The Clintons are about two things: power and money. Both are grifters of the first order. It’s not that they brought corruption to Washington in the mid-1990s, but they certainly supercharged it. It’s been downhill ever since. The corruption today that permeates government and society may be historic in scope.
J. ROBERT SMITH
HILLARY & BILLARY: GLOBAL LOOTERS OF THE POOR!
Clinton Foundation Exposed | Over 14 Billion Confiscated!
Whatever wreckage Bill and Hillary leave in their wakes is always someone else’s trouble. If Hillary’s baloney stokes fears and enflames the passions of her party’s faithful, so be it. Hillary’s ends justify any means. The nation will be left to grapple with the conflicts and clean up the mess caused by her rabblerousing. Such is often the legacies of charlatans and demagogues.
J. ROBERT SMITH
THE REASON WE ENDED UP WITH THE ORANGE BABOON TRUMPER WAS BECAUSE PEOPLE WERE VOTING ! AGAINST ! TRUMP. THEY KNEW HILLARY WAS 10XS MORE CORRUPT.
Jimmy Failla: Hillary Clinton is 'absolutely' running for president again
Special Report: The Hillary Clinton Problem
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WywjHtIzNVU
Blue State Blues: John Durham Found the First Evidence of ‘Russia Collusion’ — and Hillary’s Team Did It
https://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2021/11/hillary-clintons-russia-connection-how.html
WILL GRIFTER, CHARITY FOUNDATION HUCKSTER AND SOCIOPATH LAWYER HILLARY CLINTON MURDER JULIAN ASSANGE?
SHE WANTS HIM DEAD! HIS PROXIMITY TO THE TRUTH THAT COULD PUT CLINTON IN PRISON IS A SERIOUS THREAT.
“If the Constitution did not forbid cruel and unusual punishment, the sentence I would like to see imposed would place both Bill and Hillary Clinton in the same 8-by-12 cell.” ROBERT ARVAY – AMERICAN THINKER com
Obama’s Democratic Party administration launched a furious salvo of denunciations, with then Vice President Joe Biden calling Assange a “high-tech terrorist” and Hilary Clinton reportedly asking, “Can’t we just drone this guy?” This opened the floodgates to a torrent of demands from Republicans and the right-wing media for his assassination.
THE DEMOCRAT PARTY’S BILLIONAIRES’ GLOBALIST EMPIRE requires someone as ruthlessly dishonest as Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama to be puppet dictators.
http://hillaryclinton-whitecollarcriminal.blogspot.com/2018/09/google-rigged-it-so-illegals-would-vote.html
Globalism: Google VP Kent Walker insists that despite its repeated rejection by electorates around the world, “globalization” is an “incredible force for good.”
Hillary Clinton’s Democratic party: An executive nearly broke down crying because of the candidate’s loss. Not a single executive expressed anything but dismay at her defeat.
Immigration: Maintaining liberal immigration in the U.S is the policy that Google’s executives discussed the most.
IMAGES OF AMERICA UNDER LA RAZA
MEX OCCUPATION:
Your neighborhood will be next to fall to LA RAZA!
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2013/10/america-la-raza-mexicos-wide-open.html
Clinton Foundation Put On Watch
List Of Suspicious ‘Charities’
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2015/04/charity-navigator-clinton-foundation.html
"But what the Clintons do is criminal because they do it wholly at the expense of the American people. And they feel thoroughly entitled to do it: gain power, use it to enrich themselves and their friends. They are amoral, immoral, and venal. Hillary has no core beliefs beyond power and money. That should be clear to every person on the planet by now." ---- Patricia McCarthy
GRIFTER AND PHONY CHARITY FOUNDATION FRAUDSTER HILLARY CLINTON’S LONG SERVICE TO AMERICA’S MOST EVIL BANKSTERS
https://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2019/08/the-democrat-party-grifter-and-pay-to.html
The judge found these releases, together with the publication of Clinton’s secret speeches to Wall Street banks, in which she pledged to be their representative, were “matters of the highest public concern.” They “allowed the American electorate to look behind the curtain of one of the two major political parties in the United States during a presidential election.”
“Clinton also failed to mention how he and Hillary cashed in after his presidential tenure to make themselves multimillionaires, in part by taking tens of millions in speaking fees from Wall Street bankers.”
