TWO BRIBES SUCKING 'GOOD CATHOLICS', PELOSI AND JOE:
Biden, for instance, had sought to include tax cuts for his billionaire donors in a Chinese coronavirus relief package earlier this year. The plan was ultimately cut from the package. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), in May 2020, also tried to include the plan in a coronavirus relief package.
Pope Francis Condemns Inequalities Caused by ‘Economic Liberalism’
ROME — Pope Francis denounced the “pathologies” of individualism and indifference Thursday in his message for the World Day of the Sick.
“This time of pandemic is teaching us to look at disease as a global phenomenon and not just an individual one,” the pontiff said in a video message, “and invites us to reflect on other types of ‘pathologies’ that threaten humanity and the world.”
“Individualism and indifference to the other are forms of selfishness that are unfortunately amplified in the society of consumerist well-being and economic liberalism,” he said, “and the consequent inequalities are also found in the health field, where some enjoy the so-called ‘excellence’ and many others find it difficult to access basic care.”
To heal the social “virus” of inequality, “the antidote is the culture of fraternity, founded on the awareness that we are all equal as human persons, all equal, children of one Father,” Francis added.
This is not the first time Francis has decried the evils of “neo-liberalism.” Last February, the pope blamed “neo-liberal capitalism” and deregulation of markets as causes of human trafficking despite data that suggest the opposite is true.
“Human trafficking finds fertile ground in the approach of neo-liberal capitalism, in the deregulation of markets aimed at maximizing without ethical limits, without social limits, without environmental limits,” the pontiff declared in a video-message.
“If this logic is followed, there is only the calculation of advantages and disadvantages,” Francis claimed. “Choices are not made on the basis of ethical criteria, but by pandering to dominant interests, often cleverly obscured by a humanitarian or ecological veneer.”
While placing the blame for human trafficking on “neo-liberal capitalism” and market deregulation may fit nicely with the pope’s worldview, it does not square with the facts.
A 2017 analysis by U.S. News & World Report noted that the five countries with the worst record for human trafficking were all governed by authoritarian regimes with highly regulated markets and little respect for human rights. None of the worst offenders are free market economies.
In first place was Russia, which had established bilateral agreements with North Korea allowing for labor camps and “slave-like conditions” for workers within Russian borders. U.S. News reported that some 20,000 workers from North Korea are sent to Russia each year.
China was the second-worst offender because of its widespread use of human trafficking for state-sponsored forced labor as well as extensive sex trafficking to provide Chinese men with wives. Years of sex-selective abortions have resulted in an estimated 33 to 37 million more males living in China than females, an imbalance that is fueling sex trafficking from multiple nations into China for forced marriage or commercial sexual exploitation.
Iran was number three on the list, as the authoritarian Iranian government coerces foreigners, particularly Afghanis, into combat roles in Syria while small children work as street beggars under the threat of physical and sexual abuse. Instead of punishing traffickers, Iran punishes victims for unlawful acts such as adultery and prostitution, the article stated.
The U.S. State Department’s 2020 annual report on Human Trafficking indicated mass migration as one of the primary causes of trafficking because of the huge economic interests behind people smuggling and the difficulty involved in properly regulating the influx of large numbers of people.
As just one example of this, during the most recent European migrant crisis (2014-2018), an estimated 80 percent of Nigerian women who migrated into Italy wound up working in prostitution, nearly always against their will.
Democrats: $625B Tax Cut for Wealthy Elite ‘Essential’ Ahead of Midterms
Democrats say cutting hundreds of billions of dollars in taxes for mostly wealthy income-earners in coastal states is “essential” to getting reelected in this year’s midterm elections.
In November, House Democrats passed President Joe Biden’s “Build Back Better Act” which includes billions in tax breaks to the wealthiest residents of blue states. Specifically, the plan would give a tax cut to about 67 percent of the nation’s richest Americans — those earning more than $885,000 every year — costing taxpayers about $625 billion.
