Thursday, July 31, 2014

.... is it time to fix the problems in our own borders? 1000 Children Fleeing Violent Honduras Heading to Violent Chicago | CNS News

1000 Children Fleeing Violent Honduras Heading to Violent Chicago | CNS News


MICHELLE MALKIN: SOARING POVERTY FOR AMERICANS….. soaring WELFARE for illegals… they also get the jobs!


OBAMA’S OPEN DOOR POLICY FOR THE MEX  – VIVA LA RAZA SUPREMACY AND OPEN BORDERS???

THE CARTELS NOW OPERATE IN MORE THAN 2,500 AMERICAN CITIES INCLUDING OBAMA’S CHICAGO!

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Known for mounting the severed heads of its rivals on poles or hanging their dismembered bodies from bridges in cities throughout Mexico, Los Zetas easily has become the most feared criminal gang in Mexico.

OBAMA'S BORDER LIES - 54% Believe Obama Wants Most New Illegal Immigrants to Stay

54% Believe Obama Wants Most New Illegal Immigrants to Stay


Heather Mac Donald: White House doesn't want to enforce immigration

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SHOCK WAVE OVER AMERICA: The country that invited itself to be a THIRD WORLD DUMPSTER

THE LOOTING of AMERICA BY ILLEGALS


 
TOP CRIME TIDAL WAVE

MURDER, RAPE, LOOT and then they go vote DEM for more WELFARE…. the

 illegals already get our jobs!



JAMES WALSH: THE OBAMA CONSPIRACY – The Hispanicazation of America and surrender of U.S. sovereignty to Mexico.


“The watchdogs at Judicial Watch discovered documents that reveal how the Obama administration's close coordination with the Mexican government entices Mexicans to hop over the fence and on to the American dole.” Washington Times

DEPORTATION LIES – They’re swarming our  borders today!

TOMORROW they will have an American jobs, sign up for ANCHOR BABY WELFARE and register to vote DEM!


“We cannot afford all this illegal immigration and everything that comes with it. Everything from the crime to the drugs and the kidnappings and extortion and the beheadings and the fact that people can't feel safe in their  communities.”  - AZ Gov. Jan Brewer

DEPT. HOMELAND SECURITY – OBAMA’S LA RAZA WELCOME WAGON

As Barack Obama has squandered BILLIONS defending the borders of Muslim dictators, he has from day one sabotaged American borders with NARCOMEX.

Paul Ryan: Broader immigration reform dead under Obama | WashingtonExaminer.com

Paul Ryan: Broader immigration reform dead under Obama | WashingtonExaminer.com


SHOCK WAVE OVER AMERICA: The country that invited itself to be a THIRD WORLD DUMPSTER

THE LOOTING of AMERICA BY ILLEGALS


 

MURDER, RAPE, LOOT and then they go vote DEM for more WELFARE…. the

 illegals already get our jobs!


 


 

MEXICO'S LOOTING by INVITATION of the DEMOCRAT PARTY is NOT NEWS! Shock: 80% of U.S. population growth is from immigrants, resources being sucked dry | WashingtonExaminer.com


THE LA RAZA ABUSE OF ANIMALS… a
culture of staggering Mexican violence!



“With increased population, we see a direct increase in the problems our nation faces on a daily basis: pollution, over-consumption, traffic gridlock, crowded schools and hospitals, overburdened social services, unemployment, crumbling infrastructure, urban sprawl, over-development, threatened or extinct animal and plant species, and dwindling natural resources,” said said Tracy Canada, the group’s deputy director.


READ MORE HERE:

Shock: 80% of U.S. population growth is from immigrants, resources being sucked dry | WashingtonExaminer.com

 
“THE AMNESTY ALONE WILL BE THE LARGEST EXPANSION OF THE WELFARE SYSTEM IN THE LAST 25 YEARS” Heritage Foundation

MEXICO DIRECTS LA RAZA MEXICANS TO LOOT AMERICA!

WILL MEXICO BANKRUPT MORE CALIFORNIA HOSPITALS?

OR WILL IT BANKRUPT THE STATE ITSELF?

 

CALIFORNIAtax – LEGALS PAY FOR MEX OCCUPATION 

LA RAZA NANCY PELOSI’S STATE IS NOW A COLONY OF MEXICO. THE STATE HANDS OUT $25 BILLION IN SOCIAL SERVICES TO ILLEGALS AND HALF THE MURDERS ARE BY MEX GANGS!

FOR PELOSI, IT’S ALL ABOUT BUILDING THE DEM PARTY BASE WITH LOOTING MEXICANS!

LA RAZA-OCCUPATION and LOOTING in MEXIFORNIA…. shocking!

Californians bear an enormous fiscal burden as a result of an illegal alien population estimated at almost 3 million residents. The annual expenditure of state and local tax dollars on services for that population is $25.3 billion. That total amounts to a yearly burden of about $2,370 for a household headed by a U.S. citizen.


