Who Really Benefits From Illegal Immigration? | Victor Davis Hanson
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Archbishop: Catholics Are Rebelling Against Church’s Pro-Migration Policies
Catholics are rebelling against their religious leaders’ pro-migration policies, and the Catholic leadership must set them straight, Archbishop Timothy Dolan of New York said in an interview on December 21 with the Catholic-run Center for Migration Studies (CMS).
“We were about ready — [with] Catholic Charities — a year ago to turn that [empty New York City] school into a school for immigrant kids, who would come in, and we’d help them with their English. We would help them get up to speed when it comes to their eventual insertion into one of our schools,” the Catholic Cardinal said.
“And the people in that parish … rebelled and said, “Absolutely not, we will not have them here,” said Dolan, who watches over the massive government-funded, migrant-delivery process operated by the legally independent Catholic Charities USA.
Dolan also dismissed criticism from “bigots” in Congress and asserted that he and other bishops get “hate mail … saying, ‘We’re tired of you bishops being hung up about the immigrants, and we’re not going to support you anymore.'”
“This is part of our Catholic responsibility to do this, and this is part of that pro-life ethic that gives a lot of flavor to our evangelical witness,” he said, adding, “I am honored to receive criticism and to be maligned for defense of the immigrant.”
Not “everybody who wants high immigration is guilty of the sin of pride, but that sure seems to be the case here,” Mark Krikorian, the director of the Center for Immigration Studies, responded.
The Bishops “think expressing their views on broad political issues is at least as important — if not more important — than actually preaching the Gospel,” he said:
They’re making the mistake about “Render unto Caesar what is Caesar’s and to God what is God’s.” … If there is somebody who shows up in front of your church and they’re hungry, [charitably] feeding them is perfectly appropriate. But trying to change [government] policy so that there are more hungry people [delivered to] your church door is very different. That’s the [doctrinal] mistake they’re making.
“It’s a very superficial and poorly thought approach to the issue, but I think it’s sincere,” he added.
Dolan is determined to overcome his parishioners’ growing, rational, and decent opposition to the government-run migration flood.
“Those two things…I have found effective in kind of breaking down this terrible Berlin Wall [between Bishops and parishioners] that’s existing in us getting anywhere,” Dolan said as he explained how he tries to get his parishioners to support the government’s economic policy of Extraction Migration:
I tried to reason with them, to go back in history, and to say this is exactly what your parents, your grandparents, and your great-grandparents faced. It was the same thing. And gradually they began to recall the stories and they said, “Oh, that’s right. … We remembered when the Irish pastor made us Italians go downstairs for mass, and that being the main church.” I’m not saying I was eminently successful here, but I could see the ice begin to melt and the people sort of saying, “Oh, that’s right. We are immigrants, too. We are children and grandchildren of immigrants, and that’s what makes our country great.
“We do need to be reminded of our history,” echoed Nicholas DiMarzio, Dolan’s pro-migration colleague and a bishop emeritus of Brooklyn, New York. U.S.-born citizens are born with an unchangeable immigrant identity, he stated: “I think that we have to constantly remind [parishioners] people of where they came from, that we all are immigrants here. No one has a right to be here. We came as immigrants to a country where there were Indians before immigrants.”
“I’m not an immigrant,” responded Marguerite Telford, a U.S.-born citizen and a Catholic who works with Krikorian at the Center for Immigration Studies. “If I moved to France, would I become an immigrant-immigrant?” she scoffed, adding:
I don’t understand why they would want to take away the significance of my citizenship and label me an immigrant — and my children and grandchildren! — when that does not fit who I am. What does this [redefinition] have to do with theology?
DiMarzio also posited that migration is good for the United States:
The benefits of immigration to our country need to be emphasized. People don’t see that. Again, the negativity is that “they’re taking away [resources].” Well, they give more than they take when all is said and done. To analyze it properly, economically, we get people that are already grown, somewhat educated, some very educated, and it doesn’t cost us anything. We benefit as a country.