VIDEO:
THE FRAUDULENT CLINTON FOUNDATION EXPOSED.
PAY-TO-PLAY FROM THE FIRST DAY!
Is it a signal that she's back in the game because she's selling her president-ability to the world's global billionaire crowd and laying the groundwork for more funds? There are all kinds of ways for foreign billionaires to get money to the U.S. without consequences, after all. What's more, it's pretty much the biggest base of support she has, which is at least one reason why she lost the 2016 election.
“The couple parlayed lives supposedly spent in “public service”
into admission into the upper stratosphere of American wealth, with incomes in the top 0.1 percent bracket. The source of this vast wealth was a political
machine that might well be dubbed “Clinton, Inc.” This consists essentially of
a seedy money-laundering operation to ensure big business support for the
Clintons’ political ambitions as well as their personal fortunes.
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The basic components of the operation are lavishly paid speeches to Wall Street and Fortune 500 audiences, corporate campaign contributions, and donations to the ostensibly philanthropic Clinton Foundation.”
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"But what the Clintons do is criminal because they do it wholly at the expense of the American people. And they feel thoroughly entitled to do it: gain power, use it to enrich themselves and their friends. They are amoral, immoral, and venal. Hillary has no core beliefs beyond power and money. That should be clear to every person on the planet by now." ---- Patricia McCarthy - AMERICANTHINKER.com
THE DEMOCRAT PARTY’S BILLIONAIRES’ GLOBALIST EMPIRE requires someone as ruthlessly dishonest as Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama to be puppet dictators.
http://hillaryclinton-whitecollarcriminal.blogspot.com/2018/09/google-rigged-it-so-illegals-would-vote.html
Hillary Clinton Urges Dems to 'Level With People'; 'Meet People Where They Are'
(CNSNews.com) - Is 2024 shaping up to be a rematch between Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Hillary Clinton?
"Oh, I have no idea. I hope so. I mean, I'd like that," former President Donald Trump told "Sunday Morning Futures" with Maria Bartiromo.
In an interview that aired around the same time, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said, "There's a lot of frustration in the country right now." She told CNN's "GPS with Fareed Zakaria" that her party should avoid labels and just "level with people" about the challenges facing the country.
Zakaria never asked Clinton if she'd consider another run for president, but he did lead her into a discussion about whether the Democrat Party is moving too far left. "How would you address that challenge?" Zakaria asked:
"I think you need to meet people where they are. And I don't know that you can label that," Clinton responded:
But if you’ve been a mom at home with kids since the start of this pandemic and school's been canceled and they've been trying to learn remotely and then you get them back to school and then it gets canceled again and then they're too young to get vaccines and then, all of a sudden they are young, I mean, just going through the day-to-day decision making.
I focus on women, because women are the swing voters primarily in elections. You know, it's been a really tough time. If you lost your job, if your hours were cut back, if you can't afford to go back because you don't have childcare or the childcare’s too expensive. I mean, everything Joe Biden is trying to address really does go to the heart of the challenges people are facing rather than characterizing them left, right or center.
It's just real life, real life kitchen table, get up in the morning, try to figure out how you're going to make decisions politics. And I really wish that my party, our party, would do a better job of really zeroing in on these day-to-day concerns.
First of all, acknowledge them. You know, we can't talk our way out of the fact that people are really disappointed that this omicron virus variant is back. We can’t talk ourselves out of the fact that, you know, inflation is real, the Fed is about to address it.
Kind of deal with where people are, and say look, we know there are challenges. We've addressed a lot of them. We've gotten a lot of people vaccinated, we have dealt with some of the, you know, job issues, with the infrastructure bill, with income support. We’re dealing with a lot that we know is going to make life better. But level with people, and deal with where they are right now.
Clinton, known for disrespecting the Americans she once called "deplorables," continued her criticism of "the far right."
"I will say this, the right, far right, the Trump right, whatever you want to call it, they do a really good job scaring people and making people afraid. They don't deliver for people, except, I guess, in an emotional way when people are frustrated, they feed conspiracy theories, they make up stuff, but they don't deliver for people. They don't take care of people.
"Look at what's happening now, all of these Republicans who voted against the infrastructure bill, voted against the American recovery bill that president Biden got done, all of a sudden they're claiming credit. I was smiling at one of the Republican governors saying well, we still hate the bill but we're sure going to take the money. Let's hold them up to the standards of hypocrisy and unperformance that they should be held to and do a better job drawing those contrasts.”
