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Exclusive – Sen. Tom Cotton: ‘Worrisome’ JCPA Media Cartel Bill Allows Media to ‘Collude with Big Tech, Exclude Companies like Breitbart’
Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) spoke with host Alex Marlow on Sirius XM’s Breitbart News Daily about the latest on the Journalism Competition and Protection Act – a bill that would enable establishment and legacy media companies to form a cartel and collectively bargain with Silicon Valley tech giants while excluding conservative media companies.
Senate Democrats are looking to resurrect the zombie bill, which has been revived numerous times in recent years. Most recently, Democrats and their establishment Republican counterparts attempted to shoehorn the legislation into last year’s National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA).
Cotton, a staunch JCPA critic, told the Breitbart News editor-in-chief that while he “almost always support[s]” the annual NDAA, “I had to put my foot down and say that I would not just oppose, but I would filibuster the defense bill” adding, “They put in this extraneous and unwise legislation into it.”
“This bill is very worrisome to me,” Cotton said. “It addresses what’s a real problem, Alex. You have relatively small newspapers or news outlets that have their content taken by big tech companies and repackaged, they lose revenue from that, that hurts our communities. You know, we want the readers of the Russellville Currier or the Jonesboro Sun, or the Baxter Bulletin in Arkansas to be able to follow their local news and their local communities. Of course, in the media landscape today, though, it’s not just about local newspapers or TV stations, or radio stations. It’s news outlets like Breitbart that we want to make sure are not being taken advantage of either by these big tech companies. But I don’t think this bill is the solution for it, however, because what it does is create a giant antitrust exemption to create a kind of media cartel.”
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The bill would enable large media companies to coordinate in ways that would violate antitrust laws in any other business sector, “and then they can collude with big tech to exclude companies like Breitbart, and that really gets to the heart of the matter,” Cotton added.
“They’ve already acknowledged that they wouldn’t let your news outlet into their club,” Cotton explained. “So they would be getting the benefit of their content, they would be forcing these big tech companies to pay for their content, but the tech companies could still take your content. So it’d be even worse for any disfavored conservative outlet because, right now, you’re at least on par with every other media company or small news outlet, and the big tech companies are taking advantage of you. But in this world, it would be worse because everyone else, mostly liberal media outlets, would be getting compensated, and conservative outlets wouldn’t be getting compensated.”
While the bill is being revived in the Senate, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) told Breitbart News the bill would be dead on arrival in the GOP-controlled House, as Cotton pointed out.
“Fortunately, with Jim Jordan in charge of the House Judiciary Committee, it’s not going anywhere there,” Cotton added.
When Marlow followed up, asking who was behind the lobbying for the bill, noting that “This is really playing with fire here to make the media landscape so much worse,” Cotton identified the largest media companies as the chief benefactors.
“Well, I mean, I think the biggest beneficiaries here would be the biggest media companies that have a chance to participate in this cartel and therefore reap more revenues from the contents that big tech companies are currently using,” he said.
Marlow also pointed out a phenomenon where Breitbart News articles are often excluded from searches on Google unless the keyword “Breitbart” is included in the search. This occurs both under the “news” tab and broader traditional searches. When many other news outlets write about a particular topic, their articles appear without their moniker being included in the search entry.
“This is totally uninteresting to anyone in Washington who crafts legislation, Senator. No one cares about the obvious discrimination that’s taking place,” Marlow said. He added the fact that he could not comprehend how “some conservatives support,” actually support the JCPA.
“I agree, and what happens with Google and Breitbart is very telling. In fact, Alex, when you were just talking, I just went to your website, and I took your first headline about the Michigan city banning pride flags, and I typed that exact headline into Google, and your website does not come up,” Cotton said. ” I think that’s pretty telling that your lead story, with a very distinctive headline, I would say, doesn’t even come up in Google if you type the entire headline, and I’m afraid that this bill would encourage that, it would actually promote it. And it might not be just Breitbart. It might be plenty of other conservative media outlets, because once this cartel is formed, then they get to decide who’s going to be in the club and who’s not going to be in the club. And again, they’ve already indicated that Breitbart doesn’t get to be in the club.”
Breitbart News Daily airs on SiriusXM Patriot 125 from 6:00 to 9:00 A.M. Eastern.
