A Virginia high school teacher, who refused to use the preferred pronouns of a student who claims to be transgender, was fired Thursday.
In a case that is believed to be the first of its kind in the state, the West Point School Board voted unanimously to fire Peter Vlaming, a French teacher in the district’s high school.
The Richmond Times-Dispatch reported Vlaming “resisted administrators’ orders to use male pronouns to refer to a ninth-grade student who had undergone a gender transition.”
“I can’t think of a worse way to treat a child than what was happening,” said West Point High Principal Jonathan Hochman, who testified that he instructed Vlaming to use male pronouns.
Vlaming, 47, had been teaching at the school for nearly seven years after living in France for more than a decade. He told administrators his Christian beliefs did not allow him to use male pronouns for a biologically female student – one he had previously taught when she identified as female.
While Vlaming agreed to use the student’s new, male name, he attempted to avoid using the pronouns – he, him, she, her – when referring to her. The student reportedly complained she felt uncomfortable and targeted with his refusal to use her preferred pronouns.
During a public hearing, Vlaming said he respects all his students and had attempted to resolve the situation based on “mutual tolerance.”
His effort, however, was not accepted, he said, putting him in the position of risking the loss of his job for having views held by “most of the world for most of human history.”
“That is not tolerance,” Vlaming said, according to the Times-Dispatch. “That is coercion.”
According to the news report, administrators agreed that Vlaming was discriminating against the student.
“That discrimination then leads to creating a hostile learning environment,” said West Point schools superintendent Laura Abel. “And the student had expressed that. The parent had expressed that. They felt disrespected.”
West Point High School administrators recommended to the board that Vlaming be fired, asserting he had violated the district’s nondiscrimination and harassment policies.
“Does this board expect its employees to follow its policies or not?” said attorney Stacy Haney, who was representing the school district.
“As detailed during the course of the public hearing, Mr. Vlaming was recommended for termination due to his insubordination and repeated refusal to comply with directives made to him by multiple WPPS administrators,” said Abel in a statement following the vote to terminate Vlaming.
The school district’s nondiscrimination policies reportedly include gender identity protections but no specific regulations on the use of pronouns.
Vlaming’s attorney also said the teacher also has constitutional rights – even though he is a public employee.
“One of those rights that is not curtailed is to be free from being compelled to speak something that violates your conscience,” Shawn Voyles said.
The Times-Dispatch reported:
The hearing drew an overflow crowd, made up largely of parents and students supporting a man they described as a model teacher who does extra duty as a soccer coach and bus driver. A stack of signs that read “Justice for Mr. Vlaming” sat by the door, but school officials said no signs would be allowed in the small meeting room that could fit only a fraction of the crowd.
LGBTQ-rights group Equality Virginia called for “statewide guidance” that will protect all students from discrimination at school.
The left is going to scream, and former first lady Michelle Obama is going to complain about her ‘legacy’ being dismantled, but President Trump has ended the era of ‘nasty, rotty‘ food, as it has been served up under the best of intentions with federal rules for all school food.
The U.S. school lunch program is making room on menus again for noodles, biscuits, tortillas and other foods made mostly of refined grains.
The Trump administration is scaling back contested school lunch standards implemented under the Obama administration including one that required only whole grains be served. The U.S. Department of Agriculture said Thursday only half the grains served will need to be whole grains, a change it said will do away with the current bureaucracy of requiring schools to obtain special waivers to serve select refined grains foods.
Low-fat chocolate milk will also be allowed again. Previously, only fat-free milk could be flavored, although that rule had also been temporarily waived. A final goal for limiting sodium will be scrapped as well, but schools will still be required to meet reduced sodium targets.
Horrors! Bad food. That kids like. Including all that highly recommended carby stuff still sitting there at the bottom of the government’s food pyramid.
The press is yelling ‘fat people’ and all that, imagining that lefty-union-controlled school authorities around the country are just itching to put refined flour and white sugar in front of the young ‘uns, alongside chocolate milk. Tortillas, maybe, given the high numbers of Mexican kids (but don’t dare serve them to a Honduran!), yet the reality is, the Trump administration is giving school districts some school choice in how to handle the food situation for the kids, not insisting they serve junk food for free.
