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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: Cringing Negativism Network

Exactly.


81 posted on 02/15/2014 12:09:56 PM PST by Dante3
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To: ilovesarah2012

Pull all those free checks and the “unwilling” will become willing or starve.


82 posted on 02/15/2014 12:10:55 PM PST by RetiredArmy (God's judgment on America is here for us to see. If America does not wake up, it is going to suffer)
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To: ilovesarah2012

Not only is it wrong to give our jobs to illegals when so many Americans are unemployed but in what universe does the chamber think those illegals will continue to work for nothing once they have amnesty?

Oh, I get it. Currently employed illegals get amnesty to ease their transition to welfare etc. - won’t even need to steal our IDs to do that anymore - while even more millions pour over the border to take the jobs that current illegals will be quitting.


83 posted on 02/15/2014 12:14:41 PM PST by Let's Roll (Save the world's best healthcare - REPEAL, DEFUND Obamacare!)
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To: lowbridge

Seems the last bunch of illegals made legal isn’t ‘qualified’ either. The unemployment rate among Hispanics is sky high. Right behind blacks.

Why not hire them?

The reason is this has NOTHING TO DO WITH jobs and everything to so with ‘slavery lite’, getting more democrats on the rolls and keeping wages down for the sake of liberal elites.

It’s ugly - too bad there aren’t any old fashioned newspapers that could look into this... Eff the New York Times and Washington Post... and all the fools who write for them. (Oh, and blind old Larry King of CNN)


84 posted on 02/15/2014 12:21:34 PM PST by GOPJ ( America's drifting into totalitarianism because of left's exploitation of social failures.Greenfie)
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To: Let's Roll

This is perverted - rewarding criminals for breaking our laws. It’s like something out of a dystopian novel.


85 posted on 02/15/2014 1:32:19 PM PST by Dante3
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To: ilovesarah2012
CEO T.J. Donahue makes no sense. Does anybody know about his background that would cause him to sprout this nonsense? I presume he has no criminal record.

I do not recall where I heard that increasing number of businesses are withdrawing from the Chamber of Commerce. Does anybody know if it is true?

86 posted on 02/15/2014 1:49:28 PM PST by apocalypto
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To: PubliusMM

There may be another aspect the comments are missing. The illegals will not be paid minimum wage. Cheap labor.


87 posted on 02/15/2014 8:20:06 PM PST by Nuc 1.1 (Nuc 1 Liberals aren't Patriots. Remember 1789!)
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To: ilovesarah2012
There are no jobs Americans won't do.
There is, however, a wage level and standard of living Americans won't tolerate, nor should we.
88 posted on 02/17/2014 8:43:09 AM PST by YankeeReb
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To: randita
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.

and bringing hordes of illegals solves this problem...how?

89 posted on 02/17/2014 8:47:08 AM PST by YankeeReb
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