Study: Worsening conditions for young
people throughout the developed world
By Nick Barrickman 15 March 2016
Incomes for young people born
between 1980 and 1994 have hit unprecedented low levels in the
aftermath of the 2008 financial collapse, according to a recent
investigative series conducted by the UK’s
Guardian publication titled “
Millenials: The Trials of Generation Y .”
The study draws on income statistics from eight of the world’s 15 most
advanced economies, including the US, Canada, Great Britain, Australia,
France, Italy, Spain and Germany to paint a picture of dimming social
prospects for young people throughout the developed world.
The Guardian cites
as contributing factors “a combination of
debt, joblessness,
globalization, demographics and rising
house prices” which “have grave
implications for everything
from social cohesion to family formation.”
Whereas during the
1970s and 1980s people in their 20s averaged more
than the
national income, the study found that young couples and
families in five of the eight countries listed made 20 percent
less than
the rest of the population today.
“It is
likely to be the first time in industrialized history, save for periods
of war or natural disaster, that the incomes of young adults have
fallen so far when compared with the rest of society,” the British
newspaper states.
In the US and Italy, incomes were
lower in actual figures than they were a generation ago, with Americans
averaging a yearly salary of $27,757 in 2010 compared to $29,638 in
1979. The study notes that young US workers currently make less than
those in retirement. In France, households headed by individuals under
the age of 50 made less disposable income than recent retirees. In
Italy, an 80-year-old pensioner possesses more income than someone under
the age of 35.
In many cases, the 2008 financial
collapse simply accelerated trends that were already underway. Housing
prices in Great Britain and Australia are among the most expensive in
the developed world. The average price for a home in Sydney, Australia,
is $1 million in Australian dollars, more than 12 times the median
household income in the city. The average home loan for first-time
buyers in New South Wales is A$424,000. This figure has increased by 43
percent in the past four years alone.
According to the Australian
Bureau of Statistics, housing prices have increased more sharply and for
a longer period in the past 20 years than at any time since 1880. The
Guardian notes
that housing costs in the UK and Australia have been increasing at a
“neck and neck” pace ahead of the average household income. “We’re
heading for a world where rates of home ownership among young people are
below 50 percent for the first time,” states Alan Milburn of the Social
Mobility and Child Poverty Commission, adding that the UK is heading
toward becoming “a society that is permanently divided.” Income for
those in their late 20s in the UK remain below levels seen in 2004-2005.
A
recent survey by British polling firm Ipsos Mori found that 54 percent
of those questioned thought the next generation was or would be worse
off than the previous. “It’s the highest we’ve measured—it’s completely
flipped around from April 2003,” stated Bobby Duffy, managing director
of Ipsos Mori’s Social Research Institute of the findings.
In
addition, more than a quarter of individuals in this age group live
with their parents. An average woman in this age group today waits 7.1
years longer to become married than in 1981; and the average age of
childbirth for young families is nearly four years later than those in
1974.
“My
greatest worry is working all my life, constantly chasing
debt and
never being to own a house or have children,”
writes a millennial named
“Gemma” in a section of the series
entitled “#Itsnotjustyou: Millenials share their secret fears .”
Continuing, she states: “The cost of renting privately is
rising, the
cost of travelling is rising, the cost of living is rising
and yet the
salaries don’t reflect this rise. … I am worried that
capitalism is
pushing this and creating a greater wealth
inequality gap. It seems
unsustainable and to be driving
people apart—a recent example is the
demonization of our
own NHS service and the junior doctors.”
Many others share similar nightmares.
The
study comes amid other findings revealing similar declines in living
standards for youth in the developed world. A 2013 Organization for
Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) report found nearly 30
million youth in the developed capitalist countries without a job or an
education, the basic requirements for functioning in society.
The
circumstances faced by young people throughout the world speak to a
systemic breakdown of the social order in both the so-called developing
and advanced countries, which has been compounded by war and militarism,
consecutive attacks on living standards and cuts to social programs,
which invariably hit the youngest and most vulnerable the hardest.
Though not covered by the study, European nations such as Greece have
been reduced to conditions unseen in the developed world, with youth
unemployment at over 60 percent due to attacks on living standards
demanded by the European Union and enforced by consecutive governments,
both right and “left,” under Syriza.
The authors of the
Guardian investigation,
in an effort to divert rising anger away from the social system
responsible for the poverty, destruction of living standards and
attendant social misery, single out the relatively-better off living
conditions of retirees in order to make a case for attacking pensions
and other benefits accruing to the older generation. The publication
quotes a recently published interview with Mario Draghi, head of the
European Central Bank (ECB), who states “in many countries the labor
market is set up to protect older ‘insiders’—people with permanent,
high-paid contracts and shielded by strong labor laws. … The side-effect
is that young people are stuck with lower-paid, temporary contracts and
get fired first in crisis times.”
Rather
than receiving expanded employment, pay and
access to better living
conditions, it is proposed that the
young and the old fight over the
rapidly diminishing
resources made available by bourgeois public
officials and
the wealthy. While Draghi advocates
attacking the pay and benefits of older workers, the ECB head has
funneled billions into the hands of European banking institutions;
recently upping the monthly total of cash infusions to €80 billion from
€60 billion previously and adding to the wealth of the financial elite.
The
fate of retirement benefits and wages under the profit-system is
pointed to when the newspaper notes “pensioners’ incomes are likely to
rise for at least the next decade, after which future generations will
be unlikely to benefit [due to] a drop in home ownership, weaker private
sector pension schemes and the expectation that state pensions will be
less generous in the future.”
OBAMA-CLINTONOMICS: SERVE THE
RICH, WALL STREET CRONIES AND LA
RAZA, THE MEX FASCIST PARTY of
AMERICA....
Then
hand what is left of the American middle
class the tax bills for
bailouts and Mexico's
crime wave in our open borders and LA
RAZA "The
Race" welfare state on our backs!
"The
Clinton family charities have outsourced many U.S. white-collar jobs to
foreign college graduates instead of hiring American college
graduates."
March 11, 2016
Oops! Clinton Foundation outsourced tech jobs to H-1B visa holders
The
Bill, Hillary, and Chelsea Clinton Foundation, which does “wonderful
work” (if you ask Hillary), also has sought to hire a lot of foreign
tech workers brought to the country under the H-1B visa program to fill
jobs Americans supposedly can’t be found to perform. Breitbart reports:
The
Clinton family charities have outsourced many U.S. white-collar jobs to
foreign college graduates instead of hiring American college graduates.
The
outsourcing started in 2004 and it continues to this year. When asked
if the foundation is still hiring foreign white-collar workers via the
controversial H-1B visa program, Vena Cooper, one of the foundation’s
personnel officers, responded “We do.”
The
foundations declined to answer questions from Breitbart News, but
available data shows they sought to hire up to 130 foreign graduates.
That’s roughly half the number of 250 jobs outsourced by Disney last
October, which has reignited political criticism of the middle-class
outsourcing program.
The
130 foreign graduates sought by the Clinton’s foundations were and are
not immigrants. Instead, they’re temporary “guest” workers who fill
outsourced professional jobs for up to six years.
The
Clintons’ foreign graduates have been hired via the H-1B visa program
that also is used by Disney and U.S. corporations and universities to
employ a population of roughly 650,000 young and cheap foreign
professionals in business , design , healthcare , software , science , education , p.r. and media and pharmaceutical jobs. After their six years in the United States, most H-1Bs return home with the work-experience and connections that help them compete against U.S. professionals in the global marketplace.
The
young foreign H-1B professionals are also used to push down average
salaries earned by experienced and older American professionals. In
turn, those salary cuts boost profit margins and company values on Wall
Street.
Hey,
those private jets and 5-star luxury hotels favored by the traveling
Clintons don’t come cheap, so they’ve got to pinch pennies wherever they
can. And besides, a lot of their money comes from foreign sources, so they’re just returning it to some of the home countries.
Read more:
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2016/03/oops_clinton_foundation_outsourced_tech_jobs_to_h1b_visa_holders.html#ixzz42cTZSzX3
Follow us:
@AmericanThinker on Twitter |
AmericanThinker on Faceboo
US employment report: Payrolls rise,
wages fall
By Barry Grey 5 March 2016
President Barack Obama seized on
the February employment report, released Friday morning by the Labor
Department, to tout the supposed “success” of his economic policies and
paint a picture of a thriving US economy. The report, which showed a
larger-than-predicted growth in private nonfarm payrolls of 242,000
jobs, confirmed that the US economy was “the envy of the world,” Obama
told reporters at a White House appearance.
“The fact
of the matter is that the plans that we have put in place to grow the
economy have worked,” he boasted.” He derided “an alternative reality
out there from some of the political folks that America is down in the
dumps.” He countered, “America is pretty darn great right now.”
He
did not attempt to explain why the “alternative reality,” which his
labor secretary, Thomas Perez, attributed to “fear-mongers and
fact-deniers,” is believed by tens of millions of Americans, whose anger
over economic injustice is dramatically reflected in the current
election campaign.
One does not have to look too
closely at the Labor Department’s report, however, to get an idea of
what is fueling the social indignation of working people in the eighth
and final year of the Obama administration. Behind the top-line number
for new jobs and the quasi-fictional official unemployment rate of only
4.9 percent, ongoing trends with disastrous consequences for the working
class are evident. They account for two other important indices in the
report: a decline in average earnings from the previous month of 3
cents, or 0.1 percent, to $25.35, bringing the increase for the year
down to just 2.2 percent, and a fall in the average private-sector
workweek of 0.2 hours to 34.4 hours, a two-year low.
These
two figures arise from the fact that the vast bulk of new jobs created
in February were low-wage and a huge percentage were part-time. The
low-paying service sector—retail, bars and restaurants, health
care—accounted for 245,000 jobs. The reality of recession in basic
production was reflected in a 16,000 decline in manufacturing and the
loss of another 19,000 mining jobs, bringing to 171,000 the total
decline in mining since September 2014. The only better-paying
industrial sector that saw an increase was construction, which recorded a
gain of 19,000.
