Joe Biden's pick to run the DHS immigration agency – Alejandro Mayorkas – is a political gift for the GOP, says Jessica Vaughan at CIS: "Cronyism, corruption, swampiness, and the immigration issue." https://t.co/859b16NhN4
Biden's DHS: Department of Homeland Surrender
Alejandro Mayorkas, architect of DACA, picked by Biden to head DHS.
https://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2020/12/joe-bidens-surrender-of-our-borders-to.html
Alejandro Mayorkas: A Portrait of the Intended Nominee for DHS Secretary
https://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2020/11/joe-biden-promises-employers-of-cheap.html
Will a Senate confirmation hearing recall troubling integrity scandals and heavy-handed re-direction on immigration law and fraud enforcement?
Feds: Plants that Hired Illegal Aliens Paid Unlawful Wages, Hired a Child…open borders…it’s all about keeping wages depressed and passing along the true cost to middle America
Former Vice President Joe Biden will nominate Alejandro Mayorkas to run the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), despite his role in creating huge Latin American migration and his involvement in several visas-for-sale scandals.
Joe Biden's pick to run the DHS immigration agency – Alejandro Mayorkas – is a political gift for the GOP, says Jessica Vaughan at CIS: "Cronyism, corruption, swampiness, and the immigration issue." https://t.co/859b16NhN4
OPEN BORDERS AND A NATION FLOODED WITH ‘CHEAP’ LABOR
Former Vice President Joe Biden will
nominate Alejandro Mayorkas to run the
Department of Homeland Security (DHS),
despite his role in creating huge Latin
American migration and his involvement in
several visas-for-sale scandals.
https://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2020/11/biden-keeps-promise-to-narcomex-picks.html
Biden Administration Ramps Up IRS Enforcement
While encouraging massive immigration law violations.
It is hardly a secret that I have been critical of the efforts by a succession of administrations to fairly but effectively enforce our nation’s immigration laws and secure our borders against the un-inspected entry of huge numbers of aliens into the United States.
My testimony at numerous congressional hearings conducted in the House and Senate provides incontrovertible evidence of my grave concerns about multiple failures of a succession of administrations, from both political parties, to secure our nation’s borders, enforce our immigration laws from within the interior of the United States and, in general, imbue our immigration system with true integrity to protect America and Americans while honoring America’s proud tradition of being a nation built by immigrants.
I have been equally vocal in expressing my concerns about so-called “Sanctuary” policies of numerous cities and even some states that are in apparent violation of Title 8, U.S.C. § 1324.
Several years ago, when I was a guest on the Fox News program, Your World With Neil Cavuto, Neil asked me what it would take for me to be satisfied that our immigration laws were being enforced adequately.
Neil’s question caught me by surprise but I quickly reflected on his question and then said that I would be happy with immigration law enforcement efforts if aliens in the United States were as concerned about receiving correspondence from the DHS, as Americans are about receiving correspondence from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).
Neil quickly agreed, saying that my answer was profound and very fair and reasonable.
Therefore it was with a bit of bemusement and frustration that I noticed that on May 16, 2021 The Hill reported, Lawmakers bicker over how to go after tax cheats.
This report begins with the following statement:
Lawmakers are debating President Biden’s pitches to strengthen tax enforcement against high-income individuals and businesses as Congress considers different ways to pay for infrastructure legislation.
Democrats and Republicans both say they want to narrow the gap between taxes paid and the amount owed, suggesting that going after tax cheats could garner bipartisan support as a potential revenue stream.
The Hill article went on to report:
Biden has called for providing the IRS with an additional $80 billion over the next decade to ramp up enforcement, update technology and improve customer service at the agency. He has also proposed requiring banks to include new info on account activity in annual reports to the IRS so that the agency can better target its audits.
The administration estimated that its proposals would lead to a net gain of $700 billion over 10 years.
“A robust and sustained investment in the IRS is necessary to ensure it can do its job of administering a fair and effective tax system,” the Treasury Department said in a fact sheet about Biden’s proposal late last month.
Biden said that he wants to beef up tax enforcement as a way to offset the cost of his $4.1 trillion infrastructure and social spending proposals, with other funding coming from higher taxes on the wealthy and corporations.
So, the same Biden administration now seeks $80 billion to ramp up the enforcement of our nation’s tax laws against Americans continues to make an abject mockery of border security and the enforcement of our immigration laws. Biden’s succession of Executive Orders that have hamstrung both the Border Patrol and ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) from securing our borders and enforcing our immigration laws, has induced and encouraged the largest influx of “undocumented” aliens in history!
Let me be clear, anyone who violates any of our nation’s laws, including our tax laws, should be found and prosecuted. But the dangerous message that is currently being sent around the world when it is clear that the federal government is determined to enforce one set of laws while aiding and abetting the violations of other laws- particularly the laws that foreign nationals are most likely to encounter when they seek to enter the United States?
