the DON JONES INDEX…
		GAINS POSTED in GREEN LOSSES POSTED in RED
	7/2/21… 14,304.62 6/25/21… 14,297.67 6/27/13… 15,000.00
(THE DOW JONES INDEX: 7/9/21…34,633.53; 6/25/21…34,119.22; 6/27/13… 15,000.00)

LESSON for July 2, 2021 – TWO PROBLEMS, ONE SOLUTION!

Kamala Harris, like Ted Cruz and thousands… if not millions of tourists… went south of the border twice in the past month, allegedly to detect the “root causes” of an illegal immigration crisis that has not so much subsided with the replacement by her and Uncle Joe of the bilious Donald Trump as has simply been outpanicked by the ravages of the plague.

Harris endured what even supporters called a “rocky” first foreign trip last month -- her two-day swing through Mexico and Guatemala -- with sources telling CNN at the time that the trip left some officials perplexed about her “bumpy” answers to questions about whether she will go to the border, as opposed to the actual countries of concern.

"We've been to the border,” she snapped at an NBC reporter. “So this whole, this whole, this whole thing about the border. We've been to the border. We've been to the border… I'm not discounting the importance of the border."

But her spokesperson emphasized that timing would be critical to a “cause and effect” strategy so that, after addressing the “cause” Symone Sanders told CNN, last Friday’s visit to the border would address the “effects”.

These, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas also told CNN, included a record number of unaccompanied children crossed into the US this spring, putting the US on track to surpass the number of border crossings in fiscal year 2019 and further intensifying GOP criticism of the Biden administration's handling. putting the US on track to surpass the number of border crossings in fiscal year 2019.

Mayorkas said that the administration had made "extraordinary progress" dealing with what Harris called “inhumane conditions” at the border since March. (See Attachment One, A and B)

The root causes of migration, according to NPR and more than a few other Americans (not only Democrats) are long-standing and seemingly intractable, “including poverty, violence, natural disasters, climate change and corruption.” But NPR said that “they are also less politically charged than border enforcement and the challenge of dealing with families and unaccompanied minors seeking asylum in the United States.”

Harris, however, did not visit the administration’s migrant child “warehouse” at the military base of Fort Bliss, Texas and, not surprisingly, her latest jaunt on Friday reaped plenty of roots itself… rotten potatoes, turnips, parsnips and other produce hurled her way by Republicans and not a few Democrats.

The vice president did tour the El Paso central processing center, a US Customs and Border Protection facility, and spoke with five young girls from Central America while there.

During a news conference at the conclusion of her trip, Harris told CNN that the girls were there without their parents.

"They are without their parents. They are also full of hope. They were asking me questions. 'How do you become the first woman vice president?' But it also reminds me of the fact that this issue cannot be reduced to a political issue. We're talking about children. We're talking about families. We're talking about suffering. And our approach has to be thoughtful and effective," Harris said.

Illegal immigration has proven to be a boon for Donald Trump and a bust for Biden. “More than 180,000 migrants were apprehended at the southern border in May,” chortled Fox News, “an increase over the 178,000 encountered in April and 173,000 were encountered in March — all representing the highest numbers in years. March saw a big increase from the 100,000 migrants encountered in February.”

The eyes of Texas showered “nays” upon both Harris adventures… Texas Republican Senator Jon Cornyn shared a New York Post op-ed on Twitter Saturday titled ‘Why Kamala’s photo-op trip to the border won’t do much to slow the waves of migrants’, adding the words "clueless in El Paso" to the front of the headline. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, who accompanied former President Donald Trump, shared a separate tweet from Cornyn quoting the Post article on Sunday, adding that Harris "didn't talk to Texans whose homes have been invaded, who've had guns brandished against them, whose property has been destroyed by gangs & cartel members coming across the border. She hasn't talked to families destroyed by Fentanyl smuggled into TX," Abbott continued. "She doesn't care."

Texas Sen. Ted Cruz said that while El Paso is a "vibrant border community," it is not the "epicenter of the crisis" which, he told Fox News' Jesse Watters, “…is 800 miles away in the Rio Grande Valley," The reason she didn't go to the Rio Grande Valley, Cruz proposed, “is because that's where the Biden cages are. That's where you see cage after cage after cage of little boys and little girls on the floor, no beds, no mats, no cots, side by side one after the other after the other wrapped in reflective emergency blankets. That's where you see facilities with a rate of COVID positivity of 10%. And what Kamala and Joe Biden desperately wanted to avoid is the TV cameras filming those kids in the Biden cages. So she went as far away as you can go in the state of Texas to say she went to the border."

Prior to his own run for the border, the once and (perhaps) future President returned to the campaign trail with a rally in a Cleveland suburb on Saturday where he castigated disloyal ‘Pubs (including local Congressman Anthony Gonzalez), reiterated the conviction that the election had been “stolen” and threw the mob gobbets of red meat about immigration, Mexicans and foreign stuff in general.

As he has done in the past, noted USA Today, Trump attacked Biden's border policies during his remarks, arguing that his successor "deliberately and systematically" dismantled border security and allowed a flood of immigrants into the country illegally.

And then he made it personal.

“Kamala Harris, your vice president, only went to the border yesterday for the one simple reason: that I announced that I was going,” Trump told the crowd in Wellington, Ohio – perhaps anticipating the gotcha Space Force scheduling duel between one of his nemeses, Jeff Bezos and a Brit, Richard Branson. 

Denying the accusation, Harris told The Hill, among others, that her peregrinations southwards has been connected with “…the obvious point: If you want to deal with a problem, you can’t just deal with the symptom of the problem; you’ve got to figure out what caused it to happen."

The Veep then confronted Fox News in its den, contending that she and Joe had “inherited” a tough situation.

"We have looked at a system where people have been housed in inhumane conditions over the last many years, an asylum system that has been broken and needs to be reconstructed," Harris said. 

And she also argued that she had visited El Paso (where the refugees are primarily Mexicans) over other border regions like Brownsville because El Paso “was at the heart of Trump-era immigration restrictions.”

Critics… and the Fox… wondered why Harris would visit El Paso if her job leading the migration crisis was to address root causes. Most illegal border crossers caught in El Paso are from Mexico, not Central America. The Rio Grande Valley, which is much closer to Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador, is typically where migrants from those countries arrive.

And she did receive some local support from Ohio. “This is just the kickoff of the Donald Trump grievance tour,” said David Cohen, a political science professor at the University of Akron, down the pike a ways, told USA Today.

But Trump’s criticism of Harris was hardly the only voice raised against her as she seeks to come to grips with immigration and border security. She was also criticized by immigration activists and many on the left of the Democratic party for the message she delivered during an early June visit to Guatemala.

“Do not come. Do not come,” she said. “I believe if you come to our border, you will be turned back.”

“The blunt message was ill-received by those who pointed out that Harris’ parents were also immigrants,” noted the liberal Guardian U.K., which also solicited input from El Paso community representatives like Dylan Corbett, the director of a local non-profit organization that focuses on immigration policies and aiding migrants in El Paso and Ciudad Juárez.

“[Her comments] reinforced the years of attacks on the rights of refugees and asylum seekers by the previous administration,” Corbett told the Brits. “The message should be: ‘How can we, together, build a future where your children don’t have to migrate?’”

Harris later explained to NPR, among others, that she felt the focus on the border missed the point. "We cannot be simplistic and assume that there is only one element or way of approaching the overall problem," she said.

It would be very easy "to just say we'll travel to one place and therefore it's solved," Harris said. "I don't think anybody thinks that that would be the solution."

The Biden administration, contends NPR, has sought to shift blame for the border conditions to the previous administration, “arguing it left a broken immigration system, with efforts at addressing the root causes of migration neglected in favor of an enforcement-only approach.”

PUSH and PULL

Much as the partisan battles over defining (and paying for) infrastructure improvements mean different things to different partisans, the immigration crisis has two distinct (though geographically relevant) factors.

Critics… and Fox News… wondered why Harris would visit El Paso if her job leading the migration crisis was to address root causes. “Most illegal border crossers caught in El Paso are from Mexico, not Central America. The Rio Grande Valley, which is much closer to Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador, is typically where migrants from those countries arrive.”

But, as noted by the late Otis Redding, as well as connoisseurs of smoked pigmeat torn off the bone, seasoned with barbecue sauce and served up on a roll, the story of immigration from Central America’s Northern Triangle of Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador is one of push and pull.

Whereas critics Republican derided the Veep for going to El Paso (where the majority of migrants are Mexican) instead of Brownsville and its environs to the west (favored by Northern Triangle escapees), Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-Tx) tweeted, in support of Harris, that: "By understanding the challenges faced on the ground, our government will be able to effectively address the pull factors leading migrants to make this dangerous journey."

The “pull” factors are largely economic. Mexicans, like Northern Triangulars, are poor and life can be dangerous in some locations… a road from Brownsville south to Matamoros favored by cartel smugglers has experienced numerous murders and disappearances of locals, other Mexicans and foreign migrants… but they are not living in a failed state like Hondurans and Salvadorans or a near-failed Guatemala where both cartel Black Hand extortionists and the corrupt and bloodthirsty police and military routinely exterminate both the urban and rural poor – particularly the indigensous populations. So they cross the border to, in most cases, find jobs… usually minimum or sub-minimum wage jobs which, nonetheless, are better than what’s available at home.

Some, of course, make an even better living by making a killing as criminals, traffickers in guns, drugs and sex, or enlist in any of the various ethnic gangs that have spread beyond the border states in to all of America, providing fuel for Trump and persons further to the right. (Which would be on display a few days later during Djonald’s border stroll yesterday.)

Money, which pulls Mexicans into the United States like a magnet attracts iron filings, is of interest to Triangulars, as well, but there is also the “push” factor… the stress of constant violence under dictatorships pushing people north into Mexico and thence further upwards… largely, as the Fox said, on the Atlantic side… into Texas. The Republicans, of course, had – and continue to have – one, and only one solution to the both: what NPR referred to as “an enforcement-only approach” facilitated by the beautiful wall as still exists in the POTheads’ hopes and dreams.

Can government or the private sector summon up a resolution that will satisfy the hopes and dreams of the rest of us.

No.

But some of us… maybe. With a little tweaking and twerking – and a lot of working…

TWO PROBLEMS – ONE SOLUTION?

Since the plague, and now… after a mixed response that increased unemployment benefits to an extent where the lowest paid are receiving far more from the government than they could get from going back to their old jobs, America has experienced a sudden shortage of workers.

To be sure, there are contingencies… the greatest demand and scantiest supply are in sectors like agriculture, service industries like the restaurant, home health and childcare and some manufacturing gigs as require little formal education and pay the minimum wage (or, often, even less).

That the lowliest now have a bit of power to exert over the employing classes is a novelty, but a lot of marginal small businesses are finding it hard to recruit enough workers to prevent themselves from falling into bankruptcy.

As America opens up for business, some large employers like WalMart and Amazon are offering wage and benefit increases to retain suddenly itchy-footed obradores (to use the expression favored south of the border) and hire new ones, it is of interest to take note of an old remedy… fondly remembered by the managing class… that has been resuscitated by a different source of Obradore: Andres Manuel Lopez (AMLO, for short), the left-leaning President of Mexico and, in one of those strange, occasional breakdowns in partisan posturing, the right wing, libertarian Cato society.

In March, AMLO proposed that the United States and Mexico partner to create a new guest worker visa program to allow Mexicans and Central Americans to lawfully work in the United States. According to reports, compiled by Cato from another right-center source, AMLO proposes that such a program should be 600,000 to 800,000 annually. (See Attachment Two)

This proposed program would be based on the Bracero program, according to AMLO.

The Bracero program (from the Spanish term bracero, meaning "manual laborer" or "one who works using his arms") was a series of laws and diplomatic agreements, initiated on August 4, 1942, when the United States signed the Mexican Farm Labor Agreement with Mexico. For these farmworkers, the agreement guaranteed decent living conditions (sanitation, adequate shelter and food), and a minimum wage of 30 cents an hour, as well as protections from forced military service, and guaranteed part of wages were to be put into a private savings account in Mexico; it also allowed the importation of contract laborers from Guam as a temporary measure during the early phases of World War II.

“Bracero”, Cato informs Don Jones, “was the nickname for a temporary guest worker visa program that allowed Mexican farm workers to work temporarily in the United States. The Bracero program began with a bilateral agreement between the United States and Mexico in 1942 as the U.S. draft and war mobilization greatly reduced the supply of labor for lower marginal product occupations like agriculture.

The Department of Labor continued to try to get more pro-worker regulations passed after the war; however, the only one that was written into law was the one guaranteeing U.S. workers the same benefits as the braceros, which was signed in 1961 by President Kennedy as an extension of Public Law 78. After signing, Kennedy said, "I am aware ... of the serious impact in Mexico if many thousands of workers employed in this country were summarily deprived of this much-needed employment." Thereupon, bracero employment plummeted; going from 437,000 workers in 1959 to 186,000 in 1963.

During a 1963 debate over extension, the House of Representatives rejected an extension of the program. However, the Senate approved an extension that required U.S. workers to receive the same non-wage benefits as braceros. The House responded with a final one-year extension of the program without the non-wage benefits, and the bracero program saw its demise in 1964.

A Cato newsletter (See Attachment Two) called the Bracero program “astonishingly successful at reducing illegal immigration. The number of apprehensions of illegal immigrants, a proxy measurement for the illegal immigrant flow, dropped consistently as the number of guest worker visas increased.”

Increased lawful migration, flexibility, and enforcement funneled migrant workers into the Bracero program and, Cato claims, “reduced the illegal immigrant population by an estimated 90 percent and cross border flows by 95 percent. The existence of a legal visa for lower skilled Mexican migrants was essential to the decrease in illegal immigration as the INS and Border Patrol understood at the time.”

That World War Two may have had something to do with this is also a fact.

Creating a new Bracero program today “would reduce illegal immigration, increase border security, and help grow the economy on both sides of the border,” Cato analyst Alex Nowrasteh contended on Msrch 1st. “But the Bracero program also had some serious problems that should be fixed with the creation of a Bracero-inspired program today.”

The five problems Nowrasteh elucidates are…

1. Corruption. (The legislation allowed Mexican officials to demand bribe in exchange for work permits.)

2. Portability. (Workers in any modern Bracero program must have as much portability as native-born Americans. “After all, the best defense against an abusive employer is the employee’s ability to switch jobs.”

3. Employment. (The original program was only for agricultural workers which “may have been sufficient in the 1950s, but it won’t be good enough today.” There are far more openings in the service sector than in agriculture.)

4. Visa Eligibility. (Cato to the contrary, the current H-2 visa program is broken. Reforms have to increase the number of visas for Central Americans, a prospect AMLO supports so as to cut down on illegal travel through Mexico.)

5. Reciprocity. (Public support in the USA might be enhanced if Mexico made it easier for American citizens to live and work there. This may be especially applicable to retirees.)

The first (and foremost) problem was corruption. Not only was the pay extremely low, but braceros often weren't paid on a timely basis. A letter from Howard A. Preston describes payroll issues that many braceros faced, "The difficulty lay chiefly in the customary method of computing earnings on a piecework basis after a job was completed. This meant that full payment was delayed for long after the end of regular pay periods. It was also charged that time actually worked was not entered on the daily time slips and that payment was sometimes less than 30 cents per hour. April 9, 1943, the Mexican Labor Agreement is sanctioned by Congress through Public Law 45 which led to the agreement of a guaranteed a minimum wage of 30 cents per hour and "humane treatment" for workers involved in the program.

(See also Attachment Three from WRLN Miami. Attachments Four A and B… history.com (A) and immigrationhistory.com (B)… on the prospects for reviving and revising a bracer program and, in anticipation of the Biden/Obrador meeting in March, marketplace.org proposed a “revamped” bracero program that would at least address some of the issues raised by Cato… see Attachment Five)

It’s been a hard four years for farmworkers – perhaps harder than for most low-income workers. The labor unions, which lobbied to end the bracero program half a century ago, have been shredded by the Supreme Court’s recent decisions on the rights of legal workers. (See Attachments Six and Seven by the liberal NPR and Slate and Attachment Eight by the Wall Street Journal.)

Cato, libertarians as they are, see not only big government but, like the Wall Street Journal big labor as enemies of the people to be crushed and re-enslaved. Barring some unforeseen catastrophe, the Supremes will do their darnedest to comfort the billionaires and afflict the 99 percent.

“It’s time for Democrats to bite the bullet,” Cato gloats, “ignore complaints from their labor union allies, plug their ears to nativist complaints, and create a big temporary guest worker visa program to get control of the Mexican border. Enforcement alone will never do it, as the present situation shows.”

So legislation will have to. And, at least until the 2022 Congressional contests shake out, Democratic efforts to restore at least some fairness to the employer-employee relationship AND Republican appeals to get the proles back to working will necessitate compromises, sometimes distasteful. And some politicians will vote on principal and reject any solution, howsoever reasonable, just because they can.

The abuses engendered by corporate community - big Ag, big corporations, and even small businesses will require corrections, even without a bracero program. There is going to be some hard negotiating ahead; Donald Trump may have formulated the “Art of the Deal”, but Joe Biden will have to wrestle said Art into meaningful policies that do not stiff one side nor another.

There are enough Congressional liberals watching to make sure that the progressive elements of a Bracero program are not overlooked.

Consequently, the time might be right for a deal. Or, as right as the right and the left can function for the foreseeable future.

Elizabeth Warren, the Bern and the Squad will scream bloody murder, but President Joe has already consigned them to his Sistah Souljah cabinet of curiosities – to be opened and rattled when the need to scare Republicans arises. If, however, he (or perhaps Kamalala from Kalifornilala with its withering, agricultural infrastructure under attack by the Hideous Sun Demon) can cut a deal with the UFW… and other mass employers in hospitality, manufacturing and the service sectors… to assure placement without displacement, Don Jones might just be able to enjoy one solution for two vexing problem.

On the other side, the MAGAbase will do their darndest to destroy any win-win solution just because they can. And because they truly believe a long string of defeats will break Joe Biden in 2024, if not before (a quarter of the American public still believes Trump is the legitimate President… and revolutions have been won with far less than 25% of the population actively supporting regime change). Fox also aired an even more cynical view than did Cruz – this proffered by Rep. Andy Biggs… an Arizonan, not a Texan… who disagreed with Cancun Ted, maintaining that the jealous Vicette’s Mexico trip “was strictly for show. She checked a box. She only went, frankly, because President Donald Trump announced that he was going to the border with Texas Gov. Greg Abbott.”

Gotcha! Fox proclaimed.

Biggs (See Attachment Ten) blamed the Biden/Harris administration for opening the floodgates to a deluge of drugs… the reason for the upsurge in post-plague gun violence and opioid overdoses… and other crimes. And it’s not only those swarthy, Spanish-speaking scabs overrunning America like the cockroaches of Robert deNiro’s campaign commercials in the film “Machete”… stealing American sub-minimum wage jobs and perhaps even imposing Roman Catholicism on a vulnerable majority.

“(Kamala) would have been educated by visiting the Yuma area and watching the steady flow of people who have flown to Cancun or Mexico City from Russia, Romania, Brazil or other countries. They then fly to Mexicali and take a taxi or Uber to the Yuma area to surrender to CBP agents. They also will soon be released into the U.S.”

Those rascally, rich Russians! As former President Trump declared, in Cleveland: “Does anybody want to hear the snake? You want to hear it? The snake, the snake. The snake. And this has to do with our border, wasn’t meant to be for the border. It was meant to be for other reasons, but this has to be really what’s happening to our border.” (See the whole damn rat in the belly of the snake – Attachment Ten)

“So many people said, “Please, please, you’re going to Ohio.” I don’t know the fact that I’m going to Ohio, why they want to talk about the snake, but it’s because of immigration. And it’s because of the borders and because Ohio sees it far better than most. Don’t you, huh? You understand what’s happening. The snake!” Trump hissed, and then began reciting Oscar Brand (youse with radio-like functions can hear him hiss by clicking the blue time links)…

Donald Trump: (18:06)
On her way to work one morning down the path along the lake, a tender-hearted woman saw a poor half-frozen snake. His pretty colored. Skin had been all frosted with the dew. “Poor thing,” she cried. “I’ll take you in, and I’ll take care of you,” to the snake. “Take me in, oh, tender woman. Take me in for heaven’s sake. Take me in oh, tender woman,” sighed the vicious snake. (The Al Wilson version omits “vicious”.)

Donald Trump: (18:37)
She wrapped him up all cozy in a comforter of silk and laid him by her fireside with some honey and some milk. She hurried home from work that night. And as soon as she arrived, she found that pretty snake she’d taken in had been fully, fully revived.

Donald Trump: (19:00)
” Take me in, oh, tender woman. Take me in for heaven’s sake. Take me in, oh, tender woman,” sighed that vicious snake. She clutched him to her bosom. “You’re so beautiful,” she cried, “But if I hadn’t brought you in by now, you truly would have died.” She stroked his pretty skin again and kissed him and held him tight. But instead of saying, “Thank you,” the snake gave her a vicious bite.