Another figure highlights the hollow
and socially regressive character of Obama’s so-called “recovery.” The
financial cable network CNBC pointed out that according to the Labor
Department’s household survey, which is the basis for the unemployment
rate figure (the figure on payroll growth is derived from a separate
survey of business establishments), full-time jobs increased in February
by only 65,000, while part-time positions increased by 489,000. This
means that a mere 11.7 percent of new jobs in February were full-time!
These
statistics point to the fact that the American ruling class, through
its instrument, the Obama administration, has utilized the financial
crash of 2008, for which it was responsible, to fundamentally reorganize
the US economy, transforming it into a low-wage system. The millions of
decent-paying jobs that were destroyed have been largely replaced by
poverty-wage, part-time and temporary jobs.
The median
household income has fallen sharply. Pensions and health benefits have
been gutted, schools closed by the thousands, teachers and other public
workers laid off by the millions. At the other end, the Federal Reserve
and the US Treasury have pumped trillions of dollars into the financial
markets, driving up the stock market and bringing the concentration of
wealth at the very top to unprecedented levels. This is what Obama lauds
as “success.”
Meanwhile, millions of Americans remain
mired in long-term unemployment. The number of long-term unemployed,
defined as without work for 27 weeks or more, was essentially unchanged
at 2.2 million in February. This number has not shifted significantly
since last June. The long-term jobless accounted last month for 27.7
percent of the unemployed, a far higher percentage than in any previous
period categorized as an economic recovery.
A broader
measure of unemployment that includes people working part-time but
wanting full-time work and those too discouraged to seek employment
registered 9.7 percent last month, nearly double the official jobless
rate. There are, in addition, millions of people who have dropped out of
the labor market and are not even counted in government employment
reports.
While the employment-to-population ratio edged
up to 59.8 percent and the labor force participation rate rose slightly
to 62.9 percent, both measures remain extraordinarily low by historical
standards.
The impact of soaring social inequality and falling
living standards for broad sections of the population is reflected in a
growing crisis in the retail sector. This week, sporting goods chain The
Sports Authority filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and
announced it was closing at least 140 of its 463 stores and laying off
3,400 of its 13,000 employees. This follows recent announcements by
Walmart, Sears/Kmart and Macy’s of hundreds of store closures and
thousands of layoffs.
Hillary
Clinton repeatedly claims that she is the champion of the little guy.
It has always been a risible claim, but if any of her supporters
(including at the Post) are actually paying attention to the scoundrel,
this latest gambit ought to disabuse them of the notion.
March 7, 2016
The last refuge of the scoundrel Hillary
Samuel
Johnson’s aphorism that patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel
doesn’t apply to Hillary Clinton in her email scandal, because nobody –
not even her die-hard supporters – would believe her if she said that
she set up the private email server in the interests of the United
States. Rather, the last refuge of this scoundrel is to blame everybody
else she dealt with at the State Department, in the process impugning
not only her own close aides, but career diplomats and other
nonpolitical professionals who deserve better.
This
strategy is reflected in the campaign’s current mantra that
“everybody,” including former secretaries Colin Powell and Condoleezza
Rice, at one time or another sent emails that were later determined to
be classified. A recent Washington Post analysis of Hillary’s released
classified emails demonstrates that she directly sent at least 104 to
various aides and officials, and that they too, including the current
secretary of state, John Kerry, occasionally sent out emails through
nonsecure servers that were later deemed classified. However, what the
analysis also shows is that these government officials, when they did
use unsecured servers, at least used government accounts, which provide a
measure of security, not a private home-brewed server like Mrs.
Clinton’s.
The
Post’s news editors must be popping a lot of Thorazine, because their
coverage of Clinton is increasingly schizophrenic. As longtime readers
of the paper know, the news operation is considerably more left-leaning
than the editorial side (which occasionally takes a more centrist
view). News stories are routinely slanted to present the most favorable
liberal perspective and mock or demean opposing outlooks. This
tendency is apparent in the Clinton case as well. The Post has broken
some important stories in the email scandal, like the recent revelation that the Justice Department granted former Clinton I.T. aide Bryan Pagliano immunity. And the Post’s most heroic figures, Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein ,
have separately suggested that the Clinton scandal is the real thing.
But since Hillary is the Post’s gal, they seeded the Pagliano report
with expert liberal analysis that suggested that the immunity deal is
either nothing to get excited about (a weird way to promote a scoop) or
actually a good thing for Clinton, while omitting contrary interpretations .
The
Post’s analysis of her emails follows the same pattern. On the one
hand, the news that Clinton herself personally authored over 100
classified items cuts against her chosen narrative that she got a lot of
emails and that she can hardly have been expected to actually read and
analyze them all for security issues as she received them or passed them
on. On the other hand, the article goes out of its way to suggest that
this was an endemic problem at State. And strangely again, the
explanation is rather contradictory. We are told that the sending and
receipt of classified information was the result of poor security
procedures that preceded Clinton’s arrival. But we are also told (in
line with claims made by Clinton and her campaign) that there is a
culture of “over-classification” in the government. So which is it?
Were officials at State too lax about security procedures or too anal?
If nothing else, one thing this controversy demonstrates is that the
Clinton State Department was pretty much a mess.
But
besides the country itself, which is now enduring yet more Clintonian
malfeasance in the midst of a critical election, are many individuals
that Clinton is cold-bloodily demeaning in an attempt to exonerate
herself with the “everybody did it” canard. This rests on the weak
premise that other government officials – aides, ambassadors, career
officials – occasionally misidentified information as innocuous or
insufficiently sensitive to merit security classification. There is
little doubt this happened, and continues to happen, as government
employees do their best to protect sensitive information but not bog the
government down in layers of unnecessary security protocol. But none
of the officials identified in the Post analysis did this deliberately
by establishing a private home-brewed email system to avoid State
Department classification procedures entirely – and this no less, by the
head of the State Department itself.
The
Post article anonymously quotes one poor soul (identified as a former
senior official) whose good name has now been impugned as a careless
operator: “I resent the fact that we are in this situation – and we’re
in this situation because of Hillary Clinton’s decision to use a private
email server.”
Hillary
Clinton repeatedly claims that she is the
champion of the little guy.
It has always been a
risible claim, but if any of her supporters
(including at the Post) are actually paying
attention to the scoundrel,
this latest gambit ought
to disabuse them of the notion.
Read more:
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2016/03/the_last_refuge_of_the_scoundrel_hillary.html#ixzz42F4IlYvd
Follow us:
@AmericanThinker on Twitter |
AmericanThinker on Facebook
The Hillary Clinton emails: A record of imperialist crimes
visit judicial watch org for more on hillary's
crimes and corruption
ALL
HILLARY CLINTON DID AS
SECRETARY of STATE, ARGUABLY ALL
SHE DOES
PERIOD, IS SUCK UP TO MUSLIM
DICTATORS, OBAMA'S CRONY
BANKSTERS AND
CRIMINAL BILLIONAIRE
ONYIES OF BILLARY.... SO SHE AND
BILLARY CAN SUCK
IN THOSE BIG BRIBES
TO THEIR PHONY CLINTON FOUNDATION!
OTHER
THAN THE TENS OF MILLIONS IN
BRIBES SHE SUCKED UP AS SEC. OF STATE,
HER
TENURE WAS AN UTTER DISASTERS
AS WOULD BE ANOTHER WALL STREET
BACKED
CLINTON ADMINISTRATION!
OBAMA-CLINTONOMICS: SERVE THE RICH, CRONY BANKSTERS, AND ILLEGALS.... cash in on speech fee bribes for services well rendered to the 1%.
New study says entire regions of US will remain in slump until the 2020s
TO
KEEP PROFITS SOARING, THE DEMOCRAT PARTY IN COLLUSION WITH THE GOP AND
WALL STREET, MUST STICK IT TO WHAT IS LEFT OF THE AMERICAN MIDDLE CLASS.
THAT MEANS ENDLESS HORDES OF ILLEGALS JUMPING OUR BORDERS, JOBS AND
WELFARE OFFICES!
New study says entire regions of US will remain in slump until the 2020s
By
Jerry White
21 March 2016
A new study by a University of California-Berkeley economist says
that at current sluggish levels of job growth, entire regions of the
United States, which were hit hardest by the Great Recession will not
return to “normal” employment levels until the 2020s. This amounts, to
“more than a ‘lost decade’ of depressed employment” for “half of the
country,” wrote economist Danny Yagan.
The new study is one of many showing that the fall of the official
unemployment rate, touted by the Obama administration and the news media
as proof of a robust economic recovery, if not a return to “full
employment,” is largely based on the fact that millions of workers fell
out of the labor force in the years preceding and following the 2008
financial crash.
The labor-force participation rate fell to a 38-year low of 62.4
percent last fall, and only climbed up to 62.9 percent in February.
According to the Economic Policy Institute, February’s official jobless
rate of 4.9 percent—the lowest since the pre-recession level of 4.7
percent in November 2007—would really be 6.3 percent if the country’s
“missing workers” were included. These include 2.4 million workers who
have given up actively looking for work.
Yagan based his findings on a detailed study of some 2 million,
similarly paid workers in the retail industry in order to calculate
employment patterns across different local areas and to account for
occupations that might have been particularly hard hit in one region.
He found that the areas hardest hit by the recession, which began in
December 2007 and officially ended in June 2009, continued to have high
levels of joblessness in 2014. His map of these distressed areas
includes all of Florida and parts of Arizona, Nevada, California,
Colorado, New Mexico, the Dakotas, Michigan, Indiana, Ohio, Georgia,
Connecticut, New Hampshire and other states.
While different areas of the country are often hit differently by an economic downturn, an article in the Wall Street Journal
on Yagan’s study noted, these economically distressed areas generally
return to normal levels of employment chiefly because workers move to
find work in areas with a higher demand for labor. In the case of the
“Great Recession,” however, the mass layoffs resulted in “muted
migration,” according to other studies cited by the Journal , and workers simply fell out of the labor market.
“Unlike the aftermath of the 1980s and 1990s recessions,” Yagan
wrote, “employment in hard-hit areas remains very depressed relative to
the rest of the country.” Living in areas like Phoenix, Arizona, or Las
Vegas, Nevada means confronting “enduring joblessness and exacerbated
inequality,” Yagan wrote. “If the latest convergence speed continues,
employment differences across the United States are estimated to return
to normal in the 2020s—more than a decade after the Great Recession.”
