Posted on 12/16/2015 7:29:35 PM PST by Amntn
Published on Dec 16, 2015
BACKGROUND:
In the dead of night after 2am this morning, Congressional leadership unveiled a more than 2,000 page 'omnibus' year-end funding bill which would, among other things: fully-fund the President's refugee expansion; fully-fund sanctuary cities; fully-fund the resettlement of illegal aliens youth and their families crossing the border; lock-in tax credits for illegal aliens; and quadruple the highly controversial H-2B foreign worker visa being used to replace Americans as truck drivers, construction workers, theme park employees, and in blue collar jobs across the nation.
Sessions, the Chairman of the Immigration Subcommittee, issued a statement about the bill as it speeds to a vote before it can be read, observing in part that GOP voters: "have come to believe that their party's elites are not only uninterested in defending their interests but - as with this legislation, and fast-tracking the President's international trade pact - openly hostile to them." On the floor today, Sessions further reminded his colleagues that their duty is the American people - not special interests, immigration advocacy groups, or lobbyists for narrow business concerns.
Sessions observed that - as the omnibus paves the way for a huge immigration increase beyond today's record-breaking highs - that more than 8 in 10 American voters want the level of immigration in American frozen or cut, and yet the GOP-led Congress is about to surge it even higher.
According to the U.S. Census Bureau - even without these increases - immigration will add the population equivalent of 1 new Los Angeles to the country each 3 years.
The U.S. has admitted 59 million immigrants since 1965. As historical context, after the numerically-smaller 1880-1920 immigration wave, future immigration was reduced to promote wage growth for US-born and immigrant workers: there was zero net growth in the foreign-born population over the course of the next half-century (in fact, it declined markedly). Now, after five decades of unprecedented immigration, the U.S. is on path to add another five decades of unprecedented immigration on top of that - setting new all-time records every single decade to come.
I don’t know much about sessions, but everything I see him say tells me perhaps he should have run for president
And yet the establishment claims it doesn’t understand Trump’s popularity.
We had big historic Republican wins in 2014? Big parties and celebrations etc. Nice con-job.
They are all under the false assumption they can control the spread of Islam....and do not see it as the threat that it is.....
Worse the people still do not understand what this means.....it 'isn't just about Radical Islamist terrorists......ISLAM is the problem itself!
It matters to this nations security that Muslims believe non-Muslims are inferior human beings.......It matters that Muslims believe obedience and that conformity is equal to morality.........It matters that Islam requires territorial sovereignty......It matters what Muslims believe just as it matters what communists believe and what neo-Nazis believe.
It maters what their political agenda is for this country....it truly does....wake up America!
Italian police arrested a Syrian "refugee" for being a member of the Islamic State (ISIS) terrorist organization, clapping him in cuffs shortly after he arrived by boat along with 'hundreds of migrants',... media reports said Monday.
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Hey, wattsamatta America - don’t you enjoy working all year long for yourself and your family, only to have the government confiscate your wages and salaries to piss the money down the toilet?
What’s wrong with you - no public pride?
Buried in the 2000-page omnibus spending bill released by the Senate this morning is a secret provision that many senators hope unemployed blue-collar workers wonât find out about.
This provision would quadruple the number of H-2B visas for unskilled foreign âguest workers.â It would allow more than a quarter of a million foreign workers to enter the U.S. each year and work in the construction industry, hotel-motel services, truck drivers, food processing, forestry and many other fields that donât require a college education.
The Gang of Eight bill back in 2013 also increased the controversial H-2B visa that brings in foreign workers to fill jobs as construction workers, restaurant workers, hotel maids, etc.
In just the case of construction, there are six unemployed construction workers for each job opening, according to a study by the Economic Policy Institute. Yet the omnibus released around 2 a.m, Wednesday, would as much as quadruple the H-2B visa in an unadvertised provision secreted into the more than 2,000 page bill.
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All the GOP asked for was Chamber of Commerce handouts, like quadrupling work visas and lifting the ban on oil exports.
They literally only exist anymore to serve the Chamber of Commerce. Conservatives, Pro Lifers, Constitutionalists, and veterans lose on everything.
Not one thing for Conservatives, not one victory. None. More suppressed wages, more immigration from third world countries, Planned Parenthood gets funded, and oil companies can now artificially inflate domestic gas prices by reducing domestically available supply.
Can’t believe I actually supported Ryan as V.P.
After this capitulation I wouldn’t vote for him for crossing guard.
650 federal gub mint agencies and NONE were cut?
Ryan, you b worthless mookabooker.
Already such a disappointment.
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Thanks for posting.
These behind the back tactics make me sick to my stomach. This is fiscal insanity.
If a publicly traded company did this to their shareholders, the CEO, CFO, etc. would all be in jail.
But this is a start.
That has been the MO of this administration and their buddies in Congress - House and Senate.
Like a new car salesman saying, "You can get this great price but you have to decide today", these GOP turkeys allow the Dems and the White House to set deadlines on legislation.
There is no deliberation on laws that affect the country - possibly for a long, long time... there's only rush, rush, rush, back room deals and "You have to pass it before you can see it" attitudes.
Government of the cheap-labor-express, by the cheap-labor-express, for the cheap-labor-express, shall not perish till we remove the lot of them from power.
Under cover of darkness... The GOPeahens need to be expelled.
Crooked politicians from bow to stern
Young people have a hand in this debacle; while I don’t believe they are all Obamunists or leftists, I see far too many completely disengaged from the political process. I’m tired of listening to ignorant non-voting young people whine about anything that could be fixed politically. The left didn’t win because a majority of people supported their ideology; they won because they successfully suppressed the votes of those who disagree with them. Voter apathy has reaped young people what they are sowing now; I have no sympathy for them. They can prepare the fast food for, and wash the cars of, the Asians trafficked here to replace them.
Not just the voters, the entire country.
I cannot wait to vote for Trump and anyone else who has no holding in this vote charade.
I think my signature line says it best for the current time.
>>Canât believe I actually supported Ryan as V.P.<<
Right? I remember when I first heard of Ryan. He was pushing a budget that seemed to be quite conservative. Spending cuts and all.
Knowing what I now know, just another D.C. good ol boy.
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