THE DOCTRINE OF THE N.A.F.T.A. GLOBALIST DEMOCRATS IS TO SERVE THE BILLIONAIRE CLASS WITH ENDLESS WAVES OF INVADING 'CHEAP' LABOR SUBSIDIZED WITH WELFARE FUNDED BY TAXES ON MIDDLE AMERICA.
In many speeches, Mayorkas says he is building a mass migration system to deliver workers to wealthy employers and investors and “equity” to poor foreigners. The nation’s border laws are subordinate to elites’ opinion about “the values of our country,” Mayorkas claims.
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Millions of Americans are paying taxes this week. What worsens the pain is to see President Joe Biden spending our tax money on hotel stays, debit cards and cellphones for migrants illegally crossing the southern border.
Biden is rolling out the welcome mat.
Illegal border crossers will no longer be treated like criminals but more like customers. The president's fiscal budget, presented March 28, cuts funding for Immigration and Customs Enforcement by 8% despite an expected surge in migrants and reduces detention beds. Meanwhile, Biden's increasing funding for a speedier service for migrants entering the country illegally, with more flights and ground transportation. Kind of like a travel agency.
As of late May, Customs and Border Protection officials will not be able to send back migrants using Title 42, a legal tool devised to limit immigration during COVID-19. Illegal immigration is predicted to surge to 18,000 people a day. Biden isn't planning to deter it, only to accommodate it.
There will be no punishment for sneaking into the country, or what the White House prefers to call "irregular" immigration.
Migrants won't be detained in crowded facilities, sleeping under metallic sheets. These facilities are being phased out.
After crossing and being apprehended, migrants are fingerprinted and handed an Order of Release and Recognizance, granting them a legal right to travel in the U.S., so long as they report to an ICE officer when they reach their destination.
Then they're welcomed by Catholic Charities or other nonprofits, who help with travel instructions. Some are taken directly to bus stations or airports. But many others are checked into hotels for one or two days of R&R before continuing to the destination of their choice. Call it the Catch and Concierge experience.
Over the last year, the Biden administration has contracted hotel space in Scottsdale, Arizona, El Paso, Texas, and other sites to house migrants while they're provided COVID screening, medical care, hot meals and a chance to shower and rest. What's next? Mints on the pillow?
Hotels were used in the past to house migrants but only because detention facilities were full, not because they were replacing them.
California's health department is also renting hotels in San Diego, including a Four Points Sheraton and a Ramada Inn, where Catholic Charities Diocese of San Diego and Jewish Family Service of San Diego provide services to migrants.
Don't think because these charities are helping that taxpayers are off the hook. The federal government is Catholic Charities' largest source of funds, and Jewish Family Service gets its money largely from Catholic Charities. Illegal immigration is funded in a tangled maze that invariably leads back to U.S. taxpayers.
That's who's paying for the smartphones and tablets for migrants -- the latest perk. White House press secretary Jen Psaki claims the devices will make it easier to track migrants. Border officials, according to the Los Angeles Times, insist the smartphones are for safer travel, not tracking. Migrants can simply throw the device away.
Previous administrations used ankle bracelets, but immigration advocates complained they were uncomfortable and humiliating, so the Biden administration discontinued them.
Even before migrants cross the border, the International Organization for Migration, a part of the United Nations, distributes plastic debit cards worth about $400 to help tide over migrants waiting to enter. Where does IOM get its money? Partly from America, of course. Twelve House Republicans introduced the "No Tax Dollars for the Immigration Invasion Act" to bar funding these cash giveaways.
With Biden welcoming migrants crossing illegally and helping them settle wherever in the U.S. they choose, every state becomes a border state. Taxpayers in all 50 states are clobbered with the cost of providing housing, emergency medical care and public schooling. Dems in New York, who have no mercy on taxpayers, are even extending Medicaid to migrants 65 and over illegally in the U.S.
Americans are generous people, but they have to provide for their own kids and neighbors first. Without warning, Biden is flying migrants into communities under the cover of night and expecting them to be cared for. It's nothing short of an ambush.
Betsy McCaughey is a former lieutenant governor of New York and author of "The Next Pandemic," available at Amazon.com. Follow her on Twitter @Betsy_McCaughey.
