And the socialists need a dumbed down terrorized workforce who won't mind giving nearly all of what they earn in taxes.
That's it in a nutshell.
Unions are just as much an enemy to this country as any we've faced in our history.
Posted on 12/15/2009 10:27:20 PM PST by george76
The SEIU needs more dues-paying members.
The open-borders lobby needs something to do.
Voila! Meet the new illegal alien shamnesty push ...
The bill would torpedo the joint federal-local deportation program known as 287(g) and opposes beefing up our land borders with more Border Patrol agents or fencing.
SEIU has been lobbying for illegal alien amnesty as a massive membership booster all year. In May, the Purple Shirts held a pro-illegal immigration rally from Malcolm X Park to the White House to put pressure on homeland security officials to call off workplace raids (not that Janet Napolitano needed any convincing):
(Excerpt) Read more at michellemalkin.com ...
Two amnesty-pushing open-borders Presidents in a row. Makes you wonder if we ever again will have a President who enforces the laws, including those that tell him to deport illegals back to their home countries.
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Unfortunately, I think this one is going to be harder to beat than 0bamaCare...
This is one of those “what are they thinking?” things that I have a hard time trying to get my brain to accept.
Of all the things that could/would undercut a widespread high-wage & benefit/indifferent workforce, it would seem that an influx of low-wage workers would be near the top of the list.
So, the leadership of SEIU wants to encourage more and more foreign born workers to enter the country, supplying hotels, etc; with endless labor...but maybe the management of the unions is promising to keep the wages low...?
How can the present day rank and file believe this is in their best interests? Or is this another thing that doesn’t matter? Do the current rank & file think they’ll all be promoted to union vice-presidents?
I just can’t follow the line of thinking here. In a world of dwindling job opportunities for SEIU types, it would seem like they would want to create a labor shortage, or least a tightness, not a surplus.
Just don’t get it. They are going to aggrandize themselves into net-net a few more thousand votes (which hardly seems decisive) but damage the wages of most of their current members? They gonna make it up on volume?
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And the socialists need a dumbed down terrorized workforce who won't mind giving nearly all of what they earn in taxes.
That's it in a nutshell.
Unions are just as much an enemy to this country as any we've faced in our history.
Kiss America goodbye people!! Millions of illegals made legal in time to vote in 2010! Union thugs and acorn. Until these criminals a removed by force we are just going to have to learn to live in Obama’s banana republic. Amnesty, Obie care, cap and tax etc etc etc. They will have complete control soon! White middle income folk will of course become the slave class!! The coup is nearly complete. Freedom is nearly dead!
I worry more about having a president that believes in the sovereignty of the United States. Both of these "leaders" want to change the laws so they don't appear to be ignoring the laws on immigration.
This is why Zero is willing to push to get whatever he wants implemented - because if this passes, he knows his peeps don’t have to worry about being voted out.
That’s the plan.
Here’s the ACLU response to the amnesty bill. Of course THEY don’t think it goes far enough for the aliens.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
December 16, 2009
11:11 AM
CONTACT: ACLU
Claire O’Brien, (202) 675-2312; media@dcaclu.org
Comprehensive Immigration Reform Unveiled
Bill Addresses Longstanding Problems in Immigration Enforcement Practices But Fails to Protect Workers and Same-Sex Couples
WASHINGTON - December 16 - Congressman Luis V. Gutierrez (D-IL), along with members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, the Congressional Black Caucus, the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus and the Congressional Progressive Caucus, introduced late Tuesday HR 4321, The Comprehensive Immigration Reform for America’s Security and Prosperity Act of 2009 (CIR ASAP), legislation that takes major strides toward repairing America’s broken immigration system. The American Civil Liberties Union strongly supports responsible reforms to U.S. immigration policy and calls on Congress to ensure that any legislation protects the civil rights, civil liberties and human rights of everyone in the United States, regardless of his or her immigration status.
“The ACLU applauds Rep. Gutierrez for introducing an historic bill that sets forth critical reforms to the immigration detention, deportation and enforcement system that comport with due process, the Constitution and international human rights norms,” said Joanne Lin, ACLU Legislative Counsel. “This is the first comprehensive immigration reform bill that aims to rectify some of the egregious immigration practices set in place since 1996, including mandatory detention of immigrants for minor crimes; delegation of immigration enforcement and verification to states and localities, and denial of judicial review to immigrants facing deportation and permanent separation from U.S. citizen family members.”
CIR ASAP contains numerous provisions aimed at restoring due process in immigration enforcement actions. Such reforms would:
* Suspend Operation Streamline pending review of the program’s goals, impacts and cost-benefit analyses;
* Require DHS to meet detention condition requirements to ensure adequate medical care and to avoid unnecessary detainee transfers;
* Establish a strong presumption against detention of families with children and prohibit expedited removal of families;
* Provide access to immigration counsel during enforcement actions and for disabled individuals unable to fully participate in deportation hearings;
* Require timely notice and service of immigration charges, as well as timely bond hearings for people detained more than 48 hours;
* Limit the use of immigration detainers to confirmed removable aliens;
* Improve secure alternative to detention programs by establishing criteria to guide detention and release decisions, and ensuring immigration judge review of all detention decisions;
* Pre-empt any state or local law that discriminates against people based on immigration status;
* Repeal the fundamentally flawed 287(g) program and clarify that immigration enforcement authority belongs exclusively to the federal government;
* Restore federal jurisdiction of immigration decisions and practices, thereby restoring the historic role that federal courts have long played in checking federal agency conduct.