The sad reality is, the Michelle Obama program did result in ‘nasty, rotty’ food for the kids and they threw the stuff out and imported ‘flaming hot’ cheeto fries instead, even setting up black markets for them. The kids didn’t like the supposedly ‘better for them’ food, courtesy of the central planners back in Washington, and bitterly complained that it didn’t serve the enhanced nutritional needs of student athletes, for one thing. It also wasn’t appetizing, and the kids tweeted pictures of the slop to send that message. Then they threw the slop away. Fact: It’s not nutrition if the kids are not going to eat it. The food went to waste and the kids went Galt.
Now, Michelle Obama’s new food menu might have tasted good when cooked in a refined test kitchen, but the assemblage of it, by low-information unionized cafeteria workers, tended to make the result less than optimal. But it wasn’t just the hash-slingers in hairnets who were to blame. Megan McArdle, who knows a thing or two about industrial processes, has written extensively on the scope of the problem and how chi-chi fresh-casual food is not easily translated to a school cafeteria setting with union workers. Here’s a worth-reading passage from her excellent book, ‘The Up Side Of Down, about how failures can lead to successes, writes about the logistical problems of cafeteria food and explains why the federal government needs to get out of the way. Here are a couple of well-worth-reading passages from Google Books:
She points out in a subsequent article (glad she is sticking to the topic) that the feds need to get out of the school lunch nutritional content business altogether and let local officials take care of it. If parents want kids to have nutritional meals, they have the wherewithal to make sure that happens. And as for kids, well, she has a gritty realism about what kids truly want – they’re going to ‘eat crap anyway’ (tell me that’s not true!) so the schools should focus on how to best deliver what they can most practically deliver in the most productive way for themselves as possible.
Kudos to President Trump for putting all this nonsense and letting the locals decide.
The left is going to scream, and former first lady Michelle Obama is going to complain about her ‘legacy’ being dismantled, but President Trump has ended the era of ‘nasty, rotty‘ food, as it has been served up under the best of intentions with federal rules for all school food.
The U.S. school lunch program is making room on menus again for noodles, biscuits, tortillas and other foods made mostly of refined grains.
The Trump administration is scaling back contested school lunch standards implemented under the Obama administration including one that required only whole grains be served. The U.S. Department of Agriculture said Thursday only half the grains served will need to be whole grains, a change it said will do away with the current bureaucracy of requiring schools to obtain special waivers to serve select refined grains foods.
Low-fat chocolate milk will also be allowed again. Previously, only fat-free milk could be flavored, although that rule had also been temporarily waived. A final goal for limiting sodium will be scrapped as well, but schools will still be required to meet reduced sodium targets.
Horrors! Bad food. That kids like. Including all that highly recommended carby stuff still sitting there at the bottom of the government’s food pyramid.
The press is yelling ‘fat people’ and all that, imagining that lefty-union-controlled school authorities around the country are just itching to put refined flour and white sugar in front of the young ‘uns, alongside chocolate milk. Tortillas, maybe, given the high numbers of Mexican kids (but don’t dare serve them to a Honduran!), yet the reality is, the Trump administration is giving school districts some school choice in how to handle the food situation for the kids, not insisting they serve junk food for free.
The sad reality is, the Michelle Obama program did result in ‘nasty, rotty’ food for the kids and they threw the stuff out and imported ‘flaming hot’ cheeto fries instead, even setting up black markets for them. The kids didn’t like the supposedly ‘better for them’ food, courtesy of the central planners back in Washington, and bitterly complained that it didn’t serve the enhanced nutritional needs of student athletes, for one thing. It also wasn’t appetizing, and the kids tweeted pictures of the slop to send that message. Then they threw the slop away. Fact: It’s not nutrition if the kids are not going to eat it. The food went to waste and the kids went Galt.
