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REASONS THESE SENATORS SHOULD VOTE ‘NO’

You can use any argument you wish with the Senators’ staffers — or simply say “Vote NO on S. 744.”

But here are some key reasons the Senators should oppose this bill:

1. VOTING “YES” WILL FOREVER TAR THE SENATOR WITH THE LARGEST OPEN-BORDER/AMNESTY FIASCO IN HISTORY: It repeats the mistake of the 1986 amnesty by giving work permits and legalization to at least 11 million . . . before any new enforcement, let alone before full implementation of enforcement.

2. VOTING “YES” WILL BE A LONG-TIME SYMBOL OF CALLOUSNESS TO AMERICA’S MOST VULNERABLE, ESPECIALL TO BLACK AND HISPANIC AMERICANS: The bill’s addition of 33 million new potential foreign workers in first decade during a time of high unemployment threatens to collapse the wages of many middle-class occupations and to retard the ability of the working poor to move up to the middle class.

3. Polls show almost NO public support (a) for work permits before full enforcement implmentation, (b) for increasing the flow of foreign workers, let alone the tripling of foreign workers, (c) Republicans who vote YES will face a Republican electorate, the plurality of whom will look for another candidate to support in the next Primary.

4. The Weekly Standard reports that at least five S. 744 supporters do not. The influential publication found that Senators did not know anything about a provision in the bill that would give employers a $3,000 incentive to hire amnestied aliens over citizens and permanent legal residents:

5. John Carney of CNBC writes that the Congressional Budget Office says S. 744 would create “another decade of pain” for American workers. But that doesn’t seem to trouble very many Members of the United States Senate.

6. Instead of discussing the higher unemployment and lower wages S. 744 would mean for American workers, the Gang is “in full horse-trading mode” according to Politico, which also reports (subscribers only) that the entire process has been “mostly via back channels and insider negotiations, with deals reached privately to lock up senators’ votes — rather than amendments adopted publicly on the Senate floor.”

7. Erick Erickson of Red State has a list of quotes from amnesty supporters back when they were running for office — and againstamnesty.

8. And Sen. Rubio (among those quoted by Erickson above) reiterated his belief that the Senate needs to convince the American public to trust it on immigration.

Sen. Paul, on the other hand, wrote “Washington parlor tricks disguised as reform will not fool the American people.”