Across the board, American workers are winning thanks to President
Trump’s economic policies. Biden’s pro-union agenda is just an outdated relic
of a bygone era. Workers wouldn’t stand a chance with bygone Joe Biden.
1993 Joe Biden
Said NAFTA Would Help U.S. Chrysler Workers – Years Later They Were Laid Off
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Former Vice President and Senator Joe Biden (D) was one of the earliest
cheerleaders for the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), which helped
to eliminate nearly five million U.S. manufacturing jobs.
During
a Senate floor speech in
November 1993, Biden said that NAFTA would, specifically, increase jobs and
production for American workers employed at Chrysler’s Newark, Delaware plant
by opening up the Mexican market.
“Chrysler
expects to sell 5,000 more cars to Mexico from their Newark, DE, plant by the
end of the decade,” Biden said. “Without NAFTA, Chrysler will have to
manufacture more cars in Mexico to meet the requirements of pre-NAFTA laws.”
Years
later, in 2007, those American workers at the Newark Chrysler plant were laid off as the
plant closed down. At the it’s height, about 5,700 American workers were
employed there. When the plant closed, around 700 to 1,100 Americans were left
without jobs.
Many
of the U.S. workers blamed the unfair foreign competition that they had been
subjected to because of free trade and multilateral agreements like NAFTA,
which made it easier for corporations to readily outsource American jobs to
Mexico.
“Everybody
here is mad, upset, the whole gamut of emotions,” a 15-year employee told the
Associated Press at the time. “People feel like they got the carpet yanked from
underneath them. They feel like there’s really nothing out there for them after
this. The economy is really bad, so it’s a hard thing.”
“Half
of Congress is buying foreign cars,” another longtime Chrysler worker said.
“They should be mandated to buy American cars. If they don’t, how patriotic is
that?”
Offshoring
production to Mexico has proven cheaper for corporate executives. Where
American workers earn $30 an hour, Mexican workers earn about $3 an hour in
comparison — a 90 percent cut to wages that has expanded the profit margins of
hundreds of former American manufacturers.
Though
Biden has routinely
claimed that NAFTA created jobs in Delaware and the
U.S., NAFTA helped to eliminate nearly
17,000 American jobs due to soaring trade deficits and China’s
entering the World Trade Organization (WTO) in his home state. NAFTA, alone,
eliminated about 1,200 American jobs in Delaware due to the U.S.-Mexico trade
deficit.
As
Breitbart News has
chronicled, decades-long free trade deals, NAFTA, and China’s entering the
WTO eliminated nearly five million manufacturing jobs across the country since
1994. Free trade advocates, like Biden, claimed at the time that NAFTA would
create a million U.S. manufacturing jobs in the first five years.
Instead,
nearly a million American jobs have been certified by the federal government as
being lost directly due to NAFTA, according to data gathered by Public Citizen.
These are only the U.S. jobs that the Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA)
program recognizes as being lost to free trade and does not indicate the actual
number of jobs lost.
This
week, Biden defended his support, once again, of NAFTA, job-killing free trade
negotiations, and his opposition to tariffs on cheap foreign imports.
“I’m
proud of my record,” Biden told local
media in Iowa.
John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Follow him on
Twitter at @JxhnBinder.
Flashback–Joe
Biden in 2007: Job-Killing NAFTA ‘Not the Problem’
30 Apr 2019189
4:46
In 2007, then-Senator Joe Biden (D-DE) defended the job-killing,
pro-outsourcing North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) years after voting
in support of the free trade deal that ultimately helped lead to the
elimination of nearly five million U.S. manufacturing jobs.
During
a December 2007 interview with SentinelSource.com, Biden
defended his support for NAFTA by claiming that the free trade deal “probably
created” more U.S. jobs than those that were lost and said the deal “wasn’t the
problem.”
Biden
said:
My
problem is … I voted for NAFTA. NAFTA in my state created more jobs
than it lost jobs coming out of my state. And you can argue that, on
balance, it probably created more American jobs than it lost.
[Emphasis added]
…
There
was dislocation. Some jobs got lost. Some jobs got created. But, again,
NAFTA wasn’t the problem. The problem became when you go beyond what these
guys are going, [the Bush administration] and it’s attitude — it’s attitude
about … and it’s an intellectually indefensible attitude. [Emphasis added]
In
Biden’s home state of Delaware, though, NAFTA helped to eliminate nearly
17,000 American jobs due to soaring trade deficits and China’s
entering the World Trade Organization (WTO). NAFTA, alone, eliminated about
1,200 American jobs in Delaware due to the U.S.-Mexico trade deficit.