“Does that sound like a church statement?” Telford responded: “It’s good for the economy, and you need to do this.” Does that make any sense coming from the pulpit? … It is not doctrine, and we do not have to agree with them on this:
In contrast, Dolan claimed that national political and economic debates are unrelated to Catholics’ religious duty to help migrants:
We have to distinguish between the political and the economic and security issues, which are big time and which are broken and which are scandalous and which deserves criticism, whether it comes to the right or the left, and which desperately needs to be fixed. We have to distinguish between that and loving and caring for the people that are here, who have really nothing to do with that.
“When you greet the Iraqi family at the airport, you get a warm feeling that you’re helping people,” Krikorian responded. But Dolan and the Bishops are downplaying the case-and-effect links between migration and the nation’s economy, Krikorian noted:
The fourth person on the video was Kerry Robinson, the president and CEO of Catholic Charities USA. The charity accepts government funds to help move huge numbers of illegal migrants via its 168 aid centers into Americans’ communities, housing, workplaces, and already-crowded K-12 schools. Robinson dismissed public criticisms of her government-funded focus on migrants:
I have seen firsthand the services that our border agencies provide to migrants. It is demanding, relentless, noble, and I would say holy work.
After migrants have been processed by the federal government and permitted to enter the country, federal authorities often bring them to one of our respite centers, where they receive a nourishing meal, access to a shower, a change of clothes, a safe place to sit, to sleep … [and] navigate transportation systems so that they can travel to their destination cities.
“It is not political, and it should not be controversial,” she insisted.
But in October, Robinson admitted that poverty and homelessness are growing amid President Joe Biden’s migration:
There are roughly 4 million affordable homes available nationally for 11 million extremely low-income renter households. That’s a shortage of 7 million affordable housing units. That’s catastrophic … [and] child poverty increased from 5.2 percent in 2021 to 12.4 percent in 2022—the largest single-year increase since 2010.
The Bishop’s pro-migration policies are bad economics and harmful to their parishioners and to ordinary Americans, Telford said.
By supporting the government’s policy of importing more wage-cutting, rent-spiking workers, “they’re making it difficult for Catholics to have large families,” she said. “Yet then they turn around and say, ‘Oh, we need to bring in more workers for the economy.'”
The Bishops “don’t understand [the pocketbook impact of migration] because they’re not economists,” and their lack of understanding will help make Catholic parishioners poorer and less able to fund charity, Telford said.
In political debates about economics and resources, “there’s always winners and losers; there’s always costs and benefits,” Krikorian said. “The black and white thinking that is appropriate in asserting [religious] doctrine [about good and evil] is not appropriate in these kinds of [political compromise] situations”:
Dolan is touting his pro-migration policy, which is growing as the public increasingly opposes Biden’s invitation to millions of economic migrants.
In New York, 62 percent of Catholics described legal migration as a burden, and just 27 percent describe it as a benefit, according to an October poll by Siena College for the New York Times. A majority of Americans say migration is an invasion as the public rejects the Cold War-era narrative that declared the United States a “Nation of Immigrants.”
“Something does feel different now from what we have seen in the past 25 years or so,” admitted C. Mario Russell, the executive director of the pro-migration CMS group and the host for Dolan’s video. He told Dolan, stating, “Perhaps it’s a gradual letting go of empathy or compassion as an imperative. Or perhaps it’s the choice just to ignore … [a prior] shared self-understanding of ourselves as a ‘Nation of Immigrants'”:
The criticism is growing because Biden’s almost-open borders policy cuts American wages, inflates housing costs, and pushes Americans away from good jobs in coastal cities, such as Dolan’s New York City.
In 2023, Biden’s pro-migration deputies welcomed roughly 3.2 million economic migrants over America’s southern border. He also imported roughly 2 million legal immigrants and short-term visa workers. That huge inflow was greater than the number of girls and boys born to Americans during the year:
Migration diverts taxpayers’ aid from young and sick Americans, job-creating investment from Heartland states, economic opportunities from poor and minority groups, and also imposes huge costs on communities and poor counties.
The policy also favors landlords and migrants over American families, who lose the income to afford to have children. It transfers wealth to older investors from the younger employees, who lose wages and productivity-boosting investment, and it widens wealth gaps, especially in Dolan’s New York City.
