As the crime wave sweeps across President Joe Biden’s (D) America, citizens are “more likely now than at any time over the past five decades to say there is more crime in their local area than there was a year ago,” Gallup reported in October.
State and Local Politicians Move to Grant Coronavirus Relief to Illegal Aliens
By Matthew Tragesser
ImmigrationReform.com
https://www.immigrationreform.com/2020/04/08/illegal-alien-benefits-states-immigrationreform-com/
Study: More than 7-in-10 California Immigrant
Welfare
More than 7-in-10 households headed by immigrants in the state of California are on taxpayer-funded welfare, a new study reveals.
The latest Census Bureau data analyzed by the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) finds that about 72 percent of households headed by noncitizens and immigrants use one or more forms of taxpayer-funded welfare programs in California — the number one immigrant-receiving state in the U.S.
Meanwhile, only about 35 percent of households headed by native-born Americans use welfare in California.
All four states with the largest foreign-born populations, including California, have extremely high use of welfare by immigrant households. In Texas, for example, nearly 70 percent of households headed by immigrants use taxpayer-funded welfare. Meanwhile, only about 35 percent of native-born households in Texas are on welfare.
In New York and Florida, a majority of households headed by immigrants and noncitizens are on welfare. Overall, about 63 percent of immigrant households use welfare while only 35 percent of native-born households use welfare.
President Trump’s administration is looking to soon implement a policy that protects American taxpayers’ dollars from funding the mass importation of welfare-dependent foreign nationals by enforcing a “public charge” rule whereby legal immigrants would be less likely to secure a permanent residency in the U.S. if they have used any forms of welfare in the past, including using Obamacare, food stamps, and public housing.
The immigration controls would be a boon for American taxpayers in the form of an annual $57.4 billion tax cut — the amount taxpayers spend every year on paying for the welfare, crime, and schooling costs of the country’s mass importation of 1.5 million new, mostly low-skilled legal immigrants.
As Breitbart News reported, the majority of the more than 1.5 million foreign nationals entering the country every year use about 57 percent more food stamps than the average native-born American household. Overall, immigrant households consume 33 percent more cash welfare than American citizen households and 44 percent more in Medicaid dollars. This straining of public services by a booming 44 million foreign-born population translates to the average immigrant household costing American taxpayers $6,234 in federal welfare.
John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Follow him on Twitter at @JxhnBinder.
At Least 21 Shot During Weekend in Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s Chicago
At least 21 people were shot, four of them fatally, during the weekend in Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s (D) Chicago.
ABC 7 / Chicago Sun-Times reports the weekend’s first fatal shooting occurred shortly before noon Saturday, when a 29-year-old man “in the South Austin neighborhood’s 5600-block of West Lake Street” was approached by three men, one of whom opened fire.
The victim was shot twice and pronounced dead after being taken to the hospital.
The weekend’s second fatal shooting was discovered about 11:40 a.m. Sunday, when officers found an unresponsive man with multiple gunshot wounds “in the 400-block of East 82nd Street.”
The man was transported to a hospital and pronounced dead.
The third fatal shooting took place at 5:30 p.m. Sunday, when a 41-year-old woman was shot “in the 6200-block of South Michigan Avenue.” The woman was shot in chest and the neck. She was taken to a hospital, where she died.
A 25-year-old man was shot and killed just minutes before that on Sunday. The man was in a car “in the 2600-block of West Fitch Avenue” when someone in a black vehicle opened fire.
The 25-year-old was shot twice and taken to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
The Sun-Times notes that 23 people were killed in Chicago during the first 15 days of 2023.
AWR Hawkins is an award-winning Second Amendment columnist for Breitbart News and the writer/curator of Down Range with AWR Hawkins, a weekly newsletter focused on all things Second Amendment, also for Breitbart News. He is the political analyst for Armed American Radio and a Turning Point USA Ambassador. AWR Hawkins holds a Ph.D. in Military History, with a focus on the Vietnam War (brown water navy), U.S. Navy since Inception, the Civil War, and Early Modern Europe. Follow him on Instagram: @awr_hawkins. You can sign up to get Down Range at breitbart.com/downrange. Reach him directly at awrhawkins@breitbart.com.
