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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAnti-Legal Immigration Ads Mark New Extreme In Immigration Debate
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/14/anti-legal-immigration-ad_n_1276284.html?show_comment_id=135076176#comment_135076176"Other notable businessmen and politicians, including Mayor Bloomberg and Rupert Murdoch, testified in front of Congress in 2010, advocating an overhaul of the immigration system and an increase in visas given for skilled foreign-born immigrants. "
"In 2008, Bill Gates testified before Congress in support of increasing the number of H-1B visas allotted for high-skilled workers, and elongating F-1 visas for foreign-born students, arguing that such immigrants are assets to the American economy and are actually great job creators."
"The movement to lower legal immigration also counters the platforms of many of the Republican frontrunners in the Presidential debate, like Mitt Romney, who described himself in a September debate as a "great proponent of legal immigration"
Q: what's an extremist?
A: 'anyone who disagrees with Rupert Murdoch, Mitt Romney, Bill Gates, or Mayor Bloomberg', according to this article. At least they threw in Mitt Romney, as a representative of non billionaires
Since when is it the mission of the left to silence those who question the labor policies of billionaires? This sure isnt Henry Wallace's (a great man) movement. (correction, Romney isnt a billionaire, he's just a really, really, really rich guy)
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Anti-Legal Immigration Ads Mark New Extreme In Immigration Debate (Original Post)
flexnor
Feb 2012
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(392 posts)1. anyone else think this reads 'thou shalt not question the rich' between the lines? nt
flexnor
(392 posts)2. I remember when republicans were 'what's good for GM is good for America', and Democrats were
'Corporations are not the enemy, but they're not a trusted friend, either'
but sometime in the early 1990s, it seems like the party all of a sudden decided 'we're going to prove we're not anti-business, by never questioning it ever again - no need to listen to the little people anymore, if they knew anything, they'd be rich'