Posted on 06/10/2015 1:34:32 PM PDT by concernedcitizen76
Discovered inside the huge tranche of secretive Obamatrade documents released by Wikileaks are key details on how technically any Republican voting for Trade Promotion Authority (TPA) that would fast-track trade deals like the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal would technically also be voting to massively expand President Obama’s executive authority when it comes to immigration matters.
The mainstream media covered the Wikileaks document dump extensively, but did not mention the immigration chapter contained within it, so Breitbart News took the documents to immigration experts to get their take on it. Nobody has figured how big a deal the documents uncovered by Wikileaks are until now. (See below)
The president’s Trade in Services Act (TiSA) documents, which is one of the three different close-to-completely-negotiated deals that would be fast-tracked making up the president’s trade agreement, show Obamatrade in fact unilaterally alters current U.S. immigration law. TiSA, like TPP or the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (T-TIP) deals, are international trade agreements that President Obama is trying to force through to final approval. The way he can do so is by getting Congress to give him fast-track authority through TPA.
TiSA is even more secretive than TPP. Lawmakers on Capitol Hill can review the text of TPP in a secret, secured room inside the Capitol—and in some cases can bring staffers who have high enough security clearances—but with TiSA, no such draft text is available.
Voting for TPA, of course, would essentially ensure the final passage of each TPP, T-TIP, and TiSA by Congress, since in the history of fast-track any deal that’s ever started on fast-track has been approved.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Roughly 10 pages of this TiSA agreement document leak are specifically about immigration.
“The existence of these ten pages on immigration in the Trade and Services Agreement make it absolutely clear in my mind that the administration is negotiating immigration – and for them to say they are not – they have a lot of explaining to do based on the actual text in this agreement,” Rosemary Jenks, the Director of Government Relations at Numbers USA, told Breitbart News following her review of these documents.
Jenks explained that under the agreement, the terms don’t have an economic needs based test, which currently U.S. law requires for some types of visa applications in order to show there aren’t American workers available to fill positions.
Secondly, on page 7 of the agreement, it suggests, “The period of processing applications may not exceed 30 days.”
“We will not be able to meet those requirements without essentially our government becoming a rubber stamp because it very often takes more than 30 days to process a temporary worker visa,” she said.
Jenks also spotted another issue with the application process.
“The fact that there’s a footnote in this agreement that says that face to face interviews are too burdensome … we’re supposed to be doing face to face interviews with applicants for temporary visas,” she added.
“According to the State Department Consular Officer, it’s the in person interviews that really gives the Consular Officer an opportunity to determine – is this person is a criminal, is this person a terrorist … all of those things are more easily determined when you’re sitting face to face with someone and asking those questions.”
The third issue is present on page 4 of the agreement. It only provides an “[X]” where the number of years would be filled in for the entry or temporary stay.
Jenks explained that for example, with L visas under current U.S. immigration law, the time limit is seven years – so if the agreement were to go beyond seven years, it would change current U.S. law.
This wouldn’t be unconstitutional if Obama has fast-track authority under TPA, as Congress would essentially have given him the power to finalize all aspects of the negotiations, including altering immigration law.
“I think this whole thing makes it very clear that this administration is negotiating immigration – intends to make immigration changes if they can get away with it, and I think it’s that much more critical that Congress ensure that the administration does not have the authority to negotiate immigration,” Jenks said.
CFR - Heidi Cruz is a member - promotes the the North American Union....read more.....”Building the North American Community” http://www.cfr.org/canada/building-north-american-community/p8102
Heidi S. Cruz was a member of the CFR Task Force for “Building the NorthAmerican Community:
“Heidi S. Cruz is an energy investment banker with Merrill Lynch in Houston, Texas. She served in the Bush White House under Dr. Condoleezza Rice as the Economic Director for the Western Hemisphere at the National Security Council, as teh Director of the Latin America Office at the U.S.Treasury Department, and as Special Assistant to Ambassador Robert B. Zoellick, U.S.Trade Representative. Prior to government service, Ms. Cruz was an investgment banker with J.P.Morgan in New York City.”
We listened to the Cruz support this bill.
A true GOPer he is. Lies. Lies. or Stupid beyond help.
There is NO reason for Cruz to give Obama, the
proven traitor and liar and fraud and destroyer,
even more power -— except he is running for
President of the GOP (Give Obama Power) party.
Even Sen. Warren is smarter than Cruz.
America needs a real conservative.
GOP (Give Obama Power) party
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Perfect!!!!! That is exactly what they are.
The powers that be want their cheap labor. Nobody who opposes that is going to occupy the Oval Office.
No true Conservative would give Obama a blank check on anything.
Thanks for that information about Heidi Cruz. They say that behind every successful man there’s a woman. Is Heidi pushing Ted Cruz on this, as in support it or else? Or is Ted just another blank slate for the NWO?
Why did Ted Cruz go to such great lengths such as writing an Op-Ed piece for the New York Times to sooth if not quell conservative oppposition to TPP? It’s now reported that the secret negotiations over TPP have been 6 years in the process. Obama’s been president for 6 years. TPP is a powerful weapon in his arsenal for liquidating liberty. In the end, the pigs dine with the farmer, their mock enemy, as told in Orwell’s fable “Animal Farm.”
Cruz had me fooled. Fooled bad. I admit it. Yeah, it hurts a bit to ‘cause I liked his style, at first. ANYONE supporting or siding with ANYTHING that the America hater, Hussein Obama, wants is NO Conservative. Their is NOTHING Barry will not do to continue the destruction of our Country. These phony baloney’trade’ deals are just another major part of he and his NWO Globalist puppet master’s plan of reshaping America.....and even our own folks are falling for it and helping Barry! Insanity!
ed. Cruz/Ryan Op-Ed pushing for passage of TPP appeared in WSJ.
