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The federal government, along with local and state governments, prioritize illegal aliens more than its own veterans, according to a new analysis from the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR).

The report examines federal, state, and localgovernment expenditures on items such as education, healthcare, and legal aidfor illegal aliens and veterans. Its findings reveal that providingbenefits and services to illegal aliens outstrips theresources dedicated to providing for the needs of veterans.

By Fiscal Year 2021, the U.S. will need to spend roughly $243 billion to assist its veterans, the reportfinds. However, the open borders lobby continues to prioritize funding forillegal aliens, even though money would be better spent on law-abidingindividuals who defended the country. Currently, an estimated 14.3 million illegalaliens live in the United States, which costs taxpayers about $132 billion annually.

Veterans require anddeserve a significant amount of assistance as many struggle with issues relatedto their service. Homelessness, substance abuse andmental health issues are greater among veterans than the general population.Adding to these challenges, job competition withillegal aliens makes it more difficult for veterans to find work, as illegalaliens depress their wages and fill jobs that might otherwise go to veterans.

The study identifies that an estimated 1.2million veterans are either unemployed or underemployed, while 7 million illegal aliens continue to work in the UnitedStates. Despite having roughly a million individuals who fought for our freedomin need of employment assistance some looking to upgrade their careerprospects, others just looking for a paying job illegal aliens continue to bepreferred by some employers.

And it is not just jobs. Veterans continue to struggle with unmet healthcare needs, even as federal, state and local governments choose to provide free medical care to the nations growing illegal alien population. The open-borders lobby is attempting to expand the Affordable Care Act to include low-income illegal alien populations, which would cost approximately $10 billion annually and could potentially reach $23 billion, the analysis reveals. Meanwhile, VA clinics, which need significant upgrades, continue to fall short of the mark, argue advocates for our nations veterans.

Veterans can also face discrimination when itcomes to education funding. For example, in April 2019, the New York statelegislature set aside $27 million in college tuition assistance for thechildren of illegal aliens but refused to add a few hundred thousand dollars toa program that funds university education for the children of deceased anddisabled veterans, the study points out.

Governments should not be prioritizingthe needs of illegal aliens while veterans areshort-changed, the study argues. In sanctuary citiesfrom coast to coast, this trend is rampant. In 2018, officials in Oakland,California, created a $300,000 fund for illegal aliens facing possibledeportation. In the same year, Baltimore, Maryland, approved $200,000 worth ofspending to protect illegal aliens from deportation.

Simply put, taxpayer money should not be spent on illegal aliens with no allegiance to the United States, while the needs of veterans, to whom the U.S. owes a significant debt, continue to go unmet. Instead, the scarce resources being spent on illegal aliens should be allocated to programs that address veteran unemployment, healthcare, and homelessness. However, this goal can only be achieved if governments at all levels recalibrate their priorities and stop favoring illegal aliens over American veterans.

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New Study: America Takes Better Care of Illegal Aliens Than Its Veterans - ImmigrationReform.com

(April 17, 2020 / JNS) The depth of the coronavirus pandemic took the world by surprise. The international economy has completely crashed, unemployment is rampant, and as of Friday, the disease hasclaimed more than 150,000 lives worldwide, with a reported 2.2 million cases of infection.

While scientists around the world continue to decipher the many surprises delivered by this virus, the illness did not disappoint those who have studied the history of anti-Semitism. Europes Black Plague, Russias 1917 Communist Revolution and Germanys economic turmoil following the conclusion of World War I all saw a disproportionate rise in anti-Semitism. The logic is simple: When a crisis hits, the Jews will serve as worthy scapegoats. Following the Nazis systematic extermination of 6 million Jews, it seemed that the world had finally understood the dangers of anti-Jewish hatred. If it did, it only lasted a short while.

Only 75 years have passed since the Russian and American forced freed Birkenau and Treblinka. Survivors of the Holocaust continue to find the strength and resilience to travel the world and speak of the horrors they saw. No one needs to pay a fee to hear them, nor do people need to travel hundreds of miles to hear their stories, which now are ubiquitous online.

So what do Americans know about the Holocaust in 2020?

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According to a pollpublishedby Pew Research Center, the results are rather frightening.

As many as 55 percent of Americans are unaware that 6 million Jews were systematically murdered by the Nationalist Socialist Party, with 57 percent not knowing that Adolf Hitler took power in Germany through a democratic process.

What does this mean?

The majority of Americans are completely unacquainted with one of the most fundamental lessons that modern history has left us withthe fact that anti-Semitism can be easily mainstreamed and weaponized.

And it has been in this age of corona.

