Thursday, July 15, 2021

L.A. CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOR OPEN BORDERS GETS BEHIND GAVIN NEWSOM - WE NEED NEWSOM TO HELP BIDEN FLOOD AMERICA WITH 'CHEAP' LABOR - CALIFORNIA HANDS OUT $50 BILLION PER YEAR IN SOCIAL SERVICES TO ILLEGALS

Moving illegal aliens onto the food stamp rolls would be only the latest move by California Democrats and Newsom to entice more welfare-oriented immigration to the state.

The deep public opposition to labor migration is built on the widespread recognition that legal immigration, visa workers, and illegal migration undermine democratic self-government, fracture Americans’ society, move money away from Americans’ pocketbooks, and worsen living costs for American families.

L.A. Chamber of Commerce Sides with Democrats on Gavin Newsom Recall

California Gov. Gavin Newsom fields questions after a rally where he signed the California Comeback Plan relief bill Tuesday, July 13, 2021, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)
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The Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce announced Thursday the passage of a resolution to oppose the recall against California Democrat Gov. Gavin Newsom, ultimately siding with the Democrats on the effort.

The chamber, which says they serve more than 244,000 businesses in the L.A. country, released a statement following the passage of their resolution saying they oppose the effort because they believe that recalling the Democrat would “lead to a tumultuous and unnecessary interregnum where political wrangling and uncertainty will detract from the state’s economic relief efforts.”

“Recalls were devised to be used with evidence of grave malfeasance and risk to the general public, and during a time when Californians face a wide range of threats to post-pandemic economic recovery,” the L.A. Area Chamber President and CEO Maria Salinas said in a statement following the vote.

Salinas continued, this includes a “resurgence of coronavirus variants, struggles with the state’s power grid, devastating wildfires, and a historic drought, it is irresponsible to distract our officials from the economic recovery which Californians desperately need.”

“The people of California will have the opportunity to choose whether or not the Governor should secure a second term in less than 11 months at the June 7, 2022, primary election and at the general election in 15 months,” Salinas explained. “Los Angeles business leaders call on Governor Newsom to recognize the concerns of individuals whose businesses create jobs, support families, supply industries, and grow the economy,” she concluded.

This month, September 14 was set as the day for a special gubernatorial recall election. In September, the recall will “determine whether Gavin Newsom, Governor of the State of California, shall be recalled and if the majority vote on the question is to recall, to elect a successor.”

For the recall election, the ballots shall ask two questions: “First, should Newsom be removed, yes or no? The second question would be a list of replacement candidates to choose from if a majority of voters cast ballots to remove Newsom,” NPR reported.

Breitbart previously reported, “Newsom will be the second governor in California’s history to face a recall election. The last, Democrat Gray Davis, was recalled in 2003 and replaced by Republican actor-turned-politician Arnold Schwarzenegger.”


Mo Brooks: Wage Suppression is ‘#1 Priority of US Chamber of Commerce’

US Congressman Mo Brooks (C), R-AL, speaks with US Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene(R-GA) as they hold a press conference to call for the dismissal of Dr. Anthony Fauci on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, on June 15, 2021. (Photo by JIM WATSON / AFP) (Photo by JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty …
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DALLAS, Texas — U.S. Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL) says Republicans should have a simple position on illegal immigration: stand up for American workers.

“Republicans need to have the courage to stand up for the average American,” Brooks, a candidate for U.S. Senate, told Breitbart News at CPAC Dallas, “and quit catering to entities like the United States Chamber of Commerce who are hellbent on punishing Americans by suppressing their wages and taking jobs from them and handing them over to illegal aliens or lawful visa workers.”

“This is the Number 1 priority of the United States Chamber of Commerce: the suppression of wages, hurting American families and we need Republicans who are willing to stand up to that and do what’s in the best interest of America,” he said.

The Chamber, often derided as an organ of the Republican Party, raised eyebrows in the 2020 election when it endorsed 23 Democrats for reelection, The Hill reported.

In February, Chamber CEO Thomas Donohue praised President Joe Biden’s rollback of a number of President Donald Trump’s immigration policies:

We commend President Biden for taking action to ensure the reunification of separated families, address irregular migration across the Southern Border, and improve the functionality of our nation’s immigration system by conducting a top-to-bottom review of barriers to our legal immigration system. Policies adopted over the past several years have undermined critical employment-based visa programs and significantly hindered many different companies’ ability to expand their domestic operations and create jobs for Americans. President Biden’s order to coordinate immigration policy through the White House and his effort to ensure that legal immigration is fair and efficient are a clear indication of the priority his administration has placed on fixing our broken immigration system. We look forward to working with the Biden Administration to address these critical issues.