Donald Trump: (19:35)
“Take me in, oh, tender woman. Take me in for heaven’s sake. Take me in, oh, tender woman,” sighed vicious snake. “I saved you cried the woman, and you’ve been in me, but why? You know your bite is poisonous, and now I’m going to die.” “Shut up, silly woman,” said the reptile with a grin, “You knew well I was a snake before you took me in.”

Donald Trump: (20:17)
That’s the way it is. That’s the way it is. That’s the way it is. We’re taking in killers. We’re taking in all of these horrible people. Good people are coming in, but horrible, horrible people. Again, remember that term, they’re emptying their prisons. And if you were heading those countries, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, and many others, including middle Eastern countries, by the way, that’s how they come in. Remember the snake.

Was the Ex offering a tip o’ the hair to QAnon’s warnings about reptilian aliens seeking sexual congress and cold-blooded babies from naïve American girls? “Russia, Russia, Russia!... Marcia, Marcia, Marcia! Russia, Russia, Russia!... Snake, snake snake!...”

So there, for better or worse, is the DJI solution to two insoluble problems. Of course it ain’t gonna happen because it would mean sitting down and actually playing the cards dealt to you – bluffing and cutting deals and all that, you know, political stuff that politicians used to do.

That’s why Jack Parnell can credibly deny that he is a Communist. “The trouble with Communism… and with Socialism, just watered down Communism and modern neo-liberalism, just watered down Socialism… is that it is rotten at the root. Karl Marx (or more likely Engels) stated that the future of the world would be seized by Communists establishing a dictatorship of the proletariat. But countries which did so either failed or turned to fascism… national socialism, if you will… because, face it: it’s more fun to be a dictator than a proletarian. That contradiction eventually led to the dissolution of the Soviet Union and its eventual replacement by fascism.

Don Jones, contrary to the beliefs of the elite, understands this. And those who cannot, or do not, need only scroll through a few of the postings to the Peanut Galleries of the world. (See Attachment Eleven)

These people want absolute power, corrupted absolutely. Consider this fair warning.

	JUNE 25 – JULY 1
Friday, June 25, 2021 Infected: 33,603,148 Dead: 603,527 Dow: 34,433.84	The condo complex collapse in Surfside (a Miami burb) and hot, hot heat across the Northwest rule the media roost all week. In what informed sources call the worst non-terrorist building collapse in American history, five are confirmed dead and 99 are missing in Miami. And Portland, OR posts a record 107° while Seattle hits 103°. It’ll all get worse as the week slogs on. Killer cop Derek Chauvin sentenced to 22 ½ years in jail as both police unions and BLM activists protest that the verdict was too strong/weak, vandals vandalize the new Floyd statue in Brooklyn and Congress debates police reform, amidst other sessions on infrastructure definitions and UFOs (the committee announces that they know, more or less, nothing). Apropos last week’s Lesson, the New York Dept. of Justice confirms it’s investigating the Trump Organization, meaning the trustees (the kids). Pack your toothbrush, Erik!
Saturday, June 26, 2021 Infected: 33,621,348 Dead: 603,886 Dow: 33,290.08	Surfside sources downgrade fatalities to four, but increase the ranks of the missing to 159. Police, pundits and people amidst the rubble call the situation “dire”. Rescue workers bring in dogs to sniff and bark if survivors lurk in “pockets” within the collapsed concrete; perhaps they should have brought in rats. Rats with little cameras strapped to their heads. They don’t. The plague is ever with us. Vaxxing rates now up to 66% but President Joe admits that the 70% herd immunity threshold won’t be reached by July 4^th because POTheads (Party of Trump) are reusing to get shot and maybe get shot full of deep state nanochips. (Our solution, as above.) The DOJ (Federal) celebrates its 500^th Capitol Riot arrest. A dangerous felon is locked up for “heckling” the police. Ex-President Trump holds his first 2024 (or 2022) rally in Cleveland that some are calling the “Revenge Tour” for its condemnations of insufficiently loyal RINOs and the mean, mean media like… he tears up… Saturday Night Live, which has been “teasing” him, Portland breaks its old new record of 107° by hitting 108°.
Sunday, June 27, 2021 Infected: 33,624,983 Dead: 603,966	With ten percent of the Joneses (15M) are strangely refusing second shots, leaving them vulnerable to the vxx-resistant Delta Variation. Government and corporate goons shelve the carrots and break out the cudgels… Wall Street and Texas hospitals firing resisters and students at Indiana U. are expelled. Plague hotspots are the U.K. (where the Health Secretary is canned for being caught in the act of social de-distancing with an aide), Finland, Thailand, Israel and Australia. Cases and deaths continue declining in blue states so Broadway reopens with a Bruce Springsteen concert. Also enjoying an early summer, however… madness, mayhem and murder. Gunman pots two tourists in Times Square, NY just steps from Bruce, but the infamous Gotham shooter who endangered two kids on live TV is arrested, It’s not just the guns: a racist truck thief (with a PhD.!) rams building, then shoots two blacks in Massachusetts and mass stabber kills three and wounds five more in… Germany! Tennessee police arrest two after discovering a dead monkey in a hot car. And the heat goes on. Portland breaks its old new old new record at 112° weathermen blame “climate change amplified”. The East Coast gets into the act with triple digits from Boston to Washington and Canada records a new national high of 115°
Monday, June 28, 2021 Infected: 33,640,493 Dead: 604,115 Dow: 34,283.57	Dogged Surfside rescue personnel (and their dogged dogs, no rats) go back to work (joined by crews from Mexico and Israel) – but now the talk is of “miracles”. Nonetheless, lawyers are flocking to the ruins like crows to Tippi Hedren’s hairdo. Delta Variant now found in every US state except South Dakota. But docs say the vaxxes remain effective and express hope no booster shots will be needed for years, if ever. Ex-President Trump returns to the campaign trail on the outskirts of Cleveland, channels “The Snake”, sung by Al Wilson, written by civil rights activist Oscar Brand whose children tell Djonald to cease and desist which, of course, he doesn’t. An unfan says he “had the eyes and expression of a madman.” (See Attachment Ten)
Tuesday, June 22, 2021 Infected: 33,653,298 Dead: 604,359 Dow: 34,292.29	It’s National Camera Day. Cooldowns now expected for east and west coasts, dropping temperatures to under 100° in New York and Seattle. Condo collapse contractors complain that they warned the Company about risks back in April, but were ignored. Miami Beach cancels its Fourth of July fireworks. Inspectors vow to inspect 500 highrises in the area. Shooters and looters proliferate. Crime in Oakland, CA called “endemic”, murders and carjackings causing white liberals to flee like white rats off a sinking ship. Homicides up 25% over 2020, police defunding laws causing cops to quit in droves.
Wednesday, June 23, 2021 Infected: 33,664,894 Dead: 604,714 Dow: 34,502.51	South Dakota falls – Delta variant now over a quarter of new cases. Hospitals in MAGA strongholds like SW Missouri are overwhelmed with new cases. LA reimposes indoor mask mandates over objections of W.H.O. and Dr. Fauci. Holiday travel woes swell… more airline flights cancelled due to pilot shortage, gas prices up 93¢ over 2020 and New York regains Worst Traffic prize from L.A. with Boston to show. Fireworks prices up, too. DHS warns of terror plots for the Fourth. Trump CFO Alan Weisselberg indicted for tax fraud, pressured to rat out Daddy. Sensing possible Ol’ 45 “distraction”, dozens of Pubs launch exploratory 2024 campaigns, even Mike Pompeo! Doomsday cult mom Lori Daybill also indicted for murdering hubby. Nxivm cult mom and former “Smallville” star Allison Mack gets three years for sex trafficking. (Nexium antacid is recommended for all.) Bill Cosby gets out of jail on a technicality – feminists outraged.
Thursday, June 24, 2021 Infected: 33,590,481 Dead: 603,178 Dow: 34,584.59	Miami rescue workers work on under increasingly dangerous conditions and no survivors found. Confirmed death toll up to 16. (By contrast, fatalities in the NW heatwave could be in the dozens, at least, or the hundreds.) TStorm Danny blows past Atlanta, but Elsa is on the way. Heatwave endangers NY power grid. Zebra cobra (reptilian, not equine) escapes, attacks Americans. Shark attacks at Boy Scout camp in California deemed unrelated to BSA $850M settlement for raped Merit Badgers. Richard Branson (Virgin) trumps Jeff Bezos (Blue Orbit) in space race… he’ll make the trip on 7/11, Jeff on 7/20 (with an 82 year old female astronaut aboard).

America simmered and steamed in bicoastal heat and nobody did nor decided very much. The biggest gainer was the Dow and that was primarily the result of carbon companies taking advantage in the rise of oil prices as oilies get back to work pumping out fuel to fuel the air and car traffic over the upcoming holiday weekend. People are tired, hunger for normalcy. They do their jobs, pay their bills (a rare decrease in private, if not public debt), stay away from protests, go home, watch television, sleep. Two billionaires are going up into space – for eleven minutes. Wild animals are, for the most part, staying in the wild – except for “the snake”, called forth no less than seventeen times in Djonald’s Cleveland speech. (A great song, written by a great polymath Oscar Brand… playwright, essayist and agitator as well as musician – look for somebody to cover it, and quick!) The cicadas are retreating underground and, although vaxxing has fallen short of President Joe’s July 4^th target, the only people getting sick (children excepted, due to bureaucratic foot-dragging on vaxx approval for the under twelves) are the diehard POTheads who won’t get shot because Their President said not to. (Later, of course, Trump did pivot, but the conspiracy minded prefer to believe he took the needle under pressure, if not torture, and they are going to be strong and manly because they’re better than any damned Chinese virus. And better than you, too – which challenge to combat elicits a tired “whatever”.

With three months of hot, torpid weather ahead, Don Jones is going to just sit back and consume… beer and meat and fireworks over the weekend, the NBA finals upcoming, rival billionaires in space and new movies like “The Tomorrow War” which seems to be about the world being conquered by monkeys on meth. And plenty of superhero epics to come, like liquefied peas and carrots being spooned into baby. Most foreigners have stopped hating America and more than a few would like to be Americans, legal or not. The dog days, which are supposed to begin in August, are bellying up to the early-bird buffet and the Land of the Free is loosening its belt.

THE DON JONES INDEX

CHART of CATEGORIES w/VALUE ADDED to EQUAL BASELINE of 15,000

(REFLECTING… approximately… DOW JONES INDEX of June 27, 2013)

See a further explanation of categories here…

ECONOMIC INDICES (60%)

DON JONES’ PERSONAL ECONOMIC INDEX

(45% of TOTAL INDEX POINTS)

CATEGORY	VALUE	BASE	RESULTS			SCORE	SCORE	OUR SOURCES and COMENTS
INCOME	24%	6/17/13	LAST	CHANGE	NEXT	6/25/21	7/2/21	SOURCE
Wages (hourly, per capita)	9%	1350 points	6/25/21	+0.06%	7/9/21	1,444.80	1,444.80	https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/wages  25.60 nc
Median Income (yearly)	4%	600	6/25/21	+0.03%	7/9/21	670.88	671.07	http://www.usdebtclock.org/   35,533
*Unempl. (BLS – in millions	4%	600	6/25/21	+5.17%	7/9/21	345.75	345.75	http://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LNS14000000/  5.8% nc
*Official (DC – in millions)	2%	300	6/25/21	+0.04%	7/9/21	419.93	420.11	http://www.usdebtclock.org/      9,297
*Unofficl. (DC – in millions)	2%	300	6/25/21	+0.20%	7/9/21	374.30	375.05	http://www.usdebtclock.org/    15,470
Workforce Participtn. Number   Percent	2%	300	6/25/21	-0.04% +0.02%	7/9/21	315.89	315.96	In 152,156 Out 100,236 Total: 252,392 http://www.usdebtclock.org/ 60.275 88
WP % (ycharts)*	1%	150	6/25/21	+0.16%	7/9/21	152.23	152.23	https://ycharts.com/indicators/labor_force_participation_rate   61.60
OUTGO	(15%)
Total Inflation	7%	1050	5/21/21	+0.6%	7/9/21	994.09	994.09	http://www.bls.gov/news.release/cpi.nr0.htm     +0.6
Food	2%	300	5/21/21	+0.4%	7/9/21	280.33	280.33	http://www.bls.gov/news.release/cpi.nr0.htm     +0.4
Gasoline	2%	300	5/21/21	-0.7%	7/9/21	275.69	275.69	http://www.bls.gov/news.release/cpi.nr0.htm      -0.7
Medical Costs	2%	300	5/21/21	-0.1%	7/9/21	287.06	287.06	http://www.bls.gov/news.release/cpi.nr0.htm     +0.1
Shelter	2%	300	5/21/21	+0.3%	7/9/21	291.39	291.39	http://www.bls.gov/news.release/cpi.nr0.htm     +0.3
WEALTH	(6%)
Dow Jones Index	2%	300	6/25/21	+1.51%	7/9/21	373.82	379.45	https://www.wsj.com/market-data/quotes/index/DJIA 34,119.22 34,633.53 oil stocks as hits 75/bar
Home (Sales) (Valuation)	1% 1%	150 150	5/21/21	- 0.85% +2.55%	7/9/21	168.55 176.33	168.55 176.33	https://www.nar.realtor/research-and-statistics      Sales (M):  5.80 Valuations (K):  350.3
Debt (Personal)	2%	300	6/25/21	+0.33%	7/9/21	273.35	274.45	http://www.usdebtclock.org/    64,479 268
	AMERICAN ECONOMIC INDEX (15% of TOTAL INDEX POINTS)
NATIONAL	(10%)
Revenue (trilns.)	2%	300	6/25/21	+0.06%	7/9/21	299.65	299.82	debtclock.org/       3,504 506
Expenditures (tr.)	2%	300	6/25/21	-0.72%	7/9/21	218.53	220.11	debtclock.org/       6,847 798
National Debt tr.)	3%	450	6/25/21	+0.09%	7/9/21	323.30	323.01	http://www.usdebtclock.org/    28,471
Aggregate Debt (tr.)	3%	450	6/25/21	+0.10%	7/9/21	372.05	371.67	http://www.usdebtclock.org/    85,077
GLOBAL	(5%)
Foreign Debt (tr.)	2%	300	6/25/21	+0.04%	7/9/21	292.38	292.26	http://www.usdebtclock.org/   7,099
Exports (in billions)	1%	150	6/25/21	+2.50%	7/9/21	182.08	182.08	https://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/index.html 205.0
Imports (bl.)	1%	150	6/25/21	- 0.22%	7/9/21	120.61	120.61	https://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/index.html 273.9
Trade Deficit (bl.)	1%	150	6/25/21	- 7.98%	7/9/21	100.39	100.39	https://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/index.html   68.9
	SOCIAL INDICES (40%)
ACTS of MAN	(12%)
World Peace	3%	450	6/25/21	-0.2%	7/9/21	394.60	393.42	Russia menaces US Navy in Mediterranean. China shuts down last free paper in Hong Kong; purge on the way? US conducts airstrikes against Iranian proxies in Iraq and Syria in retaliation for failed rocket attacks. Will and Harry reunite (briefly) for statue of Lady Di.
Terrorism	2%	300	6/25/21	-0.2%	7/9/21	237.62	237.14	With Taliban closing in, US and its Afghan collaborators reach deal to resettle them in “another” country. Mexican and Colombian cartels declare war on everybody, shoot at the latter’s Presidential helicopter.
Politics	3%	450	6/25/21	+0.1%	7/9/21	436.43	436.87	Kamala goes to the border (see above) as Joe stands firm on “human” infrastructure, even promising weeked veto of Mitchy’s compromise physical infrastructure – “back on track” Tuesday. Trump kicks off 2024 “revenge tour” in Cleveland where he calls for a slaughter of RINOs and quotes Al Wilson’s “The Snake” with “the eyes and expression of a madman”. Trump troubles create a logjam of potential 2024 candidates, BillBarr pivots, says he always thought election steal claims BS. Weird NYC election called riddled with “discrepancies”. House votes to remove Confederate statues.
Economics	3%	450	6/25/21	+0.1%	7/9/21	404.20	403.39	Facebook cashes out for a trillion dollar IPO after being acquitted of monopolism. Kentucky offers $1,500 bribe to voluntarily unemployed to go back to work. Gas prices up 93% over 2020. Toyota overtakes GM as #1 American carmaker; Hyundai, for its part, is developing robotic dogs.
Crime	1%	150	6/25/21	+0.2%	7/9/21	248.01	247.02	Spectacular mass shootings devolve into ordinary gun violence. Mass stabber kills 3, wounds 5 in Germany. LA attempts to blow up confiscated fireworks, blows up the blowup injuring 17.
ACTS of GOD	(6%)
Environment/Weather	3%	450	6/25/21	-0.3%	7/9/21	410.60	410.19	Hot: Historic West Coast heat wave skips Midwest (floods), South (Danny) and spreads up and down East before finally retreating to 100° in Portland and New York. Hotter: Volcano erupts in Costa Rica. Hottest: holiday travelers suffer in steamy cars and clouds of toxic smog.
Natural/Unnatural Disaster	3%	450	6/25/21	-0.3%	7/9/21	409.78	408.55	Condo collapse creates paranoia among other tenants of aging Florida highrises. Hot air balloon crash in New Mexico kills 5. Sign waving selfoid blunders into Tour de France cyclists, causes massive wipeout. Sharks are back on the job, humans suffer “interactions” in North Carolina, California and Hawaii.
Science, Tech, Education	4%	600	6/25/21	+0.1%	7/9/21	665.34	666.01	Richard Branson (Virgin) will shoot off into space nine days before Jeff Bezos (Amazon). They’re short trips, so no phaser battles.
Equality (econ/social)	4%	600	6/25/21	nc	7/9/21	564.41	564.41	Turkish police beat, arrest Gay Parade marchers in Istanbul. Joisey school cuts mike of gay valedictorian. 70 year old batgirl throws out first pitch at Yankees’ game. Transgender wins Miss Nevada pageant
Health Plague	4%	600	6/25/21	-0.1% +0.2%	7/9/21	503.75 - 101.39	503.25 - 101.29	Tesla recalls 285,000 hyper-accelerative Chinese cars. CDC says American births fell 4% in 2020 with plague and the economy getting the blame. Cologuard users socked with surprise fees and deceptive advertising. WalMart cuts insulin prices. UK to ban junk food advertising by 2023. Doctors being shamed for calling people with diabetes diabetics. As holdout S.D. falls to Delta Variant (now a quarter of US cases), TV doctor Vasulovic says that single vaxxers at grave risk (of the grave). L.A. restores indoor mask mandate over objections from Dr. Fauci and the W.H.O. Covid cases and deaths keep rising in low-vaxx (red) states – Utah joins Ar and Mo as worst. National rate now 66% but shots are dropping by three quarters. Optimists say that booster shots won’t be needed for years, if at all. Doctors say mixing and matching doses with Astra Zeneca works. (It’s still illegal in America but inventor, Dame Sara Gilbert is honored at Wimbledon UK. Long-hauler survey finds 60% improve with any old vaxxing, 15%) worsen and 25% remain the same.
Freedom and Justice	3%	450	6/25/21	+0.1%	7/9/21	458.65	459.57	Texas court throws out mass shooting survivors’ lawsuit against gun dealer. Juul settles NC kiddie vaping case for 40M – 49 states to go. Amazon and Google accused of fomenting fake product “reviews” – must process servers follow Bezos into space? Eviction moratoriums extended through July. Bill Cosby gets out of jail. Trump’s CFO Alan Weisselberg’s daughter compares him to Batman’s boy wonder Robin, but he is unwonderfully indicted for taxes. Holy subpoena! Rudy G’s law license suspended for… well… just being Rudy G.
MISCELLANEOUS and TRANSIENT INDEX (7%)
Cultural incidents	3%	450	6/25/21	+0.2%	7/9/21	515.89	516.92	FF9 grosses $20M, hailed as big success (past summer blockbusters regularly topped $100M.) Conan O’Brien retires after 28 years, saying “Do the things you love with the people you love.” Mississippi State wins collegiate baseball crown. US Olympians chosen – Simone in, Serena out, Kim Kardashian wins the contract to design Olympian underwear. BET winners include HER, Latifah and (a pregnant) Cardi B. Hollywood’s Chinese Theater reopens.
Miscellaneous incidents	4%	450	6/25/21	nc	7/9/21	482.59	482.59	UFO task force clears 1 of 143 sightings, says there’s something out there. Or not. RIP Sen. (D-Ak) and 2020 Presidential candidate Mike Gravel, former DefSec Donald (“Rummy”) Rumsfield, soap opera star Stuart Damon. RIPhilippines: former dictator Benigno Aquino (survived by wife Corazon and her many shoes). Fireworks prices rising with some shortages predicted.

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ATTACHMENT ONE (A) – From CNN

KAMALA HARRIS MAKES HER FIRST VISIT TO THE US-MEXICO BORDER AS VICE PRESIDENT

By Maegan Vazquez, CNN Updated 4:19 PM ET, Fri June 25, 2021

Vice President Kamala Harris visited the southern border in El Paso, Texas, on Friday to see a migrant processing center, following dogged criticism for not having visited the US-Mexico border and a rocky first foreign trip to Guatemala and Mexico earlier this month.

