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06-24-2010, 08:34 AM #1
NYC mayor, major CEOs lobby for immigration Reform
NYC mayor, major CEOs lobby for immigration reform
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By SARA KUGLER FRAZIER, The Associated Press
Updated 8:00 AM Thursday, June 24, 2010
NEW YORK — Chief executives of several major corporations, including Hewlett-Packard, Boeing, Disney and News Corp., are joining Mayor Michael Bloomberg to form a coalition advocating for immigration reform — including a path to legal status for all undocumented immigrants now in the United States.
The group includes several other big-city mayors and calls itself the Partnership for a New American Economy. It seeks to reframe immigration reform as the solution to repairing and stimulating the economy.
Bloomberg and Rupert Murdoch, chairman and CEO of News Corp., appeared together Thursday on Fox News to discuss the effort.
"We're just going to keep the pressure on the congressmen," Murdoch said. "I think we can show to the public the benefits of having migrants and the jobs that go with them."
Bloomberg added, "Somebody has to lead and explain to the country why this is in our interest."
The CEOs said Thursday in statements that their companies — and the nation — depend on immigrants.
"It's our great strength as a nation, and it's also critical for continued economic growth," Walt Disney Co. Chairman and CEO Robert Iger said in a statement. "To remain competitive in the 21st century, we need effective immigration reform that invites people to contribute to our shared success by building their own American dream."
The group says it intends to make its point to policymakers by "publishing studies, conducting polls, convening forums and paying for public education campaigns."
The tactics are similar to those used by Bloomberg's coalition of mayors who support gun control.
Bloomberg has for years criticized the federal government for its immigration laws, proposing in 2006 a plan that would have established a DNA or fingerprint database to track and verify all legal U.S. workers.
The billionaire mayor, a former CEO of the financial information company Bloomberg LP, also said at the time that all 12 million undocumented immigrants in the United States should be given the opportunity for citizenship, saying that deporting them is impossible and would devastate the economy.
Lawmakers who wanted to deport all illegal immigrants were "living in a fantasy world," he said.
He has recently taken up the fight again, declaring this week that U.S. immigration policy "is national suicide."
"I can't think of any ways to destroy this country quite as direct and impactful as our immigration policy," he said Wednesday. "We educate the best and the brightest, and then we don't give them a green card."
The group's main immigration goals are to secure the borders, develop an easy system for employers to verify work eligibility, hold companies accountable for breaking the laws and improve the use of technology to prevent illegal immigration.
The group also wants more opportunities for immigrants to join the U.S. work force and a path to legal status for all undocumented immigrants.
Bloomberg spokesman Jason Post said no money has been spent on the effort yet, and he could not say whether the group will be a standard nonprofit, a political action committee or a group known as a 501(c)4 nonprofit, which can operate outside the more strict limits governing political action committees.
The business leaders in the coalition employ more than 650,000 people and make more than $220 billion in annual sales, combined.
The effort marks Bloomberg's return to national issues after he spent 2009 campaigning for a third term, focusing mostly on New York City's municipal concerns.
The Republican-turned-independent spent about two years testing the waters for an independent 2008 presidential run, but ultimately he gave up the idea.
By recruiting business leaders and mayors into a national-issue coalition, he is highlighting both of his backgrounds in running a city and running a business, which could be seen as an early move to dust off his presidential aspirations.
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June 24, 2010 11:56 AM EDT“In questions of power…let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution.” –Thomas Jefferson
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06-24-2010, 09:14 AM #2
Deport all illegal aliens
NYC mayor: Don't you understand that Americans do not support amnesty for illegal aliens?
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06-24-2010, 09:22 AM #3
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Re: Deport all illegal aliens
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06-24-2010, 09:25 AM #4
Hahhah
Hahahahaaaa
Business leaders want Immigration reform? AND AS SOON AS the Illegals are legalized they would start taking more of our legal jobs. These very same Business leaders will begin to encourage and assist MORE illegals to come here because the recently legalized Illegals are either leaving TO steal our better paying jobs and making more money and the businesses that used them would have to pay more taxes...
Its a vicious cycle driven by the greed of these business leaders. They MUST NOT be able to determine our immigration policies any more or we will be flooded with cheap foreign labor.
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06-24-2010, 09:28 AM #5
Posted: Thursday, 24 June 2010 7:56AM
Bloomberg, Major CEOs Lobby for Immigration Reform
NEW YORK (AP/ 1010 WINS) -- Chief executives of several major corporations, including Hewlett-Packard, Boeing, Disney and News Corp., are joining Mayor Michael Bloomberg to form a coalition advocating for immigration reform -- including a path to legal status for all undocumented immigrants now in the United States.
