Illegal Immigration at 9X the
Rate of 2017, Projected to Outpace Obama
U.S. workers
have finally been seeing some decent raises in recent months, after suffering
through nearly a decade of meager wage gains. Unfortunately for them,
this might be as good as it gets. MARK WHITEHOUSE
In a state like Florida, where
immigrants make up about 25.4
percent of the labor force, American
workers have their weekly
wages reduced by perhaps more than
12.5 percent. In
California, where immigrants make up 34
percent of the labor
force, American workers’ weekly wages
are reduced by
potentially 17 percent.
This
policy of inflating the labor supply boosts economic
growth for investors because
it ensures that employers do not have to compete for American workers by
offering higher wages and better working conditions.
This
policy of flooding the
market with cheap foreign white-collar graduates and
blue-collar labor shifts
enormous wealth from young employees
towards older investors even as it also widens wealth
gaps, reduces high-tech
investment, increases state
and local tax burdens, and hurts children’s schools and college educations.
It also pushes Americans
away from high-tech careers and sidelines millions of marginalized Americans,
including many who are now struggling with
fentanyl addictions. The labor policy also movesbusiness investment from the heartland to
the coasts, explodes rents, shrivels real
estate values in the Midwest and rewards investors for creating low tech, labor-intensive workplaces.
High levels of
immigration, illegal and legal, puts downward pressure on U.S. wages while
redistributing about $500 billion in wealth away from America’s working and
middle class and towards employers and new arrivals, research by the National
Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine has found.
“Increasing
immigration is the one thing that can wipe out all
the wage gains, all the employment gains for those blue-collar
workers who switched parties to vote for him,” Jenks said. “I
hope someone in the White House has his interest in mind
who is telling him this.”
Spokespeople for the
Chamber of Commerce, LULAC, George W. Bush Center, and Koch Industries dominate
the immigration talks in White House currently.
Mark Zuckerberg’s Silicon
Valley investors are uniting with the Koch network’s consumer and industrial
investors to demand a huge DACA amnesty
Wage Raises: Donald Trump, Nancy Pelosi Tout Rival Plans
9 May 201964
6:27
Americans’ wages need to grow faster, says House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
Jobs
“are not producing the wages that people need to meet their needs,” Pelosi said
at a Washington Post event.
She continued:
And people still feel scarred by
what happened in 2008 when their home [mortages] were underwater, their
pensions were at risk, they were living off their savings, their children’s
education [was] in doubt. So there’s still that concern and 40 percent of the
American people — you’ve seen the figures over and over again – cannot
withstand a $500 unforeseen cost — whether it is a [broken] water heater, a
carburetor or whatever happens to be.
The Post published video
of the event; Pelosi’s comments on the subject start around the 40:00
mark.
The
call for higher wages reflects an effort by Pelosi to use kitchen table issues
to win swing voters back from President Donald Trump amid furious media
coverage about partisan fights in Washington, DC, over special investigations,
congressional subpoenas, and tax bills.
Pelosi’s
proposed fix, however, is more socialist-style rhetoric and regulation of the
economy:
We
think … we have to have equal pay for equal work … a $15 minimum wage — fight
for $15 — which we will be sending [to the Senate] soon. But you have to do
something big, like an infrastructure challenge … health care is a very big
piece of their financial security … increasing their paycheck is very
important.
But
Trump has plenty of ammunition for this political battle because his low
immigration, “Hire American” policy helped nudge up free market wages for
blue-collar Americans by roughly four percent in 2018.
This
small government labor policy has raised wages
for restaurant workers in Indiana, boosted farm companies’ investment in
labor-saving machinery, helped women switch to
higher-wage careers, forced up Americans’ productivity, and spiked pay
offers to new hires nationwide — and may help elect Trump in 2020.
Biz
lobbyists keep insisting 2 media that immigration doesn't hurt wages. But biz
CEOs say they're paying higher wages because of the labor shortage. The media
is finally waking up - & may even check migration's impact on their peers'
post-college salaries http://bit.ly/2I4lURc
Wages
are expected to keep rising in 2019 despite the huge influx of new workers who
are taking advantage of Congress’s loose border laws to migrate from Central
America.
