Coronavirus: Mexicans demand crackdown on Americans crossing the border

April 12, 2020 By D.A. King

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Coronavirus: Mexicans demand crackdown on Americans crossing the border

26 March 2020

BBC.com

“Mexican protesters have shut a US southern border crossing amid fears that untested American travellers will spread coronavirus.

Residents in Sonora, south of the US state of Arizona, have promised to block traffic into Mexico for a second day after closing a checkpoint for hours on Wednesday.

They wore face masks and held signs telling Americans to “stay at home”.

Mexico has fewer than 500 confirmed Covid-19 cases and the US over 65,000.

The border is supposed to be closed to all except “essential” business, but protesters said there has been little enforcement and no testing by authorities.

The blockade was led by members of the group Sonorans for Health and Life, who called for medical testing to be done on anyone who crosses from the US into Mexico.

Jose Luis Hernandez, a group member, told the Arizona Republic: “There are no health screenings by the federal government to deal with this pandemic. That’s why we’re here in Nogales. We’ve taken this action to call on the Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador to act now.”

The Mexican president has been criticised for his response to the pandemic, as has US President Donald Trump.

Mr Hernandez said the Wednesday demonstrations were a “first warning” to Mr Lopez Obrador, popularly known by his initials, Amlo.

The group has called for enforcement of the crossing ban on all US or Mexican citizens for tourism or medical reasons, including those who cross the border every day to attend school or work in the US.

Authorities must also conduct medical testing on Mexicans deported from the US, they said… Read the rest here.

If America Must Be Shut Down, So Must Its Guest Worker Programs – American Thinker

April 12, 2020 By D.A. King

April 11, 2020

If America Must Be Shut Down, So Must Its Guest Worker Programs

By Dale L. Wilcox

America-Firsters were both perplexed and furious for most of last week as the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) appeared to be going ahead with its early March announcement to expand the H-2B unskilled guest-worker program to over 100,000 slots a year. With unemployment-benefit applications for March coming in at over 10 million, the last time the job market looked this bad—the Great Depression of the 1930s—immigration authorities sought to help, not hinder, the American worker by creating the nation’s first-ever illegal-alien-removal program.

Late last week, however, due in part to activist pressures, DHS’s interim secretary, Chad Wolf, announced the increase would be paused “due to present economic circumstances.” It was a minor bit of respite for working Americans who were already struggling going into this crippling downturn.

The H-2B guest-worker visa was created in 1986 as part of a congressional law that provided amnesty to over 3 million illegal aliens. Because that law also included a promise to finally put an end to illegal-alien hiring, businesses complaining of impending “worker shortages” were able to secure the right to import temporary foreign workers for a slew of low-skilled industries, including cattle farming, landscaping and hospitality. Agribusiness got its separate, far larger “H-2A” program for farmworkers. Nearly 35 years on, however, the problem of illegal labor is bigger than ever, and H-2B-using businesses still complain about worker shortages.

The H-2B is one area where anti-borders groups and pro-American worker groups like mine actually come together on. Organizations like the Southern Poverty Law Center, the Economic Policy Institute, and the AFL-CIO all rightly criticize the program for being a modified version of colonial-era bonded servitude, due to workers’ visas being tied to their employers, their inability to unionize, and their wages and benefits being well below normal market expectations.

It is certainly not outlandish to call programs like the H-2B, the H-2A, and its Big Tech cousin, the H-1B, throwbacks to the time when European peasants came here as indentured laborers. America has devolved back to its pre-independence days of immigrant-serf labor before.

According to venerable U.S. historians Charles and Mary Beard, in their 1930 book The Rise of American Civilization, the Immigration Act of 1864 was “an extraordinary law which gave federal authorization to the importation of working people under terms of contract analogous to the indentured servitude of colonial times.”

Key to their assessment was a section of the law in which emigrants first had to pledge up to a year of their wages to pay for their transportation, in effect, bonding them to their employer. Due to the public’s outrage (even Russia had abolished its serf system by this point), it was repealed four years later. However, the practice still went on for many decades, say the Beards, with “companies [being] organized to supply employers with European labor in any quantity, anywhere, at any time.”

When it was initially announced as part of the Republican Party’s platform four years earlier (when Lincoln won the party ticket), the Beards described members both in- and outside the party as being in total shock. Pushing a policy that took the country back to the days of British colonial-era serfdom was only made possible, say the Beards, by a D.C. institution that was just then coming into its own: corporate lobbying… Read the rest here.

