{"id":978338,"date":"2021-11-06T21:43:52","date_gmt":"2021-11-07T01:43:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=978338"},"modified":"2021-11-06T21:43:56","modified_gmt":"2021-11-07T01:43:56","slug":"pinkerton-the-destructive-left-wing-logic-behind-bidens-embrace-of-450k-reparations-for-border-crossers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pinkerton-the-destructive-left-wing-logic-behind-bidens-embrace-of-450k-reparations-for-border-crossers\/","title":{"rendered":"Pinkerton: The Destructive Left-Wing Logic Behind Biden\u2019s Embrace of $450K Reparations for Border Crossers"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpinkerton-the-destructive-left-wing-logic-behind-bidens-embrace-of-450k-reparations-for-border-crossers%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=978338&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p><b>Sweet Money From Uncle Sugar?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Did you hear the one about the Biden administration\u2019s plan to pay illegal aliens $450,000? &nbsp;It\u2019s not a joke, even if President Biden, on November 3, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/tv\/biden-trashes-fox-news-peter-doocy-for-immigration-question-you-guys-keep-sending-that-garbage-out\/\">called it<\/a> \u201cgarbage\u201d and \u201cnot true.\u201d And yet as we shall see, the plan&nbsp;<em>was<\/em> true, and it <em>did<\/em> come from his administration. &nbsp;So while Biden might not like the payoff plan, at least not anymore, it was a real plan bubbling up from within his appointees. &nbsp;And despite Biden\u2019s blustery denial, it\u2019s still possible, even probable, that big payouts could be forthcoming. &nbsp;In fact, on November 4, White House deputy press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre&nbsp;mostly walked back her boss\u2019s words from the day before, now <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/11\/04\/white-house-actually-joe-biden-perfectly-comfortable-with-payouts-for-illegal-immigrants\/\">asserting<\/a> that the Biden administration was \u201cperfectly comfortable\u201d with payments.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p><span class=\"video-src-attr\">The White House<\/span><\/p>\n<p>So which it it?<\/p>\n<p>Is the Biden administration for or against the $450,000 per person deal? &nbsp;All we know for sure is that back on&nbsp;October 28, <i>The Wall Street Journal <\/i>had the scoop on the Biden administration\u2019s plan for the half-million-dollar deal. &nbsp;The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/biden-administration-in-talks-to-pay-hundreds-of-millions-to-immigrant-families-separated-at-border-11635447591\">headline<\/a> read: \u201cU.S. in Talks to Pay Hundreds of Millions to Families Separated at Border: Government is considering payments of $450,000 per person affected by Trump administration\u2019s zero-tolerance policy in 2018.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As the article detailed, the Departments of Justice, Homeland Security, and Health and Human Services are confronted with some 940 formal legal claims for damages from individuals and families\u2014all of them foreign nationals\u2014that were separated at the border that they tried to cross.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp; <\/span>This litigation stems from policies pursued by the Trump administration in 2018.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp; <\/span>(These policies, by the way, were the same as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2020\/10\/22\/fact-check-obama-biden-used-so-called-cages-border-crossers\/\">Obama administration policies<\/a>, but that\u2019s a tale for another time.)<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp; &nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>The litigants\u2019 claims are being brokered by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), and are bolstered by entrepreneurial tort lawyers, sniffing the prospect of huge contingency fees for these cases.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp; <\/span>According to the <i>Journal<\/i>, there could be another 4,600 or so claims, and the claims filed so far are demanding about $3.4 million per family.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp; <\/span>Thus the federal government\u2019s potential liability could run into the many billions of dollars.<\/p>\n<p>Okay, so that\u2019s how the Biden administration was seeing it, and maybe still does: It\u2019s a good idea to settle, as opposed to go to trial.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp; <\/span>And besides, if the Bidenites <i>do<\/i> settle, they figure that<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp; <\/span>they can heap all blame on the dreaded Donald Trump and his even more dreaded top immigration adviser, Stephen Miller.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, Republican saw this money-transfer matter much differently.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp; <\/span>For instance, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GOPLeader\/status\/1453871333306216450?s=20\">tweeted<\/a> almost immediately:<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"10\">\n<p>Pure insanity.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp; <\/span>The Biden administration is reportedly looking to pay $450,000 to illegal immigrants who knowingly broke the law.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp; <\/span>It\u2019s a slap in the face to our law-abiding citizens who wake up, go to work, and pay their taxes.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>And Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Jim_Jordan\/status\/1454093797126819841\">added<\/a>,<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;\u201c<\/span>The Biden Administration is considering a plan to pay illegal immigrants nearly $450,000 a person.