By Ann Coulter
Assiduous readers of my columns know that I have frequently made
the point that Americas immigration policies benefit only three groups of
people: 1) rich Americans with a lot of employees 2) the immigrants
themselves and 3) their grandmothers back in Chiapas.
The money illegal immigrants send out of the country doesnt come from their
low wages. It comes from the taxpayers who are required to subsidize
immigrants so that investment bankers can have cheap nannies. Yes
it is a problem that they couldnt possibly live on what I pay them but thats
where YOU come in taxpayers!
When the rich merely have to pay Social Security taxes on their nannies they
quickly say Oh never mind as we saw in the
1990s when Bill Clintons first two female attorney general nominees had to
withdraw because of the illegal aliens raising their kids and we finally ended
up with Janet Reno.
Zoe Baird the first nominee caught up in Nannygate promptly fired her illegal
alien nanny and chauffeur Lillian and Victor Corderos who were deported.
Thats how much the rich love Latino immigrants! As Bairds spokeswoman Jamie
Gorelick said at the time: I think it truly pains them that Lillian has
had to pay this price. ... They have true affection for her.
Shes
like family!
A cynic might wonder if the beneficiaries of mass Third-World immigration would
be so altruistic toward the rest of the world if they were the ones being
forced to compete with immigrant workers.
At a time when the working class could have been ginned up to oppose this dump
of low-wage workers on the country the unions lied to them and told them Dont
worry! This will make the union stronger. Thirty years later
California construction workers who were making $45 an hour are now
making $11 an hour.
The entire readership of The New York Times is immune from wage pressure like
that. Our immigration policies strictly limit high-skilled immigration
ensuring that there will be no competition for jobs in the executive suite
while foisting a dog-eat-dog survival-of-the-fittest competition on their
employees.
The left has never had to defend the argument that everyone on the planet has a
right to come to America drive down wages access welfare and force us to
educate their children -- because rich Republicans like the cheap labor too.
Seeing what a fantastic deal mass immigration is for the rich its easy to
understand why they lie so much about it.
For example the Cato Institute -- funded by the Koch brothers -- keeps
producing studies claiming that immigrants are less likely to be on
welfare than Americans.
Thats at least counterintuitive.
Were told day in and day out about the horrible lives of the poor
asylum-seekers. Theyll starve if we send them back! Their
children have all kinds of health problems no medical care no decent food no
roof over their heads! Their neighborhoods are hotbeds of wife-beaters drugs
murder and gangs!
And then: A financial burden to America? No ... what
makes you say that?
Even if it were true that fewer immigrants were accessing government assistance
than American citizens the number of immigrants who should be on welfare is wait
checking my notes ... yes: ZERO. Why would any country bring in
people who immediately need our monetary support?
In fact bringing in poverty-stricken immigrants is a disaster for the welfare
programs intended to help our fellow Americans. Fully half of all non-citizens
in the United States are on at least one welfare program according to the
(very non-MAGA) Migration Policy Institute.
The only purpose of these Cato studies are the headlines which
will be endlessly repeated throughout media without a moments reflection.
Whether journalists are citing phony studies phony polls or phony experts
every statement about immigration in the mainstream media is a lie. You always
have to look for the trick. Catos welfare studies for example
put welfare-receiving children of
immigrants -- legal and illegal -- in the American column.
This tells us nothing about the soundness of our immigration policy. If the
immigrants kids need welfare were not bringing in the right immigrants.
Even more preposterous Cato counts Social Security and Medicare as
welfare. This is money that was taken by force from working Americans
for their entire lives of which they will get a portion back upon reaching
retirement age. Immigrants are collecting welfare that the older Americans
didnt collect when they were the same age. Wait until they retire.
Of course Americans are more likely to be collecting Social Security and
Medicare! I refer you to mass-immigration advocates usual sneer about white
Americans being so much older than young hardworking -- and surprisingly
cheap! -- Latino immigrants.
Its so obvious that our immigration policies are bankrupting the nations
welfare programs that Ive often wondered if this was the intent of the
libertarian Koch brothers all along. Burden the entire system until it blows up
-- and then we can finally return to pre-Great Society America!
Someone needs to tell the plutocrats that their employees are voting and they
arent voting libertarian. Heard of Venezuela? Heard of Alexandria
Ocasio-Cortez? Heard of California?
The richs Third World employees -- natural Republicans were
always told by The Wall Street Journal -- turn out NOT to be huge fans of small
government. Thats why instead of being a libertarian paradise California is
a banana republic running on fumes from Silicon Valley and Hollywood.
As Lenin supposedly said Capitalists will sell us the rope with which we
will hang them. The rich know they want to pay their employees less and
they dont know anything else.