The group includes several other big-city mayors and calls itself the Partnership for a New American Economy. It seeks to reframe immigration reform as the solution to repairing and stimulating the economy.
Bloomberg and Rupert Murdoch, chairman and CEO of News Corp., appeared together Thursday on Fox News to discuss the effort.
"We're just going to keep the pressure on the congressmen,'' Murdoch said. "I think we can show to the public the benefits of having migrants and the jobs that go with them.''
Bloomberg added, "Somebody has to lead and explain to the country why this is in our interest.''
The CEOs said Thursday in statements that their companies -- and the nation -- depend on immigrants.
"It's our great strength as a nation, and it's also critical for continued economic growth,'' Walt Disney Co. Chairman and CEO Robert Iger said in a statement. "To remain competitive in the 21st century, we need effective immigration reform that invites people to contribute to our shared success by building their own American dream.''
The group says it intends to make its point to policymakers by "publishing studies, conducting polls, convening forums and paying for public education campaigns.''
The tactics are similar to those used by Bloomberg's coalition of mayors who support gun control.
Bloomberg has for years criticized the federal government for its immigration laws, proposing in 2006 a plan that would have established a DNA or fingerprint database to track and verify all legal U.S. workers.
The billionaire mayor, a former CEO of the financial information company Bloomberg LP, also said at the time that all 12 million undocumented immigrants in the United States should be given the opportunity for citizenship, saying that deporting them is impossible and would devastate the economy.
Lawmakers who wanted to deport all illegal immigrants were "living in a fantasy world,'' he said.
He has recently taken up the fight again, declaring this week that U.S. immigration policy "is national suicide.''
"I can't think of any ways to destroy this country quite as direct and impactful as our immigration policy,'' he said Wednesday. "We educate the best and the brightest, and then we don't give them a green card.''
The group's main immigration goals are to secure the borders, develop an easy system for employers to verify work eligibility, hold companies accountable for breaking the laws and improve the use of technology to prevent illegal immigration.
The group also wants more opportunities for immigrants to join the U.S. work force and a path to legal status for all undocumented immigrants.
Bloomberg spokesman Jason Post said no money has been spent on the effort yet, and he could not say whether the group will be a standard nonprofit, a political action committee or a group known as a 501(c)4 nonprofit, which can operate outside the more strict limits governing political action committees.
The business leaders in the coalition employ more than 650,000 people and make more than $220 billion in annual sales, combined.
The effort marks Bloomberg's return to national issues after he spent 2009 campaigning for a third term, focusing mostly on New York City's municipal concerns.
The Republican-turned-independent spent about two years testing the waters for an independent 2008 presidential run, but ultimately he gave up the idea.
By recruiting business leaders and mayors into a national-issue coalition, he is highlighting both of his backgrounds in running a city and running a business, which could be seen as an early move to dust off his presidential aspirations.
http://www.1010wins.com/Bloomberg--Majo ... rm/7543704
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06-24-2010, 09:36 AM #6
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It's our great strength as a nation, and it's also critical for continued economic growth,'' Walt Disney Co. Chairman and CEO Robert Iger said in a statement. "To remain competitive in the 21st century, we need effective immigration reform that invites people to contribute to our shared success by building their own American dream.''
This is self-serving lie and it tells me that Disney is somehow utilizing this cheap, illegal labor currently. We know from 1986 that amnesties produce even more illegal immigration by those who anticipate cashing in on the next amnesty lottery.
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06-24-2010, 09:50 AM #7
Now we know why our people have not been on Fox News in the last year.
Homepaging this and putting it out to the nation now.
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06-24-2010, 09:52 AM #8
As soon as illegals are amnestied, they will demand higher wages, be out of work and collecting unemployment, and a new wave of cheap illegals will begin.
"A Nation of sheep will beget a government of Wolves" -Edward R. Murrow
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06-24-2010, 09:56 AM #9
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NYC mayor, major CEOs (Fox News) lobby for immigration reform Amnesty
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06-24-2010, 10:02 AM #10
Seriously...
At 10% ish Unemployment and they have the nerve to lie through their teeth and say we need to legalize Illegals and that it would be GOOD for us? LOL
No Thanks
It is time for US to decide what is best for our country. YOU greedy ****s have brought us to the brink. Now its our turn and we will take back our country by whatever means necessary.
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