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    'RENEE ELLMERS THINKS FOR HERSELF': REP. CALLS INGRAHAM 'IGNORANT' IN PRO-AMNESTY MEL

    'RENEE ELLMERS THINKS FOR HERSELF': REP. CALLS INGRAHAM 'IGNORANT' IN PRO-AMNESTY MELTDOWN



    by MATTHEW BOYLE
    13 Mar 2014

    Rep. Renee Ellmers had been on Laura Ingraham’s nationally-syndicated radio program to talk about Obamacare and North Carolina politics Thursday, butwhen the conversation turned to immigration about five minutes into the interview, things got ugly.


    Ellmers, under fire on amnesty from calm but insistent questioning from Ingraham, called her host “small minded,” “ignorant,” and claimed to be the author of a ubiquitious immigration talking point, adopting the third person to say “Renee Ellmers thinks for herself.”

    The epic bout began when Ingraham brought up Ellmers’ primary challenger Frank Roche and asked why she supports a pathway to citizenship for illegal aliens. While Ellmers initially denied supporting amnesty, she eventually backed legal status and said “We have to deal with those who are here illegally, who are living in the shadows. That's what we have to deal with.”

    “What you just said is infuriating to my listeners,” Ingraham responded. “I’m speaking for them right now. Your responsibility, I’d imagine, is to your constituents who are legal residents and American citizens, whose lives are slipping away from them right now.”

    Ellmers jumped back in to argue that amnesty for illegal aliens would help her constituents because aliens aren't paying taxes.

    “Let’s look at it from a law enforcement perspective alone,” Ellmers continued after a back-and-forth with Ingraham. “If we had a system in place where individuals who are here illegally admit that they have broken the law, pay a penalty, pay a fine, go through a process that would be lengthy—I mean this isn’t something that would happen overnight.”

    “Laura, my point there is someone isn’t just going to walk into an office and walk out with earned legal status,” Ellmers added a short time later.

    In many instances throughout the heated exchange, Ingraham accused Ellmers of using liberal talking points—and Ellmers responded by insulting Ingraham.

    After Ingraham repeatedly called Ellmers labeling the current immigration system “broken” a “liberal line,” Ellmers accused Ingraham of using “union-speak” for saying the importing of foreign workers would take jobs away from Americans.

    “That’s conceding that our free market system of wages to workers doesn’t work,” Ingraham said in response to a comment Ellmers made where she cited business interests in her district who pleaded for foreign workers at a recent forum. Ingraham referenced how her mother worked jobs “that y’all say Americans won’t do” to put her through college.

    “And I believe that,” Ellmers responded. “That is exactly what we have to protect. But the fact of the matter is we have a system that’s broken. And whether you say that’s a liberal line or not—“
    “It is a liberal line,” Ingraham interjected, noting that for the third time in the interview. “It’s repeated by all of your enemies repeatedly.”

    At that point, things got nasty. “The line that you’re repeating is union-speak,” Ellmers told Ingraham.

    Ingraham quickly corrected Ellmers: “The unions are for amnesty.

    Let me tell you who’s on your side on this: Unions because they want more members, Chuck Schumer, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Menendez, every liberal in the Senate is on your side.”

    Ellmers countered by arguing immigration is complicated. “You’re looking at it as a singular issue,” she said.

    The sharpest barbs did not come out until later. In response to Ingraham asking why Republicans were helping Democrats on immigration, Ellmers called Ingraham “small-minded.”

    “Why would the Republicans give the Democrats cover?”

    Ingraham asked. “Is it because of the Chamber of Commerce?”

    Ellmers launched another insult at Ingraham in response to that:

    “No we’re not going to be passing legislation this year. It’s too big of an issue. We’re the party of big ideas. Why would you be small-minded on this?”

    “You sound like the party of big business,” Ingraham countered.

    “The little guy is getting crushed by the Chamber of Commerce of people.”

    “It is the little guy that is being hurt by this,” Ellmers replied. “It is not the big guy. The big guy can cost shift and find a way around it. It’s the little guy that we have to make sure. By your position on this, you are supporting de facto amnesty.”

