Americans are one people, who must abide by one law, his or
her goal is to reduce America’s undocumented population to zero.”
Peter Beinart, a frequent contributor to the New York
Times, New York Review of Books, Haaretz, and
former editor of the New Republic, blames immigration for
deteriorating social conditions for the American working class: The supposed
“costs” of immigration, he says, “strain the very welfare state that liberals
want to expand in order to help those native-born Americans with whom
immigrants compete.”
llustration by Lincoln Agnew*
The myth, which liberals like myself find tempting, is that
only the right has changed. In June 2015, we tell ourselves, Donald Trump rode
down his golden escalator and pretty soon nativism, long a feature of
conservative politics, had engulfed it. But that’s not the full story. If the
right has grown more nationalistic, the left has grown less so. A decade ago,
liberals publicly questioned immigration in ways that would shock many
progressives today.
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In 2005, a left-leaning blogger wrote, “Illegal immigration wreaks havoc economically, socially, and culturally; makes a mockery of the rule of law; and is disgraceful just on basic fairness grounds alone.” In 2006, a liberal columnist wrote that “immigration reduces the wages of domestic workers who compete with immigrants” and that “the fiscal burden of low-wage immigrants is also pretty clear.” His conclusion: “We’ll need to reduce the inflow of low-skill immigrants.” That same year, a Democratic senator wrote, “When I see Mexican flags waved at pro-immigration demonstrations, I sometimes feel a flush of patriotic resentment. When I’m forced to use a translator to communicate with the guy fixing my car, I feel a certain frustration.”
In 2005, a left-leaning blogger wrote, “Illegal immigration wreaks havoc economically, socially, and culturally; makes a mockery of the rule of law; and is disgraceful just on basic fairness grounds alone.” In 2006, a liberal columnist wrote that “immigration reduces the wages of domestic workers who compete with immigrants” and that “the fiscal burden of low-wage immigrants is also pretty clear.” His conclusion: “We’ll need to reduce the inflow of low-skill immigrants.” That same year, a Democratic senator wrote, “When I see Mexican flags waved at pro-immigration demonstrations, I sometimes feel a flush of patriotic resentment. When I’m forced to use a translator to communicate with the guy fixing my car, I feel a certain frustration.”
The blogger was Glenn Greenwald. The columnist was Paul Krugman. The senator was Barack Obama.
Prominent liberals didn’t oppose immigration a decade ago. Most acknowledged its benefits to America’s economy and culture. They supported a path to citizenship for the undocumented. Still, they routinely asserted that low-skilled immigrants depressed the wages of low-skilled American workers and strained America’s welfare state. And they were far more likely than liberals today are to acknowledge that, as Krugman put it, “immigration is an intensely painful topic … because it places basic principles in conflict.”
Today, little of that ambivalence remains. In 2008, the Democratic platform called undocumented immigrants “our neighbors.” But it also warned, “We cannot continue to allow people to enter the United States undetected, undocumented, and unchecked,” adding that “those who enter our country’s borders illegally, and those who employ them, disrespect the rule of the law.” By 2016, such language was gone. The party’s platform described America’s immigration system as a problem, but not illegal immigration itself. And it focused almost entirely on the forms of immigration enforcement that Democrats opposed. In its immigration section, the 2008 platform referred three times to people entering the country “illegally.” The immigration section of the 2016 platform didn’t use the word illegal, or any variation of it, at all.“A decade or two ago,” says Jason Furman, a former chairman of President Obama’s Council of Economic Advisers, “Democrats were divided on immigration. Now everyone agrees and is passionate and thinks very little about any potential downsides.” How did this come to be?
There are several explanations for liberals’ shift. The
first is that they have changed because the reality on the ground has changed,
particularly as regards illegal immigration. In the two decades preceding 2008,
the United States experienced sharp growth in its undocumented population.
Since then, the numbers have leveled off.
But this alone doesn’t explain the transformation. The number of
undocumented people in the United States hasn’t gone down significantly, after
all; it’s stayed roughly the same. So the economic concerns that Krugman raised
a decade ago remain relevant today.
