JOE BIDEN HAS SABOTAGED THE AMERICAN WORKER FOR AS LONG AS HE'S MADE MILLIONS SUCKING OFF BRIBES FROM BANKSTERS AND RED CHINA
Idaho feels impact of drug trafficking from border
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFiTwBf6HwI
Gov. Abbott blasts Biden's 'catastrophic open border policies' for migrant crisis
Texas Dem. Legislator Calls on Biden to Approve Border Emergency Declaration
Texas State Representative Eddie Morales, Jr. (D-Eagle Pass) penned a letter to President Joe Biden requesting approval of Governor Greg Abbott’s border emergency declaration. An approval by the president would allow FEMA to reimburse residents for damages caused by migrants.
“Last week, on October 13th, I wrote to President Biden urging him to grant a Federal Emergency Authorization for the border crisis,” Representative Morales wrote in a Facebook post about the letter. “Initially, he rejected to grant a Federal Emergency Authorization, but Texas is now appealing.”
In June, Governor Abbott told Breitbart Texas he would issue a State of Emergency Declaration along the state’s border with Mexico.
“The influx across the border is out of control, and the Biden Administration has shown that is not going to step up and do its job,” Governor Abbott told Breitbart Texas shortly before the public announcement on June 10. “And amidst reports of even more people coming in across the border, we know we have to step up and do more.”
President Biden refused the application for FEMA support and has not spoken with Abbott a single time since his inauguration.
“I am fighting hard for President Biden to grant this authorization because I believe families should not have to bear the financial responsibility from the damages brought on by migrant crossings,” Morales continued in his Facebook post. “My office has received reports from families of migrants coming up to their homes, and in some instances, breaking in. We have also heard reports of ranchers having their fences cut and people’s water lines severed. Victims of this damage should not bear the financial responsibility of repairs.”
In July, Texas Farm Bureau President Russell Boening told Breitbart Texas, “The sheer magnitude and number of people moving through is overwhelming. The brashness and expectations of the people is different than years ago.”
In the article with Boening’s interview, Texas farmers and ranchers described the fear they live under and the cost of damage created by the historic mass migrants across the border with Mexico.
“Families and individuals along the border are often scared for their safety,” Morales wrote in the letter to Biden. “The people I represent — the people who live in these communities — do not deserve to be subject to this fear, nor should they be subject to having to pay for the damages to their property.”
“Democrat to Democrat, this does not need to be a partisan matter,” the Texas state rep. continued. “These communities are pleading for the safety and security of American and Texas citizens.”
Morales said the burden on his constituents is too great and their community resources are too minimal to deal with this border crisis.
“We need help and relief,” Morales concluded. “I ask that we put partisan politics aside and the federal government approve relief for communities who can no longer bear the costs.”
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 Face
Biden's Pick for CBP Chief Won't Call Border Crisis a 'Crisis'
(CNSNews.com) - Tucson, Arizona Police Chief Chris Magnus, tapped to be President Biden's Customs and Border Protection Commissioner, is the latest Biden appointee to dance around the word "crisis" as it applies to the wide-open southern border, where drugs and foreigners continue surging into the United States.
At his confirmation hearing on Tuesday, Magnus was asked a simple question that he did not answer to the satisfaction of Sen. Todd Young (R-Ind.).
"Mr. Magnus, I would like to start off with a yes or no question," Young said. "Do you believe we have a crisis on the southern border, yes or no?”
"Senator, I'm not sure -- does it really matter whether we call it a major challenge, a crisis, a big problem?" Magnus answered.
Young told him, "I think it speaks to a level of urgency and seriousness of purpose and understanding of the gravity of the situation. I mean, presumably, one would answer a call to service in this position because you understand the importance of this moment in history to be commissioner of CBP. So, do we have a crisis on the border? Yes or no?"
"Senator, let me assure you that no one believes there is greater urgency to this matter than I do. I have been at the southern border--"
"So it's urgent," Young interrupted. "The characterization of 'urgent' strikes the common ear as less than a crisis. Are you saying there is not a crisis at the border?"