Most
private-sector forecasters surveyed in
recent days by The Wall Street Journal—63.6%—expect wages will grow at a
somewhat faster rate over the next year, while a further 5.5% of economists
said wages will grow at a substantially faster rate.
“We
continue to hear from manufacturers about how difficult it is to attract talent
in the tight labor market, a challenge that we do not see changing in the near
future,” said Chad Moutray, chief economist at the National Association of
Manufacturers.
Just
under a quarter of economists, 23.6%, expect wages to grow at the same 3.2%
year-over-year pace seen in April. Just 7.3% expect the pace will slow over the
next year.
But
the recent wage gains have not made up for the massive losses since the 1970s
when the 1965 immigration law ended the era of tight labor markets and rising
wages by providing employers with a flood of foreign workers each year.
Trump
rarely talks about wages to reporters in Washington, DC. But at his May 8 rally
in Panama City Beach, Trump got an enthusiastic response when he touted the
gains:
After
many years of stagnation, wages are rising very fast.
Hasn’t happened in 20 years! And they’re rising fastest —
which makes me feel very good – for
blue-coller workers. Fastest proportionally. And driving
our whole agenda is a jobs boom that is historic. Hasn’t
happened like this in many, many years. if at all.
…
We’re
reducing burdens in our businesses but in return we expect
American companies to invest in America — which is
what we’re demanding — to raise wages in America, —
which is happening — and to hire American workers to do
the job. That’s what we want.
Goldman
Sachs says Trump's tight labor-market policy (AKA 'Hire American') gave 4%
raise to blue-collar/middle-class in 2018. But upper-income graduate salaries
lagged - maybe b/c of 1.5 million visa-worker graduates who work for
spaghettiOs & green cards http://bit.ly/2Fan4b0
Trump’s
deputies also say they plan to protect Americans’ wages as they move forward
with an immigration plan that would repair border security problems and shift
the focus of immigration from blue-collar labor jobs to white-collar,
college-credential jobs.
“We
have a lot of objectives … Number one, [Trump] wants to protect American
wages,” White House senior counselor Jared Kushner said April
23.
One
official said the plan “would cumulatively increase wages in the U.S.,”
Politico reported May 7.
Officials have not explained if “cumulatively increase” is the same as a
per-capita increase.
In
turn, Pelosi and Democrats are likely to portray the wage gains as minor
compared to gains made by investors. At the Washington Post event, she said:
Wages
are not rising in the way that they should by some of the indicators out there
and employment is low, but … jobs are not producing the wages that people need
to meet their needs … So while the president’s one percent is doing beautifully
… you can’t measure the economic well-being of our country as to how it
affects the one percent.
“We
are concerned about the kitchen table [issues] … They are ‘Trickle down,’ we
are ‘Bubble up'” Pelosi said.
Each
year, roughly four million young Americans join the workforce after
graduating from high school or university.
But
the federal government then imports about 1.1 million legal immigrants and
refreshes a resident population of roughly 1.5 million white-collar visa
workers — including roughly one million H-1B workers — and approximately
500,000 blue-collar visa workers.
The government also prints out more than one million work
permits for foreigners, tolerates about eight million illegal workers, and does
not punish companies for employing the hundreds of thousands of illegal
migrants who sneak across the border or overstay their legal visas.
This
policy of inflating the labor supply boosts economic
growth for investors because
it ensures that employers do not have to compete for American workers by
offering higher wages and better working conditions.
This
policy of flooding the
market with cheap foreign white-collar graduates and
blue-collar labor shifts
enormous wealth from young employees
towards older investors even as it also widens wealth
gaps, reduces high-tech
investment, increases state
and local tax burdens, and hurts children’s schools and college educations.