Biden
said, in the same interview, that the U.S. must be engaged in “open trade”
while calling himself a “fair trader.”
“This
isn’t about saying you can’t … we should not be investing in other parts of the
world, this is not saying we should not have open trade,” Biden said. “It just
says we should have free and fair trade. I mean, literally, fair trade. And
that means you get held to the same standard.”
As
Breitbart News has
chronicled, decades-long free trade deals, NAFTA, and China’s entering the
WTO eliminated nearly five million manufacturing jobs across the country since
1994. Free trade advocates, like Biden, claimed at the time that NAFTA would
create a million U.S. manufacturing jobs in the first five years.
Instead,
nearly a million American jobs have been certified by the federal government as
being lost directly due to NAFTA, according to data gathered by Public Citizen.
These are only the U.S. jobs that the Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA)
program recognizes as being lost to free trade and does not indicate the actual
number of jobs lost.
For
example, free trade with Mexico, alone, has eliminated at least 700,000
American jobs, and states in the Rust Belt have been hit the hardest. Those
states and the number of American workers impacted include:
- 14,500 American workers displaced in Wisconsin
- 43,600 American workers displaced in Michigan
- 2,600 American workers displaced in West Virginia
- 26,300 American workers displaced in Pennsylvania
- 34,900 American workers displaced in Ohio
- 34,300 American workers displaced in New York
- 6,500 American workers displaced in Iowa
- 24,400 American workers displaced in Indiana
- 34,700 American workers displaced in Illinois
Most
famously, the state of West Virginia has been enormously crippled by free trade
and multilateral trade deals like NAFTA. One former steel town in West
Virginia lost 94
percent of its steel jobs because of NAFTA, with nearly 10,000 workers in
the town being displaced from the steel industry.
“They
talk about creating all these jobs,” an American worker told The
Independent of NAFTA. “But they’re just retail jobs that pay minimum
wage, or just above.”
This
week, Biden defended his support, once again, of NAFTA, job-killing free trade
negotiations, and his opposition to tariffs on cheap foreign imports.
“I’m
proud of my record,” Biden told local
media in Iowa.
Despite
declaring himself a defender of American union workers, Biden’s first
fundraiser for his 2020 presidential primary campaign was hosted by a slew of
wealthy donors, including attorney Steve Cozen, whose law firm specializes in
helping corporations bust up labor unions, as Breitbart News’s Matt Boyle reported.
John
Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Follow him on Twitter at @JxhnBinder.
Flashback–Biden Cozied Up to General Motors CEO Mary Barra: ‘GM
is Alive!’
26 Apr 2019387
4:42
Following former
President Obama’s billion-dollar American taxpayer bailout of multinational
automaker General Motors (GM), then-Vice President Joe Biden (D) cozied up to
CEO Mary Barra, who has since laid off thousands of
American workers and outsourced their jobs to Mexico and China.
Throughout
the 2012 presidential election cycle, Biden routinely claimed that “General
Motors is alive” following the Obama administration’s $11 billion taxpayer
bailout of the company in 2009.
Years
after the bailout, Biden and officials with the Obama administration not only
touted Barra’s leadership at GM but invited her to
the State of the Union Address in 2014 and took
photo-ops with the executive.
Today,
Barra is overseeing the layoff of thousands of American workers as GM shifts
and increases production in Mexico and China. Barra’s mass layoff effort is
stopping production at four of its U.S. plants,
including Detroit-Hamtramck and Warren Transmission in Michigan, Lordstown
Assembly in Ohio, and Baltimore Operations in Maryland.
While
GM was bailed out by U.S. taxpayers, the Obama-Biden scheme came with no
commitments for the corporation to stop outsourcing Americans’ jobs overseas.
In
2011, Hoover Institution at Stanford University research fellow Paul
Gregory noted that
despite the Obama-Biden bailout for GM, the company continued outsourcing
American jobs abroad. A 2011 report detailed GM had less than 75,000 jobs left
in the U.S. while employing more than 122,000 foreign workers overseas. At the
time, nearly two-thirds of GM’s workforce was located abroad.
