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“Dangerously Flawed” Immigration Bill Dies In Senate
Last week, AFL-CIO and union leaders announced they opposed the “dangerously flawed” immigration reform bill before the Senate because it would depress wages for all employees and create a permanent underclass of workers. Rather than passing this bill, they said, Congress should start over and create a bill that provides comprehensive immigration reform.
This week, the bill died in the Senate when 53 senators voted not to end floor debate, preventing the bill from moving to a final vote.
AFL-CIO President John Sweeney said the union movement
will continue to work with the immigrant rights community and our allies in Congress to devise a truly comprehensive model that places immigrant and workers’ rights at the head of the line.
Click here to read the entire statement.
Milton Rosado, president of the Labor Council for Latin American Advancement (LCLAA), an AFL-CIO constituency group, says:
We need a bill that actually improves our nation’s broken immigration system. We strongly believe that Congress can do better. We want bolder, more modern, comprehensive and true immigration reform. We want not only what is best for the immigrant community, but what is best for our nation—this bill was not the answer.
Click here to read LCLAA’s statement.
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And I’m proud to say I helped kill it. I phoned, I emailed, I faxed. I did all I could do. And I’m also proud to say MY Senators were opposed to it. It is my hope that no ‘immigration’ bill containing any form of amnesty for illegals will ever pass. NO PATH TO CITIZENSHIP for HOME INVADERS!
I don’t like the way the AFL- CIO leaves out one word when writing about immigration, the word is ILLEGAL. It is illegal immigration that people like me are getting upset. Its all about money the way I see it, business wants cheap labor and unions wanting to sign them up to get more dues. I see more illegal immigrants that are non union then union. I have seen illegals taking jobs from our local union laborers and tin knockers. I have no problem with legal immigration but illegal NO. Just this past week the law caught up with 11 illegal immigrants in my area.
I amI am discussed at the AFL-CIO facilitating illegal immigration and aligning itself with the American Civil Liberties Union. Be part of the solution not the problem. Illegal immigration continues only because corporations and business use it to depress wages and by politicians to increases votes. While the AFL-CIO leadership is using it to fill its coffers with new members as union membership has been sadly declining over the years. It does so, on the back of the current membership, the AFL-CIO leadership has chosen to facilitate illegal immigration to maintain and increase their power. The AFL-CIO leadership does not care if its members are illegal immigrants or that current member’s wages are being depressed by competition from illegal immigration, it’s about increasing the numbers in a typical self-serving attitude. This set the policy for the AFL-CIO leadership. 19elum is correct in his/her assessment it is word “Illegal” that you continently leave out. I quote AFL-CIO, “It is increasingly clear that if the United States is to have an immigration system that really works, it must be simultaneously orderly, responsible and fair.” Yet, when Immigration laws are enforced, you sue to stop it. Advocate Judges will not change the law in the end and you waste of Union money. The middle class in the country has been under attack for decades and the AFL-CIO immigration policy helps continue this attack. Not a proud member of the AFL-CIO.