The vice president toured the El Paso central processing center, a US Customs and Border Protection facility, and spoke with five young girls from Central America while there.

During a news conference at the conclusion of her trip, Harris said the girls were there without their parents.

"They are without their parents. They are also full of hope. They were asking me questions. 'How do you become the first woman vice president?' But it also reminds me of the fact that this issue cannot be reduced to a political issue. We're talking about children. We're talking about families. We're talking about suffering. And our approach has to be thoughtful and effective," Harris said.

Throughout her visit, she underscored the need to address the "root causes" of migration, saying during her news conference that "when we have this conversation about what's happening at the border, let's not lose sight of the fact that we're talking about human beings."

"People don't want to leave home if they don't have to," she said.

Harris also participated in a walking tour and attended an operational briefing. Later on in the day, she held a conversation with advocates from faith-based NGOs and shelter and legal service providers.

Harris is accompanied on the trip by Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, Senate Judiciary Chairman Dick Durbin and Democratic Texas Rep. Veronica Escobar.

The visit to El Paso came amid a smattering of criticism that's followed Harris since being tasked by President Joe Biden with leading diplomatic efforts in the Northern Triangle to address immigration.

Harris endured a rocky first foreign trip -- her two-day swing through Mexico and Guatemala -- with sources telling CNN at the time that the trip left some officials perplexed about her bumpy answers to questions about whether she will go to the border.

"At some point, you know, we are going to the border," Harris said in an interview with NBC News while on the Central America trip. "We've been to the border. So this whole, this whole, this whole thing about the border. We've been to the border. We've been to the border."

But when pressed on the fact that she still had not visited the border, Harris responded, "... and I haven't been to Europe. And I mean, I don't -- I don't understand the point that you're making," Harris said with a laugh, adding, "I'm not discounting the importance of the border."

That answer only intensified GOP criticism of her absence at the border.

Asked on Friday why now was the right time to come to the border, Harris said it was important she visit Guatemala and Mexico before visiting the border to build off of those meetings addressing the root causes of migration.

"Being in Guatemala, being in Mexico, and talking with Mexico as a partner, frankly on the issue, was about addressing the causes. And then coming to the border at the advice and actually the invitation of the congresswoman, is about looking at the effects of what we have seen happening in Central America, and so I'm glad to be here. This was always the plan to come here," she said.

When asked if the border trip was essentially the administration bowing down to pressure from Republicans, Harris' chief spokesperson, Symone Sanders, told reporters on a call Thursday evening that "this administration does not take their cues from Republican criticism, nor from the former President of the United States of America."

"We have said over a number of different occasions ... that she would go to the border. She has been before, she would go again. She would go when it was appropriate, when it made sense. And this trip tomorrow, this timing, is what made sense for the vice president's schedule, but also, for our partners on the ground," Sanders added.

Sanders called the visit part of a "cause and effect" strategy, labeling Harris' efforts in Guatemala and Mexico as addressing the cause and her upcoming visit to the border as addressing the effect. That's despite months of countering from aides both publicly and privately that Harris' focus is not the border.

Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz said in a statement that "(c)ommunities like El Paso are struggling because of the damage the Biden-Harris administration has caused by opening the floodgates to human smugglers and drug cartels." He also joined critics who said Harris should have visited other parts of the state where the issue is worse, arguing that the trip took place "some 800 miles from the epicenter of the crisis."

"But, if the Vice President came to Texas without a concrete plan to secure our border and is unwilling to reverse her administration's failed immigration policies that caused the crisis, then her visit is nothing short of a glorified photo-op," Cruz added.

"Inhumane conditions"

Officials have also indicated that the trip will draw a contrast with the Trump administration's immigration and border policies, with Sanders on Thursday calling El Paso the "birthplace" of the Trump administration's family separation policy, pointing to a 2017 pilot program.

A record number of unaccompanied children crossed into the US this spring, further intensifying GOP criticism of the Biden administration's handling. CBP encountered more than 180,000 migrants at the southern border in May, putting the US on track to surpass the number of border crossings in fiscal year 2019.

Mayorkas said Friday the administration has made "extraordinary progress" dealing with the situation at the border since March.

Harris said the Biden administration has "made progress" on "inhumane conditions" at the border, but admitted "there's still much more work to be done."

"Our administration, it is important to be clear, is working to build a fair and a functional, humane immigration system," the vice president said. "We feel very strongly about that."

Harris was speaking at a round table with faith-based non-governmental organizations, which she said would be a "candid conversation."

She said the Biden administration "inherited a tough situation," but that in five months, "we've made progress."

While in West Texas, Harris will not visit nearby Fort Bliss, where migrant children who crossed the US-Mexico border alone are still spending prolonged time in temporary government facilities, raising concerns among attorneys, who say the conditions are inadequate for kids.

Shaw Drake, a staff attorney and policy counsel for border and immigrants' rights with the ACLU of Texas, told CNN's Ed Lavandera that although the Biden White House has taken some very important steps to address immigration, "the administration, to this point, is not doing enough."

Drake specifically cited the administration's continued reliance on Title 42 and complaints of inhumane conditions at Fort Bliss. Title 42 is a policy enacted during the early days of the coronavirus pandemic that allows the US to expel migrants encountered at the US-Mexico border.

He said the administration took steps to move children out of Border Patrol facilities quickly when there was an increase in unaccompanied migrants, but concerning conditions at other facilities with migrant children remain.

"(N)ow we're facing conditions, concerns at places like Fort Bliss, here in El Paso, where reports continue to surface of children being held in inhumane circumstances and facing abuse by staff and other issues," Drake said. "So there's a long way for the administration to fully adhere to the law and to respect the rights of all migrants ... that are arriving here to the border seeking safety."

Tyler Moran, special assistant to the president for immigration for the Domestic Policy Council at the White House, noted on Thursday's call with reporters that improvements have been made at the facility, including the addition of 50 mental health professionals on site and increases to case management services.

"The administration is concerned by these reports and we do know that HHS has taken steps to address them. We are taking this very seriously. This is serious for the President and the vice president. And we know it's important to HHS to get to the bottom of this and ensure that the highest standards are being upheld," Sanders added.

Asked about Harris' upcoming trip, Biden said on Thursday that Harris has "done a great job so far."

"(T)he reason why it's important that she go down, she's now set up the criteria, having spoken with the president of Mexico and Guatemala, visited the region, to know what we need to do," Biden told reporters in the White House East Room.

This story has been updated with developments on Friday.

ATTACHMENT ONE (B) – Also from CNN

HARRIS PLAYS IT SAFE AT US-MEXICO BORDER AND RELEASES PRESSURE VALVE

Analysis by Jeremy Diamond, CNN Updated 8:08 AM ET, Sat June 26, 2021

After four hours in this city on the US-Mexico border, Vice President Kamala Harris was all smiles as she walked across the tarmac to Air Force Two.

"Let's take a picture!" she excitedly told the press gathered under the plane's wing in the nearly 100-degree heat on Friday. As for additional questions? Those she would not answer, instead walking away amid shouts of "Madam Vice President."

Harris had already accomplished what she came here to achieve: release months of pressure on her to visit the southern border while avoiding igniting any new controversies. And she wasn't about to risk unchecking that box mere steps from her ride home.

At each of her three stops in El Paso, Harris and her team seemed intent on dutifully going through the motions of an official visit to the border while seeking to create as little noise as possible.

At a Border Patrol processing facility, the vice president listened intently as Border Patrol and US Customs and Border Protection officials briefed her on improvements in processing migrants. At her second stop -- the Paso del Norte Port of Entry -- another CBP official walked her through technological improvements in screenings while showing her pictures on a poster of overcrowding at the facility in 2016. And before Harris left the city, she sat down with nonprofit activists and faith leaders working to help migrants, ticking through the sea-change in policy from the Trump administration and her work to address the root causes of migration from the Northern Triangle countries.

The trip also gave Harris an opportunity to draw a contrast between the current administration's policies and those of the Trump administration, which she lambasted for creating "inhumane conditions" at the border. She also pointed out that the Trump administration's family separation policy was first test-piloted in El Paso.

The visit produced sober, sterile images of a vice president doing a traditional border visit while avoiding any messaging stumbles akin to those on her first foreign trip -- stumbles that brought the pressure on her to visit the border to a crescendo.

Friday's visit also avoided creating any images that would tie Harris to the government's difficulties in processing a surge of migrants at the US-Mexico border in recent months.

Unlike then-Vice President Mike Pence's July 2019 visit to the border, which saw him appear alongside hundreds of migrants at a crowded detention facility in McAllen, Texas, Harris did not appear on camera at a detention facility or alongside any migrants. Nor did she visit the nearby border wall.

Instead, she met behind closed doors with five girls, aged 9 to 16, from Central America, who she said were "full of hope" despite their circumstances.

Harris also eschewed a visit to Fort Bliss, the US Army base that currently houses about 1,500 unaccompanied migrant children in a tent complex that is the subject of reports of poor living conditions and mental health distress among the facility's children.

Harris spokeswoman Symone Sanders did not answer when asked why Harris did not visit the facility, which is just 2 miles from the El Paso airport, but said the administration is taking reports of unsafe conditions "extremely seriously." Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra, whose department oversees the migrant facility, is scheduled to visit on Monday.

Harris and her team were wary of casting her trip on Friday as a result of media pressure and criticism from Republicans that she had yet to visit the border, insisting instead that she had always planned to come following a trip to Central America.

"It was always the plan to come here," Harris told reporters as she arrived on Friday.

Even as she finally came to the border, she still faced criticism from Republicans as well as from conservative Democratic Rep. Henry Cuellar of Texas for not visiting the Rio Grande Valley, which has been the epicenter of this year's migrant surge.

Harris was also careful to repeatedly frame her trip to the border as part of her mission to tackle the root causes of migration, amid attempts by Republicans to label her the Biden administration's "border czar."

"This has been a trip that also is connected with the very obvious point: If you want to deal with a problem, you can't just deal with the symptom of the problem," she said. "You gotta figure out what caused it to happen."

ATTACHMENT TWO – From Cato

MEXICAN PRESIDENT AMLO PROPOSES NEW GUEST WORKER VISA BASED ON THE BRACERO PROGRAM

By Alex Nowrasteh MARCH 1, 2021 1:28PM

President Biden and Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO) will be speaking today about immigration and other topics. AMLO is expected to propose that the United States and Mexico partner to create a new guest worker visa program to allow Mexicans and Central Americans to lawfully work in the United States. According to reports, AMLO proposes that such a program should be 600,000 to 800,000 annually.

This proposed program would be based on the Bracero program, according to AMLO. Bracero was the nickname for a temporary guest worker visa program that allowed Mexican farm workers to work temporarily in the United States. The Bracero program began with a bilateral agreement between the United States and Mexico in 1942 as the U.S. draft and war mobilization greatly reduced the supply of labor for lower marginal product occupations like agriculture. It ended in 1964 after lobbying from labor unions.

As a bilateral agreement, the Mexican government regulated emigration on its side and the United States government regulated the in-migration on its side. Both sides regulated the migrant’s wages, duration of employment, age of workers, health care, and transportation from Mexico to U.S. farms. Employers sold transportation, housing, and meals to the migrants for a low price. Employers also had to deduct ten percent of the migrant’s wages from their paychecks and deposit them in an account that would be turned over to migrants once they returned to Mexico. The deduction ensured compliance with the rules of the program and at the insistence of the Mexican government so the migrants would return.

The Bracero program did not limit the number of Mexican migratory workers so long as the government’s conditions were met. As a result, nearly five million Mexican workers used the Bracero program from 1942, when the first group of 500 braceros arrived at a farm in California until the program’s cancellation in 1964. During the early phase of the program during World War 2, the United States government acted as the arbiter and distributor of the Mexican workers to American farms – heavily subsidizing the movement and not requiring total reimbursement for government expenses on medical and security screenings.

The Bracero program became more rigid and regulated in the late 1940s. As a result, Mexican illegal immigrants began to enter in large numbers to work on American farms after the war. By 1952, there were approximately 2 million Mexican illegal immigrant workers in the United States. In 1951 and 1952, the U.S. government began two major reforms to the Bracero program: The first was to make sure that American farmers could hire as many Bracero guest workers as they demanded. The second was to make sure that any Mexican workers who wanted to work on U.S. farms were able to do so legally.

To the credit of the Border Patrol and Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) at the time, they listened to the complaints of employers and tried to design their enforcement and visa programs to work with economics rather than against it. INS Commissioner Joseph Swing noted that in the late 1940s and early 1950s, employers in the Rio Grande Valley referred to the Border Patrol as a “Gestapo outfit” that wrenched their willing illegal workers away from employment. Swing realized that he would have to enlist the cooperation of employers and migrants to solve the problem. In other words, he would have to address both the supply of illegal immigrant workers and the demand for them.

Swing said, “If there is any employer who cannot get legal labor all he has to do is let either the Department of Labor or Immigration know and we will see that he gets it . . . I am quite emphatic about this because I know I am going to run into some opposition in Southern Texas.” And he followed through on his promises. The Bracero program’s flexibility increased over time as the Border Patrol and INS realized that the Bracero program was an indispensable component of reducing illegal immigration by providing a lawful means of migration to substitute for illegal immigration.

The Bracero program was astonishingly successful at reducing illegal immigration. The number of apprehensions of illegal immigrants, a proxy measurement for the illegal immigrant flow, dropped consistently as the number of guest worker visas increased (Figure 1). Illegal immigration rose and fell over that time in response to economic conditions and enforcement on both sides of the border, but the number of visas available did more than any other factor to reduce the flow. During the mid-1950s, when the number of Bracero guest worker visas increased the most, each new visa displaced about three illegal immigrant entries by pushing them into the legal market. Shortly after the Bracero program ended in 1964, the number of illegal immigrants increased rapidly because American employers still demanded their services.

In addition to granting Bracero guest worker visas to new Mexican migrants, the INS and Border Patrol also gave them to illegal Mexican immigrants already present in the United States. Border Patrol and INS agents would often arrest illegal immigrant workers and give them a “spot legalization” at their employment sites, recording their identity information and handing them a work permit. Other times, the officers would arrest the illegal immigrants, drive him down to the border, and make them take one step across the border and come back in as a legal bracero worker, a process referred to as “a walk-around the statute.” Both spot legalizations and walk-around the statute were part of the euphemistically labeled process of “drying out” the illegal immigrants by legalizing them, a reference to the then-common racist term “wetback” to describe illegal Mexican immigrants.

In combination with the legalization of Mexican workers and the increased and deregulated visa for new entries, the U.S. government also increased enforcement through Operation Wetback. That enforcement operation was designed to identify and deport illegal immigrants in combination with granting many of them Bracero work visas. The goal of increasing the number of visas and enforcement at the same time was to exchange illegal workers for legal workers, in Swing’s words. He achieved that goal. For example, farmers during the 1953 harvest in the Rio Grande Valley only employed 700 legal guest workers compared to 50,326 legal guest workers employed there in 1954. At every opportunity, Swing praised farmers and gave them credit for substituting legal Bracero workers for illegal immigrant workers, saying the “accomplishment of this task would have been impossible without the generous cooperation extended to the effort by ranchers, farmers, and growers.”

The combination of a legal migration pathway with consequences for breaking immigration laws incentivized Mexican migrants to come legally and for U.S. farmers to eschew the black market. As a result, the number of removals of illegal immigrants in 1955 was barely three percent of the 1954 numbers. Those who previously would have entered unlawfully instead signed up to become Braceros and farmers who would have earlier hired illegal immigrant workers only hired legal migrants.

The INS made low cost for migrants to get guest worker visas and used the Border Patrol to funnel illegal migrants and would-be illegal migrants into the legal system. The immigration agencies sometimes liberalized the system even beyond what Congress intended through the legalizations and granting of border crossing cards. Increased lawful migration, flexibility, and enforcement funneled migrant workers into the Bracero program and reduced the illegal immigrant population by an estimated 90 percent and cross border flows by 95 percent. The existence of a legal visa for lower skilled Mexican migrants was essential to the decrease in illegal immigration as the INS and Border Patrol understood at the time.

Problems with the Bracero Program and New Challenges Today

Creating a new Bracero program today would reduce illegal immigration, increase border security, and help grow the economy on both sides of the border. But the Bracero program also had some serious problems that should be fixed with the creation of a Bracero-inspired program today. The first problem is corruption. The Bracero program was managed by both the Mexican and U.S. governments. On the Mexican side, there were problems with corruption as some government employees demanded bribes from Mexican Braceros in exchange for being approved for a work permit. Many migrants were so incensed by this that they tried to get Bracero work permits on their own, leading to scenes where U.S. Border Patrol agents were helping Mexican migrants enter the United States while facing down the opposition of Mexican police and military personnel who were trying to stop them from emigrating.

The second problem is portability. Compared to today’s H-2 visas, Braceros could move between employers easily. Still, any workers in a modern Bracero program must have as much portability as possible – preferably the same amount as native-born American workers. There are few serious violations in H-2 visa programs today, but those violations that do occur would likely vanish if workers could switch employers without facing regulatory barriers or losing their lawful status. After all, the best defense against an abusive employer is the employee’s ability to switch jobs.

The third major problem with the Bracero program was that it was only for agricultural workers. That may have been sufficient in the 1950s, but it won’t be good enough today. Only about 4 percent of illegal immigrants work in agriculture today while 8 percent work in transportation, 14 percent in production and maintenance, 16 percent in construction, and about one-third in services. Thus, any new visa would have to funnel migrants to the jobs where they would actually work rather than just agriculture.

The fourth major problem is that the current H-2 visa pro gram is already very good at reducing illegal immigration from Mexico. The number of Mexican illegal immigrants is increasing since Title 42 closed the border and resulted in the immediate return of illegal immigrants to Mexico, but that will return back to pre-COVID numbers as soon as Title 42 is rescinded and the incentives faced by migrants return to normal. The major problem going forward is channeling Central Americans into the legal migration system by creating a visa for them. My colleague David Bier and I have proposed various ways to increase the number of visas for Central Americans without decreasing the number for Mexicans. AMLO wants more visas for Central Americans so they don’t travel illegally through Mexico anymore.

The fifth major problem is reciprocity. Not many Americans want to work in Mexico, but allowing them to on very easy and generous terms could convince some Americans that a new bilateral agreement based on the Bracero program is “fair.” Michelangelo Landgrave has researched the issue of migration reciprocity between the United States and Canada, with the finding that Americans support more Canadian immigration if there is reciprocity whereby Americans can also work in Canada. This approach should be incorporated into a bilateral agreement with Mexico that allows Americans to live, work, and invest in Mexico with very few legal barriers.

Everyone’s incentives are aligned to reduce illegal immigration by liberalizing immigration. Americans want to hire migrant workers, the Mexican government wants to make it easier for Central Americans to get U.S. work permits so they don’t cross Mexico illegally, and the end of the COVID border emergency would jumpstart Mexican temporary migration to its previously high levels. The only group with power that is not potentially interested is the Biden administration. The only major provision missing from President Biden’s U.S. Citizenship Act was a large and temporary guest worker visa program – let’s hope that was a temporary oversight.

It’s time for Democrats to bite the bullet, ignore complaints from their labor union allies, plug their ears to nativist complaints, and create a big temporary guest worker visa program to get control of the Mexican border. Enforcement alone will never do it, as the present situation shows. The border is practically closed and apprehensions are increasing. The only way that Biden can fix immigration is if American voters support him and they will only do that if they perceive the border to be under control. But they will only perceive the border to be under control if immigration is liberalized enough so that virtually all would-be illegal immigrants will start coming in legally. Thus, the Biden administration needs to bite the bullet and create a huge guest worker visa program for Central Americans and Mexicans to secure his pro-immigration legacy and create the necessary preconditions for sustainable reform.

Conclusion

It’s heartening that AMLO is asking the United States to create a new guest worker visa program. By allowing illegal immigrants to get work visas, by not punishing them or employers for coming forward, and by making work visas available to future migrants, almost all future and current illegal immigrants could be funneled into the legal market without a large increase in enforcement. This was the policy followed in the 1950s and it worked. With some tweaks today, a modern Bracero program could virtually end illegal immigration and increase border security without an increase in fencing, the number of Border Patrol agents, or other security improvements. The only question is whether the Biden administration wants to do it.

ATTACHMENT THREE – From WRLN Miami

AMLO ANSWER: BRACERO 2.0 SEEMS THE IMMIGRATION REFORM THE U.S. NEEDS MOST NOW

WLRN 91.3 FM | By Tim Padgett. Published March 4, 2021 at 9:06 AM EST

COMMENTARY Neither border wall fantasies nor immigrant amnesties will solve America's immigration crisis. A retooled guest worker program just might.

Immigration advocates and xenophobes alike consider “bracero” a dirty word. But after this week’s ghastly collision near the Mexico-California border between a tractor-trailer and an SUV – a vehicle crammed with 25 people, 13 of whom were killed — I think they need to reconsider.