It also pushes Americans
away from high-tech careers and sidelines millions of marginalized Americans,
including many who are now struggling with
fentanyl addictions. The labor policy also movesbusiness investment from the heartland to
the coasts, explodes rents, shrivels real
estate values in the Midwest and rewards investors for creating low tech, labor-intensive workplaces.
JAMES
WALSH
THE
GLOBALIST DEMOCRAT PARTY’S HISPANICAZATION of AMERICA… first ease millions of
illegals over our borders and into our voting booths!
How the Democrat party surrendered
America to Mexico:
“The watchdogs at
Judicial Watch discovered documents that reveal how the Obama administration's
close coordination with the Mexican government entices Mexicans to hop over the
fence and on to the American dole.” Washington Times
"This is country
belongs to Mexico" is said by the Mexican Militant. This is a common
teaching that the U.S. is really AZTLAN, belonging to Mexicans, which is taught
to Mexican kids in Arizona and California through a LA Raza educational program
funded by American Tax Payers via President Obama, when he gave LA RAZA
$800,000.00 in March of 2009!
The “zero tolerance”
program was dismantled by Attorney General Erc Holder once it had
successfully cut the transit of migrants by roughly 95 percent.
Initially, officials made 140,000 arrests per year in the mid-2000s, but the
northward flow dropped so much that officials only had to make 6,000 arrests in
2013, according to a 2014 letter by two
pro-migration Senators, Sen. Jeff Flake and John McCain.
“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.”
Obama Quietly Erasing Borders (Article)
WIKILEAKS
EXPOSES THE OBAMA CONSPIRACY TO FLOOD AMERICAN WITH DEM VOTING ILLEGALS
“The watchdogs at Judicial
Watch discovered documents that reveal how the Obama administration's close
coordination with the Mexican government entices Mexicans to hop over the fence
and on to the American dole.” Washington Times
Obama Funds the Mexican
Fascist Party of LA RAZA “The Race”… now calling itself UNIDOSus.
"This is country
belongs to Mexico" is said by the Mexican Militant. This is a common
teaching that the U.S. is really AZTLAN, belonging to Mexicans, which is taught
to Mexican kids in Arizona and California through a LA Raza educational program
funded by American Tax Payers via President Obama, when he gave LA RAZA
$800,000.00 in March of 2009!
Previous generations of
immigrants did not believe they were racially superior to Americans. That is
the view of La Raza Cosmica, by Jose Vasconcelos, Mexico’s former
education minister and a presidential candidate. According to this book,
republished in 1979 by the Department of Chicano Studies at Cal State LA,
students of Scandinavian, Dutch and English background are dullards, blacks are
ugly and inferior, and those “Mongols” with the slanted eyes lack enterprise.
The superior new “cosmic” race of Spaniards and Indians is replacing them, and
all Yankee “Anglos.” LLOYD BILLINGSLEY/ FRONTPAGE mag
GLOBALIST BARACK OBAMA
AND NANCY PELOSI’S CONSPIRACY TO SABOTAGE HOMELAND SECURITY AND KEEP AMERICA
FLOODED WITH DEM VOTING ILLEGALS
"Along with Obama,
Pelosi and Schumer are responsible for incalculable damage done to this country
over the eight years of that administration." PATRICIA McCARTHY
“One of the most
disgusting things to come out of the Obama administration was "Operation
Fast and Furious," where members of the Department of Alcohol, Tobacco,
Firearms and Explosives (ATF) allowed illegal gun sales to go through –
commonly referred to as "gun walking" – in order to track buyers and
sellers they believed were connected to the Mexican drug cartels. Nearly 2,000
firearms were sold and were eventually found throughout the United States and
Mexico. Two of them were used to k ill Border Patrol Agent Brian
Terry.” BETH BAUMANN
DURING OBAMA'S 8 YEAR BANKSTER REGIME, HE OPERATED LA RAZA
(NOW CALLING ITSELF UNIDOSus FROM THE WHITE HOUSE UNDER LA RAZA
V.P. CECILIA MUNOZ. HE FUNDED THE MEX FASCIST PARTY WITH U.S. TAX
DOLLARS.
