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To: Bonefish who wrote (1017973)	5/27/2017 8:42:30 PM
From: Brumar89	Respond to of 1573711

He's not doing anything to make those things happen.

To: Bonefish who wrote (1017973)	5/27/2017 9:07:01 PM
From: Brumar89	1 Recommendation Recommended By rdkflorida2 Respond to of 1573711

Welcome to Cucktopia: Trump to Expand H-2B Guest Worker Program Yet another exercise in demonstrating that Trump didn't mean a damn thing he said during the campaign. Earlier I posted that Trump was increasing the number of refugees he said couldn't be vetted during the campaign. And he's continuing to issue visas to "Dreamers:" https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2017-01-24/undocumented-dreamers-still-getting-work-permits-under-trump Trump believers are idiots. This isn't the deep state obstructing him, he's doing what he really wants. By Steve Berman \| May 26, 2017, 02:00pm \| @stevengberman The latest theme park to open under the Trump administration might be called Cucktopia. Because under President Trump, Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly asked Congress to expand the H-2B guest worker program from about 66,000 workers to more than 135,000. Really, only an idiot would think the guy who uses these workers to staff his resorts would crack down the issuance of these visas. Trump believers are those idiots. The Washington Times reported this week: “We’ll likely increase the numbers for this year, perhaps not by the entire number I’m authorized,” Mr. Kelly said Thursday, tipping his hand somewhat. Congress has authorized Kelly to exceed the highest number of visas ever issued in the program’s 30-year history. Under President Obama, the number of H-2B visas issued peaked at 94,304 in 2008, and settled in around 69,000 by 2015 (the numbers reported vary depending on the source used; I have cited Wikipedia figures, which cite the U.S. State Department). Companies use H-2B guest workers to perform seasonal or temporary nonagricultural work that American workers are either unwilling or unavailable to do. The anti-immigration Center for Immigration Studies notes how the guest worker program has been abused. Use of the H-2B program has morphed from its original intent to help employers that need seasonal and/or temporary workers. The majority of the program’s current users are neither small nor seasonal employers, but rather mid- to large-sized companies and recruiters that petition for H-2Bs to work for 10 months out of the year, year after year. [ Like The Trump Organization. ] While many H-2B jobs offer low wages of less than $10 per hour, a substantial number of H-2B visas go to more skilled workers who earn up to $40 per hour. Industries that are particularly heavy users of the H-2B program include landscaping, forestry, hotels and restaurants, amusement parks and leisure facilities, and seafood processors. Unlike the H-1B skilled labor guest worker program, which Disney infamously used to replace several hundred IT workers, the H-2B is actually targeted for theme parks, seafood processors and landscapers. But Walt Disney World and Universal resorts are open year-round. Larger companies actually prefer H-2B workers to Americans and permanent residents, since foreign guest workers don’t have the ability to leave for greener pastures. Therefore, American jobs are in fact supplanted by foreign workers, by the very companies pledging to bring jobs into the U.S. And the Trump administration is bowing before business interests eager to make deals in their own favor. “At this point right now, because we have no workers, we are turning down work, we are returning deposits and we are cutting business in half,” said one woman from a landscaping company in New Jersey. Advocates for U.S. workers, though, said there’s no need to look outside the country to fill jobs, particularly since the 66,000 level was in place last year and businesses survived. “If your business model is based on recruiting foreign workers above the level authorized in regular law, you probably should rethink your business model,” said Rosemary Jenks, government relations manager at NumbersUSA. So much for Trump pandering to his base of America First, MAGA-hat-wearing, red-blooded American workers. If they’re not sharing lobster and shrimp appetizers with the president at high-priced exclusive golf clubs (like Fortune 500 CEOs can afford), they’re not really being heard. Way to Make Cucktopia Great Again, Mr. President. theresurgent.com

To: Bonefish who wrote (1017973)

5/28/2017 1:00:06 PM

From: Brumar89

Respond to of 1573711

Refugee Spigot Is Turned Up, Sanctions Against Sanctuary Cities Evaporate

What the hell is going on here?

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/state-department-lifts-limit-on-refugees-entering-the-us/article/2624310

The State Department will no longer restrict the number of refugees allowed to enter the U.S., a huge break from what President Trump promised on the campaign trail last year.

