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Roy Beck at
NumbersUSA reports on the latest signal from Speaker John Boehner from Beck's email message
yesterday:
In hiring a McCain open-borders
expert, Boehner shows his commitment to forcing American workers to compete
with millions more foreign workers
Our concern is with Speaker
Boehner. After months of saying that he has no interest
in anything like the Senate's S. 744 bill, why has he hired as his chief
immigration aide somebody whose career is based on pushing bills like S. 744?
This is what I have been telling the media
about what the new hire means:
It
shows that Speaker Boehner remains committed to the corporate lobbies' quest
for more foreign workers to hold down the wages of their American workers. His
new hire has done almost nothing the last decade except work for giant
increases in foreign labor. But Boehner still has to persuade at least 118
Republican House Members that their constituents would be okay with an
expansion of immigration during the seventh year of high unemployment.
More at the NumbersUSA
blog here.
Phyllis Schlafly’s
most recent column here
explains why this is not only bad short-term policy, it is also bad long-term
for conservatives trying to strengthen the GOP from within by restoring core
conservative values:
Looking at the political motivation of the groups pushing higher
immigration and amnesty, it’s obvious that the Democrats promote large-scale
immigration because it produces more Democratic votes. But why are some
prominent Republicans pushing amnesty?
The pro-amnesty New York Times gleefully
reported on October 26 the front-page news that big-business leaders and
Republican big donors are gearing up for a “lobbying blitz,” backed up by money
threats, to get Congress to pass amnesty. Big business wants amnesty in order
to get more cheap labor and keep wages forever low, and that is a gross
betrayal of the legal immigrants who hope to rise into the middle class and
achieve the American dream.
The big donors poured $400,000,000 into the campaigns of losing
establishment-backed Republican candidates in 2012. They would rather elect
Democrats than conservative, social-issue, Tea Party-type, grassroots
Republicans who don’t take orders from the establishment.
If the Republican Party is to remain nationally competitive, it
must defeat amnesty in every form. Rep. Raul Labrador (R-ID), summed it up: “I
think it would be crazy for the House Republican Leadership to enter into
negotiations with Obama on immigration, and I’m a proponent of immigration
reform. He’s trying to destroy the Republican Party, and I think that anything
that we do right now with the president on immigration will be with that same
goal in mind, which is to destroy the Republican Party and not to get good
policy.”
Time to call
Speaker Boehner. Again. And send postcards to his Ohio office (shorter
security delay):
Speaker Boehner’s details:
Butler County Office PH (513) 779-5400
Miami County Office PH (937) 339-1524
Clark County Office PH (937) 322-1120
D.C. Office
PH (202) 225-6205
FAX (202) 225-0704
And his mailbox:
Speaker John Boehner
7969 Cincinnati-Dayton Road, Suite B
West Chester, OH 45069
