$200,000 ad campaign hits Ryan’s immigration plan

dailycaller ^ | 8/5/13 | Neil Munro

[cotton1706]

Republican budget chief Rep. Paul Ryan is the target of a new home-state TV-ad by an anti-immigration group.

The $200,000 radio and TV ad campaign starts Monday, and is timed for the August recess when Ryan is expected to be at home, defending his calls for an immigration bill that would boost the inflow of low-skill and high-skill workers, despite Americans’ declining wages and high unemployment rates.

“Congressman Paul Ryan says we have a labor shortage in Wisconsin. That’s right, a labor shortage,” says the ad, produced by the Federation for American Immigration Reform.

“Tell that to the 12 percent unemployed in Racine, the 10 percent unemployment in Milwaukee, the 9 percent unemployment in Janesville. Thousands are looking for work, yet Ryan supports a plan that could double immigration, grant amnesty to illegal aliens, and bring in millions more foreign workers to take jobs,” the ad says,

“Does Congressman Ryan think Wisconsin workers are not good enough to get the work done? Help us stand with the American worker.”

The ad illustrates the groups’ focus on immigrants’ impact on jobs rather than the much-debated issue of border security, which has been given much attention by politicians, advocates, lobbyists and journalists.

“Congressman Ryan needs to explain to thousands of Wisconsin workers… why he wants to increase immigration in order to avert a labor shortage that clearly does not exist,” said a statement from Dan Stein, FAIR’s president.

“Wisconsin has 210,000 unemployed workers. Does Congressman Ryan think they’re not good enough to get the job done?”

The ad follows Ryan’s increasing public push for a major immigration rewrite.

“We have been listening to the American people,” he told CBS Aug. 4. “So what we’re going to do is take a step-by-step approach to get immigration right, not a big massive bill but separate bills so people know what’s in these bills,” he said.

“We need to fix our legal immigration system [because] people come to this country based on family relations, not based on skills,” he said.

Ryan can afford to lose some voters to the ad-campaign — he won his November 2012 election with 60 percent of the vote.

But criticism of Ryan has increased partly because he is lobbying his fellow Republican legislators to vote for an immigration rewrite that is unpopular with much of the Republican base, just as Florida Sen. Marco Rubio rallied support for the Senate’s immigration rewrite, which passed in late June.

Also, Ryan has met several times with a Wisconsin progressive group, Voces de le Frontera, that has campaigned for an amnesty, and against border security, the E-verify verification system, and deportations of illegal immigrants.

“We treat people with fairness and respect by giving them a path to citizenship with a probationary visa,” Ryan told the groups’ members during a May 8 meeting in Racine.

[Digger]

The Dems must be luving this. The right not only has to fight the left but members in their own party. I see there is no hope for conservatism to exist in this commie country. What happens when the few conservatives are squelched by the PTB?

[Sgt_Schultze]

It is disgusting how there are about 500 representatives in Congress, plus the president, who see non-citizens as their constituents

[zeestephen]

I am happy to see ANY kind of pushback against Amnesty, including the employment and wage issues.

But the Number One issue is still POLITICAL.

If Amnesty passes, Democrats will take permanent control of Congress and the White House.

[Paladin2]

Now Ryan's FOR 0bamaDontCare.

The guy is a looser.

[Georgia Girl 2]

Paul Ryan has screwed the pooch with me. I hope he gets primaried by a Tea Partier.

[tennmountainman]

It is disgusting.

[jurroppi1]

Yeah, it’s pretty sad that we can expect that type of behavior out of supposed purists.

Isn’t politics the oldest profession and whoring the second oldest?

[stephenjohnbanker]

” Push back.

Ya gotta love this story, best thing I’ve heard in a while. Who is supporting this ad, and how do we sign up? “

BUMP

[onyx]

BTTT

Paul Ryan is a traitor.

[caveat emptor]

Here's an interesting survey of the failed efforts to maintain sensible borders and immigration policies over the past 20 years or so. The author, Peter Brimelow, wrote Alien Nation in 1995; the article is from the 2013 Kindle version of that book. He has no kind words for W. F. Buckley and NR. Here is a brief excerpt:

Similarly, I believe that, had National Review maintained over the subsequent fifteen years [since the 98 firing of NR editor O'Sullivan] the immigration line that O’Sullivan and I pioneered, the Republican Party—and America—might not now be facing demographic disaster.

Buckley is incessantly credited with the “making” of the post-World War II American conservative movement. But he must also be held complicit in its breaking—and, perhaps, the breaking of the American nation.

FYI the author and his site have been declared racist/haters by $PLC and banned as well on FR.

[grania]

It's a no-brainer. Ryan who is a traitor on EVERY isuue was much, much too close to being in the WH while we still knew nothing about him. Even if a dem wins, Ryan's career has to be ended now and it has to be clear it's because he traitored us on Obamacare and stopping the invasion of the US. He has to be on the trash-heap of history, fast.

A dem who knows his state hates Obamacare and understands that they don't need foreign labor might be a better vote anyway.

Is this worse than Rubio? YES. For starters, Ryan saw what happened to Rubio's standing when he traitored us. Add to that, Rubio's treachery was only about one issue....Ryan is against us on everything, so it seems.

[Democrat_media]

Anyone that is for Amnesty is for a communist Coup of the United States.

Do you Ryan and other congressional morons who vote for this Amnesty bill realize that 30 million amnestied illegals and their family back home (50 million more) will vote in democrats/socialism to turn the USA into a socialist/communist state?

Hey morons, immigrants , democrats and anyone for this Amnesty bill: communism is no fun and results in extreme poverty for 99% of the population and people are virtual slaves in a dictatorship. think N. Korea or Cuba . that is what you immigrants are doing to America.

what happened to Venezuela will happen 100 times worse here. it’s because democrats are hard core communists, all of them are(pelosi, Reid,Obama et al). they are importing untold millions of democrat voters that will allow them to rule with an iron fist. so 3rd world scum that invade the U.S.A looking to make more money will enable the democrats to turn the USA into a WORSE place than they left.

Rubio, Ryan ,Democrats, Bush? do you realize that? I know democrats want that as that is their goal to advance progressive policies and install a socialist/communist state.

do you Bush, democrats,Ryan , rubio realize that you are for communism?

Anyone that is for Amnesty is for a communist Coup of the United States