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The Real Cost of Illegal Immigration
A stretch of Roosevelt Avenue running through AOC’s Bronx district is nicknamed “The Market of Sweethearts,” due to the chaotic bazaar of prostitution there. Most workers are illegal aliens from Central America. It is impossible to provide a definitive number of undocumented immigrant sex workers in the United States due to the clandestine nature of this activity. However, Polaris, an anti-trafficking organization, analyzed information on sex trafficked women to find some 52 percent were illegals. Another study found 72 percent of sex workers were immigrants. That’s uptown, AOC territory. In Midtown, Korean illegal immigration (since there is no visa for prostitution, it is in a way 100 percent illegal aliens, i.e., “unlawful presence”) runs the show. Downtown, it is the Chinese. Elsewhere, borough by borough, different nationalities do the nasty work. New York speaks 700 different languages, just not to each other.
According to The New York Times, sex work has exploded into a “$3 billion-a-year industry” relying on tens of thousands of foreign women ensnared in a form of modern indentured servitude. “The frequently middle-aged women who work in parlors with names like Orchids of Asia and Rainbow Spa,” continues the Times, “are often struggling to pay off high debts to family members, loan sharks, labor traffickers and lawyers who help them file phony asylum claims. In some cases, their passports are taken and their illegal immigration status keeps them further in the shadows.” A federal law enforcement official said the most common method for smuggling women from Asian countries was either a fraudulent tourist visa or a fraudulent work visa. Many came as students, then overstayed to work in the sex industry. What woman, given other legitimate, livable opportunities, would choose to work as a prostitute?
For awhile I worked in a number of New York’s pizza restaurants. Almost to the man all the kitchen work was done by likely illegals, somehow primarily from Ecuador. With my nascent Spanish it wasn’t easy to get to know them, until I hit on some key phrases. It was too sensitive in most cases to ask if the guy was illegal (after all, I was a older, white man just like the owner, who pretended not to know) but I eventually learned that asking how long it was for the guy between visits to his family back home was a good way to get at the idea. Many had been working six days a week for years. I was paid minimum wage plus alongside tips; they got less and worked longer and harder. That’s why, while eating your pizza waiting in line to visit Ellis Island, the slice was only $1.99.
Ellis Island celebrates the historical version of America’s immigration fantasy — Uncle from The Old Country arriving with $5 to grab the American Dream. In fact, the great wave of 19th century immigration, first from Ireland, and then from Italy and Eastern Europe, was driven from poverty at home (same as today) but was drawn by the massive need for cheap, disposable labor in the United States. Instead of staffing pizza joints and massage parlors, Irish immigrants (technically not “illegal” since the U.S. had no real immigration law at that time) were tricked to leave New York City and dig the Erie Canal by hand for pitiful wages. The Irish were also trafficked to New Orleans, where many of the city’s levees and canals were built by laborers who worked under grueling conditions. This came at a cost. Tens of thousands of Irish workers (nobody kept track) lost their lives due to horrific working conditions, malaria, and dangerous flooding. The term “Irish slaves” is sometimes used to refer to the harsh reality faced by these laborers.
That era of exploitation on the eastern and southern coasts mimics that of the great Midwest and western agricultural states. Decades after men like Cesar Chavez though they broke the back of Big Ag, which was using Mexican and other labor to make huge profits, little has changed. I just got an email from Amazon/Whole Foods saying some of the prices on my weekly standard delivery order are going up due to “increasing labor costs.” In the agriculture sector, 76 percent of the exploited persons are immigrants and nearly half of all those are from Mexico.
And that touches the third rail of importing cheap labor to the United States, the actual slave trade, which preceeded mass immigration. Call it racist to bypass the forced nature of this “immigration,” but the parameters are terribly similar. Both involve people being denied basic rights and protections, both situations involve exploitation — long hours, little or no pay, unsafe conditions, and both enslaved people and illegal alien workers are in vulnerable positions, often unable to leave or seek help safely (such as trafficked aliens.) It is certainly not the same but the cheap, exploitable labor that drives prostitution and farm work in modern America is the same in the basics as the cheap, exploitable labor which drove the antebellum global agrarian economy.
The pool of vulnerable labor is by necessity large, with some 18.6 million illegal aliens currently in the U.S. And demanding even more immigration, and playing cops and robbers with ICE, is a key platform for the Democratic party today. So what are they fighting for?
