Odd omissions on the WH immigration reform shin-dig guest list
The Obama White House, ever the cynical political animal, is once again floating the idea of “comprehensive immigration reform.” They do this every few months to score a point with the open borders crowd. The most recent meeting was yesterday; here’s the guest list. See if you can spot the group of relevant figures who aren’t on it.
- Leith Anderson, President, National Assn. of Evangelicals
- Hon. Michael Bloomberg, City of New York
- William J. Bratton, Former Police Chief, City of Los Angeles and City of New York
- Hon. Julian Castro, Mayor, City of San Antonio
- Michael Chertoff, Former Secretary Homeland Security
- Gov. John Engler, President and CEO, Business Roundtable
- Hon. Eric Garcetti, City Council, President City of Los Angeles
- Carlos Gutierrez, Former Secretary of Commerce
- Raymond Kelly, Commissioner, New York City Police Department
- Mel Martinez, Former United States Senator/Chairman, Florida, Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean JP Morgan Chase
- Greg Page, Chairman and CEO, Cargill
- Federico Pena, Former Secretary of Transportation and Secretary of Energy
- John Podesta, CEO, Center for American Progress
- Charles Ramsey, Chief of Police, City of Philadelphia/President, Major City Chiefs
- Al Sharpton, President, National Action Network
- Sheryl Sandberg, COO, Facebook
- Arnold Schwarzenegger, Former California Governor
- Richard Trumka, AFL-CIO
- John C. Wester, Bishop, Archdiocese of Salt Lake City
Not a single sitting border state governor is on that list. No Gov. Rick Perry (TX), no Gov. Susana Martinez (NM) no Gov. Jan Brewer (AZ), not even Gov. Jerry Brown of CA. Apparently they weren’t even invited. Maybe the Obama administration really thinks that the mayor of New York City, Al Sharpton, the head man at the Sorosbot factory Center for American Progress, and the big union boss Richard Trumka all know more about the border than the governors of the states that are actually on the border. Otherwise, this administration is not even trying to make this meeting about border security — a serious national security issue over which people are losing their lives — appear to be anything more than a purely political confab. What a total joke.
By the way, to the Republicans who showed up for that meeting: You’re being used as willing dupes.
What a joke Obama. You and your buddies can go to ?
Whats a joke? I guess a joke would be that we’d drag our feet around for another quarter century not trying to fix and implement a renewed immigration system that is upto what the 21st century requires. The existing system is absolutely flawed, exploited and highly disfunctional. Bluntly, we’ve seen how it doesn’t work. Why would anyone in their right mind, not want to fix the broken system. These people are here and are not going anywhere. They are part of our society, workforce, community and consumers. How ever much we might hate them, in some way or the other, we all benifit from them. One might not know it but I bet we definitely benifit some way or the other.
Also, why would the WH want to invite those with so much negativity on the issue? Why should any of those who oppose some sort of reform even want to be invited anyways? Would they be a misfit to the meeting? The crazy A$$ Jan Brewer and Joe Pink Panty are morons. Look what they did to the businesses and the economy of Arizona. Come on man, They are not suggesting open borders, its high time to get things fixed. We as a nation reach out to hurricane, tsunami, earthquake and famine victims the world over, yet we can’t pardon through fines & back taxes, those that are here and work to make our lives more comfortable.
What a joke!
Actually, I don’t see a single sitting governor anywhere on that list. Not just the ones whose states have a common border with Mexico. Not any governors.
How inspiring is that?
I am a 32/white male Republican. I admit our party needs to step up to the plate. For the good of the country we need to pass Comprehensive Immigration Reform!
Obama is again pandering for votes by using immigration reform. He knows full well that CIR will NEVER pass, as along as he advocates for amnesty. The Hispanics are really stupid if they fall for his BS again, esp when he had both houses to pass reform and couldn’t get it through. Americans have said time and again that we want ENFORCEMENT
State of Arizona is thriving?
