ILLEGALS COME BECAUSE THEY GET PRE-PAID DEBIT CARDS, HOUSING, 'FREE' GRINGO PAID HEALTHCARE AND A STACK OF DEMOCRAT PARTY REGISTRATION CARDS TO COMPLETE.
Biden ICE Director Bucks White House, Calls Sanctuary Cities 'Inherently Unsafe'
The head of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement says sanctuary cities are "inherently unsafe." That puts him at odds with the White House, which has repeatedly defended Democrat-controlled cities that harbor illegal aliens.
"Sanctuary jurisdictions are inherently more unsafe because they’re letting these individuals out who have serious convictions," acting ICE director Patrick Lechleitner said in a Friday interview with Fox News.
"Sanctuary jurisdiction" refers to any municipality whose leaders refuse to cooperate with immigration officials when an illegal alien under their jurisdiction commits an offense that would result in deportation.
Lechleitner’s comments—a response to the Thursday arrest of four migrants charged with assaulting a New York City police officer in January—are a notable contradiction of White House policy. One of President Joe Biden’s first actions upon taking office was reversing a federal order that barred sanctuary cities from taking Justice Department funds.
Biden’s Justice Department urged the Supreme Court in March 2021 to dismiss all cases on their docket related to sanctuary cities. Left-wing activist groups celebrated both decisions, with the Immigrant Legal Resource Center saying in October 2021 that under Biden, "sanctuary policies can be enacted without risk of losing federal funding."
Law enforcement officers have encountered more than 5.5 million illegal aliens since Biden took office. Cities such as New York have begun to buckle as tens of thousands of migrants flock to their streets. New York officials are exploring budget cuts to provide housing and other social services for illegal immigrants in the state.
Deportations have plummeted under the Biden administration. A study from the Center for Immigration Studies found there has been a 67 percent decrease in the deportation of criminal aliens and a 57 percent decrease in arrests of criminal aliens since Biden took office.
Immigration has become a top concern for voters in both parties as Congress struggles to reach a compromise on border security.
The White House did not respond to a request for comment.
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At what point do we say we’ve lost our country?
Imagine for a moment what the past few years would have been like if the nation’s socialist “Democratic” party and its media propaganda arm had absolutely no limitations on their power. What would it be like if we just had one-party rule and the GOP was only an afterthought?
The problem is that you won’t have to imagine anything if President Trump and the pro-freedom right don’t prevail in November, and even then, it might just be a short respite from the Democrat party’s deliberate destruction of the country as founded.
As much as most people would like to deny this reality, we are rapidly reaching a point where things could be very bad.
So we have a situation where a state governor defies the federal government in its efforts to bring in millions of potential illegal Democrat voters, and he’s backed up by several other states...resulting in a civil war. That was the plot of a movie — a dark comedy — from 1997 entitled The Second Civil War, and it should seem eerily similar to current events. Sometimes you feel like the female news anchor in the movie, who berated her male counterpart in reporting other events after the shooting broke out in that “there is no other news” (language warning). If the situation deteriorates even more, it won’t matter what else is happening, because we will inevitably have just two very bad choices.
But first let’s consider two stark realities of what the authoritarian left has done to the country.
Do we still have a country when it effectively has no borders?
Let’s be blunt about it: the authoritarian far left has effectively erased our southern border. John Lovell of the Warrior Poet Society broached the subject a few days ago of whether we are a nation any longer without any borders. Illegal invaders are being moved around to impact every corner of the country, not just the border states.
But it’s worse than that. The “Democrat” party is doing everything it can to encourage the illegal invasion with incentives paid for by our tax dollars. Democrats are providing free health care, prepaid credit cards, and presumably free college to the invader Democrats.
So hasn’t the far left effectively erased the country by erasing the border? Leftists have lied for years about the border, so should we listen to them ever again?
Do we still have a country when it’s being divided by the fascist far left?
This is a far more subtle but just as dangerous aspect of what the far left is doing these days. Everywhere you look, they are working to divide the country, from assaulting every amendment of the Bill of Rights to using lawfare in elections instead of trying to win in the marketplace of ideas — not to mention a two-tiered justice system that persecutes political opponents and rewards criminals.
They are dividing the people to make us easier to control, but it’s essentially ripping the country apart, toward an unintended consequence on their part.
Therefore, the case can be made that it’s the nation’s socialist Democrat party and its media propaganda arm that have brought us to this point, no matter how much they lie and point fingers.
So what are the long-term implications of what they have done, and what are our choices in the matter?