In an attempt to aggressively flatten the curve of the virus, the United Stateslike most governments around the worldhas requested that all individuals practice responsible social distancing and, if possible, stay home and practice self-quarantine

Within hours of this request, the memes and jokes went viral. Sadly, the memory of the Holocaust was rapidly cheapened. In fact, if you were to search the name of Anne Frank on Twitters search bar, you would most likely encounter the followingposts:

Quarantine is just the Anne Frank challenge.

Anne Frank did this for two years with no TV or video games. Impressive.

At least Anne Frank had a boyfriend.

The last of these is perhaps the most disturbing. The reason being that the individual who tweeted out this despicable comparison must have been somewhat familiar with Anne Franks story. Even with that knowledge, the individual decided to compare the quarantine, brought upon by this pandemic, to the memory of a young girl who had her citizenship revoked, was forced into hiding with her entire family, and then eventually captured and murdered, all because she was Jewish.

Members of Congress have also used rhetoric to cheapen analogies to the Holocaust.

You may recall last yearscomments by Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), regarding the immigration centers at the U.S.-Mexico border:

The U.S. is running concentration camps on our southern border, and that is exactly what they are. If that doesnt bother you I want to talk to the people that are concerned enough with humanity to say that never again means something.

The invocation of the terms concentration camp and never again were strategically used to spark a partisan debate on immigration reform in the United States. Doubts that they were strategically used were put to rest after an interview a few days after the controversial comments were made. When asked why she used these terms, she responded:

If I didnt say it that way,no one would be talking about concentration camps. Weve got members [of Congress] going to the border every single weekend because we jostled this discussion. And we named it for what it was.

The congresswoman succeeded. Immigration reform, at least for a few weeks, took the spotlight in national discourse on policy reform.

The price? Dishonoring the memory of millions of Jews who were gathered and transported like cattle across Europe for extermination. It was an obvious and erroneous comparison to the World War II and the Holocaust.

Perhaps the individuals referencing Anne Franks experience during their time in quarantine subconsciously dismissed any regard for the continuedriseof anti-Semitism in America, or maybe they are willingly participating in it. Maybe they had no idea. It doesnt matter. The consequences of cheapening the memory of the Holocaust remain the same under any circumstance.

While it needs to be pointed out that Ocasio-Cortezs political activism should not be compared to the recent jokes found on social media, there is a question worth asking: Does the occasional minimization of the Holocaust by the highest members of the U.S. government, by the media and even by academics fuel or even enable the comfortability of the American public to engage in anti-Semitic rhetoric?

The memory of the Holocaust must be sanctified.

That should be one of Americas first steps in its fight to combat the rise of anti-Semitism exacerbated by the pandemic.

Yoni Michanie, a former paratrooper in the Israel Defense Forces, holds a masters degree in diplomacy and international security from IDC Herzliya. He is an Israel advocate, public speaker, Middle East analyst, and a campus adviser and strategic planner at CAMERA.

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From Texas Standard:

Editor's note: Between the reporting and airing of this story, Austin Resource Recovery's director, Ken Snipes, told the Texas Standard that masks are now provided for employees.

Interstate 35 is a vital transportation artery cutting across Texas, south to north. It stretches from Mexico, through Dallas and eventually ends up in Canada. The highway is essential for keeping goods flowing between the three largest countries in North America everything from produce to medical equipment is trucked along it. And it's especially important during the pandemic as people are more aware of the vulnerability of the supply chain.

But the highway is also a divider. It splits the population of Texas into two very uneven sectors. A large majority of Texans live east of I-35, says Texas State Demographer Lloyd Potter.

Its 87% of our population, he says.

And it creates local divisions, too. In Austin, I-35 divided the city by race, starting in the mid-20th century. And it wasnt by accident. Eliot Tretter, author of Shadows of a Sunbelt City: The Environment, Racism and the Knowledge Economy in Austin, says I-35 became a monument that separated white Austin from non-white Austin a means of segregation.

Some people call [Austin] the Dual City or the Apartheid City, Tretter says.

That duality is especially apparent during the COVID-19 pandemic, and particularly during the early morning. In west Austin at that time of day, there's an atmosphere of peacefulness. The west side tends to be wealthier, and many people there work from home right now. So, at, say 5:30 a.m. or 6:00 a.m., many residents are still asleep. But in parts of east Austin, there's a buzzy atmosphere as some residents head to work in jobs deemed essential by the state. But that buzziness can also make it feel like an alternate reality, as if the virus doesn't exist.

Daniel Perez is an eastsider with an essential job. He starts work at 5:30 a.m., installing kitchen cabinets. People like Salvador and Erica are also ready to work early in the morning. They are unauthorized immigrants, so Texas Standard decided to only use their first names. Salvador is a roofer. Erica works for a house cleaning service.

