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Immigration Reform Can't Wait
WSJ ^ | 18 June 2014 | Rupert Murdoch

Posted on 06/18/2014 5:53:52 PM PDT by Theoria

There is rarely a good time to do hard things, and America won't advance if legislators act like seat-warmers.

When I learned that House Majority Leader Eric Cantor had lost his Republican primary, my heart sank. Not simply because I think he is an intelligent and talented member of Congress, or because I worry about the future of the Republican Party.

Like others who want comprehensive immigration reform, I worried that Mr. Cantor's loss would be misconstrued and make Congress reluctant to tackle this urgent need. That would be the wrong lesson and an undesirable national consequence of this single, local election result.

People are looking for leadership—those who stand for something and offer a vision for how to take America forward and keep our nation economically competitive. One of the most immediate ways to revitalize our economy is by passing immigration reform.

I chose to come to America and become a citizen because America was—and remains—the most free and entrepreneurial nation in the world. Our history is defined by people whose character and culture have been shaped by ambition, imagination and hard work, bound together by a dream of a better life.

Is the idea of immigration reform complicated by the fact that some immigrants went outside the legal system to be here? Yes. It is complicated even more by the fear some Americans have, quite naturally, of how changing populations might also change our culture, communities and economic circumstances.

Well, of course immigration means change. Immigrants enrich our culture and add to our economic prosperity.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Editorial; Foreign Affairs; Government
KEYWORDS: authorondrugs; comprehensive; idiocy; immigration; labor; lunacy; openborders; reform; rupertmurdoch; senile; unions; wsj
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To: Theoria

Too bad the USA let Murdock and Soros have citizenship.


21 posted on 06/18/2014 6:47:40 PM PDT by txrefugee
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To: Theoria

Here's Richy Rich Rupert now with his new wife...

Handsome Richy Rupert always attracts nice looking ladies and they love him for his honor and dignity.

22 posted on 06/18/2014 7:00:47 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: Theoria

Great reminder here for those who are still foolish enough to think that FOX News leans right.


23 posted on 06/18/2014 7:02:25 PM PDT by Bigg Red (31 May 2014: Obamugabe officially declares the USA a vanquished subject of the Global Caliphate.)
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To: headstamp 2
Rupert Murdoch needs to lead the way.

Show us rather than ‘tell us’.

Every third mansion in MURDOCH's neighborhood can be bought by the government and used to house illegals. Those large beautiful homes can easily hold 40 illegals each.

Why stop with Murdoch's neighborhood. Jeb lives well, and Michael Mooore scrams for ‘fairness’. In fact, the wealthiest zip codes in the US are clustered around DC... we can do the ‘every third house’ thing in those zip codes too.

Mudoch can get back to us in a year - if he and his neighbors are as thrilled as he thinks we would be then I'm all for it. The next bunch of illegals can live in middle class neighborhoods... The mansions will stay ‘first’ - but AFTER that we'll move some into our neighborhoods.

Thanks Murdock.... lead the way.

24 posted on 06/18/2014 7:14:02 PM PDT by GOPJ (#2 reply spot RESERVED for Tokyo Rose comments: "nothing works - give up - it's all hopeless".)
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To: McGavin999
Ah, financially competitive....that means he wants US wages on the same level as Chinese.

Ding, ding, ding - we have a thread winnah!

25 posted on 06/18/2014 7:15:18 PM PDT by GOPJ (#2 reply spot RESERVED for Tokyo Rose comments: "nothing works - give up - it's all hopeless".)
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To: GOPJ

Bttt


26 posted on 06/18/2014 7:16:25 PM PDT by Guenevere
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To: Theoria
No Way Jose (No Se Puede!) by 10 Pound Test

Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!

27 posted on 06/18/2014 7:37:43 PM PDT by wku man (Veterans, it's up to us to save the Republic...let's roll.)
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To: headstamp 2
Murdoch is another elitist in an ivory tower who couldn’t give a good damn about the middle class.

Nothing ivory tower here. He directly benefits from the lower labor costs that result from massive numbers of foreign workers.

28 posted on 06/18/2014 7:54:00 PM PDT by Zhang Fei (Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world and that God will preserve it always.)
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To: Theoria

Keep repeating the lie long enough.....

