"Along with (LAWYER) Obama, Pelosi and (LAWYER) Schumer are responsible for incalculable damage done to this country over the eight years of that administration. (JOE BIDEN (LAWYER) WAS OFF SUCKING BRIBES)." PATRICIA McCARTHY
Chuck Schumer has also been in government since the 1980s and helped create the economy of today that makes it virtually impossible for people my age to build wealth and start a family. The man has literally done nothing but preside over America’s decline. OLIVIA MURRAY
Schumer and company lament shortage of American workers and discover ‘solution’
Chuck Schumer has apparently had an epiphany — without serfs, there can be no lord.
Yesterday, the re-elected Senate leader addressed a crowd of reporters, and recognized a serious issue plaguing America, “Now more than ever, we’re short of workers.”
But don’t fret, the fearless leader has a solution: fill the void with foreign-born invaders, and grant them citizenship.
Citing the shortage, Schumer announced his party’s reinvigorated support for amnesty and citizenship for the illegal populations currently within our (fluid) borders — amnesty because these aliens are criminals for already having already violated America’s laws, and citizenship so they can officially become tax slaves, and of course, vote Democrat. In fact, disdain for the American identity and zero desire to assimilate is a bonus.
Watch what he had to say below:
Did you catch the kicker? “We have a population that is not reproducing on its own with the same level that it used to.”
Quickly, let’s go through a brief, but relevant sequence of events:
Roe v. Wade legalizes national abortion.
Democrats champion abortion, citing it as a panacea to overpopulation, the oppressive patriarchy, and recently, inflation.
Abortion currently kills more than 2,300 Americans every day.
America experiences a worker shortage.
Why? Why does it have to be this way? Why do the Democrats have to burn it all down before they learn? Population control is a fool’s errand; couldn’t they just learn from China?
As a prominent Republican strategist noted:
Chuck Schumer has also been in government since the 1980s and helped create the economy of today that makes it virtually impossible for people my age to build wealth and start a family. The man has literally done nothing but preside over America’s decline.
The Democrats have a ‘Midas touch’ of sorts, but instead of gold, it’s excrement. Without fail, anything the Democrats dabble in, they afflict, and any sort of rectification occurs only with the implementation of conservatism.
Seems like President Trump’s famous quip needs some rewording — ‘everything Democrat turns to’ you-know-what.
Image: DonkeyHotey, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons, unaltered.
Schumer: ‘We Have a Population That Is Not Reproducing on Its Own with the Same Level That It Used to’
(CNSNews.com) – Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) pushed Wednesday for Republicans to join with Democrats in passing legislation to protect Dreamers in the DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) program and to provide a pathway to citizenship for the 11 million illegal immigrants currently in America.
However, in doing so, Schumer – who is pro-abortion - argued that the United States is short on workers because the population is not “reproducing on its own with the same level that it used to.”
“I believe in this so much. I believe in it on a personal basis ‘cause I know Dreamers who have been such great people here in America, and who have just struggled. Every time they get a phone call, every time they walk down the street, they’re worried will someone grab them and take them away,” he said at a press conference on Capitol Hill.
“So that’s personal about them and what they have done, but I also believe in it as an overall, as an American who wants to see our country be stronger, because immigrants make us stronger now more than ever,” Schumer said.
“Now more than ever, we’re short of workers. We have a population that is not reproducing on its own with the same level that it used to. The only way we’re going to have a good future in America is if we welcome and embrace immigrants, the Dreamers, and all of them, ‘cause our ultimate goal is to help the Dreamers but get a path to citizenship for all 11 million or however many undocumented that are here, and we will be pursuing that in the next Senate, in the Senate, the comprehensive immigration reform,” he said.
“Right now, our focus is on Dreamers, and we retained the Senate. Catherine can tell you better than just about anybody,” Schumer said, referring to Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.), who just won re-election. “We performed better in the Senate and better in the House than people ever expected in good part because of the support of Latino voters, and I'm confident with that support in the Latino community we're gonna expand our majority by winning in Georgia on December the 6th as well.
