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Trump’s Welfare Ban for Immigrants Would Be $57.4B Tax Cut for Americans


President Trump’s ban on allowing welfare-dependent legal immigrants to resettle permanently in the United States would likely save each American taxpayer about $1,600 a year.

As Breitbart News reported, the Trump administration is set to roll out a plan in the next month that bars foreign nationals who need government welfare in order to live from resettling in the U.S. Such a ban on welfare importation through immigration has been eyed by the Trump White House since February.

Such a plan would be a boon for American taxpayers, who currently spend about $57.4 billion a year on paying for the welfare, crime, and schooling costs of the country’s mass importation of 1.5 million new, mostly low skilled legal immigrants every year. In the last decade, the U.S. has imported more than 10 million foreign nationals and is on track to import the same amount in the coming decade if legal immigration controls are not implemented.

The National Academies of Science released a report two years ago, noting that state and local American taxpayers are billed about $1,600 each per year to pay for the cost of importing welfare-dependent legal immigrants, and immigrant households consume 33 percent more cash welfare than American citizen households.

Trump’s seeking to end the “public charge” that mass legal immigration from mostly the poor and developing world would translate to an annual tax cut for American taxpayers.

Illegal and legal immigrant-headed households use nearly 60 percent more taxpayer-funded food stamps than households headed by native born Americans, a study conducted by the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) revealed in 2016.

Harvard University economist George Borjas says the country’s decades of importation of more than 1.5 million legal immigrants every year is the world’s “largest anti-poverty program” that comes at the expense of American citizens who are forced to subsidize the cost.

“Since 1965, we have admitted a lot of low-skilled immigrants, and one way to view that policy is that we were running basically the largest anti-poverty program in the world. That is actually not a bad thing at all,” Borjas said in an interview last year. “Except someone is going to have to pay the cost for that.”

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Ocasio-Cortez: Think of all the funeral expenses we’ll save under Medicare for All!

Boston University’s economics program apparently never included a biology requirement — or math, for that matter. BU’s most notable graduate these days, Democratic Socialist candidate Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, tried explaining to CNN’s Chris Cuomo last night why people shouldn’t have “sticker shock” over the price tag of her core agenda item, Medicare for All. Emphasis on tried, as Ocasio-Cortez’ answer would have some thinking that Medicare for All would end death as we know it:

Let’s take the nonsense in bite-sized chunks, shall we? First up, Ocasio-Cortez seems to have forgotten what additional costs means from the Mercatus study by Charles Blahous:

You know in a Koch Brothers-funded, you know, study, if any study’s going to try to be a little bit slanted, it would be one funded by the Koch brothers. It shows that Medicare for all is actually much more — is actually much cheaper than the current system that we pay right now.

First, the study itself wasn’t “Koch-funded,” although Mercatus gets funding from the Kochs. Second and more importantly, the study says the exact opposite — that Medicare for All would add $32.6 trillion in spending to existing levels in its first decade (and $218 trillion over 30 years), even after a questionable saving of $2 trillion in the first decade. And it would have to do so, since we’d be adding hundreds of millions of Americans to Medicare coverage.

Washington Post fact-checker Glenn Kessler gave similar claims from other Democrats three Pinocchios earlier this week.

And let’s not forget that the reason that the Supreme Court upheld the Affordable Care Act is because they ruled that each of these monthly payments that everyday American make is a tax. And so, while it may not seem like we pay that tax on April 15th, we pay it every single month or we do pay at tax season if we don’t buy, you know, these plans off of the exchange.

This is nonsense on stilts. The premium payments aren’t the tax, which should be obvious, because they don’t go to the government. The Supreme Court ruled that the penalties for non-coverage collected by the IRS was a tax, which is why they upheld the individual mandate. Most people didn’t pay it when the individual mandate was still in effect, and now no one is paying it. But even when it was being collected, it was collected once a year in the tax process.

