Saturday, June 29, 2013

Immigration Bill Penalizes Hiring of Americans

A few years ago, my son, desperate for employment, visited a Strawberry field to ask about employment as a strawberry picker, and was turned away because he can't speak Spanish fluently. . . 

Ted Cruz Exposes the Amnesty Bill… $5000 Penalty for Hiring Citizens Over Legalized Aliens… SERIOUSLY!!!

We can’t possibly expect our Senators to read a 1200 page bill before voting on it. Can we? Well Thank God Ted Cruz read it. Not only did Cruz read it but he schooled anyone who would listen from the Senate floor on Tuesday. Cruz found a loophole that actually penalizes an employer $5000 for hiring a citizen over a legalized alien. Seriously. You can’t make this stuff up. Senator Cruz was quoted as saying:

“I filed an amendment that would have corrected one of the most egregious aspects of the gang of eight bill as it intersects with Obamacare legislation, namely a penalty imposed on U.S. employers for hiring U.S. citizens and U.S. permanent residents. This bill says if an employer hires a citizen or a legal immigrant, the IRS can impose a $5,000 penalty on that employer. But if the employer instead hires someone with RPI status, that penalty will go away. That is utterly and completely indefensible.”

“Nobody in this body wants to see African-American unemployment go up. Nobody wants to see Hispanic unemployment go up, youth unemployment go up, union household unemployment go up, legal immigrant unemployment go up. Yet every one of those will happen if this Gang of Eight bill passes without fixing this problem. If that happens, all 100 members of the U.S. Senate will be accountable to our constituents for explaining why we voted to put a federal penalty on hiring U.S. citizens and hiring legal immigrants. I hope this body will choose to pass my amendment and fix this grave defect in the Gang of Eight legislation.”


PALIN: IMMIGRATION BILL TARGETS AMERICAN WORKERS

On Sunday, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin denounced the Senate's immigration bill in an exclusive opinion piece for Breitbart News. One week before that, though, Palin laid out a promise and a warning to her own party in a speech to the Faith and Freedom Coalition conference in Washington, D.C. She said Americans do not deserve the exceptional country its founding fathers left them if they do not keep faith with the working class. And she said that that faith would be lost if the the Gang of Eight's bill, passed by the Senate on Thursday, became law.

Her words are especially important as the immigration fight heads to the House, where Republican leaders have signaled they want "action" even if they do not take up the Senate bill.

At the Faith and Freedom Coalition, Palin said the voices of those in America's working class "can reach millions of other patriots of all races, color, and creed who also value the dignity and opportunity of freedom."

"They are the brave, having kept faith with everything we love about this land of the free," Palin said. "And we will have no hope of reclaiming this country and we will deserve it even less if we fail to keep faith with them."

Palin warned, "That is the message our leaders, especially those leaders in the GOP, need to understand...You do not marginalize, you do not discredit and dismiss everyday, average hard-working Americans."

Not even 24 hours after Palin spoke, Ryan Lizza, a reporter for the liberal New Yorker magazine, revealed on June 16 that staff for Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL), the leading face behind the push for "comprehensive immigration reform," denigrated American workers, adopting the mentality of the donors and chamber of commerce fervently backing the immigration bill.

As Breitbart News wrote, two members of Sen. Marco Rubio's (R-FL) staff disparaged American workers to Lizza, telling him there are American workers who "just can't cut it" across "every sector." Days later, a devastating Congressional Budget Office report concluded that the Senate's immigration bill would lower wages and raise the unemployment rate in an economy that is nowhere near healthy.

-- Political Pistachio Conservative News and Commentary

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