“Latino voters and most Americans understand the stark difference between our values and those of Republican candidates. In the majority Senate, Democrats succeeded in improving health outcomes for Latino families. We expanded economic opportunity. We protected vulnerable communities from the dangers of gun violence. We also fought repeatedly to pass legislation that would protect Dreamers, TPS recipients, farmworkers, essential workers, because we believe in these people as individuals,” he said.
Schumer claimed that illegal immigrants have a high “rate of employment and a lower rate of crime than average Americans.”
“So all the B. S spread by these right wing people are nastiness is just not true. It just aggravates me, it annoys me worse than aggregate. I'd use a Brooklyn word, but I won't,” he said.
“We also fought repeatedly to pass legislation that would protect Dreamers, and it was a key piece of our original legislative agenda. In fact, my office was intimately involved in pushing for a change in the registry date that would once and for all provide some sense of security to Dreamers and their families, and while we've encountered roadblocks along the way to get this done, we've never stopped fighting for immigrant relief,” Schumer said.
The majority leader called on Republicans to “do the right thing” and provide a fix for DACA, because Democrats need 60 votes to do so.
He said that voters have rejected “MAGA Republicans” in the midterm election, because they “divide us by attacking immigrants.”
“Now let's roll up our sleeves and get this done. Americans sent a clear message. They rejected the deeply anti-immigrant message of the MAGA Republicans. They said MAGA Republicans, we don't believe in you, and one of the main reasons we don't believe in you is you divide us and divide us by attacking immigrants,” Schumer said.
“Just last week, we learned that Arizona, a purple state where the election was tight, approved a measure to extend in-state college tuition for noncitizens. That's not the politicians. That's the voters of Arizona, which has a virulent right wing, mostly who lost. Ha Ha!” he said. “And they joined 18 other states – Arizona did – in putting this in place.
“Massachusetts voters rejected a GOP effort to repeal a state law that allows undocumented immigrants to apply for a driver’s license. So on something as simple as DACA, when the public is clearly on our side in blue states, purple states, even red states, we’re calling on Republican colleagues to join us. Waiting for our judicial system, hanging by a bare thread from court decision to court decision is no way for anyone to have to live,” the majority leader said.
“It’s cruel and inhumane to keep millions in limbo. It's past time DACA recipients feel safe in this country. So my message to Senate Republicans is this: work with us. Work with us on this widely supported policy so we can reach agreement that will protect families and strengthen our economy, just as we passed other bipartisan accomplishments, which they thought couldn't be done: guns, veterans, CHIPS,” Schumer said.
“We can get it done here. If we can get 10 Republicans to join us, we will get this done by the end of the year. It's the smart thing to do. It's the right thing to do. It's the moral thing to do. It's the humane thing to do, and I want to assure everyone here we will not stop fighting till we get a fix for DACA, a pathway to citizenship for Dreamers and a pathway to citizenship for all undocumented,” he said.
PIG LAWYER FOR AMNESTY CHUCK SCHUMER HAS NO MANDATE!
DHS Secretary Refuses to Answer How Many of the 600,000 Known Gotaways Match the Terror Watchlist
(CNSNews.com) – DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on Tuesday refused to say how many of the 600,000 migrant “gotaways” on the southern border match the terror watchlist.
During a House Homeland Security Committee hearing titled “Worldwide Threats to the Homeland,” Rep. August Pfluger (R-Texas) told the secretary, “It’s already been mentioned today that this year we have 98 people – and that doesn’t include the nine, Secretary Mayorkas, that were reported by your department yesterday in October. So over 100 people have matched the terrorist watchlist, 100 people.
“That’s a 500 percent increase from the encounters the previous year, and regardless of your testimony today under oath that your testimony today that our border is secure. Americans can look at the numbers. We can look at the numbers right here and see from 2017 to 2021, all the way into 2022, Fiscal Year 2022, over 100 people match the terror watchlist,” he said.