So, we’re paying for this system. We — Americans have the sticker shock of healthcare as it is, and what we’re also not talking about is, why aren’t we incorporating the cost of all the funeral expenses of those who died because they can’t afford access to healthcare? That is part of the cost of our system.

Er … who wants to tell her? We’re all going to generate funeral expenses at some point, because we’re all going to die, regardless of how we pay for health care. We don’t incorporate funeral expenses in studies like Blahous’ or the left-leaning Urban Institute because they’re not avoidable costs. Although., it wouldn’t be the first time a snake-oil salesman tried selling immortality through the use of Other People’s Money.

Why don’t we talk about the cost of reduced productivity because of people who need to go on disability, because of people who are not able to participate in our economy because they have — because they are having issues like diabetes or they don’t have access to the healthcare that they need?

Perhaps we can factor that into our thinking, just as long as we factor in the long wait times and rationing that will take place in Ocasio-Cortez’ government-run system, too. How much productivity has been lost at the VA, for instance, and how many people died waiting for care in that existing single-payer system? What’s the track record like at the Indian Health Service for dealing with acute and chronic diseases for providing “access to the healthcare they need”?

I think at the end of the day, we see that this is not a pipedream. Every other developed nation in the world does this, why can’t America? And that is the question that we need to ask.

The question we need to ask is how a person with this much economic ignorance managed to get an economics degree from Boston University. Final question: How did Cuomo keep a straight face through this?

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170 Voters in Ohio Race ‘Over 116 Years Old,’ World’s Oldest Person Is 115


It’s becoming clear that Democrats will stop at nothing to get their “blue wave” to happen.

In Tuesday’s special election for Ohio’s 12th Congressional District, Republican Troy Balderson won by a narrow margin — around 1,600 votes.

That’s less than 1 percent of the total number of votes in the entire district, making the election too close to call at the moment and requiring a recount under Ohio law.

Additionally, more than 3,000 provisional ballots still have to be counted — nearly twice the number of votes in the winning margin — so Balderson’s victory is far from assured.

Such a slim margin in this special election has brought to light the dangerous consequences voter fraud can have for those who play fair.

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According to expert Eric Eggers, research director at the Government Accountability Institute, 170 registered voters in Ohio’s 12th Congressional District are listed as being “over 116 years old.”

Considering that the world’s oldest living person is a 115-year-old resident of Japan, this is a big problem.

“That’s 10 percent of Balderson’s current margin of victory, pending provisional ballots,” Eggers wrote. “And 72 voters over the age of 116 who ‘live’ in Balderson’s district cast ballots in the 2016 election.”

In fact, many of the voters on Ohio’s rolls list their birthdays as Jan. 1, 1800, making them 218 years old. Clearly something is amiss.

Do you think voter ID laws are necessary?

For four years now, Democrats in Ohio have been fighting efforts to prevent voter fraud, and it is easy to see why.

In June, the Supreme Court ruled 5-4 in favor of Ohio’s system for purging ineligible voters from the rolls, dealing a tough blow to Ohio Democrats.

If voter ID laws are passed and implemented as a result of that Supreme Court ruling, those 170 impossibly old voters would no longer be able to cast ballots — and that is something the fraudulent Democrats of the state desperately want to avoid.

“A critical swing state, Ohio has voted for the winner in presidential races in twenty-eight out of the last thirty elections. As Ohio goes, so goes the nation,” former Ohio Secretary of State Ken Blackwell wrote on American Thinker.

“While it may seem strange to witness millions of dollars pouring into a down ballot race in the heartland, there is a method to the Democrats’ madness,” Blackwell continued.

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“Delve below the surface, and you will see that the Democrats have their sights set on 2020, defeating Donald Trump, taking back the presidency.”

And they will stop at nothing to achieve their goal.

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ICE Smashes Illegal-Alien Smuggling Ring in Nebraska, Missouri


Immigration enforcement officials have broken up a network which supplied illegal-migrant labor to many worksites in Nebraska and Missouri.

“Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), a series of criminal arrest warrants were executed Wednesday for 17 individuals connected to an alleged criminal conspiracy to exploit illegal alien laborers for profit, fraud, wire fraud and money laundering in Nebraska and Minnesota,” said the statement, which continued:

During the execution of these search warrants Aug. 8, 133 illegal workers were administratively arrested for immigration violations; some will be issued notices to appear before a federal immigration judge and released from custody; the rest will remain in ICE custody pending immigration court proceedings.

The operation and the 150 arrests spotlight the revival of immigration enforcement since 2017 by President Donald Trump, after years of minimal enforcement by Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama.

The Nebraska operation may help deter employers from hiring illegals at black-market rates instead of hiring Americans are market-level salaries. The raids are also pushing farmers to legally hire more visa-workers via the growing H-2A visa program instead of relying on illegal-labor brokers.

The ACLU of Nebraska condemned the raid. “Enough is enough,” Danielle Conrad, the executive director of ACLU of Nebraska, told Channel 8 KLKN-TV on August 8.

Another pro-migration group, Nebraska Appleseed, issued a statement defending the employers and saying that Nebraskans have the same status as foreign migrants:

[Enforcement agencies] went into businesses and arrested hard-working, peaceful Nebraskans, tearing apart families, parents, and children, and leaving the community to deal with the damage …

Law enforcement officials lose the trust of local residents, who are now understandably afraid to go to the police with information that could help solve cases.

Tonight, there will be children who will come home to find a parent missing. There will be local businesses unsure if they can reopen or provide a safe workplace to their employees.

The latest operation differs from prior operations which often picked up illegal immigrants in their workplaces. Instead, the operations show the agency is going after the underground networks of labor brokers who deliver illegal-immigrants to cooperating managers at U.S. companies.  The statement said:

Law enforcement believes the alleged conspirators, 17 individuals located in multiple states, colluded to create an illegal alien workforce in their respective businesses.  By doing so, they defrauded the U.S. government and created an unfair advantage over their competition businesses.

The network allegedly also abused the migrants by taking some of their already minimal pay:

Authorities suspect the illegal aliens who were knowingly hired as part of this alleged conspiracy were exploited by the conspirators through force, coercion, or threat of arrest and/or deportation. Specifically, these illegal aliens were allegedly required to cash their paychecks at an illegal remittance business for a fee, have tax money deducted from their pay even though this money was never paid to the government, and were coerced to remain quiet about this criminal activity.

The descriptions suggests that a few of the migrants may have tipped off authorities about the crimes. If so, the tipsters may be able to get U- Visas, which would allow them to stay in the United States.

The migrants were working at various agricultural facilities, including a tomato-growing greenhouse and a pork slaughterhouse. Officials raided numerous locations, and gathered evidence which may be used in trials of the arrested people and others. The sites included:

  • Christensen Farms with numerous locations in Appleton, Minnesota; Sleepy Eye, Minnesota; and Atkinson, Nebraska;
  • Elkhorn River Farms in O’Neill, Nebraska;
  • O’Neill Ventures in O’Neill, Nebraska;
  • La Herradura Restaurant in O’Neill, Nebraska;
  • El Mercadito (grocery store) in O’Neill, Nebraska;
  • A private ranch in O’Neill, Nebraska;
  • La Herradura Restaurant in Stromsburg, Nebraska;
  • GJW LLC with three locations in Ainsworth, Nebraska;
  • J.E. Meurets Grain Company in Ainsworth, Nebraska;
  • Herd Co Cattle Company in Bartlett, Nebraska; and
  • Long Pine (farm) in Royal, Nebraska.

