Posted on 05/15/2014 3:12:52 PM PDT by ObamahatesPACoal
Sal Russo, co-founder of the Tea Party Express, announced his support for amnesty on Wednesday, reversing his organization’s statement from a year ago that it would not take a position on immigration reform. If you take a look at Russo’s background, this isn’t exactly the revelation that some in the media are making it out to be. What’s interesting, though, is the dichotomy between Russo’s position and the principles of the organization he helped to create.
The Tea Party Express bills itself as anti-establishment, but Russo’s immigration proposal is nearly identical to the principles pushed by GOP House Leaders -- John Boehner, Eric Cantor, and Paul Ryan -- back in January.
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Agree.
They endorsed Jeff Sessions and Chris McDaniel. I dont know what Sal Russo does day to day.
“Despite this, Russo claims that he is on-board with anti-amnesty Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL), a claim Ingraham strongly disputed. “
“And yet you’re all in on this, and you can say you’re with Jeff Sessions but I imagine if I call Sessions up now and ask him after reading this op-ed you wrote, ‘Are you [Russo] with Jeff Sessions?’ I think he would say ‘Uh, no.’”
Thanks for the link.
I am not at all comfortable with Russo quoting/siting a Michael Bloomberg immigration *study*. We need a definitive answer from TPE on this.
Bless Laura Ingraham for standing up and staying the course.
So, Sal Russo as head of Tea Party Express advocates more immigrants as employees in hi-tech industries, which will have the effect of lowering wages for persons currently legally working here (just as the H1B programs have done).
So I ask you a question:
Is this Sal Russo’s goal, and if so will he offer to lower his own wage in solidarity for the issues he supports?
Or should we be more accurate here and just remind posters at every opportunity of the specific actions that makes Sal Russo an overpaid hypocrite?
if you believe in guilt by association, they are also endorsing Ben Sasse in Nebraska.
Ping of interest.
I doubt that Rubio changed, he just kept his more liberal views to himself until he was elected.
The GOPe infiltrated Freedom Works as well. They are JUST as dirty as the dems.
Tea party express?? WTF?? First time I heard of it. Another plant by the left?
I listened to Laura Ingraham's interview this morning with Russo. He is an amnesty supporter and favors bringing in huge numbers of permanent legal immigrants and guest workers.
Yea I remember back when TEA groups began to form. I remember a few of us saying ‘Watch them like hawks because the GOP/Libs are going to infiltrate and co opt them.” I remember us getting called lib plants for suggesting such a thing.
Not like it was any novel concept.
Yes.
There is no STEM worker shortage. America Has More Trained STEM Graduates than STEM Job Openings
A number of studies have found that Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) workers are not in short supply. In “The Myth of the Science and Engineering Shortages,” demographer Michael Teitelbaum, writing in The Atlantic, summarizes the argument from his new book, Falling Behind? Boom, Bust, and the Global Race for Scientific Talent: “No one has been able to find any evidence indicating current widespread labor market shortages or hiring difficulties in science and engineering occupations,” he observes. Teitelbaum and others have pointed out that wage growth for STEM workers has been flat for more than decade, a clear indication that such workers are not in short supply.
Visa limits for seasonal workers, such as those needed by farmers, cannot keep up with demand. And those visas that are available are too cumbersome, complex and cost prohibitive for many employers to use. That means fewer fruits and vegetables per season, lost revenue and an increased reliance on imports, many of which are not subject to the same level of health regulations as our homegrown crops. By instituting worker visa programs that adequately address our farm labor demands, we can keep American agriculture strong.
We have H-2A Temporary Agricultural Workers Visas
Doing nothing now means hurting businesses just as we are coming out of the Great Recession. Today, 40 percent of our Fortune 500 companies were founded by an immigrant or child of an immigrant. Much of the new small-business growth in the country is because of legal immigrants.
Habeeb and Leven bolster their case that immigrants are especially entrepreneurial by citing an empty statistic from a lobbying group’s report stating that “immigrants or their children founded 40% of today’s Fortune 500 companies.” That report counts a company as founded by an immigrant (or by a person with even one immigrant parent) even when there were multiple co-founders who were not immigrants or the children of immigrants. What’s more, the report includes companies such as DuPont, founded in 1802, and Pfizer, founded in 1849. In fact, all but a handful were founded more than half a century ago. Thus, the statistic has virtually no meaning for today’s immigration debate.