Opinion
California must stem the flow of illegal immigrants
The state should go after employers who hire them, curb taxpayer-funded benefits, deploy the National Guard to help the feds at the border and penalize 'sanctuary' cities.
Illegal immigration is another matter entirely. With the state budget in tatters, millions of residents out of work and a state prison system strained by massive overcrowding, California simply cannot continue to ignore the strain that illegal immigration puts on our budget and economy. Illegal aliens cost taxpayers in our state billions of dollars each year. As economist Philip J. Romero concluded in a 2007 study, "illegal immigrants impose a 'tax' on legal California residents in the tens of billions of dollars."


AMERICA’S THIRD-WORLD INVASION… isn’t it really ONLY about keeping wages depressed???

 
AMERICA’S THIRD-WORLD INVASION… isn’t it really ONLY about keeping wages depressed???
THE OBAMA YEARS: OPEN BORDERS, NO E-VERIFY no ID to vote for more!
The amnesty that never ends
HISPANDERING BARACK OBAMA HAS PROMISED ILLEGALS, MEXICO and LA RAZA THAT SHOULD AMNESTY FAIL, HE WILL CONTINUE HIS POLICIES OF NON-ENFORCEMENT, SABOTAGE OF E-VERIFY AND OUR BORDERS TO EASE MILLIONS MORE ILLEGALS INTO OUR VOTING BOOTHS AND JOBS!
By Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Texas) - 05/06/13 08:18 PM ET
Advocates for amnesty argue that the 11 million immigrants in the country illegally should be legalized (but what if there are 40 million? What’s the math then?).
They claim we need to bring illegal immigrants “out of the shadows.” But illegal immigrants are very visible  — they attend public schools, obtain health services at hospital emergency rooms at taxpayer expense and even testify before Congress.
NEW DOCUMENTARY ON THE THIRD-WORLD INVASION OF AMERICAN
THEYCOMETOAMERICA.com
AN AMERICAN SEES and SPEAKS…
REALITY OF THE LA RAZA SUPREMACIST OCCUPATION:
I'm half Mexican, I live on the U.S. / Mexico international border - exactly 1.6 miles from the International bridge.
Listen, the VAST majority of these ILLEGAL SQUATERS do NOT - I repeat - DO NOT want to become U.S. citizens.
They see the U.S. as a MEAL TICKET, they DON'T want to pay taxes, wave an American flag, learn our language or follow our laws.
Mexico - far, far away from the fancy seaside resorts some of you all may have visited is a HELL HOLE.
These ILLEGAL ALIENS see the U.S. as an extension of "their area" with NO CONCERN or aspirations to be "Americans."
 
THE SABOTAGE of the AMERICAN BORDERS by PRESIDENT OBAMA to BUILD THE LA RAZA DEM PARTY BASE of ILLEGALS and DESTROY the GOP WITH AMNESTY for 40 MILLION NEW UNREGISTERED DEMS
Byron York: What is the real number of illegal border crossings?


“The principal beneficiaries of our current immigration policy are affluent Americans who hire immigrants at substandard wages for low-end work. Harvard economist George Borjas estimates that American workers lose $190 (DATED FIGURES NOW ESTIMATED TO BE $450 BILLION) billion annually in depressed wages caused by the constant flooding of the labor market at the low-wage end.”   Christian Science Monitor


“King, R-Iowa, said proponents of immigration reform include “elitists who want cheap labor to clean their houses and mow their lawn,” business leaders who want to keep wages low and Democrats looking for more voters. You don’t sacrifice the rule of law,” King said, “so you can have undocumented Democrats.”



DATELINE: LA RAZA-OCCUPIED MEXIFORNIA

Illegal immigration is another matter entirely. With the state budget in tatters, millions of residents out of work and a state prison system strained by massive overcrowding, California simply cannot continue to ignore the strain that illegal immigration puts on our budget and economy. Illegal aliens cost taxpayers in our state billions of dollars each year. As economist Philip J. Romero concluded in a 2007 study, "illegal immigrants impose a 'tax' on legal California residents in the tens of billions of dollars."



ANOTHER MEXICAN BEHEADING. BODY BURIED IN BACKYARD!  

We’ve got an even more ominous enemy within our borders that promotes “Reconquista of Aztlan” or the reconquest of California, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas into the country of Mexico.


“While the Obama Administration downplays violence along the U.S.-Mexico border, authorities in Texas reveal that Mexican  have transformed parts of the state into a war zone where shootings, beheadings, kidnappings and murders are common.

 
Lamar Smith: Obama's amnesty for illegal immigrants is against the law. The Obama administration decision for immunity from deportation for young illegal immigrants is a breach of faith with Americans. It also blatantly ignores the law. This isn't the first time Obama has waived rules or refused to enforce laws against illegal immigration, writes Rep. Smith (2013).



WANT TO INVADE, OCCUPY AND LOOT MEXICO BACK? It’s an entirely different story there. MEXICO ENFORCES THEIR LAWS!!!

