Posted on 11/10/2013 5:41:32 AM PST by KeyLargo
POLITICS Obama courting CEOs on immigration widens conservative split, raises issue of corporate motives Published November 10, 2013 FoxNews.com
President Obama's courting of top U.S. executives this week to help get the Republican-controlled House to pass immigration reform is furthering the divide among conservatives, with a top GOP senator and others suggesting corporate America is lending its support with hopes of getting more access to low-cost immigrant labor.
The president said before the White House meeting Tuesday that he and others who support comprehensive immigration reform passed in the Senate know the “politics are challenging” in the House and that they “want to make it as easy as possible” for Speaker John Boehner to get enough votes for passage.
However, that McDonald's Don Thompson and Marriott’s Arne Sorenson, whose companies depend on low-skilled inexpensive labor, were among those at the meeting has raised questions from some conservatives, especially at a time when millions of Americans remain out of work.
“Many of the same corporations demanding more immigrant workers are laying off American workers,” Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions, the top Republican on the Senate Budget Committee, told FoxNews.com. “House Republicans should tell the White House simply: We work for the American people, not this group of CEOs.”
His concerns follow those of others conservatives including three members of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, including Commissioner Peter Kirsanow. They wrote in a letter earlier this year to the Congressional Black Caucus that granting legal status to illegal immigrants “will likely disproportionately harm lower-skilled African-Americans by making it more difficult for them to obtain employment and depressing their wages when they do obtain employment.
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The GOP corporatists would sell their own children into slavery, obviously. That is exactly what Obama’s policies are doing. Perhaps they should read a little history of revolutions....the French variety comes to mind....and see what happens to the upper crust when the lowest crust decides there is nothing left to lose.
Wall Street is a big backer of Obama when it comes to availability of low wage workers.
Laura Unleashed
July 10, 2013
Response to the Wall Street Journal on immigration
Posted by Laura
The fellas at the Wall Street Journal editorial page predictably backs a comprehensive immigration bill and calls the voices of opposition “shrill” and “closed mind(ed).” I take apart their analysis point by point:
“The GOP is splintered and confused on immigration.”
This is not true. Some folks in the GOP establishment are determined to work with Democrats to support an ineffective bill that would lead to more illegal immigrants, lower wages, and higher unemployment. Most Republicans in the Senate opposed this bill, as do most conservative commentators and virtually all members of the GOP in the House. If the few GOP establishment types who have worked with Obama and Schumer would drop the immigration issue altogether, most Republicans would be pleased.
“Too often Americans hear the shrillest anti-immigration Republicans whose only argument is “secure the border,” as if that is a sensible policy for the 21st century.”
This type of straw-man argument is the sort of thing we would expect from people who have allied themselves with President Obama and Sen. Schumer, but is utterly unpersuasive. Republicans who oppose the type of legislation supported by the WSJ have pointed out that: (1) such legislation will not effectively limit illegal immigrants; (2) will undermine respect for the rule of law; (3) will likely lead to significant increases in government spending at the state and local levels; (4) will likely encourage further illegal immigration in the future; (5) will drive down wages; and (6) will increase unemployment. So far, no one in the GOP Establishment, or at the WSJ, has given a persuasive response to any of these concerns, let alone all of them.
“To fail to fix any part of an immigration system that everyone agrees is contrary to U.S. economic interests, and after the Senate has passed a bipartisan reform, would play into Democratic charges that House Republicans are mere obstructionists.”
Most politicians are lawyers for a reason.
Neither have a moral compass of any sort.
"Reform" advocates can use every trick and lie to legalize and get unlimited taxpayer-subsidized, easily-intimidated "cheap labor" for "American" businesses
.. but once those workers are legal they and their countrymen will together quickly organize and virtually own those "American" businesses!
You think American unions are bad wait 'til you face unions modeled after drug cartels.
Far be it from me to ever think good if a lawyer, except that Ted Cruz is one and Paul Ryan is not. These facts are rattling my worldview. Rubio, however, is living down to my expectations.
I don’t think we can downplay the influence of shiftless and slatternly RINO wives who, like the lazy Bush women, need an army of illegals to wait on them. I am serious. I knew women just like them in Texas years ago—affluent women who wanted housework done cheaply and deferentially by quasi slave labor.
“I knew women just like them in Texas years ago—affluent women who wanted housework done cheaply and deferentially by quasi slave labor.”
Female Democrat Senators Demand More Nannies
From a cheering Washington Post:
Proposal would allow more women to come to U.S. under immigration bill
By David Nakamura | June 19, 2013
A group of female senators is planning to introduce a proposal Thursday that would ensure that more women would be admitted to the United States under a comprehensive immigration bill, representing an early attempt at leverage by the Senate’s emerging bloc of women.
The lawmakers say pending immigration legislation is unfairly weighted toward male workers because it rewards applicants who are better educated and have more technical skills…
....
We cannot rest until we have an immigrant population that ‘looks like America.’ — No, check that. That’s the last thing the Democrats want.
Under their amendment, the female senators propose reserving 30,000 residency cards each year for fields in which women hold most of the jobs, such as nannies, home health-care workers and early childhood educators.
Well, you can see why these women Senators would want to push for more nannies. Their costs will go down.
At least 12 women have signed on to co-sponsor the amendment, including Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), whom Democrats hope will play a key role in winning more GOP support, aides said. The Senate has a record contingent of 20 women this session, 16 of whom are Democrats. ...
http://sweetness-light.com/archive/female-democrat-senators-demand-more-nannies
How about Obama courting CEOs for Obamacare website ? They cannot even put up a working website. Who can believe him on anything now ?
Illegal Alien Amnesty is Anti American Bigotry
Do not do business with any company that supports Illegal Alien Amnesty...or is a member of any group that supports Illegal Alien Amnesty
I wonder how happy the McDonalds and Marriot CEO’s are about Obama wanting to raise the minimum wage to $10/hr. At an increased minimum wage they won’t need immigrant labor.
Rand Paul’s immigration speech[but he’s not in favor of amnesty, snicker, definition of is is]
03.19.13 | Hon Sen Rand Paul (KY)
Posted on 03/19/2013 7:04:07 AM PDT by Perdogg
...The Republican Party must embrace more legal immigration.
Unfortunately, like many of the major debates in Washington, immigration has become a stalemate-where both sides are imprisoned by their own rhetoric or attachment to sacred cows that prevent the possibility of a balanced solution.
Immigration Reform will not occur until Conservative Republicans, like myself, become part of the solution. I am here today to begin that conversation.
Let’s start that conversation by acknowledging we aren’t going to deport 12 million illegal immigrants.
If you wish to work, if you wish to live and work in America, then we will find a place for you...
This is where prudence, compassion and thrift all point us toward the same goal: bringing these workers out of the shadows and into being taxpaying members of society.
Imagine 12 million people who are already here coming out of the shadows to become new taxpayers.12 million more people assimilating into society. 12 million more people being productive contributors.
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