Even the grocery stores in east Austin open early to service the constant stream of workers who stop by to grab a case of bottled water, or cleaning supplies or a bite to eat before heading to work.

Andrew Roberson works for the city of Austins waste management department, Austin Resource Recovery. As he climbs into a recycling truck, armed with his breakfast in one hand and an orange juice in the other, the protective gear that is ubiquitous in the city nowadays is, strangely, nowhere on his body.

Im on the front line every day and I havent got no pension for it. Im not even given a mask. [And, yet], I touch everyones recycle and trash cans, Roberson says.

Without a vaccine, the primary weapons against COVID-19 are staying home, washing hands and wearing masks. Roberson doesnt have any of those protections.

The new coronavirus doesnt discriminate; anyone can become infected. But some people, like Roberson, face more risk because of their race, job or socioeconomic status. It's unclear why the city of Austin hasn't provided him with a protective mask.

Tretter says these oversights could be explained by looking at how our culture treats these workers under regular circumstances. Things that we've accepted as "normal" risks in certain jobs, like environmental hazards, can be rationalized as part of a course of how we build cities, he says.

From exposure, to pollution on highways, to lead paint, to where people live, to who has the right to live and die" all of that has been absorbed into a sort of ethos that a resident might buy into while living in the city.

Democratic state Rep. Donna Howard says COVID-19 has revealed troubling attitudes about whose lives are valued and whose aren't.

Its in our faces, she says.

Howards district covers parts of east and west Austin both sides of the Dual City. And the differences have become increasingly evident to her. The only way to change things, she says, is through political reform, and she hopes the pandemic will be a catalyst for that. She especially wants immigration reform to protect people who were vulnerable even before the pandemic.

These are the people that are there making sure that [the] food supply chain is continuing to function. [These] people allow us to enjoy the lives that we have and to have food on our table, Howard says.

Texas has called them essential. But some of them dont feel that way. One person recently commented on social media that instead of essential, we feel disposable.

Digital story edited by Caroline Covington.

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Which of these two famous guys more likely committed the sexual assault he has been accused of?

A) Brett Kavanaugh.

B) Joe Biden.

The answer is obvious, which is why Sleepy Joe has just picked up two very tepid endorsements, one from 78-year-old millionaire socialist Bernie Sanders, and the second from the other half of what Joe calls the OBiden-Bama administration.

On his latest podcast, Sleepy Joe modestly introduced himself:

Well, the uh look um uh you know uh uh with uh the fact is that uh theres a lot going on I dont know where to begin but uh

Thats okay, I know where to begin. Lets start with the charges of Bidens former aide Tara Reade that in 1993 he threw her up against a wall, reached under her dress and grabbed her by her private parts. And then, when she rebuffed him, he said to her, Cmon man, I heard you liked me.

This story broke three weeks ago. Three weeks ago! Yet the New York Times and The Washington Post the Pravda and Izvestia of the Democrat party waited until last weekend to, youll pardon the expression, touch the story.

Until after Bolshevik Bernie dropped out of the race.

The Times initially reported, We found no pattern of sexual misconduct by Biden, beyond hugs, kisses and touching that women previously said made them uncomfortable.

You know, like the female Secret Service agents who said they were forced to watch him swim in the nude when he was vice president. Or the female Nevada state rep who said he wrapped himself around her like an octopus. Or all those photos of him groping gals from 8 to 80

But almost instantly the Times deleted the above sentence, after a demand from the Biden campaign. The Times admitted it caved. Thats what party propaganda sheets do, when the commissar puts his shod foot down.

No surprise here in 2016, at least one Times reporter cleared his fawning Hillary Clinton copy with the campaign. It was all revealed in those Wikileaks emails.

Another one of those leaks indicated that the Democrats were even ghostwriting slobbering Hillary hagiographies for at least one hack at The Washington Post. Which that brings us to the Posts brooming of this latest Biden scandal.

The Post found no other allegations against (Biden) as serious as Reades.

Which is sort of like writing a story about Ted Kennedy and saying, The Post found no other allegations against Kennedy as serious as Mary Jo Kopechnes.

But what more would you expect from two newspapers that awarded themselves Pulitzer Prizes a couple of years ago for their deeply sourced, relentlessly reported coverage of what was, we now know, an utter hoax about the Trump campaign colluding with the Russians, when in reality it was Hillary Clintons campaign playing footsie with the erstwhile Reds.

Maybe the papers had to vet the salacious allegations about their hero, Lunch Bucket Joe. Just like they did with, say, Julie Swetnick.

Remember her she was the very sketchy woman who accused Brett Kavanaugh of once running a teenage rape gang in the Beltway suburbs, even though she was years older than him.