“Those seeking to obtain Mexican citizenship must show a birth certificate, provide a bank statement proving economic independence, pass an exam and prove they can provide their own health care.”  




“The American people have begged and pleaded for years for our laws to be enforced,” Sessions said in his statement calling for the American people to rise up. “We have people in our own country living in violence, fear and poverty every single day. They have demanded an immigration policy that puts their jobs, wages and communities first. Every citizen should pick up the phone and ask of their congressional representative: where do you stand?” SEN. JEFF SESSIONS


“The watchdogs at Judicial Watch discovered documents that reveal how the Obama administration's close coordination with the Mexican government entices Mexicans to hop over the fence and on to the American dole.” Washington Times 



VIVA LA RAZA SUPREMACY: just look at the mex fascist illegals are electing on local and national levels!

………….. come to California where most service business ONLY HIRE MEXICANS and the language spoken is overwhelmingly SPANISH…. and you wondered why the Democrat party has long sabotaged E-VERIFY?

“In Mexico, a recent Zogby poll declared that the vast majority of Mexican citizens hate Americans. [22.2] Mexico is a country saturated with racism, yet in denial, having never endured the social development of a Civil Rights movement like in the US--Blacks are harshly treated while foreign Whites are often seen as the enemy. [22.3] In fact, racism as workplace discrimination can be seen across the US anywhere the illegal alien Latino works--the vast majority of the workforce is usually strictly Latino, excluding Blacks, Whites, Asians, and others.”



“Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) warned his colleagues in Congress that Americans will vote them out of office in November if they do not act this week to thwart President Barack Obama's plans to grant work permits and amnesty to up to eight million more Americans via executive fiat.”


"They hauled them down to the border," Sakuma said. "Three days later, they were standing in our office, but they had a different name and a different Social Security number."


“We cannot afford all this illegal immigration and everything that comes with it. Everything from the crime to the drugs and the kidnappings and extortion and the beheadings and the fact that people can't feel safe in their  communities.”  - AZ Gov. Jan Brewer

AMNESTY: OBAMA VOWS TO MEXICO ARIZONA’S TOTAL SURRENDER AND SUBMISSION TO LA RAZA SUPREMACY: 


Up to 90 percent of the drug traffickers arrested in Arizona are in the country illegally, a clear indication of the nexus between illegal immigration and the drug epidemic, Sheriff Joe Arpaio said.
He said
a recent check of 4,000 of the jail inmates in his area showed almost all were here illegally and 37 percent of them returned after being turned over to the government.



“Make no mistake about it: the Latino community holds this election in your hands. Some of the closest contests this November will be in states like Florida, Colorado, Nevada and New Mexico -- states with large Latino populations.”   PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE BARACK OBAMA  

“I know how powerful this community is. Just think how powerful you could be on November 4th if you translate your numbers into votes.”    PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE BARACK OBAMA 

OBAMA’S HISPANICAZATION of AMERICA – The rise of the Mex welfare state in America



AN AMERICAN SEES AND SPEAKS:

A BORDER GUARDS EXPOSES CONGRESS’ SABOTAGE OF OUR BORDERS

“What we're seeing is our Congress and national leadership dismantling our laws by not enforcing them. Lawlessness becomes the norm, just like Third World corruption. Illegal aliens now have more rights and privileges than Americans. If you are an illegal alien, you can drive a car without a driver's license or insurance. You may obtain medical care without paying. You may work without paying taxes. Your children enjoy free education at the expense of taxpaying Americans.” ON THE STATE LEVEL ALONE, CALIFORNIA PAYS OUT $25 BILLION PER YEAR IN SOCIAL SERVICES TO ILLEGALS… not one legal voted to be Mexico’s welfare office!



THE MEXICAN DRUG CARTELS NOW OPERATE OUT OF 2,500 U.S. CITIES AND HAUL BACK TENS OF BILLIONS IN CASH WHERE THEY BUY MEX POLITICIANS TO DO THEIR BIDDING.

THERE IS NO ONE THAT WORKS HARDER FOR THE CARTELS DRIVE FOR OPEN BORDERS THAN BARACK OBAMA.

In Mexico City, she announced that the U.S. appetite for illegal drugs and the easy acquisition of guns from the United States by Mexicans are the root causes of the Mexican crime wave. “Blame America” has become the global agenda of the Democratic Party.


“While the Obama Administration downplays violence along the U.S.-Mexico border, authorities in Texas reveal that Mexican  have transformed parts of the state into a war zone where shootings, beheadings, kidnappings and murders are common.




"Remember 187 -- the Proposition to deny taxpayer funds for services to non-citizens --- was the last gasp of white America in California." --- Art Torres, Chairman of the California Democratic Party… NOW THE PARTY for LA RAZA SUPREMACY… do a search for Barack Obama and LA RAZA.

"The American Southwest seems to be slowly returning to the jurisdiction of Mexico without firing a single shot."  --- Excelsior, the national newspaper of Mexico



A LIST OF HIGH-PROFILE LA RAZA SUPREMACIST FOR OBAMA: They voted for him over and over and over again as they climbed over our borders!