Brooks told Breitbart News new people need to be elected to the White House and Congress to fix the problems at the southern border.

“Our elected officials have made a lot of bad decisions and Americans have suffered as a consequence,” he said.

Brooks said roughly 2,000 Americans die each year at the hands of illegal aliens.

“If we had a secure southern border, that’s 2,000 Americans who would be alive each year,” but are not because of the porous border with Mexico. He said another 30,000 Americans die annually from drug overdoses.

“Where is the sympathy?” for them, he wondered.

“If you’re going to be an elected official for Americans, you would think that the lives of Americans would have some degree of priority,” Brooks said.

So far, it does not appear Brooks’s Democrat colleague would agree.

In June, U.S. Rep. Veronica Escobar (D-TX) stood at the southern border and likened it to the port of entry for Europeans a century ago.

“Welcome to El Paso. Welcome to my community, to the new Ellis Island, to the capital of the border,” Escobar told Vice President Kamala Harris during a brief visit.

Kyle Olson is a reporter for Breitbart News. He is also host of “The Kyle Olson Show,” syndicated on Michigan radio stations on Saturdays–download full podcast episodes. Follow him on Parler.

California’s disastrous one-party rule is affecting the Newsom recall effort

If you’ve ever run a business, you know you can never rest on your laurels. There’s always competition trying to beat you at your own game. There’s an ever-changing marketplace, where you must deal with supply chain, marketing, distribution, and attracting customers and then keeping them happy. You must work for your success, or the marketplace will gobble you up.

While politics is a different animal from commerce, there are a few similarities. Competition -- in the form of competing party platforms and individual competence and goals -- keeps the wheels turning. It forces voters to examine policy decisions, mandates coalition building, and requires politicians to prove that they’re doing their job well.

In a state with only one party in power and little chance that will change, none of those factors matter to those in office. You don’t ever have to work for your successes, argue the merits justifying your ideas, or pare down your expectations to try and unite voters and craft good policy. Everything is basically handed to you with no reason for argument. There’s no need to worry about tomorrow so, after a nice nap and a good, expensive dinner at the French Laundry, you can go home and relax.

California has devolved under its de facto one-party system. There are not enough Republicans in the state’s senate or assembly to push back against the overwhelming Democrat majorities. Of 21 members in the executive branch, only one, from the State Board of Equalization, is a Republican. While several of the other officeholders claim to be nonpartisan, it’s doubtful any actually are. It’s more of a convenient and lazy way to avoid political labels.

We once elected Ronald Reagan as governor, but that was then. Now, we’re being given the chance to recall Gavin Newsom, and everyone expects the recall to fail miserably. With the election moved up by several months, to Thursday, September 14th, it will be hard to get people to pay attention, much less figure out the merits of the alternative candidates. We all know that having only a single issue to vote for means exceptionally low turnout. The way the election is set up makes it even a steeper hill to climb.

The actual ballot has two sections. Part one asks people to vote yes or no on whether to recall Newsom. Part two kicks in only if more than 50% of voters give Newsom the ax. However, voters who vote “yes” to recall Newsom must immediately cast their vote for one of the candidates wanting to replace him. In addition, people who like Newsom may select a candidate, just in case Newsom gets the boot. Whoever gets the most votes, wins. No run-off in case there’s not a majority. Just win by one vote, and you’re Governor.

Apparently, all voters will receive ballots in the mail. They’ll have roughly a month to complete them, mail them in, or put them into a dropbox. There will also be in-person voting for several days, culminating on the 14th. Not that there’s much state-wide information available on that, so far.

The Republicans have yet to do anything to unite behind a candidate. Given that several Republicans have put themselves on the ballot, it seems there should be a primary first – but there’s not. Instead of working together to get rid of Newsom, each Republican candidate must fight the others. With a scant two months until election day, this seems a recipe for disaster.

It’s wise if we remember why we are recalling Newsom in the first place. He’s done nothing to mitigate the wildfire threat, and even the state’s budget for clearing brush was given the ax. He’s done nothing to stem the violence in the cities or support the rule of law. He has done nothing to mitigate homelessness. He’s acted the dictator on COVID, destroying small businesses. He certainly doesn’t support the police. He’s all in on “climate change” and the result is a state with the highest electric rates in the nation and an unreliable grid. He has done nothing to deal with our water shortages, or to help our farmers. Water infrastructure remains inadequate. Half our water reserves have been released to help a two-inch smelt. Despite the highest taxes in the nation, our roads are crumbling. Our schools have deteriorated to an embarrassing level and are now ranked 37th out of 50 states. That’s just off the top of my head.

