Hahaha.

New York Post:

A new restaurant chain in New York City is outsourcing staff to the Philippines, using screens with virtual hostesses on Zoom calls instead of in-person employees to greet customers and help with check-out.

The shops — which specialize in fried chicken and ramen — are taking advantage of the massive wealth gap between New York City, where the minimum wage is $16 per hour, and a Southeast Asian nation where hourly pay is closer to $3.75.

But when customers check out at Sansan Chicken, Sansan Ramen or Yaso Kitchen — with locations in Manhattan, Queens and Jersey City — they’re still prompted to add a tip of up to 18% on top of their bill.

On a recent afternoon at Sansan Chicken in Long Island City, a reporter for The Post was greeted by Pie, a 33-year-old virtual hostess who works from her living room in the Philippine city of Subic.

The cheerful remote worker said she is employed by a company called Happy Cashier and that she enjoys her work.

Pie declined to disclose how much she was paid, but said customers sometimes leave generous tips despite the fact that she’s not actually there in person.

Once, she got $40 at Yaso Kitchen in Jersey City, she said — adding that she splits tips with her manager and kitchen staff at the restaurant.

It’s only confusing why it would be legal if you think the law is there for your benefit. I don’t think anyone thinks that anymore. You’d have to be a total retard.

No one could have predicted something like this.

That’s why it’s so shocking.

Reuters:

A Mexican mother walked into a bank in her home city of Culiacán in the Mexican state of Sinaloa, where an $8,000 remittance from the United States was waiting. She withdrew the funds in local currency, then strolled across town and deposited nearly all of it into accounts at two different banks.

Money sent home by migrant workers is a lifeline for millions of Mexicans. But the woman had never met the person who wired her the funds, nor the owners of the accounts where she took the cash. What she did know: The deal had been carefully arranged by the Sinaloa Cartel, one of the world’s largest drug trafficking groups, to repatriate profits from U.S. drug sales back to Mexico disguised as a routine remittance.

Her cut: $230 worth of Mexican pesos.

It was the start of easy money for the woman, who said she previously had struggled to make ends meet cleaning houses. Recalling that day in April 2014 for Reuters, she estimated she had earned some $17,000 over the years recruiting others into the scheme and cashing remittances totaling hundreds of thousands of dollars – but never too much or too often, so as to avoid scrutiny by banking authorities. She said a neighbor got her into the game, and that she had never met her bosses in person.

“Everything was by phone,” she said, “and the phone numbers changed every time.”

The woman showed Reuters WhatsApp messages on her phone that she said were from traffickers coordinating her remittance pickups and drop-offs. One from early 2022 said: “They are waiting for you outside. They know who you are. Give them the money.”

The Culiacán mother is part of an army of civilians recruited by the Sinaloa Cartel and other drug syndicates across Mexico to help move illicit drug profits earned in the United States south of the border. The criminal scheme essentially piggybacks on the vast legal network of money-transfer firms that help migrant laborers send money home to their families.

Remittances to Mexico, nearly all of which come from the United States, hit a record $58.5 billion last year, according to data from Mexico’s central bank. That’s an increase of $25 billion, or 74%, compared to 2018, when President Andrés Manuel López Obrador came to power. Mexico’s economy has been slow to recover from the coronavirus pandemic, a factor that has boosted migration to the United States in recent years along with the remittances that workers send home.

As legitimate remittances have ballooned, it has become ever easier for cartels to disguise their ill-gotten gains in small transfers sent to average people across Mexico who have no obvious links to organized crime, according to four U.S. and Mexican security officials.

The cartels are awash in cash from U.S. sales of fentanyl, cocaine, heroin, methamphetamines and marijuana. Presently, up to 10% of all Mexico-bound remittances may be drug money moved by criminal organizations like the Sinaloa Cartel and the Jalisco New Generation Cartel, according to a U.S. government official who works on illicit finance and asked for anonymity because he is not authorized to speak publicly on the subject. A March report by the Mexico think tank Signos Vitales estimated that at least $4.4 billion, or 7.5%, of remittances sent to Mexico last year could come from illegal activity.

Several features of the remittance sector make it an attractive vehicle through which criminal funds can enter the financial system, according to four industry executives and the Mexican and U.S. law enforcement officials. Chief among them is the worldwide reach of this network and the modest-sized cash transactions that drive it. Identification requirements for such transfers are more relaxed than those needed to set up a formal bank account or to wire significant sums of money.