Seems a revelation has been born in the Great Canyon State of Arizona, as the Leftist Czars and open border zealots were completely wrong about their economy diving? The Obama administration immediately ran to the federal courts, and Judge Bolton issued an injunction, halting any hope of the SB 1070 policing law going into effect immediately, while the law was litigated and then jumping to the infamous 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. The screaming banshees from the Liberal indoctrinated cause, advocacy groups whose agenda is a commitment to no borders at all, swore blind that Arizona would suffer economic devastation? Its a one sided to me when the Dept of In-Justice throws the book at Arizona, but remains silent when Utah legislators are pushing for a unconstitutional Guest worker program. These included massive real estate foreclosures, home buyers would give the state a wide berth, with boycotts that would hurt the State and with a main objective that illegal alien families would flee the state, leaving economic uncertainty?
So the Liberal progressive couldn’t have been more wrong as Arizona is prospering. The 2010 Census has proved beyond any shadow of doubt, that unlike the illegal alien Sanctuary State of California, and equally opened to occupation Nevada, that Arizona is bristling with new arrivals. It seems that Canadian citizens frustrated with the inclement weather up North are pouring in to take advantage of the low priced homes and the depressed US dollar. Outside of Nevada, the newest illegal immigrant refuge State, Arizona is a rapidly growing in population. Lee McPheters, director of the J.P. Morgan Chase Economic Outlook Center has predicted that the State of Arizona’s population will increase by close to two percent this year.
What actually happened to retort the silly boycotts and other negative activity, thousands of patriotic citizens and permanent residence throughout the nation, disgusted with the Liberal agenda, decided to deliberately reserve Arizona as their vacation spot. The largest haven for illegal alien households, Los Angeles County issued a resolution against the financially hurting State of Arizona, which got in the craw of millions of Americans. Antonio Villaraigosa, a pro-illegal alien Mayor committed himself, to the boycott and then in retaliation Corporation Commissioner Gary Pierce sent a letter stating to the city managers, saying that he would “be happy to encourage Arizona utilities to renegotiate your power agreements so Los Angeles no longer receives any power from Arizona-based generation.” Los Angeles County gets 25 percent of its electricity from Arizona power plants.
On June 29, last year Governor Jan Brewer condemned the federal government for what she calls its “continued failure to secure our international border,” and announced the unveiling of a new web site for donating money to the cause. She pointed out at this time that signs have been posted on federal property in Southern Arizona to warn people about the dangerous border. Within weeks close to $4 million in donations was received from over 43,000 Americans countrywide, with more than enough to cover the $1.5 million in costs for attorneys and fees. Currently, in the Frontier State the economy has shown little difference in service industries where illegal immigrants work, such as landscaping, fast food, roofing, building, car washes, factories and the hotel industry. Although illegal immigrants are disappearing from the state, prices have barely increased; BUT WHERE ARE THEY GOING?
California would be my first guess? Nevada is for sure and also Utah? Colorado? These States are exhibiting naked ignorance of the war going on in America. While Arizona begins to thrive, California has to expect more crowded classrooms full of children of illegal immigrants and of course the health care emergency rooms being further clogged to its limits. If you live in these States or any State that is pandering to foreigners, they will not only see Democrat politicians scrambling to enact laws for higher taxes, but your State deficits will rise accordingly as these people look for another haven.
Reports that SB 1070 is hurting the State economically has not taken into account the near deep recession. Since Arizona has been one of the highest growing in the Southwest, it now has one of the highest rates of home foreclosures. It has been hit harder by the recession than most of the rest of the country, except for Nevada. Arizona lost twice as many jobs as the average state during the economic decline of the past few years. Earlier last year the State of Arizona ranked 12th for job creation of the 50 states surveyed. My first wife who lives right now in Ohio, has decided to buy a home in Arizona. Not as a investor, but to live there. I have already warned her to stay well away from the border, but find a gated community.
If you want an upper hand to stop these innocuous “Political Correctness” of our immigration laws, forced on us by the Lib-Democrats and their (seeking more votes) or Elite Republicans (cheap labor) our only real alternative is the TEA PARTY. Its overall platform is less government interference, fair taxes, and national security. Their leader’s will halt the unresponsiveness of both parties to our 14 Trillion deficits and not allow the credit ceiling to rise without assurances that government expenditure will be cut, including fraud and waste in entitlements. That a double layer fence will separate America from drug cartels and the far reaching economic immigrants pouring into America. There will be no Immigration reforms, which include amnesties of any kind; currently that means the Dream Act, Sanctuary States, chain migration, that are stealth amnesties.Another very controversial issue, is the instant citizenship infant 14th Amendment law, that must be rescinded or altered, so at least one parent is a citizen.or naturalized citizen.
