Friday, August 27, 2021

LARRY ELDER SAYS GAVIN NEWSOM HAS TURNED CALIFORNIA INTO A THIRD-WORLD DUMPSTER STATE

 

Exclusive: Larry Elder Breaks Down Why Blacks and Hispanics Want to Recall Gavin Newsom

In this July 13, 2021 file photo radio talk show host Larry Elder speaks to supporters during a campaign stop in Norwalk, Calif. Elder, in his first press conference since announcing his candidacy July 12, told reporters that if he replaces Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom in the Sept. 14 election …
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Larry Elder, talk radio host and Republican candidate for governor of California in the state’s special election, told Breitbart News on Friday that black and Hispanic Californians want to recall Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA).

Poor quality public education, rising rates of crime, and skyrocketing costs of living are the three primary reasons black and Hispanic voters in California want to remove Newsom, Elder stated.

“Eighty percent of the kids educated in government schools in California are black and brown,” he remarked. “The lion’s share of them are Hispanics, and they are getting a lousy education and they know it. The worst teachers, worst principals, the worst bureaucrats.”

Newsom’s criminal justice policies are driving a rise in crime across the Gold State, Elder held. He noted how Democrats and the broader left regularly frame their policies towards crime in racial terms. “Rising crime will disproportionately hurt black and brown people, the very people the left claim to care about.”

Elder remarked, “The [median] price of a home in California just hit $800,000. That is 150 percent [above] the national average, and according to Lee E. Ohanian, a professor who specializes in real estate matters at UCLA, the average price of a home in California is literally 50 percent more than it would be [if not for] rules and extreme environmental laws.”

“For all those reasons, Hispanic voters have had it,” he added. “The lion’s share of them — I think almost 70 percent — voted for Gavin Newsom just two years earlier. Now, the majority want him out.”

California’s failures in addressing many issues are “all because of [Newsom],” Elder assessed.

He said, “[Newsom] is a guy who lost $30 billion dollars through our Employment Development Department, money that should have been spent for unemployment benefits for Californians, because he shut down the state in the most draconian way, [more severe] than any other governor did. Instead, the money went to criminals inside the country [and] outside the country.”

He went on, “[Newsom] has mismanaged the forests. We’re having a water shortage. Crime is going up. Homelessness is going up. The cost of living [is] out of sight, which is why, for the very first time in California history, there’s a net migration of people out of California, and it’s not just millionaires and billionaires who are leaving. It’s also businesses.”

Pedestrians walk to the edge of the sidewalk to avoid stepping on people in tents and sleeping bags on Monday, April 13, 2020, in the tenderloin area of San Francisco. Local governments have begun moving large numbers of homeless into hotels as part of Operation Roomkey. Among the requirements are that people get tested when they check in and that medical staff at the hotel make regular checks to see if people's conditions change. (AP Photo/Ben Margot)

Pedestrians walk to the edge of the sidewalk to avoid stepping on people in tents and sleeping bags on Monday, April 13, 2020, in the tenderloin area of San Francisco. (AP Photo/Ben Margot)

“[Gavin Newsom] cracked down on churches,” Elder recalled of Newsom’s statewide lockdowns, ostensibly issues to reduce coronavirus transmission. “He left marijuana shops open. He left open the big box stores while mom and pops were shut down. One-third of all small businesses [were] destroyed, ended forever.”

Elder concluded, “One of the many things I’m going to do when I become governor is, to the extent that there are still mandates for vaccines and for face masks for state workers, they’re going to be repealed.”

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WE ONLY NEED MORE ILLEGALS, CONTINUE UNENFORCMENT AND BILLIONS IN WELFARE TO KEEP THEM JUMPING THE BORDERS AND OUR JOBS!

THAT IS WHAT NEWSOM HAS PROMISED THE SPECIAL INTERESTS THAT DEMAND UNLIMITED INVASION TO KEEP WAGES DEPRESSED.