They are for the same base of exploitable labor that has been a part of the United States from near the Founding, only this time dressed up in modern moral dress. The farm workers the Democrats celebrate as hard working men of the soil are just people imported for their vulnerability. Those 19th century immigrants were sacrificing all for a better future by laboring in some of the worst sweat shops of the century (my maternal grandfather was an unschooled child laborer in a candy factory.) It looks good for many family stories to focus on those black and white relatives who came over (and that certainly is the myth behind the Ellis Island version of things) but in reality it hides the same dark tale still being written today.
Despite her pretty words about freedom, AOC supports the sexual exploitation of women and girls. Gavin Newsom supports the use of Mexicans in his “sanctuary” state as long as they do back breaking field work. Eric Adams is ensuring his New York is maintained with inexpensive restaurant food and plenty of sex traders. Forget the sob stories about hard-working dads plucked out of the meat packing plants (undocumented workers make up up to 50 percent of the meatpacking workforce; meatpacking companies recently paid out $8 million for child labor violations) by Gestapo ICE and focus on what is underlying all those workers being drawn here in the first place. Illegal labor is the engine of a shadow economy and always has been, now fully supported by Democrats.
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Rich Bauer said...
1“Despite her pretty words about freedom, AOC supports the sexual exploitation of women and girls.”
Oh boy, Peter is gonna get so sued for this AOC defamation. He will have to do depraved sex acts for Chinese tourists in Hawaii to pay off the millions AOC will get.
08/18/25 8:50 PM | Comment Link
John Poole said...
2All retired foreign service officers should help sponsor a new work visa category- EPT (Erotic Physical Therapist) with very clear and strict rules of course: no animals, exotic apparatuses, “group gropings”or any of the usual wincing fetishes. The bill if passed will be attributed solely to AOC. I think she’ll back off on any possible defamation pursuits against PVB.
08/19/25 8:04 AM | Comment Link
Rick Gudmunson said...
3Maybe you could have ended your piece like this:
Illegal labor is the engine of a shadow economy and always has been. Once the official business model of the Republican Party, it is now fully supported by Democrats.
08/19/25 3:08 PM | Comment Link
Rich Bauer said...
4Peter should cool the NYC sex traffic chat as Epstein’s Best Friend from Queens might sue him for guilt by association. The Roosevelt Ave red light district is in Queens.
08/23/25 11:12 AM | Comment Link
Rich Bauer said...
5What won’t Epstein’s Best Friend do to distract MAGA from the Epstein Files? PETER’s pathetic efforts to stoke immigration fears aint working. MAGA have grown markedly more positive toward immigration over the past year, with the share wanting immigration reduced dropping from 55% in 2024 to 30% today. At the same time, a record-high 79% of U.S. adults say immigration is a good thing for the country.
These shifts reverse a four-year trend of rising concern about immigration that began in 2021 and reflect changes among all major party groups.
With illegal border crossings down sharply this year, fewer Americans than in June 2024 back hard-line border enforcement measures, while more favor offering pathways to citizenship for undocumented immigrants already in the U.S.
These findings are based on a June 2-26 Gallup poll of 1,402 U.S. adults, including oversamples of Hispanic and Black Americans, weighted to match national demographics.
The same poll finds many more Americans disapproving than approving of President Donald Trump’s handling of immigration. Trump’s 21% approval rating on the issue among Hispanic adults is below his 35% rating nationally, with the deficit likely reflecting that group’s low support for some of the administration’s signature immigration policies.
These polls indicate Epstein’s Best Friend is gonna get screwed in 2026.
08/25/25 11:50 AM | Comment Link
Rich Bauer said...
6Der Little Dick-tator supports the sexual exploitation of women and girls. The sex pervert/convicted felon boasted of sexually assaulting women when he told the Bush that “he’s a famous star and they let you do it.” Well, Amerika believes that Trump was involved in crimes committed by Epstein, according to recent polls. And more than two-thirds believes that the Trump administration is hiding information about Epstein.
Before the 2024 presidential election, both Trump and JD Vance called for the release of files related to Epstein. On February 21, Attorney General Pam Bondi, in an appearance on Fox News, said the Epstein client list was “sitting on my desk right now to review.”
But the Trump regime still hasn’t released any trove of “Epstein files.” Why???????
Dude, what’s the problem? You is a star and they let you do it. Come on, show us the photos and the peepee tape.
08/27/25 10:50 AM | Comment Link
Rich Bauer said...
7The real cost of Trump will cost the GOP. Voters are gettng real angry. The two biggest issues are:
THE RISING COST OF LIVING – 29%
WOMEN’S REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS – 14%.
