Daily Business Report: Wednesday, July 9, 2025
Immigration Extremes, Demography, and the Inability to Change a Light Bulb!
By Andy Caldwell | California Globe
The left in America has always frustrated any attempt to reform our immigration system by way of their demands for amnesty, read that full citizenship rights, for all illegal aliens. They would want us to believe this has to do with their compassion for humanity, but their motivation has to do with their insatiable cravings for pure political power. They understand that they need more voters, and their literal bread and butter approach to securing the same is handing out a multitude of benefits and various means of protection to illegal aliens, as well as to lazy and lawless Americans, for that matter, to secure their support.
What is not lost on most Americans is that this mix of immigrants who recently invaded our country included some hard-working people who want the American dream for their children, along with terrorists, international gang members and jihadists, convicted murderers, rapists, and child molesters. Hence, the extreme stance of elite progressives is to welcome and embrace the tired and the poor, along with all menaces and burdens to society. This is one of the main reasons why they lost the last Presidential election.
Some conservatives, on the other hand, want all people who came here without our government’s permission to be deported summarily and immediately, end of story. On their part, they fail to respect the fact that some of the immigrants who broke the law did so out of desperation and aspiration. That is, they were living in a hell-hole country, and they wanted the American dream for themselves and their children. While it is inexcusable to break the law, it is also inexcusable that our current immigration system is broken thereby precluding the ability of business owners in construction, hotel and restaurants, and agriculture to get the workers they need to serve us.
Why nail salons are being targeted in fights over gig worker laws
By Jeanne Kuang | CalMatters
Like thousands of other Vietnamese-American women in California, Emily Micelli started painting nails to support herself. She turned that weekend job into a two-decade-long career as a manicurist, and now offers her own nail art designs at an upscale Newport Beach salon.
This year, she found her livelihood upended by a few words in the state labor code.
Like other workers in the beauty industry, state-licensed nail technicians were granted an exemption from Assembly Bill 5, the sweeping 2019 law targeting the gig economy that required many employers to classify workers as employees rather than independent contractors.
Trump Grant Freeze Puts Tens of Millions of Local K-12 Funding in Jeopardy
By Jakob McWhinney | Voice of San Diego
The Trump administration announced last week that they had frozen $6.2 billion in federal grants for schools across the country. The freeze is just the latest salvo in President Donald Trump’s attacks on the education status quo. It could also deprive San Diego County schools of tens of millions of congressionally allocated funds.
Determining the exact impact the freeze will have on schools is difficult. Officials from the U.S. Department of Education usually provide the California Department of Education estimated grant amounts by March or April. This year, as the department was walloped by cuts and raided by DOGE operatives, there was radio silence.
That silence left researchers and local education agencies, for whom the grants are an important part of budgets, to come up with their own figures. For example, officials at the educational think tank the Learning Policy Institute estimated California may be entitled to an $811 million slice of the frozen funding.