Under Biden’s plan, those in the top one percent would receive an average tax cut of more than $16,000 this year. The tax cuts for the wealthy would be a result of the plan’s increasing the State and Local Tax (SALT) deduction cap.
Ahead of the midterm elections in November, House Democrats are warning their rich donors that they must get out and vote for them to secure the massive tax cut. Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney (D-NY) called the tax cuts for the rich “essential” in an interview with Bloomberg News.
Chart via Bloomberg News
“We need to get that done. It’s not the only thing, but it’s a big thing,” Maloney said, who represents one of New York’s wealthiest areas — Westchester County. Rep. Haley Stevens (D-MI) called the tax cut “really important” for her constituency.
“If you want your state and local deductions back, you have to vote for Democrats. Republicans screwed you last time, and they’ll do it again,” Maloney said.
At the same time, a number of Democrats are blasting the effort, including Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), and Rep. Jared Golden (D-ME).
Sanders has said:
At a time of massive income and wealth inequality, the last thing we should be doing is giving more tax breaks to the very rich. Democrats campaigned and won on an agenda that demands that the very wealthy finally pay their fair share, not one that gives them more tax breaks.
Meanwhile, Democrats want to squeeze an extra $200 billion out of American taxpayers by mostly targeting working and middle class earners with more Internal Revenue Services (IRS) audits.
The plan ensures nearly 600,000 more working and middle class Americans earning $75,000 or less a year would be audited by the IRS. Of those new IRS audits, more than 313,000 would target the poorest of Americans who earn $25,000 or less a year.
In 2017, former President Trump had the SALT deduction capped at $10,000. Since then, Democrats have sought to deliver their wealthy, blue state donors with a massive tax cut by eliminating the cap altogether or greatly increasing it.
Biden, for instance, had sought to include tax cuts for his billionaire donors in a Chinese coronavirus relief package earlier this year. The plan was ultimately cut from the package. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), in May 2020, also tried to include the plan in a coronavirus relief package.
John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Email him at jbinder@breitbart.com. Follow him on Twitter here.
Republican Sen. Todd Young: Migration Should Not Hurt Americans’ Wages
The federal government should not have immigration policies that threaten Americans’ jobs and wages, Sen. Todd Young (R-IN) told Punchbowl News.
If Congress seeks to import workers, “we need to do it smartly, in order to once again ensure that those new workers aren’t competing with our existing workers for jobs, competing for wages and salaries,” Young told Punchbowl’s Anna Palmer in a January 25 interview. “This is how we’ll build majority support for immigration reform,” said Young, who is up for election this year.
Young’s comments in the little-noticed interview highlight the political problem created by the House Democrats’ surprise addition of expansive migration measures to a bill intended to help U.S. companies compete with China’s state-backed industries.
Young played a critical role in passing the Senate’s version of the anti-China bill. The Senate bill spends more than $110 billion to boost research in a much-touted effort to help U.S. businesses compete with China’s government-backed economy. His bill passed the Senate’s 60-vote threshold with just a handful of votes to spare.
The House passed a very different version on February 4. The House bill would spend $250 billion on a wide variety of Democrat causes — such as funding for the United Nations — and it includes several migration provisions that would reduce the jobs and wages available to people in Young’s home state.
The bill’s migration sections would allow U.S. investors and companies to hire an endless stream of foreign replacements for mainstream Indiana graduates. The bill also provides the coastal investors with more foreign workers to fill the worksites that investors prefer to build near their coastal homes in their coastal states — and so very far away from the many young people in Young’s Indiana or the GOP’s Midwest.
The Democrats’ green card giveaway was repeatedly blasted by GOP leaders, including Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH), and House GOP leader Kevin McCarthy, who said:
They call it the American Competes Act. But make no mistake. It’s a bill that concedes to China. The American Concedes Act is Democrats’ desperate answer to their string of self-created crises. While it contains some provisions supported by Republicans. Speaker Pelosi is holding these good ideas, hostage by using this 3,000-page bill as a vehicle for the party’s far-left agenda. Almost every page of the Democrats’ Concede Act has a provision that helps China but hurts America.
