House Democrats, 39 Republicans Pass ‘Temporary’ Amnesty for Venezuelans
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House Democrats and 39 Republicans passed a plan to provide asylum in the United States to potentially millions of Venezuelans fleeing their socialist dictator.
In a 272 to 158 House vote on Thursday, every Democrat and 39 Republicans voted to create a Temporary Protected Status (TPS) program for Venezuela’s population — allowing nationals who are already in the U.S. to remain and incentivizing more to migrate.
Officials with the Trump administration previously voiced their opposition to the plan in an interview with Breitbart News.
“We would not want to open the floodgates for them,” an official said in March.
The Republicans who voted with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), and Rep. Ilhan Omar (R-MN) include:
- Rep. Don Bacon (R-NE)
- Rep. Michael Bost (R-IL)
- Rep. Tom Cole (R-OK)
- Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-TX)
- Rep. John Curtis (R-UT)
- Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart (R-FL)
- Rep. Sean Duffy (R-WI)
- Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA)
- Rep. Jeff Fortenberry (R-NE)
- Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-WI)
- Rep. Anthony Gonzalez (R-OH)
- Rep. Tom Graves (R-GA)
- Rep. Vicky Hartzler (R-MO)
- Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler (R-WA)
- Rep. Clay Higgins (R-LA)
- Rep. French Hill (R-AR)
- Rep. Will Hurd (R-TX)
- Rep. David Joyce (R-OH)
- Rep. John Katko (R-NY)
- Rep. Peter King (R-NY)
- Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL)
- Rep. Brian Mast (R-FL)
- Rep. Michael McCaul (R-TX)
- Rep. Tom Reed (R-NY)
- Rep. Cathy McMorris-Rodgers (R-WA)
- Rep. Francis Rooney (R-FL)
- Rep. Austin Scott (R-GA)
- Rep. John Shimkus (R-IL)
- Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ)
- Rep. Ross Spano (R-FL)
- Rep. Elise Stefancik (R-NY)
- Rep. Bryan Steil (R-WI)
- Rep. Steve Stivers (R-OH)
- Rep. Glenn Thompson (R-PA)
- Rep. Michael Waltz (R-FL)
- Rep. Steve Womack (R-AR)
- Rep. Rod Woodall (R-GA)
- Rep. Ted Yoho (R-FL)
- Rep. Don Young (R-AK)
Leading the opposition against giving TPS to Venezuela’s population, Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL) called the plan an effort to continue current U.S. national immigration policy that acts as “the world’s orphanage for children and adults alike.”
Brooks said:
This bill proposes a tsunami of people coming to our country who are ill-equipped to support themselves. And, let’s put that into the perspective of where we are a nation. We just blew through the $22 trillion debt mark earlier this year. This year, we are looking at a roughly $900 billion deficit. A deal that has been reached that will only increase our deficit by $2 trillion over the next two years pushing our debt up to $22 trillion. This is money we do not have, have to borrow to get, and cannot afford to pay back. [Emphasis added]How does that relate to H.R. 549? Well, let me share some numbers with you. Sixty percent of households with a lawful immigrant in them are on welfare, living off the hard work of others. Seventy percent of illegal alien households are on welfare, living off the hard work of others here in the United States of America. [Emphasis added]
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, a major donor the to the GOP establishment, urged Republicans to join Democrats in helping to pass TPS for Venezuelans.
“The Chamber applauds Representatives Soto and Diaz-Balart for leading the House effort to pass H.R. 549, which would allow many Venezuelans currently in the U.S. the opportunity to legally remain and work in the U.S. while Venezuela is in a state of crisis,” the Chamber’s Neil Bradley said in a statement. “The U.S. government should make it clear that Venezuelan nationals who pose no risk to the safety or security of the U.S. will not be sent back into harm’s way.”
TPS has become a quasi-amnesty for otherwise illegal aliens created under the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1990 (INA) that prevents the deportation of foreign nationals from countries that have suffered through famine, war, or natural disasters. Since the Clinton administration, TPS has been transformed into a de facto amnesty program as the Bush, Obama, and Trump administrations have continuously renewed the program for a variety of countries.
John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Follow him on Twitter at @JxhnBinder.
TRUMP’S
CRAP ON BORDERS AND HIS PRETEND WALL IS ONLY ONE MORE TRUMP HOAX!
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Only a
complete fool would believe that Trump is any more for American Legal workers
than the Democrat Party for Billionaires and Banksters!
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“Trump
Administration Betrays Low-Skilled American Workers.”
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The latest ad from the Federation for
American Immigration Reform (FAIR) asks Trump to reject the mass illegal and
legal immigration policies supported by Wall Street, corporate executives, and
most specifically, the GOP mega-donor Koch brothers.
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Efforts by the big business
lobby, Chamber of Commerce, Koch brothers, and George W. Bush Center include
increasing employment-based legal immigration that would likely crush the historic
wage gains that Trump
has delivered for America’s blue collar and working class citizens.
