{"id":4921,"date":"2013-10-28T12:53:14","date_gmt":"2013-10-28T16:53:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/?p=4921"},"modified":"2018-12-28T15:31:34","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T20:31:34","slug":"so-called-conservative-leaders-flood-dc-for-amnesty-push","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2013\/10\/28\/so-called-conservative-leaders-flood-dc-for-amnesty-push\/","title":{"rendered":"So-Called Conservative Leaders Flood DC for Amnesty Push"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Who<\/a>With only four weeks left in the House, amnesty advocates are staging a last-minute Hail Mary legislative push. Billing themselves as \u201cconservative\u201d business, religious, and political leaders, hundreds of pro-amnesty activists are arriving in Washington to begin a week-long lobbying blitz<\/a> targeting Republicans.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, their claim to conservative credentials wears thin when liberal, pro-amnesty special interests and big business<\/a> are footing the bill for their travel and lodging:<\/p>\n

National Immigration Forum: <\/b>Perennial amnesty lobbyist. Donors include illegal alien union SEIU, Clinton and pro-amnesty donor George Soros<\/a>, AILA, Sojourners, Chamber of Commerce, and the Ford Foundation. Setting up pro-amnesty front groups is their M.O. lately – they\u2019ve also organized self-proclaimed Evangelical leaders to create the \u201cEvangelical Immigration Table.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

Mark Zuckerberg\/Facebook: <\/b>Using the tech company funded FWD.us to push for amnesty in order to piggy back expansion of cheap foreign labor. Also funding faux conservative group<\/a> \u201cAmericans for a Conservative Direction\u201d to run ads providing political cover for pro-amnesty Republicans.<\/p>\n

Michael Bloomberg: <\/b>The New York City Mayor\u2019s Partnership for a New American Economy unites pro-amnesty mayors and businessmen to push message that U.S. won\u2019t have entrepreneurs without foreign workers. Bloomberg\u2019s PAC recently donated $1.1 million<\/a> to Democrat Terry McAuliffe\u2019s gubernatorial campaign in Virginia.<\/p>\n

Big Business<\/a> & Agriculture: <\/b>Constant supporters of amnesty and mass immigration for one reason \u2013 profits. The American Farm Bureau Federation, Chamber of Commerce, Marriott, Microsoft, and Wal-Mart are all supporting the \u201cconservative fly-in\u201d because they see conservative Republicans on the Hill as their last impediment to amnesty and the continued influx of cheap foreign labor.<\/p>\n

So, will the Republicans fall for this charade? Only time will tell but the individuals flying into DC to push them on an immigration bill that will hurt Americans should at least know who they\u2019re in bed with.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Update 10\/29\/13:<\/strong> The major events surrounding the “conservative” fly-in are taking place today. And, with that, the “Americans for Reform” have released their own graphic highlighting the sponsors<\/a> \u00a0of the lobbying push.<\/p>\n

McDonald’s, the National Restaurant Association, and the Western Growers Association were added to the list of sponsors. Unscrupulous employers of illegal labor, purveyors of low wage jobs, and their representatives.<\/p>\n

Just last week it was reported that McDonald\u2019s told a full-time employee that rather than getting a raise, she should apply for welfare<\/a>. What a model company \u2013 surely sponsoring this conservative front-group and fly-in for altruistic reasons, not just to help pass amnesty to avoid actually having to comply with laws against employing illegal aliens or avoid paying a living wage to legal workers\u2026<\/p>\n