Posted on 05/01/2009 11:00:38 AM PDT by DangerZone
Did you think Senators might be too smart this year -- or too moral or at least too embarrassed -- to push for more foreign workers while millions of Americans are losing their jobs?
Such modest faith in U.S. Senators was dashed yesterday by the Senate Judiciary Committee in a first hearing of its immigration panel.
Senators made it clear that they are hopeful that the American people will let them pass the amnesty this year that was blocked in 2007.
And the Senators made it clear that the only thing that will stop the Senate from passing an amnesty for illegal foreign workers this year is if regular citizens like you mount immediate and sustained protests.
They said they really think Americans have become resigned to an amnesty.
Perhaps the saddest part of the hearing yesterday was that the Senators didn't even acknowledge that 13 million unemployed U.S. workers should be part of the consideration of what to do about immigration.
All but one of the witnesses spoke of immigration without any reference to America's jobless.
We could have expected as much from the new immigration chairman -- Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY). He helped pass the first amnesty in 1986 and has never stopped working against the interests of vulnerable U.S. workers.
But especially disheartening was the mostly agreement from the ranking Republican on the immigration panel, Sen. Cornyn of Texas. He and Schumer said they are agreed on most aspects of what needs to be done. Cornyn is a constantly frustrating figure. His immigration grade is pretty good because the citizens of Texas pound him before every vote and generally get him to do the right thing. But in between he gives all sorts of comfort to the enemies of American workers and communities.
What every Senator needs to hear is that it would be politically stupid and morally bankrupt for the Senate to even consider giving permanent work permits to 8 million illegal foreign workers this year while 13 million jobless American workers would like to have their jobs.
Schumer named his hearing: "Comprehensive Immigration Reform in 2009, Can We Do It and How?"
It revealed that he has no interest in whether it would be a good idea or what the effects would be. No, the title says that Schumer sees this as just another of his political conquests. Huge special interests want this amnesty and Schumer is going to find out how he can pass it.
The hearing was a depressing spectacle: a labor leader with no regard for unemployed U.S. workers; a religious leader with no regard for obedience to the law or for suffering unemployed American families; a black civil rights leader with no regard for the incredible unemployment suffered by black Americans because of skyrocketed immigration numbers; a business leader with no regard for all the businesses in dire straits because of competitors who break immigration laws.
It was if Schumer wanted to make sure that everybody knows that the elite leaders of every segment of America have utter disdain for the common members of their constituencies.
Schumer sees 30 million+ new Democrat voters. ....which is something pro-amnesty RINOs appear to be blind to.
If an amnesty is passed, this country will be destroyed with the stroke of a pen. It is game, set, and match for the USA.
Obergruppenfuhrer Schumer doesn’t care about 13 million umemployed Americans. He’s looking at those 20 million, new ‘RAT voters. He’ll have powah forever.
The RINOs simply don’t care. They can always join the Democrats once the GOP is destroyed.
The associated chain migration and new anchor babies would run in the tens of millions.
You only have a nation so long as the general population has the will to defend it from all enemies, foreign and domestic. In times past, this man would have been sporting a nice new coat of tar and feathers.
The Demwits are all in on it together.
Children of illegal aliens cost county welfare $44 million in March
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2240053/posts
Illegal Aliens cost Florida Hospitals $100 Million
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2236660/posts
The Heritage Foundation concluded that the cost of amnesty alone would be $2.6 trillion. And the number of additional LEGAL immigrants who would join those who were the recipients of amnesty through chain migration, i.e., family reunification, would approach 70 million over a 20-year period, assuming there are only 12 million illegal aliens. We cannot assimilate such numbers.
I’m gonna send him and Hillibrand a quick note on it. I know the affect is like peeing in the ocean, but I need to do it.
just because they didn't spend much time campaigning on this issue and it's been back burnered due to the immediate constant stream of "crises" that have happened in BO's first months as prez, doesn't mean we're "resigned" to amnesty.
“Robert F. Dieli, Ph.D. is a longtime observer of Wall Street and the Economy. His site is No Spin Forecast, where he runs Mr. Model, and his Analysis of First Quarter 2009 Real GDP — especially his take on the impact of these weaker imports on final GDP numbers — is dead on:
“An explanation about why the decline in imports is helping GDP growth. As you know, imports are subtracted from GDP. Because imports are declining in absolute terms, you get a positive effect from a negative negative. Just to be clear as to what this chart is telling us: the drop in imports contributed 6.05 percentage points to the GDP growth rate.
What this means is that without the contribution from imports, GDP declined at 12.15% annual rate in Q1. In other words, all of the domestic activity was, as the employment numbers suggested, in free fall! Now, this has some important implications for the profile of growth going forward. When imports stop dropping, and they will, the sign on this term will go back to its normal negative, and when it does, it will expose the true growth rate of the domestic economy. We had best hope that GPDI has gotten back on track by the time the positive effect of negative import growth wears off.””
Schumer is a glutton for more ignorant Democrat voters.
A relative of mine was previously the head of Public Health for a fairly large state. This person still has contacts in the CDC.
They called us on Sunday and STRONGLY urged us to go ahead and contact our doctor and get a prescription for Tamiflu filled for everyone in the family. They said that by the time you need it, it will not be available
They also recommended that we stock up on food.
This relative is a skeptical, hard-nosed, unflappable sort and not given to sensationalism.
Sorry! I posted to the wrong thread.
Once this is passed, you can kiss our country good-bye. This group of illegals will swarm Texas turning it blue and then the rest of the south.
This has got to be stopped or we are finished. It is not about the poor ol illegals, it is about Dems keeping power forever. They could care less about the country.
If the Rats simply turn around and tell these Mexicans to get out, then they will surely get grateful votes from Americans whose jobs were saved or restored.
“assuming there are only 12 million illegal aliens”
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A Bear Sterns study released January, 2005 estimated 20 million illegals. Now add 3+ million more each year since then. So triple the Heritage estimate.
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