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

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

By ASHLEY PARKER

Published: July 30, 2013

WASHINGTON — More than 100 Republican donors — many of them prominent names in their party’s establishment — sent a letter to Republican members of Congress on Tuesday urging them to support an overhaul of the nation’s immigration laws.

• Document: Letter From Republican Donors on Immigration

The letter, which calls for “legal status” for the 11 million immigrants here illegally, begins with a simple appeal: “We write to urge you to take action to fix our broken immigration system.”

The effort was organized by Carlos Gutierrez, who was secretary of commerce under President George W. Bush and was a founder of a “super PAC,” Republicans for Immigration Reform. The letter is the beginning of a campaign to lobby Republican lawmakers in favor of a broad immigration bill as they return to their districts for the August break.

“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,” Mr. Gutierrez said in a phone interview. “So Republicans who are for immigration reform — and I believe there are many — we need to make our voice known in August.”

A cross-section of Republican donors and fund-raisers signed the letter. They include Karl Rove, a deputy chief of staff in Mr. Bush’s White House; former Vice President Dan Quayle; Tom Stemberg, a founder of Staples; and Frank VanderSloot, the founder of Melaleuca Inc.

An overhaul of the immigration laws passed the Senate in June, but members of the Republican majority in the House are uneasy about any bill that would provide a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants already here — as the Senate plan does — and some Republicans have balked at doing much beyond strengthening security at the border.

The letter argues that a refusal to change the immigration system amounts to “de facto amnesty,” and the signers outline three steps that they say are integral to any overhaul.

“To fix our immigration system we need meaningful reforms that will (1) secure our borders, (2) provide a legal way for U.S.-based companies to hire the workers they need while making it impossible to hire workers here illegally, and (3) take control of our undocumented immigration problem by providing a path to legal status for undocumented immigrants who pay penalties and back taxes, pass criminal background checks, and go to the back of the line,” the letter says.

Mr. VanderSloot, in a phone interview, said he believed that some of the Republican holdouts might support a pathway to citizenship for illegal immigrants as long as no special treatment is involved.

“I think most Republicans are on board with a path, but they don’t want them to go the front of the line,” Mr. VanderSloot said. “There should not be a reward for breaking the law. They’re O.K. with them having a path to citizenship, but not having an advantage over those who have been waiting in line for a long time legally.”

He added, “I agree with that, too.”

The letter also says that support of an immigration overhaul is both smart policy and smart politics, and argues that Republicans and immigrants should be natural allies.

“Immigrants are often entrepreneurial, family-minded and guided by faith,” the letter says. “These are Republican values. Immigrants play key roles at every level of the American economy. From high-skill workers to seasonal laborers, from big-city neighborhoods to small-town main streets, immigrants help drive our economic growth. These are Republican issues. Republicans ought to be welcoming immigrants and be seen as doing so.”

During the 2012 presidential campaign — when President Obama won 71 percent of the Hispanic vote — Mitt Romney alienated many Latinos with his comments that he favored a “self-deportation” approach to immigration. Yet many of the Republicans who signed the letter supported or worked for Mr. Romney, including Spencer Zwick, who was his campaign finance director.

Mr. Gutierrez said, “This is our way of saying there are some Republican leaders who want to see the problem solved.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/31/us/politics/big-name-gop-donors-urge-members-of-congress-to-back-immigration-overhaul.html

It sounds as though they are calling in their money chits for cheap labor for their business If Karl, let me speak of amnesty to LaRaza in LA again, Rove is involved it is all about amnesty for illegals and a hosing of US citizens. JMO

KARL ROVE, 100+ GOP DONORS SEND LETTER TO REPUBLICANS URGING IMMIGRATION REFORM



by TONY LEE
30 Jul 2013,

Karl Rove and more than one hundred Republican donors sent a letter to Republican members of Congress on Tuesday, urging them to pass a comprehensive immigration reform bill that would include, among other provisions, granting "legal status" to illegal aliens who meet certain criteria.

Anticipating that lawmakers will face resistance to the bill when they go home for the August recess, the letter marks the escalation of a campaign in which Republican leaders and donors are pressuring House Republicans to act on an immigration reform bill.

The letter begins: “We write to urge you to take action to fix our broken immigration system.” According to the New York Times, those who have signed include Rove; "former Vice President Dan Quayle; Tom Stemberg, a founder of Staples; and Frank VanderSloot, the founder of Melaleuca Inc." Romney campaign finance director Spencer Zwick was also signed the letter.
The Times reports that Carlos Gutierrez, former Commerce Secretary for President George W. Bush and a founder of the Republicans for Immigration Reform super PAC, organized the effort. Gutierrez, who has said in the past that English should not be the official language of government, said the letter was "the beginning of a campaign to lobby Republican lawmakers in favor of a broad immigration bill as they return to their districts for the August break."

“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,” Gutierrez told the Times. “So Republicans who are for immigration reform--and I believe there are many--we need to make our voice known in August.”

The letter also says:

“To fix our immigration system we need meaningful reforms that will (1) secure our borders, (2) provide a legal way for U.S.-based companies to hire the workers they need while making it impossible to hire workers here illegally, and (3) take control of our undocumented immigration problem by providing a path to legal status for undocumented immigrants who pay penalties and back taxes, pass criminal background checks, and go to the back of the line."

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Governm...gration-Reform

Clinton and Rove come Together for La Raza - Lou Dobbs





This was when Janey was the Pres of LaRaza, now she works in the Big House for Obama.

I am so ready to leave the Republican party.

W

I am truly heart sick to see Dan Quayle's name on the letter to Republican House members urging them to support amnesty. Dam Quayle is me. He got involved in politics with the 1964 campaign of Barry Goldwater for President. The liberal news media ridiculed him mercilessly as if he were a mental retard. Now he makes common cause with the enemies of our national sovereignty, with the very network of leftist crazies that ridiculed him and vicariously every conservative.

Unlike the some of the tea party worshipers of Marko Rubio who will defend him no mater what he does, I have a rational devotion to ideas and not to people. If Quayle allies himself with the open borders lobby, he can not be a patriot nor a friend of freedom. He can not be a conservative -- period. This is why freedom fails because those who ought to be fighting with us join our enemies (for whatever reasons) and fight against us. SHAME ON YOU DAN QUAYLE. YOU ARE AN ASS.

I agree with you. If the Republican Party insists on pushing amnesty then let it die. It deserves to die. Does it matter if this country becomes a territory of Mexico because of Democrats or Republicans or both?

Every day it becomes more obvious that there is an elitists brotherhood that transcends political parties and even philosophy, left or right. Look at Roger Ailes of Fox News who is stealthily pushing amnesty. Look at just about all of Silicon Valley, Hollywood, The Wall Street Journal, Wall Street big shots and on and on.

Amnesty has proven to be the defining issue between those who cherish America and its freedom and megalomaniac billionaires and their lap dogs.

They told us in 2010 what they were going to do.

http://www.alipac.us/f12/republicans...-obama-182899/
3 /25/2010

We need help building a full list of each GOP Donor signing that treason letter!

We need their names, their primary business interests, their mailing addresses, phone numbers, emails, websites, everything.

I want a full directory of these 100 here at ALIPAC as soon as possible please.

W

The list of names is at the end of the letter at this link, but I can't get it to copy, so go to the link to view it on pages 1, 2, 3 and 4. http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2...tter.html?_r=0

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