Immigration advocates are swarming the country this month, trying to persuade House Republicans to pass a comprehensive overhaul. It was hard to tell at the town-hall meeting that second-term Republican Rep. Andy Harris held recently in this town northeast of Baltimore.
The overflow crowd in the board of commissioners meeting room was overwhelmingly white and older, and booed loudly when one audience member asked Harris to support a path to citizenship for immigrants who are in the U.S. illegally.
Loud applause followed as Harris shot the idea down, calling it "a nonstarter" that's "not going anywhere fast" in the House.
"The bottom line is there are plenty of immigration laws on the books," Harris said. "The House is in no rush to take up immigration."
Harris, a 56-year-old physician and the son of Eastern European immigrants, is in a safe GOP district with few Latino voters, and he's not on target lists drawn up by immigration proponents. So it's no surprise that advocates wouldn't be out in force at his events.
Yet his position is far from unique.
For all the effort that business and labor groups, activists and others who support action on immigration say they're pouring into making themselves heard during Congress' five-week summer recess, there are scores of House Republicans who are hearing very little of the clamor.
More @ Newsmax
Recently Ann Barnhardt reprinted the piece on the Hillary Clinton cattle futures fiasco with Tyson foods. Tyson, along with many cheap labor outfits, continually push for more immigration to fill their worker ranks and keep local wages low. Several years ago there was another writer by the name of Diane Alden that also warned of this development long before most others saw it forming. She even saw outfits like Microsoft pushing for more H1b green cards in order to get cheap Indian programmers into the country. When wages are cheap enough the illegals and sometimes even the green card immigrants will get rather large sums of IRS cash back at filing time which is more redistribution of taxpayer money. I suggest that any employer of these people be held responsible for these tax transfers at 2X the credit as it likely costs 2X the tax transfer to collect and redistribute the money through the government. And I fully intend to vote out any republican in my voting district if ANY immigration "reform" comes out of Congress. If republicans want to support democratic legislation then they can all damn well be replaced by democrats. Why vote for a half=assed democrat when you can have the real think. Too many of them are treasonous bastards.
ReplyDeleteWhen wages are cheap enough the illegals and sometimes even the green card immigrants will get rather large sums of IRS cash back at filing time which is more redistribution of taxpayer money.
DeleteHussein's plan, needless to say.