{"id":4776,"date":"2013-10-04T13:59:47","date_gmt":"2013-10-04T17:59:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/?p=4776"},"modified":"2018-12-28T15:35:12","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T20:35:12","slug":"business-lobby-pushes-for-amnesty-as-layoffs-continue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2013\/10\/04\/business-lobby-pushes-for-amnesty-as-layoffs-continue\/","title":{"rendered":"Business Lobby Pushes for Amnesty As Layoffs Continue"},"content":{"rendered":"

Business Lobby Pushes for Amnesty As Layoffs Continue<\/h3>\n

“This week, the pharmaceutical giant Merck announced it will cut 8,500 jobs in an effort to remain competitive in a rapidly changing drug industry. Earlier this year, Merck announced plans to cut 7,500 jobs, bringing the total of workers let go to 16,000. In all, Merck intends to lay off one out of every five of its employees,” notes the Examiner<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“At the same time, top Merck officials are urging Congress to loosen the nation’s immigration laws to allow more foreign workers into the United States. In a Sept. 10 letter to House Speaker John Boehner and Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, Merck Executive Vice President for Human Resources Mirian Graddick-Weir urged that the U.S. admit more high- and low-skilled immigrants to “address the reality that there is a global war for talent” and to ‘align our nation’s immigration policies with its workforce needs at all skill levels to ensure U.S. global competitiveness.'”<\/p>\n

Illegal Alien Lobby Asking for Arrest Volunteers<\/h3>\n

“Breitbart News has obtained emails in which an immigration campaign organizer for the Center for Community Change (CCC), a liberal grassroots organizing group working with a Hispanic advocacy group and the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), sent an email this week asking for at least 200 people to to volunteer to get arrested at an immigration rally in Washington, D.C. in acts of civil disobedience,” Breitbart reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Border Patrol Union Warns of Stand Down Orders<\/h3>\n

“The National Border Patrol Council has come forward to reveal to the American public once again management practices that could be risking the lives of Americans — and the lives of illegal immigrants,” Breitbart News writes.<\/p>\n

“Shawn Moran, Vice President of the National Border Patrol Council, spoke exclusively with Breitbart News and claimed that Border Patrol management has begun the practice of ordering Border Patrol Agents to stand down and cease pursuing drug smugglers, human smugglers and traffickers, and illegal aliens. He also warned it could lead to illegal aliens entering the country from nations associated with terrorism.”<\/p>\n

Media Ignores Arrest of Immigrant Used for Amnesty Publicity<\/h3>\n

“In a black eye for one of the state\u2019s more liberal leaning newspapers, a Montana State University student who was profiled as an illegal immigration \u201cCinderella Story\u201d has been arrested on charges of repeatedly raping a teen girl over a three-month period. Clemente Garcia Arciga, 33, who was profiled in a September 2012 series of Bozeman Daily Chronicle reports entitled, \u201cThe Immigrants Among Us,\u201d is being held at the Gallatin County Detention center on multiple felony sex charges,” Mediatrackers.com writes.