Actor Jude Law, who plays the character Dumbledore in "Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore." (Getty Images)
Although Hollywood relishes promoting homosexuality through its movies, Warner Bros. recently kow-towed to Communist Chinese authorities and deleted references to a gay relationship in its new Harry Potter film, Fantastic Beasts: the Secrets of Dumbledore, reported Variety.
The deletion of six seconds of dialogue apparently was necessary for the movie to be shown in China.
In the book series, the character Dumbledore was revealed to be gay in 2009. In the movie series, however, his sexual choice was not disclosed until near the end of this latest film.
The dialogue that was cut reads “because I was in love with you” and “the summer Gellert and I fell in love," and occurs when Dumbledore (Jude Law) is speaking with Grindelwald (Mads Mikkelsen).
"Warner Bros. accepted China’s request to remove six seconds from the movie," reported Variety. "The rest of the film remained intact, including an understanding that Dumbledore and Grindelwald share an intimate bond."
In a statement sent to Variety, Warner Bros said, “As a studio, we’re committed to safeguarding the integrity of every film we release, and that extends to circumstances that necessitate making nuanced cuts in order to respond sensitively to a variety of in-market factors."
“Our hope is to release our features worldwide as released by their creators but historically we have faced small edits made in local markets," said the studio.
“In the case of Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore, a six-second cut was requested and Warner Bros. accepted those changes to comply with local requirements," said Warner Bros. “We want audiences everywhere in the world to see and enjoy this film, and it’s important to us that Chinese audiences have the opportunity to experience it as well, even with these minor edits.”
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China, with a population of 1.4 billion people, is a massive marketplace for Hollywood. The regime, however, is still totalitarian. It has killed more than 65 million of its own people for political reasons since 1950, according to The Black Book of Communism.
Today, the communist regime operates concentration camps where a reported 1.5 million Uyghurs are held. There are numerous reports of torture, rape, execution, and the harvesting of body parts from the camps. In addition, Christians and other religious are constantly harassed and persecuted by Chinese authorities.
Tom Cotton Demands Joe Biden Explain Why He Eliminated U.S. Tariffs on China
Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) is demanding President Joe Biden’s administration officials explain their decision to eliminate United States tariffs on hundreds of China-made products.
As Breitbart News reported last month, Biden’s United States Trade Representative (USTR) Katherine Tai announced the elimination of Section 301 tariffs on more than 350 products made in China that are imported to the U.S. market.
The China-made products that will escape U.S. tariffs thanks to Biden include breast pumps, solar water heaters, garage door openers, X-ray tables, and thermostats, as well as food products from China such as crab meat, Dungeness crab, and Alaskan sole.
In a letter to Tai, Cotton called the dropping of U.S. tariffs on China “economic appeasement” and demanded the administration answer questions as to the decision-making behind the move. Cotton wrote:
Days ago, your agency blew a massive hole in our enforcement regime by approving tariff exemptions for over 350 Chinese-made products. Earlier last month, USTR also punted on opening new 301 investigations into China’s economic abuses. These trade concessions are a gift to Chinese producers that continue your agency’s pattern of economic appeasement.”
Cotton wants to know how many of the China-made products exempted from U.S. tariffs can be readily made in America or in a foreign country that is, at least, an ally of the U.S. government.
Cotton also asked:
In estimated total dollar value, how much will trade with China likely increase as a result of these tariff exemptions? Will our trade deficit likely grow or shrink? [Emphasis added]
Did we receive any reciprocal tariff reductions or other trade concessions from China in response to these exemptions? [Emphasis added]
Last December, Cotton marked the 20th anniversary of China’s joining the World Trade Organization (WTO), a decision supported by both political establishments at the time.
“Millions of Americans lost good-paying, blue-collar jobs to the ‘China trade shock’ in the years that followed,” Cotton said. “Countless small towns, main streets, and working class neighborhoods were gutted and boarded up.”
From 2001 to 2018, U.S. free trade with China has eliminated 3.7 million American jobs from the economy — 2.8 million of which were lost in American manufacturing. During that same period, at least 50,000 American manufacturing plants closed down.
Those massive job losses have coincided with a booming U.S.-China trade deficit. In 1985, before China entered the WTO, the U.S. trade deficit with China totaled $6 billion. In 2019, the U.S. trade deficit with China totaled more than $345 billion.
