Thread: U.S. Chamber of Commerce Fighting State Immigration Laws

U.S. Chamber of Commerce Fighting State Immigration Laws

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the nation’s most powerful business lobbying organization, crusher of labor unions and butt-kissing hero of America’s political smoozers is now dedicating a great deal of effort, time and money to ensure that illegal aliens continue to swarm across the border into our land of liberty, and that the criminal invaders aren’t hindered in the slightest by the half-baked defensive maneuvering that numerous pipsqueak communities around the nation have resorted to after coming to the realization that the federal government was not inclined to take any decisive action to protect them.

In the last ten years the U.S. Chamber of Commerce has gone from a trade association that advocated in a bipartisan manner for narrowly tailored policies to benefit the business entities it represented to a Republican front group, promoting Republican candidates and acting as a driving force in support of right-wing conservative policies so far as they benefit American business. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is the world’s largest business federation representing more than 3 million businesses of all sizes, sectors, and regions. It includes hundreds of associations, thousands of local chambers, and more than 100 American Chambers of Commerce in 91 countries. In 2006, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce increased their spending on federal lobbying by 83% and became the single largest federal lobbying interest in the nation with an outlay of more than $73 million dollars.

Since the January 1, 2007, more than 1600 immigration bills have been proposed in statehouses nationwide, and 244 of them have been passed into law after city and county officials began demanding their state governments take action in the face of the overwhelmingly negative impact the swarming parasites have had on many small cities and towns around the country. Quite frankly, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce couldn’t care less about the negative impact of the illegal alien invasion on the American people, who like the rural small towns and counties burdened to the point of collapse, are a negligibly minute factor of insignificant importance compared to the continued expansion of a global economy and the unimaginable profits they stand to gain as long as everything remains as it currently is. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is not about to sit idly by while city, county and state legislators peck away at their bottom line by passing local ordinances and state laws effectively designed to discourage the continued influx of illegal invaders.

To ensure the continued prosperity of the companies they represent, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce has announced their intention to attack the numerous recently passed state laws designed to crack down on businesses employing illegal aliens. In the meantime they are renewing their lobbying efforts to resurrect the comprehensive immigration bill debate that failed in the U.S. Senate last spring and they are pushing harder for the expansion of numerous visa programs and immigration quotas.

The backbone of their legal fight against state anti-immigration laws is the assertion that the state measures engineered to make it difficult for employers who hire illegal aliens, encroach on an area that is the responsibility of the federal government and are, therefore, unconstitutional. Their first target is Arizona’s new employer-sanctions law which is scheduled to go into effect on January 1, 2008. Arizona’s employer sanctions law will remove the economic incentives for illegal aliens coming into the U.S. by making it impossible for them to secure employment. The law will punish business owners who knowingly hire illegal immigrants with a 10 day suspension of their business license for the first offense and offenders caught for a second offense of the law would have their business licenses permanently revoked. Arizona’s law also requires companies in the state to begin using E-Verify, the federal government’s employment verification system. The initial lawsuit filed by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce against the implementation of Arizona’s new law was thrown out by the court on procedural technicalities but the Chamber quickly filed a second lawsuit after correcting the problem. The Arizona lawsuit and a legal brief opposing a local anti-immigration ordinance in Pennsylvania are just the beginning of the chamber’s legal effort to stop state governments from implementing immigration laws, and the Chamber of Commerce is hoping that, if successful, the outcome will discourage other states from trying to defend themselves and their citizens from the predatory alien invaders with legislative action. Concerning legal actions like the Arizona lawsuit and the Pennsylvania brief, Thomas Donohue, the president and CEO of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce stated, “We’re going to file a hell of a lot of them.â€

Probably both the ACLU and the COC encourage illegals to vote which is a means of inciting rebellion against authority of the law.

Lawsuits plus their costs and threats of lawsuits are conduct intended to intimidate citizens and local, state, and federal government from passing laws in the best interests of the citizens. Both the ACLU or the COC place US citizens at risk of exposure to illegal immigrant terrorists, illegal immigrant murderers, illegal immigrant child molestors, illegal immigrant sex offenders, illegal immigrant gangs, etc.

So why can't the ACLU and COC be charged with:

"Sedition is conduct or language inciting rebellion against the authority of a state."

§ 2331. Definitions
(5) [b]the term “domestic terrorismâ€

Excellent Post, MyAmerica. You bring up good points. I'm with you on your analysis.