The Oaths of Office that are administered to members of our armed forces, to our law enforcement officers and our elected politicians call for all to defend the Constitution in its entirety and enforce all of our laws, not just the provision of the Constitution we like or the laws we agree with.
Nevertheless, far too many politicians, on all levels of government, have come to treat our Constitution and our laws like items on a restaurant’s menu, arbitrarily and capriciously deciding which laws should be enforced and which laws they will blatantly ignore and perhaps. even obstruct, not unlike the way that patrons of a restaurant decide which items on the menu they want to order and which items they will not order, ordering the salad while rejecting the soup of the day.
Our immigration laws are the prime example of laws that are being rejected by increasing numbers of cities and states around the United States and, most disturbingly, by the Biden administration, in apparent violation of a section of law I noted previously, Title 8, U.S.C. § 1324 which begins with the following paragraph:
Title 8, U.S.C. § 1324(a) defines several distinct offenses related to aliens. Subsection 1324(a)(1)(i)-(v) prohibits alien smuggling, domestic transportation of unauthorized aliens, concealing or harboring unauthorized aliens, encouraging or inducing unauthorized aliens to enter the United States, and engaging in a conspiracy or aiding and abetting any of the preceding acts. Subsection 1324(a)(2) prohibits bringing or attempting to bring unauthorized aliens to the United States in any manner whatsoever, even at a designated port of entry. Subsection 1324(a)(3).
Additionally it would appear that these actions also violate Article IV Section 4 of the Constitution of the United States which states:
“The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against invasion; and on Application of the Legislature, or of the Executive (when the Legislature cannot be convened) against domestic Violence."
My concerns have only increased and, indeed increased exponentially, in the wake of the terror attacks of September 11, 2001 and following a succession of other terror attacks by other international terrorists.
My concerns about the nexus between immigration failures and national security and the threat of terror attacks launched by radical Islamic terror organizations have increased drastically since Biden selected Alejandro Mayorkas (pictured above) to head up the DHS, as I noted in my article, Biden's DHS: Department of Homeland Surrender. As I noted in excerpt from my earlier article about Mr. Mayorkas:
On March 24, 2015 ABC News reported, “Top Homeland Official Alejandro Mayorkas Accused of Political Favoritism Alejandro Mayorkas oversaw controversial $500,000 visa program.”
The above-noted report was preceded by two ABC News reports that were published on February 3, 2015 which illustrate a clear nexus between these visas and national security:
“Whistleblowers: US Gave Visas to Suspected Forgers, Fraudsters, Criminals Internal documents show feds ignored warnings from FBI.” This report began with this excerpt:
Officials overseeing a federal program that offers an immigration short-cut to wealthy foreign investors have ignored pointed warnings from federal agents and approved visas for some immigrants suspected of having committed fraud, money laundering, and even one applicant with alleged ties to a child porn website, an ABC News investigation has found. The shortcomings prompted concerns within the Department of Homeland Security that the boutique immigration program would be exploited by terrorists, according to internal documents obtained by ABC News.
“It is shocking,” said Sen. Charles Grassley, an Iowa Republican. “Particularly when you have F.B.I. and other law enforcement agencies that are saying national security could be compromised or is being compromised -- that's enough for us to be concerned.”
“Feds Investigating Iran Ties to Firm Involved in US Visa Program Documents: Iranian operatives may be abusing program to "infiltrate" U.S.” This report began with these excerpt:
Federal agents in Los Angeles are investigating an L.A. shipping firm and its Iranian-born owner who for years have participated in and promoted an obscure U.S. immigration program -- allowing the company to recruit wealthy foreign investors to receive visas and potentially Green Cards, law enforcement sources told ABC News.
The company’s name surfaced in a confidential Department of Homeland Security government document, which raised “concerns that this particular visa program may be abused by Iranian operatives to infiltrate the United States.”
Whistleblowers inside the federal agency that oversees the immigration program told ABC News they have been deeply frustrated by an inability to de-certify the company, even after they became aware of the investigation and saw the company’s name surface in an alarming internal Department Homeland Security memo. The memo, shared with ABC News, outlines concerns that Iran’s Revolutionary Guards have attempted to exploit the visa program “to infiltrate the United States.”
It would appear that cheating on immigration applications by committing immigration fraud, a major vulnerability that was identified by the 9/11 Commission as the key method of entry and embedding for international terrorists, is not an issue for Mayorkas, while tax cheats, on the other hand, had better watch out!
The fact that Mayorkas is the head of Biden’s DHS reminds me of an apt Yiddish saying that when translated states, “When the fish goes bad, it smells from the head”
DHS Mayorkas Approves Another 22,000 Foreign Workers
Joe Biden’s deputies are admitting another 22,000 foreign workers to help U.S. businesses, regardless of the damage done to working Americans and their communities now recovering from the coronavirus crash.