Cases of crime groups using popular money-transfer services to conduct illegal activities have been documented before. Reuters reported previously on how gangs operating on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border have kidnapped migrant workers and held them for ransom, demanding that relatives wire remittances to free them.

Now the news agency is the first to detail how Mexican drug gangs have harnessed legitimate remittance networks to repatriate their U.S. drug profits, and the factors that make this activity so difficult for authorities to detect and thwart.

#Criminalmigrants flooding into the US as a feckless CBP under the Biden regime does nothing. These aren’t even South Americans; these are Africans and others traveling 1000s of miles by plane to jump the border. These people bring ZERO benefit for our Nations. pic.twitter.com/4RnLMApeZx

— Anti White Watch ️ (@AntiWhiteWatch1) August 18, 2023

Reuters interviewed two dozen Mexico residents who said they had been paid by the Sinaloa Cartel to act as conduits for remittances, turning the money over to cartel operatives after receiving it. Records from eight U.S. federal court cases and interviews with a dozen industry insiders, analysts and law enforcement agents on both sides of the border paint a detailed picture of how the criminal venture works.

Seven money-transfer firms and banks that responded to Reuters’ queries said they are constantly working to thwart criminals. Colorado-based Western Union, the world’s largest money-transfer operator, said in a statement that it devotes “significant resources to help detect and deter the misuse of our services.”

Jorge Godínez, Americas director for WorldRemit, a London-based money-transfer service, was skeptical that crooks would turn to remittances to move vast sums of money in bite-sized chunks. “They would need to do a lot of transactions,” Godínez said. “I don’t rule it out, but it’s a little more work.”

But drug syndicates appear to be doing just that, due in part to the coronavirus.

The use of remittances to move drug money was supercharged by the COVID-19 pandemic after long-established travel routes were upended by closures and lockdowns, according to four security officials from the United States and Mexico. Between March 2020 and November 2021, the U.S.-Mexico border was closed to all but “essential” travel. That made the traditional method of repatriating drug profits – bulk smuggling of cash hidden in southbound cars, trucks and cargo trailers – much harder. Traffickers turned to other means, the security sources said, resulting in a heavier reliance on remittances. It’s an approach that has endured even as the public health emergency has receded, they said, because the networks the narcos established are effective.

In a sign of growing concern within the U.S. government, the office of the Director of National Intelligence, the principal provider of intelligence to the president, included for the first time this year in its annual threat assessment report the “exploitation of legitimate remittances channels” by transnational crime organizations to launder money. The report did not single out any money-transfer companies.

The use of such transfers by narcos is not a new phenomenon, but the huge increase in remittances from the United States to Mexico in recent years “helps obfuscate this practice,” according to a person familiar with the report. The Sinaloa Cartel and Jalisco New Generation Cartel are believed to be among the drug syndicates using remittances to repatriate drug proceeds, the person said.

𝗜𝗺𝗮𝗴𝗲𝘀 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗕𝗼𝗿𝗱𝗲𝗿: As illegal border crossings surge, criminal activity such as illegal immigrants who evade capture by traversing on private ranches, attempts to scale the border wall w/ ladders, to human smuggling, remains evident throughout the southern… pic.twitter.com/b1w6fGVKaU

— Chris Olivarez (@LtChrisOlivarez) August 17, 2023

There is a clear pattern for how money is laundered via remittances, according to the U.S. official who works on illicit finance, people who have participated in the scheme in Mexico, and federal court documents reviewed by Reuters from U.S. money laundering prosecutions.

In the United States, much of the remittance trade is conducted through corner stores, chain retailers and currency exchanges. These businesses sign on as agents with one or more of the money-transfer companies, for example Western Union, and display the familiar logos of these firms in their shops to entice customers. The retailers receive training from the money-transfer companies on how to use their technology platforms, spot fishy transactions and comply with U.S. anti-money laundering laws. Agents are paid a commission for each transaction they process. Customers can bring cash to these storefronts and send it abroad. Neither senders nor receivers are required to have a bank account.

This fragmented network is key to the functioning of the scheme, according to the people and documents. Although money-transfer companies have internal systems designed to spot and curtail illegal activity, controls largely rely on checks done face-to-face with customers at the shop level. Thus, protections are only as robust as the honesty and diligence of these mom-and-pop agents, some of whom are purportedly in league with drug traffickers, according to law enforcement sources and the eight federal court cases reviewed by Reuters that involved alleged laundering of drug money via money transfers.