The lack of decent job opportunities in large swathes of the country
has created a reserve army of unemployed and underemployed workers who
are competing for a shrinking number of jobs in areas that are more or
less permanently distressed. Last month’s Labor Department employment
report noted that the average annual unemployment rate in 36 states,
plus Washington, D.C. was higher in 2015 than the average unemployment
rate for those states in 2007.
The majority of unemployed people in the US do not receive
unemployment insurance benefits, according to the National Employment
Law Project, with just over one in four jobless workers (27 percent), a
record low, receiving such benefits in 2015.
The details of these studies will come as no surprise for tens of
millions of workers across the United States who face unprecedented
levels of economic insecurity, ongoing mass layoffs, and more than a
decade of stagnating or falling real wages. This has fueled the growth
of enormous discontent and the initial stirrings of class struggle by
American workers, which the trade unions and both big business parties
have sought to channel in the direction of economic nationalism and
hostility to workers in China, Mexico and other countries.
In fact, US workers are being subjected to the same attacks as
workers around the world. The reports on the employment situation in the
US coincide with a continual massacre of jobs in the world’s steel, oil
and mining industries, with 1.2 million steel and coal mining jobs
targeted for destruction in China alone.
Continual layoffs in the US have been driven by the plunging price of
steel, petroleum, coal and other commodities, which has been generated
in large measure by the fall in demand from China and other so-called
emerging economies. Last week, St. Louis, Missouri-based Peabody Energy,
the largest coal mining company in the world, announced it could soon
file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, after its share values fell 46 percent
over the last six months.
Peabody has already cut 20 percent of its global workforce since
2012, while spinning off large sections of its operations in order to
cheat retirees out of their pensions. The company’s announcement follows
bankruptcy filings by both Arch Coal and Alpha Natural Resources and a
similar threat from coal mining giant Foresight Energy. In its press
release, Peabody pointed to the collapse in the coal market, where the
price per ton has fallen to $40 from $200 in 2008.
The steel industry continues to wipe out jobs, with 12,000
steelworkers already laid off or facing imminent job cuts. The largest
US steelmaker, US Steel, has slashed thousands of jobs in Texas,
Illinois, Ohio, Indiana and Pennsylvania. The aluminum giant Alcoa is
just weeks away from closing its smelter in Warrick County, Indiana,
wiping out another 600 jobs. Meanwhile, the United Steelworkers (USW)
union is pushing for protectionist measures against China, Brazil,
Russia and other countries, even as it pushes through concession-laden
contracts at US Steel, Allegheny Technologies and now ArcelorMittal.
Early last year, the USW betrayed the strike by thousands of oil
refinery workers, blocking any struggle against the brutal restructuring
of the industry that is now underway. The plunging of oil prices
triggered more than 258,000 layoffs in the global energy industry in
2015—with the number of active oil and gas rigs in the US falling 61
percent. Analysts anticipate a new round of job cuts and bankruptcies in
early 2016.
Texas has lost 60,000 energy-related jobs alone, or one-fifth of the
workforce in that sector in the state, with North Dakota and
Pennsylvania also being hard hit. The current US unemployment rate for
the oil, gas and mining sector is 8.5 percent, but could top 10 percent
by February, double the national jobless rate.
Last month, the air conditioner maker Carrier announced it was
eliminating 1,400 jobs at its Indianapolis plant and a nearby facility,
and shipping production to Monterrey, Mexico where wages are
approximately $6 an hour. A video shot by a worker, capturing the
explosive anger at a meeting of plant workers when a manager makes the
announcement, has been viewed millions of times.
Far from organizing any resistance to the closure of the factory and
destruction of jobs, however, the USW is collaborating with United
Technologies Carrier management to carry out an orderly shutdown and the
retraining of displaced workers for lower-paying jobs.
The USW is hostile to any fight to unite American workers with their
brothers and sisters in Mexico, who have been engaging in growing
resistance to the exploitation by the transnational corporations. USW
officials are telling workers to rely on the Democratic Party to
implement protectionist trade measures to “save jobs” and “take our
country back.” Local and regional union officials have had nothing but
kind words about Donald Trump’s efforts to swindle workers with economic
nationalist appeals.
The unions have long used economic nationalism to undermine the
class-consciousness of workers and to promote the corporatist outlook of
“labor-management partnership.” In the name of making the corporations
“competitive,” the USW and other unions have suppressed every struggle
against plant closings, job cuts and the destruction of wages and
benefits.
This has coincided with the political subordination of workers to the
Democratic Party, which under the Obama administration has spearheaded
the attack on workers’ jobs and wages and the historic transfer of
wealth from the bottom to the top.
USW Local 1999, which claims to represent Carrier workers, is urging
them to support Democrat John Gregg for Indiana governor. A former land
agent for Peabody Coal and lobbyist for Amax Coal Company, Gregg served
as the honorary chair of Hillary Clinton’s 2008 campaign in Indiana, and
was a proponent of austerity and corporate tax cuts while Speaker of
the state Legislature.
The Hillary Clinton emails: A record of
imperialist crimes
The Hillary Clinton emails: A record of imperialist crimes
By Tom Hall 7 March 2016
Last Monday, the US State
Department published the last batch of declassified emails from a
private, unsecured server used by Democratic
presidential
candidate Hillary Clinton during her tenure as secretary of state. This
latest release draws to a close a year-long review by US intelligence
agencies of 52,000 pages of Clinton emails, ostensibly motivated by
concerns over possible leaks of classified material.
To
date, more than 30,000 emails dating from Clinton’s four-year tenure as
secretary of state have been released to the public. Clinton played a
central role in the prosecution of aggressive wars in Afghanistan, Syria
and Libya as well as the carrying out of drone assassinations and other
illegal
actions in a number of additional countries, including Pakistan, Yemen
and Somalia. Yet in its extensive reporting of the email scandal, the
American media has virtually ignored the actual content of these emails,
which contain a wealth of information about the day-to-day functioning
of the Clinton State Department.
A review of even a
small sampling of the emails, which are available on the State
Department’s web site, reveals the reason why: the emails are a damning
indictment of the criminal activities of not only Hillary Clinton
herself, but the entire imperialist state apparatus, with the
corporate-controlled media in tow. The emails could easily serve as
evidence in future war crimes trials of Clinton and other top US
officials.
One particularly revealing email from 2010, cited by the
Interceptn web
site but not picked up by the national media, recounts the experiences
of former ambassador Joseph Wilson (whose CIA agent wife
Valerie
Plame was outed by the Bush administration in retaliation for his
criticisms of the war in Iraq) during a recent trip to Iraq in his
capacity as an executive for a US engineering firm. The Obama
administration,
elected by exploiting mass anti-war sentiment, continued the US
occupation of Iraq for three years during Obama’s first term in office,
when Clinton was secretary of state, prolonging a conflict that claimed
more than 1 million lives. Since then, US troops have returned to Iraq,
ostensibly to fight ISIS, as part of the US war for regime-change in
neighboring Syria.
Wilson’s email begins: “My trip to Baghdad (September 6-11) has left me slack jawed. I have
struggled
to find the correct historical analogy to describe a
vibrant,historically important Middle Eastern city being slowly bled to
death.Berlin and Dresden in World War II were devastated, but they and
their populations were not subjected to seven years of occupation.”
Describing
the rampant racism and sadism among US occupation troops, Wilson
writes, “Shirts with mushroom clouds [for sale at a gift shop on a US
military base at the Baghdad airport] conveyed the Baghdad weather as
32,000 degrees and partly cloudy. Others referred to Arabs as camel
jockeys
and those were the least offensive… The service people don’t see
themselves there to bring peace, light, joy or even democracy to Iraq.
They are there to kill the ‘camel jockeys.’”
Hundreds more emails deal with the US-led proxy war in Libya, in which Clinton played a
leading role. As a recent series of articles in the
New York Times confirmed,
Clinton was the leading advocate in the White House for the clandestine
arming of “rebel” militias comprised largely of Islamic
fundamentalists, which comprised the main fighting force against the
regime of Muammar Gaddafi.
One email from February
2011, written by a veteran diplomat before the launching of the US-NATO
war that ended with the murder of Gaddafi, lays out proposals for the
construction of a future “post-Gaddafi” political order in Libya. The
memo recommends the use of the United Nations to lend political
legitimacy to the imperialist carve-up of the country.
“A
UN ‘hat’ for multinational/international assistance efforts could be
effective,” the author states bluntly. However, the extensive
involvement of Italy, whose participation in the war marked a return to
the scene of its bloody colonial occupation, should, the author
recommends, be “kept relatively low-profile.” Another email chain
discusses how to disburse the tens of billions of dollars of frozen
Libyan assets stolen by the imperialist powers during the regime-change
operation.
Many other emails concern the organization
and coordination of the Obama administration's drone assassination
program, which has killed thousands in Afghanistan and Pakistan alone.
“Twenty-two of the emails on Mrs. Clinton’s server have now been
classified as ‘top secret’ at the demand
of the CIA because they
discuss the program to hunt and kill terrorist suspects using drone
strikes, as well as other intelligence operations and sources,” the
New York Times noted two weeks ago, prior to
the
latest release. “The emails [also] contain direct and indirect
references to secret programs,” the newspaper added obliquely.
One
such secret program was the bribing of high-ranking officials in the
Afghan government by the CIA. “[The US embassy in Afghanistan's] line
has been and will be the standard approach--that we refrain from comment
on stories discussing intelligence matters,” one embassy official
writes in a 2010 email, in response to an impending
New York Times story
revealing that Muhammad Zia Salehi, head of the Afghan National
Security Council, was on the CIA payroll. Later reports by the
Times revealed that former President Hamid Karzai for years received shopping bags full of cash from the CIA on a regular basis.
Dozens
of emails document the collusion between the corporate-controlled media
and the State Department in containing the fallout from the release of
US diplomatic cables by Wikileaks. In one
2010 exchange,
Washington Post writer
Craig Whitlock reaches out to the State Department to request “a
mechanism to receive [the] State [Department's] input” before running a
series of articles based on cables revealing the existence of a secret
US drone base in the Seychelles Islands, off the coast of Somalia.