Rather
than stopping GM’s outsourcing, the Obama-Biden scheme focused
much of their attention on subsidizing and promoting electric,
plug-in cars like the Chevy Volt. Last year, Barra announced that production
for the Volt, as well as the Chevy Cruze, would end.
General Motors CEO Mary Barra talks about the
company’s Corvette Stingray with Vice President Joe Biden during a tour of the
North American International Auto in Detroit, Thursday, Jan. 16, 2014. Biden
said the U.S. auto industry’s resurgence since the 2009 federal bailout
provides a strong basis for a Motor City recovery. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)
General Motors CEO Mary Barra talks with Vice
President Joe Biden during a tour of the North American International Auto in
Detroit, Thursday, Jan. 16, 2014. Biden said the U.S. auto industry’s
resurgence since the 2009 federal bailout provides a strong basis for a Motor
City recovery. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)
Last
month, Barra closed the Lordstown plant, a decision expected to result in the
layoff of more than
8,000 American workers in the area, and allegedly blamed the
United Auto Workers (UAW) for the plant’s closure. Closing the Lordstown plant
resulted in the immediate layoff of about 1,600 American workers and since
2017, GM has laid off about 4,500 American workers in Ohio. Another 900
American workers in supporting industries have been put of out work as well.
After
all four plant closures, GM’s Barra is expected to have laid off 14,700 of its
workers in the U.S. and Canada.
As
Breitbart News has
chronicled, American workers and UAW officials have debunked Barra’s claim
that the union is at fault for the Lordstown plant closure. Details emerged
this month revealing that the UAW accepted nearly $120 million a year in
concessions to keep the Lordstown plant open. When workers and UAW officials
heard of Barra’s announcement last year, they say they were stunned.
“We
did everything they want,” longtime GM worker Sonja Smith told Bloomberg
News. “This is their payback.”
Simultaneously,
UAW officials have voiced
support for Trump in his effort to reopen the Lordstown plant and
keep open GM’s other three plants slated for closure by Barra.
Experts
have called on Trump to implement a 25 percent auto tariff to protect
American auto worker jobs and the U.S. auto industry from Chinese domination.
Likewise, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), vying for the Democrat nomination for
president, has told Trump to immediately
ban GM from receiving federal contracts for their outsourcing,
offshoring, and mass layoff scheme.
While
GM lays off thousands of American workers this year, its production in Mexico
and China is ramping up.
Specifically, GM is looking to manufacture an electric Cadillac in
China and continue manufacturing its Envision compact vehicle
in China.
The
made-in-Mexico Chevrolet Blazer will soon arrive in
U.S. markets. Last year, GM became the largest automaker in Mexico as it has
cut jobs in America and increased production in Mexico.
Offshoring
production to Mexico has proven cheaper for GM executives because American
workers earn about $30 an hour while Mexican workers earn about $3 an hour, a
90 percent cut to wages that widens the corporation’s profit margins. Meanwhile,
Barra continues to earn a salary of about $22 million.
Biden’s
first fundraiser for his 2020 presidential primary campaign was hosted by a
slew of wealthy donors, including attorney Steve Cozen whose law firm
specializes in helping corporations bust up labor unions, as Breitbart News’
Matt Boyle reported.
John
Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Follow him on Twitter at @JxhnBinder.
Flashback–Biden:
U.S. Needs More H-1B Foreign Workers for Corporations
17 Jun 2019162
3:44
In 2013, then-Vice President Joe Biden
advocated for bringing more H-1B foreign visa workers to the United States to
compete against American graduates and professionals in high-paying science,
technology, and engineering jobs.
Biden
told attendees of the Export-Import Bank’s 2013 Annual Conference that not
only did the U.S. need to bring more H-1B foreign visa workers to the country
for corporations, but that foreign students graduating from American
universities should “literally” be given green cards to permanently stay in the
U.S.
Biden
said:
We
also think its essential to reform the immigration system. Every year … our
university system generates roughly 40,000 people with PhDs and master degrees
in areas of science and technology that we need and we make sure that they’re
promptly escorted back to their country. At the very same time, we’re
spending hundreds of millions of dollars on STEM education. It makes no
sense in my humble opinion. [Emphasis added]
Sending them back to their country denies them a visa even when they have a
job waiting for them. Instead of sending them home, we should be a
stamping a green card on their diploma as they walk across the stage.
Literally, I mean this literally, not figuratively, literally. If they have
a job here, they should be able to stay here. We should want them here.