    Ingraham interrupted Ellmers then to note that “de facto amnesty” is “another Chuck Schumer line. You realize La Raza wrote that line?”

    “You know what? Renee Ellmers thinks for herself,” Ellmers replied.

    “Why are you repeating La Raza’s line?” Ingraham asked.

    “I have no idea what La Raza—“ Ellmers started to respond, before Ingraham interjected another question.

    “Where’d you hear that? Did you make it up?” Ingraham further asked.

    “That is my line, ma’am,” Ellmers said.

    “Oh you wrote it?” Ingraham followed up.

    “That is not anyone else’s,” Ellmers responded.

    Towards the end of the 10-minute immigration part of the interview, Ellmers dropped yet another insult on Ingraham. She called the radio host “ignorant” when asked if she agreed with the sentiment from her recent immigration forum that American workers are lazy.

    “You realize people at that meeting said Americans are lazy,” Ingraham asked. “Do you agree with those people who showed up at your meeting the transcript of which I have read on the show?”

    “I stand by North Carolina farmers who say that this is an issue that needs to be reformed,” she said, adding, “I’m not going to take an ignorant position as you have on this issue.”

    Ingraham played the Congresswoman’s insult cool. “So it’s ignorant to follow the rule of law, to believe in an orderly process of immigration, and to have sovereignty?” Ingraham asked in response to be called ignorant.

    “That is exactly what we need,” Ellmers responded. “This is not an emotional issue. This is an issue of the economy and national defense, purely. You’re the one who was putting in the emotional side of it. You need to have your facts—“

    “I have my facts straight, Congresswoman,” Ingraham replied. “I’ve actually been working on this issue for about 10 years. The American people are not with you. La Raza and Chuck Schumer are with you.”
    http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/03/13/Renee-Ellmers-thinks-for-herself-Congresswoman-calls-Ingraham-ignorant-small-minded-in-Pro-Amnesty-Meltdown


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    Laura Ingram is one sharp smart lawyer and Renee Ellmers comes across as just another money grubbin,lose lipped, paid for politician.

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    Run Run off the cliff Renee Ellmers

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    ELLMERS CALLS IN PRO-AMNESTY GROUP FOR RESCUE AFTER ON-AIR MELTDOWN




    by MATTHEW BOYLE
    13 Mar 2014

    Hours after an on-air meltdown over immigration, Rep. Renee Ellmers (R-NC) asked pro-amnesty business group ImmigrationWorksUSA to bail her out of criticism, prompting the group to send an email plea for phone calls and other support.

    “We need your help,” ImmigrationWorksUSA wrote to its email subscribers. “Rep. Renee Ellmers has been an outspoken advocate for immigration reform, and now she is being attacked by the right for her courageous stance. Please join us in speaking out in her defense. Conservative radio host Laura Ingraham called out the congresswoman this morning, and Breitbart TV piled on.”

    In the email, the advocacy group wrote that “Rep. Ellmers’ office has asked for our help.” The group then quoted from what a representative from Ellmers’ team specifically asked them to do: “We need any folks that can call the show, or tweet at Laura to do so. We need everyone from top to bottom – from farmers and workers to executives and trade industry folks. She basically claimed that the stories we’re hearing aren’t true. We need to show her that she’s wrong.”

    Ellmers interview with radio host Laura Ingraham is one of the least effective pro-amnesty performances from a Republican this Congress since the debate took off following the 2012 elections.

    Under fire on amnesty from calm but insistent questioning from Ingraham, Ellmers called her host “small minded,” “ignorant,” and claimed to be the author of a ubiquitous immigration talking point, adopting the third person to say “Renee Ellmers thinks for herself.”

    Then ImmigrationWorksUSA gave email also gave subscribers an exactly-worded message to tell Ingraham, a message arguing there is a “labor shortage” in America.

