Banks Preparing for 2022 Recession (DEBT CRISIS INEVITABLE)
15 Facts That Prove That America Is In Deep, Deep Trouble
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSOJz_XayVU
verywhere we look, we find more indications that the United States is in a lot of trouble. America's domestic supply chains have been broken, and disruptions continue to pile on, causing more shortages and exacerbating price increases all over the nation. Our system has never been so vulnerable to external interruptions, and experts say the U.S. is extremely vulnerable to cyberattacks at a time nearly all services and operations that make the economy run are heavily dependent on technology. With consumer prices over 8% higher than a year ago, growing affordability constraints are putting immense pressure on the finances of millions of American families, while household incomes remain stagnant. Despite Fed policies to tame inflation, consumer prices are going to remain elevated this year due to elevated due to the soaring costs of housing, energy, and food as the global commodity market faces shortages of energy supplies, raw materials, fertilizers, grains, and semiconductors. To make things worse, our financial markets are starting to falter, with the stock market recording billions in losses week after week, and the housing market bubble on the verge of another disastrous burst. All of that is occuring at the same time as our geopolitical conflicts with other major economies continues to escalate. Many more problems continue to emerge with each passing day, and the things we just mentioned are not even half of the story. Wildfires, hurricanes, tornadoes, winter storms, and heatwaves were among the 20 weather and climate disasters the United States has faced over the past 12 months. Those extreme weather events have resulted in $145 billion in damages in 2021 and victimized 688 people. Such disasters are becoming more frequent with each passing year, and it is being it is estimated that more than 100 million people in the U.S. will experience temperatures that are 20 to 30 degrees above average this summer. On top of everything we’ve already mentioned, shall we add a diesel fuel shortage and a nationwide electricity shortage to the equation? We’re actually being warned that energy supplies are rapidly dwindling in America, and a shocking diesel shortage could begin this summer. That's why in today's video, we brought you a compilation of stats, forecasts and updated numbers about the issues our country is currently facing and the challenges we are about to face in the months ahead.
LOS ANGELES IS A MEX-OCCUPIED CITY AND COUNTY. THE COUNTY OF L.A. HANDS ILLEGALS $1.5 BILLION IN ANCHOR BABY WELFARE EVEN AS THERE ARE 100K LEGALS LIVING ON SIDEWALKS
JOE BIDEN’S TRICKLE UP ECONOMICS
Retirement Rescheduled: Bidenflation Prevents Americans From Living Out Their Golden Years
https://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2022/06/joe-bidens-assault-on-middle-america.html
Biden pledges to accept 20k Latin
American
refugees
Portland, Maine to raise property taxes to pay for free housing for 'asylum-seekers'
MONICA SHOWALTER
https://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2022/06/june-10-2022-portland-maine-to-raise.html
Illegal aliens are known to cost U.S. citizens billions to support, but rarely is that experienced as directly as it is now in Portland, Maine, where city officials voted to raise property taxes in order to house 1,200 "asylum seekers," along with 500 homeless.
WHAT???? SHOULD AMERICA LOOK TO THE GOP TO END BIDEN’S ORCHESTRATED MASSIVE INVASION TO KEEP WAGES DEPRESSED?!?!?!
