Posted on 05/20/2007 9:37:03 AM PDT by BornInASmallTown
The aspect of the big business / cheap labor angle that is being under-reported is how this will affect jobs OTHER than picking lettuce. From Business Week Online (Friday 5/18):
A ‘Troubled’ Immigration Reform Proposal
by Lorraine Woellert and Eamon Javers
The proposal would also increase the number of high-skill workers who could come to the U.S. with certain conditions. The annual cap for the temporary work visas known as H-1Bs would be increased to 115,000, from 65,000. The cap could also be increased 20% per year based on demand, not to exceed 180,000 per year. Technology companies, including Intel (INTC), Motorola (MOT), and Hewlett-Packard (HPQ), have been pushing for an increase.
“America’s need for highly skilled workers has never been greater,” said Bill Gates, chairman of Microsoft (MSFT), when he testified before the Senate in March (see BusinessWeek.com, 3/8/07, “Gates to Senate: More Visas”). “Broad-based prosperity in America depends on having enough such workers to satisfy our demand.”
Yet while tech executives were pleased with the increase in temporary work visas, they had concerns about the proposed path to permanent residency for skilled workers. Now even after talented workers have been accepted for citizenship, they can wait five or more years to get their green card.
It is a case of whom do you believe, the politicians and their spin or your own lyin’eyes? What the Washington elites don’t understand is that this problem is metastasizing all over the country affecting more and more people personally. They are fed up.
Corporations or employers don't benefit from this Amnesty bill. After Amnesty employers will have to pay 30 million illegals union wages at $30 per hour. I thought the smear against companies was that they wanted cheap labor? Now employers are paying them less so why would they support a bill that will force them to pay their current 30 million workers much more per hour with health-care,retirement etc?
I don't think it's corporations that are ruining everything and corrupting people but it is liberals/socialism that are ruining everything. I think liberals are part of a socialist/Marxist cult. They will act many times against even their own self-interest supporting failed policies like Socialism in order to achieve "equality" and to "save their planet Earth". Just like Muslims don't act for profit when they blow themselves up so do liberals behave irrationally for their ideology.
This booing seems to be making the rounds. Sen. Chambliss of Ga. received the same reaction when he addressed the State’s Republican Party on Sat. He too blamed his ignorant constituents for not understanding the bill which I find curious as the final bill has not yet even been written.
I’m just wondering if these Republican Party stalwarts are even going to attempt to read the 1000 pages of surrender before they vote for it.
Good post!
No tomatoes? I’m disappointed.
Many thanks!
Graham does not care if he loses votes.
He knows he will be replaced by somebody who is just as determined as he is to give America away.
Graham wants what's bad for America.
He has made that abundantly clear.
And so has the rest of Congress and king george.
McCain is believed to be one of the architects of the Immigration Bill along with Ted Kennedy, and Graham has been carrying water for McCain since 2000, and the consensus in SC is that he thinks McCain will make him his running mate. That, IMO, is just wishful thinking, but McCain may have promised him a cabinet post if he's elected. I don't think he will be, and I'm hoping Graham will be history in 2008. I haven't heard of anyone who is voting for Graham in 2008, but there are probably political cronies who have made deals with him. I just pray we can find a good Conservative to run against him. I've heard good things about Gresham Barrett, the Representative from the 3rd District, and his voting record looks good, so perhaps we have a good chance to defeat Lindsey. No doubt he will become more conservative later in 2008...hoping to dupe the people again!
No. I sent the message to Bush himself as well as my local federal rep.
Let’s hope Sen. Lindsay Graham will be voted out.
In faraway Montana we don’t have as big a mexican flood problem as other states, yet. And yet tester, the schumer-bought senator, slithered in with just 1729 votes out of 250,000 cast. If there was equal fury here as in SC, could a recall election be possible when lib-tester votes for this amnesty bill?
Montana is the “ideal” state as defined by the founders : rural, agrarian, and fiercely independent. The thought of letting our state be taken over by an invading people hits a raw nerve here, even though the name is spanish in origin.
It’s a slim possibility but if our state GOP told him : vote for letting the mice into our pantry and you are looking at a recall election, baucus too. It’s about time to teach these DC elite some hard lessons about reality : ignore the people and you get FIRED.
Every bill should have randomly selected Congressional resignations from office hidden here and there in the text.
You’re welcome, that article covers all everyone needs to know about self defense. I was really glad to know (after I bought 500 rds. of .45 ACP) that I got the best for my .45.
BTW, I listened to Tony Snowjob on 3 different shows (Rush Hewitt Medved) and Hewitt was the only one that gave him a hard time but I’m waiting for someone to ask him just one question. That is, does this Admin. want the illegals out of this country? Of course we all know the answer to that so the real question should be, why not offer the illegals 5,000.00 to leave this country? Would be the best 60 bln we ever spent.
The press has tossed around the “amnistia” buzz-word in its reporting of the ongoing immigration issue, but one that gets far less coverage is “reconquista.” The word “invasion” takes on a whole new meaning when you look at the agenda that some...in increasing numbers...have underneath the “feel-good” public agenda of hard-working peaceful people looking for a better life. A year ago (4/16/06) the Washington Post reported on it:
Mexican aliens seek to retake ‘stolen’ land
By Valerie Richardson
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
April 16, 2006
http://washingtontimes.com/national/20060416-122222-1672r.htm
DENVER — La reconquista, a radical movement calling for Mexico to “reconquer” America’s Southwest, has stepped out of the shadows at recent immigration-reform protests nationwide as marchers held signs saying, “Uncle Sam Stole Our Land!” and waved Mexico’s flag.
Even as organizers urged marchers to display U.S. flags, the theme of reclaiming “stolen” land remained strong. One popular banner read: “If you think I’m illegal because I’m a Mexican, learn the true history because I’m in my homeland.”
“We need to change direction,” said Jose Lugo, an instructor in Ethnic Studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder at a campus march last week. “And by allowing these 50,000, 50 million (immigrants) to come in here, we can do that.”
The revolutionary tone has surprised even longtime immigration watchers such as Ira Mehlman, the Los Angeles-based spokesman for the Federation for American Immigration Reform. “I’ve always been skeptical myself about this (reconquista), but what I’ve seen over the last few weeks leads me to believe that there’s more there than I thought,” Mr. Mehlman said.
Montana? Damn, I’m here in a small town in Ne. and same thing is going on here. In a bigger town nearby(14,000 pop) you can go into a wally-world or home depot on a weekend and I’ll bet 10% in each will be illegals. How do I know? They never make eye contact and talk only amongst themselves in Spanish.
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