“All of you have testified today that you’re worried about terrorism. Really? And you see here are the gotaways, and Secretary Mayorkas, you’ve told me several times under oath that we have operational control of the southern border, and assume that you maintain that, because you testified earlier today, How many of these people match the terror watchlist? How many of the 600,000 known gotaways match the terror watchlist?” Pfluger asked.
MAYORKAS: Congressman, your question points to the very reason why we prioritize national security and public safety in our immigration enforcement efforts. Why--
PFLUGER: Mr. Secretary, … I’m going to reclaim – reclaiming my time. I think that is false. I’ve been to the southern border, and I’ve talked to your Border Patrol agents, and you know what they tell me? That on any given shift, 70 percent of them are relegated to administrative duties. They are not in the field doing the national security mission.
How many of these 600,000 people can you assure the American people that not a single one of these 600,000 people are a threat to our safety, that they don’t match the terror watchlist, that they’re not part of a criminal or transnational organization?
MAYORKAS: (inaudible)
PFLUGER: That’s what your agents have told me, so I’m just taking their word for it.
MAYORKAS: I have the benefit of a vantage point of what the entire border presents as well as what we are doing about it. One of the things we’ve done about the fact that Border Patrol agents were too often--
PFLUGER: Mr. Secretary, answer the question. How many of the 600,000 --- no, we have two minutes left. We don’t have the time to do that. I want to know how many of the 600,000 people match the terror watchlist?
MAYORKAS: Congressman, by definition, they are gotaways—
PFLUGER: So you don’t know. So how can you say that the border is secure. The American people aren’t buying it. We’re not buying it because the deaths that are happening in our communities. I’ve invited you to come with me. I was in Del Rio the day before you got there when the 15,000 Haitians were there. I’ve been to El Paso. I’ve been to the Rio Grande Valley. You’re going to hear more on that later.
Let’s put up another slide, because you’re not going to answer that question. While we’re putting up the next slide, do you maintain that we have operational control of the southern border?
MAYORKAS: Congressman, let me just say one thing very briefly, and then I’ll answer your question. It is very difficult to answer your question when I’m not given the opportunity to do so, number one. Number two, I do feel compelled to correct inaccuracies that are contained in your question for the benefit of the American people—
PFLUGER: The facts that I’ve just stated are reported by you and your department.
MAYORKAS: Congressman, so we are dedicated to resourcing the United States Border Patrol with additional personnel, with additional technology using barriers advisedly where they are most beneficial--
PFLUGER: That’s not my question.
MAYORKAS: -- to deliver enhanced security
PFLUGER: Mr. Secretary, thank you for that. I’ve heard you say, and President Biden – and this is your legacy, okay? The American people can count. We can count. There’s a humanitarian crisis at our southern border. I’ve been down there. You and President Biden continue to ignore this problem, and Fiscal Year 2022 was the deadliest year on record. More than 800 migrants died. Do you remember the 53 that died in a tractor trailer in the heat of July south of San Antonio, Texas? This is the legacy. The American people are demanding that you secure the border. You have testified under oath today that the border is secure. It is not.
Democrats Plot Corporate-Backed DACA Amnesty in Lame Duck Congress: Illegal Aliens ‘Deserve Nothing Less’
Senate Democrats are urging 10 Senate Republicans to join them in passing an amnesty for millions of illegal aliens, enrolled and eligible for former President Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, in the lame-duck Congress.
During a press conference on Wednesday, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) joined Sens. Dick Durbin (D-IL), Alex Padilla (D-CA), and Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV) in calling on 10 Senate Republicans to join them in supporting the DREAM Act.
“We know that it’s important that we pass the DREAM Act in December of this year … when we return from Thanksgiving,because if the House moves as we think it might, politically, it becomes increasingly difficult after the first of next year to take up this issue,” Durbin said.
The plan would give amnesty to 3.3 million illegal aliens enrolled and eligible for Obama’s DACA program, providing them with green cards to remain permanently in the United States and, eventually, gain naturalized American citizenship.
Schumer suggested that the amnesty is necessary to provide businesses with a constant flow of foreign workers to hire as well as replenish lagging native-born American birth rates.