https://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2022/06/president-of-narcomex-howls-it-is.html
Republican Study Committee Creates Holistic Immigration Plan to Raise Wages, Grow Middle Class
The RSC Budget would prohibit federal funds from going to cities or jurisdictions operating as sanctuaries for illegal immigrants. There are at least 190 of these so-called sanctuary jurisdictions across the country,[7] and many cities have seen increased crime rates since declaring themselves sanctuary cities.[8
VIDEO
20 Signs Of The Staggering Decline Of The American Middle Class Family
We just got more evidence that the middle class is being systematically destroyed in America. At this point, millions of people out there have already grown accustomed to barely scraping by from month to month. But that is not what being “middle class” is supposed to be about. Middle-class families should be able to make more money than they have to spend on everyday necessities because is only by doing so that they can build long-term wealth. Unfortunately, income growth has not kept up with the pace of the rising cost of living, and millions of households have taken massive amounts of debt. At the same time, the labor market doesn't offer good-paying jobs that support middle-class life, and the lack of these positions has been contributing to the decline of this income group all across the country. In the early 1970s, the middle class accounted for around 60 percent of the population, but now middle-income households are rapidly becoming a minority in the United States. And as economic conditions continue to deteriorate, millions of hard-working families all over America are being stretched financially like never before. “In America, the middle class can no longer afford retirement. Middle-class Americans face sharp economic inequality, with ownership of financial assets highly concentrated among the wealthy,” explained Tyler Bond, NIRS research manager. “Now that we have a retirement system largely built around the individual ownership of financial assets in 401(k) accounts, middle-class Americans are struggling to accumulate sufficient financial assets during their working years. This means the retirement outlook for many in the middle class is bleak at best.” Since the onset of the health crisis, the U.S. economy has been decaying at an alarming pace. Over the past two years, the middle class has gotten smaller and smaller in this country, and now it seems that another economic downturn is upon us once again. So many families are already living on the edge right now. Recent surveys have exposed that well over 50% of the population is living paycheck to paycheck and that most Americans don't have emergency savings or a financial cushion to fall back on. When you are living on the edge, there is always a danger that you could fall over. Since 2020, we have never seen so many middle-class Americans falling straight into poverty. In other words, unless dramatic changes happen in America, the middle class is going to be absolutely eviscerated in the next decade. We must wake up now. The middle class is dying right before our eyes, and if we want to save it, we must take action now. Today, we compiled a series of new numbers that expose the rapid downfall of the U.S. middle-class.
Inflation in L.A. Falls ‘Disproportionately on the Working Class’
President Joe Biden came to Los Angeles to take a victory lap Friday, claiming — falsely — that “core inflation” had declined, as the effects of 8.6% inflation fell “disproportionately on the working class” in the L.A. metro area, according to a local economist.
As Breitbart News reported, Biden delivered a speech at the port facility, where a cargo crisis last fall threatened supply chains and raised inflationary pressures. He claimed, wrongly, that inflation is down if gas and food prices are excluded:
“Inflation outside of energy and food, what the economists call core inflation, moderated the last two months,” Biden said. “Not enough, but it moderated, it’s come down and we need it to come down much more quickly.”
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But month-to-month core inflation in May was actually at 0.6 percent, the same percentage as it was in April.
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Biden blamed Russian President Vladimir Putin for the high rate of inflation.
Despite Biden’s claims, the burden of inflation is one that even traditionally Democratic voters in L.A. cannot ignore. The L.A. Times reported:
The Biden administration has been under pressure to reassure Americans that inflation won’t reel out of control. The most recent numbers seemed to upend that hope, with prices rising for goods across the board, led by sharp jumps in the costs of energy and groceries.
In a metro area as large as Los Angeles with an economy driven by low-wage work, the effects of inflation — especially gas prices — fall disproportionately on the working class, said Leo Feler, a senior economist at the UCLA Anderson Forecast.
Annual inflation in the L.A. metro area, which includes Los Angeles and Orange counties, clocked in at 8% in May. San Diego saw 8.3%, while the Riverside metro area, which includes Riverside and San Bernardino counties, saw a 9.4% inflation rate.
Biden touted the government’s efforts to ease the cargo crisis by threatening to penalize companies that left shipping containers on the docks. However, these were simply replaced by outgoing containers that were not removed for months.
And though Biden promised to move the ports at Los Angeles and Long Beach to 24/7 operations, they could not find enough workers willing to work the overnight shifts. The cargo crunch did ease somewhat, helped by China’s coronavirus lockdowns, which slowed shipping traffic to and from the manufacturing giant. But a new surge is expected soon.
Inflation to fuel long, hot summer of workers struggles in the US
Millions of workers in the US and around the world are being pushed to the brink by the staggering impact of rising prices for essential goods and services. “We can’t continue to live like this” is the sentiment gripping ever-growing numbers of people.
Inflation in the US surged 8.6 percent year over year in May, surpassing economists’ estimates. This was the fastest increase in consumer prices since 1981, more than 40 years ago.
Gasoline prices surged the most, rising 48.7 percent from last year, up 7.8 percent in just one month. A gallon of gasoline cost a record average of $5.01 as of Sunday. In many of the country’s most populous metro areas, the price is significantly higher, averaging nearly $6.50 in Los Angeles, close to $6.00 in the Chicago region and approximately $5.60 in Phoenix, Arizona.
A substantial portion of workers’ paychecks is being eaten up simply to pay to get to work. In the US, it is not uncommon for workers to commute 50 miles or more roundtrip, refueling multiple times a week. One day’s work on a $15 an hour wage will now not even cover filling up a tank of gas in many trucks and larger vehicles, the cost of which can easily exceed $100.