What’s Wrong With the Democrats?A larger explanation is political. Between 2008 and 2016, Democrats became more and more confident that the country’s growing Latino population gave the party an electoral edge. To win the presidency, Democrats convinced themselves, they didn’t need to reassure white people skeptical of immigration so long as they turned out their Latino base. “The fastest-growing sector of the American electorate stampeded toward the Democrats this November,” Salon declared after Obama’s 2008 win. “If that pattern continues, the GOP is doomed to 40 years of wandering in a desert.”As the Democrats grew more reliant on Latino votes, they were more influenced by pro-immigrant activism. While Obama was running for reelection, immigrants’-rights advocates launched protests against the administration’s deportation practices; these protests culminated, in June 2012, in a sit-in at an Obama campaign office in Denver. Ten days later, the administration announced that it would defer the deportation of undocumented immigrants who had arrived in the U.S. before the age of 16 and met various other criteria. Obama, The New York Times noted, “was facing growing pressure from Latino leaders and Democrats who warned that because of his harsh immigration enforcement, his support was lagging among Latinos who could be crucial voters in his race for re-election.”
Alongside pressure from pro-immigrant activists came pressure from corporate America, especially the Democrat-aligned tech industry, which uses the H-1B visa program to import workers. In 2010, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, along with the CEOs of companies including Hewlett-Packard, Boeing, Disney, and News Corporation, formed New American Economy to advocate for business-friendly immigration policies. Three years later, Mark Zuckerberg and Bill Gates helped found FWD.us to promote a similar agenda.
This combination of Latino and corporate activism made it perilous for Democrats to discuss immigration’s costs, as Bernie Sanders learned the hard way. In July 2015, two months after officially announcing his candidacy for president, Sanders was interviewed by Ezra Klein, the editor in chief of Vox. Klein asked whether, in order to fight global poverty, the U.S. should consider “sharply raising the level of immigration we permit, even up to a level of open borders.” Sanders reacted with horror. “That’s a Koch brothers proposal,” he scoffed. He went on to insist that “right-wing people in this country would love … an open-border policy. Bring in all kinds of people, work for $2 or $3 an hour, that would be great for them. I don’t believe in that. I think we have to raise wages in this country.”
Progressive commentators routinely claim that there’s a near-consensus among economists on immigration’s benefits. There isn’t.Sanders came under immediate attack. Vox’s Dylan Matthews declared that his “fear of immigrant labor is ugly—and wrongheaded.” The president of FWD.us accused Sanders of “the sort of backward-looking thinking that progressives have rightly moved away from in the past years.” ThinkProgress published a blog post titled “Why Immigration Is the Hole in Bernie Sanders’ Progressive Agenda.” The senator, it argued, was supporting “the idea that immigrants coming to the U.S. are taking jobs and hurting the economy, a theory that has been proven incorrect.”Sanders stopped emphasizing immigration’s costs. By January 2016, FWD.us’s policy director noted with satisfaction that he had “evolved on this issue.”
But has the claim that “immigrants coming to the U.S. are taking jobs” actually been proved “incorrect”? A decade ago, liberals weren’t so sure. In 2006, Krugman wrote that America was experiencing “large increases in the number of low-skill workers relative to other inputs into production, so it’s inevitable that this means a fall in wages.”
It’s hard to imagine a prominent liberal columnist writing that sentence today. To the contrary, progressive commentators now routinely claim that there’s a near-consensus among economists on immigration’s benefits.(Illustration by Lincoln Agnew. Photos: AFP; Atta Kenare; Eric Lafforgue; Gamma-Rapho; Getty; Keystone-France; Koen van Weel; Lambert; Richard Baker / In Pictures / Corbis)There isn’t. According to a comprehensive new report by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, “Groups comparable to … immigrants in terms of their skill may experience a wage reduction as a result of immigration-induced increases in labor supply.” But academics sometimes de-emphasize this wage reduction because, like liberal journalists and politicians, they face pressures to support immigration.