Donald Dementia remains unpopular among Virginia voters. Overall, 40% approve of the job he is doing, while 55% disapprove, 93% of Democrats and 66% of independents.
The distraction farce aint working, Donnie. Better start working on your pardon.
08/27/25 5:25 PM | Comment Link
Rich Bauer said...
8Is VD Dance about to do a NIGHT OF THE LONG KNIVES ON DON DEMENTIA?
Rumors persist DD has serious cardio issues that required an angiogram over the weekend. His veins aint working, increasing his chances of a fatal Deep Vein Clot whenever he flies long distances. Plus, DD’s heartless BBB and Tariff Tax are killing the Repug chances in 2026. MAGA cant afford McD’s FFS. VD is prepping MAGA that he is ready to assume the prezidunce. But why wait until the Repugs lose in 2026.? VD will then be a dead duck as well as a lame duck in 2028. IMPEACHMENT AWAITS FOR DD. Time for DD to make a permanent vacation in his Floriduh slum. Mark your calendars, folks, for The 25th Amendment Saturday night massacre on October 25.
09/2/25 11:46 AM | Comment Link
Rich Bauer said...
9And if DD is facing death and if VD becomes prezidunce, IOWA SENATOR JONI ERNST is ready to take his place since she announced her retirement.
Joni: WE ARE ALL GOING TO DIE. (here’s looking at you, DONNIE.)
09/2/25 12:00 PM | Comment Link
Rich Bauer said...
10Impeachment Charge No. 11
Judge Breyer noted, that Mr. Trump and Mr. Hegseth have, quote, ‘Stated their intention to use guard troops as a national police force, with the president as its chief,’” he explained. “In other words, what Judge Breyer is saying is that not only do the facts on the ground bear out the prohibition, but the violation of the prohibition on using the military as a domestic police force. But Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth, by their own words, hoisted themselves on their own petard.”
Kill two birdbrains with one stone-cold charge.
09/2/25 5:01 PM | Comment Link
Rich Bauer said...
11While Peter panders to the white nationalist party about the “real cost of illegal brown people immigration”, he ignores the real cost of allowing immigration from China and India which are financing the murder of Ukraine citizens. It is in their interest to continue the Russian War so they can continue to buy oil at a deep discount.
The cost of the war is much greater than the cost of illegal brown people. Revoke Chinese and Indian visas. Let them choke on Rissian oil.
09/3/25 9:46 AM | Comment Link
Rich Bauer said...
12Breaking News: Donnie Dementia just changed the name of the Pentagon to DEPARTMENT OF WAR CRIMES. To celebrate he ordered a boat with 11 souls in the Caribbean to be blown out of the water.
09/4/25 9:18 PM | Comment Link
Rich Bauer said...
13Trump posted to Truth Social with Chicago in the background and flames behind Trump, it reads, “I love the smell of deportations in the morning,” followed by “Chicago about to find out why it’s called the Department of WAR.”
Cant wait for Peter to rip Donnie Dementia about this. Just kidding.
09/6/25 2:14 PM | Comment Link
Rich Bauer said...
14Do like the Romans did
Amerika is an empire in decline: Finding it can’t subdue other nations, the fascist government of the United States is trying its hand at domestic bullying. These new little wars are unlikely to be successful. An army that couldn’t defeat the North Koreans, the Vietnamese, the Iraqis, and the Afghans is unlikely to cow the citizens of Chicago. The danger is these splendid little wars can metastasize into big serious wars, including domestic strife turning into a civil war.
But General Bonespurs, beware the Senators who will stab you in the back.
09/8/25 11:38 AM | Comment Link
Rich Bauer said...
15While General Bonespurs starts another illegal war and makes the US the World’s Policeman, where is American Conservative when we need it? Now we learn General Bonespurs was a spy for the Deep STATE. Yikes, what will Amerika First do now?
According to five Trump administration officials and others close to the president, lousy Johnson’s “informant” claim on Thursday sparked widespread confusion within the ranks of Trump’s government, with several senior officials blindsided or just completely perplexed by what the Trump-aligned House speaker could have possibly meant.
For some in the administration, the confusion spilled over into Saturday, with some officials still unsure about whether Johnson was citing some explosive, unheard-of insider information, or if he misspoke or was freelancing extemporaneously.
“What the hell is he doing?” one senior Trump administration appointee told Rolling Stone, after being asked about the Johnson “informant” comment.
Other Trump advisers say it’s their understanding that Johnson was referencing past claims made in the media about Trump; however, these claims did not amount to the idea he was a federal “informant.”
Over to you, American Conservative.