Faculty at University of Illinois at Chicago to strike over pay and support for student mental health
Negotiations between the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) and UIC United Faculty (UICUF) continue to be deadlocked over the question of pay raises and resources to address student mental health issues. Following what had previously been the final scheduled bargaining session on January 12, negotiators for the union and university administration have agreed to sit down for an additional meeting Monday to try to work out a deal to avert a strike set to begin on Tuesday, January 17.
The 900 members of UIC United Faculty, which includes full-time tenure track (TT) and non-tenure track (NTT) faculty, except for those in the colleges of medicine, law, dentistry and pharmacy, have been working without contracts since August. The results of a mid-November strike vote indicated overwhelming support for the action. Out of 77 percent of faculty voting, 97 percent voted to strike.
The issue of pay has become a major issue for UIC faculty as a result of years of essentially stagnant wages in previous contracts. The deal, which was in force from 2018 through 2022, included a yearly increase of only 2 percent to the overall faculty salary pool. This sum was to be distributed on the basis of “merit,” leading to situations in which some faculty received much higher raises than others. To make up for the resulting disparities, a meagre 2 percent was added to address these “compression and equity” issues.
Due to recent inflation, which saw year-over-year jumps of 4.7 percent and 8 percent in 2021 and 2022, many faculty have effectively had their pay raises from the last contract completely reversed. The university is well aware that faculty pay has declined, particularly when compared to other institutions. The University of Illinois’s fiscal year 2023 budget request to the state noted its analyses of faculty salaries “reveal that each of our three universities lags its peers in terms of faculty salary.”
Despite this, the university has offered increases to the merit and compression/equity pools of only 5 percent in the first year and 3.5 percent for the second year, which will not make up the ground lost in previous years. The university administration is also offering faculty earning less than $70,000 per year a one-time payment of $3,000 and $1,500 to those earning more than that.
Although the university had originally proposed a four-year contract, according to the union, the administration is now seeking a shorter two-year deal. UICUF originally proposed increases in the salary pools amounting to 7 percent and 8 percent in the first two years, still completely inadequate to make up for years of flat salaries and inflation. The union also sought a $3,000 per year across-the-board permanent increase in salary for all faculty.
Another sticking point on pay relates to minimum salaries, with the union proposing $61,875 per year for NTT faculty and $76,000 for TT faculty, compared to the administration’s proposal of $52,000 and $67,600, respectively. Notably, as part of a long-standing trend in higher education of cutting funding for tenure-track faculty, NTT faculty members comprise around half the total.
These minimum salaries amount to nearly poverty wages in the expensive Chicago region. This is especially true for the many faculty who have accrued large student loans during their advanced educations. These minimums are also lower than the minimum salaries for faculty at the City Colleges of Chicago (CCC) and Chicago Public Schools (CPS). On December 7, UIC faculty union officials acknowledged that in a bid to settle the contract, “We made significant concessions, including a step down in our salary demands.”
The university administration, however, has remained intransigent. The university’s Board of Trustees, all of whom have been appointed by billionaire Democratic Governor JB Pritzker or his Republican billionaire predecessor Bruce Rauner, represents the interests of the state’s largest corporations and financial aristocracy. They are acting fully in accord with the strategy outlined by the US Federal Reserve to smother wage growth under the guise of fighting inflation and remaining within the austerity limits of the university’s budget.
Faculty are also facing increased workloads because they are helping students cope with mental health issues. They are seeking “a minimum level of mental health care” for students, as well as free screenings for mental health and neuropsychological conditions on par with those offered at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Michael Pasek, a UIC psychology professor, noted on Twitter, “I surveyed my students on the first day of class and asked what they perceived as the biggest challenges in need of intervention. Almost all listed mental health. It’s no wonder faculty @thisisUIC are about to strike over students’ mental health resources.”
Although it is unquestionably true that resources must be devoted to student mental health, the manner in which this issue has risen to the top of news reports on the strike and in statements from members of the union’s bargaining committee suggest it is being prepared to serve as the basis for further concessions on wages. One of the characteristics of these “bargaining for the common good” proposals in recent years has been their open-ended nature, which commit management to very little or even nothing but which allow the union to describe its concessions as a “win.”
