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YES We CAN – Reform Immigration NOW!
Hey Republicans — President Obama today (6/30/2014) just threw down the Immigration gauntlet…slapped the GOP with a glove…and called them OUT!
Yes…yes, yeesss! (Excuse me! I’m having a shampoo commercial/Herbal Essences moment, aka – a when Harry met Sally moment.) Meanwhile, the Tea Party and it’s splinter group, the Republicans, are having major and frequent Maalox moments…
Tea party supporters are practically FOAMING at the mouth…and spewing vitriol and hate. EXAMPLE…
I left this comment on the Chicago Tribune website (yesterday) June 29, 2014.
THE Executive Order 22-million shadow immigrants are waiting for…
THE Executive Order 50-thousand young U.S. born Hispanics who turn 18 every MONTH – (plus thousands MORE from other immigrant groups) are waiting for…
Rallying cry for Immigrant Voters: Legalize my relatives NOW!!!
I BELIEVE that cowardly republicans should bring the Immigration Bill to the floor of the House for a vote.
I also BELIEVE that these 50-thousand young U.S. born Hispanics who turn 18 every MONTH and the thousands MORE from other immigrant groups who have mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers, cousins, uncles, aunts, grandparents who are undocumented – should IMMEDIATELY register to vote on behalf of their loved ones.
Vote, vote, vote – remember the power of the ballot.
If any Congressman is BLOCKING Immigration Reform, young immigrant voters need to MAKE THEIR VOICE HEARD LOUD AND CLEAR.
Legalize my relative NOW…
HERE IS HOW ONE TEA PARTY “CHRISTIAN” RESPONDED:
Fucking freeloading unasimilating non English speaking uneducated disrespectful and American hating pieces of shit. Not just republicans who hate the illegals. Just as many democrats do as well, except they lie and tell you something else. Illegal is illegal is still. Illegal.
And they wonder WHY the majority of Hispanics, Asians, other immigrants and blacks hate them right back — and DON’T vote for them!
All this month I’ve been suggesting, hinting, begging President Obama…
It is time for DAFFA: Deferred Action for Families…of Dreamers.
I mean he IS signing Executive Orders against gay/transgender workplace discrimination…and to ease student debt, so I asked: BUT I DON’T SEE YOU SIGNING AN ORDER FOR IMMIGRATION REFORM. Why?
TODAY finally…finally, finally…AN answer!!!
Thank you.
Please take Executive Action to at least legalize the families of Dreamers and make DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) PERMANENT. Immigration activists, business leaders, the national Association of Evangelicals, other religious groups, law enforcement AND the MAJORITY of Americans (unlike the Tea Party extremists) realize that:
- This status quo of 22-million people living anonymously in the shadows – living under the radar, unknown, unchecked – is NOT acceptable and cannot be allowed to continue.
- That we cannot have this influx of kids crossing the border. More than 50-thousand children since October 2013. Some are as young as 2-years old, crossing the border, often alone. Come on! This is a humanitarian crisis. What if these were 2-year-old American kids crossing into Mexico, alone, heading to Central America?
- It should NOT take 10-years for LEGAL immigrants to wait to come to America.
- The Immigration system overall NEEDS to be fixed – illegal immigration is just ONE part of an unworkable, unwieldy BROKEN system.
Imagine rounding up, arresting, detaining and deporting 22-million people…or having them self-deport a la Mitt Romney. Many of these undocumented immigrants also have U.S. born kids who are U.S citizens.
Employers, farmers agree that Americans WILL NOT do the jobs (picking lettuce, strawberries, watermelons, janitorial work, child and elderly care, cooking, janitorial, picking factory orders etc.) that many undocumented people do.
Employers have tried to get Americans to do these jobs, but they come on day one and by day two DO NOT SHOW UP. According to newspaper reports…In 2011, after the Georgia legislature led by Republican Governor Nathan Deal passed a tough immigration bill, Hispanic farm workers fled the state.