Beyond fuel, surging costs for many goods and services are making life more and more impossible. Families are spending an additional $460 per month for essentials, according to a recent Moody’s Analytics report.
Food prices rose 10.1 percent overall in May. Prices for meats, poultry, fish and eggs increased 14.2 percent; dairy products 11.8 percent; and fruits and vegetables 8.2 percent. A gallon of milk is now averaging $4.33, and the price of a dozen eggs hit $2.86, up more than $1 from a year ago, according to data from the Federal Reserve of St. Louis.
Even as rising food prices mean that more people will be choosing which meal they will have to skip today, the Democrats and Republicans are planning to throw millions of children into even greater hunger. Congress deliberately failed to renew an extension of COVID-related free school lunch programs in its last spending bill, meaning that an estimated 10 million children will no longer receive free meals after the end of the month.
Meanwhile, the housing affordability crisis is worsening. Average rents increased 15.2 percent compared to a year ago, according to real estate company Redfin. The median monthly rent being asked for apartments hit a record $2,002 in May, the firm said.
Home ownership, out of reach for many before, is now completely inaccessible for large portions of the population for the foreseeable future. The median listing price for a home hit $447,000 in May, an increase of 17.6 percent from 2021, while average home loan rates are hitting their highest levels in more than a decade.
With rising prices, workers are making less in real terms than they did a year ago, falling further and further behind. Real wages fell 3 percent between May 2021 and May 2022, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics on Friday.
The pro-corporate trade unions bear central responsibility for this brutal retrogression, having pushed workers into contracts that lock in raises of just 2-4 percent, far below inflation, while often raising out-of-pocket health care costs. The average wage hikes for unionized workers (3.5 percent) were actually less than for non-union workers (4.9 percent) over the last year, according to the latest figures from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Inflation has become the focal point of workers’ anger. However, rising prices and falling wages are among a whole series of social grievances building up in the working class. There are the degrading sweatshop conditions, overwork, understaffing, six or seven-day workweeks, the ongoing pandemic and deadly working conditions. Then there are the manifestations of the capitalist breakdown more broadly, such as recent shortages of everything from baby formula to tampons. All these issues and more, directly and indirectly, are driving workers into struggle.
Significant battles by workers have already emerged this year, from the ongoing six-week-long strike by CNH farm and heavy equipment workers, to the earlier walkouts by Chevron oil workers in California, strikes by nurses in California and New Jersey, teachers in Minneapolis and Sacramento, as well as opposition among Arconic aluminum workers, Kroger grocery store workers and many others.
New sections of workers are set to enter into battle in the coming weeks and months. More than 12,000 Minneapolis and St. Paul nurses are currently working without a contract, and contracts are set to expire for 20,000 West Coast port workers, 50,000 construction workers in Southern California and tens of thousands of teachers in Los Angeles and New York City. Three thousand car haul truck drivers, who have already overwhelmingly voted to strike, will learn the details Thursday of the concessionary contract the Teamsters agreed to.
The development of the class struggle is an international process extending far beyond the borders of the US. Rising fuel prices triggered strikes by truck drivers in South Korea last week. In the UK, 50,000 rail workers are set to strike later this month, in the largest series of rail strikes since the late 1980s. And in Sri Lanka, out-of-control inflation and shortages of basic goods have provoked mass anti-government demonstrations and a series of one-day general strikes this year.
In every case, however, workers are coming into headlong conflict with the unions that claim to represent them. At the same time, the corporate and political establishment, in particular the Biden administration, is relying ever more heavily on the trade union bureaucracies to enforce “labor discipline,” i.e., the suppression or isolation of strikes and other forms of worker opposition.
The ruling class is well aware of the explosive implications of its policies. “If people can’t feed their children and their families, then the politics unsettles,” David Beasley, head of the United Nations World Food Programme, told CNN last month.
The White House has crudely sought to deflect anger over inflation and channel it behind its war effort against Russia, dubbing higher gas costs “Putin’s price hike.”
The surge in inflation, however, began long before the Russian invasion of Ukraine. It is the outcome of the massive money-printing operation of the Federal Reserve and other central banks, which has been used to bail out the rich during the COVID-19 pandemic. The impact of these monetary policies is now exploding through the economy as a whole.
As for the war, the facts show that the US government instigated and provoked Putin’s reactionary invasion of Ukraine. Since the war’s outbreak, the US and its NATO allies have recklessly escalated the war, pouring weapons into Ukraine and blocking a negotiated settlement.
