Sanders Floats ‘Moratorium on 99 Percent’ of Deportations, Demolition of Border Wall
By Zachary Evans
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/bernie-sanders-floats-moratorium-on-99-percent-of-deportations-demolition-of-border-wall/
Bernie
Sanders: ‘Of Course’ Cheap Illegal Workers Drive Down U.S. Wages
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14 Jan 2020326
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Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) admits cheaper illegal alien workers
drive down wages for America’s working and middle class but continues to support
amnesty for illegal aliens, decriminalization of the United States-Mexico
border, and throwing out President Trump’s “Buy American, Hire American”
executive order.
Sanders navigated through the issue
during an interview with the New
York Times, attempting to explain his previous statements where he
has admitted that opening the U.S. border is detrimental to the
nation-state and has slammed the concept
of hemispheric open borders.
During the exchange, Sanders says “of course” cheaper illegal
alien workers hired by businesses at “$5 an hour” will “lower wages” for
America’s working class, who are often looking for entry-level jobs.
“Yeah, if you’re being paid $5 — if you’re being paid $5 an
hour, now of course it’s going to lower wages,” Sanders said. “Why would I hire
at a higher wage?”
Later in the interview, though, Sanders backs away from
immigration’s wage-suppression impact on Americans and focuses on a $15 minimum
wage — suggesting that illegal aliens be legalized and paid the same wage as
Americans.
“All I am saying is that if for whatever reason, I’m paying you
$5 an hour, okay,” Sanders said. “You don’t think that’s going to lower the
wages that she gets?”
Legal immigration levels, where 1.2
million mostly low-skilled legal immigrants and hundreds of thousands of
foreign visa workers are admitted to the country annually, have driven the
number of foreign born workers in the U.S. to its highest level since 1996. This is in
addition to the hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens who enter the country
every year.
Most immigrants to the U.S.
immediately begin competing for blue-collar and white-collar jobs against millions of Americans who
want full-time employment.
No Labor Shortage: 11M Americans Out of Work, But All Want Full-Time Jobs https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/01/10/no-labor-shortage-11m-americans-out-of-work-but-all-want-full-time-jobs/ …
No Labor Shortage: 11M
Americans Out of Work but Want Full-Time Jobs
Extensive research by economists
like George Borjas and analyst Steven Camarota reveals that the country’s
current mass legal immigration system burdens U.S. taxpayers and America’s
working and middle class while redistributing about $500 billion in wealth
every year to major employers and newly arrived immigrants. Similarly, research
has revealed how Americans’ wages are crushed by the
country’s high immigration levels.
For every one percent increase in the immigrant portion of
American workers’ occupations, their weekly wages are cut by about 0.5 percent,
Camarota finds. This means the average native-born American worker today has
his weekly wages reduced by perhaps 8.75 percent since 17.5 percent of the
workforce is foreign born.
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
about 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.
Likewise, every one-percent increase in the immigrant portion 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.
Bernie:
On Day One, Executive Order to Reverse Trump’s Border Actions
PENNY STARR
Sen. Bernie
Sanders (I-VT) said at the Democrat debate in Miami on Thursday that on his
first day in office if he is elected president, he would issue an executive
order to reverse everything President Donald Trump has done to secure the
border and end the flood of illegal immigration that the government has said
could amount to more than one million migrants
entering the United States in 2019.
“On Day One,
we take out our executive order pen and rescind every damn issue that Trump has
done,” Sanders said.
“What we have
got to do on Day One is invite the presidents and the leadership of Central and
Mexico together,” Sanders said. “This is a hemispheric problem.”
Under
President Donald Trump, the U.S. State Department and Mexico have been working
with Central American countries to provide support, including financial aid, to
address problems that are blamed for people fleeing Honduras, El Salvador, and
Guatemala.
Trump has
also been able to gain cooperation with Mexico to step up efforts to police
its southern border to stop the flow of hundreds of thousands of migrants who
have been flooding across the U.S. border with Mexico.
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Bernie Sanders Delights Democrats With
Plan For Free Healthcare For Illegals
https://townhall.com/columnists/marinamedvin/2019/04/15/bernie-sanders-delights-democrats-with-plan-for-free-healthcare-for-illegals-n2544768
Bernie
Sanders, that socialist curmudgeon we love to hate, has
come up with a new way to smother American prosperity: FREE healthcare
for illegal aliens.