The exchange demonstrates that the major newspapers, including the
Washington Post and the
New York Times ,
provided the State Department with advance printed copies of every
cable about which they planned to write, along with drafts to the White
House, to be redacted or censored at their discretion. In a conversation
between Whitlock’s State Department handlers, they note approvingly
that
the practice “was extremely helpful in preparing our redaction
requests, as well as anticipating what damage control we’d need to do in
diplomatic channels.” Another email describes an editorial by the
Washington Post calling for the prosecution of Wikileaks editor Julian Assange and
Chelsea (then Bradley) Manning as “helpful,” adding, “We’ll try and get pickup in [the] international media.”
Clinton also received hundreds of emails via her private server from Sidney Blumenthal, a
former
advisor in the Bill Clinton administration, who served as the head of
Hillary’s 2008 presidential campaign. Blumenthal, then an employee of
the Clinton Family Foundation, functioned as a de facto back channel
intelligence gatherer and advisor for Clinton, despite not
officially
being a member of her staff. It was Blumenthal’s 2015 testimony to the
House Select Committee on Benghazi, the Republican-controlled body set
up for the purpose of torpedoing the
likely presidential run of Clinton, which revealed the existence of Clinton’s private email server.
Blumenthal sent Clinton a wide array of intelligence reports from foreign countries targeted by US
imperialism.
In one email, he passes on concerns that Islamist militias in Libya
might retaliate against the assassination of Osama bin Laden,using
weapons obtained from the United States. In another, he recounts the
furtive dealings between the Muslim Brotherhood and the Egyptian
military to smother the Egyptian revolution, writing that the two will
“continue to work together secretly in an effort to establish a stable
government” and create “a secure environment throughout the country” for
investment.
In
another email, Blumenthal advises Clinton on how to orchestrate the
cover-up of the circumstances surrounding the assassination of bin Laden
in a cross-border raid into Pakistan by US Special Forces. As a report
by investigative journalist Seymour Hersh later made clear, the official
version of bin Laden’s death was a collection of lies from start to
finish.
“Show [the pictures of bin Laden’s body] to members of Congress in a special secure room,
something
like when members were permitted to view Abu Ghraib pictures,”
Blumenthal writes. “Each of them will emerge speaking to the national
and local press on what they have seen… Having members of Congress
testify to the reality of the photos will suppress any potential
‘Deather’ movement, that the administration has either fabricated the
event or suppressed some aspect of it.”
What the ultimate out come of the Clinton email scandal will be is not yet clear. An FBI criminal
investigation
into the emails is ongoing, with signs that the case might be headed to
a grand jury. On Wednesday, a former employee of Clinton’s 2008
presidential campaign, Bryan Pagliano, who set up the private email
server in Clinton’s home, was granted immunity by federal investigators
as part of the investigation.
TIME TO END MEXICO'S LOOTING?
"As
alarming as those numbers are, it's gotten a whole lot worse.
It's the
reason why in both 2013 and 2015 I introduced legislation,
the
"Remittance Status Verification Act," to fix this. I call this the
"Wire
Act" for short."
"My
bill would require a fee on remittances for customers who
wire money to
another country but cannot prove that they are in the
United States
legally. The fee would be used to enhance border
security. Basically, we
would be able to dramatically improve
border security while making
illegal immigrants pay for it."
" We
also have evidence that many of those illegals who are
remitting money
are more likely to be illegal immigrant
households receiving Social
Security, health care benefits,
unemployment insurance and/or stimulus
money. Is it really fair for
those individuals to live off our tax
dollars but send untaxed, under-
the-table money abroad?"
ON TOP OF THESE FIGURES ADD THE TENS OF BILLIONS HANDED TO INVADING MEXICANS IN THE FORM OF WELFARE.
ON THE STATE LEVEL ALONE, MEXIFORNIA HANDS LA RAZA $30 BILLION IN SOCIAL SERVICES.
THE COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES CHIPS IN ANOTHER BILLION FOR THE LA RAZA ANCHOR BABY BREEDING FOR GRINGO WELFARE PROGRAM.
NOW..... HOW MUCH DOES THE MEX DRUG CARTELS HAUL BACK? SOM E ESTIMATES PUT THE NUMBER AT $40 - $60 BILLION!
BLOG: IT IS ESTIMATED THAT THE COUNTY OF LOS
ANGELES HAS A MEXICAN TAX-FREE UNDERGROUND
ECONOMY CALCULATED TO BE IN EXCESS OF $2
BILLION PER YEAR!
There
are the billions of taxpayer dollars used to
subsidize illegal
immigrants' health care and education.
There's the revenue we lose out
on when illegal
immigrants don't pay income taxes. And there's a less
recognized pot of billions — the billions of dollars of
earnings that
illegal immigrants wire out of the United
States with no tax or penalty.
more here:
We need to crack down on illegal immigrants
wiring money out of the U.S.: We need to
crack down on illegal immigrants wiring
money out of the U.S.
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2016/02/why_is_everything_amnesty.html
February 26, 2016
Why is everything amnesty?
Senator
Cruz and Rubio will argue a lot about amnesty in the next few days. I
guess that standing against amnesty has become the new flag that every
GOP candidate wants to carry.
Yet who is actually calling for amnesty? Or something like what President Reagan did in 1986?
Have they changed the definition of the word amnesty? According to the dictionary , amnesty is "the act of an authority (as a government) by which pardon is granted to a large group of individuals."
Who is pardoning any group or letting people stay here without consequences?
The
GOP should be for an immigration solution that enforces the law against
employers and protects the border. At the same time, what is wrong
with offering some of those here a chance to stay here? It would go
like this:
BLOG: THAT JOB THAT "ALREADY EXISTS" BELONGS
TO AN UNEMPLOYED LEGAL!
1)
The illegal immigrant would be given a chance to apply for a work visa
supported by an employer's letter that a job actually exists.
BLOG: LET US REVIEW OBAMA'S SABOTAGE OF OUR LAWS AND PROMISE OF NON-ENFORCEMENT!
2)
He or she would undergo a full criminal background check including
fingerprints. We will also check with the home country to verify that
the applicant is not married here and back home.
BLOG: LET US REVIEW OBAMA'S SABOTAGE OF
OUR LAWS AND PROMISE OF NON-ENFORCEMENT!
3) The applicant will pay a fine for violating the law and or not filing tax returns.
BLOG: MEXICANS ARE A CRIME TIDAL WAVE AND OBAMA LETS THEM LOSE ON US WEEKLY!
4) He or she will be under a period of probation where the person could be deported in case of any violation of law.
5) No path to citizenship or green card will be available to this person.
BLOG: UNDER OBAMA AND HISPANDERING
HOLDER, THE DEMS HAVE SABOTAGED E-VERIFY
NATIONWIDE. AMNESTY IS ALL ABOUT KEEPING
WAGES DEPRESSED AND BUYING THE ILLEGALS'
VOTES WITH OUR JOBS AND BILLIONS IN
WELFARE!
6) Employers will be harshly punished, including jail time, for hiring someone without papers.
How is that amnesty? Who is getting off free for violating the law?
BLOG: "HUMAN ENFORCEMENT" HALF THE
MURDERS IN LA RAZA-OCCUPIED MEXIFORNIA ARE
BY MEXICANS! THERE HAVE BEEN MORE THAN 2,000
CALIFORNIANS MURDERED BY MEXICANS WHO FLED
BACK OVER THE BOARD TO AVOID
P ROSECUTION. WE
WILL NOT HEAR FROM THE PRO-AMNESTY GROUPS
ABOUT THE VIOLENCE OF THE OCCUPYING
MEXICANS!
We
have been arguing about immigration for too long. It's time to fix the
problem rather than just shout at each other. As Newt Gingrich said in 2012 :
And
I'm prepared to take the heat for saying, let's be humane in enforcing
the law without giving them citizenship but by finding a way to create
legality so that they are not separated from their families.
So let's stop shouting about immigration, settle the issue, and move to other topics, like ISIS and the U.S. economy.
P.S. You can listen to my show (Canto Talk ) and follow me on Twitter .
Gang of Eight? What Gang of Eight?
By Mark Krikorian
The Corner at National Review Online, February 16, 2016
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/431394/rubios-immigration-excuses?target=author&tid=982
Marco
Rubio’s excuse du jour for his central role in passing the monstrous
Gang of Eight amnesty/immigration-surge bill is the most shameless yet:
“Rubio: Gang of 8 Bill Never Intended to Become Law“. Coulda fooled me!
The Hill wryly noted “This represents a sharp departure for Rubio.”
I’ll
say. In his final speech on the Senate floor before voting on S.744,
Rubio concluded, “Here in America, generations of unfulfilled dreams
will finally come to pass. And that’s why I support this reform.” Not
sure how much clearer you can get.
Rubio’s latest
excuse would have fooled Harry Reid too; he dedicated the bill to Ted
Kennedy and said, when it passed, “And while I am sad that Senator
Kennedy isn’t here to see history made, I know he is looking at us
proudly and loudly.” Whatever that means, it sure doesn’t sound like he
didn’t intend the Gang of Eight bill to become law.
Or Lindsey Graham, after the bill got 68 votes: “This is overwhelming support for the bill … This is incredibly pleasing.”
Pat
Leahy didn’t seem to think the bill was just for show either: “Today is
another historic day in the Senate. This legislation will reunite
families. It will bring millions of people out of the shadows and into
our legal system. It will spur job growth and reduce our deficit. And it
will make us safer.”
Or Chuck Schumer: “The bill has generated a level of support that we believe will be impossible for the House to ignore.”
If
I may steal a line from one of my Twitter followers, next thing you
know Rubio will tell us it was really just the Gang of Seven all along.
SQUANDERING BILLIONS TO PROTECT
US FROM TERRORIST EVEN AS OUR
BORDERS ARE WIDE OPEN FOR THE
MEX INVADERS AND THEIR DRUG
CARTELS!
TSA Airport Credentialing Process
Overlooks Terrorists, Criminals, and Illegal
Aliens on a Large Scale
By Dan Cadman
CIS Immigration Blog, February 16, 2016
. . .
