vdare--2020-02-25--Michelle Malkin: There Is NO  American Worker Shortage

`` We 're full , our system 's full , our country 's full ! ''
That was President Donald Trump last year at our southern border .
`` Every decision on trade , on taxes , on immigration , on foreign affairs , will be made to benefit American workers and American families . ''
That was Trump in January 2017 at his inaugural address .
`` The influx of foreign workers holds down salaries , keeps unemployment high , and makes it difficult ... to earn a middle class wage . ''
That was presidential candidate Trump in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ First '' statements with the apparent hysteria of Trump 's current acting chief of staff , Mick Mulvaney , who was caught on tape telling a private audience of elites in England last week : `` We are desperate—desperate—for more people .
We are running out of people to fuel the economic growth that we 've had in our nation over the last four years .
We need more immigrants . ''
Mulvaney reportedly went on to push for `` expanding '' merit- and employment-based immigration to fill all the high-skilled jobs that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
By how much , for how long , in which visa categories and under what conditions this `` expansion '' should happen , Mulvaney is not reported to have detailed .
( He will be featured at the Conservative Political Action Conference on Friday morning .
It would be nice if someone asked him to elaborate , would n't it ? )
`` Running out of people '' is typical Beltway swamp talk from a big business lobbyist trafficking in open borders `` Chicken Little '' alarmism .
Has Mulvaney opened a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ last 10 years ?
How about the last week ?
Over a 48-hour period , I compiled a Twitter thread of more than 50 stories of tens of thousands of recent U.S. worker layoffs in tech and other high-skilled industries .
Among the U.S. corporations and institutions responsible for laying off , replacing , offshoring , and outsourcing tens of thousands of American jobs : Wayfair , TripAdvisor , LogMeIn , Inc. , Zume Pizza , VMWare , Shutterfly , Intel , Comcast , Xilinx , 23andMe , NortonLifeLock , AT & T @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , Lyft , UCSF Medical Center , Baptist Health , Sysco , WeWork , American Family Insurance , Tennessee Valley Authority , Amway , UPS subsidiary Coyote Logistics , Comcast , Lime , Bird , Unicorn , Getaround , Cerner , Oracle , Samsung US , Edmunds.com , Textron Aviation , Morgan Stanley , Spirit AeroSystems , Mozilla , UiPath , Plexus , Cisco , Ancestry.com , Clover Health , State Street Corporation , Anthem , Transamerica , Verizon , MassMutual , Disney , Carnival , Abbott Labs , EmblemHealth , Harley Davidson @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Buy , Southern California Edison and Qualcomm .
The most recent entry in my U.S. worker layoffs thread came in Monday from Expedia , which announced it is laying off 12 % of its information technology workforce ( roughly 3,000 ) , including 500 employees at its Seattle headquarters .
Tip of the iceberg .
As leading American workers ' employment attorney and Protect US Workers advocate Sara Blackwell ( right ) points out , `` so many companies are able to conduct this awful business model under the radar . ''
And @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 's legal , workers are silenced , and most Americans `` just do not care because it does not yet touch them personally . ''
Do we `` need more immigrants , '' as Mulvaney claims ?
Marie Larson , an American mom who founded the American Workers Coalition with Barbara Birch and Hilarie Gamm , told me : `` I talk to Americans almost daily who are being discriminated against , who keep getting laid off by Indian managers , who have to train their foreign replacements to get the much-needed severance @ @ @ @ @ @ @ out of college because they ca n't afford it , even having to sell their houses .
These are STEM workers , who got the 'right ' degrees and did everything they were supposed to do , only to have our government turn their back and sell out to big businesses push for even more H-1Bs . ''
Tech firms cut 64,166 American jobs in 2019 , up 351 % from 14,230 in 2018 .
Are we so `` desperate '' for more bodies to `` fuel economic growth ? ''
Let 's @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in a nation of 330 million , 44 million of whom are foreign-born .
Upward of 30 million immigrants are currently living , working and going to school here illegally .
One million new legal immigrants are granted green cards every year .
An estimated 600,000 temporary worker visas are issued annually , including the H-1B , H-2A , H-2B and H-4 programs .
That does n't include spousal visas or the more than half a million foreign `` students '' now working through the stealth guest worker plan known as the Optional @ @ @ @ @ @ @ students to work with little monitoring , no wage protections , no payment of Social Security payroll taxes and no requirement for employers to demonstrate labor market shortages .
`` We '' ordinary Americans do n't need more immigrants .
Corporations ( and their trusty house organ , the Wall Street Journal ) want higher profits , lower wages , and endless pipelines of cheap foreign labor .
They 've been cooking up manufactured worker shortage crises since World War II and crying apocalypse since the 1980s , when the National Science Foundation @ @ @ @ @ @ @ based on groundless projections to crusade for agency budget increases .
Remember : The only persistent tech worker shortage in America is a shortage of workers at the wage employers want to pay .
Beltway swampers gnashing their teeth over barren American worker recruitment pools are full of it .
Michelle Malkin [ Email her ] is the author of Invasion : How America Still Welcomes Terrorists , Criminals , and Other Foreign Menaces to Our Shores .
Click here for Peter Brimelow ’ s review .
Click here for Michelle Malkin 's @ @ @ @ @ @ @ author of Unhinged : Exposing Liberals Gone Wild , Culture of Corruption : Obama and his Team of Tax Cheats , Crooks & Cronies , , Who Built That : Awe-Inspiring Stories of American Tinkerpreneurs , and Sold Out : How High-Tech Billionaires & Bipartisan Beltway Crapweasels Are Screwing America 's Best & Brightest Workers .
Malkin is author of the book , `` Open Borders , Inc. : Who 's Funding America 's Destruction , '' available directly from VDARE.com in hardcover .
To find out more about Michelle Malkin and read @ @ @ @ @ @ @ cartoonists , visit the Creators Syndicate website at www.creators.com .

Earlier, by Michelle Malkin: A Day Without American Tech Workers
"We're full, our system's full, our country's full!" That was President Donald Trump last year at our southern border.
"Every decision on trade, on taxes, on immigration, on foreign affairs, will be made to benefit American workers and American families." That was Trump in January 2017 at his inaugural address.
"The influx of foreign workers holds down salaries, keeps unemployment high, and makes it difficult... to earn a middle class wage." That was presidential candidate Trump in 2016.
Contrast those clarion "America First" statements with the apparent hysteria of Trump's current acting chief of staff, Mick Mulvaney, who was caught on tape telling a private audience of elites in England last week: "We are desperate—desperate—for more people. We are running out of people to fuel the economic growth that we've had in our nation over the last four years. We need more immigrants."
Mulvaney reportedly went on to push for "expanding" merit- and employment-based immigration to fill all the high-skilled jobs that Americans purportedly aren't capable of filling. By how much, for how long, in which visa categories and under what conditions this "expansion" should happen, Mulvaney is not reported to have detailed. (He will be featured at the Conservative Political Action Conference on Friday morning. It would be nice if someone asked him to elaborate, wouldn't it?)
"Running out of people" is typical Beltway swamp talk from a big business lobbyist trafficking in open borders "Chicken Little" alarmism. Has Mulvaney opened a newspaper or browsed the internet in the last 10 years? How about the last week? Over a 48-hour period, I compiled a Twitter thread of more than 50 stories of tens of thousands of recent U.S. worker layoffs in tech and other high-skilled industries. Among the U.S. corporations and institutions responsible for laying off, replacing, offshoring, and outsourcing tens of thousands of American jobs:
Wayfair, TripAdvisor, LogMeIn, Inc., Zume Pizza, VMWare, Shutterfly, Intel, Comcast, Xilinx, 23andMe, NortonLifeLock, AT&T, Macy's, Walgreens, Uber, Lyft, UCSF Medical Center, Baptist Health, Sysco, WeWork, American Family Insurance, Tennessee Valley Authority, Amway, UPS subsidiary Coyote Logistics, Comcast, Lime, Bird, Unicorn, Getaround, Cerner, Oracle, Samsung US, Edmunds.com, Textron Aviation, Morgan Stanley, Spirit AeroSystems, Mozilla, UiPath, Plexus, Cisco, Ancestry.com, Clover Health, State Street Corporation, Anthem, Transamerica, Verizon, MassMutual, Disney, Carnival, Abbott Labs, EmblemHealth, Harley Davidson, Cargill, Eversource Energy, Best Buy, Southern California Edison and Qualcomm.
The most recent entry in my U.S. worker layoffs thread came in Monday from Expedia, which announced it is laying off 12% of its information technology workforce (roughly 3,000), including 500 employees at its Seattle headquarters. Tip of the iceberg. As leading American workers' employment attorney and Protect US Workers advocate Sara Blackwell (right) points out, "so many companies are able to conduct this awful business model under the radar." And they get away with it because it's legal, workers are silenced, and most Americans "just do not care because it does not yet touch them personally."
Do we "need more immigrants," as Mulvaney claims? Marie Larson, an American mom who founded the American Workers Coalition with Barbara Birch and Hilarie Gamm, told me: "I talk to Americans almost daily who are being discriminated against, who keep getting laid off by Indian managers, who have to train their foreign replacements to get the much-needed severance packages, who have to pull kids out of college because they can't afford it, even having to sell their houses. These are STEM workers, who got the 'right' degrees and did everything they were supposed to do, only to have our government turn their back and sell out to big businesses push for even more H-1Bs." Tech firms cut 64,166 American jobs in 2019, up 351% from 14,230 in 2018.
Are we so "desperate" for more bodies to "fuel economic growth"? Let's recap the demographic math: We live in a nation of 330 million, 44 million of whom are foreign-born. Upward of 30 million immigrants are currently living, working and going to school here illegally. One million new legal immigrants are granted green cards every year. An estimated 600,000 temporary worker visas are issued annually, including the H-1B, H-2A, H-2B and H-4 programs. That doesn't include spousal visas or the more than half a million foreign "students" now working through the stealth guest worker plan known as the Optional Practical Training program, which allows foreign students to work with little monitoring, no wage protections, no payment of Social Security payroll taxes and no requirement for employers to demonstrate labor market shortages.
"We" ordinary Americans don't need more immigrants. Corporations (and their trusty house organ, the Wall Street Journal) want higher profits, lower wages, and endless pipelines of cheap foreign labor. They've been cooking up manufactured worker shortage crises since World War II and crying apocalypse since the 1980s, when the National Science Foundation's Erich Bloch hyped a STEM shortage based on groundless projections to crusade for agency budget increases.
Remember: The only persistent tech worker shortage in America is a shortage of workers at the wage employers want to pay. Beltway swampers gnashing their teeth over barren American worker recruitment pools are full of it.
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Michelle Malkin [Email her] is the author of Invasion: How America Still Welcomes Terrorists, Criminals, and Other Foreign Menaces to Our Shores. Click here for Peter Brimelow’s review. Click here for Michelle Malkin's website. Michelle Malkin is also the author of Unhinged: Exposing Liberals Gone Wild, Culture of Corruption: Obama and his Team of Tax Cheats, Crooks & Cronies, ,Who Built That: Awe-Inspiring Stories of American Tinkerpreneurs, and Sold Out: How High-Tech Billionaires & Bipartisan Beltway Crapweasels Are Screwing America's Best & Brightest Workers.
Malkin is author of the book, "Open Borders, Inc.: Who's Funding America's Destruction," available directly from VDARE.com in hardcover. To find out more about Michelle Malkin and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate website at www.creators.com.
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vdare--2020-02-25--Progress? Sen. Lankford Backs Away From Big Ag Amnesty