Now, Michelle Obama’s new food menu might have tasted good when cooked in a refined test kitchen, but the assemblage of it, by low-information unionized cafeteria workers, tended to make the result less than optimal. But it wasn’t just the hash-slingers in hairnets who were to blame. Megan McArdle, who knows a thing or two about industrial processes, has written extensively on the scope of the problem and how chi-chi fresh-casual food is not easily translated to a school cafeteria setting with union workers. Here’s a worth-reading passage from her excellent book, ‘The Up Side Of Down, about how failures can lead to successes, writes about the logistical problems of cafeteria food and explains why the federal government needs to get out of the way. Here are a couple of well-worth-reading passages from Google Books:
She points out in a subsequent article (glad she is sticking to the topic) that the feds need to get out of the school lunch nutritional content business altogether and let local officials take care of it. If parents want kids to have nutritional meals, they have the wherewithal to make sure that happens. And as for kids, well, she has a gritty realism about what kids truly want – they’re going to ‘eat crap anyway’ (tell me that’s not true!) so the schools should focus on how to best deliver what they can most practically deliver in the most productive way for themselves as possible.
Kudos to President Trump for putting all this nonsense and letting the locals decide.
“I mean, I didn’t really expect a fine, really don’t care about the fine,” Elliott told reporters. “It’s all for a good cause and we’re trying to bring awareness to the Salvation Army, and if the NFL doesn’t like that, then, I mean, that’s on them. I’ll pay their little fine.”
Elliott also said he plans to appeal the fine. The money from the fine goes to the NFL Player Care Foundation and the Gene Upshaw Players Association’s Players Assistance Trust.
The Thanksgiving Day gift was not Elliott’s first interaction with the big red kettle behind the end zone. Elliott also jumped into it during his rookie season, but he was not fined for that celebration. He donated $21,000 to the charity and watched Salvation Army donations spike.
“A lot of things they [the NFL] do define ridiculous. but that’s not really any of my business, not anything I can change,” Elliott said.
“So I’m just going to keep being focused on this season, focused on leading this team, focused on going out there and winning ballgames.”
Elliott and quarterback Dak Prescott each pledged $21,000 donations to the Salvation Army following the win against the Redskins. The Cowboys matched the donations.
Elliott said he thinks the NFL should donate his fine to the Salvation Army.
The Cowboys superstar has 1,150 yards and six scores on a league-high 240 carries this season. He also has a league-high 293 touches for 1,573 yards from scrimmage.
The Cowboys have an NFC East clash against the Philadelphia Eagles at 4:25 p.m. on Sunday at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas.
Country star John Rich defended the Second Amendment while calling out fellow music stars Dierks Bentley and Florida Georgia Line’s Tyler Hubbard over their gun control push.
On December 4, 2018, Breitbart News reported that Bentley and Hubbard had joined a gun control push launched by Tom’s apparel company. The campaign includes calls for universal background checks, even though we have had background checks since 1998 and nearly every mass public attacker acquires his guns via a background. The exceptions are those who steal their guns.
Hubbard also indicated that he is trying to recruit other country artists to join the gun control campaign.
The social media backlash against Hubbard was profound and he responded by posting an Instagram video in which he doubled down for gun control. He called for an end to private gun sales at gun shows and flea markets but didn’t list one 21st century mass public attack in which a firearm from a gun show or flea market was used.
John Rich is now calling out both Bentley and Hubbard for suggesting gun control is a “solution” to criminals acting like criminals.
Fox News reported that Rich used hypothetical and personal situations he would use to explain the importance of protecting gun rights to Bentley and Hubbard:
The issue with gun control, you look at it and you go, ‘These maniacs, these vicious people are taking a weapon and shooting people with it.’ And then the flip side of that is, right now, I’m in New York City and back in Nashville is my wife and my two little kids. And if somebody breaks into my house, which rifle would you suggest I tell my wife to grab?
Which one should she grab? The one that gives her the best chance at protecting her and my kids or the one that doesn’t? Those are the types of questions I would like to ask them.