The wall st. crowd is really leaning hard on their politician buddies to ram this immigration (amnesty) reform through.


29 posted on 06/18/2014 8:02:42 PM PDT by factoryrat (We are the producers, the creators. Grow it, mine it, build it.)
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To: Theoria
“Immigrants enrich our culture and add to our economic prosperity.”

Just who would be this royal "our" Mr. Murdoch?

30 posted on 06/18/2014 9:24:27 PM PDT by Carry_Okie (ObamaCare IS Medicaid: They'll pull a sheet over your head and send you the bill.)
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To: Theoria
Riddle me this, Batman... the same people who want "Immigration Reform", read- "unspecified laws and regulations that will encourage an even greater tide of illegal immigration, to the point of human wave invasion", also want a federally mandated $15 an hour minimum wage. Huh? Sounds like a formula for either collapse of most large businesses, or just another set of laws to be totally ignored. Millions of undocumented workers, working for slave wages, will result in the displacing of millions more working class American citizens from even meager employment, with a complete lack of oversight or control. Sounds like a plan.
31 posted on 06/19/2014 12:20:29 AM PDT by Richard Axtell (Comming: The Obama Abyss.)
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To: Theoria

“Maybe, as someone who came here as an immigrant, I have more faith in the compassion and fortitude of the American people, and in their ability to reject extreme views on either side of the political spectrum. Or maybe, as a businessman, I have learned that there is rarely a good time to do the hard things.”

Mr. Murdoch, I’m guessing you were respectful enough not to insult the American people by coming here illegally, and you didn’t have children on our dime.
I believe there is always a good time to do the right thing, even if it’s hard. We have this illegal alien problem because no one wanted to do the right thing. No one wanted to be called “mean” by doing what was right. Illegal aliens do not do the jobs Americans won’t do, they do jobs Americans on Welfare should be doing. We have government housing projects full of low skill labor. We don’t need to bring in poor people from other countries to do low skill jobs. We need people who are willing to do the hard thing, by ending Welfare and sending the illegal aliens home.
In 2012, immigrants sent 120 billion dollars to their home countries. That’s money that should have been spent here on goods and services to create jobs for Americans. But no, people like you want to give amnesty, and even bring more immigrants here who will send more money out of our economy.
Mr. Murdoch, as someone who was allowed to come here and take advantage of what I and my forefathers created, I don’t really appreciate you trying to change my country into another third world cesspool. I realize it’s great for you. You’ll have plenty of Hispanics to take care of your lawns and gardens. But for middle class America, it will only create more poverty, pollution, over crowded schools, and increase our taxes.


32 posted on 06/19/2014 12:25:29 AM PDT by Razz Barry (Round'em up, send'em home.)
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To: Theoria

Good-by Fox.


33 posted on 06/19/2014 2:24:42 AM PDT by AdaGray (q)
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To: Theoria

I am tired of foreigners telling us what American needs to do.


34 posted on 06/19/2014 8:31:26 AM PDT by jospehm20
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To: Theoria

Deport Rupert Murdoch. He’s an undesirable. And while we’re at it deport Paul Gigot as well.


35 posted on 06/19/2014 7:22:47 PM PDT by Pelham (California, what happens when you won't deport illegals)
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To: Regulator

A friend of mine, retired now, started working in Silicon Valley back when it was just American engineers. Ten years ago he was telling me exactly what you’re saying, white Americans were being discriminated against in the industry that they created. The imports were only hiring their own. He was lucky being self employed but he witnessed it all over the valley.


36 posted on 06/19/2014 7:29:13 PM PDT by Pelham (California, what happens when you won't deport illegals)
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To: Mr Rogers; Kenny Bunk

“Think of how LA has changed between 1965 & now, for example. Does ANYONE think today’s LA is a better place to live & work?”

Only the GOPe, like the Bushes and their treason lobby friends. I had a front row seat to watch the change which has spread well beyond LA. Socal is now occupied territory, an alien land.


37 posted on 06/19/2014 7:32:40 PM PDT by Pelham (California, what happens when you won't deport illegals)
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To: Pelham

They see themselves as entitled.

They’ve been fed a steady diet of grievance against whitey starting in their home countries and turbocharged when they get here.

They think nothing of it. More then natural: inevitable.

