Largest Immigrant Groups in the United States

We Are Living Through The Scariest Economic Experiment In History Right ...

The Richest Pastors in the World

The Doors - Alabama Song (Whiskey Bar)

The World Is Doing Better Than Ever. Here's Why You Never Hear About It.

Is the world getting better or worse? A look at the numbers | Steven Pinker

AFGHAN VT + LEADIN

Top 10 States with the Highest Cancer Rates

Jerry Reed - Alabama Jubilee

DACA Leaves Employment in the USA with Shortages

 Republican officials in Texas are celebrating a major political win after successfully suing the federal government over the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. DACA has been a GOP target since 2012 when then-President Barack Obama first created it and then in 2014 expanded it via executive action. It has faced numerous Republican-led legal challenges and subsequent court rulings as well as an outright suspension of the program during Donald Trump’s administration. In spite of a 2020 Supreme Court ruling that upheld it, a new Texas federal court ruling by a known anti-immigrant judge named Andrew Hanen deemed the program “illegal,” leaving the lives of hundreds of thousands of young immigrants in limbo once more.

One such immigrant is Fatima Flores, the political director of the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles (CHIRLA), who just a week and a half before the ruling had renewed her DACA status. Had Hanen’s ruling come before her renewal, Flores would likely have been among those immigrants at risk of losing her status given that no new applications are being processed.

Flores told me in an interview that she sees the devastating ruling as “an attack on our immigrant communities,” and points out that there is a “backlog of thousands of DACA recipient hopefuls [who] will not have a decision on their case.” This means they are in jeopardy of losing employment and benefits, which in turn could result in evictions. The ruling also means that those immigrants who might have been able to adjust their status under DACA are now eligible for possible deportation. Flores explained, “I came to this country when I was six, and I am 30 now. And I am one of millions of people who have been waiting for something to happen [toward legalization].”

The ruling is even more disappointing considering the role that DACA holders have played as essential workers and health care workers during the pandemic, delivering lifesaving care to U.S. residents. After the U.S. Supreme Court last year ruled against Trump’s suspension of the program—saying that the Trump administration did not provide adequate justification for ending it—an estimated 30,000 health care workers with DACA status were protected from deportation and allowed to continue their critical work. The American Medical Association’s general counsel went as far as citing that the central tenet of health care is “do no harm,” and that, “if we strip this population of caregivers out of the system, that’s pretty significant harm.” Hanen’s ruling threatens to do just such harm at a time when the United States appears to be on the cusp of another surge of COVID-19 infections.

Although President Joe Biden has already announced that his Justice Department will appeal Hanen’s ruling, Flores worries such a legal challenge will simply take too long, leaving countless numbers of potential DACA applicants stranded, unable to gain employment and subject to deportation even though the United States is the only country most have known. Worse, if the appeal goes all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, this time the conservative majority on the court could end the program altogether.

She suggested that a more direct pathway to cementing DACA was via the legislative process so that it is no longer beholden to the whims of Republican attorneys general, state governors or presidents. While legislative pathways on immigration have been frustratingly elusive in recent years, and while Democrats have passed far too few bills while holding power in 2021, this time on this issue, success may be within reach. That is because a limited form of immigration reform could pass through the Senate budget reconciliation process, requiring only a simple majority instead of a filibuster-proof supermajority.

To that end, Senate Budget Committee Chair Bernie Sanders (I-VT) just released a $6 trillion budget blueprint that includes $150 billion in fundingtoward pathways for legal status for immigrants including DACA holders. Flores cited the promising leadership of California’s newly seated Senator Alex Padilla, who chairs the Senate Judiciary Committee’s immigration panel and who is working closely with CHIRLA.

Padilla is pushing for legalization pathways to be included in negotiations over an infrastructure package and is confident that Biden backs him, saying, “I believe the White House is supportive of both an ambitious infrastructure package, and as substantive immigration reform as you can achieve in any way possible.” Perhaps more importantly, West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin, one of the most intractable Democrats on progressive legislation, has signaled that he too supports passing immigration reform in this manner.

