[SittinYonder]

AFL-CIO. The unions hold the answers to all your questions, grasshopper.

[cripplecreek]

With democrats it appears to be a matter of guilt. They want to give the world to the poor out of a desperate need to appear benevolent.

With republicans it more a matter of fairness. They realize that the illegals are taking something they have no right to take. Also with most the trade issue is more a matter of fair trade. We’re getting cheated on trade.

[AuntB]

Those dems aren’t consistent about it though.Ted Kennedy has voted for some and against others. Depends on who’s got him in their pocket on a particular issue I suppose. I didn’t see it on this site, but didn’t he vote for NAFTA?

Ted Kennedy on Free Trade
http://www.ontheissues.org/International/Ted_Kennedy_Free_Trade.htm

Voted YES on granting normal trade relations status to Vietnam.
Vote to grant annual normal trade relations status to Vietnam. The resolution would allow Vietnamese imports to receive the same tariffs as those of other U.S. trading partners.
Reference: Bill HJRES51 ; vote number 2001-291 on Oct 3, 2001

Voted YES on removing common goods from national security export rules.
Vote to provide the president the authority to control the export of sensitive dual-use items for national security purposes. The bill would eliminate restrictions on the export of technology that is readily available in foreign markets.
Reference: Bill S149 ; vote number 2001-275 on Sep 6, 2001

Voted YES on permanent normal trade relations with China.

[SittinYonder]

Immigrant advocacy and labor groups also oppose the terms of a new guest worker program in which low-skilled immigrants would be forced to leave the country after temporary stints and would have limited opportunities to stay and get on a path to permanent legalization.

"Without a real path to legalization, the program will exclude millions of workers and thus ensure that America will have two classes of workers, only one of which can exercise workplace rights," said John J. Sweeney, the AFL-CIO president.

With legalization - amnesty - the unions can swell their ranks, bring in more members to increase power and UNION DUES.

What the one special interest group that in the past, now and forever OWNS the Democrat Party?

It's not about the members they now represent, it's about the dues they're not yet receiving.

[Biblebelter]

Just as elected politicians have sold out their voters, so has union leadership sold out the rank in file. Clinton betrayed union workers by signing NAFTA. I have often asked union members why they continued to support Clinton through impeachment after he sold them out on NAFTA, the answer was they felt they had no where else to go. I now appreciate the feeling, just as union members are trapped in the Democrat party, fiscal conservatives and nationalists are trapped in the big spending, internationalist amnesty party of Republicans run by Rockefeller Republicans calling themselves compassionate conservatives and pimping for the likes of Vincente Fox and Teddy Kennedy.

[Age of Reason]

Why is it that the same Democrats who oppose deporting illegal immigration and support amnesty . . . also oppose free trade

Probably because free trade between USA and Mexico, flooded Mexico with cheap produce from our factory farms.

Since that cheap USA produce put Mexican farmers out of work, they sneak in here or starve.

So ending free trade would solve the illegal immigrant problem because those Mexican farmers could go back to Mexico to raise crops again.

[bmw_n_me]

Free trade does not bring any extra dim votes, that’s why...