Occasionally I’ve had a few come clean with me and tell me just that.

Drove home through Sunnyvale tonight. Mostly elderly Indians, walking in neighborhoods of ranchers built in the 50s for white bread Lockheed engineers - the people who built the weapons that Defended America.

Imagine if you could have told them in 1955 that this was the future for their kids: dispossession, occupation by people who are utterly alien and bent on taking what was not built by them.

I really don’t know how long it can last. Personally I think it will end up Detroit.

The Lockheed people are almost gone. Laid off, moved back to Denver, or getting ready to retire and run to Oregon. The old Sunnyvale Air Force Station - the Blue Cube - was demolished two weeks ago. Was once where most USAF satellites controlled from. The AF says it’s moving somewhere cheaper, but that ain’t the reason, I know those people: they don’t feel like they’re home here. They get it. It isn’t America anymore...it’s someplace out of place. Where the people have nothing in common, unless it’s where they came from, and they all want to make it like that here.

Except the part about the grinding poverty, the filthy streets and shambling buildings. That’s what they like about WhiteyVille. It isn’t like that.

Too bad it won’t last for them. Since they have no clue how it all came into being, and no interest in sacrificing for it, it will go away. They managed to drive out the people who did it.

So like Detroit...eventually it comes apart.

Been here for the whole ride, going on 30 years now. SoCal is an eerie Mexicscape...and NoCal is Asia.

One thing’s for sure...it ain’t America.


38 posted on 06/19/2014 10:28:34 PM PDT by Regulator
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To: Regulator; wardaddy

Good post, Regulator. Very accurate. Dispossession is exactly what it is, aided and abetted by disloyal politicians and the non patriot businessmen who buy them. The treason lobby.

” SoCal is an eerie Mexicscape.”

Yep. I watched it transform from America into a graffiti scarred, iron barred, gang infested land of decaying neighborhoods.

Oh, there’s some really good new areas in south OC. But those are heavily populated by wealthy aliens and their offspring. American culture will cease to be passed along. Just a distant memory. And then no one will remember it.

” The AF says it’s moving somewhere cheaper, but that ain’t the reason, I know those people: they don’t feel like they’re home here. They get it. It isn’t America anymore...it’s someplace out of place. Where the people have nothing in common, unless it’s where they came from, and they all want to make it like that here.”

Worth repeating.


39 posted on 06/19/2014 11:20:03 PM PDT by Pelham (California, what happens when you won't deport illegals)
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To: ObamahatesPACoal; Theoria
Agreed. Regarding H-1B visas, Murdoch doesn't know what he's talking about. He states that "we already know" that there is a "shortage of qualified American candidates" but the articles linked to at this link suggest that the so-called "skills gap" is greatly overstated if not an outright myth. The H-1B visa program is supposed to be designed to bring in the "best and the brightest". However, the following graph shows that nearly half of the software developers in Silicon Valley are non-citizens:

Software Developers, Applications, System Software in Silicon Valley

This comes from 2012 Census numbers posted at this link. Hence, the H-1B visa program is being used to fill mid-level software jobs, not just jobs with unique skills that cannot be filled by American candidates.

Furthermore, Labor Condition Applications (LCAs) which are required with each H-1B visa are supposed to protect H-1B and American workers. However, I recently looked at the LCAs disclosed online and posted the results at this link. As you can see, very few are denied and many of those that are certified are rife with errors. For example, there were a number of certified applications that did not appear to contain enough information to determine the workplace location, a critical piece of information for evaluating the requests. Then, I noticed that nearly every application that proposed to pay a salary significantly below the prevailing wage was denied. However, many that proposed to pay a salary many multiples the prevailing wage, suggesting bad salary data, were certified. For example, a request to pay a product consultant $11.4 million a year and a staff dentist $15.5 million a year were certified! That's despite the fact that they listed the prevailing wages as $84,344 and $136,864, respectively. It appears that someone is just applying a set of filters to the data and "rubber stamping" everything else. This seems to agree with a 1996 OIG audit which stated that the Department of Labor's role amounted to little more than a "rubber stamping" for LCA program applications (see this link).

For a further response to Murdoch's editorial, see this link.

40 posted on 06/20/2014 1:57:03 AM PDT by remember
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