BOTH OF OBAMA’S SECRETARY of (ILLEGAL) LABOR WERE LA RAZA
SUPREMACIST. THESE WERE HILDA SOLIS AND TOM PEREZ.
The “zero tolerance”
program was dismantled by Attorney General Erc Holder once it had
successfully cut the transit of migrants by roughly 95 percent.
Initially, officials made 140,000 arrests per year in the mid-2000s, but the
northward flow dropped so much that officials only had to make 6,000 arrests in
2013, according to a 2014 letter by two
pro-migration Senators, Sen. Jeff Flake and John McCain.
Jose Angel Gutierrez, professor, University of Texas, Arlington
and founder of La Raza Unida political party screams at rallies: "We
have an aging white America. They are d ying. They are s hitting in
their pants with fear! I love it! We have got to eliminate the g ringo,
and what I mean by that is if the worst comes to the worst, we have got to
k ill him!"
Previous generations of
immigrants did not believe they were racially superior to Americans. That is
the view of La Raza Cosmica, by Jose Vasconcelos, Mexico’s former
education minister and a presidential candidate. According to this book,
republished in 1979 by the Department of Chicano Studies at Cal State LA,
students of Scandinavian, Dutch and English background are dullards, blacks are
ugly and inferior, and those “Mongols” with the slanted eyes lack enterprise.
The superior new “cosmic” race of Spaniards and Indians is replacing them, and
all Yankee “Anglos.” LLOYD BILLINGSLEY/ FRONTPAGE mag
Illegal Immigration at 9X the Rate of 2017, Projected to Outpace
Obama
AP Photo/Rodrigo
Abd
9 May 20191,454
2:33
Illegal
immigration at the United States-Mexico border last month was nine times the
level of the same month two years ago and is projected to outpace every year
when former President Obama oversaw immigration.
As Breitbart
News reported, there were nearly
100,000 apprehensions of migrants, border crossers, and asylum
applicants at the U.S.-Mexico border last month. This is nearly nine times the
level of illegal immigration compared to April 2017, when just a little more
than 11,000 border crossers were apprehended.
Likewise,
projections by Princeton Policy researcher Steven Kopits reveal that the U.S.
remains on track this year to outpace every year of illegal immigration
overseen by Obama.
At current
illegal immigration levels, about 863,000 border apprehensions are expected for
Fiscal Year 2019. This is a level of illegal immigration at the southern border
that has not been seen since the last years of former President George W. Bush.
The only
Fiscal Year that has reached a higher level of illegal immigration at the
southern border dating back to more than a decade ago was Fiscal Year 2006,
when more than one million apprehensions were made at the U.S.-Mexico border.
(Princeton
Policy Research)
Kopits
projects that this month’s rate of illegal immigration will be around the same
level as last month, with anywhere between 90,000 to 95,000 apprehensions.
Through
increased immigration enforcement, Trump has secured a four percent wage gain
over the last 12 months for America’s blue-collar and working class.
Experts like
Kris Kobach have warned that
if illegal immigration levels continue to soar over this year and throughout
2020, those wage hikes will be choked by a saturated labor market with more
cheap, foreign workers competing against Americans. Kobach has detailed a
plan exclusively at Breitbart News to stem the flow of mass
illegal immigration to the country.
Every year,
the U.S. admits more than 1.2 million legal immigrants to the country
regardless of the rate of illegal immigration arriving at the borders and
through visa overstays – that is, foreign nationals who have refused to leave
the country after their visas expire. At current rates of legal immigration, if
not reduced, about one-in-six
U.S. residents will be foreign-born, according to the Census Bureau.
John Binder is a
reporter for Breitbart News. Follow him on Twitter at @JxhnBinder.
Open borders
advocates are getting the open border they want
On
sheer volume, open-borders advocates are in the catbird seat, getting exactly
the open borders they have effectively been calling for.