Earlier : Donors Swoop In As Dems Give Trump Free Pass On Immigration A possible Senate supporter of the Farm Workforce Modernization Act now says he opposes the amnesty .
Republican Oklahoma Sen. James Lankford announced Tuesday that he does not support the bill .
It was reported last week that he was one of three co-sponsors of the bill .
The other two were notorious GOP immigration boosters Thom Tillis of North Carolina and Lindsey Graham of South Carolina .
As VDARE.com has previously reported , the Farm Workforce Modernization Act is an amnesty by another name : It @ @ @ @ @ @ @ worked in agriculture in the last two years .
Those illegal aliens would receive a “ Certified Agricultural Worker ” visa and be barred from applying for a green card for at least four years .
It expands the H-2A program by an additional 20,000 visas to cover other industries , including dairy and meat-packing .
The H-2A supposedly covers temporary agricultural workers , but the new bill expands it past its intended area .
It also allots 40,000 green cards per year for H-2A visa holders and gives legal status to many @ @ @ @ @ @ @ influence and Social Security fraud… Mandatory e-Verify is the bill ’ s only highlight .
But it would be imposed only after the Amnesty is fully implemented .
Lankford ’ s opposition all but assures the bill will not make it through the Senate .
Lankford did not hesitate to lead the charge for more refugees last fall .
The fact that even he doesn ’ t want to back the Big Ag amnesty signals hardly any Republicans will back it .
However , not all news from Lankford was good .
Lankford @ @ @ @ @ @ @ one of the Trump administration ’ s proposed guest worker expansions .
This plan will reportedly increase the number of H-2b visas -- which covers non-agricultural blue collar jobs -- by 45,000 this year .
The current cap sits at 66,000 ; the increase would mean 111,000 foreign workers would be able to take American jobs this summer .
[ Trump Administration Plans to Raise Seasonal-Worker Cap , by Michelle Hackman , The Wall Street Journal , February 20 , 2020 ] Lankford fully supports the idea and thinks the cap should be @ @ @ @ @ @ @ also working on a massive guest worker expansion for the agricultural industry .
The White House can count on Sen. Lankford to support these terrible ideas .
The GOP appears wary of amnesty .
But , for some reason , Republicans can ’ t give up their love of replacing American workers with foreigners .

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Earlier: Donors Swoop In As Dems Give Trump Free Pass On Immigration
A possible Senate supporter of the Farm Workforce Modernization Act now says he opposes the amnesty. Republican Oklahoma Sen. James Lankford announced Tuesday that he does not support the bill.
I continue to see rumors in the press that I support the Farm Workforce Modernization Act. This could not be further from the truth. My position on immigration has not changed—we need to address the loopholes with our immigration system but I do not support amnesty. — Sen. James Lankford (@SenatorLankford) February 25, 2020
It was reported last week that he was one of three co-sponsors of the bill. The other two were notorious GOP immigration boosters Thom Tillis of North Carolina and Lindsey Graham of South Carolina.
As VDARE.com has previously reported, the Farm Workforce Modernization Act is an amnesty by another name:
It offers legal status to any illegal who worked in agriculture in the last two years. Those illegal aliens would receive a “Certified Agricultural Worker” visa and be barred from applying for a green card for at least four years. It expands the H-2A program by an additional 20,000 visas to cover other industries, including dairy and meat-packing. The H-2A supposedly covers temporary agricultural workers, but the new bill expands it past its intended area. It also allots 40,000 green cards per year for H-2A visa holders and gives legal status to many illegal aliens convicted of driving under the influence and Social Security fraud… Mandatory e-Verify is the bill’s only highlight. But it would be imposed only after the Amnesty is fully implemented.
Lankford’s opposition all but assures the bill will not make it through the Senate. Lankford did not hesitate to lead the charge for more refugees last fall. The fact that even he doesn’t want to back the Big Ag amnesty signals hardly any Republicans will back it.
However, not all news from Lankford was good. Lankford also said Tuesday that he fully supports one of the Trump administration’s proposed guest worker expansions. This plan will reportedly increase the number of H-2b visas—which covers non-agricultural blue collar jobs—by 45,000 this year. The current cap sits at 66,000; the increase would mean 111,000 foreign workers would be able to take American jobs this summer. [Trump Administration Plans to Raise Seasonal-Worker Cap, by Michelle Hackman, Wall Street Journal, February 20, 2020]
Lankford fully supports the idea and thinks the cap should be raised even higher.
Sen. Lankford refers to my story about the h-2b visa cap being raised by 45k. "You have permission to do that...and you can go even higher than that." Urges him to do it as quickly as possible. https://t.co/HGtNPMuhgV — Michelle Hackman (@MHackman) February 25, 2020
The administration is also working on a massive guest worker expansion for the agricultural industry. The White House can count on Sen. Lankford to support these terrible ideas.
The GOP appears wary of amnesty. But, for some reason, Republicans can’t give up their love of replacing American workers with foreigners.


vdare--2020-02-25--Immigrant Mass Murder, Gang Style: Police Search For "Man" (Mexican Illegal) After 3 Bodies Found In

Immigrant Mass Murder, Gang Style: Police Search For "Man" (Mexican Illegal) After 3 Bodies Found In California

The AP story says Police search for man after 3 bodies found in California , because the AP Stylebook says that it 's not `` relevant '' that a wanted killer is either Hispanic or an illegal immigrant , but it looks like a case of Immigrant Mass Murder , involving Mexican criminal gangs : PERRIS , Calif. ( AP ) — Authorities are seeking an “ armed and very dangerous ” man who is believed to have killed three men and left their bodies in a Southern California cemetery , the Riverside County sheriff said Thursday .
The three @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , 50 ; Jose Maria Aguilar-Espejel , 38 and Rodrigo Aguilar-Espejel , 28 — were killed at the same time .
Their bodies were found Monday in the grass at the Perris Valley Cemetery east of Los Angeles .
Sheriff Chad Bianco said at a news conferencethere is a felony warrant out for the arrest of Jose Luis Torres Garcia , 33 , with $ 3 million bail .
Bianco did not say how the men were killed .
“ We do not know his motive , ” Bianco said .
The sheriff @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the three victims .
They were discovered in a cemetery near the grave of a man who died in Mexico .
Officials have not said who the grave belonged to , or whether a relationship existed between that person and the recent victims .
“ We don ’ t believe this was a random killing , ” Bianco said .
“ A regular , normal resident of Perris should not have anything to be afraid of.
” The sheriff said Garcia has ties to San Jose , California , and Mexico .
He @ @ @ @ @ @ @ have not yet determined his current immigration status .
There are already two misdemeanor warrants out for his arrest regarding other cases .
[ More ]

Earlier: "What Is Immigrant Mass Murder Syndrome?"
The AP story says Police search for man after 3 bodies found in California, because the AP Stylebook says that it's not "relevant" that a wanted killer is either Hispanic or an illegal immigrant, but it looks like a case of Immigrant Mass Murder, involving Mexican criminal gangs:
PERRIS, Calif. (AP) — Authorities are seeking an “armed and very dangerous” man who is believed to have killed three men and left their bodies in a Southern California cemetery, the Riverside County sheriff said Thursday.
The three men — Perris residents Jaime Covarrubias Espindola, 50; Jose Maria Aguilar-Espejel, 38 and Rodrigo Aguilar-Espejel, 28 — were killed at the same time. Their bodies were found Monday in the grass at the Perris Valley Cemetery east of Los Angeles.
Sheriff Chad Bianco said at a news conference there is a felony warrant out for the arrest of Jose Luis Torres Garcia, 33, with $3 million bail. Bianco did not say how the men were killed.
“We do not know his motive,” Bianco said.
The sheriff said Garcia acted alone and he knew the three victims. They were discovered in a cemetery near the grave of a man who died in Mexico. Officials have not said who the grave belonged to, or whether a relationship existed between that person and the recent victims.
“We don’t believe this was a random killing,” Bianco said. “A regular, normal resident of Perris should not have anything to be afraid of.”
The sheriff said Garcia has ties to San Jose, California, and Mexico. He has been deported twice. But authorities have not yet determined his current immigration status. There are already two misdemeanor warrants out for his arrest regarding other cases.[More]


vdare--2020-02-25--Attacks on Plymouth Rock Continue As  9/11 Memorial Vandalized In Plymouth, MA

Earlier : 2020 Attacks on Plymouth Rock ( And The Historic American Nation ) Have Begun Plymouth , Massachusetts is an icon of the historical American nation so it should surprise no one that the recent defacement of Plymouth Rock and other Pilgrim monuments has been followed by an attack on the town ’ s 9-11 Memorial .
Authorities in Plymouth , Massachusetts , say the town ’ s 9/11 memorial has been vandalized a week after the Plymouth Rock memorial was defaced .
A statue of a police officer standing alongside a firefighter was knocked over and damaged .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ `` At first I was angry , then I was heartbroken and sad , ” Former Plymouth Selectman Dick Quintal , who took out a second mortgage on his home to fund the construction of the memorial , told WCVB News .
[ 9/11 memorial vandalized in Plymouth shortly after Plymouth Rock was tagged , by Julie Loncich , WCVB Boston , February 24 , 2020 ] So far , the local media has been very sympathetic .
[ Firefighters pick up the pieces after attack on Plymouth ’ s 9-11 Memorial , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ February 24 , 2020 ] We ’ ll see how long that lasts as the hate ramps up for the 400th Anniversary of the landing of the Pilgrim Fathers .

