guest workers

Dan Griswold of Cato peddles more guest workers snake oil (2009 version) - 11/17/2009

... incredibly anti- and un-American guest workers program, one that would have reduced previously middle-class wages by flooding the labor market with lower-wage, skilled foreign labor (video here: peekURL.com/vsaprax). Now, Griswold offers "Will Democrats err in immigration reforms?" (link), complaining that in her recent speech Janet Napolitano didn't call for a guest workers progra...

Helen Krieble's absurd Red Card "Temporary" Workers "Solution" - 6/23/2009

... Armey - has been pushing her own guest workers plan for a few years. Now, apparently she wants to give it yet another try and has come out with the "Red Card" scheme, which is similar to the plan offered a few years ago by Mike Pence. In a word, her plan is absurd: it's divorced from our present reality, completely failing to take into account all the things that could and would go...

McCain won't support union-driven immigration "reform" push; other uncertainties - 4/19/2009

Change to Win and the AFL CIO recently joined forces to promote comprehensive immigration reform. Now. per this, John McCain says: "The current plan being developed by the administration and organized labor calls for immigration reform that does not adequately address either securing the border or a legal temporary worker program and is a plan I cannot support... We need to act on the pressin...

Josh Marshall /TPMTV misleads about Michelle Bachmann - 3/24/2009

It's apparently open season on Michelle Bachmann [1], so TPM TV - run by Josh Marshall [2] - offers the attached misleading video entitled "The Bachmann Effect". Leaving the other two segments aside, the middle segment takes her comments out of context and shows how little Marshall/TPM understand about immigration issues. The middle segment features part of a debate she conducted wi...

Texas gov Rick Perry: no full fence, yes to anchor babies, guest workers - 12/09/2006

From this: ...Republican Gov. Rick Perry earned applause from the crowd [at a meeting of the Texas Border Coalition] when he said strategic fencing along the border makes sense but the idea of a complete wall or fence is "preposterous." Instead, he wants the federal government to establish a guest-worker program that will allow the government to track workers, he said. ...Perry wa...

Consul: we both want a "legal, orderly and humane flow of people" - 9/27/2006

It was a canard fest at Ohlone College in Fremont (Bay Area, CA) on Tuesday as Mexican Consul General Alfonso de Maria y Campos spoke about illegal immigration. All of his statements have been heard many times before from both Mexicans and Americans. And, Angela Woodall of The Argus (part of the ANG Newspapers group) served only as a transcription service. If - and it doesn't seem likely - sh...

Dick Armey, Kay Bailey Hutchison, Mike Pence, and Helen Krieble do lunch - 9/26/2006

From their press release: FreedomWorks Foundation sponsored a luncheon for Capitol Hill staffers to discuss immigration reform that will balance both security and economic concerns. In particular, the forum will examine options for strengthening our borders while establishing procedures that provide law-abiding workers a legitimate path to the American workplace. FreedomWorks chairman and form...

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