IT'S NOT BY ACCIDENT THE NARCOMEX BORDER IS WIDE OPEN!
Josh Hawley: Biden’s ‘Concierge Service’ for Illegal Aliens Comes at Expense of Americans’ Jobs, Wages
Jobless Claims Hit 228,0000
Claims for unemployment benefits hit 228,000 in the week that ended on April 1 and the previous week’s claims were revised up sharply, a sign that the Federal Reserve’s monetary tightening may be beginning to soften demand for labor.
Last week’s claims would have been the highest of the year, except that the prior week’s claims were revised up from 198,000 to 246,000. That makes the April 1 claims week the second highest of the year.
This was more than expected. Economists had forecast claims would rise to 201,000 from the preliminary estimate for the prior week. Claims had been reported as below 200,000 for most of this year. After the revisions to the way the Department of Labor makes season adjustments, claims now appear to have been above 200,000 for most of the year.
Continuing claims, which get reported with a one-week delay, rose by just 6,000 to 1,823,000, a low number by historical standards. This is an indication that many workers are quickly finding new work after being laid off.
Claims can be volatile week-to-week. The four-week moving average of initial claims, which many economists view as a better guide to underlying trends in the labor market, hit 237,750, a decrease of 4,250 from the previous week’s revised average. The previous week’s average was revised up by 43,750 from 198,250 to 242,000.
GOP Bill Would Deport Any Illegal Immigrant Who Assaults a Cop
House legislation seeks to address rise in violent crime
As illegal immigration at the southern border surges, Republicans in the House introduced legislation that would force the Biden administration to immediately deport any illegal immigrant or non-citizen who assaults a police officer.
The bill, introduced on Tuesday, comes amid a rash of violence perpetrated by illegal immigrants and other non-citizens. Just last month, a female border patrol agent was assaulted by an illegal immigrant as she was making an arrest.
Republican lawmakers blame the Biden administration’s lax enforcement of border restrictions for the surge in illegal immigrants, saying that a rise in violent crime is a byproduct of the border crisis.
"As the Biden border crisis rages on, I have serious concerns about the ramifications for law enforcement officers who are on the front lines dealing with migrants," Rep. Andrew Garbarino (R., N.Y.), who is spearheading the legislation, told the Washington Free Beacon in a statement. "Whether on Long Island or at the southern border, there should be no ambiguity that assaulting a police officer is a deportable offense for non-citizens."
Garbarino’s bill, dubbed the POLICE Act, would amend the Immigration and Nationality Act so that any assault on a law enforcement officer results in deportation. The bill is co-sponsored by six additional GOP lawmakers and is likely to garner traction in the Republican-controlled House, where immigration issues remain a top concern. Senate passage of the legislation would be more difficult with Democrats in control.
There has been a sharp increase since Biden took office in the number of illegal immigrants apprehended at the border who have been convicted of violent crimes, including domestic violence and murder. Customs and Border Patrol in 2022 apprehended more than 12,000 such illegal immigrants. Nearly 11,000 were apprehended in 2021 compared to just 2,438 illegal immigrants with criminal records apprehended in 2020. Additionally, nearly 140 non-citizen sex offenders were arrested by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement during a November 2022 operation.
Supporters of the legislation say it is necessary to combat a surge in violence that has spilled past the southern border and is endangering American communities across the country.
In Long Island, N.Y., for instance, two officers were injured when they responded to a 2021 disturbance at the Mercy First youth facility, where around 50 unaccompanied illegal minors were being housed. The incident drew national headlines and sparked fierce debate about the Biden administration’s decision to place illegal immigrants in American communities.
"Whether the administration admits it or not, there is a crisis at our southern border and Americans are less safe because of it," Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks (R., Iowa), a supporter of the bill, said in a statement. "Making violence against law enforcement officers a deportable offense is a commonsense proposal."
Rep. Chris Smith (R., N.J.), another supporter of the legislation, said the surge at the southern border is allowing criminals to operate in the United States.
"The chaos at our southern border opens the door to human traffickers, gang members and other dangerous criminals who enter our country with malicious intentions," Smith said. Open borders threaten "the safety of our citizens and our police officers who serve as our first line of defense against crime."
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Josh Hawley: Biden’s ‘Concierge Service’ for Illegal Aliens Comes at Expense of Americans’ Jobs, Wages
President Joe Biden’s “concierge service” for illegal aliens comes at the expense of Americans’ jobs and wages, Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) said this week.