Earlier: 2020 Attacks on Plymouth Rock (And The Historic American Nation) Have Begun
Plymouth, Massachusetts is an icon of the historical American nation so it should surprise no one that the recent defacement of Plymouth Rock and other Pilgrim monuments has been followed by an attack on the town’s 9-11 Memorial.
Authorities in Plymouth, Massachusetts, say the town’s 9/11 memorial has been vandalized a week after the Plymouth Rock memorial was defaced. A statue of a police officer standing alongside a firefighter was knocked over and damaged. Plymouth police are investigating the incident. "At first I was angry, then I was heartbroken and sad,” Former Plymouth Selectman Dick Quintal, who took out a second mortgage on his home to fund the construction of the memorial, told WCVB News. [9/11 memorial vandalized in Plymouth shortly after Plymouth Rock was tagged, by Julie Loncich, WCVB Boston, February 24, 2020]
So far, the local media has been very sympathetic. [Firefighters pick up the pieces after attack on Plymouth’s 9-11 Memorial, by Rich Harbert, Patriot Ledger, February 24, 2020] We’ll see how long that lasts as the hate ramps up for the 400th Anniversary of the landing of the Pilgrim Fathers.


vdare--2020-02-25--Progress! LEGAL Immigration Declines under President Trump

Tuesday ’ s New York Times front page includes an article titled “ Immigration By Legal Path Begins to Fall ” showing how President Trump ’ s efforts to reduce the foreign influx into America has begun to turn the tide .
We know already that Trump ’ s Remain in Mexico deal has severely chilled the asylum fraud since fewer than one percent of scammers have been admitted after the new procedure was implemented .
For a few years previous , every illegal alien was a “ victim ” and therefore eligible for asylum , but that ’ s @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
But the decrease of legal immigration is a surprise , since the world population continues to grow and will reach 8 billion in a few years .
So push factors remain , but apparently it makes a difference when the occupant of the White House is not dedicated to maximum foreigner influx .
Still , the future lies ahead , and it looks less American for us US citizens .
The best thing to do would be to end immigration entirely for many reasons .
Robots and AI will be doing millions @ @ @ @ @ @ @ we won ’ t need immigrants for those occupations .
Seriously , automation makes immigration obsolete .
Having millions of foreign residents has no advantage other than perhaps restaurants , and that ’ s hardly a reason to continue immigration — I ’ d rather eat boiled potatoes and burnt hamburger .
Some areas have become Spanish-speaking zones where you might as well be in Mexico or Cuba .
And language diversity is not a plus , it ’ s a danger when you don ’ t know what ’ s going on @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , judging from a painfully dry winter , so we don ’ t need to import any more water-users here — 39 million is more than enough .
So having fewer immigrants of any sort is a win for all Americans .
Let the foreigners fix their own countries as they once did .
Double win .
Here ’ s a reprint of the New York Times article : As Trump Barricades the Border , Legal Immigration Is Starting to Plunge , New York Times , February 24 , 2020 WASHINGTON — President @ @ @ @ @ @ @ travel bans and visa restrictions to refugee caps and asylum changes — have begun to deliver on a longstanding goal : Legal immigration has fallen more than 11 percent and a steeper drop is looming .
While Mr. Trump highlights the construction of a border wall to stress his war on illegal immigration , it is through policy changes , not physical barriers , that his administration has been able to diminish the flow of migrants into the United States .
Two more measures took effect Friday and Monday , an expansion of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ on green card applicants .
“ He ’ s really ticking off all the boxes .
It ’ s kind of amazing , ” said Sarah Pierce , a policy analyst with the Migration Policy Institute , a nonpartisan research group .
“ In an administration that ’ s been perceived to be haphazard , on immigration they ’ ve been extremely consistent and barreling forward.
” The number of people who obtained lawful permanent residence , besides refugees who entered the United States in previous years , declined to 940,877 in the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 2016 fiscal year , according to an analysis of government data by the National Foundation for American Policy .
Four years ago , legal immigration was at its highest level since 2006 , when 1,266,129 people obtained lawful permanent residence in the United States .
And immigration experts say new policies will accelerate the trend .
A report released on Monday by the foundation projected a 30 percent plunge in legal immigration by 2021 and a 35 percent dip in average annual growth of the U.S. labor force .
Trump administration officials have @ @ @ @ @ @ @ be based on merit and skills , not the family-based system that for decades has allowed immigrants to bring their spouses and children to live with them .
“ President Trump continues to deliver on his promise to the American people to enforce our nation ’ s immigration laws , ” Kenneth T. Cuccinelli , the acting secretary of homeland security , wrote in The Hill , a Capitol Hill newspaper , on Monday .
The rapid declines come as record-low unemployment has even the president ’ s acting chief of staff , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in Britain that “ we are desperate , desperate for more people.
” But the doors have been blocked in multiple ways .
Those fleeing violence or persecution have found asylum rules tightened and have been forced to wait in squalid camps in Mexico or sent to countries like Guatemala as their cases are adjudicated .
People who have languished in displaced persons camps for years face an almost impossible refugee cap of 18,000 this year , down from the 110,000 that President Barack Obama set in 2016 .
Family members hoping to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Syria , Yemen and Somalia were blocked by the president ’ s travel ban .
Increased vetting and additional in-person interviews have further winnowed foreign travelers .
The number of visas issued to foreigners abroad looking to immigrate to the United States has declined by about 25 percent , to 462,422 in the 2019 fiscal year from 617,752 in 2016 .
And two more tough policies have now taken effect .
The expansion of Mr. Trump ’ s travel ban to six additional countries , including Africa ’ s most populous , Nigeria @ @ @ @ @ @ @ wealth test , which effectively sets a wealth floor for would-be immigrants , started on Monday .
Those will reshape immigration in the years to come , according to experts .
The travel and visa bans , soon to cover 13 countries , are almost sure to be reflected in immigration numbers in the near future .
Of the average of more than 537,000 people abroad granted permanent residency from 2014 to 2016 , including through a diversity lottery system , nearly 28,000 , or 5 percent , would be blocked under the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , according to an analysis of State Department data .
But the wealth test — or public charge rule — may prove the most consequential change yet .
Around two-thirds of the immigrants who obtained permanent legal status from 2012 to 2016 could be blocked from doing so under the new rule , which denies green cards to those who are likely to need public assistance , according to a study by the Migration Policy Institute .
( Continues )

Tuesday’s New York Times front page includes an article titled “Immigration By Legal Path Begins to Fall” showing how President Trump’s efforts to reduce the foreign influx into America has begun to turn the tide.
We know already that Trump’s Remain in Mexico deal has severely chilled the asylum fraud since fewer than one percent of scammers have been admitted after the new procedure was implemented. For a few years previous, every illegal alien was a “victim” and therefore eligible for asylum, but that’s pretty much over under the current administration.
But the decrease of legal immigration is a surprise, since the world population continues to grow and will reach 8 billion in a few years. So push factors remain, but apparently it makes a difference when the occupant of the White House is not dedicated to maximum foreigner influx.
Still, the future lies ahead, and it looks less American for us US citizens. The best thing to do would be to end immigration entirely for many reasons.
Robots and AI will be doing millions of jobs in a few years so we won’t need immigrants for those occupations. Seriously, automation makes immigration obsolete.
Having millions of foreign residents has no advantage other than perhaps restaurants, and that’s hardly a reason to continue immigration — I’d rather eat boiled potatoes and burnt hamburger.
Some areas have become Spanish-speaking zones where you might as well be in Mexico or Cuba. And language diversity is not a plus, it’s a danger when you don’t know what’s going on.
California seems headed for another drought, judging from a painfully dry winter, so we don’t need to import any more water-users here — 39 million is more than enough.
So having fewer immigrants of any sort is a win for all Americans. Let the foreigners fix their own countries as they once did. Double win.
Here’s a reprint of the New York Times article:


vdare--2020-02-25--Palestinian Female Who Shouted "I'm Going To Stab Everyone"  On Airplane Called A "North Carolina Wo

Palestinian Female Who Shouted "I'm Going To Stab Everyone"  On Airplane Called A "North Carolina Woman" By DOJ

I assume the Palestinian woman in this story is not some kind of organized terrorist , but just a normal Palestinian immigrant who hates America and Americans , thinks terrorism is cool , and has assimilated enough to Western culture to consume lots and lots of alcohol .
However , the DOJ press release that the blog Israelly Cool is linking to , Woman Arrested for Assaulting a Federal Air Marshal [ February 24 , 2020 ] starts out : I can only conclude that this is the result of the DOJ hiring graduates of journalism school to do its @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a Palestinian , they should say if she 's a Palestinian-American , or if not , what her citizenship was .
The press release goes on to say According to court documents , at some point during the flight , flight attendants were alerted to the activation of a flight lavatory smoke detector , encountered Mustafa in the lavatory and directed her to not smoke aboard the aircraft and return to her seat .
After flight attendants observed Mustafa crying and visibly upset , Mustafa stated that she was flying home [ from @ @ @ @ @ @ @ family , but they had died in a car accident caused by a drunk driver .
After being relocated a second time , a Federal Air Marshal observed Mustafa leave her seat and walk to the rear of the plan while striking the flint of a lighter .
As a flight attendant attempted to stop Mustafa from entering the lavatory , Mustafa pushed the flight attendant and tried to close the lavatory .
At that time , two Federal Air Marshals interceded .
Mustafa allegedly refused to comply and was combative , including @ @ @ @ @ @ @ kicking at the Federal Air Marshals .
After being handcuffed and relocated next to a Federal Air Marshal , Mustafa stated that , “ I ’ m going to stab everyone on this plane .
Then kill myself .
I ’ m Palestinian !
That ’ s how we get down.
” Upon landing at Dulles International Airport , an FBI agent interviewed Mustafa about the incident , including her statement regarding her family being killed by a drunk driver .
Mustafa allegedly admitted the story was a lie .
Unfortunately , plane @ @ @ @ @ @ @ associated with [ P ] alestinians , thanks to the actions of some of their terrorists .
But so has concocting stories and lying , so in that regard she has a point .
Soon , drunken assaults on planes might be associated with them and their supporters too .
By the way , there ’ s an aspect of this story , not being reported elsewhere , which makes it even more disturbing .
The Five Fast Facts people at Heavy.com reached out to the school , which said that a Dana @ @ @ @ @ @ @ years ago.
” She probably is a native-born American citizen , but according to her LinkedIn page , she speaks some Arabic , and studied abroad at the University of Jordan , `` Field Of Study Political Science : Concentration , Palestinian Israeli Conflict , '' which is to say learning to sympathize with terrorists .
Note that if an American were to say something like `` I 'm concerned that this woman is going to stab everyone on the plane , and then kill herself , because she 's a Palestinian , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ '' , that person would be a racist .