“We’re short of workers, we have a population that is not reproducing on its own at the same level that it used to,” Schumer said. “The only way we’re going to have a great future in America is if we welcome and embrace immigrants, the DREAMers, and all of them.”
As Breitbart News reported in 2017, the amnesty would open a surge of chain migration — where newly naturalized citizens can bring an unlimited number of foreign relatives to the U.S. — ranging from 10 million to 19 million foreign nationals.
Likewise, such an amnesty would cost American taxpayers at least $115 billion by opening Obamacare rolls to newly legalized illegal aliens.
“DREAMers deserve nothing less,” Padilla said. “It is not right that they live year after year, in fear of deportation, after all they have done to make our nation greater.”
Schumer also said the Democrats’ “ultimate goal” is to provide amnesty to all 11 to 22 million illegal aliens living across the U.S.
“We will not stop fighting until we get a fix for DACA, a pathway to citizenship for DREAMers, and a pathway to citizenship for all undocumented,” he said.
For years, Durbin and Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) have been introducing the DREAM Act despite lacking enough support in the Senate to get the amnesty passed. The amnesty enjoys broad support from multinational corporations and the donor class,who are hoping to inflate the U.S. labor market, increase the number of consumers, drive up housing prices, and keep wages at a relatively low level.
Last year, executives with Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, among others, lobbied House and Senate Republicans to back Durbin and Graham’s DREAM Act. Likewise, the Koch network has long asked Republicans to get behind the amnesty.
As Breitbart News reported, from 2012 to 2018, more than 53,000 illegal aliens were awarded DACA despite having prior arrest records, including for crimes like murder, kidnapping, rape, child pornography, and sex crimes.
John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Email him at jbinder@breitbart.com. Follow him on Twitter here.
Poll: Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer Barely Above 50 Percent in Reelection Race
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer is barely securing 50 percent of the vote in his reelection bid, according to Trafalgar Group’s latest poll.
The latest poll shows that Schumer is not doing well in his New York reelection bid. This poll also comes after one was released last night showing Republican Rep. Lee Zeldin surging in the gubernatorial race in the typically blue state.
The poll showed that Schumer only has support from 50.6 percent of the respondents, while 40 percent said they would vote for Republican Joseph Pinion III. Another 5.1 percent said they would vote for Diane Sare, the independent, and 4.3 percent were undecided.
The Trafalgar poll sampled the 1,198 likely general election voters from October 27 to 31, with a 2.9 percent margin of error and a 95 percent confidence level. The poll’s respondents were 53.6 percent Democrats, 27.5 percent Republican, and 18.9 percent had no party or other affiliation.
Last night, Trafalgar also released a poll for New York’s gubernatorial, showing Zeldin surging and slightly leading Democrat Gov. Kathy Hochul. The poll showed that 48.4 percent would vote for Zeldin, while 47.6 percent would vote for Hochul.
The poll came just one day after the New York Times published a story explaining how Zeldin’s surging had caused the national Democrats to worry about the race’s outcome.
Ultimately, it was reported that the Democratic Governors Association (DGA) had thrown money into the race after initially not planning on spending anything to prevent a major upset.
In addition, what the outcome of the race would have on down-ballot races, hoping not to have a similar situation to the one the Democrats faced last year in Virginia when then-candidate Glenn Youngkin won his gubernatorial race.
Jacob Bliss is a reporter for Breitbart News. Write to him at jbliss@breitbart.com or follow him on Twitter @JacobMBliss.
NO, FUKHEAD! THEY PREVENT YOUR CRONIES FROM HAVING TO PAY LIVING WAGES TO LEGALS BUT THESE SAME LEGALS GET THE TAX BILLS FOR THE LA RAZA WELFARE STATE ON OUR BACKS!
Chuck Schumer: Amnesty and Migrants Prevent Labor Shortages
Senate Majority Leader Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) said Monday amnesty and migrants are needed to prevent labor shortages.
Schumer made his claim as many employers say they must raise wages for Americans in a national labor shortage.