“The job magnet in the United States is primarily what draws illegal aliens across our borders,” said Special Agent in Charge Tracy J. Cormier, HSI St. Paul, which oversees Nebraska and Minnesota. “This HSI-led criminal investigation has shown that these targeted businesses were knowingly hiring illegal workers to unlawfully line their own pockets by cheating the workers, cheating the taxpayers, and cheating their business competitors.”

Since October 2017, the agency’s Homeland Security Investigations unit has checked employment records at more than 6,093 worksites, up from 1,716 in the prior fiscal year from October 2016 to the end of September 2017. The current pace of checks in 2018 is almost a five-fold increase from the prior year and included 100 stores in the 7-Eleven chain and 77 companies in California.

The agency has made more than 675 criminal arrests of managers or supervisors, plus more than 984 administrative arrests of illegals in the last nine months, versus 139 criminal arrests and 172 administrative arrests during the prior 12 months, according to a DHS statement. That is a five-fold increase in criminal arrests and a sixfold increase in administrative arrests.

In 2018, the DHS agency has also conducted several large-scale raids, including a meatpacker in Tennessee, and a meatpacker and landscaping firm in Ohio.

 

 

 

 

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NBC Sitcom ‘The Good Place’ Raising Money to Aid Illegal Aliens


The producers of the NBC sitcom The Good Place recently launched a campaign to raise money to aid illegal aliens caught trying to sneak across the U.S.-Mexico border.

A Crowdrise page was launched this week by Andrew Law, a writer for The Good Place. According to the page, the producers of the series are seeking $25,000 and they will then match that amount.

Signed by “the cast and crew” of the show, the crowd funding page insists that raising money for illegals is “doing the most good for the most people.”

“[A]ll proceeds will go directly to KIND (Kids In Need of Defense), which provides high-quality legal services to immigrant children,” the page continues, “ensuring that no child appears in an immigration court without an attorney.”

“Hopefully our contributions will add a little more kindness and a little less division to an already forked up world. Please give if you can, and thanks in advance for helping this worthy cause. Let’s do something good together,” the message concludes.

Several of the show’s writers shared the campaign on social media.

As the left continues to come to the support of illegals, a shocking report out of Philadelphia reveals the story of a five-year-old girl who was viciously raped by a previously deported illegal who went to Philly specifically because he knew his crimes would go un-prosecuted by authorities in the City of Brotherly Love, a self-declared sanctuary city.

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Figures. New Documentary Shows How Sweden’s Far Left Social Democrats ‘Inspired and Helped’ German Nazis

A new film in Sweden shows how the far left Social Democratic Party “inspired and helped” Nazi Germany in World War II.

Of course, the documentary was taken down by YouTube but was later reposted and appears on the social media channel Samtiden Dokumentar.

The film is in Swedish with English subtitles.

Voice of Europe reported:

A shocking documentary about Sweden’s ruling Social Democratic Party, shows how the leftist party ‘inspired and helped’ Nazi Germany.

The documentary, produced by the party’s right-wing opponent, the Sweden Democrats, was removed by YouTube yesterday in an act of censorship.

But after a backlash it is now visible again on the social media channel of broadcaster Samtiden Dokumentär.

Ironically the documentary starts with the leader of the leftist Social Democratic Party, Swedish prime minister Stefan Löfven, telling how the right-wing Social Democrats historically have Nazi roots.

But now the Sweden Democrats are hitting back and have produced this documentary to tell the truth about their leftist opponents.

And it is revealing as it shows that the Swedish Social Democrats inspired Nazi Germany on the issue of Eugenics or “ethnic cleansing”.

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Exclusive: Watch Larry Elder Go Off on FB Censorship at Premier of D’Souza’s New Film


Dinesh D’Souza’s new film, “Death of a Nation,” opened this week. It’s a deft handling of the modern Democrats from Abraham Lincoln to Donald Trump, and how the latter president might be the perfect candidate to emulate the former.

All interesting stuff, but that wasn’t entirely what Larry Elder wanted to discuss at the premiere of the film. Instead, the radio legend talked to The Western Journal about the specter of Facebook censorship.