I assume the Palestinian woman in this story is not some kind of organized terrorist, but just a normal Palestinian immigrant who hates America and Americans, thinks terrorism is cool, and has assimilated enough to Western culture to consume lots and lots of alcohol.
“I’m going to stab everyone on this plane. Then kill myself. I’m Palestinian! That’s how we get down.” https://t.co/JDygcjLF84 — (((David Lange))) (@Israellycool) February 25, 2020
However, the DOJ press release that the blog Israelly Cool is linking to, Woman Arrested for Assaulting a Federal Air Marshal [February 24, 2020] starts out:
A North Carolina woman made her initial appearance in federal court today on charges of allegedly assaulting a Federal Air Marshal.
I can only conclude that this is the result of the DOJ hiring graduates of journalism school to do its press releases. She says she's a Palestinian, they should say if she's a Palestinian-American, or if not, what her citizenship was.
The press release goes on to say
According to court documents, at some point during the flight, flight attendants were alerted to the activation of a flight lavatory smoke detector, encountered Mustafa in the lavatory and directed her to not smoke aboard the aircraft and return to her seat. After flight attendants observed Mustafa crying and visibly upset, Mustafa stated that she was flying home [from Frankfurt, Germany] to see her family, but they had died in a car accident caused by a drunk driver. After being relocated a second time, a Federal Air Marshal observed Mustafa leave her seat and walk to the rear of the plan while striking the flint of a lighter. As a flight attendant attempted to stop Mustafa from entering the lavatory, Mustafa pushed the flight attendant and tried to close the lavatory. At that time, two Federal Air Marshals interceded. Mustafa allegedly refused to comply and was combative, including resisting being handcuffed, yelling, and kicking at the Federal Air Marshals. After being handcuffed and relocated next to a Federal Air Marshal, Mustafa stated that, “I’m going to stab everyone on this plane. Then kill myself. I’m Palestinian! That’s how we get down.” Upon landing at Dulles International Airport, an FBI agent interviewed Mustafa about the incident, including her statement regarding her family being killed by a drunk driver. Mustafa allegedly admitted the story was a lie.
David Lange at Israelly Cool writes
Unfortunately, plane terrorism and then killing yourself has been associated with [P]alestinians, thanks to the actions of some of their terrorists. But so has concocting stories and lying, so in that regard she has a point. Soon, drunken assaults on planes might be associated with them and their supporters too. By the way, there’s an aspect of this story, not being reported elsewhere, which makes it even more disturbing.
The Five Fast Facts people at Heavy.com reached out to the school, which said that a Dana Mustafa worked at the school “several years ago.”
She probably is a native-born American citizen, but according to her LinkedIn page, she speaks some Arabic, and studied abroad at the University of Jordan, "Field Of Study Political Science: Concentration, Palestinian Israeli Conflict," which is to say learning to sympathize with terrorists.
Note that if an American were to say something like "I'm concerned that this woman is going to stab everyone on the plane, and then kill herself, because she's a Palestinian, and that's how they get down", that person would be a racist.


vdare--2020-02-25--New York City Police Department to Dismantle DNA Profile System Because Too Many Samples Are from Bl

New York City Police Department to Dismantle DNA Profile System Because Too Many Samples Are from Black/Brown People (Making It an Obviously Racist System)

See , earlier NYPD 's 2019 Crime Report Shows Non-Whites Committed 97 % Of Homicides And 97.6 % Of Non-Fatal Shootings ... City Is 33 % White Mirror , mirror on the wall , which state in this increasingly divided union is the wokest of them all ?
If you guess New York , you ’ d be correct .
Which brings us to the latest move by New York City to make life easier for black and brown criminals ( at the expense of the law-abiding citizens of the Big Apple ) .
N.Y.P.D .
to Remove DNA Profiles @ @ @ @ @ @ @ say they will start expunging some of the 82,000 people in the database who have never been convicted of a crime , by New York Times , February 20 , 2020 Two years ago , detectives offered a 12-year-old boy they had arrested a McDonald ’ s soda during questioning .
When the boy left , the detectives took the straw , got his genetic profile and put it in a local database .
The child ’ s family had to petition a court to get it removed , the Legal Aid Society @ @ @ @ @ @ @ City has been amassing an immense local database of DNA , collecting samples not just from people convicted of crimes , but from people simply arrested or questioned , including minors .
The existence of the database , which has about 82,000 profiles , has drawn fire from civil liberties advocates , who point out it is hard to get a profile erased once it is put in and argue it violates the privacy rights of many innocent people .
Now , the police commissioner , Dermot F. Shea , seeking to quell @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that the New York Police Department is overhauling its rules for collecting and using DNA evidence , which is stored by New York City ’ s Chief Medical Examiner .
To start , the police are going to audit a database of 32,000 samples collected from people considered suspects in criminal investigations and flag for removal any samples more than two years old that have not been linked to an ongoing investigation or conviction .
Bob Barrows , the department ’ s director of legal operations , said that in the next few @ @ @ @ @ @ @ profiles in the database , known as the Local DNA Index System , as the department begins its review .
The new rules , first reported in the Wall Street Journal , also place curbs on the collection of DNA from teenagers and children .
Investigators will only be able to collect DNA from juveniles in connection with felonies , sex crimes , firearm crimes or hate crimes , not misdemeanors .
And they will not only have to get the consent of the minor , but they also must notify parents or @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
In the past , Mr. Barrows said , investigators were not required to obtain permission from a minor or guardian before walking away with a piece of DNA evidence .
A growing number of law enforcement agencies throughout the country — including police departments in Connecticut , California and Maryland — have amassed genetic databases that operate by their own rules , outside of state and federal guidelines , which tend to be far more strict .
Those databases have become the center of a debate over how to strike a balance @ @ @ @ @ @ @ DNA has become an increasingly common tool in investigations and prosecutions .
New York State law requires a conviction before someone ’ s DNA can be included in the state-operated DNA databank .
But databases built by local authorities are not subject to the state rules .
Announcing the changes for obtaining and storing DNA samples , Commissioner Shea said he hopes to build trust with New Yorkers while still continuing to collect evidence in ongoing criminal investigations .
“ As a Department , we have reformed policies and practices to support a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ also cultivating trust with the community , ” Commissioner Shea said in a statement .
“ These changes are common sense and incorporate feedback we have gathered without compromising the ability for officers to successfully identify criminals , build strong cases and bring justice for victims.
” But critics of the department said the changes do not go far enough .
“ We need basic transparency in the database , ” said Donovan Richards , the chairman of the City Council committee with oversight of the police .
“ This is a step @ @ @ @ @ @ @ needs to be done.
” Mr. Richards said he wants to see one database under one set of rules , instead of two databases controlled by local and state officials .
“ This idea is half-baked , ” Mr. Richards said .
“ It still affects black and brown people disproportionately , people who have not been convicted of anything.
” But Mr. Barrows , the police department official , said the city needs its own index to solve cases faster .
“ We want to keep local control of our investigations , @ @ @ @

See, earlier NYPD's 2019 Crime Report Shows Non-Whites Committed 97% Of Homicides And 97.6% Of Non-Fatal Shootings... City Is 33% White
Mirror, mirror on the wall, which state in this increasingly divided union is the wokest of them all?
If you guess New York, you’d be correct.
Recall:
Which brings us to the latest move by New York City to make life easier for black and brown criminals (at the expense of the law-abiding citizens of the Big Apple).
N.Y.P.D. to Remove DNA Profiles of Non-Criminals From Database: The police say they will start expunging some of the 82,000 people in the database who have never been convicted of a crime, by New York Times, February 20, 2020
Two years ago, detectives offered a 12-year-old boy they had arrested a McDonald’s soda during questioning. When the boy left, the detectives took the straw, got his genetic profile and put it in a local database. The child’s family had to petition a court to get it removed, the Legal Aid Society said.
For years, New York City has been amassing an immense local database of DNA, collecting samples not just from people convicted of crimes, but from people simply arrested or questioned, including minors.
The existence of the database, which has about 82,000 profiles, has drawn fire from civil liberties advocates, who point out it is hard to get a profile erased once it is put in and argue it violates the privacy rights of many innocent people.
Now, the police commissioner, Dermot F. Shea, seeking to quell some of the criticism, has announced that the New York Police Department is overhauling its rules for collecting and using DNA evidence, which is stored by New York City’s Chief Medical Examiner.
To start, the police are going to audit a database of 32,000 samples collected from people considered suspects in criminal investigations and flag for removal any samples more than two years old that have not been linked to an ongoing investigation or conviction.
Bob Barrows, the department’s director of legal operations, said that in the next few weeks he expects to remove thousands of profiles in the database, known as the Local DNA Index System, as the department begins its review.
The new rules, first reported in the Wall Street Journal, also place curbs on the collection of DNA from teenagers and children. Investigators will only be able to collect DNA from juveniles in connection with felonies, sex crimes, firearm crimes or hate crimes, not misdemeanors. And they will not only have to get the consent of the minor, but they also must notify parents or guardians, who can object to it.
In the past, Mr. Barrows said, investigators were not required to obtain permission from a minor or guardian before walking away with a piece of DNA evidence.
A growing number of law enforcement agencies throughout the country — including police departments in Connecticut, California and Maryland — have amassed genetic databases that operate by their own rules, outside of state and federal guidelines, which tend to be far more strict.
Those databases have become the center of a debate over how to strike a balance between civil rights and crime-fighting, as DNA has become an increasingly common tool in investigations and prosecutions.
New York State law requires a conviction before someone’s DNA can be included in the state-operated DNA databank. But databases built by local authorities are not subject to the state rules.
Announcing the changes for obtaining and storing DNA samples, Commissioner Shea said he hopes to build trust with New Yorkers while still continuing to collect evidence in ongoing criminal investigations.
“As a Department, we have reformed policies and practices to support a system that is fair and effective while also cultivating trust with the community,” Commissioner Shea said in a statement. “These changes are common sense and incorporate feedback we have gathered without compromising the ability for officers to successfully identify criminals, build strong cases and bring justice for victims.”
But critics of the department said the changes do not go far enough. “We need basic transparency in the database,” said Donovan Richards, the chairman of the City Council committee with oversight of the police. “This is a step in the right direction, but more needs to be done.”
Mr. Richards said he wants to see one database under one set of rules, instead of two databases controlled by local and state officials.
“This idea is half-baked,” Mr. Richards said. “It still affects black and brown people disproportionately, people who have not been convicted of anything.”
But Mr. Barrows, the police department official, said the city needs its own index to solve cases faster.
“We want to keep local control of our investigations,” he said.


vdare--2020-02-25--Coronavirus Toll Shows That If There's Salvation For The West, It Probably Lies In Eastern Europe

