Thread: 100 Big-Name G.O.P. Donors Urge Members of Congress to Back Immigration Overhaul

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(Former United States Secretary of Commerce and CEO of the Kellogg Company has been lobbying fellow Republicans to support immigration reform. (Photo by Matt McClain for The Washington Post))

Republican donors send letter to GOP: “Take action” on immigration

by Sandra Lilley,7:09 am on 07/30/2013

Former Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez, who started a political action committee,Republicans for Immigration Reform, organized more than 100 business leaders, who sent a letter today to Republican members of Congress urging for immigration reform with a path to legalization.
“Immigrants are often entrepreneurial, family-minded, and guided by faith. These are Republican values,” says the letter, according to the New York Times. ”These are Republican values.” The GOP donors urge Congress to provide a path to legal status for undocumented immigrants, provide a way for U.S. companies to hire the workers they need while making it “impossible” to hire undocumented workers, and to secure the border.
“Doing nothing is de facto amnesty,” the influential Republican donors say.
“What tends to happen during the month of August is that members go home and they go to town hall meetings and they check up on their offices in terms of phone calls and letters, and that’s where they get bombarded,” said Gutierrez in an interview. “So Republicans who are for immigration reform — and I believe there are many — we need to make our voice known in August.”
The donors who signed the letter include Republicans such as Karl Rove, former Vice President Dan Quayle, and business leaders such as the founder of Staples, Tom Stemberg.
Gutierrez, who was an influential Republican under the Romney campaign but went on to criticize the party’s rhetoric and stance on immigration, recently wrote an opinion piece on The Hill about the GOP need to support reform.
“And as an immigrant and proud lifelong Republican who came to America in search of opportunity, I can tell you that the only things perhaps more outdated than our immigration system, are the nonsensical and misguided statements espoused by some extremist elements of my own party,” wrote Gutierrez recently.
Immigration advocates are putting pressure on House leaders, though it is expected that the House will not vote on any immigration bills until they come back from summer break – meaning votes possibly in September or October.

http://nbclatino.com/2013/07/30/repu...n-immigration/

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Top GOP donors tell party to legalize illegal immigrants
By Stephen Dinan

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The Washington Times
Tuesday, July 30, 2013


Nearly a hundred top Republican donors and Bush administration officials sent a letter to the House GOP on Tuesday urging lawmakers to pass a bill that legalizes illegal immigrants, arguing that the current system is already allowing them to stay and so it makes sense to register them and bring them into the system.

The donors, led by former Bush administration Cabinet officials Carlos Gutierrez and Spencer Abraham, also said that immigrants are potential Republican voters who can be won over — if the party can be seen as welcoming to immigrants.

“Doing nothing is de facto amnesty. We need to take control of whom we let in our country and we need to make sure everybody plays by the same rules,” the donors said in their letter.

They aimed their pitch at House Republicans, who are trying to figure out a way forward and find themselves trapped between angry rank-and-file voters who say legalizing illegal immigrants amounts to amnesty, and party elites and donors who say the GOP cannot survive nationally without embracing legalization as part of a strategy to win over Hispanic voters.

The donor letter came the same day that the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and 400 other businesses and umbrella groups fired off a letter to House leaders of both parties, urging them to pass something — though the business leaders did not specifically call for legalizing illegal immigrants.

Both the business leaders and donors appeared to be sensing the momentum for immigration legislation slipping away, little more than a month after the Senate passed its version on a bipartisan 68-32 vote.

That Senate vote highlighted the divisions within the GOP. While all 54 members of the Democratic caucus voted for the Senate bill, Republicans split, with 14 voting for it and 32 voting against it — including all of the GOP’s top leadership in the chamber.

Among national party operatives, there is strong support for legalization, stretching back to President George W. Bush, who repeatedly tried to get his party to embrace his plans to legalize illegal immigrants.

Mr. Gutierrez, a former secretary of commerce who led Tuesday’s donor letter, was point man on the 2007 effort, which failed in a stunning bipartisan filibuster on the Senate floor.

Also signing Tuesday’s donor letter were Karl Rove, who was Mr. Bush’s political adviser; a number of ambassadors who served Mr. Bush; former Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge; former Vice President Dan Quayle; and several former governors.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/...al-immigrants/

I am working on a list now.

These are the ones I have,
Andy Ammons, President and CEO, Ammons Development Group Justus , A. Scott Anderson, President and CEO, Zions First National Bank Bob Asher
Brad Bailey, Co-Founder and CEO, Texas Immigration Solution John Barnes, CEO, Barnes Farming and Farm PaK

Anyone else working on this list?

I am on a live Town Hall meeting on my cell right now that Numbers USA is holding!

Thank you for helping build this list. Hope to have it by Thursday so we can take these amnesty supporting rich clowns to task!

W

I am looking for this list in a form that can be copied. My take is that it is a list of all of the companies that make money from cheap foreign labor at the expense of US citizens.
One example is David Tumbull, CEO Brighton Homes, a Houston builder http://www.brightonhomes.com/ I wonder if he paid the FICA for years on all of his employees or if he used a "contractor" to supply him with labor.

Originally Posted by ALIPAC

I am so ready to leave the Republican party.

W

I know that feeling all too well.

Don't fool yourself. Karl Rove is driven by one thing - $ GREED $.

We are occupied by over 20 million illegal aliens from Mexico thanks to Karl Rove and George W. Bush.

Karl Rove and the corporate corruption he represents are the very same traitors today as he was the day he endoresed LaRaza publicly and openly.

CORPORATIONS + LA RAZA = OPEN BORDERS? - Big Corporations, Karl Rove Openly Pander To LaRaza

http://www.fulldisclosure.net/flash/Vid ... Blog32.php

Included in the video are:

* Corporate sponsors of the event pitching to the Hispanic audience.
* Excerpts from Karl Rove, White House strategist on the Administration's Immigration reform policy.
* Reaction from a sampling of attendees representing Latino and migrant rights organizations.
* Video clips interviews with the Nativo Lopez, president of MAPA a prominent retired Hispanic law enforcement official. L. A. County Sheriff's Sergeant Richard Valdemar.

"Border security is simply IMPOSSIBLE . . without reducing the pressure on the border. As the president likes to say, "Family values don't stop at the Rio Grande." If you can make fifty cents an hour in Mexico and ten bucks an hour in the United States and you want to feed your family, you're coming to the United States every time ."
Karl Rove speaking to LaRaza, July, 2006