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Comparing today’s wage and inflation data with January 2021 gives the opposite result: Inflation outpaces wages.
Since January 2021, wages have risen by 12%, compared with inflation rising by nearly 16%.
https://budget.house.gov/press-release/fact-check-setting-the-record-straight-on-bidenomics
https://home.treasury.gov/news/featured-stories/the-purchasing-power-of-american-households
us statistics - real per capita median income change by year
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MEPAINUSA672N
Crime statistics
https://www.fbi.gov/news/press-releases/fbi-releases-2022-crime-in-the-nation-statistics
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Over the weekend, an unprecedented terror attack by Hamas led to Israel declaring a state of war, mobilising 300,000 reservists and ordering a “complete siege” of Gaza.
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The twilight of “Pax Americana” started under Barack Obama, accelerated under and has not been reversed by , despite his staunch support for Ukraine. Many countries in the West are similarly distracted by their own internal problems. Conflict and aid fatigue appears to be setting in.
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The rules-based global order may have unfairly benefited the G7 group of rich countries but at least everyone knew where they stood. As it fractures, there’s little to stop every country pursuing its own national interests at the expense of everything else. The result, as we’re already starting to see, will be chaotic.
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In 2022, Biden created a "parole" program to let MONTHLY up to 30,000 illegal aliens from those four countries ( CHNV ) to the United States WITHOUT any legal approval from Congress to enter the United States on two-year periods of parole, complete with the promise of employment authorization and, ultimately, access to government benefits.
US Immigration Laws - details
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The Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) was enacted in 1952. The INA collected many provisions and reorganized the structure of immigration law. The INA has been amended many times over the years and contains many of the most important provisions of immigration law.
The INA is contained in the United States Code (U.S.C.). The U.S. Code is a collection of all the laws of the United States. Title 8 of the U.S. Code covers "Aliens and Nationality."
The tables below show INA sections and their corresponding U.S. Code section. To ensure accuracy, USCIS links to the official U.S. Code prepared by the Office of the Law Revision Counsel of the U.S. House of Representatives.
This massive surge in illegal migration — over and above Congress’ limits in the INA — will quickly become unsustainable absent significant tax increases or drastic cuts in government funding for public benefits, housing, education, and healthcare. By law, Congress, not the president, gets to decide who is allowed to come here and who must be kept out. It’s well past time that Congress reasserts that authority.
US CBP Immigration stats
comparison annual stats for cbp stats
https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/stats/cbp-enforcement-statistics
https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/stats/nationwide-encounters
https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/stats/cbp-enforcement-statistics
https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/stats/custody-and-transfer-statistics
https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/stats/southwest-land-border-encounters
Potential Value Opportunities
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https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/social-security-immigration-problem-getting-084400657.html
one demographic shift that's causing all sorts of problems for Social Security has to do with the rate of immigration into the United States.
Social Security is a program that's heavily reliant on people legally migrating into the U.S. each year. Most people who move to the U.S. tend to be younger, which means they'll spend decades in the labor force. Social Security collects approximately 90% of its annual revenue from the 12.4% payroll tax on wages and salaries (up to $168,600 in 2024).
the net migration rate for the U.S. per 1,000 people has fallen from 6.48 in 1998 to 2.748 in 2023, representing a nearly 58% drop in legal net immigration.
With the U.S. population reaching nearly 340 million in 2023, a net migration rate of 2.748 per 1,000 people translates to roughly 934,300 net legal migrants entering the United States. The 2023 Trustees Report bases its $22.4 trillion funding shortfall estimate on average annual net immigration of 1.245 million people through 2097. In other words, a continued decline in the legal net migration rate will almost certainly result in a larger expected funding obligation shortfall over the coming 75 years.
Supplemental Security Income (SSI) is funded via the General Fund.
SSI also, on occasion, provides income to people seeking asylum in the United States. Traditional Social Security provides no benefits whatsoever to undocumented workers.
Israel's formation in 1947 by the UN as a 2 state solution - facts
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