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Lou Dobbs with the Minute Men at the border.
graffiti in the wall which divides the Mexico-US border reads "Borders: a scar in the ground" in Nogales, Sonora State, 08 April 2006. Pro-immigrant groups vow giant marches across the country on Monday demanding immigration reform and the legalization of nearly 12 million undocumented migrants living in the United States
Thousands of demonstrators march down the street protesting US Congressional immigration reform prior to a rally in downtown Dallas,Texas, April 9, 2006. Authorities estimated the crowd of demontrators at 100,000.
Demonstrators march down the street protesting US Congressional immigration reform prior to a massive rally in downtown Dallas, Texas, April 9, 2006
Demonstrators march down the street protesting US Congressional immigration reform prior to a rally in downtown Dallas,Texas, April 9, 2006.
Saudis plan to fence off border with chaos
SAUDI ARABIA has invited bids for the construction of a security fence along the entire length of its 900km (560mile) desert border with Iraq in a multimillion-pound project that will attract interest from British defence companies.
The barrier is part of a package to secure the Kingdom’s 6,500km of borders in an attempt to improve internal security and bolster its defences against external threats.
*But we can't do this?!
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,7374-2126835,00.html
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Paul Craig Roberts
Wednesday, April 19, 2006
Is your job safe? Not if it can be done abroad. The only safe jobs are in domestic services that require a "hands-on" presence, such as barbers, hospital orderlies and waitresses.
For a number of years, the Bureau of Labor Statistics' monthly payroll jobs reports have been sending U.S. policymakers dire warnings, only to be ignored. The March report repeats the message. Ninety-five percent of the new jobs created are in domestic services. The U.S. economy no longer creates jobs in export or export-competitive sectors.
Wholesale and retail trade, waitresses and bartenders account for 46 percent of the new jobs. Education and health services, administrative and waste services, and financial activities account for another 46 percent.
This has been the profile of U.S. employment growth for a number of years, along with some construction jobs filled by legal and illegal immigrants. It is the job profile of a Third World economy.
From January 2001 to January 2006, the U.S. economy lost 2.9 million manufacturing jobs. The promised replacement jobs - "new economy" high-tech knowledge jobs - have failed to materialize.
High-tech knowledge jobs are also being outsourced abroad. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. employment of engineers and architects declined by 189,940 between November 2000 and November 2004 (latest data available). Economist Alan Blinder estimates that as many as 56 million American jobs are susceptible to offshore outsourcing. That would be about half of the U.S. workforce.
Offshoring has contributed to the explosion of the U.S. trade/current account deficit over the past decade to $800 billion annually and rising. The United States has a trade deficit in manufactured products, including advanced technology products, of more than a half trillion dollars annually, a sum far larger than the oil import bill.
To cover the trade deficit, the United States has to turn over to foreigners ownership of its accumulated wealth. This worsens the current account deficit, as the income streams on the U.S.-based assets now accrue to foreigners.
Many economists pretend that the whopping U.S. trade/current account deficit is evidence that the rest of the world has great confidence in America. They pretend that it is foreign investment in the United States that causes the trade deficit, whereas the simple fact is that it is the U.S. trade deficit that gives foreigners the dollars with which to purchase our existing assets.
Traditionally, a trade deficit might indicate that a country's industries were not competitive against imports from abroad, resulting in a decline in the exchange value of the country's currency. This would make foreign goods more expensive for that country and its goods cheaper for foreigners, thus restoring a balance.
This does not work for the United States for three reasons:
How can the United States reduce its trade deficit when it deprives itself of exports and fills itself with imports by offshoring its production of goods and services, and when the devaluation of the dollar is limited by the dollar's reserve role and by other countries pegging their currency to the dollar or by intervening to support the dollar? Obviously, when balance returns to U.S. trade, it will not come through traditional means.
One way balance can return is by the United States oversupplying the world with dollars to the point at which the dollar is abandoned as the reserve currency.
Another way is through the limit placed on Americans' ability to consume that results from replacing manufacturing and engineering jobs with waitress, bartender and hospital orderly jobs. A country that loses high value-added jobs and gains low value-added jobs is in danger of losing its prosperity. Offshoring raises corporate profits in the short-run at the expense of destroying the domestic consumer market in the long-run.
Most economists are confused about offshoring. They mistakenly think offshoring is an example of free trade bringing mutual benefit through the principle of comparative advantage. It is not. Offshoring is an example of companies obtaining absolute advantage by combining high-tech capital with low-cost labor. The gains from absolute advantage are asymmetrical or one-sided. The cheap-labor country gains, and the expensive-labor country loses.
As Morgan Stanley economist Stephen Roach pointed out on April 7, "average hourly compensation of Chinese manufacturing workers is only 3-4 percent of levels in the United States, 10 percent of the pay rate of Asia's newly industrialized economies, and 25 percent of levels in Mexico and Brazil." Roach also notes that with a rural population of 745 million (about two-and-a-half times the total U.S. population) and headcount reductions of more than 60 million workers from state-owned enterprises, China will not experience a labor shortage anytime soon.
This means that it will be a long time before Chinese wages rise enough to offset the benefits of offshoring. The same can be said about India. Consequently, a large percentage of U.S. jobs is vulnerable to being moved abroad.