Rich made it clear that gun control does not stop criminals from being criminals, but it does make it harder for the law-abiding citizen to fight off criminals when they attack. He said, “Only the bad guys break the laws.”
Breitbart News reported a Crime Prevention Research Center study showing that 97.8 percent of mass public attacks between 1950 and May 2018 occurred in gun-free zones. Such areas have total gun control, making teachers in places like Sandy Hook Elementary (December 14, 2012), patrons in clubs like Orlando Pulse (June 12, 2016), and Christmas Party attendees in San Bernardino County buildings (December 2, 2015), defenseless to fend off attackers.
Rich is asking Bentley and Hubbard to explain how more gun control laws would solve anything or prevent these terrible massacres.
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The apprehension of migrant families along the U.S. border with Mexico skyrocketed in November when compared to the previous year. Federal officials reported a 270 percent increase from November 2017 to this year.
Border Patrol agents apprehended 25,172 Family Unit Aliens (FMUA) along the U.S.-Mexico border in November, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s (CBP) Southwest Border Migration Report released this week. This compared to November 2017’s report of 7,016 FMUA apprehensions — an increase of nearly 270 percent.
The current November apprehensions report also represents an increase of 60 percent over November 2016’s (the month of President Donald Trump’s election.
“The November 2018 border numbers are the predictable result of a broken immigration system – including flawed judicial rulings – that usurps the will of the American people who have repeatedly demanded secure borders,” DHS Spokeswoman Katie Waldman said in a written statement on Thursday. “To address the obvious crisis at our border, the President has recently deployed the military and signed a new measure that, in conjunction with a joint DOJ regulation, makes illegal border crossers ineligible for asylum.”
During the first two months of Fiscal Year 2019, Border Patrol agents apprehended a total of 42,287 migrant families — an increase of 307 over the same period in FY2018.
Agents in the El Paso Sector saw the largest percentage increase in the apprehension of family units in the past year. The numbers jumped from 591 in November 2017 to 11,617 for the first two months of this fiscal year. The Rio Grande Valley Sector continues to lead the nation with 23,012 FMUA apprehensions in October and November. Only the Big Bend Sector witnessed a decrease in family apprehensions.
Following is the breakdown of apprehensions of Family Unit Aliens by Border Patrol Sector for the first two months of this fiscal year as reported by CBP:
Sector
FY18TD
FY19TD
% Change
FY18TD to FY19TD
Big Bend
229
48
-79%
Del Rio
313
1,379
341%
El Centro
439
1,696
286%
El Paso
591
11,617
1,866%
Laredo
87
170
95%
Rio Grande
7,280
23,012
216%
San Diego
378
2,649
601%
Tucson
539
1,922
257%
Yuma
1,996
5,794
190%
USBP Southwest Border Total
11,852
48,287
307%
Migrants continue to exploit the loophole created by Congress in 2008 that prohibits expedited removal of minors without a hearing. Since that time, hundreds of thousands of migrants have flocked to the U.S. border to take advantage of what has become a magnet for illegal immigrants.
“We continue to call on Congress to address the crisis at the border by closing legal loopholes that drive illegal immigration,” Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Press Secretary Tyler Q. Houlton said in a July 2018 statement obtained by Breitbart News.
Bob Price serves as associate editor and senior political news contributor for Breitbart Border/Cartel Chronicles. He is a founding member of the Breitbart Texas team. Follow him on Twitter @BobPriceBBTX and Facebook.
A five-day operation conducted by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in New Jersey has taken into custody 105 foreign nationals who were in the U.S. illegally. Approximately 80% of those arrested “had prior criminal convictions and/or pending criminal charges,” according to a statement from ICE.
Antifa Protests Wrong Group, Gets Triggered by Reporter and Screams Death Threats
Karen Ducey / Getty ImagesCounter demonstrators blocked by police shout at Joey Gibson, leader of the Patriot Prayer, and other groups as they march through the streets during their rally called ‘Liberty or Death – Rally Against Left Wing Violence’ on August 18, 2018 in Seattle, Washington. (Karen Ducey / Getty Images)
When antifa, a violent far-left group, couldn’t find any real “Nazis,” they decided to threaten and intimidate an innocent reporter.