In a letter to Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, Hawley blasted the administration’s migrant mobile app — known as CBP One — that has released more than 30,000 foreign nationals into the United States since early January by allowing them to schedule appointments at the southern border.
Specifically, the migrant mobile app allows foreign nationals who are pregnant, mentally ill, elderly, disabled, homeless, or crime victims living in Mexico to schedule appointments at the border for release into the U.S. interior.
Hawley writes that the migrant mobile app is in effect “like making a restaurant reservation” and will have dire effects on Americans’ jobs and wages:
Under your leadership, the Department is marketing a new phone app, called CBP One, that allows unauthorized migrants to reserve a time to cross the border, like making a restaurant reservation. How convenient. I gather the app is meant to expedite asylum claims, or so your Department’s promotional material says. But I noticed you said nothing about asylum when I asked you at the hearing. And the Texas Monthly has recently reported that “[a]t no point does the app ask users ‘Are you seeking asylum?’” Worse, when migrants show up at the border to enter the country, they “are given no interviews and asked no questions about vulnerabilities they listed in the app or about why they’re seeking asylum in the U.S.—they’re simply released into the country on official parole.” [Emphasis added]
…I imagine there are plenty of Americans who would appreciate this level of service from their government. Your choice to spend untold sums of taxpayer money—you said you had no idea what it cost—on concierge service for illegals is baffling. It is also revealing. It demonstrates your priorities: open borders, no matter the cost to Americans; no matter the jobs lost, the wages lost, the drugs flooding our schools. [Emphasis added]
Hawley calls the migrant mobile app “a full-on institutionalization of an open border and the abuse” of U.S. asylum laws, pressing Mayorkas to disclose how many foreign nationals have used the app since its inception, how many are expected to use the app after border controls end in May, and if the app will be updated to ask applicants if they have legitimate asylum claims.
The tech companies involved in the migrant mobile app’s creation, Hawley writes, should also be disclosed to the public and Congress along with the taxpayer costs associated with the app.
Biden’s expansive Catch and Release network at the border is pumping hundreds of thousands of foreign workers, often illegal, into working- and middle-class American jobs. At the same time, fewer Americans are working.
As Breitbart News reported, at the end of 2022, there were nearly two million fewer native-born Americans working compared to the same time in 2019, while two million foreign-born workers have been added to the workforce compared to the same time period.
In particular, the decline in the labor participation rate among working-class native-born Americans has dropped to 70.3 percent at the end of last year compared to 71.4 percent in 2019, 74.8 percent in 2006, and 76.4 percent in 2000.
Working-class native-born American men, those without a bachelor’s degree between 25 to 54 years old, had only an 83.7 percent labor participation rate at the end of 2022 — declining consistently since the year 2000.
The Biden administration has largely ignored efforts to get native-born Americans back into the workforce, instead adding millions of foreign workers to the labor market which adds downward pressure, particularly for working-class Americans in terms of finding jobs and securing higher wages.
John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Email him at jbinder@breitbart.com. Follow him on Twitter here.
Nikki Haley: Stop Illegal Migration, Grow Legal Migration
Presidential contender Nikki Haley wants to deport the cartels’ illegal migrants — but also help CEOs quickly import migrants for jobs that would otherwise go to better-paid Americans.
“Stop catch and release, and go to catch and deport,” the former governor of South Carolina told an April 3 press conference on the Texas border, adding:
You do that [on the border] — but when it comes to actual immigration laws itself, instead of doing quotas every year on how many we’re going to let through, you partner with your businesses and see what they need …
In South Carolina, we’ve got farmers and we’ve got a tourist industry that is always looking for workers. When you start to listen to your businesses and do what they need, all of a sudden the economy goes up, people are going to work and everything gets better.
“She’s explicitly calling for American workers to have to compete with the entire labor force of the Third World and that’s appalling — it’s exactly what I would expect from a [George W.] Bush retread,” responded Mark Krikorian, the director of the Center for Immigration Studies.
What Haley is calling for is the reversal of well over a century of immigration law, and a rejection of the very purpose of immigration law which is to protect American workers, American taxpayers, and American national security [from investors who import cheaper labor] … It is an attempt at a more palatable version of the Uni-party approach to immigration, which is that we shouldn’t have illegal border crossings, but we should have unlimited immigration [for business] so that nobody has to cross the border illegally.