Many of the immigration scholars regularly cited in the press have worked for, or received funding from, pro-immigration businesses and associations. Consider, for instance, Giovanni Peri, an economist at UC Davis whose name pops up a lot in liberal commentary on the virtues of immigration. A 2015 New York Times Magazine essay titled “Debunking the Myth of the Job-Stealing Immigrant” declared that Peri, whom it called the “leading scholar” on how nations respond to immigration, had “shown that immigrants tend to complement—rather than compete against—the existing work force.” Peri is indeed a respected scholar. But Microsoft has funded some of his research into high-skilled immigration. And New American Economy paid to help him turn his research into a 2014 policy paper decrying limitations on the H-1B visa program. Such grants are more likely the result of his scholarship than their cause. Still, the prevalence of corporate funding can subtly influence which questions economists ask, and which ones they don’t. (Peri says grants like those from Microsoft and New American Economy are neither large nor crucial to his work, and that “they don’t determine … the direction of my academic research.”)Academics face cultural pressures too. In his book Exodus, Paul Collier, an economist at the University of Oxford, claims that in their “desperate [desire] not to give succor” to nativist bigots, “social scientists have strained every muscle to show that migration is good for everyone.” George Borjas of Harvard argues that since he began studying immigration in the 1980s, his fellow economists have grown far less tolerant of research that emphasizes its costs. There is, he told me, “a lot of self-censorship among young social scientists.” Because Borjas is an immigration skeptic, some might discount his perspective. But when I asked Donald Davis, a Columbia University economist who takes a more favorable view of immigration’s economic impact, about Borjas’s claim, he made a similar point. “George and I come out on different sides of policy on immigration,” Davis said, “but I agree that there are aspects of discussion in academia that don’t get sort of full view if you come to the wrong conclusion.”
What’s Wrong With the Democrats?A larger explanation is political. Between 2008 and 2016, Democrats became more and more confident that the country’s growing Latino population gave the party an electoral edge. To win the presidency, Democrats convinced themselves, they didn’t need to reassure white people skeptical of immigration so long as they turned out their Latino base. “The fastest-growing sector of the American electorate stampeded toward the Democrats this November,” Salon declared after Obama’s 2008 win. “If that pattern continues, the GOP is doomed to 40 years of wandering in a desert.”As the Democrats grew more reliant on Latino votes, they were more influenced by pro-immigrant activism. While Obama was running for reelection, immigrants’-rights advocates launched protests against the administration’s deportation practices; these protests culminated, in June 2012, in a sit-in at an Obama campaign office in Denver. Ten days later, the administration announced that it would defer the deportation of undocumented immigrants who had arrived in the U.S. before the age of 16 and met various other criteria. Obama, The New York Times noted, “was facing growing pressure from Latino leaders and Democrats who warned that because of his harsh immigration enforcement, his support was lagging among Latinos who could be crucial voters in his race for re-election.”
Alongside pressure from pro-immigrant activists came pressure from corporate America, especially the Democrat-aligned tech industry, which uses the H-1B visa program to import workers. In 2010, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, along with the CEOs of companies including Hewlett-Packard, Boeing, Disney, and News Corporation, formed New American Economy to advocate for business-friendly immigration policies. Three years later, Mark Zuckerberg and Bill Gates helped found FWD.us to promote a similar agenda.
This combination of Latino and corporate activism made it perilous for Democrats to discuss immigration’s costs, as Bernie Sanders learned the hard way. In July 2015, two months after officially announcing his candidacy for president, Sanders was interviewed by Ezra Klein, the editor in chief of Vox. Klein asked whether, in order to fight global poverty, the U.S. should consider “sharply raising the level of immigration we permit, even up to a level of open borders.” Sanders reacted with horror. “That’s a Koch brothers proposal,” he scoffed. He went on to insist that “right-wing people in this country would love … an open-border policy. Bring in all kinds of people, work for $2 or $3 an hour, that would be great for them. I don’t believe in that. I think we have to raise wages in this country.”
Progressive commentators routinely claim that there’s a near-consensus among economists on immigration’s benefits. There isn’t.Sanders came under immediate attack. Vox’s Dylan Matthews declared that his “fear of immigrant labor is ugly—and wrongheaded.” The president of FWD.us accused Sanders of “the sort of backward-looking thinking that progressives have rightly moved away from in the past years.” ThinkProgress published a blog post titled “Why Immigration Is the Hole in Bernie Sanders’ Progressive Agenda.” The senator, it argued, was supporting “the idea that immigrants coming to the U.S. are taking jobs and hurting the economy, a theory that has been proven incorrect.”Sanders stopped emphasizing immigration’s costs. By January 2016, FWD.us’s policy director noted with satisfaction that he had “evolved on this issue.”
But has the claim that “immigrants coming to the U.S. are taking jobs” actually been proved “incorrect”? A decade ago, liberals weren’t so sure. In 2006, Krugman wrote that America was experiencing “large increases in the number of low-skill workers relative to other inputs into production, so it’s inevitable that this means a fall in wages.”