The horrifying reality of what is happening was aptly laid out in a piece in The Federalist: “Without Mass Deportations, America’s Demographics Shift Will Result In Radical Politics.”
Going forward, even if we somehow prevent 100 percent of future illegal immigration, it only buys us time — and not much. Democrats know this, of course. It’s the reason they continue to accept short-term backlash from our open border in exchange for a long-term payoff. By pointing out that illegal aliens cannot vote, the left claims that this whole thing is a “racist conspiracy theory.”
This disingenuous tactic ignores three things: 1) Democrats have routinely tried to pass some type of amnesty that would eventually allow illegal aliens to vote, 2) Children of illegal aliens born in the U.S. can legally vote when they turn 18, and 3) In 2020, Joe Biden carried Georgia, Wisconsin, and Arizona by a total of about 45,000 votes, meaning a presidential election could be decided by only 0.15 percent of the illegal alien population voting in the right states.
The author makes the point that the last item in that list of three is a mathematical certainty, so even if the “Democrats” don’t pass amnesty or have the illegal invaders vote, they just need to wait to gain perpetual power and one-party rule.
Just imagine the authoritarian leftists unencumbered by the need to win elections. We’ve often stated that socialism is defined as “buying votes with other people’s money, taken at gunpoint,” and they are already putting the first part into practice.
What’s to stop them from doing more of that?
The people getting the freebies will greatly outnumber those who have to foot the bill — in the middle class. What’s to stop them from wanting to bring in more illegal “Democrats”? The blunt truth is that they are doing this only to ensure perpetual power for themselves — until they run out of other people’s money. Then the fun really begins.
So the only choice will have to be, as Sky News host James Morrow has proposed, “DEI: Deport Every Illegal.”
Barring that, we’ve passed all the easy exits, and we’re down to what happens every time collectivism is tried — communism, fascism, Leninism, Maoism, socialism, statism, or whatever you want to call your particular form of societal poison.
That would be the unimaginably horrible option, and by now you should be able to guess what it is.
D Parker is an engineer, inventor, wordsmith, and student of history, the director of communications for a civil rights organization, and a long-time contributor to conservative websites. Find him on Substack.
Image: Don Hankins via Flickr, CC BY 2.0 (cropped).
These Democrats want the truth hidden from their colleagues who are expected to thoughtfully consider this bill. They want the truth hidden from the President, who is expected to take such things as budgetary impact and cost into consideration when signing legislation into law. They want the truth hidden from We the People, who will bear the entire burden for their actions.
The ‘Border Bill’ deliberately hides the truth from the taxpayers
The text of this new border bill starts out like so many others, with a title. And, like so many others, incorporates the terms “and for other purposes” in that title—and that is where the devil lies in the details.
HR-815 started life as a sweet little two-liner bill called the RELIEVE Act, introduced last year by Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA). On March 7, 2023, it passed the House on a simple voice vote. The bill amended current legislation to make it easier for veterans to be reimbursed for emergency medical care. Then, Krysten Sinema (I-AZ) introduced S-1172, nearly identical legislation, in the Senate in July 2023. No further action has been taken on either bill. About 10% of bills that became law in recent Congresses have been little one-page bills dealing with some aspect of veterans’ benefits.
Now, here comes Patty Murray (D-WA) and Chuck Schumer (D-NY) to amend not S-1172 but HR-815. The first action outlined in the bill is to delete the entire text of the bill that the House passed. That alone should get it absolutely no consideration by either Senate Republicans or any House members.
I am always concerned about “and for other purposes” and think that only appropriations bills should cover more than one topic. The rest should be able to stand or fall on their own merits. So, I took a look at one of the “other purposes” incorporated by the nefarious Democrats.
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As background, Congress.gov is the website that provides information on all legislative activity. One bit of information that you’ll find on the “TEXT” tab associated with a bill is a link to the CBO (Congressional Budget Office) Cost Estimate. This provides a breakdown of the anticipated cost of the bill on the budget, along with explanations about the bill and how the CBO calculated the cost estimate.
This information is required by the Pay-As-You-Go statute, abbreviated S-PAYGO. The effect is to provide transparency regarding a bill’s cost to legislators and the President. One side effect is that the rest of us get to see it, too. Here is the CBO’s information sheet on the policy.
The new amendment to sweet little HR-815 is being described as a $118 billion piece of legislation. However, we don’t know if that is the new bill’s entire budgetary impact., and if this amendment passes, no one will ever know until the costs have long been passed to the taxpayers of this country. Why? Because TITLE VIII (BUDGETARY EFFECTS), SEC. 3801. (BUDGETARY EFFECTS) of this bill states
(a) STATUTORY PAYGO SCORECARDS.—The budgetary effects of this division shall not be entered on either PAYGO scorecard maintained pursuant to section 4(d) of the Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act of 2010.
