Posted on 02/24/2014 4:39:21 PM PST by SoConPubbie
Donohue has previously said that the U.S. Chamber of Commerce would "pull out all the stops" to get immigration reform this year. The group reportedly plans to spend $50 million to blunt the influence of the Tea Party, largely because it opposes amnesty, and millions more to push for immigration reform legislation that the Congressional Budget Office has said would lower the wages of American workers.
Donohue wrote that "a system in which more than 11 million undocumented immigrants are living and working in our communities in de facto amnesty is indefensible" and claimed that "immigrants do not typically compete with Americans for jobs" and "serve as a complement to U.S.-born workers and can help fill labor shortages across the skill spectrum and in key sectors."
He claims that "support for reform has never been stronger" even though Gallup found that only three percent of Americans view it as a top issue. He also said amnesty proponents "include lawmakers from both sides of the aisle, as well as labor, business, law enforcement, ethnic organizations, religious groups, and the high-tech industry" without mentioning that many of these groups are front-groups supported by left-wing donors like George Soros.
"There will never be a perfect time for reform. The political landscape isn’t going to be any more conducive to reform in two years or four years," he wrote. "The case for immigration reform is clear. The need is undeniable. The time is now."
Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) has repeatedly emphasized that big-business interests want immigration reform legislation to get cheaper labor at the expense of the those in America's
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You’re welcome!
Bring it on, Poindexter.
‘Bout time we had this out...
Now is the time to do a census of illegal aliens on welfare. Let’s really see if this is about jobs or transfer payments.
It still makes them looters in the eyes of Ayn Rand. These business interests are betraying a greater moral purpose.
Except you are breaking the law when you use illegal immigrants.
Bring back American jobs.
First.
Now.
“US Chamber...” representing foreigners over our interests.
All these have their own special interest in what they will gain. I fully expect them all to claim they are doing their lord's work.
In cities like mine, the immigrant legal or illegal is not the bottom of the wage pool; that is the inner-city felon on papers who is restricted to the areas serviced by bus transportation. However, we know that if you increase the supply of a commodity, the price tends to drop, and C of C sees labor as an undifferentiated commodity.
They just don’t want their maids and gardeners deported.
“So the CoC apparently knows that the climate for aupport of illegal aliens will be even less in a couple of years than it is now-now why would that be the case? “
Because Obamacare will sink the democrats in 14 and 16 and the republicans are not pro immigration like the democrats are.
“Indeed. Again they prove its all about cheap jobs for them.”
I don’t think that is it.
I think they want low wages for low inflation for low interest rates.
Any spike in interest rates will blow up the US govt. budget, business budgets, household budgets and possibly the world’s financial system.
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