Andy C. Ngo, an editor at Quillette, traveled to downtown Seattle last Saturday to cover antifa’s protest of an event held by the Washington State Three Percent.
As noted in Ngo’s article for The Daily Wire, the Washington State Three Percent is a conservative group that describes itself as constitutionalist.
However, antifa falsely claimed that members of the group are “white supremacists” and “misogynists” on their Facebook event page.
Matt Marshall, leader of the Washington State Three Percent, challenged antifa to find any evidence for their claims.
“We are a completely non-discriminatory organization,” Marshall said. “I would challenge anyone to find a statement or action that would prove any of those claims.”
Ngo suggested that antifa might have gotten the Washington State Three Percent mixed up with a completely different group, the “3% Security Force,” which is more radical.
Not only did antifa mischaracterize the Washington State Three Percent as white supremacists, but they also claimed Ngo was a “Nazi.”
In reality, Ngo is a gay Asian-American journalist, which is the kind of person antifa claims to represent.
Do you think it’s time to crack down on antifa?
After being confronted by armed members of antifa, a group surrounded Ngo and shouted “Nazi fascists out!” while pushing him.
Ngo also received death threats for filming the far-left radicals.
Warning: the tweet below contains strong language.
“Are you willing to die for YouTube s—?” one protester threatened.
“I’m known to do this shit for real,” an antifa protester said to me. “Are you willing to die for Youtube shit?…Death is coming to you.” pic.twitter.com/bhK2wWkMBD
“Death is coming to you,” the left-wing radical added.
Another protester used a megaphone to chant phrases like “Nazis go home!” in front of Ngo’s face.
“It was so loud that I felt physical pain in my ear drums,” Ngo recalled on Twitter.
A woman screamed into a bullhorn in front of my face. I was pressed up against a barrier. She led the mob into called me a “Nazi.” It was so loud that I felt physical pain in my ear drums. pic.twitter.com/0C8Ny16nQH
Using the wrong pronoun is a reason for firing teachers.
The West Point School Board has fired a high school French teacher following an ongoing transgender controversy issue at the school.
Peter Vlaming, a teacher within the school system for seven years, was fired from his position Thursday night after a five-and-a-half hour public hearing with the school board.
Vlaming’s attorney fought the Superintendent’s recommendation to dismiss the teacher based on claims of insubordination and repeated refusal to comply with directives made by WPPS administrators.
“Miracles can happen, but I was prepared that this might be the outcome,” Vlaming said after the decision.
Students and community members lined the hallways of the school, some in support for Vlaming, others in support for the transgender student.
Vlaming’s attorney argued his client has rights as a teacher.
“Tolerance is a two-way street,” said Shawn Voyles, Vlaming’s attorney. “My client respects this student’s rights; he is simply asking that his rights be respected as well… The student is absolutely free to identify as the student pleases. The school board adopted one viewpoint and required Mr. Vlaming, at the cost of his job, to repeat that ideology, repeat that viewpoint. That’s where it’s compelled speech. That’s where it violates his First Amendment right he still retains as a public employee.”
This issue came to a crux during a virtual reality exercise back in October, where Vlaming said he called out “don’t let her walk into the wall” as the transgender student walked in that direction.
Vlaming claimed it was a slip of the tongue.
“I’m totally happy to use the new name,” Vlaming said. “I’m happy to avoid female pronouns not to offend because I’m not here to provoke… but I can’t refer to a female as a male, and a male as a female in good conscious and faith.”
“That was in fact discriminatory because all the other students were being used pronouns, but this student was not being used pronouns,” Superintendent Laura Abel testified.
On Oct. 31, Vlaming was placed on paid administrative leave after West Point High School Principal Jon Hochman said Vlaming did not obey his directive to use the proper identity pronouns for the student (“he”, “him” etc.).