However, despite the many positive reforms included in CIR ASAP, the bill falls short of being “comprehensive,” as it fails to include immigration parity provisions that would allow gay U.S. citizens and permanent residents to sponsor their permanent partners for permanent residency, an immigration right that heterosexual spouses have long enjoyed. Without these immigration parity protections, immigrant families in the U.S., including many with U.S. citizen children, will continue to be torn asunder.
CIR ASAP also includes invasive electronic employment verification which, if implemented, would require employers to use error filled government databases to confirm work authorization for every American. The system would also require the storage of more personal information about workers and increase the risk of data breaches and identity theft.
“While we are encouraged by the willingness of congressional leaders to tackle immigration reform, we are disappointed in the inclusion of electronic employment verification and we urge lawmakers to remove any language that creates such a system,” said Christopher Calabrese, ACLU Policy Legislative Counsel. “Errors in electronic employment verification are significant barriers to employment and violate the rights of innocent workers. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce also estimates they will cost employers and society billions. In this current economic climate, the last thing we need is higher business costs or another hurdle standing between a worker and a job. While we support the efforts of leaders in the House and Senate to bring real reforms to the immigration system, Americans should not be expected to trade away their privacy rights as payment for these reforms.”
The ACLU commends Rep. Gutierrez for introducing this historic CIR bill and urges the Senate to adopt many of the bill’s immigration enforcement reform provisions when the Senate takes up CIR early next year. The ACLU further urges that any Senate CIR bill be truly “comprehensive” by ensuring immigration parity for all American families, whether they involve heterosexual or same-sex permanent partners.
To see the ACLU’s statement on the necessary elements of meaningful immigration reform, see:
www.aclu.org/immigrants-rights/aclu-statement-immigration-reform
To see a summary of CIR ASAP, see:
www.aclu.org/immigrants-rights/cir-asap-summary
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2009/12/16-1
This will be the tipping point for a civil war.
Here’s a bit by CIS. They don’t think the bill will make it...hope they’re right!
Dead on Arrival - the new Democrat’s amnesty bill Print E-mail
Written by Mark Krikorian
Tuesday, 15 December 2009 20:05
Center for Immigration Studies Blog
Not all change is reform. Sometimes the status quo is better than proposed changes, and the new Democratic’s amnesty bill is a case in point.
I haven’t seen the full text of the “Comprehensive Immigration Reform for America’s Security and Prosperity Act of 2009” (CIR ASAP) yet, but the immigration lawyers’ think tank has a pretty detailed summary (in pdf here), which would suggest that they wrote the bill, and it shows. The “border security” section is larded with the appearance of action without any real action: “formalize a national strategy,” “Creates a Southern Border Security Task Force,” “take an inventory,” “additional training,” “requiring a study.” In fact, the section takes a big step backward by suspending Operation Streamline, which prosecutes all illegal crossers along certain stretches of the border.
The bill limits authorities’ ability to detain illegal aliens (the subject of a House hearing last week at which I testified), and seeks to curb enforcement activities. I liked this especially: “Ensures social service agencies, translators, and legal services are available during enforcement activities, and establishes access to legal orientation programs for all detained immigrants.” That’s all we need - “legal orientation programs” for illegal aliens.
The measure would also scrap the current successful E-Verify system and establish a totally new electronic verification system, ensuring that it will be years and years before there’s a functioning system, which is the point. It would hugely increase legal immigration by exempting from the ostensible “cap” on numbers more and more categories, including the spouses and children of green-card holders (only those of citizens are now unlimited). The result would be an increase in legal immigration of hundreds of thousands each year. The amnesty is, of course, laughably loose, including among its few requirements that immigrants “attest to having made contributions to the U.S. through employment, education, military service, or other volunteer/community service.” Well, who would attest otherwise?
In addition to being comically over-the-top, the measure isn’t likely to gain even the support of the right wing of the open-borders coalition because it hews to Big Labor’s line and doesn’t include a big “temporary” labor program. Now, that’s about the only thing good about it for me, but Jeff Flake condemned the bill immediately for this reason, which is a sign of how little support there’s likely to be for it.
This bill is more evidence, if we needed any, that the White House and the congressional Democrats aren’t serious about actually passing an amnesty and are instead just stringing along the Hispanic groups and the lefties.
http://www.rightsidenews.com/200912167795/editorial/dead-on-arrival-the-new-democratic-amnesty-bill.html
Hope you are right.
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Merry Christmas!
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