The bracero program of the mid-20th century let Mexican labor into the U.S. temporarily for agricultural work. It sprang to my mind again this week because the passengers in that SUV were undocumented immigrants. Its dead driver, authorities say, was a coyote, or migrant smuggler. And the sort of violent crash they had will likely happen again, because sadly accidents involving coyotes and their client-victims are frequent along the U.S.-Mexico border.

Frequent enough to be a symbol of the U.S. immigration chaos that’s got to be fixed. Fixed not by border wall fantasies or undocumented immigrant amnesties – neither of which manage the border flow that’s at the heart of the U.S.’s immigration debacle – but maybe by a bracero-like idea that Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador proposed to President Biden this week.

I’m usually not a fan of López Obrador, who’s known as AMLO. He’s a populist demagogue whose bromance with populist demagogue Donald Trump – in particular his willingness to turn Mexico into a holding pen for Central American asylum seekers enroute to America – helped make U.S. immigration policy more dysfunctional and inhumane. But AMLO’s suggestion that the U.S., with Mexico’s help, should reach back to at least the basic bracero concept seems a commonsense approach to immigration reform — a.k.a. 21st-century Washington’s political third rail.

AMLO essentially urged a new guest-worker visa program that would let as many as 800,000 Mexican and Central American workers into the U.S. legally each year. They'd do the sort of jobs we all know few if any U.S. citizens will do anymore — jobs 12 more migrants died coming to do in the illegal shadows this week.

Immigration advocates and xenophobes alike consider “bracero” a dirty word – but after this week’s ghastly collision near the Mexico-California border, I think they need to reconsider.

Immigration advocates will say: Wait a minute, the original bracero program had myriad problems like unfair wages and squalid housing. They’re right. Immigration control proponents will say: Wait a minute, the U.S. already has the H-2 temporary worker visa program. They’re right. But it’s unnecessarily complicated and accommodates too few workers – only a quarter of what’s really needed – not enough non-agricultural workers and nowhere near enough Central American workers, who are the lion’s share of today’s undocumented migrants.

RETURN FLIGHTS

Regarding that last key point, immigration advocates and opponents raise another key question: would migrants adhere to the "temporary" part?

Ideally under Bracero 2.0, Central American guest workers will book the return flight to Tegucigalpa if they know they can regularly return to U.S. vegetable fields, restaurants, poultry factories and construction sites. But realistically, skeptics fear, Central America’s hellishly hopeless poverty and gang violence mean many if not most don’t plan to go back home once they’re here. Those factors dilute the incentive to sign up for a bracero plan and follow its come-and-go rules.

Bracero boosters like Alex Nowrasteh of the conservative Cato Institute (See above) believe that concern is exaggerated. Nowrasteh told me that since so few Central American workers are currently given H-2 visas, they tend to steer themselves and their families toward the asylum system because they see it as the only legal means of entering the U.S. Or they just come in illegally. Either way, he says, the dearth of H-2 entrance accorded Central Americans has helped both overload the asylum circuits and add to the border chaos.

While many Central American migrants are indeed fleeing a gang leader’s murder threat, he says, many are not. If those who are only escaping destitution could arrive legally on an updated bracero path, they’d be more likely to leave family members at home and move back and forth between there and the U.S. the way the program’s designed. Not to mention send home the remittances that help reduce poverty – and therefore illegal immigration.

I’d also favor giving these workers, after enough time and conditions are met, a path to legal residence. But as Nowrasteh writes in his Cato paper this week, under a bracero-style system almost all undocumented immigrants “could be funneled into the legal market without a large increase” in border enforcement.

And, hopefully, with a large decrease in ghastly border deaths.

ATTACHMENT FOUR – FROM history.com (A) and immigrationhistory.com (B)

(A) U.S. and Mexico sign the Mexican Farm Labor Agreement

1942, August 04

On August 4, 1942, the United States and Mexico signed the Mexican Farm Labor Agreement, creating what is known as the "Bracero Program." The program, which lasted until 1964, was the largest guest-worker program in U.S. history. Throughout its existence, the Bracero Program benefited both farmers and laborers but also gave rise to numerous labor disputes, abuses of workers and other problems that have long characterized the history of farm labor in the Southwestern United States.

The program was born from necessity, as the federal government worried that American entry into World War II would sap the Southwest of much of its farm labor. Manual laborers (braceros in Spanish) from Mexico became an important part of the region's economy, and the program outlasted the war. The program guaranteed workers a number of basic protections, including a minimum wage, insurance and safe, free housing; however, farm owners frequently failed to live up to these requirements. Housing and food routinely proved to be well below standards, and wages were not only low but also frequently paid late or not at all. Years after the program ended, many braceros were still fighting to receive the money that had been deducted from their salaries and allegedly put into savings accounts. Due to these broken promises, strikes were a common occurrence throughout this period.

Over 4.6 million contracts were issued over the 22 years of the Bracero Program. Though Congress let the program expire in 1964, it set the stage for decades of labor disputes and a dynamic of migrant labor that still exists today. The 60s and 70s saw the rise of the United Farm Workers, a union composed largely of Mexicans and Mexican-Americans, which continued fighting many of the same inequalities that faced the braceros. To this day, migrant labor from Mexico continues to be a vital part of the Southwestern economy as well as a source of political and racial tension.

(B) FROM – immigrationhistory.com

BRACERO AGREEMENT (1942-1964)

During World War II, the U.S. government negotiated with the Mexican government to recruit Mexican workers, all men and without their families, to work on short-term contracts on farms and in other war industries. After the war, the program continued in agriculture until 1964.

Summary

Labor shortages during World War II led the U.S. government to negotiate with the Mexican government to recruit Mexican workers, all male and without their families, to work on short-term contracts in U.S. agriculture and in other war industries. After the war, Mexican workers were restricted to agriculture, as U.S. and Mexican authorities renegotiated the terms of the program several times. Mexicans participated in the belief that becoming braceros temporarily would enable them to acquire additional skills and knowledge while earning higher wages than available in Mexico. In practice, many became trapped in cycles of working abroad for higher wages in harsh manual labor agricultural jobs in the United States. The bracero program’s costs, employers’ abuse, and officials’ corrupt practices led many Mexicans to seek work in the United States illegally outside of its auspices, and readily found employment with U.S. agricultural conglomerates and other employers seeking workers for lower wages. The bracero program persisted until 1964, despite its many problems, when labor and civil rights reformers successfully pressured for its termination.

Documentation: (DJI)

For the temporary migration of Mexican agricultural workers to the United States. As revised April 26, 1943, by an exchange of notes between the American embassy at Mexico City and the Mexican Ministry for Foreign Affairs.

General Provisions

1) It is understood that Mexicans contracting to work in the United States shall not be engaged in any military service.

2) Mexicans entering the United States as result of this understanding shall not suffer discriminatory acts of any kind in accordance with the Executive Order No. 8802 issued at the White House June 25, 1941.

3) Mexicans entering the United States under this understanding shall enjoy the guarantees of transportation, living expenses and repatriation established in Article 29 of the Mexican Federal Labor Law as follows . . . .

4) Mexicans entering the United States under this understanding shall not be employed to displace other workers, or for the purpose of reducing rates of pay previously established . . . .

1. a) Contracts will be made between the employer and the worker under the supervision of the Mexican Government. (Contracts must be written in Spanish.)

1. b) The employer shall enter into a contract with the sub- employer, with a view to proper observance of the principles embodied in this understanding.

Admission

1. The Mexican health authorities will, at the place whence the worker comes, see that he meets the necessary physical conditions . . .

The master contracts for workers submitted to the Mexican government shall contain definite provisions for computation of subsistence and payments under the understanding.

1. The term of the contract shall be made in accordance with the authorities of the respective countries.

2. At the expiration of the contract under this understanding, and if the same is not renewed, the authorities of the United States shall consider illegal, from an immigration point of view, the continued stay of the worker in the territory of the United States, exception made of cases of physical impossibility.

Savings Fund

The respective agencies of the Government of the United States shall be responsible for the safekeeping of the sums contributed by the Mexican workers toward the formation of their Rural Savings Fund . . . .

Numbers

As it is impossible to determine at this time the number of workers who may be needed in the United States for agricultural labor employment, the employer shall advise the Mexican Government from time to time as to the number needed. The Government of Mexico shall determine in each case the number of workers who may leave the country without detriment to its national economy.

ATTACHMENT FIVE – FROM marketplace.org

HOW COULD A REVAMPED “BRACERO”PROGRAM WORK?

Jasmine Garsd Mar 1, 2021

Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador is set to meet with President Joe Biden on Monday. Immigration and border issues will be a major focus of their talk.

And as part of that discussion, Lopez Obrador has said he’ll propose a guest-worker plan for Mexicans similar to the “bracero” program that began during World War II.

Until it ended in the early 1960s, the bracero program brought millions of Mexicans into the U.S. on temporary visas to work — for cheap — in fields and on railroads.

The program was controversial. The workers were often subjected to brutal conditions, and the policy stirred conflict with unions and other domestic labor.

How would a reimagined bracero program work?

The program provided cheap labor while Americans were off fighting in the Vietnam War. It promised many Mexican workers better wages than they were making at home.

But it led to serious human rights abuses, according to Edward Kosack, professor of economics at Xavier University. “Dangerous jobs, people being hurt, not having adequate housing and food,” he said.

There are songs from both sides of the border about the bracero life, including Woody Guthrie’s 1948 “Deportee,” sung by Arlo Guthrie: “My brothers and sisters, they worked in the orchards / Rode the big trucks till they lay down and died.”

These days, there is a guest-worker visa called H-2A that the agriculture industry uses, which is widely seen as a bureaucratic nightmare.

A renewed guest-worker program could provide a safer alternative for some immigrants, said Daniel Sumner, an economist at the University of California, Davis. “The advantage of this for the U.S. is you regularize something, and you allow people to do something that they’re gonna try to do anyway,” Sumner said.

But the abuses of the bracero program could resurface, said Mireya Loza, a history professor at Georgetown University. She pointed out that the program ended in 1964 because Congress uncovered severe human rights violations. Loza herself comes from a family of braceros.

“And I think, ultimately, this kind of unchecked power of employers would make both employers and their lobbyists very excited,” she said.

The program, Loza said, is history to be learned from, but not repeated.

ATTACHMENT SIX – FROM NPR

SUPREME COURT HANDS FARMWORKERS UNION A MAJOR LOSS

By Nina Totenberg Updated June 24, 2021 7:41 AM ET 

The Supreme Court on Wednesday (6/23) tightened the leash on union representatives and their ability to organize farmworkers in California and elsewhere.

At issue in the case was a California law that allows union organizers to enter farms to speak to workers during nonworking hours — before and after work, as well as during lunch — for a set a number of days each year.

By a 6-3 vote along ideological lines, the court ruled that the law — enacted nearly 50 years ago after a campaign by famed union organizer Cesar Chavez — unconstitutionally appropriates private land by allowing organizers to go on farm property to drum up union support.

"The regulation appropriates a right to physically invade the growers' property," Chief Justice John Roberts wrote for the court's conservative majority. He said that allowing union organizers on private land amounts to an unconstitutional taking of their property without just compensation.

Federal protections for union access to the worksite were first enacted in the 1930s, but farmworkers were excluded from the law, an exclusion that California sought to make up for nearly a half century ago. But after the Supreme Court's decision on Wednesday, California's regulation is, for all practical purposes, gone.

Mario Martinez, general counsel for the United Farmworkers Union, contends that in the 1930s race was the motivating factor in excluding farmworkers from the original federal law protecting union access to the workplace, and now, he says, migrant workers, some of the poorest laborers in the country, are gain being left out.

"You double down on that exclusion and discrimination by saying that a state law that's been in existence for almost 50 years is not respectful of the growers' rights," he said. "But there was no discussion of the workers who are essential workers to feed America. There was no discussion of their rights at all."

Other union leaders echoed that sentiment. Nicole Berner, general counsel for the Service Employees International Union, says if workers learned anything during the pandemic, it was that they needed a union to defend their rights.

"Farmworkers kept working to keep food on all our tables," she observes, adding that now, because of Wednesday's Supreme Court decision, these workers "face even greater obstacles in their efforts to improve their working conditions."

But Joshua Thompson, of the Pacific Legal foundation, which represented the growers, was elated by the court's ruling. "When property rights are infringed by denying farmers the right to choose who can come and cannot come onto their property, the constitution demands that the government pay for that right," he said.

Thompson noted, accurately, that some of the protections for union organizers' access enacted into federal law in the 1930s have been eroded by the Supreme Court over time.

But court's decision on Wednesday was only the latest in a series of decisions over the past 16 years that have aimed directly at the heart of organized labor in the United States. In 2018, for instance, the court hamstrung public-sector unions' efforts to raise money for collective bargaining. In that decision, the court by a 5-4 vote overturned a 40-year precedent that had allowed unions to collect limited "fair share" fees from workers not in the union but who benefited from the terms of the contract that the union negotiated.

The case decided by the court on Wednesday began in 2015 at Cedar Point Nursery, near the Oregon border. The nursery's owner, Mike Fahner, said union organizers entered the farm at 5 one morning, without the required notice, and began harassing his workers with bullhorns. The union countered that the people with bullhorns were striking workers, not union organizers.

When Cedar Point filed a complaint with the California Agricultural Labor Relations Board, the board found no illegal behavior and dismissed the complaint. Cedar Point, joined by another California grower, appealed all the way to the Supreme Court, arguing they should be able to exclude organizers from their farms. On Wednesday, they won in the Supreme Court.

Katherine Stone, a law professor at UCLA who studies labor law, says she is concerned about what will replace union organizing in California after Wednesday's decision. "Whether we're going to have a whole new era of labor warfare is an open question," she noted. "If you don't have orderly mechanisms to deal with worker organizing and to deal with collection action of workers, then you get disorderly mechanisms."

Justice Stephen Breyer wrote the dissent in Wednesday's case for the court's three liberals, He said the access in the case was "temporary" and so did not constitute a "taking" under the law.

The California regulation, he wrote, is "not functionally equivalent to the classic taking in which government directly appropriates private property or ousts the owner from his domain."

The court's decision could be extremely problematic for unions in general, but especially those that represent low-income workers. The growers asserted that unions should have no problem organizing workers in the era of the internet. But the union maintains that many of the workers at Cedar Point don't own smartphones and don't have internet access. What's more, many don't speak English or are illiterate and live scattered throughout the area, in motels, in labor camps or with friends and family, often moving after just a few weeks when the seasonal harvest is over.

According to Matt Ginsburg, associate general counsel for the AFL-CIO, "the court failed to appreciate the specific circumstances that farmworkers face." "They're seasonal workers," he said, "who move from place to place, and that's specifically what this regulation was tailored to address."

"The agricultural industry has one of the nation's highest percentages of hired child labor, undocumented work, human trafficking, and workplace injury and fatality, including deaths from COVID-19," said law professor Beth Lyon, who directs Cornell's Farmworker Legal Assistance Clinic. The court placed "another obstacle in the way of an extremely vulnerable American workforce," she said.

ATTACHMENT SEVEN – FROM Slate

THE SUPREME COURT’S LATEST UNION-BUSTING DECISION GOES FAR BEYOND CALIFORNIA FARMWORKERS

BY MARK JOSEPH STERN JUNE 23, 20211:57 PM

In the 1960s, the United Farm Workers began demanding better pay and working conditions for California’s agricultural workers, who were subject to egregious exploitation and abuse. Led by César Chávez and Dolores Huerta, the union’s campaign culminated in the passage of the California Agricultural Labor Relations Act. Among other guarantees, this landmark law granted union organizers limited, temporary access to agricultural workplaces to speak with laborers. Businesses challenged the act as a violation of their property rights, but in 1976, the U.S. Supreme Court dismissed the case “for want of a substantial federal question.”

The Supreme Court of 2021—stacked, as it is, with six conservative Republican-appointed justices—sees things differently. On Wednesday, the court’s conservative supermajority held that California’s law violates the Fifth Amendment, which bars the taking of private property for public use “without just compensation.” Remarkably, the majority held that the law constitutes a “per se taking”—not a mere regulation, but an “appropriation” of property that flouts the owners’ “right to exclude.” The court’s 6–3 decision in Cedar Point Nursery v. Hassid is thus a crushing blow to organized labor, which often relies on workplace access to safeguard workers’ rights. It also undermines the broader legal framework that permits the government to impose all manner of regulations on private property, including workplace safety laws and nondiscrimination requirements. With Cedar Point, the Supreme Court has handed business owners a loaded gun to aim at every regulation they oppose.

Before we get to the devastating impact of Wednesday’s decision, some background: The Supreme Court has identified two types of “takings” under the Fifth Amendment, and deemed one much worse than the other. This distinction matters a great deal in Cedar Point. First, there are “per se” takings, which involve a major intrusion of private property. Historically, only the most burdensome laws—those that deprive property of “all economically beneficial or productive use” or constitute a “permanent physical occupation”—qualify as per se taking. In those situations, a property owner can automatically demand compensation or, if denied payment, block the law. Second, there are “regulatory takings,” which involve more minor restrictions on property, like zoning ordinances. It’s much harder to fight a regulatory taking in court, and even if you win, the government may have more flexibility in providing compensation.

The consequences of Roberts’ maximalist decision will be swift and severe.

For many years, Justice Antonin Scalia agitated to expand the definition of per se takings in a crusade to curb the government’s regulatory authority. He never quite succeeded—but in Cedar Point, Chief Justice John Roberts finished the job for him. Roberts’ opinion for the court deemed California’s union access law a per se taking that requires just compensation for agribusiness owners. How could that be? After all, union organizers are not on the property every day, but rather for three hours a day, 120 days a year; they do not constitute a “permanent physical occupation.” Nor do these organizers halt “all economically beneficial or productive use” of the land; most employees keep working, harvesting the produce that makes their bosses wealthy.

To get around this problem, Roberts changed the law (under the guise of applying precedent): He declared that a law that temporarily limits a property owner’s “right to exclude” qualifies as a per se taking of private property, compelling the government to pay the property owner. Any time a regulation allows third parties to “physically invade” property—even for a brief time—it “takes” that property under the Fifth Amendment, the chief justice concluded. As a result, the state must either compensate property owners or else cease its activities.

As Justice Stephen Breyer noted in dissent, this holding does not fit with Supreme Court precedent. Yes, the court has held that a temporary “physical appropriation” of property is a per se taking. But, Breyer wrote, California’s law “does not appropriate anything. It does not take from the owners a right to invade (whatever that might mean). It does not give the union organizations the right to exclude anyone. It does not give the government the right to exclude anyone.” Instead, the law merely “limits the landowners’ right to exclude certain others.” Until Wednesday, such regulations had not been deemed a per se taking. Now they will be.

The consequences of Roberts’ maximalist decision will be swift and severe. Most obviously, it will hobble unions’ ability to help California’s agricultural workers, who toil in dangerous conditions, facing the persistent threat of illness and death, for rock-bottom wages. Agribusinesses are notorious for exploiting these laborers, many of whom are immigrants who speak limited English. California’s union access rule arose out of necessity: Many farmworkers are migrants who continually move around the state in pursuit of seasonal work and lack permanent housing. They are, in short, inaccessible outside the workplace. If unions cannot speak to them at their job, they may not be able to speak to them at all.

ATTACHMENT EIGHT – FROM the Wall Street Journal

Supreme Court Rules Against Union Organizers’ Access to California Farms

By Jess Bravin Updated June 23, 2021 7:09 pm ET

WASHINGTON—The Supreme Court struck down a regulation giving union organizers the right to visit farmworkers on agricultural fields, ruling Wednesday that the 1975 California measure providing such access violated growers’ private property rights.

Cedar Point Nursery v. Hassid

The decision, by a 6-3 vote along the court’s conservative-liberal divide, erases a major victory that César Chavez’s farmworker movement achieved in the 1970s, when it argued that the seasonal and isolated nature of agricultural labor made access to the fields essential if workers were to exercise their organizing rights.

The ruling reinforces the high court’s commitment to private property rights, which conservative justices have viewed as under threat from overreaching regulations intended to protect environmental, recreational and, in this case, labor interests over the objection of property owners.

“The regulation appropriates for the enjoyment of third parties the owners’ right to exclude,” Chief Justice John Roberts wrote, joined by Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett.

“Government-authorized invasions of property—whether by plane, boat, cable, or beachcomber—are physical takings requiring just compensation,” he wrote.

“The regulation does not appropriate anything,” Justice Stephen Breyer wrote in dissent. “It gives union organizers the right temporarily to invade a portion of the property owners’ land. It thereby limits the landowners’ right to exclude certain others. The regulation regulates (but does not appropriate) the owners’ right to exclude,” he wrote, joined by Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan.

California adopted the access regulation in 1975 to implement the state Agricultural Labor Relations Act, which granted collective-bargaining rights to farmworkers excluded from union-organizing protection that other employees enjoy under the National Labor Relations Act. The California Legislature declared its objective as ensuring “peace in the agricultural fields by guaranteeing justice for all agricultural workers and stability in labor relations.”