Since early 2020, many Americans quit their jobs in low-wage sectors, such as bars, restaurants, retail stores and for home-healthcare contractors. That resulting labor shortage has boosted wages for millions of blue-collar Americans.
Schumer spoke the morning after the Senate’s debate referee, the Parliamentarian, blocked the Democrats from putting an amnesty for illegal migrants in a special funding bill. The bill can pass with only 51 votes instead of the usual 60 votes in the Senate.
Schumer said:
The last year and a half … have shown how vital our [illegal] immigrants have been to keeping our economy going during the time of crisis … We’re short of workers from one end of America to the other — one of the reasons? The Trump administration dramatically cut back on immigrants in this country. We need them. We need them in our labor force. We need them to continue American vitality. We need them because they’re part of the American dream.
Schumer sought to shame Americans into supporting the mass migration policies which allow New York’s employers and landlords to become reliant on plentiful and cheap legal immigrants and illegal migrants:
It’s estimated in my city [New York] by some that one-third of the healthcare workers at the height of COVID who risked their lives for us were immigrants. Having a strong law that helps our immigrants is vital. The American people understand that fixing our broken immigration system is a moral imperative [emphasis added] and an economic imperative.
Immigration reform has been one of the most important causes of my time in the Senate, and I will not stop fighting to achieve it.
Schumer blamed President Donald Trump’s 2020 curbs on migration for the labor shortage. But that admission indirectly credits Trump’s 2020 policy with helping to raise 2021 wages for millions of Americans.
Schumer’s claim the economy needs migrants is in direct contradiction to President Joe Biden’s inconsistent support for wage raises amid labor scarcity, technically known as “a tight labor market.”
Biden, age 78, explained his support for the long-standing and very popular goal of a tight labor market in a May 28 speech:
Rising wages aren’t a bug; they’re a feature. We want to get — we want to get something economists call “full employment.” Instead of workers competing with each other for jobs that are scarce, we want employees to compete with each other to attract wrk. We want the — the companies to compete to attract workers.
[…]
Well, wait until you see what happens when employers have to compete for workers. Companies like McDonald’s, Home Depot, Bank of America, and others — what do they have to do? They have to raise wages to attract workers. That’s the way it’s supposed to be.
Many economists say labor shortages make the economy more efficient and productive per person.
“The labor scarcity we’re experiencing is real … [but] this is an opportunity, not a crisis,” David Autor, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, said in a September 4 op-ed for Schumer’s home-town newspaper, the New York Times. He continued:
Couldn’t raising wages spur employers to automate many low-paid service jobs? Yes — but that’s not bad. There’s no future in working the fry station at White Castle. We should welcome the robot that’s now doing that job at some locations. Automating bad jobs has positive consequences for productivity. When employers pay more for human labor, they have an incentive to use it more productively … And one way to use people more productively is to train them. This may be one reason that employers provide more training opportunities in a tightening labor market — something happening now.
However, lobbyists have persuaded Biden to back the amnesties that would deliver roughly six million workers — at least — into many of the jobs needed by Americans.
To a large extent, Biden has been pushed to back amnesties — and to forget about tight labor markets — because of face-to-face pressure by lobbyists from Mark Zuckerberg’s FWD.us advocacy group of West Coast investors.
On September 17, Biden’s economic advisors downplayed the wage damage to Americans as they issued a pro-amnesty memo. Notably, the memo did not endorse lobbyists’ claims that an amnesty would raise wages for Americans, and promised that wage losses would disappear “in the longer run.”
The economic damage caused by migration to Americans was made clear September 1, when several Americans and illegal immigrant were drowned in the their cheap basement apartments in New York. The apartments were all they could afford in a city where migration has swelled real-estate values.
The New York Times posted an article on September 2, which was discreetly silent about the federal government’s role in the drowning of migrants — and of poor Americans — in New York’s cheap basements:
In one of the most expensive housing markets in the world, they have offered low-income New Yorkers, including many working-class families who work in restaurants and hotels, affordable places to live. The basement apartments also provide some extra income for small landlords, many of whom are also immigrants.