According to the Fiscal Burden of Illegal Immigration on United States Taxpayers 2017 report, for the estimated 12.5 million illegal immigrants living in the country, the resulting cost is a $116 billion burden on the national economy and taxpayers each year, after deducting the $19 billion in taxes paid by some of those illegal immigrants.

The highest insured unemployment rates in the week ending August 7 were in Puerto Rico, Illinois, New Jersey, California, District of Columbia, Connecticut, New York, Rhode Island, Nevada, and the Virgin Islands.

CNN Warns: ‘Democratic Support for CA Governor Newsom Dwindling’

California Gov. Gavin Newsom (L) and Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf (R) talk with reporters after a news conference about the state's efforts on the homelessness crisis on January 16, 2020 in Oakland, California. Newsom was joined by Schaaf to announce that Oakland will receive 15 unused FEMA trailers for the …
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CNN’s Kyung Lah reported Wednesday on The Lead with Jake Tapper that support for California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) is “dwindling,” as even Democrats are thinking of voting against him in the recall election that concludes Sep. 14.

Lah spoke to several wavering Democrats, and reported (via CNN transcript, emphasis added):

LAH (voice-over): You would think rejecting the recall of Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom would be a no brainer for these three Los Angeles voters. But it’s not.

WEAVER: I have to say I’m really leaning very heavily towards the recall.

LAH (on camera): To recalling the governor?

WEAVER: Yes. I’m disappointed in the Democratic Party in general.

LAH (voice-over): Disappointed with the party in control with a supermajority of California state government, while problems grow, wildfires, drought, crime, cost of living, but the worst for them, homelessness, which has expanded through the pandemic now in neighborhoods across middle-class Los Angeles, including their own.

HELSETH: It’s like, let me work, let me pay my taxes, but provide me with safety and not be accosted by two homeless people within the matter of 15 minutes.

LAH (on camera): Is this Governor Newsom’s fault?

SANDOVAL: I think, I mean, technically — how can I even answer that? He’s the leader. It’s — everything starts from the top, and it goes down.

Lah reported that Democrats are outraged about homelessness in the state, and do not know if Gov. Newsom is listening to their concerns. One Democrat noted that if a Republican wins, she will feel “sick,” but she has trouble backing Newsom.

The White House confirmed Wednesday that President Joe Biden plans to campaign in the state for Newsom, but that could be an additional liability, as the situation in Afghanistan continues to become worse.

Joel B. Pollak is Senior Editor-at-Large at Breitbart News and the host of Breitbart News Sunday on Sirius XM Patriot on Sunday evenings from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. ET (4 p.m. to 7 p.m. PT). He is the author of the recent e-book, Neither Free nor Fair: The 2020 U.S. Presidential Election. His recent book, RED NOVEMBER, tells the story of the 2020 Democratic presidential primary from a conservative perspective. He is a winner of the 2018 Robert Novak Journalism Alumni Fellowship. Follow him on Twitter at @joelpollak.


HALF THE POPULATION OF CA ARE ILLEGALS.

THE GLOBALIST DEMOCRAT PARTY IS HELL BENT ON FLOODING ALL OF AMERICA WITH MORE ‘CHEAP’ LABOR ILLEGALS.

AMNESTY WILL ENABLE 50 MILLION ILLEGALS ACROSS AMERICA BRING UP THE REST OF MEXICO.

 

Los Angeles Is Squandering $1.2 Billion While Homeless Face a ‘Spiral of Death’

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRVYI_fAHHs

  

The Homeless Crisis of Los Angeles : Exploring Skid Row

 

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s70osRSxZdA

  

A Homeless Village Is Growing on Apple’s Silicon Valley Property

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LUCAS NOLAN

According to recent reports, a growing homeless encampment has been set up on dozens of acres of undeveloped land in the heart of Silicon Valley owned by tech giant Apple.

VICE News reports that despite Apple committing billions of dollars to fix California’s housing crisis, an encampment of homeless people living in RVs, shacks, and tents has taken over dozens of acres of undeveloped land owned by Apple in the center of Silicon Valley.

