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Last week President Trump lowered the boom on Americas pourous borders by signing an Executive Order authorizing construction of a 2,000-mile wall from the Gulf of Mexico to the Pacific Ocean. The President also put hundreds of sanctuary cities on notice that his administration will enforce Americas immigration laws. Cities that refuse to comply risk losing Federal funding for both essential and non-essential services. No place has more skin in this game than Los Angeles, the city that gave birth to sanctuary policies back 1979.

When then-LAPD chief Darryl Gates issued Special Order 40 the police directive that prohibits officers from initiating a stop based on suspicion of an immigration violations L.A. quickly became the place to go for illegal immigrants. Why not? The welcome mat was out.

As well intentioned as Special Order 40 might have been, the law of unintended consequences kicked in. Crime didnt drop, it soared.

But some things did fall.

Wages for working men and women plunged while graduation rates in LAUSD schools sank to historic lows. What went up is poverty. Way up. According the Census Bureaus Supplemental Poverty Measure, California is the poverty capital of America, both by percentage of population and in real numbers, with 20.6-percent of Californias 38-plus million residents living below the poverty line. Thats 5.5-percent higher than the national average, approximately 19 million struggling to survive.

How can this be?

Progressive, liberal, forward-thinking California has every natural advantage: the worlds greatest climate, abundant natural resources, World Class colleges and universities, Silicon Valley and Hollywood as well as magnificent ports and harbors perfectly positioned on the Pacific Rim to ride the crest of the rising tide of trade with Asia. Yet, somehow, California has more people living in poverty than Mississippi or Alabama or any of those backward, knuckle-dragging, redneck states its so fashionable for West Coasters to disparage.

The why is obvious.

California has something else those other less-enlightened states dont have, the nations largest population of illegal immigrants.

Obvious to everyone but our leaders.

Sanctuary policies encouraged the poorest of the hemispheres poor to come to L.A. We effectively imported poverty on a mass scale, overwhelming law enforcement, our schools and the social safety net while forcing our poor to compete with even poorer people for the first rung on the ladder of success. We cheapened labor far beyond the strawberry fields of Oxnard.

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Rather than an honest examination of this complex issue our alleged leaders pandered to an emerging demographic group and demagogued anyone with a dissenting opinion as a racist and xenophobe. And, tragically, the news media drove the getaway car.

The statutory term illegal alien has long been banished followed a few years later by illegal immigrant, as if these words are hate speech. To be pro-border enforcement is to be labeled anti-immigrant, as if there is no distinction. Im sure drunk drivers would appreciate the same courtesy from the media.

With the stroke of his pen President Trump put the illegal back into illegal immigration. Thats a good first step.

What will follow is not going to be pretty. We have become addicted to cheap labor and withdrawal from any addiction is not pain free.

The pushers of open borders will throw the kitchen sink at Trump on this one. The battle lines have been drawn.

The fight over control of our borders represents a continuation of the eternal American battle between States Rights and Federalism. Its Jefferson versus Hamilton, John C. Calhoun versus Andrew Jackson, Jefferson Davis versus Abraham Lincoln, Orval Faubus versus Dwight Eisenhower and now Jerry Brown and Eric Garcetti versus Donald Trump.

Theres a grand irony in all this.

Had we been allowed to have an honest debate on immigration, with all sides represented, not just the pro-amnesty arguments, had we taken even a few commonsense steps to correct the injustice of rewarding folks for cutting the line, Donald J. Trump would never have been elected president.

Or likely anything else.

Doug McIntyres column appears Sundays. Hear him weekday mornings, 5-10 on AM 790 KABC. He can be reached at: Doug@DougMcIntyre.com.

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Putting 'illegal' back into illegal immigration: Doug McIntyre - LA Daily News

Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck says he wont order his officers to comply with President Donald Trumps plan to utilize local police departments to help federal authorities arrest and deport illegal immigrants.

Becks comments came in a recent interview with the Los Angeles Times.

This is not our job, nor will I make it our job, Beck said of Trumps immigration plan in November, according to the Times.

But even if it was their job, Beck told a Times columnist that it would not be feasible or safe to deport all of the illegal immigrants living in Los Angeles, given that it would require the entire LAPD force.

We couldnt deport 500,000 people if we wanted to, and if we did, it would be at the expense of public safety, Beck said, explaining that it would require police officers to focus on tracking down immigrants instead of combatting crime.

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If undocumented immigrants are convicted of violent felonies, Beck thinks they should serve their time and then be deported. But the crime rate is no greater among immigrants than the rest of the population, he said.

Beck said he doesnt want to poke the new president in the eye. But with 40 years of experience, he thinks he understands his city and how to best police it, and hes not inclined to bow to simple-minded political rhetoric.

