The Quote Below—More Misinformation from the Media
“If you don’t live in the right-wing news bubble, you may have missed headlines about Venezuelan gangs taking over towns in Colorado and Texas, Haitians in Ohio eating geese and people’s pets, and immigrants overrunning Tunkhannock and Charleroi, right here in Pennsylvania. . . .
“If he should return to the White House, Trump plans to severely limit legal immigration, end temporary immigration protection programs, and disregard established asylum law, but his most alarming proposal is his promise to deport the estimated 11 million people who are in the country without authorization.
“This would be a massive undertaking that would involve not only federal immigration agents conducting large-scale raids but also deputized local law enforcement and the National Guard. Detained immigrants would then be held in sprawling camps while they await deportation flights. . . .
“Along with the humanitarian impact, the effects on the economy would be widely felt.
“It is an unending irony that for a man who has built his political career on wanting to make America great again, Trump has no idea what makes America great in the first place. Saying the nation is richer and stronger because of immigrants isn’t an empty platitude or limited to cultural diversity.
“The U.S. not only offers immigrants the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, it also offers jobs — jobs few native-born workers are willing to take. Want to know who helps feed America? Half of all field and crop workers are undocumented. . . . Undocumented immigrants also pay sales, income, and property taxes. . . .
“As vice presidential candidate JD Vance revealingly put it at a rally Wednesday in North Carolina, although Haitian immigrants are in the country legally — many through a program signed into law by George H.W. Bush — Vance was “ still going to call them an illegal alien. . . .”
“We don’t need to wait to see what will happen if Trump is reelected. We have already seen what unchecked hatred can do. . . . – On Immigration, Donald Trump Offers Only Division and Disaster, Editorial, Philadelphia Inquirer, 7/27/24 [Link]
Fack Check of Above Quote: Media elites who live in their “left-wing bubble” can’t seem to understand why anyone would object to illegal immigrants. After all, they do jobs that “Americans won’t do” and pay taxes. These elites, in their privileged positions, really don’t know much about jobs that American workers do. If they did, they would acknowledge that in almost all occupational categories in this country, native-born Americans are the majority of workers. When illegals take jobs in those fields, they’re competing with Americans who aren’t refusing those jobs.
In agriculture, the majority of workers are not native-born, but—as this article concedes—illegal aliens are still only about half of the workforce. They could be replaced in the short run by legal workers on temporary visas. Such visas already exist, but many growers find it easier and cheaper to hire illegals. They should be encouraged to obey the law. In the long run, mechanization offers a solution for farm work. The technology already exists, in many instances to make this a reality. But progress is slow as long as growers take the easy path of continuing to use cheap illegal labor.
As for the editorial’s claim about taxes, it is irrelevant how much illegal aliens pay in taxes. Their taxes are not a net asset because the tax-paid benefits they receive are greater than what they pay.
JD Vance was not out of line to refer to the Haitians in Springfield, Ohio, as illegal aliens. Most were admitted under the Biden Administration’s parole program which ignores the clear intent of immigration law. Even under this parole they remain unauthorized residents. The administration also granted many of the Haitians Temporary Protected Status (TPS), but it only is supposed to delay deportation, not change an alien’s legal status.
Why are media elites so partial to illegal aliens? One can only conclude that they really don’t believe in borders or countries—or the right of citizens through. representative government, to limit immigration for the benefit of national interest. What motivates these elites? One thing for sure, it isn’t patriotism.