Tony Lee:
On Monday, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) said the Senate’s immigration bill if enacted into law would most hurt Americans at the bottom of the economic ladder. He illustrated that point by explaining how his father would have been fired as a legal immigrant who was working as a dishwasher in 1957 had the bill been law then.
“This bill hurts the most those who are struggling to begin climbing the earliest rungs [of the economic ladder],” he said.
Cruz said if the bill is enacted into law, it would increase unemployment among African-Americans, the young, Hispanics, and legal immigrants.
Keynoting the D.C. March for Jobs rally, which the Black American Leadership Alliance organized, Cruz said that because the immigration bill would intersect with Obamacare, employers would be incentivized to hire illegal immigrants and those that received provisional status under the Gang of Eight bill over American citizens and legal immigrants because they would be exempt from Obamacare.
“Let me ask you something: What would have happened if the Gang of Eight bill would have been law in 1957?” Cruz said. “My father would have been fired from that job.”
He told the story of his father, Rafael, who immigrated to the United States legally and started out as a dishwasher to pay his way through college.
If they are stupid enough to pass this bill, which the GOP leadership seems to be, then a large percentage of the Republican base will leave this sinking ship. Those opposed to this bill need to stop bitching about it on line, and instead fire off letters to and flood the phone lines of their congress critters of either party. There are a whole lot of the Democratic base who are also against the “Gang of Eight” bill:
Monday’s March For Jobs rally, organized by the Black American Leadership Alliance (BALA)
Rev. Peterson: Working Class Black Americans Don’t Want Immigration Bill
Wayne Dupree:
RNC Chairman Priebus took the ch*ck*n-sh*t way out when addressing a group of young GOP activists in Mobile, AL by not even mentioning it, but he was fine talking about it on CNN last week:
RNC Spokesman Dodges Answering if Priebus Supports Immigration Bill
Yet as this piece points out:
If even a suicide pact compromise Senate/House ” immigration reform” bill is passed by Congress, The Republican Party is doomed. They will clearly will not not gain an illegal-alien vote advantage against “the party of free stuff”, and they will have totally disfranchised the America Worker and much of their party base. The establishment Carl Rove’s and Capitalist Washington DC lobby friends who are leading them down this thorny garden path to oblivion, can not by themselves provide enough votes to elect a dog-catcher. They will deservedly become either a third party or extinct.