It goes on to state
(b) SENATE PAYGO SCORECARDS.—The budgetary effects of this division shall not be entered on any PAYGO scorecard maintained for purposes of section 4106 of H. Con. Res. 71 (115th Congress).
(c) CLASSIFICATION OF BUDGETARY EFFECTS.— Notwithstanding Rule 3 of the Budget Scorekeeping Guidelines set forth in the joint explanatory statement of the committee of conference accompanying Conference Report 105–217 and section 250(c)(8) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, the budgetary effects of this division shall not be estimated—
(1) for purposes of section 251 of such Act;
(2) for purposes of an allocation to the Committee on Appropriations pursuant to section 302(a) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974; and
(3) for purposes of paragraph (4)(C) of section 3 of the Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act of 2010 as being included in an appropriation Act.
These Democrats want the truth hidden from their colleagues who are expected to thoughtfully consider this bill. They want the truth hidden from the President, who is expected to take such things as budgetary impact and cost into consideration when signing legislation into law. They want the truth hidden from We the People, who will bear the entire burden for their actions.
This must not stand. Conservatives and others who value the well-being of their constituents must vote NO on this amendment to HR-815.
Anony Mee is the nom de blog of a retired public servant who X-tweets at @oh_yeahMee.
The Big Apple goes debit card mad
The migrant story now has a debit card chapter. I thought that the story was a joke when it came across the internet; it wasn’t. It’s true, as we read in this story:
The pilot program is being rolled out at the Roosevelt Hotel in Manhattan, with 500 families involved, The New York Post reported. A family of four will get a card loaded with $1,000-a-month, equivalent to $35 a day.
Those selected will be given cards that can be only used at bodegas, supermarkets and delis. Migrants must sign an affidavit promising to only use the cards for food and baby supplies, or else have them cut off. It is unclear how the City of New York will know if they’re just being used in bodegas as intended.
The amount on each card will depend on individual circumstances. It is unclear how city officials will check if cards are being abused - and if the scheme will worsen the crisis by encouraging other migrants to head to the Big Apple in the hopes of receiving free money.
A family of four could be provided nearly $1,000 each month, which is $35 per day for food for the four.
At present, each migrant meal costs $11, so feeding a family of four for a day could cost up to $132.
Cards will get refilled every 28 days.
Every 28 days? That’s a short month. The people in the Mayor’s office sure are generous with our dollars.
As my friend in New York pointed out, citizens are already paying a lot of taxes, fees, tolls, etc. It’s only a matter of time, he said with a sarcastic laugh, that they will tax you for breathing or going to the bathroom. (Don’t give the City Council any ideas!)
Not long ago, and speaking to the financial woes of the city, the same Mayor Adams leading the debit card debacle announced billions in cuts, “prompted by $10.8 billion in migrant-related costs in this and the next fiscal year.” Yet, even with the planned budget cuts, “New York City faces budget shortfalls of $7 billion in fiscal 2025 and more than $6 billion in both 2026 and 2027.”
So who is looking out for the overtaxed New Yorkers who have to fill their own prepaid debit cards? I guess that no one is, as far as I can tell.
Furthermore, isn’t this going to encourage more migrants to take the New York-bound bus? I think so, and most New Yorkers understand that.
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Exclusive–Steve Camarota: Every Illegal Alien Costs Americans $70K Over Their Lifetime (MORE BELOW)
JOHN BINDER
Every illegal alien, over the course of their lifetime, costs American taxpayers about $70,000, Center for Immigration Studies Director of Research Steve Camarota says.
Immigration deal hangs in the balance as U.S. border crisis divides the country
HOTEL SUITES, PRE-PAID CHARGE CARDS, 'FREE HEALTH' CARE, ACCOUNTS AT SAKS FIFTH AVE, LIMO SERVICE AND DEM VOTER REGISTRATION CARDS.
Hundreds of Luxury NYC Hotels Have Now Become Shelters
WALL STREET AND DEMOCRATS ARE A GREAT OF ENEMIES AS THE MEXICAN DRUG CARTELS OPERATING OVER, UNDER AND IN OUR OPEN BORDERS!
America’s big corporations want cheap labor. They don’t want to raise wages or improve working conditions. They’d prefer to maintain the status quo of stagnant wages, unsafe workplaces, increasingly oppressive scheduling practices, and countless other harms. They want employees who will work as cheaply as possible, which means they want massive immigration flows—legal and illegal—to continue.
