How the gospel of open borders took over the Democratic Party
By Mark KrikorianNew York Post
Excerpt: The reason Biden’s immigration people, and the Democrats in Congress, are unwilling to enforce immigration law is because they think it’s wrong. They simply don’t believe that the American people have the right to keep anyone out. They see immigration limits of any kind as just another version of Jim Crow, a way of discriminating against foreigners who are just seeking a better life. And anyway, America is an illegitimate settler-colonial regime founded by phallocratic slaveholders and Indian-killers, so who are we to tell other people they can’t move here if they want?
Biden’s open borders will cost taxpayers $100 billion — and counting
By Mark Krikorian
New York Post
Excerpt: It’s good that the average household income in Martha’s Vineyard is $133,000 a year because, hoo-boy, the illegal immigrants who arrived there from Florida this week are going to cost taxpayers a bundle. Over their lifetimes, all the illegal immigrants Biden has so far added to the United States will cost us about $100 billion.
Biden Avoids Speaking to Republican Governors Experiencing States of Emergency
(CNSNews.com) - As a major hurricane bears down on Florida, President Biden already has declared a state of emergency, which allows federal agencies to mobilize relief efforts. But he has not spoken to Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis, a potential political rival.
Nor did the president speak to Mississippi's Republican Gov. Tate Reeves when flooding caused the main water facility in the capital city, Jackson, to fail in late August. (But Biden did phone the Democrat mayor of Jackson.)
White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre was asked about that on Monday: "Does the President think it's important when you have this nature of a threat to millions and millions of Americans to have a conversation with a governor?" a reporter asked.
"So, look, what the President believes is that it’s important that federal resources is provided for the people of Florida," Jean-Pierre said:
"That is the most important thing — to make sure that we are there for them in this time of need. And that’s why the President reacted right away to make sure that the — that we are able to surge resources before. And he did this before landfall. And so that is the most important thing.
"It’s about the people of Florida; it’s not about public officials, especially in this time. And so, again, the President, as President of the United States, as President for folks in red states and blue states, he’s going to keep that commitment.
"And you have seen him do that over the course of the 19 months when there has been extreme, extreme events, extreme weather that has happened, again, in blue states and red states. And he has done his job as President to make sure that we are there for the people in the state."
The reporter followed up, asking: "Is there anything that could stand in the way of the response if a President and a governor might not speak? He didn’t speak to the governor of Mississippi during the water crisis with Jackson," the reporter noted. "Thus far, he has not spoken to Governor DeSantis."
"And so — and that’s a perfect example," Jean-Pierre said:
"When you mentioned the governor of Mississippi, they — you were right, they didn’t speak, and we still were able to deliver for the folks in Jackson and for the folks of Mississippi. You had our EPA Administrator on the ground. You had FEMA Administrator on the ground. And not just them, but also folks who work for those — for those two agencies. And you had the Army Corps of Engineers.
"And so we put the full — the full power of the administration. We surged resources on the ground to make sure that we did everything that we can to help the people of Mississippi. This is the same; there’s no difference here. We’re going to do the same in Florida as we’ve done in other — in other states.
"As I mentioned, (FEMA) Administrator Criswell will be here tomorrow. She is in Miami, as we speak, current — as I speak currently. And she’ll be here, and she will lay out what we, as an administration, is doing for Florida and other — and other — and other states, like Alaska and any others that need our assistance at this time. And — and she’ll lay that out and answer any questions that you all may have."
President Biden lately has seized every opportunity to slam the people he calls "MAGA Republicans."
"Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans represent an extremism that threatens the very foundations of our republic," Biden said on Sept. 1 in his "soul of the nation" speech in Philadelphia.
"Now, I want to be very clear — very clear up front: Not every Republican, not even the majority of Republicans, are MAGA Republicans. Not every Republican embraces their extreme ideology.
"I know because I’ve been able to work with these mainstream Republicans. But there is no question that the Republican Party today is dominated, driven, and intimidated by Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans, and that is a threat to this country."
This is the same Joe Biden who touted "unity" in his presidential campaign; and the same Joe Biden who, as president, often includes lines like this one in his speeches: "There is not a single thing America cannot do — not a single thing beyond our capacity if we do it together."
New York Wants $500 Million from Americans to House New Migrant Workforce
New York’s Mayor Eric Adams wants the rest of America to pay $500 million for housing the many thousands of foreign workers and renters he is providing to New York’s business leaders.
The New York Post broke the story:
City Hall privately asked the White House for the emergency cash midway through the summer, saying it would cover just one year’s worth of spending on the migrants who Adams has said are straining the city’s shelter system to its “breaking point,” The Post has learned.
The request comes as House Democratic legislators, including Rep. Adriano Espaillat (D-NY), are pleading for another $500 million for “New York City and other safe-haven cities.”