Trump Threatens Countries With Visa Sanctions If They Stop Accepting Deported Citizens

April 12, 2020 By D.A. King

Daily Caller

April 11, 202

Trump Threatens Countries With Visa Sanctions If They Stop Accepting Deported Citizens

President Donald Trump. Photo: The Daily Caller News Foundation

Jason Hopkins

President Donald Trump is threatening to withhold visas from countries that refuse to accept deported citizens from the United States out of concern stemming from the coronavirus pandemic.

Trump issued a memo late Friday, ordering acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf to notify the State Department of any government that refuses to accept deportees from the U.S.

Upon notification, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo would have seven days to impose visa sanctions, making it harder — and likely impossible — for citizens of those countries to obtain U.S. visas.

The memo dramatically ratcheted up pressure on governments, particularly in Central America, to keep allowing deportation flights into their countries.

“Considering the profound and unique public health risks posed by the novel (new) coronavirus known as SARS-CoV-2, the need for that cooperation and timely and effective implementation is greater than ever before,” the memo reads.

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Photo: A Honduran immigration detainee, his feet shackled and shoes laceless as a security precaution, boards a deportation flight (John Moore/Getty Images)

“Countries that deny or unreasonably delay the acceptance of their citizens, subjects, nationals, or residents from the United States during the ongoing pandemic caused by SARS-CoV-2 create unacceptable public health risks for Americans,” the memo continued. “The United States must be able to effectuate the repatriation of foreign nationals who violate the laws of the United States.” Read the rest here.

The Southern Poverty Law Center Oozes into the lobbying business, is advertising for a Director of Government Relations

February 9, 2019 By D.A. King

Building managers in state Capitols around the Southeast would do well to instruct their maintenance staffs to stock up on gloves, mops, buckets, slime removal equipment, extra disinfectant and perhaps installing shower stalls for use by the Capitol workers who can’t go home during the day to clean up.

You read correctly. The open borders, SPLC hate mongers are advertising for a Director of Government Relations. This will be a real hoot.

One can only imagine the stampede of race-baiting, open borders Marxists preparing their resume for transmission to what has become known to many as the “Poverty Palace” in Montgomery.

Advice to the prospective applicant: Make it clear on top of the page that you will happily and dutifully fight any immigration enforcement and “smear today, smear tomorrow and smear forever” in search of donations to help SPLC founder Morris redecorate El Rancho Dees’ –again – to get an employment interview

Oh, to be a fly on the wall for the hiring interviews.

Having been defeated in numerous state legislatures on immigration enforcement – including Georgia’s – and left to smolder on the sidelines while pro-enforcement activists see effective and productive enforcement laws put in place each year, the charlatans at SPLC will soon have an out-in-the-open lobbying effort.

As a long time denizen of the Gold-Domed Georgia Capitol, I am delirious with anticipation and excitement at the prospect of dealing with SPLC lobbyist-critter in any committee hearing on the immigration legislation coming in the 2012 Georgia Legislative session. Controlled by the GOP. That has passed meaningful immigration enforcement-related legislation every year since 2005. Including this year.

That has to hurt professional pride, certainly the leftist agenda and likely the reputation among the open borders crazies who depend on the endless smears and direction from the SPLC.

I am reminded of the first time I had dealings with the SPLC mob. I wanted to compare Morris Dees to the late TV Evangelist Jim Bakker. But alas, his former partner, Millard Farmer, had already done that, “He’s the Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker of the civil rights movement…though I don’t mean to malign Jim and Tammy Faye…” Bless their now departed hearts.

I wanted to write that I see Dees as “a fraud and a con man.” But in 1996 well-known writer Stephen Bright beat me to it in Harper’s magazine.

Or “Dees is a Fear monger, Profiteer and Hypocrite”…nope, already been done – Paul Hall, Managing Editor, the in Midpines, California.

From the in suburban Washington, D.C., editorial ”Lump of Coal” on Morris Dees and the SPLC in December 2003: “…a bunch of slick, parasitic hucksters who live high on the hog by raising money on behalf of needy people who never see a dime of it.”Rule of law, pro-American state legislators should prepare for the sure to come salvo of “hate-speech” smears from the Che Guevara t-shirt-clad SPLC lobbyists when there is actual discussion of an equal application of the law, protecting American workers and driving the hordes of illegal aliens out of the U.S.

Members of Hezbollah…

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“Members of Hezbollah have already entered the United States across the Southwest border”.
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