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Thread ID: 20902 | Posts: 2 | Started: 2005-11-05
2005-11-05 18:00 | User Profile
[SIZE=3][SIZE=2][SIZE=3][SIZE=2]The "Stupid Party" isn't so stupid. They just realize that under the current system, corporate cash is more important than any man's vote. (The gamble is that a populist surge could change all that. But most any political strategy carries risk.) So they cater to big corporations far more than anything else. Big corporations overwhelmingly favor open borders, so most Republican politicians do their bidding. Sure, this is a turnoff for the average rank-and-file GOP voter. But many GOPers live in well-to-do suburbs relatively insulated from immigration's worst effects. So far. Moreover, compared to the Democrats, the Republicans do look like the party for whites. (Remember: in our media-soaked society, appearances are nearly everything.) So despite GOP perfidy on immigration, many whites still feel more culturally, and even racially, represented by the Republicans. GOP strategists know this. So they toss the voters red meat on cultural issues like gay marriage, as Karl Rove has so skillfully engineered. So far, it's working. The question is how long a populist backlash against immigration can be kept at bay. [/SIZE] [SIZE=2]Sen. Robert Byrd's Amendment, recently hatched and just slaughtered, would have shot down a proposed [B]increase[/B] in immigration. Below are listed the 14 Senators who voted [B]for[/B] the Byrd Amendment. Note that the majority are [B]Democrats[/B]! Some are Jews, such as Russ Feingold of Wisconsin.
This backs up my long-held observation that greedy corporations are a[B] greater [/B]factor than organized Jewry in promoting the Immivasion. Today, a significant percentage of ordinary Jews are uncomfortable with mass immigration. Even some elite Jews (such as Steinlight) are immigration skeptics. On the other hand, big corporations are [B]uniformly[/B] in favor of massive, unchecked immigration. My search for exceptions to this rule has been in vain.
[/SIZE]Akaka (D-HI)
Byrd (D-WV)
Dayton (D-MN)
Dodd (D-CT)
Dorgan (D-ND)
Durbin (D-IL)
Feingold (D-WI)
Inhofe (R-OK)
Jeffords (I-VT)
Landrieu (D-LA)
Rockefeller (D-WV)
Sessions (R-AL)
Stabenow (D-MI)
Vitter (R-LA)
Corzine (D-NJ) abstained. All the other 85 voted NO.
[/SIZE][/SIZE][/SIZE][B]Byrd Works to Stop Massive Immigration Expansion; Move Would Also Protect U.S. Jobs[/B]
[I]By[/I] [B]HNN Staff[/B]
[B]Washington, DC (HNN)[/B] ââ¬â U.S. Senator Robert C. Byrd, D-W.Va., is leading a bipartisan group of Senators in an effort to [B]stop a vast increase in immigration visa permits[/B].
"Immigration is an issue that demands the attention of the Congress, and, regretfully, we have been told that tougher enforcement actions will have to wait until next year. And so, imagine the surprise of Senators to find provisions buried deep, deep in this budget bill that would authorize the U.S. Government to issue more than 350,000 additional immigrant visas each year to foreign laborers seeking to live and work permanently in the United States," Byrd said during debate on Wednesday.
[B] The government grants permanent residency to approximately 1 million immigrants each year. Byrd is working to block provisions that would raise that number by one third -- a massive destabilizing increase. [/B]
"It is baffling. If we donââ¬â¢t have the time to address the illegal immigration that threatens our national security, then how do we explain to the American people that we somehow found the time to raise the level of imported labor each year?" Byrd asked.
Byrd offered an amendment that would strike the escalation in visa permits. Many have expressed concern that the Department of Homeland Security, which oversees immigration and border security issues, is not in a position to handle the increased H-1B visas that Senator Byrd is trying to stop. [B]In fact, the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) has reported that the Department of Homeland Security cannot estimate how many people are already in the United States on H-1B visas because of inadequate tracking systems. The Byrd amendment has garnered the support of many labor unions, which are concerned that such a flood of new visas would mean fewer jobs for American workers. [/B]
[B] "Itââ¬â¢s bad enough that so many American jobs are moving overseas, and wages and benefits here at home are being curtailed to compete with third-world labor and unfair trade practices. Now, these provisions would make it more likely that working Americans will find themselves in competition with foreign labor for work in their own country," Byrd said. [/B]
In a letter to all Senators, the group "United for a Secure America" urged support for the Byrd amendment.
"United to Secure America, representing our nationââ¬â¢s leading immigration reform organizations with hundreds of thousands of members and supporters throughout the country, strongly urges you to support the amendment to the Reconciliation bill expected to be offered today by Senator Byrd to delete provisions that would in effect sell over 368,000 American jobs annually to foreign workers and their families who would be allowed to move permanently to the United States and take Americansââ¬â¢ jobs," the letter said.
A vote on the Byrd amendment is expected Thursday, Nov. 3, 2005.
The amendment is another step in Byrdââ¬â¢s efforts to try to ensure that Americaââ¬â¢s immigration system is not overwhelmed and that the government is able to enforce the laws on the books. Five hundred new agents are guarding Americaââ¬â¢s borders because of legislation that Byrd and Republican Senator Larry Craig of Idaho guided through the Congress in May.
[URL="http://www.huntingtonnews.net/state/051102-staff-byrd.html"]http://www.huntingtonnews.net/state/051102-staff-byrd.html[/URL]
2005-11-06 20:06 | User Profile
Yeah. Feingold is the only jew who voted for the Byrd amendment. The AFL-CIO in his home state of Wisconsin, not Itzrael, is pretty strong against larger numbers of tech visas. Allen Bradely, the manufacturer of automation equipment, comes to mind...