Now here are just a few excerpts. On page 1,689, it provides a new unlimited green card program for the Chinese Communist Party to exploit.
The green card giveaway was also slammed by Young’s fellow Hoosier, Rep. Jim Banks (R-IN). A January 31 statement from Banks’ Republican Study Committee said the Democrats’ bill:
Creates a new visa cap carveout program that would be even less secure than the existing visa programs that are already riddled with fraud. Shockingly, an unlimited number of members of the Chinese Communist Party are eligible to take advantage of the new visa program to carry out their malign activity here in the States (page 1689)
Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) is also speaking against the Democrats’ career-giveaway plans. “The partisan bill from the House has also added provisions related to immigration, from creating new types of visas to removing green card caps,” Cornyn said on February 4. “The [alternative] Senate bill needs to be the template for what is ultimately done by the conference committee and what is ultimately passed by the United States Congress.”
The 18 Republicans who voted for the Senate’s anti-China bill included Sens. Young, Cornyn, Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV), Bill Cassidy (R-LA), Susan Collins (R-ME), Mike Crapo (R-ID), Steve Daines (R-MT), Joni Ernst (R-IA), Lindsey Graham (R-SC), Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-MS), Mitch McConnell (R-KY), Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), Jim Risch (R-ID), Mitt Romney (R-UT), Mike Rounds (R-SD), Ben Sasse (R-NE), Thom Tillis (R-NC), and Roger Wicker (R-MS).
Many Republicans voted against the measure because it does not protect against aggressive Chinese spying and technology theft, say Senate critics, including Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) and Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL).
After the House passed their version of the bill with the visa giveaway, Young released a statement on February 4, saying:
As we head to a conference process, my hope is that the final legislation will reflect the Senate bill and give House Republicans a much better option to support. The Senate-passed bill focuses on directly confronting China and getting legislation like USICA across the finish line will ensure the United States leads the world into the future.
The green card language was touted by Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-CA), whose district includes part of Silicon Valley. Investors in her region use many imported visa workers to minimize geographically-inconvenient investments in other states, such as Indiana.
Advocates, including Lofgren, say the House bill allows the “best and brightest” foreign graduates to get green cards, jobs, and then citizenship if they work to get science, technology, engineering, or math (STEM) doctorates in American or foreign universities.
But the fine print of the bill shows it would give green cards to a wide variety of ordinary foreign graduates, including chemists, doctors, engineers, statisticians, accountants, tax experts, software developers, and computer security experts.
The bill’s language sets no limits on the number of foreign migrants who can get green cards and then U.S. jobs and careers, nor does it set any minimum standards for the skills of those migrants.
Roughly 1.5 million non-immigrant, mid-skill, foreign contract workers — such as H-1B workers — have been imported and hired by CEOs to fill white-collar careers that would otherwise be held by U.S. graduates. The mass inflow of cheap and compliant foreign workers distorts the nation’s professional sector by empowering CEOs, suppressing U.S. salaries, undermining professionalism, slowing innovation, and diverting job-creating investment towards the coasts, such as Silicon Valley and New York.
The China bill is strongly backed by business groups, such as Mark Zuckerberg’s FWD.us advocacy group for West Coast investors. “According to FWD.us estimates, 100,000 international student graduates of U.S. colleges and universities each year would like to stay and work permanently in the U.S.,” the group said in a new report.
That 100,000 number is roughly one-eighth of all Americans who graduate each year from four-year colleges with degrees in healthcare, business, science, biology, software, math, or engineering.
Zuckerberg’s investor allies at FWD.us are not just looking for extra workers — they want more migrants because they also serve as consumers and renters. The breadth of investors who founded and funded FWD.us was hidden from casual visitors to the group’s website sometime in the last few months. But copies exist at the other sites. The 2013 founders included Zuckerberg, Microsoft founder Bill Gates, John Doerr at Kleiner Perkins, Matt Cohler at Benchmark, and Breyer Capital CEO Jim Breyer.
FWD.us is leading the 2022 push for more migration and amnesty. partly by promoting pro-migration media coverage.