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp; <\/span>American citizens?<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp; <\/span>Enjoy the high gas prices!\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"10.097435897436\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Biden Administration is considering a plan to pay illegal immigrants nearly $450,000 a person. <\/p>\n<p>American citizens? Enjoy the high gas prices!<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Rep. Jim Jordan (@Jim_Jordan) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Jim_Jordan\/status\/1454093797126819841?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 29, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>Other Republicans and conservatives <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/murphy-letter-cabinet-secretaries-horrific-decision\">argued<\/a> that such a payment program would only incentivize more people from around the world to come here.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp; <\/span>They have also pointed out that $450,000 is more money than is paid to the families of those Americans who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/reported-biden-plan-illegal-immigrants-millions-surpass-9-11-victims-military-families\">die in military service<\/a>.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp; In other words, <em>Americans Last.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, that $450,000 payout is about <a href=\"https:\/\/fred.stlouisfed.org\/series\/MEPAINUSA672N\">13 times<\/a> the median personal income in the U.S., and about <a href=\"https:\/\/data.worldbank.org\/indicator\/NY.GDP.PCAP.CD?locations=GT\">100 times<\/a> the per capita income in Guatemala, where many of the plaintiffs come from.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Indeed, the prospect of this Biden boondoggle is so outlandish that it\u2019s a challenge even to get one\u2019s head around it.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp; Sharing everyone else\u2019s amazement,<\/span>&nbsp;former president Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/trump-not-even-believable-biden-considering-payments-families-separated-at-border\">said<\/a> on October 29, \u201cIt\u2019s not even believable what they\u2019re doing.\u201d <span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Yes, that is a question: Was this story about the $450,000 payout to trespassers even believable?<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp; Was<\/span>&nbsp;it somehow fake news? <span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_18637066\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" readability=\"37\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18637066\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/GettyImages-1054273390-1.jpg\" alt width=\"1920\" height=\"1352\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aerial view of Honduran migrants heading in a caravan to the U.S., as the leave Arriaga on their way to San Pedro Tapanatepec, in southern Mexico on October 27, 2018. (GUILLERMO ARIAS\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>In fact, the <i>Journal<\/i>&nbsp;was correct in its reporting.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp; And that same day it<\/span>&nbsp;was confirmed by <i>The New York Times<\/i>, which quoted Lee Gelernt, the ACLU official leading the payoff negotiations, saying, approvingly, \u201cThere is no question that the Biden administration is doing the right thing by providing meaningful monetary compensation, given that the U.S. government deliberately brutalized these families.\u201d<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp; At that point, Gelernt and other lawyers thought they had a deal\u2013a deal which would, by the way, include healthy contingency fees for lawyers&nbsp;involved. &nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B4\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>Still more establishment support for the payments came from&nbsp;<i>The Washington Post, <\/i>which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2021\/10\/29\/why-biden-administration-would-pay-much-450000-separated-immigrant-families\/\">explained<\/a> the Bidenites\u2019 thinking this way: \u201cThe simple answer is that the administration views it as being the right thing to do, given the cruelty and inhumanity of the policy.\u201d<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp; <\/span>In that sentence we see a nice big fat <i>planted assumption, <\/i>namely that the Trump policy was an instance of \u201ccruelty and inhumanity.\u201d<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;And on November 5, University of&nbsp;Alabama law professor Joyce White Vance, a frequent guest on MSNBC, chimed in, to the<em> Washington Post<\/em>, with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/2021\/11\/05\/yes-us-government-should-settle-with-families-separated-by-trump-era-policies\/\">same liberal message<\/a>: \u201cBy negotiating settlements, our government can take steps toward reclaiming its moral authority to speak on human rights issues and can restore families that have been damaged by past U.S. policy.\u201d <\/span>So in this progressive reckoning, <i>of course<\/i> victims should get nearly half a million dollars. <span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>So we can see: the left-leaning legal establishment and the Main Stream Media were solidly on board with the Biden payout.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;No wonder it&nbsp;took&nbsp;five full days\u2013from the&nbsp;<em>Journal<\/em> scoop on October 28 to Biden\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/tv\/biden-trashes-fox-news-peter-doocy-for-immigration-question-you-guys-keep-sending-that-garbage-out\/\">dismissal<\/a> on&nbsp;November 3\u2013for the administration to distance itself from the report. (Perhaps the&nbsp;results of the November 2&nbsp;election helped clarify Biden\u2019s mind.)