It’s hard to imagine a prominent liberal columnist writing that sentence today. To the contrary, progressive commentators now routinely claim that there’s a near-consensus among economists on immigration’s benefits.(Illustration by Lincoln Agnew. Photos: AFP; Atta Kenare; Eric Lafforgue; Gamma-Rapho; Getty; Keystone-France; Koen van Weel; Lambert; Richard Baker / In Pictures / Corbis)There isn’t. According to a comprehensive new report by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, “Groups comparable to … immigrants in terms of their skill may experience a wage reduction as a result of immigration-induced increases in labor supply.” But academics sometimes de-emphasize this wage reduction because, like liberal journalists and politicians, they face pressures to support immigration.
Many of the immigration scholars regularly cited in the press have worked for, or received funding from, pro-immigration businesses and associations. Consider, for instance, Giovanni Peri, an economist at UC Davis whose name pops up a lot in liberal commentary on the virtues of immigration. A 2015 New York Times Magazine essay titled “Debunking the Myth of the Job-Stealing Immigrant” declared that Peri, whom it called the “leading scholar” on how nations respond to immigration, had “shown that immigrants tend to complement—rather than compete against—the existing work force.” Peri is indeed a respected scholar. But Microsoft has funded some of his research into high-skilled immigration. And New American Economy paid to help him turn his research into a 2014 policy paper decrying limitations on the H-1B visa program. Such grants are more likely the result of his scholarship than their cause. Still, the prevalence of corporate funding can subtly influence which questions economists ask, and which ones they don’t. (Peri says grants like those from Microsoft and New American Economy are neither large nor crucial to his work, and that “they don’t determine … the direction of my academic research.”)Academics face cultural pressures too. In his book Exodus, Paul Collier, an economist at the University of Oxford, claims that in their “desperate [desire] not to give succor” to nativist bigots, “social scientists have strained every muscle to show that migration is good for everyone.” George Borjas of Harvard argues that since he began studying immigration in the 1980s, his fellow economists have grown far less tolerant of research that emphasizes its costs. There is, he told me, “a lot of self-censorship among young social scientists.” Because Borjas is an immigration skeptic, some might discount his perspective. But when I asked Donald Davis, a Columbia University economist who takes a more favorable view of immigration’s economic impact, about Borjas’s claim, he made a similar point. “George and I come out on different sides of policy on immigration,” Davis said, “but I agree that there are aspects of discussion in academia that don’t get sort of full view if you come to the wrong conclusion.”
None of this means that liberals should oppose immigration.
Entry to the United States is, for starters, a boon to immigrants and to the
family members back home to whom they send money. It should be valued on these
moral grounds alone. But immigration benefits the economy, too. Because
immigrants are more likely than native-born Americans to be of working age,
they improve the ratio of workers to retirees, which helps keep programs like
Social Security and Medicare solvent. Immigration has also been found to boost
productivity, and the National Academies report finds that “natives’ incomes
rise in aggregate as a result of immigration.”
The problem is that, although economists differ about the extent
of the damage, immigration hurts the Americans with whom immigrants compete.
And since more than a quarter of America’s recent immigrants lack even a
high-school diploma or its equivalent, immigration particularly hurts the
least-educated native workers, the very people who are already struggling the
most. America’s immigration system, in other words, pits two of the groups
liberals care about most—the native-born poor and the immigrant poor—against
each other.
One way of mitigating this problem would be to scrap the current system, which allows immigrants living in the U.S. to bring certain close relatives to the country, in favor of what Donald Trump in February called a “merit based” approach that prioritizes highly skilled and educated workers. The problem with this idea, from a liberal perspective, is its cruelty. It denies many immigrants who are already here the ability to reunite with their loved ones. And it flouts the country’s best traditions. Would we remove from the Statue of Liberty the poem welcoming the “poor,” the “wretched,” and the “homeless”?