The financial aristocracy has no progressive reforms or proposals to expand the social safety net on offer. Imperialist war abroad and class war at home—this is what is planned.
By raising interest rates, the chief aim of the Federal Reserve and other central banks is not to rein in inflation as such but rather to trigger a recession, drive up unemployment and attempt to force back workers’ demands for higher wages.
Spelling this out bluntly, a financial analyst for FWDBONDS told Reuters last month, “Job gains across the country are slowing, but few workers are actually losing their jobs. This isn’t a soft-landing or a hard-landing for the economy yet. No sign of company layoffs means the labor market isn’t loosening up as much as Fed officials were hoping.”
A movement in the working class against this entire rotting setup is emerging. Workers are increasingly rebelling against the claims of the corporations, the capitalist state and the trade unions that there is no money to provide workers a decent standard of living. This rebellion has found initial expression through the rejection of a series of company-friendly contracts over the last year and a half, from Volvo Trucks to Kroger and Detroit Diesel most recently.
But this incipient movement must find the organizational form and political program equal to the challenges workers confront. In growing numbers of workplaces, workers have begun to organize independently of the pro-corporate unions, launching rank-and-file committees with the assistance of the WSWS and the Socialist Equality Parties in order to fight for their essential needs. This network of committees must be vastly expanded and developed, under the framework of the International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees (IWA-RFC) launched last year.
At the same time, the desperate economic situation facing workers requires a fighting program. Wages must be dramatically raised, cost-of-living adjustments implemented to protect against inflation, fully paid pensions and health care restored, and workers’ control over line speed and workplace safety imposed.
The realization of these measures and more will necessitate a direct assault on the ill-gotten wealth and privileges of the billionaires and financial aristocracy so that social needs, not private profit, determine how society’s resources are organized.
LOS ANGELES IS A MEX-OCCUPIED CITY AND COUNTY. THE COUNTY OF L.A. HANDS ILLEGALS $1.5 BILLION IN ANCHOR BABY WELFARE EVEN AS THERE ARE 100K LEGALS LIVING ON SIDEWALKS
JOE BIDEN’S TRICKLE UP ECONOMICS
Retirement Rescheduled: Bidenflation Prevents Americans From Living Out Their Golden Years
https://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2022/06/joe-bidens-assault-on-middle-america.html
Biden pledges to accept 20k Latin
American
refugees
Portland, Maine to raise property taxes to pay for free housing for 'asylum-seekers'
MONICA SHOWALTER
https://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2022/06/june-10-2022-portland-maine-to-raise.html
Illegal aliens are known to cost U.S. citizens billions to support, but rarely is that experienced as directly as it is now in Portland, Maine, where city officials voted to raise property taxes in order to house 1,200 "asylum seekers," along with 500 homeless.
WHAT???? SHOULD AMERICA LOOK TO THE GOP TO END BIDEN’S ORCHESTRATED MASSIVE INVASION TO KEEP WAGES DEPRESSED?!?!?!
https://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2022/06/president-of-narcomex-howls-it-is.html
Republican Study Committee Creates Holistic Immigration Plan to Raise Wages, Grow Middle Class
The RSC Budget would prohibit federal funds from going to cities or jurisdictions operating as sanctuaries for illegal immigrants. There are at least 190 of these so-called sanctuary jurisdictions across the country,[7] and many cities have seen increased crime rates since declaring themselves sanctuary cities.[8
VIDEO
20 Signs Of The Staggering Decline Of The American Middle Class Family
We just got more evidence that the middle class is being systematically destroyed in America. At this point, millions of people out there have already grown accustomed to barely scraping by from month to month. But that is not what being “middle class” is supposed to be about. Middle-class families should be able to make more money than they have to spend on everyday necessities because is only by doing so that they can build long-term wealth. Unfortunately, income growth has not kept up with the pace of the rising cost of living, and millions of households have taken massive amounts of debt. At the same time, the labor market doesn't offer good-paying jobs that support middle-class life, and the lack of these positions has been contributing to the decline of this income group all across the country. In the early 1970s, the middle class accounted for around 60 percent of the population, but now middle-income households are rapidly becoming a minority in the United States. And as economic conditions continue to deteriorate, millions of hard-working families all over America are being stretched financially like never before. “In America, the middle class can no longer afford retirement. Middle-class Americans face sharp economic inequality, with ownership of financial assets highly concentrated among the wealthy,” explained Tyler Bond, NIRS research manager. “Now that we have a retirement system largely built around the individual ownership of financial assets in 401(k) accounts, middle-class Americans are struggling to accumulate sufficient financial assets during their working years. This means the retirement outlook for many in the middle class is bleak at best.” Since the onset of the health crisis, the U.S. economy has been decaying at an alarming pace. Over the past two years, the middle class has gotten smaller and smaller in this country, and now it seems that another economic downturn is upon us once again. So many families are already living on the edge right now. Recent surveys have exposed that well over 50% of the population is living paycheck to paycheck and that most Americans don't have emergency savings or a financial cushion to fall back on. When you are living on the edge, there is always a danger that you could fall over. Since 2020, we have never seen so many middle-class Americans falling straight into poverty. In other words, unless dramatic changes happen in America, the middle class is going to be absolutely eviscerated in the next decade. We must wake up now. The middle class is dying right before our eyes, and if we want to save it, we must take action now. Today, we compiled a series of new numbers that expose the rapid downfall of the U.S. middle-class.