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Importantly, that<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> same <em>Washington&nbsp;<\/em><i>Post<\/i> article quoted one legal expert, Heidi Li Feldman of Georgetown University, declaring that if the federal government did not settle for that $450,000, it could face much-larger payouts if the litigation were to move forward and end up before a judge and a&nbsp;jury: \u201cIf it goes to trial and one case wins an enormous verdict, that gives other families motivation not to settle.\u201d &nbsp;And in her op-ed, Vance made the same point.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">And that\u2019s a keeper point: Biden can dismiss the story, and yet the&nbsp;looming&nbsp;payments are part of a legal process, and so even the&nbsp;president might not be able to stop them from being paid out\u2013at least not without&nbsp;extraordinary&nbsp;effort, wrangling his own&nbsp;people. &nbsp;And in the White House, is Biden known for&nbsp;extraordinary effort? &nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">Revealingly, on the same day that Biden said the $450,000 story was not true, the ACLU <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ACLU\/status\/1456020161320955909\">tweeted<\/a> and&nbsp;said that it <em>was<\/em> true, or at least it had been true. &nbsp;Moreover, the ACLU added that the story <em>should<\/em> be true; that is, that the payments should go forward. &nbsp;As the ACLU put it, \u201cWe call upon President Biden to right the wrongs of&nbsp;this&nbsp;national tragedy.\u201d &nbsp;We can quickly see that the ACLU will go to court\u2013and that lefty legal group has won&nbsp;plenty of costly cases.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">Indeed, if the ACLU goes to legal war with the Biden&nbsp;administration, that will put many Biden&nbsp;appointees, as well as other Democrats, in a quandary. &nbsp;Why?&nbsp;Because most Democrats revere the ACLU. &nbsp;So in a case of <em>ACLU vs. Biden<\/em>,&nbsp;many on Team Biden will&nbsp;really be,&nbsp;quietly, on Team ACLU. &nbsp;And so that opens the question of whether or not the Biden&nbsp;Justice Department will really fight the&nbsp;lawsuit(s). It\u2019s not hard for a &nbsp;lawyer to wink at the other side and&nbsp;<\/span>throw the case \u2014 especially if the judge is on the game, too. &nbsp;And of course, if Jean-Pierre is correct, the Bidenites won\u2019t fight at all.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">After all, plenty of times in the past, the feds have been happy to be sued, and to lose, and to pay out big settlements, all in the name of some political purpose. &nbsp;For instance, last month the Biden Justice Department agreed to pay <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2021\/10\/28\/1050177192\/families-of-charleston-church-massacre-victims-reach-88-million-settlement-with-\">$88 million<\/a> to the families of those killed and wounded in the horrendous 2015 shooting at a Black church in Charleston, South&nbsp;<\/span>Carolina. &nbsp;That attack was an act of surpassing wickedness, and the killer is rightly now facing the death penalty. &nbsp;Yet we have to ask ourselves: Isn\u2019t $88 million too much money for just 14 families? &nbsp;Should the federal government be paying out millions for each murder and assault? &nbsp;(And of course, for other victims of crime, including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/11\/05\/angel-families-biden-plan-450k-illegal-aliens-0-american-victims\/\">angel families<\/a>, nothing.)<\/p>\n<p>So, policy of a costly kind is being made by federal executive branch lawyers operating far from the oversight of any legislature. And if it happened in South Carolina, it could happen along the Mexican border. So yes, Biden can <em>say<\/em> that the $450,000 figure is not true, and yet he might well lack the formal power\u2013<em>or the interest<\/em>\u2013to make sure that the payments don\u2019t get made. Indeed, as those two law professors asserted the ultimate payouts could be <em>larger<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>So the watchfulness, if there is to be any, will have to come from Congress, outside lawyers, and the media.<\/p>\n<p><b>The Roots of the Money Madness<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Perhaps it\u2019s worth peeking inside the Biden bubble to see how they arrived at this decision: What were they thinking?<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span>We<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span>can identify five reasons:<\/p>\n<p><strong><i>First<\/i>,<\/strong> it\u2019s what the Biden people really believe about immigration\u2013they want more of it, the law be damned.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp; <\/span>As the liberal Brookings Institution <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brookings.edu\/blog\/fixgov\/2021\/02\/19\/bidens-immigration-reset\/\">opined<\/a> in February:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"13\">\n<p>Mr. Biden\u2019s immigration policies are among the most progressive of any president.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp; <\/span>While everyone expected him to make a dramatic break from the hardline policies, inefficiently spent funds, and inhumane endeavors of his predecessor, Donald Trump, Mr. Biden is not just reversing Mr. Trump\u2019s policies, but the policies designed and\/or administered by previous presidents.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Let\u2019s also not forget that in March, Mexico\u2019s president, Andr\u00e9s Manuel L\u00f3pez Obrador, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/biden-immigration-political-threat\/2021\/03\/15\/bee8c83c-85a9-11eb-bfdf-4d36dab83a6d_story.html\">explained<\/a> how Latin Americans assess Biden: \u201cThey see him as the migrant president.