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Biden: Georgia needs to ‘smarten up’ to avoid losing business

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President Joe Biden praised businesses for opposing new voting laws while telling Georgia and other states to “smarten up.”

Speaking to reporters Tuesday, Biden said “it’s reassuring to see that for-profit operations and businesses are speaking up about how these new Jim Crow laws that are just antithetical to who we are.”

“There’s another side to it too. When they in fact move out of Georgia, people who need help most, people who are making hourly wages, sometimes get hurt the most,” he continued.

Biden then went on to say that he supports and respects businesses’ decisions to protest the new voting legislation.

“I think it’s a very tough decision for a corporation to make or group to make, I respect them when they make that judgment, I support whatever judgment they make. The best way to deal with this is for Georgia and other states to smarten up. Stop it, stop it,” he said.

Biden said last week that he would “strongly support” moving the MLB All-Star Game out of Georgia to protest the new voting laws, joining other corporations condemning the new laws such as Delta Air Lines and Coca-Cola.

Less than two days later, the MLB announced it would relocate the game, citing Georgia’s “restrictions to the ballot box.”

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky) told reporters Tuesday that he does not support corporations taking sides on “incendiary issues” such as the new Georgia legislation.

“I’m not talking about political contributions,” McConnell told reporters in Kentucky. “Most of them contribute to both sides. They have political action committees. That’s fine. It’s legal. It’s appropriate. I support that. I’m talking about taking a position on a highly incendiary issue like this and punishing a community or state because you don’t like a particular law they passed. I just think it’s stupid. … What I’m saying here is I think this is quite stupid.”

McConnell continued, arguing that companies will lose business by choosing sides.

“Republicans drink Coca-Cola, too, and we fly, and we like baseball,” he said. “It’s irritating one hell of a lot of Republican fans.”

Follow Annaliese Levy on Twitter @AnnalieseLevy

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Biden-Harris Administration Brought in More ‘Parole Migrants’ Than Jobs Created in October

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Over 50,000 “Parole migrants” were welcomed into the United States by the Biden Administration’s Office of Field Operations (OFO) at the ports of entry along the border in October. They are flown or bused into the U.S. for jobs; despite the economic slowdown. In September, only 12,000 additional jobs were created, which was one-ninth of the 112,500 new jobs that were expected, reports Breitbart.

In addition to the ‘parole migrants’ an additional 56,580 migrants– including many women and children – crossed the border illegally and were registered by the Border Patrol. Some will be deported.

Biden’s deputies also welcomed at least 150,000 legal immigrants, foreign temporary workers, and refugees.  “More illegal aliens crossed our border last week than jobs added for all of October,” said a tweet from Rep. Tom Tiffany (R-WI). “That’s Kamalonomics,” he added, as he blamed Kamala Harris who dodged an oversight over over migration in March 2021.

Breitbart adds:

Also, the inflow of migrants ensures that employers can ignore the large population of at least 5 million working-age American men who have fallen out of the workforce.

Instead of finding, training, and paying those of the discarded American men — many of who are overweight, alienated, addicted, and lazy — the CEOs can now make more money by bussing more of Mayorkas’ healthy, indebted, compliant migrants into their low-tech workplaces.

Moreover, if Biden had not extracted migrants from poor countries — such as Venezuela or Ecuador — more U.S. workers would have been hired by CEOs to help trade with the people in poor countries. The lopsided October numbers are a PR glitch for Biden and his deputies, such as his pro-migration border chief, Alejandro Mayorkas.

In September, Mayorkas spoke at a public event in Texas where he championed his policy of importing more migrants for jobs that would otherwise go to Americans at higher wages:

We look to the north, with Canada. Canada takes a look at its market needs, and it says, “You know what? We need 700,000 foreign workers to address our labor needs domestically.” And, so, they build a visa system for that year to address the current market condition. And they say, “We’re going to bring in a million people.” And it’s market sensitive.

We [in the United States] are dealing with numerical caps on labor-driven visas that were set in 1996. It’s 2024. The world has changed. It is remarkable how there can be [elite] agreement that [the visas system] is broken and not have an agreement on a solution. The country is suffering as a result of it. Communities have “blossomed by reason of the infusion of individuals from another country,” Mayorkas said.

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