Clinton's advice to President Joe Biden was to "get the substance done” and ignore the “backlash” from the opposition.
"I would certainly you know urge the president -- I don't think he needs urging -- to keep working on what he's trying to accomplish with the social safety net, with voting rights. And then try to figure out how to do a better job to give a narrative to people so they're not confused and, frankly, affected by the propaganda coming from the political opposition.”
At the end of the interview, Zakaria asked Clinton about the novel she wrote with author Louise Penny: "It's gotten a lot of good reviews, but a lot of people say it is a thinly veiled attack on President Trump," Zakaria said. "The one word that recurs in review after review is, it's payback time for Hillary Clinton. Do you feel that that's fair, and do you feel the criticism that you can't let go of the 2016 election is fair as manifested in this book?"
Well, Fareed, I do think our democracy is under continuing assault by the former president, who masterminded a coup in the attack on our Capitol, has continued to promote the false accusation that the election of 2020 was somehow rigged against him. I think he poses a real clear and present danger to the United States.
And having lived through that presidency, when it came time to write a political thriller with my friend and collaborater Louise Penny, of course, I would draw from the reality that we all have experienced. And it's a good thriller. I have loved the reviews. I have loved even more readers telling me about "State of Terror" and what they loved about it, because the protagonist, which is kind of unusual for a thriller, are two women of a certain age, the secretary of state and her best friend.
But it does involve Afghanistan, and the last time I was with you was I think April 30th. We were talking about what was going to happen in Afghanistan, and I said that, you know, I feared that it would ultimately become a staging ground for attacks again. The book posits that.
The book also talks about an internal coup attempt against the president who succeeded the former guy. So this is fiction. The characters are fictional. But I would be remiss if I were not basing it in reality. And so I don't see it as anything other than a really good thriller with a great plot but also a cautionary tale about what we need to do to protect our democracy against those from within and without, who would try to literally take it away from us.
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Zuckerberg’s FWD.us Claims
No Amnesty Ensures Midterm
Defeat for Democrats
The Facebook-funded FWD.us investor advocacy group is touting the claim that Democrat turnout will drop in 2022 if the party cannot pass an amnesty through Congress.
But that claim is toothless, in large part because recent polls show that many Americans of Latino ancestry are increasingly voting for the GOP, precisely because GOP leaders oppose the amnesty-amplified wave of cheap labor into their communities.
The claim is being made by pro-migration groups, including the leaders of the National Day Laborer Organizing Network (NDLON) which denounced the Senate’s parliamentarian’s decision to exclude the parole amnesty for 6.5 million illegals from the draft Build Back Better spending plan.
NDLON declared Thursday night:
Democrats’ excuses for their failure, for their incompetence, and for their insincerity will be the ammunition used by xenophobes in the Republican Party to retake control of the federal government in upcoming elections. Inaction on immigration legalization risks further propelling Trumpism in every possible way … No more excuses. Where there is a will, there is a way.
The NDLON group represents illegal migrants, most of whom work for very low wages, and none of whom can vote in U.S. elections.
Rep. Lou Correa (D-Calif.) is making the same claim, according to Bloomberg, which reported that he “warned that Democrats would face wrath from voters in the 2022 elections if they don’t secure a citizenship path”
But the NDLON claim is being echoed by the politically powerful investor class, who use imported workers, consumers, and renters to spike the value of their Wall Street investments.
Todd Schulte is the president of the FWD.us advocacy group for investors, which gets about $30 million a year from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative to push for more migration. On Thursday night, he tweeted:
Schulte’s deputy also pushed a hard line:
Unsurprisingly, FWD.us has a hidden agenda in the amnesty debate.
The establishment media extensively cover the proposed parole amnesty for 6.5 million illegal migrants. But the media largely ignores two other proposed changes to immigration laws that would deliver huge benefits to West Coast investors who created the FWD.us advocacy group in 2013.
For example, the BBB legislation would allow the White House to provide green cards to millions of favored migrants, including perhaps three million “chain migrants” selected by recent immigrants. This open-doors policy would provide investors with millions of new profit-generating consumers, renters, and workers.