And even if Trump does require local agencies to assist federal law enforcement agencies in deporting immigrants, Beck told the Times that he will still disobey Trump given his personal convictions even if it costs his city millions in federal aid dollars.

Id risk losing my beliefs, Beck said if he were to comply with Trump. Theres not a price for me to do this differently.

During his interview Beck also explained that he thinks a better way to combat Americas illegal immigration problem would be to help strength the economies of Mexico and other Central American countries.

We have a very rich country with a lot of opportunity that is immediately adjacent to a poorer country with less opportunity, Beck said of the economic disparity between America and counties to our south.

In addition, Beck said that cracking down on illegal immigration would have adverse effects on crime, likely causing a spike because illegal immigrants would be too afraid to openly report crime, causing them to become a victim population.

When you create a shadow population that fears any interaction with police, Beck told the Times, then you create a whole population of victims, because they become prey for human predators who extort them or abuse them because they know they wont contact the police.

In the mid-1990s, when the state cracked down [on] illegal immigration, all we did was drive people underground, he explained.

So that helped me realize were doing this wrong, the police chief added. We have a system set up here that is penalizing people we should be protecting, and thats when we started to change the impound procedures.

According to the Associated Press, Trump definitely wants to recruit local law enforcement agencies to help federal agencies combat illegal immigration.

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Updated: Friday, January 27, 2017, 4:51 PM

MEXICO CITY If President Trump makes good on threats to gut NAFTA and impose stiff tariffs on Mexican goods, economists say he risks a trade war that could lead to the very thing he is hoping to avoid a huge surge in Mexican migration to the United States.

The result would be catastrophe for the Mexican economy: Recession. A dramatic weakening of the peso, even below the historic lows it has already set amid Trump's bellicose rhetoric. Soaring inflation, interest rates and unemployment.

"Mexico is smaller than the U.S. and can be harmed by conflict more than the U.S. would be," said Adam Posen, president of the Peterson Institute for International Economics, a Washington think tank that supports free trade.

A trade war with Mexico "drives down the peso and drives down opportunities for Mexicans to make a living in honest manufacturing jobs," he added. "There will be more desperate Mexicans crossing the border."

Trump could levy 20% tariff on Mexican imports to pay for wall

And the U.S. would by no means be immune from the fallout.

Mexico is the United States' third-largest trading partner with some $583.6 billion in cross-border commerce in 2015, according to the Office of the United States Trade Representative. That included a U.S. trade deficit of $58 billion. America buys about 80 percent of Mexico's exports, with automobiles, electrical machinery and fuels topping a long list that also includes agricultural goods such as fruit, vegetables, wine and beer.

The Trump administration's proposal this week for a 20% tax on imports from Mexico to pay for the promised border wall was quickly walked back by officials as just one of multiple "options."

It could also face stiff opposition in Congress including from Republicans who favor free trade. Those include Sens. John McCain and Jeff Flake of the border state of Arizona, who publicly came out in support of NAFTA. McCain noted that it has increased his state's exports to Mexico and Canada by $5.7 billion, or 236%, since its enactment in 1994.

By escalating tensions with Mexico, Trump is playing with fire

The worst case scenario of a trade war is frightening to contemplate, economists say.

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If the U.S. were to slap a tax on Mexican imports, it would violate the terms of NAFTA and nullify the pact, said Alfredo Coutino, Latin America director at Moody's Analytics.

Mexico could impose retaliatory tariffs, and the resulting uncertainty would spook investors and businesses, including U.S. companies with operations in Mexico that could pull out.

The peso, already sorely weakened at about 21 to the dollar, could fall to 25, 28 or even lower, Coutino continued. Unemployment would rise. Mexicans' real purchasing power would plummet as a result, and inflation could soar to double digits by the end of the year. Interest rates could also top 10 percent. The Mexican government would be forced into fiscal tightening measures, putting additional downward pressure on the economy and throwing it into recession.

Trump signs order authorizing work on Mexico border wall

America would suffer too, but not as much. Moody's forecasts that a trade war would slightly reduce U.S. economic growth and cost 300,000 American jobs after a year.

Mexico has been here before, most notably when a sharp peso devaluation in 1994 touched off a nearly 6% economic contraction.

Hundreds of thousands of Mexican job-seekers poured over the border into the United States, one of the reasons the U.S. organized a $50 billion International Monetary Fund bailout of its southern neighbor in 1995.

If the U.S. economy keeps improving while Mexico's tanks, experts say, expect more of the same. And bulking up the physical barrier may not keep migrants out, with some estimates saying 40% of illegal immigration results from people who come to the U.S. legally and then overstay their visas. Canada does not require visas of Mexican citizens, so there's nothing to stop people from flying to Canada and crossing the United States' porous northern frontier.

