Obama Hopes Illegal Immigration Is Out of Sight Out of Mind

Conservative HQ ^ | 22 Aug 14 | George Rasley

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Obama Hopes Illegal Immigration Is Out of Sight Out of Mind

Doesn’t it seem strange that the invasion of our southern border has suddenly stopped? Or is it that it has suddenly stopped making the front page of the major newspapers and the lead segment of the TV news?
 
But just because you don't see it in the establishment news that doesn’t mean there isn’t a lot going on behind the media blackout.
 
Around the country illegal aliens have become more brazen in their protests against the deportation of detained illegal aliens. In Florida and other states groups of illegal aliens have chained themselves to the gates of transportation and detention centers using PVC pipe to make it harder for them to be cut free.
 
The groups sponsoring the protests say they are seeking relief for illegal aliens, and want the president to take action sooner rather than later.
 
And make no mistake about it, President Obama is considering unilateral changes in the nation's immigration system requested by the tech industry and other powerful interest groups, and he’s counting on their political muscle to stifle any Republican election-year criticism of a go-it-alone approach to granting amnesty to some portion of the 20 million illegal aliens currently in the United States.
 
According to AP, Obama's aides have held more than 20 meetings in recent months with business groups and other interest groups to discuss possibilities, ahead of an announcement about next steps the president is expected to make in September. Coordinating these "listening sessions," as the White House calls them, is its Office of Public Engagement, led by top Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett.
 
Our friend Matt Mackowiak, a Texas-based Republican strategist, told AP the moves on legal immigration might prompt businesses to praise the president, even if it's not enough to persuade the business community to side with Democrats in the upcoming elections.
 
"From the White House's perspective, this is an easy way for them to score some points," Mackowiak said to reporters Laura Wides-Munoz and Josh Lederman. "They'll say: 'We're arguing about substance, Republicans are arguing about process.'"
 
But the notion that the tech industry and other members of the cheap labor wing of the business community can muscle illegal immigration and amnesty by the voters doesn’t square with the findings of a new poll conducted by our friend top pollster Kellyanne Conway and her colleagues at The Polling Company.
 
Although the administration and their media allies have pushed Obama’s deportation record, Conway found that few Americans are buying the idea that Obama is enforcing immigration law strongly.
 
President Obama receives low job approval marks overall (40% approve/57% disapprove), but even stronger disapproval on his handling of immigration (32% approve/61% disapprove), so the cheap labor wing of the U.S. Chamber is going to have to find a more popular advocate if they want to sell amnesty.
 
Most pointedly, says Conway, likely voters were unequivocal in their support of immigration policies that protect the American worker.

Now here's the key: Their sentiment is the inverse of the oft-repeated phrase, “illegal immigrants do the jobs that Americans don’t want to do,” saying instead that these workers should have a fair opportunity to do the jobs that illegal immigrants currently do.
 
“Raise the pay” is a rallying call for these voters, who believe there are plenty of Americans to do the work and that better pay and more training is an elixir for labor shortages. Working class voters, married women, and political Independents agree with this in dramatic numbers noted Conway.
 
These results turn the often-heard statement that illegal immigrants do the jobs that Americans won’t do on its head. Over 8-in-10 respondents believe that American workers and legal immigrants already in the U.S. should get first pick at these jobs before illegals. As one can see from the graph below, blue collar workers support having the opportunity to take these positions more than the any other demographic group studied.
 
Perhaps the most important finding of Conway’s research was this data point: 75% want more enforcement of current immigration laws, including 63% of Hispanics and over 50% of Democrats (emphasis ours) meaning that the U.S. Chamber of Commerce line to the effect that Republicans are about to go extinct because they want our immigration laws enforced is a bunch of hooey.
 
U.S. Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., slammed the White House this week for meeting with big business to bring in more workers while "tens of millions of Americans are on welfare, unemployment and public assistance."
 
Sessions, who has been Capital Hill’s most reliable (and principled) defender of American workers said this in a statement released after the latest meeting of the Obama – Big Business Axis leaked out:

 

Even while they demand more foreign workers, these companies are laying off current employees in droves. Cisco, which Politico reports met with White House aides to advocate for more foreign workers, just last week announced its intent to lay off 6,000 employees. Last month, Microsoft declared it would lay off 18,000 workers. Overall, mass layoffs in the tech industry are up 68% from the prior year.