Senator, I-- no, I don't think there -- I don't think, I don't speak to urgent as less serious at all--" Magnus started to say.
"Is there a crisis or is there not a crisis at the border?" Young asked again:
"Senator, I would say that my highest priority at this point--"
"I didn't ask your priority," Young interrupted again. "I asked you to characterize the situation at the border. Is there a crisis at the border? You have been nominated to serve as commissioner to the Customs and Border Patrol (Protection) agency at a time that I regard as a crisis. Are you saying there's not a crisis?"
"Senator, what I'm certainly trying to convey is how serious I take what's happening at the border and the amount of work that I want to put in to addressing it."
"Noted," Young said. "Noted. DHS tells us that we've already seen 1.3 million illegal border crossings so far this year. That's about 1.5 times the population of Indianapolis, Indiana. I would say that's a crisis. What number of illegal crossings would you consider to be a crisis? What if we were to quintuple that number? Would you then call it a crisis?" Young asked.
"Senator, I appreciate your question, and I'm already doing my best to acknowledge that the situation is very serious. It would be regardless of what we call it -- it is something important to me."
"I'll move on," Young interrupted.
Biden CBP Nominee Puts Admin to the Left of Obama on Immigration
Former police chief Chris Magnus in 2020 rejected federal grant for border towns
President Joe Biden’s pick to lead Customs and Border Protection, while working as police chief in Tucson, Ariz., rejected funding for a border security program championed by the Obama administration, the latest example of the White House’s commitment to undo years of immigration policy once thought of as a consensus between Democrats and Republicans.
Chris Magnus, a champion of softer policing tactics, rejected a federal grant in January 2020 that assisted border towns, arguing the program, first implemented by the Bush administration in 2006, was inconsistent with the Tucson Police Department’s priorities "and the expectation of the community we serve."
His opposition to the grant was partially rooted in the Trump administration's refusal to let Tucson spend part of the grant money on humanitarian aid. Magnus's request went far beyond the parameters of the program, called Operation Stonegarden, which "funds investments in joint efforts to secure the United States' borders." A description of the latest iteration of the program under the Biden administration does not say whether funds may be used for medical treatment or housing illegal immigrants.
Operation Stonegarden was championed by former president Barack Obama, who injected millions more dollars into the program than was allocated by the Bush administration as part of a broader effort to deter narcotics trafficking and cartel violence. Former Department of Homeland Security secretary Janet Napolitano called the grants "critical" and said they would "ensure that our first responders are equipped with the resources they need to confront the complex and dynamic challenges that exist along our borders."
As the southern border sees a record number of crossings, the Biden administration remains committed to liberalizing the nation's immigration system with a range of new policies, including relaxed asylum rules, stricter deportation protocols, and fewer raids against suspected illegal immigrants. Magnus appears prepared to oversee these policies. In 2017, he wrote in an op-ed for the New York Times that he was "deeply troubled" by the Trump administration’s opposition to local sanctuary policies, a practice by Democrat-controlled cities that sharply limits cooperation with federal immigration authorities.
Magnus's decision to reject the funds in 2020 sparked outrage from his own department, with the Tucson Police Officers Association calling the decision "bad for public safety in our community."
"The Stonegarden deployments have resulted in hundreds of arrests that would not have occurred without this federal money. Additionally, the Stonegarden deployments have taken countless guns and drugs off the streets of Tucson," the association's president, Tony Archibald, said at the time. "Without these federally funded overtime deployments, an already understaffed police department will have a hard time addressing these crime issues."
Toward the end of his second term, Obama instituted a policy that denied Department of Justice grants to any jurisdiction that refused to enforce federal immigration law. His Justice Department also released a rule in February 2016 that made it harder for sanctuary cities to help illegal aliens in federal custody avoid deportation.
That move was applauded by Republicans, with former Texas representative John Culberson (R.) saying he was "deeply grateful."