As has
become expected in these neo-socialist times, Democrats were delighted by the
proposition of robbing hardworking Americans for the benefit of those who break federal laws.
But when
Bastard Bernie says FREE, what does that mean? Redistribution of wealth via
taxation, of course. Take monies from the rightful owner by force and
intimidation and give it to the wrongful owner. What does Bastard Bernie get
out of it? Power and control over the unethical transaction. That power, the
ability to say who keeps what is the ultimate control; for no one can control
their own destiny, only Bastard Bernie and the other glorified thieves in power
control each American's destiny when they take your money. The more that he
takes from you, the more power he has over you, and the less you control your
own life. This is precisely why taxation amounts to economic slavery.
Bernie
Sanders understands better than anyone, that the one who controls the money is
the one who controls freedom and destiny. If Bastard Bernie doesn't take your
earnings from you, then you maintain power and control over your life and your
destiny. If, on the other hand, he takes what you earned, then you and your
labor belong to the state. When Bastard Bernie hands your cash to illegals, he
simultaneously hands them control over your life. This is exactly what Bastard
Bernie wants: to dilute your control over your own destiny. Bernie now also
wants to give illegal immigrants power over you.
This
diabolical plan for the diminution of Americans isn't restricted to Bastard
Bernie; he is joined by the other democrat neo-socialists like Elizabeth Warren,
Cory Booker, and Kirstin Gillibrand. They call their politics by various names
in an attempt to convolute and conceal the simplistic socialism that drives
their agenda. Don't get lost in the words they use; just look at what they are
plotting. They advocate for increased taxation, redistribution, and government
control over your life. Bernie Sander's bill "Medicare for All" was
co-sponsored by these con-artists, and their control effort would cost you an
estimated $32 trillion. Nice people.
More
harrowingly, the neo-democrats prioritize the interests of illegal immigrants
over the basic needs of the Americans who they are sworn to represent. But why
are illegal immigrants of particular interest all of a sudden?
On the
one hand, because democrats prey on weakness or the appearance of weakness, and
illegal immigrants are the perceptively weak concern du jour that
strikes the Democrats' fancy. That's it; there's not much more or less to it.
On the whole, Democrats are not deeply concerned with the plight of an illegal
immigrant; they are just using these people to advance their political agenda
amongst their bleeding-heart base. Remember how the Democrats were vividly
trying to save the whales in the '90s? Whatever happened to the whales? Who's
saving them nowadays? Maybe they went the way of the ozone hole that was all the craze in the
'80s. Do you ever wonder what the illegal immigrants were doing in the '80s and
'90s when the ozone and the whales were the weaklings du jour?
Donald
Trump is the reason why illegals became the attraction of the day, as they are
the group he is attempting to regulate, rendering them weaklings du
jour for Democrats. Had Trump decided to build a barrier to keep
dangerous sharks away from U.S. beaches, then "Save The Sharks!"
would have been the prime democratic platform. Anything anti-trump is magically
and automatically converted into pro-democrats. This how the gays and Islamists
came to political joinder in the same party; they call
this "intersectionality."
On the
other hand, because Democrats are clawing at well walls, trying to find a way
out of the deep loss to Donald Trump. They need more bodies, more votes. It's a
bid to stay in power. Aside from attempting to entice illegals with free
healthcare, they are also attempting to give illegals the right to vote,
followed by attempting to change the American voting system to be a rule
by majority, which they would easily get if illegals can vote for the hand
that feeds them. It's all about power, about control. It's about eroding
America and capitalism.
Think
about the Democrats' plan from the perspective of a would-be illegal border
crosser. The proposition that those who break U.S. laws will be rewarded with
admiration and riches in the form of Spoils of Taxation, is a rather attractive
bargain. Why not break the border law? You will receive free lawyers, free food, free shelter, free
healthcare, free legal advice from a local Sanctuary Sheriff,
and unfettered admiration by the neo-socialist clique growing in the United
States. Seems too good to pass up, no?
Neo-socialism
is a lucrative invitation for the illegal bypass of American laws.
Bernie
Leads His Party to Open Borders
Some 100 members of an American Mormon community in
northern Mexico, nine of whom -- women, children, toddlers -- were massacred a
week ago on a lonely stretch of highway, just crossed over into Arizona.