[Emphasis added]
Ladies
and gentlemen, we’ve also proposed adding additional H-1B visas so that
American employers can hire the best and the brightest no matter where they
come from if they can’t be found here. [Emphasis added]
Every year, more than 100,000
foreign workers are brought to the U.S. on the H-1B visa and are allowed to
stay for up to six years. There are about 650,000 H-1B visa foreign workers in the U.S. at any given moment. Americans
are often laid off in the
process and forced to train their foreign replacements, as highlighted by Breitbart
News. Nearly 70 percent of all H-1B
visas are rewarded to Indian nationals.
More than 85,000 Americans annually
potentially lose their jobs to foreign labor through the H-1B visa
program. Oftentimes, importing a foreign worker on the H-1B visa is the
first step in a multinational corporations’ effort to outsource the American
job, as the foreign worker arrives in the U.S., is trained in the job, and then
is eventually sent back overseas with the job.
While Biden advocated for more labor
market competition against America’s professionals and graduates, foreign
workers have already crowded out Americans in the tech hub of Silicon Valley,
California.
Analysis conducted last year reveal
that 71 percent of tech workers in Silicon Valley are foreign-born, while the tech
industry in the San Francisco, Oakland, and Hayward area is made up of 50
percent foreign-born tech workers.
Last year, U.S. businesses and
corporations attempted to outsource nearly
420,000 American jobs to foreigners through the H-1B visa program — a number
that outpaces the population of Tampa, Florida.
As Breitbart
News previously reported, more than 2.7
million H-1B foreign workers have been approved to come to the U.S. to take
American jobs between 2007 and 2017. During that same period, businesses tried
to outsource almost 3.5 million American jobs to foreign workers instead of
hiring Americans.
About four million young Americans
enter the workforce each year, many looking for white-collar jobs in the STEM
fields. Those Americans’ prospects of finding work are crippled by the
country’s legal immigration process, which admits more than 1.5 million
immigrants and hundreds of thousands of foreign visa workers annually.
John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Follow him on
Twitter at @JxhnBinder.
Josh
Hawley: Bush’s Globalist ‘New World Order’ Has Made the Elites Rich, Eroded
‘Middle Class Way of Life’
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3:22
President George H.W. Bush’s plan for a “New World Order” with global
integration of the United States’ economy has made the ruling class richer
while eroding “the middle class way of life” in America, Sen. Josh Hawley
(R-MO) says.
In an interview on The Realignment podcast,
Hawley described how the
long-held push by both political establishments to massively globalize the
American economy has been at the expense of U.S. workers while the ruling class
and their allies in the donor class have profited.
Hawley said:
If I have to give you a sense of the
kind of vision that I think voters rejected, President Bush … gave a
speech to Congress in 1990 where he talked about a ‘New World Order,’ and
he was saying this of the situation in the context with Iraq, but he
talked broadly about a ‘New global liberal order’ that of course America would
lead, that it would involve America making the world much more like America and
the rest of the world kind of blending in with America … and
there wouldn’t be the need for hard borders any longer, and we’d have free
trade, and we’d have great multinational cooperation, and we’d have
these multinational corporations that can do business in any country, and it
would be a whole new era. [Emphasis added]
Well, as it turns out —
first of all, China and Russia didn’t get the memo on that — secondly, as it
turns out, that ‘New World Order’ wasn’t good for American workers. And as
it turned out, it didn’t protect American middle class values. As
it turned out, it undermined the middle class way of life.
[Emphasis added]
Hawley said the ruling class is
primarily a “small group of people” from a “fairly narrow band of colleges and graduate
schools” who largely agree on the most challenging issues facing the nation and
oppose the traditionalism of middle American communities.
“They also tend to be the winners of
this global integration. George Bush’s ‘New World Order,’ the people who have
been in charge of the parties who run the media, who hold commanding heights in
our culture; they win from that agreement,” Hawley said of the ruling class.
“They’re doing great; they are the wealthy in our society. They are the ones
who are globally integrated and global facing.”
Hawley continued:
They also tend to be skeptical of
places like Missouri and of things like home and community. So they say that
they value those things, but you listen to somebody … and somebody says, “I’m
not going to move from this small town even though I’m having trouble finding a
job because my family is here and because this is where we’ve lived for
generations and this is where my friends are and I want to make a life here.” A
lot of D.C. elites in both parties listen to that and they’re like, “That’s
crazy.”