Many employers are eager to hire healthy, hard-working, and compliant migrants instead of by-the-book American professionals, or the unwanted, drug-tainted, disabled, sometimes criminal, and often uncooperative Americans found at the lower end of the labor force:
Migration allows the government and investors to divorce themselves from the neediest people and to avoid painful “big time” policy decisions, such as birth declines or the remedy for education gaps in population groups. For example, Biden’s government does little to block the deadly drug inflow from Mexico because it prioritizes deals on migration policy. Similarly, business has less incentive to support education reforms or drug eradication programs because migrants can fill the jobs abandoned by drug addicts and school dropouts:
The migration policy also retards the science, productivity, and innovation that is needed for U.S. prosperity and weakens the strong middle class that is needed to balance the political power of the wealthy, especially in Dolan’s city of New York.
The wealth-shifting policy favors D.C. politics over truth-telling. For example, investors fund the pro-migration advocacy groups that insist that migrants are fleeing violence — even though many migrants openly say they are economic migrants in search of better jobs in U.S. workplaces. “Many of us that are coming over are just wanting to work. … Some of us are professionals. We aren’t thieves. We aren’t violent thugs. Just give us an opportunity,” a Venezuelan migrant told the Washington Post in May 2023.
The Biden policy also helps the armed cartels gain more wealth and smuggle more deadly drugs to U.S. addicts. The federal policy also extracts human resources from poor countries to stimulate the investors’ share of the U.S. consumer economy, expands poverty in migrants’ home countries, reduces wealth-generating trade, and strengthens anti-democratic dictators:
Biden’s migration splits a myriad of foreign families, expands the U.S. child-labor economy, and also kills thousands of foreign migrants. “There were two images of his treacherous journey north that he couldn’t get out of his head,” Albinson Linares from Telemundo.com wrote in January 2023 about a Venezuelan migrant named Johan Torres, who crossed through the Darién Gap in Panama:
The first was how a [migrant] person who resisted a robbery in Mexico was killed with a machete; the other happened in the jungle, when he saw a man leave behind his young daughter, waist-deep in mud. “He left her there, lying in the mud and crying. And I couldn’t do anything because I was dying of exhaustion. But I can’t forget that.”
Dolan, however, insisted that observant Catholics must support more illegal migration.
“I have a duty and a sacred responsibility to welcome and defend the immigrant,” Dolan insisted. “This is not some option. This is not some hobby. I have a duty to do that. … [It] is part of our moral heritage.”
“The Roman [Catholic] church is a hierarchical institution, and the hierarchs are used to having their way,” Krikorian responded. “In this country, Catholics are Americans, and they’re going to decide for themselves what they want to do.”
The Bishops’ pro-migration policies are “very, very divisive, and right now, we’ve got enough divisive things in the church and with people in general,” Telford said.
Dolan “should consider sitting down … and find out why so many disagree with him on immigration,” Telford said, adding, “Perhaps he is living in a bubble surrounded by [pro-]immigration activists.”
Study: More than 7-in-10 California Immigrant
Welfare
Dem Rep. Crockett on Asylum Laws: We Need People Coming for Jobs Because ‘We Need More Tax Income’
On Friday’s “CNN News Central,” Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) argued that U.S. asylum laws aren’t the problem and we should give work permits to people who come to the U.S. for economic reasons because “We need more tax income anyway.”
Co-host John Berman asked, “What changes, if any, would you be willing to make to asylum laws to relieve some of the pressure here?”
Crockett responded, “So, I don’t think that that’s the problem. So, for me, that’s not the fix. It’s one of those things that Republicans like to put out things and make it seem as if this is going to fix the problem, for people that have never been involved in this, as someone who comes from the state of Texas, who was serving in the Texas House when Operation Lone Star began, I understand what doesn’t look like a fix. But I also understand what makes people feel better, and Republicans simply want to campaign on fixing immigration when they know that it’s not an actual fix. They don’t want to provide the resources that are necessary. We need to make sure that we have the courts that are fully staffed. We need to make sure that these persons that are coming over seeking jobs have the ability to actually work so that they’re not a burden, but instead, they’re doing exactly what they want to do, which is working and supporting themselves and adding to our tax resources. We need more tax income anyway. So, we absolutely can work through this, but Congress has to be willing to fully fund everything around immigration.”