[…]
Deborah Torres, who lives on the first floor of a building in Woodside, Queens, said she heard desperate pleas from the basement apartment of three members of a family, including a toddler, as floodwaters rushed in. A powerful cascade of water prevented anyone from getting into the apartment to help — or anyone from getting out. The family did not survive.
Many polls show that labor migration is deeply unpopular because it damages ordinary Americans’ career opportunities, cuts their wages, and raises their rents. Migration also curbs their productivity, shrinks their political clout, widens regional wealth gaps, and wrecks their democratic, compromise-promoting civic culture.
For many years, a wide variety of pollsters have shown deep and broad opposition to labor migration and the inflow of temporary contract workers into jobs sought by young U.S. graduates. This pocketbook opposition is multiracial, cross-sex, non-racist, class-based, bipartisan, rational, persistent, and recognizes the solidarity Americans owe to each other.
However, donor-funded GOP leaders have downplayed the pocketbook impact of migration on Americans’ communities. Instead, they try to steer voters’ concerns towards subsidiary non-economic issues, such as migrant crime, the border wall, border chaos, and drug smuggling.
Schumer: Winning GA Runoff Will Help Us Confirm More ‘Progressive Judges’
On Monday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Rachel Maddow Show,” Senate Majority Leader Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) said that if Democrats win the Georgia Senate runoff in December and have 51 Democrats in the Senate instead of 50 it will make passing legislation easier and they can get nominees like the “progressive judges” they’ve confirmed so far confirmed much faster.
Schumer said, “It’s not 1% different. It’s very different, for the better. For one thing, any time a judge or nominee to the administration — we’ve had a lot of good, progressive nominees — gets a vote out of committee that’s 10-10 that’s tied, it delays things for a week. You have to go to the floor, you have to get the time, and you have to bring Kamala Harris there and do what’s called a motion to discharge out of committee. If we have 51, there will be no more motions to discharge. It will mean appointees and judges will get appointed much more quickly. And you know, we’ve had a great record with judges. We’ve set the record, as of today, actually, 83 new judges, two-thirds women, half people of color, and progressive judges, not just partners in law firms and prosecutors, but legal aide attorneys and immigration lawyers and consumer advocates, things like that. So, that will make that a lot easier. The second thing it does is you can get different bills out of committee much more quickly. Third, we can have subpoena power. With 50-50, you can’t really get subpoena power. So, it means it’s a lot easier to get things done. And one other thing, when you have 50 senators…obviously, any one senator can say, I’m not voting for it unless I get this, this, or this. When it’s 51, it’s harder to do.”
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Open Borders: Judge Strikes Down Title 42
A Democrat-nominated judge has unveiled a decision ordering the border agency to stop using the Title 42 anti-disease barrier to exclude wage-cutting economic migrants from the United States.
The Title 42 anti-disease rule was established by former President Donald Trump and is the only effective legal barrier to stop millions of poor migrants from gambling their lives and savings to get jobs and homes in the United States.
Once migrants trek to the border, they are allowed to enter a tangled, complex immigration system that prevents their deportation for several years. But President Joe Biden’s deputies also release nearly all of the migrants, despite laws requiring the detention of asylum seekers.
That catch-and-release policy gives migrants plenty of time to pay off their smuggling debts, summon more home-country migrants, have U.S.-citizen children, and hide from the nation’s deportation agency.
The decision, unveiled a week after Election Day, immediately bars the Department of Homeland Security from enforcing the Title 42 anti-disease barrier at the border. The decision was approved by Emmet Sullivan, a far-left, Democrat-nominated judge overseeing an ACLU lawsuit.
“This decision — which takes effect immediately — knocks down one of the last remaining barriers to complete anarchy at the border,” said a statement from the Federation for American Immigration Reform. “If the Biden administration does not appeal, it will be one of the most egregious derelictions of duty when it comes to border security, once again proving that the crisis is deliberate and something they never intend to fix.'