July wasn’t a particularly good month in the prickly relationship between social media and conservatives.

The Western Journal, Conservative Tribune’s parent publication, released a new study that revealed that while interactions for congressmen from both political parties were down sharply since the social media giant’s algorithm shift in the early months of 2018, Republicans had seen greater losses across the board. In a statement, Facebook said that they “updated News Feed to help people meaningfully connect with friends and family first” and that declines in public pages were part of this process.

It was also confirmed by Vice News that Twitter was “shadow banning” prominent conservatives like RNC Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel, the spokesman for Donald Trump Jr. and several Republican congressmen. (Democrats remain unsurprisingly unaffected.) Twitter blamed the issue on attempts to improve the quality of discussion on the platform and fixed the problem.

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Meanwhile, controversial Infowars impresario Alex Jones was banned from Facebook and YouTube after relentless pressure from the media, prompting even Sen. Ted Cruz — who’s had a longstanding feud with the host for reasons this tweet will make patently obvious — to come to his defense:

Against this background, Elder took on Facebook and their ideological bias during a red carpet interview with The Western Journal’s own reporter.

“It’s pretty obvious that they have been discriminating against conservatives,” Elder said. “Because all of a sudden, when conservatives started bitching, moaning and whining, they changed their algorithms.

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“And, all of a sudden, the very people that were complaining about Facebook stopped complaining about it. Same thing with Twitter.

“It’s a problem,” Elder continued. “We are outnumbered. We are right about the facts, about the truth, but we’re outnumbered in terms of people. Tell people the truth and — in my opinion — they will ultimately come to your point of view.”

And, there’s the rub: This assumes that conservatives can get their point of view out.

Take Twitter’s recent shadow banning faux pas, for instance. What we know about is prominent conservatives who were caught up in it. But what about less-visible conservatives on the platform. Are they facing the same treatment? In this case, the shadow banning took the form of search results in the drop-down menu. Can anyone reasonably be expected to check every conservative of some visibility on the platform in this manner?

With Facebook — where hard numbers indicating some form of ideological bias are magically attributed to that ethereal (yet totally unbiased) construct known as “the algorithm” by the platform’s defenders — finding evidence is even more murky.

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This is why having our own media platforms is important to conservatives. Talk radio was the first counterbalance to ideological bias in the media. Then came the internet and sites like Drudge Report. Now, there are podcasts, YouTube and social media. With all of these platforms comes an inherent risk, however, thanks to the fact that the companies running the game are ideologically biased.

This is why films like “Death of a Nation” are so important, as well. In the milieu of Hollywood — where liberal ideas are given free reign to run around and conservative ideas are marginalized — it’s important to get a foothold independently instead of imploring the major studios to be less contemptuous of half of America. That’s not going to work. We’re going to have to do it for ourselves.

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Dana Loesch Comes Out Swinging, Puts Jim Acosta in His Place Once and For All


If you haven’t heard yet, Jim Acosta doesn’t think he’s in America anymore because Trump fans yelled “CNN sucks” at him.

Acosta, a CNN White House correspondent who does everything to telegraph his disdain for the American right short of wearing a #TheResistance button, attended a campaign-style rally for President Donald Trump in Tampa, Florida this week. Some Trump supporters, apparently knowing who Acosta is and just where he fell on the political spectrum, chanted their feelings on their network and gave him the finger. That act apparently drove Acosta to believe he was in some foreign, despotic land.

“He is whipping these crowds up into a frenzy to the point where they really want to come after us,” Acosta said the next day.

“My sense of it is that these opinions these folks have at these rallies, they’re shaped by what they see in the primetime hours of Fox News and what they hear from some conservative news outlets that just sort of give them this daily diet of what they consider to be terrible things we do over here at CNN.”