A better answer is to take some of the windfall that immigration brings to wealthier Americans and give it to those poorer Americans whom immigration harms. Borjas has suggested taxing the high-tech, agricultural, and service-sector companies that profit from cheap immigrant labor and using the money to compensate those Americans who are displaced by it.Unfortunately, while admitting poor immigrants makes redistributing wealth more necessary, it also makes it harder, at least in the short term. By some estimates, immigrants, who are poorer on average than native-born Americans and have larger families, receive more in government services than they pay in taxes. According to the National Academies report, immigrant-headed families with children are 15 percentage points more likely to rely on food assistance, and 12 points more likely to rely on Medicaid, than other families with children. In the long term, the United States will likely recoup much if not all of the money it spends on educating and caring for the children of immigrants. But in the meantime, these costs strain the very welfare state that liberals want to expand in order to help those native-born Americans with whom immigrants compete.
What’s more, studies by the Harvard political scientist Robert Putnam and others suggest that greater diversity makes Americans less charitable and less willing to redistribute wealth. People tend to be less generous when large segments of society don’t look or talk like them. Surprisingly, Putnam’s research suggests that greater diversity doesn’t reduce trust and cooperation just among people of different races or ethnicities—it also reduces trust and cooperation among people of the same race and ethnicity.
Trump appears to sense this. His implicit message during the campaign was that if the government kept out Mexicans and Muslims, white, Christian Americans would not only grow richer and safer, they would also regain the sense of community that they identified with a bygone age. “At the bedrock of our politics will be a total allegiance to the United States of America,” he declared in his inaugural address, “and through our loyalty to our country, we will rediscover our loyalty to each other.”Liberals must take seriously Americans’ yearning for social cohesion. To promote both mass immigration and greater economic redistribution, they must convince more native-born white Americans that immigrants will not weaken the bonds of national identity. This means dusting off a concept many on the left currently hate: assimilation.
One way of mitigating this problem would be to scrap the current system, which allows immigrants living in the U.S. to bring certain close relatives to the country, in favor of what Donald Trump in February called a “merit based” approach that prioritizes highly skilled and educated workers. The problem with this idea, from a liberal perspective, is its cruelty. It denies many immigrants who are already here the ability to reunite with their loved ones. And it flouts the country’s best traditions. Would we remove from the Statue of Liberty the poem welcoming the “poor,” the “wretched,” and the “homeless”?
A better answer is to take some of the windfall that immigration brings to wealthier Americans and give it to those poorer Americans whom immigration harms. Borjas has suggested taxing the high-tech, agricultural, and service-sector companies that profit from cheap immigrant labor and using the money to compensate those Americans who are displaced by it.Unfortunately, while admitting poor immigrants makes redistributing wealth more necessary, it also makes it harder, at least in the short term. By some estimates, immigrants, who are poorer on average than native-born Americans and have larger families, receive more in government services than they pay in taxes. According to the National Academies report, immigrant-headed families with children are 15 percentage points more likely to rely on food assistance, and 12 points more likely to rely on Medicaid, than other families with children. In the long term, the United States will likely recoup much if not all of the money it spends on educating and caring for the children of immigrants. But in the meantime, these costs strain the very welfare state that liberals want to expand in order to help those native-born Americans with whom immigrants compete.
What’s more, studies by the Harvard political scientist Robert Putnam and others suggest that greater diversity makes Americans less charitable and less willing to redistribute wealth. People tend to be less generous when large segments of society don’t look or talk like them. Surprisingly, Putnam’s research suggests that greater diversity doesn’t reduce trust and cooperation just among people of different races or ethnicities—it also reduces trust and cooperation among people of the same race and ethnicity.
Trump appears to sense this. His implicit message during the campaign was that if the government kept out Mexicans and Muslims, white, Christian Americans would not only grow richer and safer, they would also regain the sense of community that they identified with a bygone age. “At the bedrock of our politics will be a total allegiance to the United States of America,” he declared in his inaugural address, “and through our loyalty to our country, we will rediscover our loyalty to each other.”Liberals must take seriously Americans’ yearning for social cohesion. To promote both mass immigration and greater economic redistribution, they must convince more native-born white Americans that immigrants will not weaken the bonds of national identity. This means dusting off a concept many on the left currently hate: assimilation.
Promoting assimilation need not mean expecting
immigrants to abandon their culture. But it does mean breaking down the
barriers that segregate them from the native-born. And it means celebrating
America’s diversity less, and its unity more.
Writing last year in American Sociological Review,
Ariela Schachter, a sociology professor at Washington University in St. Louis,
examined the factors that influence how native-born whites view immigrants.