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“WE WILL TAKE CONTROL OF OUR COUNTRY (U.S.) BY VOTE IF POSSIBLE AND VIOLENCE IF NECESSARY!” LA RAZA FASCIST PARTY

http://www.MEXICANOCCUPATION.blogspot.com


THE LA RAZA MEXICAN CRIME TIDAL WAVE half the prison population in CA and half the murders are by MEXICANS

40% of Federal Criminal Cases in 2013 Were in
Districts on Mexican Border


We’ve got an even more ominous enemy within our borders that promotes “Reconquista of Aztlan” or the reconquest of California, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas into the country of Mexico.
 

BRACING AMERICA FOR THE FINAL SURRENDER OF OUR BORDERS TO NARCOMEX:


 http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2014/07/the-obama-amnesty-to-leaglize-mexicos.html 

"But instead of getting serious about border security, the Obama administration views the ongoing invasion by gang members, criminals, and other illegal immigrants from Central America as an opportunity to dynamite what remains of the nation’s southern border. He doesn’t care that plenty of illegal aliens, many of them children, are dying in the act of crossing the border. They are mere collateral damage in the pursuit of so-called justice."
“We cannot afford all this illegal immigration and everything that comes with it. Everything from the crime to the drugs and the kidnappings and extortion and the beheadings and the fact that people can't feel safe in their communities.”- AZ Gov. Jan Brewer
OHIO SHERIFF RICHARD JONES STANDS UP TO THE MEXICAN CRIME TIDAL WAVE IN HIS DISTRICT
“We cannot afford all this illegal immigration and everything that comes with it. Everything from the crime to the drugs and the kidnappings and extortion and the beheadings and the fact that people can't feel safe in their communities.”- AZ Gov. Jan Brewer
TED CRUZ
Ted Cruz stands up to Mexico and Obama’s LA RAZA looting!
 
RISE IN HISPANIC POPULATION  …. Mexico anchors and expands their welfare state in our borders.
AMERICA IS MEXICO’S WELFARE OFFICE!
HOW MEXICO INVADED, OCCUPIED, LOOTED and VOTED THEMSELVES EVEN MORE!
MEXICO and OBAMA DEMAND EXPANDED “FREE” PHONE SERVICE FOR LA RAZA!
EVERY DAY THE MEXICAN WELFARE STATE IN OUR BORDERS IS EXPANDED!
THE BREEDERS – MEXICO INVADES, BREEDS, LOOTS and votes DEM!
Wilkes noted that “Hispanics will account for 52 percent of our nation’s total population growth” throughout the coming four decades and will “make up 74 percent of the growth in the nation’s labor force from now until 2020.” The 11.3 percent unemployment rate among Latinos suggests that “having a wireless phone can make the difference between someone receiving the call for a job interview or missing that opportunity altogether.
 
HISPANIC FAMILY VALUES: ANCHOR BABY BREEDING FOR WELFARE, GANGS, VIOLENCE, LOOTING… they’re Mexican! it’s not news!!!
VIVA LA RAZA SUPREMACY? IT IS WHAT THE DEMS DO NATIONWIDE… THEN HAND US THE TAX BILLS FOR MEXICO’S LOOTING, WELFARE STATE AND CRIME TIDAL WAVE.
“Through love of having children, we are going to take over.”  AUGUSTIN CEBADA, BROWN BERETS, THE LA RAZA FASCIST PARTY

http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2012/01/heather-mac-donald-la-raza-fascist.html

OBAMA’S IMPERIAL AMNESTY FOR HIS LA RAZA PARTY BASE OF VOTING ILLEGALS:


 

HERITAGE FOUNDATION SAYS OBAMA’S AMNESTY WILL ADD 100 MILLION MORE LOOTING MEXICANS TO THE DEM VOTING ROLLS.

OBAMA’S IMPERIAL AMNESTY – THE THRUST TO BUILD THE DEM PARTY WITH 40 MILLION BORDER CLIMBERS.


 
“THE AMNESTY ALONE WILL BE THE LARGEST EXPANSION OF THE WELFARE SYSTEM IN THE LAST 25 YEARS” Heritage Foundation

"The amnesty alone will be the largest expansion of the welfare system in the last 25 years," says Robert Rector, a senior analyst at the Heritage Foundation, and a witness at a House Judiciary Committee field hearing in San Diego Aug. 2. "Welfare costs will begin to hit their peak around 2021, because there are delays in citizenship. The very narrow time horizon [the CBO is] using is misleading," he adds. "If even a small fraction of those who come into the country stay and get on Medicaid, you're looking at costs of $20 billion or $30 billion per year."

 
THE CONSPIRACY to DESTROY AMERICA’S BORDERS… Obama and his Wall Street banksters
 
This nation no longer is a democratic republic...rather it has become a tool of the super-rich members of the above mentioned elite who preselect our presidents based on their cooperation and complicity with the elite’s ultimate goals. Obama has, in their opinion done superbly carrying out the plans well laid out for him by his backers.
 
