HAVE YOU SENT ALL FAXES TO CONGRESS TO MAKE SURE YOUR VIEWS ON THE GANG OF EIGHT'S AMNESTY ARE KNOWN. PLEASE DON'T DELAY.
DEAR FRIENDS OF AMERICA'S Forgotten UNEMPLOYED,
What a day!
I've been doing media interviews every hour and just got back to the office from doing the Kudlow show on CNBC.
(You have to watch a short commercial before viewing.) It was three
against one, and I apologize to all of you who I let down by not making
the points that you wish I had made but I was out-shouted.
But
watching the video may get your juices flowing about the crazy
Establishment, power-elite, prevailing view that Americans don't want to
work.
Everything about the bill screams, THE U.S. IS SUFFERING A LABOR SHORTAGE!
You see how hard it was tonight for me to give voice to the unemployed, underemployed and wage-depressed Americans?
Well, it is going to take every one of us to get loud enough to be heard in the offices of 100 U.S. Senators.
BOTTOM LINE OF RELEASE OF AMNESTY BILL OUTLINE
You
probably have seen a ton of references to the Gang of Eight's release
today of the OUTLINE (not the bill, yet) of its Monster Amnesty.
Here's the bottom line:
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Before any enforcement, the bill gives work permits and the right to
live here and use the nation's infrastructure to virtually all the
estimated 11 million illegal aliens.
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It sets a lot of goals for implementation of enforcement promises made
in the 1986 amnesty and the 1990 and 1996 immigration laws. Promises
that were never kept. Like those earlier promises, this bill does not
guarantee anything because there are no hard triggers.
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We don't have the actual bill yet to calculate how much legal
immigration will go up. It looks like the bill might increase new
immigration in the first 10 years from around 11 million to 16-20
million! that's in addition to the 11 million illegal aliens who will
have been given work permits.
The
minute that the Gang releases the actual bill, our staff will begin
reading every page so we can report to you precisely what the bill will
do.
But the Gang's outline released today supposedly was meant to be the best face of the bill. Not a very good face.
GETTING THE 'FORGOTTEN UNEMPLOYED' OUT FRONT IN THE MEDIA
The
USA Today story this afternoon on reaction to the amnesty bill began
with a not-very-profound comment from me, but maybe it is the message we
want to get out through all social media, etc., the middle of this
week:
WASHINGTON
-- When Roy Beck finally saw the details of an immigration deal
brokered by a bipartisan group of senators on Tuesday, the outspoken
opponent of granting legal status to the nation's unauthorized
immigrants had a hard time finding the right words to express himself.
"I
just never expected the bill to be this bad,' said Beck, executive
director of NumbersUSA, a group that helped sink the last attempt to
change the nation's immigration laws in 2007 and is trying to do the
same this time.
After
praise for the bill from Pres. Obama and other pro-amnesty folks, the
story went on to quote me saying what I told a lot of other reporters:
Aside
from opening the door to legal status for the nation's estimated 11
million unauthorized immigrants, Beck says the bill adds even more
competition for unemployed Americans by bringing in a huge influx of
foreign workers through visas for high-tech and low-skilled workers.
"Every
politician that has run for office over the last 10 years has said,
'Jobs. Jobs are No. 1.' And yet, everything in this bill is about
bringing in more people to compete for American jobs," Beck said. "This
whole bill is written as if the nation is in the throes of a terrible
labor shortage."
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Thanks to all of you who have been sending faxes to your Senators. The rest of you need to follow suit.
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SEN. RUBIO & STAFF ON DEFENSIVE ALL DAY
After
setting himself up as the face of the Gang of Eight Monster Amnesty on
Sunday, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) and his staff have been spending their
time defending his actions and words in the twittersphere, the
blogosphere and at Florida offices where local Tea Party groups
protested.
Rubio sent out a letter to Tea Party groups this afternoon, making a bunch more promises:
"I
want to respond personally to correct some misinformation regarding my
involvement in the work to reform our country broken immigration system .