The number of migrants apprehended at the Southern border
surpassed 100,000 for the second consecutive month, according to new figures released
by the Trump administration.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection apprehended 109,144 migrants in
April. That is more than 5,400 over the total in the month of March, and it is
the highest monthly total since 2007.
The chief of the Border Patrol, Carla Provost, told a Senate Judiciary
panel that "our apprehension numbers are off the
charts."
"We cannot address this crisis by shifting more resources.
It's like holding a bucket under a faucet. It doesn't matter how many buckets
you give me if we can't turn off the flow," she said.
For
the rest of us, we are about to learn just what open borders looks like.
109,000 is quite a few people, not just in a big country such as the United
States, but in the countries these migrants are coming from - 1% of the
population of Guatemala, 1% of the population of Honduras, taken over the
course of the first seven months of the fiscal year.
Economist
Hernando de Soto told me several years ago that history shows there is no
stopping the movement of peoples, and while I felt disagreement with him then,
it's clear that in this mass migration incident, he was in a certain
way right. It's not that people are unstoppable like deer in nature,
however. It's that the incentivizing laws from the U.S. - from the failure of
the asylum system to keep junk claims out, to the huge banquet of 'free'
benefits on offer from states, which judges have ruled no popular vote can
stop, pretty well inevitably leads to the now-seen open border that
lawmen can no longer stop, all based on sheer volume. The law has
little ballast or enforcement in the face of a migrant flood,
with migrants now rolling in not just form Central America, but from all
over the world.
What
is it going to take to reestablish rule of law, to stop so
many service-desperate, uneducated, hard-to-assimilate, unskilled migrants
looking for a handout without following the law? It helps of course when
someone puts pressure on the governments that make life so miserable for
their citizens that they want to leave, as a Nigerian cardinal did
recently, blasting his
country's government for driving so many people out based on their rotten
governance. In this hemisphere, no such leadership is evident on the ground in
remittance-hungry countries such as Honduras, so the migrants are coming.
Under such conditions, the logical limits of immigration can be
calibrated not so much by whether countries south of the border reach parity
with American standards of living, freedom, security, and quality of life. But
rather the current issue is whether
regions of America, especially the American Southwest become roughly
indistinguishable from Latin America and Mexico, and therefore in
terms of economic opportunity, safety, and quality of life do not offer that
much of an improvement—or at least not such a radical margin of enhancement to justify
abandoning one’s homeland.
In such an equation, the more that illegal aliens arrive, swamp
social services and tax law enforcement, the more that they create ethnic
enclaves that resist rapid assimilation and the more that they sense that their
hosts see them most useful as an identity politics constituency, then the more
parts of the southwestern United States will seem more like Mexico, and perhaps
to the point of eventually diminishing illegal immigration.
No one knows what the saturation point might be of illegal and
unassimilated immigration, but influxes are now approximating each month a
mid-sized American city.
So
the U.S. will have to become as corrupt, hellish and impoverished as
the places these foreigners leave behind to nullify the enticements of migrating
illegally.
Which
is a pretty sad picture. The only possibility of reversing it, though, is still
out there, given that nations such as Canada and Australia have mastered it:
they crafted far better immigration laws, which required fewer lawmen to stop
those who would break those laws. If the U.S. does this, the nation can renew
its commitment to rule of law and serious efforts can be made to halt illegal
entrants at the border.
No
chance for that with the Democrats, who see the migrants as politically useful
in a lot of ways, the needier and more easily manipulated, the better.
So
for now, the migrants are rolling in, and the Border Patrol, with no tools for
stopping anyone (just deporting one of them require the use of a detention bed they
don't have) is effectively just waving them though, if not serving as free
babysitters for people who should be paying for their own freight the way
normal people do.
It's
sad because the other thing Hernando de Soto said was critical for any prosperity
and stability in a country is the invisible architecture of rule of law.
Without it, the U.S. can just morph into Honduras North. It
appears the Democrats would have that because they are blocking any meaningful
efforts to control the border, the borders are wide open now and rule of law is
going fast.