Between 30 to 100 homeless people have reportedly set up camp on the property owned by Apple in North San Jose. The area covers about 55 acres according to the local CBS affiliate KPIX. Some current residents of the site say that they feel they can be left alone there, despite the area’s proximity to PayPal’s corporate headquarters and other office buildings.

Before the start of the coronavirus pandemic, around 6,000 homeless people lived in San Jose with fewer than 1,000 beds available to them. It’s common for homeless people living outdoors and in vehicles across the Bay Area to be moved from place to place by security and police, those staying on the Apple property have largely been left alone according to Renee Corona who has lived in an RV on the property for nearly two years.

Corona, who receives disability payments but cannot afford to live in San Francisco where she was raised, stated: “This is an area where you’re secluded from the city. I don’t think a lot of people knew about this.” She added: “I’m grateful that they don’t kick us out. I just want to say thank you. They don’t bother us.”

San Jose City Council member David Cohen, whose district includes the property, told VICE News that his office is trying to schedule a meeting with Apple to discuss the site. “We’re setting up a meeting so that I can begin to talk to them about what we might be able to do to help the people who are living there, and to figure out some plan for offering services,” Cohen said.

Read more at VICE News here.

Lucas Nolan is a reporter for Breitbart News covering issues of free speech and online censorship. Follow him on Twitter @LucasNolan or contact via secure email at the address lucasnolan@protonmail.com

THESE VIDEOS SHOULD CONVINCE ANYONE OF THE DANGERS OF LETTING THE DEMOCRAT PARTY RUN THE COUNTRY.... INTO THE GROUND!

Walking Tour of Downtown Seattle in May 2021

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZAFbj-918A

 

Searching for Hope: Homeless in Sacramento

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TL5MROuIaGU

 

 

Inflation is Surging as Wages are Falling - People are Unprepared

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pu9Ad7Y3SZE

  

Is Los Angeles the worst run city in America - Homeless Update

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GeYZoWWBc4s&t=3s

  

Homeless Woman Doesn't Drink or Use Drugs. In a Tent for 8 Years.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kNDhSl_IyE

 

 Homeless Woman Has a Masters in Mathematics and Engineering


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nT3VGI0V5Rs

 

 What are you Spending Money On? - Prices Skyrocket

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TWlhnCmvws

 

The Economy is like a Bad Magic Trick - Full of Smoke and Mirrors


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTUKpeXiB2U&t=37s

 

MacArthur Park Is a Complete Wreck - Hollywood Homeless Breakdown

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81Yl97OypH0&t=32s

 

 Chaos by the Bay: The Truth About Homelessness in San Francisco

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uw8MACDZ3RI

Meet the Homeless Americans Living in Walmart Parking Lots

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1AWLo_fK1U

 

Living on the brink: One family’s struggle to survive the pandemic

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y92ubHU_AS8

 

Feeding a family on a food stamp budget

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXKkakwf6Vk

 

This is life on $7.50 an hour

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-SCB1t28nDU

Another line they cut into: Illegals get free public housing as impoverished Americans wait

 

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2019/04/another_line_they_cut_into_illegals_get_free_public_housing_as_impoverished_americans_wait.html

 

By Monica Showalter

Want some perspective on why so many blue sanctuary cities have so many homeless encampments hovering around?

Try the reality that illegal immigrants are routinely given free public housing by the U.S., based on the fact that they are uneducated, unskilled, and largely unemployable. Those are the criteria, and now importing poverty has never been easier. Shockingly, this comes as millions of poor Americans are out in the cold awaiting that housing that the original law was intended to help.

Thus, the tent cities, and by coincidence, the worst of these emerging shantytowns are in blue sanctuary cities loaded with illegal immigrants - Orange County, San Francisco, San Diego, Seattle, New York...Is there a connection? At a minimum, it's worth looking at.

The Trump administration's Department of Housing and Urban Development is finally trying to put a stop to it as 1.5 million illegals prepare to enter the U.S. this year, and one can only wonder why they didn't do it yesterday.