 
SUPER SCHOOLSTOP
IT MAY BE SHOCKING TO MOST AMERICANS THAT THE FASTEST GROWING POLITICAL PARTY IN AMERICA’S OPEN BORDERS IS LA RAZA, THE MEXICAN FASCIST PARTY of “The Race”.
and we are paying to educate them in their ANTI-AMERICAN culture our schools

LAURA INGRAHAM: The solution to Mexico’s invasion, occupation and ever expanding welfare state in American borders.

saving our nation from LA RAZA FASCISM             

 

 

AN AMERICAN SEES and SPEAKS: Dr. Gene Nelson WHO REALLY IS PUSHING FOR ENDLESS HORDES of ILLEGALS?


 

“The principal beneficiaries of our current immigration policy are affluent Americans who hire immigrants at substandard wages for low-end work. Harvard economist George Borjas estimates that American workers lose $190 billion annually in depressed wages caused by the constant flooding of the labor market at the low-wage end.”   Christian Science Monitor

THEY DO SO ON BEHALF OF THEIR GREEDY BIG AG BIZ DONORS!


CASE STUDY ON THE REAL COST OF MEXICO AND THE DEM’S ANCHOR BABY FACTORIES HERE:

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Jose Herria emigrated illegally from Mexico to Stockton, Calif., in 1997 to work as a fruit picker. He brought with him his wife, Felipa, and three children, 19, 12 and 8 -- all illegals. When Felipa gave birth to her fourth child, daughter Flor, the family had what is referred to as an "anchor baby" -- an American citizen by birth who provided the entire Silverio clan a ticket to remain in the U.S. permanently.

THE ENTIRE REASON FOR THE AMNESTY HOAX TO LEGALIZE MEXICO’S LOOTING IS TO KEEP WAGES DEPRESSED!


 “The U.S. Chamber is in the pocket of Communist China and big companies seeking cheap labor in the United States. We think it is morally repugnant for the chamber to pursue, as a matter of public policy, initiatives which exploit the poor and oppressed, just so they can keep labor costs down for their fortune 500 member companies.”

OFFICE of REP. KERRY BENTIVOLIO (R-Milford) 


I believe that the big problem is that both parties (and even some third-party movements) have become extensions of the "Plutocrat party." As an example, See the Sunshine Foundation's March 25, 2013 report, "Untangling the Webs of Immigration Lobbying" http://sunlightfoundation.com/... We learn that "And in the five years (2008-2012) since the reform last died on the Senate floor, we count 6,712 quarterly lobbying reports filed by 678 lobbying organizations in 170 sectors mentioning 987 unique bills, associated with more than $1.5 billion in lobbying spending." Since then, the estimated total has risen to about $2 billion.
Spending this lavishly means that these economic elites stand to benefit handsomely from immigration liberalization. How? The resultant immigration-stoked labor gluts across a broad spectrum of occupational titles ranging from medical doctor to unskilled labor reduces wages and benefits. Such a change benefits the Banker Class. Immigration - driven population increases also bid up the costs of the necessaries of life such as shelter, food, diapers, medical expenses, etc. The 1%ers benefit from those price increases.
There are some corrupt lobbyists such as felon Jack A. Abramoff involved in steering this tidal wave of lobbying dollars. Search by title for the PDF of the 2007 article, "The Greedy Gates Immigration Gambit" to learn more. Then join citizen empowerment groups such as NumbersUSA dot com, FAIRUS dot org, and CAPSweb dot org to demand genuine immigration reform from our elected leaders.

 

Untangling the webs of immigration lobbying





(Visualizations by Alexander Furnas and Amy Cesal)

As Congress inches toward major immigration legislation, a new Sunlight Foundation analysis (based on almost 8,000 lobbying reports) offers a comprehensive and interactive guide to the web of interests with something at stake.

As legislation continues to take shape, a wide range of sectors will continue flooding Congress with their lobbyists, trying to make sure that their particular concerns are fully addressed. These visualizations can help to better understand who these interests are, what they care about, and how intensely they are likely to lobby to get what they want.

Figure 1. Immigration Lobbying in Congress; click for interactive graphic Click for interactive version

Figure 1 gives us the big picture. The network connects lobbying interests with the specific immigration bills on which they’ve lobbied. The size of the circles represents the amount of lobbying activity. We’ve given a different color to each of 34 distinct sub-issues identified by a textual analysis of bill summaries (see our methodology section for more details).

The network can be viewed in three ways:

1.      By zooming out and viewing it as a whole (Figure 1), we can see  five somewhat (though not entirely) distinct clusters, representing five major immigration lobbying hotspots in recent years.

2.      By zooming in and looking at each of the hotspots in more detail (Clusters A-F), we see more messiness, representing the wider range of interests and sub-issues in each of the clusters.