Meanwhile, a study from 2019 found that permanent U.S. tariffs of 25 percent on all Chinese imports would create more than a million American jobs in five years. American manufacturing is vital to the U.S. economy, as every one manufacturing job supports an additional 7.4 American jobs in other industries.
Exclusive—Peter Schweizer: How U.S. Commerce Department Officials Cashed In on China
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Republicans and Democrats in Washington don’t agree on much these days. Except, it seems, when it comes to leveraging your position as secretary of an overlooked federal agency for personal enrichment.
A new report by the Government Accountability Institute (GAI), entitled “Department of Cronyism: Inside Deals, Conflicts of Interest and Chinese Connections,” exposes the vast opportunities for cronyism and corruption within the U.S. Department of Commerce and the people who have taken advantage of it.
The report documented the existence of ties to China with President Joe Biden’s choice for commerce secretary, Gina Raimondo.
Raimondo, the former governor of Rhode Island, has a background in finance, having founded the venture capital firm Point Judith Capital in 2000. She is worth roughly $1.8 billion, based on her financial disclosure and as reported by Forbes. Raimondo’s husband, Andrew Moffit, worked for 20 years at the mega-consulting firm McKinsey & Co., but he left McKinsey in 2020 to became the “Chief People Officer” for a software company called PathAI that applies artificial intelligence and machine learning to medical diagnostics.
In February of this year, Moffit exercised his PathAI stock options and left his full-time job with the company. Instead, he became its “strategic adviser,” thus deepening his financial ties to the firm while creating the appearance of distance between his role with the company and his wife’s duties as Commerce secretary.
Rhode Island Governor Democrat Gina Raimondo, center, and her husband Andrew Moffit, right, celebrate her election victory on November 6, 2018, in Providence, Rhode Island. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)
Artificial intelligence is the focus of the Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security because it often has direct military applications, making it sensitive to U.S. national security. Possible restrictions include the sharing of AI technology with foreign employees, an area in which Moffit could well be responsible as “Chief People Officer.”
In 2019, U.S.-based venture capital firm Danhua Capital Management (doing business as DHVC) participated in a $60 million fundraising round for PathAI. DHVC not only has holdings in sensitive technology sectors, but also has ties to a Chinese state-owned entity. Therefore, DHVC’s relationship with PathAI could raise conflict-of-interest and/or national security concerns,” according to GAI’s report.
Raimondo’s predecessor during the Trump administration was Wilbur Ross. Ross was a successful businessman with huge commercial ties to China. He had shipping companies that had major Chinese investment. In fact, Trump criticized him for being too soft on China while Ross ran the department.
U.S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross (right) speaks next to U.S. Ambassador to China Terry Branstad (left) during a bilateral meeting in Beijing on September 25, 2017. (ANDY WONG/AFP via Getty Images)
Donald Trump’s ambassador to China was former Iowa governor Terry Branstad. The connections of Branstad’s sons really show the systemic levels of influence China has built up in Washington. His son, Eric Branstad, worked during the Trump administration at the Commerce Department, as an adviser to then-Secretary Ross. Branstad’s youngest son, Marcus, was a longtime lobbyist for the American Chemistry Council which, despite its name, actually lobbies for Chinese chemical companies, opposing some of Trump’s restrictions and trade agreements.
The report notes that when Eric Branstad left the Commerce Department, he went to work as a lobbyist for a Chinese telecom firm immediately after restrictions against that firm were lifted by the Commerce Department. “He actually goes over to China after he leaves Commerce and meets with Chinese officials and he brags about his access to the White House, and he makes good money there.”
U.S. Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker speaks during a dinner hosted by the US-China Business Council (USCBC) and National Committee on US-China Relations (NCUSCR) on July 11, 2013, in Washington, DC. (MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images)
Before him, President Obama’s Commerce Secretary was Penny Pritzker. She is the heir to the Hyatt Hotel fortune, but also has extensive commercial ties of her own to the Chinese, as the report also details.
The report provides support for the concept of “elite capture” – the explicit strategy on the part of the foreign countries like China to forge connections to the levers of power in various U.S. institutions to ensure favorable treatment.
