Insurrection - Open And Not-So-Open - By The State Of California Against The Federal Government

Illegal immigrants are essentially an imported source of slave labor which benefit the companies which, in previous years, had exported their production to slave labor states like Communist China...

But now that the manufacturing has been moved back to the US, there is a need to keep the bottom lines propped up, and the way that is being done is to import millions of slave laborers into the US. All businesses fight to minimize the cost of labor, that keeps profits high, stock prices high, and increases executive compensation and shareholder value. The illegal immigrants brought into the US - lured by the false promise of wealth beyond anything they could dream of in their native countries - agree to pay the cartels which control their movement into the US thousands of dollars to get them in. And they have to pay the cartels back, because the cartels hold their families as hostages, as human collateral, and this collateral can have bad, bad things happen to it if the money is not paid.

And the illegal immigrants know this. They have to get employment, to work, to send the money back - and if the average amount owed is $7500, they figure that they can easily earn this amount. But they don’t consider that they have no rights against their employers - because of their illegal status. They can be paid $5 per hour - or the employer can simply promise to pay them that much, and just provide food and housing. They can be forced to work for 70 or 80 hours per week, they can be forced to work under dangerous conditions - and the employer can simply refuse to pay the promised wages.

And the employees have no recourse in court, because of their illegal status. If they try to organize a union, they can be fired - and as illegals, they have no recourse to the National Labor Relations Board. And if they’re fired, there’s no more income - and the cartels have their agents who have also been brought in - they’re the overseers, and the Slave Patrol. And when the payments to the cartels cease, their families back in their home countries are in trouble - and the cartels have no difficulty in making examples of people. So for employers who had previously been dependent on Chinese slave labor, it’s a great deal, they can have their own imported slave labor force, in fact they can contract with the cartels to pick and choose which kinds of slaves are required.

The companies get rich, and so do the cartels, it’s only the campesinos who suffer, but they have suffered for generations and generations, for centuries - only the slavemasters and overseers change - the whip is the same. And of course the governments overseeing this get paid, too - and those governments will fight to ensure that the money keeps flowing in, along with more illegal immigrants - and there is no escaping this slavery in this digital age with universal surveillance.

“One organization in particular has emerged as a key player: the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights, or CHIRLA. The LA-based nonprofit has long pushed radical positions on immigration – for example, in 2018, it spearheaded a campaign to abolish ICE. Its stated mission is to “build power, transform public opinion, and change policies” to achieve “full human, civil, and labor rights.”

Critics might describe CHIRLA instead as a well-funded political engine for the open-borders left.

And taxpayers might question the source of that funding. According to its 2023 audit, CHIRLA received $34 million from the government, with 96 percent from the State of California. State funding of $32.5 million in 2023 represented a dramatic increase from $11.4 million in 2022.

CHIRLA leads the LA Rapid Response Network (LARRN), a hotline launched in January to collect tips about ICE activity and dispatch activists to intervene. Mayor Karen Bass herself has admitted that the city relies on this network to monitor federal immigration enforcement.

The LA protests kicked into high gear after David Huerta, president of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) in California, was arrested for allegedly obstructing ICE officers. Huerta is a major political player in the state, leading a union of 750,000 workers that is a major donor to the Democratic Party. Though his spokesperson claimed he was merely observing, video released by the US Attorney appears to show him blocking an ICE vehicle.

CHIRLA sprang into action, organizing a rally to protest Huerta’s arrest. Demonstrators waved signs from the Party for Socialism and Liberation, a Communist group, and chanted familiar slogans: “No justice, no peace!” and “Stand up, fight back!” CHIRLA’s executive director referred to Huerta as her “brother,” highlighting the group’s close ties to organized labor.

Mayor Bass joined posted on X, “We will not stand for this” – “this” referring not to street violence, but to ICE enforcing federal law. In Spanish, she was more direct: “We are not going to permit these actions.”