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LIBERTY
"Those who want to hoist the banner of the Statue of Liberty,
Ellis Island and the American tradition of immigration should
remember that when immigrants were passing through Ellis Island
at the early part of the last century, the federal government
accounted for about 3 percent of the American economy. Today it
is 25 percent. Part of the package deal that comes with showing
up in the United States today is our welfare state as well as
our free economy... Yes, let's encourage freedom. But freedom is
a privilege and a responsibility. We have enough people already
here who think it's all about entitlement." ---Star Parker
STOP AMNESTY NOW!
As we go to print today, the Senate is back in session and debating
amnesty for illegal aliens.
The Patriot needs your assistance NOW in order to stop the
McCain/Kennedy legislation, which will give illegal aliens
"amnesty" and "fast-track citizenship." The final immigration
reform legislation must provide for the following: Strict border
security and enforcement; automatic detention and deportation of
those crossing our borders illegally; no extension of amnesty
or fast-track citizenship; preservation of our tax-subsidized
medical, educational and social services for American citizens;
strong penalties against employers who hire illegals; and
Americanization of new legal immigrants. It should also disallow
birthright citizenship for children of illegal aliens, and we
support legislation to that end.
Every day that passes without these reform measures, about 3,200
illegal aliens cross our borders. In another month, more than
96,000 illegal aliens will have entered the U.S.
Please help The Patriot promote this important message to
millions of Americans so our Senators, Representatives and the
President will know that the vast majority of Americans reject
any amnesty proposal. Please make a small donation---whatever
you can afford---to our Immigration Reform
Campaign (https://secure.PatriotPost.US/support/alert.asp?a=1)
today.
"Go back to Plymouth Rock, Pilgrims! Get out! We are the
future. You are old and tired. Leave like beaten rats, you old
white people. It is your duty to die... We are going to take
over." ---Augustin Cebada, a Brown Beret protestor, demanding
amnesty for illegal aliens
Tell Augustin Cebada where he can go. Link to our Immigration Reform
Campaign (https://secure.PatriotPost.US/support/alert.asp?a=1)
today.
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Immigration Law Enforcement Rally
Date: Sunday April 30, 2006
Time: 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Location: Northeast corner of Mulberry and College Avenues (near the Safeway store)
Are you tired of illegal immigrants marching around the country and demanding amnesty and "rights" to which they are not entitled? Are you upset at employers who break the law by hiring illegal workers? Are you frustrated with politicians ignoring the will of U.S. citizens in the immigration debate? If so, please plan on attending a rally in support of Immigration Enforcement and the Defend Colorado Now Initiative. This rally will coincide with an illegal immigration march being held at the same time.
Northern Coloradans for Immigration Reduction glenc1@comcast.net
Also from Morgan in addition to the daily:
Cargill's Beardstown plant to close for May 1 rally
BEARDSTOWN, Ill. The Cargill pork-processing plant in Beardstown plans to close Monday so its workers can take part in the immigration-rights rallies going on nationwide.
http://www.wqad.com/Global/story.asp?S=4820674&nav=1sW7
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Businesses Respond to Immigration Movement
From huge factories to small hotels, restaurants and supermarkets, employers plan to give employees Monday off so they can join the national immigration rights protests that day.
"We think this is critically important," said Gilberto Villasenor, general manager of V & V Supremo Foods in Chicago's Pilsen neighborhood. He plans to give his more than 200 employees the day off with pay so they can attend the marches, speeches and rallies planned for Chicago.
http://www.hispanicbusiness.com/news/newsbyid.asp?id=34065&cat=Headlines&more=/news/more-news.asp
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Pro-immigration boycott scheduled May 1
GRAND RAPIDS -- The Great May 1 Boycott became a headline grabber for the Hispanic newspaper El Vocero.
It's a call to Hispanics to boycott the USA Monday: No work, no school, no buying, no selling. The goal is to showcase the value of immigrants by crippling the U.S. economy.
http://www.woodtv.com/Global/story.asp?S=4834919&nav=0Rce
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CALIFORNIA - School will be held on May 1, despite protests
"For the record, every parent in our community needs to know that all Kern County public schools will be open on Monday, May 1"
http://www.tehachapinews.com/home/viewarticle.php?cat_id=383&post=14936
United States of North America
Elitists in the United States, Mexico, and Canada are plotting to merge these three nations into a single regional government similar to the European Union.
In 1787, 13 former British colonies that had briefly been independent states agreed to create a free trade zone inside a shared security perimeter. People, goods, and capital would move freely throughout that region, ignoring previously existing borders. The union thus created was christened the United States of America.
In the early years of the 21st century, elites in three nations — the United States, Canada, and Mexico — are busy creating a new political configuration called the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America (SPP). It would broaden and deepen the relationship between the three nations created in 1994 through the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) in dramatic ways.
The new architecture would include a free trade zone protected by a common security perimeter, within which goods, people, and capital would move freely across what had once been firmly established international borders.
http://www.thenewamerican.com/artman/publish/article_3746.shtml
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Business Owners Struggle With May 1 Protest
Some Businesses Close: Others Anticipate Absences: Many Support Demonstrators
CHICAGO -- Jose Torres worries about the several thousand dollars he'll lose Monday when he keeps his Mexican restaurant closed so his workers can attend an immigrant rights rally in downtown Chicago.
Though he supports the cause and plans to join the march himself, he found himself cringing as he told a customer recently that he couldn't cater a nearby company's lunch for 100 people that day.
http://www.nbc5.com/news/9055210/detail.html
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