Because we have no visa for entrepreneurs, the most innovative people around the world are starting companies and creating jobs elsewhere. Meanwhile, other countries understand that entrepreneurs are an economic necessity. While we actively turn away future CEOs, the rest of the world is offering incentives to attract new businesses.
Wrong. Like many countries, the U.S. provides a means of entry for wealthy people who will pump money into its economy. (See the Immigration and Nationality Act, at I.N.A. § 203(b)(5),8 U.S.C. § 1153(b)(5).) This is known as the employment Fifth Preference or EB-5 immigrant visa (which allows permanent residence immediately upon entry to the U.S.). However, applicants for a U.S. green card based on investment must not only invest between $500,000 and $1million in a U.S. business, they must take an active role in that business (though they don’t need to control it).
Green cards for investors are limited in number, to 10,000 per year. Of these, 3,000 are reserved for investors in rural areas or areas of high unemployment. If more than 10,000 people were to apply per year, you would be placed on a waiting list based on your Priority Date (the day you filed the first portion of your application).
But don’t worry yet: This 10,000 limit has never been reached. What’s more, only principal applicants are counted toward the 10,000 limit. Accompanying relatives are not. Therefore, many more than 10,000 people per year can be admitted with EB-5 green cards.
That means no special pathways to citizenship that allow undocumented immigrants to cut in line, Russo cautioned, but rather some reasonable procedures that require “the 11 million people who are here illegally obey the law, pay taxes and come out of the shadows.
“We have to get them right by the law in exchange for legal status, but not unbridled amnesty,” Russo wrote. “This should include penalties, background checks to root out criminals, and the requirement that they learn English, understand the Constitution and be committed to our basic freedoms.”
This is amnesty, pure and simple. It is no different than what McCain and Schumer say. They are legalizing the status of the lawbreakers allowing them to stay and work here, thus competing legally against Americans for jobs and depressing wages further.
Agree. Dick Armey was a mole. At least they got him to resign.
Rand Paul's immigration speech...The Republican Party must embrace more legal immigration.[Posted on 03/19/2013 7:04:07 AM PDT by Perdogg]
Unfortunately, like many of the major debates in Washington, immigration has become a stalemate-where both sides are imprisoned by their own rhetoric or attachment to sacred cows that prevent the possibility of a balanced solution.
Immigration Reform will not occur until Conservative Republicans, like myself, become part of the solution. I am here today to begin that conversation.
Let's start that conversation by acknowledging we aren't going to deport 12 million illegal immigrants.
If you wish to work, if you wish to live and work in America, then we will find a place for you...
This is where prudence, compassion and thrift all point us toward the same goal: bringing these workers out of the shadows and into being taxpaying members of society.
Imagine 12 million people who are already here coming out of the shadows to become new taxpayers.12 million more people assimilating into society. 12 million more people being productive contributors.
Rand Paul calls on conservatives to embrace immigration reformLatinos, should be a natural constituency for the party, Paul argued, but "Republicans have pushed them away with harsh rhetoric over immigration." ...he would create a bipartisan panel to determine how many visas should be granted for workers already in the United States and those who might follow... [and the buried lead] "Imagine 12 million people who are already here coming out of the shadows to become new taxpayers...[Posted on 04/21/2013 1:52:42 PM PDT by SoConPubbie]
[but he's not in favor of amnesty, snicker, definition of is is]
100% correct.
There are millions of Americans out of work, anyone pushing immigration reform is an enemy of the common American citizen
So you like it just the way it is now?
Jeff Sessions makes common sense statements about immigration...
Yes he does. And he met recently with Russo, they are on the same page.
Sal Russo is a crooked scumbag
Well that pretty much cements it all together. That is what the leftists call him.
So to wrap up, you would rather have Chuck Schumer, Dick Durbin and Robert Melendez write the immigration law instead of Jeff Sessions, Ted Cruz and Mike Lee?
Apparently so.
Well yeah. I was talking about the surface, what he appeared to be to the masses.
That isn’t what I said and was not the point I was making.
Scroll up and see what I was responding to if you would like to know.
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