Josh Hawley Slams Biden’s Migration Bill as Economic ‘Betrayal,’ ‘Insulting’
President Joe Biden’s pro-migration border plan is a dollars-and-cents betrayal of working Americans and their families, says Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO).
“This bill is, above all, a betrayal of American workers,” Hawley wrote in a February 5 article for CompactMag.com, adding that it would :
[H]and employers the ultimate anti-worker kryptonite: a shadow army of reserve labor, at the service of companies that have plenty of cash for dividends and stock buybacks, but somehow never enough to pay American workers a fair wage. After decades of flatlining pay and deteriorating protections, American labor deserves better. And a backroom deal like this isn’t merely bad policy—it is insulting.
Americans can have an open border for migration or a fair and level labor market for Americans, he wrote, adding, “but never both.”
President Joe Biden walks along a stretch of the U.S.-Mexico border in El Paso, Texas, Jan. 8, 2023. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)
Hawley is one of the leading voices against the giveaway bill. He helped other senators decide late on Monday to block fast-track approval of the migration-boosting bill when it comes up for a vote on Wednesday — and he will likely speak out as advocates of the bill try to blame the Republican turnabout on the personality of Donald Trump.
Hawley wrote:
At the heart of the new border bill is a radical idea: legal provisions that, after a quick intake screening, would grant immediate work authorization to individuals requesting asylum …
If illegal immigrants could get this immediate work authorization—without fear of removal—we can expect a huge influx of migrants claiming asylum purely to get these benefits. Would they ever be heard from again? Doubtful. And second, the bill would allow employers to slash wages for American workers. Why risk employing an American citizen—who might be a member of a union and might insist on fair treatment—when you can hire illegal aliens newly authorized to work?
His pocketbook politics put him at odds with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, which announced its support for the bill on February 5:
We look forward to working with Members of Congress to pass these commonsense measures that will improve America’s security by addressing our southern border and supporting Ukraine and Israel.
Hawley’s kitchen-table perspective on immigration politics is also largely ignored by the white-collar journalists in D.C. Most of the journalists have been trained to ignore real-world outcomes and to portray Capital Hill fights as morality plays featuring good insiders against bad outsiders.
Hawley’s perspective is a minority among Republican legislators. But it is a growing theme that is politically tied to former President Donald Trump’s enthusiastic and populist-themed majority in the party’s vital base.
That pocketbook politics theme is pulling over more Republican politicians as they zig-zag between pro-migration donors and pro-American voters.
For example, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL), was picked by D.C. insiders as the Republican face of the 2013 “Gang of Eight” amnesty. But in 2023, he authored a book saying that “This country has prioritized the importation of cheap labor.”
Migrants walk beside the US-Mexico border fence in Lukeville, Arizona, on Dec. 11, 2023. (Eric Thayer/Bloomberg via Getty)
Rubio continued:
Across this country today, the immigration system has been corrupted and exploited. And it began, as many of America’s problems do, with the fundamental shift toward a globalized economy.
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But not every business could be exported, which meant 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.
More often than not, it is about jobs Wall Street doesn’t want Americans to do because hiring Americans would require higher wages and better working conditions. To them, it is better to import cheap labor and buy off Americans with cash welfare programs provided by the government.
Hawley’s article shares the same theme as Rubio’s book, saying:
America’s big corporations want cheap labor. They don’t want to raise wages or improve working conditions. They’d prefer to maintain the status quo of stagnant wages, unsafe workplaces, increasingly oppressive scheduling practices, and countless other harms. They want employees who will work as cheaply as possible, which means they want massive immigration flows—legal and illegal—to continue.
Extraction Migration
Since at least 1990, the federal government has relied on Extraction Migration to grow the economy after allowing investors to move the high-wage manufacturing sector to lower-wage countries.
The migration policy extracts vast amounts of human resources from needy countries. The additional workers, consumers, and renters push up stock values by shrinking Americans’ wages, subsidizing low-productivity companies, boosting rents, and spiking real estate prices.
The economic policy has pushed many native-born Americans out of careers in a wide variety of business sectors, and reduced native-born Americans’ productivity and political clout. It has reduced high-tech innovation, crippled civic solidarity, and allowed government officials to ignore the rising death rate of discarded Americans.
The immigration policy also sucks jobs and wealth from heartland states by subsidizing coastal investors and government agencies with a flood of low-wage workers, high-occupancy renters, and government-aided consumers.
The colonialism-like policy has also killed many thousands of migrants, including many on the taxpayer-funded jungle trail through the Darien Gap in Panama.
