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MORRIS: OBAMA SNEAKING IN ‘UNRESTRICTED IMMIGRATION’ IN TPA TRADE DEAL
Breitbart ^ | 4/20/2015 | Pam Key

Posted on 04/20/2015 3:59:22 PM PDT by Velveeta

Monday on Newmax TV’s “America’s Forum,” political commentator Dick Morris said the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPA) fast track being supported by many Republicans has a provision that allows for the “free flow of workers” between countries, essentially creating a backdoor to “unrestricted immigration.” Morris said, “This is huge. I hope everybody listening takes action call your senator about it. If he is a Republican he is voting wrong.

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It means literally that congress would not have the authority to restrict immigration because a treaty supersedes a statute under our constitution.”

(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Business/Economy; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: aliens; immigration; obama; tpa; tpp; unrestricted
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To: Velveeta

On the one hand, I certainly wouldn’t put this past Obama.

On the other hand, it’s being reported by Dick Morris.


21 posted on 04/20/2015 4:57:48 PM PDT by Conscience of a Conservative
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To: Velveeta

Even a broke clock is right twice a day, but it always helps to triple check Dick Morris...quadruple check is better.


22 posted on 04/20/2015 5:03:58 PM PDT by xzins (Donate to the Freep-a-Thon or lose your ONLY voice. https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: onedoug

backed by the chamber of commerce


23 posted on 04/20/2015 5:04:04 PM PDT by manc (Marriage =1 man + 1 woman,when they say marriage equality then they should support polygamy)
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To: caww

I’ve read about some of the problems in South Africa. With all its problems, SA looks like the land and milk and honey to some of the Africans in the most destitute nations.

Free movement of labor is insane, especially between very affluent and very poor nations. Any average ten year-old can tell you what will happen. We should have free markets within the US and the free movement a labor as we do have, but it brings nothing but benefits to a few and problems for the nation as a whole when allowed between nations of disparate affluence.

But true free markets do mean the free movement of labor. Globalists are all for it.


24 posted on 04/20/2015 5:04:10 PM PDT by Will88
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To: Velveeta

Calling my useless senators now.


25 posted on 04/20/2015 5:18:31 PM PDT by Chainmail (A simple rule of life: if you can be blamed, you're responsible.)
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To: Shady

When will all this crud end?
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Not until the bread and circuses cease and desist.


26 posted on 04/20/2015 5:18:56 PM PDT by Canedawg
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To: Velveeta

The AFL-CIO imposed a moratorium on political contributions until Congress votes on the trade legislation (including TPPA). The AFL-CIO is against more trade legislation.

1. The Union feels the trade deal undermines U.S manufacturing jobs.

2. The Union states that NAFTA cost Americans to lose more than 680,000 jobs.

3. The AFL-CIO is encouraging its members to contract lawmakers and voice their opposition to the trade deal.


27 posted on 04/20/2015 5:22:12 PM PDT by odawg
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To: Will88

...”SA looks like the land and milk and honey to some of the Africans in the most destitute nations”....

Not any more....they’re running what they had fast! But that is the normal for African Nations....these peoples have tribal mentalities regardless of anything they may acquire monetarily.


28 posted on 04/20/2015 5:22:47 PM PDT by caww
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To: Velveeta; LucyT; Carry_Okie

All: Another secret deal/treaty with only God knowing what’s in it and what it commits the US to?

TPP — Is this also a backdoor to climate change regs?

Below may not be the best of sources, but I just listened to the Manning interview last night and intended to check out his org.

RICHARD MANNING, President of Americans for Limited Government - 9 minutes

http://www.centerforsecuritypolicy.org/podpress_trac/web/193968/3/04102015_Seg4_Manning_Web.mp3

Tell Congress to stop Obama’s stealth climate trade deal!
http://netrightdaily.com/action/tell-congress-no-fast-track-for-obama/

http://netrightdaily.com/2015/04/where-is-obamas-secret-trade-bill/

https://www.numbersusa.com/news/fast-tracking-trade-agreements-could-abrogate-congressional-immigration-authority


29 posted on 04/20/2015 5:27:13 PM PDT by thouworm
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To: dandiegirl

Who is the uneducated one? Us or them?

We keep electing them.


30 posted on 04/20/2015 5:37:41 PM PDT by Dacula
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To: Will88
By any rational definition of the term "free markets", there should be a free flow of workers just as there is a free flow of capital and goods.

incorrect. free markets has nothing to do with wide open borders where anything can flow in or out without restriction. so I don't accept your premise

31 posted on 04/20/2015 5:40:20 PM PDT by plain talk
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To: Will88

WHY should there be a free flow of workers?

