America Faces No Greater Threat Than Joe Biden and the Democrat Party. Their Assault to Our Borders Is As Great As Their Assault to Free Speech and Free Elections
Friday, June 24, 2022
THE DEMOCRAT PARTY'S WAR ON THE AMERICAN WORKER - GOP Senators Save U.S. Graduates from Immigration Bill
BIDENOMICS - The Massive Transfer of Wealth to the Rich and Wall Street and Then Illegals Get Our Jobs to Keep Wages Depressed.
Old Joe Biden has been a liar his entire public life, from his plagiarism in law school and on the presidential campaign trail to his lies about the accident that killed his first wife and the innumerable lies he has told while pretending to be president. It is no exaggeration to say that Joe Biden is one of the most untrustworthy men on the planet. On Friday he reinforced that reputation with a major speech on the May jobs report, in which he had the breathtaking audacity to say that the smoking ruin of an economy over which he is presiding, and which his far-Left policies created, is actually doing great. Maybe if we tilt our heads and squint, we’ll be able to see it.
Washington, D.C. (June 23, 2022) – A new Center for Immigration Studies analysis of employment shows that while the overall unemployment rate for immigrants and the U.S.-born has returned to pre-pandemic levels, this obscures the low labor force participation rate of the U.S.-born, particularly those without a bachelor’s degree.
The "unemployed" includes only those who have actively looked for a job in the prior four weeks, while labor force participation measures the share of all working-age people holding a job or actively looking for one. If the labor force participation rate for these less-educated Americans were the same in 2022 as it was 2000, seven million more people would be in the labor force.
“The low unemployment rate is largely meaningless because it does not include all the people on the sidelines,” said Steven Camarota, the Center’s director of research and co-author of the analysis. “With more than 54 million working-age people not in the labor force, we need to adopt policies that get more people back into jobs — not perpetuate the situation by bringing in ever more foreign workers.”
Among the findings:
The unemployment rate of about 4 percent for both the U.S.-born and immigrants (ages 16-plus) in the first quarter of 2022 is similar to what it was before Covid-19, as is the total number (6.7 million) unemployed.
Perhaps more important than the 6.7 million unemployed are the 54.5 million working-wage (16-64) U.S. residents not in the labor force — neither working nor looking for work
Of all 61.2 million not working in the first quarter, 35.3 million (58 percent) were U.S.-born adults (18-64) without a bachelor’s degree.
Among the U.S.-born, labor force participation is lowest and has tended to decline the most among the least-educated — dropouts and those with only a high school education, though it has also declined among those adults with some college.
Prime-age (25-54):
Focusing only on “prime-age” (25-54) men, who traditionally have the highest labor force participation, shows a large decline for the U.S.-born, but not so much for immigrants.
Of U.S.-born men of prime working age without a bachelor’s degree, only 84 percent were in the labor force in the first quarter of 2022, compared to 89 percent in 2000. In contrast, 91 percent of less-educated prime-age immigrant men were in the labor force in 2022, compared to 92 percent in 2000.
Like their male counterparts, the labor force participation rate of less-educated U.S.-born women of prime age has declined — from 77 percent in 2000 to 72 percent in 2022. At 62 percent, the labor force participation rate for immigrant women is lower than their U.S.-born counterparts, but has not changed much since 2000
Race:
While less-educated U.S.-born blacks tend to have lower rates of labor force participation than U.S.-born whites and Hispanics, all three groups show a decline over the last two decades.
Among prime working-age U.S.-born Americans (25-54) without a bachelor’s degree, labor force participation between 2000 and 2022 declined for whites from 84 percent to 79 percent; for blacks it declined from 79 percent to 75 percent; and for Hispanics it declined from 81 percent to 78 percent.
GOP Senators Save U.S. Graduates from Immigration Bill
GOP Senators blocked an immigration plan by business-backed Democrats to put a very large number of foreign graduates into the Fortune 500 jobs needed by U.S. graduates, according to reports from Capitol Hill.
“Immigration provisions in a hotly debated US competitiveness package are effectively dead, but Democrats haven’t admitted it yet, according to one Republican senator who’s a top negotiator on the legislation,” Bloomberg reported from a Hill interview with Sen. Todd Young (R-IN).
“I think they’re dead. I just think that Democrats haven’t admitted that to themselves yet,” said Young, who has opposed the giveaway in close cooperation with his fellow Midwestern Senator, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA).
The little-publicized immigration giveaway would ensure that few of their Midwest constituents would get high-tech jobs at the chip-making factories that will be funded by the legislation. Instead, the Fortune 500 companies would fill up the midwestern factories with foreign graduates who expect their pay to be government-supplied green cards.