They’re just looking for a better life.

If there’s one thing every white country always needs, it’s more diversity.

It’s our greatest strength, after all.

Breitbart:

The Italian constitutional court has ruled that migrants with work permits of just six months or more are eligible to receive a baby bonus as well as a maternity allowance.

Italian constitutional court judges determined that the previous rules, which only allowed migrants with long-term residency to qualify for the baby bonus and maternity allowance, were unconstitutional after a hearing earlier this week.

According to a report from the European Union-funded website InfoMigrants, the constitutional court found that the previous rules conflicted with two articles of the Italian constitution dealing with equality before the law and the right of asylum.

The court also found the previous policy contradicted Article 34 of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights, which states, “Everyone residing and moving legally within the European Union is entitled to social security benefits and social advantages in accordance with Union law and national laws and practices.”

The baby bonus benefit, which is given to new mothers and families who either conceive their own child or adopt a child, has been around since 2014.

Starting in March of this year, a universal child benefit will include and unify the various forms of maternal support, including a monthly sum of between €80 (£67/$91) and €160 (£133/$182) for one year for a first child based on the family’s income.

In 2020, the Italian government proposed to grant amnesty to an estimated 700,000 illegal immigrants, granting them the ability to gain residency through a work permit, a move that was criticised by a senior member of populist Matteo Salvini’s League.

By November of that year, at least 230,000 illegals had applied for regularization under the scheme.

You just need more and more black people.

It will keep making your country stronger and stronger.

Eventually, your strength will get so strong that you will look around and discover that a utopia is already here.

Workplace raids are becoming more and more common.

Mass immigration is obviously bad for working class people – it drives down wages and makes it harder to find a decent job. This is why big business loves immigration so much – because it’s good for their bottom line.

But anytime you start talking about this, NPCs will whine that you’re a “redneck who’s afraid of illegals stealin’ our jerbs.”

The problem, of course, is that immigrants are literally stealing our jobs, for reals. Some of these manufacturing companies have been replacing their White workers with illegal beaners for so long now that an ICE raid basically spells doom for their whole operation.

NPR:

With new enforcement priorities under the Trump administration, Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents are taking aim at employers that knowingly hire unauthorized immigrants. The most recent — and largest — bust happened at a trailer manufacturing plant in northeast Texas.

Business had been booming at Load Trail LLC, about two hours northeast of Dallas, as customers bought the black trailers to haul hay bales, topsoil, construction refuse and oilfield equipment. Then came the ICE raid in late August.

Inside Load Trail’s huge production building, welders turn raw steel into trailers, amid cacophonous clanging and showers of sparks. It’s brutish labor — cut the heavy black metal, lug it into place, arc-weld it, repeat — but the production floor is nearly half empty because of an acute shortage of welders.

Of course, NPR is acting like both the companies and the illegals are poor, blameless victims of Trump’s evil and arbitrary policies.

Nothing could be further from the truth.

If these companies hadn’t all started hiring illegals, then the market would have provided them with more welders.

There was a time when all welders were White men, after all.

The reason why White guys aren’t becoming welders anymore is because competition from illegal bean people has driven down the salaries to the point where it’s no longer an appealing career choice.

In other words, you reap what you sow.

Load Trail CEO Kevin Hiebert remembers the morning of Aug. 28, when a helicopter thumped overhead and 300 ICE agents swarmed into his yard. “It looked like something you would typically see in the movies,” he said, “not something you ever planned on living out in real life.”

Wow – badass. ICE is really upping its game lately. Did the chopper have a minigun, ready to open fire on any escaping perp?

A helicopter without a minigun is kind of a waste tbh.

ICE rounded up more than 150 employees — nearly a quarter of Hiebert’s workforce — loaded them into buses and booked them for working in the country unlawfully. A criminal investigation of the company continues.

A quarter of this company’s employees had been replaced with illegal aliens.

Let that sink in.

So far this year, ICE agents have stormed 7-Eleven stores, a meatpacking plant, dairy and vegetable farms and a feedlot.

These agents sure are storming a lot.

Maybe ICE should be renamed the “storm troopers,” huh?

“Businesses that knowingly hire illegal aliens create an unfair advantage over their competing businesses. In addition, they take jobs away from U.S. citizens and legal residents,” said Katrina Berger, special agent in charge of Homeland Security Investigations in the Dallas ICE office.