The BBB legislation would also allow President Joe Biden’s pro-migration deputies to sell green cards to at least one million migrants who have taken many of the Fortune 500 jobs sought by skilled U.S. college graduates. This change would allow Fortune 500 companies to hire many more foreign graduates with dangled offers of fast-track green cards. These workers are usually imported via the visa worker programs, such as the H-1B and Optional Practical Training program.
But those two benefits for the Fortune 500 investors may be dropped if the Democrat senators cannot also get their amnesty for illegal migrants.
On Friday, an advocacy group for corporate-funded immigration lawyers urged Congress to keep pushing the green card giveaway, even after the amnesty was nixed:
“The corporate guys are riding on perceived sympathy for the illegal alien population in order to get their immigration giveaways,” said Robert Law, the director of regulatory affairs and policy at the Center for Immigration Studies. He continued:
The Hispanic population knows immigration is a pocketbook issue for them as well, and mass illegal immigration — plus legal immigration — hurts the economic opportunities of Hispanic Americans or the black community, or any people who typically are competing at the lower end of the economic spectrum.
The Senate’s debate referee has not issued any judgments on the two green card proposals.
Zuckerberg’s FWD.us network of coastal investors stands to gain from more cheap labor, government-aided consumers, and urban renters. The network has funded many astroturf campaigns, urged Democrats to not talk about the economic impact of migration, and manipulated coverage by the TV networks and the print media.
FWD.us’also spotlights many family dramas amid the inflow of border migrants. This focus helps keep reporters from recognizing the huge pocketbook impact of the establishment’s economic policy of mass migration. The resulting family-drama coverage also keeps many young progressives from noticing that the extraction migration policy drives up their rents and cuts their salaries.
The breadth of investors who founded and funded FWD.us was hidden from casual visitors to the group’s website sometime in the last few months. But copies exist at other sites.
US Fed chief worried about “wages push” in coming year
The small uptick in wages of US workers, driven by the competition between businesses to find new employees, has set off shockwaves throughout corporate America. In recent days, top economic policy makers, Wall Street analysts and the media have warned that the biggest danger to the capitalist economy is not the Omicron variant, but a potential “wages push” by workers next year, which could upend the entire financial system.
At a press conference last week, Jerome Powell, the chairman of the US Federal Reserve, said nothing about the horrific loss of life during the pandemic, noting only that the Delta variant “had an effect of slowing down hiring” and “hurt the process of the global supply chains getting worked out.” Dismissing the dangers of the more infectious Omicron variant, he added, “I do think wave upon wave, people are learning to live with this.”
Powell’s remarks followed the meeting of the 12-member Federal Open Market Committee, which voted to carry out three quarter-point interest rate hikes in 2022 and begin tapering its asset purchases to address inflationary pressures in the US economy. The announcement was a reversal from their position nine months ago, when Fed officials indicated that there would be no rate increases until 2024.
Powell made clear that the Fed’s concern over inflation was not the impact that the 6.8 percent consumer price hike—the highest in four decades—is having on workers’ living standards. Instead, he said, wages had “risen briskly” in recent months, and it has become clear to the central bankers that increasing wages are “both larger in [their] effect on inflation and more persistent.”
Powell said the decisive factor behind the decision to raise interest rates was the October 29 Employment Cost Index (ECI) published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, which, he said, showed a “very high” 5.7 percent rise in hourly labor costs over the last three months.
The Fed and various economic forecasters had originally thought rising wages would be temporary and transitory. They expected that the Biden administration’s cutoff of pandemic stimulus checks and extended unemployment benefits would be enough to force workers back into the labor market and relieve “inflationary pressures.”
But the effort to use economic pressure to force workers back into infected factories and workplaces had largely failed, Powell lamented. “The important metric that has been disappointing really has been labor force participation, of course, where we had widely thought, I had certainly thought that last fall as unemployment insurance ran out, as vaccinations increased, that schools reopened, that we would see a significant surge, if you will, or at least a surge in labor force participation.” While there had been “some improvement,” he said, “it feels likely now that the return to higher participation is going to take longer.”
He continued, “The ratio of job openings, for example, to vacancies is at all-time highs, quits—the wages, all those things are even hotter.” For “certain people,” he said, “they don’t want to go back in the labor force because either they’re medically vulnerable or they’re not comfortable going back while COVID is still everywhere. That’s one thing. The lack of availability of childcare made for caretakers is certainly part of it, not just for children, but for older people.”