Calculating
those figures, it means that more than 16 percent of the individuals
who were subjected to these secondary inquiries (which represent only a
small fraction of the workforce) — and, as Roth notes, already
recipients of airport clearances — were illegal aliens with no right to
work. What's more, Roth also notes that airport authorities routinely
fail to annotate their security credentials with the expiration date of
aliens' employment authorization documents, meaning that such persons
are routinely employed in sterile areas long past their legally
authorized right to work.
Which raises the question:
Why have rules not been written that simply preclude individuals with
limited time authorizations on their work permits or, better yet, who
are not legally authorized to live in the United States on a permanent
basis, from being employed in secure areas of airports? Is this so
onerous, given the importance of securing the safety of the traveling
public?
But back to the immediate issue of TSA and its
oversight of airport authorities doing the credentialing. There is
obviously something seriously amiss.
Why, for instance, is E-Verify not being used
in each and every application for credentialing ?
. . .
http://www.cis.org/cadman/tsa-airport-credentialing-process-overlooks-terrorists-criminals-and-illegal-aliens-large-sca
HAVE MEXICANS DESTROYED
AMERICA'S EDUCATION SYSTEM?
Schools Undergo Comprehensive Immigration Reform
By John Wahala
CIS Immigration Blog, February 19, 2016
. . .
Given
the obstacles they face, the poor academic performance of immigrant
students is not surprising and has been well documented.
English-language fluency, test scores, and graduation rates lag far
behind. Some researchers have even called the situation a crisis that
threatens democracy itself. But more troubling than slow academic
progress is the way mass immigration is shifting the educators' focus.
When resources and time are diverted from teaching, the quality of
education deteriorates. Learning becomes secondary when teachers are
trying to keep children safe and well-adjusted.
. . .
http://www.cis.org/wahala/schools-undergo-comprehensive-immigration-reform
Border Surge Solution: Send ‘Em to Camp
David!
By Michelle Malkin
Human Events Online, February 17, 2016
. . .
As
Brandon Judd of the National Border Patrol Council testified on Capitol
Hill recently: “The cartels understood that the unaccompanied minors
would force the Border Patrol to deploy Agents to these crossing areas
in order to take the minors into custody. I want to stress this point
because it has been completely overlooked by the press,” he told the
House Judiciary Committee. The unaccompanied minors could have walked
right up to the port of entry and requested asylum if they were truly
escaping political persecution or violence. “Why did the cartels drive
them to the middle of the desert and then have them cross over the Rio
Grande only to surrender to the first Border Patrol Agent they came
across?” Judd challenged.
“The reason is that it
completely tied up our manpower and allowed the cartels to smuggle
whatever they wanted across our border.”
This is just
another maddening example of Obama’s warped priorities at work. Instead
of building effective walls and enforcing our borders to prevent the
coming illegal immigration waves manufactured by criminal racketeers,
this administration rushes to build welcome center magnets that shelter
the next generation of Democrat voters.
. . .
http://humanevents.com/2016/02/17/border-surge-solution-send-em-to-camp-david/
U.S. Failed Three Times to Deport Illegal
Alien Who Murdered Woman
Judicial Watch Corruption Chronicles,
February 18, 2016
. . .
Here’s
what we already know from local media reports in Norwich, the city of
about 40,000 residents where the murder occurred; the DHS agency
responsible for deporting illegal immigrants, Immigration and Customs
Enforcement (ICE), failed to remove Jacques at least three times dating
back to 2002. As if this weren’t atrocious enough, Jacques spent 17
years in prison for attempted murder before authorities released
him—instead of deporting him—in January of 2015, the Norwich Bulletin
reports. Six months later the 41-year-old illegal alien convict stabbed
25-year-old Casey Chadwick to death. Police said Chadwick died of sharp
forced injuries to the head and neck. Jacques is being held on a $1
million bond.
Unfortunately, this is not an isolated
case. In the last few years illegal immigrants with lengthy criminal
histories have been allowed to remain in the U.S. despite being repeat
offenders. Judicial Watch has investigated several of the cases and
obtained public records from the government. For instance, back in 2008
JW launched a California public records request with the San Francisco
Sheriff’s Department to obtain he arrest and booking information on
Edwin Ramos, an illegal alien from El Salvador who murdered three
innocent American citizens. Ramos was a member of a renowned violent
street gang and had been convicted of two felonies as a juvenile (a
gang-related assault on a bus passenger and the attempted robbery of a
pregnant woman) yet he was allowed to remain in the country.
. . .
http://www.judicialwatch.org/blog/2016/02/u-s-failed-3-times-to-deport-illegal-alien-who-murdered-woman/
UNIVISION: MOUTHPEICE FOR LA RAZA "The Race" FASCISM
Univision News Howls 'Anti-Immigrant' at Proposed Wisconsin Laws
By Jorge Bonilla
NewsBusters.org, February 12, 2016
Univision
News' national broadcast continues to howl at any legislative attempt
to protect local communities by enforing our immigration laws. The
latest instance comes from efforts in Wisconsin.
Wednesday
evening's newscast featured a story about two enforcement proposals
recently filed in Wisconsin: one to ban sanctuary city policies, and the
other to ban local governments from issuing official alternate ID's to
illegal immigrants.
Anchor María Elena Salinas'
introduction to the story was less incendiary than her late-night
counterpart, which we covered last week. The "anti-immigrant" framing
was presented indirectly ("activists say"...), as opposed to Ilia
Calderón's direct indictment of Florida's HB675 (which overwhelmingly
passed the House but seems destined to die in the Senate). Nonetheless,
the screengrab above (which reads "anti-immigrant proposals") reflects a
reversion to classic form.
. . .
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/latino/jorge-bonilla/2016/02/12/univision-news-howls-anti-immigrant-proposed-wisconsin-laws
Largest Civil Disobedience Action of the Century isn’t Anti-Trump, It’s Pro-Democracy
Tasos Katopodis 2016/AFP/Getty Images
In an article published
here Wednesday, Aaron Klein wrongly characterized Democracy Spring as
an “Anti-Trump” campaign organized by “radicals…involved in shutting
down Donald Trump’s Chicago rally.”
We
want to set the record straight, make it clear where we stand on Trump,
and reach out to the all the conservatives who agree with us that big
money is corrupting our political system.
First,
setting aside any opinions on it, the assertion that the Chicago
disruption was the work of Democracy Spring is simply untrue. Over 100
organizations have endorsed Democracy Spring. Their independent actions
(and funders – George Soros hasn’t given us a dime) are distinct from
our collective effort.
Second,
while the leaders, organizations, and the vast majority of
participants in Democracy Spring have profound and severe disagreements
with Donald Trump, our nonviolent, non-partisan campaign is not a
response to him.
Nor
is it a response to any single candidate, party, or election. Democracy
Spring is a response to the corruption of our entire political system, a
system dominated by big money and inaccessible to many Americans who
face growing barriers to the ballot box.
No
matter who you support for president this year, surely we can all agree
that our elected officials should work for all of us – not just wealthy
special interests and big campaign contributors. In fact, we know many
voters support Trump because he calls out this corrupt system and claims
to stand outside of it as a self-financing candidate.
To this, we say: we hear you. The
system is corrupt. The economy is rigged. Big
campaign contributors do pull the strings in
Washington. Working people are right to be
angry about trade policy and the betrayal of
the middle class, working families, and the
poor by an elite establishment that profits
from the status quo.
But
we also challenge Trump supporters to consider a few things. Our
corrupt campaign finance system goes far beyond presidential races and
will not change by simply electing a president who supposedly can’t be
bought. Without serious policy solutions, whoever we elect
Commander-in-Chief will still have to deal with 435 members of Congress
who are more eager to appease their donors than their own constituents.
Trump
has yet to propose any solutions that would ensure every member of
Congress and candidate for local and state office in America are elected
in a way that makes them, as James Madison wrote, “solely dependent
upon the People as whole – not the rich more than the poor.” If our
system only allows us to choose between candidates who are bought by
billionaires and billionaires themselves, then it is not a democracy. It
is plutocracy.
That
is why more than 2,600 American patriots have pledged to risk arrest in
Democracy Spring, a massive nonviolent sit-in at the U.S. Capitol this
April. The campaign will force Congress to choose between putting
hundreds of peaceful defenders of the republic in handcuffs, or simply
doing their job and passing reforms to fix our broken system.
It’s
true Democracy Spring is led by many organizations associated with the
left. But there’s no reason it must remain that way. We are a
nonpartisan campaign open to all. And conservatives and liberals agree
when it comes to the urgent need for solutions to rebalance the system.
Last year, John Pudner, the political strategist who helped lead
’s 2014 upset over former House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, launched Take Back our Republic to
advance conservative solutions to the problem of money in politics. For
example, Take Back supports tax credits for small donations to
political candidates to encourage more people to become involved in the
political process. The group also supports more disclosure of large
donors to ensure voters’ right to know who is trying to influence their
vote and their lawmakers.
In
a recent column ,
Richard Painter, President George W. Bush’s chief White House ethics
lawyer, explained why the current system fails to address the needs and
concerns of conservatives. He wrote, “campaign contributions drive
spending on earmarks and other wasteful programs — bridges to nowhere,
contracts for equipment the military does not need, solar energy
companies that go bankrupt on the government’s dime and for-profit
educational institutions that don’t educate.” Moreover, he writes,
“campaign contributions breed more regulation” as companies use campaign
cash to win special legal advantages over their competitors.
Progressives
would disagree on public funding to spur clean energy innovation and
the characterization of more regulations as necessarily bad, but we
stand fully with Painter on his core point: “[Today’s] system is a
betrayal of the vision of participatory democracy embraced by the
founders of our country.”
Indeed,
there is an opportunity today for progressives and conservatives to
stand together to defend our republic and win reform that will let us
settle our other differences on an even, open playing field where the
best ideas and the broadest support are what count – not the backing of a
moneyed elite.
Yet
– and allegiance to the values that truly make America a great country
demand that we make this crystal clear – Donald Trump’s candidacy is
making this kind of unity across differences incredibly difficult. We
are a nonpartisan campaign but not an amoral one. We are compelled to
speak (and I am confident that I can speak for us all) when I say that
Trump’s statements, proposed policies, and threats of violence
concerning undocumented immigrants, Muslims, the KKK, protesters
exercising their First Amendment rights, and others have crossed a very
serious line into the territory of fascism and hate speech.
