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US immigration reform nears tipping point [AFL-CIO threatens to "steam roll" opponents]
Financial Times ^ | 4/10/13 | Anna Fifield

Posted on 04/11/2013 2:30:29 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper

Opponents of US immigration reform are preparing a fresh assault to halt the progress of a comprehensive bill through Congress, saying that legalising 11m unauthorised immigrants would impose too much of a burden on the government’s already-strained coffers.

The Heritage Foundation, led by former Tea Party patriarch Jim DeMint, is arguing that immigration reform would place a huge burden on entitlement programmes such as Medicare and Social Security for decades to come, and would increase Obamacare health costs.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Mexico; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: aliens; amnesty; immigration; jobs
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But with a bipartisan group of senators readying to unveil their compromise bill as soon as Thursday, advocates of reform are saying it now looks inevitable that the US immigration system will be overhauled.

“Politicians know that if they stand in the way of citizenship we will steamroller them,” said Ana Avendano, director of immigration at the AFL-CIO, the largest labour union in the US and a key party to the negotiations. “That’s a fun evolution.”

1 posted on 04/11/2013 2:30:30 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: SoFloFreeper

The unionista who wants to get millions of illegal aliens in her organization so she can confiscate their wages and use them to fund socialists in Congress. This is her idea of a "fun evolution".

Wake up, Republicans.

2 posted on 04/11/2013 2:32:29 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: SoFloFreeper

Good to know that the commies feel safe now to tell us they’re running this country. Can’t wait to see how they do when the producers give out, give in, and give up.


3 posted on 04/11/2013 2:34:18 AM PDT by mrsmel (One Who Can See)
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To: SoFloFreeper

She even looks like a Sixties style radical, facial expression and all.


4 posted on 04/11/2013 2:35:05 AM PDT by mrsmel (One Who Can See)
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Where does this 11 million illegals number come from?

The number touted in 1999 was 12 million and the ICE estimates are 2-3 million coming in per year for 12 years.

And the number has DECREASED by 1 million since 1999.

We are being scammed.


5 posted on 04/11/2013 2:37:57 AM PDT by rdcbn
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To: SoFloFreeper
The face of the Reconquista

Mexico and Spain still want "their" land back, and they plan to steal the wealth created from it by their arch enemies, the Anglo Americans.

6 posted on 04/11/2013 2:50:36 AM PDT by Regulator
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“...legalising 11m unauthorised immigrants would impose too much of a burden on the government’s already-strained coffers.”

Nah, not at all. president hussein will just raise taxes on everybody; heck, he’s done it before, he can do it again.


7 posted on 04/11/2013 3:09:05 AM PDT by Jack Hammer (American)
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To: SoFloFreeper
Avendaño is a graduate of Georgetown University Law Center and the University of California at Berkeley, but she's for the little guy ...
8 posted on 04/11/2013 3:13:53 AM PDT by Ken522
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To: SoFloFreeper

I don’t see how allowing 11 or even 20 million new people into the unions will help American workers.

Yeah it’s dues for the Unions, but it screws over American workers.


9 posted on 04/11/2013 3:18:51 AM PDT by Venturer
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immigration reform would place a huge burden on entitlement programmes such as Medicare and Social Security for decades to come, and would increase Obamacare health costs.

No big deal.

We’ll just tax those filthy RICH people some more.

10 posted on 04/11/2013 3:19:57 AM PDT by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
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Yup.

11 posted on 04/11/2013 3:41:43 AM PDT by shibumi (Cover it with gas and set it on fire.)
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11 to 30 MILLION spanish-speaking Illiterates addded to the rolls of Democrats, welfare-recipiants, DUI violators, and drug gang-bangers.

What could possibly be wrong with that?

BTW-you are a racist for READING THIS.


12 posted on 04/11/2013 4:16:41 AM PDT by Flintlock ("The British are coming--to TAKE OUR GUNS"--Paul Revere)
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To: Flintlock

...add ‘college student’ to your list. They get a reduced tuition rate.


13 posted on 04/11/2013 4:31:21 AM PDT by Blue Turtle
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To: SoFloFreeper

Unions used to be against illegal immigration.


14 posted on 04/11/2013 4:36:17 AM PDT by Daveinyork (."Trusting government with power and money is like trusting teenaged boys with whiskey and car keys,)
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They have been bought off to sign on to changing the electorate.


15 posted on 04/11/2013 5:27:14 AM PDT by reformedliberal
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To: SoFloFreeper

Do not the members of the AFL-CIO understand that it will be THEIR JOBS that the newly legal “citizens” will compete for??


16 posted on 04/11/2013 7:08:35 AM PDT by Wonder Warthog
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