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East Palo Alto: Star-studded task force backs pro-immigration policy
San Jose Mercury News ^
| 1/24/14
| David E. Early
Posted on 01/24/2014 6:10:59 AM PST by jimbo123
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"The BPC is a business-sponsored think tank. It backs businesses' interest in investing a lot of money toward gaining access to all the foreign-born labor they can get," said Ira Mehlman, spokesman for the Federation for American Immigration Reform. "They simply don't want to pay middle-class salaries to American workers."
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posted on
01/24/2014 6:10:59 AM PST
by
jimbo123
To: jimbo123
Oh, well, if the star studs want it, it must be good.
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posted on
01/24/2014 6:14:10 AM PST
by
FlingWingFlyer
(ObamaCare. The "global warming" of healthcare plans.)
To: jimbo123
Maybe this well-heeled ‘task force’ can pony up and put their money where THER mouths are!!
It will cost everyday ‘Joe America’ more than it will EVER cost this crowd of ‘drunk on attention’ ideologues!
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posted on
01/24/2014 6:14:34 AM PST
by
SMARTY
("When you blame others, you give up your power to change." Robert Anthony)
To: SMARTY
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posted on
01/24/2014 6:16:28 AM PST
by
DIRTYSECRET
(urope. Why do they put up with this.)
To: jimbo123
A pro-immigration policy will ensure the nation's future prosperity, better national security
WH Clown refuses to enforce immigration laws on the books from prior Congresses and Presidents, WILL SOMEONE PLEASE EXPLAIN HOW "REFORM" BY ISSUING NEW LAWS WILL IMPROVE BORDER SECURITY? PLEASE I BEG OF YOU RATS, EXPLAIN YOURSELVES.
I suppose the LIBTARD answer would be that if we relaxed the laws, then no one will be breaking the law? Just throw the border open - make the law match the actual enforcement practice?
RATS = new voters
GOP = CHEAP LABOR
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posted on
01/24/2014 6:16:49 AM PST
by
Cheerio
(Barry Hussein Soetoro-0bama=The Complete Destruction of American Capitalism)
To: jimbo123
A convenient list of who NOT to vote for in the next election!
To: Cheerio
*refuses to enforce immigration laws *
Which laws are WE CITIZENS allowed to ignore?
I’d like the government to provide us with a list.
To: DIRTYSECRET
I’d like to make a suggestion on immigration reform.
Let’s open this to be a state affair...rather than a federal affair. Tell each state...based on it’s population...they can manage a visa-to-work deal, and if the person stays around ten years within their state (not on welfare and not arrested for anything), then they can apply for US citizenship. If Alabama limits their take to 1,000 a year...fine, that’s the limit. If California wants 40,000 a year, fine, it’s their issue to clean up.
No vote granted, no citizen status....until you get ten years under your belt. Let the states manage their own mess. If they think it’s wise, it’s their issue. Oh, and moving around to other states later? No...you have to stay in the state where you started this process. Ten years of waiting in that state.
To: jimbo123
Event being held in East Palo Alto
last census
http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/06/0620956.html
Foreign born 40.1%
Language other than English spoken at home, pct age 5+, 2008-2012 69.7%
Persons below poverty level, percent, 2008-2012
18.0%
Yeah real immigration success story
To: jimbo123; AlexW
"A pro-immigration policy will ensure the nation's future prosperity, better national security and a more youthful labor force that will help pay for retirement and medical programs for decades to come, a star-studded group said here Thursday."If a "group" of allegedly intelligent, educated people actually formulated that sentence, or implied it or even endorsed it ... It's all over
It's like my shop teacher terlling me NOW, "Hey .. y'member all that Ohm's Law stuff? ... F'GETaboudit ... it doesn't work"
AlexW is correct.
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posted on
01/24/2014 6:22:40 AM PST
by
knarf
(I say things that are true .. I have no proof .. but they're true.)
To: jimbo123
You low skilled American workers better get used to the unemployment line.