Biden Offers Work-Permit Giveaway to India’s White-Collar Migrants
President Joe Biden’s deputies quietly announced a work permit giveaway on Wednesday that would allow hundreds of thousands of white-collar temporary workers from India to permanently compete against American graduates for jobs and careers.
The giveaway for many Indian H-1B, L-1, and O-1 temporary workers was announced on the same day that House GOP members issued a report that completely ignored migration’s vast damage to Americans’ wages and salaries.
The GOP report is intended to help build public support for the impeachment of Biden’s pro-migration border chief, Alejandro Mayorkas. But the GOP report, titled, “Causes, Costs, and Consequences: Why Secretary Mayorkas Must Be Investigated For His Border Crisis,” did not include the words “wages,” salaries,” “pocketbook” or “rents.”
Biden’s new stealth giveaway — and an effective amnesty from existing legal limits — will likely release several hundred thousand Indian workers from their long-term, indentured-service contracts with Fortune 500 subcontractors.
The release will allow those ethnically linked workers to cooperatively compete for a wide variety of other careers sought by isolated young and middle-aged American graduates. Nationwide, more than one million white-collar jobs are held by legal or illegal college-graduate migrants, many of whom got their jobs via many types of fraud.
The flood of extra workers will help investors bump many young American graduates from career-starting opportunities and to push down their depressed salaries. It will also expand the discriminatory ethnic hiring by Indian-born predatory managers in many Fortune 500 companies and their subcontractors.
The giveaway comes as U.S. tech companies and universities are firing many American graduates while importing another annual wave of about 100,000 H-1B visa workers.
GOP politicians — including President Donald Trump — have ignored this massive damage to the U.S. middle-class since it began in 1990. But this GOP silence is self-defeating for GOP candidates because the victims are the swing-voting, white-collar professionals who have given Democrats their victory margins in suburbs around the nation.
The U.S. media will hide the Biden giveaway because establishment editors do not have the workplace authority to describe the damage to their white-collar peers and their own kids. Worse, many younger reporters prefer to tout the investor-magnified concerns of economic migrants.
The June 14 work-permit giveaway is included in agency instructions to officials telling them they can award renewable work permits to the temporary workers in “compelling circumstances.”
But Mayorkas expanded the definition of “compelling circumstances” to include the normal expiration of foreign workers’ visas and the scheduled expiration of the workers’ contract jobs.
“They’re setting it up really so anyone can qualify,” responded Jessica Vaughan, the policy studies director at the Center for Immigration Studies.
The giveaway was announced by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services agency, which is part of Mayorkas’ Department of Homeland Security. The June 14 statement said:
The guidance covers compelling circumstances for principal applicants and their dependents and provides a non-exhaustive list of situations that could lead to a finding that compelling circumstances exist, including serious illness and disability, employer dispute or retaliation, other substantial harm to the applicant, or significant disruption to the employer.
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Compelling circumstances could include, if, due to job loss, the family may otherwise be forced to sell their home for a loss, pull their children out of school, and relocate to their home country.
The rule even says the workers should be given valuable renewable work permits because their temporary visas are expiring on schedule, said Vaughan.
The language says, “If the basis for something being here on a temporary work visa goes away and the person would have to move back to their home country, that’s a compelling circumstance for them to stay here,” she said, adding, “that’s absurd.”
It “looks like a huge change,” said David Bier at the business-backed Cato Institute.
“This is just another attempt to get around the limits on immigration that Congress put into law,” Vaughan said.
Those limits include a cap of 140,000 green cards for foreign workers hired by U.S. companies. But for many years, U.S. agencies have allowed U.S. companies to annually recruit far more than 140,000 foreign workers for U.S. jobs by dangling promises of deferred payment in the form of hugely valuable U.S. green cards and citizenship.
The predictable result is the creation of a roughly 1 million-strong foreign white-collar workforce who are tied to lower-wage jobs by their employers’ dangled promises of an eventual green card.
The workforce is mostly Indian, partly because India’s government has worked closely with Fortune 500 investors to fill up subcontracted jobs with export Indian workers. These Indian workers move into Americans’ jobs via the uncapped H-1B and L-1 visa programs, and via the uncapped supply of OPT, CPT, and H4EAD work permits.
That huge Indian workforce has severely distorted the U.S. market for white-collar workers. It lowers white-collar wages nationwide, turbocharges the export of jobs to India, disastrously subordinates professionals under C-Suite executives, and reduces pressure on investors to raise productivity, innovation, and foreign investment outside India.