Inflation in L.A. Falls ‘Disproportionately on the Working Class’
President Joe Biden came to Los Angeles to take a victory lap Friday, claiming — falsely — that “core inflation” had declined, as the effects of 8.6% inflation fell “disproportionately on the working class” in the L.A. metro area, according to a local economist.
As Breitbart News reported, Biden delivered a speech at the port facility, where a cargo crisis last fall threatened supply chains and raised inflationary pressures. He claimed, wrongly, that inflation is down if gas and food prices are excluded:
“Inflation outside of energy and food, what the economists call core inflation, moderated the last two months,” Biden said. “Not enough, but it moderated, it’s come down and we need it to come down much more quickly.”
…
But month-to-month core inflation in May was actually at 0.6 percent, the same percentage as it was in April.
…
Biden blamed Russian President Vladimir Putin for the high rate of inflation.
Despite Biden’s claims, the burden of inflation is one that even traditionally Democratic voters in L.A. cannot ignore. The L.A. Times reported:
The Biden administration has been under pressure to reassure Americans that inflation won’t reel out of control. The most recent numbers seemed to upend that hope, with prices rising for goods across the board, led by sharp jumps in the costs of energy and groceries.
In a metro area as large as Los Angeles with an economy driven by low-wage work, the effects of inflation — especially gas prices — fall disproportionately on the working class, said Leo Feler, a senior economist at the UCLA Anderson Forecast.
Annual inflation in the L.A. metro area, which includes Los Angeles and Orange counties, clocked in at 8% in May. San Diego saw 8.3%, while the Riverside metro area, which includes Riverside and San Bernardino counties, saw a 9.4% inflation rate.
Biden touted the government’s efforts to ease the cargo crisis by threatening to penalize companies that left shipping containers on the docks. However, these were simply replaced by outgoing containers that were not removed for months.
And though Biden promised to move the ports at Los Angeles and Long Beach to 24/7 operations, they could not find enough workers willing to work the overnight shifts. The cargo crunch did ease somewhat, helped by China’s coronavirus lockdowns, which slowed shipping traffic to and from the manufacturing giant. But a new surge is expected soon.
CALIFORNIA = MEXICO'S BIGGEST EMPLOYER!
Black Opposition to Migration Sparks Primary Against Democrat Jim Clyburn
Democrat James Clyburn got his start in South Carolina politics 53 years ago, and he’s been elected, reelected, and reelected to Congress for the last 30 years.
But African-Americans have lost their share of income, wealth, and status during those 30 years. Those losses were imposed largely because Clyburn’s Democrats — and the GOP — have changed the economy by working with companies to export millions of jobs and to extract millions of migrant workers and renters from poor countries.
The vast foreign “in-migration” means that U.S. investors do not have to hire black Americans in the southern states or the northern cities. They don’t even have to build new workplaces in mostly-black southern counties. Instead, the investors can just bus in their new workers from the local airport.
Gregg Marcel Dixon wants these economic trends to change, so he is running in the Democrats’ open primary against Clyburn in South Carolina’s poor Sixth District. The polls close on June 14.
“We talk about a crisis on the border — what about the crisis in black America?” he asked Clyburn at a public event.
“The media is so damn stratified … there really is no middle ground,” Dixon told Breitbart.