According to a report in the Washington Times:

The plan would scrap Clinton-era regulations that allowed illegal immigrants to sign up for assistance without having to disclose their status.

Under the new Trump rules, not only would the leaseholder using public housing have to be an eligible U.S. person, but the government would verify all applicants through the Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) database, a federal system that’s used to weed illegal immigrants out of other welfare programs.

Those already getting HUD assistance would have to go through a new verification, though it would be over a period of time and wouldn’t all come at once.

“We’ve got our own people to house and need to take care of our citizens,” an administration official told The Washington Times. “Because of past loopholes in HUD guidance, illegal aliens were able to live in free public housing desperately needed by so many of our own citizens. As illegal aliens attempt to swarm our borders, we’re sending the message that you can’t live off of American welfare on the taxpayers’ dime.”

The Times notes that the rules are confusingly contradictary, and some illegal immigrant families are getting full rides based on just one member being born in the U.S. The pregnant caravaner who calculatingly slipped across the U.S. in San Diego late last year, only to have her baby the next day, now, along with her entire family, gets that free ride on government housing. Plus lots of cheesy news coverage about how heartwarming it all is. That's a lot cheaper than any housing she's going to find back in Tegucigalpa.

Migrants would be almost fools not to take the offering.

The problem of course is that Americans who paid into these programs, and the subset who find themselves in dire circumstances, are in fact being shut out.

The fill-the-pews Catholic archbishops may love to tout the virtues of illegal immigrants and wave signs about getting 'justice" for them, but the hard fact here is that these foreign nationals are stealing from others as they take this housing benefit under legal technicalities. That's not a good thing under anyone's theological law. But hypocrisy is comfortable ground for the entire open borders lobby as they shamelessly celebrate lawbreaking at the border, leaving the impoverished of the U.S. out cold.

The Trump administration is trying to have this outrage fixed by summer. But don't imagine it won't be without the open-borders lawsuits, the media sob stories, the leftist judges, and the scolding clerics.

 

Los Angeles County Pays Over a Billion in Welfare to Illegal Aliens Over Two Years

 

BY MASOOMA HAQ

In 2015 and 2016, Los Angeles County paid nearly $1.3 billion in welfare funds to illegal aliens and their families. That figure amounts to 25 percent of the total spent on the county’s entire needy population, according to Fox News.

The state of California is home to more illegal aliens than any other state in the country. Approximately one in five illegal aliens lives in California, Pew reported.

Approximately a quarter of California’s 4 million illegal immigrants reside in Los Angeles County. The county allows illegal immigrant parents with children born in the United States to seek welfare and food stamp benefits.

The welfare benefits data acquired by Fox News comes from the Los Angeles County Department of Public Social Services and shows welfare and food stamp costs for the county’s entire population were $3.1 billion in 2015, $2.9 billion in 2016.

The data also shows that during the first five months of 2017, more than 60,000 families received a total of $181 million.

Over 58,000 families received a total of $602 million in benefits in 2015 and more than 64,000 families received a total of $675 million in 2016.

Robert Rector, a Heritage Foundation senior fellow who studies poverty and illegal immigration, told Fox the costs represent “the tip of the iceberg.”

“They get $3 in benefits for every $1 they spend,” Rector said. It can cost the government a total of $24,000 per year per family to pay for things like education, police, fire, medical, and subsidized housing.

In February of 2019, the Los Angeles city council signed a resolution making it a sanctuary city. The resolution did not provide any new legal protections to their immigrants, but instead solidified existing policies.

In October 2017, former California governor Jerry Brown signed SB 54 into law. This bill made California, in Brown’s own words, a “sanctuary state.” The Justice Department filed a lawsuit against the State of California over the law. A federal judge dismissed that suit in July. SB 54 took effect on Jan. 1, 2018.

According to Center for Immigration Studies, “The new law does many things: It forbids all localities from cooperating with ICE detainer notices, it bars any law enforcement officer from participating in the popular 287(g) program, and it prevents state and local police from inquiring about individuals’ immigration status.”

Some counties in California have protested its implementation and joined the Trump administration’s lawsuit against the state.