The regulation allows, in general, one organizer for every 15 workers to enter growers’ property to meet with laborers for one hour before work, one hour after and during the lunch hour, for up to four 30-day periods annually. Organizers must serve notice on the employer and inform the California Agricultural Labor Relations Board before taking access.

Chief Justice Roberts wrote that the regulation amounted to a taking of the growers’ property without just compensation, as the Fifth Amendment requires. “The Founders recognized that the protection of private property is indispensable to the promotion of individual freedom,” he wrote.

The chief justice distinguished the access regulation from other government actions that can burden private property rights, such as police investigations or health and safety inspections of licensed businesses.

“Unlike a law enforcement search, no traditional background principle of property law requires the growers to admit union organizers. And unlike standard health and safety inspections, the access regulation is not germane to any benefit provided to agricultural employers or any risk posed to the public,” he wrote.

“Today’s ruling is a huge victory for property rights,” said Joshua Thompson, an attorney with the Pacific Legal Foundation who represented the growers, Cedar Point Nursery and Fowler Packing Co. The opinion “affirms that one of the most fundamental aspects of property is the right to decide who can and can’t access your property.”

Elizabeth Strater, director of strategic campaigns for the United Farm Workers union that Mr. Chavez once led, said: “This Supreme Court ruling makes a racist and broken farm labor system even more unequal.”

Victoria Hassid, chairwoman of the California Agricultural Labor Relations Board, said: “Despite today’s ruling, California will continue to champion [organizing] rights for some of our most essential workers.”

“We are committed to developing a process that meets the requirements of the high court’s ruling and continues to protect farmworker rights in light of agriculture’s unique circumstances,” she added.

Property-law scholar Eduardo Peñalver, the incoming president of Seattle University, said the court’s opinion revived a conservative approach to takings cases that began to develop in the 1980s.

“This is a much broader reading as it relates to the right to exclude than the prior cases allowed,” Mr. Peñalver said. Normally in takings cases, property’s value, for compensation purposes, is the market price. Here, he said, “there’s no market for the kinds of intrusions” permitted by the access regulations; “this is just the property owner not wanting this kind of person on their property.” He said that suggested the ruling’s impact would be more to frustrate government policies than to obtain compensation for owners.

Farmworker organizing has stalled since the 1970s and, as a practical matter, the access regulation has proved of limited benefit to the labor movement. California has some 16,000 agricultural employers, but the state says only a few dozen access notices are filed with the labor board each year.

The dissenting justices argued that the ruling “threatens to make many ordinary forms of regulation unusually complex or impractical” by raising the possibility that they could be classified as takings.

Justice Breyer said the access regulation had few hallmarks of a property ownership, since it didn’t append to specific properties and couldn’t be sold or transferred.

Most important, he contended, the regulation conveyed a temporary burden on growers rather than permanently depriving their property of value. In contrast to a 1987 precedent where the court found a taking when regulators required an owner to provide an easement for public access to the beach, the agricultural rule impinged only occasionally on growers.

Here ”we have a right that does not allow access at any time. It allows access only from ‘time to time.’ And that makes all the difference,” he wrote.

Under the NLRA, in some circumstances when they otherwise are cut off from workers, organizers can obtain orders allowing them limited entry to employer property. The California Agricultural Labor Relations Board’s regulation grants similar access to farm property for union organizers, but rather than operating case-by-case the state regulation provides organizers with blanket authorization for limited periods to meet with workers on employer property during nonwork hours.

The agricultural labor board reasoned that such access would generally be required in order to educate farmworkers about their rights, since field hands, who frequently relocate to follow the seasons of various crops, often are poor, lack basic education and can’t be reached through methods typical in other industries, such as standing outside factory gates or in front of office buildings.

While Mr. Chavez and the UFW viewed the 1975 access regulation as essential for organizing, growers immediately challenged it as violating their property rights. The California Supreme Court upheld the regulation, however, and in 1976 the U.S. Supreme Court declined to take an appeal.

—Jesse Newman contributed to this article.

ATTACHMENT NINE – FROM Fox News

REP. ANDY BIGGS: KAMALA HARRIS 'VISITS' BORDER – HERE'S THE REAL REASON SHE WENT

How many have died since Biden and Harris decided not to enforce our laws and secure our border?

 By Rep. Andy Biggs | Fox News

The long overdue "visit" to the border by Vice President Kamala Harris was strictly for show. She checked a box. She only went, frankly, because President Donald Trump announced that he was going to the border with Texas Gov. Greg Abbott. 

The border trip was merely a photo opportunity for VP Harris. 

Many Americans, including leftie politicians, urged Harris to head to the border to show that she is serious about the issue. Democrats know that the border crisis will harm them at the next election. 

My fellow Republicans and I have accurately pointed out that the border is open. We are watching drug and human smuggling dramatically increase due to the open-border policy of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.

By not going to the Rio Grande Valley, where there are more than 3,000 people a day surrendering to Border Patrol agents, Harris demonstrates clearly that her photo op in El Paso was simply to check the box. She believes her hour and a half long visit will quiet the criticism of her failure to journey to the border.

And, even at that, if former President Trump had not announced his own border trip, Harris would never have gone to the border. She was named border czar more than three months ago but couldn’t be bothered to show up at the scene of her administration’s policy crime.

It was amazing to see how quickly after the Trump announcement that Harris declared she would also head to the border.

But she is decidedly incurious about a very serious problem.

Since Joe Biden dismantled the policies that had brought the border under operational control, approximately one million people have entered or attempted to cross our southern border.

Drugs have poured across the border. Even with record seizures, I am told that we are stopping less than 10% to 15% of the drugs. 

And that means there is more availability of highly addictive and toxic drugs. That means, and the data seems to show, that deaths by opioid overdoses are increasing to record levels.

How many people have died due to this scourge since Biden and Harris decided not to enforce our laws and secure our border?

By avoiding unpleasant things, our VP hopes not to face the very real consequences for her administration’s border policy failure.

The VP did not even go to the children’s facility at Fort Bliss, just minutes from where she landed on her private plane, Air Force 2.

This is because the photo op would turn sour if the press and public could see the "kids in cages" resulting from her policies. 

By avoiding unpleasant things, our VP hopes not to face the very real consequences for her administration’s border policy failure.

She would have learned more by heading to the Rio Grande Valley to see the flood of people who dangerously cross the river every day and follow signs erected by our government to the "Welcome Centers" for a brief detention before being released into the interior of the country.

She would have been educated by visiting the Yuma area and watching the steady flow of people who have flown to Cancun or Mexico City from Russia, Romania, Brazil or other countries. They then fly to Mexicali and take a taxi or Uber to the Yuma area to surrender to CBP agents. They also will soon be released into the U.S.

Agents in the Tucson sector could show her the 60-plus miles with no fencing that allows drugs to stream into the U.S.

And, anywhere along the border she could talk to residents, business owners, political leaders, law enforcement and ranchers. Each could tell VP Harris how her open-border policy is negatively impacting their lives, families, businesses and communities.

But, our vice president was merely trying to check a box and get her picture taken

ATTACHMENT TEN – FROM the Peanut Gallery

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· Coolbreeze326

1 hour ago

She did NOT go to the border. She went to El Paso. It may be ON the border, but that's the equivalent of looking at the gate and saying you inspected the fence.

Bulldog54321

1 hour ago

It really didn’t matter if she went to the border or not. Biden dumped immigration in her lap to keep her out of the way. She had nothing to offer as a Senator and nothing has changed now that she’s VP.

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Bulldog54321

34 minutes ago

Not just that, but so that he can claim it wasn't his fault down the line when stuff finally hits the fan.

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GlobalNet962

2 hours ago

"By not going to the Rio Grande Valley, where there are more than 3,000 people a day surrendering to Border Patrol agents, Harris demonstrates clearly that her photo op in El Paso was simply to check the box. She believes her hour and a half long visit will quiet the criticism of her failure to journey to the border." That is so plainly obvious!

· roguewave

2 hours ago

People standing on rough concrete in spike heels are not to be taken as serious individuals. That tells you it is all for show.

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· FrankStuff

1 hour ago

Harris declaring El Paso, TX is the new Ellis Island is insanely wrong;

1. Drug cartels are facilitating border crossings, not ships and governments

2. Ellis Island was THE primary gateway, whereas the entire border from Texas to California is now open, despite Harris claims that the border is closed

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FrankStuff

1 hour ago

Did she say that out loud? That El Paso is the new Ellis Island? What a worthless ho

captainbuc

1 hour ago

She went because Trump was going. Her visit had nothing to do with solving the problem. She wants to say she went before Trump, when the campaigning starts. It was all a political photo OP. Then she flew back home again. Kamala is a joke.

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captainbuc

1 hour ago

She flew back home to LA for the 4th time since taking office. I’m thinking she’s got a bit of a side hustle the 1st gentleman don’t know about!

MrBobbyHill

1 hour ago

This is what you get when the mainstream media props up the liberal government. They can do - or not do whatever they want and there is very little consequence. The liberal government in Canada is now legislating their complete control of media and the internet. Look out America the dems will try to do the same.

Old_Dr

1 hour ago

She just did a touch-and-go as far away from the problem as possible for a couple of soundbites to the MSM. Then off to her sanctuary state of California. She avoided the actual issue and accomplished nothing. Just like Joe.

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Old_Dr

7 minutes ago

She did a touch and go on willie too

EWTBS

31 minutes ago

I don't get the uproar. Doesn't everyone already know her and her leftist comrades are NOT interested in actually fixing anything? The need turmoil and chaos in order to lie about "fixing it". I thought this was common knowledge.

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EWTBS

9 minutes ago

The whole presidency is a big farce. Just wait till she becomes madam president.

anotherresponse

41 minutes ago

"She doesn't care". That's right. Because in Brentwood no one is facing those same issues. If it doesn't directly affect liberals they don't care.

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· jwd2344858

26 minutes ago

Kamala Harris has never done anything of note in her political career. And this surely followed her usual useless actions. An early reject from the Democrat Primary whose name was tacked onto the ballot under Biden......she did not get a single known vote of her own and yet she will likely be POTUS as planned by the handlers. Amazing what the Democrats pulled off and few have realized it.

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jwd2344858

9 minutes ago

Willie Brown gave her accolades for her performance.

nonfictn598

57 minutes ago

Tomorrow we will get the real numbers from the state of Arizona on their 2020 election. I am certain they will show massive numbers of fraudulent ballots cast for Joe Biden and everyone will see that Trump won the state. Oh, you can bet that democrats and liberals will call the forensic audit a sham and continue to say the 2020 election was the most secure election ever in our history. Then Georgia will finish their forensic audit of Fulton county and it too will prove massive fraud and then Pennsylvania will do the same. How many states will have to do the same thing before democrats and liberals will face the truth that they were deceived by their politicians and the news they chose to believe ? How many states will have to show them proof before they contend, Wow, I sure feel like a deceived fool ? 2016 Russia collusion. Pfffft !

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nonfictn598

53 minutes ago

The amount of fraud is almost hard to believe- millions and millions of illegal votes- Trump would have win easily if the election wasn’t rigged

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· applejunky

24 minutes ago

Harris touted "extreme progress" but didn't say exactly what that progress was because she can't. Just empty platutudes

True-Patriot721

55 minutes ago

She’s a joke and a disgrace- and probably not an American citizen- the whole administration is illegitimate and rigged the election- they want complete open borders and are destroying America- without borders we don’t have a country!!!

beastmaster2001_99

42 minutes ago

Need to retake the house and senate and pass some imagration laws like one to inforce the laws we already have.

Newton56

36 minutes ago

Could't run a coffee hut and yet second in line to the throne.....go figure..

FROM – The Hill

Pssdov • 7 days ago

Who gives a flying fuk what the irrelevant old d bag says?

StillRelaxin Pssdov • 7 days ago • edited

Yep it’s time to rebuild, not listen to the whiny unstable has been loser who put us in this mess. Everything and everyone touched by Trump comes to a dark ending. How much worse could he have been or be before conservative types would pause and think, oh man that’s a bridge too far even for me? I think for this crowd that bridge has no ending unless we and our planet become no more. For many of them the end of days is the eternal glory they’ve been promised by their sky pilots. They’ve been choosing fantasy over life all their lives. To them the fact that Trump’s actions and inactions led to the deaths of 600k+ Americans actually seems promising.

Obama bin Biden StillRelaxin • 7 days ago

Build Back Better??
, COMRADE?????

TrumpVirus  Obama bin Biden • 7 days ago

First you're mad at her for NOT going to the border.

Now you're mad because she DID go to the border.

Pick a lane!!!

Burnell Browne TrumpVirus • 7 days ago

that would cause a brain strain for trumps** pack.

Mista Bob Dobolina TrumpVirus • 7 days ago

Ummmmm...get a map. Find El Paso. Then find where all the border problems are.

Quasimojo Mista Bob Dobolina • 7 days ago

They’re where Trump’s border wall was left unfinished during his 4 yr term.

Brenda Bailey Quasimojo • 6 days ago

If he had concentrated on that wall as much as he tried to be a meteorologist, or putting his nose in sports by slamming the NFL players, or trying to start a civil war with BLM protesters Crack their skulls!" trump wanted them to"beat the f**k" out of the civil rights demonstrators although when military officials and then-Attorney General William Barr pushed back, he said, "Well, shoot them in the leg — or maybe the foot." His nose was in everything except that wall, so if the wall is unfinished blame that lunatic in charge. He has the attention span of a gnat

Jack Marcum Mista Bob Dobolina • 6 days ago

Border problems are biden is president retard

FROM – Slate

Lance Rock20 hours ago

Biden should invest in supplying all forms of birth control to Latin America. 

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Shanice20 hours ago

Immigration is a problem because the world is overpopulated, our own country is already oversaturated with poor people and mechanization is rendering irrelevant more and more jobs by the day. 

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Packard Day2 days ago

Only America's wealthy (i.e. top 10% of US households) benefit from unfettered immigration. A ready pool of low skilled, low educated, and compliant workers is necessary for the hauling of water and hewing of wood for the power elites.

The bottom 90% households, unfortunately, will only see increased pressure on their personal wages as their government provided education, healthcare, and welfare services are all stretched more and more to accommodate the new arrivals.

Never mind any of that now. Most SLATE readers belong to the former group and besides, how about that S&P Index these days...ehhh? Just pray the peasants in the bottom 90% never wake up to discover what we are doing to them.

1789 here we come.

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nerdnam (Republicans Are Now the SOAP)2 days ago

Garland announced a Federal execution moratorium. So I guess the Boston bomber is safe for now, if Slate cares so much.

Similarly maybe immigration policy isn't all baked yet.

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Mark Blakeney3 days ago

There are two different policies by law.  There's the refugees who have the right to apply for asylum and there's those who cross illegally either to smuggle contraband or to seek employment in the US.

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KC644 days ago

More than 150 million adults would like to immigrate to the United States (https://www.statista.com/chart/10146/150-million-people-would-move-to-the-us-if-they-could/) If you include children then probably you're up over 200 million. Even if the United States took in 10 million immigrants per year, which is approximately the 10 times the number we take now, it would take 20 years to bring all those people into the US. That's the fundamental reality that Biden, or any US President, is dealing with

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☻ VFD!4 days ago

Sounds good

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Shanice20 hours ago

@☻ VFD! If you love traffic, smog and depleted reservoirs. 

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lmao, real immigrants aren't scary enough, now we have to come up with imaginary immigrants to terrify ourselves

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I've been making that point around here for years. Either Democrats come to the realization that they need to kindly say NO to 99% of the people who want to come here, or the public will hire Republicans to say no to 99.5% in their nasty way.

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Bodkin VanHorn2 days ago

Democrats could outflank the Republicans on immigration if they would just say publicly “foreign citizens have no inherent right to come to the US and not everyone who wants to come should be allowed in”. Every Democratic administration has acted that way but they can’t say it because progressives think it sounds mean

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☻ VFD!4 days ago

I'm concerned that if the Dems run on their 2018 open borders policy again we'll get the same results.

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Penny of the Century4 days ago

@☻ VFD!

Not me.

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☻ VFD!4 days ago

@Penny of the Century @☻ VFD! Biden is going to lose because of BLM.

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aturner3394 days ago

And smugness

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@aturner339 And the campus free speech crisis.

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I’m pretty sure BLM elected Adams in NYC.

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Democrats have convinced themselves they have more agency on immigration politics than is actually the case and should embrace changing the subject entirely. Let the GOP harp on Critical Race Theory and hit them back on freedom of speech.

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FROM – Breitbart

Roy_Bean • 8 days ago

If President Trump hadn't announced that he was coming she would have waited until 2024.

Boots Roy_Bean • 8 days ago

I doubt she would even visit 2024 if not supremely trolled by Trump.

AaCkk  Boots • 8 days ago • edited

I have a solution to the border crisis but I need an A-10 Warthog to deliver it...

Dump the Uniparty AaCkk • 8 days ago

It’s pretty awesome that Trump is still getting things done. 😆

Will Hunt  Dump the Uniparty • 8 days ago

HeelzUpHarris garnered less than 2% of the vote in the primaries from her own party and had to drop out. Now, she is a heartbeat away from being POTUS due to massive cheating by the democrats. She is so far out of her depth. She is in her depth only when thrashing the mattress.

DangThemTorpedoes  Will Hunt • 8 days ago

This entire Biden Admin is woefully underperforming. Following Trump has been a nightmare for these unelected goons.

Will Hunt DangThemTorpedoes • 8 days ago

Ironically, they beli

ATTACHMENT ELEVEN – FROM Donald J. Trump

Rev Transcripts

Jun 27, 2021

DONALD TRUMP WELLINGTON, OHIO RALLY SPEECH TRANSCRIPT: FIRST RALLY SINCE LEAVING OFFICE

Audience: (00:00)
USA, USA, USA, USA, USA, USA-

Donald Trump: (00:00)
Wow. Thank you.

Audience: (02:10)
… USA, USA, USA, USA, USA, USA, USA, [crosstalk 00:02:10]-

Donald Trump: (02:10)
Well, I want to thank Ohio for the incredible turnout, there’s thousands of people trying to get in, and all of the unbelievable, hardworking patriots who are here tonight at the very first rally of the 2022 election. We’re going to take back the House. We’re going to take back the Senate. With your help, we are going to defeat the radical Democrats. And we have no choice. You know that, right? We have no choice. And we’re going to elect an amazing slate of proud American first Republicans next year,

Donald Trump: (02:55)
America first. You never used to hear that expression, did you? You hear it plenty now. After just five months, the Biden administration is already a complete and total catastrophe. I told you, crime is surging. Murders are soaring. Police departments are being gutted. Illegal aliens are overrunning their borders. Nobody’s ever seen anything like it. Our poor borders, they were so perfect, they were so good.

Donald Trump: (03:32)
Drug cartels and human traffickers are back in business. Like they’ve never been before. They’re doing numbers that they’ve never even thought possible. And just a few short months ago, drugs were way down. Human trafficking was way down. It was all way down. They had to do is go away for a little while. It was beautiful.

Donald Trump: (03:55)
But the schools, when you take a look at schools, and you look at all of the things that happen, left-wing indoctrination camps, critical race theory is being forced on our military, gas prices are spiking, inflation is skyrocketing and China, Russia and Iran are humiliating our country.

Donald Trump: (04:22)
Joe Biden is destroying our nation right before our very own eyes. The number one priority for everyone who wants to save America is to pour every single ounce of energy you have into winning a gigantic victory in the midterms. And in 2024, together, we will send Joe Biden and the fake news media …

Donald Trump: (04:57)
There’s a lot of people back there. Look at that. Look at that. Look at that. Do you miss me? They miss me. They miss me. I know. They look at their bad ratings, and they’re saying, “We miss this guy.” I said it was going to happen. I was waiting for them to endorse me actually. I know that was a big step, but they’re going down the tubes. Their numbers are very bad.

Donald Trump: (05:32)
But together, we will send Biden and the media and all of the people that are so bad to our country, big tech tyrants, a message they cannot ever censor, cancel or ignore. We will take back the House, we will take back the Senate, and we will take back America, and we will do it soon. There is no more dire threat today than the crisis on our Southern border, other than perhaps our elections. That’s a dire threat. That’s probably the biggest threat of all. Isn’t it? What happened in the election, it’s a disgrace. But we’ll be talking about that, unless you’d rather not have me talk about it. Would you rather talk about it? I had a feeling.

Donald Trump: (06:28)
Immediately upon taking office Joe Biden deliberately and systematically through his people, because I don’t think he did it, dismantled America’s border defenses and incited a flood of illegal migrants like this country has never seen. They violated our laws from every single corner of the globe. They were invited in, and we can’t do that. We can’t afford it. We can’t have it. We can’t have people coming out of prisons. We have no idea who they are.