Punchbowl was founded in January 2021 by three journalists and a former Facebook PR official, Rachel Schindler. According to Punchbowl:
Prior to joining Punchbowl News, Rachel led Facebook’s strategy, planning and operations for the global news team. For three years, Rachel specialized in growing revenue-sharing products with media companies around the world.
Punchbowl’s Palmer asked Young, “One last question on that, though. I mean, you kind of talk about the reskilling: What we can be doing domestically, but what role does immigration reform have on these and the workforce needs that we’re talking about here?”
Young responded with a zig-zag, first saying immigration “has an essential role to play,” before saying it must not be used to suppress wages. “I should add that, realistically as a matter of politics and I think a matter of good policy, any immigration reform proposals are going to have to be paired with border security measures to get it done,” Young added.
Young also thanked chipmaker Micron Technology “who has supported this [media] event.” Most of Micron’s facilities are in California and other coastal locations. The company has opened facilities in India, from where the company has already imported many H-1B visa workers and OPT graduates for U.S.-based jobs that could be filled by American graduates in the Midwest.
But Young reassured Punchbowl that Americans can do the job:
If we can harness the talent of rank and file Americans, I really believe we can outgrow and out-innovate other countries. And that, of course, has very important national security implications, especially as you think about our strategic competition with China.
Young’s pro-American January 25 insistence that migration should not damage Americans’ opportunities makes sense for him.
He is facing the electors in November even as more voters recognize how migration reduces investment in the heartland by delivering endless foreign labor to coastal investors and employers. His comments about wages and jobs are a quiet admission that American immigration politics are deeply driven by pocketbook politics, even as other GOP politicians pander to donors by only touting border chaos and crime.
Migration moves money, and since at least 1990, the federal government has tried to extract people from poor countries so they can serve U.S. investors as cheap workers, government-aided consumers, and high-density renters in the U.S. economy.
That economic strategy has no stopping point, and it is harmful to ordinary Americans because it cuts their career opportunities and their wages while it also raises their housing costs.
Extraction migration also curbs Americans’ productivity, shrinks their political clout, and widens the regional wealth gaps between the Democrats’ coastal states and the Republicans’ Heartland states. The growing gaps mean that midwestern states lose investment, jobs, and wealth to the migration-inflated coastal states.
In turn, the loss of wealth means that heartland states get far less mention in commercial culture than they got in prior decades:
An economy built on extraction migration also radicalizes Americans’ democratic, compromise-promoting civic culture and allows wealthy elites to ignore despairing Americans at the bottom of society.
Unsurprisingly, a wide variety of little-publicized polls do show deep and broad opposition to labor migration and the inflow of temporary contract workers into jobs sought by young U.S. graduates.
The opposition is growing, anti-establishment, multiracial, cross-sex, non-racist, class-based, bipartisan, rational, persistent, and recognizes the solidarity that Americans owe to each other.
Corporate Special Interests Throw Support Behind Salazar Amnesty Plan
Corporate special interests are throwing their support behind an amnesty plan for illegal aliens, which would expand foreign visa worker pipelines as well, proposed by Rep. Maria Salazar (R-FL) and six House Republicans.
On Tuesday, as Breitbart News reported, Salazar, along with a handful of Republican colleagues, introduced “The Dignity Act” to provide green cards to the nation’s 11 to 22 million. The bill’s co-sponsors are Reps. Dan Newhouse (R-WA), John Curtis (R-UT), Pete Sessions (R-TX), Jenniffer Gonzalez-Colon (R-PR), Tom Reed (R-NY), and Peter Meijer (R-MI).
Most significantly, the amnesty plan includes an expansion of the H-2A and H-2B visa programs that bring tens of thousands of foreign visa workers to take blue-collar agricultural and nonagricultural American jobs each year.
Both visa programs have been used to cut wages by inflating the labor market.
“This is a thinly-veiled amnesty and cheap labor expansion program that will not mitigate the displacement of American workers that happens because of illegal immigration and loosely-regulated guest worker programs,” Center for the Immigration Studies’ Jessica Vaughan told Breitbart News.
