We are told that every business and many vital services, including many medical services, must be shut down indefinitely because of Anthony Fauci’s capricious and ever-evolving models and simulations. Do those same models and simulations also dictate that, with unemployment likely blowing out the Great Depression levels, we must continue to bring in more foreign workers?

Nearly all “non-essential” businesses are suspended in nearly every county of the country. Yet now, because immigration policy has been outsourced to former visa lobbyists like Acting DHS Secretary Chad Wolf, one thing will not be shut down during this man-made economic Hiroshima: foreign workers, including those from … China!

When I warned last week about the H-1B lottery and the need to cancel it on April 1, I didn’t really think my notice was necessary. After all, how could an “America first” administration conduct such a foreign worker lottery while shutting down the entire economy for Americans? Nonetheless, I published the article for good measure. Well, it’s a shame 1,000 other conservatives didn’t post similar warnings, because “America first” has now become “India and China first.”

On April 1, USCIS considered bringing in more Chinese workers an “essential” function and opened registration for the first day of the visa lottery. Every year, 85,000 H-1B visas are awarded via this lottery, and on the first day it was already saturated with 275,000 applications from corporations, a 37 percent increase over last year. Those chosen will be eligible to come here in fiscal year 2021 beginning this October.  Of course, 67 percent was monopolized by Indian nationals, which is why we have lost our tech industry to foreign powers. Roughly 36,300 applications, though, were from, you guessed it, Chinese nationals!

Obviously, this doesn’t mean Chinese nationals will necessarily be chosen, but they have typically composed roughly 13 percent of the annual lottery. And it’s not like this administration is placing a moratorium on Chinese visas until the Chinese government comes clean on the cover-up of the China virus.

Bringing in any foreign workers, much less Chinese ones, at a time like this is akin to doubling our immigration from Saudi Arabia after 9/11. Ooops … we actually did that, but I digress.

This is not to cast aspersions on the Chinese people as a whole. But as long as the evil communist government is ruling that country, our current policies put us at their mercy in times like this in three ways.

1. China is our #2 source of immigrants and #1 source of foreign students. China is historically the source of many viral outbreaks, and there is no reason to believe that will change in the future. This has created a huge amount much travel back and forth, making us vulnerable to any virus they spread from China.
2. Through the pipeline of monopolizing our universities and then through worker visas and green cards, the Chinese government uses many of its nationals to spy, steal our technology, and then bring the expertise back home, which encourages outsourcing.
3. Once China accomplishes 1 and 2, the Chinese government has us around the neck, because all of our critical medical and other supply lines trace back to the very source of the viral outbreaks.

We now know that China destroyed evidence and covered up critical information that could have given the world weeks of head start in blocking travel and bending the curve. How in the world can we allow China to own our universities, our immigration system, and our supply chains, knowing the Chinese government’s intentions and knowing how it has unleashed an economic and health care version of 9/11 on us?

Finally, putting China aside, we had 10 million unemployment claims filed just in two weeks. If you account for those who have had wages or hours cut, that includes 39 percent of all adults in the country! And we are just three weeks into this. The bipartisan political elites, sadly, including this administration, want this to go on for much longer. Under what sort of morality or model can this action be justified? Don’t tell me Fauci’s models show that bringing in more foreign workers will also save more lives too!

Further appalling is that, thanks to the misguided strategy of this universal shutdown, many nurses are being furloughed across the country. Among the other sacred foreign work permit programs promoted by some of these same administration officials is Optional Practical Training (OPT), which brings in numerous foreign nurses here as students. Employers facing a massive pool of unemployed Americans will be incentivized to hire them because, under the lawless, unauthorized OPT program, they don’t have to pay payroll taxes. Why wouldn’t Trump immediately suspend the OPT program?

It's not that nothing good is coming out of the administration on immigration. Illegal immigration is finally being stopped at the border the way it should have been three years ago, and after much pressure from people like Tucker Carlson, it looks like the DHS will delay plans to bring in more low-skilled H-2B workers.

Which illuminates the salient point of this administration. There are good patriots like Acting CBP Commissioner Mark Morgan and Acting Deputy DHS Secretary Ken Cuccinelli, and their work is reflected in some of the positive developments. But then there are people like Acting DHS Secretary Chad Wolf, Secretary of Defense Mark Esper, and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, who represent the opposite worldview to the one Trump campaigned on, and their work is reflected in the bulk of the negative policy outcomes.

The moral of the story is that conservatives with influence can’t hope that Trump drains the swamp; they must demand it. And that begins with the shallow state within the administration itself.

Every day brings more stories of violent repeat offenders released from jail and going on to victimize more innocent people. Except these stories don’t have the weight of tear-jerking Super Bowl ads behind them like top drug traffickers do.

According to the New York Daily News, Arjun Tyler had nearly a dozen arrests on his rap sheet when he was arrested for forcibly touching a woman in 2018. He was held on $20,000 bail and remained in jail because he couldn’t come up with the money. Thanks to the new bail law, Tyler was released in December 2019, but went back to his criminal ways immediately. Cops tried to hold him again in connection with a robbery from 2018, but the Brooklyn district attorney’s office deferred prosecution.

A free man, Tyler allegedly returned to his criminal behavior last Monday. He’s accused of following a woman into a subway station bathroom, punching her repeatedly, and then taking off her leggings. The sexual assault was stopped thanks to the intervention of a homeless man who scared Tyler away. This terrible attack occurred in broad daylight. Police didn’t catch him until Friday, when cops found him allegedly stealing money from a laundromat.

Once in custody, in addition to the attempted rape charge, he was also charged with the 2018 robbery. He was also charged with trespassing and taking $1,100 from a cash register, both incidents alleged to have occurred in January, after he was released under the new bail law.

Ironically, even after all this, now that he qualifies for bail, he’s only being held on $75,000. Thus, even those who commit crimes that are so egregious they qualify for bail, the amount will often be set low, despite such a horrific criminal record. This is an epidemic throughout the country.

Now, thanks to the disclosure provisions of the “bail reform” laws, Tyler will have access to all of the personal information of the victim and the good Samaritan immediately. This part of the law will make it much tougher for prosecutors to land convictions because witnesses and even victims will be reluctant to testify knowing that the suspect will be on the loose with their contact information and whereabouts at their disposal.

Subway crimes are surging, with New York’s transit beginning to look a lot like it was before Mayor Giuliani cleaned up crime. Police are looking for a suspect accused of stabbing someone in the suspect at a Bronx subway yesterday.

Criminals are brazen about their crimes because they know they face no reprisal. Video obtained by the New York Post over the weekend shows Dana White, of Jamaica, Queens, violently wrestling to the ground a cane-using 83-year-old woman and stealing her purse. According to the Post, “White has at least 14 previous arrests, including at least 6 robbery charges and charges for criminal possession of a weapon, trespassing, and assault.” He was on parole from a previous burglary when he was arrested for this assault and robbery. Yet he was still released!

President Trump has a golden opportunity to draw a bold contrast to people like Bernie Sanders in the upcoming election on the issue of criminal justice. Rather than running ads trying to out-left the Democrats on prison release, how about running ads hitting them over the head for creating millions of innocent victims through their unjustified jailbreak policies?

As Trump wrote in his book, “The America We Deserve,” “The next time you hear someone saying there are too many people in prison, ask them how many thugs they’re willing to relocate to their neighborhood. The answer: None.”