She added that to reduce the flow of people on the border, she’d spend more on foreign aid and help other countries enter into better trade agreements, and “our dollar goes a lot further in a lot of these different countries than it goes here.”
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OPEN BORDERS TO KEEP WAGES DEPRESSED
New study says high housing costs, low income push Californians into homelessness
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4guGq6kWxg
CA makes up third of homeless population in U.S., according to study
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5OCZZF3_Yas
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.
California approves ‘shocking’ policy giving weekly checks to migrants: Report
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGCsB3LL1Nw
The state of California is home to more illegal aliens than any other state in the country. Approximately one in five illegal aliens lives in California, Pew reported.
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.
“The Democrats had abandoned their working-class base to chase what they pretended was a racial group when what they were actually chasing was the momentum of unlimited migration”. DANIEL GREENFIELD
Liberal California Emigrants are Toxic
When Arizona, a state that has historically leaned conservative, was won by Joe Biden and now-senator Mark Kelly this week, very few were taken by surprise. Extensive polling indicated Arizona was ripe for swinging liberal and in this instance, at least, the polling was correct.
The question is why? Why has a state that held two elected Republican senators as recently as 2018 and which held a dependable stable of electoral votes for GOP presidential candidates become a purple state on its way to becoming solidly blue? Have Arizona residents suddenly awaked to the idea that liberal policies and doctrines are more sensible than conservative ones? Hardly.
The answer regarding Arizona’s swing lies in its neighbor to the west, California. Since 2012, California has overwhelmingly sent more transplants to Arizona than any other state. When surveyed, escaping Californians cite high taxes, high crime rates, unaffordable housing, out-of-control homelessness, and high unemployment rates as their top reasons for fleeing.
Who is responsible for creating such an alarming living environment within the state? California liberals. A November, 2020 report produced by the Mercatus Center at George Mason University stated that California has 395,608 regulatory restrictions. The sheer volume and scope of California regulations creates such a compliance nightmare that they kill entire industries, send housing prices to unattainable heights, and restrict even commonplace liberties for which conservative leaning states are known.
Piled onto California’s endless river of regulations are its nonsensical laws and policies. Twenty major metropolitan cities or counties in California have established laws, ordinances, regulations, or other practices that shield illegal immigrants from prosecution after committing a crime. These counties brazenly safeguard illegal immigrant criminals against deportation either through noncompliance or by refusing to hand them over to federal agencies such as ICE. With over $1.5 trillion in state and local government debt, California effectively has little money to spare for conveniences such as criminal incarceration. What do sanctuary cities and counties see as the alternative to handing illegal immigrant criminals over for deportation? Release them back into the general population, of course.
Consider this: Between 2014 and 2017, the FBI reported that 49 states saw an average increase in crime annually of around 3%. After implementing “humane” alternatives to criminal prosecution, California crime increased more than 12% per year over the same time period. With irrational sanctuary policies that send a clear message of little to no consequence for offenses, is it any wonder California’s crime rate is now spiraling out of control?
Arizona is not the only beneficiary of the California exodus. The Colorado State Demography Office has published an active flow map of people moving into the state from 2010 on. Disturbingly, the state sending the most movers to Colorado since then has consistently been California. As recently as 2004, Colorado had the political trifecta of a Republican governor and a Republican-controlled House and Senate. A short ten years later, all three had turned irrevocably Democrat. The subsequent consequence? A drastic increase in state and local regulations, a dramatic increase in violent crimes, a severe shortage of home 
inventory and affordable housing, and a staggering increase in homelessness. Do these newfound troubles sound familiar to any other state mentioned here? The only safeguard against out-of-control tax hikes in Colorado is the TABOR Amendment passed by voters 1992, prior to the influx of California residents, that requires taxpayer approval for any new tax. Not surprisingly, emboldened liberals in Colorado are vigorously resolute in repealing this tax hike protection. As of the most recent election they are unsuccessful, yet remain undeterred.
