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    BIG-MONEY LIBERAL PHILANTHROPISTS JOIN BIG-BIZ REPUBLICANS TO PUSH AMNESTY

    BIG-MONEY LIBERAL PHILANTHROPISTS JOIN BIG-BIZ REPUBLICANS TO PUSH AMNESTY


    by TONY LEE
    14 Nov 2014


    During the last decade, big-money interests on the left have joined big-money business interests on the right to push for massive amnesty legislation, with the "grand prize" being a pathway to citizenship—and work permits—for all of the country's illegal immigrants.

    In a report that shows why amnesty represents the biggest dividebetween the bipartisan elite in the permanent political class and Main Street, the New York Times reported that left-of-center philanthropy groups have poured in hundreds of millions of dollars over the last decade to push for amnesty legislation. Pro-amnesty interests from the left and the right have combined to spend nearly $1.5 billion pushing for the legalization of illegal immigrants and massive increases in guest workers that would provide a nearly unlimited supply of cheap labor at the expense of American workers of all backgrounds.

    According to the report, "major donations from some of the nation’s wealthiest liberal foundations, including the Ford Foundation, the Carnegie Corporation of New York, the Open Society Foundations of the financier George Soros, and the Atlantic Philanthropies," have allowed pro-amnesty group to successfully clamor for immigration reform and special benefits for illegal immigrants.

    During the last decade, Atlantic Philanthropies gave "nearly $69 million in 72 immigration grants in the last decade" while the Ford Foundation donated nearly $80 million. In addition "Carnegie has given about $100 million for immigration initiatives" while George Soros's Open Society Foundations have reportedly poured in $76 million. As Breitbart News has reported, Soros' millions funded a variety of pro-amnesty immigration front groups while Congress tried to pass the Gang of Eight's amnesty bill.
    According to the Times, the philanthropic groups "focused on a dozen regional immigrant rights groups" in addition to La Raza, the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF), and the National Immigration Law Center. Deepak Bhargava, executive director of the Center for Community Change, said the pro-amnesty movement was "significantly aided by a small number of visionary philanthropies" while Frank Sharry of America's Voice conceded to the Times that the "grand prize" was legislation that would give all of the country's illegal immigrants a pathway to citizenship.

    These groups have been instrumental in pressuring Obama to "go big" on his forthcoming executive amnesty, which will reportedly give temporary amnesty and work permits to five million illegal immigrants. And they have been joined by an array of business interests.

    As Breitbart News has extensively documented, Silicon Valley, led by Mark Zuckerberg's FWD.us, has poured in millions for amnesty legislation to secure high-tech guest-worker visas even though America has a surplus of high-tech workers. The pro-amnesty Chamber of Commerce has spent $50 million over the last two years pushing for amnesty legislation. Hotel and restaurant industry lobbies that want cheaper labor have also poured in millions. Moguls like Warren Buffett, Sheldon Adelson, and Bill Gates have called for an unlimited number of guest-worker visas. Gates and his wife Melinda have donated millions to a scholarship program for DREAMers. Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim, who owns a stake in the New York Times, has funded a program to help DREAMers get jobs in America. The Ford Foundation even chipped in $2.3 million in 2013, according to the Times, to help illegal immigrants received Deferred Action under Obama's 2012 temporary amnesty program that he instituted by executive fiat. Perhaps this is why Pat Caddell recently said that the Republican establishment refuses to circle the wagons to fight massive amnesty programs because they have to obey "higher orders" from "other masters."

    Before the Senate left for its October recess, and Americans threw out Democrats in a midterm election in which 75% of voters, according to a Polling Company exit poll, disapproved of Obama's executive amnesty and another 80% of Americans did not want foreigners taking jobs from Americans and legal immigrants already in the country, Sen. Jeff Sessions called out the "Masters of the Universe" who were trying to rewrite America's immigration laws to suit their interests. He said he had a message to "to all the special interests, the global elites, the activists, and the cynical vote-counting political plotters that are meeting in secret at the White House."

    "And the message is this: you don’t get to sit in a room and rewrite the laws of this country. Congress writes the laws," he passionately declared on the Senate floor. "You may not be used to people telling you 'no,' but I’m telling you 'no' today."
    Sessions also told the American people that "you have been right from the beginning:"

    You have justly demanded that our borders be controlled, our laws enforced, and that, at long last, immigration policy serve the needs of our own people first. For this virtuous demand, you have been demeaned, even scorned by the governing class. They know so much, this cosmopolitan elite. They want you to believe your concerns are somehow illegitimate. That you are wrong for being worried about your jobs, or your schools, or your hospitals, or your communities, or your national security. These elite citizens of the world speak often of their concern for people living in poverty overseas, yet turn a blind eye to the poverty and suffering in their own country. They don’t want you to speak up. They don’t want you to be heard. They don’t want you to feel you have a voice.

    Sessions said the people's message against massive amnesty was "being heard," and he was "delivering that message to the Senate" by declaring that America is not an "oligarchy" where the so-called "Masters of the Universe" who do not want borders to get in the way of their multinational agendas get to rewrite the country's immigration laws.

    High-tech interests did not appreciate it when Sessions called them out—Facebook board member Marc Andreessen said Sessions was "an odious hack" who was "clinically insane" and engaging in "outright slander" for defending American workers and suggesting that Facebook consider hiring the 18,000 American workers that Microsoft laid off even while it pushed the White House for more guest-worker visas for foreign workers.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Newmexican View Post
    High-tech interests did not appreciate it when Sessions called them out—Facebook board member Marc Andreessen said Sessions was "an odious hack" who was "clinically insane" and engaging in "outright slander" for defending American workers and suggesting that Facebook consider hiring the 18,000 American workers that Microsoft laid off even while it pushed the White House for more guest-worker visas for foreign workers.
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