Chamber of Commerce Endorses Lankford Plan to Reward Corporations with More Foreign Workers
The United States Chamber of Commerce, representing the nation’s biggest multinational corporations, has endorsed Sen. James Lankford’s (R-OK) bill that would reward companies with more foreign workers to hire for American jobs.
The bill, negotiated by Lankford as well as Sens. Kyrsten Sinema (I-AZ) and Chris Murphy (D-CT), would increase the number of foreign workers by nearly 20,000 annually who can score green cards to take mostly white-collar professional jobs.
The Chamber of Commerce, which advocates for a flooded labor market where corporations have unlimited access to hire foreign workers, endorsed the bill.
“The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is pleased to see desperately needed border security, asylum, and immigration reforms included in the emergency supplemental funding proposal before the U.S. Senate,” the Chamber’s Neil Bradley said in a statement:
The economic disruption and human suffering wrought by our border crisis have become so severe that Congress cannot afford to ignore these problems any longer. We look forward to working with Members of Congress to pass these commonsense measures that will improve America’s security by addressing our southern border and supporting Ukraine and Israel. [Emphasis added]
Sinema, who helped craft the bill, counts the Chamber as one of her biggest donors. This year, alone, the Chamber’s political action committee (PAC) has thrown $10,000 her way for her expected re-election bid.
From 2018 through 2020, the Chamber’s PAC gave Sinema $3,500.
NumbersUSA CEO James Massa said the bill, overall, will add about 250,000 legal immigrants to the U.S. over five years — in addition to the already five million legal immigrants who are likely to arrive in the U.S. over that same period.
“NumbersUSA stands strongly against the so-called Senate ‘Border Deal’ because it increases legal immigration and fails to do anything to make the border secure,” Massa said:
Despite recent polling that show sensible immigration and a secure border are priorities for voters of both parties, the Senate proposal codifies into law illegal immigration minimums of over 500,000 per year, increases legal immigration by over 50,000 each year, and handcuffs future administrations from reversing the Biden administration’s open border policies. [Emphasis added]
In another giveaway to corporate America, the bill gives indefinite work permits to the adult children of foreign H-1B visa workers. As Breitbart News has chronicled for years, the H-1B visa program is rife with fraud and abuse where American professionals are often laid off after having been forced to train their foreign replacements.
The bill’s provisions to increase the number of foreign workers in the U.S. labor market comes even as President Joe Biden has driven the foreign workforce to the highest level in American history.
At the same time, as experts have testified to Congress, tens of millions of Americans remain on the labor market sidelines. Just last month, economist E.J. Antoni noted that new jobs have “all gone to foreign-born workers…”
“Not only are native-born workers way below their pre-pandemic trend, but they’re even below the pre-pandemic level,” Antoni wrote on Twitter. “In just the last year, a net 193k native-born workers lost their jobs, while a net 1.2 million foreign-born workers gained jobs and the number of people missing from the labor force remains stubbornly high, artificially reducing the unemployment rate.”
John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Email him at jbinder@breitbart.com. Follow him on Twitter here.
Denver Has Now Collapsed
Report: 26 Illegal Alien Killers, Pedophiles Arrested in Sanctuary State California
More than two dozen illegal aliens convicted and charged with murder and child sex crimes have been arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents in the sanctuary state of California.
Last month, ICE agents said they arrested 26 illegal aliens convicted or charged with murder, homicide, and child sex crimes, including assault against children, during a sting operation in the San Francisco Bay Area from Jan. 16 through Jan. 28.
“The neighborhoods where we live are now safer with the arrest of these egregious criminals,” ICE official Moises Becerra said in a statement. “The success of this operation is only possible through the continued professionalism, integrity, and diligence of our officers and their commitment to safeguard the homeland.”
Those illegal aliens arrested by ICE agents include:
- A 29-year-old Honduran illegal alien convicted of felony lewd or lascivious acts on a child under 14 years old.
- A 32-year-old Mexican illegal alien convicted of felony lewd or lascivious acts on a child under 14 years old.
- A 26-year-old Mexican illegal alien who is wanted in Mexico on murder and attempted murder charges.
California has the strictest sanctuary state policy in the United States.
The policy bans local law enforcement agencies and state officials from cooperating with ICE agents to help find, detain, and ultimately deport illegal aliens convicted and charged of the most egregious crimes against American citizens.
Today, nearly five million illegal aliens and their U.S.-born children, commonly referred to as “anchor babies,” reside in California — the largest of any state in the nation.
John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Email him at jbinder@breitbart.com. Follow him on Twitter
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