“An online petition supporting Vlaming, titled “Don’t terminate Mr. Vlaming,” states the student’s parents complained to the principal and Vlaming was asked to sign a paper stating he wouldn’t refer to the student as a female.
An investigation was launched by the Superintendent who moved forward with the recommendation to fire Vlaming.
Voyles said his client was sent a letter Nov. 6 by Abel stating: “My expectation is that you will treat [the student] the same as other male students, including using his preferred name and using male pronounces to refer to him. If you refuse to comply with this directive or if you have any further instances of using female pronouns or of avoiding the use of male pronouns to refer to [the student], it will be considered insubordination and will result in termination of your employment.”
Vlaming reportedly declined to fully comply with the school division’s demand.
“That discrimination then leads to creating a hostile learning environment,” Abel testified.
“The policy speaks not one word about pronoun usage,” Voyles said. “There is absolutely nothing in the policy, as the witnesses admitted from the school division, that speaks to that issue. Which makes that policy so problematic that it leaves it up to the individual for interpretation.”
BOOM! Attorney Gregg Jarrett DESTROYS Liberal NY AG and the “Snot-Nosed Kids” and “Morons” on Staff Behind Cohen Report
by Jim Hoft December 8, 2018
FOX News legal expert and best-selling author Gregg Jarrett UNLOADED on the New York State acting Attorney General Robert Khuzami and the “snot-nosed kids” and “morons” who put together the nonsensical and flimsy accusations against Michael Cohen and targeting Donald Trump.
Gregg Jarrett went off on the novice leftists at the New York Attorney General’s office for not knowing the law and putting together such an amateurish legal document.
This was brutal!
Robert Khuzami, the “Acting” US Attorney, filed a sentencing memo claiming President Trump organized illegal payments. Khuzami doesn’t know the law. Non-disclosure contracts are legal in every state. It’s not an illegal campaign contribution. Not a crime. Khuzami is wrong.
Trump did not use campaign funds. A candidate may make unlimited contributions to his own campaign. Yet, Robert Khuzami convinced Cohen, a liar and tax cheat, to plead guilty to a non-crime. Khuzami wants to be the guy who brings down the President.
Look at the four attorneys who signed the Cohen sentencing memo under Robert Khuzami’s name. Griswold, Maimin, McKay and Roos. They’re all kids. No real experience. They don’t know anything about the law. They don’t understand the Federal Campaign Election Act.
Frankly, it should be against the law to allow a bunch of snot-nosed kids, fresh out of law school, to file a federal court document that contorts the law in a deliberate effort to implicate the President in wrongdoing. Did they even read the law? Comprehend it? Morons.
Robert Khuzami, the “Acting” US Attorney, filed a sentencing memo claiming President Trump organized illegal payments. Khuzami doesn’t know the law. Non-disclosure contracts are legal in every state. It’s not an illegal campaign contribution. Not a crime. Khuzami is wrong.
I’m hoping William Barr, an outstanding lawyer, will clean up the corruption at the Department of Injustice and FBI. Prosecute Comey, McCabe Strzok, Steele, Ohr, Simpson, and others. And fire Robert Khuzam, who is “acting” as a US Attorney.
Frankly, it should be against the law to allow a bunch of snot-nosed kids, fresh out of law school, to file a federal court document that contorts the law in a deliberate effort to implicate the President in wrongdoing. Did they even read the law? Comprehend it? Morons.
Gregg Jarrett has argued for months that using your own money and not campaign funds to pay off former lovers.
Jarrett told Hannity you can make unlimited contributions to his own campaign.
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Retiring House Speaker Paul Ryan is quietly pushing a bill to outsource many thousands of U.S. college graduate jobs to Irish graduates and deliver amnesty to Irish illegals.
His Irish-only bill was quietly pushed through the House on November 28 without a recorded vote by legislators. It is now awaiting approval by the U.S. Senate — but the outsourcing and amnesty bill will be blocked if even one U.S. senator privately or publicly notifies GOP Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell that he or she will oppose the measure.