\u201d<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp; <\/span>And it was just last month that Biden was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/09\/29\/no-apology-from-joe-biden-after-falsely-accusing-border-agents-of-hitting-haitian-migrants-with-straps\/\">trashing<\/a> his own border patrol agents, for the \u201ccrime\u201d of doing their jobs. <span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><i>Second<\/i>,<\/strong> the Bidenites think that they can put a legal black mark next to the names of the two men they most love to hate: Trump and his aide Miller.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span>In the liberal Democratic imagination, where lawyers and judges loom so large, the fond idea is that a giant court settlement\u2014<em>the more billions, the better<\/em>\u2014will permanently stamp the Trump administration as a pariah outlaw, and thereby scare away future presidents from trying similar policies.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><i>Third<\/i>,<\/strong> the administration hopes to build the argument that enforcement of immigration law,<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span>as the Trump administration practiced it, is simply too expensive, when factoring in court costs.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span>That is, if the Bidenites can shell out a lot of money\u2014all the while arguing that they <i>had<\/i> to do it\u2014then hopefully future bean-counters will conclude that an open-borders policy is actually <em>cheaper<\/em>.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp; In fact, that was spokeswoman Karine Jean-Pierre\u2019s ostensible argument on November 4: that payments through a negotiated settlement could be cheaper than payments after a defeat in court. &nbsp;Of&nbsp;course, some might&nbsp;suspect that the we\u2019re-saving-money argument is a tad <em>convenient<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span>(Unmentioned by the Bidenites, of course, is that the federal government enjoys <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sovereign_immunity_in_the_United_States\">sovereign immunity<\/a>, which means that it can\u2019t be sued unless it consents to be sued; to put that another way, a resolute border-enforcement president could simply tell the ACLU and associated legal greedheads to buzz off.)<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><i>Fourth<\/i>,<\/strong> the Biden people still believe in the theory of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2016\/11\/21\/virgil-battle-blue-collar-america-remembering-forgotten-man\/\">Coalition of the Ascendant<\/a>.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp; <\/span>This theory has been a central part of Democratic thinking for two decades now; it was back in 2002 that lefty thinkers John Judis and Ruy Teixeira co-authored <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B0036QVPEU\/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&amp;btkr=1\"><i>The Emerging Democratic Majority<\/i><\/a><i>, <\/i>which focused heavily on immigration as a source of new Democratic votes.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp; <\/span>(Interestingly, the two authors, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2018\/09\/16\/pinkerton-the-nationalist-revival-a-progressive-defends-the-deplorables\/\">Judis<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/theliberalpatriot.substack.com\/p\/the-cultural-left-puts-a-ceiling\">Teixeira<\/a>, have both edged away from their own argument, and yet it lives on as a zombie-lefty ideology, despite abundant evidence that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/08\/04\/the-atlantic-university-progressives-broke-america\/\">immigrants are not woke<\/a>.)<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><i>Fifth<\/i>,<\/strong> and perhaps most profoundly, the Biden folks seem to have embraced an updated version of the <i>Cloward-Piven Strategy<\/i>.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp; <\/span>That strategy can be summed up in four <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/digitalrules\/2008\/12\/26\/the-worse-the-better\/?sh=19b82c104c1a\">Leninist<\/a> words: <i>The worse the better<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>The strategy dates from 1966, when co-authors <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Richard_Cloward\">Richard Cloward<\/a><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span>and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Frances_Fox_Piven\">Frances Fox Piven<\/a>, two New York City academics, published an <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20111124045536\/http:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/headline\/2010\/03\/24-4\">article<\/a><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span>in the far-left <i>Nation<\/i> magazine, entitled, \u201cThe Weight of the Poor.\u201d<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp; <\/span>Their idea was that the poor should use their weight\u2014their human numbers\u2014to demand their full welfare benefits, thereby bankrupting local and state governments.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span>Such bankruptcies, Cloward and Piven continued, would force a federal takeover of welfare, which the authors figured would be more generous:<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"10\">\n<p>It is our purpose to advance a strategy which affords the basis for a convergence of civil rights organizations, militant anti-poverty groups and the poor.