The Chamber of Commerce is spending their money wisely, because Republican leaders announced their support for a House immigration reform plan, which grants limited path to legal status for some illegal immigrants. The Chamber of Commerce, who will benefit immensely from an influx of cheap labor in an economy that millions of Americans are suffering to survive in.
Democrats praised the House immigration reform plan not so much on substance, but they said it could open the door to a deal on a more comprehensive immigration legislation, or full blown amnesty.
The position was included in a document released by party leaders during their annual retreat in Maryland, during which the establishment discussed how to best deal with the insurgent activists who are threatening their power structure and evolving doors on K Street. The “standards for immigration reform” document supposedly rules out a special path to citizenship for illegal immigrants.
The document said immigrants living here illegally could remain and live legally if they pass background checks, pay fines and back taxes, learn to speak English and understand U.S. civics, and can support themselves without access to welfare.
Republican leaders attempted to make clear that border security must be improved first.
“None of this can happen before specific enforcement triggers have been implemented,” the document said.
New York Democratic Senator Chuck Schumer, the second largest revolving door for K Street and Wall Street big business, second only to Mitch McConnell, also a big advocate for full-blown amnesty on the Senate side, said the announcement could smooth the way for a deal on legislation. The Senate passed an immigration reform bill last year.
“While these standards are certainly not everything we would agree with, they leave a real possibility that Democrats and Republicans, in both the House and Senate, can in some way come together and pass immigration reform that both sides can accept. It is a long, hard road but the door is open,” he said.
The Republican Party leadership is now playing with fire, which threatens to snatch defeat from the hands of victory in the upcoming 2014 midterm elections. The party is within reach of retaking the Senate, but supporting amnesty while the economy is struggling in order to please the Chamber of Commerce, will demoralize their base.
A new Quinnipiac University poll found both independent and Republican voters have swung strongly against an immigration reform amnesty since last May, despite falsely posing to respondents a choice that referenced “a path to citizenship.”
Although most voters — 64 percent — still view legal immigration as good for America, a new survey conducted by Rasmussen Reports found 51 percent of Americans oppose the Senate immigration reform plan that would triple immigration over the next 10 years. In fact, when actually told the particulars of the plan, one-in-three favor cutting the number of legal immigrants to this country, even if the border is totally secured to prevent illegal immigration.
But that doesn’t seem to matter to Republican leadership in the House, who have been the recipients of over $50 million spent by the Chamber of Commerce, who are looking to increase profits by gaining access to even more cheap labor. Meanwhile, during the Obama recession, nearly 92 million Americans have quit on the American dream, quit the workforce, altogether out of frustration.