The plan would provide the Irish — but not anyone else — with roughly 50,000 endlessly renewable work permits per decade.
In 2005, President George W. Bush signed a treaty offering 10,500 annual E-3 work permits to Australiancollege graduates. Lobbyists say roughly half of those visas are unused each year, so the Ryan plan would annually allocate the roughly 5,000 unused E-3 visas to Irish graduates so they can take jobs sought by American graduates.
Currently, about 1.5 million foreign contract workers are holding college graduate jobs in the United States. The foreign workers are allowed to get these jobs via the H-1B, L-1, and other visa programs, and they help suppress the salaries earned by millions of American college graduates who will vote for or against President Trump in 2020.
The beneficiaries of the Ryan plan would include many Irish who are working illegally in the United States, said Billy Lawless, a Chicago-based Irish politician who is responsible for representing the Irish diaspora in the United States. “The undocumented are number one in my mind … maybe more than I think might qualify for this,” he told a radio show on November 13.
“More importantly, it is a stepping stone” to further reforms that could increase migration from Ireland, Lawless said. “Irish communities are suffering because we are not getting the young Irish out [to the United States] anymore.”
Lawless runs a restaurant in Chicago and is a member of the largely powerless Senate in the Irish Parliament.
The Irish government has promised to repay Ryan’s huge gift of 50,000 extra jobs per decade by allowing older Americans to spend their retirement savings in Ireland.
This one-sided deal will give the Irish government two wins — the ability to get tens of thousands of U.S. visas for the Irish — including Irish illegals now living in the United States — as well as the ability to create more jobs in Ireland by importing retired Americans and their hugely valuable 401K retirement accounts.
Lawless, however, insisted the plan is reciprocal because it would allow wealthier American retirees aged 55 and above to get to live in Ireland. “Here’s the real kicker: after five years, we will give them Irish citizenship if they want it,” he told the radio show. “It is a huge benefit … so it is not a one-way street, this bill.”
The government-funded Irish TV network reported on the November 28 vote:
Those [lobbying] efforts have been led by the Department of Foreign Affairs, the Irish Embassy in Washington and the government’s special envoy to the US Fine Gael [legislator] John Deasy.
Speaking in Washington following last night’s vote, Mr Deasy welcomed the passage of the bill in the House of Representatives but warned that there’s still some way to go.
“The bill will now be sent to the US Senate and it needs to be passed there by unanimous consent meaning that it will require the agreement of all 100 senators for this to be signed into law”, he said.
The second-ranking politician in Ireland applauded Ryan’s vote:
This is a really positive development for future generations to travel to USA. Still work to do but thanks to our team in @IrelandEmbUSA and @JohnDeasyTD for their tireless work and thanks to @RepRichardNeal and all our friends in US House of Representatives. 🇺🇸 https://t.co/d0SN7o5PMv
American politicians, including Ryan, did not bother to win any gains for young Americans, such as the equal opportunity to get good jobs in Ireland.
Lawless said the outsourcing-and-amnesty plan is backed by White House chief of staff John Kelly, as well as Mike Mulvaney, the business-first, pro-migrationdirector of the Office of Management and Budget. “And Speaker Ryan, Paul Ryan, of course,” he said.
Lawless also said President Trump proposed the outsourcing-and-amnesty plan when he met the Irish prime minister on St. Patrick’s Day in 2017.
Ryan has repeatedly touted his ancestors’ Irish roots while covertly undermining Trump’s pro-American immigration reforms and Trump’s effort to build a barrier on the U.S.-Mexico border.
In June, Ryan blocked the passage of the Trump-backed pro-American immigration reforms by splitting the GOP’s votes between two rival reform bills. “If it has been the only bill offered, it might have passed,” said Rep. Bob Goodlatte, the pro-reform chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, who authored the pro-American bill. “If we had gotten half of [the GOP ‘no’ voters] to join with us, we would have gotten there,” he said.