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp; <\/span>If this strategy were implemented, a political crisis would result that could lead to legislation for a guaranteed annual income and thus an end to poverty.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The word \u201ccrisis\u201d is central to Cloward-Piven thinking, as bad trouble is the key to any worse-the-better strategy.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp; <\/span>In fact, their <i>Nation<\/i> article uses the word \u201ccrisis\u201d a full<i> 34 times.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp; <\/span><\/i>And in that same year, 1966, Cloward co-founded the National Welfare Rights Organization, which argued for\u2014you guessed it\u2014both an increase in, and the federalization of, welfare benefits.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp; <\/span>More than half a century later, the Cloward-Piven Strategy is well enough known as a radical lefty tactic that it even has its own <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cloward%E2%80%93Piven_strategy\">Wikipedia page<\/a>. <span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Cloward-Piven Strategy can also be applied to to other issues, including immigration.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp; <\/span>In fact, in 2015, Breitbart News\u2019 John Hayward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/blog\/2014\/07\/11\/do-not-doubt-the-power-of-the-cloward-piven-strategy\/\">cited<\/a> it in regard to the Obama administration\u2019s border polices:<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"9\">\n<p>The Cloward-Piven objective of this manufactured crisis is to overwhelm the American immigration system, crushing it under a human wave so that Obama can \u201creform\u201d it into something more to his liking, with an endgame of 12 million or more new Democrat voters.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Still, some might insist that the Cloward-Piven strategy is too radical for Democrats to embrace, even it today\u2019s Democratic Party includes such open-borders believers as Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and Ilhan Omar (D-MN).<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp; &nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Yet if one measure of Cloward-Piven influence is a self-generated <i>crisis<\/i>, then without a doubt, the border is suffering a <i>made-by-Biden crisis<\/i>.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp; <\/span>Just in the last year, illegal entries total some <a href=\"https:\/\/www.borderreport.com\/hot-topics\/immigration\/u-s-officials-come-across-nearly-2-million-unauthorized-migrants-in-fy-2021\/\">two million<\/a>\u2013and that was before the Biden offer of free money.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp; <\/span>The total population of the world is about 7.9 billion, and for almost all of those people, $450,000 is a magnetizing sum.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp; &nbsp;So the mere fact that the headlines&nbsp;with that dollar total got floated will be enough to get&nbsp;people all over the world&nbsp;packing their bags.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>But wait!<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp; <\/span>There\u2019s even more evidence that the administration was doing all this on purpose, as a matter of conscious policy: As Breitbart News\u2019 John Binder has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/10\/29\/bidens-build-back-better-budget-includes-80b-wealth-transfer-to-illegal-aliens\/\">pointed out<\/a>, the multi-trillion-dollar Build Back Better plan, currently being considered by Congress, includes <i>$80 billion<\/i> in benefits to illegal aliens.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span>And Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/johncornyn\/status\/1454227912308187138?s=11\">adds<\/a> that the Bidenites keep adding \u201cmore \u2018pull factors\u2019 encouraging illegal immigration,\u201d such as Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas\u2019 issuance of a memo repealing Trump\u2019s \u201cRemain in Mexico\u201d policy.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp; <\/span>As they say, <i>If the strategy fits.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Oh, and speaking of Cloward-Piven levels of radicalism, did we mention that Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2020\/05\/04\/joe-biden-coronavirus-an-incredible-opportunity-to-fundamentally-transform-america\/\">pledged<\/a> that his presidency would be an opportunity to \u201cfundamentally transform the country\u201d? <span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>So the rest of us, who might not be on board with fundamental transformation, have to stay on our guard, lest the Bidenites sneak things in, or out, at midnight. &nbsp;By now we\u2019ve learned that this administration is home to some genuine radicals; most immediately, we have to watch to see whether or not that settlement money gets paid out. &nbsp;And we have to watch everything else, too. <em>&nbsp;Like hawks.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sweet Money From Uncle Sugar? Did you hear the one about the Biden administration\u2019s plan to pay illegal aliens $450,000? \u00a0It\u2019s not a joke, even if President Biden, on November &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":135,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-978338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/978338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/135"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=978338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/978338\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=978338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=978338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=978338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}