The White House — and Republican governor of Texas, Greg Abbott — may appeal the judgment to other judges and to Justice John Roberts on the Supreme Court.
The nation’s pro-migration border chief, Alejandro Mayorkas, has been reducing the use of the Title 42 barrier since he took over the nation’s borders in February 2021. In October, for example. 277,500 people arrived at the border, but Mayorkas excluded just one-third — 81,500 — under Title 42.
In the 12 months before October 2022, almost 2.7 million migrants were registered while crossing the border.
Mayorkas declined to use the Title 42 legal barrier to exclude 1.66 million of those migrants from the United States.
The elite-backed, multi-decade inflow of illegal migrants and legal migrants has imposed a huge cost on Americans by pressuring down their wages. It has also boosted rents and housing prices, and it has reduced ordinary, native-born Americans’ clout in local and national elections.
The inflow has also pushed many native-born Americans out of careers in a wide variety of fields and spiked the number of “Deaths of Despair.”
The border welcome offered by Mayorkas and Biden has also killed thousands of job-seeking migrants, both at the U.S.-Mexico border, and further south, especially in the Panamanian jungle.
However, Democrats are working with the GOP’s business wing to pressure the populist wing of the GOP into approving another citizenship-diluting amnesty and more wage-cutting migration.
Extraction Migration
Government officials try to grow the economy by raising exports, productivity, and the birth rate. Those strategies are difficult and slow, and so officials also try to expand the economy by extracting millions of migrants from poor countries to serve as extra workers, consumers, and renters.
This policy floods the labor market and so it shifts vast wealth from ordinary people to investors, billionaires, and Wall Street. It also makes it difficult for ordinary Americans to advance in their careers, get married, raise families, buy homes, or gain wealth.
Extraction migration slows innovation and shrinks Americans’ productivity. This happens because migration allows employers to boost stock prices by using stoop labor and disposable workers instead of the skilled American professionals and productivity-boosting technology that earlier allowed Americans and their communities to earn more money.
This migration policy also reduces exports because it minimizes shareholder pressure on C-suite executives to take a career risk by trying to grow exports to poor countries.
Migration undermines employees’ workplace rights, and it widens the regional economic gaps between the Democrats’ cheap-labor coastal states and the Republicans’ heartland and southern states.
An economy fueled by extraction migration also drains Americans’ political clout over elites and it alienates young people. It radicalizes Americans’ democratic civic culture because it gives a moral excuse and an economic tool to the wealthy elites and progressives who want to divorce outspoken Americans — and especially poor Americans at the bottom of society, such as drug addicts.
This diversify-and-rule investor strategy is enthusiastically pushed by progressives. They wish to transform the U.S. from a society governed by European-origin civic culture into an economic empire of jealous identity groups overseen by progressive hall monitors. “We’re trying to become the first multiracial, multi-ethnic superpower in the world,” Rep. Rohit Khanna (D-CA) told the New York Times in March 2022. “It will be an extraordinary achievement … We will ultimately triumph,” he boasted.
But the progressives’ colonialism-like economic strategy kills many migrants. It exploits the poverty of migrants and splits foreign families as it extracts human resources from poor home countries to serve wealthy U.S. investors.
Progressives hide this extraction migration economic policy behind a wide variety of noble-sounding explanations and theatrical border security programs. Progressives claim the U.S. is a “Nation of Immigrants,” that economic migrants are political victims, that migration helps migrants more than Americans, and that the state must renew itself by replacing populations.
Similarly, establishment Republicans, media businesses, and major GOP donors hide the skew towards investors by ignoring the pocketbook impact and by touting border chaos, welfare spending, migrant crime, and drug smuggling.
Many polls show the public wants to welcome some immigration, but the polls also show deep and broad public opposition to labor migration and to the inflow of temporary contract workers into the jobs needed by the families of blue-collar and white-collar Americans.
This “Third Rail” opposition is growing, anti-establishment, multiracial, cross-sex, non-racist, class-based, bipartisan, rational, persistent, and recognizes the solidarity that American citizens owe to one another.