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Chamber CEO: U.S. Needs More Low-Skill Immigration Since Americans Are Not 'Qualified" or 'Willing'
weeklystandard.com ^ | February 14, 2014 | DANIEL HALPER

Posted on 02/14/2014 4:56:42 AM PST by ilovesarah2012

Chamber of Commerce CEO Tom Donohue says in an op-ed that the U.S. needs more low-skill immigration because Americans are not "qualified" or "willing" to do such work.

"Immigration can also address labor shortages in lesser-skilled fields where there are insufficient numbers of either qualified or willing U.S. workers to fill positions," Donohue writes.

Alabama senator Jeff Sessions tries to frame the issue differently. “We must transition struggling Americans from welfare and joblessness to work and rising wages,” says Sessions. “But the only plan the President and Senate Democrats appear interested in supporting would hollow out a shrinking American middle class. It is time to redefine 'immigration reform' to serve the legitimate interests of working Americans.”

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: aliens; amnesty; illegalimmigration; immigrantlist; immigration
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The Chamber is really, really pushing "immigration reform". Why???
1 posted on 02/14/2014 4:56:42 AM PST by ilovesarah2012
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To: ilovesarah2012

Take away the welfare and perma-unemployment checks and they will get willing REAL fast.


2 posted on 02/14/2014 4:57:45 AM PST by VanDeKoik
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To: ilovesarah2012

Chamber of Elitist Scum. GFY


3 posted on 02/14/2014 4:59:32 AM PST by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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4 posted on 02/14/2014 5:01:02 AM PST by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: ilovesarah2012

“in an op-ed that the U.S. needs more low-skill immigration because Americans are not “qualified” or “willing” to do such work.”

Not qualified enough for low skill work??? What a load of hog wash.


5 posted on 02/14/2014 5:03:30 AM PST by lowbridge
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To: ilovesarah2012; All

In saner times, folks like Donahue would have been tried and punished for Treason

The same folks who push Globalism, Liberalism, and Free Trade...are the same ones who push Illegal Alien Amnesty. That is an indisputable fact

We have folks that are willing to work. Instead of hiring Illegal Aliens and shipping jobs to Communist China...hire an American.

We need to purge and remove all Economic Anti-Americans


6 posted on 02/14/2014 5:03:37 AM PST by SeminoleCounty (Diversity is just racism against white folks)
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To: ilovesarah2012

It seems they are the ones the republicans respond to (work for), and not media pressure nor a prospective voting bloc

Pocket- lining, courtesy C of C


7 posted on 02/14/2014 5:04:38 AM PST by stanne
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To: VanDeKoik

of course !


8 posted on 02/14/2014 5:05:03 AM PST by major-pelham
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To: ilovesarah2012
As long as they can get paid to sit on their butts there are people who simply will not work.

What is going to stop many of those coming in to fill those low level jobs from transitioning to welfare as soon as they can?

9 posted on 02/14/2014 5:05:17 AM PST by SWAMPSNIPER (The Second Amendment, a Matter of Fact, Not a Matter of Opinion)
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Qualified? How can you NOT be qualified to an entry-level job? Willing? Yes, but if we tell lazy people to get to work since your lifestyle is not accepted.

Say no to the Chamber of Big Business.

10 posted on 02/14/2014 5:07:54 AM PST by ExCTCitizen (2014: The Year of DEAD RINOS)
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Wait until it happeneds and the low information voters are still unemployed. Will they just pay them to stay home while the illegals take the jobs?


11 posted on 02/14/2014 5:08:58 AM PST by ronnie raygun (zippy the a##clown sez..............................)
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To: SWAMPSNIPER

We’re also teaching every special snowflake that they’re too good for manual labor.


12 posted on 02/14/2014 5:09:22 AM PST by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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How can you NOT be qualified to an entry-level job?

You can't speak, read, or write English is one big disqualifier. Not having basic math skills is another. There are others, like being an addict, having a criminal record, or weighing 400 lbs., but the first two are the main ones.

13 posted on 02/14/2014 5:11:38 AM PST by randita
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To: ilovesarah2012

We have a huge pool of citizen workers now unemployed and living off the tax payers dime. All immigration, legal and illegal, should cease until they are put back to work. The Chamber is promoting the wrong issue.


14 posted on 02/14/2014 5:13:09 AM PST by elpadre (AfganistaMr Obama said the goal was to "disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-hereQaeda" and its allies.)
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To: SWAMPSNIPER

That’s exactly it.

It should be telling, enlightening, that every policy of the left is the exact opposite of the wisdom taught in the Word of God.


15 posted on 02/14/2014 5:13:30 AM PST by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: VanDeKoik

“Not willing to work”...then we’re giving out too much ‘welfare’ type assistance.


16 posted on 02/14/2014 5:13:36 AM PST by EBH ( The Day of the Patriot has arrived.)
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To: ronnie raygun

Is it uncomfortable to be unemployed these days?


17 posted on 02/14/2014 5:14:10 AM PST by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: ilovesarah2012
Why???

$$$ before Country

Despicable, imho .. think loyalists circa 1776

18 posted on 02/14/2014 5:14:15 AM PST by tomkat
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To: ilovesarah2012; John Semmens

I thought this was John Semmens satire - but it’s not!


19 posted on 02/14/2014 5:14:36 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: cripplecreek

My first job other than pushing a mower around the neighborhood was on a chicken farm, 20 bucks a week. I rode my bike 12 miles each way to get there until I saved enough to buy a 1947 Cushman scooter.


20 posted on 02/14/2014 5:14:49 AM PST by SWAMPSNIPER (The Second Amendment, a Matter of Fact, Not a Matter of Opinion)
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