California’s campaign to provide public services to illegal immigrants did not end with the exit of Jerry Brown. His successor, Gavin Newsom, is just as focused as Brown in funding programs for illegal residents at the expense of California taxpayers.

California’s budget earmarks millions of dollars annually to the One California program, which provides free legal assistance to all aliens, including those facing deportation, and makes California’s public universities easier for illegal-alien students to attend.

According to the Fiscal Burden of Illegal Immigration on United States Taxpayers 2017 report, for the estimated 12.5 million illegal immigrants living in the country, the resulting cost is a $116 billion burden on the national economy and taxpayers each year, after deducting the $19 billion in taxes paid by some of those illegal immigrants.

BLOG: MOST FIGURES PUT THE NUMBER OF ILLEGALS IN THE U.S. AT ABOUT 40 MILLION. WHEN THESE PEOPLE ARE HANDED AMNESTY, THEY ARE LEGALLY ENTITLED TO BRING UP THE REST OF THEIR FAMILY EFFECTIVELY LEAVING MEXICO DESERTED.

 

New data from the U.S. Census Bureau shows that more than 22 million non-citizens now live in the United States.

 In July, the latest available report, Yuma Sector agents apprehended nearly 18,000 migrants. Of those, officials classified 5,320 as Single Adults, 8,649 Family Unit Aliens, and 811 as Unaccompanied Alien Children.

Jobless Claims Rise for First Time in Five Weeks

President Joe Biden speaks during an event on clean cars and trucks, on the South Lawn of the White House, Thursday, Aug. 5, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
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The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits climbed higher for the first time in five weeks, highlighting how the pace of economic growth appears to have slowed in August.

The Labor Department reported Thursday that initial claims rose to 353,000 from a slight upwardly revised 349,000 a week earlier.

Although the economy was growing rapidly in the second quarter of the year, data from July and particularly August appear to indicate the economy slowing by more than expected in the second half of the year. That looks to be an response to the resurgence of the coronavirus thanks to the highly contagious delta variant and prices moving sharply higher, triggering a precautionary saving response by consumers and lowering demand for leisure services.

The government reports continuing claims with a two-week delay. For the week ending on August 14, there were 2,862,000 continuing claims, a decrease of only 3,000 from the previous week. The lack of progress at bringing down continuing claims may be due to enhancements to unemployment benefits from the federal government—which include the ability to collect benefits for far longer than usual and an extra $300 per month—discouraging the jobless from seeking or accepting work.

Rising delta infections may also be causing some Americans to hesitate to return to work. Others may be holding back from taking jobs out of fear that schools may not reopen or close again.

Recently, employers are also likely holding back at expanding payrolls giving the uncertainty about what demand will look like this fall.

There were 10.1 million unfilled jobs at the end of June and reent surveys show that many businesses say they are having trouble hiring qualified workers.

The highest insured unemployment rates in the week ending August 7 were in Puerto Rico, Illinois, New Jersey, California, District of Columbia, Connecticut, New York, Rhode Island, Nevada, and the Virgin Islands.

Biden’s Economy: More New Homes for the Wealthy, Fewer New Homes for Everyone Else

President Joe Biden speaks about prescription drug prices and his "Build Back Better" agenda from the East Room of the White House, Thursday, Aug. 12, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
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The U.S. is building new homes at a faster pace than expected but it is not building many inexpensive homes that could be purchased by first-time buyers or Americans with modest incomes.

Sales of new homes rose one percent in July to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 708,000, data from the Census Bureau showed Tuesday. The monthly rise would have been bigger were it not for the fact that June was revised up from a rate of 676,000 to 701,000.

Sales had fallen in February, April, May, and June as prices soared to record levels, builders faced surging lumber prices, and the labor supply grew scarce.

Home prices continue to skyrocket. The median price of a new home sold in July rose to $390,500, up 18.4 percent from a year ago, The average sales price in July hit a record $446,000, up 17.6 percent from a year ago.