The reality is that mental health issues have exploded among youth and students since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, with diagnoses of depression reportedly tripling. A University of Calgary study of 80,000 youth across the globe showed rates of anxiety and depression doubling since 2020.
Under these conditions, it is not possible for “normal” learning to take place, especially as the cause of so many of these mental health issues remain unaddressed. Massive resources—well beyond the union’s proposals—are certainly needed to assist students. Most importantly, young people need to have hope in a decent future, and this is only possible through a fight against the continued spread of the pandemic, economic insecurity and the danger of nuclear armageddon. In every case, however, the Democratic Party machine, with which the unions are allied, is pursuing policies that are destroying the futures of young people.
Faculty at UIC went on strike for the first time in 2014 in order to get an initial contract, which was finally concluded on 2015. The contract the union concluded following a two-day strike included a meagre 1 percent per year increase for compression and equity raises and only committed the university to merit pay raises equivalent to what the university budgeted for other staff. Additionally, it established a paltry $42,000 minimum salary for NTT faculty, barely above poverty wages for Chicago.
The contract that expired in August of last year was negotiated in April 2019, nearly a full academic year after the previous one had expired. That sellout deal was agreed to one day before faculty were set to strike, despite deep support for the strike among students and wider layers of workers.
An eight-day strike by UIC graduate students was shut down by the Graduate Employees Organization (GEO), which, like UICUF, is an affiliate of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT). Although the graduate students won widespread sympathy for their struggle, the GEO agreed to a contract that would see minimum pay rise to only a little over $24,000 by the end of the contract, and which would amount to a cut in real income when inflation is taken into account.
In order to prevent yet another concessions-laden sellout deal, UIC faculty must take control of the negotiations and form a rank-and-file committee to conduct of the strike independently of the AFT and other union bureaucrats.
A fight against the university administration and board requires mobilizing UIC staff, undergraduates and graduate students, as well as faculty in the professional schools, to shut down the campus and appeal to Chicago teachers, autoworkers, rail and logistics workers and others to support their struggle. UIC faculty interested in forming a rank-and-file committee can contact the WSWS immediately for assistance.
VIDEO:
Here's how a trendy NYC hotel is looking full of illegal migrants
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9GHBPLCGW8
BUYING THE INVADERS CONDOS???
NY Mayor Eric Adams Wants $2 Billion to Care for Economic Migrants
Ordinary Americans should pay the $2 billion cost of housing and feeding the economic migrants that New York City leaders are putting into Americans’ jobs and apartments, according to Mayor Eric Adams.
“We expect more from our national leaders to address this in a real way,” Adams told a group of Venezuelan economic migrants during a brief Sunday trip to the border town of El Paso, Texas.
“Our price tag could be anywhere from $1.5 to $2 billion,” Adams told told a radio interviewer on January 13.
On Sunday, job seeking migrants cheered when Adams — a Democrat — told migrants he would fight to ensure that they “experience the American dream.”
In December 2022, a city report declared that one in seven New Yorkers already live in poverty: “Under the Official Poverty Measure (OPM), 13.9 percent of New Yorkers — or nearly 2.7 million people — lived in poverty in 2021, compared to 12.8 percent of all Americans. ‘
Yet Adams also complained about the cost of accepting the additional poor migrants that he is welcoming. “New York cannot take more — we can’t,” Adams told the press conference.
He added, “Our cities are being undermined — we don’t deserve this,” the New York Times reported on Sunday.
Adams’ $2 billion demand is twice his October demand for $1 billion, and it comes after President Joe Biden invited many more thousands of low-wage, apartment-sharing migrants to seek jobs in the United States. “We’re trying to make it easier for people to get here,” Biden declared in a January 10 summit meeting in Mexico.
Nearly all of the migrants are seeking work, partly because many have to repay loans and mortgages which they took out to fund their trek to Biden’s border welcome. Many also bring their children, hoping for free schooling in the schools needed by American kids.
However, New York City comptroller Brad Lander tweeted his support for labor migration in the city:
But the Mayor’s trip to Texas does little to deliver the $$ NYC needs to provide shelter & services. Instead, it risks reinforcing a harmful narrative that new immigrants themselves are a problem.