A recent theme here at VDARE.com is the apparent racial selectivity of the coronavirus that causes the COVID-19 disease ; see here and prior posts linked therein .
It may be that northeast Asians are far more at risk of death from the virus than others .
A correspondent of mine sent around an Associated Press article [ Virus pushes beyond Asia , taking aim at Europe , Mideast , by Kim Tong-Hyung and Matt Sedensky , February 24 , 2020 ] with current , country-by-country statistics on cases and deaths .
See the table in the referenced article and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the two other pages forming the complete list .
Regarding those three pages , the correspondent summarized : 1 .
They are either China or geographically close to China 3 .
Or countries where the Chinese from ( 1 ) or ( 2 ) above take their connecting flights 4 .
Or countries in Western Europe that replace their indigenous population with `` migrants '' from Asia and Africa What there is n't in the list is a single country from what I call `` The Camp of the Sane '' —i.e.
, @ @ @ @ @ @ @ diversity is not a beautiful strength , the global village is scorned , and kindergarten children do n't receive lectures in [ homosexual ] sex from contracted trannies .
`` The Camp of the Sane '' —that 's a great play on The Camp of the Saints , a familiar topic at VDARE.com !
( The expression `` Camp of The Sane '' should be credited to journalist Max Denken , whose book The Camp Of The Sane And The Camp Of The Saints will be out soon . )
My correspondent was @ @ @ @ @ @ @ `` Visegrad group '' ( Poland , Hungary , Slovakia , and Czechia ) and , I think , to all three of the Baltic republics ( Estonia , Latvia , and Lithuania ) .
Because in another email wherein he called attention to a current article at Breitbart ( Lithuanian Immigrant to Bernie Supporters : ‘ They Should Go to a Socialist Country and Live There a While ’ , by John Binder , February 21 , 2020 ) , he summarized : The concept that `` reality was not optional , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ what Anonymous Attorney concluded here yesterday about white Americans : [ W ] hites have been—and still are—in the majority in a way that makes politics more abstract for them .
But as whites find themselves falling into the minority , being squeezed from education and employment , subject to violent crime , forced to live in ever-encroaching multiracial squalor , unable to speak freely and denied the same voting power as in years ago , this will start to change .
Politics for whites , as for other races , will become @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Yes , Politics is a Parlor Game For Whites—But It 's Becoming Less So Every Day , February 24 , 2020 ]

A recent theme here at VDARE.com is the apparent racial selectivity of the coronavirus that causes the COVID-19 disease; see here and prior posts linked therein. It may be that northeast Asians are far more at risk of death from the virus than others.
A correspondent of mine sent around an Associated Press article [Virus pushes beyond Asia, taking aim at Europe, Mideast, by Kim Tong-Hyung and Matt Sedensky, February 24, 2020] with current, country-by-country statistics on cases and deaths.
See the table in the referenced article and note the opportunity to click through to the two other pages forming the complete list. Regarding those three pages, the correspondent summarized:
1. They are either China or geographically close to China 2. Or countries where large expat Chinese communities live 3. Or countries where the Chinese from (1) or (2) above take their connecting flights 4. Or countries in Western Europe that replace their indigenous population with "migrants" from Asia and Africa What there isn't in the list is a single country from what I call "The Camp of the Sane"—i.e., the ex-"Eastern Bloc" where diversity is not a beautiful strength, the global village is scorned, and kindergarten children don't receive lectures in [homosexual] sex from contracted trannies.
"The Camp of the Sane"—that's a great play on The Camp of the Saints, a familiar topic at VDARE.com! (The expression "Camp of The Sane" should be credited to journalist Max Denken, whose book The Camp Of The Sane And The Camp Of The Saints will be out soon.) My correspondent was referring, of course, to the "Visegrad group" (Poland, Hungary, Slovakia, and Czechia) and, I think, to all three of the Baltic republics (Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania). Because in another email wherein he called attention to a current article at Breitbart (Lithuanian Immigrant to Bernie Supporters: ‘They Should Go to a Socialist Country and Live There a While’, by John Binder, February 21, 2020), he summarized:
As always, immigrants from EUROPEAN (and no other) countries where reality was not optional from 1939 to 1989 understand what 90%+ of Americans no longer do.
Emphasis added.
The concept that "reality was not optional," in turn, resonates nicely with what Anonymous Attorney concluded here yesterday about white Americans:


vdare--2020-02-25--Her Name Is Madison Harris: White Teenager Murdered by Five Blacks in Biloxi, Mississippi

PK NOTE : Their Lives Matter Too .
It ’ s a book you must pick up .
Names you @ @ @ @ @ stories you ’ ve never read about , all for one , unmentionable reason : @ @ @ @ @ Rest in peace , Madison .
Your life mattered too .
It ’ s highly @ @ @ @ @ read this , they ’ d be more outraged at us noticing patterns and documenting @ @ @ @ @ with her death itself .
She was a white teenager , living in the post-racial @ @ @ @ @ , where integration had occurred and members of the white working-class were beginning to emulate @ @ @ @ @ increasingly in appearance ) the culture of blacks .
Five blacks have now been arrested @ @ @ @ @ during a robbery attempt .
They were all teenagers .

PK NOTE: Their Lives Matter Too. It’s a book you must pick up. Names you’ve never encountered, stories you’ve never read about, all for one, unmentionable reason: black on white murder.
Rest in peace, Madison. Your life mattered too.
It’s highly probable were her family to read this, they’d be more outraged at us noticing patterns and documenting who/whom murdered Madison Harris than with her death itself.
She was a white teenager, living in the post-racial society of Biloxi, Mississippi, where integration had occurred and members of the white working-class were beginning to emulate in dress and speech (increasingly in appearance) the culture of blacks.
Five blacks have now been arrested and charged in her murder during a robbery attempt. They were all teenagers.
Five teens charged with capital murder in death of 16-year-old Biloxi girl, WLOX.com, February 25, 2020 Five teenagers are now charged with capital murder in the death of a 16-year-old Biloxi girl. The five juveniles were arrested Monday shortly after the shooting and accused in the death of Madison Harris.
The teenagers are identified as follows: Yakeshia L. Blackmon, 17; Willow O. Blackmon, 15; Jasmine Joy-Sade Kelley, 15; Jarvis Jermaine Cook, 17; and Jaquez Devonte Porter, 17. Police say the five Biloxi teens attempted to use a gun to rob Harris at a home in the 2000 block of Rustwood Drive, which is located just off Popps Ferry Road. An altercation took place and Harris was shot, said authorities. The five juveniles fled in multiple directions, leading police to canvas the neighborhood looking for them. Witness statements and evidence found at the scene of the murder led investigators to locate all five suspects shortly after the shooting and piece together what happened to Harris. A $1 million bond was set for all of the suspects except Jarvis Cook, who was already out on bond for an aggravated assault he is accused of committing last year in Gulfport. Cook is being held without bond. We aren’t supposed to Notice Madison Harris was a white female, and her five killers are black. In fact, in the current year, to notice such racial realities behind this murder is a far graver sin than the murder of Ms. Harris itself. Nonetheless, Her Name is Madison Harris. Were the races reversed, your death would be a national story, with the media trying to find ways to connect this modern-day lynching to Emmett Till. As is it, few outside of Biloxi and those reading this piece will ever stumble across how you died and who/whom took your life. There is no double standard in America, only The Standard, dictating white people have no collective interests or concerns, and that violent interracial crime can only be reported if a white person (thereby all white people in the USA are guilty) is the suspect. And remember: Their Lives Matter Too.
[Comment at Unz.com]


vdare--2020-02-24--SAID IN SPANISH: Mexico’s Murder Rate Is Soaring—Including The Peculiar Crime Of “Femicide.” Build T

SAID IN SPANISH: Mexico’s Murder Rate Is Soaring—Including The Peculiar Crime Of “Femicide.” Build The Wall!

