Posted on 06/05/2007 4:02:43 PM PDT by mnehring
Vanity- Has anyone noticed the huge rash of pro-amnesty commercials by the group Texas Employers for Immigration Reform (TEIR)? http://www.txeir.com/
They started this weekend and are almost every commercial break on every channel here. The latest basically says if you expect food in your fridge and houses to be built, you will support the immigration reform bill.
IIRC - TIER is funded by LaRaza
I’ve been seeing them on FNC all evening. They make me sick! They are implying that if we don’t allow amnesty there won’t be any workers.
Sure there are labor shortages when you don’t want to pay more than minimum wage. It seems they want the government to ‘fix’ the labor market for them, while we tax payers have to provide the families of their illegal alien employees with government benefits.
Screw them! We should all refuse to do business with any company that hires illegal aliens, or eventual “Z-Visa” employees.
Adams Insurance Services, Inc.
Associated Builders & Contractors of Texas
Associated Plumbing-Heating-Cooling Contractors of Texas
Baldi Gardens
Beecherl Investments
Belton Area Chamber of Commerce
Bob Perry
Bowerbird Construction
Bud Smith Organization
Cameo Samples LLC
Cedar Creek Farms
Clearstream Wastewater Systems, Inc.
Contran Corporation
Corporate Facilities Management Services, LLC
Dairy Farmers of America
Emerald Garden
Excell Cleaning and Building Services, Inc.
Express Personnel Services
Federation of Employers & Workers of America
Four Seasons Sunrooms Design and Remodeling Center
Greater Dallas Hispanic Chamber of Commerce
Greater Irving-Las Colinas Chamber of Commerce
Greater Killeen Chamber of Commerce
Greater San Antonio Chamber of Commerce
GreenWay Lawn Care
Henry S. Miller Companies
Hunt Building Corporation
Hutchison Homes
IBTX Risk Management System
International Bank of Commerce
James Leininger, M.D.
Kenjura Tile, Inc.
Lawn Management Company
Landmark Nurseries Inc.
Loeffler Tuggey Pauerstein Rosenthal LLP
Lone Star Milk Producers
Manhattan Policy Institute
McAllen Chamber of Commerce
Mesquite Chamber of Commerce
Metro Blind & Shade Inc.
Mortellaro's Nursery, Inc.
North American Stone Company
Pape Farms
Phil Adams Company
Pilgrim’s Pride
Plains Cotton Growers, Inc.
Powell Plant Farms, Inc.
Ran-Pro Farms Inc.
San Antonio Hispanic Chamber of Commerce
Sanderson Farms
Select Milk Producers, Inc.
South Padre Island Chamber of Commerce
Southern Multifoods, Inc.
Southwest Property Landscaping
TawaKoni Plant Farm
Texas Agriculture Cooperative Council
Texas Apartment Association
Texas Association of Builders
Texas Association of Business
Texas Association of Dairymen
Texas Association of Mexican-American Chambers of Commerce
Texas Cattle Feeders Association
Texas Citrus Mutual
Texas Cotton Ginners' Association
Texas Farm Bureau
Texas Hotel & Lodging Association
Texas Nursery and Landscape Association
Texas Package Store Association
Texas Pork Producers Association
Texas Poultry Federation and Affiliates
Texas Restaurant Association
Texas Retailers Association
Texas & Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association
Texas State Florists' Association
Texas Travel Industry Association
Texas Vegetable Association
The Honorable Dolph Briscoe
Turfgrass Producers of Texas
Tyson Foods, Inc.
West Texas Plants
Wester Landscape Management
Wilhite Landscape and Lawn Care, Ltd.
Winter Garden Produce
the revenue for airing these commercials is quite possibly one of the reasons that media is ignoring the widespread outrage.....I use WOW cable, and have been seeing them PLENTY, as part of the channel/networks advertising and seems like WOW runs them independently as well
why? What list is this?
List of companies supporting TEIR (that supports AMNESTY!)
WTF?
WTF?"
I'll tell you WTF:
About 10 years ago a friend of mine started an FM Salsa music station here in Houston. The "Houston Mexican-American Chamber of Commerce" sued him because Salsa music was "contaminating" the Mexican culture. I knew some members of the Mex C of C. I used to see them all the time in.....the Salsa clubs here. How rich is that?
Hold on to your chair.
They won. He was required to reduce power output from 100% to 10%. The Mexican-American judge said that he couldn't abridge 1st amendments rights, otherwise, he would have shut down the station completely. As it was, 10% of power reached no one so my friend had to shut down the station anyway.
Now I see that this is a list of TEIR supporters via their website.
TEIR looks like the kind of list of high-dollar supporters of any Republican in Texas. Bob Perry for example underwrote the ‘Swift Vet’ group, and Lieninger is famous for supporting vouchers.
Give ‘em a freep, guys!
Here is what I said:
Enacting a full-scale legalization for 12 million illegal immigrants is not the path to ‘reform’, it is the path to more breakdown in the system. It is worse when it is done without first making sure the border is secure and immigration law is properly enforced. we invite further systematic failure with the current Senate bill that does just that, by having a massive legalization/amnesty with fake triggers that do not really guarantee anything. It failed in 1986 and it will fail now, only more massively.
You should know by now also that the Democrats are going to twist the immigration law to undermine the idea of guest workers and undermine shifting from chain migration to employment-based immigration. They have an agenda to import welfare-state voters, not workers.
The end result? You will NOT get what you want (a sane immigration law) , but the liberal Democrats will get what they want (a permanent voting majority), and it will include a voting majority for liberal high-tax socialist legislation in Texas. In 15 years, Texas will become what California already is - an anti-business ‘blue state’. The demographic shift in Cali (from 57% white voters to 43%) will be replicated in Texas.
As someone who works and lives with *legal* immigrants, I can tell you right now the ‘comprehensive’ Senate bill is a slap in the face to them. So who have you helped? Lawbreaking illegal immigrants and Democrats only, and certainly not yourself, not the citizens, not American workers.
You are selling your future and my kids future short. I urge you to reconsider your support for amnesty/legalization.
A push for more employment-oriented immigration including guest workers would be supported by many of us opposed strongly to amnesty.
See also:
http://travismonitor.blogspot.com/2007/05/this-immigration-bill-is-built-to-fail.html
“the revenue for airing these commercials is quite possibly one of the reasons that media is ignoring the widespread outrage.”
Nope, liberal bias is sufficient for them to be asleep on that .
As mentioned on that thread, the Texas Association of Business bankrolled Tom Delay's efforts in Texas re-districting.
I guess they haven’t heard that slavery is dead.
Whot's up with THAT??
Tell them, if you entered their members businesses without permission, would they be so accommodating of a trespasser? Would they give you cash/services for breaking into their place of business or residence?
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