While acknowledging “wages are not a big part of the high inflation story that we’re seeing,” Powell warned, “if you had something where real wages were persistently above productivity growth, that puts upward pressure on firms, and they raise prices… We don’t see that yet. But with the kind of hot labor market readings—wages we’re seeing, it’s something that we’re watching.”
“The labor market is by so many measures hotter than it ever ran in the last expansion,” Powell said. “You know, usually, in every other expansion, it’s that there aren’t enough jobs and people can’t find jobs,” he said, adding, “What we need is another long expansion, like the ones we have been having over the last 40 years.”
Despite a fall in the official jobless rate, another 4.2 million workers quit their jobs in October. As of November 2021, the labor-force participation rate of US adults aged 65 and over was 7.2 percent lower than in February 2020, while that of “prime age” adults aged 25 to 54 declined by 1.3 percent, according to Marketplace. As part of the so-called “Great Resignation,” around three million more workers have retired since the start of the pandemic than expected based on prior-year trends, according to estimates by the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.
The “tight labor market” has provided workers—particularly the lowest-paid—with greater leverage to demand higher wages. According to the Atlanta Federal Reserve, the average wage increase for job switchers was 5.1 percent in October, measured as a three-month moving average of median wage growth, compared to 3.7 percent for those who remained at the same job.
Despite the dire warnings by the Fed, pay hikes have been extremely limited, and 70 percent of all workers have actually suffered a cut in real pay. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported earlier this month that average hourly earnings for private-sector production and nonsupervisory employees rose by only 12 cents, to $26.40. All told over the past 12 months, average hourly earnings have only increased by 4.8 percent.
When inflation is factored in, real wages have gone down 1.9 percent over the past year, according to the BLS. From October to November, real average hourly earnings for all employees decreased 0.4 percent. Since the start of the pandemic in February 2020, real wages have declined roughly 1 percent, as Jason Furman, an economist and professor at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, told Fortune.
As far as wages outstripping workers’ productivity, the exact opposite has been the case for the last four decades. Since 1979, real wages for non-supervisory workers have increased by only 17 percent, while productivity has risen by 61.8 percent, or 3.5 times faster.
The repeated references by the mouthpieces of the financial oligarchy to the dangers of a “wage-price spiral” is a frightened reference to the explosive wave of strikes by workers in the 1970s to protect their living standards from ravages of inflation, driven by the global decline in the position of American capitalism. Between 1969 and 1979, there were 3,300 strikes involving more than 1,000 workers, or an average of 300 a year. This reached a high point of 424 strikes, involving a total of 1.8 million workers, in 1974, when the inflation rate hit 11 percent.
The American ruling class responded with the “Volcker shock” in 1979, when Fed chair Paul Volcker raised the prime rate to 21.5 percent, provoking the worst recession since the Great Depression and “wringing inflation” out of the economy through mass unemployment, union busting and deep wage cuts.
The economic “expansions” over the last four decades that Powell praises were based on a massive transfer of wealth from the working class to the super-rich. The run up on the stock market, which has far more to do with rising inflation than wages, has been fueled by the Fed’s policy of “quantitative easing,” i.e., the provision of virtually free money to financial speculators.
Between 2009 and 2020, with the full backing of the AFL-CIO trade unions, raises averaged 2.8 percent a year, barely staying ahead of a 1-2 percent annual inflation rate. This has continued since the pandemic. Non-union workers have seen their wages climb at a much faster rate than unionized workers, according to the BLS. In contract after contract, the unions have accepted wage increases well below the rate of inflation, further eroding workers’ living standards.
At the same time, the unions have kept workers on the job as the deadly SARS-CoV-2 virus has spread through factories, schools and other workplaces, costing the lives of thousands of educators, transit and health care workers and private sector workers in food processing, logistics, manufacturing and other industries. Employers, with the full backing of the unions, have responded to the labor shortage by imposing inhumane levels of overtime, undermining workers’ health and further exposing them to COVID-19.
This has been a major factor in the rank-and-file revolt against the corporatist unions and the wave of strikes this year, from Volvo Trucks and Frito-Lay to John Deere and Kellogg’s. Although these and other companies are making record profits, the ruling class is terrified that the growth of working-class resistance will bring down the entire financial house of cards built up through massive corporate debt—which has swelled by $1.3 trillion since the pandemic—and the inflation of stock market values.
