American companies want more U.S. customers, so top executives at Tinder and Grindr have swiped right to support the Dream Act amnesty for at least 3 million young illegal-immigrant consumers.

The executives at the two hook-up sites have signed a pro-amnesty petition which has also been signed by top executives at PepsiCo and Coca-Cola, Best Buy, Crate and Barrel, Mastercard, automaker General Motors and food supplier General Mills, Levi Strauss and the Gap.

The CEO signatures are being collected by FWD.us, an advocacy group launched by one of the wealthiest men in the world, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg. The group’s billionaire and millionaire founders made their money in the information-technology industry, not in the retail sector. Their priority is to keep importing cheap white-collar technology workers for themselves and their myriad subcontractors.

The technology CEOs are pushing for the Dream Act amnesty because they want to keep the 3 million-plus young illegal-immigrant consumers in the United States. But they also want to block President Donald Trump’s major immigration reform, dubbed the RAISE Act. That legislation would raise wages and salaries for many Americans, in part, by reducing annual immigration from 1 million per year to roughly 600,000 people per year.

CEOs and lobbyists are trying to sink the RAISE Act by quickly pushing the huge Dream Act amnesty through Congress this year. If the Dream Act become law without getting packaged with the RAISE Act in a compromise, then Trump loses his DACA-amnesty trading card needed to win the Democrats’ approval for passage of the RAISE Act. Once the RAISE Act is blocked, then Zuckerberg and his allied technology CEOs can restart their push to import additional cheap white-collar professionals.

Most national economies, such as China, grow their economy and wages by investing in labor-saving machinery. But the United States also grows its economy by importing consumers and workers. This economic policy of mass-immigration grows Wall Street and government revenues but it does little to raise average wages for Americans.

The nation’s economy now includes 43 million legal and illegal immigrants who have hugely expanded the nation’s purchases of autos, Ramen noodles, soft drinks, furniture, apartments, TV ads, entertainment and much, much else. The immigrants’ 41 million American children have further expanded consumption as they boosted the nation’s population to roughly 320 million consumers. The New American Economy business group described the scale of this immigration-stimulus:

The New American Economy business group described the scale of this immigration-stimulus:

Nationally, immigrants earned $1.3 trillion in 2014 and … nearly $927 billion in spending power, which they frequently used to purchase goods and services, stimulate local business activity, and create jobs in the broader U.S. economy.

In Arizona, illegal immigrants added $3.1 billion in spending power to the state in 2014, while the overall population of legal and illegal immigrants added $16 billion in spending power, according to the advocacy group.

The New American Economy advocacy group was jointly founded by billionaires Mike Bloomberg and Rupert Murdoch, who has since shelved plans to create a Spanish-language version of Fox News.

CEOs rarely describe immigrants as customers. They instead prefer to cloak their economic self-interest in media-ready talk about “Dreamers” and “a nation of immigrants,” as if the nation’s 280 million native-born Americans are somehow less important than imported customers.

The CEOS and their lobbyists often talk about immigration as a component of the nation’s economy and a source of revenues for politicians, even though Americans’ wages have flatlined since 1973 while housing prices have risen in crowded cities.

But in March 2015, Google’s then-chairman Eric Schmidt frankly endorsed immigration to as a cure for shrinking consumer demand in Europe and Japan.

“Most stock markets assume modest [revenue] growth, so how are you over a couple of decades to deal with the fact that one-third of your customers are going to go away?” he said. “Well, one [way] is to produce more customers through immigration,” he said at a March 18 event hosted by the American Enterprise Institute. Schmidt is now the Executive Chairman of Google’s parent company, Alphabet Inc.

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Economists also talk about the buying power of migrants, usually while calling for more imported consumers.

“There are millions of [illegal] immigrants living in this country … [who] are not going out and shopping,” because of Trump’s enforcement policies, said Robert Kaplan, the head of the Federal Reserve of Dallas, and a voting member of the Federal Reserve which regulates the economy by adjusting interest rates. “They are staying home,” Kaplan complained during a May 31 presentation at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York. “They’re afraid if they go out they may not come home.”

Other co-signers of Zuckerberg’s DACA petition top executive at Starbucks, Wal-Mart Stores and Target Corp., which still has not recovered from it’s 2016 decision to deny sexual privacy to men and women in its changing rooms and bathrooms.