Other family members who have lived there for decades
will follow.
The atrocity was the work of one of the cartels battling
for control of the drug traffic into the United States.
In Mexico's Sinaloa state in October, an arrest of Ovidio
Guzman Lopez, son of "El Chapo," who sits in a New York prison,
brought a military-style cartel attack on the state capital, Culiacan, followed
by a surrender to the cartel gunmen by national guard and army troops, and a
release of the captive.
"Is Mexico a failed state?" asks The Washington
Times. Its editorial describes "Another Blood-Soaked Year in Mexico"
where 17,000 people were murdered by July and the 2019 death toll is expected
to reach 32,000.
USA Today reports: "Through August of the current
fiscal year, the Border Patrol apprehended 457,871 migrants arriving as 'family
units' ... a 406% increase compared to the 90,554 family unit apprehensions
during the same period the previous year. Migrant families from Guatemala,
Honduras and El Salvador made up almost 92% of the total."
With cartel battles escalating into a war that Mexico
City has no stomach for fighting, and a record number of migrants from Central
America crossing Mexico to flood into the USA, what is the Democratic Party's
policy for halting the rising tide?
Democrats are moving toward an "open door"
policy on the U.S. border, an open borders
embrace of any and all who wish to
come.
America, apparently, does not belong to those who live
here and love the country. America belongs to anyone who chooses to come.
America belongs to the world.
Consider Bernie Sanders' immigration proposal, outlined
the week of the massacre of Mormon women and children.
On Day One, President Sanders would declare a moratorium
on deportations and offer a "swift pathway to citizenship" for all
illegal migrants who have been here for five years.
Bernie would break up ICE. Border-jumping would cease to
be a crime and become a civil offense like jaywalking. The "Muslim
ban" would be abolished.
President Sanders would back sanctuary cities that refuse
to work with U.S. law enforcement. Asylum seekers would not have to wait in
Mexico as their claims were processed but would be welcomed into the USA.
Family separations would end. Trump's wall, which Bernie
calls "racist," would be history. The administration's treatment of
illegal immigration "as a criminal and national security matter is
inhuman, impractical and must end."
Migrants who enter illegally would qualify for
federal
health care and the same social welfare
benefits as U.S. citizens.
Immigrant
officials say Sanders' proposals would create an irresistible magnet for
millions of migrants from all over the world to stampede into the USA.
The Nation magazine calls Sanders' plan "one of the
boldest immigration plans any major politician has put forward in years, and
comes amid a campaign season that has seen a major shift to the left among
Democratic candidates on immigration.
"With calls for a total moratorium on deportations,
abolishing ICE and providing a path to citizenship for undocumented migration,
the plan serves as a road map for what a fair and just immigration can
be."
From another standpoint, Sanders' proposal is a surrender
to the reality that a leftist regime lacks the conviction or will to stop an
endless stream of people from migrating here.
Americans troubled over what is happening on the
Syrian-Turkish border, or Ukrainian-Crimean border, might take a closer look at
what will happen at our own border, and to our own country, if Democrats win
the presidency and throw open the doors to unrestricted immigration.
The federal budget, already running trillion-dollar
deficits, and state budgets, too, will see huge
increases in the cost of social
programs, without
the commensurate income tax revenues to pay for
them.
Even at present levels, illegal immigration is
bringing
in millions of people without the work,
education or language skills to compete
and
assimilate rapidly in a first world, Western
economy.
These migrants pay virtually no income taxes, yet, would
qualify for the same benefits as U.S. citizens. The inevitable result: another
run-up in an annual deficit already running $1 trillion in the red.
Politically, so massive a migration of peoples who, once
they become citizens, vote 70%-90% Democratic means an end of the GOP as a
truly national party.
If we open the borders, how do we stop the drugs from
coming in? How do we stop the cartels from following MS-13, which is already
here?
Socially, this country is as splintered as it has been
since the 1960s.
Will a barrage of migrants add to its diversity, or
deepen the ethnic, racial and cultural divides that are turning us into two,
three, many Americas?
Patrick J. Buchanan is the author of "Nixon's White House Wars:
The Battles That Made and Broke a President and Divided America Forever."
To find out more about Patrick Buchanan and read features by other Creators
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By Ira Mehlman
Fox News
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https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/ira-mehlman-immigration-policies-nation
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