The United States Chamber of Commerce — a donor to Salazar, Newhouse, Curtis, Sessions, Reed, and Meijer — praised the amnesty and foreign visa worker expansion. The Chamber represents some of the nation’s largest multinational corporations.
“This bill would help many companies that are struggling to meet their critical workforce needs,” the Chamber’s Neil Bradley said in a statement. “We look forward to working with her and her colleagues in the U.S. House of Representatives to pass these commonsense reforms to our nation’s broken immigration system.”
Likewise, the corporate-funded Niskanen Center announced that they are “excited to support” the amnesty and foreign visa worker expansion.
The Niskanen Center is heavily funded by multinational corporations like Google and mass immigration groups like the Facebook-linked FWD.us, the Shapiro Foundation, and the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, among others.
“Illegal aliens don’t do jobs Americans won’t do, they accept wages that Americans reject,” RJ Hauman, with the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), told Breitbart News.
“And the reason wages are low is because the illegal alien and guest worker supply continues unabated,” Hauman said. “It’s a self-perpetuating cycle that needs to be broken with true immigration reforms, not amnesty.”
Salazar, in an interview with Fox News, called the amnesty plan an “invitation letter for the Browns, the Hispanics, the Latinos … welcoming them into the Republican Party…”
Hauman said, “that idea was rejected long ago.”
“After the 2012 autopsy, the Republican establishment thought amnesty was the ticket to the Latino vote. They were wrong,” Hauman said. “Latinos didn’t care and the base hated it. President Trump saw this as an opportunity and the rest is history.”
Vaughan said the amnesty plan “does not seem like a serious proposal” because it includes “all the worst elements of failed plans from the past…”
“If Republicans take back control of the House in 2023, we’re confident that this proposal will never see the light of day,” Hauman said.
Last month, in an exclusive interview with Breitbart News, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) vowed not to consider any amnesty plans for illegal aliens should Republicans take back the House in this year’s midterm elections.
The amnesty violates that pledge — indicating that, assuming McCarthy is Speaker and sticks to his word, the proposal stands no chance in a GOP-run House led by McCarthy next Congress.
John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Email him at jbinder@breitbart.com. Follow him on Twitter here.
Biden Deputies Claim U.S. Is a ‘Nation of Welcome’ — Discard ‘Nation of Immigrants' (CHEAP LABOR SERFS)Pitch
President Joe Biden’s progressive allies are dropping the 1950’s “Nation of Immigrants” narrative because they prefer to portray Americans’ homeland as a “Nation of Welcome” to all of the world’s migrants — legal, illegal, or quasi-legal.
The “Nation of Welcome” term is being adopted in a new mission statement announced February 9 by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) agency, which is part of Alejandro Mayorkas’ Department of Homeland Security:
USCIS upholds America’s promise as a nation of welcome and possibility with fairness, integrity, and respect for all we serve.
“We know that every time we grant an immigration or naturalization benefit, we are fostering the opportunity to help us build a stronger America,” said USCIS director Ur Jaddou ”And when we offer refuge to those in need of protection we are living up to our nation’s highest ideals. ”
New arrivals from Europe land in New York on board the SS Ernie Pyle, 21st September 1947. (FPG/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
The older “‘Nation of Immigrants’ [narrative] is no longer inclusive enough for the progressive left — they’re about including everybody except for Americans,” said Rob Law, a former top staffer at the USCIS for President Donald Trump. He continued:
“Nation of immigrants” was a statement that is arguably limited to those who have played by the rules and have some form of [legal] immigration status … [so it] doesn’t include all those Afghans that we just flew in the middle of the night, or the economic migrants showing up at the southern border.
The USCIS statement is notably silent about protecting Americans’ right to exclude illegal migrants from their communities and workplaces, Law added:
It is remarkably, completely devoid of any mention of the American people’s role in our immigration system, or even what USCIS does, which is adjudicating [contested] eligibility [for immigration benefits] … It is only about the perspective of the alien … it’s an open invitation, it’s a wink and a nod saying that “You’ll get in,” for as long as this administration is in charge.