3.      Finally, and most importantly, by exploring our interactive graphic, you can investigate the links between every interest, issue and bill. There are thousands of links to uncover.

(To understand how we built this visualization, visit our methodology section at the end of this post.)

That immigration policy attracts a tangled web of lobbyists from a wide swath of the economy and dozens of advocacy interests will not be news to those who have followed the issue for years. After all, the last time Congress tried to pass immigration reform, the Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act of 2007 stretched to 789 pages.

And in the five years (2008-2012) since the reform last died on the Senate floor, we count 6,712 quarterly lobbying reports filed by 678 lobbying organizations in 170 sectors mentioning 987 unique bills, associated with more than $1.5 billion in lobbying spending.

Let’s look at six identifiable clusters in a little more detail.

 

Cluster A: Agricultural /H-2A Visas­­

 

Starting in the top left, the first cluster brings together lobbying on agricultural work visas. A series of bills have been introduced to streamline the H-2A agricultural worker program, based on compromises worked out over years between agricultural employers, farm worker unions, and key lawmakers. The bills have generally been introduced under the title “The AgJOBS Act.” As then-Senator Ken Salazar D-CO explained in 2007: “There are 567 organizations that have endorsed [the AgJOBS Act], from the Colorado Farm Bureau, to the Farmers Union, to every single agricultural organization in America. The leaders on AgJOBS in the Senate, Senator Feinstein and Senator Craig, have been eloquent in making their statements about the need for the agricultural community, farmers and ranchers, to be able to have a stable workforce. We need to stop the rotting of the vegetables and the fruits in California, in Colorado, and across this country. The only way we are going to be able to do that is if we have a stable workforce for agriculture.”

One other proposal that has been heavily lobbied – “The Dairy and Sheep H-2A Visa Enhancement Act” – would expand the H-2A visa program to also include sheepherders and dairy workers. Naturally, this has been of particular interest to the dairy industry, which relies on immigrant labor. As bill sponsor Rep. John McHugh (R-NY) told the House floor in 2009: “During the past decade, dairy farms throughout the nation have increasingly experienced difficulty in hiring local workers to meet their needs and, as a result, are ever more reliant upon immigrant labor. The tremendous uncertainty regarding that labor supply has a profound impact on their ability to plan for the future and make sound business decisions.”

 

Cluster B: Seasonal / H-2B Visas

 

Another cluster highlights massive lobbying in support of extending the H-2B visa worker exemption to allow non-agricultural seasonal businesses to hire immigrant workers. As Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D-MD), sponsor of the proposal, told the Senate floor in 2009, “Every member of the Senate who has heard from their constituents —whether they are seafood processors, landscapers, resorts, timber companies, fisheries, pool companies or carnivals – knows the urgency in their voices, knows the immediacy of the problem and knows that the Congress must act now to save these businesses. I urge my colleagues to join this effort, support the Save our Small and Seasonal Businesses Act, and push this Congress to fix the problem today.”

The lobbying interests most active on these issues have been hotels and motels, restaurants, florists and nursery services, forestry and forest products companies, and real estate agents.

 

Cluster C: High-skill visas, employee verification, other corporate concerns

The messiest cluster is in the middle, and it largely coalesces around two major lobbying interests: computer software and manufacturers, and the Chamber of Commerce. The concerns of these groups overlap. Part of their lobbying (particularly the tech companies) is aimed at high-skilled workers: retaining math and science Ph.D. graduates, enabling high-skilled immigration generally, and expanding H1.B and L.1 temporary visa programs. (H1-B visas allow skilled workers in mostly engineering, science, medicine, and finance to enter the U.S. for a limited period while L-1 visas allow employees of international companies to work in U.S. offices of the company for a limited period.)

The other major issue in this cluster is around the employee verification program, a web-based system that helps employers to check whether potential employees are in fact eligible to work in the United States. Both the Chamber of Commerce and the computer industry have lobbied heavily on this issue. This cluster also catches some concerns over homeland security, border enforcement, and travel visas, and brings in the building trade unions and the lodging and tourism sector.

 

Cluster D: Family issues

 

A smaller cluster on the right centers around advocacy on family-related issues, with the most lobbying centering on legislation known as the “Uniting American Families Act” which provides family immigration benefits for same-sex couples. As Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT), one of the sponsors of the legislation put it on the Senate floor in 2012: “My legislation would grant same-sex binational couples the same immigration benefits provided to heterosexual couples. Passage of this important legislation would help put our country on par with over 25 other developed countries that value and respect human rights.” Lobbying interests in this space include gay and lesbian groups, liberal advocacy groups, and some religious organizations.

This issue and lobbying cluster also covers some issues related to child protection and asylum. The major interest lobbying on these issues are lawyers.

 

Cluster E: "Dream Act", general path to citizenship, enforcement

 

The cluster at the bottom of the network centers primarily around a single piece of major legislation, The Dream Act, and the two sectors most interested in advancing its passage: minority and ethnic groups, and schools & colleges. The Dream Act would create a path to citizenship for young people brought to the U.S. as children who go to college or serve in the military.

