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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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To: ilovesarah2012
The Chamber is really, really pushing "immigration reform". Why???

Because they have a lot of businesses which are dependent upon cheap labor.

Eliminate cheap labor, and we would see more automation, and higher standards of living.

61 posted on 02/14/2014 7:14:48 AM PST by PapaBear3625 (You don't notice it's a police state until the police come for you.)
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67 posted on 02/14/2014 7:33:03 AM PST by HiJinx (I can see Mexico from my back porch.)
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To: ilovesarah2012
Hey Chamber of Commerce CEO Tom Donohue - did you know the unemployment rate for Hispanic-Americans ALREADY HERE is sky high? Almost as high as the unemployment rate for blacks.

Yep, Tom Donohue - the folks you made citizens last time CAN'T FIND JOBS.

Why are you bringing in a few million more to compete with the ones who are here? Tell the truth Tom Donohue... it has nothing to do with jobs. It has everything to do with more democrats on the voting rolls.

Eff you Tom Donohue.

69 posted on 02/14/2014 7:57:20 AM PST by GOPJ ( America's drifting into totalitarianism because of left's exploitation of social failures.Greenfie)
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To: ilovesarah2012

the U.S. needs more almost slave labor immigration because Americans are not “qualified” or “willing” to do such work for almost no money.

“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, for no money at all.

“Above all, Chamber of Commerce corporations are desperate to maintain lugubrious profits while paying as little to their employees, be they minimum wage workers, outsourced foreign jobs, or illegal immigrants willing to kick back most of their pay, live in shacks without running water or electricity, and won’t be uppity or we can ask the government to kick them out.”


70 posted on 02/14/2014 8:07:11 AM PST by yefragetuwrabrumuy (WoT News: Rantburg.com)
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To: ilovesarah2012

Real simple.

More immigrants = cheaper labor = more profit = more taxes

Progressives are greedy sob’s.


71 posted on 02/14/2014 8:22:02 AM PST by justa-hairyape (The user name is sarcastic. Although at times it may not appear that way.)
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To: ilovesarah2012
The Chamber is really, really pushing "immigration reform". Why???

The answer is quite simple. Without massive influx of immigrants in our aging society, the house of cards built by the welfare state will come crashing down. The rising minority of Americaan deadbeats is almost to a majority status and full blown socialism is on the doorstep.

72 posted on 02/14/2014 8:25:28 AM PST by AmusedBystander (The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next)
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To: ilovesarah2012

Lobbyists = Bribes


73 posted on 02/14/2014 8:35:26 AM PST by Vaduz
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To: grania

Great post. I wish you were President!


74 posted on 02/14/2014 8:55:23 AM PST by Nea Wood (When people get used to preferential treatment, equal treatment seems like discrimination.-Sowell)
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To: ilovesarah2012

Cheap labor.

Who elected this jerk to ANYTHING?? I heard him on TV. VERY ARROGANT. My guess is he represents a bunch of crony capitalists.


75 posted on 02/14/2014 9:35:01 AM PST by ZULU (Magua is sitting in the Oval Office. Ted Cruz/Phil Robertson in 2016.)
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To: F15Eagle

Thank you sir!


76 posted on 02/14/2014 10:07:52 AM PST by LibLieSlayer (FROM MY COLD, DEAD HANDS! BETTER DEAD THAN RED!)
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To: ZULU

He put the “crony” in Capitalist.


77 posted on 02/14/2014 11:37:50 AM PST by LibLieSlayer (FROM MY COLD, DEAD HANDS! BETTER DEAD THAN RED!)
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To: PapaBear3625

I used to be against the minimum wage increase, now I see the Chamber of Slavery is against it — so now I am for it.


78 posted on 02/15/2014 5:09:23 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: ilovesarah2012
Vested interests, bribes/blackmail,contempt for this country,and/or mental problems. Biggest threat to this country comes from inside - including people such as Tom Donahue.

To some posters, Tom Donahue and the Chamber of Commerce brings to mind the term "traitor." An investigative journalist might dig up more than one skeleton in Tom Donahue's closet.

79 posted on 02/15/2014 11:43:20 AM PST by Dante3
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To: elpadre

I agree 100%.

America does not need more immigrants, while we do not have jobs.

Bring back American jobs. American factories. Sell American goods in American stores.

Stop buying everything from China. Employed Chinese do not help America.

Hire Americans.

No more immigration, until our unemployment rate is (way) down.

None.


80 posted on 02/15/2014 11:51:31 AM PST by Cringing Negativism Network ( http://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/balance/c5700.html#2013)
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