The Republicans need to step up, today, and start consolidating against the foregone conclusion that they will lose. I had to look up who the chairperson of the party was in California, and it’s someone whose name I’ve never heard before, Jessica Patterson. She needs to be out there, front and center, with her fellow committee people.

I’d suggest that a grass-roots effort, much like the one that set this recall in motion, is the only way we can achieve the goal of getting rid of Newsom. He’s stacked the deck against us every way he can, most significantly by eliminating two months of campaign time. We all need to figure this out. Unite around a candidate. Preferably, one who doesn’t travel with a circus. Tempus fugit!

IMAGE: Gavin Newsom (cropped), edited in Pixlr. YouTube screen grab.



California May Expand Taxpayer-Funded Food Stamps to Illegal Aliens

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California Democrats are looking to expand the state’s taxpayer-funded food stamps program to qualifying illegal aliens, costing taxpayers $550 million annually.

Following negotiations between Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) and elected state Democrats, a proposal to open California’s food stamp program to illegal aliens has been reduced to ramping up the program’s infrastructure so that it can handle an influx in illegal alien enrollees should lawmakers and the governor pass such legislation.

That plan, costing taxpayers $30 million, could be coupled with legislation that would allow illegal alien households earning less than nearly $4,500 a month to secure food stamps. Analysts have projected that about a million illegal aliens in the state would be eligible for food stamps if the legislation is approved.

According to the Federation for American Immigration Reform, more than four million illegal aliens and their United States-born children live in California, a sanctuary state.

Already, about 35,000 legal immigrants in California are on the state’s food stamps program because they do not qualify for the federal government’s food stamps program.

Moving illegal aliens onto the food stamp rolls would be only the latest move by California Democrats and Newsom to entice more welfare-oriented immigration to the state.

This month, Newsom approved a state budget that opened the state’s health insurance program to qualifying low-income illegal aliens 50-years-old and over. As Breitbart News reported, California Democrats had sought to open the health insurance program to all illegal aliens living in the state.

The California Health Benefits Review Program admitted that the plan is likely to bring foreign nationals with health problems to the state to secure coverage, paid for by taxpayers.

John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Email him at jbinder@breitbart.com. Follow him on Twitter here.

GOP Senate Leader Frames Immigration Debate as ‘Disgusting … Border Crisis’

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The Senate GOP leader for the 2022 mid-term elections, Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL), is trying to narrow the national immigration debate to just a border crisis amid pressure from donors eager for more imported workers and consumers.

“This is clearly a border crisis, and no one knows it better than the people that live along the border and actually all over the state of Texas,” Scott told a conservative gathering in Texas on July 11.

Scott’s description of a “border crisis” buries all mention of the nationwide damage that immigration does to Americans’ jobs, wages, productivity, and housing. In numerous polls, the questions about pocketbook issues spike poll responses from the voters — including the non-ideological women who will largely decide the winner of the 2022 mid-term elections.

But that pocketbook message about national migration is anathema to the GOP donors whose cash is needed to help fund the 2022 campaigns.

So Scott’s “border crisis” pitch dodges the national economics.

Instead, he is pushing a visceral, emotional argument for voters to oppose the loose borders created by President Joe Biden and homeland security chief Alejandro Mayorkas. Scott told the CPAC audience:

I think we all should find it disgusting that Biden and Harris can sit idly by when you see a little 14-year-old Nicaraguan boy frightened because he was left in the desert by himself to die.

Think about that. Biden and Harris act like there’s no problem here, but there’s a 14-year-old little boy afraid he’s gonna die. Did you see that picture of those two little Ecuadorian girls — the three- and five-year-old girls dropped over a 14-foot wall, just abandoned in the middle of the night. Doesn’t it disgust you?

Think about it. We can all think of a three- and a five-year-old little girl. What are they doing? They’re playing out in the park; they’re playing with their toys. But these girls were left alone and scared. They had to be terrified. They probably had just traveled hundreds of miles. They probably had just one set of clothes.  Their whole family was worried about what was going to happen, just dropped in a foreign place.

That’s what Biden and Harris are doing. I’ve talked to Border Patrol agents who said the women, they’re so worried about being raped that they cover themselves with feces so they’ll be disgusting to men. This is what Biden-Harris are doing. It’s disgusting. And Harris has a cavalier attitude to this whole human toll that has happened along the border. And this is their crisis. It’s the Biden-Harris crisis.