Foremost among them is an immigrant’s legal status. Given that natives often
assume Latinos are undocumented even when they aren’t, it follows that illegal
immigration indirectly undermines the status of those Latinos who live in the
U.S. legally. That’s why conservatives rail against government benefits for
undocumented immigrants (even though the undocumented are already barred from
receiving many of those benefits): They know Americans will be more reluctant
to support government programs if they believe those programs to be benefiting
people who have entered the country illegally.
Liberal immigration policy must work to ensure that immigrants do not occupy a separate legal caste. This means opposing the guest-worker programs—beloved by many Democrat-friendly tech companies, among other employers—that require immigrants to work in a particular job to remain in the U.S. Some scholars believe such programs drive down wages; they certainly inhibit assimilation. And, as Schachter’s research suggests, strengthening the bonds of identity between natives and immigrants is harder when natives and immigrants are not equal under the law.The next Democratic presidential candidate should say again and again that because Americans are one people, who must abide by one law, his or her goal is to reduce America’s undocumented population to zero. For liberals, the easy part of fulfilling that pledge is supporting a path to citizenship for the undocumented who have put down roots in the United States. The hard part, which Hillary Clinton largely ignored in her 2016 presidential run, is backing tough immigration enforcement so that path to citizenship doesn’t become a magnet that entices more immigrants to enter the U.S. illegally.
Enforcement need not mean tearing apart families, as Trump is doing with gusto. Liberals can propose that the government deal harshly not with the undocumented themselves but with their employers. Trump’s brutal policies already appear to be slowing illegal immigration. But making sure companies follow the law and verify the legal status of their employees would curtail it too: Migrants would presumably be less likely to come to the U.S. if they know they won’t be able to find work.
In 2014, the University of California listed the term melting pot as a “microaggression.” What if Hillary Clinton had called that absurd?Schachter’s research also shows that native-born whites feel a greater affinity toward immigrants who speak fluent English. That’s particularly significant because, according to the National Academies report, newer immigrants are learning English more slowly than their predecessors did. During the campaign, Clinton proposed increasing funding for adult English-language education. But she rarely talked about it. In fact, she ran an ad attacking Trump for saying, among other things, “This is a country where we speak English, not Spanish.” The immigration section of her website showed her surrounded by Spanish-language signs.Democrats should put immigrants’ learning English at the center of their immigration agenda. If more immigrants speak English fluently, native-born whites may well feel a stronger connection to them, and be more likely to support government policies that help them. Promoting English will also give Democrats a greater chance of attracting those native-born whites who consider growing diversity a threat. According to a preelection study by Adam Bonica, a Stanford political scientist, the single best predictor of whether a voter supported Trump was whether he or she agreed with the statement “People living in the U.S. should follow American customs and traditions.”
In her 2005 book, The Authoritarian Dynamic, which has been heralded for identifying the forces that powered Trump’s campaign, Karen Stenner, then a professor of politics at Princeton, wrote:
Liberal immigration policy must work to ensure that immigrants do not occupy a separate legal caste. This means opposing the guest-worker programs—beloved by many Democrat-friendly tech companies, among other employers—that require immigrants to work in a particular job to remain in the U.S. Some scholars believe such programs drive down wages; they certainly inhibit assimilation. And, as Schachter’s research suggests, strengthening the bonds of identity between natives and immigrants is harder when natives and immigrants are not equal under the law.The next Democratic presidential candidate should say again and again that because Americans are one people, who must abide by one law, his or her goal is to reduce America’s undocumented population to zero. For liberals, the easy part of fulfilling that pledge is supporting a path to citizenship for the undocumented who have put down roots in the United States. The hard part, which Hillary Clinton largely ignored in her 2016 presidential run, is backing tough immigration enforcement so that path to citizenship doesn’t become a magnet that entices more immigrants to enter the U.S. illegally.
Enforcement need not mean tearing apart families, as Trump is doing with gusto. Liberals can propose that the government deal harshly not with the undocumented themselves but with their employers. Trump’s brutal policies already appear to be slowing illegal immigration. But making sure companies follow the law and verify the legal status of their employees would curtail it too: Migrants would presumably be less likely to come to the U.S. if they know they won’t be able to find work.