Mexican president asserts Mexico will not pay for any wall'

Critics say the U.S. president's obsession with illegal migration ignores the fact that the phenomenon has waned dramatically in recent years, and point to the irony that his policies could reverse that trend. The Pew Research Center reported in November that the number of unauthorized Mexican immigrants in the U.S. fell from 6.95 million in 2007, to 5.85 to million in 2014.

Coutino predicted that economic chaos in Mexico would strengthen the cartels that traffic drugs into the U.S. another stated target of the border wall as unemployed people are more vulnerable to recruitment by the gangs.

"You will have a neighbor to the south of your border with unemployment, with social problems, with rising criminality," Coutino said. "Do you want to have a neighbor like that? That's the question that Trump and his team should be asking themselves."

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And you know, you say youve had a tough day. You know, I dont know if you understand what a tough day is in the life of a parent who has lost a child at the hands of an illegal in this country, Wilkerson began.

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Oh, Vargas said, smirking and raising his eyebrows at Wilkerson.

[Y]ou are legal or illegal, its one way or the other, there is no grey area on that, she continued as Vargas shook his head.

Youve had plenty of time in this country to get in line[and] come in the front door. Your parents brought you here undocumented, and that is something that is a question you will have to have for your parents, she said. But you have had plenty of time to get in line, and we dont have to make any excuses for that.

We have to do nothing for the illegal here, she said. They need to come in, and come through the front door. There is a process. It needs to be ongoing and enforced.

Wilkersons son, Joshua, died onNovember 16, 2010, after an illegal alien classmate brought into the U.S. as a 10-year-old beat him, strangled him, and tortured him to death, later tying him up and setting his body on fire in a field. Years later, theconvicted murderer still bragged about his killing skills in court while excitedly demonstratinghow he murdered the 100-lb. Joshua.

Instead of getting Joshua home that day from school, we got an autopsy report, Wilkerson testified before a Senate hearing in July 2015.He was kicked so hard in the stomach that it sent his spleen into his spine, and sliced it in two The medical examiner said it was torture.

This was our familys 9/11 terrorist attack by a foreign invader, whether you want to recognize it or whether you do not, Wilkerson said.This government continues to fail or even recognize that we have an issue. Americans are dying daily at the hands of criminals that we dont even know are here.

Wilkerson has fought for years as an advocate for American families who lost loved ones to illegal alien crime as part of the Angel Moms, brought together by the nonprofit Remembrance Project.

Vargas later complained he lived in a grey area in the U.S. as an illegal alien who refuses to leave the country.

I live in the grey area. This is not black and white, he said.

There is no grey area, Wilkerson said.

There is not just illegal versus illegaloh, I live in the grey area, he continued. Millions of people live the grey area every day.

You are in this country illegally, and thats it, Wilkerson replied.

Watch the entire exchange, with Wilkerson asking how Vargas and other illegal aliens manage to obtain Social Security cards, here.

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Angel Mom Laura Wilkerson to Jose Antonio Vargas: There Is No 'Grey Area' With Illegal Immigration - Breitbart News

VERIFY: Illegal immigrants taking jobs

Danielle Serino , WKYC 7:12 PM. EST January 27, 2017

We couldn't go much higher than this.

"I'm working on a story about illegal immigration and its impact on jobs for American workers.

That was me, reaching out to Governor John Kasich.

"To see what's going on in our state," I said to his staff.

He wasn't available to talk, but workers have quite a lot to say on the topic

We do not need them taking our money, services and our children's time, said one protestor.

But are they really taking our money? Well, after a lot of research, we found the majority of illegal immigrants are hired for jobs that require: very little English, where they need limited tech or supervisory skills and where they have little interaction with the public.

And that will affect some of our lowest skilled workers, not only with competition for jobs... but with wages. Because the more workers that are available, the less employees have to pay them.

But they are often jobs Americans don't want according to Dr. Jooyoun Park, who specializes in International Trade at Kent State University

"They are usually small farming, food processing like slaughterhouses, chicken, all those packaging Usually jobs employers have a hard time finding workers for, she says.

According to the think tank the Urban Institute, census data confirms most illegal immigrants and Americans, aren't competing for the same jobs.

It shows that the top 3 occupations for immigrants, without a high school education, are maids or housekeepers, cooks, and agricultural workers.

For Americans without a diploma, the top jobs are cashiers, sales workers and truck drivers. Plus, janitors or building cleaners.

But even if you don't believe that data, there is no denying this: A big part of this problem comes from all the employers who hire illegals...because they're cheap labor.

Only 22 states in the country have laws requiring employers to use the Governments E-Verify system, which uses Social Security data to check whether someone is a citizen. Ohio is not one of them.

Which means... until American companies put the interests of our workers ahead of their profits, theres plenty of blame to go around.

So we'll say this is Verified.

( 2017 WKYC)

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