Summary (posts follow):
A group of businesses dedicated to pushing comprehensive immigration reform, aka amnesty. Headed by Laura Reiff. Current or former co-chairman is Randel Johnson, also of the US Chamber of Commerce. A co-director is/was John Gay of the National Restaurant Association.
As of 06/25/2007 this was their list of members (from ewic.org/Membershiplist.asp, which as of 6/24/10 no longer exists):
* American Health Care Association
* American Hotel and Lodging Association
* American Immigration Lawyers Association
* American Meat Institute
* American Nursery and Landscape Association
* American Road and Transportation Builders Association
* American Staffing Association
* American Subcontractors Association, Inc.
* Associated Builders and Contractors
* Associated General Contractors
* Building Service Contractors Association International
* California Landscape Contractors Association
* California Professional Association of Specialty Contractors (CALPASC)
* Carlson Hotels Worldwide and Radisson
* Carlson Restaurants Worldwide and TGI Friday's
* Farm Equipment Wholesalers Association
* Federation of Employers and Workers of America
* First Data
* Golf Course Superintendents Association of America
* Harborside Healthcare Corporation
* Ingersoll Rand
* International Association of Amusement Parks and Attractions
* International Franchise Association
* Marriott International, Inc.
* Mason Contractors Association of America
* Nath Companies
* National Association for Home Care
* National Association of Chain Drug Stores
* National Association of Home Builders
* National Association of RV Parks and Campgrounds
* National Chicken Council
* National Club Association
* National Council of Chain Restaurants
* National Restaurant Association
* National Retail Federation
* National Roofing Contractors Association
* National Tooling and Machining Association
* National Wooden Pallet and Container Association
* Outdoor Amusement Business Association
* Pilgrims Pride Corporation
* Plumbing-Heating-Cooling Contractors - National Association
* Professional Landcare Network
* Retail Industry Leaders Association
* Small Business and Entrepreneurship Council
* Society of American Florists
* The Brickman Group, Ltd.
* Travel Business Roundtable
* Travel Industry Association of America
* Tree Care Industry Association
* Truckload Carriers Association
* Tyson Foods, Inc.
* United Fresh Produce Association
* US Chamber of Commerce
Last modified Jun 24, 2010
Earlier today, Janet Napolitano of the Department of Homeland Security held a closed-door meeting with a group of what she calls "stakeholders" (dhs.gov/ynews/releases/pr_1250792978709.shtm) but was actually a vast pantheon (see below) of far-left, racial power, corrupt business, and in general loose borders groups all of which want some form of comprehensive immigration reform, aka amnesty....
... H2B Workforce Coalition and the Essential Worker Immigration Coalition and is a project of Grover Norquist's "Americans for Tax Reform". So, let's take a look at it.
... to have spent anything on the Essential Worker Immigration Coalition, but they had no less than twelve lobbyists listed as handling immigration including their president Tom Donohue and executive VP Bruce Josten. In addition to just general lobbying for comprehensive immigration reform, they also list the following bills from the 110th Congress that haven't yet been re-introduced in the 111th as...
... business organization members of the Essential Worker Immigration Coalition signed a letter warning of "uncertainties, disruptions, and dislocations throughout broad swaths of the workforce," as well as discrimination against Hispanic and immigrant workers.
DHS spokeshole Russ Knocke says they'll fight the lawsuit "vigorously", something I tend to doubt since Chertoff and Bush are on the same...
... word that Laura Reiff of the Essential Worker Immigration Coalition tried to block funding for the recently announced supposed push by the DHS to enforce the Social Security number no-match regulations. They apparently didn't find anyone willing to help them out, so, together with attorney Monica Guizar from the National Immigration Law Center, they're trying a new tack:
Among the ideas under...
... And Laura Reiff, cochair of the Essential Worker Immigration Coalition, a business group that worked with the White House last year on the guest-worker proposals, called the measure "entirely unworkable."
And, from this:
"For us it's a no go," said Angela Kelley, deputy director of the advocacy group National Immigration Forum...
"President Bush said family values don't stop at the Rio...
... status," said Laura Reiff, of the Essential Worker Immigration Coalition, which represents service industries. "We haven't ruled a Pence-like touchback completely out of the question, but it would need to be an efficient, functional process."
The EWIC is a bit more than that, including among their members the American Immigration Lawyers Association, First Data (former owners of Western Union),...
... Randel Johnson, co-chairman of the Essential Worker Immigration Coalition, a business group lobbying to expand the guest worker program. "When an employer can't find an American worker to fill a job, the economy is helped if the employer can find someone else."
Critics, including many labor unions and immigrant groups, say employers exaggerate the labor shortage because they are eager for...
... lobbyists...
Those lobbyists include the Essential Worker Immigration Coalition (EWIC) and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
In particular, EWIC and the chamber have taken a leading role in drafting the section of the bill dealing with work-site enforcement, Senate staffers say. Lobbyists in both organizations have shuttled around Capitol Hill drafts of those provisions, which are supposed to...
... National Immigration Forum)
Essential Worker Immigration Coalition: $180,000
Chicago Celts for Immigration Reform: less than $10,000
Via this Dan Stein says:
Representatives of the Essential Workers [Immigration] Coalition (see their member roster: Essential Workers [Immigration] Coalition) and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce have asserted that they have successfully sabotaged implementation of a proposed DHS regulation which would require employers who receive 'no-match' letters from the Social Security Administration to...
... Association and co-director of the Essential Worker Immigration Coalition, made up of trade organizations for industries that depend on immigrant labor.
Unnamed aides say that Nancy Pelosi, unlike Harry Reid, is on the fence:
Many new House Democrats supported new border security restrictions on the campaign trail, which could complicate matters politically for Pelosi, even though lobbyists...
... identified as "co-chair of the Essential Worker Immigration Coalition". The latter group is at ewic.org. Their membership consists of a large number of big business advocacy organizations, together with... the American Immigration Lawyers Association. In the "small world, eh" dep't, there's also a link between the AILA and Rep. Chris Cannon.
[2] Lee Culpepper is also Chairman of the National...
... FARMWORKER OPPORTUNITY PROGRAMS (AFOP)
ESSENTIAL WORKER IMMIGRATION COALITION
A. DUDA & SONS
AL FRENCH, FORMER USDA DIRECTOR OF AG LABOR RELATIONS
NATIONAL IMMIGRATION FORUM
CAMPAIGN FOR LABOR RIGHTS
NATIONAL MIGRANT AND SEASONAL HEAD START ASSOCIATION
FOR OUR GRANDCHILDREN
GULF HARVESTING, INC.
LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE ON CIVIL RIGHTS (LCCR)
MOARK LLC
MAFO
NORTHEAST FARM CREDIT REGIONAL...