The House and Senate have each passed bills that provide roughly $50 billion to fund the domestic development and production of high-tech products, especially computer chips. But Section 80303 of the House bill would allow Fortune 500 companies to hire foreign graduates with promised payments of hugely valuable green cards.
The uncapped giveaway would help foreigners with master’s degrees “in a program of study involving [emphasis added] science, technology, engineering, or mathematics,” says the House bill. The acceptable “program of study” includes:
…agricultural sciences, natural resources and conservation, computer and information sciences and support services, engineering, biological and biomedical sciences, mathematics and statistics, military technologies, physical sciences, health professions and related programs, or medical residency and fellowship programs, or the summary group subsets of accounting and related services and taxation.
The huge post-1990 influx of Indian and Chinese graduates via the H-1B, J-1, and L-1 programs have already pushed many thousands of American graduates out of tech jobs. The flooded market for white-collar labor also forced down salaries for the entire professional class. “Most college graduates have actually seen their real incomes stagnate or even decline” since 2000, New York Times columnist Paul Krugman wrote on April 29.
However, corporate lobbyists will likely plead for apparently small concessions in the final bill.
If they get any concession, they will work with their pro-migration allies in the nation’s border security agency to expand the concession as much as they can. For example, President George W. Bush’s deputies invented the innocuous-sounding Optional Practical Training (OPT) program. That program now provides coastal employers with more than 300,000 foreign white-collar workers each year, even though it was never approved by Congress.
The chief Hill advocate for the uncapped giveaway of white-collar jobs is former immigration lawyer, Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-CA). The bill would help investors and companies in her Silicon Valley district — but it would also minimize the incentive for coastal investors to create jobs in Midwestern cities.
On immigration in competition deal, Rep. Lofgren says she understands Sen. Grassley is opposed & “if he doesn’t agree it probably doesn’t stay in.” Says she hears there will be one more Senate-side effort to help him “confront the reality” that it’s a national security imperative
President Joe Biden’s Commerce Secretary, Gina Raimondo, also opposed the giveaway. “These are jobs, these are good jobs and these are jobs Americans should have,” Raimondo told the leading business advocate for the jobs giveaway, former Google chief Eric Schmidt, in March.
Ohio Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) may have opposed the giveaway. “We need bipartisan legislation that puts American workers and American innovation first,” he told a meeting in May.
UCLA graduates in International Studies stand during the College of Letters and Sciences commencement ceremony in Pauley Pavilion at the Westwood campus on Friday, June 10, 2022. (Sarah Reingewirtz/MediaNews Group/Los Angeles Daily News via Getty Images)
The Democrats’ coastal leaders seem to be backing away from the plan amid the Midwest opposition. For example, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), notably ignored the China bill when she touted a series of pro-migration bills on June 22:
The Farm Workforce Modernization Act … was a critical victory when we [passed it] … We need comprehensive immigration reform, we need DACA – we observed the 10 year anniversary. We need to pass that and promise – the Promise Act, the Dream and Promise Act. So House Democrats are calling upon our Republican colleagues to end their shameful blockade of these vital bills.
GOP Senators are also backing away from the jobs giveaway, often without denouncing the donor-backed job-giveaway plan.
For example, Republicans say the giveaway should be blocked because the dispute may derail the technology-development bill.
“I think that immigration bills should not be put in other [non-immigration] bills,” Grassley told Bloomberg on June 16.
Speaking to ScienceInsider after the hearing, [Texas GOP Sen. John] Cornyn said he’s worried that adding the House immigration provisions to the final product would put the entire bill in jeopardy. “Immigration is not the primary purpose of [the Senate innovation bill],” Cornyn said. “And based on my experience here, I think that the more it deals with immigration, the harder it will be to get it passed.”
Other Republican senators believe border security must come first, and they don’t trust U.S. universities hosting foreign-born scientists to safeguard national security. If anything, said Senator Marsha Blackburn (R–TN), the new visa category and other provisions will make it easier for enemies of the United States to pilfer emerging technologies.
Democrats are not making the giveaway a high-priority issue, according to another Bloomberg outlet:
“At a certain point, if the staffs can’t get it all worked out, it just won’t find its way in the bill, which I think would be a shame,” said Sen. John Hickenlooper (D-Colo.), a member of the conference committee in charge of working out differences in the bills.
Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.), who backed the measure in the House, on Wednesday said it was still “an important element.”
Immigration-enthusiast Sen. Alex Padilla (D-CA) also downplayed the giveaway’s chances, according to Science.org:
[He] acknowledged that Democrats are a long way from closing a deal. “I do think immigration reform is central to the [final innovation] bill,” he told ScienceInsider. “But I guess we have more work to do to convince [Republicans] of that.”