Whatever Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador ( AMLO ) has done to help stem the tide of Central Americans crossing the U.S. border , he ’ s failed to bring down the country ’ s extraordinary murder rate .
And two high-profile murders in Mexico City—one a young woman and the other a little girl—are highlighting the problem of “ femicide ” in particular .
Our current immigration policy is importing this problem here .
We still need a wall !
Homicides in Mexico rose 2.7 percent in 2019 ; an astonishing 36,000 people were murdered , some 100 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ count in 2019 among its highest , by Mary Beth Sheridan , The Washington Post , January 21 , 2020 ] .
Mexico has the highest murder rate among Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development member states by far , at 24.8 per 100,000 .
The U.S. comes in second at a disgraceful 5.3 per 100,000—given immigration policy , not unrelated .
But “ femicide ” is currently the main problem for AMLO politically , as two recent cases demonstrate : • Ingrid Escamilla , 25 , was stabbed and murdered on February @ @ @ @ @ @ @ He partially skinned her and removed some of her organs and dumped them in a sewer [ Mexican Cops To Blame For Ingrid Escamilla 's Death , by Apeksha Bagchi , Latin Times , February 18 , 2020 ] .
The suspect wasn ’ t hard to catch .
Cops found him holding the knife…standing next to her body .
Then he confessed .
Mexican tabloids published photos of Escamilla ’ s body on their front pages [ A 25-year-old woman was brutally murdered and skinned in Mexico .
Then newspapers published photos @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and Natalie Gallon , CNN , February 14 , 2020 ] .
Worse thing is , Escamilla had filed a domestic violence complaint against the suspect boyfriend , but “ Mexican police didn ’ t bat an eyelash , ” Latin Times ’ Bagchi reported .
• Fatima Cecilia Aldrighett Anton , 7 , disappeared on February 11 after leaving her elementary school .
Her killers sexually assaulted her , stuffed her body in a plastic bag and dumped it in another borough [ Fátima sufrió abuso sexual y golpes , confirma FGJ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ beating , confirms Mexico City Attorney General ” ) , by Georgina Olson , Excelsior , February 19 , 2020 ] .
Surveillance videos showed that little Fatima left school with a woman whom she apparently knew .
She walked hand-in-hand through the city with the woman , so Fatima obviously trusted her [ Fátima conocía a la mujer que se la llevó : FGJ ( “ Fatima knew the Woman who Took Her : Mexico City Attorney General ” ) , Excelsior ( Notimex ) , February 18 , 2020 ] .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ on February 19 [ Suspects in abduction , murder of 7-year-old Mexican girl detained , AFP , February 20 , 2020 ] .
On February 12 , Excelsior published a feature about Ingrid Escamilla and seven other women murdered in Mexico City in the last six months , four in December alone [ Los feminicidios que han conmocionado a la CDMX ( “ The Femicides Which Have Shaken Mexico City ” ) , February 12 , 2020 ] .
The murders are not confined to the capital .
Femicide , perhaps significantly , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
But the wisdom of that is open to question for technical reasons [ ¿Cuándo un asesinato es tipificado como feminicidio en México ?
( “ When is a Murder Classified as a Femicide in Mexico ?
” ) , Excelsior , February 17 , 2020 ] .
It ’ s hard enough to punish murderers in Mexico without introducing requirements that might make convictions more difficult .
Mexico ’ s Attorney General Alejandro Gertz recognized this and proposed returning femicide to the category of homicide , but that was just a few @ @ @ @ @ @ @ He can forget that now—AMLO won ’ t allow it because the move might be “ misunderstood ” [ AMLO rejects Gertz Maneros proposal to eliminate crime , by Pedro Dominguez , EN24 , February 5 , 2020 ] .
Unsurprisingly , the murders have inspired some fed-up Mexicans to administer rough justice .
The same day as Escamilla ’ s brutal murder , cops arrived in the nick of time to rescue a man about to be lynched .
He attacked his ex-wife with a knife in front of their small daughter @ @ @ @ @ @ @ [ Intenta matar a su exesposa frente a su pequeña hija ; casi lo linchan ( “ Man Tries to Kill his Ex-Wife in Front of their Young Daughter and is Almost Lynched ” ) , by Gerardo Jimenez , Excelsior , February 12 , 2020 ] .
Meanwhile , feminists are up in arms , and not without justification .
Protests began after Escamilla ’ s murder , some just outside the stately National Palace , the ceremonial Mexican capitol where AMLO lives .
The protesters threw red paint on the building @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Queman , pintan y destruyen en marcha ; protestan por feminicidio de Ingrid Escamilla ( “ They Burn , They Paint , They Destroy in the March : They Protest for the Femicide of Ingrid Escamilla ” ) , Excelsior , February 15 , 2020 ] .
Some of the protests occurred during AMLO ’ s morning presser and could be heard inside [ Woman ’ s Grisly Murder in Mexico Puts AMLO on the Defensive , by Lorena Rios , Bloomberg , Feb. 14 , 2020 ] .
AMLO ’ s replies @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
He blamed the problem on corruption and “ root causes , ” and linked Fatima ’ s murder to “ neoliberalism , ” his stock term for predecessor regimes [ Versión estenográfica de la conferencia de prensa matutina ( “ Stenographic version of the morning press conference ” ) Gob.mx , February 17 , 2020 ] .
And in an extraordinarily tone-deaf comment , AMLO said that he didn ’ t want the “ femicides ” to distract from the upcoming raffle of the presidential airplane .
( AMLO refused to use @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , but when the aircraft didn ’ t receive any bids , he announced a raffle .
Then he decided to keep the jet and raffle off the value of the plane and award the proceeds to 100 winners [ Mexico abandons plan to offload presidential jet in raffle , The Guardian , February 7 , 2020 ] ) .
As bad as “ femicide ” is , murder itself is Mexico ’ s real security problem .
At AMLO ’ s news conference on January 21 , a reporter asked about the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ murder demands immediate action , not fretting about white-collar corruption , whatever the relationship between the two .
And while culprits in the murders of Fatima and Escamilla appear to have been caught , too few murderers are punished : The upshot on murders in Mexico : The rate is sky-high and rising , and the legal system , whatever AMLO ’ s good intentions , is unable to handle it .
Of course , Americans want that situation to improve .
But we can do nothing about it .
However , we @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the border .
American citizen Allan Wall ( email him ) moved back to the U.S.A. in 2008 after many years residing in Mexico .
Allan 's wife is Mexican , and their two sons are bilingual .
In 2005 , Allan served a tour of duty in Iraq with the Texas Army National Guard .
His VDARE.COM articles are archived here ; his Mexidata.info articles are archived here ; his News With Views columns are archived here ; and his website is here .

Whatever Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO) has done to help stem the tide of Central Americans crossing the U.S. border, he’s failed to bring down the country’s extraordinary murder rate. And two high-profile murders in Mexico City—one a young woman and the other a little girl—are highlighting the problem of “femicide” in particular. Our current immigration policy is importing this problem here. We still need a wall!
Homicides in Mexico rose 2.7 percent in 2019; an astonishing 36,000 people were murdered, some 100 per day [Mexico’s homicide count in 2019 among its highest, by Mary Beth Sheridan, The Washington Post, January 21, 2020]. Mexico has the highest murder rate among Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development member states by far, at 24.8 per 100,000. The U.S. comes in second at a disgraceful 5.3 per 100,000—given immigration policy, not unrelated.
But “femicide” is currently the main problem for AMLO politically, as two recent cases demonstrate:
Ingrid Escamilla, 25, was stabbed and murdered on February 9 by her 46-year-old live-in boyfriend. He partially skinned her and removed some of her organs and dumped them in a sewer [Mexican Cops To Blame For Ingrid Escamilla's Death, by Apeksha Bagchi, Latin Times, February 18, 2020]. The suspect wasn’t hard to catch. Cops found him holding the knife…standing next to her body. Then he confessed.
Mexican tabloids published photos of Escamilla’s body on their front pages [A 25-year-old woman was brutally murdered and skinned in Mexico. Then newspapers published photos of the body, by Rob Picheta and Natalie Gallon, CNN, February 14, 2020].
Worse thing is, Escamilla had filed a domestic violence complaint against the suspect boyfriend, but “Mexican police didn’t bat an eyelash,” Latin Times’ Bagchi reported.
Fatima Cecilia Aldrighett Anton, 7, disappeared on February 11 after leaving her elementary school. Her killers sexually assaulted her, stuffed her body in a plastic bag and dumped it in another borough [Fátima sufrió abuso sexual y golpes, confirma FGJ (“Fatima suffered sexual abuse and beating, confirms Mexico City Attorney General”), by Georgina Olson, Excelsior, February 19, 2020].
Surveillance videos showed that little Fatima left school with a woman whom she apparently knew. She walked hand-in-hand through the city with the woman, so Fatima obviously trusted her [Fátima conocía a la mujer que se la llevó: FGJ (“Fatima knew the Woman who Took Her: Mexico City Attorney General”), Excelsior (Notimex), February 18, 2020].
Cops arrested the woman and her husband on February 19 [Suspects in abduction, murder of 7-year-old Mexican girl detained, AFP, February 20, 2020].
On February 12, Excelsior published a feature about Ingrid Escamilla and seven other women murdered in Mexico City in the last six months, four in December alone [Los feminicidios que han conmocionado a la CDMX (“The Femicides Which Have Shaken Mexico City”), February 12, 2020].
The murders are not confined to the capital.
Femicide, perhaps significantly, is a specific crime under Mexican law. But the wisdom of that is open to question for technical reasons [¿Cuándo un asesinato es tipificado como feminicidio en México? (“When is a Murder Classified as a Femicide in Mexico?”), Excelsior, February 17, 2020]. It’s hard enough to punish murderers in Mexico without introducing requirements that might make convictions more difficult.
Mexico’s Attorney General Alejandro Gertz recognized this and proposed returning femicide to the category of homicide, but that was just a few days before the murder of Escamilla. He can forget that now—AMLO won’t allow it because the move might be “misunderstood” [AMLO rejects Gertz Maneros proposal to eliminate crime, by Pedro Dominguez, EN24, February 5, 2020].
Unsurprisingly, the murders have inspired some fed-up Mexicans to administer rough justice. The same day as Escamilla’s brutal murder, cops arrived in the nick of time to rescue a man about to be lynched. He attacked his ex-wife with a knife in front of their small daughter; neighbors were uninterested in a trial [Intenta matar a su exesposa frente a su pequeña hija; casi lo linchan (“Man Tries to Kill his Ex-Wife in Front of their Young Daughter and is Almost Lynched”), by Gerardo Jimenez, Excelsior, February 12, 2020].
Meanwhile, feminists are up in arms, and not without justification. Protests began after Escamilla’s murder, some just outside the stately National Palace, the ceremonial Mexican capitol where AMLO lives. The protesters threw red paint on the building’s old colonial wooden doors [Queman, pintan y destruyen en marcha; protestan por feminicidio de Ingrid Escamilla (“They Burn, They Paint, They Destroy in the March: They Protest for the Femicide of Ingrid Escamilla”), Excelsior, February 15, 2020]. Some of the protests occurred during AMLO’s morning presser and could be heard inside [Woman’s Grisly Murder in Mexico Puts AMLO on the Defensive, by Lorena Rios, Bloomberg, Feb. 14, 2020].
AMLO’s replies to questions about the murders were unimpressive. He blamed the problem on corruption and “root causes,” and linked Fatima’s murder to “neoliberalism,” his stock term for predecessor regimes [Versión estenográfica de la conferencia de prensa matutina (“Stenographic version of the morning press conference”) Gob.mx, February 17, 2020].
And in an extraordinarily tone-deaf comment, AMLO said that he didn’t want the “femicides” to distract from the upcoming raffle of the presidential airplane.
(AMLO refused to use the jet and planned to sell it, but when the aircraft didn’t receive any bids, he announced a raffle. Then he decided to keep the jet and raffle off the value of the plane and award the proceeds to 100 winners [Mexico abandons plan to offload presidential jet in raffle, The Guardian, February 7, 2020]).
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As bad as “femicide” is, murder itself is Mexico’s real security problem. At AMLO’s news conference on January 21, a reporter asked about the murder stats. He replied:
I think that we have to continue fighting crime, these organizations [drug cartels]. We are putting the same importance on white collar crime, because … the principal problem in Mexico is corruption, political corruption. … [T]he greatest harm to Mexico has been done by white collar criminals. [Versión estenográfica de la conferencia de prensa matutina (“Stenographic Version of the Morning Press Conference”) Gob.mx].
But murder demands immediate action, not fretting about white-collar corruption, whatever the relationship between the two. And while culprits in the murders of Fatima and Escamilla appear to have been caught, too few murderers are punished:
The impunity rate for murder in Mexico is 89%. That is to say that 1 of each 10 murders is resolved. In 11 states, the impunity for murder surpasses 91% and in 7 it is 95%. [Impunidad en homicidio doloso en México: Reporte 2019 (“Impunity in intentional homicide in Mexico: Report 2019”), by Guillermo Raúl Zepeda Lecuona y Paola Jiménez Rodríguez, Impunidad Cero, December 2019]
The upshot on murders in Mexico: The rate is sky-high and rising, and the legal system, whatever AMLO’s good intentions, is unable to handle it.
Of course, Americans want that situation to improve. But we can do nothing about it.
However, we can stop the problem from spilling across the border.
Build the wall!
American citizen Allan Wall (email him) moved back to the U.S.A. in 2008 after many years residing in Mexico. Allan's wife is Mexican, and their two sons are bilingual. In 2005, Allan served a tour of duty in Iraq with the Texas Army National Guard. His VDARE.COM articles are archived here; his Mexidata.info articles are archived here; his News With Views columns are archived here; and his website is here.


vdare--2020-02-24--A Nebraska Reader Reports That Interracial (I. E. Black) Violence At A Girls' Basketball Game In Neb

A Nebraska Reader Reports That Interracial (I. E. Black) Violence At A Girls' Basketball Game In Nebraska Is Being Blamed On Trump

Sean Hannity and the Fox MAGA crew repeat that Trump is good for minorities because he has lowered their unemployment @ @ @ @ @ that to a minority is now a microaggression Earlier this month the vibrant Lincoln High @ @ @ @ @ a “ hostile ” environment in Fremont , Nebraska The Lincoln Journal-Star ( aka Buffett @ @ @ @ @ Fremont student taunted the Lincoln High team with racial slurs .
The Fremont kids threw @ @ @ @ @ girls and the Lincoln High girls responded with punches .
[ School officials addressing fallout @ @ @ @ @ LHS-Fremont girls basketball game , by Margaret Reist February 19 , 2020 ] The Lincoln @ @ @ @ @ , right ) posted on Facebook that some Fremont fans came to the game wearing @ @ @ @ @ the horror ! )
stated that Trump was good for black employment .
Neither the @ @ @ @ @ coach 's Facebook post directly states that a Trump supporter called a Lincoln High player @ @ @ @ @ by association is enough .
See previous letters by the same reader .