Deal decided to use prisoners to pick field crops but many inmates walked off the job early. Farmers in Georgia lost millions of dollars because crops that rotted in the field before they could be harvested. Not even PRISONERS want to do these jobs! It is apparently more cushy in the jail than in the fields. Undocumented Immigrants though are classified as lazy by Republicans!
The Tea Party wants to deport and demonize the Dream Kids who were raised here from babies and toddlers and educated in America; to send them back, instead of letting them become the doctors, lawyers, teachers, nurses and scientists we need. Meantime, our minority native-born kids are being locked up behind bars…while thousands of high-tech jobs go unfilled. Answer: let’s issue 65-thousand H-1B visas each year, get high-tech foreign adults (er, Americans) from India, Pakistan and other countries to come fill those jobs instead.
I don’t know what to do about the influx of kids across the border NOW, but I know if the House had passed Immigration Reform last July, we would NOT be having this crisis today!
Mr. President, take executive action NOW! Nothing you do, Mr. President will PLEASE the GOP, so WHY antagonize YOUR base? You deported and where did THAT get you? the title “Deporter-In-Chief” and NOT even the floor of the House for a vote!
Extend DACA to parents of Dreamers. Show Hispanics, Immigrant advocates your good faith – THEN, after the November elections, push more reforms. Forget about Boehner and his faux “lawsuits” there’s nothing about the “law” in his motivation.
He’s on his way out…and he knows it. And if he DOES cry his way back as House Speaker, he will remain a yo-yo between the handful of remaining main-stream Republicans (the rock) and the Tea Party (a hard place!). 
We need an Executive order to MAKE DACA PERMANENT – AND OFFER THE SAME PROTECTION TO THE PARENTS OF DREAMERS.
That will remove the stumbling block to wider Immigration Reform and let the process move on. YES OBAMA – YES WE CAN. SI, SE PUEDE, SE PUEDE, SE PUEDE! Ahora!
USE “Discharge Petition”: Pass Immigration Reform
What is a Discharge Petition…and can it help with Immigration Reform?
According to online encyclopedia -Wiki:
A discharge petition is a means of bringing a bill out of committee and to the floor for consideration without a report from the committee and usually without cooperation of the leadership.
BLUE: Democratic (201) RED: Republican (234)
Discharge Petitions are most often associated with the U.S. House of Representatives, though many state legislatures have similar procedures. They are used when the chair of a committee refuses to place a bill or resolution on the committee’s agenda (keeping the bill in committee without ever bringing it to the full House for a vote).
A successful petition “discharges” the committee from further consideration of a bill or resolution and brings it directly to the floor. The modern discharge petition requires the signature of an absolute majority of House members (218 members).
House Republicans have 33 MORE seats – but they’re using that slim majority to CONTROL the agenda – when a Majority Vote would pass the legislation. If Republicans kill Immigration Reform – all Democrats need are 34 seats to regain the majority. 2014 Mid Term elections – just 14 months away…
Now powerful backers of Immigration Reform like the AFL-CIO and (the one I love the best) pro-reform organization America’s Voice think a Discharge Petition may just be the way to get the issue to the floor of the U.S House of Representatives…
Republican House Speaker John Boehner caved in to Tea Party pressure and has INSISTED that any immigration bill must have the support of a majority of his fellow Republicans in the House.
John Boehner:
Boehner is trying to protect his job as Speaker (over protecting the wishes of America) by BOWING DOWN to the extremist, racist Tea Party wing of the GOP (the ones who HATE President Obama because he is black but lack the cojones to actually SAY so PUBLICLY.
They will NEVER support Immigration Reform…and instead cloud the issue with buzzwords like: Border Security. Or allowing the immigrants kids to be legal but keeping the parents illegal because the parents will vote Democrat. ALL Republicans ever see are voting booths. They don’t see the Human Toll/the HUMAN SUFFERING. Republicans just see political outcomes – and this is why they manipulate and come up with schemes to WIN ELECTIONS at any cost.
Therefore Tea Party Republicans disingenuously say the reason they are anti immigration is because:
- Immigrants are taking American jobs.
- Immigrants are depressing wages.