America is better than this. Conservatives are better than this.
Democracy
Spring is a nonviolent campaign and, in the tradition of the civil
rights movement, will strive to reach out to our most bitter opponents.
We will seek unity with all who agree that every American deserves an
equal voice and a government of, by, and for the people. Rather than
letting our differences divide us, conservatives and progressives of
conscience should come together on this common ground and renew our
republic.
Politicians
from both parties broke the system. It’s going to take voters from both
parties — and independents committed to neither — to force our
representatives to fix it.
It’s time to demand that Congress listen to the people and pass common-sense solutions to return our government to us all.
Kai Newkirk is lead organizer of Democracy Spring.
“If you think about it, the Clintons
are like lots of other politicians. They love money,” Schweizer agreed.
“They love taking peoples’ money, and I would say with the Clintons,
you kind of have it on steroids.”
Peter Schweizer: The Clintons ‘Function as a Kind of Political Mafia’
Patrick Semansky/AP Photo
Peter Schweizer , author of Clinton Cash : The Untold Story of How and Why Foreign Governments and Businesses Helped Make Bill and Hillary Rich, discussed the influence foreign donors wield in America through Bill and Hillary Clinton on Breitbart News Daily Wednesday morning.
SiriusXM host Stephen K. Bannon
offered a backhanded salute to the Clintons for tapping into the new
breed of wealthy foreign entrepreneurs early on.
“Bill Clinton’s a slick, smart guy,”
said Bannon. “He looked out over the world and said, ‘Hey, you have all
these billionaires, all these entrepreneurs, and they’re not clubbable…
they really can’t get into the U.S. government, and they can’t get
relationships, because they’re just not the kind of guys that went to
Oxford or Cambridge. They’re not the Party of Davos types… there’s a
whole system of international entrepreneurs that have gotten their
wealth in various and sundry ways — some appropriate, and some a little
less so — and that’s what Clinton set up the Global Initiative, and the
Clinton Foundation, really to get access to that capital market.”
“If you think about it, the Clintons
are like lots of other politicians. They love money,” Schweizer agreed.
“They love taking peoples’ money, and I would say with the Clintons,
you kind of have it on steroids.”
“But you have this pesky problem in
the United States: you can’t take foreign money for a presidential
campaign,” he continued. “It’s against the law. You can’t be a foreign
corporation and set up a Super PAC for a campaign… You’ve got these
rules in the United States that say foreign entities can’t give. So the
Clintons say, ‘Hey, we’ve just got to figure out a way around that.’”
A key part of the Clinton system is
the infamous speeches given by Bill and Hillary to foreign interests and
corporations seeking favor with the U.S. government, raking in
fantastically inflated speaking fees.
“It’s a way, effectively, to get
around those campaign laws,” Schweizer explained. “Hillary Clinton
running for President in 2008, if you’re a foreign oligarch, you can’t
give to her campaign, but you can have Bill Clinton give a 20-minute
speech for half a million dollars, or you can make a $5 million donation
to the Clinton Foundation, and you’ve got access every bit as much as if you had raised money for their political campaign. That’s really what the Clintons have done.”
Schweizer warned that if the
Clinton’s tactics for harvesting foreign cash were not dealt with, they
will become commonplace. “You’re gonna have politicians in the future
imitating them, setting up their own foundations,” he predicted.
Bannon noted the enormous success of Clinton Cash was
due, in part, to Democrats embracing Schweizer’s book, driving up
Clinton’s negatives on honesty, and reinforcing the disdain
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT)
voters feel for her as part of a corrupt trans-national machine.
“Everything Democrats love — whether
it’s global warming, whether it’s the rainforest, whether it’s
environmental initiatives, it’s nuclear proliferation, it’s arms
trading, it’s human trafficking — you can go across the board, and you
see the punch list of the do-good Left… the Clintons literally monetized
the bad guys,” said Bannon.
Schweizer noted there was a
significant gulf between the reaction of Democrat voters to the Clinton
scandals and the way Democrat politicians running against Clinton handle
those issues very gingerly,
including Sanders. He found a clear contrast between the delicate
Democrat primary and the rambunctious Republican race, using the fate of
the Bush dynasty in 2016 as an example.
“We saw what happened on the
Republican side. There was not fear, there was not intimidation. For
all the criticisms that people have leveled against the Bushes, the fact
of the matter is, there has been a free-for-all open primary,” said
Schweizer. “Flip that and look at the Democratic side. If you are
Bernie Sanders, or you are a Bernie Sanders ally, if you aggressively go
after Hillary Clinton, you are going to face retaliation in multiple
ways. You’re gonna get retaliation when trying to get something done on
Capitol Hill — it’s not gonna happen, because Clinton allies are going
to shut you down. If you are an organization, they’re going to sap up
your donors.”
“The Clintons function as kind of a
political Mafia,” he said, recalling how reporters from major mainstream
media outlets told him the consequences of writing a harsh story about
the Bushes usually boiled down to “a terse email” complaining about
unfair reporting, while reporters who write stories critical of the
Clintons are liable to find teams of Clinton political operatives
storming into the editor’s office and demanding they be fired.
Schweizer said one of the great
lingering questions of the 2016 race was whether Republicans would raise
these issues during the general election, unlike the way Clinton’s
Democrat opponents have given her a pass. He worried there were already
consultants whispering in Republican ears, telling them to ignore
Clinton corruption and keep the race focused on issues like tax policy.
That would be a mistake, because as Schweizer observed, “When people elect a President, they are electing a person. The character and the trustworthiness of that person is key.”
“Over fifty percent of Democrats will
say that Hillary Clinton does not tell the truth, and they don’t trust
her,” he pointed out, adding that Hillary was involved in a deep
partnership with someone else American voters have very good reason to
distrust: former President Bill Clinton, whose speaking fees “tripled
overnight” after his wife became Secretary of State… giving the American
people a taste of what will happen if the Clintons are allowed to move
back into the White House.
Breitbart News Daily airs on SiriusXM Patriot 125 weekdays from 6:00AM to 9:00AM EST.
You can listen to the full interview with Peter Schweizer below:
THE
PHONY CLINTON FOUNDATION HAS SUCKED IN MORE THAN $500,000 IN BRIBES
FROM THE RICHEST MAN IN THE WORLD, MEXICAN CARLOS SLIM. WHAT WAS HE
BUYING? OBAMA AMNESTY FOR 40 MILLION LOOTING MEXICANS!
Do a search for THE CLINTONS AND THE MEXICAN FASCIST PARTY of LA RAZA "The Race"
Clinton has also held several fundraisers in Mexico . One
of the co-hosts of a February fundraising dinner was Wal-Mart lobbyist
Ivan Zapien, who relocated to Mexico with the company in 2015. Clinton
served on the board of Wal-Mart from 1986-1992.
Clinton rakes in cash overseas
Greg Nash
By Jonathan Swan - 03/20/16 10:30 AM EDT
Hillary Clinton 's campaign has held more fundraisers on foreign soil than any other candidate running for president in 2016.
The
Clinton campaign has held at least 13 fundraisers overseas so far,
involving celebrities such as jazz singer Tony Bennett and fashion
editor Anna Wintour, according to
tracking of political fundraising invitations by the nonpartisan Sunlight Foundation.
Clinton’s
offshore fundraisers, which tap wealthy U.S. citizens and permanent
resident living abroad, have spanned from London, where the campaign has
held at least eight fundraisers, to Munich, Mexico City, and Durban,
South Africa. None of the Clinton campaign's foreign events, so far
as the invitations suggest, have featured the candidate herself, though
surrogates including her daughter Chelsea, have hosted the high-priced
gatherings.
No other candidate running for president this cycle
has done anything remotely approaching the amount of overseas
fundraising as Clinton's campaign has done to date.
The former
secretary of State has dwarfed her rivals in expatriate cash, raised at
least $495,000 so far from Americans living abroad, according to The
Hill's analysis of federal election records.
Clinton's rival in the Democratic primary race,
Bernie Sanders ,
has raised less than a quarter of that, and the three Republicans still
in the race have raised relatively miniscule amounts from Americans
abroad.
Ted Cruz has raised just $23,000 overseas;
Donald Trump
— who has a “donate” button on his website but doesn’t hold fundraisers
— took in $1100; and John Kasich has raised only $50 from overseas
donors, according to figures disclosed in the most recent reporting
period.
Even Jeb Bush, who has a wide political network overseas
through his family’s connections, only raised slightly more than
$200,000 from Americans living abroad.
No foreign fundraising
invitations could be found by the Sunlight Foundation for any other
candidate besides Clinton. One of the rare examples of a foreign
fundraiser for a 2016 presidential candidate found on the public record
is former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, who went to Israel last year in
part to
raise money for his campaign.
While
overseas fundraisers are hardly a new practice for well-known
establishment candidates; the Clinton campaign is on pace to exceed even
what the sitting President
Barack Obama managed in 2012, assuming she becomes the Democratic nominee.
Throughout
the two years of the 2012 presidential cycle, President Obama's
campaign held at least 13 fundraising events on foreign soil in
countries as far-reaching as
China and
Egypt , according to the Sunlight Foundation. Republican nominee Mitt Romney's campaign held at least four fundraisers in
London and
Jerusalem .
Long-time
Democratic fundraiser Kenneth Christensen, whose D.C.-based consulting
firm Christensen & Associates helps candidates set up their finance
operations, says he's not surprised that the Clinton campaign has
established a more powerful offshore finance machine than any other
candidate.
"Obviously with the Clintons they have a lot of
experience in doing that. They give lots of speeches overseas, and they
run into a lot of people," Christensen told The Hill in a telephone
interview Friday. "A lot of that fundraising overseas are relationships
they already have."
Christensen, who is focusing on Democratic
congressional races this cycle, indicated it would be professionally
negligent not to take full advantage of Clinton's relationships to
finance what is becoming an expensive primary race against a well-funded
Bernie Sanders campaign. The Clinton advantages include her global
connections as a former secretary of State, her family's foundation, and
above all, the
unparalleled donor network established by both Bill and Hillary Clinton over several decades.