Firms that sell services to Latino customers have also signed up, including the president of Fiesta Foods . His company’s website says:

Craig Gaylord, President of Fiesta Foods after opening his first grocery store in Hermiston, Oregon saw the fast growth of the Hispanic population in the area. He also saw the there was nowhere in the area where this increasing community could fulfill all of their shopping needs. He began to study Hispanic marketing in 1997. He then opened the first Fiesta Foods in Pasco, Washington in April, 2003. This store became the leader in Hispanic marketing in the Northwest. With the store’s great success he proceeded to open the second Fiesta Foods in Sunnyside, Washington in May, 2006. The third Fiesta Foods opened in Yakima, Washington in June, 2007. All three stores have been a great success focusing on the concept of “Selling fresh foods for less.”

Another signer is the CEO of Evans Food Group, which is a leading supplier of pork rinds to Latino customers:

The CEO’s petition signatures are accompanied by a mass of signatures from technology companies trying to keep the RAISE act down, and by a slew of immigration lawyers whose customer base will be shriveled if the DACA migrants are sent home or if the RAISE Act becomes law.

Other signers include National Hispanic Media the Coalition, and professionals in the education business, for example, the CEOs of the Miami-Dade County public schools and KIPP L.A. Schools.

Many of the CEOs use immigrants as workers, as well as consumers. So Zuckerberg’s petition is backed by top executives at the Hilton, Hyatt and Marriott hotel chains which also sell services to, and also employ, large numbers of immigrants.

Real-estate billionaire Penny Pritzker is on the list. She runs PSP Capital, which is based a short distance away from another petition signer, Chicago Joe Castillo, a real-estate agent at Mi Casa Real Estate. Their mutual support for the DACA illegals makes sense because Latinos are a rising share of the Chicago real-estate market.

Hispanics are now Chicago’s 2nd largest racial/ethnic group, according to new Census estimates https://t.co/JAIZ1V3GNs http://pic.twitter.com/kEZpSUphuM

— Tanveer Ali (@tanveerali) September 14, 2017

Four million Americans turn 18 each year and begin looking for good jobs. However, the government imports roughly 1 million legal immigrants to compete against Americans for jobs.

The government also hands out almost 3 million short-term work permits to foreign workers. These permits include roughly 330,000 one-year OPT permits for foreign graduates of U.S. colleges, roughly 200,000 three-year H-1B visas for foreign white-collar professionals, and 400,000 two-year permits to DACA illegals.

That Washington-imposed policy of mass-immigration floods the market with foreign labor, spikes profits and Wall Street values by cutting salaries for manual and skilled labor offered by blue-collar and white-collar employees. It 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 5 million marginalized Americans and their families, including many who are now struggling with opioid addictions.

Americans tell pollsters that they strongly oppose amnesties and cheap-labor immigration, even as most also want to favor legal immigrants, and many even sympathize with illegals.

Amid the huge inflow of new workers, wages for men have remained flat since 1973, and the percentage of working Americans has declined steadily for the last few decades.

 

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It’s no secret that the U.S. military was often frustrated and constrained during the Obama administration — but it looks like those days are long behind us.

On Friday, Air Force Lt. Gen. Jeffrey L. Harrigian appeared on “Fox & Friends” Friday to discuss the state of the military, and he revealed that under President Donald Trump, the fight against radical terrorists is finally swinging in the right direction.

“The strategy is all about annihilating the enemy,” declared Harrigian, who leads U.S. Central Command, which covers Afghanistan and Iraq, as well as other countries in the Middle East, parts of northern Africa and central Asia.

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“And I think what you’ve seen over the last several months is we’ve gained significant momentum and there should be no doubt ISIS is on the run.”

The general didn’t mention Obama by name, but his comments about gaining momentum made it clear that he was increasingly confident and optimistic under the current commander in chief. and the implicit comparison had to be infuriating to liberals who still can’t get over the November election results.

Getting straight to the point, Fox hosts asked Harrigian how well the Trump administration was doing militarily.

“We’re doing very well. I think as you look at what’s happening on the battlefield, today, we’ve got them on the run,” Harrigan said.

“We’ve had the ability to pressure them from the air, on the ground, encircle them, and ensure they’re not getting out. And I think as you watch what’s occurring both in Iraq and Syria, we’re winning,” he said.

At the same time, the CENTCOM commander pointed out that the military has to be careful not to underestimate the enemy.

“They’re adaptive. It’s an enemy we have to stay in front of,” Harrigian said.

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The narrative during the Obama years was that the “Islamic State” group was an easy opponent, a “junior varsity” squad that would be defeated quickly. As a result of not taking threats seriously, the military was often kept on an incredibly short leash and was not permitted to engage the enemy.

Examples from Benghazi attack of 2012 in Libya to the shooting down of “Extortion 17” in Afghanistan come to mind. In those cases, the military’s warriors were told to stand down and were held back from engaging in the fight.