In 2014, the University of California listed the term melting pot as a “microaggression.” What if Hillary Clinton had called that absurd?Schachter’s research also shows that native-born whites feel a greater affinity toward immigrants who speak fluent English. That’s particularly significant because, according to the National Academies report, newer immigrants are learning English more slowly than their predecessors did. During the campaign, Clinton proposed increasing funding for adult English-language education. But she rarely talked about it. In fact, she ran an ad attacking Trump for saying, among other things, “This is a country where we speak English, not Spanish.” The immigration section of her website showed her surrounded by Spanish-language signs.Democrats should put immigrants’ learning English at the center of their immigration agenda. If more immigrants speak English fluently, native-born whites may well feel a stronger connection to them, and be more likely to support government policies that help them. Promoting English will also give Democrats a greater chance of attracting those native-born whites who consider growing diversity a threat. According to a preelection study by Adam Bonica, a Stanford political scientist, the single best predictor of whether a voter supported Trump was whether he or she agreed with the statement “People living in the U.S. should follow American customs and traditions.”
In her 2005 book, The Authoritarian Dynamic, which has been heralded for identifying the forces that powered Trump’s campaign, Karen Stenner, then a professor of politics at Princeton, wrote:
Exposure to difference, talking about difference, and applauding
difference—the hallmarks of liberal democracy—are the surest ways to aggravate
those who are innately intolerant, and to guarantee the increased expression of
their predispositions in manifestly intolerant attitudes and behaviors.
Paradoxically, then, it would seem that we can best limit intolerance of
difference by parading, talking about, and applauding our sameness.
The next Democratic presidential nominee should commit those words
to memory. There’s a reason Barack Obama’s declaration at the 2004 Democratic
National Convention that “there is not a liberal America and a conservative
America … There is not a black America and white America and Latino America and
Asian America; there’s the United States of America” is among his most famous
lines. Americans know that liberals celebrate diversity. They’re less sure that
liberals celebrate unity. And Obama’s ability to effectively do the latter
probably contributed to the fact that he—a black man with a Muslim-sounding
name—twice won a higher percentage of the white vote than did Hillary
Clinton.In 2014, the University of California listed melting pot as
a term it considered a “microaggression.” What if Hillary Clinton had traveled
to one of its campuses and called that absurd? What if she had challenged elite
universities to celebrate not merely multiculturalism and globalization but
Americanness? What if she had said more boldly that the slowing rate of
English-language acquisition was a problem she was determined to solve? What if
she had acknowledged the challenges that mass immigration brings, and then
insisted that Americans could overcome those challenges by focusing not on what
makes them different but on what makes them the same?
Some on the left would have howled. But I suspect that Clinton would be president today.
Some on the left would have howled. But I suspect that Clinton would be president today.
Europe
Must Resist Third-World Migration
Bill Gates has recently
commended Germany for
allocating 0.7% of GDP for payments to fight poverty in less developed
developing countries (LDDCs). With his infinite browser wisdom, he
asserts that the developed world, especially Europe, must increase these
contributions or face a flood of migration from the LDDCs that will overwhelm
the continent. We all understand that by "overwhelm," he is
referring to crime, housing, health care, education, and cultural viability of
European identities. In short, the Europe we know will be crushed.
Gates's vocabulary includes terms like "unfolding tragedy,"
"migratory pressure," and "development aid payments."
He is fixated on drama ("tragedy"), demography, and the tired
category of development that has become a cliché in use for the last 72 years
since the end of WWII. These terms out of the business and administrative
glossary fail to capture the depth and danger of the situation Gates is referring
to.
Gates thinks the migration can be stopped by an even greater
effort to rehab (read: buy off) the LDDCs under the decades-old rubric of
development. Again, according to the guilt-ridden, weakened leftist
mindset, it's so sad to see those sub-Saharans and Arabs living in great
poverty and under-development that we need to throw more money at the problem,
and thereby save ourselves. So Gates is not really changing his tune.
He's not worried about obliterating European identities or economies.
Rather, he is still singing the old liberal-left song. Throw money
at vast social problems, and your peace and stability will be
assured.
Building up the LDDC economies is not a new idea. This has
been the clichéd response since the end of WWII when the U.N., the
International Monetary Fund (IMF), and the World Bank were founded. Going
back to the 1960s, Walter Rostow, one of Harvard's eminent economists,
projected his theory of the "take-off stage." With economic
development support through the three above-named institutions, the poorest
countries would be subsidized and finally move to the take-off stage, where
they could generate sufficient surplus capital to manage and grow their own
assets and begin to develop viable economic projects and infrastructure without
"development funds" and without the currency undergirding of the IMF.