Yes, and what do they do over there at CNN? Well, take National Rifle Association spokeswoman Dana Loesch. She recalled a CNN town hall in the wake of the Parkland shooting — and, according to the Daily Wire, her experience was so bad that she and her husband had to be to be escorted out for their own safety.

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“Acosta is upset that someone yelled ‘CNN sucks,’” Loesch said in an NRA TV video posted Thursday.

“Imagine how he’d feel if his network set up a public lynching of him. As they did of me and Marco Rubio, wherein people called me a ‘murderer’ and they screamed ‘Burn her!’ And they rushed the stage and grabbed at me when I left. Jake Tapper corroborated this shortly after it happened, tweeting this in response to those who were in doubt: He says, ‘I don’t know but Chris’ — talking of my husband — ‘description is accurate and I made sure she was escorted out of the room.’”

“I wonder if Acosta can imagine what it feels like when his network allows guest after guest, day after day, to refer to you as a ‘murderer,’” she added.

“To refer to six million law-abiding Americans as people who hate children and are terrible parents simply because we believe in the right of self-defense.”

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Loesch’s claim was indeed vouched by Jake Tapper in a tweet from February:

And, the chants are audible in this clip of Loesch and Parkland activist Emma Gonzalez:

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“You’re a murderer!” and “murderer!” are clearly heard from the rowdy audience.

Now, is that their right? Sure. I don’t think either of the incidents at the Parkland town hall or the Trump rally served those who were heckling particularly well, but such is political discourse in 2018. Acosta’s spot-on Captain Renault impression, however, easily rates as one of the most farcical pearl-clutching moments of the Trump era.

This is a man, after all, whose access comes through a media outlet where contributors rationalize violence against Trump supporters and say that “folks calling for civility might need to check their privilege.” His network is responsible for the Parkland town hall, which had all the hallmarks of a political ambush set up under the auspices of a neutral discussion. All of a sudden, when incivility is visited upon him — if only in a form far less threatening than anything CNN contributors have condoned in the past — he thinks he “wasn’t in America anymore.”

Funny. Loesch never thought that, and look how she was treated by the viewers of “news outlets that just sort of give them this daily diet of what they consider to be terrible things.”

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NAACP Official Shows His True Colors, Urges Citizens To ‘Jack Up’ Senators Who Stand with Trump


Speaking at the Netroots Nation conference on Friday, top National Association for the Advancement of Colored People official Hilary Shelton said that if Democrat senators go along with President Donald Trump on judicial nominees, liberals should “jack’em up,” according to the Daily Wire.

Shelton, head of the NAACP’s Washington, D.C. office, urged attendees to keep their senators in line behind the liberal agenda.

“Everybody should claim your two senators, whether you voted for them or not,” Shelton told the audience.

“They’re making a ton of cash being where they are and they’ll make a whole lot more money when they leave. Sometimes we may need to expedite them leaving so they can make that big money.

“But keep in mind, it’s only the Senate that is making decisions on these judicial (nominees),” Shelton continued.

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“We have some Dems that quite frankly are very nervous; they are going for reelection; we also know the states they are going for reelection, statewide, are states that delivered things for Trump,” he said, a not-thinly-veiled threat against Democrat senators like Joe Donnelly, Heidi Heitkamp and Joe Manchin, among others.

“And the fear is that Trump will be able to gin them up. Well, let ’em know that Trump may be able to gin them up, but you can jack’em up if they don’t do the right thing on these issues,” Shelton said.

“They work for you, after all. You know what I’m saying?”

Shelton went on to say that he thought that “making it real for people, I think, will help make a big difference.” Presumably by jacking’em up, one can only assume.

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Shelton would further state that attendees should make things for the GOP as “uncomfortable as you can possibly make it.”

Where to begin? Well, first off, this mines the same plausibly deniable threat of physical confrontation we’ve seen from others on the left recently, most notably Maxine Waters. Of course, this will be justified the same way all of this stuff has been justified — by the claim that incivility isn’t a high price to pay for making change.