Under Trump, the USCIS dropped the old “Nation of Immigrants” claim from its mission statement. “I’ll drive it home with a sledgehammer here: America’s immigration system is first and foremost, for the benefit of America. Period,” USCIS acting director Ken Cuccinelli told Breitbart News in August 2019.
The new “Nation of Welcome” narrative emerged in 2019 as progressives got enraged by Trump’s popular enforcement of the nation’s popular border laws.
“In nearly three years, the rise of a new form of treating “the other” has changed, perhaps forever, the possibility of becoming a true nation of welcome,” said a 2019 statement from America’s Voice, a long-standing, business-backed progressive lobby for more migration.
In 2020, the Center for American Progress lamented that the United States was “once an exemplary model … a welcoming nation to refugees.”
After Trump’s narrow defeat in November 2020, “now is the time to reaffirm our commitment as a nation of welcome,” said an Ohio pro-migration group.
By 2021, the term was being used in statements and speeches by Democratic politicians and advocacy groups, often to the exclusion of the older “Nation of Immigrants” narrative.
Once the city Afghans lost their half-hearted war against the rural Taliban in 2021 — despite 20 years of aid from their U.S. allies — Biden’s deputies announced “Operation Allies Weclome” to transfer city Afghans to jobs and homes in the United States.
The older “Nation of Immigrants” narrative was pushed in the late 1950s and early 1960s, as national security, business, and ethnic groups demanded more workers, consumers, and voters for mixed economic, ethnic, and ideological reasons.
Hungarian immigrants arriving in America, looking from the deck of their ship towards the Statue of Liberty. (Three Lions/Getty Images)
Congress had reduced the immigration inflow in 1924. The reduction helped to create a high-productivity, middle-class, culturally stable society where families could be supported by a single breadwinner, and domestic divisions were being resolved by widespread prosperity.
Before the 1924 cutback, 800,000 migrants arrived in 1921. The inflow quickly dropped by more than 90 percent, to just 29,000 in 1934. Overall, the population of immigrant Americans dropped from 14 million in 1920 to 9.6 million in 1970. Immigrants provided just seven percent of the population in 1955, down from 15 percent in 1910.
During the same low-migration period, Americans’ inventions, productivity, and wealth boomed. According to PBS, U.S. investors and companies conjured the television in 1927, frozen food in 1929, nylon in 1938, the first digital computer in 1939, the atomic bomb in 1945, suburbia in 1947, the first commercial computer in 1951, the polio vaccine in 1957, the idea for the Internet and the actual moon landing in 1969, the video game in 1972, and much more.
Family income doubled between 1950 and 1970, according to the left-wing Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. But after Congress reopened the doors for immigration, family income stalled — rising only one-quarter from 1980 to 2020 — while the stock market grew by 40 times.
Advocates for more migration got their narrative and their political break in the early 1960s.
The Nation of Immigrants narrative was pushed in a 1964 book, “A Nation of Immigrants,” which was attributed to the assassinated President John Kennedy. “The abundant resources of this land provided the foundation for a great nation … [but] only people could make the opportunity a reality. Immigration provided the human resources,” the book said.
Maltese immigrants to the U.S. arrive in Brooklyn, New York on board a Yugoslav vessel, circa 1946. (FPG/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
The narrative was accidentally implemented by Congress and President Lyndon Johnson in 1965, without much understanding of the legislation. In 1990, as investors were exporting manufacturing jobs to Mexico and Asia, President George H. W. Bush doubled legal immigration, loosened the border, and imported a green card workforce for tech companies.
Decades later, the result is that immigrants and their children comprise roughly one in five people living in the socially chaotic, downwardly mobile United States.
Americans are recognizing the damage to their wages, housing, wealth, and politics — despite the multi-decade, near-uniform establishment support for mass migration.