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posted on
01/24/2014 6:25:40 AM PST
by
Huskrrrr
To: knarf
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posted on
01/24/2014 6:26:01 AM PST
by
jimbo123
To: jimbo123; Tennessee Nana; Liz; TADSLOS; EXCH54FE; GeronL; Travis McGee; stephenjohnbanker; ...
RE :”
A pro-immigration policy will ensure the nation's future prosperity, better national security and a more youthful labor force that will help pay for retirement and medical programs for decades to come, a star-studded group said here Thursday.
The Bipartisan Policy Center, helmed by an immigration task force featuring the unlikely pairing of Republican Condoleezza Rice and Democrat Henry Cisneros, released an analysis on demographics that painted immigration reform as a significant boost to the United States, both on the home front and internationally. “ These claims that they will pay for our future medicare and SS would have some merit if the ~ 10 year amnesty probation included some income requirements the opposite of means testing, in other words that income would have to make enough to be excluded from any government handouts and pay a decent income tax rate.
Not much good if they pay those payroll taxes but get food stamps, medicaid and EITC.
But these reforms are never constructed to meet the amnesty promises.
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posted on
01/24/2014 6:30:06 AM PST
by
sickoflibs
(Obama : 'If you like your Doctor you can keep him, PERIOD! Don't believe the GOPs warnings')
To: jimbo123
“Star studded”?
I guess that means it will really hurt when they attempt to ram it up our a**.
To: jimbo123
The reference to national security means that neo-cons want the young illegals in the army for the next invasion, maybe of Iran or Syria.
Condi’s definitely a neo.
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posted on
01/24/2014 6:33:33 AM PST
by
sickoflibs
(Obama : 'If you like your Doctor you can keep him, PERIOD! Don't believe the GOPs warnings')
To: jimbo123
“The BPC is a business-sponsored think tank.”
Nuff said.
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posted on
01/24/2014 6:35:42 AM PST
by
headstamp 2
(What would Scooby do?)
To: Huskrrrr
“You low skilled American workers better get used to the unemployment line.”
It’s not even that. A local plumber here hires illegals to do his work. He shows up on the job, gives an estimate and then sends over a pair of jaboneys to do the work at 10-15 bucks an hour.
His horrible reputation is getting around but he’s been in business for many years. I’ve seen these guys in the supply house using sign language to talk to the counter man.
Somehow magically these guys are all supposed to be expert tradesman. I’ve come in on there “work”. It’s a disaster.
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posted on
01/24/2014 6:42:13 AM PST
by
headstamp 2
(What would Scooby do?)
To: artichokegrower
These traitors want to make all of the US like Palo Alto/East Palo Alto. The 10%-20% elite live in Palo Alto while the rest of us live in American versions of favelas of East Palo Alto.
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posted on
01/24/2014 7:17:48 AM PST
by
C19fan
To: jimbo123; sickoflibs
Members include: Republican Haley Barbour, former governor of Mississippi; Democrat Ed Rendell, former governor of Pennsylvania; Democrat Henry Cisneros, former U.S. secretary of housing and urban Development; Republican Condoleezza Rice, former U.S. secretary of state; Republican Michael Chertoff, former U.S. secretary of homeland Security; Republican Al Cardenas, chairman of the American Conservative Union; and Democrat Eliseo Medina, chair of the SEIU Immigration and Latino Civic Engagement Initiative. What a sorry bunch of fifth columnists bent on the destruction of the American worker and the middle class. The fact that Eliseo Medina is a member should give any sane person pause. Listen to what Medina said in 2009 shortly after the Obama victory:
Eliseo Medina Speaks on Immigrants for Votes
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posted on
01/24/2014 7:24:58 AM PST
by
kabar
To: artichokegrower
EPA used to be a black ghetto. Now the hispanics are moving them out like they did in LA and other parts of CA.
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posted on
01/24/2014 7:33:49 AM PST
by
lodi90
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