That approach was the polar opposite of the words General Harrigian just used: “Annihilating the enemy.”

Finally, there’s a new sheriff in town. Under Trump and Secretary of Defense James Mattis, the military has been let off the leash — and that’s something that should make America’s enemies absolutely terrified.

H/T The Daily Caller

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Television shows and Hollywood movies often portray police work as nothing but nonstop action — yet in reality, much of the job is routine.

There was nothing “routine” about a dramatic rescue that happened in Atlanta early Wednesday, however. Police officers received a call about a car accident on Interstate 85… but when they rolled up, they stepped right into a scene from a disaster movie.

“When the officers arrived on scene, they found a black vehicle literally wrapped around the support pillar of I-85 on Cheshire Bridge Rd with the engine compartment on fire, quickly spreading to the rear of the vehicle,” explained the Atlanta Police Department in a Facebook post.

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A car fire is a dangerous situation under any circumstances, but then the cops noticed two people trapped inside.

Officer Michael Skillman was the first one on the scene. He grabbed a fire extinguisher and a baton and started to battle the flames while also trying to break the car’s windows.

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A second officer named Elijah McCall quickly arrived to help. “I didn’t notice (the passenger) until he pretty much started screaming,” McCall said, according to the Atlanta Journal Constitution.

The crash had jammed the car doors, and both the driver and the passenger were trapped. Three more officers arrived to assist — Derek Daniel, Bill Brooks, and Andre Valentine.

“I wasn’t really concerned about my safety at the time,” Daniel told the newspaper. “It comes with the job of being a first responder.”

It wasn’t until the fire department arrived with special extraction equipment that the two people were able to be pulled out of the vehicle, but the heroic actions of the officers while battling the car fire almost certainly saved their lives.

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“I want to say thank you from the heart for them because if it wasn’t for them, that car would have exploded,” Hector Quiroz, the father of those in the car, told WXIA News. “We wouldn’t be here today.”

The officers credited for saving two lives regarded it as just part of the job.

“I signed up to help people and that’s what I’m going to always do,” said Brooks.

“It’s not always about catching bad guys,” stated Officer McCall. “We also go out and save lives.”

During times of unrest and questions about the role of police in the country, this incident is an important reminder of the role our officers play in protecting the community and saving lives — and America owes them a debt of gratitude.

H/T TheBlaze

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Given the tenuous situation across their border with Syria, Israel has kept an exceptionally close eye on developments in that nation’s ongoing civil war — particularly as it pertains to Iran‘s growing presence and how that bolsters the strength of Iran’s proxy Hezbollah — which at times has merited limited intervention.

According to the Israeli news outlet Haaretz, another instance of Israeli intervention in Syria is thought to have occurred in the early morning hours of Friday, with Israeli aircraft reportedly launching a strike on a location near the Damascus International Airport.

Those strike was believed to be in response to unconfirmed reports that a Syrian aerial defense position had fired a surface-to-air missile at an Israeli aircraft, though it was unclear if that aircraft had been hit, or if had been an actual jet or an unmanned drone.

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Regardless, the rules of warfare in the neighborhood haven’t changed since the days of the Old Testament: “An eye for an eye” required a weaponized Israeli response.

The Jerusalem Post shared mixed reports from the various Arab media outlets, which claimed a number of explosions had occurred at what was described as a weapons depot near the Syrian airport.

That cache was said to belong to Hezbollah, and had purportedly been targeted by an Israeli drone. The drone, in turn, drew the anti-aircraft fire, though none of the various reports or even the sequence of events had been independently verified.

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According to The U.K. Guardian, this probable attack on an Iranian-supplied Hezbollah weapons depot is the third such strike in as many weeks by Israeli aircraft.

Israel has stated clearly and repeatedly that it will not stand idly by and watch as Iran arms and equips Hezbollah. Both Iran, the terrorist state, and Hezbollah, the terrorist group, have sworn to utterly destroy and wipe Israel off the map.

Just days earlier it had been reported that Israeli air defense forces had shot down an Iranian-made drone that was being operated by a Hezbollah unit in the border region of the Golan Heights.

That incident occurred a mere week after Israeli aircraft fired missiles at what was believed to be a chemical weapons production facility near Damascus.

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To be sure, Israel has neither confirmed nor denied any of the reports of its forces launching strikes into Syria, and while Arab media isn’t exactly known for their unbiased truthiness, the preponderance of reports on these latest airstrikes would seem to indicate that they quite likely occurred.

And they seem just as likely to continue.

H/T Zero Hedge

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