This cluster also covers other primary lobbying concerns of minority and ethnic groups, including a set of tough-on-immigration enforcement and criminal justice-related bills, as well as some bills covering various path-to-citizenship issues.

 

Cluster F: Performing artist visas

 

Finally, there is one small cluster of lobbying that is on its own. Live theater, museums, bands, orchestras, and other artistic performance industries have lobbied for special visa exemptions for performing artists. The most active bill in this cluster is H.R. 1785 from the 1111th congress, the Arts Require Timely Service (ARTS) Act, which would require expedited processing of visas petitions filed by employers on behalf of individuals with extraordinary artistic ability.

As Senate bill sponsor Orrin Hatch (R-UT) told the Senate floor in 2009: “There is no doubt that nonprofit arts organizations across the country engage foreign guest artists in their orchestras, theatres, and dance and opera companies. In my home state of Utah, I am aware that many organizations that will benefit from passage of the ARTS Act, including Brigham Young University, Cache Valley Center for the Arts, The Orchestra of Southern Utah, University of Utah, Murray Symphony Orchestra, Salt Lake Symphony, and the Utah Shakespeare Festival, to name a few.”

This cluster would normally have been filtered according to the methodology we used (see below) but we left it in because it is good example of a specialty niche issue within the larger constellation of immigration lobbying.

 

Who lobbies the most?

Another way to slice the data is to look at which sectors are the most active, and on which issues. For full underlying data on all sectors and all issues, click here.

Table 1. 20 most active sectors and their issues

sector
Total bill mentions
Gini
Top Issue
#2 Issue
Minority/Ethnic Groups
760
0.549
Dream Act, 63
Reuniting Families, 40
Schools & colleges
624
0.866
Dream Act, 173
Science Tech workers, 19
Chambers of commerce
508
0.657
General employer responsibility, 68
E verify, 55
Computer software
420
0.763
Science Tech workers, 49
H1 B and L 1, 30
Milk & dairy producers
369
0.952
Agricultural Jobs, 132
H 2A Visas, 95
Computer manufacture & services
346
0.814
General employer responsibility, 63
E verify, 51
Building trades unions
320
0.816
Veterans affairs, 26
Border funding, 18
Farm organizations & cooperatives
263
0.959
Agricultural Jobs, 94
H 2A Visas, 59
Attorneys & law firms
240
0.738
Child Protection / Asylum, 42
Dream Act, 15
Computers, components & accessories
239
0.869
Science Tech workers, 45
High Skilled Immigration, 20
Lodging & tourism
193
0.885
Travel / extended stay, 51
Travel Visa, 27
Florists & Nursery Services
181
0.939
Seasonal businesses, 63
Agricultural Jobs, 19
Meat processing & products
176
0.888
E verify, 38
Border enforcement, 26
Human Rights
174
0.806
Dream Act, 19
Uniting Same-sex Families, 18
Democratic/Liberal
170
0.76
Dream Act, 29
Uniting Same-sex Families, 22
Restaurants & drinking establishments
153
0.901
Seasonal businesses, 27
General enforcement, 18
Hotels & motels
150
0.918
Seasonal businesses, 33
healthcare coverage, 17
Data processing & computer services
146
0.791
Homeland security, 16
Border funding, 12
Pro-Israel
114
0.818
Dream Act, 18
Reuniting Families, 11

(numbers for each issue represent bill mentions in issue area)

Table 1 gives us the sectors that have been most active on immigration, and the issues on which they’ve been the most active. Our measure of activity is lobbying bill mentions – that is, each time a sector mentions an immigration-related bill in a lobbying report, we count it as a bill mention.

The “Gini” coefficient is a measure how much each sector’s lobbying is concentrated on a narrow set of issues. The closer the Gini value is to 1.0, the more concentrated the lobbying. Not surprisingly, minority and ethnic groups have the most lobbying bill mentions in our data (760) and the lowest Gini coefficient (0.549), representing a very diverse set of issues on which they lobby.

Schools and Colleges are the second most active sector. They also show a tremendous interest in the Dream Act, which is not surprising since the Dream Act concerns higher education. Chambers of Commerce (primarily the U.S. Chamber of Commerce) have been particularly interested in lobbying on employer responsibility issues. Computer software companies have been lobbying heavily to get more high-skilled workers. And milk and dairy producers have been lobbying for reform to the agricultural visa programs.

Among unions, the building trades union has been the most active. It’s worth noting that among the top lobbying sectors, a few have very high Gini coefficients (e.g. farm organizations & cooperatives at 0.959, and milk & diary producers at 0.952), meaning that their lobbying is intensely concentrated on just a few bills. By contrast, groups like the Chamber of Commerce and minority and ethnic groups have a much broader issue profile in this space.