Worryingly, it is the Senate parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough who decides if legalizing DACA through budget reconciliation is acceptable or not, and immigrant advocates slammed Biden’s announcement that he would defer to whatever the unelected official decides on the matter. One can only hope that MacDonough’s past as a Justice Department trial attorney dealing with immigration cases makes her sympathetic to the plight of DACA holders. Her decision earlier this year to deny the inclusion of a federal minimum wage increase as part of the budget reconciliation was met with national outrage. That said, those financial priorities that can be included in reconciliation are indeed narrowly limited.

The pursuit of immigration reform through a technicality based on the federal budget is perhaps fitting for a nation whose dominant culture, set by elites, perceives human beings as resources and capital, rather than seeing them through the lens of compassion and empathy. But people like Flores and others in her community have had their lives turned upside down for decades awaiting a political solution. If Democrats see immigrants as financial assets, Republicans see them as future Democratic voters who can jeopardize their ill-gotten hold on political power. Flores said, “we’re here to stand in solidarity with our communities [fighting for legalization] and be relentless because the Republicans and the GOP are relentless against us.”

There is a clear economic case to be made for legalizing undocumented immigrants, even outside the traditional bounds of seeing them as a source of cheap labor for the agricultural and apparel industry. A study released in mid-June by the Center for American Progress examined numerous scenarios for immigrant legalization. If all undocumented immigrants were offered citizenship, the authors concluded that it “would boost U.S. gross domestic product (GDP) by a cumulative total of $1.7 trillion over 10 years and create 438,800 new jobs.” If only DACA recipients were legalized, it “would increase U.S. GDP by a cumulative total of $799 billion over 10 years and create 285,400 new jobs.” Interestingly, the authors extrapolate that in the former scenario, “all other American workers would see their annual wages increase by $700,” and in the latter, “annual wages [would] increase by $400” across the board.

In other words, legalizing immigrants will benefit all American workers over time. Such a conclusion is not based on a complicated economic analysis. Undocumented workers are far more vulnerable to employer exploitation simply because of their lack of legal status. Their status drives down all wages. The converse is also true.

Flores pointed out that the clock is ticking. “We can’t leave 2021 without some legalization efforts,” because the 2022 midterm elections are around the corner and those senators up for reelection are likely to be preoccupied by their campaigns next year. Additionally, DACA holders and prospective applicants like her are tired. “For the longest time we’ve been told ‘stay in your lane.’ We’re done waiting,” she said. “We’re done having to take a back seat. We’re done playing nice.”

Ecuador: At least 18 inmates die in two prison riots

Israel Strikes in Syria-Senator Warns Israel may strike Iran-UK Sends sh...

Delta variant causes economic worries

UNBOXING IDAHO: What It's Like Living in IDAHO

Global Chip Shortage May Last Through Into 2022: Bain & Co.

Top 10 States with the Most Senior Retirees 2021.

Government, Taxes, Religion, Welfare of Humans

 Understood, but I don't want to enslave myself to a religious institution. The government has been there when I needed it, I've been on welfare and food stamps when I was a kid, I've had free lunches for school, hell the government runs public schools. Oppressive governments I understand, are Nazism, Islamic States, Communism, Dictatorships but not a Democratic-Republican Government is chosen by the people in elections. They are greedy taxpayers who like their wealth and could give

·

You are lucky your government doesn't want much from you. Not all of us are so fortunate.

If you think about it, you might see your need for welfare and food stamps came from your government. If you had decent land, you could feed yourself and your family. The Indians thrived with stone-age tools for tens of thousands of years.

Looking at the built-in decline of the purchasing power of modern currencies, the increase in taxes over the last century, and loss of rights due to covid deemed "legal" under emergency power laws, certainly you can foresee your children or theirs will not be as well off as you.

