Donald Trump is taking a political risk by putting immigration rather than the domestic economy at the center of the election, which heads to the ballot box in two weeks, the newspaper says. New York Times.
“In the final weeks of the campaign…Trump is acting with guts, doubling down on the rhetoric that he believes won him the 2016 election, and making immigration and the border central to his final message to voters. ” he said. newspaper report October 19th.
Immigration “trumps the economy” among voters, Donald Trump said at a rally on October 15, according to the paper. “It's not even close.”
Immigration and economy are linked, Trump says the campaign spoke newspaper:
Asked to explain Trump's focus in the final stages of the campaign, Trump's spokesman Brian Hughes said, “President Trump is focused on Kamala Harris' porous borders, on rising home prices and rising housing prices. “We rightly recognize that it is at the center of so many problems.” Low wages or overcrowded hospitals and schools. Open borders mean taxpayers' money is wasted on illegal immigration rather than benefiting citizens. President Trump's final message is all about putting the American people first and restoring prosperity. ”
of times Reporters did not mention that Kamala Harris' 2024 economic platform calls for a large influx of immigrants. For example, a Democratic-leaning advocacy group predicted that the country would import 12.3 million immigrants over the next four years.
Surprisingly, Harris has not revived her campaign with a promise to reduce economic immigration, despite her repeated promises to strengthen border security.
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A growing number of Republican leaders, including President Trump's vice presidential nominee J.D. Vance, are recognizing that the federal government's immigration policies impose enormous pocket money and social costs on ordinary Americans. There is.
For example, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) wrote: Articles for October 17th CompactMag.com shows that immigrants are harming ordinary Americans.
…Immigration remained within sustainable limits through most of the 1970s and 1980s, and within what most Americans could make ends meet. My parents are also immigrants from Cuba. earned Her salary as a stay-at-home mom who works as a hotel bartender and occasional maid is enough to buy a house and raise four children. On the other hand, in 1985, the average U.S.-born man I can afford it A middle-class lifestyle for a family of four, with about 40 weeks of wages (compared to about 62 weeks today). In other words, the American Dream was alive and well for both immigrants and natives.
But Washington, D.C., has changed the rules for ordinary Americans by dramatically increasing global trade and immigration, Rubio wrote.
For U.S.-born men, the consequences have been devastating. The percentage of middle-aged men currently working or looking for work is close It was 1940, in the middle of the Great Depression. Meanwhile, one economist estimates that by 2016, immigration “increased the size of the low-skilled labor force by about 25 percent.”
A Biden-Harris administration will only make the problem worse. According to one government's calculations, the government admitted Since then, the number of illegal immigrants has increased by at least 6.5 million, not including the estimated 1.5 million “runaways”.
Some Wall Street investors are touting alternative, lower-immigration strategies that would expand economic growth and prosperity.
“I would argue that the big winners in the developed world are those with declining populations,” said Larry Fink, founder of BlackRock. said At a pro-globalist event hosted by the World Economic Forum in Saudi Arabia. He continued:
That's something most people never talk about. we always thought [a] Depopulation is a negative factor [economic] growth. However, in conversations with leaders of these large developed countries, [such as China, and Japan] It has xenophobic, anti-immigrant policies and does not allow anyone to enter the country. [so they have] Shrinking demographics — these countries will rapidly develop robotics, AI, and technology…
If you commit to all the things that will change your productivity, most of us think that [emphasis added] —Even if the population declines, it will be possible to raise the country's standard of living and the standard of living of individuals.
In contrast, countries with growing populations need to focus on fundamental issues of education and the “rule of law,” Fink said, adding:
Therefore, for countries with growing populations, the answer will be education… [and] This is an important issue for countries that lack the rule of law and education infrastructure. [economic] Inequality will become even more extreme.
Breitbart News reports that the federal government has used immigration since 1990 to boost the U.S. consumer economy by poaching low-wage workers, government-sponsored consumers, and apartment-share renters from poor countries. We have reported in detail.
Extract migration
Since at least 1990, the federal government has quietly employed extractive immigration policies to grow the consumer economy, following Congressional resolutions that help investors move high-wage manufacturing jobs to low-wage countries. Ta.
Immigration policies rob poor countries of vast human resources. Additional workers, white-collar graduates, consumers, renters boost stock prices By lowering American wages, subsidizing less productive businesses, raising rents, and inflating real estate prices.
A largely unrecognized economic policy led to a relaxation of economic policy. economical and civil feedback signal It revitalizes a stable economy and democracy. This policy deprived many mainland-born Americans of careers in a variety of business fields, reduced American productivity and political influence, slowed high-tech innovation, reduced trade, and weakened society. became inconvenient. solidarity of citizensAnd he encouraged government officials and progressives to ignore the policy. increased mortality rate of abandoned, low status american.
Donald Trump's campaign recognizes the economic impact of immigration. The Trump campaign said in a May statement that Biden's unpopular policies “crowd the U.S. workforce with millions of low-wage illegal immigrants, who directly attack the wages and opportunities of hard-working Americans.” “There is,” he said.
This secret economic policy also siphons jobs and wealth from core states by subsidizing coastal investors and government agencies with large numbers of low-wage workers, high-rise renters, and government-supported consumers. are. Similar policies are hurting the people and economies of Canada and the United Kingdom.
Policies like colonialism harm even small countries and kill hundreds of Americans and thousands of immigrants, many of whom are immigrants. Taxpayer-funded jungle trail Through the Darién Ditch in Panama.
