The Big Money Behind the Push for an Immigration Overhaul

The New York Times ^ | Nov 14th, 2014 | By JULIA PRESTON

[Mariner]

The calls started shortly after President Obama’s news conference on the day after the midterm elections. He had said he would go ahead with action on immigration before year’s end, in spite of warnings from Republicans that he could wreck relations with the new Congress they will control. White House officials were calling immigrant advocates to talk strategy and shore up their support.

The officials wanted to reassure them, several activists said, that the president, after delaying twice this year, was ready to take the kind of broad measures they had demanded to shield immigrants here illegally from deportation.

The White House calls — and the president’s decision itself — reflected the clout the immigrant movement has built up in recent years, as it grew from a cluster of scattered Washington lobbying groups into a national force.

A vital part of that expansion has involved money: major donations from some of the nation’s wealthiest liberal foundations, including the Ford Foundation, the Carnegie Corporation of New York, the Open Society Foundations of the financier George Soros, and the Atlantic Philanthropies. Over the last decade those donors have invested more than $300 million in immigrant organizations, including many fighting for a pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrants.

[Squeako]

I have always heard that Big Business wants cheap labor which is why they support Amnesty. I no longer believe this is the main reason. I was recently in a store in L.A. filled with immigrants, and wondered, "where is all this money coming from?"

That is when I realized that The Chamber of Crony Capitalism supports Amnesty because it wants millions of new mindless consumers. It doesn't matter where the money comes from, whether it's welfare checks or anchor baby kickbacks, so long as it flows through their cash registers. If these consumers get it from redistributed taxes on the middle class, it doesn't matter, they just need to spend it. Companies don't make profit off what they save on labor. They make it off the product that is moved to the shopping carts of their customers.

This is why jerks like Paul Ryan say that immigration reform is good for the economy; he considers the economy separate from the national culture so technically he is correct. 20 million new buyers is good for commerce, and 100 million would be even better. This is why they will never ever stop pushing for unfettered immigration. Amnesty now and amnesty tomorrow.

These people need to be stopped because they are going to cause an actual shooting civil war and the nation will most likely not survive except as a Balkanized land mass with The Constitution nothing more than a historical relic in a new third world society that has been brought about by the love of money.

[acapesket]

All of those organizations/alledged philanthropies are run by Marxists and always have been. Class warfare is no solution to anything.

[Liz]

Big business, Chamber of Commerce business members--including high-tech publicly-traded companies---who advocate open borders---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 are publicly-traded companies, traded on NASDAQ, with "very influential stockholders", such as Bill and Hillary Clinton and billionaire Mexico resident, Carlos Slim. Other train 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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Coming to America---not exactly the LI Limited.
No running water and flush toilets on those freight trains.
How did the future high-tech employees handle body wastes?

Coming to America--to your companies, communities, and schools.

[Mouton]

IMO, income taxes do not tax wealth, they tax income or the vehile to acquire wealth.

[EternalVigilance]

The real pro-amnesty money was spent by the Chamber of Commerce, who elected so many Romney Republicans in 2014.

Watch out, conservatives.

[EternalVigilance]

How the Chamber beat the tea party in 2014
http://www.politico.com/story/2014/11/chamber-of-commerce-tea-party-2014-112708.html

[The Antiyuppie]

I work with foreign-born US Citizens (who love this country and are doing very well, BTW) who wonder why the US had never had a “general strike”. Strikes against a company “send a message” to the employer. General strikes send a message, too.

[amnestynone]

“All of those organizations/alledged philanthropies are run by Marxists and always have been. Class warfare is no solution to anything.”

But, they are responsible for letting them get control. Just like they are responsible for the main Stream media, and the fecklessness, duplicity and treachery of the GOPE establishment. Rich libs deserve to pay their taxes and I don't think anyone here would dispute that. But, given the treachery and greed and stupidity of the equivalent Republican class they deserve to pay as well. Not because they are rich but because what is happening here is their fault more than anyone else.

[The Antiyuppie]

” Class warfare is no solution to anything.”

Yes, it is. It’s Marxism’s solution for Capitalism.

[HLPhat]

"The Chamber, traditionally aligned with Republicans, also endorsed a half-dozen Democrats in House races"

Their "Chamber" is infested with Vanguard/Progressive Elites who've produced a plethora of  fiascos like this one:

http://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=pat+stryker+fraud

Vampires manufacturing suction ala government boondoggles isn't productivity.

[EternalVigilance]

Well, that’s what crony socialism creates, every time.

[Himyar]

Yes, the last hill. It may just be the people and Sessions.