These take-off stages never materialized.
Nevertheless, the United Nations has intensified its commitment to
saving the LDDCs from self-destruction. The latest round of this utopian
vision is the formulation by the United Nations of 17
Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) for the developing world. For the purposes of
this article, it is worth noting that their goal of the elimination or radical
reduction of poverty acknowledges that despite the efforts of the United
Nations for 72 years, there are 867 million people in the world living in
poverty defined as income of less than $1.25 a day.
He says nothing about confronting the "small matters" of
governmental corruption, governmental waste, and tribal conflict in the LDDCs.
Inter-tribal warfare is a norm in sub-Saharan Africa. We give money
despite the fact that genocide and civil wars in many countries is the norm.
Likewise in the Middle East. We see Muslim against Muslim as well
as Muslim against infidels for 1,400 years. All they know is the fight
for power.
Instead of increasing the amounts of "developmental
assistance," there should be increased resistance to terrible third-world
governance and to migration. This resistance must be multi-pronged.
There must be pushback against the U.N.'s SDG Programs, there must be pushback
against the corrupt World Bank and IMF, and there must be pushback against
migration from Africa and the Middle East.
Europe is experiencing an invasion. Powerful segments of
political leadership in North America are attempting to open the doors to
invasion. What should be done? There should be a lessening of
welfare payments to refugees and migrants to Europe, Canada, and the USA as a
disincentive to leave the home countries, and as an incentive for refugees and
migrants to leave these wealthy areas and go back to their native lands.
Additionally, some boats will have to be turned away since the occupants
do not have papers. Extreme vetting of refugees from war-torn sub-Saharan
and Middle Eastern countries must be instituted.
A massive campaign of literature should be dropped on those
countries with high migration telling them that there are no facilities for
them in their goal countries, and they will be turned back. Matchbooks
should be dropped by the millions (this matchbook technique has been used on
other occasions, notably when they were searching worldwide for Ramzi Yousef,
the bomber of the World Trade Center in the early 1990s) announcing that the
immigration venues have been closed. Get this message to the people.
The matchbooks could be in French, English, Arabic, and Swahili.
Let us learn from history. Migration of Germanic tribes was
the undoing of the Roman Empire. The Romans could not stem the tide.
Various strategies were undertaken, but they failed in the end. The
Vandals, Franks, Saxons, Angles, Ostrogoths, and Visigoths just kept
coming. Eventually, the migrants, called "barbarians" by the
Romans, were brought into the military to help support the Roman defense
against border crossing, but the Germanics who were in the Roman army coalesced
and fought against that selfsame army...and won! Embracing a threat, even
a supposed controlled embrace, leads to an undesirable endgame. Rome was
sacked and destroyed in the 5th century.
We are facing a threat of this magnitude, whether Bill "The
Genius" Gates realizes it or not. His genius in business may not
translate into wisdom or a grasp of historical realities.
BORDER AGENT RESCUES DROWNING MIGRANT INVADERS…. Mexico ships
them back over the border to register Democrat and collect their anchor baby welfare!
https://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2018/12/pelosis-open-borders-border-patrol.html
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"The
newly elected president, Andrés López-Obrador, was gleeful during the election
when he told his compadres they should all move to America, illegally. His
encouragement along with his pro-poverty policies will set the stage for
another tsunami of illegal immigration." COLIN FLAHERTY
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"They will destroy America
from within. The leftist billionaires
who orchestrate these plans are wealthy. Those tasked with representing us in
Congress will never be exposed to the cost of the invasion. They have nothing
but contempt for us who must endure the consequences of our communities being
intruded upon by gangs, drug dealers and human traffickers. These people have no intention of becoming
Americans; like the Democrats who welcome them, they have contempt for
us." PATRICIA McCARTHY
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The immigration debate has been raging for years. Advocates
for open borders can be found on both sides of the political aisle and in a
wide variety of special interest groups who have come to see the immigration
system that delivers an unlimited supply of cheap and exploitable labor, an
unlimited supply of foreign tourists, and unlimited supply of foreign students
and, for the lawyers, an unlimited supply of clients. MICHAEL CUTLER