Far fewer of the new homes being sold are on the less pricey end of the market. Back in 2019, homes priced at $399,000 or less made up 67.7 percent of sales. Last month, that had dropped to just 50.5 percent.

BOCA RATON, FL (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

Homes priced under $150,000 accounted for 1.9 percent of the market in 2019. Last month, they were so low that the government did not even assign them a number. Houses in the $150,000 to $199,000 range were 7.6 percent of the 2019 market. Last month, just 1.5 percent. Houses in the $200,000 to $299,000 range went from 33.2 percent to 22 percent.

The more expensive houses increasingly make up a larger share of the market. The $400,000 to $499,000 range grew from 13.9 percent to 22 percent. The $500,000 to $749,000 range went from 13.2 percent to 17.5 percent. More expensive houses were 5 percent of the 2019 market and 7.9 percent of the July 2021 market.

Bill McBride of the Calculated Risk blog explains the transformation of the market in recent years:

During the housing bust, the builders had to build smaller and less expensive homes to compete with all the distressed sales.  When housing started to recovery – with limited finished lots in recovering areas – builders moved to higher price points to maximize profits.

Then the average and median house prices mostly moved sideways since 2017 due to home builders offering more lower priced homes.  Prices picked up during the pandemic, and really picked up recently.

The market is nowhere near as frenzied as it was a year ago. New home sales are 27.2 percent below the pace set in the summer of 2020, when families fled cities after schools closed and office work went remote. Sales crested at a rate of 993,000 units in January.

The number of new homes for sale at the end of July rise to 367,000, up 5.5 percent June and 26.1 percent higher than a year ago.

The months of supply increased in July to 6.2 months from 6.0 months in June, a bit higher than average but in line with what realtors consider a balanced market. The longest inventory ever was 12.1 months in 2009. The lowest was 3.5 months in October of last year.

In the heart of Miami, among the towering skyscrapers that rise above the Bay of Biscayne, the eye-catching new luxury condo building by late star architect Zaha Hadid dominates the skyline. The unique curved “exoskeleton” design of the One Thousand Museum building has created buzz. The futuristic building is the only residential space in downtown Miami with a helipad.  (Photo by Eva Marie UZCATEGUI / AFP) (Photo by EVA MARIE UZCATEGUI/AFP via Getty Images)

But unless the trend toward more expensive houses changes, that will do little the help first-time buyers or those looking for less expensive homes.

The market for new homes is a fraction of the overall housing market but it has an outsized economic impact because home building is labor and material intensive, employing workers with a full range of skill and experience levels. And new homes need to be outfitted with appliances, driving up demand for durable goods.

 

Polls: Few Democrats See Migration, Amnesty as Top Problem

TIJUANA, MEXICO - APRIL 29: Members of a caravan of Central Americans who spent weeks traveling across Mexico walk from Mexico to the U.S. side of the border to ask authorities for asylum on April 29, 2018 in Tijuana, Baja California Norte, Mexico. More than 300 immigrants, the remnants of …
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Just 1.4 percent of Democrats rate immigration as a top problem for government, even as Mark Zuckerberg’s astroturf empire is still pushing Congress to pass a massive, wealth-shifting amnesty.

Just four out of 285 Democrats polled in August said “immigration” is a top problem, according to an August 24 statement from Gallup.

Forty-one percent of Democrats rated coronavirus as the top problem, 10 percent cited “the government,” 6 percent cited the economy, and 5 percent cited “race relations.”

In contrast, Gallup showed that 23 percent of Republicans offered immigration as the answer to the question, “What do you think is the most important problem facing this country today?”

An August Ipsos poll for Reuters showed that only 5 percent of Democrats and 9 percent of independents described “immigration” as the most important problem facing America. The poll of 1,002 was conducted August 18-19. In contrast, “environment and climate” was picked by 13 percent of Democrats and 9 percent of independents.

Meanwhile, pro-migration advocates are pushing Congress to pass four large amnesties — for at least 8 million people — within the pending budget reconciliation bill.

