Posted on 05/16/2014 8:55:49 AM PDT by Resettozero
Tea Party Express co-founder Sal Russo wrote an op-ed piece for Roll Call on May 14 entitled “Conservatives Need to Fix the Broken Immigration System.” In his commentary, Russo addressed what he sees as several major problems with our current immigration system, including the fact that immigration laws are not enforced, our present visa system is inadequate to supply our economic needs, border security is ineffective, and there are rich incentives for illegal immigration.
Russo expanded on these problems in language that is especially appealing to conservatives focused on the economic aspects of immigration, both legal and illegal. For example:
• “Our laws today are unenforced and citizens and companies who play by the rules are undermined by bad actors who do not. This undermines our rule of law and slows our economic growth. In today’s global economy, we cannot afford the status quo.”
• “Our economy has long outgrown the visa programs we have now. In high-skilled industries such as engineering and medicine, we do not have the talent we need to fill the jobs. These industries are the fastest growing in the country and we depend on them for job creation and economic growth.”
• “Visa limits for seasonal workers, such as those needed by farmers, cannot keep up with demand. And those visas that are available are too cumbersome, complex and cost prohibitive for many employers to use. That means fewer fruits and vegetables per season, lost revenue and an increased reliance on imports”
• “According to the Partnership for a New American Economy, only 7 percent of green cards are granted based on economic grounds. In other countries, it’s as high as 50 percent — and they will win in the long term if we do not adapt our policies to the global marketplace.”
(Excerpt) Read more at thenewamerican.com ...
In the News/Activism forum, on a thread titled Founder of Tea Party Express Calls to Fix Immigration System, GeronL wrote:
Is he suggesting that his political stances depend on this polling? That TPX makes decisions based on these member polls? Did he poll members before he made those statements on amnesty?
HTHDIK.. I’m reporting what the man said I did not conduct the interview and I’m not a mind reader.
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Apparently you are a Tea Party Express member in your denial.
Here are the facts from the TPX own financial statements:
“The Tea Party Express, a PAC run out of Sacramento by longtime Republican consultant Sal Russo, has paid Russo’s firm $2.75 million since the beginning of 2013, while donating just $45,000 to candidates and spending less than $162,000 on ads and bus tours supporting their election.”
You cite “from the TPX own financial statements” (sorry for the poor sentence structure and grammar, I just did a c/p)
I saw what you posted when I read the article.
I'd like to see the authentication being as the article is a smear job.
Oh and in context too. We need to see what else they spent money on.
Apparently you are a Tea Party Express member in your denial.
Another c/p, hard to tell what it means.
But for the first part, no.
Oh and I don't drive a Denial, I post from my phone in my Fury. (Dodge that one old bill...)
Kinda sucks when the truth comes out, eh?
Do you and Russo share in the trips and parties (oh, “rallies”) he has with the $2.75 million that he pays his own firm with the money he gets from the Tea Party Express contributors?
Pure establishment BS there, I smell 'K' street money and influence. H1B is a nightmare, END IT.
They always talking about “fixing our broken immigration system”, but somehow, never tell us exactly what is broken.
Yea it does for the malcontents that believe the cherrypicked figures and don’t explain the reality.
It’s all been explained before here and on other sites when people, like you, take at face value figures that they say “he pays his own firm” when in reality most of those payments are reimbursements for using his corporate credit cards for hotels, rooms, airfare etc etc.
I’m surprised Free Republic members are so ready to believe lies (sucks don’t it?) instead of seeing what the facts really are.
So you are against activism, huh?
Ever been to a tea party rally?
TPX was instrumental in getting the House brought over to the republicans in control instead of the dems.
Way over over a million people have been to tea parties that TPX was a major presence at, and they are grateful for what this org has done to restore our Constitutional Republic.
Sitting there and complaining while spouting leftist talking points isn’t helping.
Do you know how long it takes for a person from another country to leagally become a citizen and then come to this country.
YEARS!
Broken fits because of the red tape that crooked politicians won’t “fix” to expedite legal immigration because they prefer the illegal type.
I’d call that “broken”
Yea, if all the laws were properly enforced, and it was simpler to legally come here...like the old days, with a sponsor and able to live without sucking off the taxpayers goodies (I’ve gone over this in the last couple of days already) we wouldn’t have this problem
It’s purposely broken so the dems can build their voter base.
I hope the other poster that complained that it isn’t broken sees this post wakes up to the reality which you can now do as you have been schooled a bit concerning the facts.
Interesting that a small vocal group of FR members are fighting the tea party movement which is working hard to fight the Marxist communist Islamic leadership we find ourselves saddled with at this time.
No one trusts the Feds on immigration. Let's demand they enforce current law for 5 years to determine if current law has flaws.
Of course it is broken for the reason you stated, they BREAK the law when they don't enforce. That was my point about the law being broken
No one trusts the Feds on immigration. Let's demand they enforce current law for 5 years to determine if current law has flaws.
Let's force them to enforce all the current immigration laws and write additions that NO ONE except citizens of the USA can get programs such as welfare, SSI, foodstamps, schooling etc etc.
That would cause massive self deportation...as it did in a couple of states who passed laws like that (and were not ILLEGALY and UNCONSTITUTIONALLY struck down by ONE paid off judge as was done in Calif.) and in those states unemployment went DOWN and the economies went UP.
Don't buy into the lie that we need those workers for the economy...that's bogus.
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