She was the client of one Michael Avenatti, whose Bureau of Prisons number is 86743-054, and who was just temporarily released from the penitentiary hell be residing in for the next decade or so.

During Kavanaughs confirmation hearings, NBC News led its newscast with Swetnicks totally uncorroborated, since-debunked charges.

You see, theres no need to vet any salacious allegations against Republicans. Ready, shoot, aim.

Joe Biden, though, just wants to look ahead, to his presidency:

Were gonna finally achieve comprehensive immigration reform as well as put millions of citizens on a path to citizenship.

Sounds like a plan.

So Im pleased to announce that Bernie and I have agreed to establish six policy working groups, one on the economy, one on education, one on criminal justice, which should be reform not punishment, one on immigration, climate change and the economy.

Could I be on the policy working group on the economy, or, if thats full up, maybe the one on the economy?

Meanwhile, Sleepy Joe is still down in the basement, babbling about something.

But it seems to me that there is this sense that somehow again I keep getting back to this issue and I may be dead wrong about it is that there seems to be this this this this sort of gut feeling that government can never do anything as well as the private sector can do it so the better we let government keep out of this the better off were gonna be. I dont think its just about, at least Im not sure, obviously.

May we quote you on that, Mr. Vice President?

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The devastation wrought by COVID-19 has laid bare just how vulnerable we are when the institutions of American life fail to work. It is one of the great miracles of the American creed that we soldier on no matter the circumstancesthat, for example, health care professionals continue to serve even as resources are scarce. But when this crisis abates and it will we need to fix whats broken across much of American government. And heres one place thats often overlooked: the federal governments executive branch.

When analysts focus on gridlock, dysfunction, or whatever word you choose to describe Washingtons failure to solve problems, they tend to home in on either the one person who sits in the Oval Office or on Congress. As many correctly point out, Democrats and Republicans too frequently scream at each otheror else talk past one another when they should be hammering together bipartisan legislation. Fortunately, the Problem Solvers Caucus, a bloc of 25 Republicans and 25 Democrats working together on a range of issues, is now building a bridge into the Senate.

But governments failures are not exclusively the province of Capitol Hill or the Oval Office. If you drove around Washington (before the era of social distancing) and took stock of the enormous number of federal buildings, you would know that the vast majority arent extensions of Congress, but rather are filled by bureaucrats working in agencies run, in the main, by explicitly political appointeesmen and women who have been selected to fill important positions explicitly because theyve paid heed to one of the two political parties.

The results are predictable. The bureaucracies these political appointees control are often made not to solve problems but to grind political axes. Rather than finding the proper balance between, say, economic growth and environmental protection, bureaucracies charged with writing and enforcing regulations vacillate from one to the other as control of the White House bounces from one party to the other. Rather than trying to find a bipartisan way forward on immigration reform and border protection, agencies leaders pick one over the other.

There are, of course, some protections against the politicization of executive branch bureaucracies. To cut back on the patronage system that empowered 19th century presidents to staff government agencies explicitly through patronage, civil service reforms created a protected class of bureaucrats who remain at government agencies even as the political winds change. But over the last several decades, too many political appointees who control those bureaucracies have largely abandoned the long tradition of acting in the broad public interest, far too often giving in to the impulse to act as partisan functionaries. That needs to change.

Turning this tide will be a big task. Those in power today have no incentive to give up their authority voluntarily. So, while we can work toward this goal during this election year, the ground may not yet be entirely fertile. That said, 2024 is a different story. Leaders in both parties will realize they stand some chance of losing the presidential election, and depending on how this years election evolves, neither party will necessarily have an incumbent advantage. In other words, both parties will have an incentive to embrace the notion that executive branch appointeesfrom Cabinet-level posts all the way down to those working one level above the civil servantsshould be appointed on account of their competence, rather than their fealty to one party or the other. So we need to begin working now to provide the foundation for a truly integrated government.

Some will argue that a bipartisan administration is beyond the palethat the executive branch needs to be the sole property of one party or the other. But in the scheme of incredible things that have happened over the last few years, integrating the executive branch would hardly be among the most radical. This has worked at the state levelMaryland Republican Gov. Larry Hogan, for example, has both Democrats and Republicans serving in his administration.

Fixing Congress may be the first order, and the Problem Solvers are well on their way to building momentum for a solutions-oriented legislature. But we cant lose sight of the rest of government. America can grow strong after this crisis abatesbut only if our leaders ensure that we work to solve problems together. Beyond having a token Cabinet secretary from the other party in any given administration, the president inaugurated in 2025 should lead a government that is balanced between left and right.

Nancy Jacobson is CEO and founder No Labels, a group that seeks to move Washington beyond partisan gridlock and toward solutions to challenges faced by the country.

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