Ryan’s support for more Irish immigration and more outsourcing spotlights his career-long support for the “any willing worker” plan favored by President George W. Bush. The very radical policy would allow U.S. employers to hire anyone in the world for U.S. jobs when Americans decline to take the jobs at the offered minimal wage:
Tech Billionaires urge fast-track green cards for 400,000 contract visa-workers – and many more later. Just guessing here, but maybe most Americans prefer fewer visa workers for biz & higher salaries for their families? https://t.co/yXhMswXOXK
Ryan’s business-first ideology helped the GOP lose 40 seats and its House majority in November, leaving Trump to deal with investigations and hostility from the new Democrat majority.
Ryan is expected to take a job in the nation’s banking industry. The industry gains enormously when the government annually imports approximately 1.1 million new consumers and workers via legal immigration.
Passage of the Irish-only outsourcing-and-amnesty bill would likely spur charges of racism against GOP legislators who wish to enforce the nation’s immigration laws and to protect Americans from Democrat calls for more cheap-labor migration:
You got anything to say about E-3 Irish visa, which imports free labor, or does it just have to do with RACE???https://t.co/SSRv3h5fz6
Lawless owns restaurants in Chicago and is an appointed member of the largely powerless Senate in the Irish Parliament. In June, Lawless said in a speech in the Irish Senate that Trump’s prosecution of migrants who bring children over the border is a “horrendous policy”:
Since Trump withdrew that enforcement policy, the number of economic migrants getting through the border with children has risen dramatically.
Lawless said the outsourcing-and-amnesty push has been aided by Irish ethnic groups in the United States, such as the Ancient Order of Hibernians. Bruce Morrison, a lobbyist and former representative who helped write the nation’s largest outsourcing program, the H-1B visa, has also aided the push. “Everybody has chimed in,” he said.
The push to outsource U.S. jobs to Irish graduates comes as the Irish government also tries to import more foreigners into Ireland.
Ireland’s progressive prime minister, Leo Varadkar, has accelerated plans to dramatically boost the nation’s population, even though a huge inflow of foreigners will drive up real estate prices, force down blue collar wages, and fragment civic solidarity.
Varadkar wishes to raise the nation’s population from 4.8 million in 2017 to 5.8 million in 2040. Varadkar is the son of an Indian immigrant and is increasingly popular among anti-national elites in European politics:
Also, pro-migration advocates are trying to provide birthright citizenship to illegal migrants in Ireland. The very unpopular policy practice was ended by a 2004 referendum.
In the United States, large numbers of rational foreigners have used the birthright legalization process since the 1970s to win citizenship.
This inflow has transformed California. For example, the once-economically equal state now has one of the largest wealth gaps between the rich and poor, as well as low-quality schools and high housing costs. Many children of California’s 1970s population have fled to other states, regardless of their politics. This year, California Sen. Dianne Feinstein faced a serious primary challenge from the son of an illegal immigrant:
Caravan migrant crosses US-Mexico border, delivers baby following day. Child is now a birthright citizen. https://t.co/OMdNXU7sMj
The rising legal and illegal inflow of migrants, especially Asians, and the wealth created by the Internet economy are also pricing poor U.S. Latinos and blacks out of middle-class and coastal towns, such as Berkeley and Oakland. But this process has generated windfall profits for real estate owners.
Nationwide, the establishment’s economic policy of using legal migration to boost economic growth shifts wealth from young people towards older people by flooding the market with cheap white collar and blue collar foreign labor. That flood of outside labor spikes profits and Wall Street values by cutting salaries for manual and skilled labor that blue collar and white collar employees offer.
The policy also drives up real estate prices, widens wealth gaps, reduces high tech investment, increases state and local tax burdens, hurts kids’ schools and college education, pushes Americans away from high tech careers, and sidelines at least five million marginalized Americans and their families, including many who are now struggling with fentanyl addictions.
Immigration also pulls investment and wealth away from heartland states because coastal investors can more easily hire and supervise the large immigrant populations who prefer to live in the coastal states.