09/8/25 12:05 PM | Comment Link
John Poole said...
16Bauer I worry that you might off yourself once Trump dies so you can continue in the afterlife to berate him as he is escorted to an appropriate circle in Dante’s fanciful eternal damnation destination for terrestrial misdeeds. Any guess which one that would be? Maybe all 10 circles on a rotational basis? If so the Donald would make us all aware of such a highly unprecedented accomplishment.
09/8/25 5:01 PM | Comment Link
Rich Bauer said...
17This is how it will end in 2029, taking a cue from prezidunce Trump’s murder missile attack on a Venezuelan boat with 11 souls and having no documented evidence to justify it, Prez Newsom ordered a missile attack on a yacht with Six Supreme Trumpustles off Florida today. Prez Newsom declared the six were narco-terrorists on their way to Epstein Island for some sordid sex. When questioned by the press, Prez Newsom used the wise words of then viceprezidunce VD Dance: Killing narcoterrorists who poison our fellow citizens is the highest and best use of our military.
(Note: VD is currently in hiding as he too has been branded a narco-terrorist by Prez Newsom.)
09/8/25 7:46 PM | Comment Link
John Poole said...
18To Rick Gudmunson- Please define your term- “illegal labor”. Do you mean cash payment for services rendered but completely “off the books” enabling both parties to escape required regulations and obligations? Is it unlicensed business activity such as someone charging for services claiming to be an oral surgeon but with no certified training? The term shadow economy is also a bland term which needs some descriptive examples.
09/9/25 2:21 PM | Comment Link
Rich Bauer said...
19Maybe Epstein’s Best Friend should resign
U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer has sacked the U.K.’s Ambassador to the U.S. Peter Mandelson after further details emerged about the diplomat’s relationship with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
U.S. lawmakers released a number of documents this week that revealed Mandelson’s apparent close friendship with Epstein, including a letter from Mandelson in which he called the disgraced financier his “best pal.”
09/11/25 9:22 AM | Comment Link
Rich Bauer said...
20Round Up The Usual Suspects…and ignore the Epstein scandal
Leave it to Donnie Dumbass to shoot off his big mouth, pouring gas on the fire, immediately claiming the Left? responsible for killing Kirk. Well, two can play that game, DD. How about Putin paid the sniper, who conveniently leaves behind ammo with Trans and anti-fascist writings? Or maybe it was Fox News just to boost its fading ratings.
With Kash and Thommy Fugataboutit in charge of the investigation, will we ever get the truth behind the killing? In the meantime, Donnie Dumbass can continue to stoke the fire until it gets more people killed. If I was a betting man, I would bet the people who stand to benefit would be worth investigating.
09/11/25 12:16 PM | Comment Link
Rich Bauer said...
21In case we need any more evidence the Ol USA is the dumbest country on the planet, I give you this dickhead from the US Department of State Christopher Landau, Trump’s deputy secretary of state, who posted this to X on Thursday:
“In light of yesterday’s horrific assassination of a leading political figure, I want to underscore that foreigners who glorify violence and hatred are not welcome visitors to our country. I have been disgusted to see some on social media praising, rationalizing, or making light of the event, and have directed our consular officials to undertake appropriate action. Please feel free to bring such comments by foreigners to my attention so that the @StateDept can protect the American people.”
Great. Can you kick this dumbass out too?
Our prezidunce Donald Trump on Thursday told reporters that “we just have to beat the hell” out of “radical left lunatics,” following the killing of conservative commentator Charlie Kirk, speaking on the South Lawn of the White House as he was heading to New York City, was responding to a reporter who asked what the president’s message was to conservatives who feel targeted by “radical groups.”
Instead of MAGA drinking his dumbass kool-aid, try bleach. It really works.
09/12/25 9:35 AM | Comment Link
Rich Bauer said...
22The Real Cost of the GOP BBB
The GOP BBB gets a BIG F for inflation- 5 percent this year. For 24 million enrollees of Affordable Care Act insurance plans, the news is far worse. The end of enhanced federal subsidies for that program means that their costs are expected to rise by more than 75 percent next year, according to KFF, the nonpartisan health policy organization.
People vote their pocketbooks. People may not care what minors Epstein screwed, but they get upset when they figure out they will.
09/12/25 12:23 PM | Comment Link
Rich Bauer said...
23The Real Cost to the GOP Releasing the Epstein Files
The Republican-led Senate narrowly voted Wednesday to defeat an amendment introduced by Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., to compel the Justice Department to release all of the Jeffrey Epstein files. The vote was 51-49 in favor of tabling the amendment. Two Republicans — Rand Paul of Kentucky and Josh Hawley of Missouri — joined all 47 Democrats in voting against tabling the amendment.
