Illegal immigration pouring across the United States-Mexico border is likely to rise this year, according to a Princeton University expert, as President Trump’s border wall has yet to be constructed.

In an interview with the Washington Examiner‘s Paul Bedard, Princeton Policy Adviser President Steven Kopits said illegal immigration in 2018 is likely to increase by 70 percent — or about 590,000 border-crossings for 2018.

Such an increase, Kopits told the Washington Examiner, would put 2018 as the “second highest year since 2010” for illegal immigration on the southern border.

The report comes as Trump’s proposed border wall has yet to be paid for and constructed, leaving the southern border just as open as it was under former President Obama.

The spike in illegal immigration for this year would translate into suppressing wage gains for American workers, who over the last couple of months have enjoyed historic wage growth due to increased immigration enforcement and less illegal immigration in 2017 largely due to Trump’s rhetoric.

In Kopits’ most recent report on illegal immigration, he notes that California’s farm wages for Americans have increased because of slower illegal immigration throughout 2017 and increased enforcement, with the caveat, “However, the more enforcement succeeds, the higher wages will go, and the greater the incentive to evade the ban. In California, for example, tougher border enforcement has raised farm wages to $16 / hour, up perhaps $5 / hour over earlier times.”

Those wages gains, though, risk being depleted this year. Also running the risk of being depleted is history-making wage growth for American workers in the construction industry, the garment industry, for workers employed at small businesses, and black Americans.

As Breitbart News most recently reported, businesses such as Walmart, Dollar Tree, Target, Foot Locker, J.C. Penney, Bojangles, Abercrombie & Fitch, Ross, and Burlington Coat Factory have mentioned that there is pressure for them to raise Americans’ wages in Trump’s tightened labor market.

But, should illegal immigration, along with legal immigration levels, continue – where the U.S. admits more than one million foreign nationals to the country every year — the wage pressure currently on corporations could be ended.

Already, Americans have seen stagnant wage growth as border-crossings have continued to increase under Trump. For example, in February 2018, the number of illegal aliens apprehended at the southern border increased by more than 2.5 percent.

At the same time, wage growth for Americans has become stagnant again, as Reuters noted:

Wage growth is watched closely by the Fed as evidence of the labor market’s strength, and at 2.6 percent year over year remains “disappointing…It is still too soon to declare full employment,” said Elise Gould, a senior economist at the Economic Policy Institute.

For the left, Jamiel Shaw Sr. is a walking nightmare.

He’s a black man who’s lost his son to exactly the kind of illegal immigrant crime that liberal policies make so prevalent in the United States.

And he’s not afraid to speak truth to power — especially to the leader of one of country’s most notorious sanctuary cities.

In an appearance on “Fox & Friends” Friday, Shaw made no bones about his case against Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf, a woman who made national headlines last month by warning illegal immigrants in her city that a raid was coming by agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

“You know, it was just disgusting,” Shaw told host Steve Doocy. “Her job is to protect the citizens, the American citizens, you know. And for her to take a stand like that, she’s allowing Americans to be murdered.”

Those are the kinds of facts Democrats have to defend against. It’s a job they don’t mind doing when the accusers are white men — like Attorney General Jeff Sessions or President Donald Trump. Then the liberals can scream “racism” and try to avoid the argument all together.

But when the accusing finger is being pointed by a man like Jamiel Shaw Sr., it’s not so easy.

That’s because there is no Jamiel Shaw Jr. living anymore. The boy died when he was only 17, shot to death by an illegal immigrant from Mexico in 2008.

Shaw Sr. knows the kind of toll illegal immigrant crime is taking on communities in America, particularly low-income black and Hispanic communities.

And he knows how it hurts crime victims and their families when officials like Schaaf help illegals avoid the law.

“She has blood on her hands because she could have easily just let them go into the jail system and capture those criminals,” Shaw told Doocy. “But she allowed them to come out, and then for people to be murdered and raped and robbed and identity theft. That’s all on her and people like her.”

Check out Shaw’s “Fox & Friends” appearance here.

RELATED: California Pushes Illegal Immigration to Stunning New Level With Appointment to State Office

Liberals, of course, lionize Schaaf. The New York Times published a flattering profile of the mayor, and noted that the friction with Trump’s ICE agents and the Justice Department could only help her re-election bid in the progressive city.

