Posted on 06/22/2015 6:02:09 PM PDT by plain talk
Republican leaders, who seem curiously eager to facilitate this deal for the president, have bent over backwards to assure the many skeptical Republican members that neither Trade Promotion Authority (TPA, or "fast-track" authority) nor the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) pact, which would be the next trade agreement to be rushed through the approval process on an up or down vote without possibility of amendments, includes or allows changes to immigration or visa law.
Some might be willing to trust our leaders on that, but in fact the biggest danger is not that the TPA bill and the TPP treaty make direct changes to immigration law. The biggest danger lies in the other deals that the president's team is working on. Provisions in these deals do change immigration laws, and also would prevent Congress from adjusting immigration laws that are currently being abused. That is the very goal of all trade pacts — to lock in open access to markets under current or more favorable terms, so that it cannot be changed.
If we were just talking about free trade in widgets, these treaties would not be particularly relevant to immigration law. But other countries are pushing hard for open access to U.S. job markets, too, euphemistically calling it "trade in services" and the "movement of natural persons".
Our current visa rules allow foreign-owned labor contractors who "trade in services" to bring in hundreds of thousands of foreign guestworkers each year. These rules, which the president's trade negotiators would like to freeze in place, have permitted employers to replace some of their U.S. workers with foreign guestworkers, not because the guestworkers have better skills, but because they are cheaper (see the testimony at a recent Senate Judiciary committee hearing).
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Pass it and we LOSE OUR SOVEREIGNTY. What is left of it!!!!!
And our very own folks are supporting Barry in getting his nightmare for America obamatrade thing pushed through!
That’s the plan.
Destruction of the US Constitution
by an UNREAD bill
which the DNC laughs
the GOP will take ‘credit’ for passing.
“Thank” you, GOP, and especially you, “Fast Track” Cruz.
Watch closely. This is the gop faction of the uniparty hard at work to destroy what’s left of the American middle class. Same modus operandi as the rat faction.
Call your Senators and SCREAM BLOODY MURDER!
Also SUPPORT the few who are standing up to Boehner and McConnell. They must be brought down because they have been BOUGHT by the Dems and Obama.
Oh the utter horror for us, and especially our children, if this passes. :(
I called and let slip what they are. Didn’t help at all.
They might act like it doesn’t matter, but believe me, they are listening!
It IS my opinion from what I’ve read over the past number of years what is happening is manipulations of our government, our Constitution, our electoral process by a well known enemy of our sovereignty, thus the emphasis on immigration to dilute our ability to fight back using Constitutional processes. A populace that isn’t American, isn’t born, and raised flag waving American’s don’t give a rats tootie about America. Look around you, and see what I mean.
I for one don’t believe it’s imaginings of the right wing conspiracists. I believe it’s very real, and I do believe Mr. Zbigniew Brzezinski could tell us all about it.
Any candidate for president who votes for TPA has no business in the race. They will be dead to me.
“Any candidate for president who votes for TPA has no business in the race. They will be dead to me”
I don’t think TPA is the problem but TPP is!!!
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