“Today’s joint rule helps American businesses,” said a statement from Alejandro Mayorkas, the pro-migration lawyer who is now secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
The joint rule with the Department of Labor will also help the economies of Central American countries, Mayorkas added:
For the first time, we are setting aside [6,000] supplemental [H-2B] visas for noncitizens from Northern Triangle countries, in furtherance of President Biden’s and Vice President [Kamala] Harris’ direction to expand legal pathways for protection and opportunity for individuals from those countries.
The “rule is designed to prevent permanent and severe financial loss to U.S. employers … and is one piece of the administration’s broader comprehensive framework for managing migration throughout North and Central America,” echoed Mayorkas’ deputy, Tracy Renaud, who is the acting director of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services agency.
Mayorkas and his university-trained deputies did not explain how the inflow of foreign workers would help blue-collar Americans, even as the extra visas give U.S. progressives another lever to manage migration for their own benefit.
Like many other progressives, Mayorkas has repeatedly insisted the United States is a nation of immigrants. He also argues that immigrant-owned businesses are the “backbone of our … country” and that his “highest priority” is to transfer lawfully deported migrants to join family members in the United States.
Every year, the federal government breaks open the U.S. national labor market to allow U.S. employers to hire more than a million workers via the H-1B, H-2A, H-2B, L-1, J-1, TN, B1/B2, OPT, E-3, CPT, and other visa programs. The imported workers are not immigrants — but many work long hours at low wages in the hope of getting the hugely valuable prize of green cards from benevolent employers.
The H-2B program admits 66,000 workers per year. But each worker can stay for up to three years, perhaps creating a hidden workforce of 150,000 H-2B workers.
The annual inflow of visa workers keeps an ever-changing population of roughly 2 million white-collar and blue-collar workers in the United States. That population provides one foreign worker for every two Americans who enter the workforce each year.
The visa workers transmit much of their payroll back to their home countries, so reducing local sales for American retailers and their employers and also cutting tax receipts by local governments. The extra workers also deter companies from investing in labor-saving, wealth-generating machines.
Progressive-backed Wall Street investors use this flood of cheaper workers to wash away working-age Americans’ ability to leverage higher wages from their employers in their own national labor market.
Most of the foreign workers are used to fill the white-collar jobs indebted U.S. graduates need. Roughly one-quarter are blue-collar jobs in agriculture, manual labor, and the service sector.
Former President George W. Bush recently described his tree-farming business:
It’s not a very profitable business I want you to know, but it works because there are eight H-2B visa holders who come up [from Mexico] and work for us.
They’re skilled, big family people, they send their money home to their families, but [the H-2B visa program requires] they have to go home every year for two months. Then there’s a question as to whether or not the government let him back in after the two-year hiatus. That creates enormous uncertainty and if at some point, the government says “You can’t come back in,” then all of a sudden, we got a real problem.
“There’s nothing free about a market that props up bad business models with gifts of cheap foreign labor,” responded Rob Law, the director of regulatory affairs and policy for the Center for Immigration Studies, told Breitbart News.
In contrast, former President Donald Trump’s administration gradually set partial curbs on the inflow of white-collar and blue-collar workers, so helping to push up wags in Trump’s go-go economy.
But Biden’s government is dismantling those curbs because it is eager to help companies import workers, legally and illegally.
For example, the Mayorkas rule allows H-12B workers to switch employers. This serves as a partial remedy for abuse by employers, but it also allows U.S. employers to hire foreign workers from the resident pool of H-12B workers instead of from unemployed Americans.
Breitbart News reported in April:
Roughly 6.9 million Americans are out of the labor force entirely, but all want full-time employment. Another 5.8 million Americans are underemployed, working part-time jobs but wanting full-time employment.
In the fields in which working class Americans are forced to compete with foreign H-2B visa workers, unemployment rates remain high:
Construction unemployment rate: 8.6 percent
Hospitality industry unemployment rate: 19.9 percent
Restaurant industry unemployment rate: 11.8 percent
Food processing unemployment rate: 7.9 percent
Yet, the progressives who run DHS are also reluctant to give up their power over companies. For example, the Mayorkas rule requires U.S. employers who want the extra H-2B workers to advertise their jobs online and contact laid-off workers. The rule also promises 500 audits of U.S. employers.
The H-2B program is used by many employers who are on the low end of the U.S. labor market — landscapers, seasonal hotels, fish processors, for example. These employers are forced to hire Americans who could not get better jobs or permanent jobs, perhaps because of prison records, or tardiness, or combativeness towards employers.
This means that many employers prefer H-2B workers who tend to be easy to manage, diligent, and hard-working, partially because the dollars they earn are very valuable in their low-cost home countries.
But critics of the H-2B program say it makes it more difficult for lower-quality U.S. workers to get the training, habits, and experience they need to become better and high-paid workers.
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