The payoff of the $32 trillion in debt taken on by Fed and the world’s central banks requires the continued extraction of surplus value from the labor of the working class. This is what lies behind the criminal policies of keeping schools and non-essential businesses open as the pandemic rampages out of control.
The Fed’s proposed rate hikes are meant to be a preemptive attack against the supposed “inflationary” demands of workers even as the central banks policies have contributed to a $5.5 trillion surge in the wealth of the world’s billionaires during the pandemic. Working-class opposition in the US and throughout the world, however, is only in its initial phase. In the coming year, the mass struggles against the sacrifice of millions of lives to corporate profit will take an ever more explosive and consciously anti-capitalist form
Data: Joe Biden Imports Almost 1.5 Million Migrants in Eight Months
President Joe Biden’s government has inflated the foreign population in the United States to record levels by adding almost 1.5 million migrants in just eight months, according to census data reviewed by the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS).
The policy added roughly one legal or illegal migrant for every three Americans who enter the workforce during the same period.
The resulting inflow brings the official estimate of the foreign population up to 46.2 million. That percentage means that one-in-seven of the people living in the United States were born elsewhere.
The massive inflow will help Biden’s deputies and their business allies to re-inflate the bubble of cheap labor that has suppressed Americans’ wages and salaries since 1990.
That bubble burst in early 2020 when President Donald Trump shut the borders, froze multiple visa-worker programs, and reduced the foreign population by roughly 1.2 million.
That low-migration policy allowed many Americans to get wage raises and workplace benefits from employers who were used to a plentiful supply of cheap migrant labor.
A statement from the CIS reported:
There were a total of 46.2 million immigrants (legal and illegal) in the country in November 2021. This is the largest number of immigrants ever recorded in any government survey or census going back to 1850.
As a share of the total U.S. population, immigrants were 14.2 percent in November 2021 — the highest percentage in 111 years. The immigrant share of the population has tripled since 1970 and has come close to doubling since 1990.
The number of immigrants in the country grew by 1.5 million between November 2020 and November of this year after declining by 1.2 million between February and September 2020 as a result of Covid-19 restrictions.
“Since President Biden’s election, the total legal and illegal immigrant population has grown spectacularly,” said Steven Camarota, the research director at CIS. “The ongoing border surge, the ending of nearly all interior enforcement, and the ramping up of legal immigration are clearly showing up in the data,” he added.
About 500,000 of the extra migrants are job-seeking “got-aways” illegals who were allowed to sneak across the U.S. southern border by Biden’s pro-migration appointees at the Department of Homeland Security.
Another 500,000 migrants were invited in during the eight months up to October 1 under a variety of legal pretexts, such as requests for asylum or requests to reunify with family members in the United States. In contrast, Trump deputies admitted roughly 55,000 migrants before Biden’s February 20 takeover.
Biden’s deputies — chiefly, pro-migration zealot DHS secretary Alejandro Mayorkas — have also admitted many legal immigrants, plus at least 50,000 Afghans, plus many white-collar visa workers, and have also reduced deportations by roughly 90 percent.
The total number of arrivals recorded by border officials is greater than the census bureau’s estimated population increase.
The huge inflow of foreign workers, consumers, and renters will make it more difficult for ordinary Americans to earn good wages and to afford decent housing.
Breitbart reported December 20 on the pocketbook impact of the government’s immigration policy:
Hasit Patel is an Indian legal immigrant who operates the two-star La Quinta franchise budget hotel where [Monique] Rolle worked for roughly $8.50 an hour before she took her $15-an-hour job at Target.
Patel’s business plan depended on cheap migrant labor, according to what he told the Washington Post:
“[His] struggle to find [replacement] labor felt like a blow to his whole notion of what made America great. An immigrant from India, he believed that the health of the U.S. economy was protected by a constant refreshing of the workforce, an injection of striving immigrants willing to take on some of the unpleasant jobs that many Americans are loath to do — like cleaning [his] hotel rooms.”
Patel’s expectation was rational: From 1990 to 2017, the federal government inflated the labor force by adding roughly one migrant — both legal and illegal — for every three Americans who joined the workforce.