The cities’ funding requests show how Washington’s migration policies provide coastal investors, CEOs, and landlords with an imported river of low-wage workers and high-occupancy renters.
The federal migration policies also provide federal aid for the penniless migrants in a lower-wage, higher-rent economy.
So the flood of migrants and government aid helps business elites by spiking housing prices and cutting ordinary Americans’ pocketbook wages and disposable income.
Eric Adams, mayor of New York, speaks during the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) annual meeting in New York, US, on Tuesday, Sept. 20, 2022. (Michael Nagle/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
The economic and pocketbook impact of migration is made clear by California. That state’s huge inflow has increased California’s population by at least 33 percent and has sharply increased competition for housing amid deepening economic inequality, drug addiction, and homelessness.
In California, the median price of a house is $725,000, according to NeighborhoodScout.com. That price is three-and-a-half times as much as in 2020, the site said.
The same process is underway in New York. For example, rents are also very high in New York partly because the local elite welcomes, protects, and subsidizes illegal migrants at the expense of ordinary New Yorkers.
This self-serving support for Extraction Migration is rationalized by elites who tout the 1950s narrative that the United States is somehow a “Nation of Immigrants.”
Federally-supplied migration helps to shrink corporate investment in worker productivity nationwide and to also steer coastal investors away from hiring young Americans in heartland states.
Biden’s migration has boosted the number of migrants who have filed asylum claims to stay in the United States by up to 750,000, according to the Washington Post.
The migrants are concentrated in a few coastal states.
Roughly 408,000 migrants — or 54 percent — of the 750,000 are in the four states of California, New York, Texas, and Florida, even though those states comprise only 33 percent of the population, according to the September 26 report in the Washington Post.
“The largest remaining groups are mostly awaiting hearings in courts in blue states such as New Jersey, Massachusetts, and Maryland, though some are waiting for hearings at courts in red states,” the Post added.
The government’s legal visa-worker programs are also skewed towards coastal states, further reducing the incentive for Silicon Valley to invest in heartland states.
GOP legislators have begun to recognize how government-funded migration to the coastal states aids wealthy people in those states and also redirects private investment that would otherwise be shared with people in their states. For example, Bloomberg Government reported on September 21.
[The] Biden administration should be looking for ways to deter migration “instead of asking for more money for more people to come,” Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (W.Va.), the top Republican overseeing DHS’s budget, said Tuesday. “So yeah, I got a problem with that.”
But funneling money to border needs is a point of frustration for many Republicans, who instead want President Joe Biden to return to many of the immigration policies of his predecessor: continuing border wall construction, forcing asylum seekers to wait in Mexico while their claims are reviewed, and applying pandemic-related restrictions more aggressively.
“It’s not the answer to our immigration problem, it’s not just more money,” Rob Portman (Ohio), top Republican on the Senate panel that oversees DHS, said of the emergency funding push.
Capito’s West Virginia gets little private sector investment, partly because the federal pipelines feed foreign workers into California and New York.
But the GOP opposition is well-timed.
Biden’s deputies are running short of the cash they need to operate their northside transportation networks used to quietly transport economic migrants from the border to workplaces and apartments in American cities.
On September 15, 10 Democratic senators asked Capito and other legislators on the appropriations committees to keep the migrant pipeline working:
Funds appropriated through FY 22 [which ends October 1] are quickly being drawn down and in the absence of full-year funding, grantees of the program are currently grappling with how to continue to provide critical services to this vulnerable population. Communities and organizations are on the front-lines of assisting migrants coming to our border and resources are being stretched thin as they take on the role of performing a federal government function. This funding is vitally important as more cities in the United States receive refugees and asylum seekers.
Any extra federal spending would be smuggled to the various cities via an increase in funding for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the Department of Health and Human Services, and other agencies. Much of the money flows through the DHS to progressive groups via contracts with the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
The northside smuggling network — and the record number of migrant deaths — has largely been ignored by the corporate media.
That corporate policy leaves many Americans in the dark about the scale of Biden’s mass migration — but also awash in the media hand-wringing about the claimed trauma suffered by migrants who were flown to the elite playground of Martha’s Vinyard.
If the GOP holds fast, they will likely win concessions from the Democrats’ pro-migration leaders, including Majority Leader Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY).
However, those concessions may benefit the GOP’s business donors, not the millions of Americans who are being sidelined by the establishment’s preference for uncomplaining immigrant workers and renters.
Many progressives compete to display their support for the migration that makes them and their children poorer: “Blue areas are already dealing with a large proportion of migrants who are seeking asylum and have for a long time,” said the author of the Washington Post article who posted the numbers showing the skewed distribution of migrants.
But few progressives want to recognize the macroeconomics of migration.
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