From: Dale Gribble [Email him]
Sean Hannity and the Fox MAGA crew repeat that Trump is good for minorities because he has lowered their unemployment rate
It turns out telling that to a minority is now a microaggression
Earlier this month the vibrant Lincoln High School Girls Basketball Team encountered a “hostile” environment in Fremont, Nebraska
The Lincoln Journal-Star (aka Buffett Journal-Star) reported that a Fremont student taunted the Lincoln High team with racial slurs. The Fremont kids threw things at the Lincoln High girls and the Lincoln High girls responded with punches. [School officials addressing fallout from racially charged confrontation at LHS-Fremont girls basketball game, by Margaret Reist February 19, 2020]
School officials addressing fallout from racially charged confrontation at LHS-Fremont girls basketball game https://t.co/2B3eosZmQM #nebpreps — LJS Prep Extra (@PrepExtra) February 20, 2020
The Lincoln High coach (Dominique Kelley-Johnson, right) posted on Facebook that some Fremont fans came to the game wearing Trump gear and some (the horror!) stated that Trump was good for black employment.
It was one of the more hostile environments I’ve experienced with high school athletics and I saw several students wearing Trump 2020 shirts and hats. We had a grown man walk up to our players prior to the game and tell them, “Black and Latino unemployment rate is the lowest it's ever been." Guess what kind of hat he had on? Several of my players and student managers were distraught and balling [sic, perhaps she means "bawling"] by the altercation and so was I, because in that moment, I was stunned and I felt like I failed to protect them.
Neither the Lincoln Journal-Star article nor the coach's Facebook post directly states that a Trump supporter called a Lincoln High player a racial slur.
Guilt by association is enough.
See previous letters by the same reader.


vdare--2020-02-24--Patrick J. Buchanan: Will JFK's Party Become Sanders' (Socialist) Party?

Earlier by Patrick J. Buchanan : No , This Is Not JFK 's Democratic Party Sen. Bernie Sanders may be on the cusp of both capturing the Democratic nomination and transforming his party as dramatically as President Donald Trump captured and remade the Republican Party .
After his sweep of the Nevada caucuses , following popular vote victories in Iowa and New Hampshire , Sanders has the enthusiasm and the momentum , as the crucial battles loom in South Carolina on Saturday and Super Tuesday on March 3 .
The next eight days could decide it all .
And what @ @ @ @ @ @ @ might interrupt Sanders ' triumphal march to the nomination in Milwaukee ?
One possible pitfall is tonight 's debate in South Carolina .
Sanders will be taking constant fire as a socialist whose nomination could end in a rout in November , the loss of Speaker Nancy Pelosi 's House and the forfeit of any chance of recapturing the Senate .
Yet Sanders has often been attacked along these lines , to little avail .
He 's shown himself capable of defending his positions , and attacks on Sanders may simply expose his @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Buchanan , '' Richard Nixon once instructed me after I went to work for him in 1966 , `` Whenever you hear of a coalition forming up to 'Stop X , ' be sure to put your money on X . ''
Nixon recalled the Cleveland governors conference after Barry Goldwater defeated Nelson Rockefeller in the California primary .
There , on the Cuyahoga River , Govs .
Rockefeller , George Romney and Bill Scranton colluded absurdly to derail the Goldwater express .
A second event is the anticipated endorsement of Biden by @ @ @ @ @ @ @ black politician in South Carolina , who warns that nominating a socialist like Sanders invites electoral disaster .
Yet Clyburn 's endorsement could be a mixed blessing .
With it , Biden becomes the favorite in the primary where 60 % of the vote is African American .
If Biden can not beat Sanders there , in his firewall state , with Clyburn behind him , where does Biden win ?
Biden faces another problem : Billionaire Tom Steyer has pumped millions into South Carolina , hired black leaders and pledged to support @ @ @ @ @ @ @ with rising support among black voters who might otherwise have stood by Biden .
If he wins here , he is revived .
Yet , still , he lacks the broad and deep support Sanders has and the funds Michael Bloomberg has to be competitive in all 14 states holding primaries March 3 , including the megastates of Texas and California .
Sanders is predicting victories in both and has been gaining in the polls on Sen. Elizabeth Warren even in Massachusetts , her home state , which also holds its primary on @ @ @ @ @ @ @ With Biden , Buttigieg , Warren , Steyer and Klobuchar—none of whom has beaten Sanders in the popular vote anywhere , and all competing in South Carolina and Super Tuesday three days later—who beats a surging Sanders ?
When and where do they beat him ?
Bloomberg can probably buy enough votes to win some states .
But would the other Democratic candidates , who have fought for a year , stand aside to yield the field so this ex-Republican oligarch can save their party from Sanders ?
Why should they ?
And @ @ @ @ @ @ @ beat Sanders ?
Or beat Trump ?
Bloomberg 's first debate raises questions of what , besides his $ 60 billion , qualifies him to be on the stage or in the race .
The Democratic establishment worries that if the `` moderates '' in the race do not start falling on their swords , dropping out , and joining behind a single candidate—Biden , Buttigieg or Bloomberg—to challenge Sanders , they will lose the nomination to Sanders and the election to Trump .
The establishment is right to worry .
While Sanders @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , the odds he wins the nomination and reshapes the party are good and have been improving weekly .
What model does socialist Sanders have in mind for the Democratic Party ?
Something like the British Labour Party of Jeremy Corbyn .
`` Medicare for All . ''
Abolition of private health insurance .
War on Wall Street .
The Green New Deal .
Free college tuition .
Forgiveness of all student debt .
Open borders .
Supreme Court justices committed to Roe v. Wade .
Welfare for undocumented migrants .
A doubling @ @ @ @ @ @ @ an hour .
Winston Churchill once observed : `` Some regard private enterprise as if it were a predatory tiger to be shot .
Others look upon it as a cow that they can milk .
Only a handful see it for what it really is—the strong horse that pulls the whole cart . ''
Sanders sees free market capitalism as a fat goose that lays golden eggs and can be hectored , squeezed and beaten into producing lots more .
And those most widely receptive to his message—are the young .
Welcome @ @ @ @ @ @ @ by Bernie Sanders .
Patrick J. Buchanan needs no introduction to VDARE.COM readers ; his books State of Emergency : The Third World Invasion and Conquest of America , and Suicide of a Superpower : Will America Survive to 2025 ?
are available from Amazon.com .
Patrick J. Buchanan is the author of “ The Greatest Comeback : How Richard Nixon Rose From Defeat to Create the New Majority .
His latest book , published May , 2018 , is “ Nixon ’ s White House Wars : The Battles That Made and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ” See Peter Brimelow ’ s review : “ Wheel And Fight ” —Pat Buchanan ’ s Nixon Book Provides Road Map For Trump .

Earlier by Patrick J. Buchanan: No, This Is Not JFK's Democratic Party
Sen. Bernie Sanders may be on the cusp of both capturing the Democratic nomination and transforming his party as dramatically as President Donald Trump captured and remade the Republican Party.
After his sweep of the Nevada caucuses, following popular vote victories in Iowa and New Hampshire, Sanders has the enthusiasm and the momentum, as the crucial battles loom in South Carolina on Saturday and Super Tuesday on March 3.
The next eight days could decide it all.
And what is between now and next Tuesday that might interrupt Sanders' triumphal march to the nomination in Milwaukee?
One possible pitfall is tonight's debate in South Carolina.
Sanders will be taking constant fire as a socialist whose nomination could end in a rout in November, the loss of Speaker Nancy Pelosi's House and the forfeit of any chance of recapturing the Senate.
Yet Sanders has often been attacked along these lines, to little avail.
He's shown himself capable of defending his positions, and attacks on Sanders may simply expose his opponents' own political desperation.
"Buchanan," Richard Nixon once instructed me after I went to work for him in 1966, "Whenever you hear of a coalition forming up to 'Stop X,' be sure to put your money on X."
Nixon recalled the Cleveland governors conference after Barry Goldwater defeated Nelson Rockefeller in the California primary. There, on the Cuyahoga River, Govs. Rockefeller, George Romney and Bill Scranton colluded absurdly to derail the Goldwater express.
A second event is the anticipated endorsement of Biden by Rep. Jim Clyburn, the most influential black politician in South Carolina, who warns that nominating a socialist like Sanders invites electoral disaster.
Yet Clyburn's endorsement could be a mixed blessing.
With it, Biden becomes the favorite in the primary where 60% of the vote is African American. If Biden cannot beat Sanders there, in his firewall state, with Clyburn behind him, where does Biden win?
Biden faces another problem: Billionaire Tom Steyer has pumped millions into South Carolina, hired black leaders and pledged to support reparations for slavery. Polls show Steyer with rising support among black voters who might otherwise have stood by Biden.
For Biden, South Carolina is do-or-die.
If he wins here, he is revived. Yet, still, he lacks the broad and deep support Sanders has and the funds Michael Bloomberg has to be competitive in all 14 states holding primaries March 3, including the megastates of Texas and California.
Sanders is predicting victories in both and has been gaining in the polls on Sen. Elizabeth Warren even in Massachusetts, her home state, which also holds its primary on Super Tuesday.
The basic question: With Biden, Buttigieg, Warren, Steyer and Klobuchar—none of whom has beaten Sanders in the popular vote anywhere, and all competing in South Carolina and Super Tuesday three days later—who beats a surging Sanders? When and where do they beat him?
Bloomberg can probably buy enough votes to win some states. But would the other Democratic candidates, who have fought for a year, stand aside to yield the field so this ex-Republican oligarch can save their party from Sanders? Why should they?
And where is the evidence that Bloomberg can beat Sanders? Or beat Trump?
Bloomberg's first debate raises questions of what, besides his $60 billion, qualifies him to be on the stage or in the race.
The Democratic establishment worries that if the "moderates" in the race do not start falling on their swords, dropping out, and joining behind a single candidate—Biden, Buttigieg or Bloomberg—to challenge Sanders, they will lose the nomination to Sanders and the election to Trump.
The establishment is right to worry.
While Sanders' chances of becoming president are slim, the odds he wins the nomination and reshapes the party are good and have been improving weekly.
What model does socialist Sanders have in mind for the Democratic Party? Something like the British Labour Party of Jeremy Corbyn.
"Medicare for All." Abolition of private health insurance. War on Wall Street. The Green New Deal. Free college tuition. Forgiveness of all student debt. Open borders. Supreme Court justices committed to Roe v. Wade. Welfare for undocumented migrants. A doubling of the minimum wage to $15 an hour.
Winston Churchill once observed: "Some regard private enterprise as if it were a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look upon it as a cow that they can milk. Only a handful see it for what it really is—the strong horse that pulls the whole cart."
Sanders sees free market capitalism as a fat goose that lays golden eggs and can be hectored, squeezed and beaten into producing lots more.
And those most widely receptive to his message—are the young.
Welcome to the Party of JFK as reconceived by Bernie Sanders.
COPYRIGHT 2019 CREATORS.COM
Patrick J. Buchanan needs no introduction to VDARE.COM readers; his books State of Emergency: The Third World Invasion and Conquest of America, and Suicide of a Superpower: Will America Survive to 2025? are available from Amazon.com. Patrick J. Buchanan is the author of “The Greatest Comeback: How Richard Nixon Rose From Defeat to Create the New Majority.
His latest book, published May, 2018, is “Nixon’s White House Wars: The Battles That Made and Broke a President and Divided America Forever.”
See Peter Brimelow’s review: “Wheel And Fight”—Pat Buchanan’s Nixon Book Provides Road Map For Trump.