Krikorian continued:
When you import large numbers of poor people into a modern society, you’re going to create huge [welfare] costs for taxpayers because those people will not be able to feed their own children based on their [low] earnings … Her perspective means that taxpay
ers are going to be subsidizing the businesses that use immigrant labor.
It’s crony capitalism, pure and simple. And the modern Republican Party has developed precisely in opposition to crony capitalism. So what Haley represents is a throwback to an earlier Bush-era version of Republicanism that Republican voters have repeatedly rejected.
The pro-migration pitch “is an absolute loser,” because it echoes the business-first policies favored by Gov. Mitt Romney in 2012, and Sen. John McCain in 2008, said one pro-American activist.
Haley’s political campaigns have been largely funded by businesses and investors.
Fox News covered the press conference but ignored Haley’s call for faster and unlimited labor migration.
President Joe Biden and his border chief have repeatedly called for the use of more global labor to fill jobs in the U.S. economy, regardless of many sidelined Americans, political polls, and the economic impact on ordinary Americans’ wages and rents. Biden has welcomed roughly 4.2 million economic migrants from Mexico since January 2021.
Haley visited the border with Rep. Tony Gonzales (R-TX) who is now blocking a vote on a border bill by Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX). Roy’s bill reaffirms the existing law that bars the release of migrants into the United States. That law is being ignored by Biden’s pro-migration border chief, Alejandro Mayorkas.
Gonzales opposes Roy’s no-release bill while also insisting that the GOP and the Democrats should bar funding for migrant releases. “You end catch-and-release by defunding DHS’ catch-and-release program — it’s that simple,” he told the press conference, without explaining how the GOP can get Democrats to agree to block the funding.
In the press conference, Haley repeated her call for a fast-track, employer-driven migration system that would mimic the “Any Willing Worker” plan pushed by Pres. George W. Bush in 2004 to let CEOs hire foreigners instead of Americans:
We have to secure the border and f0llow the rules. But with regular immigration, we’ve got take all the bureaucracy down. Our number one goal should be: “Who do we bring into this country that makes our country better? You do it on merit. You do [bringwho our businesses need. You do what talent we need and you focus on that.
The second thing you do is, you focus on what our businesses need. When you look at what our businesses need, and you match it up with the talent, then you’re all of a sudden making America stronger, you’re making it economically stronger, and you’re making the infrastructure stronger. And then, you take down the wait time. We don’t have enough processors, and you’ve got too many people sitting on paper and not doing their job. To be honest, we need to in and just break it, clean it up, and then start back over. That’s the only way to get that immigration process back up and running.
Haley wrapped her pro-migration pitch in a sharp criticism of Biden’s costly welcome for illegal migration.
2024 Republican Presidential Primary candidate Nikki Haley visits a Texas ranch owner along the Rio Grande. (Randy Clark/Breitbart Texas)
But that criticism of illegal migration ignored the pocketbook damage done to American employees by companies’ use of lower-wage migrants. Instead, her criticism of illegal migration focused on the tax burden imposed on the GOP’s base of middle-class taxpayers:
The [illegal migrants] are coming to your state. They’re going into your schools. They’re going into your hospitals. Your law enforcement officers are suddenly having to deal with them. They are now taking up your taxpayer dollars.
When someone comes to you through legal immigration, they have to be sponsored. Guess who all these illegal immigrants are sponsored by? The taxpayers of America. You are paying for them — because all of a sudden they are going into our communities and billions of dollars have gone to fund illegal immigrants.
So what do we do about this? The way we fix it is we go back to what I did in South Carolina — you do [the] mandatory E-Verify program, which makes sure … no business can hire any illegal immigrants. The second thing is … we fire the 87,000 IRS agents and hire at least 25,000 Border Patrol and ICE agents so that we can go and give these other border patrol agents the help they need …
Stop the taxpayer handouts for these illegal immigrants. Make sure that we’re defunding sanctuary cities … We need to make sure we go back to Remain in Mexico [program] because that is stopped, and we need to make sure that we keep Title 42 [border barrier].
The one thing that can make the biggest difference is: Stop catch and release, and go to catch and deport. When you start deporting these illegal immigrants, they will stop coming. Right now on social media, they’re telling their other cartels where to bring people through, what passages to take, how to get there, what to say when they get there. Why are we doing this? Stop the insanity because we’re doing this to ourselves.