Yes. They’re stealing our jerbs. Seriously.

But you won’t hear those complaints in Tigertown, Texas. This flyspeck community situated between cotton fields near the Oklahoma border is home to a half-dozen major trailer manufacturers — all competitors. And they all employ undocumented workers.

“I think the manufacturing industry in Texas, any kind of steel fabrication construction, depends on illegal immigrant labor,” Hiebert says.

It doesn’t “depend” on illegal aliens. They’re just hiring them because they can pay them less. Are these people seriously implying that it’s hard to find White blue-collar workers willing to work in factories?

There are entire towns in America filled with people who lost everything when we moved our industries to China. These people would kill for a decent factory job.

The head of a competing trailer-maker down the road agrees, saying they all use workers who are in the country illegally. He asked not to be named in hopes of staying off ICE’s radar.

Good luck with that, buddy. ICE is in town, and they’ve got choppers.

They might have tanks, too.

Or did I photoshop that one? Hmmmm…

It’s too late for that, though: ICE is auditing the employee records of every trailer manufacturer in Tigertown to find out which workers have fake identity documents. Some unauthorized employees are so rattled they’re not showing up for work.

That’s a good start. But we can do better.

They need to be so rattled they go back to their shithole countries. Until then, the terror will continue to be dialed up.

What the industry needs are legal guest workers, says Load Trail CEO Hiebert, “Especially now that they’re cranking up on the enforcement. Everybody hopes that there’ll be some kind of real immigration reform before what happened at Load Trail happens to them.”

“Real immigration reform.”

Everytime these shills use that term, they actually mean just giving all the illegals amnesty.

When the real “immigration reform” comes, you’re not gonna like it, I can tell you that.

In 2014, the company was fined $445,000 for employing more than 170 unauthorized immigrants at its plant. Hiebert says they hire whoever walks in the door, and they pay decent wages — $20 to $25 an hour. Still, they’ve always had a hard time finding welders.

They got fined $445,000 just four years ago, and yet they went right back to hiring illegal aliens. That means they’re saving so much money by hiring these starving beaners that the prospect of being fined hundreds of thousands of dollars doesn’t faze them at all.

Without illegal aliens, the market price for a good welder would probably be much higher.

As such, we need ICE to keep on putting pressure on these people, to the point where it’s no longer reasonable to hire illegals instead of White men.

Forget Brexit – think of the starving British children!

The British elites really, really don’t want to split away from the EU. If they had even an inkling of a suspicion that they could have lost that referendum, they never would have done it.

Of course, the deed is done now. But that doesn’t mean the establishment won’t be dragged out of the EU kicking and screaming. They’re concocting all sorts of insane stories to scare people and try to justify some hypothetical future plan to cancel the Brexit.

Now they’re saying British fields will rot with unpicked produce because Poles are wary of Brexit.

Washington Post:

It is a quintessentially British scene: watching the annual Wimbledon tournament while munching on British strawberries and cream.

But farmers here are warning that fruits and vegetables — including their beloved strawberries — could be left to rot in the fields this summer because Eastern Europeans are reluctant to work on British farms following the Brexit vote.

Sure, they’ll let their crops rot in the fields. And if you believe that, I have a bridge to sell you.

Britain still has a 5% unemployment rate, meaning that there’s millions of people who are out of a job. I’m sure if they raised the salaries offered, some Brits would do the job. They’d have to raise the selling prices too, but who cares? It’s better than losing the whole crop.

Alternatively, they can just mechanize the picking process.

Yes, fruit picking machines exist.

I mean, do they really expect the people to believe that the only way to pick fruit is to have migrant workers doing it? How ridiculous is that?

Britain’s immigration policy will be one of the central themes of the upcoming Brexit negotiations, which are expected to last up to two years. And many industries that rely on foreign labor — from construction to cleaning — are anxious about continued access to migrant workers after Britain leaves the European Union.

But the agricultural industry says it is already struggling with a worker deficit.

The media is only amplifying meaningless whining from these farmers in order to push the idea that even after Brexit, it’ll be essential to keep the immigration gates wide open.

But, of course, shutting down immigration was by far the primary reason the people voted to leave the EU. As such, any compromise on this point would be a vicious betrayal of the will of the people.

And I have a feeling their little scheme wouldn’t go unchallenged…