Bass has a long-standing relationship with CHIRLA. Just last year, she congratulated the organization for acquiring a new building to continue advancing “justice and full inclusion for all immigrants.” In August, her office issued a press release bragging about securing federal funds for CHIRLA.

Roughly 37 percent of CHIRLA’s expenditures last year went to legal services, including representing both legal and undocumented immigrants in deportation proceedings. Whether California taxpayers should foot the bill for such services is an open question.

Far more dubious are the remaining 63 percent of expenditures. About 21 percent was spent on overhead – management and fundraising. The rest funded programs labeled “Organizing,” “Civic Engagement,” “Community Education and Outreach” and “Policy and Advocacy.” In other words, activism – and much of it overtly political.

Though it operates as a nonprofit, CHIRLA is highly politically active. In the 2023-2024 legislative session alone, it registered support for 47 bills in Sacramento and sent representatives to testify on 28 of them. Its affiliated political arm, the CHIRLA Action Fund, endorses Democratic candidates up and down the ballot – from Kamala Harris to Gavin Newsom to Adam Schiff.

No, CHIRLA staff were not the ones throwing rocks at police. But they built the infrastructure that mobilized protesters at a moment’s notice and amplified incendiary rhetoric as tensions boiled over. At minimum, their behavior was reckless, fueling the chaos.

In theory, 501(c)(3) organizations like CHIRLA are prohibited from engaging in partisan politics, but in practice, they are able to influence public opinion and lobby to such an extent the distinction seems meaningless. The Democrat supermajority in California seems happy to use nonprofits like CHIRLA to advance their ideological agenda, using taxpayer dollars, while maintaining the legal fiction of nonpartisanship." https://thespectator.com/topic/california-taxpayers-subsidize-protest-industrial-complex-fueling-la-riots/

The last thing groups like CHIRLA are concerned about is “labor rights” - that’s true for the Democratic Party as a whole, which threw the working class under the bus in 1994, with the passage of NAFTA and GATT under the Clinton Administration. By subsidizing movement of manufacturing to countries like Mexico which could pay their working class crumbs and get away with it, and eventually to China, with its vast slave labor complex, and people who try to organize independent labor unions in China end up in jail for 10 years, or dead.

And the Democratic Party destroyed the unions and the working and middle classes, and snuffed out the American Dream for hundreds of millions of people - in favor of the oligarchs, the Democratic Party Donor Class, which gives us junk candidates like Kamala Harris (https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/09/06/kamala-harris-another-establishment-candidate/) and destroys anyone who would upset their economic order. Donald Trump got elected in order to fight against this oligarchy - although he definitely has oligarchic tendencies himself - and I’ve written about this in the recent past. But this is the battle we face, not only in California, but across the country, of the middle and working classes against oligarchs whose greed knows no bounds, and the governments and “nonprofit” NGOs owned by them - and the criminal organizations that they are confederated with.

And the employers of the illegal immigrants ought not to be allowed to get away with their fraud and abuse, their “slaves” should be fairly compensated for their labor, their employers should be made to pay them twice the difference between the prevailing wage for their labor, with a wage of $20 per hour being the minimum, for the first 40 hours, the next 20 hours being paid at time-and-a-half, and any hours above that to be paid at double-time. In addition, if the workers are disabled, the employer would be required to compensate them at the US rates for necessary hospital or emergency room care, and such rehabilitative care to where they can rejoin the work force - in their native countries, of course. And if the employers use violence or the threat thereof, to deny these employees their fair labor rights, including to organize for higher pay and benefits, there should be fines paid, per employee, at the rate of $10,000 per day or fraction thereof, to a fund designated to compensate the workers, to be distributed to them as payments from a trust, in their home countries. The point of this is to make the labor of illegal immigrants prohibitively expensive for their employers. And if the employers or their agents use physical force or violence, they should be charged with the appropriate crimes at the felony level, and serve a mandatory minimum sentence of at least two years in a federal prison, thus serving as a further deterrent.