We need to look after our own people, living in poverty, not the rest of the world. Low income Americans-residents of all race persuasions, are losing their jobs to discount labor. For decades now the manual workers have been replaced by people from overseas or across our borders who by being illegal hired, places even more pressure on welfare, unemployment aid, workers compensation and public benefits. Speak-up, join the TEA PARTY and make this a central issue in coming elections. Attn: Unknown numbers of illegal aliens have been caught in different malleable States voting in our elections. If you believe that your Federal and State lawmakers are not listening to you, but catering to the open border lunatics, check out the pro-sovereignty million member plus NumbersUSA website.
Brittanicus,
Your reply is very revealing.
You welcome Canadians but you oppose visits from our neighbors south of the border.
It is also very revealing that you did not mention Texas as a border state. Our economy is thriving. Our state is majority minority. We have perhaps the lowest unemployment rate and the highest job growth rate in the country. We also have a higher tourist rate than other border states.
SB1070 advocates Racial Profiling. We’ve SEEN IT in the sweeps of Latino neighborhoods by Sheriff Arpaio and his masked volunteers. Arpaio has lost over $50 M in civil suits over his abuse of his prisoners. He is currently under investigation for Abuse of Power by the DOJ and this case was brought forward by the Mayors and Sheriffs of Phoenix and other cities throughout Arizona.
Arizona’s economy is NOT thriving. The boycott has lost AZ millions perhaps billions of dollars. Ask businesses in Arizona, especially the ones that have gone to Gov. Brewer and pleaded with her to stop the insanity and reject several of the xenophobic bills passed by the radical AZ Congress. That is one reason she rejected the AZ Birther bill.
I feel sorry for you Brittanicus. You respond in many forums on many blogs and newspapers across the country. You spend all of your time fomenting your hatred of Latinos. Very sad.
I’m a Liberal Dem, however, I can add. California continues to suffer from an unemployment rate that is over 12%. Look at the states that have suffered the most from the mortgage crisis. Notice that they all have rather high immigration rates, both legal and illegal. For instance Florida and California had a large percentage of forclosures. Of course, a lot of those people who couldn’t qualify for anything but a junk loan were immigrants seeking the American Dream. Not their fault – still, when they couldn’t pay, they fled back to their countries leaving us to pay the bill. I live in a diverse working class neighborhood in S.F. Bay. We’ve lived here 33 years by choice. We could’ve “moved up” many times but wanted our daughter to grow up in a diverse community. We saw many, many of her friends and their families dissapear back to Latin America or the Philippines when the banks put notices on the door. These are not bad people, but they came here illegally and were free to split when things got tough.
Frankly, CA. has a oversaturated labor pool – still 5 applicants for every job. My nieghborhood has lots of hispanic teen boys who were born here. They would cut lawns if the illegals were not here. They’re good boys, but they are at risk and without summer jobs they’ll hang out at the park and smoke dope. No jobs for legal Latin kids mean more at risk kids and potentially more kids in Jail. Who does that benefit?
Lady K,
Texas is thriving. We are a majority minority state. We have the highest rate of newer immigrants from south of the border.
The economy in California and Florida deterioriated due to the housing crisis and the unscrupulous mortgage predators. You know as well as I do that home prices were extremely inflated. You know as well as I do the predators pushed and pushed their bad loans to everyone. I don’t know how many letters and calls I received daily from these predators back in the early 2000′s. Almost everyone I knew refinanced at least once. These predators were the real cause, but I do not see much attention paid them. And now, I am starting to see their ads again (ex: reverse mortgages) all over the cable channels.
Arnold himself admitted the causes for California’s economy were due to this and not the so called “illeegals.” Please don’t fall into the easy trap of blaming the easiest targets that cannot defend themselves. Target the true cause: GREED!