But Shaw and parents of Americans who’ve been victimized or killed by illegal aliens think Schaaf should be prosecuted for helping illegals who make victims of American citizens, according to Fox News.

In Friday’s interview, Shaw tied the subject into the current hysteria over school safety sweeping the country after the Parkland, Florida, school shooting on Feb. 14. He said new gun laws aren’t the answer the country needs.

“Right now, you’re hearing everybody demanding to be safe in their schools and their communities,” he said. “When our kids are murdered, and we demand to be safe, we’re all racists and bigots, and because Trump supports us, we’re all bad people.

“The guy who killed my son was on his third gun charge!” he exclaimed. “But they don’t care if illegal aliens carry guns and kill our kids.”

He also mocked House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, who used her weekly news conference Thursday to complain that the eight prototypes of a border wall between the United States and Mexico are all too big, according to The Washington Times.

“She’s crazy anyway, Nany Pelosi is,” Shaw said. “If they would have had a wall like that, maybe the people who brought their illegal alien son over her to murder my son, it would never happen. But I guarantee you, if someone in her family was murdered by an illegal, I guarantee you should would go hog-wild, building a wall to the moon if she had to.”

Now, calling Nancy Pelosi “crazy” is really speaking truth to liberal power. And it’s why a man like Jamiel Shaw Sr. is a walking nightmare for the left.

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Angela Merkel has again insisted Islam is part of German culture, speaking out to contradict Interior Minister Horst Seehofer after he stressed the nation’s Christian heritage.

“Islam does not belong to Germany. Germany has been shaped by Christianity,” the Christian Social Union (CSU) Bavarian leader told Bild on Friday, pointing to the church’s influence on everyday life and culture.

“These aspects include shops being closed on Sundays, church holidays and rituals such as Easter, Pentecost and Christmas.”

“The Muslims who live with us obviously belong to Germany,” qualified Seehofer, adding that “this does not mean we give up our country-specific traditions and customs out of false consideration for others”.

After the minister’s pronouncement, Merkel moved quickly to assert that Islam “belongs to Germany”, a claim the Chancellor has made on several occasions since she opened Europe’s doors to seemingly limitless mass migration in 2015.

Merkel Admits ‘No-Go’ Zones Exist in Germany https://t.co/5Z4xKDb6u4

— Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) March 1, 2018

Appearing at a press conference after talks with Swedish prime minister Stefan Lofven on Friday, the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) leader noted four million residents of the country follow Islam, telling reporters: “These Muslims are also part of Germany and with them their religion, Islam, is just as much a part of Germany.”

As a critic of mass migration Seehofer, who is presiding over an expanded homeland ministry, has clashed with the Chancellor on previous occasions.

He announced at the weekend a number of immigration measures the ministry intends to put in place including “a master plan for faster deportations and increased fight against the causes of flight in the countries of origin.”.

Speaking on ZDF, the new Bavarian Prime Minister Markus Söder (CSU) backed Seehofer up over the controversy, telling the public broadcaster that while “Muslims who live and integrate here” can be said to ‘belong’ to Germany, “Islam is not part of the [nation’s] cultural history.”

Polls have consistently shown a majority of around 60 per cent of Germans reject the notion that Islam belongs to the country, and public discomfort towards the religion has increased significantly since the migrant crisis saw a massive rise in the number of Muslim newcomers.

The guns and ammunition of a 56-year-old Lighthouse Point, Florida, resident were confiscated by police in what is reportedly the first such seizure under gun control laws signed by Gov. Rick Scott (R) last week.

The Orlando Sentinel reports that “four firearms and 267 rounds of ammunition” were taken from the man, and he was “taken to a hospital for involuntary psychiatric treatment.”

The seized firearms were listed as “a Ruger LCP .380 pistol, an M2 Mauser .45 pistol, a Charter Arms .357 mag snub nose revolver and a Mossberg 500 12-gauge shotgun.”

The paper notes that “the civil ruling removing his access to guns and ammunition was granted under … new legislation — which permits confiscating guns from people who have not been committed but are deemed a potential risk to themselves or others, according to the order signed by Broward’s Chief Judge Jack Tuter.”

The confiscatory order also bars the man from making new firearm or ammunition purchases.