“The liberal media — like the MSNBCs of the world — have you thinking that because most black Americans vote for the Democrats, then most black Americans agree with what the Democrats on TV are saying, which is usually pro-abortion and pro-immigration,” he continued.
“But most black Americans are just furious with the flood of new immigrants coming into our neighborhoods. There’s no black politicians saying that. Most black people who are running as a Democrat do not have the backbone to stand up and say, ‘Yeah, I know I’m a Democrat, but I’m not co-signing a lot of crap you’re trying to push onto our communities because it is not good for us.’ I am the one who’s going to do that.”
Dixon is pushing for curbs on abortion, reductions in migration, and support of gun rights.
“When I speak to constituents in my district, one of the main things they bring up — illegal immigration,” he said.
Dixon explained that migration cuts Americans’ wages. “[African-American] people have historically not had college degrees, so they’ve done a lot of entry-level jobs like carpentry and roofing. … [Now we’ve got] another group coming in — agreeing to do it for lower wages, sometimes agreeing to do it for no wages because they [want their employers to] bring other illegal immigrants over.”
He went on to say that new arrivals also compete for community resources, such as decent housing. “There’s a limited amount of resources in the community. … It’s common sense that quality affordable housing disappears, class sizes are going to increase, [and community] resources that [we] once had very little accessibility to — we’re going to have almost none. That’s common sense.”
The damage to African-Americans by foreign immigration is quietly and reluctantly admitted by pro-migration experts on the left.
“In recent years, black workers in northern cities have faced new sources of labor-market competition, compounded by falling demand for some low-skilled operative and clerical positions, leading wages to stagnate further,” Princeton University economist Leah Boustan wrote in a 2017 book titled Competition in the Promised Land: Black Migrants in Northern Cities and Labor Markets.
That post-1980 decline is a huge reversal from the economic gains enjoyed by black Americans throughout the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s.
Those gains were won when Congress shut down international migration, thus helping four million black Americans migrate out of the south to find decent jobs in the north and west. Those who migrated to jobs in the northern cities were seen as “substitutes” for the missing European whites, Boustan wrote on page 4 of her book.
The supply of new European workers was cut off briefly during World War I (1914 to 1918) and then blocked for four decades when Congress largely shut down immigration in 1924.
Northern employers offered huge pay raises, better homes, and freedom from government-supported racism, Boustan wrote in her little-publicized book about black migration: “Blacks who moved to northern and western cities earned twice as much as those who stayed behind. … Blacks who settled in the north earned at least 100 percent more than those who stayed.”
The migration of many southern blacks to the north and west also created a labor shortage in the south. That shortage helped end black Southerners’ role as cotton pickers. “Cotton was still overwhelmingly picked by hand in 1960. By 1964, 42 percent of the cotton harvest was mechanized; five years later, the share had reached 82 percent,” she wrote.
The black migration out of the South rapidly expanded black populations in high-growth cities, including New York and Los Angeles, and set the stage for civil rights protests across the United States in the 1960s.
But those economic gains from black migration were short-lived.
Tragically for African Americans, Democrats and Republicans united to reopen the immigration doors in 1965 and then doubled the inflow in 1990.
Expert economists “estimate that immigrant arrivals can account for one-third of the declining wages of black high-school dropouts from 1950 to 2000,” Boustan wrote. By 1980, the flood of foreign migrants was sending black Americans back to southern cities.
In Los Angeles, that push back to the South was partly caused by violence from immigrant Latino gangs seeking to take over districts such as Compton. In a 2015 talk, Boustan said:
I see this [competition from migrants] in LA today. LA was 17 percent black in 1970. It’s now 7 percent black. And a lot of that is responsive outflow to Hispanic in-migration and the competition between — the potential competition — between blacks and Hispanics. So, blacks are moving now to Phoenix, Las Vegas, to the Inland Empire … part of southern California.
The wide wealth gap between white and black Americans shrank quickly from the 1940s into the 1960s. But the progress stopped when Congress let migrants rush into the western and northern cities. “Since the 1980s, the wealth gap has widened again as … income convergence has stopped,” according to a June 2022 economic study.
In Clyburn’s Sixth District, the average income is just $23,000, or one-third less than the national average of $35,000. One-quarter of the people there live below the poverty line, and 60 percent are renters.
The generational damage from immigration has worsened since the 1980s, according to the ancestry and tax data cited in Boustan’s new 2022 book, titled Streets of Gold: America’s Untold Story of Immigrant Success.
