tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7895164153505105997.post4995443538417522312..comments2024-01-17T00:45:37.075-08:00Comments on Bud Meyers: Income Inequality and ImmigrationBud Meyershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02065020063363023395noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7895164153505105997.post-37500782596311675952015-09-09T09:08:30.059-07:002015-09-09T09:08:30.059-07:00IMMIGRATION IS ABOUT $$$ AND VOTES
Real Clear Poli...IMMIGRATION IS ABOUT $$$ AND VOTES<br />Real Clear Politics -- "Eric Cantor: Poster Boy of the Beltway GOP Crapweasels" by Michelle Malkin - September 2, 2015<br /><br />Inside the Beltway, The Washington Post reported, "Cantor remains well-liked and respected in the Virginia business community and among the Republican donor class in the commonwealth." [The "donor class" is the top 0.01% — such as wealthy investors, CEOs of large companies and hedge fund managers.]<br /><br />But outside the Beltway, the failed Republican revolutionary-turned-Wall Street influence-peddler is a snortle-inducing spectacle on both sides of the political aisle.<br /><br />In Cantor's endorsement statement Thursday, he praised [Jeb] Bush as a "true conservative leader" who "can re-energize our nation and recapture our greatness." That's empty babble coming from the epitome of an out-of-touch, self-aggrandizing, revolving-door ruling class.<br /><br />Jeb Bush and Eric Cantor share the same smug condescension toward Americans who believe in strict immigration enforcement and putting American workers first. Cantor fecklessly lied to voters during the campaign season about his position(s). <br /><br />He showered his district with anti-illegal immigration flyers that fraudulently portrayed him as standing up to President Obama on amnesty. But on Capitol Hill, he championed the DREAM Act for illegal alien students, huge H-1B visa increases to quench Big Tech's appetite for cheap foreign tech workers, and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce/AFL-CIO's collaboration on massive immigration expansions*.<br /><br />[* Did you get that last line? The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, representing big businesses, who are usually represented by the Republicans — and AFL-CIO, the largest labor union representing workers, who are usually represented by the Democrats. Both want more immigration for two difference reasons: The Republicans for cheap labor and large corporate campaign donations — and the Democrats for more votes — with campaign donations coming from union dues. Immigrants are more like to join a labor union.]<br /><br />http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2015/09/02/eric_cantor_poster_boy_of_the_beltway_gop_crapweasels_127962.html<br />Bud Meyershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02065020063363023395noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7895164153505105997.post-15553158611403027252015-09-01T07:51:15.596-07:002015-09-01T07:51:15.596-07:00More than 240 people were taken into federal custo...More than 240 people were taken into federal custody last week across Southern California after a four-day sweep for immigrants with criminal records in the country illegally. The enforcement action ended Thursday with 244 foreign nationals in the custody of Immigration and Customs Enforcement — the majority of them with at least one felony conviction on their record, authorities said.<br /><br />http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-240-immigrants-arrested-ice-20150831-story.html<br /><br />Jorge Ramos (the activist/journalist with dual U.S.-Mexican citizenship) said Kate's Law is "completely unfair" to illegal immigrants.<br /><br />http://www.breitbart.com/big-journalism/2015/08/30/jorge-ramos-kates-law-completely-unfair-to-millions-of-illegals/<br />Bud Meyershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02065020063363023395noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7895164153505105997.post-23865166706575772662015-08-29T16:56:08.949-07:002015-08-29T16:56:08.949-07:00More on the abuses of the H-1B visa program....
A...More on the abuses of the H-1B visa program....<br /><br />Angry Voters May Not Know the Half of It on High Tech Immigration<br />https://alantonelson.wordpress.com/2015/08/29/im-politic-angry-voters-may-not-know-the-half-of-it-on-high-tech-immigration/<br /><br />So the Dept of Labor is responsible for Displacing Americans in America?'<br />http://keepamericaatwork.com/so-the-dept-of-labor-is-responsible-for-displacing-americans-in-america/<br /><br /><br />The federal government has awarded contracts and other benefits worth nearly half a billion dollars since 2000 to tech labor brokers cited for violating laws related to the temporary visa program known as H-1B. Since 2000, nearly 20 percent of the technology labor brokers and tech firms cited for violating the H-1B visa program have received federal contracts, payments and other government support. The Department of Homeland Security and Department of Labor are among the agencies that have looked past H-1B violations or failed to check the record. Even labor brokers facing the ultimate penalty for H-1B labor violations – debarment from the temporary visa program – found ways back in.<br />Bud Meyershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02065020063363023395noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7895164153505105997.post-26159054739807894932015-08-28T12:02:29.162-07:002015-08-28T12:02:29.162-07:00It is America's moral responsibility to unilat...It is America's moral responsibility to unilaterally take in millions of "stateless" people from all over the world based on humanitarian reasons — even if it's at the determent of those already living here? <br /><br />And what about using this argument as an excuse to continue with the abuse of tourist and investor visas?<br /><br />Here's the take at Mother Jones:<br /><br />Ending birthright citizenship [in the U.S.] would result in a flood of newly created stateless children. In the United States, that would quickly become a humanitarian crisis [because] currently, statelessness affects between 4,000 and 6,000 people in the United States — immigrants who either lacked a nationality when they reached the country or lost it after arriving. <br /><br />Some 10 million people [around the world] are stateless. They lack citizenship in the country where they were born, and they have nowhere to go where they can receive legal status [except for in the United States?]<br /><br />If Trump and other Republicans got their way, the number of stateless people born in the United States would skyrocket. Birthright citizenship is the most important safeguard that any country can have against statelessness ... Without birthright citizenship, the descendants of some [ALL!] undocumented immigrants could be stateless for generations to come.<br /><br />How could this play out in the United States? Large numbers of Haitians in South Florida, as well as immigrants from elsewhere in Latin America, Kenya, and Eastern European nations — some of which have a history of shifting nationality laws, ethnic persecution, and inadequate record keeping.<br /><br /> If someone is never allowed to settle into the community they're in [e.g. the United States], it's hard to get gainful employment, and to get health problems adequately addressed; it's difficult to get education. They're particularly vulnerable to arbitrary detention. They're so limited in how they can move up in society.<br /><br />http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/08/donald-trump-immigration-birthright-citizenship<br /><br />Bud Meyershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02065020063363023395noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7895164153505105997.post-91926136385527132552015-08-27T22:23:56.538-07:002015-08-27T22:23:56.538-07:00The new labor Rule that McDonald's has been dr...The new labor Rule that McDonald's has been dreading just became a reality<br /><br />http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/the-federal-ruling-mcdonalds-has-dreaded-just-became-a-reality_55df39a1e4b029b3f1b1db3b<br /><br />So maybe robots will replace more workers...<br /><br />McDonald’s To Open 25,000 Robot-Run Restaurants By 2016<br /><br />http://newsexaminer.net/food/mcdonalds-to-open-25000-robot-run-stores-by-2016/ <br /><br />Washington Post: Minimum-Wage Offensive Could Speed Arrival of Robot Powered Restaurants<br /><br />http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/capitalbusiness/minimum-wage-offensive-could-speed-arrival-of-robot-powered-<br />restaurants/2015/08/16/35f284ea-3f6f-11e5-8d45-d815146f81fa_story.html<br /><br />...or maybe they'll just leave the country.<br /><br />Burger King’s Inversion: A Whopper of a Tax Dodge<br /><br />http://www.americansfortaxfairness.org/burger-king-inversion-report/Bud Meyershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02065020063363023395noreply@blogger.com