She also hit other talking points without talking about the economic damage or lower wages and higher housing costs:
This is a national security issue … Are we waiting for a 9-11 moment? … Biden needs to open his mouth and say this is a crisis. He needs to let his cabinet agencies say that this is a crisis … You’ve got illegal immigrants coming across. They are your new section of homeless because there is no one there to take care of them, So look on a corner street near you, look for a tent city somewhere near you, because when they come over, there is no one that is going to take care of them. So we have got to start taking care of the American people … So my big question is when is “Biden coming to the border? ” We’ve given up on Kamala … Secondly, when’s Congress going to do something?
Extraction Migration
The federal government has long operated an unpopular economic policy of Extraction Migration. This colonialism-like policy extracts vast amounts of human resources from needy countries, reduces beneficial trade, and uses the imported workers, renters, and consumers to grow Wall Street and the economy.
The migrant inflow has successfully forced down Americans’ wages and also boosted rents and housing prices. The inflow has also pushed many native-born Americans out of careers in a wide variety of business sectors and contributed to the rising death rate of poor Americans.
The lethal policy also sucks jobs and wealth from heartland states by subsidizing coastal investors with a flood of low-wage workers, high-occupancy renters, and government-aided consumers.
The population inflow also reduces the political clout of native-born Americans, because it allows elites to divorce themselves from the needs and interests of ordinary Americans.
A 54 percent majority of Americans say Biden is allowing a southern border invasion, according to an August 2022 poll commissioned by the left-of-center National Public Radio (NPR). The 54 percent “Invasion” majority included 76 percent of Republicans, 46 percent of independents, and even 40 percent of Democrats.
The Biden Administration Wants To Fight Human Trafficking Using a 'Racial Justice and Equity Lens'
State Department to hold hearing on how to integrate 'racial equity into US government anti-trafficking efforts'
Lawmakers have warned that the growing number of unaccompanied minors crossing the border illegally could be targets for human traffickers. The Biden administration has a solution: racial equity.
Next month, the Biden administration will hold a public hearing meant to "develop an implementation plan for integrating racial equity into U.S. government anti-trafficking efforts," according to a notice posted by the State Department in March. The plan seeks to combat human trafficking "using a racial justice and equity lens."
The May 3 virtual meeting will address several questions, such as "What does racial equity mean in the context of human trafficking?" and "What does a racially equitable anti-trafficking framework look like, particularly for law enforcement and prosecution responses, victim assistance efforts, and prevention strategies?"
Sen. Ted Cruz (R., Texas), who recently grilled Homeland Security secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on the increase in human trafficking at the border, said the Biden administration's focus on woke priorities is exacerbating a crisis created by its lax border enforcement policies.
"The Biden administration is responsible for the most prolific human trafficking network in modern times," Cruz, a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, told the Washington Free Beacon. "They've enabled cartels to carry out atrocities against migrants in record numbers. Now, rather than focusing on putting an end to this crisis, they're spending federal resources gathering diversity and inclusion testimony. It's an asinine approach to a very serious crisis they've created."
The State Department meeting comes as critics accuse the Biden administration of pursuing woke cultural priorities championed by the far left and ignoring issues important to regular Americans. As the State Department works to create a "racially equitable anti-trafficking framework," the number of unaccompanied minor children illegally entering the country along the southern border has skyrocketed. Customs and Border Protection says it encountered a record 152,000 unaccompanied minors in 2022 and 324,000 in the last 26 months. Unaccompanied minors are the most likely to be sold into slavery and sexually abused, with one recent study estimating that 60 percent of unaccompanied minor alien children "are caught by cartels and exploited through child pornography and drug trafficking."
The State Department is asking a range of nonprofit advocacy groups to help it develop the "tools to apply a racial equity lens to federal government anti-trafficking efforts," according to the notice. The effort is the result of two recent Biden administration executive orders instructing the entire federal government to spearhead various Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion programs. These orders have been implemented government-wide, including in the military, where service members are being instructed on proper gender pronouns and even when to offer their colleagues sex-reassignment surgeries.
The State Department notice says that racism in America is hampering efforts to combat human trafficking.
"The implementation plan will highlight the importance of an intersectional approach, as racism often compounds with other forms of discrimination to affect individuals' vulnerability to human trafficking," the notice states.
The State Department declined to comment when asked about the issue.
Cruz in his public clash with Mayorkas during a Senate oversight hearing last month said the Biden administration has "turned these cartels into multibillion-dollar criminal organizations."
"The deaths, the children assaulted, the children raped, they are at your feet, and if you had integrity, you would resign," Cruz said to Mayorkas.
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