Americans should celebrate the inflow of migrants into new jobs throughout the economy, even as many American men remain on the economic sidelines, says a Washington Post columnist.
Rampell’s posted chart admits that Biden’s migration-spiked economy has failed to restore the share of men who were working during Trump’s term:
President Joe Biden’s current 89.1 percent share means that roughly 6 million unemployed American men are not even looking for work.
Some have retired early, some are wealthy, and some are lazy. But many of the 6 million are unprepared for low-wage work alongside competition from younger, healthier, and eager migrants.
Yet Rampell prefers to praise the massive migration inflow as normal and to celebrate the huge 9.3 percent expansion in the foreign workforce:
Today, trends in legal immigration have largely normalized, and the numbers of immigrant workers in the United States have more than recovered. You can see this in the labor market data: Employment [number, not share] levels for native-born Americans are just a touch higher than in February 2020, when the pandemic recession began (up on net by 0.3 percent); among foreign-born workers, employment has shot up by 9.3 percent.
People waiting to apply for asylum camp near the pedestrian entrance to the San Isidro Port of Entry, linking Tijuana, Mexico with San Diego, Thursday, June 1, 2023, in Tijuana, Mexico. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)
Rampell also celebrated the pressured movement of more women into the low-wage labor market, regardless of the resulting decline in births , writing:
Some commentators (myself included) worried that these [coronavirus] disruptions might set working women back a generation or more by knocking them off the career trajectories they had been on.
… as a group, rather than being economically scarred by covid, female workers seemed to have emerged stronger than ever.
Rampell’s column inadvertently reveals how the wage-cutting, rent-spiking inflow of foreign workers minimizes the incentive for establishment figures — such as herself — to take the difficult political decisions that are needed to get sidelined people back to work, or to raise all-important productivity growth above the current rate of just 1.1. percent:
Productivity growth is vital because it allows ordinary Americans to do more work each day and so earn more money each day. Overall, productivity raises ordinary people’s wages — and without triggering the inflation that is now being boosted by migration.
Productivity also helps U.S. companies to expand the U.S. economy via trade. Such trade reduces elites’ pressure for migration and also allows foreign countries to modernize their societies without their young being getting extracted to the U.S. economy.
But the U.S. establishment prefers the easy option of allowing illegal migration over the difficult task of promoting productivity.
An aerial image shows migrants waiting along the border wall to surrender to Border Patrol agents for immigration and asylum claim processing after crossing the Rio Grande river into the U.S. on the U.S.-Mexico border in El Paso, Texas, on May 11, 2023. (PATRICK T. FALLON/AFP via Getty Images)
Rampell celebrates Biden’s preference for poverty migration , blue-collar migration , and white-collar migration — even though Biden could pressure companies to grow productivity and pull sidelined American men back to marketplace work with offers of more wages, training, and respect.
Biden’s policy also shows the eagerness of his deputies to reinflate President George H.W. Bush’s post-1990 cheap-labor bubble . The labor bubble allowed investors to boost stock market gains via a bigger consumer economy after the export of many high-wage manufacturing jobs to China and Mexico.
Biden’s administration’s preference for more migration also means that wealthy investors do not face marketplace pressure to help reduce early “deaths of despair, ” help people get off drugs, push Mexico on the drug trade, or reduce crime.
“The migration issue “is not just a question of prioritizing US citizens over foreigners,” tweeted commentator Mickey Kaus, adding:
It’s a question of what sort of society we want to have — one where all (even unskilled & ex-cons) can earn enough to live as social equals, or a society that throws large swaths of workers onto the scrapheap.
Rampell has long supported more migration into Americans’ labor market, echoing the establishment’s demand for more cheap workers, apartment-sharing renters, and welfare-aided consumers.
Rampell is tied to the establishment. For example, her brother is an investor in the financial services sector. Most of his start-up companies have asked the federal government for H-1B visa workers to avoid hiring American graduates at higher salaries or paying them with stock options.
Similarly, her pro-migration article was touted by Google’s search engine:
Many other establishment figures favor the use of migrants to expand the economy, regardless of the pocketbook and civic impact on ordinary Americans. Ron Brownstein, a senior editor at the Atlantic , wrote on May 30:
Even as businesses across the nation are complaining about their inability to find enough workers, the federal government is struggling to stem the relentless flow of migrants at the Southern border trying to find work in the US. No one suggests the answer to worker shortages is to open the border, but it remains a paradox that the nation is straining to keep out migrants looking to work even as employers say the shortage of workers is preventing them from filling millions of jobs. That worker shortfall has also emerged as a key factor driving persistent inflation and higher interest rates.
“There’s a mismatch between government policy and the economic reality on the ground,” said David Bier, associate director of immigration studies at the libertarian Cato Institute. “We have a policy designed to keep people out and meanwhile we have a crisis in the labor markets where we have nearly 10 million open jobs and have for two years now.”
Brownstein, however, admitted that the call to import more foreign workers is “politically radioactive .
WATCH: Drone Footage Shows LONG LINES of Immigrants Gathered at El Paso Border:
NEWSNATION/TMX 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 the population replacement allows elites to divorce themselves from the needs and interests of ordinary Americans.