This push is being led by Mark Zuckerberg’s FWD.us network of coastal investors who stand to gain from more cheap labor, government-aided consumers, and high-occupancy renters.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg arrives for the 8th annual Breakthrough Prize awards ceremony at NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California on November 3, 2019. (Photo by JOSH EDELSON / AFP) (Photo by JOSH EDELSON/AFP via Getty Images)

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg arrives for the 8th annual Breakthrough Prize awards ceremony at NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California on November 3, 2019. (Photo by JOSH EDELSON/AFP via Getty Images)

The investors’ push is filled out by donor-fundedprogressive-run groups, such as United We Dream, and is aided by other business groups, such as the American Immigration Lawyers Association.

For example, FWD.us president Todd Schulte tweeted a link to an August 20 article in RollCall.com, touting the use of reconciliation to pass the amnesties via a very narrow majority vote:

Facing the prospect of death by filibuster once again — bills legalizing Dreamers have been filibustered five times in the last 15 years — Democrats have unified around a plan to pass these measures through budget reconciliation. This should not be controversial …

Opponents of the immigration measures, however, are already baldly asserting that such reforms cannot be advanced through reconciliation.

The progressives are touting donor-funded polls that show apparently strong support for amnesties. But the carefully selected questions sideline jobs and wages, play up claimed virtues of migrants, and still get only minority “strong” support for amnesty. For example, in July, the investor-backed Data for Progress group got only 34 percent strong support — and only 14 percent strong opposition — for this skewed question:

Do you support or oppose legislation that would create an earned path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants who were brought to the United States as children, people who are contributing and working here legally due to war or natural disaster in their home countries, and farmworkers and other essential workers?  [Emphasis added]

Democrats know their amnesties are unpopular but are counting on passivity by the TV networks and the GOP leadership to reassure Democratic legislators in swing districts. For example, an August-recess memo released by the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee completely ignored the pending amnesty, saying:

This research shows that Democrats have an effective message regarding their legislative agenda and accomplishments, including: cutting taxes, growing jobs through investments in infrastructure and lowering health care costs.

In March, Zuckerberg’s group released a polling memo that admitted the public is very uncomfortable about the impact of migration on jobs and amnesty:

It is better to focus on all of the aforementioned sympathetic details of those affected [by an amnesty] than to make economic arguments, including arguments about wages or demand for labor. As we have seen in the past, talking about immigrants doing jobs Americans won’t do is not a helpful frame, and other economic arguments are less effective than what is recommended above.

The FWD.us memo urges Democrats to focus voters’ attention on what they claim are deserving migrants, such as illegals who took Americans’ jobs in economic sectors that are deemed essential:

• Reminding voters of the criteria for citizenship also boosts support and adds to the public’s comfort with granting citizenship. Some of the more popular criteria for citizenship inclusion are being regularly employed and paying taxes, having a spouse or child who has served in the military, living in America for many years, and being in danger upon a return to their home country.

• Adapting family separation messaging to the debate over citizenship is our most resonant message. Voters strongly support Biden’s action to end family separation policy at the border, and in testing a variety of messages in support of citizenship, the item below tests best: “It is cruel and wrong to deport people who have family roots in the United States, and work, pay taxes, and contribute to our communities. We must stop separating families and allow hardworking immigrants to gain legal status and a pathway to citizenship so that we keep families together.”

In contrast, a job-centered poll by the Federation for American Immigration Reform produced very different results in June:

Across all 10 battleground states, voter opinion was fairly consistent on key issues related to immigration amidst the current health and economic crises:

By about margins of 2 to 1, voters support “reductions in immigration and guest workers admissions” during the crisis.

Strong majorities of voters in all ten states believe that “limiting admission of new immigrants and guest workers will improve the chances of laid-off American workers being rehired.”

In all ten states, some 75% to 80% of voters believe that it is prudent to “slow the admission of foreign nationals until we can provide thorough health screening to everyone entering the country.”

By majorities of about 2 to 1, voters prioritize reducing overall immigration and strengthening immigration enforcement and border security, over increasing immigration, granting amnesty to illegal aliens, and decriminalizing illegal immigration.