Organizations that help refugees resettle in the U.S. were informed about an abrupt change to allow a level of refugees that would be “unconstrained by the weekly quotas that were in place,” according to an email State official Jennifer Smith sent to groups on Thursday.

Instead of 830 refugees allowed for admission each week, more than 1,500 people could begin entering the country per week starting in June.

In related news,

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/22/us/politics/sanctuary-cities-jeff-sessions.html?_r=0&mtrref=moonbattery.com&gwh=927ED1A3DBCD85CD1D357CE8ED065ECF&gwt=pay

Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Monday clarified President Trump’s executive order on so-called sanctuary cities, narrowly defining such jurisdictions — and the money they could expect to receive from the federal government — in a way that appeared to fall far short of Mr. Trump’s previous threats to starve all federal funding from localities that limit their cooperation with federal immigration enforcement. …

Mr. Trump’s executive order on immigration, signed on Jan. 25, appeared to take a much harder line with sanctuary cities. …

Yet since that initial threat, the administration has not moved to withhold any federal aid from sanctuary cities.

It is possible that some minor grants will be withheld from cities that are the most arrogant about refusing to hold illegal alien criminals for deportation. But I wouldn’t hold my breath.

At least we’ll have that border wall. Just as soon as Mexico sends the money to pay for it.

No wonder ALIPAC rescinded its endorsement.

Maybe the best way to get people to stop making a fuss about getting screwed out of their country is to trick them into thinking they are getting their way.

You’re not laughing?

http://moonbattery.com/?p=84579?utm_content=social&utm_medium=@federalists_usa&utm_source=thenewamericana.com&utm_campaign=thefederalistparty.org

To: Bonefish who wrote (1017973)	5/28/2017 1:07:02 PM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573711

ALIPAC Revokes Trump Endorsement May042017 ALIPAC gets wise too late: After months of activism efforts to encourage President Trump to honor his campaign promises, Americans for Legal Immigration PAC is regretfully announcing the revocation of the organization’s endorsement of Donald Trump originally issued February 29, 2016. ALIPAC’s supporters have endorsed, contributed to, volunteered for, and attended events and rallies to help Trump in response to his promises to enforce all existing immigration and border laws while ending Obama’s DACA Amnesty and building a wall on our southern border. While Trump promised these things, he quickly caved and retreated on budget negotiations with Congress on funding for the wall this week, while continuing Obama’s overtly unconstitutional DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) Amnesty for illegal immigrants! Trump is sending a message that most illegal aliens have nothing to fear from federal law enforcement and that implementation of US law will be based on his personal feelings instead of the Rule of Law. Trump has also issued an executive order setting dangerous refugee resettlement programs he promised to end at 62,000 imported per year, which is the same average Obama brought in during his terms. Meet the new boss, same as the old boss, as Roger Daltrey might sing. Anticipating a great deal of consternation, disappointment, and confusion within the ranks of Trump’s base supporters in reaction to ALIPAC’s dropped endorsement, William Gheen is also releasing an open letter further explaining the PAC’s decision. (VIEW LETTER) ALIPAC might be spared by the lynch mob, considering that even Queen of the Trumpsters Ann Coulter has been convinced by the current budget deal that she was had: Trump’s ridiculously chipper budget director, Mick Mulvaney, described the bill’s prohibition on building a wall as a MAJOR win. … Mulvaney’s most disturbing comment was to say that what upset Trump the most was the Democrats’ “spiking the football” on this deal. Apparently, Trump’s fine with no wall — and everything else in a bill straight out of George Soros’ dream journal — if only the Democrats hadn’t been so rude as to tell the public about it. When your main complaint is that the other side is gloating too much, maybe you’re not that great a negotiator. … We’re not winning. We’re losing, and we’re losing on the central promise of Trump’s campaign. If only someone had warned us that it was all a swindle, we might have chosen a conservative candidate. [ Here on SI someone DID. ME. I founded A Hard Look at Donald Trump Feb. 27, 2016, two days before ALIPAC endorsed him. I told everyone everything he promised was a swindle. I was right about him from the very beginning. ] The fight is still a lonely one. moonbattery.com