What has coincided with Colorado’s decline? The mass inflow of Californians to the state. Californians have brought with them all the very same liberal doctrines and ideologies that forced their flight from California in the first place. Does this dissuade liberal Californians from shaping Colorado into the very image of California? Not in the least.
If there is any hope for Arizona, it is that they might learn from the resulting ruin of Colorado, however unlikely.
In the 2020 election, Texas was startlingly considered in play for liberals. Since 2015, which state has contributed the most emigrants into Texas? Not surprisingly, the state of California. The hope for liberals is that they can turn Texas into the next purple soon-to-be blue state. The coveted prize is Texas’ electoral votes. Even more insidious, if liberals are able to capture Texas as they have done in Colorado and Arizona, they will force the state to join the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact. They will then achieve their ultimate goal of a Democrat president reigning over the United States for endless generations until the point our country experiences the same collapse as other great civilizations throughout world history.
The obvious question is this: How can Texas avoid the same fate as states such as Colorado and Arizona? Simple. By being proactive.
It is much easier for liberals to enact new legislation than to argue for the removal of existing laws. With this in mind, Texas should take advantage of their current Republican-controlled Senate, House, and governor’s office by making haste and passing laws that would limit the future incursion of liberal meddling. Texas can presently enact laws that prohibit sanctuary cities, require voter approval to remove the state’s mandated balanced budget, require that any new regulation must necessitate the removal of an existing one, and compel voter approval of each new local or state tax including non-user fees. While such laws may only serve to stem the liberal takeover of the state, they would be roadblocks making it much more difficult for ideological infiltration in areas that affect inhabitant’s liberties and quality of life.
It would be absurd to suppose Californians have malintent. Rather, they are simply following the course with which they are most familiar while being blissfully ignorant of the negative unintended consequences their political ideology brings. To suggest that any act of suppression, aggression, or intimidation towards Californians moving into red states is acceptable would simply be un-American and subject to the same type of hypocrisy liberals practice. If conservatives stoop to their level, we have lost the battle and, perhaps, the war.
However, by taking aggressive legislative action in states that have not yet succumbed to liberal infiltration, Conservatives will effectively be planting our flag in a defiant refusal to hand over our institutions and our liberty.
"Mexican president candidate Andrés Manuel López Obrador called for mass immigration to the United States, declaring it a "human right". We will defend all the (Mexican) invaders in the American," Obrador said, adding that immigrants "must leave their towns and find a life, job, welfare, and free medical in the United States."
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2018/07/mexican-president-andres-manuel-lopez.html
Gov. Gavin Newsom to Offer Health Insurance to the World’s Migrants in 2024 If They Can Get to California
Beginning January 1, 2024, illegal aliens residing in California will become eligible for taxpayer-funded health insurance — the first state in the nation to enact such a policy.
In June of this year, Newsom touted the budget agreement that will make California the first state in the United States to offer health insurance, subsidized by taxpayers, to the state’s estimated 4.4 million illegal aliens so long as they are low-income.
Starting in the new year, illegal aliens in California will qualify for Medi-Cal, which is California’s state-funded version of the federal government’s Medicaid program. Since 2015, only illegal alien children qualified for Medi-Cal thanks to then-Gov. Jerry Brown (D).
Likewise, Newsom expanded eligibility for Medi-Cal to illegal aliens 50 years and older as well as those aged 19 to 25. This latest expansion is set to add about 764,000 Medi-Cal recipients to the state’s health insurance rolls.
Elected Republicans in California have warned that expanding taxpayer-funded health insurance to illegal aliens “will certainly exacerbate current provider access problems” as Medi-Cal “is already strained by serving 14.6 million Californians — more than a third of the state’s population.”
Eventually, California officials project that more than 1.2 million illegal aliens will be using subsidized health insurance.
The new policy comes as California’s population dipped below 39 million residents this year, driven mostly by Californians fleeing the state. The year prior, about 300,000 Californians moved out of the state — the most of any state in the nation that year.
John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Email him at jbinder@breitbart.com. Follow him on Twitter here.
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