I would add that it is not only low wage workers that till be hurt. 'Immigration reform' will deliver a crushing blow to traditionally higher wage STEM workers. It will unleash a flood of workers at every wage level: low, high, and in between.


Sessions to Republicans: GOP Elite View on Immigration Is 'Nonsense'
11:00 AM, Jul 29, 2013 • By DANIEL HALPER

In a sharp memo sent this morning to fellow Republicans on Capitol Hill, Senator Jeff Sessions argues that the GOP elite view on immigration--shared by President Barack Obama and Senator Chuck Schumer--is "nonsense." Instead, Sessions, the ranking member of the Senate Budget Committee, advises his fellow Republicans to adopt a "humble and honest populism."
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Here's a copy of the full memo:

Memo: How The GOP Can Do The Right Thing On Immigration—And Win
July 29, 2013
To: Republican Colleagues
From: Ranking Member Jeff Sessions

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- 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. 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.
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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.” 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?
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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.
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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. His 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. Our goal: higher wages, more and better jobs, smaller household bills, and a solemn determination to aid those struggling towards the goal of achieving financial independence.


http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/sess...nse_741141.html

Some of these republicans are more afraid of re-election than the American job problem. Everything they do is geared to their own interest.

Thank God for an old lion like Senator Jeff Sessions! I wish that we had 40 more of him in that body, it wouldn't be the corrupt cesspool that it is now.

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Sessions to Republicans: GOP Elite View on Immigration Is 'Nonsense'

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Their views on everything are nonsense Jeff. Know why? Because they are a bunch of Progressive hacks that have become indistinguishable from the Rats.

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Sessions to Republicans: GOP Elite View on Immigration Is 'Nonsense'

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Their views on everything are nonsense Jeff. Know why? Because they are a bunch of Progressive hacks that have become indistinguishable from the Rats.

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Amen to that! I know a lot of people that vote republican and they're fed up with the republicans that have been in Washington for years and years, never getting anything done, never putting their state ahead of their own ambitions.

I wouldn't be surprised if we don't have a third party rise up in the next few years. It would probably keep the democrats in office but it's bound to happen sooner or later.
Like you said, it's hard to tell the parties apart anymore.

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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," Sessions writes in conclusion

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That an idea - restore constitutional order and serve te interest of the American worker and taxpayer !!!

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I wouldn't be surprised if we don't have a third party rise up in the next few years. It would probably keep the democrats in office but it's bound to happen sooner or later.
Like you said, it's hard to tell the parties apart anymore.

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[quote=Frank Cannon|p50417]

I wouldn't be surprised if we don't have a third party rise up in the next few years. It would probably keep the democrats in office but it's bound to happen sooner or later.
Like you said, it's hard to tell the parties apart anymore.

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I actually see something else happening. People are voting with their feet and moving to places with more freedom. Here in PA we have had a constant stream of folks who left NJ because it sucks and now we have NY staters moving here for the same reasons. Look at all the people who left CA. I also see local govt's in these areas becoming more right of center because of it. 2012 was a bad year for national GOP candidates, but we did quite well in the states. Instead of a 3rd party forming, I see GOP base voters continuing what they are doing. Ignoring the phoney Karl Rove approved candidates all together by abstaining from voting and people focusing on local races. In the end, the GOP national party will be a grave yard of failure that will be ripe for a Conservative take over in a couple election cycles because the GOPe will be dead and discredited.

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I've never understood why so much money is spent on education when we graduate seniors that can't read.

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