Extraction Migration
Since at least 1990, the D.C. establishment has extracted tens of millions of migrants and visa workers from poor countries to serve as legal or illegal workers, temporary workers, consumers, and renters for various U.S. investors and CEOs.
This economic strategy of Extraction Migration has no stopping point. It is brutal to ordinary Americans because it cuts their career opportunities, shrinks their salaries and wages, raises their housing costs, and has shoved at least ten million American men out of the labor force.
Extraction migration also distorts the economy and curbs Americans’ productivity, partly because it allows employers to use stoop labor instead of machines. Migration also reduces voters’ political clout, undermines employees’ workplace rights, and widens the regional wealth gaps between the Democrats’ big coastal states and the Republicans’ heartland and southern states.
An economy built on extraction migration also alienates young people and radicalizes Americans’ democratic, equality-promoting civic culture because it allows wealthy elites to ignore despairing Americans at the bottom of society.
The extraction migration economic policy is hidden behind a wide variety of noble-sounding excuses and explanations. For example, progressives claim that the U.S. is a “Nation of Immigrants,” that Americans have a duty to accept foreign refugees, and that the state must renew itself by replacing populations.
But the colonialism-like economic strategy also kills many migrants, exploits poor people, and splits foreign families as it extracts human-resource wealth from the poor home countries. The migration policy also minimizes shareholder pressure on companies to build up complementary trade with poor countries.
With Biden in office, America’s southern border has vanished entirely.
So, while we in America are getting a fair number of sex traffickers; mountains of fentanyl; low skilled, illegal workers who drive down wages; and more welfare mouths to feed, the Latin Americans who come here mostly want to work and mostly hew to traditional western, Christian values. ANDREA WIDBURG
Ann Coulter: They’ve Learned Nothing and Forgotten Nothing
Bill Barr, two-time attorney general and one of approximately 2.5 members of the Trump administration to leave with his reputation intact, has also written one of only two books about that administration worth reading, One Damn Thing After Another. I’ve read ’em all. At least partially. Most did not merit more than a quick skim.
[For those interested, the other book about the Trump administration worth reading is Michael Wolfe’s Fire and Fury, but judging by its sales, you probably already have this book.]
I’ve been a fan of Barr’s since long before he worked for Trump and was thrilled when he became Trump’s A.G. But when I got to Barr’s description of Trump’s appeal — which went on for pages and pages! — I wanted to throw the book out the window.
You can probably guess where I’m headed.
By Barr’s lights, none of Trump’s positives involved … immigration.
They will not learn. No matter what we do, no matter how many times Americans tell pollsters they want less immigration, no matter how loudly we beg Washington to halt the endless flow of the third world into our country, the ruling class refuses to listen.
If electing a cretinous flimflam artist to the presidency solely on the strength of his promise to be a hard-ass on immigration didn’t wake them up, nothing ever will.
The first clue about the absolute thickheadedness of anyone living within 100 miles of our nation’s capital was this deeply concerning line from Barr’s book:
“I had long planned on supporting Jeb Bush for the Republican presidential nomination in 2016.”
Next, Barr turns to the political landscape that allowed such a preposterous creature as Trump to sail to victory. “The source of the problem, as I saw it,” he writes, “was the growing strength in the Democratic Party of a Far Left progressive ideology that aimed to tear down and remake American society.” Trump, Barr writes, was merely the result of “our embittered politics,” a bitterness “engendered not by Trump but by the increasing militance of the Democratic Party’s progressive wing.”
Yeah, OK, fine. He gets two points for accurately describing how loathsome Democrats have become. How about the elected Republicans we send to Washington to represent us? It’s you guys we really hate. If it were only progressive Democrats voters detested, why NOT Jeb-exclamation point? Why not John “My Father Was a Postman” Kasich?
Republican presidential candidates, from left to right: John Kasich, Jeb Bush, Ted Cruz, and Donald Trump during the Republican Presidential Debate in Greenville, South Carolina, on February 13, 2016. (JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images)
No one imagines that Democrats give a crap about the country. It’s Republicans who run for office, pretending to agree with the voters on immigration — then get into office and sell out to the Chamber of Commerce.
Oh, you wanted a wall? Yes, absolutely, but first we have to pass these tax cuts, lavish billions of dollars on some foreign country and push through another Wall Street bailout.
For 50 years, in poll after poll, a majority of Americans have said they want LESS immigration. Even the Cheap Labor Lobby at the Cato Institute produced a poll last year showing that 81% of Americans want less immigration than we have today. Sixty-one percent of respondents want to cut immigration by at least half. Ten percent of Americans want zero immigration.
