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    Obama escalates fight to increase immigration

    2:28 PM 11/29/2013
    Neil Munro
    The Daily Caller



    President Barack Obama made a high-profile visit to a D.C. campsite of advocates seeking an immigration reform bill, marking another escalation in his relentless campaign to increase immigration during a period of high unemployment.

    “The President and First Lady thanked Eliseo Medina, Dae Joong Yoon and all of the fasters for their sacrifice and dedication, and told them that the country is behind them on immigration reform,” a White House official told the pool reporter.

    “The President told them that it is not a question of whether immigration reform will pass, but how soon,” the official said. “He said that the only thing standing in the way is politics, and it is the commitment to change from advocates like these brave fasters that will help pressure the House to finally act.”

    Obama’s aides have described immigration reform as his top second-term priority.

    Under pressure from voters and advocates for lower immigration, GOP leaders have rebuffed business lobbies’ claims that they need immigrants for unfilled jobs in restaurants, factories, food-processing facilities, hotels and other workplaces. That stance has blocked Obama’s Senate-drafted immigration bill, which was supported by all Democratic senators in June.

    The claimed shortage of workers is contradicted by data showing wage declines in many careers — including software programming — and by data showing that roughly nine million Americans have given up looking for jobs since January 2009.

    Instead, the visit suggests that Obama and his allies are now trying to boost the emotional content of their high-stakes campaign, even as his poll ratings amid public opposition to Obamacare.

    Even if the increased emotion fails to collapse GOP opposition, it may prod Latino families and voters to support Democratic candidates in the important November 2014 election.

    The emotional pitch is highlighted by the D.C. group of amnesty advocates, who say they’re trying to protect Latino families from being separated when one or more illegals — dubbed “aspiring Americans” — are deported to their home countries.

    “The House of Representatives has a chance to complete the dream for 11 million aspiring Americans by addressing the moral crisis that is our broken immigration system. … Every day the [GOP's] House leadership stalls on a vote for immigration reform, families and communities suffer the impact of deportations, deaths on the border, exploitation at work and the fear of living in the shadows with no path to citizenship, says Fast4Families’ website.

    The group does not discuss the unemployment of 20 million Americans, including many Latinos and African-Americans, nor Americans’ declining wages amid a flood of low-wage immigrants.

    The group’s centerpiece is a campsite on the National Mall, where three activists have not eaten since Nov. 12. They include Eliseo Medina, a former official of the Service Employers International Union, who has argued that a Latino influx will cement Democratic power.

    Amnesty “puts 12 million people on the path to citizenship and eventually to voters. … We will create a governing coalition for the long term,” he said in June 2009.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jean View Post
    Under pressure from voters and advocates for lower immigration, GOP leaders have rebuffed business lobbies’ claims that they need immigrants for unfilled jobs in restaurants, factories, food-processing facilities, hotels and other workplaces. That stance has blocked Obama’s Senate-drafted immigration bill, which was supported by all Democratic senators in June.

    The claimed shortage of workers is contradicted by data showing wage declines in many careers — including software programming — and by data showing that roughly nine million Americans have given up looking for jobs since January 2009.
    How can any American be for increasing immigration levels when our own people are out of work and the middle class is disappearing.
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    "The emotional pitch is highlighted by the D.C. group of amnesty advocates, who say they’re trying to protect Latino families from being separated when one or more illegals — dubbed “aspiring Americans” — are deported to their home countries."

    They knew damned well they would risk being seperated and deported if they came here illegally and did it anyway. Now they have to pay the price of the consequences. They don't need protecting, Americans who have lost their jobs to illegals or had wages lowered need protecting!
    Latinos are so great in numbers now that it has literally changed America to where we have to press one in important phone calls just to hear our own language, speak spanish in order to get hired in many places across the USA, see signs everywhere we go in spanish. It is an invasion!!! Who needs protecting? NOT the latinos that's for sure.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Kiara View Post
    Who needs protecting? NOT the latinos that's for sure.
    There's such a disconnet between our immigration policy and our immigration needs, that sometimes it's difficult to believe that even politicians could propose an increase of immigration.
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