For example, 32 percent of Americans said immigration makes Americans “worse off,” according to a YouGov poll from September 2021. That is up from 20 percent in June 2021. Also, 55 percent of Republicans said immigration makes Americans “worse off” in September 2021, up from 32 percent in June.
Only 37 percent of Americans believe that a “Nation of Immigrant” is a “sacred” value, according to a 2021 study funded by immigration advocates. That score matched the 37 percent share of Americans who believe that restricting citizenship is a sacred value.
But the religious zeal of the pro-migration left is exemplified by Jia Lynn Yang, the top editor for domestic news at the New York Times, and the progressive author of a 2020 pro-migration book, titled “One Mighty and Irresistible Tide”:
The image of the Statue of Liberty, the Emma Lazarus poem at the statue’s base, the notion of America as an eternal “nation of immigrants,” — these make up an intoxicating part of this country’s mythology. Set against all the sins of America’s past — from slavery to the removal and genocide of American Indians — the arrival of open-hearted immigrants, grateful for a chance at a new life on our shores serves as a constant renewal of hope in the American project. If there is salvation for this country, it very well may lie in the underlying gratitude of a refugee whose life has been saved by the granting of a visa.
Yang’s parents migrated from Taiwan, and she wants to recruit more immigrants to remake Americans’ homeland around diverse “ethnic pluralism”:
For those Americans who want ethnic pluralism to be a foundation value of their nation, there is unfinished work. The current generation of immigrants and children of immigrants — like those who came before us — must articulate a new vision for the current era, one that embraces rather than elides how far America has drifted from its European roots. If [recent immigrants] do not, their opponents can simply point out to the America of the last fifty years as a demographic aberration, and they would not be wrong. That task will not be easy.
Yang’s book ends with her denial of Americans’ moral right to have their own political, cultural, and economic jurisdiction in a turbulent world: “What difference is there between us, with our precious [legal immigration and citizenship] papers, and the people we see at our border who are dying to come in? There is none.”
Edward A. Albertis, 71 years old, direct descendant of the first Italian immigrant shows a young New Yorker Frank Poutone the plaque which was just inaugurated in Battery Park on June 05, 1960 during the celebration of the 325th anniversary of the arrival of the first Italian immigrant in the state of New York, in New York, United States. (AFP via Getty Images)
But Yang and her fellow globalists have declined to make that argument in public.
Instead, they have hidden their goals behind political cliches, disregard of Americans’ preferences, suppression of migration economics, and the mass-production of sympathetic stories about migrants’ family dramas. This political strategy makes sense because the polls, politics, and pocketbook economics are against their revolutionary goals.
Yang admitted to an interviewer in 2020 that if diversity by migration is the goal, “you’re going to have to really make that argument in a full-throated way … [and] that’s never been done before.”
But, she added, if pro-American reformers want to “argue that this current [multicultural] demography is a bit of an accident, they actually have a lot of ammunition in the history [of the 1965 immigration law] to make that argument.”
Migration moves money, and since at least 1990, the federal government has tried to extract people from poor countries so they can serve U.S. investors as cheap workers, government-aided consumers, and high-density renters in the U.S. economy.
That economic strategy has no stopping point, and it is harmful to ordinary Americans because it cuts their career opportunities and their wages while it also raises their housing costs.
Extraction migration also curbs Americans’ productivity, shrinks their political clout, and widens the regional wealth gaps between the Democrats’ coastal states and the Republicans’ Heartland states. The growing gaps mean that midwestern states lose investment, jobs, and wealth to the migration-inflated coastal states.
An economy built on extraction migration also radicalizes Americans’ democratic, compromise-promoting civic culture and allows wealthy elites to ignore despairing Americans at the bottom of society.
Unsurprisingly, a wide variety of little-publicized polls do show deep and broad opposition to labor migration and the inflow of temporary contract workers into jobs sought by young U.S. graduates.
The opposition is growing, anti-establishment, multiracial, cross-sex, non-racist, class-based, bipartisan, rational, persistent, and recognizes the solidarity that Americans owe to each other.
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