. . I will not relent from the ongoing fight to ensure the American
people's voices are heard before any votes are cast on this important
government reform, but one fact is true: no bill will be rushed through
the Senate as a take-it-or-leave-it proposition."
"I
will not support anything that makes our immigration system worse, that
does not truly and legitimately secure our borders, or that leads to
further illegal immigration in the future."
"I
want to participate in the debate and help influence any immigration
reform legislation in order to ensure that common sense limited
government principles are applied."
He
really sounds like something of an outsider who isn't pledged to do
everything possible to gain passage of the Gang of Eight's bill. Let's
see if that is how he presents himself Wednesday when the Gang is
supposed to have a news conference to introduce it.
As
the chief promoter of the Gang bill on the Sunday TV talk shows, his
marked a major and fundamental departure from his earlier pledge of
enforcement-first.
Previously, Sen. Rubio clearly stated he would not support a proposal that did not put enforcement first.
"If,
in fact, this bill does not have real triggers in there, if there is
not language in this bill that guarantees that nothing else will happen
unless these enforcement mechanisms are in place, I won't support it."
-- Senator Marco Rubio on Rush Limbaugh's radio show January 29, 2013
Yet on Sunday we saw something different.
On
ABC's "This Week with George Stephanopoulos" Chief White House
Correspondent, Jonathan Karl, asked Senator Rubio if his plan was
legalization first.
KARL:
Now, one of your toughest Republican critics on this, Senator Sessions,
is listening to this interview right now. And he asked the question, is
this bill enforcement first or is it legalization first? And the bottom
line is, with legalization being in just six months, the answer is,
this is legalization first, isn't it?
RUBIO: Well, first - yeah,
but it's, well, but it's important to understand that. If you do just --
that was my original position. The problem is what do we do in the
meantime? While you're doing all these enforcement mechanisms, what do
you do with the millions of people that are undocumented?
His
round of television appearances came the same day that the President of
the National ICE Council, Chris Crane, issued a statement decrying the
Gang of 8 for refusing to meet with ICE agents as they crafted their
immigration proposal. An excerpt from Crane's statement:
"The
National ICE Council represents approximately 7,600 Immigration and
Customs Enforcement officers, agents, and support staff. These are the
men and women I proudly serve with who risk their lives to uphold our
nation's laws and protect the public safety. We have tried for weeks,
unsuccessfully, to get a meeting with the Gang of 8 in order to share
our deep concerns about the breakdown of interior enforcement in
America. ICE's political leadership, specifically Secretary Napolitano
and Director Morton, have repeatedly and dangerously undermined the
ability of ICE officers and agents to do their jobs and ensure the
constitutionally established rule of law is upheld. Yet, while the Gang
of 8 has, as reported for months, worked extensively with powerful
interest groups, ICE officers -- like the public -- have been shut out.
Now we understand from media reports that the Gang of 8 is preparing to
drop a 1,500 page bill on Tuesday, and pass it as quickly as possible,
without having received any input from rank-and- file ICE officers. If
the Gang is truly committed to enforcement and public safety they should
be eager to provide our officers with an opportunity to review this
legislation and offer detailed input before it is introduced. I would
therefore respectfully request that the introduction of the bill be
delayed so that ICE officers and others in the law enforcement community
can be fully briefed on this 1,500 page bill and offer detailed input
regarding some of our nation's most urgent interior enforcement needs
that this proposal seemingly does nothing to address."
During
the three months that the Gang of Eight was meeting with every special
interest in town, it refused to meet with representatives of the law
enforcement who know how current immigration laws are actually handled.
It's
a little hard to trust Sen. Rubio's assurance to the Tea Party groups
today that "I will not relent from the ongoing fight to ensure the
American people's voices are heard before any votes are cast . . . "
We
are not aware that he and the Gang listened to any American voices
during the drafting process, other than those desiring more immigration
and foreign labor.
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