That economic policy of inflating the labor supply slowed in the 2008 crash and came to a sudden halt in 2020 when President Donald Trump closed the borders to slow the spread of the coronavirus. Overall, the federal government imported 5 million fewer foreigners from 2010 to 2020 — including 3 million fewer from 2017 to 2020 — compared to prior decades, according to recent reports.
The Post report continued:
“I can’t compete with the [$15-per-hour] warehouses for wages,” Patel said. “The government should let us get people from India, even just for six months. The government has to realize there are certain job categories that American people don’t want to do anymore.”
The Post did not explain how Patel would import temporary workers from caste-divided India, where half the workers earn less than $100 per week. But the B-1/B-2 visa is used by some Indians to legally visit for six months — and illegally work while they are in the United States.
So, without a supply of very cheap workers from his home country, Patel reluctantly raised Americans’ wages “from $8.50 to nearly $11 an hour and offered more flexible schedules,” the Post reported.
Meanwhile, the GOP leadership has focused criticism on the migrants who cross the southern border. and has largely refused to spotlight the pocketbook damage to Americans caused by the massive inflow of foreign workers, consumers, and renters.
Many polls show that labor migration is deeply unpopular because it damages ordinary Americans’ career opportunities, cuts their wages, and raises their rents.
Migration also curbs Americans’ productivity, shrinks their political clout, widens regional wealth gaps, radicalizes their democratic, compromise-promoting civic culture, and allows elites to ignore despairing Americans at the bottom of society.
For many years, a wide variety of polls has shown deep and broad opposition to labor migration and the inflow of temporary contract workers into jobs sought by young U.S. graduates. This opposition is multiracial, cross-sex, non-racist, class-based, bipartisan, rational, persistent, and recognizes the solidarity Americans owe to each other.
Gov. Abbott working to 'secure the sovereignty' of America with border wall
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3MFaL2Rz9o
“Joe Biden is great on immigration. I guess depends on your perspective. If you’re a human trafficker, or drug dealer, or all those migrants wearing the Biden let us in shirts, you’d give him an A-plus, plus, but the American people would give him an F. The crisis we said our border was not only entirely predictable. It was predicted. I predicted it last fall that if you campaign all year long on open borders, amnesty, and health care for illegals, you’re going to get more migrants at the border. That’s exactly what’s happened every month since the election.” SEN. TOM COTTON
From April 2020 to April 2021, more than 100,000 Americans died from drug overdoses, according to data from the National Center for Health Statistics. An overwhelming majority of those deaths came from opioids, and fentanyl smuggling has surged at the southern border since the start of Joe Biden's presidency.Joseph Simonson and Collin Anderson
Officials in Mexico believe the tide of laundered money could be as high as $50bn per year, a sum equal to about three per cent of Mexico's legitimate economy -- more than all its oil exports or spending on key social programmes. Internationally, money laundering represents between two and five per cent of global GDP, or between $800bn and $2tn annually, according to the UNODC.
THE BIDEN KLEPTOCRACY
American people deserve to know what China was up to with Joe Biden, especially when Beijing had already shelled out millions of dollars to Biden family members — including millions in set-asides for “the big guy.” What else is on that infamous Hunter Biden laptop? The conflicted Biden Justice Department cannot be trusted to engage in any meaningful oversight on this issue. We need a special counsel now.
TOM FITTON - JUDICIAL WATCH
China is America's enemy but Joe Biden's friend
By J. Marsolo
The corrupt media know the truth about China paying the Bidens and about the China fentanyl smuggled through Mexico. In addition to the China virus and China fentanyl, China steals our technology and intellectual property that costs our country between $300 and 600 billion in losses per year. The FBI reported in February 2020 that China is the biggest law enforcement threat to the United States and that China was seeking to steal American technology by "any means necessary."
The only thing tougher than moving illegal drugs
across borders is getting the profits back to
Mexico's cartels, U.S. officials said. Cash is heavy,
and transporting it exposes traffickers to lots of
risk. Putting it into the banking system is perilous,
too. The U.S. and Mexican financial systems have
been geared to detect dirty money.
Reuters reports that Chinese money brokers in Mexico have avoided the conflicts amongst the cartels themselves, and have (according to an unnamed DEA agent) "coordinat[ed] money contracts with both the Sinaloa and Jalisco New Generation cartels on the same day" — no mean feat.
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