Clinton's
offshore fundraisers so far this cycle have included a post-concert
reception at London's Royal Albert Hall with Tony Bennett, a
"discussion" between Chelsea Clinton and Anna Wintour, and a Munich
Fashion Week event with former ambassador Melanne V
Clinton has also held several fundraisers in Mexico . One
of the co-hosts of a February fundraising dinner was Wal-Mart lobbyist
Ivan Zapien, who relocated to Mexico with the company in 2015. Clinton
served on the board of Wal-Mart from 1986-1992.
The Federal
Election Commission, which regulates campaign fundraising, stipulates
that "foreign nationals are prohibited from making any contributions or
expenditures in connection with any election in the U.S." But the FEC
allows that both U.S. citizens and "green card" holders living abroad
(individuals lawfully admitted for permanent residence in the U.S.) "are
not considered foreign nationals and, as a result, may contribute."
"I
would expect a professional campaign to take advantage of all their
fundraising opportunities," Christensen said. "She's capitalizing on it
now to make sure she's running an aggressive and professional
fundraising operation."
"Criminal
aliens released by ICE between 2010 and 2015 have been charged with 124
new homicides and thousands of other crimes that harm citizens and
degrade the quality of life in American communities."
Washington Times:
March 20, 2016
Clinton claims our border is secure
Was
Hillary Clinton a stand up comic in another life? She told an Arizona
radio station in an interview that our southwest border was "secure"
because "net illegal immigration" had been cut to zero.
Washington Times:
In an interview with KTAR radio in Phoenix, Mrs. Clinton said
improvements under President George W. Bush and President Obama,
including several hundred miles of fencing, have cut net illegal
immigration from Mexico to zero.
“Now
I think it’s time to turn our attention to comprehensive immigration
reform,” she said, using the term immigrant rights advocates use for
legislation to legalize the 11 million illegal immigrants now in the
country.
Her
evaluation of the border stands in stark contrast to Republican
presidential candidates who say the border is not secure, pointing to
increasing seizures of drugs and to the renewed surge of Central
American illegal immigrants.
But Mrs. Clinton said they’re ignoring how bad it used to be during her husband’s administration.
“I
think we’ve done a really good job securing the border and I think
those that say we haven’t are not paying attention to everything that
was done for the last 15 years under both President Bush and President
Obama,” she told KTAR. “We have increased dramatically the number of
border security officers, we have added physical obstructions like
fences in many places, and in fact the immigration from Mexico has
dropped considerably. It’s just not happening any more.”
Looking
over the last 20 years of illegal immigration from Mexico, Clinton may
have a point. Apprehensions at the border are way up and net immigration
from Mexico has fallen.
But that's hardly the entire picture:
But
the number of Central Americans attempting the illegal crossing has
surged over the last three years, leading some experts to say the border
problems have shifted, not gone away.
Border
Patrol agents say the new illegal immigrants are drawn by the chance to
take advantage of lax enforcement of immigration laws within the U.S.,
which gives them the opportunity to disappear into the shadows with
the 11 million other illegal immigrants already here.
Mrs. Clinton ,
who will face voters in the Democratic primary in Arizona next week,
has come under fire from some Hispanic activists for having voted as a
senator for the Secure Fence Act, which called for building 700 miles of
double-tier fencing along the southwest border.
The
first line of defense of our borders has a much different view of the
matter. Border agents are supporting Donald Trump for his strong stand
against illegal immigration:
The
largest U.S. Border Patrol union local is praising Republican
presidential candidate Donald Trump for being the "only candidate" to
support their tough mission, an almost endorsement that is the latest
boost for the front runner's campaign.
"Mr.
Trump is the only candidate that has publicly expressed his support of
our mission and our agents. He has been an outspoken candidate on the
need for a Secure Border and for this we are grateful," said a statement
from Art Del Cueto, president of Local 2544 of the National Border
Patrol Council, the representative of 18,000 agents.
Perhaps
before the next time Hillary Clinton makes a fool of herself spouting
immigration nonsense, she should consult the people who know the
situation best; those charged with defending our borders from illegal
aliens.
Read more:
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2016/03/clinton_claims_our_border_is_secure.html#ixzz43TSYiGNC
Follow us:
@AmericanThinker on Twitter |
AmericanThinker on Facebook
Border Surge Solution: Send ‘Em to Camp David!
By Michelle Malkin
Human Events Online, February 17, 2016
. . .
As
Brandon Judd of the National Border Patrol Council testified on Capitol
Hill recently: “The cartels understood that the unaccompanied minors
would force the Border Patrol to deploy Agents to these crossing areas
in order to take the minors into custody. I want to stress this point
because it has been completely overlooked by the press,” he told the
House Judiciary Committee. The unaccompanied minors could have walked
right up to the port of entry and requested asylum if they were truly
escaping political persecution or violence. “Why did the cartels drive
them to the middle of the desert and then have them cross over the Rio
Grande only to surrender to the first Border Patrol Agent they came
across?” Judd challenged.
“The reason is that it
completely tied up our manpower and allowed the cartels to smuggle
whatever they wanted across our border.”
This
is just another maddening example of Obama’s warped priorities at work.
Instead of building effective walls and enforcing our borders to
prevent the coming illegal immigration waves manufactured by criminal
racketeers, this administration rushes to build welcome center magnets
that shelter the next generation of Democrat voters.
http://humanevents.com/2016/02/17/border-surge-solution-send-em-to-camp-david/
U.S. Failed Three Times to Deport Illegal Alien Who Murdered Woman
Judicial Watch Corruption Chronicles, February 18, 2016
. . .
Here’s
what we already know from local media reports in Norwich, the city of
about 40,000 residents where the murder occurred; the DHS agency
responsible for deporting illegal immigrants, Immigration and Customs
Enforcement (ICE), failed to remove Jacques at least three times dating
back to 2002. As if this weren’t atrocious enough, Jacques spent 17
years in prison for attempted murder before authorities released
him—instead of deporting him—in January of 2015, the Norwich Bulletin
reports. Six months later the 41-year-old illegal alien convict stabbed
25-year-old Casey Chadwick to death. Police said Chadwick died of sharp
forced injuries to the head and neck. Jacques is being held on a $1
million bond.
Unfortunately, this is not an isolated
case. In the last few years illegal immigrants with lengthy criminal
histories have been allowed to remain in the U.S. despite being repeat
offenders. Judicial Watch has investigated several of the cases and
obtained public records from the government. For instance, back in 2008
JW launched a California public records request with the San Francisco
Sheriff’s Department to obtain he arrest and booking information on
Edwin Ramos, an illegal alien from El Salvador who murdered three
innocent American citizens. Ramos was a member of a renowned violent
street gang and had been convicted of two felonies as a juvenile (a
gang-related assault on a bus passenger and the attempted robbery of a
pregnant woman) yet he was allowed to remain in the country.
. . .
http://www.judicialwatch.org/blog/2016/02/u-s-failed-3-times-to-deport-illegal-alien-who-murdered-woman/
Dozens of Homicides Committed by Criminal Aliens After Being Released by ICE
By Mark Krikorian
The Corner at National Review Online, March 14, 2016
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/432771/ice-releases-homicidal-criminal-aliens?target=author&tid=982
The federal government shares responsibility when any illegal alien
commits murder — it failed to keep him out in the first place. And when a
sanctuary city releases a deportable criminal, Washington shares the
blame for any subsequent crimes because it’s not cracking down on such
rogue jurisdictions nullifying federal law.
But federal responsibility is greatest when ICE actually has the
criminal aliens in its custody, and then releases them to go and kill
some more. Needless to say, the Obama administration doesn’t advertise
when that happens.
But the Senate Judiciary Committee demanded the information from ICE,
which my colleague Jessica Vaughan has summarized. The most outrageous
find: Since 2010, 124 criminal aliens who were in ICEs custody and then
released went on to be charged with 135
new homicides.
The Judiciary Committee also asked about criminal aliens released by ICE
more than once. Since 2013, there have been 156 such criminal aliens,
who racked up between them a total of 243 additional convictions after
being let go.
None of these statistics include criminal aliens released by sanctuary
cities or those whom ICE simply refused to pick up from local jails in
the first place. These are only those who were in ICE’s hands, and then
let go.
Many of these non-citizen criminals were released with ICE’s affirmative
consent. A significant number were ordered released by the Justice
Department, pursuant to a Supreme Court decision, because their home
countries wouldn’t take them back. But even here, the administration is
culpable. The Secretary of State is required by law to suspend the
issuance of visas in any country that won’t take back its own citizens.
The Obama administration has never — not once — complied with this legal
requirement.
Here’s the list of countries ICE has identified as refusing to take back their deportable citizens:
Afghanistan, Algeria, Burundi, Cape Verde, China, Cuba, Eritrea, Gambia,
Ghana, Guinea, India, Iran, Iraq, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Libya, Mali,
Mauritania, Morocco, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Sudan, and Zimbabwe.
Afghanistan and Iraq ? We let our colonies refuse to accept
their deportable citizens, so they can stay here and commit more crimes?
Who, then, is the colonizer and who the colonized? And how about Cuba?
The administration has made clear that the issue of deportees wasn’t —
and still isn’t — even on the table in discussion of normalizing
relations. And the idea that pipsqueak countries like Gambia or Cape
Verde can freely defy us suggests that “superpower” doesn’t mean what
people think.
Politicians have no business even suggesting things like amnesty or
increased immigration and guestworkers until outrages like this are
banished.
THE MEXICAN CRIME TIDAL WAVE IN LA RAZA-OCCUPIED MEXIFORNIA
Half of all murders are now committed by MEX gangs!
CA has the largest and most expensive prison system in the nation. Half the inmates are MEX.
Of the top 200 most wanted criminals in La Raza-occupied Los Angeles, 186 are MEX.
There have been more than 2,000 Californians murdered by Mexicans who fled back over the border to avoid prosecution.
WHERE'S THE OUTRAGE?
"View the report and graphics showing crimes by state: http://cis.org/vaughan/Map-124-criminal-aliens-released-obama-policies-charged-homicide-2010 “The
Obama administration appears to be indifferent to the harm its policies
are inflicting in American communities,” says CIS Director of Policy
Studies Jessica Vaughan, who reviewed the ICE documents provided to the
Senate committee."