    “My company (or my industry) does everything it can to hire American workers. When we can’t find willing and able Americans, we turn to immigrant workers. This allows us to keep our businesses open and growing, creating jobs for Americans. We need Congress to fix the immigration system so we can hire immigrants legally to work alongside Americans.”

    They also provided Ingraham’s Twitter handle, her producer’s personal cell phone number and the studio number for the show.

    As reported by Breitbart News, new research has called into question the notion that there is a “labor shortage,” as employment rates among working-age adults have been declining over the past 15 years.

    ImmigrationWorksUSA president Tamar Jacoby testified in favor of the Senate’s “Gang of Eight” immigration bill last spring before the Senate Judiciary Committee, in which she said there are not “enough willing and able Americans” to do many jobs in America.

    “ImmigrationWorks USA is a national federation of small and medium-sized business owners from across the sectors that hire less skilled immigrant workers: hospitality, food processing, cleaning, maintenance and construction, among other industries,” she testified. “Our network consists of 25 state-based, pro-immigration business coalitions. These local groups fight for better immigration law in their states and in Washington and work to educate the public about the economic benefits of immigration.

    Their shared goal: to bring the legal intake of less-skilled immigrant workers more into line with the nation’s labor needs.”

    In addition to asking ImmigrationWorksUSA and potentially other groups for help, Ellmers herself took to Twitter to further attack Ingraham in the wake of the interview.

    In one Tweet, she mischaracterized something Ingraham said on the show. “I disagree w/ Laura Ingraham that farmers in #NC02 are lazy,” Ellmers Tweeted.

    Ingraham had actually criticized pro-amnesty speakers at a forum in Ellmers' district for implying that farmers and other American workers were lazy.

    Update: In response to ImmigrationWorksUSA including her personal cell phone number in their email blast, Ingraham's producer, Julia Hahn, told Breitbart News she has changed her voicemail to redirect those who have a problem with the rule of law or the Constitution to call Ellmers' D.C. office.

    "You have reached the producer’s office of The Laura Ingraham Show. We believe in the U.S. Constitution, national sovereignty, and the rule of law. If you have a problem with any of that, please call (202) 225-4531," the voicemail says, referring to the phone number for Ellmers' Washington, D.C., congressional office.

    http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Governm...n-Air-Meltdown

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    From Immigration Utah.

    Thursday, August 4, 2011

    Soros Foundation a Funder of ImmigrationWorks USA (Co-Sponsor of Conference Featuring AG Shurtleff and Senator Bramble):




    This is just a small bit of information which you may find interesting:

    ImmigrationWorks USA, the organization that co-sponsored the "fly-in" in Washington, D.C. featuring Utah Attorney General Mark Shurtleff and Utah State Senator Curt Bramble is yet another organization that has received funding from a George Soros foundation.

    The "fly-in" on immigration was held in Washington, D.C. on July 19, 2011. (http://www.immigrationworksusa.org/u...n%207_5_11.pdf)

    The purpose of the fly-in event seems to have been to demonstrate that blocking enforcement-only approaches in the states is achievable while also pushing for comprehensive immigration approaches similar to HB116.

    In other words, selling the cheap labor lobby line.

    The link to Soros: ImmigrationWorks USA received 150,000 dollars from the George Soros foundation, Foundation To Promote Open Society, in 2009.

    This information comes from the foundation's 2009 990-PF form available at:

    http://dynamodata.fdncenter.org/990s...cgi?id=FOUN805

    George Soros, as you may already be aware, is a billionaire financier of leftist causes - including many groups pushing for amnesty.

    Videos of the conference are also available on the ImmigratonWorks USA website at:
    http://www.immigrationworksusa.org/stateflyin
    http://immigrationutah.blogspot.com/...funder-of.html



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    ALL ROADS LEAD TO "RADICAL"
    PART 2 of 2

    By Former Arizona State Senator Karen Johnson
    October 25, 2011
    NewsWithViews.com

    In Part 1, leftist groups promoted the Utah Compact to further the cause of comprehensive immigration reform (amnesty).