Not that they would ever suggest that this incivility would unleash anger or end in people physically intimidating and harassing Republicans in public. Oh, no. They must have misunderstood.

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It’s difficult to think of an instance in which “jack’em up” couldn’t necessarily be seen as a possible invocation to violence, particularly given the context in which it was spoken. This was, at the very least, an ill-considered remark, particularly given the climate of today.

Mr. Shelton owes legislators an apology. Yes, they should be accountable to the voters, but they also ought to be free from thinly veiled threats.

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Bank Fraud Bernie: James Woods Exposes Sanders with Forgotten 2015 Interview


We all know that blind squirrels can find acorns from time to time. But can politically blind socialists find their lukewarm oatmeal on occasion?

James Woods says yes — at least where Bernie Sanders is involved.

Back in 2015, you see, Sanders gave an interview to Vox impresario Ezra Klein in which he said something regarding immigration that might have his supporters a bit uneasy.

“You said being a democratic socialist means a more international view,” Klein said during the conversation. “I think if you take global poverty that seriously, it leads you to conclusions that in the U.S. are considered out of political bounds. Things like sharply raising the level of immigration we permit, even up to a level of open borders. About sharply increasing …”

“Open borders?” Sanders replied. “No, that’s a Koch brothers proposal.”

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Hrm. Well, let’s try again: “Really?” Klein asked.

“Of course. That’s a right-wing proposal, which says essentially there is no United States,” Sanders continued.

“It would make a lot of global poor richer, wouldn’t it?” Klein said.

“It would make everybody in America poorer — you’re doing away with the concept of a nation state, and I don’t think there’s any country in the world that believes in that,” Sanders said. “If you believe in a nation state or in a country called the United States or UK or Denmark or any other country, you have an obligation in my view to do everything we can to help poor people. What right-wing people in this country would love is an open-border policy. Bring in all kinds of people, work for $2 or $3 an hour, that would be great for them.”

Do you think we should have open borders?

This isn’t a particularly right-wing point of view, which should be obvious, but the rest of the answer is pretty much spot-on. And, James Woods was willing to quote “Bank Fraud Bernie” — referring to Sanders’ wife’s alleged role in a bank fraud case — on his Twitter feed.

Yes, Sanders found an acorn of wisdom. Don’t tell him, though — he might get freaked out.

Sanders indeed took a lot of ribbing from the left on this account. This includes the magazine that put on the interview; just days after the conversation, Vox’s Dylan Matthews wrote an article titled “Bernie Sanders’s fear of immigrant labor is ugly — and wrongheaded.”

In the article, Matthews — recently mentioned in these pages for writing an article which claimed that Sanders’ $32 billion “Medicare for all” bill was “kind of a bargain” — stated that he believed an amendment should be added to the Constitution guaranteeing open borders.

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“There is no single policy that the United States could adopt that would do more good for more people,” Matthews wrote. “An average Nigerian worker can increase his income almost 15-fold just by moving to the United States, and residents of significantly richer countries like Mexico can more than double their earnings. The humanitarian gains of letting everyone who wants to make that leap do so would be astounding.”

Matthews doesn’t mention just how economically unsound this entire argument is. After all, if paid at the same rates as American workers, unskilled foreign labor becomes significantly less attractive. Those that could find jobs would push Americans out of work and drive down wages thanks to the laws of supply and demand. These conditions would incentivize a parallel system in which immigrant labor was paid under the table at below-market rates, as well. (I’m assuming Mr. Matthews wouldn’t be doing away with the minimum wage.) This is to say nothing of the massive unfunded liability that unlimited immigration to a country with a robust welfare state. (I’m again going to assume Mr. Matthews isn’t planning on dismantling that.)

In other words, Sanders understands economics and the labor market better than Vox does. Just let that sink in. Even James Woods seems to have trouble believing that.

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