Posted on 05/05/2015 4:14:29 AM PDT by cotton1706
Opponents of giving the Obama administration broad authority to negotiate a trans-Pacific trade deal, including Republican senator Jeff Sessions of Alabama, are pushing a new argument: It could trigger a flood of immigrants into the country.
Sessions’ argument – essentially, that the administration could use the authority to expand immigration – was dismissed as an “urban legend” by House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Paul Ryan, whose panel oversees trade.
But with extremely close votes expected in both the House and possibly the Senate on whether to grant President Barack Obama increased powers in trade talks, leading Republicans and members of the administration are taking the threat seriously and working overtime to debunk it, knowing the potency of the immigration issue among Republican voters and elected officials.
GOP leaders will have to keep the vast majority of their members in support of the fast-track authority, while hoping that Obama is able to persuade between 20 and 40 House Democrats to join them. Last week, senior House lawmakers and aides warned that the legislation was in trouble.
Ryan’s committee has issued fact sheets trying to disprove the immigration concerns. And House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) shipped out a “Dear Colleague” letter flatly stating that the proposed trade deal is “not an immigration giveaway.”
Meanwhile, Senate Republicans used their latest weekly address, anchored by Sen. Johnny Isakson of Georgia, to bat away concerns that the Obama administration could sneak through immigration changes under the guise of a trade deal. Top GOP lawmakers, as well as Obama administration officials, have stressed to conservative skeptics that immigration isn’t involved in the trade fight.
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
“...Sessions’ argument – essentially, that the administration could use the authority to expand immigration – was dismissed as an “urban legend” by House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Paul Ryan...”
******************************************************************************************************
Paul Ryan has, by his many RINO actions, revealed himself to be UNACCEPTABLE as either a Presidential or Vice-Presidential nominee.
ANOTHER flood?!!
Goody.
Now we can fill up with CHINKS, as well as all them Mehhhicccans.
And Politico has a story up about the secrecy of this stinking fish.. It had better be killed or the DiC is one step closer to becoming Hugo
“Free mobility of labor” is, I believe, a phrase in the document in question.
Paul Ryan is so suspect at this point I would not take his word for anything.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.