Chamber Laments Failure of Immigration Reform

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Thursday, June 28, 2007  
 

Chamber Laments Failure of Immigration Reform

 

WASHINGTON, DC—The U.S. Chamber of Commerce today expressed its disappointment over the failure of S. 1348, the “Secure Borders, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Reform Act of 2007” to move forward for debate.

 

“This issue is not going away.  The current system is clearly broken, and states are naturally reacting to the lack of action at the federal level with a patchwork of immigration laws and enforcement—exposing employers who must deal with a broken legal structure to unfair liability,”  said Bruce Josten, the Chamber’s executive vice president of government affairs.  “We need to address the United States’ currently dysfunctional immigration system. The status quo is clearly unacceptable.

 

“While the current bill had flaws, we were hopeful that many of those concerns could be ironed out in conference if the Senate had just taken the step of moving it forward. American citizens and American businesses need to have confidence that there is a clear practical plan in place to address the need for border security and the need for additional workers. They also need to be sure that this plan will be a consistent and fair national policy.  We will continue to work for sound legislation as the debate moves to the House.”

 

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is the world's largest business federation representing more than 3 million businesses and organizations of every size, sector, and region.

 

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[VOA]

bump...
looks like the collaborators haven’t quit gotten their AMNESTY
for decades of illegal activities...
hiring and sheltering ILLEGAL Immigrants (Identity Thieves)

[org.whodat]

US Chamber of Commerce=pimps and whores

Had forgot about that, back in my younger days there was some pretty lose women working there.

I hate to admit it, and it is really embarrassing, but I was a dues paying member for many years.

[Waryone]

"...exposing employers who must deal with a broken legal structure to unfair liability,"

That is the key to the entire shamnesty fiasco. It is the reason why they had to have the vote now. They don't care about the illegals being legal, they don't care about the costs they transfer to the taxpayers for the lower wages they pay. The only thing they really fear is the possibility they will be held accountable to the law. Their exposure to fines and imprisonment is tremendous, yet instead of breaking their addiction to illegal workers, they would rather just make everything legal.

Uncertainty is very costly to them, yet they have no intention of changing their ways, doing the right thing, or following the law and acting legally. When localities start putting some of them into prison, they'll all throw their hands into the air, start running in circles and scream bloody murder until using illegals costs them too much or they get their way.

[EverOnward]

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce = human traffickers, slave masters

[B-Chan]

Man, I'm laughing my ass off at this. Let me explain it to those of you who still don't get it: THE GOP IS NOT THE PARTY OF NATIONALISM. THE GOP IS THE PARTY OF BIG BUSINESS. They fought Communism was because communism was bad for big business. Nationalism is also bad for big business, so now it's on the enemies list, too. That's why they were so enthusiastic about NAFTA in the '90s. That's why they want a North American free trade union now. Nationalism causes wars. Nationalism impedes trade. Nationalism is the enemy. The Republicans would happily dissolve the borders between the U.S., Canada and Mexico if they thought they could get away with it, because economic and political integration promotes the creation of a global free market in capital and labor controlled by a central bureaucracy. This is the "new world order" the elder Bush spoke of.

The New World Order is not a top-down dictatorship on the Stalinist or Maoist model. Those models don't work. Instead, it is a world in which a small group of gigantic "private" quasi-monopolies own and control all capital, and in which all labor is provided by interchangeable, birth-controlled "human resources" working for wages just above subsistence level, kept from revolt by the "carrot" of cheap food and mindless entertainment, with a powerful central government as the "stick". In other words, the desired end result is a global version of the People's Republic of China. Any country that stands in the way of the coming global union will become a new Taiwan — a "rebel province" to be dealt with harshly – and anyone objecting to the new world order will become a "splittist", of no value except as a source of transplantable organs.

And in the end, even these human resources can be replaced, by robots and/or nanotechnology. Once this happens, there will be no more need for labor as we know it; those with nothing but their labor to trade for income will become "buggywhip makers". And we all know what happens to buggywhip makers in a capitalist society...

And people wonder why I'm a distributist and a monarchist.

[TBP]

I tend to agree with teh Chamber on many things, but their reprehensible actions on behalf of this reprehensible piece of...legislation shows that they love commerce more than America.

To quote our leftist friends: We will remember in November.

[NoControllingLegalAuthority]

Oh No! Who will mow our lawns? Who will wash our cars? Who will blow our leaves?

[ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas]

>>While the current bill had flaws, we were hopeful that many of those concerns could be ironed out in conference if the Senate had just taken the step of moving it forward.<<

Yes, as Lott promised, they could “throw out” the pesky enforcement provisions in conference if they could get it passed in the Senate.