Donald Trump: (07:05)
Illegal border crossings are now up 976% since just a short few months ago. When I left office, we gave the new administration the most secure Southern border our country had ever seen by far. We ended the ridiculous catch and release. You know what that is. You catch them, and you release them into our country. A brilliant policy, and they’re back at that now. We ended asylum fraud. We built almost 500 miles of very beautiful, very successful wall that was working, and it would’ve …

Donald Trump: (07:52)
Oh, thank you. That’s a friend of mine. He’s a conductor. What a beautiful sound. By the way, I have to say, I have to say, just driving over here, it was a 30 minute drive from the airport. The farms, the houses, the lawns are all beautiful. It looks like you cut your lawns every day. You have no crime. You have no murders. You have no muggings.

Donald Trump: (08:23)
I said to a couple of the law enforcement people, who are phenomenal, by the way, I said, ” What are the crime stats here? Let me guess. There’s not a lot of it.” He said, “Sir, there isn’t.” But every lawn was so beautiful. Every farm was perfect. The barns were painted. The place is gorgeous. And thank you for letting us win on November 3rd, the great state of Ohio, in a record number, a record number. We won a lot of places that people haven’t figured out yet, but actually most of them have.

Donald Trump: (09:02)
We empowered ICE to do their jobs. We worked to cancel down on sanctuary cities. We did a number on sanctuary cities. We want to cancel sanctuary cities. Sanctuary cities take care of many, many criminals. They’re very dangerous places. Even in California, they really want sanctuary cities out. But for some reason, the politicians don’t. Didn’t they send out 38 million ballots in California? I wonder what the real vote in California would be.

Donald Trump: (09:41)
And we crushed the very vicious thugs known as MS-13. Under my administration, when an illegal alien trespassed across our borders, we caught them. We detained them, and we rapidly threw them the hell out of our country. And we did it by the thousands.

Donald Trump: (10:07)
And once we got the word out, people didn’t come. It wasn’t really that big a deal, people just didn’t come. Once he came in and he said, We want everybody to come in,” oh, that was a disaster.

Donald Trump: (10:18)
By the way, not the numbers they report. Remember they’re fake news. You have millions of people coming into this country. You have millions of people coming into our country. We have no idea who they are. Joe Biden is doing the exact opposite as we did. His policies to make illegal immigration as easy as possible, instituting catch and release, ripping apart our asylum agreements, ordering a stop in … Could you see this? A stop order. Any contractors here? Do you ever get a stop order?

Donald Trump: (10:51)
We had the biggest stop order the world has ever seen. We stopped finishing the wall. We stopped working on the wall. Now they want to finish the wall. And the contractors are saying, “How much are you going to pay us?” They have to start all over again. I want to just congratulate those contractors. They’re going to make a fortune.

Donald Trump: (11:12)
They crippled ICE and the border patrol. I’ll tell you what, border patrol, these are incredible people, ICE. They’re incredible people. I wouldn’t want the job. I wouldn’t want it. You have some very tough people in this audience. I can’t see anybody that would do that job very well, let me just say. It’s a rough job. They run into a pack. They call it a pack. They run into a pack of MS-13, and they start swinging, and they start swinging heart. And in the end, they win. They’re tough. They’re smart. And you know what? They love our country. And somebody has to do that work.

Donald Trump: (11:49)
For the last three months, more than anything that you’ve ever seen, the illegal alien minors have arrived at our border. These are just wonderful kids. And they are coming in at levels that we’ve never seen. And then they’re sent around all over this country. All over the country, they’re sent. And right now, I just heard for the first time, who would even think it, but I heard for the first time they’re on suicide watch. So many of these young kids, they’re in suicide watch, all because of this stupid policy that you’ve been watching over the last few months. Kids are on suicide watch. Think of that.

Donald Trump: (12:32)
Biden has violated his constitutional oath, endangered our safety. And look, he surrendered our, really, if you think of it, no matter how you cover it, sovereignty. What he’s done to our nation is unthinkable in a short period of time. And I said that was going to happen. I said it was going to happen. We need a Republican Congress to shut down the lawless Biden agenda. And it is a lawless agenda. We have to defund his reckless immigration policies and restore our nation’s Southern border to where it was.

Audience: (13:29)
Four more years, four more years, four more years, four more years, four more years, four more years, four more years, four more years, four more years, four more years, [crosstalk 00:13:45]-

Donald Trump: (13:44)
Thank you very much. Did you ever hear the expression that the vote-counter is sometimes much more important than the candidate? Did you ever hear that expression? Think about that, because what happened on November 3rd was a disgrace. On the evening of November 3rd, the election was over, and then all of a sudden things started closing down all over in certain states. Not in other states. Didn’t happen in Ohio, but it happened in certain swing states. And we took a massive victory they did into something that should never be allowed.

Donald Trump: (14:28)
Kamala Harris, your vice-president, only went to the border yesterday for the one simple reason, because I announced that I was going next [inaudible 00:14:43], and I am. At the request of [inaudible 00:14:50] border patrol, I’m going to the next week. Oh, if I didn’t do that, I don’t know if she was ever going to go. I really don’t know if it … Was she ever going to go? I don’t know.

Donald Trump: (14:58)
The radical left Democrats [inaudible 00:15:02] call it whatever you want is also contributing to massive crime. Other countries are emptying their prisons into the United States. You know that, right? They’re emptying, they’re opening their prisons. Why should they have these killers, these drug dealers, these traffickers? And they traffic in women, by the way, mostly. They traffic in women. Why should they have them? Why should they feed them? Why should they have to watch them? And they’re very dangerous. Let’s send them to the United States. We’ll put them in the caravans, and they’ll get in, because nobody even checks who’s coming into our country. It’s insanity. And it’s destroying our country, destroying our country.

Donald Trump: (15:46)
They are, they’re murders and drug dealers, and nobody’s ever seen anything like it, what’s happening. Just this month, a previously deported illegal alien in Massachusetts, with prior charges for murder and many other things, gunned down a man in broad daylight, shooting him viciously and violently, as he lay in the street, four times.

Donald Trump: (16:12)
Recently in Louisiana, great place, an illegal alien, who entered the country as an unaccompanied minor under Obama, was charged with hacking a woman and their 15-year-old sister into very small pieces with a machete and stabbing two other people to death. And right here in Ohio, a twice deported fugitive MS-13 gang member, the worst anywhere in the world, and we’ve taken out thousands and thousands and now they want to let them come back, he was charged with murder. He was discovered in Galloway after entering our country for a third time and bad things happened.

Donald Trump: (17:04)
And when I came up tonight, I had so many people, they said, “Could you do us a favor?” “What?” “Could you talk the snake?” You remember the snake? I used to use it on occasion. Not often. Does anybody want to hear the snake? You want to hear it? The snake, the snake. The snake. And this has to do with our border, wasn’t meant to be for the border. It was meant to be for other reasons, but this has to be really what’s happening to our border.

Donald Trump: (17:43)
And so many people said, “Please, please, you’re going to Ohio.” I don’t know the fact that I’m going to Ohio, why they want to talk about the snake, but it’s because of immigration. And it’s because of the borders and because Ohio sees it far better than most. Don’t you, huh? You understand what’s happening. The snake.

Donald Trump: (18:06)
On her way to work one morning down the path along the lake, a tender-hearted woman saw a poor half-frozen snake. His pretty colored. Skin had been all frosted with the dew. “Poor thing,” she cried. “I’ll take you in, and I’ll take care of you,” to the snake. “Take me in, oh, tender woman. Take me in for heaven’s sake. Take me in oh, tender woman,” sighed the vicious snake.

Donald Trump: (18:37)
She wrapped him up all cozy in a comforter of silk and laid him by her fireside with some honey and some milk. She hurried home from work that night. And as soon as she arrived, she found that pretty snake she’d taken in had been fully, fully revived.

Donald Trump: (19:00)
” Take me in, oh, tender woman. Take me in for heaven’s sake. Take me in, oh, tender woman,” sighed that vicious snake. She clutched him to her bosom. “You’re so beautiful,” she cried, “But if I hadn’t brought you in by now, you truly would have died.” She stroked his pretty skin again and kissed him and held him tight. But instead of saying, “Thank you,” the snake gave her a vicious bite.

Donald Trump: (19:35)
“Take me in, oh, tender woman. Take me in for heaven’s sake. Take me in, oh, tender woman,” sighed vicious snake. “I saved you cried the woman, and you’ve been in me, but why? You know your bite is poisonous, and now I’m going to die.” “Shut up, silly woman,” said the reptile with a grin, “You knew well I was a snake before you took me in.”

Donald Trump: (20:17)
That’s the way it is. That’s the way it is. That’s the way it is. We’re taking in killers. We’re taking in all of these horrible people. Good people are coming in, but horrible, horrible people. Again, remember that term, they’re emptying their prisons. And if you were heading those countries, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, and many others, including middle Eastern countries, by the way, that’s how they come in. Remember the snake.

Donald Trump: (20:49)
In the Republican party, we do not believe that violent criminals should be welcomed into our country with open arms. We believe that they should be promptly deported or put behind bars. And that’s what I did during my administration at a level that nobody’s ever seen it.

Donald Trump: (21:09)
The radical left Democrats are doing everything possible to put your family in grave danger. I don’t know if they’re doing it out of naivete or are they doing it because they think it’s really good to have all these people coming into our country. But they are putting your family into a very, very bad position, releasing criminal aliens, defunding the police abolishing cash bail.

Donald Trump: (21:38)
Look at New York, what’s happened to our poor New York. Crime is through the roof. Never been anything like it. Murders through the roof. The police are doing so much, but they’re not given authority to do anything more. They want to solve the problem. New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, they have great police forces. They’re not allowed to do their job. And now they’re all leaving. That’s going to be a real problem when they realize we need them to help us, and they’re not going to be there any longer.

Donald Trump: (22:14)
They all try and take away your guns. And that’s what they’re doing. And if you remember, when I was campaigning against Joe Biden, I said, they’re going to take away your guns. Your Second Amendment is under siege.

Donald Trump: (22:25)
In Chicago, which is the single most dangerous city, large scale, has the strongest gun laws in the country, they even say the strongest gun laws in the world. And yet people are being shot by the thousands every year, worse than Afghanistan. How about that? Worse than Afghanistan, where, by the way, I started the process. All the troops are coming back home. They couldn’t stop the process.

Donald Trump: (22:53)
21 years is enough. Don’t we think? 21 years. They couldn’t stop the process. They wanted to, but it was very tough to stop the process when other things [inaudible 00:23:04]. Yeah. Thank you. Thank you. It’s a shame. 21 years, by a government that wouldn’t last. The only way they last is if we’re there. What are we going to say? We’ll stay for another 21 years, then we’ll stay for another 50. The whole thing is ridiculous. So we’re bringing our troops back home from Iraq. We’re bringing troops come from Afghanistan. We brought them back home from Syria.

Donald Trump: (23:29)
Remember the thousands of troops we had on the border with Syria? Remember that? We had thousands of trips between Turkey and Syria. I said, “Wait a minute. This border has been here for a thousand years plus. We never did anything. Now, why are we doing it?” “Sir? Can’t do it. It’ll be war. It’ll be war.”

Donald Trump: (23:48)
I said, “Our troops are in grave danger.” You have two armies, and you have our troops in the middle. So I started bringing them home. And then we got down to 54 troops. And I said to one of the generals who was a good general, he wasn’t a woke general. Do you notice the woke generals we have? This was a real general. I said, “We have 54 men from 5,000. We have 54 men on the border. Are they in danger?” Said, “Sir, you have 54 men between two armies. They don’t have a chance. They’re going to be target practice.”

Donald Trump: (24:20)
I said, “Get them the hell out.” And everybody said, “What a terrible thing he did.” And you know what? That was three years ago. And nothing happened. They protect their own border. Pretty amazing, right? Pretty amazing. But you’ll never hear that from the fake news, or many other things that turned out to be right.

Donald Trump: (24:36)
If you care about the security of your family, if you care about the safety of your community, if you care about law and order, law and order in the great state of Ohio. Now you do. I met a lot of your law enforcement people outside. They’re incredible people. They’re patriots. They’re patriots. One of them came out …

Donald Trump: (25:03)
They’re Patriots. One of them came out, and I shouldn’t say this, but look, I met so many, but one of them came out. There’s tears in his eyes. This guy hasn’t cried in a very long time. But just in meeting because I represent what they want. They want law and they want order. And that’s what you want. That’s what this country wants. So you have to deliver massive majorities for Republicans in Congress. Next year, you have to do it right here in Ohio’s 16th congressional district, you have the opportunity to elect an incredible patriot to Congress who I know very well. He grew up in this area. Believe it or not, he’s not a carpetbagger, like so many. A lot of them say, “Sir, I’m running for Congress.”

Donald Trump: (25:51)
“Oh, good. How long have you lived there?”

Donald Trump: (25:52)
“Well, actually I moved there last week. I saw an opening.” Max Miller. You know Max? Great guy. He loves our country. He loves the people of Ohio. And Max was a trusted aide of mine in the White House. We had great people working for me. We had some real losers too, by the way. But that can happen when I didn’t know too many people. In Washington, I was there 17 times in my life, and all of a sudden the President of the United States. So we met a couple, but do I know the people? Do I know the good ones? I know the good ones. But we had some really great people. And Max was one of them. He did a fantastic job. He helped me with North Korea negotiation. And we did so much for Israel and Iraq and the G7, G20.

Donald Trump: (26:40)
We brought peace to the Middle East, if this guy would finish it. But now he’s going back to the Iran deal, which is going to destroy Israel, or there’s going to be a big war more likely. In Congress, Max will be tough on illegal immigration. He will be strong on crime, as strong as you can get. He will stand up to China, and he will protect Ohio jobs just like I did. Remember in Lima? Do you remember they were to close your tank plant, and I was president elect. I didn’t know anything about the tank plant, but I heard through a great gentleman. Did anybody ever hear of a man named Jim Jordan? Tremendous athlete, tremendous wrestler, all these wrestlers. They wanted to wrestle Jim, and they got their kicked every time. He hasn’t changed. Jim’s here by the way, so I’ll introduce him in a couple of minutes. But they wanted to close the tank plant.

Donald Trump: (27:45)
And I went to see it. Lima. I went to see it, and I couldn’t believe. Big, massive bled. The people that worked there were so talented. They have the turrets. I mean, the only thing you know about tanks is Dukakis, where he walked with the helmet. He wouldn’t have looked good in this tank either, but I see these tanks and I said to the guys, “Who’s going to make these? This is the only place in the country that made tanks. So I guess that means we’re going to have to buy them from China.” I said, “So who’s going to do this if you close this great facility?” The talent was incredible. The ball bearings that they made, every single one with love and with care, and that turret where you could flip it with your finger practically. It was just incredible technology. I said, “Who’s going to make our tanks?” And I ended that order. It was a stupid order. I ended it. And we now have that plant working overtime, making tanks and tanks and tanks. If we didn’t, you wouldn’t have a tank and believe it or not tanks are very important.

Donald Trump: (28:52)
Max’s opponent is a guy named Anthony Gonzales, who’s bad news. He’s a grandstanding RINO. Not respected in DC who voted for the unhinged, unconstitutional, illegal impeachment, witch hunt. The witch hunt. This guy used to call me and my people in the office, which said, “You know somebody named Gonzales?” I said, “No.”

Donald Trump: (29:20)
“He’s a Congressman from Ohio.” I said, “So what? Tell me about him. What’s his story?”

Donald Trump: (29:25)
“He wants to go to Ohio in Air Force One, because I was coming to Ohio.” I came to Ohio a lot. I feel very comfortable. I used to work in Ohio. I used to work in Cincinnati, Ohio. I love the queen city, Cincinnati. But he wanted to know if he could fly on Air Force One. With all the people in Congress, I think he was just about the only guy ever call. He heard I was going to Ohio. Could he fly back and forth in Air Force One.

Donald Trump: (29:50)
I said, “I don’t know. Who’s the guy? Tell me about him.” And I didn’t hear much good, but I said, “What the hell? He’s asking, so let them ride.” It holds like 400 people. So you put a guy in a seat, right? I didn’t get to know him too well, but I’d see him on the plane, and then I’d see him go back and then I’d be going three months later, and he’d call again. “Could I go to Ohio on Air Force One?” I put him on the plane. I rode him back. And the next thing I heard his name. Next time he was impeaching me.

Donald Trump: (30:19)
He was impeaching me. I don’t know. That’s not the reason I’m doing this, but I just thought it said, it’s a character trait that was not so good. Not so good. He’s a sellout. He’s a fake Republican and a disgrace to your state. I will tell you that. He’s not the candidate that you want representing the Republican Party. He’s the candidate of Liz Cheney. That’s another beauty. Liz Cheney. Mitt Romney. Do you notice the Democrats have horrible policy, right? Defund the police, open borders, sanctuary cities, all of their cancel culture. Let’s cancel out George Washington. You see that? They’re after George Washington now. I did say two years ago, they may go there. If you’re not strong, they going to go there. But he’s a candidate. He works. He likes Liz Cheney, Mitt Romney, Nancy Pelosi, Joe Biden.

Donald Trump: (31:25)
Earlier this year, Gonzalez voted to grant amnesty to illegal aliens. Okay? I thought we were trying to go the opposite way so that we can have our country back and have our borders back. He voted to keep our troops bogged down in Syria, and I got them out. We didn’t listen to them too much. Not too many people do. After he voted for impeachment, the Ohio GOP censured Gonzalez and remanded him to you know where, but they demanded that he resign and resign immediately, and he’s still hanging in there. Every single Republican needs to vote him out of office and nominate and vote for a really great guy, Max Miller, a passion. He’s got a passion for this country like you wouldn’t believe. Max, come on up and say, hello. This is your territory, Max. Max Miller.

Max Miller: (32:47)
All right. Let’s hear it for the 45th president of the United States, Donald J. Trump. That’s right. And come 2024, we’re going to get them elected for the third time. That’s right, this guy. There is no greater fighter that this country has ever had, and I have never had a greater role model than President Donald J. Trump, period. Bar none. I need all of your help to get RINO, turncoat Tony out of office. And to help put an America first conservative into office for the 16th district. God bless you all. God bless President Trump. Thank you.

Donald Trump: (33:47)
Thank you, Max. Great guy. I can tell you.He’s a great guy. Also with us, another outstanding candidate for Congress. He’s right now, I just saw a poll. Max is doing great, and he’s doing great, and his race is very soon. He’s filling a seat, and I think he’s going to win. He’s going to win big. I see there’s like 12 candidates, and we endorsed them a couple of weeks ago and now he’s leading by a lot, and he’s a wonderful man. I’ve known him for a long time. Mike Carey. Mike, where are you, mike? Where’s Mike? Come here, Mike. Come here. Don’t keep them long, Mike, but say hello. So August 3rd, right Mike? August 3rd you’re running. Right? So that’s sooner than Max. Mike, you got to win, Mike.

Mike Carey: (34:36)
Yes, sir. Thank you, Mr. President. Thank all of you. With his endorsement, the America first agenda, we are now leading by double digits. Thank you, Mr. President. Thank all of you and God bless America.

Donald Trump: (35:00)
Thank you, Mike. He’s doing a fantastic job. He had a tremendous career, and he’s now doing this, and it’s going to be a big winner. Both of these people. This is what we need. We’re also thrilled to be joined by a person who’s actually loved. You don’t necessarily hear that. But she’s loved and respected, and she’s tough and smart and kind. And kind. And she’s got such great common sense. Representative Marjorie Taylor Green. Where is she? She’s a fighter. She’s a fighter.

Donald Trump: (35:50)
And another one, we just mentioned his name, but I’ll mention it again. Come up here, Jim Jordan, come up. Jim Jordan. This guy. You are so lucky to have him in Ohio. That’s all I can say. Come here, Jim.

Jim Jordan: (36:27)
Thank you, Mr. President. They’ve already heard from me. They want to hear from you. Mostly what they want is for you to run in 2024 and go back to the White House. Thank you all very much.

Donald Trump: (36:56)
Some of the congressmen and senators, Capitol Hill, they said, “You got to see this guy working out.” They work out. They’re not in good shape. They never were. They were never athletes or anything. And he was a champion, NCA champ. He was one of the greats, and he works out and they say, “You wouldn’t believe this guy. He burns out the machines.” The machines are catching. They’re like burning out. They’re smoking. But the reason he never wears a jacket, because he’s in great shape. Okay? He’s in great shape. I say, “Jim, you ever wear a jacket?” No, he feels comfortable this way. Me, I’d rather wear a jacket. Most of you I think would rather wear a jacket, but he’s a great person. He’s tough and he’s smart. And he’s incredible. So thank you both and Marjorie, thank you very much for being here. We appreciate it. Thank you.

Donald Trump: (37:45)
North Dakota Governor Kristi Noem, who’s been terrific. Where’s Kristi? Thank you, Kristi. Doing a great job. Kristi called me two years ago. She said, “Sir, do you think we could have fireworks” at those magnificent faces. I love those faces. Do you think my face will ever be [inaudible 00:38:16]? They all said, “He wants it. No. Let’s leave it the way it is.” But she called, “Could we have fireworks?” Right? And I said, “What’s the problem?”

Donald Trump: (38:26)
“They won’t approve it.” The Democrats, they wouldn’t approve. For years and years and years. I said, “Is there anything that can burn?”