Boustan discovered that the children of immigrants tend to outpace the children of Americans. That happens, she said, because immigrants settle in the expensive, high-rent, fast-growing cities, while Americans tend to stay in their hometowns and states.
She wrote, “The first striking takeaway is that, as a group, children of immigrants achieve more upward mobility than the children of US-born fathers, reaching the 51st percentile of the income distribution on average.”
The migrants’ children tend to settle in the high-growth cities because they have no home-town ties elsewhere in the United States, Boustan said. “What’s new here that pops out of our database [is] that immigrant parents are more likely than US-born parents to settle in these high opportunity areas, which are flush with good jobs and offer better prospects for mobility in the next generation.”
Fewer Americans move to those cities because “the areas that offer the best opportunities for upward advancement also have the highest cost of living, particularly high rents and housing costs,” she wrote.
The post-1965 flood of Latino and Asian migrants — especially after the federal government doubled the inflow of foreign workers and consumers in 1990 — has helped to decrease migration by black and white Americans from poor rural areas into the high-growth cities.
“By most measures, internal migration in the United States is at a 30-year low,” said a 2011 academic study, titled “Internal Migration in the United States.”
Yet Boustan claims that her data about the faster progress of migrants justifies an amnesty for the existing population of at least 11 million illegals.
The great success of foreigners over Americans also justifies a continued inflow of migrants and their children into high-opportunity cities and jobs, she insists.
Breitbart News asked Boustan on June 7 about the damage done to black Americans by the government’s immigration policies.
Breitbart asked if African Americans — and other Americans — deserve compensation for the government policies that will allow immigrants’ children to outpace their children. In any future political “Grand Bargain,” Breitbart asked, “There’s no compensation for Americans who are going to be displaced by the incoming migrants, especially black Americans?”
Boustan simply dodged the evidence of generational displacement from her own 2022 book. “There isn’t really a lot of strong evidence that immigrants who are coming into the U.S. today are displacing U.S. workers,” she replied.
At the same June 7 event, Boustan’s allies also dodged the issue. They even argued that an amnesty for more than 10 million illegals would be good for black Americans because it would force employers to stop hiring illegals at lower wages.
“The idea that immigrants hurt African Americans is even older than some of the myths that Leah [Boustan] discusses in her book,” claimed Michael Clemens, an advocate for greater migration who ignored the conclusions of Boustan’s books. “So there really is a very, very weak evidence base for this, and especially in the historical period that Leah’s talking about,” he said at the June 7 meeting.
However, Boustan’s 2017 book piled up the evidence that black Americans gained when migration was temporarily stopped during World War I (1914 to 1918) and during the 1924 to 1965 period.
She wrote:
Migration to the north increased circa 1915, prompted by the confluence of rising labor demand in northern factories during World War One [and] a temporary freeze on immigration from Europe, which encouraged northern employers to consider alternative sources of labor supply…
And African Americans’ upward march stalled in the 1970s once Congress allowed other migrants into the northern cities ahead of them, Boustan wrote. “The stagnation of relative black earnings in the North from 1970 to 2010 points to the continued role of falling labor demand in American manufacturing, compounded by competition from new migrant arrivals from Mexico and Central America.”
Boustan’s 2017 book was approved by many leaders of the National Bureau of Economic Research, which includes most of the nation’s top academic economists.
Outside academia, the economic harm to African-Americans is obvious in the South and in northern cities. In 2018, President Donald Trump’s immigration officials forced a Chicago bakery to fire their illegal workforce of Latino illegals, allowing black workers to get more jobs and higher wages. The Chicago Sun-Times reported:
Ed French, owner of Elgin-based Metro Staff Inc., says his company became the main provider of [replacement] workers for the bakery and that about 80 percent of them are black. According to French … wages [are] up by about 25 cents an hour, to just above minimum wage.
He says everyone hired through his company is permitted to work in the country and has passed a background check and drug test.
According to a former consultant to the bakery, MSI paid the black workers $14 an hour, versus the $10 an hour the Mexican workers were making through Labor Network.
Black Americans are also being excluded from high-tech jobs, in part because Indian and Chinese migrants favor their own kind, and discriminate against African Americans. A May article in the Washington Post hinted at the anti-black discrimination, saying:
Diversity has suffered as a result. The director, who manages a 40-person team, has flagged to his bosses that about 98% of candidates he sees are male and Asian, according to email exchanges seen by Bloomberg Opinion.