Biden reversed the Obama-era policy and his Justice Department has sought dismissal of any Supreme Court cases concerning sanctuary cities.
On the campaign trail, Biden chided his former boss for overseeing a "long-broken and chaotic" immigration system. In a debate with former president Donald Trump, he said the Obama administration "made a mistake" by deporting hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens. He promised to make amnesty a centerpiece of his administration.
Last month, Obama granted an interview to ABC News where he offered veiled criticism of the Biden administration's handling of the migrant crisis. As thousands of Haitian migrants were stranded under a bridge on Del Rio, Texas, the former president said the scene was a "painful reminder that we don't have this right yet and we've got more work to do," before rejecting the idea of open borders as "unsustainable."
"And the question is now: Are we gonna get serious about dealing with this problem in a systemic way, as opposed to these one-offs where we're constantly reacting to emergencies?" Obama said. "And I think that that's something that every American should wanna put an end to."
Magnus's confirmation hearing will be held in the Senate Finance Committee on Oct. 19.
As Border Crisis Mounts, First Lady Boosts Group That Helps Illegals Avoid Arrest
Kansas City's El Centro led by Dem donor, tied to groups pushing CRT
As the crisis at the southern border becomes a political liability for her husband, first lady Jill Biden (Ed.D.) promoted a private school run by a Democratic donor that advises illegal immigrants on how to avoid arrest.
Biden visited El Centro Academy in Kansas City, Kan., on Tuesday at the request of Rep. Sharice Davids (D., Kan.), according to El Centro president and CEO Irene Caudillo, who has made political contributions to both Davids and the Biden campaign. El Centro's nonprofit arm dabbles in more than reading, writing, and arithmetic. It has published a series of videos that instruct illegal immigrants on how to avoid arrest from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. One video, for example, advises viewers to ignore ICE agents altogether during an interaction and contact "a member of the community who does have status." Caudillo also worked with the Greater Kansas City Chamber of Commerce to create "safe spaces" for immigrants by prohibiting local cooperation with ICE to "protect residents from deportation."
Biden's visit comes as her husband's administration scrambles to deal with an unprecedented border crisis. The number of illegal crossings at the southern border is at a multi-decade high, with law enforcement expected to report nearly two million migrant encounters in fiscal year 2021. The Biden administration in September announced new rules that limit ICE's ability to arrest and deport illegal immigrants.
First lady Biden, who was joined by Small Business Administration head Isabel Guzman, publicly embraced El Centro as the perfect site for a "charla"—Spanish for "chat"—with Hispanic community members. She thanked the academy "for all you do" in a Tuesday tweet. The White House did not return a request for comment. Caudillo told the Washington Free Beacon she did not discuss immigration with Biden and "shared our El Centro story privately with her."
In addition to Caudillo's illegal immigration advocacy, El Centro has received substantial funding from UnidosUS, a liberal immigration group that has defended teaching critical race theory in K-12 schools, calling the controversial curriculum "a truthful retelling of our nation's history." Caudillo also serves on the board of Revolucion Educativa, an affiliate of the Kansas City, Mo.-based Latinx Education Collaborative that has promoted critical race theory as an "important" framework to include in middle and high schools.
The affiliation could present a political liability for Davids. While the Kansas State Board of Education has contended that critical race theory "is not part of Kansas academic standards," one district in the state scrapped a planned diversity training after local parents argued it included critical race theory teachings.
Davids herself faced criticism in August after she endorsed a list of books from a self-described "radical" book publisher. Several of the titles are considered critical race theory resources, including Black Lives Matter at School, The Anti-Racist Writing Workshop: How to Decolonize the Creative Classroom, How Capitalism Underdeveloped Black America, and From #Black Lives Matter to Black Liberation.
Davids did not return a request for comment.