As Breitbart News has chronicled, free trade has
helped gut working and middle class American jobs and stripped whole middle
American towns of their industries and livelihoods.
Since the North American Free Trade
Agreement (NAFTA) was signed and China was allowed to enter the World Trade
Organization (WTO), five million American
manufacturing jobs and more than 50,000 manufacturing facilities have been
eliminated from the U.S. economy. This mass elimination of jobs due to
free trade has coincided with an almost 600 percent increase in trade deficits.
In recent years, the economic
recovery from the Great Recession disproportionately benefitted elite zip
codes. For example, by 2016, elite zip codes had a surplus of 3.6 million
jobs, which is more than the combined bottom 80 percent of American zip codes.
While populations have grown in major cities where the wealthiest of Americans
live, rural communities have continued to shrink.
John
Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Follow him on Twitter at @JxhnBinder.
Amy
Klobuchar Hides Her Support for Exporting College Graduate Jobs to India
14 Feb 20201
9:36
Democrat Sen. Amy Klobuchar is touting her support for amnesty
and easy migration of blue-collar workers — but she is hiding her support for
laws that allow employers to hire foreign graduates for the white-collar jobs
needed by Klobuchar’s college graduate progressive voters.
“We
know that immigrants don’t diminish America, they are America,” she told a
February 13 event in Nevada organized by the League of United Latin American
Citizens. She continued:
We also know that we need
workers in our fields, in our factories, to start more small businesses, in our
nursing homes, working as doctors, and [in] our hospitals and [as] nurses. So I
think that economic case … is the case I’ve been making in every state. …. In
nearly every town hall meeting, I would bring up immigration, because I just
think it’s so important for people, even in states that don’t have big Hispanic
communities, to start thinking of it as an economic imperative.
Klobuchar has a long history
of support for white-collar migration, despite the impact on college voters in
her home state.
In
2015, for example, Klobuchar backed a bill by then GOP Utah Sen. Orin Hatch
that would allow universities and companies to cooperatively import an
unlimited number of foreign graduates for the jobs sought by American
graduates. ComputerWorld reported:
Technically, the bill is a
reintroduction of the earlier “I-Square” bill, but it includes enough revisions
to be considered new. It increases the H-1B visa cap to 195,000 (instead of an
earlier 300,000 cap), and eliminates the cap on people who earn an advanced
degree in a STEM (science, technology, education and math) field.
Hatch, who is the No. 2
ranking senator in the GOP-controlled chamber, was joined by co-sponsors Amy
Klobuchar (D-Minn.), Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), Chris Coons (D-Del.), Jeff Flake
(R-Ariz.) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) in backing the legislation.
…
“This bill is basically a
wish list for the tech industry,” said [EPI’s Daniel] Costa.
In
2020, Klobuchar is also sponsoring the updated version of
the Hatch bill. The bill, titled S.386, is being championed by Utah GOP Sen.
Mike Lee. His bill would not change the overall number of green cards for
foreign employees, but it would roughly quintuple the award of green cards to
the unlimited number of temporary status Indians graduates who can take jobs
from American graduates via the Optional Practical Training, L-1, and the
H-1B programs.
The
resident population of roughly one million Indian graduates has created a
U.S.-India Outsourcing Economy throughout the U.S economy, which
pushes many American graduates out of good jobs. The outsourcing economy
has imposed Indian-style
workplace rules on Americans’ professional workplaces, despite U.S. laws
against discrimination, favoritism, and kickbacks.
Klobuchar’s support for
middle class outsourcing is a fundamental economic threat to her own voting
base of white-collar college graduates.
She
came in third in the New Hampshire primary race partly because she won the
biggest share of college voters, according to the exit
polls. She
won 25 percent of the votes from college grad Democrats, narrowly beating the
shares won by Sen. Bernie Sanders and Mayor Pete Buttigieg. But she only won 14
percent of blue-collar votes, far behind Sanders’ share of 31 percent and
Buttigieg’s share of 24 percent.
But the victims of this Indian
outsourcing include many young, mid-career and older graduates in her home
state of Minnesota.
Numerous
Indian-run, Indian-staffed outsourcing firms have set up satellite offices in
Minnesota. They include Infosys, Cognizant, Tata, Larsen & Toubro Wipro,
IBM India, and IBM, which recently appointed an
Indian CEO to run the firm.