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Mark
Zuckerberg’s Silicon Valley investors are uniting with the Koch network’s
consumer and industrial investors to demand a huge DACA amnesty
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A
handful of Republican and Democrat lawmakers are continuing to tout a plan that
gives amnesty to nearly a million illegal aliens in exchange for some amount of
funding for President Trump’s proposed border wall along the U.S.-Mexico
border.
MAGA vs. the U.S. Chamber of Commerce
The
general public typically equates the Chamber of Commerce with local
Mom and Pop businesses in their area which meet for networking and mutual
support in local chapters across the country. This is erroneous. According to theHill:
While local
chambers cater to the needs of car dealers and restaurant owners, the national
Chamber operates as the lobbying arm of large corporations that have never met
a big government program they did not like.
They are weapons
dealers pushing billion-dollar battleships and telecommunication lobbyists
protecting slow Internet at the world's highest prices. They are lobbyists for
pharmaceutical companies, big banks, and Wall street traders who treat the
American people as gullibles to be fleeced without mercy.
Even
seasoned politicians are susceptible to having misconceptions about the
Chamber. Former U.S. senator Jim Demint admits he naively thought it was
lobbying for free enterprise and creating a better business environment for
everybody. Now he says, "I pronounce them part of the swamp." Rep.
Justin Amash (R-Mich), a conservative, adds, "I believe in free markets
and am against cronyism and corporate welfare, and they [the U.S. Chamber of
Commerce] support those things."
The
Chamber of Commerce and its president Thomas Donohue came into conflict with
Donald Trump and his America First platform very early on. For 18 months during
the runup to the 2016 election, the Chamber spared no effort to demonize Trump.
In doing so, the Chamber was carrying water for the Hillary Clinton
campaign. Donohue and company figured they could better deal with Hillary than
Trump in the Oval Office. In this, the Chamber was exactly right.
The
big hangups the Chamber and its client base had against Donald Trump involved
immigration, trade, and tariffs. Adhering
to its corporate masters’ call for a continuous supply of cheap labor, the
Chamber lobbies for more immigration and resists tight border controls. Trade
is much the same. Past trade pacts have allowed Wall Street to grow obscenely
rich in the outsourcing of American jobs to third-world countries for sake of
the bottom line of the multinationals. In the process, over a million ordinary
Americans were left holding the bag.
All
this is still playing out today. The president is striving to adjust the unfair
trading arrangements that the political class, in cahoots with the big money
interests on Wall Street, have saddled the U.S. with. But Trump and his
trade team of Robert Lighthizer, Wilbur Ross, Steven Mnuchin, and Larry Kudlow
are fighting not just China, but what is effectively a Fifth Column here at
home. It's composed of the likes of the Chamber of Commerce and a sizable
portion of the political establishment, which is used to dipping its beak in
special-interest money.
As
to this latter point, just look at the breaking news of the dealings of Joe
Biden's son, Hunter, with the Chinese government. Writing in the New YorkPost, Peter Schweizer outlines in detail the $1.5 private
equity deal the younger Biden made with the Chinese while Biden was
vice-president. And now, Joe Biden is out on the stump soft-peddling the damage
China has done to the U.S. economy and downplaying its threat to us and
pretending to be for the working man. You can't make this up.
It's
important not to conflate Big Business (Wall Street) with small business (Main
Street). Wall Street is the financial economy. It pushes paper around. For
example, they write derivatives on real assets, say stocks, to the point where
the value of derivatives traded is far greater than the assets they are based
on.Investopedia says this:
"The derivatives market is, in a word, gigantic -- often estimated at more
than $1.2 quadrillion on the high end."
A
quadrillion is 1,000 trillion. In dollar terms, a quadrillion is 15-times the
GDP of the entire world.
Main
Street actually makes and sells things. For over a generation or more, Big Biz
has dominated Main Street. This is why the Midwest and other places across the
U.S. are littered with closed factories and why middle-class wages stagnated.
In many ways, the financial economy is parasitic on the real economy. In the
2016 election, Donald Trump represented Main Street while Clinton was in
the pocket of the big money interests on Wall Street.
What
this means is that what is good for Main Street will not be good for Wall
Street and Big Biz, at least not in the short run. What benefits the American
worker -- fair trade policy and tight immigration control -- will initially
hurt Big Biz and Wall Street. And
the hurt will continue until the financial economy is scaled back to its proper
size and is no longer allowed to the tail that wags the American economic dog.
Until then, MAGA is at war with Big Biz and the bought-and-paid-for political
establishment. And this explains much of the resistance to Trump's tariffs and
trade position.
A closing observation says a lot. Thomas Donohue, the president of
the Chamber of Commerce, is 80 years old. His board is pushing him to
retire. The replacement
they are looking at is former Congressman Paul Ryan. A perfect fit given the
Chamber's agenda.
Chamber
of Commerce Demands More Immigration: ‘U.S. Is Out of People’
JOHN BINDER
26 Apr 20194,424
4:12
The United States Chamber of Commerce is vowing to continue fighting
President Trump’s shaping of the Republican Party into a pro-U.S. worker party
of blue collar working and middle class Americans.
In
an interview with
the Washington Post,
numerous Chamber of Commerce officials said the organization’s corporate
lobbying efforts would soon attempt to court more elected Democrats to support
their economic libertarian agenda of more free trade and increased legal
immigration.