vdare--2020-02-27--This Day In VDARE.com History, 2013: Matt Yglesias, Mortgages, And Racism

Originally published on this day in 2013 .
This is the cover of Bloomberg BusinessWeek , with a story on @ @ @ @ @ could lead to another Minority Mortgage Meltdown : And here are two tweets from Matt @ @ @ @ @ trained economist is supposed to know more about the dangers of pushing mortgages on ( @ @ @ @ @ the rest of us do : In fact , Yglesias did know there was something @ @ @ @ @ mortgage speech : see Matt Yglesias And The Minority Mortgage Meltdown ( Not Quite ) @ @ @ @ @ wilfully blind to racial issues , to the point where when he got beaten up @ @ @ @ @ thugs , he thought it was about `` higher density '' in urban areas .
@ @ @ @ @ stories about the connection between the push for lending to minorities , whether they were @ @ @ @ @ Ten Years After : The Secret History of the 2000s , And The Minority Mortgage @

Originally published on this day in 2013.
This is the cover of Bloomberg BusinessWeek, with a story on relaxed mortgage standards, which could lead to another Minority Mortgage Meltdown:
And here are two tweets from Matt Yglesias, who as a trained economist is supposed to know more about the dangers of pushing mortgages on (unqualified) minority borrowers than the rest of us do:
Bloomberg Businessweek warns that lending is so out of control even non-white people can buy a house: poynter.org/wp-content/upl… — Matt Yglesias (@mattyglesias) February 28, 2013
If you like your business news spiced up with racism, turn to the latest @businessweek cover: slate.com/blogs/moneybox… — Matt Yglesias (@mattyglesias) February 28, 2013
In fact, Yglesias did know there was something wrong with George Bush's mortgage speech: see Matt Yglesias And The Minority Mortgage Meltdown (Not Quite) Foretold.
He's just wilfully blind to racial issues, to the point where when he got beaten up on the street by black thugs, he thought it was about "higher density" in urban areas.
So, here are some stories about the connection between the push for lending to minorities, whether they were qualified or not:


vdare--2020-02-27--Did Black Milwaukee Mass Shooter Anthony Ferrill Target Whites? (4 of 5 Dead Are White Males)

Previously on SBPDL : Did Gary Martin , the Black Mass Shooter in Aurora , Target Whites ( Four of Five Dead Are White Males ) ?
A mass shooting in Milwaukee , completely dropped from any coverage by the corporate media after the inconvenient truth of the shooters racial identity became known : a black male .
Narrative collapse , with no racist white male targeting innocent black bodies to blame .
Four of the five dead are white males , with the other victim being Hispanic : But here ’ s what we know about the possible racial @ @ @ @ @ @ @ outside of Milwaukee seems interested in discussing anymore .
[ Milwaukee Molson Coors shooter reportedly had long-running dispute with co-worker , NY Post , February 27 , 2020 ] : The man accused of opening fire at a Molson Coors plant in Milwaukee on Wednesday — killing five co-workers and himself — was a gun-loving electrician who had been in a long-running dispute with a co-worker , according to a report .
Anthony Ferrill , 51 , had frequently argued with one of the fatally shot victims , a fellow electrician , an @ @ @ @ @ @ @ The two co-workers had accused each other of going into each other 's offices and tampering with computer equipment or swiping tools , the source , who didn ’ t want to be named , told the outlet Thursday .
Ferrill also often watched movies on his phone during the day , something the other electrician had taken issue with , and believed he was being discriminated against because he was African American , the source added .
Ferrill had been fired earlier in the day but returned to the campus with a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , according to WBBM-TV .
He had worked as an electrician for more than 20 years — with about 17 of them being at the Milwaukee brewery , according to the Sentinel , which cited multiple sources and online employment records .
Anthony Ferrill ’ s motivations will be concealed and covered up , just as the black shooter ’ s ( Bryce Williams ) manifesto was hidden from public consumption after his on-air murder of white journalist Alison Parker and white cameraman Adam Ward in 2015 .
Williams ' goal was a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ completely drop the coverage of this story , because a black mass shooter and dead white males at his hands won ’ t generate the kind of anti-2nd Amendment sympathy necessary to cause more states to enact gun control .

Previously on SBPDL: Did Gary Martin, the Black Mass Shooter in Aurora, Target Whites (Four of Five Dead Are White Males)?
A mass shooting in Milwaukee, completely dropped from any coverage by the corporate media after the inconvenient truth of the shooters racial identity became known: a black male.
Narrative collapse, with no racist white male targeting innocent black bodies to blame.
Four of the five dead are white males, with the other victim being Hispanic:
Jesus Valle Jr., 33, Milwaukee
Gennady Levshetz, 61, Mequon
Trevor Wetselaar, 33, Milwaukee
Dana Walk, 57, Delafield
Dale Hudson, 60, Waukesha
But here’s what we know about the possible racial motivations behind the mass shooting no media outside of Milwaukee seems interested in discussing anymore. [Milwaukee Molson Coors shooter reportedly had long-running dispute with co-worker, NY Post, February 27, 2020]:
The man accused of opening fire at a Molson Coors plant in Milwaukee on Wednesday — killing five co-workers and himself — was a gun-loving electrician who had been in a long-running dispute with a co-worker, according to a report. Anthony Ferrill, 51, had frequently argued with one of the fatally shot victims, a fellow electrician, an employee told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. The two co-workers had accused each other of going into each other's offices and tampering with computer equipment or swiping tools, the source, who didn’t want to be named, told the outlet Thursday. Ferrill also often watched movies on his phone during the day, something the other electrician had taken issue with, and believed he was being discriminated against because he was African American, the source added. Ferrill had been fired earlier in the day but returned to the campus with a stolen name tag and a silenced gun, according to WBBM-TV. He had worked as an electrician for more than 20 years — with about 17 of them being at the Milwaukee brewery, according to the Sentinel, which cited multiple sources and online employment records.
The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel reported:
“A co-worker who asked not to be identified for fear of being disciplined said Ferrill believed he was being discriminated against because he was African American, and that he frequently argued with at least one of the victims. The co-worker said Ferrill often watched movies on his phone during the day, which the other man took issue with, and that the two accused each other of going into each others’ [sic] offices and stealing tools or tampering with computer equipment.”
Anthony Ferrill’s motivations will be concealed and covered up, just as the black shooter’s (Bryce Williams) manifesto was hidden from public consumption after his on-air murder of white journalist Alison Parker and white cameraman Adam Ward in 2015. Williams' goal was a race war.
The corporate media will completely drop the coverage of this story, because a black mass shooter and dead white males at his hands won’t generate the kind of anti-2nd Amendment sympathy necessary to cause more states to enact gun control.
Rest in peace, Dale, Dana, Trevor, Gennady and Jesus.
[Comment at Unz.com]


vdare--2020-02-29--Utah Legislature Votes to Make Polygamy No Longer Punishable by Jail

Utah advances plan to remove felony status for polygamy by LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press Friday , February 28th 2020 SALT LAKE CITY ( AP ) — Polygamy wouldn ’ t be a felony crime in Utah for the first time in 85 years under a bill that passed the Legislature on Friday and appears to be supported by the governor .
Lawmakers voted overwhelmingly for the proposal that supporters said will allow the 30,000 or so people living in the state ’ s polygamous communities to come out of the shadows and report abuses such as underage marriage by other @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , like everything else these days , decriminalizing polygamy is being framed as a Safety measure .
Republican Utah Gov .
Gary Herbert has indicated he will likely sign the proposal that makes polygamy between consenting adults an infraction , like a traffic offense , that carries no possible jail time .
… Are there any polygamous African Mormon immigrants ?
I don ’ t think Mormons by themselves have enough PR clout to push polygamy nationally , but if you team up Mormon money and competence with sacralized black refugees from Africa @ @ @

From WJLA:
Utah advances plan to remove felony status for polygamy
by LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press Friday, February 28th 2020 SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Polygamy wouldn’t be a felony crime in Utah for the first time in 85 years under a bill that passed the Legislature on Friday and appears to be supported by the governor. Lawmakers voted overwhelmingly for the proposal that supporters said will allow the 30,000 or so people living in the state’s polygamous communities to come out of the shadows and report abuses such as underage marriage by other polygamists without fear of prosecution….
So, like everything else these days, decriminalizing polygamy is being framed as a Safety measure.
Republican Utah Gov. Gary Herbert has indicated he will likely sign the proposal that makes polygamy between consenting adults an infraction, like a traffic offense, that carries no possible jail time. …
Are there any polygamous African Mormon immigrants? I don’t think Mormons by themselves have enough PR clout to push polygamy nationally, but if you team up Mormon money and competence with sacralized black refugees from Africa, well …
[Comment at Unz.com]