How many RICH Repug friends on the Epstein Files got their money’s worth for that despicable act?
09/12/25 12:56 PM | Comment Link
John Poole said...
24Bauer: I always thought Epstein was gay. Yeah, I know that doesn’t make sense to most but sexual fetishes are so bizarre in the gay world nothing should be ruled out. My wife thinks Trump is gay. Look at Diddy for example! This has gotten off topic for sure. Strange times but nothing unique when studying past empires on the “down low”.
09/13/25 9:40 AM | Comment Link
John Poole said...
25follow up about Epstein: satyriasis can be a cover for a gay male. Epstein seems to have been obsessed with being envied and admired by men rather than by being seen as sexually desirable to discerning females.
09/13/25 12:10 PM | Comment Link
Rich Bauer said...
26JP,
Putin is gay, right? All those photos of him riding without a shirt on horseback? Come on, the Cowboy gayguy makes Elton John look straight. Cant he be prosecuted for propaganda gay public displays of Brokeback Mountain stuff? Why do good Russian people put up with that ? Do you think he has video of him and Donnie doggie-style?
09/13/25 9:25 PM | Comment Link
John Poole said...
27I’ll wait for PVB to write about Putin’s current behavior and the current Russian zeitgeist. I regret going off subject regarding very serious accusations. Gender and orientation is not an offhand topic.
09/14/25 10:14 AM | Comment Link
Rich Bauer said...
28JP,
VIR-US
Yeah, let’s cut the gayhate crap when we got Trump lunatics on Faux News resurrecting the Nazi final solution for the mentally ill. Peoples forget the mentally ill were the first to be exterminated under the Nazis. Of course, the Faux dickhead implicated his own mentally ill dumbass. And Faux has implicated itself as Nazi2.0 by keeping this dickhead on the boobtube.
The final solution is the world needs to treat the ol USA as mentally ill, and to save itself should adopt social distancing to prevent the hate virus from spreading. The Charlie Kirk white antibodies are creating a cytokine storm that can kill the organism. There is no vaccine for stupidity.
09/15/25 9:21 AM | Comment Link
Rich Bauer said...
29Trump trumps Bush jr.
For a guy who made fun of Bush jr for attacking Iraq instead of Saudi to avenge 9-11, Donnie Dementia is bizarrely attacking “left radicals” instead of MAGA MORMONS in response to the KIRK KILLING, as Tyler Robinson’s entire family are ardent MAGA.
Here is the profile the FBI should be watching:
White males 20-25 with access to high-powered weapons and graduated high school with honors. Yes, many innocent Repugs will have their privacy violated, but if it keeps US safe, I say Kristi Noem, GO FOR IT.
09/15/25 4:10 PM | Comment Link
John Poole said...
30Bauer: I don’t take for granted that I had a physician certified fixed gender status at birth. I do not smugly dismiss the idea of non binary proclamations or same gender attraction. They are members of my species on this incomprehensible orb’s origin and they matter.
09/15/25 4:17 PM | Comment Link
Rich Bauer said...
31Is Tyler non-binary?
In the aftermath of Airhead Charlie Kirk’s murder by Tyler Robinson, the Republican radical right jumped to lay blame on the political left with a blanket insinuation: “They did it.”
“They couldn’t silence him so they killed him,” Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.)
“They are at war with us!” Faux News anchor Jesse Watters said on Sept. 10.
“The evildoers responsible for my husband’s assassination have no idea what they have done,” Kirk’s widow, Erika Kirk, said.
Damn, these morons are really desperate to blame the Trans AMERICANS.
09/15/25 8:39 PM | Comment Link
Rich Bauer said...
32Social Media is Killing Donnie Dementia
Although DD’s age is 79, the demented dumbass’ brain is past its time due to his obsession with social media. Addicted Tweeting at 2am is the way to the graveyard. The poor guy cant helps hisself. His neocortex gave up the ghost already. All DD has left is his lizard brain. He has no capacity for innovative thought. We are now subjected to his johnny-one-note best of speeches. But the audience is getting bored. Killing Venezuelans to satisfy his blood base will get real tiresome too. DD cant sleep while The Epstein Ghost hovers in his nightmares. So DD, keep the 2am tweets coming. Your brain will soon leave your body. Cant say that for your soul..cause that left long ago,
09/16/25 11:20 AM | Comment Link