    Meanwhile, the Chamber of Commerce and other business associations had launched conferences and lobbying efforts at the state level through a group called ImmigrationWorks USA, a coalition of businesses working to promote comprehensive immigration reform. If there was ever going to be a conservative player in the amnesty fight, it would be here. The public tends to think of businessmen as conservative on political policy.

    The founder, President, and CEO of ImmigrationWorks USA is Tamar Jacoby, who once was viewed as conservative but over the years has drifted ever leftward in the immigration wars. Most recently, she was appointed as a Fellow of the New American Foundation. NAF supports universal health care, the green agenda, global governance, the Palestinian Arabs and, of course, amnesty.

    The point man for ImmigrationWorks USA is Todd Landfried.

    Earlier in his career, Landfried worked for the Clinton Administration's "reinventing government team" and also worked with Vice President Al Gore's "Intergovernmental Team." After leaving Washington, Landfried had a Democratic-oriented radio program in Phoenix for several years which one newspaper called a "far-lefty" program. He recently served as the Executive Director of the Maricopa County (Phoenix area) Democratic Party organization and subsequently as a party officer. Landfried is now the adopted uncle of the Utah Compact. Under the direction of ImmigrationWorks USA, he chaperones the Compact on its tour through the states and lobbies it before state legislatures. He also presents the Compact to the public as a conservative document in ImmigrationWorks USA conferences. His audience is unaware of his liberal history and beliefs or the background of the founder of ImmigrationWorks USA.

    The Board of Directors of ImmigrationsWorks USA is also quite interesting:

    Randel K. Johnson is one of the board members. He is a senior Vice President of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce responsible for labor, immigration, and employee benefits issues before Congress.

    Further, Johnson is a member of the Board of Directors of the National Immigration Forum, the mastermind of the Utah Compact. Johnson's three-way board membership links the major groups who created the Utah Compact and are pushing for amnesty.

    Another Director with ImmigrationWorks USA is Marshall Fitz, who is Director of Immigration Policy at the aforementioned Center for American Progress. Before he came to ImmigrationWorks USA, Fitz served as Director of Advocacy for the American Immigration Lawyers Association, a big promoter of comprehensive immigration reform. The AILA has close ties to the National Lawyers Guild, which is tied to the Communist Party.

    Then there is former Arizona Congressman Jim Kolbe who is a Fellow with the German Marshall Fund of the U.S., a public policy and grantmaking institution that promotes "cooperation" on transatlantic and global issues between the U.S. and Europe. In addition, Kolbe sits on the Board of the Mexico Institute of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. The Mexico Institute "seeks to improve understanding, communication, and cooperation between Mexico and the United States by promoting original research, encouraging public discussion, and proposing policy options for enhancing the bilateral relationship," with particular attention to security cooperation, economic integration, and migration. Much has been written about the movement to "integrate" our economy with Mexico and "cooperate" with the Mexican government on security issues. Such plans sacrifice U.S. sovereignty and ignore our Constitution.

    Kolbe isn't the only member of the Board of ImmigrationWorks USA who also sits on the Board of the Mexico Institute. Dr. Andrew Selee, the Director of the Mexico Institute, is also a board member of ImmigrationWorks USA. Selee, an adjunct professor at Johns Hopkins University, is an associate of the Mexican Council on Foreign Relations (COMEXI) and a member of the Mexican Collective for Security and Democracy (CASEDE). He has been a member of the Council on Foreign Relation's Independent Task Force on Immigration, chaired by Jeb Bush and Thomas F. MacLarty; as well as a steering committee member of the Migration Policy Institute's Task Force on Immigration and America's Future. Selee joins Kolbe in holding dual board member positions with both the Mexico Institute and ImmigrationWorks USA.

    That not one but two members of the Board of the Mexico Institute (one of them the Director) serve on the Board of Directors of ImmigrationWorks USA suggests the importance of comprehensive immigration reform to the goals of the Mexico Institute and the international corporations. Indeed, ImmigrationWorks USA appears to be an advocacy arm of the global governance team. These international corporations care nothing for U.S. sovereignty and would sell their mothers if they thought they could make a nickel.