The long-standing federal policy of extraction migration pulls many workers, consumers, and renters from poor countries for use in the U.S. economy. The economic policy inflates the labor supply and boosts consumer spending, so aiding companies and investors.

The migration is deeply unpopular because it damages ordinary Americans’ career opportunities, cuts their wages, raises their rents, curbs their productivity, shrinks their political clout, widens regional wealth gaps, and wrecks their democratic, equality-promoting civic culture.

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-basedbipartisan,  rationalpersistent, and recognizes the solidarity Americans owe to each other.


10 Migrants Found in Fake Border Patrol Vehicle in Arizona

Fake Border Patrol vehicle seized by Tucson Station agents in a failed human smuggling incident. (Photo: U.S. Border Patrol/Tucson Sector)
Photo: U.S. Border Patrol/Tucson Sector
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Tucson Sector Border Patrol agents found 10 migrants being smuggled in a fake Border Patrol SUV. The driver also wore a cloned uniform.

Agents assigned to the Tucson Station made an unusual arrest this week when they foiled a human smuggling attempt featuring a fake Border Patrol vehicle, Sector Chief Patrol Agent John Modlin tweeted.

The driver of what appeared to be a Border Patrol SUV wore a uniform to appear as a federal agent, the chief stated. Inside, agents found 10 migrants plus the driver.

Agents took all 11 people into custody.

In December 2015, Laredo Sector agents apprehended a human smuggler using a fake Border Patrol SUV to move 12 migrants into the U.S., Breitbart Texas reported.

The incident happened on Interstate 35 at mile marker 65 near the town of Cotulla, nearly 70 miles into Texas. A Border Patrol agent became suspicious of the cloned vehicle while he was following it, Border Patrol Agent Hector Garza told Breitbart Texas while acting in his capacity as president of the National Border Patrol Council, Local 2455. After stopping the suspicious vehicle, the driver was arrested and the agent found 12 migrants stuffed inside the Chevy Tahoe painted with Border Patrol markings.

In August 2018, human smugglers again attempted to use a fake vehicle to move their human cargo. This time, the smugglers attempted to get through the Falfurrias Border Patrol checkpoint utilizing a fake EMS unit.

Bob Price serves as associate editor and senior news contributor for the Breitbart Texas-Border team. He is an original member of the Breitbart Texas team. Price is a regular panelist on Fox 26 Houston’s What’s Your Point? Sunday-morning talk show. Follow him on Twitter @BobPriceBBTX and Facebook.

1100 Migrants Apprehended After ‘Breaching Old Barrier,’ Says Border Patrol

Yuma Sector agents apprehend 1,100 migrants. (Photo: U.S. Border Patrol)
Photo: U.S. Border Patrol
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Yuma Sector Border Patrol agents apprehended about 1,100 migrants over the weekend who illegally crossed the border from Mexico. Officials report the migrants “breached the old primary fence.”

Yuma Sector Chief Patrol Agent Chris Clem tweeted border security surveillance video screenshots showing multiple groups of migrants staging to cross outdated border barrier technology in southwest Arizona. During the weekend, agents apprehended approximately 1,100 migrants after they made their way into the U.S.

In a separate incident on Monday, Yuma Sector agents received a call for help from a 50-year-old woman who became overheated after entering the Imperial Sand Dunes area. A CBP Air and Marine Operation aircrew with onboard BORSTAR and air interdiction agents found the woman and provided medical assistance to the overheated woman.

In July, the latest available report, Yuma Sector agents apprehended nearly 18,000 migrants. Of those, officials classified 5,320 as Single Adults, 8,649 Family Unit Aliens, and 811 as Unaccompanied Alien Children.

Most significantly was the increase in apprehension of family units. The apprehension of the nearly 9,000 migrants represents an increase of 8,909 percent over the previous July.

Bob Price serves as associate editor and senior news contributor for the Breitbart Texas-Border team. He is an original member of the Breitbart Texas team. Price is 

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