·

·

Maybe the reason for so many homeless people is the reason we spend so much on little puppies and kitty cats than humans. I was a kid then and appreciated the lift up and saved my family, depends on how you or your eye grew up. It was Reagan who closed and defunded mental health back then, War on drugs has been a flop, don't how you grew up religious, wealthy, or what, most did not get the chance others do being spoon-fed. It has always been in the form of welfare, that the Church vs government welfare. Most of the things you enjoy today are public, if not you would have to fund it yourself. Anything public is a form of socialism, rather pays the tax than being regulated by a religious institution that is tax-free and acts like a business, preachers drive nice cars and big mansions. So, as a kid back then I am thankful for the handouts. When you drive tomorrow thank the government for the free road without tolls not including other things you take advantage of public

thumb_up

NENA | 99 Red Balloons [1984] (Official Music Video)

China threatens to nuke Japan-China buying up US Farmland-Russia Fires H...

Black Crime Statistics

 In nearly fifty years since incarceration rates started their remarkable rise in the United States, there have been numerous discussions of racially selective arrest, prosecution, and sentencing of blacks who constitute 37% of drug arrests, 42% of death row prisoners, and 40% of the incarcerated. However, there has been little concern about the recent finding by researchers at the National Institute of Justice that 62% of national sex trafficking prosecutions are black. This essay begins such a discussion by drawing on three publicly funded studies of legally defined sex traffickers and victims, several in-depth case studies of federal sex trafficking trials against black pimps, and preliminary quantitative research on national and regional disparities in sex trafficking prosecution and sentencing. Our findings suggest that black men are probably far more than 62% of those prosecuted for sex trafficking and sentencing disparities are extreme and may constitute a systematic and serious human rights violation. Finally, we question whether it is possible for a black pimp to receive a fair trial in a socio-legal regime that grants overzealous prosecutors near-complete impunity through broad and vague statutes built on empirically unsupported presuppositions about gender and sex work and ubiquitous substandard expert witness testimony that conflates popular racist stereotypes, hip hop, and black pulp fiction mythology, and human trafficking propaganda to demonize black pimps.

Gravitas: What did the U.S. achieve in Afghanistan? Nothing

Why is the Taliban Publicly Executing Women?

Origins of the Taliban

Decoded: Afghanistan - The Saudi Arabia of Lithium

Afghanistan sits on $3 trillion in minerals

Gravitas: Will China trap Afghanistan in its debt trap?

Pete Hegseth: These truly are dangerous times

Psaki: 'We're Flagging Problematic Posts On Facebook That Spread Disinfo...

Diversify Your Racial Portfolio

 Ask me about extremism, fanaticism, tribalism? All begat each other. In our country, there is a big donut hole. Trump, BLM Antifa. Together we stand and divided we fall. Free your mind and the rest will follow. Diversify your portfolio, you are not the only human being on the earth, take a DNA test to find out where you are from, then gain your pride from the real truth. Reboot your brain. No one is responsible for what your great-grandparents did or what they suffered. History is a lesson not to repeat. We do not relive the past, we learn from it. Live the present, plan for the future without the color worshipping, think on your own through research, logic, reason. Don't believe in the cons, the fanatics, the extremist, it is all money-based anyway, profiting off your gullibility, your ignorance

Prince Buster ( Al Capone) Blue Beat, Ska.

Benny Goodman - "Airmail Special"

South Africa deploys troops as pro-Zuma protests worsen

China says it drove away US warship-China Built in Backdoor Threat to ta...

What I am is what I am, DNA test to reboot your brain

What I am is what I am

Philosophy, walk on a slippery rock

Religion is a smile on a dog

What would break up the racial monotony in this country would be to have everyone in the world get an ethnic DNA test and reboot their brain to who and what they really are and where they came from. If you believe in the Bible, we are all related, our color or anything else has to do with human evolutions or adaptation to

Lolo Zouaï - Galipette (Official Video)

Here's Why Toyota's New Hydrogen Car is the Future (Goodbye Tesla)

"Ain't We Got Fun?" (Van & Schenck, 1921)

Diversity Of Thought | Vidya Spandana | TEDxPortland

Dr Hook and the Medicine Show ~ "Cover of the Rolling Stone"

The We Five - YOU WERE ON MY MIND ~ High Quality STEREO

The Animals "House Of The Rising Sun" on The Ed Sullivan Show

The Byrds - Mr. Tambourine Man. Full HD IN COLOUR. {HQ Stereo}.