As for the construction industry, there are seven unemployed workers for every one job opening. According to a recent study released by the U.S. Conference of Mayors, construction workers hit by the recession have seen their wages fall by 23 percent.

The increases in foreign workers demanded by corporate lobbyists would be in addition to the Administration’s plan to implement amnesty by executive fiat, providing work permits to 5–6 million illegal immigrants and visa overstays who will be able to take any job in any industry, public or private.

 
Senator Sessions went on to observe that “Tens of millions of Americans are on welfare, unemployment, and public assistance. Yet the White House and their Senate Majority seem more concerned about the economic demands of large corporations, or the citizens of other countries, than about getting our own citizens back to work into stable jobs that can support a family and uplift a community.” (emphasis ours)
 
Jeff Sessions has been right on the principles and right on the policy from the beginning of the amnesty debate, now Kellyanne Conway and her colleagues at The Polling Company have proven he’s right on the politics too. Isn’t it about time the rest of the Capitol Hill GOP got the message?
 
For a copy of Kellyanne Conway’s “Friends Family Memo” on her immigration poll please click the following link: Immigration – Public Opinion Realities and Policy Political Opportunities  
 
For a slide deck featuring Kellyanne Conway’s analysis from the study, please click here: Immigration – Public Opinion Realities and Policy Political Opportunities – Friends Family Memo- 08 19 2014 

[xzins]

As always Sen Jeff Sessions for President. He understands that the GOP-E and Obama & his lackeys are sold out to the Social Corporatist Elite that have taken over our government.

[VRWC For Truth]

The RINOs think they can win without Conservatives. Let them die trying.

[Pearls Before Swine]

From at least one point of view, Obama's strategy, or de facto M. O., whichever it is, is brilliant. It's an overwhelming the attention tactic. It's Cloward-Piven in the publicity domain. There are so many disasters and outright scandals that it's almost impossible to keep track of them. Each one occupies the public eye for a few weeks, submerging the ones before it.

You have to be a complete, psycho A-hole to operate this way, and you also have to have a teflon persona, which the MSM helps to create and perpetuate. IF--alas, I didn't say when--the greater public figures this out, he will be strung up by the heels, Mussolini chin in the air pose and all. But, it's a big IF. Until there are black-on-white riots in Liberalville, or there's another Beslan, the 47% won't notice or care. Mall shootings won't count, IMHO.

[Liz]

Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) accused some of the world´s largest corporation of "scheming with the White House" to circumvent the law. The Obama Admin has solicited ´a list of asks for the tech sector´ and ´provisions for low-skilled workers for industries, like construction´-including green cards and work authorizations-in order to ´get them on board ´....

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Chamber of Commerce members, publicly-traded companies, and so on ---should take heed.

There have been thousands of accusations of human rights abuse, extortion, and even reports of murder on the freight trains transporting undocumented migrants to the US border....many coming to work in their companies.

The trains involved in these are publicly-traded companies, traded on NASDAQ, with "very influential stockholders", such as the Clintons and billionaire Mexico resident, Carlos Slim. Other stockholders include,T Rowe Price, Bank of America, and General Electric.

The real eye-opener is that these freight train companies are involved in the Narco trade, and one report makes it clear that the companies are aware of the abusive practices their train operators are engaging in. The border swarm is all about human trafficking, narco trafficking, and government and corporate collusion.

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"The Beast"---not exactly the LI Limited. No running water
and flush toilets on those freight trains. How did the
future employees handle body wastes?

Coming to work in your town.

[Liz]

One more thing, Chamber members, publicly-traded companies, etc........

The SEC and IRS would be interested in municipalities using tax dollars----and its public school districts using tax- exempt education bond proceeds---- to finance illegals.

Tax-exempt municipal bond investors---and education bond investors-- may have legal grounds if they were deceived about deceptive bond offerings characterizing the uses of tax-free bond proceeds.

