Cold Calculations By the Left
Steve Dittmer | AFF Sentinel
Colorado Springs, CO
Originally sent to subscribers 01/05/24
Edi. Note: On Friday, Jan. 5, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear appeals of the Colorado Supreme Court decision to keep Donald J. Trump’s name off the state’s primary ballot. The oral arguments are scheduled for Feb. 8th. Some 27 states filed an amicus brief Friday urging the Court to reverse the Colorado ruling (Daily Signal*).
House Speaker Mike Johnson took 60 Republicans -- we can’t offhand remember such a large delegation traveling to a site -- to the southern border this week to see for themselves the enormous impact of the invasion of illegals.
Johnson said afterwards just one measure -- restoring the remain in Mexico program the Trump Administration implemented -- would cut the flood by 70 percent. We’re not sure the Mexican government would be happy with that but it would depend on circumstances. It’s been pointed out that these huge groups and caravans of illegals are largely shepherded and supported by the cartels. They don’t show up at the border in ragged clothes, looking gaunt and starved. They look remarkably capable for people who have hiked hundreds of miles. The cartels are pumping lots of cash into Mexico’s economy, evidently serving as quartermaster corps.
The Biden administration did their best to re-route the flood to other entry points in advance of the Congressmen’s visit, to reduce the impact of viewing the increasingly huge numbers in recent weeks, Johnson said, comparing photos from the day before, to the day of, their arrival. Still, a large number was there, some wading the Rio Grande in front of the Congressmen and waving to them as they went by.
The administration has been trying to blame border problems on the Republicans, saying the reduction in Border Patrol agents is their fault. But a Border Patrol Council VP said lower numbers of Border Patrol agents is the result of agents being pulled out of the field and put to processing more illegals into the country and others resigning because they feel the administration is not backing up the agency.
Meanwhile, since the House passed HR 2 weeks ago dealing with border issues, there has been little movement from the Senate. There has little leaking of possible progress and no text of any kind has been forthcoming.
The Biden administration seems to ignore the strident complaints and hollers for help from big city mayors coping with illegals in numbers they never imagined when proudly proclaiming themselves sanctuary cities. The elite leftist strategists may think long-term for their top level but not care what happens to lower-level politicians.
So mere lieutenants like mayors find out human beings respond to incentives. Officials are shocked and unprepared for the results of the policies they’ve espoused. Promise to give away the benefits of a largely free market society the leftist blue city governments disdain, and many of the world’s poor, living under the socialist-Marxist/communist governments the left claims create paradise, and millions will pay or sell themselves into slavery to get here.
The cartels recognized a lucrative business much faster than the city governments figured out anything. Between bringing people in and smuggling drugs and criminals, the cartels are literally making tens of millions of dollars a week on the border.
And in case the incentives haven’t been good enough, California has announced that illegals making their way to the state, will now be eligible for free health care up to age 49. That’s expected to cover 700,000 people living in the state illegally, costing the state $3.6 billion. Both those numbers will likely swell. This in a state that currently sports a $68 billion budget deficit. It’s not just Disney selling fantasies.
You may have heard this before, but it bears repeating. As Dan Bongino outlined this week, there are solid reasons the Biden administration not only refuses to do anything meaningful to stem the flow; lies or glosses over the numbers or impact; ignores potentially devastating national security eventualities but has been encouraging the desperate from dozens of countries to flood in.
Not shockingly, the reasons are political considerations over any other concerns. One reason is Congressional representation. Seats in Congress are apportioned by population. That’s why Democrats screamed when the Trump administration tried to exclude illegals from being counted in the 2020 census. The statute currently specifically states “undocumented” immigrants are to be counted in the census.
Bongino points out that this way, the effect of American citizens leaving high-tax, over-regulated blue states will be muted, with those departing citizens being replaced by illegals flooding to blue states giving them welcome.
Each Congressional seat represents roughly 760,000 people in the 2020 census, up from 708,000 in 2010. Some estimates put the number of illegals during Biden’s term so far at six million, more than in the previous ten years’ total.
The only negative population number for Democrats is the 100,000 citizens that will die annually from fentanyl poisoning the cartels bring over.
The second reason builds on the first. Electors to the Electoral College are determined by the number of Congressional representatives from a state. Ergo, blue states like California and New York are being threatened with losing Congressional seats because of declining populations.
The third reason is the left’s desire to accelerate “demographic destiny,” their term for the shrinking white majority in America and increasing minority share of the population. How that happens is neither a moral concern for them nor any worry about the responsibility of providing a good life, the potential for “life, liberty or the pursuit of happiness” for Americans.
Larry Kudlow (Fox Business) interviewed Javier Palomarez, president and CEO of the U.S. Hispanic Business Council, representing 4.5 million Hispanic-owned businesses, representing over $800 billion in business. Palomarez said legal immigrant labor was very important to several fundamental sectors of the economy like construction, agriculture, hospitality, manufacturing and technology. Some 73 percent of agriculture labor was of immigrant descent.
But the Biden administration’s poor handling of the border has created chaos and problems for companies trying to handle labor shortages with legal workers. There has been no help for industries needing more legal immigrant labor.
Palomarez said agricultural representatives told him some 10 million tons of produce went unharvested in 2022 due to worker shortages.
The country needs to keep out those coming in who want to do us harm and let in those who want to help, he said.
House Homeland Security Chairman Mark Green became a West Point cadet at 17 and spent most of his Army career opposing foreign terrorists. Now his job is dealing with domestic terrorism and the threats coming over the border.
Green urged concerned Americans to contact their member of Congress to urge them to get a border bill now.
By the way, the first impeachment hearing for DHS Secretary Mayorkas will be Jan. 10.
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