Biden has looked to distance herself from the ongoing border crisis in the past after reports emerged in HuffPost and other media outlets that the first lady planned to take a leading role in a "task force to reunite separated immigrant families." In March, the first lady's office insisted she had "no formal role" in the administration's efforts. Biden will, however, have a formal role in the White House's political operations—the first lady is set to stump for Terry McAuliffe in Virginia on Friday as Democrats look to avoid a high-profile gubernatorial loss in a state they won by double digits in 2020.
THIS FUCKER LAWYER MAYORKAS FIGHTS TOOTH AND NAIL AGAINST E-VERIFY AND CAN'T OPEN HIS MOUTH WITHOUT MORE LIES COMING OUT ABOUT BIDEN'S INVASION.
REALITY IS THAT NAFTA JOE BIDEN HAS ALWAYS FOUGHT AGAINST THE AMERICAN WORKER!
Biden’s border chief, Alejandro Mayorkas, has already spent much of 2021 helping the CEOs and shareholders to re-inflate the cheap-labor bubble that hurt millions of Americans.
Since January, he has admitted at least 800,000 working-age migrants, and rolled back enforcement of U.S. labor law in abusive workplaces. The huge inflow has boosted the number of no-English speaking workers in Virginia and elsewhere.
Restaurant Execs: Less Migration Forces More Respect for American Employees
The shortage of migrants and willing Americans is forcing food-industry CEOs to treat their employees with more respect and dignity, says the personnel chief at one of the nation’s largest restaurant firms.
“You’ve got to be receptive to feedback,” Rick Badgley at Brinker International which owns the Chili’s Maggiano’s Little Italy restaurant chains, told an industry conference on October 13. He continued:
The workforce that we’re dealing with now has high standards, high demands, and high expectations. Make sure you’re investing the time to listen, listen to your team members, they have invaluable feedback for you.
Employees “have very distinct and really easy-to-follow motivators,” said Badgley told attendees at the conference, which was organized by food-delivery firm Doordash:
What we’ve experienced at the macro level down to the restaurant level, is that they [most] want flexibility with what has happened with what we call now the gig economy, the side hustle …
[And] compensation is important to everybody. What we’ve found through surveys and talking to our frontline employees, is that we need to align their compensation with their monthly bills.
Many food-industry companies hired workers under “at will” contracts where the employees do not know how many hours they will be scheduled to work each day. The contracts leave them with little ability to work other jobs, or even to arrange regular babysitting for their kids.
“Traditionally in restaurants, it was: ‘Hey, this is the job. If you want these hours, great; if not, we’ll find somebody else,’” Christopher Floyd, owner of a food-industry recruitment firm told the New York Times. “Now employers have to say, ‘You have the qualities we’re looking for; maybe we can work out a more flexible schedule that works for you.’
Customers dine at the Greek restaurant Molos in Weehawken, New Jersey on February 6, 2021, amid the coronavirus pandemic. (KENA BETANCUR/AFP via Getty)
Badgley’s recommendation comes amid widespread dissatisfaction by American restaurant workers, according to a September report by Black Box Intelligence, a firm that tracks the restaurant sector:
Most people agree higher pay is the main reason employees are leaving for other industries. Another driver is a need for a more consistent schedule and income. 51% of workers chose to work in restaurants because of flexibility, but beyond that flexibility, employees want some sense of consistency in terms of what their schedule might be and their income as a result.
“We don’t like to say this much, but it has long been the practice of many restaurants to hire staff as inexpensively as possible and provide them with the fewest benefits that they can, often by restricting their hours so they don’t qualify as full-time employees,” said Bret Thorn, the senior food & beverage editor for Nation’s Restaurant News. “We all know this,” he added:
I guess that can be a good business plan when the labor pool is deep, which it’s not now and I doubt will be for the foreseeable future, but it’s also cruel, and a growing number of people who have worked in restaurants now see that they can do better, and that they deserve better.
Legal and illegal migrant labor is commonplace and beneficial for business, partly because it minimizes the emergence of a wage-boosting tight labor market among American restaurant workers — or among their white-collar peers.