They are trumpeting loudly that immigration reform means a-billion people will invade America…yes, these 11 million undocumented will have 11 million kids – and 11 million grandkids and their 11 million lovers – plus their 22 million parents and another 22 million grandparents not forgetting 11 million aunts, 11 million uncles, 11 million cousins plus 11 million neighbors…and the 11 million people who need to be bribed!
Do we NEED signs like this to make a point? We get it – there are people here illegally – but does that make them animals?
They forget the majority of these 11-million undocumented immigrants are already WORKING…and yet still, employers, especially farmers across America CANNOT find the workers they need…
There are examples in states where they passed anti-immigration legislation, immigrants left, American workers showed up then left after a couple days – and the crops are rotting in the fields.
They so do…
I pulled samples from news articles online:
- Worker shortages have prompted some Alabama farmers who grow labor-intensive produce to plant less, rather than have crops rot in the fields again this year.
Last fall (June 2011) Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley signed a tough law combating illegal immigration, which prompted undocumented workers to flee the state. Few locals will perform the grueling work of picking crops, and farmers stuck in a agricultural system built on illegal labor are struggling to find replacements before their produce rots.
Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley
Georgia passed a similar immigration law in 2011. When undocumented workers fled, farmers lost around 40% of their workers and $140 million worth of blueberries, melons, onions, and other crops due to labor shortages. This year Georgia farmers again fear they will be short on workers to pick the crops, and many have scaled back production or stopped planting altogether.
- Many farmers want to hire local workers, but it is increasingly difficult to find U.S. natives with the proper skills. Few are willing or able to perform the physically taxing and low paying labor which requires them to move with the crops, even with wages of $15-$20 an hour. Georgia recently experimented with creating a program that allowed parolees to work as farm laborers, but it was unsuccessful when they wouldn’t — or couldn’t — endure the grueling days.
Joe Bailey (Bailey Nurseries) says they rely heavily on seasonal immigrant employees, but calls Visa system to hprocess workers: a headache
- Minnesota Business Immigration Coalition, which has broad buy-in and advocates for smart immigration growth in Minnesota. And because of its efforts, hundreds of Minnesota businesses now back the push to modernize federal immigration laws. Their message: Without more immigrants, Minnesota’s labor force will fall short of the workers it will need, at both the higher and lower ends of the skills spectrum, as baby boomers retire.
- South Carolina’s Chalmers Carr needs Congress to pass immigration reform that includes a workable program for farmers and ranchers. If it doesn’t happen, he’ll continue having problems getting his peaches to market.
Carr
Carr brings in more than 500 Mexican workers through the onerous H-2A program. They trim peach trees and pick and pack about 2 million boxes of peaches annually on his Saluda County, S.C.-based Titan Farms.
A national survey of H-2A employers shows that on average workers arrive 22 days after they’re needed because of administrative delays, resulting in an economic loss of nearly $320 million.
As much as he would like to avoid H-2A’s costs and headaches, Carr is left with no other option. In the last two years he’s advertised in the U.S. for more than 2,000 jobs.
“We’ve had about 600 U.S. workers apply for the jobs-about one-third of what I need-but we’ve had only 15 take the job and stay all the way through,” he said. “How can I pick these crops with 15 workers?”
Tomatoes rot in Alabama farmer Brian Cash’s field after his 65-strong workforce vanished to avoid the immigration crackdown. Photo: Ed Pilkington/Guardian
Emphasizing the urgent need for reform, Carr encouraged Americans to consider the alternative.
“Your fruit is going to be harvested one way or another by a foreign national,” he said. “Do you want it harvested here in this country with our food safety regulations versus having that foreign national harvest them in another country where you don’t have the same food safety protocols?”
Migrant workers harvest strawberries near Oxnard, California. Many other nearby farms have no workers and fruit is left to rot on the ground as poor migrants stay away for fear of being abused. AFP PHOTO. Americans – more jobs waiting for you!
IT IS TIME for Congress to act…
We want a vote in the House…let’s see who is FOR reform and let’s see who is AGAINST it….
Listen John Boehner: We DEMAND a Discharge Petition.
You and your House Republicans should not hold Immigration Reform HOSTAGE over 33 votes!
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