Scott then outlined his 2022 plan to GOP voters:

So what we have to do is we have to talk about this, and we have to fight every day to make sure we have a secure border, and we’ve got to call the Democrats out for exactly what they are doing.

Now that’s my job. I’m the new chair of the National Republican Senatorial Committee. We are going to win in ’22, and as a U.S. Senator, I will do it every day, and I know your senators from Texas are doing it every day. We’re going to fight for secure borders.

Scott is betting that his negative “disgusting treatment of kids” message will overcome the Democrats’ investor-drafted and hopeful-sounding “humane, orderly, and safe” pitch.

So far, the Democrats’ uplifting message is winning — partly because it disguises the massive inflow of low-wage workers, high-occupancy renters, and taxpayer-aided consumers into Americans’ communities.

The media-backed “humane, orderly, and safe” strategy seems to be helping to boost support for Biden’s loose border policies, especially among suburban women. For example, a Harvard Harris poll of 2,006 registered voters, conducted June 15-17, showed that voters split 50 percent to 50 percent when they were asked, “Is the Biden administration creating an open border or is it just trying to enforce immigration laws more humanely?”

The House GOP leaders appear to be following the same don’t-mention-the-economics policy amid constant pressure from the investors, including Mark Zuckerberg’s FWD.us and its orchestra of pro-migration groups.

Scott’s office did not respond to questions from Breitbart News.

A one-sided July 11 report in Politico spotlighted the donor pressure on Scott, who must also raise many millions of dollars to help the GOP win the 202 midterms:

…figures speaking out include board members of the American Business Immigration Coalition (ABIC), who have spoken to 41 Republican senators about the bills. Some who describe themselves as lifelong Republicans say they may start voting across party lines if they don’t see the party bend on immigration. Two Republicans who spoke to us threatened to withhold financial support: Cuban-American billionaire Mike Fernandez, a former Republican turned independent who’s previously donated millions to GOP candidates, and Bob Worsley, a former GOP State Senator in Arizona.

“The people who have been there on the issue for a long time, like Lindsey Graham, are nowhere to be found at the moment,” said John Rowe, Exelon Chairman emeritus and national GOP bundler. “He doesn’t particularly want to talk to me at the moment. And that of course is frustrating because I’ve supported him for a very long time.”

In prior years, Fernandez and Rowe have bitterly denounced the GOP’s voter-enforced opposition to labor migration.

The corporate pressure is hitting many GOP leaders because investors gain whenever the federal government extracts more consumers, renters, and workers from foreign countries for use in the U.S. economy. For example, the Dallas Morning News posted a July 10 op-ed by Dennis Nixon, chief of the IBC Bank in Laredo, calling for an expansion of legal immigration:

We must thoroughly modernize U.S. immigration and asylum laws to adequately address the workforce needs of our economy. The truth is, we have a demographic problem, and without immigrants, we don’t have enough workers to meet our needs across virtually every job sector …

Finally, along the Texas-Mexico border many cities bridge the Rio Grande, like Laredo, Texas, and Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, and our border communities are really one city in two countries. We live, work and play as one community, and it’s time for Texas and the U.S. to listen to the solutions offered by those of us who call the border home.

Nixon’s bank would profit from more migration that expands the size of the local economy. Any expansion is good for investors — but the migration also cuts Americans’ wages, forces up their housing prices, lengthens their commutes, and make it more difficult to have children.

Each year, four million young Americans enter the workforce and are forced by their government to compete against a growing population of illegal migrants, against one million new legal immigrants, and the resident workforce of roughly two million temporary guest workers.

For many years, a wide variety of pollsters have shown deep and broad opposition to labor migration and the inflow of temporary contract workers into jobs sought by young U.S. graduates.

This opposition is multiracialcross-sexnon-racistclass-basedbipartisanrationalpersistent, and recognizes the solidarity Americans owe to each other.

The voter opposition to elite-backed economic migration coexists with support for legal immigrants and some sympathy for illegal migrants. But only a minority of Americans — mostly leftists — embrace the many skewed polls and articles pushing the 1950’s corporate “Nation of Immigrants” claim.

The deep public opposition to labor migration is built on the widespread recognition that legal immigration, visa workers, and illegal migration undermine democratic self-government, fracture Americans’ society, move money away from Americans’ pocketbooks, and worsen living costs for American families.

Migration moves wealth from employees to employers, from families to investors, from young to old, from children to their parents, from homebuyers to investors, from technology to stoop labor, from red states to blue states, and from the central states to the coastal states such as New York.

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