 

Most active issues


We can also slice our data based on which issues got the most bill mentions, which generates a statistical tie between agricultural jobs and the Dream Act, with issues related to permanent residences for math and science Ph.D.s, employer responsibility, and small and seasonal business issues coming in close behind.

Table 2. 20 most active issues and their top sectors

Issue
Total
Gini
Top Sector
#2 Sector
Agricultural Jobs
510
0.953
Milk & dairy producers, 132
Farm organizations & cooperatives, 94
Dream Act
504
0.945
Schools & colleges, 173
Minority/Ethnic Groups, 63
Science & Tech workers
372
0.902
Computer software, 49
Computers, components & accessories, 45
General employer responsibility
359
0.935
Chambers of commerce, 68
Computer manufacture & services, 63
Seasonal businesses
320
0.945
Florists & Nursery Services, 63
Hotels & motels, 33
Homeland security
263
0.902
Transportation, 31
Lodging & tourism, 23
General enforcement
247
0.921
Minority/Ethnic Groups, 38
Chambers of commerce, 19
H-2A Visas
241
0.963
Milk & dairy producers, 95
Farm organizations & cooperatives, 59
E-verify
233
0.964
Chambers of commerce, 55
Computer manufacture & services, 51
Border enforcement
231
0.882
Minority/Ethnic Groups, 33
Meat processing & products, 26
Defense funding
223
0.897
Computer manufacture & services, 23
Lodging & tourism, 20
H1-B and L-1
217
0.925
Computer software, 30
Electronics manufacturing & services, 27
Border funding
217
0.955
Chambers of commerce, 34
Computer software, 18
Uniting Same-sex Families
217
0.968
Gay & lesbian rights & issues, 55
Minority/Ethnic Groups, 35
High- Skilled Immigration
206
0.922
Computer software, 29
Computers, components & accessories, 20
Reuniting Families
169
0.954
Minority/Ethnic Groups, 40
Human Rights, 16
Criminal justice
158
0.957
Computer software, 19
Minority/Ethnic Groups, 13
Healthcare funding
151
0.926
Computer software, 23
Online computer services, 8
Travel / extended stay
144
0.959
Lodging & tourism, 51
Minority/Ethnic Groups, 18

(numbers for each sector represent bill mentions in that issue area)

Not surprisingly, agricultural jobs issues are lobbied on very heavily by the agricultural industries, especially the milk and dairy producers, the farm organizations and cooperatives, and the vegetable and fruit industries. The Dream Act is primarily lobbied on by universities, minority and ethnic groups, and Democratic-leaning non-profits. Getting more math and science Ph.D.s is of particular interest to the computer industry.

From the high Gini coefficients, we can tell that almost all of these issues are of interest to only a handful of sectors.

 

Conclusion

As comprehensive immigration goes forward, a wide range of lobbying sectors are going to be fighting to make sure that their particular concerns get included in the final reform (we count 170 sectors who have registered an interest since 2007).

Our analysis shows that the immigration debate is both structured and chaotic. When we zoom out to see the entire network in one glimpse (Figure 1) we can see five big clusters of activity on immigration. When we zoom in, we see much more messiness: lots of sectors, lots of bills, lots of interests, and many overlaps and tangles. In other words, a lot of clamoring is about to take place. We hope you will spend some time exploring our interactive graphic to see for yourself who cares about what and how much.

 

Methodology

We began our analysis with all bills mentioned in lobbying disclosure forms under the category of immigration during the 109th – 112th congresses. We then excluded the top two percent of most lobbied bills – generally omnibus bills - leaving a corpus of more specific single-issue immigration reform bills. The remaining 915 bills were classified into sub-categories based on the text of bill summaries produced by the Congressional Research Service. To create issue categories we used Latent Semantic Analysis (LSA) -- a form of natural language processing commonly used for text comparison -- to measure the conceptual similarity of the bills. We then clustered the most similar bills together with hierarchical agglomerative clustering. This process ensured that the most conceptually similar bills – at least according to the content of their CRS summaries – were treated as belonging to similar issue areas, like H-2A visa reform, or the Dream Act, under the umbrella of immigration reform. We manually labeled the resulting 34 clusters based on their contents.

We then applied the labels (denoted by color) from this clustering to the bills in the network representation of lobbying activity shown above. The nodes in this bipartite network represent specific bills and the industries (based on Center for Responsive Politics’ industry classifications) that lobbied on them. The weighted directed edges are based on the number of lobbying reports filed by the given industry that mentioned the given bill. To highlight significant activity, we filtered the network visualization to show only the subgraph with a k-core of 3. The graph layout was done using the Gephi implementation of the OpenOrd algorithm, which employs aggressive edge-cutting to promote clustering.

Data sources: Influenceexplorer.com, Sunlight Foundation Congress API, opensecrets.org,

correction (5/17/13): We removed a reference to the number of lobbyists working on immigration. This story had linked to a piece from our reporting group, which made an incorrect assessment about the number of lobbyists. That piece has been updated.

 

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Lou Dobbs Tonight Friday, May 16, 2008

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