“The
GOP’s drift toward protectionism, nativism, and isolationism since Donald Trump
took over the party in 2016 is also at odds with the Chamber’s longtime support
for expanding free trade, growing legal immigration and investing in
infrastructure,” the Poststory
details.
Specifically,
Chamber of Commerce President and CEO Tom Donahue said the U.S. needed more
legal immigration so that corporations and business secure a never-ending flow
of cheaper labor, claiming the country is “out of people.”
And
they’re still looking to work with Trump even on areas where they’re not really
in agreement, such as immigration. The Chamber advocates for protecting
the “dreamers” from deportation and expanding rates of legal immigration. “The
fundamental issue is that the United States of America is out of people,” said
Donohue. “We have the lowest unemployment we’ve had in 65 years. We have
brought more people back into the workforce and still have the lowest
unemployment.” [Emphasis added]
Despite
Donahue’s claims, at least 12 million Americans
who want full-time jobs remain on the sidelines of the workforce. This includes
6.2 million Americans who are unemployed that want a job, 4.5 million Americans
who are underemployed working part-time jobs, and 1.4 million Americans who
continue to be entirely out of the workforce though they want full-time
employment.
More
than 12 million Americans remain unemployed, underemployed, or out of the labor
force but wanting a job. Tight labor market still has some slack. https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/04/15/feds-12m-americans-remain-sidelined-out-of-the-workforce/ …
Feds: More Than 12M
Americans Remain Sidelined Out of the Workforce
While
millions remain on the sidelines of the workforce, the Chamber of Commerce has
routinely advocated for increasing legal immigration levels as a boon to
corporations while depressing job prospects and wages for America’s working and
middle class. Already, about 1.5 million illegal and legal immigrants are
admitted to the country every year, to the detriment of U.S. wages.
The
Chamber of Commerce’s push to increase legal immigration levels is vastly out
of step with Republican voters and American voters as a whole. Last year, nearly
two-out-threeU.S. voters said they supported reducing legal immigration,
while most recently about 43
percent of Republican voters said immigration hurts the country.
Extensive
research by economists like George Borjas and analyst Steven Camarota has found
that the country’s current mass legal immigration system — wherein 1.2 million
mostly low-skilled workers are admitted annually — burdens U.S. taxpayers and
America’s working and middle class while redistributing about $500
billion in wealth every year to major employers and newly arrived
immigrants.
Borjas
has previously called the
country’s legal immigration system the “largest anti-poverty program” in the
world at the expense of blue-collar Americans and middle-class taxpayers.
Camarota,
director of research for the Center for Immigration Studies, has found that every
one-percent increase in the immigrant composition of American workers’
occupations reduces their weekly wages by about 0.5 percent. This means the
average native-born American worker today has his weekly wages reduced by
perhaps 8.5 percent because of current legal immigration levels.
In
a state like Florida, where immigrants make up about 25.4 percent of the labor
force, American workers have their weekly wages reduced by about 12.5 percent.
In California, where immigrants make up 34 percent of the labor force, American
workers’ weekly wages are reduced by potentially 17 percent.
Likewise,
every one-percent increase in the immigrant composition of low-skilled U.S.
occupations reduces wages by about 0.8 percent. Should 15 percent of
low-skilled jobs be held by foreign-born workers, it would reduce the wages of
native-born American workers by perhaps 12 percent.
Though
corporate interests and the open borders lobby have sought to
sway Trump from his “America First” illegal and legal
immigration agenda, senior advisor Jared Kushner
recently said the president’s top priority in terms of the White House’s
reform efforts is protecting Americans’ wages.
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Chamber of Commerce Considering Legal Action to Block
Mexico Tariffs
JOHN CARNEY
31 May 2019634
1:44
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and other business groups are considering
ways to challenge the new tariffs on goods imported from Mexico.
The
powerful U.S. Chamber of Commerce, which advocates for cheap labor policies and
opposes American First trade initiatives, told reporters Friday that it is considering
all options, including legal challenges, to thwart the Trump administration’s
policy.
“We have no choice but to pursue
every option available to push back,” Neil Bradley, executive vice president
and chief policy officer at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, said Friday.
President Donald Trump said Thursday
that he will impose a 5 percent tariff on goods imported from Mexico if the
Mexican government does not stem the flow of illegal immigrants from Central
America.
Chamber
of Commerce President and chief executive Tom Donahue told the Washington Post in April
that the U.S. needed more legal immigration because the country is “out of
people.” The chamber has pushed for legal protection for so-called “Dreamers”
and led political resistance to efforts to deport more illegal border crossers.
The
chamber began 2019 by opposing legislation
that would have allowed President Donald Trump to impose reciprocal tariffs on
specific foreign imports.
“The bill would effectively give the
President unilateral authority to increase U.S. tariffs on imports from any
foreign country,” Bradley wrote in a letter sent to many lawmakers on Capitol
Hill. “The harm to Americans would be immediate: Tariffs are taxes, and they
are paid by American families and American businesses.”
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