War Drums: Japan warns US of surprise Pearl Harbor like attack on Hawaii...

China’s Industrial Profits Grow at Slower Pace

Australia Adds Covid Curves as Outbreak Widens

7 Toxic Behavior To Look Out For

Nationwide Shortages in the Supply Chains Due to Greed, Anti Globalization and Nationalism

 Catastrophic supply chain disruptions continue to cause devastating shortages all over America, halting the production of multiple goods - ranging from cars to computers, appliances, and furniture; and even more alarmingly, it is triggering worrying food shortages across several parts of the nation. Numerous staples are already disappearing from grocery shelves, just as seen in the early days of the health crisis, and consumers are being left without critical everyday products. Consequently, the mismatch between supply and demand is boosting skyrocketing prices that are likely to persist for months. Right now, the U.S. is finally assessing how serious it was the impact of the Texas freeze and the Suez blockage on supply chains. While thousands of crops have been completely destroyed due to the arctic temperatures, shipping delays and a container shortage are hampering retailers' ability to restock on canned and dried food, coffee, meat, spices, and toilet paper. One more time, American consumers are headed to a tough shopping season as the widespread scarcity of products is becoming the "new normal". And that's what we're going to discuss in this video.

Since last year's holiday season, major U.S. retailers have been struggling to restock on a wide range of food staples. Walmart, Costco, Target, and H-E-B are reporting shortages of goods such as baking goods, ramen, milk, cheese, peanut butter, brisket, canned soup, beans, and dried pasta that started to happen in that period and have been lingering since then as the recent disruptions continue to add pressure on grocery chains all across the nation. In fact, grocers have been limiting purchases due to dwindling stocks just as we've seen during the early days of the health crisis. A coffee shortage is also being registered after the Suez blockage delayed the delivery of tons of raw coffee beans to European ports, which traditionally sends processed powdered coffee to the U.S. A month after an unprecedented chillwave blanketed the Lone Star state with snow, retailers and food banks are concerned there won't be enough fresh produce to meet the fast-increasing demand over the next months. Many Texan farmers lost their entire crops to the ravaging cold temperatures and millions of gallons of milk had to be dumped too. The shipping container deficit problem has been playing out for months due to high demand from China and the effects of the sanitary outbreak on the global economy, and it will affect basically anything you see in the stores. The problem is also responsible for delaying the delivery of wood pulp to Suzano SA, the leading firm in manufacturing toilet paper. Suzanne CEO Walter Schalka told Bloomberg shipping problems threaten to leave store shelves tissue-less once again. Another effect of wood shortages can be seen in the continuous rise of lumber prices, which have risen almost 200%, according to the National Association of Home Builders. Futures contracts in lumber are now being settled at over $1,000 per thousand feet of board, roughly four times their April 2020 prices. Wood is also a key material for manufacturing furniture, and since the delay in availability has been made worse by congestion at ports in Southern California, customers are already seeing furniture delivery dates delayed for several months. The strained supply chains are now experiencing a global shortage of semiconductors, a component used in a wide range of consumer goods, from smartphones and laptops to video games. Consultant AlixPartners has estimated the chip shortage could cost automakers $61 billion in lost sales this year. The latest setbacks could further delay an expected second-quarter rebound in output. GM has recently announced that worsening supply chain issues have led to closures of eight of its assembly plants, forcing a mass lay-off of about 10,000 workers. As our leaders keep failing to assess such problems, the United States is entering an era when shortages and supply chain disruptions will become the new normal. The fact that trillions in fiscal stimulus have been recently pumped into the economy and inflation has started to skyrocket won't help at all to curb this situation. Instead of boosting the economy, the stimulus money is creating several price bubbles and contributing to the downfall of American consumer's purchasing power. It is certain that we will be seeing social uprisings in the coming months if shortages hit a critical point, and you should keep tuned with the next developments of this menacing crisis, here, on Epic Economist.