Unfortunately, everything Trump was ever going to accomplish was accomplished at 2:50 a.m. on election night 2016, when he announced his victory over Hillary Clinton. (Everything other than turning judicial selection over to the Federalist Society.) At that moment, the densest Republican had to realize that restricting immigration is so popular that even a lout like Trump could win the presidency on it.
After 2016, how could any sentient mammal begin a sentence, as Barr does, “But the main reason Trump won the nomination — and later the general election — was …,” and not end it with: “IMMIGRATION!”? (I’ll accept a range of substitutes — the wall, illegals, Dreamers, “Press 1 for English,” wages lost to cheap labor immigrants, Kate Steinle, the 9/11 attack — did the media forget to tell you that was done by immigrants? — the drug epidemic, etc., etc.)
Not Barr. He reels off the standard RNC suicide pact, prattling about the “economy,” “military power,” “pro-life” and school choice.
Yes, Trump won in 2016 because of school choice.
Attorney General William Barr participates briefing with President Donald Trump in the Oval Office on July 15, 2020. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
You could “Ctrl + F: immigration” through Barr’s entire book and get nary a hit, other than general references to “the Immigration and Naturalization Service” — and this:
Before one of the 2016 presidential debates, Barr is careful to note that he contacted a friend on the candidate’s team to suggest that Trump say, “we welcome legal immigrants, and … Latin Americans who come here legally — people with a strong work ethic and family values — contribute enormously to the country.”
And that’s how Jeb-exclamation point won the nomination and the general election!
Just this week, Republican Sen. John Cornyn was spotted on the Senate floor, seeming to propose amnesty, collegially telling a Democrat, “First guns, now it’s immigration.”
In Cornyn’s defense, he is massively stupid.
But Barr? He’s a smart man. And yet he picked up nothing from the Shock-the-World 2016 election of Donald Trump — except tax cuts and a strong military?
Referring to the monumental arrogance of the Bourbon kings, blithely assuming they could revert to the very behavior that had led to the explosion of the French Revolution in the first place, Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand is supposed to have said, “They have learned nothing, and forgotten nothing.”
The French nobility’s got nothing on the Republican Party.
Democrats Block Plan to Halt Biden Ending Title 42 at Border for Fifth Time
For the fifth time in a year, House Democrats have blocked a plan that would halt President Joe Biden’s seeking to end the CenterS for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Title 42 authority at the United States-Mexico border, which has helped stem waves of illegal immigration for over two years.
In April, CDC officials announced that the Biden administration would end Title 42 authority at the southern border by May 23. The authority allows Border Patrol agents to quickly return illegal aliens to Mexico after crossing the border and was first imposed by former President Trump in March 2020.
Last month, though, Trump-appointed Judge Robert R. Summerhays ordered Biden to keep Title 42 in place while the issue makes its way through the federal courts.
To ensure Title 42 is preserved, Rep. Yvette Herrell (R-NM) filed legislation known as the PAUSE Act which would prevent Biden from ending the authority at the border until all Chinese coronavirus advisories and emergencies are ended by the federal government.
On Wednesday, for the fifth time, 215 House Democrats blocked consideration of Herrell’s PAUSE Act to preserve Title 42. Democrats previously stopped the legislation from being considered in the House in June and July of 2021, as well as twice in April of this year.
“Dangerous drugs are pouring across the border — 80 percent of the fentanyl killing Americans comes into our country at the southern border,” Rep. Mayra Flores (R-TX) said on the House floor, urging Democrats to stop blocking the legislation.
Flores was sworn into Congress on Tuesday after her historic win in south Texas where she flipped the longtime Democrat-held 34th congressional district. Flores is the first Mexico-born female lawmaker to enter Congress.
Most recently, a number of Republicans have suggested that the use of Title 42 at the border be transferred to combat the nation’s deadly fentanyl crisis rather than the coronavirus.
“More than 100,000 Americans died last year from drug overdoses — mostly from fentanyl — which are really more akin to Chinese Communist Party-engineered poisonings … we desperately need Title 42 to fight this drug epidemic,” Hagerty said.
Without Title 42, Biden officials admit that up to half a million border crossers and illegal aliens — the equivalent of the resident population of Atlanta, Georgia — could arrive at the border every month.
Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ) told Breitbart News that he would expect 30,000 border crossers and illegal aliens every day at the border without Title 42. In Tijuana, Mexico, alone, Breitbart News exclusively reported that up to 6,000 foreign nationals are waiting to rush the border when Title 42 is ended.
The Biden administration’s plan for ending Title 42, which Breitbart News reported and published, details “broadscale release mechanisms” that transform the border into a mere checkpoint for foreign nationals arriving every day.
John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Email him at jbinder@breitbart.com. Follow him on Twitter here.
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