Minnesota Governor Tim Walz is a cheerleader for mass immigration and illegal immigration, as is his 2024 presidential running mate, Vice President Kamala Harris.
“This country is [migrants] “We’re grateful,” Waltz said. Said “We will provide a clear path to citizenship for Dreamers, Temporary Protected Status (TPS) recipients, and their families,” he wrote in a 2021 letter to Democratic leaders in the House and Senate.
He championed immigration as both a moral and business cause in the 2022 election. Assert His more cautious Republican rival said it was “100% morally wrong, 100% economically wrong, 100% culturally wrong.”
Waltz is a progressive thinker and Chamber of Commerce and Industry Business Theory We should import more poor, less productive, welfare-dependent immigrants, he wrote in 2019. letter To President Donald Trump’s Secretary of State:
Refugees strengthen our communities. They bring new cultures and fresh perspectives and contribute to the social fabric of our state. They start businesses, support existing businesses and are vital to the success of our economy. Refugees are doctors and bus drivers. They are entrepreneurs and police officers. They are students and teachers. They are our neighbors.
The government should welcome immigrants as partners alongside the American people, Walz said. Said SahanJournal.com, Pro-immigration media sites. “if [a relationship] It sends a really strong message of welcome, partnership and optimism for the future. [welcome] It’s a message not just to the local community but to the entire state.”
Immigrants “are the basis of our livelihood,” Walz said on a radio talk show while campaigning for reelection in 2022, and after accepting 1,200 Afghan immigrants, he argued that “the data proves that communities pay in and give back much more than they take in.”
In March 2023, Governor Walz signed legislation allowing undocumented immigrants to drive vehicles and help them earn wages that would otherwise go to Minnesotans. “As a longtime supporter of this bill, I am proud to finally sign this bill into law. This bill will make our roads safer and bring us closer to our goal of making Minnesota the best state in the country to raise a family,” said Governor Walz. Said.
The hands-on approach has been promoted by Kamala Harris. In June 2021, Harris said Said“The President and I are committed to ensuring our immigration system is orderly and humane, and I believe we are making progress on that front.”
Since 2021, Harris’ colleagues in the Biden administration have admitted more than 10 million legal, illegal and semi-legal immigrants.
Immigration is deeply unpopular among voters for very practical reasons: it hurts career opportunities for ordinary Americans, reduces wages, raises rents, suppresses productivity, inflationreducing their political influence, widening the gap between rich and poor between regions, and destroying a democratic and egalitarian civic culture.
Residents of Harris’ new state of California have been hit hard by the influx of immigrants.
Waltz’s Minnesota
Minnesota is home to roughly 500,000 immigrants, including: At least 81,000 illegal immigrants.
Overall, immigration resulted in about 330,000 migrant workers, or about 1 immigrant worker for every 10 MinnesotansThe population has grown, and Harris’ colleagues in the Biden administration have added thousands more since 2021.
The median income of immigrant families in Minnesota is $58,000 In many cases, there are multiple earners, which is a statewide Average: $90,400Many hard-working immigrants are imported from culturally underdeveloped and less productive countries, pushing many families into poverty. include Somalia, Burma, Ecuador, Laos, Kenya, India.
“Like everyone else here, when a car stops to pick someone up, everyone runs to get in first, but it doesn’t always work out,” said the Ecuadorian migrant. He told CBS News March 2024. “The last time I worked here was over a month ago,” he said.
Many migrants are on welfare: “We’ve got potatoes, onions, milk and cooking oil,” one woman told CBS. “We have 12 people in our family, so this will last us a week or two.”
Harris’ immigration Crowded Crowds are filling up the state’s homeless shelters, and poor Americans are being pushed elsewhere: “One-third of the 452 families in a homeless shelter run by Hennepin County are newcomers to the U.S.,” the Star Tribune reports. report October 2023. The site added:
Hennepin County is one of the few jurisdictions in the country with a “shelter for all” policy, though it doesn’t apply to single adults. The county budgeted $9.7 million for family shelters this year. By March, the county had approved an additional $17 million to meet surging demand in 2023 and plans to spend $22.5 million next year.
The state’s welcome for immigrants Low investment Many Minnesotans are fleeing the state: “Between the last census (April 1, 2020) and July 1, 2023, Minnesota lost a net population of 46,000 to other states,” the left-leaning group said. report December 2023.
State authorities use immigrants to Economic failureand to fill the workforce to replace Americans who drop out of the workforce or die from drugs.
From 2019 to 2023, About 4,100 Minnesotans died. Opioid deaths were up 400 in 2019 but have plateaued at about 1,000 per year in 2021-2022, in part because authorities are providing Narcan recovery devices.
“We rely on them [migrant] “There’s a need for individuals to help combat population decline,” said Edmundo Lijo, who works on immigration issues at a law firm in St. Paul, Minnesota. Said SabanJournal.com. “We rely on people to come to our community, start businesses, work and be part of our community,” Lijo said. “They give so much to us culturally, economically and civic-wise.”
About 20 percent of St. Paul’s population is immigrant.
Extract Migration
Since at least 1990, the federal government has quietly adopted extractive migration policies to grow the consumer economy after helping investors relocate high-wage manufacturing sectors to low-wage countries.
Immigration policies extract huge amounts of human capital from impoverished countries: additional workers, white-collar graduates, consumers, renters. Boost stock prices By cutting American wages, subsidizing less productive businesses, raising rents, and sending real estate prices soaring.
A little-known economic policy Economic With citizens Feedback Signal Many Americans who fuel a stable economy and democracy are losing their careers in a wide range of business sectors, productivity and political influence are declining, high-tech innovation is slowing, trade is shrinking, Citizen solidarityand government officials and progressives Rising mortality rate of Discarded, Low status American.
Donald Trump’s campaign recognizes the economic impact of immigration. Biden’s unpopular policies “flood the American workforce with millions of low-wage illegal immigrants, a direct attack on the wages and opportunity of hard-working Americans,” the Trump campaign said in a May statement.
This secretive economic policy has siphoned jobs and wealth from the Midwestern states by providing coastal investors and government agencies with a flood of low-wage workers, over-occupied renters and subsidized consumers. Similar policies are harming the people and economies of Canada and the UK.
Policies like colonialism have also harmed small nations and killed hundreds of Americans and thousands of immigrants, including: Taxpayer-Funded Jungle Trail Through the Darien Canyon in Panama.