The giveaway is also an economic swap for India’s premier minister, Narendra Modi. He is expected to visit Biden on June 22 for a high-status state dinner when officials will announce high-tech sales to India. The pending swap is a boon for high-tech investors — but a disaster for U.S. college graduates.
Congress has repeatedly blocked lobbying campaigns to accelerate the inflow of foreign graduates into white-collar jobs. So Biden’s deputies have repeatedly used their bureaucratic power to expand the inflow.
The expansions have survived repeated lawsuits filed by Americans, said Vaughan. GOP legislators could use their spending power to block the giveaways, she said, but they face closed-door pressure from donors to not fight the giveaways.
So far, there is no evidence whatsoever that the federal government — or the establishment media — has recognized the obvious and massive costs of this white-collar outsourcing to India.
For example, the GOP’s June 14 report usefully described the huge impact of illegal migration on crime, migrant deaths, government spending, and drug smuggling. The report, subtitled, “The Massive Financial Costs of Mayorkas’ Open Borders,” said:
The human cost, both to American citizens and those journeying to the border, has been incalculable.
Increasingly, Americans are also suffering from the strain of the financial costs imposed by this mass illegal immigration.
The border crisis has had an unprecedented and devastating effect on American states, cities, and small towns, particularly the schools, businesses, hospitals, law enforcement agencies, and other public service providers who have limited resources to deal with this massive influx of illegal aliens.
Simultaneously, as cities and states shoulder more costs required to handle this historic burden, many of the illegal aliens released into American communities are consuming far more in taxpayer funded benefits than they are ever giving back.
But the report entirely ignores the role of migration in the government’s economic policies, and it ignores the huge pocketbook damage of migration on Americans. That pocketbook damage, however, inflates investors‘ profits and stock values.
House GOP legislators are under intense pressure to ignore the economics and pocketbook cost of migration.
The pressure comes from influential businesses in their districts, as well as from their GOP leaders, who rely on major business donors to keep pace with the Demoacrats’ income from major business donors. Most of the GOP’s donations come via Congressional Leadership Fund, which includes many manufacturing, retail, and real estate investors.
GOP leaders in the Senate — such as Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) — are somewhat freer to talk about the pocketbook impact of migration. For example, Rubio wrote:
Wall Street simply figured out how to import cheap labor, much of it [clarification, not all] coming from illegal immigrants. This was a slower, more subtle process. Sure, some politicians made a big deal about “jobs Americans wouldn’t do,” but otherwise the only outcry came from workers who found their wages stalled, benefits cut, and hours slashed until they could be replaced by someone willing to work more hours for less.
So far, only Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has criticized the investors’ H-1B program in the 2024 campaign. On May 10, for example, he said:
We determine as Americans what type of immigration system benefits our country, but when you’re doing immigration, it’s not for their benefit as foreigners, it’s for your benefit as Americans.
So if there’s legal immigration that’s harming Americans, we shouldn’t do that either. For example, some of these H-1B visas, they would fire American tech workers and hire foreigners at lower wages. I don’t agree with that. I think that’s wrong.
Meanwhile, Biden’s pro-migration border chief, Alejandro Mayorkas, is trying to import more foreigners to take the blue-collar and white-collar wages and salaries that would otherwise go to the ordinary Americans who have seen their wages drop since President Donald Trump left office.
“There are businesses around this country that are desperate for workers [and] there are … desperate workers in foreign countries that are looking for jobs in the United States, ” Mayorkas said on May 11.
“We currently have at least ten million job vacancies right now in the United States,” including jobs in the government-funded computer-chip sector, White House official Katie Tobin claimed during a May speech at the American Enterprise Insitute, adding:
But this does create a demand for increased high-skilled labor from other parts of the world, and so that is something that we’re working with the State Department on and DHS [Department of Homeland Security] … to make it easier for [migrants] that have these skill sets that we think can really contribute to implementing these new policies, that we can bring them in faster (emphasis added).
Biden’s deputies “are distorting our legal immigration system … to launder the status of virtually any foreign citizen who makes it into the country,” said Vaughan.
Once the new work-permit giveaway is in operation, “I can’t imagine any circumstance in which they’d say no on the application,” she added.
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.
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 elite opinion about “the values of our country” Mayorkas claims.
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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