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Migration — and especially, labor migration — is unpopular among swing voters . 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.
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Border Crosser Accused of Murdering Woman One Day After Biden’s DHS Freed Him into U.S. EPPD 1:35
A Venezuelan national is accused of murdering a migrant woman in El Paso, Texas, just one day after President Joe Biden’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) released him into the United States.
Eddy Jose Ortega Alvarado, a 34-year-old Venezuelan national, was arrested and charged this week in El Paso for allegedly murdering 40-year-old Carmen Unilda Navas Zuniga of Honduras on May 21 — the day after he was released into the United States interior through Biden’s expansive Catch and Release network.
According to law enforcement, Alvarado and Zuniga crossed the border at the same time on May 20 and were subsequently released into the United States interior. The two ended up in a motel room in downtown El Paso.
The following day, first responders received a request to do a welfare check on Zuniga. After entering her motel room at around 1:30 p.m. they found her unresponsive and she was pronounced dead. Alvarado, police said, had already fled El Paso for the Dallas-Forth Worth, Texas, area.
Police tracked Alvarado down and met with him, finding probable cause that he allegedly murdered Zuniga and then stole her money.
Alvarado is now being held at the Tarrant County Jail on a $2.5 million bail.
John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Email him at jbinder@breitbart.com. Follow him on Twitter here .
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In truth, the Golden State is becoming a semi-feudal kingdom, with the nation’s widest gap between middle and upper incomes—72 percent, compared with the U.S. average of 57 percent—and its highest poverty rate. Roughly half of America’s homeless live in Los Angeles or San Francisco , which now has the highest property crime rate among major cities.
The costs of illegal immigration are being carefully hidden by Democrats. MONICA SHOWALTER
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NYC Mayor Adams Says It's His 'Vision’ to Eventually House Migrants in New Yorkers’ Private Homes
On Monday, Democrat New York City Mayor Eric Adams proposed the idea of paying New Yorkers to house migrants in their private residences as the city continues to find homes for thousands of asylum seekers.
In a press conference dealing with asylum-seeker issues, Adams announced that religious leaders from fifty places of worship have agreed to start housing male migrants overnight, beginning next month. The city will pay a nightly rate of $125 to places of worship for each asylum seeker housed. This move is cheaper than putting up a migrant household (ranging from single adults to families with children) in one of the shelter hotels in the city, which currently costs the city $380 per night.
Adams called it his “vision” for the next step, after opening “faith-based locales” to migrants:
“It is my vision to take the next to this. Go to the faith-based locales and then move to private residents.”
“There are residents who are suffering right now because of economic challenges. They have spare rooms. They have locales,” Adams said. “We can take that $4.2 billion, or $4.3 billion maybe now, that we potentially have to spend, and we can put it back in the pockets of everyday New Yorkers.”
A spokesperson for Adams did not respond, when asked if the mayor would be opening up his Brooklyn home to migrants.
Adams acknowledged that there would need to be a workaround for the state’s “30 day rule,” in order for his plan to work. The rule requires a guest to be “living in a residence for 30 days before they can legally become a tenant,” after which it can be much harder to evict a person.
Adams gave no specific details about how his proposal could work, such as how much New Yorkers might receive and how long such a measure would be in place. If payments are similar to those already being made to houses of worship and emergency sites, New Yorkers who voluntarily house migrants could receive more compensation than a foster parent is given to care for a child in the state.
Some were quick to criticize the mayor’s plan, questioning whether the implementation would actually work.
“Even if it was worth it to homeowners, the city shouldn’t be spending our money on that kind of crap,” Tim Naylor, a Park Slope townhouse owner, told The New York Post. “You have enough New Yorkers who can barely afford to live.”
Many New Yorkers want more details about the logistics of the proposed plan, and wonder whether or not the mayor has considered the challenges that would arise.
“What are the goals? When do we stop paying? What is the off-ramp?” Joe Borelli, the New York City Council Republican leader, asked on Twitter.
There are currently 157 taxpayer-funded emergency sites across the five boroughs of New York City, with 45,900 asylum seekers. Approximately twenty-two hundred migrants arrived at shelters in the city in just the last week.
ILLEGALS ARE ALWAYS WELCOME IN OPEN BORDERS SANCTUARY STATE OF MEXIFORNIA, THE ONCE GOLDEN STATE NOW A COLONY OF MEXICO.
20 million illegals get 'free' healthcare!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbfRFrwRzLQ
In truth, the Golden State is becoming a semi-feudal kingdom, with the nation’s widest gap between middle and upper incomes—72 percent, compared with the U.S. average of 57 percent—and its highest poverty rate. Roughly half of America’s homeless live in Los Angeles or San Francisco , which now has the highest property crime rate among major cities.
The costs of illegal immigration are being carefully hidden by Democrats. MONICA SHOWALTER
Migrant enclaves already are at the top of the U.S. lists for bad places to - 10 of the 50 worst places in America to live according to this list are in California, and all of them are famous for their illegal populations. MONICA S HOWALTER
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