In many cases, bond issues are approved by voters---at the ballot box--so that voters may have also been misled WRT uses of fraudulent bond offerings.

Also culpable are:

<><> bonding companies underwriting possible fraudulent bond issues;

<><> banks holding possibly fraudulent bond proceeds;

<><> municipal and school finance administrators allocating bond proceeds,

<><> municipal and school personnel accepting the bond proceeds.

<><> municipal and school vendors accepting possible fraudulent bond proceeds.

<><> publicly-funded tax-exempt groups advocating the uses of fraudulent bond proceeds.

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EMAIL---FBI TIPS PAGE https://tips.fbi.gov

EMAIL--enforcement@SEC.gov

Contact the IRS Fraud Unit

EMAIL Banking oversight agencies

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The Chamber of Commerce should hope that taxpayers do not find out which banks are facilitating this.
<><> Which banks are designated the repositories of municipal tax dollars.
<><> Which banks are dispensing tax-exempt bond proceeds.

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REFERENCE SOURCE: web site / occ.gov

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency processes questions and complaints concerning consumer issues within the jurisdiction of the OCC through our Consumer Assistance Group (CAG) (and sends misdirected complaints to the appropriate federal or state regulator).

OCC processes complaints involving national banks and federal savings associations with more than $10 billion in assets on behalf of the CFPB, while the CFPB builds its capacity to handle complaints. Under this approach, the CFPB will begin by handling credit card related complaints involving national banks and federal savings associations with assets of $10 billion or more and will expand its complaint process to other products and services offered as the new bureau builds that capacity through March 2012.

Consumers can contact the bureau through its Web site, consumerfinance.gov, or by phone at 855-411-2372. Consumers may use the FFIEC site to identify a financial institution's primary regulator, or may use the FDIC institution directory to identify which institutions have more than $10 billon in assets.

For specific problems with a financial institution other than a national bank, contact the customer assistance:
(1) State Banking Department WRT a state bank
(2) Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), or,
(3) the Federal Reserve for federally chartered banks.

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NOTE WELL Under the Bank Secrecy Act, banks are required to establish, implement and maintain programs designed to detect and report suspicious activity indicative of money laundering and other financial crimes. “The Bank Secrecy Act was enacted to protect the public from harm by identifying and detecting money laundering from criminal enterprises, terrorism, tax evasion or other unlawful activities,” the special agent in charge for Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigation, explained.

Shady banking transactions could be prosecuted under the (1) Bank Secrecy ACT, (2) RICO, and, (3) the Hobbs Act (by impairing the municipal/school districts' economic viability).

[Tennessee Nana]

PING

[joshua c]

What do you call the Republican Party without the conservative vote?

The Whigs

[ought-six]

RINOs are delusional.

[MeshugeMikey]

obies good at the conferin things on people stuff...

[xzins]

The republican party, to be viable, must have the huge bulk of middle class that is conservative or they have no numbers that win elections.

Their hope the last few elections is that they could attract ‘moderate liberals’ my sounding moderately liberal.

The liberals went for real liberals and the conservatives got the hint and stayed home.

[Vaduz]

Decoded: “illegal immigrants do the jobs that Americans not allowed to do,”

[Eagles6]

Anyone think the regime had nothing to do with ginning up the Ferguson shooting to take the focus off illegal immigration? With the help of the compliant msm of course.

[BobL]

Ever get the feeling that our side was getting PLAYED FOR FOOLS? The Illegal Invasion was tops in the news just a bit over a month ago, and it was killing Democrats going into the November election.

So what does Obama do? He BRILLIANTLY picks a fight with Russia and gets all the conservatives rallying around the flag, ready to stick-it to Russia in Cold War 2...and POOF! the news of the invasion is gone.

[xzins]

Obama fanned the flames of Ferguson to keep it on the news. That’s why he commented and sent Holder. He wants it to keep illegal immigration out of the news.

[Eagles6]

Exactly. Could only be done with a compliant msm.

[Jane Austen]

And we have to work to support the disgusting illegal aliens, among them terrorists, rapists, and high rates of pedophiles. All of them have contempt for out laws, want special treatment. They belive they should not have to follow the rules.