The United States used to have the largest and strongest middle class in the entire world... but those times are long gone. Now, the American middle class is rapidly shrinking, and the current economic conditions are accelerating that process even further. We've never seen prices reach stratospheric levels so rapidly, and a series of economic trends show that this is just the beginning. Amid soaring prices for virtually everything, consumer sentiment plunged again last month, hitting its lowest level since August 2011, according to the University of Michigan. At this point, two-thirds of Americans say higher prices have been difficult or even a hardship, and they’re now forcing many to make cutbacks.
According to Laura Wronski, the senior manager of research science at Momentive, “people making six-figure incomes are almost as worried about inflation as people making half as much —and they are just as likely to be taking steps to mitigate its effect on their lives. Inflation is a problem that compounds over time, and even middle and upper-income individuals won’t be insulated from the second and third-order effects of price increases,” she said. A new study by Wells Fargo discovered that the middle class is getting more financially squeezed by rampant prices than any other income group in the United States. And it is going to get “worse before it gets better,” according to Moody’s Analytics. Meanwhile, home prices are absolutely exploding. Over the past two years, they went up by a staggering 32.6%. The latest jump in mortgage rates has effectively put homebuyers in the worst position since 2007.
At the same time, most people are barely scraping by from month to month, and the meteoric rise in the price of consumer goods is certainly not helping matters. And if you think things are bad right now, in a couple of months, they could be a whole lot worse. Even the White House is warning that consumers should brace for some painful price hikes in the coming weeks and months.
It’s getting harder and harder for millions of middle-class families to keep their heads above the water as inflation eats up a larger share of their monthly incomes. That's compromising the purchasing power of hard-working Americans who dedicate their lives to building a comfortable lifestyle. As the price of everything reaches new record-highs, this situation is rapidly becoming unsustainable.
We’re on the verge of another economic recession, and all of the facts we share with you in this video are proof of that. Americans have never experienced so much financial suffering since the 2008 Great Recession and the Great Depression of the 1930s.
Unfortunately, as we're being told, a lot more pain is ahead, and given that our leaders continue to overlook our worsening problems, we should start doing whatever we can to protect ourselves and our families from the coming chaos because it is crystal clear now that we're on our own. That's why today, we compiled several stats that uncover the distressing effect of soaring prices in the lives of millions of middle-class families all across the country. Here are 15 Facts That Show Rising Prices Are Absolutely Eviscerating America’s Shrinking Middle Class.
Just 16 percent of Americans strongly approve of President Joe Biden, a Wednesday Morning Consult/Politico poll reveals.
Meanwhile, 40 percent strongly disapprove of Biden, a 24-percent gap.
Overall, the poll marks Biden’s approval at just 41 percent. A massive 55 percent disapprove of Biden. Biden’s approval numbers have remained about the same for the last couple of weeks.
The lowest approval rating Biden has ever received was 33 percent, according to a Quinnipiac poll in January.
Biden’s approval rating mirrors respondents’ opinions on whether the nation is headed in the wrong or correct direction. Only 31 percent said the nation is headed in the right direction. Sixty-nine percent said the nation is headed in the wrong direction, a 38-point gap.
Biden’s sagging poll numbers are bleeding into the midterms. Respondents trusted Republicans more than Democrats to handle the most important issues, according to the poll:
The poll numbers reveal that Republicans may have a huge election victory in November. And the Democrats’ position could become worse.
According to the poll, Americans’ top concerns are inflation, jobs, and wages. But Democrats are struggling to reduce inflation and increase wages. As a result, Americans’ jobs may be impacted by a recession. Deutsche Bank Economists are predicting a recession within the next two years.
“Two shocks in recent months, the war in Ukraine and the build-up of momentum in elevated U.S. and European inflation, have caused us to revise down our forecast for global growth significantly,” they wrote. “We are now projecting a recession in the U.S. and a growth recession in the euro area within the next two years.”
On Tuesday, Labor Department numbers showed the consumer price index has soared 8.5 percent in one year, the largest year-over-year increase since 1981. The inflated prices will reportedly cost consumers an extra $5,200 in 2022, or $433 per month. Inflation already cost consumers an estimated $3,500 in 2021, impacting low-income families the hardest, according to the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School.
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