The
federal data showing the H-1B job losses are presented MyVisaJObs.com. The site shows the number
of H-1B visa workers requested by Minnesota employers to take jobs that would
otherwise go to Americans.
In
2019, Minnesota-based Best Buy asked for visas to
import 59 foreign graduates, at expected annual pay of $113,000.
Minnesota-based Target sought 288 visas for
jobs paying an average of $124,000. Cargill
Inc.
asked for 23 visa workers for jobs paying $117,000, the University
of Minnesota asked for 245 graduates at an average pay of $80,000
and Medtronic asked for 263 graduates
at an average pay of $99,000.
SAITJ.org displays the same
data from 2017, and it shows that half of the requested workers would earn less
than $70,000 a year, while 14 percent would earn more than $100,000.
The
outsourcing economy also hits older workers. In 2007, for example, Minnesota’s
Best Buy retail company settled a lawsuit by American workers who were replaced
by H-1B workers from the Accenture consulting company, according to
ComputerWorld’s report:
Best
Buy Co. this month quietly settled an age
discrimination lawsuit filed in 2004 by 44 former IT [Information Technology]
workers who had been laid off, most of them after the electronics retailer
outsourced its IT operations to Accenture Ltd. earlier that year.
“The matter has been resolved
on a mutual basis,” said Stephen Snyder, a Minneapolis attorney who represented
the former Best Buy employees. Neither Snyder nor officials at the retailer
would comment on the details of the settlement deal approved by a U.S. District
Court judge in Minnesota.
When the outsourcing deal was
announced, Best Buy told its 820 IT workers that only about 40 of them would
remain with the retailer. About 650 others were expected to be shifted to
Accenture and continue working at Best Buy’s offices, while the remaining 130
or so workers were told their jobs would be eliminated.
Mid-career professionals also
lose out.
“She’s the ‘Minnesota nice’
version of [Democrat Rep.] Zoe Lofgren … [who is] the congresswoman from
Silicon who is a complete foreign-labor dumping shill,” said a Minnesota-born
software professional who has lost jobs to Indian outsourcing. He continued:
In 2004, I’m in Chicago, on
the near-north side, near one of the restaurant districts, and this Indian guy
comes up to me and asks me for directions. It turns out I end up talking to him
for two hours or so, him and his sister. He told me he is working at the Best
Buy headquarters in Richview, Minneapolis … He explained how he was told by a
manager to lie to an American programmer, tell him there was no more work — but
to [secretly] shift work overseas [to India]. The American looked at him and
said, ‘What am I supposed to do? I have a mortgage and I have a baby on the
way.”
If [the Indan] did not play
ball, he was going to be on the first plane back to India.
“Klobuchar knows about this
[outsourcing[… she is complicit,’ he said.
The Indian outsourcing has
accelerated in the last decade, partly because Klobuchar and other politicians
protect the business — and even used the 2013 “Gang of Eight” amnesty bill to
expand the flow of visa workers and foreign graduates. Klobuchar reiterated her
support of the 2013 bill at the Nevada event:
I have been a long supporter
of comprehensive immigration reform. I think that is the best answer and in
2013, we did, and as I mentioned, when President [George W.] Bush was in and he
really wanted to get it done. And we got close, but we had a lot of pushback
actually from right-wing talk radio and other things.
Then it got to President
[Barack] Obama’s time, and he wanted to get it done too. And in 2013, we put
together a bill that was supported both by the Chamber of Commerce and the AFL
CIO, by the migrant groups as well as the Farm Bureau and the farmers union.
And we got that through [the Senate] with bipartisan support. I was on the
judiciary committee, am on that committee and worked on that bill hard, and
then it died somewhere over in the House, next to the frozen peas in [House
Speaker] John Boehner’s freezer, I don’t know. It never got through, and it was
a very sad thing because we had such bipartisan support.
Klobuchar’s opponent, Sen.
Sanders, opposed the 2013 bill:
Klobuchar promises to push
for a similar bill
if she is elected President:
I am convinced that we can
get this done. I think a lot of the Republicans do not want to cross Donald
Trump right now. But there are a lot of them that know that we need to get it
done. I am committed to getting it done in my first year. I’m not gonna wait
because that would have a path to citizenship, as well as do something of
course with the ‘dreamers’ and give them citizenship, as well as dealing with
temporary status workers.
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