Donald Trump: (38:31)
“No.” You know, stone? I said, “What’s the problem?” They just won’t give it. So we gave it, and we had a night to remember, right? Remember that? That was something. And the Democrats just announced that they’re canceling it for the people of South Dakota. They’re canceling it. I don’t know. They’re canceling it. So you have some other alternatives, but nothing could be like those nights. Right? Nothing could be like those nights. It was so beautiful. It was so beautiful. They will not cancel that particular slab that is so beautiful, so incredible. They were talking about, “Let’s take it down.” No, they’re not going to do it. They’re talking about Thomas Jefferson. They want to take it down. We stopped that. We stopped that. But these people, they’re sickos. It’s no question about it. There’s a lot of sickness there. So Kristi, thank you very much for being here. We appreciate it. And we’ll get the fireworks back. We’ll get those fireworks back. Okay?

Donald Trump: (39:33)
Great Mount Rushmore. County commissioners Michelle Hong and David Moore and my friend JJ and Jan Cafero. Great people. They’re great. Thank you. Thank you everybody, and thank you JJ, for being here. Thank you. Over the years, our movement achieved more than anyone thought possible. There’s never been anything like it. We passed record setting tax cuts, massive regulation cuts, which I think were even more important than tax cuts in terms of the economy. That’s what gave us that incredible base that they’re destroying slowly, but it was so strong. It has some momentum. Regulation cuts. Again, nobody’s ever seen anything and achieved American energy independence, which by next month will be gone. We’ll be buying our oil from the Middle East again, and we’ll be buying it from Russia. Remember Russia, Russia, Russia? We ended decades of disastrous trade deals. Withdrawing from the terrible Transpacific partnership, would have destroyed your businesses in Ohio and elsewhere. Replacing the NAFTA catastrophe with the brand new and unbelievably successful. You know why I knew it was good? Because Canada didn’t want it. Canada didn’t want it. Mexico didn’t want it either. President of Mexico, by the way. Great person. Great man, great guy. He’s doing a good job.

Donald Trump: (41:01)
But we did the USMCA, defending Ohio steel workers and standing up to China like never before. You wouldn’t have a steel industry if I didn’t do what we did. You would not have. They were dumping steel all over the place. Including making them pay tens of billions of dollars for the privilege of doing business in the USA. They never gave us 25 cents. And now they’re paying tens of billions, but Biden wants to end that. You want to see China take off? Take off those tariffs. Take off the taxes that we charged them.

Donald Trump: (41:37)
When the virus arrived, we produced three vaccines in record time, they said it would take three years to five years. We got it done in less than nine months. Record, record, record time. And we launched the fastest economic recovery anyone has ever seen. We really built the economy twice if you think about it. We built it twice. We set Joe Biden up so beautifully. All he had to do is go to the beach, Joe, go to the beach. Would have been so good. Instead, Biden is going to drive our economy and our country into ruin. Biden canceled the American Keystone XL pipeline and its 48,000 jobs for American workers. But he approved the Russian pipeline to Europe. That’s great. Remember they said, “Oh Trump, isn’t tough on Russia.” Really? I stopped the pipeline to Europe. I sanctioned them all over the place, and I had a good relationship with Putin, but that’s a good thing. That’s not a bad thing. That’s a good thing. That’s not bad. View that as good.

Donald Trump: (42:46)
And frankly had a great relationship also with President Xi of China, until we got hit with the virus. And then I couldn’t look at him quite the same way. Right? You can understand that. And we made a great trade deal that’s helping the manufacturers and the farmers like never before. Farmers have never done better because China is living up to that trade deal because they really sort of have to. It’s a tough deal, and we got it done, and a lot of people are benefiting. If you look at North Korea, right? Kim Jong-un, all of a sudden, he’s talking not nice. And he was talking very nice. I got along with him. I get along with everybody eventually. Eventually. Sometimes it just takes a little bit longer. But getting along with these people, that’s a good thing. Remember President Obama said, “We’re going to war with North Korea.” He said, “It’s virtually inevitable.” We didn’t go to war with North Korea. We didn’t go to war.

Donald Trump: (43:42)
And we don’t want to go to war with North Korea. 9,000 miles away. We didn’t want to go, but we did a good job, and the relationship that I have with him even to this day is a very good relationship, and that is a good thing. And there’s some I don’t like too. Some of them that take advantage of us that you wouldn’t even think. Canada was very tough on the United States in trade for a long time, until we came along. Other countries in Europe, you take a look at what they do. We protect them militarily. But they’re very, very tough on us in trade. “How many Chevrolets are sold in Berlin?” I asked, and they said, “Oh, we don’t believe any.” I said, “That’s exactly right.” No, no countries that you wouldn’t think, they take advantage of us like you wouldn’t believe.

Donald Trump: (44:25)
But Biden, reentered the job killing Paris climate accord, which will devastate Ohio oil and gas. Devastate and close large numbers of countries. It’s trillions of dollars of damage is going to be done. I ended it, and I couldn’t believe it. I said, “This is going to be a tough day.” BEcause it’s such a nice name. The Paris environmental accord. How nice is that, right? And I ended it. I said, “I’m going to get killed.” Everybody loved it when I ENDED it, everybody loved it. But we have to pay trillions. He put us immediately back without even negotiating. Just the same horrible deal. China doesn’t kick in for many years. Russia doesn’t kick in. India doesn’t kick in. But we kick in.

Donald Trump: (45:10)
He’s pushing trillions of dollars in new spending and the largest tax hike in history. He’s putting onto the American people and American industry. It’s going to be devastated. He puts America last. We put America first. It’s very simple. Very, very simple. And we rebuilt our military, and we did so much. Even right to try. I always mention, many people are being saved with right to try. The FDA is slow as hell. I wouldn’t say they love me too much. I pushed them very hard. But now if people are dying, they’re terminally ill. Instead of going to Asia, to Europe, to other countries to try and live, which was not very successful because we have the greatest doctors, scientists, and labs in the world. Now if somebody is terminally ill, and we have a cure that we think could be worked out good, but it’s going to take four years, five years, they sign a document, and they go and they take this new medication, whatever it may be. And it’s been unbelievably successful. They’ve been trying to get it approved for 45 years.

Donald Trump: (46:20)
We got it approved. But many, many things. What we’ve done for the vets, we had a 92% approval rating with the vets. 92%. nobody’s ever had a rating like that. We turned it all around. Under our administration, America was respected again. We were respected by other countries. You don’t have these things that we already talked about. You wouldn’t have had them go on if the election were not rigged. You wouldn’t have that happening. They wouldn’t be shooting thousands of missiles into Israel and all of the other things that we talk about, and many of that, we’re not going to talk about because we don’t have three nights. We have one beautiful night. It’s windy as hell up here, I will tell you that, but it’s beautiful. I brought this hat along just in case. Here. Just in case. But it is windy as hell up here.

Donald Trump: (47:19)
We stood up to the enemies of America. We withdrew from the Iran nuclear deal, which was tremendous. Remember all the money, $150 billion dollars, and 1.8 billion in cash. 1.8 billion. Think of that crazy deal. And now he wants to make it again. We would have had a deal done with Iran in one week, had the election not been rigged and stolen. One week. It would have been done. And other things would have been done too. We were set up so beautifully and now all of it’s going down the tubes because they don’t know what the hell they’re doing.

Donald Trump: (47:58)
We wiped out ISIS. You remember that? ISIS, you remember? ISIS was taken out all over the middle East. With the real generals, the real generals, we wiped out ISIS. We knocked them out. We killed al-Baghdadi the founder of ISIS who was trying to build it again. And Qasem Soleimani, gone. He is the father of the roadside bomb that killed so many of our soldiers. He’s gone. He’s gone. He was killed.

Donald Trump: (48:28)
We fully rebuilt the United States military. Created space force. Everybody laughed. Everybody laughed. Remember when the press secretary with the extremely red hair, remember what she said? She laughed at when space force was benching. She laughed. Remember that? And she got decimated by everybody when she laughed, because we need space force. Russia’s up there, big league. And China’s up there, big league. And we were just sitting around watching them. And now we have overtaken them in space. It’s great. It’s great. Already. During my term, but they’ll blow that.

Donald Trump: (49:10)
And we got our allies to pay their fair share when it came to our defending them and NATO, I got $430 billion from them. They weren’t paying. I said to other countries, nice countries, but why should they pay if we’re not asking? I said, “You’re delinquent.” Like a real estate deal. ” You’re delinquent.” They said, “Would you leave if we don’t pay?” I said, “Yes,” because I have to say that. If I said no, they’re not going to pay, right? We got $430 billion. We were paying, in my opinion, close to a hundred percent of the defense of European nations who, excuse the language, screw us on trade. So they take advantage of us on trade, and we defend them for nothing. And in the case, Germany, Germany pays Russia billions and billions of dollars for-

Donald Trump: (50:03)
… Russia, billions and billions of dollars for the Pipeline. And yet, we defend them against Russia. I said to Angela, who I like a lot, actually. I get along with her, actually, good. I got along with her very good. But she’s tough and she’s smart. And she takes advantage of the United States. I said, “So Angela, we defend you from a country that you’re giving billions and billions of dollars to a month. How does that work Angela?” And she just smiled. She just smiled. She knows.

Donald Trump: (50:31)
We recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. And at the same time recognize Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights. We were working on that for 54 years. And we made historic peace deals in the Middle East that nobody thought were even possible. And frankly, if we were there, I think we’d have it totally wrapped up, but I don’t see any signs of progress with these people. In fact, they want to go back to negotiating with Iran. It’s just not even believable.

Donald Trump: (51:06)
But now Joe Biden is squandering all of this hard-earned respect that we have, or had. Bowing down to America’s enemies and embarrassing our country on the world stage. You saw that, it was an embarrassment. And yet the fake news said, “He reminded me of FDR.” I’ll never forget it. I watched. I watched the semi-State of the Union, it was sort of a weird State of the Union.

Donald Trump: (51:39)
Nancy Pelosi had the single largest mask I’ve ever seen on a human being. It’s true. It’s the biggest. She had a mask that went up to here. I don’t know if it was three masks or one, but it was the biggest mask I’ve ever seen. But I’ll never forget. I watched. And I said, “that’s said.” I said, “He’s going to be killed by the media.” Then I turned on to fake news: CNN and MSDNC and they said… Fox hasn’t been so great either. Have they?

Audience: (52:11)
No! Boo!

Donald Trump: (52:16)
And they said… I thought he was just going to get… It was a terrible evening. And honestly, if I do a bad speech, I’ll tell you it was a bad… that’s okay. But I don’t do bad speeches. Do I? Do I? I don’t think so. No. Actually my best speeches, I get the best reviews when I don’t use these suckers. They’re too easy. Especially when they’re blowing in the wind, great job fellas, by the way, you really made them nice. I got this teleprompter that is waving like the American flag, proudly. Great job. Great. Sometimes you have no choice to just wing it. You have to wing it because you have a teleprompter that’s moving so rapidly. But, I watched his speech that he made and I said, “Man, he’s going to get just decimated. This thing is a disaster.” I turned onto a couple of the competing networks, call them. And they’re saying, “Not since FDR, has there been a speech like this.” FDR, I thought he had a magnificent presence, right? He would sit up there and his voice was beautiful and booming and elegant. And you remember so many of his phrases, right? “The only thing we have to fear, is fear itself.” It was so beautiful. Think of that, the way it was said, you always remember it. You can’t forget it. “The only thing we have to fear, is fear itself.” Okay. And they were comparing Biden to FDR. They are fake. They are so fake and so pathetic. And there’s so many of them up there. There’s so many of them.

Audience: (53:54)
Boo! Boo!

Donald Trump: (54:02)
And they’re hurting our country very badly. Honestly, they’re hurting our country because they’re not real. They’re not real.

Audience: (54:08)
CNN sucks! CNN sucks! CNN sucks!

Donald Trump: (54:21)
Thank you. Thank you very much. Are we having a good time, by the way?

Audience: (54:25)
Yeah!

Donald Trump: (54:28)
You know, the subject matter is somewhat depressing, in all fairness. Because what happened to us on November the third, should never, ever happen again. Should never be allowed to happen again. Biden and the Democrats are weak on China, weak on Iran, weak on trade, weak on the economy and weak on everything else, except for weaponizing law enforcement to go after Republicans. Right? That’s the only thing they’re strong on.

Donald Trump: (54:54)
Shortly after taking office, Joe Biden even canceled the US government investigation into the origins of the virus in a China lab. Do you remember when I said it comes out of Wuhan, it comes out of the lab? They went crazy. Now they’re saying, “Most likely it came out of the Wuhan lab.”

Donald Trump: (55:16)
Unlike Biden, I believe that China owes the world and the United States trillions and trillions of dollars and they have to pay. They have to pay. And as you can see, and you’ve seen over the last three weeks, the media and the Democrats are now admitting that I was right about everything. The election is over, now we won the election anyway, but the election’s over, so they don’t care. They don’t care. Now they’re saying, “Well, he was right about these things.” That’s all right. Big deal. Right? Big deal.

Donald Trump: (55:53)
They lied about so many things before the election. And it’s not only what they said, it’s also what they didn’t say. Like Hunter, remember? Where’s Hunter? The virus came from a Chinese lab. Hydroxychloroquine actually works. Remember? Remember?

Donald Trump: (56:16)
I made a mistake on hydroxy. I should have said, “Hydroxychloroquine is a disaster. Please do not use it.” They would have said… Instead I said, “It works,” and now reports are coming out that it works. They probably destroyed a lot of lives. Hunter Biden’s laptop was real. That was an easy one. Wasn’t it? Lafayette Square was not cleared for a photo op. It wasn’t. They tried to burn down the church the day before, we got lucky to stop them. They tried. The basement was on fire.

Donald Trump: (56:49)
The Russian bounty story was a total fake by these guys. Look, the cameras are starting to go off. Oh, the cameras are going off. I better speak fast. Those cameras are going off. They don’t like this. They don’t like this speech. You have the nice red light at the beginning of the camera, that thing was lit up. All of a sudden those suckers are off so fast. Don’t worry. They’ll go back. You know why they go back? Because they get great ratings when we do these things. They’ll go back. They’ll wait until this section is over. They don’t want to talk about certain things. You know what they especially don’t want to talk about? The election of 2020, because it’s just too easy, too close to home.

Donald Trump: (57:31)
The first vaccine was known to be effective before the election.

Audience: (57:36)
Trump won! Trump won! Trump won!

Donald Trump: (58:02)
Remember when they wouldn’t report that the vaccine was effective before the election? Right after the election, oh, the big vaccine story, it was the greatest thing ever. But before, they wouldn’t report it, they wouldn’t report it. Blue state lockdowns don’t work, they didn’t want to talk about it. And our children should be back in school. They don’t want to talk about that either.

Donald Trump: (58:23)
We were also right about Joe Biden and the Democrats extremism on open borders, on socialism, on taxes, on energy, on the Green New Deal hoax. That’s the next hoax. You have the crime of the century, which I consider to be the election of 2020. I consider that, because you look at all the people that are dying on the border, you look at all of the bad things that are happening to our country, I consider it to be the crime of the century.

Donald Trump: (58:52)
But the Green New Deal is a crime because it’s a total con job. Everybody knew this during the campaign, but the fake news media refused to talk about it because they will say and do anything to destroy our great MAGA movement, which is a movement based on strength and peace and law and order. And above all else, it’s a movement based on common sense. It’s common sense. There’s never been a movement like it. There has never been.

Donald Trump: (59:28)
Over the years, I’ve seen people, if they did fairly well in a primary 30 years ago, they become stars, fairly well. We won the election twice. And it’s possible we’ll have to win it a third time. It’s possible.

Audience: (59:42)
USA! USA! USA!

Donald Trump: (01:00:06)
A certain reporter said to me, not on our side, this is a very liberal person, but sort of an honest person said to me, “You know, I’ve been covering elections for a long time. Long, long time. I’ve never seen anything like the election of 2020. You had 58 rallies. The average crowd had to be 25, 30…” Look at tonight. Look at this. This is not even election territory, other than you got to get Mike and Max in there. And Max is going to be in a little while longer. Mike, don’t forget August 3rd. But think of it. Think of it. He said, “I’ve never seen anything like it where you’d have a rally some days on one day notice and you’d have 30, 40, 50,000.” Butler, Pennsylvania, 58,000 people in a couple of days, right?

Donald Trump: (01:00:54)
And were up by so much. And then the next day they say, “Trump lost Pennsylvania.” Not possible, not possible. We had 58,000 people in a beautiful, small community in Pennsylvania show up on a couple of days notice, right? Showed up.

Donald Trump: (01:01:11)
And then they say like, “Biden’s coming to town,” and they have eight circles, right? And they can’t fill them. So they go back and they get the fake news. “Could you please stand in a circle?” And they get reporters to stand in them. And then they say, “Trump lost Pennsylvania.” No, I don’t think so. I don’t think so. I don’t think so. I think all you have to do is look at every stat. And it’s all coming out now, you know? And people are coming forward. People are coming forward like never before. You’re seeing what’s happening or you soon will see what’s happening. But think of it, 75 million voters, the same reporter said, “It was incredible. Whether you’re on your side or the other side, we’ve never seen anything like it. Never seen anything like it.”

Donald Trump: (01:01:58)
He said, “What was the difference between 2016 when you won? And 2020 when you lost?” I said, “The difference was we did much better the second time.” It’s true. I was told that we got 63 million votes, right? I was told that if we get 65, by the best pollster, one of the great pollsters, you have a few of them that are really good. But John McLaughlin. He said, “Sir, if you get 65 million, if you go up two…” Now, most presidents go down. Obama went down, he went down much lower the second time, he got fewer votes the second time, far fewer. And I understand that, that’s the way it works. But we went up 12 million. But I was told if we go up two million, we win. We went up 12 million and we so-called lost, but we didn’t lose, we didn’t lose. We didn’t lose.

Donald Trump: (01:02:49)
But I said, the big difference is that we did much better the second time. And think of it. 63 million compared to almost 75 million. And don’t forget that 75 million, what’s the real number? With all of the shenanigans. What’s the real number? The socialist Democrats see this better than anyone else. They know exactly what went on and they don’t want to talk about it. They don’t want to talk about it.

Donald Trump: (01:03:18)
You know what’s interesting? Hillary Clinton can complain about the election, by the way, she is the single most unhappy person in the United States because she said, “Why didn’t you do that for me? Why didn’t you create votes for me?” Because she said, “I was much closer.”

Audience: (01:03:37)
Lock her up! Lock her up! Lock her up!

Donald Trump: (01:03:47)
Bad things. Bad, bad things. Why didn’t you create a… for Hillary Clinton? I do ask that question. Actually, the truth is we got them by surprise in 2016 and in 2020, they planned for four years. They said, “This is not going to happen again.” They planned it out. Earlier this year, the Biden administration issued new rules, pushing twisted, critical race theory into classrooms across the nation and also into our military. Our generals and our admirals are now focused more on this nonsense than they are on our enemies. You see these generals lately on television? They are woke. They’re woke.

Donald Trump: (01:04:32)
Our military will be incapable of fighting and incapable of taking orders. You’re going to tell some private, “Private, stand up. You stand up right now.” “I’m not standing up. You can’t talk to me that way, General.” We’re going to have a whole different ball game here. I don’t know how they’re going to work that out. The private’s going to tell the general, “Don’t you ever speak to me that way, General, I’ll kick your ass.” That’s our military. That’s where we’re going. Woke. I know some of these guys, boy, they change quickly. They went right over to the other side. I heard that about a couple of them. The military brass have become weak and ineffective leaders and our enemies are watching and they’re laughing.

Donald Trump: (01:05:18)
We need a Republican Congress to ban critical race theory. I had it banned through executive order and it was fine. And then when we didn’t get in, they immediately re-instituted it, but where’s it all gone? But they have to get it out of our schools and they have to ban it in our workplaces and ban it in our states and ban it in federal agencies and ban it in our military, maybe most importantly.

Donald Trump: (01:05:46)
In addition, if government run schools are going to teach children to hate our country and racism, racism, racism, parents must be given the power to opt out of the horrible, horrible schools. They’re being forced to send their kids to these schools and we have to provide school choice. And we were a long way to getting it.

Donald Trump: (01:06:09)
The radical left is trying to rip our nation apart and there is no depth to which they will not sink. You’ve seen it. You’ve seen it and you’ve seen it strongly. Just can’t have it. There’s no better example that the election that we talk about and talk about, so proudly, because we did so well, the 2020 presidential election, was rigged. We won the election in a landslide. You know it, I know it. And you know who else knows it? The fake news knows it.

Donald Trump: (01:06:43)
Democrats and their allies in big tech and in the fake news media viciously did everything possible to deny our victory and to delay the count until they could figure out how many votes were needed to drag Joe Biden across the finish line. You know that. Now they sensor, conceal and smear you. If you look into the election today, and I saw the other day where they were saying, “We are going to look into the election.” I said, “That’s great.” No, they’re not looking into that. They’re looking into the people that want the truth. They’re not looking into the election. The election was the lie. That was the big lie. They talk about the big lie. They always say, “While it is totally disproven…” Every sentence. Like every sentence they say… Well, I would say no, it’s totally disproven in the opposite way. But the big lie is what took place on the evening. And the morning, November 3rd, November 4th, November 5th. And they know it and they don’t want to talk about it.