WASHINGTON, DC (March 14, 2016) —
New information released to the Senate Judiciary Committee quantifies
the public safety impact of the Obama administration's lenient approach
to immigration enforcement, in which thousands of criminal aliens are
allowed to remain at large each year instead of detained and processed
for prompt deportation. Criminal
aliens released by ICE between 2010 and 2015 have been charged with 124
new homicides and thousands of other crimes that harm citizens and
degrade the quality of life in American communities.
The
Center for Immigration Studies reports that only a tiny percentage of
the released criminals have been removed. Only 3 percent of the criminal
aliens released in 2014 have been removed, with most receiving the most
generous forms of due process available, and are allowed to remain at
large, without supervision, while they await drawn-out immigration
hearings.
The vast majority (124) of these criminal
aliens were released in California. In addition, 16 were released in
Arizona, six in Texas, three in Florida, two in Georgia, and one each in
North Carolina, Massachusetts, Wisconsin, Washington, and Oregon.
View the report and graphics showing crimes by state: http://cis.org/vaughan/Map-124-criminal-aliens-released-obama-policies-charged-homicide-2010 “The
Obama administration appears to be indifferent to the harm its policies
are inflicting in American communities,” says CIS Director of Policy
Studies Jessica Vaughan, who reviewed the ICE documents provided to the
Senate committee. “Many of these releases could be prevented.
Instead, the administration allows funded detention space to go unused,
declines to use efficient forms of due process for criminals, and shifts
millions of dollars that Congress provided for enforcement to other
purposes. In addition, they have failed to take action against
recalcitrant countries that won’t accept the return of their deported
citizens.”
Inexplicably, ICE is choosing to release
some criminal aliens multiple times. Two of them had homicide-related
convictions even before they were released. These aliens had 464
criminal convictions prior to release by ICE, ranging from drug crimes
to DUI and other driving offenses to larceny and theft.
This tally does not include aliens who were released by
sanctuary jurisdictions ,
nor those aliens that were released by local law enforcement agencies
after ICE declined to take them into custody due to Obama
administration
prioritization policies . This list includes only those aliens that ICE arrested and then released.
ICE
reported that there are 156 criminal aliens who were released at least
twice by ICE since 2013. Between them, these criminals had 1,776
convictions
before their first release in 2013, with burglary, larceny, and drug possession listed most frequently.
Without
the congressional inquiry into criminal alien crime, the public would
not have this Immigration status information from ICE, which should be
reported on a routine basis by all law enforcement agencies. Legislation
has been introduced by
Rep. Mo Brooks (R-Ala.) that would remedy this problem.
MURDERING MEXICANS: WHEN THEY'RE NOT LOOTING ANCHOR BABY WELFARE, VOTING DEM FOR MORE, THEY'RE MURDERING LEGALS!
CALIFORNIA UNDER LA RAZA-OCCUPATION:
1. CA has the largest and most expensive prison system in the nation. HALF THE INMATES ARE ILLEGALS FROM NARCOMEX.
2. Los Angeles is a Mex-occupied city. 90% of all murders are committed by Mexicans.
3. Of the top 200 most wanted criminals by L.A. police, 186 are Mexicans.
4. According to CA AG KAMALA HARRIS, herself a La Raza Dem, nearly half of all murders in CA are now by Mex gangs.
Man accused of killing five people in Kansas and Missouri was in U.S. illegally
A
Mexican man accused of killing five people in the Midwest this week was
a convicted felon living in the U.S. illegally, and he had not been
deported despite being arrested at least twice in recent years, federal
officials said.
Pablo Antonio Serrano-Vitorino, 40, of
Kansas City, Kan., was captured in rural eastern Missouri early
Wednesday morning after going missing from Kansas on Monday and then
sparking a 17-hour manhunt in Missouri on Tuesday once his truck was
spotted along an interstate.
Officials, who had
previously warned Serrano-Vitorino might be armed with an AK-47, said he
was found with a rifle, but wouldn't say what kind.
Serrano-Vitorino
faces five counts of murder and other charges on suspicion of killing
four men on Monday night in Kansas City, Kan., and then going on the run
and killing another man almost 200 miles to the east in New Florence,
Mo. Officials have not given a motive.
The
case could have political implications, given Serrano-Vitorino's
immigration status and his criminal history, which includes a felony
conviction in Los Angeles County from 2003. Serrano-Vitorino was
deported to Mexico in 2004 but illegally returned to the U.S. sometime
later, officials said.Missouri's primary presidential election
is next week, and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump and
other immigration critics have cited the
death of Kathryn Steinle --
who was shot in San Francisco in July by a felon from Mexico living in
the U.S. illegally -- to call for harsher measures to control illegal
immigration.
Three Illegal Alien Convicted Rapists Arrested Sneaking Back into Texas
AP File Photo
MCALLEN, Texas — Over
a period of three days, three illegal aliens from El Salvador with
criminal records as rapists are facing immigration charges after getting
arrested near the Rio Grande Valley of the Texas border with Mexico.
The
most recent arrest took place on Wednesday in the border city of
Hidalgo when U.S. Border Patrol agents found 28-year-old Manuel
Alexander Chicas Contreras. Details of how the arrest took place are not
listed in the criminal complaint obtained by Breitbart Texas. Once in
custody however, the agents requested a records check on Chicas and
learned that he had previously been deported.
Chicas
was deported on December 5, 2014 after he was released from prison for
having “sexual intercourse with a child over the age of 15”. For that
crime, Chicas was sentenced to 12 months in prison and had six months
from his sentence suspended prior to his deportation. On Thursday,
Chicas went before U.S. Magistrate Judge Peter Ormsby who formally
charged him with one count of illegal re-entry and ordered he be held
without bond.
In
the second case, U.S. Border Patrol agents arrested 42-year-old
Salvador Antonio Coreas Rodriguez on Tuesday near the border city of
Hidalgo, court records from his arrest revealed. Rodriguez told agents
had crossed the Rio Grande into Texas on Sunday. When authorities ran a
records check on him they learned that Coreas-Rodriguez was convicted in
on May 2011 on the charges related to having the rape of a victim under
the age of 15. After serving part of his sentence he was deported to El
Salvador on September 2013. On Thursday, Coreas- Rodriguez went before
U.S. Magistrate Judge Peter Ormsby who formally charged him with one
count of illegal re-entry and ordered he be held without bond.
The
third case involved 34-year-old Denis Antonio Polanco who went before
U.S. Magistrate Judge Peter Ormsby, also on Tuesday. The judge formally
charged him with one count of illegal re-entry and ordered he be held
without bond. Polanco’s arrest took place on Sunday near the border city
of Roma when Border Patrol agents found him. During a records check,
agents learned that he had been deported in June 1999 following his 1998
conviction of rape, court records obtained by Breitbart Texas
revealed.
Sheriff Joe: 39 Percent of Illegals Turned Over to ICE Return Back to Maricopa Co Jails
15 Mar 2016
Tuesday on Fox Business
Network’s “Mornings With Maria,” Maricopa County, AZ Sheriff Joe Arapaio
discussed the problems with illegal immigrants committing crimes in his
community and why he thinks Republican presidential front-runner Donald
Trump is the best one to deal with this problem.
Arpaio
also told host Maria Bartiromo of a statistic showing that over
one-third of all the illegal immigrants he has incarcerated and turned
over to Immigrations and Customs Enforcement wind up back in his jails.
Partial transcript as follows:
BARTIROMO:
You are on the front lines, obviously, and your teams are on the front
lines and you’re seeing what’s going and coming through the border.
What’s your take on this most recent report? These people were in jail
and they were released from jail and then they were convicted of murder.
ARPAIO:
Well, you know, that’s been out for a while, but I have more shocking
statistics that nobody will talk about except Neil Cavuto. He did bring
it out.
BARTIROMO: Tell us about it.
ARPAIO:
They are my statistics. I’ll tell you what it is, I also run the jails.
We average about 9,000 people in the jails every day and every month
they take statistics of those in our jails charged with all different
crimes, here in this country illegally, 8,600 have been turned over to
ICE for deportation and over 3000 keep coming back to the same jails
that I run. Now, think of that. They keep coming back. One guy came back
20 times. So, what’s going on? Are they going to the border and keep
hopping the fence or keep coming across or are they let out on the
streets of Maricopa County? I think-
BARTIROMO: What do you think is happening? How is it possible that they were– that they’re coming back to your jails?
ARPAIO:
Good question. I’ve written to the Homeland Security secretary, to
other officials. I get bureaucrat particular responses. I never get an
answer, but I got the facts. You’re talking about a hundred, that’s bad.
But what about just in my jails, 39 percent keep coming back to the
same jail and they are charged with many different crimes. So it’s very
disgusting. Something has to be done about this illegal immigration
problem.
BARTIROMO:
What’s the answer though, sheriff? I mean, obviously, Donald Trump is
talking about this wall that he’s going to build. Is that going to be
enough? Is that going to be the solution or is there something else? I
mean, this is clearly the dividing issue right now within this country.
ARPAIO:
It’s very simple, you deport them. You get them out of our country. Why
are they roaming the streets and keep coming back? They should be back
in the country that they came from illegally. So, that’s very simple.
You deport them and then you try to do something at the border.
BARTIROMO:
Yeah, but Dagen, is it that simple though, just to deport 11 million
people? I mean, this is the whole argument that we’re having right now.
How can you deport all the illegals in this country right now?
ARPAIO:
Well, I tell you what, we did pretty good just my office, I think, they
accused me of 100,000 people leaving because of our crackdown during
the past years. But it’s very simple. You deport them and when you come
across those here committing other crimes, you lock them up and send
them back where they came from. And that can be done. So why should we
surrender the greatest country in the world, we can’t take care of this
problem? So I support Trump and by the way, if you look at all the
politicians here is what they say, ‘We must secure the border.’ Then
they say ‘first,’ and then we’ll look at the internal problem. No, what
about talking about those here illegally already? Why say secure the
border first, you know the border will never be completely secure. I’ve
been on both sides of that border as a top official. So, you can’t
surrender. I like what Trump says. I had
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT)
’
wife in my tent city last night and she learned something about, she
didn’t like the tents. Her husband is here today in Phoenix, I’m sure
he’ll bad-mouth me, but that’s OK.
Follow Jeff Poor on Twitter @jeff_poor
No comments:
Post a Comment