    Their ultimate goal has always been to erase the border between the U.S. and Mexico, U.S. sovereignty notwithstanding. With the assistance of Tamar Jacoby and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, they continue to try.

    ImmigrationWorks USA sponsored a national conference in Washington, D.C., in July to make a little more noise about the Utah Compact and keep the issue in front of Congress. In a meeting with U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) the day before the conference began, immigration advocates settled on their new spin, which was really an old spin known as "the economic argument." After the meeting, Schumer told Politico reporters, "We decided we ought to start highlighting the fact that immigration creates jobs rather than takes them away .... Everyone agreed that is how we are going to start talking about immigration, as a job creator."

    ImmigrationWorks USA is supposed to be the conservative public face of the Utah Compact. While Hispanic activists stage protests outside state legislatures, the "suits" come inside and give testimony before legislative committees about how reasonable and how conservative comprehensive immigration reform is. The "suits" are the calm, respectable voice of the movement. While the protestors figuratively beat up on the legislators, the "suits" speak gently and softly, a welcome relief from the shouting demonstrators outside the state building.

    Like a good cop/bad cop operation, the vitriolic protesters with their Saul Alinsky tactics wear the legislators down and the "suits" then gently lead them to the desired finish * a vote in favor of amnesty. Working together, the Hispanic groups, the Chamber of Commerce, the PICO church groups, and the globalists surround the legislators and knead them like clay until they absorb them into willing acceptance of comprehensive immigration reform. That's the plan anyway. Like a one-two punch, they think that the legislators and Congress will fall for the trap.

    If you feel dizzy trying to absorb so much information about so many groups, you shouldn't feel bad. Hispanic advocacy groups have sprouted like weeds into a vast, complicated network, funded by George Soros and other radical donors and leftist foundations.

    At one time it was estimated that Soros alone had built and was funding a network of more than 500 organizations all working toward socialist goals. I suspect the number is considerably higher by now. Some groups appear to be little more than a shell operation a website with an email address. Others seem to be quitte active. That there are so many groups is supposed to enhance the illusion of broad public support for amnesty.

    It doesn't matter which direction you approach the Utah Compact. Whether through its creators, its signers, its supporters, or its promoters, all roads lead to "radical." The Utah Compact was dreamed up by radicals, facilitated by radicals, fine-tuned by radicals, and funded by radicals.

    Now it's slithering from state to state, escorted by radicals who would have you believe that it's nothing more than a nice little conservative message. In recent months, local groups in Minnesota, Ohio, Oklahoma, and Pennsylvania have adopted versions of the Compact. Other states will likely follow. But make no mistake. There are NO conservatives who support the Utah Compact except for some who mistook its statement of principles as well intended. Taken singly, we can all agree with some of its principles. But taken in its entirety, the Compact is devilishly deceptive and manipulative. It is the vehicle by which the Left means to slam amnesty through Congress, something which the vast majority of Americans don't want.

    Wherever you live, you can expect the Utah Compact to show up in your state, pushed by coalitions of churches, Chambers of Commerce, and other business groups. Exposing the radical background of those who created and promote the Compact will help to nullify its impact.

    The Utah conservatives deserve a lot of credit for initially blowing the whistle on the Utah Compact. Blindsided just before the start of their 2011 legislative session and with no time to research the background of the Compact in great depth, they still managed to pass needed enforcement legislation to help in the immigration fight in their state. Since then, they have laid the groundwork for repealing the most onerous pro-illegal-alien bill that passed in Utah this year. Meanwhile, they have mounted a campaign to remove from office the sellouts who caved in to the amnesty crowd and ignored their constituents. So, hooray for the Utah patriots and everyone else who saw through the Utah Compact! And now, get ready. The battle for comprehensive immigration reform in Congress is about to begin again.
    For part one click below.

    Click here for part -----> 1, 2,

    http://www.newswithviews.com/Johnson/karen105.htm

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