China doesn’t allow people to immigrate there to work. The single most populated country in the entire world.

Why should we?


32 posted on 04/20/2015 5:44:07 PM PDT by Cringing Negativism Network (http://www.census.gov/foreign-tradebalance/c5700.html)
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FReepers, Let's go!
Everyone needs to donate!

33 posted on 04/20/2015 5:45:57 PM PDT by RedMDer (Keep Free Republic Alive with YOUR Donations!)
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To: plain talk
incorrect. free markets has nothing to do with wide open borders where anything can flow in or out without restriction

Free markets internationally absolutely include the free movement of labor, as well as the free movement of capital, goods and services, etc. And many services include labor.

Like most who only partially believe in free markets, you flake out on the most politically volatile element of free markets: the free movement of labor.

Prices cannot be set by supply and demand if the supply of labor is not as free to move as the other factors of production, and the finished products and services.

34 posted on 04/20/2015 5:54:18 PM PDT by Will88
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To: Cringing Negativism Network
WHY should there be a free flow of workers?

There should not be. I'm just pointing out the hypocrisy, or is it political cowardice, of those who claim to favor free markets internationally while favoring a restriction on the free movement of labor. A free market internationally requires that all factors of production be mobile so that prices can be set by supply and demand and not by government interference.

And I'm totally opposed to free markets internationally and the pretend free trade that the US just can't get enough of.

35 posted on 04/20/2015 5:59:41 PM PDT by Will88
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To: Shady

I don’t know, but not until Jan 2017 does it even have a chance and then only if Nov 2016 is good.


36 posted on 04/20/2015 6:43:15 PM PDT by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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To: Rushmore Rocks

Thanks, RR! We all need to call our Senators tomorrow.


37 posted on 04/20/2015 6:52:03 PM PDT by Velveeta
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To: combat_boots

Thanks for that link.


38 posted on 04/20/2015 6:54:31 PM PDT by Velveeta
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To: thouworm; All

Trade agreement is a Trojan horse for Obama’s immigration agenda

Congress is considering whether to give President Obama the power to fast-track the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a sweeping international regulatory agreement the White House describes as “rules for the world’s economy” — and the U.S. TPP regulates everything from the environment and energy (climate change, anyone?) to minimum wages, food and, most notably, immigration.

If approved, the Trans-Pacific Partnership would have the force of a treaty. Its regulations would override U.S. law. With fast-track trade promotion authority (TPA), only a simple majority in both houses of Congress, not a two-thirds supermajority in the Senate, would be needed for approval. Congress could not change any of the rules in it, and the White House would not be obligated to follow any directives Congress offers on what those rules should look like.

The Trans-Pacific Partnership includes an entire chapter on immigration. It is a Trojan horse for Obama’s immigration agenda.
House members who were ready to defund the Department of Homeland Security to stop President Obama’s executive action on immigration must not give him TPA, which he will use to ensure his immigration actions are locked in when he leaves office.

The U.S. Trade Representative says “temporary entry” guest worker visas are a “key feature” of the Trans-Pacific Partnership. “Temporary entry” reminds one of Milton Friedman’s famous dictum: “Nothing is as permanent as a temporary government program.”

TPP isn’t the first time the Obama administration has used trade agreements to rewrite immigration law. Its U.S.-South Korea deal expanded the L-1 visa program, which corporations use to bring foreign workers into the U.S.

The Department of Homeland Security Inspector General slammed the L-1 program for fraud. Its crackdown met with pushback from the corporate community, and the Obama administration listened — to the corporations.

Speaking at an international corporate business summit in March, Obama announced that “My administration is going to reform the L-1B visa category, which allows corporations to temporarily move workers from a foreign office to a U.S. office in a faster, simpler way. ... [T]his could benefit hundreds of thousands of nonimmigrant workers and their employers.” (Emphasis added.)

Those hundreds of thousands of “nonimmigrant workers” aren’t Americans — they are foreign workers not counted as immigrants.

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http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/international/238574-trade-agreement-is-a-trojan-horse-for-obamas-immigration


39 posted on 04/20/2015 7:29:38 PM PDT by Velveeta
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To: Velveeta

Yet another reason why it was just SO important to make sure we got the gopE in charge of both chambers!! Damn good thing we did!


40 posted on 04/20/2015 7:48:01 PM PDT by zzeeman ("We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality.")
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