“In an op-ed published in The Wall Street Journal this morning, the two conservatives called on their fellow lawmakers to pass a bill giving the president trade promotion authority, which would allow the Congress only an up-or-down vote on international trade deals negotiated with overseas trading partners.”
“Cruz and Ryan: Don’t Trust Obama… Except on Trade Talks”
By Rob Garver,
The Fiscal Times
April 22, 2015
Trust, or the lack thereof, has been a key issue for Republicans talking about the Obama presidency for years.
Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, for example, has repeatedly said that the Obama administration cannot be trusted on a wide range of issues, such as immigration reform and National Security Agency surveillance. Another critic of the administration, House Ways and Means Committee Chair Paul Ryan (R-WI), has frequently hit the administration with the accusation that it cannot be trusted. “”Here’s the issue that all Republicans agree on: We don’t trust the president to enforce the law,” he said last year in a discussion about immigration reform.
But apparently there is one thing that Cruz and Ryan do trust the president to do: negotiate a trade deal.
In an op-ed published in The Wall Street Journal this morning, the two conservatives called on their fellow lawmakers to pass a bill giving the president trade promotion authority, which would allow the Congress only an up-or-down vote on international trade deals negotiated with overseas trading partners.
The issue at hand is, most prominently, the Trans Pacific Partnership, a deal being worked out between the U.S. and nearly 20 Pacific nations to reduce barriers to trade. The administration is also in negotiations over a trade deal with European nations.
“These two agreements alone would mean greater access to a billion customers for American manufacturers, farmers and ranchers,” Cruz and Ryan wrote. “But before the U.S. can complete the agreements, Congress needs to strengthen the country’s bargaining position by establishing trade-promotion authority, also known as TPA, which is an arrangement between Congress and the president for negotiating and considering trade agreements. In short, TPA is what U.S. negotiators need to win a fair deal for the American worker.”
The op-ed is plainly an effort to head off objections among many Republicans, primarily in the House of Representatives, to giving the president the power to bring a completed trade deal to Congress for a vote without giving lawmakers a chance to amend it. That is what the other countries participating in the agreement are demanding. They are not interested in hashing out a deal with the administration only to see it pulled apart again by lawmakers seeking to insert special protections and benefits for favored parties.
Granting the president TPA implies a level of trust in him to negotiate a good deal for the country.
Cruz and Paul, for their part, try to spin the current trade agreements as being conducted under Congressional direction. “Congress lays out three basic requirements for the administration. First, it must pursue nearly 150 specific negotiating objectives, like beefing up protections for U.S. intellectual property or eliminating kickbacks for government-owned firms. Second, the administration must consult regularly with Congress and meet high transparency standards. And third, before anything becomes law, Congress gets the final say.”
Related: Lawmakers Closer on Fast-Track Trade Deal
In truth, though, very few people really know what’s in the trade deal. Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH), usually an administration ally, has blasted the opaque process of deal-making. “It’s telling when Members of Congress and their staff have an easier time accessing national security documents than proposed trade deals,” he said.
Cruz and Paul are working to convince their fellow Republicans to trust the administration on trade talks because Democrats, including Brown and many others, don’t. The Democratic Party has increasingly turned against the TPP for a variety of reasons, including concerns about labor standards and the environment. There are enough Democrats in support of a deal to get it through the Senate, but the deal’s fate is much less clear in the House.
For TPA to pass without strong Democratic support in the House, Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) needs to some of the hard-right in his own conference to back it. Boehner has been stymied by members of his own caucus in the past, and he risks losing them again over the idea of trusting the president to negotiate a trade deal. That is the most likely cause behind an unlikely call by two of the president’s most implacable political opponents to just trust him this one time.
the powers that be seem to want to put an end to the “we the people” experiment of 1776.
Bob seems to be merging TPA and TPP. Ted is also hoping that the TPA, which lasts for 6 years, will be used by a Republican president for 4.5 years.
Texas Freepers need to rid Texas of the traitor Cruz. So many Freepers were thinking he was the savioure. Rand Paul from kentucky is another traitor So are McConnell, Graham, McCain, Johnson (WI) TRAITORS all of them!
Ted Cruz has put himself in a box. He said he read the TPP document. Thus, it would be difficult for him to announce he’s withdrawing support for TPP based on new information. No one has countered that the TPP document published by Wikileaks is not the real McCoy. Not one person.
To make matters worse for Ted Cruz, he and Paul Ryan co-authored an Op-Ed piece in the Wall Street Journal defending giving Obama new powers granted by the TPP.
Is Ted Cruz now staring into a political abyss? It seems so. However, Americans are a forgiving people. If Ted Cruz held a press conference and said he wrong about the TPP, he could still salvage his ship. Otherwise, he’ll have scuttled the vessel and might as well sink with it.
Washington, DC is the problem. Give a group of seemingly sainted individuals $3 trillion or more every year to play with, and they’ll turn into devils and enemies, too. Having said that, Senators Jeff Sessions and Mike Lee aren’t running for president. That’s too bad. Paul and Trump, who are running for president, appear then to be closest things to Washington iconoclasts. Paul’s stoic defense of the Bill of Rights and Constition is admirable and rare among the rats in DC. He stands up the NSA and the Big Brother police state. In my opinion, if Paul could get right on immigration, he’d be a contender to attract more conservatives. He has moved on national defense. He’s no pushover in any case.
ed. Constitution
Nice. Best of show in the “Down with the TPP!” campaign.
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