To: Republican Colleagues
July 29, 2013
The GOP needs to flip the immigration debate on its head.
The same set of GOP strategists, lobbyists, and donors
who have always favored a proposal like the Gang of Eight immigration bill
argue that the great lesson of the 2012 election is that the GOP needs to push
for immediate amnesty and a drastic surge in low-skill immigration.
This is nonsense.
The GOP lost the election — as exit polls clearly show — because
it hemorrhaged support from middle-income and low-income Americans of all
backgrounds.
In changing the terms of the immigration debate we will
not only prevent the implementation of a disastrous policy, but begin a larger
effort to broaden our appeal to working Americans of all backgrounds.
* EXACTLY! SEMI-SKILLED AND LOW-SKILLED LABOR SQUEEZES DOWN
WAGES - AND NEGATIVELY IMPACT EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES - FOR CITIZEN
SEMI-SKILLED AND LOW-SKILLED AMERICANS!
Now is the time to speak directly to the real and
legitimate concerns of millions of hurting Americans whose wages have declined
and whose job prospects have grown only bleaker. This humble and honest
populism — in contrast to the Administration’s cheap demagoguery — would open
the ears of millions who have turned away from our party. Of course, such a clear
and honest message would require saying “no” to certain business demands and
powerful interests who shaped the immigration bill in the Senate.
* MAIN STREET, YES! WALL STREET, NO!
In Senator Schumer’s failed drive to acquire 70 votes, he
convinced every single Democrat in his conference to support a bill that adds
four times more guest workers than the rejected 2007 immigration plan while
dramatically boosting the number of low-skill workers admitted to the country
each year on a permanent basis. All this at a time when wages are lower than in
1999, when only 58% of U.S. adults are working, and when 47 million residents
are on food stamps.
Even CBO confirms that the proposal will reduce wages and
increase unemployment.
Low-income Americans will be hardest hit.
Ordinarily, this would be an act of political suicide for
Democrats. How can they possibly succeed with a plan that will so badly injure
American workers? Perhaps Senator Schumer, the White House, and their
congressional allies believe the GOP lacks the insight to seize this important
issue, push away certain financial interests, and make an unapologetic defense
of working Americans. They seem, in fact, to expect the GOP House to drag their
bill across the finish line. Indeed, more than a few in our party will argue
that immigration reform must “serve the needs of businesses.”
* THE STUPID REPUBLICANS!
What about the needs of workers?
Since when did we did we accept the idea that the
immigration policy for our entire nation — with all its lasting social,
economic, and moral implications —should be tailored to suit the financial
interests of a few CEOs?
* OR THE NEEDS OF IMMIGRANTS THEMSELVES? OR THE NEEDS OF
FOREIGN NATIONS?! SHOULD NOT U.S. IMMIGRATION POLICY SERVE FIRST AND FOREMOST
THE PRESENT AND FUTURE INTERESTS OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE...?!?! (RHETORICAL
QUESTION; THE ANSWER IS "YES!")
Americans broadly oppose further increases to our current
generous immigration levels by a 2-1 margin, but the opposition among those
earning less than $30,000 is especially strong: they prefer a reduction to an
increase by a 3-1 margin. And no wonder! According to Harvard’s Dr. George
Borjas, it’s the working poor whose wages have declined the most as a result of
high immigration levels!
The GOP has a choice: it can either deliver President
Obama his ultimate legislative triumph — and with it, a crushing hammer blow to
working Americans that they will not soon forgive — or it can begin the
essential drive to regain the trust of struggling Americans who have turned
away.
As Rich Lowry and Bill Kristol wrote in a joint op-ed,
“the Gang of Eight bill unleashes a flood of additional low-skilled
immigration. The last thing low-skilled native and immigrant workers already
here should have to deal with is wage-depressing competition from newly
arriving workers… It’s most important that the party perform better among
working-class and younger voters concerned about economic opportunity and
upward mobility.”
Like ObamaCare, this 1,200-page immigration bill is a
legislative monstrosity inimical to the interests of our country and the
American people.
Polls show again and again that the American People want
security accomplished first... that they do not support a large increase in net
immigration levels... and that they do not trust the government to deliver on
enforcement.
* CERTAINLY NOT THE OBAMA GOVERNMENT! BARACK HUSSEIN
OBAMA - FORMER "LAW LECTURER" - BELIEVES THAT ARTICLE TWO, SECTION
THREE OF THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION DOESN'T APPLY TO HIM!
The GOP should insist on an approach to immigration that
both restores constitutional order and serves the interests of the American
worker and taxpayer. But only by refusing any attempt at rescue or reprieve for
the Senate bill is there a hope of accomplishing these goals. Instead of aiding
the President and Senator Schumer in salvaging a bill that would devastate
working Americans, Republicans should refocus all of our efforts on a united
push to defend these Americans from the Administration’s continued onslaught.
[Unfortunately, President Obama's] health care policies,
tax policies, energy policies, and welfare policies all have one thing in
common: they enrich the bureaucracy at the expense of the people.
* THEY ENRICH THE OLIGARCHS AND THEIR HANGER-ONERS! THEY
ENRICH THE OBAMARCHY!
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