Donald Trump: (01:07:48)
Have you ever noticed, though, I was going to say, so Hillary Clinton’s allowed to talk about it, right? Stacey Abrams. She said she won for governor. By the way, we might’ve been better if she did win for governor of Georgia, if you want to know the truth, we might’ve had a better governor if she did win. But Stacey Abrams goes around saying she won the election. Nobody says anything. Hillary Clinton says she won the election. Nobody says anything. I say we won the election. “That’s terrible. That’s terrible.”

Donald Trump: (01:08:20)
Isn’t it a terrible situation? All these geniuses are running for office and they’re doing good. And we’re going to introduce them in a couple of seconds and we’re having a good time and we’ll just keep it going. Should we keep it going or get there hell out of here?

Audience: (01:08:33)
Yeah!

Donald Trump: (01:08:35)
For the first time in history, they mass mail tens of millions of absentee ballots and ballot applications to every person on the rolls, dead or alive, legal or illegal, resident or non-resident, of our country. They installed millions of dollars worth of illegal, unmanned dropboxes. How about these dropboxes where they were 96% for Joe Biden? The vote was 96 for Biden and some of them showed up very, very late. They say, “Where are they?” Oh, they come the next day. 96% for Biden.

Donald Trump: (01:09:09)
And you know, I was told that you can give $5,600, but Zuckerberg gave $500 million to all of this stuff. Now that’s legal, right? That’s legal? I don’t think so. And the whole lockbox scam. That’s another thing. That’s just one of many things they did. In fact, what happened here is what the State Department used to criticize in communist countries, illegal use of absentee ballots. They went after them very strongly.

Donald Trump: (01:09:37)
Opposition observers ejected. They would take the opposition observers like they did in Detroit and they did in Atlanta and they did in Philadelphia where you had more votes than you had voters. Other than that, it was a very good election. But you had more votes than you had voters. Other than that, it was wonderful.

Donald Trump: (01:09:59)
But they did a North Korean style turnout. This is what they talked about. Illegally altered vote tabulation data. All of these things, this is what they used to talk about. These things happen, they said, in Ukraine in 2004. Now to a large extent, they happened here. We’ll prove it. We’ll be out there fighting.

Donald Trump: (01:10:22)
You have incredible American patriots. You have incredible American patriots. I saw one here, I didn’t even know he was coming. Where is Mike? The pillow man? Where is it? I saw him. Mike Lindell.

Audience: (01:10:47)
Mike! Mike! Mike!

Donald Trump: (01:11:06)
It’s amazing. He’s out there fighting. He is a patriot and he’s got people fighting with them. They are really patriots. And I think on behalf of… Look at the crowd, they’re going up. I’m not sure that even Jim got as big a hand as you, okay? But they’re going up. Look at this crowd, going as far as the eye can see, and they’re all giving you a standing ovation. So we appreciate it, Mike. We appreciate it.

Donald Trump: (01:11:32)
But as many, many people will tell you, including the gentleman that spoke before you this evening, I understand, there’s just mountains of evidence, including on camera, in the middle of the night, when ballots were pulled from under the tables. You saw that? After Republican poll watches were kicked the hell out of the counting rooms, you saw that? With the woman with the tables? They said, “There’s a massive water main leak. Everybody leave.” They all ran out for their lives. They ran out so fast. And then this group of people came in and they started stuffing the ballot boxes. That’s all it was. It’s a terrible thing. That was in Georgia, where they said everything was so wonderful.

Donald Trump: (01:12:17)
And by the way, now they’re saying they’re going to delete over a hundred thousand names. I said, “Why the hell didn’t you delete them before the election? Not after the election?” Why didn’t they do that? Why didn’t they do it before the election? Ballots were wheeled in through back doors in swing states days after the election. They had no idea that we were going to win by this much. They thought it was going to be a close election and then all of a sudden they see these massive numbers in Pennsylvania.

Donald Trump: (01:12:48)
I hear now that Wisconsin is looking very, very seriously, and I respect Wisconsin so much. It’s a great state. They’re looking very seriously. Pennsylvania is really starting to take this very seriously. And Michigan is not. You can’t get those Republicans, some are great, by the way, but Michigan is not doing the job. They’re right by you. How do you win Ohio by so much, record numbers, and lose Michigan? There’s one way I can tell you. There’s one way. But the rhinos in Michigan Senate are not doing anything. So I think the people are really starting to push them very strongly. But I want to thank Pennsylvania. I want to thank Wisconsin. They’re really starting to move and they don’t like what they’re seeing.

Donald Trump: (01:13:40)
In Montana, over six percent of a certain county’s mail-in ballots are missing, evidence to prove if they were legitimate or not, they’re missing all of this evidence and think of it, Montana. A lot of mail-in ballots. Wherever you have the mail-in ballots, by the way, did you see the fraudulent votes in New York City for the congressional race? I actually think that the woman Democrat lost, okay, but they were weeks and weeks, they couldn’t figure it out. They were all gone. I could figure it out. But those mail-in ballots are treacherous, the way they can manipulate them, get rid of them, lose them.

Donald Trump: (01:14:20)
The affidavits from hundreds and hundreds of poll workers and poll watchers and witnesses across the country were signed under penalty of perjury, but they were silenced and never ever heard in court because many of our judges were gutless. And our Supreme Court, I must say, I am ashamed of our Supreme Court. I’m ashamed. They were not allowed to be seen or be used.

Donald Trump: (01:14:49)
And I won 18 out of 19 bellwether counties, when that happens, you win. When that happens, you win. If you win Ohio, and if you win Florida, you win. If you win Ohio and you win Florida…

Donald Trump: (01:15:02)
… win. If you win Ohio and you win Florida and you win Iowa and all by big numbers, big, big win in Florida, all by big numbers. When that happens, nobody’s ever lost. Nobody’s ever lost. This was the scam of the century and this was the crime of the century.

Donald Trump: (01:15:21)
We swung to the previously democrat Starr County on the border of Texas. Gained a half million votes in Los Angeles County and doubled my vote total in a place called the Bronx because we did great with Hispanics. And we did great with the African American community, but it didn’t matter that much. Vote counting is an amazing thing. And yet we’re told Joe Biden, who couldn’t fill 12 circles in a high school gym got 81 million votes.

Donald Trump: (01:15:54)
You know, the 75 is the largest vote in the history of our country for a sitting president, right? No president has ever gotten anywhere even close to that number. One poll manager, who worked in Fulton County, Georgia for two decades, said that she witnessed thousands and thousands of counterfeit ballots for Joe Biden with identical photocopied markings. They were all identical. They were all done identically. How does that happen? She was pressured to drop her claim and then she was fired very, very viciously.

Donald Trump: (01:16:27)
Instead of hearing evidence from election fraud experts RINOs in Michigan are calling for sham investigations to shut down. “Shut it down immediately,” say these RINO Republicans. Shut it down immediately. Even though Detroit is perhaps the single most corrupt election area in the United States. You heard what happened there. The number of votes and the number of voters and these guys say, “Shut it down.” Somebody’s going to have to say, “Why do they want to shut down?” 55% of voters support election audits.

Donald Trump: (01:17:03)
And again I want to thank the brave Republican senators in the State of Arizona for what they’re doing. Because they saw what was happening, and I have nothing to do. What’s going to happen is they are going to issue a report at sometime in the not too distant future and it will be very interesting to see. But that’s them doing it, this is the State Senate of Arizona. Let’s see how that comes out, but I guess it’s going to be coming out very, very soon. And a lot of states have gone to watch them and they’ve come away with praise, real praise. So let’s see how that turns out. Arizona, it’s a big deal.

Donald Trump: (01:17:44)
And a lot of things are happening now in the State of Georgia with all of the cancellation and all of the things that they’re doing and all of the votes that they’re taking out of the system and all of the dead people that they’re finding. These are dead. Some of the dead people requested an application and then voted. Even 30% of Democrats think there was cheating in the election and 78% of the Republicans think there was major, major cheating. Think of that.

Donald Trump: (01:18:16)
How do you have a government? You got to solve this problem because you can’t have a country … you know, I say, you need borders. Can’t have a country without borders. Well, you can’t have a country that’s not going to have elections that are real and free. And people have to know that they’re real and free. Otherwise you don’t have a country. You don’t have a country. Our government spent four years and $48 million on a fabricated witch hunt about Russia, Russia, Russia.

Donald Trump: (01:18:46)
Hillary Clinton’s the one that paid for it. You believe it? She paid for it. Her and the DNC. Think of the DNC. They paid for it. And after years they learned, how about this, four years, went on from the day I came down to the escalator with our great former first lady, from the day I came down. And at the end, they said, “No collusion.” Friend of mine called up and said, “You have to be the most honest person in history.” They spent $48 million. They had 18 angry democrats, really angry democrats. And they got nothing. Pretty amazing, right?

Donald Trump: (01:19:26)
I have friends that say they couldn’t have done that. But now if you question an election and you fight for the Constitution, like the greatest mayor in the history of the city of New York, Rudy Giuliani, they cancel your law license. Radical left-wing democrats, they cancel your law license and the FBI agents go and raid your home like they did to Rudy Giuliani. Think of it, he was the greatest mayor in the history of the city. He took a city that was almost as bad as it is now with crime and he solved the problem and he made it a hot, great place. And this is the way they treat him. It’s a very, very sad and very, very dangerous time for our country.

Donald Trump: (01:20:16)
This corrupt establishment is censoring, blacklisting, and persecuting people who call them out on their flagrant lies and deceit like the results of the election, people are getting called out for. But they don’t, again, they don’t question people with Hillary and they don’t question many other people that, falsely claim, because I say that’s real falsely claim. She couldn’t even get back in. And we have big back in. We have a big, big group of people and good people, patriotic people.

Donald Trump: (01:20:48)
The biggest tragedy of all is millions of Americans have lost confidence in their vote. We can’t let that happen. And that’s why I say you have to know what took place in 2020, before you can vote in 2022 or 2024. You have to know. You know, I have a lot of friends, I have a lot of friends, great people and patriots, and they love me and everything is good. They say, “President, don’t look back, look forward. You’re leading in every poll. You’re going to win the election so big in ’24. Don’t look back.” And you know what I say? You have to look back. You have to look back. We won the election in 2020. Who the hell knows what’s going to be in 2024. We won’t even have a country left. We’re not going to have a country left. And if we don’t figure it out, we’re not going to be in a position to win in 2022 or 2024. We’ll never stop fighting for the true results of this election. And it’s moving along rapidly, whether it’s Democrats or RINOs who stand in our way.

Donald Trump: (01:22:00)
And you know, in many cases, the RINOs are worse than the democrats. They think they can run our country like a dictatorship, but the American people are very smart, courageous, and unafraid. And we Will not let that happen. We can’t. We can’t. Remember, I’m not the one trying to undermine American democracy. I’m the one that’s trying to save American democracy. It’s true. Republicans across the country are uniting around a plan to fully secure every future election with a voter ID. Now, all of a sudden the democrats, they fought it for years. Now it’s a 90% issue in the polls and the democrats, “Well, we always liked voter ID.” Do you believe this one? They always liked voter ID for the first time. Universal signature verification, citizenship confirmation, chain of custody, integrity controls, updated voter rolls. Which are just terrible. It’s just terrible. The voter rolls. Illegal aliens allowed to vote. Strong protection of poll watchers. In Philadelphia, in Detroit, they literally harassed innocent republican poll watches the hell out of a building. For days and days and days as this election went on. It was a terrible thing they did. Illegal dropboxes and restoring the time honored tradition of in-person voting on election day. What’s wrong with that? What’s wrong with that? They used COVID in order to cheat. They used COVID in order to rig the election and in order to steal the election. They used COVID, that’s as simple as it gets. With the help of everyone here tonight and patriots all across the country, we will do all that we are supposed to be doing and much more when we win giant Republican majorities next year.

Donald Trump: (01:24:15)
Also with us tonight, by the way, are some of the great people running for the senate. Mike Gibbons. Mike, thank you very much, Mike. Jane Timken, great job at the Republican Party. Jane, where’s Jane? Jane, thank you, Jane. Great job. Bernie Mareno. Bernie, thank you very much. Thank you, Bernie. And Mrs. Mareno, Thank you very much. And Josh Mendel. Thank you, Josh.

Donald Trump: (01:24:48)
Hey, do you want to take a poll? Ready? Who likes Jane Timken? Who likes Josh Mandel? What about Gibbons? Who likes Gibbons? I think we’ll get out of this poll stuff. We’ll get out. We’ll get out. But they’re great people. They’re working hard. I do love those polls though. Those polls usually turn out to be very accurate. And you know, you have a guy running, Tim Ryan. He’s a disaster. He’s a stiff. He’s a total stiff. Between him and his counterpart with the lover from China, got a Chinese lover who happens to be a spy, right? Eric Swalwell. How about Swalwell?

Donald Trump: (01:25:48)
Is he the worst? Between him … think of it. Shifty Schiff, they walk out. “We will take strong action against President Trump for his relationships with Russia.” I’m saying, “What the hell do I have to do with Russia?” I’m trying to figure it out. These people are really dishonest people. Tim Ryan is a disaster. He’s a guy who failed Ohio and his district. He couldn’t even get the vote that he needed in his own district in the last election. He’s laughed at all over Washington. He’s disrespected in Washington. He talks about workers. All the time he’s talking about workers, but he does nothing for the worker. It was all of the things that I did. My trade deals, my tariffs, my energy policies, my reduced taxes and regulations, and everything else. That’s what happened to our workers in this country and that’s why we came up with numbers the likes of which … we had 160 million people working, there’s never been anything like it.

Donald Trump: (01:26:48)
In 2020, I became the first Republican since Ronald Reagan to win a place called Lorain County. Has anyone ever heard of it? Has anyone ever heard of it? Next year, the Republican red wave is going to begin right here with a republican congress. We will fight for more jobs for Ohio families, fair trade for Ohio workers, and more Ohio factories forging more products stamped with that beautiful, beautiful phrase “Made in the USA”. Made in the USA. We will stand up to China, make them pay trillions in reparations and ensure that America, not China, dominates the future. We will defend American sovereignty. We will secure America’s borders and we will end illegal immigration, that dangerous, horrible term once and for all. We will break up big tech monopolies, reject left wing cancel culture, and we will restore the right to free speech in America.

Donald Trump: (01:28:08)
We will protect innocent life. We will defend our constitution and we will proudly upheld Judeo Christian values and principles of our nation’s founding. We will care for our veterans, continue to strengthen our military, and give our police offices, border patrol, ICE, and law enforcement of all kinds 100% support. There will be no defunding. We will restore patriotic education to our schools and we will teach our children to love their country, honor our history, and always respect our great American flag. No matter how powerful the sinister forces we are up against may seem, and they do look powerful and they get more powerful as we get weak. And we got weak over the last five months. Very, very pathetic and very, very, weak. We must never forget this country does not belong to them. It belongs to you, the American people. This is your home. This nation is your heritage. And our magnificent American liberty is your God given right. The people of this land will not be ruled and talked down to by corrupt politicians, petty tyrants, left-wing bullies, or socialist bureaucrats in a place called Washington DC. It’s not going to happen. Our ancestors are the people that crossed an ocean for the right to live and pray and speak as they saw fit. They are the people who risked everything. They risked everything. Think of what, you’re here and you’re generally happy, not necessarily 100% because of what took place, but they are the people who risked their lives to boldly declare their independence and then defeated the most powerful military on earth to win their freedom. Brave, incredible, brilliant people. And our ancestors are the people who tamed the great wilderness, settled a vast continent, laid down the railroads, raised up the skyscrapers, and poured out their blood, sweat, and tears to build this country into the greatest nation in the history of the world and were not going to let it go. We will respect our heroes like George Washington and Abraham Lincoln and Thomas Jefferson. They will not be taken from us. America is still the nation that conquered the Wild West, that vanquished the murderers, dictators that ended the evil empires. And that sent a brave young man from Ohio to a plant. Think of it. [Seth 01:31:39], you know who the man I’m talking about is? Who am I talking about? Do you know who it is? The stars and stripes on the face of the moon. Do you know who the man is, right? Do you know? Do you know? You know who it is. There is no mountain we cannot climb. There is no summit we cannot reach. There is nothing that we cannot do. There is absolutely nothing we cannot match. There is no challenge that you will let us down. You will never let us down. The people of Ohio will never let us down. The people of our country will never let us down.

Donald Trump: (01:32:19)
We will not bend. We will not break. We will not yield. We will never give in. We will never give up. We will never back down. We will never, ever surrender. My fellow Americans, our movement is far from over. In fact, our fight has only just begun. We are one movement, one people, one family, and one glorious nation under God.

Donald Trump: (01:32:55)
So with American pride swelling in our hearts and American courage stirring in our souls, I say these words to you tonight, we will make America powerful again. We will make America wealthy again. We will make America strong again. We will make America proud again. We will make America safe again. And we will make America great again. Thank you, Ohio. Thank you. Thank you very much.

"The Snake" is a song written and first recorded by civil-rights activist Oscar Brown in 1963, which became a hit single by American singer Al Wilson in 1968.^[1][2]

In the US, the hit version of "The Snake" was released in 1968, on Johnny Rivers' Soul City Records. (Rivers had released his own version of the song on his 1966 album ...And I Know You Wanna Dance). Wilson's single made the Top 30 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1968, and due to exposure on the UK Northern Soul scene made the UK Singles Chart in August 1975 when reissued, reaching number 41 in September.^[3] The success of "The Snake" on the northern soul nightclub circuit has led to it being ranked 4 of 500 top northern soul singles and for it to appear on over 30 pop and northern soul compilation albums.^[4][5][6] The song was re-released in 1989 as a B-side to a re-release of "Just Don't Want to Be Lonely" by The Main Ingredient.^[1] Wilson's recording of "The Snake" was also featured in a Lambrini television advertisement in the UK.^[7]

Use by Donald Trump[edit]

The song gained renewed attention during the campaign for the 2016 United States presidential election. Republican candidate Donald Trump read its lyrics at several campaign rallies to illustrate his position on illegal immigration, claiming that the decision to allow people claiming refugee status to enter the United States would "come back to bite us", as happened to the woman who took in the snake in the song.^[11] Songwriter Oscar Brown had seven children. His work has been characterized as "a celebration of black culture and a repudiation of racism", and suggestions have been made that the snake in the song refers to a white person.^[12] Two of his seven children asked Trump to stop using their late father's song, telling the media: "He's perversely using 'The Snake' to demonize immigrants" and that Brown "never had anything against immigrants."^[13] Despite a cease and desist letter, Trump has continued reciting the lyrics at rallies as recently as June 2021.^[14]

See also[edit]

· The Farmer and the Viper

References[edit]

1. ^ Jump up to:^{a b} "The Snake". discogs.com. Retrieved October 5, 2012.

2. ^ "Al Wilson: Expressive singer of 'The Snake'". independent.co.uk. April 24, 2008. Retrieved October 5, 2012.

3. ^ Jump up to:^{a b} "The Snake". officialcharts.com. Retrieved October 5,2012.

4. ^ Roberts, Kev (2007). The Northern Soul Top 500. Goldsoul Entertainment Limited. ISBN 9780955751905.

5. ^ "Northern Soul Top 500". rocklistmusic.co.uk. Retrieved October 5, 2012.

6. ^ "The Snake - Al Wilson". allmusic.com. Retrieved October 5,2012.

7. ^ "Lambrini – Just Wanna Dance". tvadmusic.co.uk. 31 October 2007. Retrieved January 28, 2014.

8. ^ "Item Display - RPM - Library and Archives Canada". Collectionscanada.gc.ca. 1968-09-30. Retrieved 2019-10-23.

9. ^ Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles 1955–1990 - ISBN 0-89820-089-X

10. ^ "Cash Box Top 100 10/19/68". cashboxmagazine.com.

11. ^ "Donald Trump Reads Lyrics From Al Wilson's "The Snake" About Syrian Refugees". ABC News. January 13, 2016. Retrieved January 14, 2016.

12. ^ Rosenberg, Eli, "‘The Snake’: How Trump Appropriated a Radical Black Singer’s Lyrics for Immigration Fearmongering", The Washington Post, February 24, 2018.

13. ^ Caleb Ecarma (February 25, 2018). "Daughters of 'The Snake' Author Slam Trump For 'Perversely Using' Poem 'to Demonize Immigrants'". Mediaite. Retrieved February 26, 2018.

14. ^ Bolies, Corbin (June 27, 2021). "Trump Grumbles About the Military and Recites Song Lyrics at Ohio Rally". The Daily Beast.

Allen LaMar Wilson (June 19, 1939 – April 21, 2008)^[1] was an American soul singer known for the million-selling #1 hit, "Show and Tell". He is also remembered for his Northern soul anthem, "The Snake".