Far from “undermining” our city, immigrants have been the driving force for NYC’s success for centuries …
But he also said the city’s elite should help pay for the migration with higher taxes:
To be clear: We must also do more for low-income & working class New Yorkers. So in addition to rightly demanding more from DC & Albany, we’ve urged the mayor to raise revenues from the wealthiest NYers, to help struggling families afford the rising cost of housing & child care.
The New York Times reported on Adams’ visit to the border, but downplayed the local economic damage caused to Americans by the government’s welcome for low-wage migrant workers:
Mr. Adams has struggled to respond to the flood of migrants arriving on buses in New York City, constantly shifting his strategy and his rhetoric. The city has provided shelter, food, clothing and schooling to thousands of migrants and their children, and Mr. Adams has argued that migrants should be able to work legally in the city more quickly.
But the mayor has also struck a harsh tone at times, calling on Mr. Biden to slow the flow of migrants at the border and saying shortly after Christmas that there was “no more room at the inn” in New York for additional migrants. As the city faces growing budget challenges, Mr. Adams has said that the migrant crisis may require cuts to basic city services.
Overall, the Biden migrants being welcomed by Adams because they allow the city’s Democratic leaders to preserve their high/low economy.
The divided economy allows a small number of wealthy landlords and investors keep political power amid a fractured city of divided, diverse, distracted, and poor voters.
Between the 1940s and about 1990, the city’s wage gap was much smaller because tight curbs on international immigration from roughly 1925 to 1990. During those decades, nearly all newcomers to the city were outspoken, equality-minded Americans from nearby U.S. states, such as Pennsylvania and New Jersey.
If the supply of post-1990s imported labor was ended by Congress, the city’s investors otherwise would be forced to again offer middle-class wages to help recruit Americans from upstate New York cities, or from other states such as New Jersey, Maine, New Hampshire, and West Virginia.
City leaders hide their post-1990s exploitation of migrants behind the 1950s “Nation of Immigrants” narrative. That elite-imposed narrative repurposes the Statue of Liberty from a celebration of Americans’ constitution into a “Golden Door” invite for foreign economic migrants.
Adams’ welcome for migrants also generates many customers for the city’s welfare, aid, housing, education, and medical agencies.
For example, the city is providing overnight shelters to more than 60,000 homeless people each night, and is adding at least 5,500 migrant children to the overcrowded and failing schools needed by the city’s non-wealthy American families. City employees provide a critical slice of votes to Democrats in the city’s elections.
THE REALITY is that illegals jump our open borders by invitation and they come
to loot. They go where the looting is best. CA? California hands illegals nearly $40
billion in social services on the state level and those figures regardless of CA's
deficits, only go up. The County of Los An
geles, on top of these numbers, hands illegals $1.5 billion YEARLY.
Here's how a trendy NYC hotel is looking full of illegal migrants
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9GHBPLCGW8
WATCH ILLEGALS VOTE FOR KAMALA HARRIS!
Missouri Senator Claire McCaskillhas identified California Senator Kamala Harris as the party leader on issues of immigration and race. Harris wants a moratorium on construction of new immigration-detention facilities in favor of the old “catch and release” policy for illegal aliens, and has urged a shutdown of the government rather than compromise on mass amnesty.
Victor Davis Hanson: Biden is the most dangerously radical President in US history
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdkca09EHRI&t=772s
"Kids are being raped by cartel members. Tons of drugs are flooding across the border that will kill Americans. Millions of illegal aliens are flooding across the border," the lawmaker tweeted Tuesday.
As reported by Breitbart Texas, the arrest of migrants with existing criminal records has risen more than 350 percent since 2020. According to CBP, the number of migrants who have criminal convictions for Homicide and Manslaughter rose from 3 encounters in 2020 to more than 60 in 2022. More than 120 migrants with homicide or manslaughter convictions have been encountered since January 2021 — compared to 11 during the Trump era. The increase reflects those convicted of prior offenses committed in the United States.
IT'S OVER! THE GLOBALIST DEMOCRAT PARTY HAS FINISHED OFF THE AMERICAN MIDDLE CLASS
But they have built the La Raza 'The Race' Mexican welfare state!
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