In August, for example, federal officials charged 19 co-defendants for allegedly running “an organized criminal enterprise from July 2003 to Aug. 10, 2021, that smuggled Mexican, Guatemalan, and El Salvadoran nationals who were not authorized to live or work in the United States.” The ring supplied many workers to at least 45 restaurants across the midwest.
In Detroit, River Bistro chef Maxcel Hardy prepares a Caribbean shrimp dish at his restaurant. The city allows chefs and prospective restaurant owners to realize their dreams at a lower financial cost than other places, like New York, according to chef Hardy. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)
Nonetheless, the poor wages and working conditions are a step up for many poor migrants, partly because they know that U.S. jobs may allow them to successfully launch their children into the United States.
“My parents came to the United States in the 1960s from Mexico … in search of a better life,” said Sen. Alex Padilla (D-CA) told an October 15 meeting with progressive lobbyists:
They weren’t blessed with a lot of formal education. My dad only had the opportunity to go to school for the first grade before stopping to work to help the family. My mom, we said, was the lucky one. She had a chance to finish elementary school, before doing the same. But they came to United States with a tremendous work ethic and big dreams. For 40 years, my father helped provide for our family by working as a short-order cook. And if you’re wondering what that means, if you’ve ever been out for breakfast, think of who’s scrambling eggs and flipping pancakes when you place an order. That’s what my dad did for 40 years. For the same 40 years, my mom used to clean houses. So, needless to say, it’s hard work, honest work, and and on those modest incomes they raised three of us.
But all that cheap labor made restaurant jobs miserable for many millions of poor Americans — and now they do not want to come back to the industry which treated them so badly.
In effect, exploitative executives drained their labor pool in the easy decades before Trump and the cor0navirus burst their cheap-labor bubble in 2020. Joblist.com, a job-finding site, reported in July 2021:
38% of former hospitality workers report that they are not even considering a hospitality job for their next position. These workers are transitioning out of the industry in search of a different work setting (52%), higher pay (45%), better benefits (29%), and more schedule flexibility (19%). Over 50% of former hospitality workers who are looking for other work say that no pay increase or incentive would make them return to their old restaurant, bar, or hotel job.
When industry executives raise wages to new hires, they also must raise the wages of their existing employees. The Wall Street Journal reported in August:
Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc. said in May that it was lifting its pay for hourly positions to an average of $15 an hour, amounting to an average raise of around $2 for front-line workers … The chain, which owns and operates its nearly 2,900 locations, made sure the raises included a premium for experienced employees within each role, and gave raises that averaged around $2 an hour to hourly managers and commensurate raises to salaried managers.
“Labor is substantially costing more now,” Hudson Riehle, the research director at the National Restaurant Association, told the Doordash conference:
You can see [on a chart] the average hourly earnings growth there coming out of the great recession …. currently running in excess of 6%. And for a typical restaurant operation, labor accounts about a third of the restaurant industry sales dollar. Food and beverage purchases [are] another third, and pre-tax income [profit] is generally just 3 to 6 percent. So there isn’t a lot of room of maneuverability for the operator to maintain their pretax profit margins. Consequently, margins are substantially under pressure in the industry for those operators that have survived.
Unsurprisingly, industry executives and stock-market analysts are pleading with Biden to re-inflate the cheap-labor bubble.
Guests dine at the Los Angeles Conservancy in Los Angeles, California. (Amanda Edwards/Getty)
“We need immigration in our industry to have enough team members,” Domino’s Pizza’s CEO Ritch Allison told CNBC on October 15. Migrants “who want to work hard, want to stay with the business for a long period of time, can end up being owners and entrepreneurs,” he explained.
CNBC’s investment advisor, Jim Cramer, echoed the CEO’s demand for more imported workers:
Ritch Allison started, I think, a conversation that we’re all going to have to talk about. We don’t have population growth in this country. … But more importantly, he’s saying, we cut off immigration. We stopped it, but the great thing about our country is immigrants come in, they become drivers. Next thing you know they own a Domino’s, then they own several places. That’s ending. We literally have to start thinking about an immigration policy that involves taking in people.