In South Carolina’s Sixth District, black Americans are being pushed out of “carpentry, roofing, painting, lawn maintenance, even our cooking,” said Dixon. “Entry-level jobs that you don’t need to have a degree to do, we’re being pushed out of it.”
Black Americans have long recognized the damage international migration does to them.
Many blacks activists have interviewed Dixon about the damage done to African Americans by migration:
In Washington, DC, Peter Kirsanow has repeatedly warned about the impact of foreign migration on black Americans. He is a member of the U.S. Civil Rights Commission and conducted hearings on the damage caused by illegal migration to African-Americans. But Kirsanow’s commission is now dominated by Democrat appointees who are far more interested in promoting diversity instead of black citizens’ economic status.
The economic damage goes far beyond the loss of jobs and wages to international migrants.
Migration spikes housing costs, which has helped push more blacks out of high-growth cities. The inflow of migrants also reduces the supply of subsidized housing in many cities, including Chicago:
In the Sixth District, the growing population of illegal migrants is also pushing African-Americans out of housing, Dixon said. “Rent goes up because the availability of housing is scarce,” he said. “In the past, renting an apartment, the average was probably somewhere like $600 to $800, maybe even cheaper. Now, if all you get is … a one-bedroom at $1,300, you’re doing good.”
Many white mainstream conservatives also recognize the damage done to black citizens by migration.
“Rich people, mostly whites, are making out like bandits,” from the inflow of cheap Latino labor, columnist Ann Coulter wrote on May 25:
It’s low-wage workers — mostly black men — whose wages have been annihilated by competition from the cheap labor being dumped on the country. Not only have working-class wages gone into the toilet, but a lot of jobs are totally off-limits to black people — because they don’t speak Spanish or Chinese or Tagalog.
Roy Beck is the author of Back of the Hiring Line: A 200-year History of Immigration Surges, Employer Bias, and Depression of Black Wealth. He is a former left-wing journalist who now heads a group that lobbies for less migration.
Unsurprisingly, many black Americans oppose the federal migration policies, even though many also sympathize with poor Latinos who are trying to get jobs and raise their own children.
For example, a September 2021 poll showed that 28 percent of respondents wanted the federal government to send a flood of Haitian asylum seekers back to Haiti — while 25 percent strongly disapproved of the returns.
The same poll also reported that only 27 percent of black respondents believe that immigration makes America better off. A similar share — 23 percent — of black respondents say immigration makes America worse. Fifty percent of the people quizzed by the poll said “not sure” or that immigration “doesn’t make much difference.”
In April 2018, Breitbart News reported on a survey that showed African Americans without college degrees are more concerned about cheap-labor migration than are those with college degrees. Professor Tatishe Nteta at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst wrote:
Working-class African Americans are significantly more supportive of policies that seek to: decrease the number of immigrants coming to the United States, increase the federal role in verifying the employment status of immigrants, and attempts to amend the Constitution’s citizenship provisions.
Amid the multi-decade disaster for black Americans, Clyburn — like many other black leaders — has repeatedly dodged the issue as he climbed to the top of the party’s coalition of competing identity groups.
In September 2021, he kept a low profile as 18 of the 53 legislators in the Congressional Black Caucus urged top Democrats to amnesty many more illegal migrants. Many of the 18 legislators represent districts with very large shares of Latino voters. In July 2021, 30 members of the caucus asked officials to invite deported migrants back to the United States, but Clyburn stayed quiet.
Yet in November 2021, Clyburn voted for the “Build Back Better” spending bill, which was strongly backed by the growing number of Latino and Asian representatives in the Democratic Party. That bill would have allowed millions of would-be Latino and Asian migrants to buy their way into the skilled jobs, decent housing, big-city opportunities, and government aid programs that are needed by ordinary Americans.
No one in the black leadership class is “talking about the anger that black Americans — the descendants of American slaves — feel toward illegal immigrants,” Dixon told Breitbart News. “No one’s talking about California where Latino gangs are running black Americans out of neighborhoods that were once majority black. No one is talking about how black Americans in states like Illinois and Mississippi and Georgia have called ICE and then ICE has raided factories and plants and farms and the next thing black Americans were doing the jobs that the media tell us that black Americans don’t want to do,” he added.
“There are a lot of black people that feel the way I do. I rarely get pushback about illegal immigration when I talk to real black people who live around this majority-black district. No one is speaking for them,” he continued.
“Once I talk about it, that’s a game-changer,” Dixon said.
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