Art credit: www.examiner.com and numbersUSA
From our friends
at NumbersUSA:
Spread the word: Speaker
Boehner tells audiences overseas that he will get amnesty and immigration
increases through the U.S. House of Representatives.
This hasn't made
U.S. headlines...yet.
At the Irish Times, Arthur Beelsey reports:
“The speaker of the
US House of Representatives John Boehner has told a Dublin audience of his determination to overcome Republican
resistance to immigration reform.... [emphasis added]
“...His remarks
indicate he may yet move to confront opponents of reform within his own
Republican party, which is in the vanguard of resistance to it and has a
majority in the House.
“The speaker, second
in line for the US presidency after Joe Biden, was addressing the Independence
Day lunch of the American Chamber of Commerce Ireland.”
Speaker Boehner's
website also has a write up of the event...but does not mention his comments on
immigration. Readers
can comment on the blog.
After the mid-term
elections, Boehner and soon-to-be Majority Leader Mitch McConnell wrote: “We are humbled by this opportunity
to help struggling middle-class Americans who are clearly frustrated by an
increasing lack of opportunity, the stagnation of wages, and a government that
seems incapable of performing even basic tasks.”
“Immigration Reform”
in the context used by Boehner is commonly understood as (1) granting work
permits to approximately 11 million citizens of foreign nations who are in the
U.S. illegally, (2) increasing new permanent work permits granted via green
cards; and (3) increasing “temporary” work permits via expanded guest worker
programs.
Spread the word.
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