Biden’s border chief, Alejandro Mayorkas, has already spent much of 2021 helping the CEOs and shareholders to re-inflate the cheap-labor bubble that hurt millions of Americans.
Since January, he has admitted at least 800,000 working-age migrants, and rolled back enforcement of U.S. labor law in abusive workplaces. The huge inflow has boosted the number of no-English speaking workers in Virginia and elsewhere.
But the near-term pressure is forcing food-industry CEOs to be nice to their American employees — and also to raise productivity and automate their workplaces.
“What are operators to do in an environment where they can’t find enough labor?” said Riehle. “They obviously raised the time that those workers … are working,” said.
“Consumers are seeking more technology in their restaurant experience,” he added. “They’re looking for it mainly in the ordering and payment making it easier to improve service to increase convenience … as well as expedite the experience.”
“We don’t see it getting any easier in the near future,” said Badgley, adding:
We are dealing with immigration laws. We’re dealing with the headwinds of wage inflation. We’re dealing with birth rates that are lower, we’re dealing with different generational demands, all of these things are upon us.
“What’s going on in the industry today … is historic.”
Arizona AG Demands Investigation into Facebook for Allegedly Aiding Illegal Migration
(CNS News) -- Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich called on the Department of Justice to investigate Facebook for allegedly facilitating illegal immigration into the United States by allowing people to post instructions on its platform about how to enter countries illegally.
As Brnovich explained in an Oct. 14 letter to U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland, “Our office wrote to Facebook to clarify its policies and procedures for preventing such misuse of its platform. On August 30, 2021, we were surprised to receive an in-depth response from the company stating that its platform ‘allow[s] people to share information about how to enter a country illegally or request information about how to be smuggled.’”
“It is the federal government’s duty to enforce its immigration and criminal laws, and specifically, the Department of Justice’s responsibility to investigate and prosecute these matters,” wrote Brnovich. “Therefore, our office requests that your Department investigate Facebook’s facilitation of human smuggling at Arizona’s southern border and stop its active encouragement and facilitation of illegal entry.”
Brnovich said his office was made aware of human smugglers and drug cartels using Facebook to reach a wider audience and advertise illegal services on the platform through myriad news reports.
The Tech Transparency Project (TTP), part of the Campaign for Accountability, identified dozens of Facebook pages that offered migrants passage across the U.S. Southern border in April. Since then, the TTP evaluated Facebook for these pages every few months.
“TTP easily identified an additional 40 Facebook pages and 17 Facebook groups that openly sell illegal border crossings,” the report read. “Prices and smuggling routes are posted for all to see.”
The TTP named a few of these groups to show how easily identifiable they should be to Facebook’s algorithms, and noted how much traffic each page is receiving.
“One group explicitly named ‘Coyotes Para Cruzar a Estado Unidos’ (‘Coyotes for crossing to the United States’), created on August 3, attracted 1,100 members in less than a month,” the article noted. “The group produces dozens of posts on a daily basis offering border crossings.”
These pages are continuing to gain traction on Facebook as migrant encounters at the U.S.-Mexico border are at a 21-year high, according to the Pew Research Center.
“The U.S. Border Patrol reported nearly 200,000 encounters with migrants along the U.S.-Mexico border in July, the highest monthly total in more than two decades,” reported Pew.
Attorney General Brnovich argued that allowing human smuggling to take place can create opportunities for human and sex trafficking to operate on Facebook as well. He stated that Arizona would take legal action against Facebook to hold them accountable.
“As a national leader in battling sex trafficking, our office is currently pursuing such investigations and prosecutions in every instance where they are warranted, based on ads or postings from Facebook,” Brnovich said.
“To the extent that Facebook is complicit in such activity, our office will pursue all legal means to hold the company accountable,” Brnovich continued. “We expect the Department of Justice to take an equally firm stance against Facebook’s facilitation of human and [alleged] sex trafficking.”
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