On March 9, Breitbart News reported that Gov. Scott signed a $400 million gun bill that includes orders which allows a family member or law enforcement to petition a judge to order the seizure of an individual’s firearms. The bill also put waiting periods in place for long gun purchases, raised the minimum purchase age for long gun purchases (from 18 to 21), and banned bump stocks.

When asked about the confiscatory order that resulted in the seizure of the Lighthouse Point resident’s firearms, Mayor Glenn Troast said, “This is not about the Second Amendment and it’s not about the NRA. We need commonsense gun laws and this is a commonsense gun law that gives police officers new tools they need to help us protect our community.”

AWR Hawkins is an award-winning Second Amendment columnist for Breitbart News, the host of the Breitbart podcast Bullets with AWR Hawkins, and the writer/curator of Down Range with AWR Hawkins, a weekly newsletter focused on all things Second Amendment, also for Breitbart News. He is the political analyst for Armed American Radio. Follow him on Twitter: @AWRHawkins. Reach him directly at awrhawkins@breitbart.com. Sign up to get Down Range at breitbart.com/downrange.

Did you ever wonder why white men like guns? Me neither, but this is a pressing issue for the left so they did some of that liberal science and came up with white men like guns because they are racist. This was in Scientific America which has “science” right in the title so you know it’s extra sciencey. Not only do white men like guns because they are racist it’s also because they hate Obama and that makes it doubly racist.

I don’t know if there was a time when Scientific America was a credible science journal, but they definitely are not now, publishing crap like this:

Why Are White Men Stockpiling Guns?

Research suggests it’s largely because they’re anxious about their ability to protect their families, insecure about their place in the job market and beset by racial fears

Racial fears? That sounds racist.

Since the 2008 election of President Obama, the number of firearms manufactured in the U.S. has tripled, while imports have doubled. This doesn’t mean more households have guns than ever before—that percentage has stayed fairly steady for decades. Rather, more guns are being stockpiled by a small number of individuals. Three percent of the population now owns half of the country’s firearms, says a recent, definitive study from the Injury Control Research Center at Harvard University.

So, who is buying all these guns—and why?

The short, broad-brush answer to the first part of that question is this: men, who on average possess almost twice the number of guns female owners do. But not all men. Some groups of men are much more avid gun consumers than others. The American citizen most likely to own a gun is a white male—but not just any white guy. According to a growing number of scientific studies, the kind of man who stockpiles weapons or applies for a concealed-carry license meets a very specific profile.

Get ready for it:

These are men who are anxious about their ability to protect their families, insecure about their place in the job market, and beset by racial fears. They tend to be less educated.

So according to “science” white men like guns because they are dumb racists? Apparently so, but these dumb rednecks aren’t just regular racists, they are Obama-hating racists:

When Northland College sociologist Angela Stroud studied applications for licenses to carry concealed firearms in Texas, which exploded after President Obama was elected, she found applicants were overwhelmingly dominated by white men.

But Stroud also discovered another motivation: racial anxiety. “A lot of people talked about how important Obama was to get a concealed-carry license: ‘He’s for free health care, he’s for welfare.’ They were asking, ‘Whatever happened to hard work?’” Obama’s presidency, they feared, would empower minorities to threaten their property and families.

They aren’t kidding. They are calling this hard science:

The insight Stroud gained from her interviews is backed up by many, many studies. A 2013 paper by a team of United Kingdom researchers found that a one-point jump in the scale they used to measure racism increased the odds of owning a gun by 50 percent. A 2016 study from the University of Illinois at Chicago found that racial resentment among whites fueled opposition to gun control. This drives political affiliations: A 2017 study in the Social Studies Quarterly found that gun owners had become 50 percent more likely to vote Republican since 1972—and that gun culture had become strongly associated with explicit racism.

This garbage keeps going and then turns into a call for strict gun control. After saying these racist white men with guns are actually a danger to society, we get this:

What are the solutions? That and many other studies suggest that restricting the flow of guns and ammunition would certainly save lives.

This is liberal science at its finest: white men like guns because they are racist, this armed racism is a threat to everyone, and so we must restrict white men from getting their hands on guns and ammo. These are the same crack liberal scientists who tell us that global warming causes snow and men in a dresses are really women.

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